Entertainment

Bugs Bunny in a scene from “Rhapsody Rabbit,” part of the Merrie Melodies series that’s no longer available to stream on Max. (Warner Bros. Entertainment) In a time so choked with bad news that bad news has to fight to be heard, the bad news that Max, the streaming arm of Warner Bros. Discovery, has … Read more

Steve Carell and the cast of “The Office.” (Justin Lubin / NBC Universal) Brian Baumgartner, who played the endearingly dim-witted accountant Kevin Malone on NBC’s “The Office,” can’t escape the role that defined him for nine seasons. He even recently appeared in an episode of the NBC drama “Suits LA,” playing himself. In the show, … Read more

“When disaster approaches, people can be evacuated, but rooms and vaults filled with irreplaceable works of art cannot,” writes The Times’ art critic Christopher Knight. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times) “Should the Getty move?” Times art critic Christopher Knight asked in a recent commentary. “Should the Villa, and the Getty Center in the fire-prone Brentwood hills … Read more

Time to give these so-called sleep hacks a rest? The team behind the sleep tracker Sleep Cycle crunched data from over 1 million global users to determine the social media slumber shortcuts that have gone viral. The Sweden-based company recently released the results as part of its annual Sleep Around the World report. “This year’s … Read more

More than two dozen Wikipedia editors allegedly colluded in a years-long scheme to inject anti-Israel language on topics related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Anti-Defamation League claimed in a bombshell report released Tuesday. The rogue editors, at least 30 of them, flooded one of the world’s most popular sites with “antisemitic narratives, anti-Israel bias, and … Read more

Voices Tom Chavez Deportation raids terrorized my family for decades — and we had papers I grew up believing I was the grandson of an undocumented immigrant. My mother, raised in an adobe home in New Mexico behind the county sewer system, would tell me and my siblings about the backbreaking work her father did … Read more

Voices Lanhee J. Chen California needs to think outside the blue box Perhaps Gov. Gavin Newsom was channeling his inner Republican when he hosted conservative commentator Charlie Kirk for an 81-minute interview on the debut of his new podcast last week. Indeed, much of what Newsom talked about was immediately cheered by the very partisans … Read more

The Whisky Hotel, an adults-only hotel whose wood-paneled interior is shown here, opened in Hollywood in March. (Luis Luque / Whisky Hotel) Can hotels legally ban children? With spring breaks starting momentarily and summer vacations not far away, the question is puzzling a wide scope of California travelers — parents booking their next family vacation … Read more

‘The only thing still left.’ Volunteers race to save Altadena’s vintage tiles from the bulldozers The team of masons, covered in dust and sweat, had been working in the ruins of the Altadena house for hours when a shout echoed across the wreckage. Volunteer Devon Douglas emerged from a pit of rubble that had once … Read more

His impressive basement saloon was like ‘Cheers’ — until it burned in the Eaton fire Before the January fires came, Brian Gardner had 300 Polaroids on the wall of his basement saloon, the Hye West Saloon of Santa Poco. He had bottles of booze too — well over 1,000, to be exact — but the … Read more