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Thank you, India. Thank you, parents. Thank you, seven Republicans.

We put together a guide to voter guides in Los Angeles County.

Fewer than half of renter households who applied for rent relief have received it. Meanwhile, billions sit in government accounts.

The Spring 2022 season of LA Podcast’s spinoff podcast Thirty Mile Zone is set to kick off on Wednesday, February 2nd, bringing listeners 12 new episodes about LA Movies on representations of the city, and Angelenos, on film. New episodes include P.T. Anderson’s Inherent Vice (2014), Michael Mann’s Collateral (2004), John Singleton’s 1991 debut Boyz N the Hood, Martin Scorcese’s The Aviator (2004), and more.

The first film in the spring series is Joey Soloway’s Afternoon Delight. The 2013 dramedy stars Kathryn Hahn as Rachel, Juno Temple as McKenna, and Josh Radnor as Jeff. Co-hosts Alison Herman (The Ringer) and Scott Frazier (LA Podcast) are joined by guest Sophia Benoit (GQ) for this episode.

Watch along with us! Afternoon Delight can be watched on Amazon’s Prime Video or on the Peacock app.

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A former faculty member at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine alleges the school engaged in a decade-long pattern of irresponsible supervision of surgeries and fraudulent billing practices.

A former LASD deputy was fired in 2017 for a previously unreported DUI. On the night it happened, he wanted special privileges.

Austreberto Gonzalez’s lawsuit threatened to spill out secretive details about the deputy gang in court. A judge quashed it.

Prosecutors said they were worried about witness tampering at the arraignment of co-defendant Dr. Marilyn Flynn, the former dean of the USC social work school.

In recent weeks, global news outlets have reported on the financial troubles of the Chinese real estate colossus Evergrande. The massive company at risk of defaulting on hundreds of billions of dollars of debt is the most extreme example of the troubles weighing on China’s major developers, but it is hardly alone.Many smaller firms have similarly borrowed huge sums of cash to accelerate housing growth on the Chinese mainland and abroad. In fact, Angelenos can find evidence in our own downtown skyline, where the skeleton of the three-tower Oceanwide Plaza looms like a clean-picked whale fall on the ocean floor.Oceanwide Plaza was first planned to open in September of 2018. If ever completed to its original design, the project would add a luxury hotel, 500 condos, a shopping mall, and a Disneyland-sized parking garage to the Figueroa corridor. After […]

From the director of Traffic. Photo by Alissa Walker

“You have got to be kidding me,” I said to no one in particular as I looked to the right, where a security guard for the Oscars was pointing me towards what looked exactly like a freeway ramp. It probably shouldn’t have surprised me that he told me to walk that way, a route with three “no pedestrian” signs, plus an additional sign that said “NO PEDESTRIANS” in words in case you missed the other three. But after spending 45 minutes trying to get to Union Station from the Little Tokyo side, with every street lined with signage reading “AWARD PERMIT ONLY LIMO/VALET” dead-ending in 8-foot chain link fences, a group of us on foot determined that this ramp — which apparently was, technically, a freeway ramp, but only for buses — […]