2+ hour, 46+ min ago   (245+ words) Los Angeles Times Javier Bardem and Victoria Luengo on the importance of shooting their film in one take Joshua Rothkopf is film editor of the Los Angeles Times. He most recently served as senior movies editor at Entertainment Weekly. Before…...

1+ hour, 13+ min ago   (846+ words) California lawmakers are calling for emergency legislation and criminal penalties for creators of rogue AI systems after top AI executives publicly claimed that their technology poses existential threats to humanity. After Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei wrote in a Sept....

10+ hour, 6+ min ago   (382+ words) For 10 days, the center of the cinematic universe is the Toronto International Film Festival, whose closest geographical landmark is currently a ludicrous controversy. “Welcome to TIFF and welcome to the beautiful shore of — say it with me — Lake Ontario,” festival…...

10+ hour, 48+ min ago   (210+ words) FOFA would offer proactive forest management to address wildfire risk by removing regulatory barriers to expedite critical forest projects while preserving core environmental safeguards. The bill implements forest thinning and removal of dead and diseased trees to reduce fire intensity,…...

13+ hour, 46+ min ago   (453+ words) While it’s common to gloss over, even celebrate, enemy combatants’ deaths, it’s much harder for most of us to dismiss civilian deaths, to believe they’re either warranted or otherwise acceptable. But this isn’t a given — and there is reason to…...

13+ hour, 48+ min ago   (868+ words) I predict you’re going to hate this column. Which means you’ll love it. As an embarrassingly large number of readers often remind me, I own the Pulitzer Prize for Pitiful Prognostication. Beginning with that fateful moment 25 years ago when I…...

13+ hour, 48+ min ago   (1392+ words) More than 300,000 Los Angeles voters who cast ballots for losing candidates in the mayoral primary are up for grabs in the Nov. 3 runoff between Karen Bass and Nithya Raman, and their decisions could determine who will lead the city for…...

21+ hour, 35+ min ago   (187+ words) latimes.com Why Chloe Bailey says Billy Joel’s ‘Vienna’ is a Gen Z anthem Lara Hochuli is the senior editor on the Los Angeles Times’ Editorial Video team. In a 15-year career, Hochuli has helped bring more than one newsroom…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1140+ words) Labor Day is behind us, election day is less than two months away, and the question before Los Angeles voters is this: Can anyone run this city? Two fires at abandoned properties, one in Studio City and the other on…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (398+ words) How does one reconcile the new changes with the old? Slowly, if you want to maintain the character and the rapport of a neighborhood. Newport Heights happens to be a charming place to live because of that mixture of the…...