Live Coverage
L.A. Influential
Beyoncé and Jay-Z staged an epic 2023 with a then-record-setting real estate purchase sandwiched between Bey’s history-making Grammy win and her Renaissance tour.
June 28, 2024
Music
Festivalgoers are let down for the second year in a row after Jay-Z’s annual Philadelphia music festival gets canceled for 2024.
April 4, 2024
Television
Jay-Z’s comments about who gets overlooked by the Grammys interrupted regularly scheduled programming in a ceremony that badly needed it.
Feb. 4, 2024
At the 2024 Grammys Jay-Z questioned the Recording Academy for passing up wife Beyoncé for an album of the year win. ‘Even by your own metrics that doesn’t work,’ he said.
Settling a viral debate, Jay-Z says take the $500,000 instead of the chance to pick his brain over dinner. He says all his know-how is in his albums.
Oct. 23, 2023
California
UC chancellors will be paid about $900,000 at Davis and Irvine; a bit less at Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Riverside and Merced; and nearly $1.2 million at San Francisco.
Sept. 20, 2024
Beyoncé and Jay-Z just set the all-time price record in California, paying $200 million for a striking concrete compound overlooking the ocean in Malibu.
May 19, 2023
The real Slim Shady is now a father-in-law. Eminem’s daughter Alaina Marie Scott announced that she married her longtime boyfriend earlier this month.
June 14, 2023
Now feels like a good time to re-share our citizens agenda survey.
Politics
Supreme Court rejects appeal from the Nevada Green Party to be put on state’s November presidential ballot.