LA Times Media Bias

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How 'big swings and scary leaps' got 'Glass Onion' made - Los Angeles Times

There’s a common misperception that Agatha Christie repeated herself. An idyllic English country house during a nondescript period of the early 20th century, a body in the library, a stuffy colonel and steely butler and bridge playing old biddies and et cetera et cetera. Wash, rinse and repeat. It’s the reason any new film that tries something modern with the genre (including my own film “Knives Out”) is characterized as subverting or reinventing the form that Christie (along with other authors of the golden age of detective fiction) helped create.
LA Times     Jan 12, 2023

Why Virginia police hired 'catfish' cop Austin Lee Edwards - Los Angeles Times

Although Edwards had told the agency about his 2016 visit to a psychiatric facility, the agency failed to search databases for his mental health history before hiring him as an officer, Col. Gary Settle, the state police superintendent, wrote in the letter, which was addressed to a post office box associated with Virginia’s inspector general.
LA Times     Jan 12, 2023

Jordan Harper's 'Everybody Knows' the next great Hollywood noir - Los Angeles Times

entertainment

It’s where John Belushi overdosed, Jim Morrison cracked his skull, fashion icon Helmut Newton fatally crashed his car and countless celebrities have had extramarital affairs. Now Jordan Harper is adding another anecdote to the fabled history of the Chateau Marmont.
LA Times     Jan 12, 2023

What's behind Southern California's soaring natural gas bills? - Los Angeles Times

Southern California Gas Co. and San Diego Gas & Electric have issued stark warnings to customers that their January natural gas bills could double, citing factors for historically high wholesale costs that include sinking inventories, supply constraints and a cold start to winter that has soaked the West Coast.
LA Times     Jan 12, 2023

These California rivers face flooding from storm - Los Angeles Times

These California rivers face flooding from stormLos Angeles TimesCalifornia Floods Continue Due To Heavy Rainfall And Storm
LA Times     Jan 11, 2023

'He never flinched': How Brandon Staley kept Chargers going - Los Angeles Times

“A lot of people outside the building have opinions about what should happen inside the building,” defensive lineman Morgan Fox said. “But they don’t know what goes on inside the building. You have to give all the credit for this to Coach Staley and his staff.”
LA Times     Jan 11, 2023

Shopify tells employees to just say no to meetings - Los Angeles Times

technology

As employees return from holiday break, the Canadian e-commerce firm said it’s conducting a “calendar purge,” removing all recurring meetings with more than two people “in perpetuity,” while re-upping a rule that no meetings at all can be held on Wednesdays. Big meetings of more than 50 people will get shoehorned into a six-hour window on Thursdays, with a limit of one a week. The company’s leaders will also encourage workers to decline other meetings, and remove themselves from large internal chat groups.
LA Times     Jan 11, 2023

Nostalgia for movie theaters abounds in this season's films - Los Angeles Times

Early in Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans,” a married couple takes their young son to see his first movie. It’s early 1950s New Jersey and the palatial theater is packed to see “The Greatest Show on Earth” (1952), a Cecil B. DeMille spectacle about the denizens of a circus. The audience oooohs and ahhhhs as a massive train wreck unfolds onscreen, railroad cars flying through the air with the greatest of ease. Little Sam Fabelman, a surrogate for Spielberg’s childhood self, sits entranced, his eyes practically popping out of his head. It’s a key moment in the director’s origin story, a formative experience for the filmmaker.
LA Times     Jan 11, 2023

Three films that hold a mirror up to our own troubling times - Los Angeles Times

art

A number of established filmmakers this last year unveiled their most personal works to date. All exquisitely crafted, all studded with Oscar-decorated casts, all inspired by real people and events, they stand as testaments to the healing power of art and the virtues of kindness. They also hold a mirror up to our own troubling times.
LA Times     Jan 11, 2023

Chargers can clinch top AFC wild-card spot before kickoff - Los Angeles Times

“You have to take the facts on the ground, as they happen in real time, to make your determinations,” Staley said. “That’s what we’re going to do. Once we find out about that game, we’ll make the appropriate decisions moving forward, just take it case-by-case.”
LA Times     Jan 10, 2023

With opioid overdoses still on the rise, more regular people are carrying Narcan

It’s naloxone, also known as Narcan, a lifesaving medication that can reduce or reverse the effects of an opioid drug overdose, the medic told her that morning in 2012. In California, nonprofits and public health agencies distribute it as an easy-to-use nasal spray that anyone can carry to help someone in distress.
LA Times     Jan 10, 2023

That Ryan Seacrest-Andy Cohen feud? Fake news, the hosts say - Los Angeles Times

Cohen addressed the alleged snub the following day on his radio show, “Radio Andy.” He called Cooper on to the show to corroborate that the “Real Housewives” host had been talking to show producers on his headset during Cooper and Seacrest’s exchange. “I didn’t see him,” Cohen claimed after blaming Cooper for not letting him know Seacrest had been waving.
LA Times     Jan 10, 2023