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‘This is just Rosebud’: A displaced Altadena school holds biggest fundraiser yet to rebuild
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Stay or go? An Altadena pet groomer faces a lease deadline after the Eaton Fire
This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today . Running a small business is tough under normal circumstances. Running one in a wildfire burn scar can feel nearly impossible. That's the reality many Altadena business owners are still navigating nearly a year and a half after the Eaton Fire destroyed the community and the local economy.
Ziggy Marley on his first song about Bob Marley — and why he wrote it now
This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today . Reggae star Ziggy Marley has spent decades carrying one of music’s most celebrated legacies. But until now, he had never written a song directly about his father, Bob Marley. That’s changed with “Many Mourn for Bob,” a track on Marley’s ninth solo album , his first release recorded in his new studio in North Hollywood.
UCLA Just Launched a Massive AAPI Textbook for the TikTok Generation. And It's Free
LAist Home / Education / LAist The digital project aims to bring overlooked histories to a TikTok generation. May 24, 2026 The Foundations and Futures platforms allows users to engage with AAPI history in a multimedia way. (Courtesy of Foundations and Futures) This story was originally published by LAist. A rich trove of Asian American and Pacific Islander history lives in academic journals and university library stacks that many students don’t know how to tap into.
UCLA just launched a massive AAPI textbook for the TikTok generation. And it's free
This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today . A rich trove of Asian American and Pacific Islander history lives in academic journals and university library stacks that many students don’t know how to tap into. A new multimedia textbook developed out of UCLA's Asian American Studies Center is trying to change that.
UCLA just launched a massive AAPI textbook for the TikTok generation. And it's free
Listen 0:46 UCLA launches free textbook on AAPI history for the digital generation Josie Huang has more. A rich trove of Asian American and Pacific Islander history lives in academic journals and university library stacks that many students don’t know how to tap into. A new multimedia textbook developed out of UCLA's Asian American Studies Center is trying to change that.
No bar. No phones. Just music at McCabe’s Guitar Shop
This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today . Tucked away in the back room of a Santa Monica guitar shop is an unlikely temple to live music. There's no bar. No cellphone screens glowing in the dark. Just 150 people, sitting shoulder to shoulder in folding chairs, so quiet you can hear every picked note ring out.
SGV residents rally against battery storage hub in City of Industry
This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today . A coalition of residents from across the San Gabriel Valley are mobilizing over a battery storage project and possibly more industrial development in the City of Industry they say could pollute communities next door.
Saris over shorts: A viral run from India comes to SoCal
This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today . As the story goes, it started with eight women in India. A small group of runners in bright flowing saris darted through the streets of Bangalore to show that fitness doesn’t have to be about running gear and race culture but can look like anything you want it to.
How does a city get its own Monopoly game? Just ask Long Beach
The front of the Long Beach Monopoly box. Courtesy Top Trumps USA Inc. This article was originally published by LAist on April 19, 2026. Monopoly lovers can now buy up the Queen Mary, collect rent on Belmont Shore and park their token at a storied tattoo shop, Outer Limits. The Long Beach landmarks line the spaces of a new Monopoly edition themed around L.A. County’s second biggest city, released just this month.
How does a city get its own Monopoly game? Just ask Long Beach
This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today . Monopoly lovers can now buy up the Queen Mary, collect rent on Belmont Shore and park their token at a storied tattoo shop, Outer Limits. The Long Beach landmarks line the spaces of a new Monopoly edition themed around L.A. County’s second biggest city, released just this month.
In Pasadena, a 600-goat herd is taking a bite out of fire fuel
This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today . On the steep, brush-covered slopes of the Arroyo Seco, home to the Rose Bowl, a new kind of wildfire defense has arrived — on cloven hooves. Starting this morning, more than 600 goats are being deployed across roughly 100 acres to help kick off Earth Day celebrations in the city.
Bald eagles Jackie and Shadow are parents, again. Their two chicks have hatched
This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today . Jackie and Shadow have two new chick on this Easter Sunday. Fans have been watching their eggs hatch on the webcam that made the eagles famous. The first eaglet arrived last night around 9:30 p.m., the second around 8:30 a.m. this morning.
LA's Chinatown has no laundromats. Enter this laundry truck
This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today . In Los Angeles, the soundtrack is familiar. Car horns, the whine of leaf blowers. But in the middle of Chinatown, another sound cuts through the din: the rhythmic hum of washers and dryers from a trailer parked outside the Alpine Recreation Center. Chinatown hasn’t had a laundromat for as long as anyone around can remember.
Developer pulls Monterey Park data center plan after backlash
This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today . Why now: HMC StratCap notified the city on Tuesday that it was pulling its proposal to build a data center in a local business park after months of pressure from residents and advocates who raised concerns about pollution, energy use and health risks. Representatives for HMC StratCap have not responded to requests for comment.
Mandarin speakers in SoCal get a new space to talk mental health
You value independent local news, so become a sustainer today to power our newsroom. When someone goes through a mental health crisis, their loved ones are thrown into a maze of urgent, high-stakes decisions. Where to get care? How to deal with insurance? When to call 911? For those in L.A.’s large Chinese immigrant community with limited English, helping a loved one can be especially challenging and isolating.
She bought the Brady Bunch House - and helped make it an LA landmark
This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. When Tina Trahan first stepped into the Studio City house made famous by The Brady Bunch, she thought, “I have to have it.” The art collector grew up watching the classic family sitcom and was struck by a rush of familiarity in the mid-century, split-level house used in the sitcom’s exterior shots.
Monterey Park moves to ban data centers as it braces for possible lawsuit
This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Monterey Park voters will decide in June whether to ban data centers citywide, setting up a potential legal battle with the developer behind a proposed project. The City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved placing a measure on the June ballot that would ask voters to amend the city’s General Plan to prohibit the facilities.
Inside this downtown L.A. utility box, there’s a tiny theater
This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Walk through cities around the world and it's easy to spot the trend: utility boxes painted and transformed into public art to spiff up neighborhoods. In downtown Los Angeles, street artist S.C. Mero has taken the idea of the utility box as art in a different direction with one she’s installed in the Arts District.
ICE agents depart Terminal Island, a key staging ground for immigration raids in LA
Federal immigration agents have left a U.S. Coast Guard facility that's been a key staging area for them in the Port of L.A., according to U.S. Rep. Nanette Barragan who represents the area. Since last summer, agents have been using the base on Terminal Island as a launch point for operations. In a statement to LAist, Barragan, a Democrat, says she confirmed with the Coast Guard last night that Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol have vacated the base.
How Monterey Park residents pushed back on a data center - and changed the course
This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Billions of dollars are pouring into data centers to power streaming services, cloud storage and the biggest energy monster of all, artificial intelligence.
Monterey Park council approves moratorium on controversial data center
This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. The project: The Australian-based developer HMC Capital Strat Cap wants to build a nearly 250,000-square-foot data center in the Saturn business park. The opposition: Residents voiced anger and fear about a data center bringing noise and air pollution to the city, and consuming vast amounts of energy.
Monterey Park to consider pause on controversial data center proposal
This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. The project: The data center proposed by SDCF Monterey Park, LLC, would be 247,480 square feet — larger than the size of four football fields. Residents' concerns: The project has been under discussion since 2024, but residents say they've only heard about it in recent months.
A place to sit in LA: Inside a guerilla campaign for public benches
This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. In Los Angeles, volunteers have been painting their own crosswalks, reasoning that safer streets shouldn’t be held up by red tape. Now, a group of them is channeling that same DIY energy to another everyday need: public seating.
Altadena’s fire diaspora: Why some families left after the Eaton Fire
This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Jennifer Cacicio didn’t set out to move across the country. Like thousands of others who fled the L.A. fires a year ago this week, Cacicio and her family left their Altadena home thinking they would be gone a night, maybe two.
Homecoming, reunion and so much more at the Christmas Tree Lane lighting ceremony
With our free press under threat and federal funding for public media gone, your support matters more than ever. Help keep the LAist newsroom strong, become a monthly member or increase your support today. Voices rang out in unison until the near-mile long row of cedar trees along Santa Rosa Avenue burst with color. The Tree Lane lighting is Altadena’s kickoff to the holidays, a 105-year-old tradition that attracts tens of thousands of visitors every year. And it is all that on Saturday night.
Altadena’s Christmas Tree Lane switches back on Saturday - its first lighting since the Eaton Fire
With our free press under threat and federal funding for public media gone, your support matters more than ever. Help keep the LAist newsroom strong, become a monthly member or increase your support today. Over its 105-year history, Altadena’s Christmas Tree Lane has fallen dark only in extraordinary times — as World War II raged and during a national energy crisis in the 1970s.
In Orange County, Afghans face uncertainty from Trump visa freeze
With our free press under threat and federal funding for public media gone, your support matters more than ever. Help keep the LAist newsroom strong, become a monthly member or increase your support today. California is home to the nation’s largest concentration of Afghan immigrants, many of them now grappling with the Trump administration’s abrupt visa and asylum freeze.
Here’s the story: The ‘Brady Bunch’ house could become an LA monument
With our free press under threat and federal funding for public media gone, your support matters more than ever. Help keep the LAist newsroom strong, become a monthly member or increase your support today. One of TV’s most famous sitcom houses has entered L.A.’s landmarking process. City officials are considering whether to grant a mid-century modern ranch known as the Brady Bunch house historic-cultural monument status.
Downtown LA lights up with faces of resistance to immigration raids
With our free press under threat and federal funding for public media gone, your support matters more than ever. Help keep the LAist newsroom strong, become a monthly member or increase your support today. Drive through downtown Los Angeles at night and you’ll see billboard-sized portraits of Angelenos projected onto landmarks like the Japanese American National Museum and LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes. It’s not an ad campaign.
LA site of famed Japanese cracker brand is reborn as supportive housing
With our free press under threat and federal funding for public media gone, your support matters more than ever. Help keep the LAist newsroom strong, become a monthly member or increase your support today . For nearly a century, the name Umeya was synonymous with celebration in Japanese American households — the go-to brand for crisp, soy sauce-glazed rice crackers shared with loved ones.
From LA’s Chinatown to the Disney lot: 'Bambi' artist Tyrus Wong gets his close-up in new book Original
With our free press under threat and federal funding for public media gone, your support matters more than ever. Help keep the LAist newsroom strong, become a monthly member or increase your support today . When the opening credits first rolled on Bambi in 1942, moviegoers saw the name “Tyrus Wong” flash by for barely a second, listed simply as a background artist.
'Seeing me': Landmark mural in LA is updated to reflect famed Filipino subject's trans identity
With our free press under threat and federal funding for public media gone, your support matters more than ever. Help keep the LAist newsroom strong, become a monthly member or increase your support today during our fall member drive. A landmark mural in L.A.’s Historic Filipinotown has been updated to reflect the identity of one of its subjects, the singer Jake Zyrus, who came out years ago as a trans man.
Trump administration orders CA National Guard to Oregon. Newsom vows legal fight
As Editor-in-Chief of our newsroom, I’m extremely proud of the work our top-notch journalists are doing here at LAist. We’re doing more hard-hitting watchdog journalism than ever before — powerful reporting on the economy, elections, climate and the homelessness crisis that is making a difference in your lives. At the same time, it’s never been more difficult to maintain a paywall-free, independent news source that informs, inspires, and engages everyone.
Trump administration orders CA National Guard to Oregon. Newsom vows legal fight
As Editor-in-Chief of our newsroom, I’m extremely proud of the work our top-notch journalists are doing here at LAist. We’re doing more hard-hitting watchdog journalism than ever before — powerful reporting on the economy, elections, climate and the homelessness crisis that is making a difference in your lives. At the same time, it’s never been more difficult to maintain a paywall-free, independent news source that informs, inspires, and engages everyone.
'Beverly Hills, 90210' just turned 35. The very-LA show shaped teen TV for generations
With our free press under threat and federal funding for public media gone, your support matters more than ever. Help keep the LAist newsroom strong, become a monthly member or increase your support today. Today marks 35 years since the premiere of Beverly Hills, 90210 — the show that turned a ZIP code into pop culture shorthand. The hit teen drama ran for 10 seasons, following twins Brandon and Brenda Walsh, transplants from the Midwest navigating life among Beverly Hills’ privileged.
When Yue Wa Market closes this week, Chinatown will lose a neighborhood anchor
Congress has cut federal funding for public media — a $3.4 million loss for LAist. We count on readers like you to protect our nonprofit newsroom. Become a monthly member and sustain local journalism . Cruise down Broadway in Chinatown and Yue Wa Market is easy to miss. Not much bigger than a studio apartment, the store hides under a green awning, wedged between a souvenir shop and a pharmacy. But inside, it’s been a place of connection.
'Soil Testing Day' in Altadena aims to make post-fire detection easy and accessible
Congress has cut federal funding for public media — a $3.4 million loss for LAist. We count on readers like you to protect our nonprofit newsroom. Become a monthly member and sustain local journalism . Soil testing is on the “to-do” list for many still trying to recover from the January wildfires. But it can slip down the priority chain as people focus on finding housing or dealing with insurance claims. An event tomorrow (Saturday, Sept.
Federal immigration agent fires shots at car in San Bernardino
Congress has cut federal funding for public media — a $3.4 million loss for LAist. We count on readers like you to protect our nonprofit newsroom. Become a monthly member and sustain local journalism . A San Bernardino family says that masked federal immigration agents fired multiple shots at them on Saturday morning while they were in their car.
For Korean Americans in LA, Son Heung-min is more than a soccer star
Congress has cut federal funding for public media — a $3.4 million loss for LAist. We count on readers like you to protect our nonprofit newsroom. Become a monthly member and sustain local journalism . When Son Heung-min steps onto the pitch at BMO Stadium for the first time this month, the superstar will be greeted by LAFC’s famously raucous fans — and chanting in Korean.
ICE sweeps spur citizen patrols on Terminal Island - and troubling World War II memories
Congress has cut federal funding for public media - a $3.5 million dollar loss for LAist. We are counting on readers like you to protect our nonprofit newsroom. Become a monthly member and sustain local journalism . Tucked inside the Port of Los Angeles, an industrial island has become an unexpected flashpoint in the federal immigration crackdown. Terminal Island is best known for housing shipyards, warehouses and the remnants of a demolished during WWII.
Four dead after two car collision on 605 early Sunday morning
Congress has cut federal funding for public media - a $3.5 million dollar loss for LAist. We are counting on readers like you to protect our nonprofit newsroom. Become a monthly member and sustain local journalism . Road closure: The 605 South is closed between Firestone Boulevard and Rosecrans Avenue. Caution: Back up as of Sunday morning is to the 5 Freeway. Be aware there've been reports of cars driving the wrong way on both the 5 and the 605 to exit the freeway.
Nearly half of Asian American Californians report hate incidents in new survey
Congress has cut federal funding for public media - a $3.5 million dollar loss for LAist. We are counting on readers like you to protect our nonprofit newsroom. Become a monthly member and sustain local journalism . At a California restaurant, a man of Taiwanese descent was told he was getting deported and that he should enjoy his last meal, the man later recalled.
Nearly half of Asian American Californians report hate incidents in new survey
At a California restaurant, a man of Taiwanese descent was told he was getting deported and that he should enjoy his last meal, the man later recalled.
LAPD investigates officer-involved shooting, areas around Crypto.com closed
Only 7% of LAist readers currently donate to fund our journalism. Help raise that number, so our nonprofit newsroom stays strong in the face of federal cuts. Donate now. The Los Angeles Police Department is asking the public to avoid the area near the Crypto.com Arena, as they investigate an incident which involved police fire this morning. Area closed: The area along Figueroa between 12th and Pico is closed. Officials say to use an alternate route as the closure is expected to last for hours more.
California civil rights group joins fight against Trump's birthright citizenship changes
Only 7% of LAist readers currently donate to fund our journalism. Help raise that number, so our nonprofit newsroom stays strong in the face of federal cuts. Donate now. Legal advocates in California are behind the fight to stop President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship through a class action suit filed on behalf of the babies of noncitizens.
L.A.'s historic Japanese American paper priced out of Little Tokyo
Only 7% of LAist readers currently donate to fund our journalism. Help raise that number, so our nonprofit newsroom stays strong in the face of federal cuts. Donate now. Why now: Publisher Michael Komai said in a announcing the move that rising rents and gentrification have made it impossible to stay in L.A.'s Little Tokyo — a neighborhood now listed among America’s most endangered historic places.
ICE raids quiet SoCal's Asian hubs Original
Only 7% of LAist readers currently donate to fund our journalism. Help raise that number, so our nonprofit newsroom stays strong in the face of federal cuts. Donate now. Immigration raids are causing widespread alarm in Southern California’s Asian ethnic hubs, with businesses and popular gathering spots seeing less foot traffic as people avoid potential run-ins with federal agents.
ICE raids quiet SoCal's Asian hubs
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After Eaton Fire, tattoo artists turn loss into Altadena-inspired art
Only 7% of LAist readers currently donate to fund our journalism. Help raise that number, so our nonprofit newsroom stays strong in the face of federal cuts. Donate now. The night the Eaton Fire started, Isabela Livingstone was working in her Altadena tattoo studio June Bug, lit only by the sharp beam of her headlamp. Howling Santa Ana winds had knocked the power out in the strip mall off Fair Oaks Avenue where her shop sat between a pizza parlor and a landscape architect.
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