Historic sighting: A rare olive ridley sea turtle has laid eggs in Orange County, marking the first documented nesting of its kind on the West Coast.

Bob Dylan, Mavis Staples, R.E.M., and more sing Cohen’s songs

See the onetime mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea in his coastal happy place through the decades

Bob Mackie, who died on Monday, at 87, dressed Carol Burnett, Cher, and Elton John flamboyantly.

From processing photos of Mars to discovering ancient art on Earth.

Splattering figures like Bill Gates, Jean-Luc Godard and Bernard-Henri Lévy, he perfected the art of using whipped cream as a form of protest.

Todd Beamer’s gold and steel Rolex was found among the debris from Flight 93. While the hands are disfigured and the sapphire crystal is gone, the date window–frozen in time– still reads “11.” Remembe...

“It’s hard for me to face that I was responsible for the end of a life,” the “Jessie’s Girl” singer said in an interview with Joe Rogan.

Los Angeles’ most famous mountain lion will be immortalized in bronze at the Griffith Park Visitors Center.

Read an excerpt from William D. Cohan’s MONEY TO BURN: The Unvarnished Truth About Leon Black, Apollo, and the Rise of a New Wall Street.

And what remains of it in our era of financialized capitalism

Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrests of two men in Portland, Ore. A 35-year-old man named Daejon Love and an 18-year-old man named Taylor Jamie Chan were charged with wire f...

Oakland DIY music shows in the early to mid 00s, as discussed in Jessalyn Aaland's essay for Oakland Review of Books: https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/pl...

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The stunning Sturges House in Los Angeles, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, just joined the L.A. Conservancy's watch list.

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A Listener’s Guide to Dolly Parton by Paige La Grone Babcock Originally published in Arthur No. 8 (January, 2004), accompanying Karin Bolender’s cover feature on Dollywood, “…

Jason White has lived in and around Berkeley since the early ’90s. He’s on a mission this year to hike every path and staircase in the hills.

It looks like it landed from another planet.

Parton's death highlights a legacy that stretched from Hollywood to children's literacy programs across California.

Robert Lang, a physicist who became a leading figure in the world of origami, lost a lifetime's work of folded paper art to the 2025 wildfires in Altadena, Calif. He then set out to recreate his desig...

The beloved owner of Rooky Ricardo’s Records died in July at 78. But the Haight St. shop’s new owners — and Vivian’s countless musical disciples — say his legacy lives on.

Andon Market, the AI-created store with no clear purpose for existing beyond as a marketing tool for the startup behind it, made headlines again this week after its AI agent manager decided to fire a…

Join us on a tour of the space-age, mid-century gems

We set out to find Los Angeles’ last working payphones and found something else entirely: thousands of strangers looking for a place to let go.

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Two security researchers bought cheap domains—including noreply.net and deleteduser.com—and set up email listening services. Hundreds of companies are sending them corporate secrets.

From SEA SLUT II to BILBOAT BAGGINS, a deep dive into AIS vessel data turns up 50,000 boat names packed with nautical puns, dirty jokes, and Tolkien deep cuts.

Instant coffee seems unremarkable. It’s just powder and hot water. But making it work took decades.

The World Cup has highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of public transportation in North America, providing cities with the opportunity to test and implement novel approaches.

Very few Oakland establishments open before noon. Club 2101 in Dimond is one of them. For patrons, it’s a second home.

An Instagram post turned one California student newspaper into a free-speech flash point. The students say they were just doing their homework.

For two decades, Emily Shur, who shot for glossy magazines in the early 2000s, has been sitting on a trove of images from a bygone era of fame.

The notorious “Graffiti Towers” in downtown Los Angeles are finally on track for a makeover after a federal bankruptcy court approved a plan clearing the way for their $470 million sale…

Giant skeletons, once confined to Halloween decorations, now tower over L.A. homes year-round. Some think they're fun. Others have a bone to pick.

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"It's a skeleton crew right now."

What the transformation of an Oakland nightclub reveals about race and regulation

A Florida police officer met a woman on a TV set, surveilled her for weeks, stalked her, and nearly caused a head-on collision while chasing her to pull her over.