We enter the metaverse — and return
Everybody is talking about the metaverse right now. But Times host Gustavo Arellano didn’t want to just talk about it; he wanted to experience it firsthand.And so off he went inside the metaverse with...
7 Feb 202225min
When cars on autopilot crash — and kill
A first-of-it’s kind case in Los Angeles County is going to play a big role in determining culpability whenever self-driving cars get into accidents. Prosecutors have charged a driver with felony mans...
4 Feb 202221min
No freedom gold medal for you, Olympics
There’s a growing realization that the brilliance of the world’s best athletes isn’t enough anymore to cover some glaring problems that come with putting on the Olympics every two years.The Internatio...
3 Feb 202229min
Mexico's murdered journalists
Mexico trails just Syria and Iraq as the deadliest country in the world to be a journalist. That’s according to data collected from 2000 through 2022 by the Committee to Protect Journalists. And the M...
2 Feb 202218min
Tet, today and yesterday
Tet, the Vietnamese Lunar New Year, is a national holiday, not just in Vietnam but all over the world wherever Vietnamese may be. And in the United States, red envelopes filled with money, special dis...
1 Feb 202220min
Home was where the freeway is
In Santa Monica during the 1950s and ‘60s, city leaders evicted hundreds of Black families to build what ended up being the 10 Freeway. But now, in an act of civic penance, Santa Monica is trying to b...
31 Jan 202221min
The Blur guy insulted a pop star. The reaction? Swift
It was the Taylor Swift diss heard around the world. “She doesn’t write her own songs.” That’s what Damon Albarn, the lead singer for the British bands Blur and Gorillaz said to L.A. Times pop music c...
28 Jan 202219min
The Omicron kids
Just when it seemed schools and parents and teachers were figuring out how to do in-person learning again, Omicron hit.The highly contagious variant really blew up while schools were on winter break i...
27 Jan 202222min
