20+ hour, 27+ min ago   (654+ words) In a rare rebuke of a campus event, UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk on Friday distanced the university from a law school symposium about the 9/11 terrorist attacks that has faced criticism for including a lawyer for 9/11 “mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, along…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (1021+ words) TELLURIDE, Colo. — Do you believe in ghosts? Andrew Scott considers the question and looks at me with a mischievous grin, retreating to a corner of the restaurant booth where we’re catching up a few hours before his new movie, “Elsinore,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (543+ words) Police in Arizona say a shooting at a Tucson gay bar that left three people dead, including the shooter, is being investigated as a possible hate crime. Vincent Anthony Siqueiros, 42, and Cameron Davis Capara, 33, were shot in the parking lot…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (883+ words) A federal judge this week threw out the U.S. Justice Department’s lawsuit challenging California policies that allow transgender athletes to compete on school sports teams that match their gender identity. The Justice Department alleged that the California Department of Education and…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (445+ words) Shatara Michelle Ford, the indie filmmaker of 2019's rousingly received 'Test Pattern,' pushes into adventurous territory with a new drama about possibilities....

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1470+ words) Legal challenges flared this week over an Inland Empire school district’s alleged removal of library books and, separately, on its efforts to require parental notification on student gender identity — policies strongly supported by the school board president, Sonja Shaw, a…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (329+ words) Jamaal Harrison was riding his e-bike to a West Hollywood Goodwill when he spotted a small animal running through the street. When he realized what it was, he was “astounded.” Hours later, he and the little pig he tried in…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (738+ words) When one of his students hits the stage to try out their comedy material, Aidan Park is usually pacing back and forth in the back, hoping his students don’t forget a line. “If a [performer] flips two words, it can…...

4+ week, 20+ hour ago   (775+ words) Every protest movement or significant historical undertaking had a moment that started at a public bathroom door. That’s the claim made by Temple University professor Bryant Simon, who spoke with Essential California this week about his latest book, “For Customers…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (424+ words) “I love the idea of doing this kind of big, grand sweep of nightlife, and treating eras like the club scene of the early 2000s and L.A. celebrity culture with the same seriousness as 18th century pleasure gardens in London,” Willetts says…...