California
A woman’s mother and grandmother struggle to reclaim her, but it’s as if fentanyl has taken her prisoner, and they can’t convince her to make a run for it.
Sept. 21, 2024
Hollywood Inc.
Van Pelt’s late-night show has become the post-game show for ESPN’s big live events, where viewers come for the interviews and stay for the ‘Bad Beats.’
Sept. 23, 2024
Officials still know little about the extent of the Portuguese Bend land movement on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, leaving residents in a torturous limbo.
Television
In Screen Gab no. 149, we catch up with ‘Challengers,’ now streaming on Prime Video, speak with the man behind Colin Farrell’s prosthetics in ‘The Penguin’ and more.
Sept. 20, 2024
Opinion
Voters should pick the four incumbents. They haven’t done a perfect job, but they are on top of the issues and speak intelligently about where the board has succeeded and what it still needs to do.
Sept. 19, 2024
Movies
With ‘Will & Harper,’ the ‘SNL’ star and his friend Harper Steele face a new twist on an old challenge in LGBTQ+ representation: How to educate cis viewers without alienating trans ones.
Also this week: Leonard Maltin presents 1930s Universal rarities, ‘Rhythm Thief’ restored, Haile Gerima’s new documentary and a double-bill of Alain Delon’s beauty.
High School Sports
With Milly McGee running the show, Mira Costa remains a force, as proven in a victory over Palos Verdes.
Sept. 18, 2024
“Hunger Games” and “John Wick” studio Lionsgate will partner with AI research company Runway to create and train an AI model that can be used to help augment Lionsgate’s work.
Sports
When John Madden retired from TV, he created a viewing station in California for family and friends. After his passing, that hallowed NFL setting lives on.
Sept. 16, 2024