Tourists don’t visit Dubai in summer, says a taxi driver in Josh Appignanesi’s documentary Colossal Wreck: the heat makes life unliveable. The director is travelling to Dubai to show his film My Extinction, at the 28th UN Climate Change Conference, or COP28, in 2023. My Extinction is about Appignanesi’s climate awakening and involvement with activist […]

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David Freyne’s third film begins where some love stories end: with the deaths of its protagonists. Larry and Joan, an elderly couple, bicker in traffic on the way to their grandchild’s gender- reveal party. “You love to complain”, Joan tells her husband, a crotchety octogenarian who would rather be going anywhere else. Larry soon gets […]

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Firefighters are battling a structure fire in West Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Fire Department confirmed to KTLA. Crews responded to reports of the blaze at 1855 S. Westwood Boulevard just before 10:45 p.m., with preliminary reports suggesting fire was showing from the roof of the complex. Sky5 is overhead.

A Southern California woman said she is still in awe after a discovery at a Pasadena flea market led to a heartfelt meeting with television host and actress Ricki Lake. On Dec. 7, Patricia Scanlon was browsing the Pasadena City College flea market in search of unique treasures. As an artist, Scanlon said she likes […]

Lawyers representing two boys charged in a violent Hermosa Beach altercation claim the teens were responding to aggression aimed at their friend by a 57-year-old man that they then reportedly beat until he was unconscious, the Los Angeles Times reported. The Nov. 21 incident unfolded around 8 p.m. in an alley off 11th Court […]

Nine people, including multiple high school track and field runners, were hurt as a car hit pedestrians in Anaheim Wednesday afternoon. The crash occurred at Harbor Boulevard and North Street, officials said. Mike Lyster, a city of Anaheim spokesperson, said nine total people were hurt, one of whom is the driver. Of the eight others, […]

The L.A. County Sheriff’s Department is still searching for three people who they say threw large rocks at CHP officers during an anti-ICE protest in downtown Los Angeles earlier this year. According to LASD, the three individuals each hurled projectiles at CHP officers stationed along the southbound span of 101 Freeway during a large demonstration […]

An electric school bus burst into flames in Los Angeles on Wednesday morning, prompting a massive emergency response and shutting down a stretch of the 210 Freeway in Sylmar, authorities said. The fire was reported around 9:20 a.m. at 11460 W. Foothill Blvd., directly under the 210 Freeway overpass in the San Fernando Valley, according […]

An executive at the record label of rising R&B singer D4vd faced some tough questions in front of a grand jury this week, according to reports. Robert Morgenroth, general manager of Mogul Vision, testified Monday in connection with the death of teenager Celeste Rivas Hernandez, whose decomposing body was found in a Tesla registered to […]

A California lottery player from Compton is celebrating what she calls the “best birthday gift ever” after winning a $1 million Scratchers prize the day before her birthday, officials announced Wednesday. Latreice Presentine, a regular California Lottery player whose previous biggest win was $1,000, bought her lucky 50X The Cash ticket in August at Sweet […]