Sheriff John Scott sent out a memo Wednesday informing department supervisors that the closed-in, climate-controlled, members-only patio where selected sheriff's officials could smoke cigars with each ...

A 'Marketplace" reporter made the drive out to the city of San Fernando to do a piece on the upset over closure of the town's once-popular J.C. Penney store. The ...

Radar Online has posted a longer audio clip of Mel Gibson berating girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva over the phone. In this one, he admits hitting her and threatens to do so again — and is so emotional ...

Throughout the history of American newspapers are examples of editors and headlines affixing catchy names to notorious crimes and criminals. This is one of the few things that newspapers do that can ...

This past September, David Davis contributed at our Native Intelligence blog a lovely piece on the legacy and death of Theo Ehret, his friend who for many years was the house photographer at the ...

Diana Nyad, my more accomplished colleague in commentary at KCRW, talks in today's segment about being sexually abused by her swim coach. The news peg is an ABC report that 36 USA Swimming coaches ...

Ian White, son of Charles White, at the opening of his father's exhibition at LACMA. Photo by Judy Graeme. Below: 'Sojourner Truth and Booker T. Washington,' Charles White 1943. Two exhibits featuring ...

Gary caught up with Kwame Anthony Appiah, the philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist, outside the Central Library.

One of the last 150-year-old Moreton Bay fig trees in the Old Plaza downtown fell after the rains this winter.

Big turnout for the groundbreaking at the new high-rise project across Grand Avenue from the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Artists Ed Ruscha and Kent Twitchell in front of the latter's mural of the former on the legendary American Hotel building in the Arts District downtown.

Gary photographs owner Leonard Bernstein before the final closure of downtown's Caravan Book Store.