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The Week in Photos: ‘Everything Everywhere’ sweep up at Oscars; drugs invade L.A. Metro

Three people in evening wear - a man stands at left while two women peek in from behind a wall with the writing "Oscars."
Holding their Oscar statues, Ke Huy Quan, left, Michelle Yeoh, center, and Jamie Lee Curtis peek into the Deadline Room at the 95th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
(Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)
By Times Photography Staff
 and Silvia Rázgová
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Hello, and welcome to this week’s selection of top stories in pictures.

On Sunday “Everything Everywhere” dominated this year’s Academy Awards, taking in seven Oscars, including awards for lead actress Michelle Yeoh, and supporting actor categories for Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis. Peruse the full list of winners and take a look at exclusive photos from behind the scenes.

A woman in a white dress with long dark-brown hair, smiles and gestures as she accepts an award
Michelle Yeoh accepts the award for actress in a leading role at the 95th Academy Awards ceremony in the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday.
(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
A group of people in evening wear hug while one holds an Oscar statue.
Director Daniel Roher and Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, embrace after “Navalny” won the Oscar for documentary feature.
(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

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By the time the Red Line Metro train arrived at the Wilshire/Western station, a man inside it was doubled over and nearly motionless, his mind having disappearing into a fentanyl daze. Fearful of continuing to encounter the “horror” of deadly drug overdoses and crime on Metro trains, L.A. commuters are bailing.

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In top image a young man smokes a substance off of an aluminum foil. And below, a man sits on a subway bench as train arives
Top: Matthew Morales smokes fentanyl on the Red Line in the Metro subway. Above: A.J. Jackson, foreground, prepares to smoke the drug on Feb. 28 at the MacArthur Park Metro station in Los Angeles.
(Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

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“Don’t walk too fast ... let ‘em see you.” At this California prison, inmates step into the spotlight as they graduate as alcohol and drug counselors and embark on a journey of “parallel process” — working on the self and helping others.

A man with facial and hand tattoos looks into the camera as he adjusts his black graduation cap.
Richard Teer, 46, in his cap and gown ready for Offender Mentor Certification Program graduation ceremony at California State Prison in Lancaster. “It’s funny that even though I’m in prison,” he said, “this is the happiest I’ve ever felt in my life.”
(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

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A three-day LAUSD teacher and staff strike that plans to shut down Los Angeles public schools is scheduled to start on Tuesday.

A vertical diptych of, at the top, people dressed mostly in red march in a rally, and on the bottom, a wide view of a crowd.
Top: Sylvia Garcia, second from left, from Bassett Street Elementary School, walks with fellow teachers and other L.A. Unified employees at a rally at Grand Park in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday evening. Above: A crowd of United Teachers of Los Angeles, SEIU 99 members, and supporters held the joint rally in a historic show of solidarity. The rally drew thousands of participants, filling so much of the park that loudspeakers could not even reach participants more than a block away.
(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says the city will house 4,000 homeless people during her first 100 days. The mayor reaches her 100th day on Tuesday.

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A man, holding a red, heart-shaped lolly pop, emerges from an entry of a red tent.
Phil Guarneri sits at the opening of his tent pitched on a sidewalk behind Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in February, waiting for a bus to ferry him to a motel under Mayor Karen Bass’s initiative “Inside Safe.”
(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

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“We learned that the devil isn’t somewhere underground — he walked among us.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke of Russian atrocities in Bucha. The bereaved Ukrainian town wants justice. Find out why the prospects are slim.

A diptych image: At left, a grassy area densely covered with small Ukrainian flags; and at right, a woman with a young boy.
Left: Each flag signifies a fallen Ukrainian soldier. Right: Parishioners take part in a service in Bucha, Ukraine, on the anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country.
(Pete Kiehart / For The Times)
Two men stand in a large hole and hold a red casket being lowered into the grave.
Three members of the Ostrovskii family, including Viktorya, 51, Anatoli, 75, and Vyacheslav, 32, were buried together in a single grave at the Bucha cemetery on April 22, 2022. The three had been shot and killed by Russians on March 7, as they tried to flee Bucha.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

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Gov. Gavin Newsom will this week announce plans to transform San Quentin, one of the state’s most storied prisons, using a Scandinavian prison model that emphasizes rehabilitation.

Two inmates sit in the center of a prison block and play chess. A TV is mounted on railing of second floor of cell units.
The Scandinavian prison model encourages collegiality on the theory that inmates can learn to make better choices when they are not preoccupied by fear and violence.
(Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
Four inmates in brown uniforms sit on bolsters and each talks to a phone mounted on the wall behind them.
Inmates make phone calls in the Little Scandinavia unit at the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution in Chester, Pa., on March 9. The unit is designed to give prisoners a sense of autonomy over their space.
(Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)

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“We have trauma that has accumulated in our DNA across time, across generations.” In Indian Country, everybody seems to know somebody who’s gone missing or been murdered.

Yurok Tribal Police Chief Greg O'Rourke stands on a roadway bridge surrounded by mostly a pine-tree forest
Yurok Tribal Police Chief Greg O’Rourke stands on the bridge in Pecwan, Calif., where Emmilee Risling, 32, was last seen before she disappeared in October 2021 in Humboldt County. According the National Information Crime Center, 84% of Indigenous women experience some form of violence in their lifetime. Those living on a reservation are killed at 10 times the national murder rate.
(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
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A run-down motor home near a road surrounded by forests.
A run-down motor home sits above the Klamath River, at the far corner of the Yurok Reservation called End of Road, near where Emmilee Risling was last seen before she disappeared.
(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

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Season’s 11th atmospheric river storm drenched California. The downpour helped replenish the state’s drought-depleted groundwater supply but also battered communities already struggling with surging rivers, mudslides, breached levees and displacement from floods. In Tulare County, where dozens of homes flooded, some blame the flood on a new housing development, and in Orange County firefighters saved a man, sinking into the Tule River’s sucking ooze.

A head-and-shoulders view of Gavin Newsom reaching with his hand toward his forehead while his eyes are closed.
Gov. Gavin Newsom visits a flooded area in Pajaro, Calif., on Wednesday.
(Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
A man is supported by rescue workers.
Don Stinson is rescued from mud by the Orange County Swift Water Rescue Team.
(Tomas Ovalle / For The Times)
A person, facing away, stands at the edge of flood-damaged road
An onlooker checks out the damage Tuesday after the swollen Tule River crumbled parts of Globe Drive in Springville, Calif.
(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
A stranded, flooded car sits along Salinas Road in Pajaro, Calif.
A stranded, flooded car sits along Salinas Road in Pajaro, Calif.
(Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
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A man carries caged birds through thigh-deep water.
A man rescues his two birds from his home along Salinas Road in Pajaro, Calif., on Tuesday.
(Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

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In San Clemente four buildings were red-tagged and evacuated Wednesday after a landslide followed heavy rains, and a Newport Beach home that was badly damaged in a landslide earlier this month was demolished Thursday.

An aerial view of back yards where a mudslide eroded patio areas and exposed external structure of a pool.
An aerial view of four cliff-side, ocean-view apartment buildings, which were evacuated and tagged on Wednesday in San Clemente. The bluff is still moving, officials said.
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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And finally, meet a man who eats, sleeps, walks, bikes and drives with his parrots. Chan the Birdman wants L.A. to love macaws as much as it loves dogs.

A man rides a bike toward the camera while a small dog runs along to the left, and five parrots fly above the man's head
Chan Quach, also known as Chan the Birdman, rides as his six Hyacinth macaws, the world’s largest parrots, fly with him along the San Gabriel River Trail in Azusa. Running alongside at left is his dog Dede, a Jack Russell terrier.
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)
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Silvia Rázgová

Silvia Rázgová is a former photo editor at the Los Angeles Times. She joined The Times in 2022 after previously working for the newspaper and other publications as a freelance photographer. Born in Slovakia, she immigrated to the United States in 2000 and continued her education, receiving a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder. After working as a contract photojournalist for the Rocky Mountain News in Colorado, Rázgová became a staff photographer at the National, an English-language newspaper in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, where she covered daily news, documentary projects, and features for nearly five years. In 2016, she moved to Los Angeles working on commissions as a photojournalist and continued to photograph projects in the UAE and Slovakia. In her personal work she explores the themes of home, loss, belonging and poignancy of life.

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