David Lazarus

The Apple Watch has long been the Bad Bad Leroy Brown of smartwatches (baddest man in the whole damned town). The new Series 10 – bigger, brighter, slimmer – maintains that status. But it’s also in…

Job seekers are increasingly turning to AI in their effort to “fake it to make it.” According to a new report from iHire, 17.3% of job hunters admitted to using Artificial Intelligence …

It’s been four months since the minimum wage for California fast-food workers rose to $20 an hour from $16 — a big win for organized labor. Now the California Fast Food Workers Union is…

Moviegoers sent a distressing message to Hollywood studios over the long Memorial Day weekend. The weekend take at the box office hit a 30-year low as offerings such as “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” and “Garfield” landed with a thud. This bodes ill for the summer movie season, which is top-heavy this year with sequels […]

Moviegoers sent a distressing message to Hollywood studios over the long Memorial Day weekend. The weekend take at the box office hit a 30-year low as offerings such as “Furiosa: A Mad Max Sa…

At 12:15 p.m. on a warm, sunny day last July, Andrew Rice’s adult kid did a rolling stop in a Prius while leaving the Temescal Canyon parking lot near Pacific Palisades. What Rice’s kid didn’t know…

At 12:15 p.m. on a warm, sunny day last July, Andrew Rice’s adult kid did a rolling stop in a Prius while leaving the Temescal Canyon parking lot near Pacific Palisades. What Rice’s kid didn’t know was that he was being filmed as he did so. And the recording would result in a $100 “administrative citation” from the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority, or MRCA, a public entity that oversees more than 75,000 acres of Southern California parkland. That’s not the same as a ticket issued…

Zoe the cat is 12 years old, and lost an eye to cancer and related complications last year. The total veterinary bill: $25,000. Zoe’s owners, Torrance residents Mike Superstein and Suzanne Erdelyi, paid the full amount because Zoe was uninsured. “I’ve had many many pets and I’ve never had a problem like this,” Suzanne says. […]

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock lately, you’ve seen stories and social-media posts speculating on the demise of Kate Middleton, a.k.a. Catherine, Princess of Wales. There’s…

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock lately, you’ve seen stories and social-media posts speculating on the demise of Kate Middleton, a.k.a. Catherine, Princess of Wales. There’s…