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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More than half the newly reported deaths happened in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, shelters, treatment centers, jails and other institutional settings. -
TL;DR We will be living with some form of restrictions indefinitely, but as long as the numbers don't tick up again, you'll be able to start recreating more.
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L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti answered a range of pre-submitted questions from reporters and the public, including whether he thinks the city is reopening prematurely.
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One man who tested positive for COVID-19 and was checked into the hospital said his cough was so painful every part of his body hurt.
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Two friends recount what it was like to become seriously ill when the disease was beginning to spread more quickly but testing was not yet widely available. Both accounts are sobering.
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Los Angeles County's coronavirus task force is giving its daily update on the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch live.
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Joel Goldes says he's removed more than 72,000 invasive crayfish from a creek in Oak Park. This is his video diary.
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The Google employee says she's grateful to be able to work from home and has been trying to give back. One way she does that? Making puppet shows to help keep her co-workers' kids occupied.
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For the first of our 'Diary of LA' series, film production and journalism teacher Roy Lansdown reflects on the old chestnut: "May you live in interesting times."
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