Adrian Dove, longtime organizer of Los Angeles’s Kingdom Day Parade, stands with Mayor Karen Bass during a 2024 event. Dove is still angry over losing […]
Category: Community Beat
Officials reveal competition schedule for 2028 Olympics
Mayor Karen Bass signs an executive directive last month streamlining processes to support the delivery of her vision for the 2028 Olympic Games. This week, […]
Lucas Museum to open in Exposition Park next September
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will open to the public Sept. 22, 2026. The museum, which began construction in 2018, will take up 300,000 […]
Councilman Andre Spicer announces he’s running for mayor
Andre Spicer By Emilie St. John Contributing Writer COMPTON — A member of the City Council has announced he is running for mayor in the […]
World Stage to host third Derf Reklaw Experience Nov. 16
Derf Reklaw was a jazz musician who played several different instruments and once gave drum lessons for $5 at the World Stage in Leimert Park. […]
Gang intervention worker Aquil Basheer dies
Aquil Basheer, founder of the Stop the Violence Foundation and the Peace and the Professional Community Intervention Training Institute, speaks Oct. 4 at his organization’s […]
Tenants rights organization host renters’ workshop
Staff members from Stay Housed LA work with renters with questions about their rights at a renters workshop Nov. 8 in Bell Gardens. Stay Housed […]
Hollywood Bowl stage dedicated to John Williams
Film composer John Williams, seated center, was honored Nov. 10 when the stage at the Hollywood Bowl was named the John Williams Stage. Williams has […]
LA Zoo welcomes first baby Bornean orangutan in 15 years
Kalim, a Bornean orangutan at the LA Zoo, holds her new baby, born last month. It was the first baby Bornean Orangutan born at the […]
Linda Sánchez to seek reelection in redrawn 41st District
Linda Sanchez Wave Wire Services WHITTIER — Rep. Linda Sánchez, D-Whittier, has announced she will run for reelection next year in the newly drawn 41st […]