With fame, you can read about yourself and somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about you, for survival and living day to day with oneself, Marilyn Monroe said in 1962. I like people, but the public scares me.
“There is no indication Alvarez has ever stopped associating with the 18th Street gang,” Essayli said in a post on X. “The hardworking tax payers of Los Angeles deserve better than to see their money shelled out to a convicted gang murderer.”
A 40-year-old Los Angeles man was charged with murder after allegedly killing his girlfriend and kidnapping their young child before fleeing to Mexico, according to authorities. Ruben Fregosojuarez has been charged one count of murder and one misdemeanor count of child abuse under circumstance or conditions other than great bodily injury or death, according to a Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office news release.
The 64-date Look at My Life tour hits arenas across North America and Europe starting Dec. 2 in Denver, before the singer lands in L.A. later that month. Abrams will take the stage at Inglewood's Kia Forum for four nights: Dec. 14, 18, 19 and 20. The North American leg of the tour concludes in Brooklyn in March, and she kicks off the European leg in April.
Producers, who had built a new lifeguard station on Venice Beach in preparation for what they anticipated to be a multi-season reboot, learned they were not allowed to use the camera drones they were counting on, or to shoot at night. They had a $21m tax credit from the state and what they thought was the full blessing of the local authorities. But a handful of regulatory agencies, notably the county beaches and harbors department, had other ideas, and within four days shooting ground to a halt under a barrage of unexpected restrictions involving everything from the sand they could shoot on to the parking arrangements.
The City Council approved postponing the minimum wage increase by 18 months, until after the 2028 Olympics. A business coalition had put a measure on the November ballot that would have eliminated the gross receipts tax, which is the city's second-largest revenue stream. In return for the minimum wage delay, the coalition will withdraw the ballot measure.
Public West Hollywood is slated to open July 2026; this will be the second outpost for the Public Hotel brand, which first opened on New York's Lower East Side in 2017. Public West Hollywood features three on-site food choices: Louis, an all-day bakery, cafe, and diner; a day-to-night Pool Bar; and the Pool Deck, which focuses on daytime snacks. Expect a menu that leans into California coastal dining across all three venues.
Erik Fleming pleaded guilty in August 2024 to conspiracy to distribute ketamine and distribution of ketamine resulting in death. Prosecutors had asked for a two and a half year prison sentence; Fleming's attorneys asked for three months, followed by three years of supervised release. Fleming admitted in his plea agreement that he distributed the ketamine that killed Perry in October 2023. He also admitted to obtaining the ketamine from Jasveen Sangha, known as the “Ketamine queen,” and to distributing 50 vials of ketamine to the actor's live-in personal assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa.
Meth is meth. Like aspirin is aspirin. What matters is how much is in each dose. Today, Los Angeles does have a hyper-pure methamphetamine problem. It is a major driver of homelessness and mental illness here and in many other parts of the country. But it's not new.
“We have more access to more restorations than ever before,” said American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) theatrical sales director Bret Berg during his opening remarks. “More places are showing repertory than ever before. There's a new audience, regardless of age or demographics. We have to use that to our advantage.”
Smythe died Saturday at 53 after suffering a cardiac emergency on a hiking trail, according to the coroner's online database. His cause of death was atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, in which plaque builds up in arterial walls and can lead to a heart attack. The Sierra Madre Police Department said Saturday that a man - at that point unidentified - died after having a medical emergency on the trail and that no foul play was suspected.
For the last five years Kelsey Sachi Lee sold seafood to some of the city's top restaurants. Now she's opening her orders to the public with weekly Instagram drops - and handing off poke from the back of her car. Lee still sources fish for some of the city's most prominent chefs, such as Ari Kolender of Found Oyster and Queen's Raw Bar & Grill, but with her new, online-only venture, Dover Sole Market, she's offering weekend ahi poke pickups in parking lots in Koreatown and Sherman Oaks in an ode to her upbringing on Oahu.
The driver of the white Jeep Cherokee abandoned the vehicle at the scene and fled the location on foot without stopping to identify themselves or render aid as required by law.
Los Angeles is notoriously skimpy on public parkland. Just last year, the Trust for Public Land scored the city way down at 90th out of 100 cities, the kind of mortifying ranking usually occupied in other categories by Mississippi.
Witnesses reported that Rinderknecht had been driving erratically while on Uber routes around the Palisades on New Year's Eve, describing him as 'angry, intense, driving erratically, and ranting about being 'pissed off at the world.''
The roster of campaign contributors to Los Angeles mayoral candidates has something in common with the courtside seats at Lakers games: Both are sprinkled with the rich and famous.
"Mayor Karen Bass is the leader Los Angeles needs right now. She has done what so many said couldn't be done - the first ever two-year decline in homelessness, reducing crime to levels this city hasn't seen since the 1960s, and refusing to back down when the federal government came after our neighbors."
A 35-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. The other victims were transported for treatment of gunshot wounds. They were a 25-year-old in stable condition and a 27-year-old in critical condition.
