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Puma cubs P-70, P-71, P-72 and P-73 were found recently by the Santa Monica Mountains lion study. See below for more. National Park Service photo. Our occasional roundup of media news, notes and ...

Rep. Adam Schiff took part in a Saturday morning media event at Silver Lake Reservoir and heard lots of words of support for his watchdogging of President Trump and the Russian election meddling ...

Prominent LA architect Thom Mayne razed the longtime Cheviot Hills home and work space of Ray Bradbury to build his own home. Mayne promised the neighborhood and fans a “very, very modest” house that ...

San Francisco Chronicle photo of Starr in 2010 by Michael Macor. Kevin Starr, the author of extensive histories of California who is the top contender for the title of preeminent observer of our state ...

The 1935 LA Times building is in the foreground, at 1st and Spring. To the rear left, at 2nd and Spring, is the 1948 Mirror building. The 1970s Times Mirror wing, at 1st and Broadway, is what would be ...

Magdi Hanna runs one of the few workshops dedicated to saving jukeboxes. Photo: Saul Gonzalez BBC World Service picks up a piece by Saul Gonzalez on a Pico Boulevard shop dedicated to the repair and ...

Now this is Hollywood, and a place where some people will do anything to promote anything. So it could be just that: a promo for something yet to be revealed. But it seems that on Page A7 of Monday's ...

Filthy McNasty owned two well-remembered music clubs in the Los Angeles area. His Filthy McNasty's on Sunset Strip occupied the spot where the Viper Room is now. After leaving the Strip, McNasty ran ...

Hitchhikers on Sunset Strip in 1968. Posted by PastDaily.com. Sound archivist Gordon Skene has a huge collection of radio clips and other audio files. After the news broke last week about KFWB AM 980 ...

Wednesday was the last day of work for many of the close to 80 newsroom staffers who are leaving the Los Angeles Times, with farewell gatherings and toasts in several departments. "Hysterical," is how ...

A little bit different view of the LA Times building. If you had any doubts that the Los Angeles Times newsrooms (all of them) are consumed with one topic right now — whether to take the buyout or ...