Tag: Los Angeles (Calif)
From the U.S. to China: A 3-Month Quarantine Horror Story
Before boarding his flight from Los Angeles to the Chinese city of Guangzhou, Xue Liangquan, a California-based lawyer,…
With ‘Nitram,’ Caleb Landry Jones Takes On Another Challenging Role
Until recent events at the Oscars, the film season’s most memorable best actor speech belonged to Caleb Landry…
Roxane Gay: Will Smith Was Wrong, but Being Thin-Skinned Is Not
Ms. Pinkett Smith has alopecia, a condition resulting in hair loss that disproportionately affects Black women. It was…
Zelensky, Roots in Show Business, Presses for an Oscar Appearance
KYIV, Ukraine — He has spoken with two movie stars by video call from the bombarded and encircled…
Whitney Biennial Curators Seek American Art on the Border
TIJUANA, Mexico — The frontier shapes this metropolis, most obviously in the form of the omnipresent border wall…
In Her Last Works, Kaari Upson Explores Vanity and Decay
LOS ANGELES — On a visit last month to Kaari Upson’s studio here, it looked like she just…
A Plastic Factory Feels the Sting of Rising Energy Prices
Long before President Vladimir V. Putin unleashed his war on Ukraine, Mosharraf Khalid was already contending with an…
They Wanted to Roll Back Tough-on-Crime Policies. Then Violent Crime Surged.
That’s left no clear evidence linking progressive policies to these trends, but critics have been quick to make…
Super Bowl’s Hollywood Moment Outshines N.F.L.’s Problems
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Blue and yellow confetti rained down on the field after the final whistle blew in…
Patricia Moreno, Spiritual Fitness Leader, Dies at 57
Patricia Moreno, who injected a dose of spirituality into the world of fitness and created a popular exercise…
Documenting Los Angeles’s Unlikely Urban Fishermen
It’s hard to imagine there was ever a time when the Los Angeles River was wild and free…
Charles Ray Is Pushing Sculpture to Its Limit
“When you get to the more volatile social subject matter, I often think it starts as a provocation…