Run or walk the Vincent Thomas Bridge at the Conquer the Bridge 5.3 mile race on Labor Day.
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This week
Run the Vincent Thomas Bridge. Listen to Mozart under the stars. Play table tennis in Little Tokyo.
Our picks:
Conquer the Bridge Run/Walk, Vincent Thomas Bridge, Harbor Blvd., San Pedro/Port of Los Angeles- Before hitting up your Labor Day BBQs, run the Vincent Thomas Bridge twice for a 5.3-mile race.
Mozart Under the Stars, Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood- Nicholas McGegan conducts the LA Phil through an all-Mozart program featuring Bomsori Kim on violin.
Little Tokyo Table Tennis, Terasaki Budokan Gymnasium, 249 S Los Angeles St., downtown L.A.Test your hand-eye coordination and reflexes in a fast-paced table tennis match.
Run the Vincent Thomas Bridge. Listen to Mozart under the stars. Spend an evening with Chuck Palahniuk. Play table tennis in Little Tokyo.
Events
Monday, Sept. 4; 7 a.m.
Conquer the Bridge Run/Walk Vincent Thomas Bridge Harbor Boulevard, San Pedro/Port of Los Angeles Before hitting up your Labor Day BBQs, run the Vincent Thomas Bridge twice for a 5.3-mile race. The course starts and finishes at 5th and Harbor Boulevard and offers great views from the bridge. Online registration is closed, but race day registration is available. COST: $60; MORE INFO
Monday, Sept. 4; 7:30 p.m.
Harold and Maude Vidiots 4884 Eagle Rock Blvd., Eagle Rock Watch the Hal Ashby-directed dark comedy about an unlikely relationship between Harold (Bud Cort), a disaffected young man prone to phony suicides, and Maude (Ruth Gordon), a Holocaust survivor who finds joy in life’s oddest places and moments. The 1971 film has a great and memorable soundtrack from Yusef Islam (fka Cat Stevens). COST: $9 - $12; MORE INFO
Little Tokyo Table Tennis Terasaki Budokan Gymnasium 249 S Los Angeles St., downtown L.A. Test your hand-eye coordination and reflexes in a fast-paced table tennis match. All ages and skill levels are welcome. BYO paddles and balls or rental equipment are available on a first-come, first-served basis. COST: $5; MORE INFO
Tuesday, Sept. 5; 8 p.m.
Mozart Under the Stars Hollywood Bowl 2301 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood Nicholas McGegan conducts the LA Phil through an all-Mozart program featuring Bomsori Kim on violin. The orchestra performs Overture to Don Giovanni, Violin Concerto No. 5 and Symphony No. 38, K. 504, "Prague." COST: $6 - $113; MORE INFO
Mr. Horsepower w/ Sarah Silverman, James Adomian Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre 5919 Franklin Ave., Franklin Village Mr. Horsepower is a variety show featuring standup characters, sketch comedians, clowns and surprises. Hosted by Alan Johnson and Michael Goldenberg (co-creators of Mind of Mencia), the lineup includes Sarah Silverman, James Adomian, Laci Moseley and others. This show is 18+. COST: $15; MORE INFO
Chuck Palahniuk, seen here at the 12th Rome Film Fest in 2017 in Rome, Italy, discusses his latest novel, "Not Forever, But for Now" at the Regent Theater.
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Wednesday, Sept. 6; 7 p.m.
An Evening with Chuck Palahniuk The Regent Theater 448 S. Main St.. downtown L.A. Book Soup and Spaceland present Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk, who takes to the stage to read from and discuss his latest novel, Not Forever, But for Now. The book is a horror satire about a “family of professional killers responsible for the most atrocious events in history and the young brothers that are destined to take over.” All tickets include one signed copy, which will be handed out at check-in COST: $38; MORE INFO
Mac Miller Celebration Teragram Ballroom 1234 W. 7th St., downtown L.A. Listen to a night of Mac Miller tunes at this all-ages party. The rapper and producer passed away at age 26 in 2018, but his continuing legacy remains a cultural touchstone for many young creatives today. COST: $15 - $20; MORE INFO
Cars & Coffee Century Park Valet 2049 Century Park East, Century City Century Park partners with Malibu Autobahn for a Cars & Coffee morning. This week focuses on swanky “supercars.” While the event is free, visitor parking off Constellation Avenue is $40, so consider ridesharing. COST: FREE; MORE INFO
The Gospel at Colonus The Getty Villa 17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Pacific Palisades This soulful theatrical event reimagines the story of Oedipus as the “centerpiece of a redemptive musical celebration.” The blinded Oedipus arrives in Colonus, a town near Athens, seeking rest after a lifetime of tragedy. But his rest doesn’t come easy as he’s pursued by his enemies. The adaptation from Sophocles's Oedipus at Colonus blends Greek myth with Black spiritual practice. COST: $30 - $55; MORE INFO
You Are Good LIVE Zephyr Theatre 7456 Melrose Ave., Fairfax Attend podcast tapings of You Are Good, the "feelings podcast about movies," with co-hosts Sarah Marshall, Alex Steed and guest Woody Shticks, a comic, stripper, queer porn archivist and historian. The hosts surprise each other with true tales of lovable (and not-so-lovable) losers from showbiz. They’ll also dive deep into Road House (Sept. 7) and Single White Female (Sept. 8). COST: $25 suggested donation; MORE INFO
Viewing Pick
Suspiria (2018) The Academy Museum screens the remake of one of the best-known giallo films. Sicilian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino dives into the occult themes and dark metaphors of Dario Argento’s 1977 original. Dakota Johnson stars as a new American student at a Berlin dance academy run by a coven of witches, including Tilda Swinton’s Mother Helena Markos. The film also stars Mia Goth and Chloë Grace Moretz. Suspiria screens on Wednesday, Sept. 6 at 8 p.m. at the museum.
L.A. Times Food Bowl Launch Party takes happens this week at The Aster in Hollywood.
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Dine and Drink Deals
Here are a few dine and drink options to indulge in this week.
Take part in a Labor Day Luau at Belles Beach House in Venice on Monday from noon to 6 p.m. The menu pulls inspiration from the Japanese culture prevalent in Hawaii. Sip on cocktails outside and enjoy music from a live DJ who will be spinning all afternoon. The menu includes kalua pork sliders, garlic fried chicken, grilled pork belly, huli huli chicken, lomi lomi tomato salad, potato mac salad and kimchi fried rice.
The LAT Food Bowl returns this month, celebrating the SoCal food scene. Its launch party takes place on Wednesday, Sept. 6, at 7 p.m. at Lemon Grove on the Aster social club’s rooftop. The night features all-inclusive food and drinks with tastings from chefs Malcom Lee (Candlenut, Singapore), Keith Corbin (Alta Adams), Jon Yao (Kato), Stephanie Izard (Girl & the Goat, Cabra), Courtney Kaplan and Charles Namba (Ototo, Tsubaki), Margarita and Walter Manzke (Bicyclette Bistro) and Marcel Vigneron (The Aster’s Lemon Grove), plus bites from Levain Bakery of New York City and Hau Fu Lee’s Lunasia Dim Sum House. Tickets are $150.
Sprinkles’ Chef Series continues with San Diego-based chef Claudette Zepeda who creates the La Gloria cupcake, inspired by her favorite childhood candy. The cupcake is a caramel cake with pecans, a dulce de leche core, salted caramel frosting, and a dusting of cinnamon sugar. The item returns to Sprinkles bakeries nationwide to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month (available Sept. 4 through Oct. 1).
Pick Your Own Roma tomatoes at Underwood Family Farms’ Moorpark location. Though the main picking happened over the weekend, the fields will be open on Monday, Sept. 4 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. until the tomatoes are completely harvested. Pick-Your-Own Romas are 40¢ per pound.
In honor of the release of My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, The Great Greek in Sherman Oaks offers a free My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 lunch on Thursday, Sept. 7, while supplies last. Also, on Thursday, Pinkberry locations are giving away Greek Wedding special yogurt desserts.
Tarell Alvin McCraney is the artist director at the Geffen Playhouse.
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Topline:
Tarell Alvin McCraney is a playwright best known for his script which was the basis for the Oscar award-winning film, Moonlight. But as the Geffen Playhouse's artistic director, he transforms his art of storytelling into an organization's vision.
The backstory: McCraney won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the movie Moonlight, but today, he's more focused on the stage. Almost two years ago, the Geffen Playhouse hired McCraney to be artistic director. Tapping a screenwriter for the position was a first for the theater. But McCraney said the roles actually overlap in more ways than one.
Navigating the change from screen to stage: "The job of the screenwriter most times is to make sure that everybody is understanding where the story is going and what the 'action' of the piece is," McCraney said. "So, it's not that much different than being an artistic director. My job here is to set the artistic goal for the organization. [To] point out its virtues and pitfalls, the dangers and the obstacles, and then move collectively as a single storyteller towards that goal."
Geffen Playhouse Artistic Director Tarell Alvin McCraney won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the movie Moonlight, but don't expect to see him at this year's Oscars ceremony.
"I tend to stay away from the awards show," McCraney said. " I think I might have PTSD."
McCraney is referring to the viral moment from the 2017 Oscars ceremony, where La La Land was mistakenly announced as the Best Picture winner instead of Moonlight.
McCraney isn't new to theater. In fact, you could consider it his original home before his play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue launched him into the Hollywood spotlight. But when the Geffen Playhouse asked him to be their artistic director two years ago, it called him back to the stage in a different way. Tapping a screenwriter for the position was a first for the theater, but McCraney said the roles actually overlap in more ways than one.
"The job of the screenwriter most times is to make sure that everybody is understanding where the story is going and what the 'action' of the piece is," McCraney said. "So it's not that much different than being an artistic director. My job here is to set the artistic goal for the organization. [To] point out its virtues and pitfalls, the dangers and the obstacles, and then move collectively as a single storyteller towards that goal."
McCraney said one of the great things about living in Los Angeles is its nuanced racial and ethnic communities, and he rides his bike around the city to better experience them.
"The landscape is constantly shifting and changing," McCraney said. "For example, Westwood has drastically changed over the past 15 years and will change irrevocably with the coming of the new train station down on Wilshire. It will change again with LA28 happening."
Just like Los Angeles, the Geffen Playhouse has had multiple transformations over its more than 30 year existence. Their world premier show, Silvia Silvia Silvia, is playing until March 8.Dragon Mama, starring Sarah Porkalob, begins March 4.
"Sarah is an incredible singer and writer and has created this incredible arc through a family that is both powerful and witty, but also deeply nuanced," McCraney said. "She's sharing that family with us, and family is our first community. They are the people we learn the most from. We learn unconditional love. We learn collective bargaining. Investigating family, investigating why we stay together and how we stay together through dire circumstances is a critical investigation for us right now."
When it comes to this year's Oscars ceremony, McCraney said he's rooting for all the nominees.
"It's been an incredible season," he said. "But Sinners is an incredible film that I've seen three or four times, so I'm really excited to see how it does."
Kavish Harjai
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Published February 26, 2026 1:34 PM
The 4-mile extension of the train will continue under Wilshire Boulevard and include stops at La Brea, Fairfax and La Cienega.
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The public can begin taking the Metro D Line from downtown L.A. to Beverly Hills starting May 8, Metro Board Director Fernando Dutra announced Thursday.
New stations: Currently, the D Line runs from downtown L.A. to Koreatown. The 4-mile extension of the train will continue under Wilshire Boulevard and include stops at La Brea, Fairfax and La Cienega.
20 minute ride: With the extension, Metro estimates riders can get from downtown to Beverly Hills in around 20 minutes. “That’s transformative,” Dutra said at the board meeting Thursday.”That’s the kind of world-class transit system Angelenos deserve, and it’s about time.”
Once complete, the D Line extension will take riders from downtown L.A. to Westwood.
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One of three extensions: Metro estimates the next two extensions of the D Line will be complete in time for the 2028 Games. The second extension, which will shuttle riders further west through Beverly Hills and Century City, is slated to open to the public in spring 2027. The final extension will bring riders to Westwood and the VA hospital, and is slated to open in fall 2027.
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The Long Beach Community College District has agreed to pay $18 million to more than 1,450 part-time professors to settle a class-action lawsuit that alleged they were forced to work unpaid hours outside the classroom, grading papers and tests, meeting with students, preparing lessons and other duties.
More details: The settlement, which the district board quietly approved last month, still needs the judge overseeing the case to sign off. A hearing on the matter is scheduled for July 1 in Los Angeles County Superior Court. It’s likely that Judge Stuart Rice will approve the deal. Last year, he ruled that the part-timers, commonly called adjuncts, were entitled to the pay they sought, writing he found “a myriad of problems” with the district’s claims that its practices did not violate state law.
Why it matters: The case has made “a major impact throughout the state already,” as some districts have begun negotiating contract terms to give adjuncts what they’ve long sought — pay for time they spend prepping and grading, not just for class time, said the plaintiffs’ lawyer Eileen B. Goldsmith, in an interview. (EdSource published an investigative series in the issue, Gig By Gig At California’s Community Colleges, in 2022.)
Read on... for more about the settlement.
The Long Beach Community College District has agreed to pay $18 million to more than 1,450 part-time professors to settle a class-action lawsuit that alleged they were forced to work unpaid hours outside the classroom, grading papers and tests, meeting with students, preparing lessons and other duties.
The settlement, which the district board quietly approved last month, still needs the judge overseeing the case to sign off. A hearing on the matter is scheduled for July 1 in Los Angeles County Superior Court. It’s likely that Judge Stuart Rice will approve the deal. Last year, he ruled that the part-timers, commonly called adjuncts, were entitled to the pay they sought, writing he found “a myriad of problems” with the district’s claims that its practices did not violate state law.
The case has made “a major impact throughout the state already,” as some districts have begun negotiating contract terms to give adjuncts what they’ve long sought — pay for time they spend prepping and grading, not just for class time, said the plaintiffs’ lawyer Eileen B. Goldsmith, in an interview. (EdSource published an investigative series in the issue, Gig By Gig At California’s Community Colleges, in 2022.)
The Long Beach district recently set aside $20 million for the settlement and associated costs, its spokesperson, Stacey Toda, told the Long Beach Post in an email. “Resolving this matter allows the District to avoid prolonged litigation and manage risk responsibly, consistent with standard practices across public higher education,” Toda wrote.
The settlement “is a big deal, it is tremendous,” said John Martin, chair of the California Part-Time Faculty Association, and a community college adjunct professor in Shasta and Butte counties.
In legal papers filed in the Superior Court, Goldsmith wrote that the proposed settlement, if approved, will result in 1,456 class members receiving more than “$11,000 — a very meaningful result for these class members, particularly given the novel issues in this litigation.”
EdSource is an independent nonprofit organization that provides analysis on key education issues facing California and the nation. LAist republishes articles from EdSource with permission.
Mariana Dale
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Published February 26, 2026 1:04 PM
LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho.
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Within hours of FBI searches of the home and office of Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, the district’s board of education scheduled a special meeting Thursday to discuss his employment.
What happened? The reason for the searches is unknown, although they have been the subject of widespread speculation. A Department of Justice spokesperson said the agency had a court-authorized warrant, but declined to provide additional details. The FBI told LAist’s media partner CBS LA that the underlying affidavit remained under court-ordered seal.
About the superintendent: Carvalho has been superintendent of LAUSD since 2022, and the board unanimously renewed his contract in 2025. Prior to coming to L.A., Carvalho had worked for the Miami-Dade County School District for decades, 30 years as a teacher and the last 14 years as the district's supervisor.
What does the board say? “The LAUSD Board of Education understands that today’s news has raised questions across our school communities,” the board posted in a statement Wednesday. “The Board’s priority remains ensuring that our students, families, and employees experience a safe and welcoming learning environment. Teaching and learning continue across our schools.”
