For years, Weedmaps has shown you where to buy cannabis. Now the company wants to walk you through marijuana history. The pop-up Museum of Weed will open Aug. 3 at 720 N. Cahuenga Blvd. in Hollywood and run through Sept. 29. The 30,000-square-foot space will feature seven exhibits that trace humankind’s…
A jailer at a Los Angeles County lockup walked into a cell on a recent Monday morning and removed an inmate wanted by federal immigration agents. Dressed in a hunter green uniform with a gold sheriff’s star on his sleeve, Rodolfo Cabrera served the man with a Homeland Security Department form that…
Good morning, I’m Paige Hymson, a podcast producer here at The Times. Let’s talk about music. This week we’re giving you an inside look at the beauty of music in audio storytelling. As you listen to the latest episodes of “Man in the Window,” you’ll notice a musical score throughout the series….
Can we all agree that sexual abuse has nothing do with politics or partisanship, and everything to do with male privilege, sexism, a historical discounting of women’s lives and the failure of our justice system — until recently — to take rape very seriously at all? And can we also finally agree…
Marilyn Monroe testifies in court against two men charged with selling indecent photos of her and other young women.
IRVINE – City of Hope will invest more than $1 billion to develop and support a comprehensive cancer campus next to the Orange County Great Park, about $800 million more and four years sooner than what originally was planned for its Irvine health campus. City of Hope administrators announced they are purchasing 11 acres of…
Dr. Zahi Hawass has referred to himself as the real Indiana Jones. When asked about his signature wide-brimmed felt fedora, the same style worn by Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones character, Hawass says his is the authentic hate of an Egyptologist. Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass poses in front of one of the slides he showed when…
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti presented a profitability outlook of $1 billion for the 2028 Olympic Games on Monday, during a speech at the inaugural Los Angeles Sports Summit. Garcetti, speaking with reporters afterward, said that “there is no question we’ll be in the high hundreds of millions” in profit from the…
An Orange County Grand Jury report is asking the Board of Supervisors to justify its choice to run the county’s internal audit function differently than every other county in the state. For decades, the elected auditor-controller served as a check on county finances by overseeing spending and investigating policies and controls. To regain the trust…
The wooden lifeguard tower at the Wedge was replaced over the weekend with a temporary structure – complete with the iconic “W” on its siding. An early-morning blaze on June 20 had destroyed the tower, a perch that gives guards a place to watch over the wild waves that can reach upwards of 20 foot…
