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BY THE TIME Scott Glover set his sights on the nation's prescription drug abuse epidemic, he had already proved himself to be one of the most talented investigative journalists in [...]

RODEO DRIVE IN BEVERLY HILLS styles itself as the intersection of luxury, fashion, and entertainment--a tourist mecca where well-heeled shoppers flock to make five- or six-figure impulse buys. For a [...]

THE LITTLE TIKES log cabin my son received for his third birthday was a little lacking in authenticity --121 pounds of fancifully molded plastic and not a toothpick's worth of [...]

As the most famous helicopter news pilot in American history, BOB TUR prided himself on being the ultimate alpha male. Except all along, he knew he wasn't ZOEY TUR JOINED [...]

IN 1964, NO OTHER CITY seemed more capable of reflecting the bright optimism of Ronald Reagan's America than Los Angeles. The top-grossing films that year--Beverly Hills Cop, The Karate Kid, [...]

ON THE FINAL night of the Republican National Convention, Jorge Herrera arrives in blue scrubs at the Elephant Bar in Torrance and orders an ahi salad and a margarita. Donald [...]

SOMETIME DURING MY third circumambulation of the Serra Retreat labyrinth, the realities of contemporary Malibu receded from my senses. The one visible manse in the distance dematerialized into a dollop [...]

ON A CLEAR WINTER MORNING THE Brentwood headquarters of Truthdig.com is a refuge of serene natural beauty. Floor-to-ceiling glass affords panoramic views of the oaks and sycamores of Mandeville Canyon, [...]

THE WALLS OF Father Gregory Boyle's office at Homeboy Industries are encrusted with family photos. Somewhere there's a snapshot of his 88-year-old mother, Kay, though she's all but lost among [...]

LAST SPRING Jake Gyllenhaal showed up at the Silver Lake offices of writer-director David Ayer to pitch himself for the lead role in End of Watch--a cop movie whose $8 [...]

The way L.A. schools superintendent John Deasy sees it, he could make 100 percent a his high school graduates ready for a four-year college, rid the beleaguered district of lousy [...]

AMUSE-BOUCHE ROBYN SEWITZ is almost done flipping through the latest Bon Appetit this Sunday afternoon when she makes a discovery she just has to share with her son. Brushing back [...]

AS ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER steps down this month, California voters can only marvel that a leader of such apparent strength is leaving the Golden State such a weakling--its institutions eroded and [...]

When TV news producers or opinion page-editors find themselves in need of a Muslim American voice to weigh in on matters ranging from the Israeli-Palestinian peace process to Iran's nuclear [...]

MY WATER BROKE THREE MONTHS EARLY. It wasn't complete bed rest, but practically. That lasted only a week. Then the infection set in, and the baby started to abort. So [...]

Why would a former two-term governor and lifelong politician want to run a state that can't be governed? A Q&A with Jerry Brown When considering his career, California attorney general [...]

ON THE INTERNET YOU CAN WATCH A FOUR-MINUTE VIDEO CLIP OF AYMAN ARIF DANCING. The venue is a bedroom in his Northridge home; his stage, a comforter patterned with sunflowers. [...]

Who: Lance Robertson, aka DJ Lance Rock What: Host, Yo Gabba Gabba! Where: Entertaining kids at the Skirball At the Skirball Cultural Center this brisk Sunday morning, the organizers of [...]

> NASHVILLE IS A city of happy contradictions, rough-at-the-edges authenticity and sequined glitz get along nicely and honky-tonk rises to the level of fine art. Don't come primed to use [...]

* WHETHER THE O.J. SIMPSON murder trial was a travesty of justice or justice served is still debated 20 years later. In terms of TV ratings, though, the proceedings were [...]

* THIS YEAR IT'S OUT with the old as demolition begins on one of the city's icons, the 6th Street Viaduct. Since 1932, the bridge has joined Boyle Heights with [...]

* I HAVE A problem with not recognizing famous people. Up until a few years ago, I used to DJ to make money, bringing my vinyl to a. Nylon magazine [...]

AUGUST 17 MARKS THE BEGINNING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR--AND THE END OF A PROMISE MADE TO PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS MORE THAN A DECADE AGO * WAVING A MAGIC wand may [...]

* BEGINNING JULY 26, at stadiums, arenas, and playing fields from Exposition Park to West-wood to Long Beach, 7,000 intellectually disabled men, women, boys, and girls from 177 countries will [...]

EVERY MORNING I do 100 push-ups and 50 sit-ups and work out with free weights while I watch the news. No, that's not incredible. If you do it regularly, it's [...]

HEAVEN KNOWS that the California initiative process could benefit from a little entertainment value. For every ballot item attaining the drama of a citizens' revolt--Proposition 13, which rolled back property [...]

The Swingers screenwriter, Iron Man director, and star of the new movie Chef talks about the hazards of car ownership AFTER MOVING to L.A. from Chicago in 1993,1 lived in [...]

An enterprising publisher is launching a conservative L.A. paper. But why? AARON KUSHNER was a stranger to the newspaper industry when he acquired the Orange County Register two years ago. [...]

Alternately a parking lot and a racetrack, sublime yet treacherous, Malibu's stretch of Pacific Coast Highway has many stories to tell--including ones celebrities would rather forget 1992 Actor and singer [...]

IF YOU WERE thinking of establishing an easygoing friendship with a grape, pinot noir wouldn't be your first choice. It's temperamental, thin-skinned, and fussy. Fortunately Oregon's Willamette Valley, where some [...]

THE ANGEL OF DEATH * A PUDGY, BESPECTACLED respiratory therapist at Glendale Adventist Medical Center, (MIEN S1 LD would materialize at the bedsides of critically ill patients, syringe in hand. [...]

WHEN IT COMES to L.A., I've been on the record about being a hater. I've so defined myself by being a New Yorker and not embracing the Southern California thing. [...]

OF ALL THE illusions orchestrated behind the Magic Castle's secret front door, perhaps the most surprising is how the institution has been able to mask its tender age. This year [...]

The actor-writer-producer--his new film, 50/50, is a comedy about twenty-somethings and cancer--riffs on laziness, abandoning his drug dealers, and Fairfax Avenue before it got hip In the spring of 2002, [...]

In the annals of the California gold rush, Julian was a story of too little, too late. Situated 50 winding miles northeast of San Diego in the Cuyamaca Mountains, Julian [...]

Who: Bryce Dallas Howard What: Actress, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond Where: Hanging out at LaMill in Silver Lake She has polished off her bowl of polenta with the [...]

* This month Swiss horologist Raymond Weil begins the release of 1,212 Frank Sinatra 'Maestro' watches to mark the centennial of Ol' Blue Eyes' birth. The nods are subtle--the single [...]

WHEN MAYOR ERIC GARCET7I first spoke to her about leading the Department of Cultural Affairs, Danielle Brazell couldn't picture herself in charge. As director of the nonprofit Arts for LA [...]

IN THE SPRING of 1997,1 took a self-guided tour of the beaux arts Higgins Building, at 2nd and Main streets, dodging toppled water coolers and broken furniture, shards of marble [...]

SOME YEARS AGO Adam Blackman, cofounder of the Blackman Cruz design emporium in Hollywood, happened on an old photo of a mutant beanbag that could have been conceived only in [...]

Chpoeira At first, a typical capoeira class may resemble a 'Kumbaya' circle spiced up with lunges, roundhouse kicks, evasive dancing, and the occasional headbutt. Brazilian beats play as combatants pair [...]

THIS YEAR MARKS the centennial of Woody Guthrie's birth, and LA is commemorating him like a native son. Granted, the singer-songwriter was from Oklahoma, and the flat, farmer's cadence never [...]

TWO DECADES PASSED before the Who's Tommy made its way from its 1969 debut on vinyl to Broad way. The path for American Idiot, the 2004 Grammy-winning album by Green [...]

The heartbeaking yet endearing Anvil! The Story of Anvil not only won Best Documentary at the 2010 Independent Sprit Awards, but it brought fifysometing singer-guitarist 'Lips' Kudlow and drummer Robb [...]

She arrived fashionably late, thousands of years after the Columbian mammoths and saber-toothed cats became extinct. She lived, she died, and about 9,000 years later 'La Brea Woman,' as she's [...]

* FOR DECADES THE downtown bar scene catered mostly to customers from nearby residence hotels who drank as hard during the week as on Friday and Saturday nights. In 2004, [...]

Eight years after opening in New York, the vaudeville show Beacher's Madhouse is moving to the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. 'We have magicians, stilt walkers, burlesque dancers, and a very talented [...]

SOMETIMES IN HISPANIC CULTURE people will look at an autistic kid's behavior as just bad behavior that he will hopefully grow out of. The school districts in places like Compton [...]

In your memoir, Not My Boy!, you write about how you sank into a state of denial so deep when your son R.J. was diagnosed with autism that it almost [...]

(Shout!, $60) >> From The Producers to Young Frankenstein, the comedy of Mel Brooks has always looked backward, lampooning Old Hollywood. Small surprise, then, that Brooks's artistic breakthrough came with [...]