Advocates Want to Know Why Dr. Drew Was Nominated for L.A.’s Homeless Commission

Los Angeles Magazine 4/19 10:21A Gwynedd Stuart

Last week, Republican Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger nominated TV’s David “Dr. Drew” Pinsky for the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, leaving many advocates baffled. Known for the long-running radio show Loveline and his...

In a Former Church Downtown, a New Record Shop Is Celebrating L.A.’s Party Scene

Los Angeles Magazine 4/19 7:54A Gwynedd Stuart

Rolando Alvarez and Eddie Vela had been thinking about opening a record store ever since they began renovating a former church set against the warehouses of downtown some three years ago. Alvarez had...

How L.A.’s Brentwood School Became a Battleground in the Culture Wars

Los Angeles Magazine 4/19 5:24A Gwynedd Stuart

E arly last June, Brentwood School posted an image of a black square on Instagram. This was eight days after George Floyd had been killed, and it was part of #BlackoutTuesday, a social media campaign...

Black love pervades and inspires four authors on a panel at the Festival of Books

LATimes.com (Entertainment) 4/19 5:00A Dorany Pineda

At a panel Sunday for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, S.A. Cosby, Danielle Evans, Robert Jones Jr. and Nikky Finney discussed Black life across genres.

Morning Brief: Western States Brace for a Possible Water Shortage

Los Angeles Magazine 4/19 3:57A Gwynedd Stuart

» Western states including California are bracing for a possible official declaration of a water shortage–the first declaration of its kind. New projections could indicate shortages in all seven...

Rapper Black Rob Passes Away at 51

LA Sentinel (Entertainment) 4/18 10:30A betti

The Hip-hop industry loses another impactful lyricist this year; on April 17, Rapper Robert "Black Rob" Ross died at 51 years old. Best known for his single, "Woah." and his affiliation with Diddy's Bad Boy Records, friends and loved ones reflect...

JuneShine hard kombucha tasting room opens on Main Street

Santa Monica Daily Press (Life) 4/17 3:00A Clara Harter

JuneShine opens its first LA tasting room on Main Street today, bringing sixteen different flavors of hard kombucha to a bright and airy patio and bar space. Located at 2914 Main Street, the room...

The eviction moratorium is ending soon and tenants should be aware of their rights

Santa Monica Daily Press (Life) 4/17 3:00A Clara Harter

The Santa Monica and state eviction moratoriums are scheduled to expire on June 30, and while non-payment evictions may soon resume, there are many resources available to help tenants stay housed. Assuming the moratorium does not get extended again...

‘Soul,’ `Wolfwalkers’ Lead the Way Among Annie Award Nominees

LA Sentinel (Entertainment) 4/16 3:59P betti

Pixar s Golden Globe-winning Soul and the independent feature Wolfwalkers are the top nominees for the 48th annual Annie Awards, which will be presented tonight in a streaming ceremony honoring the best in animation from the past year.  The post...

LA Phil's Gustavo Dudamel to Join Paris Opera as Music Director

NBCLosAngeles.com (Entertainment News) 4/16 12:45P

Gustavo Dudamel will become music director of the Paris Opera while continuing his commitment to the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

A Fellowship Is Fostering Diverse Documentarians—and Reaping Oscar Nods

Los Angeles Magazine 4/16 12:35P Joseph Bien-Kahn

In 2016, director Garrett Bradley completed the submission form on the New York Times Op-Docs website, the newspaper’s nonfiction documentary shorts series, and waited. She hoped to tell the story of Aloné Watts, a New Orleans woman struggling...

Getting to the Bottom of Tyra Banks’s Smize Cream

Los Angeles Magazine 4/16 10:52A Gwynedd Stuart

Tyra Banks is a fascinating and iconic figure: a model, talk show host, and entrepreneur allegedly worth $90 million dollars. A woman who may or may not have gone to Harvard Business School . A woman...

How Triller Became Ryan Kavanaugh’s Big Comeback

Los Angeles Magazine 4/16 10:49A Gwynedd Stuart

When Ryan Kavanaugh’s “new age” movie and TV company Relativity Media crashed in 2016, his comeuppance was celebrated in many parts of Hollywood. For years the brash, fast-talking mogul had promoted himself as a Hollywood seer who would overturn...

A New Book on L.A.’s Historic Places Is Eye-Opening Even for Longtime Angelenos

Los Angeles Magazine 4/16 8:36A Chris Nichols

Buildings carry the stories of the city. Howard Hughes’s aircraft hangar is now creative space for Google; a streamlined gas station restored by Starbucks now offers a different kind of fuel. Los...

Inside the Uproar Over Patrisse Cullors’s Real Estate Holdings

Los Angeles Magazine 4/16 7:33A Gwynedd Stuart

Earlier this month, Los Angeles native Patrisse Cullors, one of three activists who cofounded Black Lives Matter in 2013, became the unlikely subject of a profile on the celeb-centric real estate news website Dirt.com. Alongside photo-heavy—and...