How to Kill a Fish

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The Japanese chef Junya Yamasaki mastered a butchery technique that results in tastier seafood—and he’s taught some Southern California fishermen how to do it, too.The ray-finned saltwater fish known as the bonito is also called, by some fishermen I know,…

Frank Gehry, the Disrupter, Opened Their Imaginations

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Architects, artists, clients and partners assess his life and impact over eight decades.

Waymo Money, Waymo Problems

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Robots take to the roads—and clog the sidewalks.

Metal Barrels Dumped Off The Coast Of Los Angeles Are Encircled By Mysterious While Halos And Scientists Think They Finally Know Why

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At least some of the barrels contain caustic alkaline waste, which has made the surrounding ecosystems inhospitable to most life forms, a new study suggests

The Fight for Mexican Los Angeles

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On Monday, July 7th, Carlos González Gutiérrez, the consul-general of Mexico in Los Angeles, was about to start his weekly audiencia pública when he heard a helicopter flying overhead. He began as usual, greeting some twenty or twenty-five community members,…

P-22 lived an epic and tragic life in Griffith Park. Would a new mountain lion fare any better?

Los Angeles Times

Not long ago, the park’s long-reigning king — the cougar known as P-22 — stalked the same hills.

Nick Offerman Paddles a Badass Canoe He Built Down the L.A. River

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Requiem for a Great Cat

The New Yorker

The citizens of Los Angeles have not forgotten about P-22, the furtively majestic mountain lion of Griffith Park, who died a week before Christmas, at the age of about twelve.

Pachuca Rebels in 1940s Los Angeles

JSTOR Daily

In World War II-era Los Angeles, some Mexican American teenage boys and young men took on the flashy zoot suit-wearing persona of the “pachuco”—and became a target for law enforcement and white vigilantes. And, as historian Elizabeth R.

Bruce’s Beach Was Hailed as a Reparations Model. Then the Family Sold It.

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. — On a bright day last summer, Anthony Bruce stood on a patch of grassy land perched on the Pacific Ocean. As deep blue waves gently dissolved onto the shoreline behind him, the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder handed Mr.

Avenging Billy: How amateur sleuths took on a gay porn actor’s haunting Hollywood murder

Los Angeles Times

The first time most people in Los Angeles heard of gay porn actor Billy London — a.k.a. Bill Newton — was when his head and feet showed up in a dumpster.

What Makes Mount Baldy so Dangerous

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Black entrepreneurs built beach havens in California. Racism shut them down.

The hidden history of Santa Monica’s Black coastal enclaves.

The Great Train Robbery Redux

The New Yorker

In Preston Sturges’s 1941 film “Sullivan’s Travels,” a Hollywood director wants to “know about trouble” firsthand, so he sets out hopping freight trains, living as a self-described “tramp.