California
The KBB was started in 1926, but it was under Bob Kelley’s leadership that the publication would expand to include foreign cars, new vehicles, and motorcycles, trucks and RVs.
June 3, 2024
My obsession with the ocean started early, in the days when I was so little that my very tall father could hoist me on his shoulder and jump waves near the Santa Monica Pier. I learned to swim in the Pacific Ocean and added every stroke to my skills, swimming on teams for ten years. But all along, I knew what I really wanted to do was scuba dive.
June 27, 2024
Books
The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, June 30, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.
June 26, 2024
Music
Frazer’s second solo album, out Friday, was inspired by moving from New York to L.A. and the places where he found community on the West Coast while recording.
June 28, 2024
World & Nation
Tamayo Perry, a surfer, lifeguard and actor in ‘Blue Crush’ and ‘Hawaii Five-0,’ died Sunday in Hawaii after an apparent shark attack off Oahu’s North Shore.
June 24, 2024
The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, June 23, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.
June 19, 2024
Amid growing efforts to censor and ban LGBTQ+ books, one small bookstore in San Francisco is punching back.
Watch L.A.
June 20, 2024
Letters to the Editor
Huntington Beach’s former library director responds to Mayor Gracey Van Der Mark’s derisive comment on librarians.
Science & Medicine
A species of fork fern, Tmesipteris oblanceolata, that grows on a South Pacific island has the largest known genome of any plant or animal. The question is: Why?
June 17, 2024