Welcome back to The Times’ Lakers newsletter, where we finally know the end. Before the Lakers’ elimination game against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday, JJ Redick quoted a song by Dermot Kennedy. “‘We can’t know the end,’” Redick said, “‘until it’s over.’” After a 115-110 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 4 … Read more
Growing up in London, I always dreamed of living in America. Loading audio narration… After visiting New York City for the first time as a 19-year-old, I started daydreaming about moving across the pond and working as a writer in Manhattan. I’d be the British version of Carrie Bradshaw, if you will — minus the … Read more
It is not just any Tuesday. It is 9 p.m. on a dreary night in Shadow Hills, just miles away from the lush foothills of the Verdugo Mountains. The delicate pitter-patter of a drum’s cymbal is the only sound to break through the thick brick wall of the obscure performance venue, Sun Space, and reach … Read more
Last week, Josh D’Amaro faced investors for the first time as Walt Disney Co.’s chief executive during the company’s fiscal second-quarter earnings call. The call gave D’Amaro a chance to lay out his long-term plan for the Mouse House — one that focuses heavily on building an ecosystem around the Burbank media and entertainment giant’s … Read more
Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our City Hall newsletter. It’s David Zahniser, with an assist from Noah Goldberg, offering up the latest on city and county government. L.A. voters finally got a chance this week to see how the leading candidates for mayor behave onstage with each other, and they … Read more
The Chargers essentially lived on an airplane last season, traveling more miles than any other NFL team. This season, they will have a long runway followed by a dramatically sharp ascent. They open against three first-time head coaches in succession, then face four Super Bowl-winning head coaches in a row. Their first three games are … Read more
Professional visual artists hate generative AI. This should come as no surprise, but a new survey released last month by a trio of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University breaks down just how much: 99% of respondents out of a pool of 378 verified professional visual artists noted their dislike for the technology, with 92% categorizing … Read more
Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our City Hall newsletter. It’s David Zahniser, with an assist from Connor Sheets and Sandra McDonald, giving you the latest on city and county government. We’ve reached the point in L.A.’s city election season where a juicy piece of news is popping off every day. … Read more
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — To Fidel Castro and Cuba’s communist elite, private businesses were totems of capitalist evil. Now, with the country running out of food and fuel, the regime on the brink and anger spreading in the streets, it’s those private businesses — run by once-persecuted, small-scale capitalists — that hold the key to salvaging … Read more