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Recently retired (from daily journalism) Los Angeles Times food editor Russ Parsons showed up in Sunday's Washington Post writing about the process of disconnecting with the cookbook collection he has ...

First, a little background. Dating to even before Tribune Company ownership of the LA Times, the cost cutters looked for a way to reduce the huge commitment on the books to pay for vacation days ...

The view from Manhattan Beach pier. LAO file photo. With all the media coverage of that weekend shark bite off the Manhattan Beach pier, Heal the Bay scientists have put together a fact sheet about ...

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 ...

Willie Nelson, beardless and braidless, at the Palomino in 1970. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images at LA Magazine's website Before everyone forgets that LA's music lore includes North Hollywood, Los ...

Following on last week's announcement that LA Times film writer John Horn would anchor KPCC's on-air arts and entertainment show, the station has filled out the producer spots with names that also ...

Ramona Gardens is the public housing project in Boyle Heights where African American tenants have reported tensions with Latino renters, who are the majority in the place. After midnight on Monday ...

Forty five years ago, then-governor Ronald Reagan made it a cause to get young UCLA professor Angela Davis fired by the UC Board of Regents. She was a member of the Communist Party, a participant in ...

Photo of the Zanja Madre in Chinatown by William Preston Bolling and Friends of the Los Angeles River. Crews excavating on the former Little Joe's restaurant site in Chinatown have uncovered the ...

Visitors to Santa Monica Beach in the 1880s. This is pretty awesome. Ernie Marquez, a member of the land-grant family that owned Santa Monica Canyon and Rancho Boca de Santa Monica, grew up in the ...

Greuel told Rick Orlov, “When I heard about Henry retiring, I felt the fire in the belly. It would be an honor and a privilege to succeed Henry Waxman. He is an icon." Daily News Greuel is still ...