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Now this is Hollywood, and a place where some people will do anything to promote anything. So it could be just that: a promo for something yet to be revealed. But it seems that on Page A7 of Monday's ...

Backers of the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative to slow development and City Hall's use of planning exceptions announced today they are no longer targeting the November ballot. They are going instead ...

Oscar reporters had to demand access to the ceremony after corporate suits took the LAT's passes. Also: could Davan Maharaj add publisher to his title?

The recently approved NFL stadium for the Rams in Inglewood is a mile and a half from the nearest future Metro Rail station. That's the station to be built in downtown Inglewood on the ...

Wednesday was the last day of work for many of the close to 80 newsroom staffers who are leaving the Los Angeles Times, with farewell gatherings and toasts in several departments. "Hysterical," is how ...

Austin Beutner makes an appearance this weekend on CNN's "Reliable Sources," taking questions from host Brian Stelter about his firing as publisher of the Los Angeles Times and the future of ...

A little bit different view of the LA Times building. If you had any doubts that the Los Angeles Times newsrooms (all of them) are consumed with one topic right now — whether to take the buyout or ...

Sunday's New York Times revives a classic Los Angeles sports media incident — the time that KLAC radio reporter Paul Olden asked Dodgers manager Tom Lasorda what he thought of Cubs' left fielder Dave ...

A year ago friends were saying the former mayor had no assets and was living in an apartment. Now he buys in the Hollywood Hills.

Carol Kaye and Bill Pittman in the Wrecking Crew era. Denny Tedesco's documentary on the Hollywood and West Coast session musicians who played on countless hit records in the 1960s and 70s will be ...