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Hollywood’s most-feared journalist wrote a book before she died. Her estate is now shopping the manuscript.
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Aug 5, 2026
Dry aging, side gigs, and 40 orders of crudo per yellowtail.
Serving on the all-volunteer health commission, which meets every month and writes up reports — but oversees nothing, and advises no one.
Aug 10, 2026
Mark Ridley-Thomas may soon go to prison for bribery. Has he been wronged?
Aug 11, 2026
Plus, water politics, L.A. River bike path, Tupac’s murder trial and more.
An oral history of the Silversun Pickups’ era-defining indie rock classic “Lazy Eye.”
Aug 6, 2026
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A private company has cleared dozens of homeless encampments in Venice — with persistence, cash payments, and a team that includes former gang members. Clients love them. The people they move do not.
Jul 27, 2026
Then built an interactive map of the 100+ ratings.
Jul 9, 2026
A Fourth of July season disaster last year revealed a sprawling alleged fireworks trafficking network — and raised urgent questions about why state and local officials failed to stop it sooner.
Jun 29, 2026
How Hollywood built a press machine out of friendly conversations, discreet edits, and the tacit understanding that no one is going for the jugular.
Apr 6, 2026
Bill Essayli is the face of Trump’s immigration and fraud crackdown in Southern California. Defending his own family’s fraud case, with the ACLU’s help, pitted him against the office he now leads.
Apr 21, 2026
Two? Three? FOUR?
Mar 22, 2026
The cult leader’s portrait was put up almost two years ago. We found the guy who made it.
Apr 8, 2026
How a handful of strange bedfellows, united by ambition and frustration with the mayor’s leadership, scrambled to marshal a challenge to Mayor Karen Bass.
Mar 19, 2026
