Bud Cort, star of ‘Harold and Maude’ and ‘Brewster McCloud,’ dies at 77
Bud Cort, whose performance as a troubled young man who finds unexpected love with a 79-year-old free spirit in “Harold...
McDonald’s sales surge on $5 meals for cost-conscious consumers
(Bloomberg) — McDonald’s Corp.’s US sales grew at the fastest pace in more than two years in the fourth quarter...
Teyana Taylor loves the debate over her ‘One Battle’ character: ‘Get it off your chest’
In this episode of The Envelope video podcast, Teyana Taylor describes the “slingshot” of success that’s come with “One Battle...
UCLA professor’s emails to Epstein stir protest as academia is jolted by links to sex abuser
He was seeking a $500,000 donation from Jeffrey Epstein to boost research into how sound — like lullabies or a...
Federal authorities announce an end to the immigration crackdown in Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS — The immigration crackdown in Minnesota that led to mass detentions, protests and two deaths is coming to an end, border...
Secrecy surrounds hiring of LAPD messaging guru with Hollywood background
Last year, LAPD leaders quietly brought on a temporary consultant to advise on how to give the department’s battered public...
‘It fills me’: Lakers’ Deandre Ayton makes it a special day for kids at camp
NEW YORK — The kids lined up on the basketball court at the National Basketball Players Assn. facility last week, groups on...
He was flying from L.A. to Houston. So how did he end up in Tokyo?
When Víctor Calderón got to the main cabin of a United Airlines flight at L.A. International Airport, he plugged in...
‘They are the 900-pound gorilla.’ How an opponent views the Dodgers’ spending
PALM BEACH, Fla. — In 2012, an attorney for Major League Baseball told a bankruptcy court judge that the league might soon...
Think online dating is a ‘numbers game’? You’re playing it all wrong, says this researcher
According to relationship scientist Paul Eastwick, online dating is a market where there are dramatic winners and losers. “I think...
Funding cuts. Layoffs. New DJs. KCRW retunes its music broadcasts in troubled times
In October, the DJ and former KCRW host Jeremy Sole climbed atop a booth to address the crowd in the...
L.A. wildfire victims would get mortgage relief under new bill
Victims of last year’s wildfires in Los Angeles County who were unable to get mortgage relief under a state law...
Trump’s deportations are losing him the ‘Mexican Beverly Hills’
Carlos Aranibar is a former Downey public works commissioner and remains involved in local Democratic politics. But until a few...
If he had any other job, Trump would have been fired by now
I can’t recall another time when my grown kids have called their mom the political journalist to talk about political...
At Catch One, a funk concert transports you to 1974 — and it’s immersive theater at its finest
The man I’m talking to tells me he has no name. “Hey” is what he responds to, and he says...
