Are appointed judges more ethical than elected judges?
To the editor: As a retired judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, I was interested in your article…
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Children who eat peanuts early are less likely to develop allergies, study finds
Allergist and immunologist Dr. Gideon Lack's first hint that some peanut allergies could be prevented came more than 20 years…
Opinion: Why Los Angeles should ban smartphones in schools
At school, after school, the story is the same: students' smartphones are distract them from learning and eroding mental health…
Sony buys Alamo Drafthouse cinema chain
Sony Pictures Entertainment has purchased Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the innovative dine-in theater chain known as a premier movie destination, including…
California has underestimated the epic potential of future floods
For more than a century, the Great Flood of 1862 has remained among California's worst natural disasters — a megastorm…
What 20 years of data tell us about same-sex marriage
Twenty years ago this month, Marcia Kadish and Tanya McCloskey exchanged wedding vows at Cambridge City Hall in Massachusetts and…
How Hollywood created a fatal cycle at the movie box office
After days of darkness from morning to mid-afternoon, Memorial Day bloomed bright and early over Los Angeles; the clouds were…
The 2024 box office is tough. But Imax's appeal is a plus point
When Warner Bros. film executive Jeff Goldstein saw the massive sand dunes and sweeping desert vistas of Denis Villeneuve's first…
Ratings for streaming films powered by women and people of color
Amid today's heated streaming wars, it seems that diversity is the secret weapon. Women and people of color played a…
If there's a new cougar in Griffith Park, let's try not to kill it
There was no doubt about it. The burly, hairy blonde animal on a tree trunk illuminated by car headlights in…