Tag: Los Angeles (Calif)

Inside the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscars Party

“This is made of success — not everyone can have it,” the actress and comedian Tiffany Haddish said Sunday night, as she held the train on her dress and danced her way through the crowd inside the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. At around 11 p.m., hundreds of people were […]

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Behind the Exoneration of Two Men Wrongfully Convicted in an L.A. Shooting Case

Four years ago, as a deadly virus began to upend the world, Jessica Jacobs was at home in Los Angeles, in a wooded canyon that has long attracted bohemian types, and like many Americans was binge-watching true crime documentaries on Netflix. One of them would change her life. Watching an episode of “The Innocence Files,” […]

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What to Know About California’s Proposition 1 for Mental Health Care

California has about 12 percent of the nation’s population but more than a quarter of America’s homeless people — 181,000-plus at last count. There are many reasons for this outsize problem, including generations-old state laws that deinstitutionalized mentally ill people as well as high housing costs that have since priced tens of thousands out of […]

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On Oscars Carpet, Red Pins Planned to Call for Cease-Fire in Gaza

Some attendees of the Academy Awards on Sunday night plan to wear red pins calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war, a notable exception to an awards season in which many Hollywood stars have been reluctant to draw attention to the conflict. The pins represent the attendees’ alignment with Artists4Ceasefire, a group of celebrities […]

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The Oscars Carpet Color Goes Back to Red

After a red carpet reveal last year that upended the foundations of Hollywood’s staid tradition — it was champagne-colored — the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed on Wednesday that, this year, it would be returning to the traditional red. Last year’s departure from tradition was prompted by the introduction of an orange […]

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California Senate Primary 2024: Adam Schiff Seeks Prized Seat

Before Representative Adam B. Schiff became famous as the chief congressional tormentor of former President Donald J. Trump, his professional hallmark was his low profile. In a Southern California district glittering with show business, he was simply “the congressman from Burbank.” In a state teeming with Democratic political stars, he was rarely on short lists […]

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These Downtown Los Angeles Towers Became a Graffiti Skyline

It was a billion-dollar aspiration meant to transform a neighborhood. A trio of shimmering skyscrapers would feature luxury condos, a five-star hotel and an open-air galleria with retailers and restaurants. Among the amenities: private screening rooms, a two-acre park, pet grooming services and a rooftop pool. A celebrity fitness trainer would help curate a wellness […]

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Adam Schiff Is Suddenly a Democratic Front Runner in California

“I have to go get a photo of Adam!” A young woman in dark glasses, a tan trench coat and a lavender bucket hat darts into the street and runs after the white Porsche convertible in which Representative Adam Schiff and his wife are slowly being driven through Chinatown as part of the Lunar New […]

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California Rainfall Totals: L.A. Saw a Historically Wet February

February was the wettest month in downtown Los Angeles since 1998. With over 12 inches of rain drenching the city, it was the fourth-wettest February — and the seventh-wettest month overall — in the city’s nearly 150-year recorded history. You can feel the saturation in the soil, Park Williams, a professor and expert in water […]

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Kansas City Shooting Is Latest Violence to Mar a Sports Celebration

Last June, 10 people were shot during celebrations on the night the Denver Nuggets won the National Basketball Association title. In 2019, four people were shot at the N.B.A. championship rally for the Toronto Raptors. Two men were shot and killed in a Los Angeles suburb during a celebration of the Dodgers’ World Series victory […]

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4.6-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Near Malibu, Rattling Los Angeles Area

An earthquake centered several miles northwest of Malibu, Calif., rattled residents across the Los Angeles area on Friday, sparking a typical flurry of posts on social media, though the authorities said no major damage or injuries had been reported. The quake had a preliminary magnitude of 4.6, according to the United States Geological Survey. Residents […]

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In Los Angeles, a Growing Sense That ‘Historic’ Weather Is Becoming Normal

Californians have long joked that their state has three seasons: wildfire, earthquake and flood. But as an atmospheric river parked itself over Los Angeles this week, knocking out power and dumping record rainfall, there was a serious coming to terms. “The weather seems more extreme on every level,” Fred Rosen, a retired entertainment executive, said […]

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Southern California Braces for Potential Mudslides Even as Rains Slow

A ferocious atmospheric river storm that has battered California for days began to taper off Tuesday, but officials warned that even small amounts of additional precipitation could set off landslides in rain-drenched Southern California. Between Sunday and Monday, the storm dumped record-breaking amounts of rain on the Los Angeles basin and prompted millions of residents […]

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Many Southern California Schools Will Remain Open Despite Floods

Most school districts in Southern California, including Los Angeles Unified, the second-largest in the country, were planning to keep most classrooms open on Monday, officials said, even as the state battled heavy rain, flooding and mudslides. Many students depend on schools for basic nutrition, the Los Angeles superintendent, Alberto Carvalho, said at a news conference […]

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U.S. Plans More Strikes, and Storm Slams Los Angeles

The New York Times Audio app is home to journalism and storytelling, and provides news, depth and serendipity. If you haven’t already, download it here — available to Times news subscribers on iOS — and sign up for our weekly newsletter. The Headlines brings you the biggest stories of the day from the Times journalists […]

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Los Angeles Area Sees Mud Slides and Floods as Rain Lingers

Mudslides and severe flooding were reported in Los Angeles on Monday, as a storm that made its way to Southern California after pummeling northern areas of the state was forecast to bring more heavy rain and winds for another day. “The major wind and power outages will be the less dangerous part of the storm, […]

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Southern California Braces for Intense Storm: Extreme Rain and Flooding

March 10, 2023, 11:21 a.m. ET March 10, 2023, 11:21 a.m. ET Water was set to be released from the Lake Oroville reservoir to mitigate flooding as two atmospheric rivers were headed for California this week.Credit…Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Atmospheric rivers are hugely influential for California’s weather and water supplies. They cause the state’s heaviest rains […]

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L.A. Skyscrapers Covered in Graffiti

More than a dozen people broke into the Oceanwide Plaza skyscraper development in Los Angeles, covering the windows of the glossy, unfinished buildings with spray-painted colorful block letters that read, “Crave,” “Dank” and “Amen,” among other phrases, the police said on Thursday. The spray-painters made their way up multiple floors in the 40-story buildings, which […]

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Atmospheric River Could Bring Record Rainfall and Flooding to Southern California

It could rain for days in Southern California starting on Saturday night, potentially in record amounts, creating the conditions for what the National Weather Service described as a “very dangerous situation” Sunday into Monday. The storm system is also expected to bring several feet of snow to the Sierra Nevada, and powerful onshore winds and […]

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Pollution Is Driving Black Americans to the South. It May Not Be Any Better.

The air pollution in Emma Lockridge’s community in Detroit was often so bad, she had to wear a surgical mask inside her house. The smokestacks of nearby refineries and factories filled the sky outside her windows with black particles. “I couldn’t sleep because of those fumes,” she told me last year. In 2021 she fled […]

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The News About the News Business Is Getting Grimmer

Even by the standards of a news business whose fortunes have plummeted in the digital age, the last few weeks have been especially grim for American journalism. Prominent newspapers like The Washington Post are shedding reporters and editors, and on Tuesday, The Los Angeles Times laid off more than 20 percent of its newsroom. Cable […]

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Train Robbery for Amazon Packages? More Common Than You Think.

Of all the dozens of suspected thieves questioned by the detectives of the Train Burglary Task Force at the Los Angeles Police Department during the months they spent investigating the rise in theft from the city’s freight trains, one man stood out. What made Victor Llamas memorable wasn’t his criminality so much as his giddy […]

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Cauleen Smith’s Love Song to Los Angeles

A couple of months ago, the artist and filmmaker Cauleen Smith gathered a bare-bones crew for a guerrilla-style shoot — no permits; the locations half-scouted, half-figured-out on the fly — around the land that she calls her home and her obsession: Los Angeles. They were filming the city — four days and nights in a […]

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Emmys Red Carpet Photos: Suki Waterhouse, Laverne Cox and More Looks

Television’s big night is finally here. Last summer, one day after the 75th Emmy Award nominations were announced, the Screen Actors Guild voted to strike, postponing the ceremony to January. Both the Golden Globes and last night’s Critics Choice Awards mix the worlds of film and television, but the Emmy Awards gives the small screen […]

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How to Watch the Golden Globes 2024: Date, Time, Streaming

The bar for a successful Golden Globes is usually low: Did at least one winner crack an acceptance-speech joke they’d probably regret the next day? Was there unpredictable political pontificating? Was the champagne still flowing into the wee hours? But then a Los Angeles Times investigation in 2021 revealed that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, […]

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A Fantasy That Comes With a Price Tag

What happened to fun? In the clinical white of the gallery, art can be forbidding, aggrieved, elite, academic. Shouldn’t it also, sometimes, be joyous? The collaborators behind Luna Luna thought so. This was the amusement park staged in Hamburg, Germany, in 1987, where nearly 30 professional artists including Basquiat, Hockney and Dalí designed the rides. […]

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Blue Lives Matter and How the Thin Blue Line Came to Jan. 6

At the Republican National Convention in 2016, after Mr. Trump had captured the nomination, David Clarke, the Black sheriff of Milwaukee County, stood before the crowd, wearing a thin blue line flag pin on his uniform, and railed against the “anarchy” of the Black Lives Matter movement and the “collapse of social order.” By the […]

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Les McCann, a Jazz Pianist and Singer, Dies at 88

Les McCann, a jazz pianist and vocalist who was an early progenitor of the bluesy, crowd-pleasing style that came to be known as soul jazz, and who, although he released more than 50 albums, was best known for a happenstance hit from 1969, died on Friday in Los Angeles. He was 88. His death, at […]

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Jim Ladd, Free-Form Radio Trailblazer, Is Dead at 75

Jim Ladd, a maverick Los Angeles disc jockey who helped pioneer free-form FM radio in the 1970s, and who went on to become a rock institution and an inspiration for Tom Petty’s song “The Last DJ,” died on Dec. 17 at his home near Sacramento, Calif. He was 75. The cause was a heart attack, […]

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After Rise in Murders During the Pandemic, a Sharp Decline in 2023

Detroit is on track to record the fewest murders since the 1960s. In Philadelphia, where there were more murders in 2021 than in any year on record, the number of homicides this year has fallen more than 20 percent from last year. And in Los Angeles, the number of shooting victims this year is down […]

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Pro-Palestinian Protests Block Traffic at New York and L.A. Airports

More than two dozen pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested Wednesday morning after they blocked traffic heading to Kennedy International Airport in New York City during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year, according to the Port Authority Police Department. In total, 26 people were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and impeding vehicular traffic, […]

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