The beer queen of Northern California is selling her brewery for her 80th
It was 1983. Barbara Groom was in her late 30s, working as a successful pharmacist and bored out…
75 years ago, Hollywood saved this town. Now Tinseltown struggles to save even itself
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M. — Nowhere has Hollywood left its mark quite like this desert town of 6,000 souls on…
Trump’s Department of Justice investigates Gavin Newsom’s wife
While running for his second term in office, President Trump promised to seek retribution against those he considered…
Here are a few SoCal rooftops bars and restaurants to visit this summer
There’s a certain elegance and sophistication to rooftop bars and restaurants captured in the American imagination. I think…
East Los Angeles’ journalism dean retires after 55 years
After more than five decades at East Los Angeles College, journalism professor Jean Stapleton found herself this week…
Deadline looms for billionaire tax to make the ballot
It’s deadline day for the contentious proposal to impose a new tax on California billionaires, an idea opposed…
A day at Dodger Stadium with my kids cost hundreds just to get through the gate
I still have the tickets — well, the print-outs from StubHub — from my husband’s and my first…
The Boyle Heights fire is latest pollution crisis to affect L.A.’s Eastside
A fire in a massive cold storage facility in Boyle Heights that started on Wednesday hasn’t stopped yet.…
Beers and hair braiding bring dads seeking deeper connections together
The challenges of fatherhood take several forms. For some men, the difficulties stem from not having had a…
In Long Beach, you don’t need ‘starchitects’ to make a mark
Prairie Avenue in Inglewood doesn’t have the name brand of Wilshire or Sunset or Rodeo. But head down…
The L.A. Zoo’s dilapidation crisis was seven decades in the making
In the 1950s, Los Angeles’ population was exploding. The decade brought a development boom as well as good…
A vital California highway is sliding into the sea. A $2.5-billion tunnel would go around it
There’s an eroding three-mile stretch of Highway 101 in California’s remote northwest corner that hugs fog-shrouded cliffs between…