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How L.A. Is Prepping for the Rising Gray Tide
Los Angeles may be a young city, but it’s aging faster than ever. About 1.1 million people over the age of 65 live here today, and that figure is expected to double by 2030. To prepare for the rising...
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Here’s How You Turn Shipping Containers Into Housing for the Homeless
With 57,794 people and counting sleeping in the streets of Los Angeles each night, the city is looking for innovative ways to create a lot of new affordable housing, and fast. Trailers, converted...
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How a Local Facility Cleans 40 Million Gallons of Water a Day
An area as dry as L.A. can’t afford to waste water, which is part of the reason the city is home to one of the largest sewage treatment systems in the world. Processing 40 million gallons of...
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How an Actress and Accordion Player Became a Comedy Virtual Reality Pioneer
Nora Kirkpatrick wasn’t allowed to watch many movies when she was a child in rural Iowa. The ones she was able to see, though, were comedy gold: This Is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Soapdish,...
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Inside the Forensics Seminars Where Laypeople Learn About L.A.’s Most...
Images of dead women flash across the screen in front of me, their brutalized bodies tossed like rag dolls into dumpsters and alleyways. At the front of the darkened classroom, Los Angeles County...
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What’s Being Done to Revive L.A.’s Decimated Abalone Population
In the Bay Foundation’s two-year-old Abalone Research Laboratory on Terminal Island, abalone of varying sizes pass their days submerged in white tanks of saltwater. They look more like bewhiskered...
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This Sperm Donor Didn’t Think Much About His Side Gig—Until 20-Plus Children...
It’s a clever lie that comforts and reassures us: sperm donor. We know the truth. Men don’t donate sperm. They sell it. Current market price: $100 a “sample.” Like most sperm donors, that’s all Peter...
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The Death of Super Deluxe Is Terrible News for the Internet
The internet is a pretty dark place. It’s like a Hieronymus Bosch painting of hell except that it’s of Pepe the Frog selling cryptocurrency to Incels. Until Friday, October 19, Super Deluxe was a...
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The Main Museum’s New Exhibit Is as Accessible as Your Smartphone
Since opening in October of 2016, the Main Museum has quickly become L.A.’s most accessible art museum. Located on 4th Street downtown, the museum is free and open to the public every Wednesday through...
View ArticleCan a New App Save Lives When the Big One Hits?
We all know that the Big One is coming, but it would really help to know when. We’ve got busy lives to schedule–and also would like to avoid being in the wrong place when a catastrophic seismic event...
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Halston Fisher Has 62,000 Instagram Followers–She Just Hasn’t Been Born Yet
Local couple Madison and Kyler Fisher’s third daughter, Halston, is due in early March–and tens of thousands of people are eagerly awaiting the announcement. The yet-to-be-born baby’s Instagram...
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Inside the Rise of GTramp, the High-Flying Sport That Was Born on Instagram
My ten-year-old kid, Maxx, doesn’t stop moving the entire four-hour flight from Cincinnati to L.A. Fidgeting, rolling his wrists, straightening and bending his legs, leaning forward and backward,...
View ArticleThe L.A. Meme Community Speaks Out Against FuckJerry
In April 2016, L.A. video artsit Vic Berger was checking his Instagram when a friend sent him something fishy. The popular meme page @KrispyShorts, one of several accounts managed by the social media...
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13 Things to Know About Michael Sanchez, Suspected Bezos Leaker
It’s been six weeks since the National Enquirer published intimate texts between former newscaster Lauren Sanchez and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. If not for their treacly content, the texts were notable, a....
View ArticleA California Startup Will Stop Pumping Older People Full of Young People’s Blood
A controversial medical startup that performed plasma transfusions of blood from the young to its older, wealthy clientele has ceased treating patients in the wake of a warning issued by the Food and...
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Driverless Cars Are Set to Dominate L.A. Roads, but No One Knows if That’s a...
As cars become more and more autonomous in the coming decades, their design will evolve accordingly. Brakes and steering wheels are expected to disappear by the second half of this century. Seats will...
View ArticleWhen a California Man Was Dying, a Robot Delivered the Bad News
Annalisia Wilharm couldn’t believe it when she was told her grandfather was dying. The prognosis wasn’t necessarily a surprise—the 79-year-old Ernest Quintana had been gravely ill and was hospitalized...
View ArticleLos Angeles Times Among the First Partners for Apple’s “Netflix for News”
Apple News+, announced Monday morning, wants to change the model for subscribing to news. Rather than paying for digital access to a particular newspaper or magazine you read, the app’s “Netflix for...
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Frustrated L.A. Rideshare Drivers Protest Uber’s Latest Painful Pay Cut
For the past few weeks, Jesse* has been spending 12 to 14 hours a day driving across L.A. just to make enough money to cover her family’s expenses. “What that means is no dinner with my kids, no going...
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In the Social Media Era, Plastic Surgeons Have to Juggle Ethics and Instagram
Ashkan Ghavami, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, has a playful relationship with his 362,000 Instagram followers. In a recent post, glitter emanates from a bare butt on his operating table while a Tame...
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