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LA to open largest building for homeless
Newsweek· 4 days agoA 19-story building in the center of Los Angeles' Skid Row is set to open to help homeless people in the city. The building, which has 278 units and...
Michael Govan: Kingpin of L.A.'s global arts ambition
Los Angeles Times· 11 hours agoWhen Michael Govan joined the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as director in 2006, he had a vision: to create an arts and culture town square, in sprawling and diffuse Los Angeles, along museum-heavy Miracle Mile.
Cecily Myart-Cruz: Spirited defender of teachers
Los Angeles Times· 11 hours agoAfter her crosswalk duties, Cecily Myart-Cruz hustled to a conference at UCLA, where she was a featured speaker on the crucial role of arts education. “We must be focused on restoring, healing ...
Mia Lehrer: Designer making beauty out of blight
Los Angeles Times· 11 hours agoFew are the corners of L.A. that don’t bear the imprint of Studio-MLA, the landscape architecture firm founded by the energetic Mia Lehrer three decades ago. At SoFi Stadium, her studio designed ...
Ann Philbin: Risk-taking, made-in-L.A. arts leader
Los Angeles Times· 11 hours agoThe Los Angeles art world is still reeling — eight months after the fact — from the news that Ann Philbin, longtime director of the Hammer Museum at UCLA, is retiring at the end of this year ...
Man fatally shot in the head near Metro train station in West Adams: LAPD
NBC Los Angeles· 2 days agoA man was killed after he was shot in the head Friday near the Metro E Line train station in the...
Star-studded Hollywood fund-raiser for Biden rakes in $30M
New York Daily News· 7 days agoA star-studded Hollywood fund-raiser for President Biden headlined by the likes of George Clooney,...
New details emerge after USC student arrested in fatal stabbing of homeless man
Los Angeles Times· 5 days agoA USC student was arrested on suspicion of murder after police said he stabbed a man Monday night on...
Texas man convicted of threatening to kill Rep Maxine Waters gets nearly 3 years in prison
Fox News· 5 days agoA Texas man received a nearly three-year-long jail sentence after his criminal conviction for...
James T. Butts Jr.: Bare-knuckled mayor who rebuilt Inglewood
Los Angeles Times· 11 hours agoTo listen to James T. Butts Jr. rattle off Muhammad Ali-style boasts about Inglewood, its people and all that he has accomplished in more than a decade as its mayor, you’d think he grew up in ...