Updates
Los Angeles-based Leonard Green & Partners and Berkshire Partners have announced the closing of the sale of SRS Distribution Inc. (SRS), a leading distributor of residential and commercial building products in the United States, to The Home Depot for $18.25 billion.
June 19, 2024
L.A. Influential
Danny J. Bakewell Sr. is a civil rights leader, a property developer, a business tycoon and owner of the Sentinel, Los Angeles’ legendary Black newspaper.
June 23, 2024
Food
If you’ve ever held a pastel-yellow box full of Cuban pastries in Los Angeles, you’ve most likely tasted the legacy of Raul Porto Sr. and his family’s Porto’s Bakery. He died this week at 92.
May 24, 2024
City of Hope, one of the largest cancer research and treatment organizations in the United States, has been awarded $5.4 million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to build and fund a stem cell research laboratory on its Duarte campus that will further expand its scientific capabilities.
May 23, 2024
Science & Medicine
Samples taken in the pandemic’s early weeks reinforce hypothesis that coronavirus emerged from live animal market, not a laboratory, new study says.
Sept. 21, 2024
Movies
Director Laura Moss’ unsettling new take on ‘Frankenstein’ doubles down on the feminist dread, even when it’s women doing the reanimating of dead corpses.
Aug. 18, 2023
California
California’s legal weed industry is reeling over whistleblower lawsuit claims, key departures and fear over slumping sales
Sept. 18, 2024
Hollywood Inc.
Amazon is launching advertisements on its Prime Video streaming platform early next year in the U.S. and several other countries, plus — for $2.99 more a month — an ad-free option.
Sept. 22, 2023
Robert Lang Sr., a former longtime In-N-Out Burger executive who officially put the Double-Double on the chain’s menu, has died at 87.
Dec. 1, 2023
For the last 70 years, Wilmington residents have faced off to become the blue-collar community’s honorary mayor. The winner gets a two-year term that offers no salary, no staff and no political power.