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Ana Serrano. Photo by Iris Schneider. Ana Serrano loves to build. Equal parts sculpture and architecture, the artist's colorfully painted cardboard cityscapes, installations, and scaled-down buildings ...

The website FTV Live reported Monday morning that longtime Los Angeles TV and radio personality Steve Edwards — the host of "Good Day LA" on Fox 11 — was fired "after sexual harassment allegations ...

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 ...

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 ...

Edited and updated after publication. In advance of more moves anticipated Wednesday by Tribune Publishing, Politico's Ken Doctor has two good stories about new dramas inside the Los Angeles Times and ...

Melvin Feuer, the father of Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer, died today at age 92. The senior Feuer was featured earlier this year in a Steve Lopez column in the Los Angeles Times for his ...

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 ...

For her NPR piece on the Day of the Dead celebration at Hollywood Forever cemetery, Los Angeles correspondent Mandalit del Barco hooked up with El Mariachi Manchester. Their thing is they cover songs ...

Austin Beutner makes an appearance this weekend on CNN's "Reliable Sources," taking questions from host Brian Stelter about his firing as publisher of the Los Angeles Times and the future of ...

Photos of Clifton's opening night benefit by Ray Richmond When the new Clifton's Cafeteria on Broadway held a big benefit opening on Monday night, Ray Richmond was a more interested guest than most.

The other domino has fallen from the Los Angeles Times' move last month of political editor Cathleen Decker to politics columnist. David Lauter, the bureau chief in Washington, will run coverage of ...