INDUSTRIES
City of Hope has received a historic $150-million gift from entrepreneurs and philanthropists A. Emmet Stephenson Jr. and his daughter Tessa Stephenson Brand to immediately fund pancreatic cancer research.
Hollywood Inc.
Edgar Bronfman Jr. is dropping out of the auction. “We continue to believe that Paramount Global is an extraordinary company.... We congratulate the Skydance team.”
Aug. 27, 2024
Awards
Broadcast TV still ruled the nominations 20 years back, but original cable programming was making its move toward dominance.
Aug. 14, 2024
Climate & Environment
Lookout Santa Cruz has won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of the 2023 flooding along the Central Coast.
May 6, 2024
LAFC
The schedule (24 games in 20 weeks) has been less of a grind this season for LAFC, allowing the club to make the U.S. Open Cup a bigger priority.
July 11, 2024
World & Nation
Ales Bialiatski, an imprisoned Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is serving a 10-year prison sentence and suffers from multiple chronic illnesses.
July 10, 2024
Movies
Carolyn Cole, a veteran L.A. Times photographer who won a Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of civil war in Liberia, breaks down the depiction of her profession in A24’s ‘Civil War.’
April 16, 2024
Updates
The Los Angeles-based Roddenberry Foundation has announced the launch of the Roddenberry Prize, a new $1-million competition for early-stage ventures using artificial intelligence (AI) to benefit humanity.
June 20, 2024
Science & Medicine
The Gene Roddenberry foundation will award $1 million to an early-stage venture focused on harnessing artificial intelligence in service of humanity.
Entertainment & Arts
‘English’ by Sanaz Toossi, an Iranian American playwright from Orange County, received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for drama. The play gets a sensitively acted production at San Diego’s Old Globe.
Feb. 7, 2024