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.,…

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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.