Eddie Sun

The Japanese American community in LA’s South Bay is taking pride in Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the Dodgers’ star Japanese players this season.

It’s a chilly Wednesday evening at the Ferraro Fields in Griffith Park, and about 50 rugby players are in the middle of practice.

In a big-box retail store in a fading upstate New York town, part-time workers are barely making a living. They clock in at 4 a.m., unload boxes and stock new inventory before the Target-like store, called Town Square, opens at 8 a.m. They never get enough hours to earn benefits. That’s the focus of Help Wanted, a novel inspired by author Adelle Waldman’s experiences working early morning shifts at a retailer. She held the job for six months before the COVID pandemic.

The first celebration of Juneteenth as a federal holiday held at the re-opening of Leimert Park in 2021. Despite the postponement of the Leimert Park Juneteenth Festival this year, there are still plenty of celebrations happening across Los Angeles this weekend and on the Wednesday holiday.

Tory Davis poses with her dog, Indiana Bones, in her home library.

You might know that Los Angeles beaches get dirty after a winter storm, but it remains a problem in the summer, too. Why? And does it keep anyone away?

Two school children look out at the Ballona Wetlands through binoculars.

“I think if I ever want to achieve anything, it’s to force neurotypical people to think about the way they think. Autistic people are very aware of the way they think. It's the only thing we think about, because we're always told we're doing it wrong,” says Hannah Gadsby.

“Eight years after the original, Disney is bringing back Auli’i Cravalho to reprise the title role and Dwayne Johnson as her mentor, Maui.”

In “One of Them Days,” two roommates are on the verge of getting evicted.