Business
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara bars insurers from canceling the policies of 750,000 homeowners affected by the Airport, Bridge and Line fires.
Sept. 20, 2024
A plan to resolve the state’s homeowners insurance crisis was blasted by an L.A. consumer group but defended by California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara.
Sept. 17, 2024
After several delays, a SpaceX rocket carrying billionaire Jared Isaacman and others blasted off on a mission that will feature the first space walk by private citizens.
Sept. 10, 2024
Movies
Lionsgate dropped a new trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ after recalling a prior one that used fake quotes from critics.
Sept. 5, 2024
Sunny Sun, a former employee of COVID testing tycoon Charles Huang, and a Nevada couple will stand trial for allegedly attempting to extort $20 million from the founder of Innova Medical Group.
Sept. 7, 2024
Casey Affleck and Laurence Fishburne struggle for command on a ship headed to a moon of Saturn, in a sci-fi movie that feels as soft-headed as its characters.
Aug. 29, 2024
The Polaris Dawn mission featuring the first civilian space walk is now set for Monday following repeated delays due to unfavorable weather and the Federal Aviation Administration grounding of the SpaceX rocket that will launch it to space.
Sept. 6, 2024
SpaceX’s reusable Falcon 9 rocket, set to launch a crew for the first civilian space walk, has been grounded by the FAA after it fell over and exploded on its return from another mission.
Allstate has received approval from the state Department of Insurance to increase its California homeowners insurance premiums by an average of 34.1% starting in November.
Music
A flurry of new books and podcasts cast at eye and ear back to Southern California’s 1980s ska boom and its locus, the O.N. Klub in Silver Lake.
Nov. 9, 2021