What the Delta variant means for unvaccinated kids
If you are fully vaccinated and sending your kids off to camp or inviting their friends to sleep over, you might almost — almost — feel like the nightmare that...
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A satellite’s impending fiery demise shows how important it is to keep space clean
LOS ANGELES — Space is vast. But the area around our planet is getting crowded. New technologies and the proliferation of competing rocket companies have made it cheaper to reach...
What Zoom fatigue? Pandemic virtual concerts may have changed live music forever
Americans may be bleary-eyed from Zoom fatigue, and many may be desperate to get back to live concerts and movie theaters. But virtual events are here to stay, despite the...
More than 42,000 pounds of pistachios went missing. Then law enforcement cracked the case
LOS ANGELES – While completing orders and going over inventory, employees at a San Joaquin Valley pistachio company realized something didn't add up. They seemed to be missing some nuts...
Nipsey Hussle and Carrie Fisher will get posthumous stars on Hollywood Walk of Fame
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles hip-hop figure, community organizer and activist Nipsey Hussle and actor and writer Carrie Fisher will receive posthumous stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this...
7 big lessons I’ve learned from a life of moviegoing — and why I’m overjoyed to return
Midway through the 1982 screen musical "Annie," the characters stop and do something that's incidental to the plot but essential to their pleasure: They go to the movies. It's the...
What workers want from customers: Don’t be a jerk, say if you’re vaccinated, and please keep masking
Frontline workers have gone through the wringer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their customer-facing jobs meant they could not escape potential exposure to the coronavirus, and the burden of enforcing safety...
16 Latinos in Hollywood sound off on the industry’s representation problem
For our collection of stories on Hollywood's Latino culture gap, the Los Angeles Times spoke with actors, writers, directors and executives about the state of Latino representation on-screen and their...
‘In the Heights’ is the rare Latino blockbuster. Here’s why that matters
In New York's Washington Heights, a young Dominican man is shutting down the corner store where he has labored for years to return to the island of his birth. A...
Why ‘In the Heights’ made these 5 major changes to the story
The plot lines of the movie "In the Heights" are slightly different from those of the beloved Broadway musical, which ran for nearly 1,200 performances and won four Tony Awards...