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FROM Jenelle Riley
'For Your Consideration:' An out-of-control race to win Emmy votes The words “For Your Consideration” are taking over LA. The Emmy Awards aren’t handed out until September, but we’re in the midst of the first voting period. Networks are wooing potential voters with lavish dinners and wine safaris. Executives say the campaigns this year are on a scale never seen before.
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First Man Here’s the radical notion behind Damien Chazelle’s “First Man”: Tell the story of mankind’s boldest adventure thus far, the Apollo 11 mission that reached the moon nearly a half-century ago, but tell it through a taciturn, emotionally closed-off hero, Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the lunar surface.
Wages can't keep up with home prices in Los Angeles Los Angeles is an expensive place to live in and a new report is putting some hard numbers to that sobering fact. The real estate firm Attom Data Solutions finds that homes in L.A. County have not been this hard to pay for since the Great Recession. That is stoking the debate surrounding an upcoming ballot initiative this November, known as Proposition 10. and whether that can be the solution to this growing problem.