'Our Words Collide' documents 5 L.A. teen poets testifying to spoken word's transformative power

LATimes.com (Entertainment) 4/23 12:00A Malia Mendez

"Our Words Collide," a documentary executive-produced by Rosario Dawson and now streaming, follows five spoken word poets from Los Angeles throughout their senior year of high school.

Unmuted

Santa Monica Daily Press (Opinion) 4/22 3:00A Guest Author

Newsflash: The Santa Monica City Council voted to eliminate drug use from city parks. Well, no. The Council voted to eliminate the needle exchange program from city parks. Actually, they didn’t do...

California has to rid itself of a ‘no’ mentality to change its relationship with cars

Santa Monica Daily Press (Opinion) 4/22 3:00A Cal Matters

Editor’s Note: More than 70 high school students across California submitted opinion pieces to CalMatters’ second annual Earth Day contest. The 2024 contest theme was What solution should Californians...

Inside LACMA's plans to share its collection with a new Las Vegas museum: 'I'm a West Coast...

LATimes.com (Entertainment) 4/22 12:00A Jessica Gelt

Early this year the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced a partnership with the planned Las Vegas Museum of Art. LACMA's Michael Govan and LVMA director Heather Harmon discuss the details of the arrangement.

Universal Studios tram crashes, injuring 14 riders

LATimes.com (Entertainment) 4/20 8:00P Taryn Luna

The tram had an issue with its brakes, and the last car struck a rail when it was traveling down a hill of a parking structure, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said.

L.A. Affairs: I was new to Los Angeles. Was driving 70 miles one way for love a problem?

LATimes.com (Lifestyle) 4/19 2:00A Holly Yeo

The two-hour drive I didn't want to make became the drive the two of us did willingly, almost every weekend for five years.

Ye reportedly suspected of battering a man who allegedly grabbed Bianca Censori

LATimes.com (Entertainment) 4/18 7:04A Alexandra Del Rosario

Rapper Ye, fka Kanye West, is reportedly under investigation by Los Angeles police after allegedly punching a man who touched his wife, Bianca Censori.

Do You Believe In Magic

Santa Monica Daily Press (Opinion) 4/18 3:00A Charles Andrews

MAGIC I’ve known it for years. Going out for live music is always a gamble. Some artists are reliable – Stevie Wonder, Loudon Wainwright III, Gary Clark Jr., Judy Collins, Dave Alvin/The Blasters,...

California’s high construction costs limit housing. A Supreme Court decision might help

Santa Monica Daily Press (Opinion) 4/17 3:00A Cal Matters

California’s chronic inability to build enough housing – particularly for low-income families – has many causes, but a big one is its extremely high cost of construction. Some costs are intrinsic and...

1 million Mexican Americans were deported a century ago. A new L.A. audio tour explores this...

LATimes.com (Entertainment) 4/17 12:00A Kaitlyn Huamani

A new audio tour from the California Migration Museum examines the origins of historic Olvera Street and El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument — and the immigration raid that took place there in the 1930s.

Did you feel that L.A. earthquake? Here's why you might be a 'never-feeler'

LATimes.com (Lifestyle) 4/16 6:06A Adam Tschorn

Earthquakes are a way of life if you live in Los Angeles. But what about when you never feel them — even as your Shake Alert is blaring and your friends are buzzing about the temblor?

Review: 'Monsters of the American Cinema' confronts the horror in grief

LATimes.com (Entertainment) 4/16 5:10A Charles McNulty

Christian St. Croix's 'Monsters of the American Cinema' has its Los Angeles premiere at the Matrix Theatre in a Rogue Machine production directed by John Perrin Flynn.

Skaters are presumed guilty every street session in California. How rebellion changed the sport

Santa Monica Daily Press (Opinion) 4/12 3:00A Guest Author

José Vadi One afternoon, after watching Kareem Campbell ’s part in the World Industries skate video Trilogy for the third consecutive time, my mom laughed after his slow-motion nollie hardflip over a...

A Fresh Set of Ears

Santa Monica Daily Press (Opinion) 4/11 3:00A Charles Andrews

NICOLE IS BACK!! One time only, so don’t miss it. Offering a younger but very well informed opinion on what great shows to see this week. NICOLE RECOMMENDS: BOOK OF MOUNTAINS AND SEAS LA Opera...

'The Beast' explores the heart of loneliness, in Los Angeles and beyond

LATimes.com (Entertainment) 4/10 4:33A Mark Olsen

Starring Lea Seydoux and George MacKay, director Bertrand Bonello's latest is set across three time periods, drawing from a notorious killer for inspiration.