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
A comic and COVID walk into a cruise ship ...
On New Year’s Day, comedian Jen Murphy boarded a cruise ship out of Miami and got ready to perform for 1,800 people. She never did end up getting on that comedy stage, though. Instead, she ended up ge...
26 Jan 202223min
A new Honduras president-elect is set to make herstory
Xiomara Castro is about to be inaugurated as the first-ever female president of Honduras. But la presidenta has a daunting task in front of her. Her countrymen continue to leave the nation, tired of p...
25 Jan 202222min
An Indigenous language, back from the brink
Native American culture and history have long been ignored or romanticized as vestiges of a lost people — or both.The Serrano people of Southern California have seen their Indigenous language nearly v...
24 Jan 202216min
Standing up for Black lives at the border
Felicia Rangel-Samponaro used to live a fairly normal life as a suburban stay-at-home mom in the border city of Brownsville, Texas. But now the half Black, half Mexican-American mom crosses the border...
21 Jan 202219min
Where carne asada is a crime
For over 140 years, street vendors hawking Mexican food have been a staple of life in Southern California. Horse-drawn tamale wagons turned into taco trucks, turned into hot dog carts, turned into pop...
20 Jan 202223min
An American West with no snow?
This past December brought record-high amounts of snow to the Sierra Nevada, California’s main mountain range. The state, of course, has suffered for years from bad, bad drought, so we should all be h...
19 Jan 202220min
