Los Angeles (Calif)

April 24, 2020

How to Make It in America as a Professional Falconer

Across all industries, workers are struggling through the economic slowdown. In California, urban falconers are hoping their jobs will be recession-proof. As the state slowly reopens, […]
April 23, 2020

Be a Friend to the Elderly, Get Paid

Bill Rodger, 91, often finds himself sitting on a worn flower-print couch in his living room in North Hollywood, Calif., facing a wall of accolades that […]
April 23, 2020

Hollywood Beacons in the Night

LOS ANGELES — They survived the Great Depression, when tickets cost a dime. Neither earthquake nor greedy developer has been able to topple them. Over the […]
March 19, 2020

Policeman. Reality Star. Recent Ex-Boyfriend.

For most of the last two years, Sean Larkin has worked six days a week — four days in the gang unit of the Tulsa, Okla., […]
February 28, 2020

Life Isn’t Like the Movies (Even if You Write the Movies)

ImageCredit…Brian Rea Once I turned 69, if anyone asked me my age — not that anyone ever did, but if I offered it up in conversation […]
February 4, 2020

We Are Still Obsessed With Britney Spears

LOS ANGELES — Welcome to a Britney Spears fantasy land: the Britney of the past, the Britney we want her to be. Britney Spears the Zone, […]
January 27, 2020

Billie Eilish Didn’t Just Win Five Grammys

Even before Billie Eilish took home five Grammys on Sunday, she had already won the night, at least as far as the game of super-one-upmanship that […]
January 3, 2020

Hype House and the Los Angeles TikTok Mansion Gold Rush

LOS ANGELES — Hype House, the physical location of a new content creator collective, is a Spanish-style mansion perched at the top of a hill on […]
December 13, 2019

The Work Diary of ESPN’s Mina Kimes (and Her Dog, Lenny)

Mina Kimes watches a lot of sports. A lot. She also reads about sports and thinks about sports and talks about sports and writes about sports. […]
October 26, 2019

While California Fires Rage, the Rich Hire Private Firefighters

LOS ANGELES — You can now add firefighting to the list of the ways that the wealthy are different from the rest of the world. The […]