Soon-Shiong. Photo: Zocalo Public Square. 11 am update: On Monday morning the Times announced that Sue Horton will return as Op-Ed Editor in December after a four-year absence.Now a top news editor ...

For the first time in its history, the Los Angeles Times will be housed outside the city of Los Angeles by this summer. New owner Patrick Soon-Shiong spoke to the assembled staff on Friday and said ...

For more reading, here's an oral history interview with Soon-Shiong and his wife, Michele B. Chan, in 2016. Both grew up in South Africa and immigrated to Los Angeles. The oral history was taken by ...

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Los Angeles TV news crews await the speeches at press event inside the construction site for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Museum in the old May Co. department store at Wilshire and ...

Tribune Publishing calls it Discretionary Time Off, and says employees may actually get as many paid days off or even more. But to get even a sick day, you may have to convince a supervisor your ...

Willie Nelson, beardless and braidless, at the Palomino in 1970. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images at LA Magazine's website. Before everyone forgets that LA's music lore includes North Hollywood, Los ...

Thursday farmers market in Westwood Village. LAO. Karl Johansson has run the Village Center Newsstand for 20 years, since shortly after he came over from Sweden. He's going to close down by the end of ...

Uptown design district in Palm Springs. LA Observed photo. When I visited Palm Springs in April, just ahead of the Coachella festival hordes, even I could detect the desert city has taken on a fresher ...

Ramona Gardens is the public housing project in Boyle Heights where African American tenants have reported tensions with Latino renters, who are the majority in the place. After midnight on Monday ...

Eric Garcetti's Instagram feed for April. Mayor Eric Garcetti's staff posts a lot of Facebook photos and Twitpics about the boss's week. Before he was elected, however, Garcetti himself was a busy ...

Wealthiest Angeleno: Patrick Soon-Shiong Two through four: Eli Broad, Elon Musk, Kirk Kerkorian Top woman not listed in a couple: Tamara Gustavson (#9) Moved away: Ron Burkle, Frank McCourt Fell off ...