“California,” in which a couple flees what is left of Los Angeles for Northern California. It pre-dates María Amparo Escandón’s “L.A. Weather” (2021), about a family reckoning with its ...

The intrepid journalists of the Los Angeles Times continue to do invaluable work—in spite of a historically bad owner.

Near the bottom of a list of things crime fiction writer Raymond Chandler hated was that ubiquitous Los Angeles demographic ... after the family’s cat — he put together for his stepchildren ...