Trump's callous political attack on Rob Reiner shows a shameful moral failure
Hours after Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were found dead in their home in what is shaping up to…
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Revisiting Nickelodeon's Crazy, Groundbreaking 'Weinerville Chanukah Special' at Age 30
For a holiday with eight days and more than 16 different ways to spell it, Hanukkah once featured extremely limited…
'The Tuskhut Man' Leans Towards the Weird and Corny
Two years ago, at Jason Woliner's birthday party, a strange guest attended. Mysterious, wise, amazing: he was an animatronic cowboy…
How to have the best Sunday in Los Angeles, according to Aparna Nancherla
An exciting Sunday for Aparna Nancherla is a Sunday without much excitement. “My cortisol goes up without anything happening, so…
The EPA just embarrassed the United States “in front of the entire world”
December 11, 2025 8 a.m. Pacific Time to the editor: “The emperor is naked.” Recently, the Environmental Protection Agency removed…
DACA was once a lifeline. The undocumented youth who followed were lost
Alex immigrated to the U.S. as a young child and long felt tormented by his undocumented status. In 2017, when…
AI Ads Fail at McDonald's
People don't love it. McDonald's was forced to remove an AI-generated Christmas commercial from YouTube after some consumers said the…
Academic conferences have invaded Los Angeles bars and tickets are selling out
On a cool Monday night at the Zebulon in Frogtown, a man dressed in a Jason Voorhees T-shirt walks onto…
LAPD cites activists for painting Westwood crosswalk to improve safety
Jonathan Hale and more than a dozen other activists were in the middle of painting a third crosswalk at a…
The 25 best albums of 2025
Stacking, stripping, looking back, moving forward: musicians found all sorts of uses for the album format this year, long after…