Arts & Entertainment

A new outdoor space connects kids to native plants in Claremont

California Botanic Garden opens Children’s Woodland, a free-form nature play space that emphasizes connections to native plants.

In a large outdoor forest area, a small child with light skin tone sticks her hands into a tree stump.

Sounds of Music, a cornerstone of East LA’s oldies and soul scene, is at risk of closing

Customers say if the record shop closes, it’ll take decades of East L.A. history and culture with it.

The inside of a store with shelves of vinyl records displayed and organized, along with boxes filled records underneath.

Why hundreds of single people are ditching Tinder for the Dodger Stadium bleachers

She found love at Dodger Stadium and turned the experience into L.A.’s hottest dating scene.

A woman with medium skin tone, wearing a black Dodgers jersey, embraces a man with medium skin tone, wearing a blue Dodgers bomber jacket and hat while sitting in stands with people sitting around them looking out of frame.

How lowriding’s ‘First Lady’ carved her own path in South LA

Tina Blankenship-Early’s legacy highlights a shift within lowrider culture where women are no longer viewed as just passengers or eye candy.

A woman with dark skin tone, wearing a white t-shirt and black shorts, sits partially inside the drivers seat of a blue lowrider with painted designs above the left rear tire.

Rapper Dumbfoundead unapologetically represents K-town in memoir ‘SPIT’

Jonnie Park, aka Dumbfoundead, unapologetically details growing up in K-town in his memoir “SPIT: A Life in Battles.”

Rapper and actor Dumbfoundead (Jonathan Park), an Asian man with medium skin tone, wearing a black and white flannel jacket over a white t-shirt, smiles for a photo in front of a black wall.

Keanu Reeves, Nicole Kidman and Oscar Isaac round out the casts of new spring TV set in LA

In this fictional TV version of SoCal, Keanu Reeves is a Hollywood star with a long list of people who hate him and Nicole Kidman is a former pro wrestler.

A woman with long wavy red hair sits at a desk across from a woman with long blond wavy hair and a man with a shaved head, beard and an earring. Only the backs of the couple are visible. They both are wearing black jackets. Behind the red-headed woman (Nicole Kidman) is a beige painted brick wall with two degrees hung on it and a long narrow window above it.

New LA play tells the story of Dolores Huerta’s endurance for all ages

Recent allegations against Cesar Chavez rocked the creators of a new play about fellow labor leader Dolores Huerta.

A woman with long dark hair and medium skin tone, wearing a blue long sleeve collared shirt, talks through a black megaphone as two men stand on crates in the background.

‘BTS: The Return’ director on how LA helped shape ‘Arirang’ and inspire the doc

The documentary chronicles the weeks BTS spent in Los Angeles in the summer of 2025.

6 young Asian men on an overcast beach look up at what appears to be a phone one of them is holding up with his arm.

Feature: The American Cinematheque Podcast asks filmmakers what movies have stuck with them

Grant Moninger joins Larry to talk about The American Cinematheque Podcast, his work as artistic director, and upcoming programing at the theaters.

Two male presenting people at a table with microphones.

FilmWeek: ‘The Drama,’ ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,’ ‘Palestine ‘36,’ and more!

Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Christy Lemire, Beandrea July and Charles Solomon review this weekend’s latest movie releases in theaters and on streaming platforms.

A female presenting person and a male presenting person sitting side by side at a table, across from two other figures who are not visible. Wine glasses are on the table.

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