Can’t Tell an A-Frame from a Poo Stance? Try the Encyclopedia of Surfing

Mr. Spock’s Widow Puts on a Show

L.A. Hosts a Delegation of Survivors from Israel and Families of Hostages

The Woman Restoring Basquiat’s Forgotten Ferris Wheel

The Transformative, Alarming Power of Gene Editing

The Sisters Behind the Fridge-Cleanout Dinner

The Superbloom Is a Glimpse of California’s Past

Hunting Megafauna with Andy Samberg

Strawberry Doughnuts and Half-Smoked Butts

The tools and tactics the desperate used to end unwanted pregnancies

Watching Putin Burn with Pussy Riot

The Harvey Weinstein Trial and the Myth of the Perfect Perpetrator

Robert McKee Writes His Own Ending

Outliving Norma Desmond and Then Some

Without Sylvia Earle, We’d Be Living on Google Dirt

Meeting Cute, Plus Cancer

The L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy-Gang Crisis

Invasion of the Pacific Footballfish!

A Shooter in the Hills

Framing the Wide-Open Spaces of “Nomadland”

Extra! Extra! Kim Hastreiter’s Back with “The New Now”

Laura Dern Plays a Depressed Suburban Housewife in a New Photo MemoirThe New Yorker

After Years of Protests Every Wednesday, L.A. Activists Welcome a New D.A.

Kamala Harris Makes History

The Iconoclast Remaking Los Angeles’s Most Important Museum

The Fall and Rise of Kamala Harris

Mike Davis in the Age of Catastrophe

The Coronavirus Spurs a Movement of People Reclaiming Vacant Homes

Jordan Wolfson’s Edgelord Art

Kaitlin Prest, a Voice from #MeToo’s Gray Zone

The Return of “The Oscar,” an Unseeable, Unwatchable Flop

Octavia Spencer Follows the Clues

Katie Hill Returns as a Complicated #MeToo Crusader

Waking Up from the California Dream in the Age of Wildfires

L.A.’s Fire Zone Prepares for the Blaze

Thomas Middleditch’s Chat-Room Childhood

How Far Will California Take Criminal-Justice Reform?

A Photographer at the Ends of the Earth

Trump’s War on California and the Climate

Rosé Berries Have Arrived

Kamala Harris Makes Her Case

Will Los Angeles Lose a Beloved Piece of Public Art?

A Plot in L.A. to Avenge the Christchurch Shooting

At a Feminist-Finance Pop-Up, Cash is Queen

Can Micro-Real-Estate Developers Help Solve the Homelessness Crisis?

Building for Resilience in California’s Fire-Prone Future

The Oscar-Nominated Doc About a Pad Machine

The Social-Justice Imperative Behind the L.A. Teachers’ Strike

An Artist’s Life, Refracted in Film

Nicole Perlman Harnesses Her Superpowers

After the Woolsey Fire, Mudslides Threaten Malibu

Katie Porter Wins, and Orange County Finally Turns Blue

Chasing the Midterm Blue Wave in Orange County

Robbie Conal’s Oozy Trumpworld Portraits

In Southern California, Citizen Firefighters Fight to Save their Homes From the Blaze

The Woolsey Fire Engulfs Southern California

Katie Porter’s Quest to Turn Orange County, California, Blue

Can Barack Obama Help Turn Orange County Blue?

Can the Manufacturer of Tasers Provide the Answer to Police Abuse?

How Jonathan Gold Stretched Food Criticism to Encompass Everything

Puff, Puff, Hire

Katie Hill Is a New Kind of California Democrat. Can She Help Flip the House?

Rachel Kushner’s Immersive Fiction

GUN COUNTRY

California Makes Marijuana a Wellness Industry

Can Hollywood Change Its Ways?

Watching the Skirball Fire Burn Through Los Angeles

Harvey Weinstein’s Former Employees Reckon With What They Knew and What They Didn’t

The Nazi Sites of Los Angeles

How Driscoll’s Reinvented the Strawberry

THE PLAYFUL PROVOCATIONS (AND EROTIC KAFTANS) OF THE LEBANESE ARTIST HUGUETTE CALAND

THE GUESS BROTHERS’ MASONIC TEMPLE

JEREMIAH TOWER, A FORGOTTEN FATHER OF THE AMERICAN FOOD REVOLUTION

AN L.A. ARTIST WHO ANTICIPATED OUR TRUMPIAN MOMENT

THE NOT-SO-CELEBRATORY REACTION TO SNAP’S I.P.O. IN ITS HOME TOWN

LIONS OF LOS ANGELES

The Messaging of Trump Hotels

THE MOON JUICE GOSPEL OF SELF

DEFIANCE AND ANXIETY AMONG UNDOCUMENTED YOUTH IN TRUMP’S AMERICA

PLAYING EDWARD SNOWDEN

A Radical Underwater Workout

A MONUMENT TO OUTLAST HUMANITY

Mezcal Sunrise

365: A WHOLE FOODS SPINOFF FOR THE MILLENNIAL MIND-SET

The Stress Test

The Way Forward for Hipster Food

Homeless in Los Angeles

A New Leaf

What Milk Should I Drink?

When It Rains

A Ghost in the Family

Life with Father

Drill and Spill

D.I.Y. School

Elon Musk, Climate Hero?

The Dying Sea

Drought City

Open Secrets

McDonald’s Versus the Haters