Dana Goodyear

The photographer Andrew Friendly watched Los Angeles burn, and then come together.

Jasper Dolphin joins two young fans for corn dogs and scary rides at Dodger Stadium.

“There’s a lot of history,” Bay Nimoy, an exuberant eighty-year-old, said. “I called Jane Fonda and asked if she would come to the press opening, because her mother, Frances, funded the theatre.” More history: during the Second World War, newsreels played at the theatre; “Dr. Strangelove” had its first L.A. screening there, in 1964. Two decades later, when Disney managed the theatre, “Three Men and a Baby” was the opening film. Leonard was the director; Bay Nimoy accompanied him to the première.…

Warshaw has written extensively about surf culture and history. Ten years ago, he started the online Encyclopedia of Surfing. It now has some five thousand posts, covering the waterfront from A-frame (a peaky wave that breaks left and right) to zinc oxide. “I’m probably not going to say anything,” Marc said. Marc, Warshaw said, was the entire reason he was there. Marc had cajoled him to leave his computer and go surfing; it was Warshaw’s first surf trip since the encyclopedia had gone live. Wars…

Leshem, who specializes in Jewish subjects, is tall, and he wore a khaki blazer, a polka-dot pocket square, and a jockey cap; Harris had on big sunglasses, bluejeans, and a T-shirt that read “Bring Them Home Now.” Leshem is an Israeli citizen; his cousin’s two adult children were killed at a music festival that was a target of the attack. In the weeks since, he and Harris, along with many of their colleagues in the entertainment industry, have felt a sense of urgency. “Half my day is spent triag…

Lowinger, an art conservator in Los Angeles, was born in Havana in the midst of the revolution. Her grandparents, Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe, had fled persecution to arrive in Cuba in the nineteen-twenties; after Castro took power, the family fled again, to Miami, losing everything. Her mother had a saying: “Man plans and God laughs.” Lowinger is in the business of repair. The other day, Lowinger, who is petite and rubia and wears round glasses, was at a warehouse east of downtown L.A.,…

The Transformative, Alarming Power of Gene Editing

In “Perfectly Good Food,” Margaret and Irene Li tout zero-waste cooking. Wilted kale and old soy-sauce packets? Put ’em in a dumpling.

Anthony Rauda, who was accused of terrorizing residents of Malibu, one of California’s wealthiest and safest communities, has been convicted of killing a man sleeping in a tent with his two young daughters.

This year’s rains reversed, temporarily, more than a decade of catastrophic drought. Some of the seeds that caused the bloom have lain dormant for years.

Nadya Tolokonnikova, a founder of the feminist art collective, displays the Russian President’s “ashes” at a gallery show, in front of L.A. luminaries such as Kesha.

If Weinstein is acquitted in L.A., it will be tempting to conclude that #MeToo is over. But, even if he is convicted, some may reach the same conclusion.

Nancy Livingston played Gloria Swanson’s rival in “Sunset Boulevard.” Her memoir, “A Front Row Seat,” spins tales of (director) Billy Wilder, (husband) Alan Jay Lerner, and (pursuer) Howard Hughes.

Whistle-blowers say that a group called the Banditos functions as a shadow government within local law enforcement. The sheriff says there is no such gang in his department.

When some exceedingly rare, particularly frightful deep-sea anglerfish washed up on California shores three separate times, people floated outlandish theories to explain their sudden arrival.

Who was behind the mysterious attacks in the California wilderness?

Biden’s selection of Harris is tantamount to an anointment: she is going to be the Democratic Party.

Will the new LACMA building be Peter Zumthor’s masterpiece or a fiasco?

A heady moment of confrontation with Joe Biden at a debate seemed likely to linger awkwardly, dooming a future political partnership. But, on Tuesday, evolution was in the air.

Once again, reality is catching up with the author’s instinct for prognostication.