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Rep. Adam Schiff took part in a Saturday morning media event at Silver Lake Reservoir and heard lots of words of support for his watchdogging of President Trump and the Russian election meddling ...

San Francisco Chronicle photo of Starr in 2010 by Michael Macor. Kevin Starr, the author of extensive histories of California who is the top contender for the title of preeminent observer of our state ...

The 1935 LA Times building is in the foreground, at 1st and Spring. To the rear left, at 2nd and Spring, is the 1948 Mirror building. The 1970s Times Mirror wing, at 1st and Broadway, is what would be ...

Now this is Hollywood, and a place where some people will do anything to promote anything. So it could be just that: a promo for something yet to be revealed. But it seems that on Page A7 of Monday's ...

Filthy McNasty owned two well-remembered music clubs in the Los Angeles area. His Filthy McNasty's on Sunset Strip occupied the spot where the Viper Room is now. After leaving the Strip, McNasty ran ...

Wednesday was the last day of work for many of the close to 80 newsroom staffers who are leaving the Los Angeles Times, with farewell gatherings and toasts in several departments. "Hysterical," is how ...

A little bit different view of the LA Times building. If you had any doubts that the Los Angeles Times newsrooms (all of them) are consumed with one topic right now — whether to take the buyout or ...

Sunday's New York Times revives a classic Los Angeles sports media incident — the time that KLAC radio reporter Paul Olden asked Dodgers manager Tom Lasorda what he thought of Cubs' left fielder Dave ...

Freelance videojournalist Abraham Riesman was sent in 2012 to do a story for Punch on Paul Mazursky's morning gathering of old Hollywood hands (and a few younger ones) at Farmers Market. The table ...

Jeffrey Ressner began his journalism career as a messenger at the LA Weekly, and from 1993-2007 was a Time correspondent in Los Angeles. He was also a writer for Rolling Stone, US Weekly, the ...

Kate Mantillini closed Saturday, and with it a dining tradition for many of us Angelenos. Me and Pop tried to get a dinner reservation on Wednesday, but they weren’t taking any, so we ankled in early ...