Yet I wonder if playwrights Erik Patterson and Bekah Brunstetter were thinking along these lines when they chose the titles of their plays that are currently on small Los Angeles stages. Echo Theater ...

Amid the fuss about the private outside lawyers hired by City Atty. Mike Feuer to litigate a big case, I wonder why there wasn't anyone among his office's more than 500 lawyers who could do the work ...

Galperin, the city's elected chief auditor and accountant, was definitely challenged last month when he tried get his arms around the problem with a scathing audit of the city-county agency leading ...

Anyone who cares about LA theater should have read Charles McNulty's recent essay. But perhaps you missed a couple of subsequent developments.

It was 88 degrees at Leo Carrillo State Beach today, with hot, dry winds howling down from the canyons, so I'm reaching into the past to take refuge in a rainy winter's day.

It was actually a pair of owls we saw on our hike the other day. Heard them first, calling back and forth, disorienting in the bright sun of late afternoon. A rustle in the trees and one took off, a ...

It was an iffy experiment, growing sunflowers in a the confines of a planter box, and thrilling when a few hardy souls ignored the cramped quarters and gave it their all. It's a far cry from the roomy ...

I couldn't believe what I was seeing, a gray whale breaching so close to shore you could have heard the splash. Between your faithful photog's reluctance to look away, and the shutter lag of the ...

There's a hike in the Santa Monica Mountains that skirts the edge of some rural properties, and at certain times of day, you have a vocal audience.

It's hard to believe this blog is 15 years old today. It has sputtered along for the last year or so, a tiny hidden heartbeat in the silence of a dormant site. It's tempting to use this milestone ...

I love that the city has gone to the trouble of installing an owl box in Bluffs Park. Still empty so far, but with habitat getting gobbled up by development at a dispiriting rate, someone is likely to ...

Almost the end of January and other than that one storm, still no rain, so we settle for a light haze and call it weather.