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Jesús Malverde: The Narco Saint Worshipped in Mexico City and California

At a street shrine in one of Mexico City’s toughest neighborhoods, devotees pray to the folk hero of the poor, the outlaw, and the desperate.

todd gray's octavia's gaze, lacma, david geffen galleries

LACMA’s Geffen Galleries Reimagined

TTS audio available8 min
brown horse band, total dive album, us west coast tour

Brown Horse Heads West

TTS audio available5 min
robert altman, the long goodbye, noir, elliot gould

‘The Long Goodbye’ Is Worth a Rewatch

TTS audio available6 min
robert francis, phantasmagoria

After the Fire Comes a Musical Evolution

TTS audio available7 min
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delroy lindo, 2026 oscars, sinners

California’s Oscar Nominees

TTS audio available7 min
the optimist movie, stephen lang, elsie fisher

‘The Optimist’ Review

TTS audio available4 min
gray wolf

A Wolf in Los Angeles

TTS audio available5 min
callifornia longboard skiing, longboarding, plumas ski club

Dope, Wood, and Speed

TTS audio available6 min
james sallis, lew griffin novels, books, writer

“Endings Are Seldom Pretty”

TTS audio available7 min
band mom, rose parade, pasadena community college honor band

Confessions of a Band Mom

watts, south central los angeles, crips and bloods, nothing to see here watts, documentary

Turning the Camera Around

andrew dubbins, los angeles fires one year later, will rogers state park fire, palisades fire

After the Fire

TTS audio available8 min
alta journal, issue 34, california sounds, music

Inside Alta ’s Music Issue

catalina airport restaurant, famous cookies

Fly In, Fuel Up

TTS audio available5 min
jon hamm, mad men

Forget New York. ‘Mad Men’ Is So California

TTS audio available6 min
lucky penny

The Penny Saved My Life

TTS audio available6 min
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joel edgerton as robert grainier stands in a pacific northwest forest in netflix’s adaptation of denis johnson’s train dreams, a story of labor, fire, and solitude

‘Train Dreams’ Review

TTS audio available9 min
last west: roadsongs for dorothea lange, valerie fachman

A Poetic Portrait of Dorothea Lange

the lost bus, mcconaughey, america ferrera, paradise california, climate change, wildfire

‘The Lost Bus’ Review

TTS audio available9 min
ice raids, resistance, groceries, los angeles

Grocery List for Resistance

TTS audio available6 min
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tavares strachan, encyclopedia of invisibility, lacma

Rewriting the Encyclopedia

TTS audio available7 min
paul thomas anderson, one battle after another, leonardo dicaprio

‘One Battle After Another’ Revives 'Vineland’

TTS audio available8 min
tanaamii akatsuka, folding screen, 2023, manga, de young museum

Manga, a Bay Area Love Story

TTS audio available5 min
yawning booth by sunny atema

Inside the Yawning Booth

TTS audio available6 min
tyler wells at the ecology center tending a fire under a steamship round of beef, cooking over open coals. the scorched foundation of a property destroyed by the eaton fire near betsy restaurant in altadena.

The Chef in the Tent

TTS audio available8 min
artist sonia romero, the swimmer, catalina island

On Catalina, a New Exhibition Draws Locals

TTS audio available7 min
woody guthrie, woody at home

Woody Guthrie’s California

TTS audio available7 min
john williams biography by tim greiving

Scoring a Legend

TTS audio available7 min
gilberto cetina jr, holbox, mercado la paloma, los angeles

‘You Have to Speak Up’

TTS audio available8 min
california african american museum, ode to dena, altadena

Lynell George on ‘Ode to Dena’

TTS audio available9 min
lawrence ferlinghetti, boat drawing

A Tribute Through a Friend’s Eyes

TTS audio available7 min
sophie saldana, car cooking, lofi food, tiktok

Dashboard Dining in the Golden State

TTS audio available6 min
trivial pursuit of dat ass, los angeles trivia champs

The Country’s Best Trivia Team is in L.A.

TTS audio available7 min
california native landscape plants

Bring Back the California Bloom

TTS audio available6 min
noah davis, artist

Painting Premonition

TTS audio available9 min
remaining native documentary, ku stevens

The School with the Cemetery

TTS audio available5 min
counterculture museum, haight ashbury, san francisco, hippies, 60s

On the Corner of Haight and Ashbury

TTS audio available7 min
poster for new wave documentary, 80s, 90s, lynda trang dai, elizabeth ai

More Than a Sound

TTS audio available6 min
giant puddle, salton sea, california

It’s Alive!

TTS audio available5 min
independent bookstore day 2025

Crawls, Cocktails, and a Whole Lot of Books

TTS audio available5 min
bob mizer, richard dubois, midcentury physique photography

One Man, Two Million Photos

TTS audio available7 min
walter murch, her name was moviola

The Editor’s Cut

TTS audio available8 min
atropia

Camp Hollywood

TTS audio available5 min
los angeles fires, eaton fire, found photos

Recovering Burned Photos in Altadena