(Jim Cooke / Los Angeles Times) This story was originally published in Group Therapy, a weekly newsletter answering questions sent by readers about what’s been weighing on their hearts and minds. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. I’ve written quite a bit about disconnection in this space: the loneliness of being immunocompromised, … Read more
Nitrous oxide canisters used to get high lie on a street in downtown San Francisco in February 2022. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) The Los Angeles City Council is considering cracking down on the sale of nitrous oxide — known as laughing gas, typically is administered by anesthesiologists as a short-acting sedative, but when … Read more
The business guru, who also calls himself a “back-up Bollywood dancer,” now owns Miami’s Dixon House. Daniel Petroni He bit! “Shark Tank” investor Rohan Oza is plunking down $13.51 million in cash on a historic Art Deco waterfront home in Miami Beach, we hear. Oza, who has been involved with high profile brands including Vitamin … Read more
Wells Fargo employees seeking to unionize allege the bank laid off members of their proposed bargaining unit ahead of a scheduled vote as an intimidation tactic. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images) After Wells Fargo was mired in a 2013 scandal over employees who opened millions of fake banking accounts, the bank created a new centralized … Read more
Those mourning Hamid Mirshojae created a makeshift memorial outside a Woodland Hills medical clinic in August. Five people, including his former wife, have been accused in his slaying. (Noah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times) Ahang Kelk stood toward the back of her addiction treatment center in Woodland Hills, where photos of Elvis Presley and Marilyn … Read more
Warner Bros. Discovery is restructuring the company. The Burbank studio, seen here, HBO and the streaming service Max will make up one unit, while basic cable channels will be structured as a distinct unit. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times) Warner Bros. Discovery announced a major restructuring Thursday, a preliminary step that could lead to … Read more
How an 836-pound ‘cursed’ emerald traveled the Americas, ruining lives and bankrupting men It was an ordinary day at his Los Angeles law office when John Nadolenco opened a letter from Brazil enlisting his help in a mission to retrieve a stolen, and quite possibly cursed, 836-pound emerald. The year was 2014, the heyday of … Read more
Grab a smoothie, draw some blood. Inside L.A.’s new $50,000-a-year wellness club I sat in my car, in an El Segundo shopping mall parking lot, looking up at a new storefront touted as a one-stop shop for feeling physically fit, emotionally grounded and socially connected. My shoulder ached. It was my good luck that on … Read more
Breonna Taylor was shot to death in 2020 by Louisville, Ky., police conducing a “no-knock” raid at her apartment. (Courtesy of Sam Aguiar via Associated Press) The U.S. Justice Department and the city of Louisville have reached an agreement to reform the city’s police force after an investigation prompted by the fatal police shooting of … Read more
(Jordon Cheung / For The Times) Growing up, the first thing that my mother would ask me — or my brothers and sisters — when we came through the door was, “Ni chi le ma?” The Chinese equivalent of “How are you?” Roughly translated in our household, it meant, “Have you eaten?” There would always … Read more
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