Los Angeles Times
Senior writer for the Los Angeles Times
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Lorraine Ali
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Press Play with Madeleine Brand
LA’s “Made in America” Festival Jay Z’s Made in America hits DTLA’s Grand Park Saturday and Sunday of this Labor Day weekend. Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the concert in April with Jay Z. The mayor called it his attempt to bring a “great music festival” to the city. We look at the deal the organizers struck with the city and county.
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Art Talk
Jesse Mockrin at Night Gallery and Taylor Mac at UCLA Hunter Drohojowska-Philp praises realist paintings based on Greek mythology
The Treatment
John Krasinski: A Quiet Place Actor turned director John Krasinski talks theme of loneliness in "A Quiet Place."
Design and Architecture
Metro considers “congestion pricing” to pay for mass transit Transportation officials in LA County have laid out 28 projects they want to complete before the 2028 Summer Olympic Games. To pay for it, LA Metro CEO Phil Washington last week floated a controversial approach: charging tolls on freeways during times of highest use, or what’s known as “congestion pricing.”
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
California Wildfires: Learning to Live in the New Abnormal We’ve just had some terrible fires: Woolsey, Camp, Thomas. More of those fires will come again -- bigger and hotter. Californians need to figure out how to cope with this new reality, and plan ahead. We broadcast a portion of Press Play’s live event: “California Wildfires: Learning to Live in the New Abnormal.”