Reporting on Los Angeles since 2009.
Rachel Khong moved to L.A. and wrote her most wonderfully bizarre book yet
The author Rachel Khong lay on the operating table in her hospital gown, awaiting a dilation and curettage (D&C) to remove the so-called “products of conception” following a miscarriage. Her heart raced. Suddenly, purring from the radio speakers came John Mayer’s cheeseball jam, “Your Body Is a Wonderland.”
The first book about the L.A. fires is really about ‘America’s new age of disaster’
“Firestorm,” the first book about the Great Los Angeles Fires of 2025, pulls readers into Jacob Soboroff’s reporter’s notebook and the two weeks he spent covering the Palisades and subsequent Eaton wildfire.
Best celeb memoirs of 2025
Another banner year at the Celebrity Memoir Factory — a seemingly bottomless font of origin stories, trauma dumps and D-list confessions.
Mindy Seu, the internet’s sexual historian, pays her sources
“A Sexual History of the Internet” is two things at once: a participatory lecture-performance held on the audience’s phones, and an accompanying, palm-sized, 700-plus-page “script” examining how our devices serve as bodily extensions.
8 fascinating collectibles spotted at Rare Books L.A.
Rare Books L.A. transformed Union Station into a bustling fair where more than 50 antiquarian booksellers showcased literary treasures and collectibles, from a typo-laden first edition of “Harry Potter” to Los Angeles’ first phonebook circa 1882.
He was in that electric ‘Jesus Christ Superstar.’ His day job? Hollywood Bowl usher
Just days after taking the stage as Simon in “Jesus Christ Superstar” at the Hollywood Bowl, Tyrone Huntley was back doing his regular gig at the venue: ushering people to their seats.
Realtors Are The New Disaster-Influencers
Armed with industry knowledge and online followings, brokers are helping those displaced by the wildfires. For some, it’s meant confronting “the market knows best.”
For 'Dinner In America,' Theaters Offer a Second Helping
An angsty rom-com starring Kyle Gallner and Emily Skeggs has catapulted from crickets to cult status since going viral on TikTok in the past couple of months.
Panic! At The Death Café
A taste of grief at the death café, a kaffeeklatsch dedicated to the inevitable.
Inside the secret poker games opening doors in L.A.’s art scene
Uncovering the whispers of an ultra-exclusive, high-stakes “art game” involving L.A.’s major artists, dealers and collectors going back decades.
Looking for L.A.’s art cool kids? They’re hosting exhibits in laundry rooms and garages
It's a new spin on a nearly century-long L.A. tradition of domestic galleries that rely on word-of-mouth, neighborly trust and consummate hosts.
Venita Blackburn’s First Novel Runs on Denial
Something of a cult figure in the flash-fiction community, Blackburn writes stories that orbit the themes of youth and friendship, family and duty, sex and care, faith and memory, and that are often set in Southern California dreamlands.
A People’s History of Slime: On Two New Books About Ooze
By its own definition, slime is hard to grasp.
On Kate Flannery’s American Apparel memoir
I was 17 but power dressing as a ball-busting Reagan-era businesswoman in high-waisted pleated trousers and penny loafers.
Assembly required at the DIY ‘Ikea Residency’
At Ikea Burbank, the mega-chain’s largest in the nation, an underground crew is at work on a new scheme for the prefab utopia: artist’s haven.