Does Anyone Make Out in Cars Anymore

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L.A. Mystery Ring cameras, flashlights and nosy neighborhood WhatsApp groups encroach on a steamy L.A. tradition.Oct 5, 2026Add us on A couple kisses in a car circa 1954. (Bettmann/Getty Images)LET ME START WITH THE VICTORY. After many trials and…

Bears in Los Angeles Are Getting Their Close-Ups, Ready or Not

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California has 60,000 black bears, and they are venturing far from their usual habitat in search of food and shelter. It’s the humans who have to adapt.

Can Anyone Save USC?

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The untold story of how USC almost ran aground — and the improbable rise of its new leader.

‘I Don’t Want to Die This Way’: Stranded for 15 Hours at Sea

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Two longtime friends rented jet skis for an hourlong excursion. They ended up fighting for their lives.

When We Were Google

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Exclusive A former reference librarian at the L.A. Central Library on the wonders of a bygone L.A. job.Sep 3, 2026(Photo by Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)IN THE DAYS before Google, the reference desk at Los Angeles’…

L.A.’s Most Powerful Publicist Might Be This Drive-Thru Restaurant

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Exclusive The Rick’s sign has become the ultimate way to announce a life event for a growing subset of Angelenos.Aug 31, 2026The sign at Rick’s. (L.A. Material photo illustration, base photo by Jennifer Swann)JAMEL JOHNSON MUST have been feeling pretty…

My Quest to Find the Best Movie Theater Bar in Los Angeles

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Exclusive 21 bars in seven days. Can they possibly be great? Can they even be good?Aug 24, 2026The Video Vortex at Alamo Drafthouse. (Photo by Eric Misitzis Mennel)THE TV OVER THE bar plays Spongebob Squarepants with the sound on….

Inside Ghost Town: The Firm Clearing Venice’s Encampments

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An unusual private company takes on homelessness — with persistence, cash payments, and a team that includes ex-gang members. Clients love them. The people they move do not.

The Hiding Man of Griffith Park

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A guerrilla artist has made the Eastside his canvas. His medium: Strange signs.

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?

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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

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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

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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.