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In his feature film directorial debut 'The Report', Scott Z. Burns applies his unique approach to look at the truth behind the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" after 9/11.

Every divorce story is a marriage story, but every movie about divorce is not on the level of Noah Baumbach's "Marriage Story."

Lynda Barry’s  Making Comics  is a how-to graphic novel guide for people who gave up on drawing.

The city of LA is launching a design competition to design a new streetlight.

Jeanette Winterson’s  Frankissstein: A Love Story  is about time travel and body travel.

Edward Norton, writer, director and star of 'Motherless Brooklyn', discusses the time-traveling and imperatives that attracted him to this private eye story.

Movies about car racing sound like operas scored entirely for bassos. "Ford v Ferrari" fills that bill, but it also has significant things to say on a variety of worthy subjects.

This week: check out e-cars with vroom at the LA Auto Show; meet the author of a book about the charismatic man behind the first LA Olympics; hear from the architect who is looking for…

John Freeman and Robin Coste Lewis discuss  Freeman’s: The Best New Writing on California .