Robert Ito is a journalist based in Los Angeles. He writes about film, television, and theater for the New York Times.
The desert’s most iconic pop culture moments.
A Q&A with George Powell, whose engineering mojo led to a revolution in skateboard design.
Combining ice cream with gummy rice for a dessert treat had its risks. But the payoff has been sweet.
A Q&A with Tung Chiang, who keeps things spinning as studio director at the legendary Heath Ceramics.
Led by Bill Nye the Science Guy, the Planetary Society promotes exploration across generations—and platforms.
California is tired of losing big money to runaway production—so it’s fighting back.
California’s last boarding school for Indigenous students moves toward embracing—not disgracing—tradition and culture.
When it comes to flying cars, The Jetsons got a few things wrong.
Three prominent archives of rare materials that document the history of Black film, beginning as early as 1898, land in Los Angeles.
The ACLU’s long-running campaign to inform immigrants and protesters pivots from paper to apps.
Since COVID-19 struck, distress lines have been lighting up at the nation’s oldest suicide prevention center.
Character and dialogue? We got this. A new generation of female playwrights is shaking up television writers’ rooms across Hollywood.
Nearly 50 years before Crazy Rich Asians, a group of UCLA students began documenting the Asian American experience on film.
