Entertainment

“You can go to the YouTube Theater, you can go to Peacock Theater, so what sets us apart?” the Shrine’s assistant general manager Spencer Knox asked. “It’s that prestige.” (Jonathan Mariande / For The Times) On a recent Friday night, the French disco band L’Impératrice took the stage at the Shrine Expo Hall, framed in … Read more

Ross Kauffman, left, and Zana Briski won Oscar gold for their work on “Born Into Brothels” in 2005. (Mark J. Terrill / Associated Press) The documentary Academy Award categories have an unusual history dating back to the early days of America’s involvement in World War II, and many of the nonfiction shorts and feature films … Read more

This story is part of a zine that L.A. Times Image created in collaboration with Lauren Halsey, Diamond Jones and the Summaeverythang Community Center. The limited-edition zine, printed by -ism, will be at Halsey’s booth at Frieze L.A. For over a decade, Qione Holmes, a.k.a. Hood Historian, has served as the memory bank for L.A. … Read more

Demonstrators rally during the “No Kings Day” protest in Washington on Feb. 17. (Jose Luis Magana / Associated Press) To the editor: Edward R. Murrow once said, “A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” It reminds me of an old parable about the two wolves within us, one good and one bad, … Read more

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass speaks during a news conference with disaster recovery czar Steve Soboroff in Pacific Palisades on Jan. 27. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) To the editor: “You must not be reactive; you must always be proactive, and if you can, be predictive” — this is the credo of being … Read more

A Ukrainian serviceman carries an artillery shell to be fired at Russian forces in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Jan. 23. (Evgeniy Maloletka / Associated Press) To the editor: It appears that President Trump’s peace talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin may take place without the full participation of Ukraine. If so, there is a possibility … Read more

In his insightful book about America’s housing crisis, Yoni Appelbaum argues that more than a century of restrictive legislation has left so many stuck, unable to pursue opportunity. (Jessica Torch) Book Review Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity By Yoni AppelbaumRandom House: 320 pages, $32If you buy books … Read more

The Hughes fire burning north of Santa Clarita last month. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) Destroyed homes, soaring insurance premiums and forest management costs put the price of the Los Angeles fires in the hundreds of billions of dollars. But these staggering figures mask a darker ledger where costs compound silently over decades … Read more

This new West Hollywood weed lounge is a mind-bending, must-see jungle oasis The cannabis consumption lounge that recently opened in a lush, tropical courtyard in West Hollywood is one of the most joyfully unique, absurdly captivating and mind-blowing places most of us mere mortals — i.e. those of us without a four-picture deal or Scrooge … Read more

Theo Wilson, the storied consummate news reporter who thought nothing of hiring a taxi to take her 250 miles to a crime scene or of telling mass murderer Charles Manson to “shut up,” died early Friday. She was 78. Wilson, who covered the trials of the century for the New York Daily News when it … Read more