‘SNL’ recap: Melissa McCarthy demonstrates why she’s a repeat host
Along with Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, Melissa McCarthy is one of those performers who’s been on “Saturday Night Live” so many times, as a host or making extremely memorable…
How the son of the king of soul food made his own name at Dulan’s on Crenshaw
It’s almost impossible for Greg Dulan, owner of the longtime soul food gathering spot Dulan’s on Crenshaw, to walk outside his restaurant without a passerby shouting out a greeting or…
New defensive alignment and returning Tyler Bilodeau lift UCLA past Washington
SEATTLE — If there were such a thing as a must win in early December, this might have been it for UCLA. The Bruins had fallen out of the national…
Paramount was poised to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. What went wrong?
Oracle founder Larry Ellison was on the cusp of conquering Hollywood. Just four months earlier, he had bankrolled his son David’s $8-billion acquisition of the storied Paramount Pictures. Now the…
ABC News correspondent Mat Gutman heads to CBS
Matt Gutman, a longtime ABC News correspondent based in Los Angeles, is leaving the network for a high profile role at CBS News. Gutman will be the first significant on-air…
Meta poaches Apple’s design chief Alan Dye in major coup
Meta Platforms Inc. has poached Apple Inc.’s most prominent design executive in a major coup that underscores a push by the social networking giant into AI-equipped consumer devices. The company…
11 fascinating Frank Gehry buildings in Los Angeles
Long before the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Walt Disney Concert Hall made him a global celebrity, L.A. served as Frank Gehry’s laboratory — where he could test materials, shift building…
Lucy Liu on stepping into a ‘terrifying’ new role in ‘Rosemead’
For Lucy Liu, starting to understand the otherwise unfathomable choices of her character in the new film “Rosemead” began with language. To play Irene, a San Gabriel Valley widow taking…
UCLA officially hires Bob Chesney, but who will be joining him?
UCLA snagged its new football coach Saturday, formally announcing the hiring of Bob Chesney a little more than 13 hours after the outgoing James Madison coach guided his team to…
10 iconic Frank Gehry buildings around the world
Frank Gehry, who died Friday at 96, challenged the notion that buildings needed to behave themselves — creating artful, strange, kinetic combinations of structure, material, form and light, and transforming…