Brian Frank
I'm a journalist with a product mindset, combining data, automation, and storytelling to engage and inform the community. I help to oversee our daily and breaking news coverage while shepherding some of our larger initiatives, including the development of interactive tools that have allowed readers to explore the health of our bridges, track wildfires, and navigate elections.
I've relished the sage and chaparral scents of Southern California since I was a boy, but like so many Angelenos I only landed in L.A. as an adult. I stay for the city's rugged trails and creative energy, the inimitable color of its light, the pink donut boxes and kaleidoscopic flavors, the neighborhoods without any signs in English, the way its denizens tattoo their truths on the streets, and for all the people who tirelessly defy both labels and expectations.
In a previous life, I taught English as a second language in a tiny seaside town in Japan and oversaw a program for at-risk youth on the edge of the Alaskan bush.
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The new figure updates earlier estimates of $44 million and is included in a revised settlement agreement that could be approved as early as Friday. Here's what it means for customers. -
Democrats had spent heavily in the race for the 25th Congressional District, seeing Knight as vulnerable, but by late Wednesday morning challenger Bryan Caforio was congratulating his opponent. -
The coyote who bit a 6-year-old boy's arm several weeks ago at Woodbridge Park has been euthanized, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. -
Developers want to build a temporary 12,000-seat interim stadium next to Orange County’s Great Park to replace Irvine Meadows Amphitheater, which is closing at the end of the month. -
L.A. police Chief Charlie Beck bet Chicago's police superintendent a sandwich from Langer's deli that the Dodgers would beat the Cubs. Norm Langer explains why. -
More than 200 volunteers joined members of the LA Conservation Corps and city staff Saturday as part of a project to replenish the park's tree canopy, which has withered under drought and die-off. -
The fellows include USC professor and cultural historian Josh Kun, a frequent guest on Take Two, two Caltech biology professors, an author and a human rights lawyer with the ACLU. -
If your car manufacturer doesn’t recommend using higher octane gas, then you’re probably wasting your money. Here's why. -
Todd DeStefano, 43, last month pleaded no contest to a felony conflict of interest charge for allegedly diverting Coliseum event funds to his own company. -
Homicide detectives with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department are investigating the death of the man, whose identity has not been released.
