Katie Smith Katie Smith will regularly go “Rightmove stalking” of the houses she has seen for sale Katie Smith has had an addiction for as long as she can remember. Something she feels compelled to dozens of times a day. The 30-year-old finds herself repeatedly opening the Rightmove app, despite the fact she has no … Read more
A new high-rise complex that would transform a key intersection in Hollywood may get a different look as developers contemplate making it mainly apartments instead of offices. The $500-million project was proposed two years ago by entertainment business manager Thomas St. John in partnership with Philip Lawrence, the owner of former Hollywood recording studio Record … Read more
A proposal by City Council members to raise the minimum wages of workers at large hotels and Los Angeles International Airport in the run-up to the 2028 Summer Olympics has received a boost from a new city report. The report, released Thursday by the city’s chief legislative analyst, Sharon Tso, concludes that the proposed gradual … Read more
A SpaceX capsule flown by a crew that will take the first walk in space by private citizens finally blasted off early Tuesday morning from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Jared Isaacman, a fintech billionaire serving as commander of the Polaris Dawn mission, and three other crew members lifted off in the Hawthorne company’s Crew … Read more
It’s always amusing to see a business suffer from the turnabout-is-fair-play principle, so we owe props to the National Football League Players Assn., which has delivered a stinging hit on DraftKings in a lawsuit over the gambling firm’s attempt to slink out of its payments on a licensing deal. DraftKings, the NFLPA asserts in the … Read more
Southern California Gas Co. is planning to move from its longtime headquarters after signing the largest office lease of the year in downtown Los Angeles. SoCalGas will leave its namesake Gas Company Tower at 555 W. 5th St., where it has been a primary tenant since the building was completed in 1991, and move a … Read more
During the pandemic, up-and-coming content creator Angie Wang was startled by the increasing speed of fashion trend cycles. The 28-year-old IT portfolio analyst had already picked up content creation after watching influencers like Lauren Giraldo, whose most recent viral fame came with her “12,3,30” treadmill workout. Content creation, Wang says, allowed her to lean into … Read more
It was a typical day on the set of Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” and a dead mime was screaming. The most unsettling problem? The actor‘s tongue still had a visible and decidedly not-ghostly shade of pink. Christine Blundell and her hair and makeup team quickly got a blue food dye concoction for the actor to … Read more
Erika Patricia Deluque Barros said she was working in a tomato field in Yolo County when she first started feeling shaky and nauseous. An immigrant from Colombia with little experience working in the fields, she said she didn’t know at the time that the summer heat could make her sick. “I didn’t know the sun … Read more
Worldwide criticism of fast fashion’s waste, labor abuses and carbon emissions has done little to slow down the industry. But new legislation could alter the flood of goods — like the floral print jumpers priced at, say, $2.99, the kids’ T-shirts selling for $4.26 or the tank tops for $4.88. The term “fast fashion” — … Read more