Hollywood’s ‘Dungeons & Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern’ gets it right
When I first started playing “Dungeons & Dragons” as a tween, my friends christened me with a new…
An oral history on the jerkin’ movement in L.A.
Many will laugh now, but in 2009, learning to pindrop was a young Angeleno’s rite of passage. Equipped…
‘A House of Dynamite’ on Netflix: That ambiguous ending, explained
Kathryn Bigelow. That’s all it took to get me on board “A House of Dynamite.” I would have…
How Ted Sarandos became the ultimate Hollywood gate-crasher
Hollywood moguls once dismissed the outsize ambitions of Netflix’s executives. “Is the Albanian army going to take over…
Castro Theatre eyes next chapter at pivotal moment
SAN FRANCISCO — At the start of the pandemic, when live entertainment was shut down across California, Gregg Perloff —…
Jon Slavet, GOP tech entrepreneur, enters race for California governor
Republican Jon Slavet, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, announced Thursday that he was joining the crowded field of candidates…
6 writers remember Joan Didion, L.A.’s literary prophet who ‘remains full of surprise’
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Why San Francisco’s albino alligator ‘Claude’ died at age 30
Claude, a rare albino alligator whose ghostly white scales and statue-like stillness earned him a cult-like following around…
San Francisco’s beloved albino alligator Claude dies at 30
A rare albino alligator named Claude who was beloved by fans around the world died Tuesday, according to…
San Francisco Opera has a hit with Huang Ruo’s’Monkey King’
San Francisco — San Francisco Opera’s hit new opera, Huang Ruo’s “The Monkey King,” which had its final performance Sunday…
Neighborhoods Across LA to Commemorate World AIDS Day
Events in Los Angeles County Monday to mark World AIDS Day will include an evening of reflection in…
L.A. exploded into a world art capital. I was lucky to witness it
Habits are hard to break. I quit smoking 40 years ago — on April 23, 1986 (not that…