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The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday issued an extraordinary four-hour ground stoppage on all flights in the United States after a communications issue crippled air traffic control centers. The move caused havoc at airports across the country and affected thousands of flights. The stop…

After a year and a half closure, @theoriginalpantrycafe is set to reopen with new ownership on Nov. 19. Founded in 1924, the diner famed for staying open 24/7 and serving generous portions began humbly with five employees and a hot plate but grew to a downtown destination serving visiting…

Two years after The LA Times found that cannabis sold at California contained alarming levels of #pesticides, the safety of the state’s legal weed remains a crapshoot, as government regulators fail to keep up with an ever-evolving slate of hazardous chemicals or crack down on the growers using…

Route 66 is officially 100 years old. The iconic highway stretches from Chicago to Santa Monica, passing through both large cities and small towns. @bexcastillo chatted with L.A. Times reporter Chris Reynolds — who road tripped the entire route — about the history of the highway.

Before the pandemic, Clifton’s Cafeteria was a vibrant part of downtown L.A.’s nightlife. In the years since, the venue has only been open intermittently. Recently, the building was sold, although the previous owner maintained the rights to the name. @bexcastillo and L.A. Times features columnist…

@bexcastillo stopped by L.A.‘s Nathan Fielder/Elizabeth Holmes lookalike contest hosted at The Hunt Vintage for a scene report.

Nithya Raman, having clinched the win in the Los Angeles mayoral race, addressed a crowd Thursday evening at the Original Farmers Market. “The idea that Angelenos voted for an immigrant to be their next mayor … is so deeply moving to me, and I want to tell every Angeleno out there, I am going to…

Nithya Raman has defeated incumbent Karen Bass to become the next mayor of L.A. Bex Castillo sat down with L.A. Times reporter Noah Goldberg to discuss Raman’s campaign.

Presidents typically lose congressional seats in the midterm election, but Trump put himself front and center like no other. The verdict from voters was thunderous and clear, with Democrats winning in places they hadn’t in decades. Go to latimes.com for more election updates

Nithya Raman addresses supporters before mayoral race is called. Raman, appearing before a boisterous audience at the Greek Theatre plaza, said her campaign was about taking on the status quo. L.A., she said, “stopped being a place where we could build things, where we could open things, where we…

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass addresses supporters as she leads narrowly ahead of City Councilmember Nithya Raman, her onetime political ally, in the race to lead the nation’s second-largest city. Bass, a veteran politician who had been politically weakened in the wake of the 2025 Palisades fire…

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Xavier Becerra made history as California's first elected Latino governor. @bexcastillo spoke with L.A. Times columnist Gustavo Arellano about the politician's campaign.

You have two more hours to get in line to cast your vote in California's general election! Key races include the California governor’s race between Xavier Becerra, a Democrat, and Steve Hilton, a Republican. In the L.A. mayor's race, incumbent Karen Bass faces a reelection challenge from…

Vote centers opened at 7 a.m. Tuesday, but a line formed long before then at USC Village. “The line started at 6:15 a.m.,” said Sergio Bravo, lead poll worker for the polling place. Another poll worker said the polling place may have to remain open well past 8 p.m. to accommodate everyone…

@LACMA has a new exhibit titled “Home of the Future, 1925–1985: Designing Domestic Utopias,” which traces visions and ideas of the American home of tomorrow. The exhibit is split into four sections, each covering different themes from post-World War 1 through the Space Age and the introduction of…

These are the 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles, as chosen by L.A. Times restaurant critics Bill Addison and Jenn Harris. #foodie #LAfood #101bestrestaurants

We talked to Los Angele's top chefs at the L.A. Times Food Bowl about what makes the LA food scene for them, and which restraunts they'd actulluly brave LA traffic and cross town for.

@thezainabjohnson believes in optimism — to a somewhat alarming degree. Not just because she usually presents as smart and happy and sharply dressed on stage or because she’s doing incredibly well in her comedy career, or even just because she’s a millennial. She’s happy in spite of every aspect…

My Chemical Romance had already given fans a grand spectacle with the ambitious, creatively reimagined Black Parade tour. But the band’s two stripped-down shows brought things back to basics, celebrating the raw energy and scrappy spirit that made the group a defining act of the 2000s. The band…

Our Gen X music critic Mikael Wood and Gen Z video journalist Bex Castillo attended Phoebe Bridgers’ Lost Tour at the Intuit Dome. Since no phones were allowed, they had to rely on their mind palace and poor artistic skills to show you what it was like to be in the room. Accompanying music was…

Boy Throb, the viral musical group, celebrated their one-year anniversary and member Darshan Magdum’s long-awaited “welcome” to Hollywood at The Vermont. The milestone comes after months of working to get Magdum’s visa approved so he could join the rest of his crew in the U.S. (even Kesha got…

Patrick Stewart, the British actor whose 60-year career spanned the stage to the final frontier, has died. He was 86.

Los Feliz bar Ye Rustic Inn announced recently that the future of the business seems uncertain. They explained that their landlord instructed them to shut down their outdoor seating, a disappointing decision for the bar that followed a long struggle with the city to get their outdoor dining permit…

Did you know that the oldest continuously operating cemetery in Los Angeles is located in Boyle Heights? Evergreen Cemetery was established in 1877 and was unique for allowing all races and faiths to be buried there. It’s the final resting place for over 330,000 people with a myriad of…

Comedian Alfred Robles is good at getting his fans to open up to him onstage, but even he wasn’t expecting a story from one attendee, who revealed that his wife shot him...twice. #ElCowboy

Emmy Rossum, Steve Way and Quincy Tyler Bernstine, stars of Hulu’s acclaimed drama “Furious,” joined us in the studio at Envelope Insiders Live to talk about the red flags people ignore in relationships and how they lock in to get angry for a scene. #Furious #Hulu

Star Sarah Pidgeon, costume designer Rudy Mance and casting director Courtney Bright of FX’s “Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette” joined us in the studio at Envelope Insiders Live to talk fashion rules, celebrity style and more. #LoveStory #JFK #FX

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York” star John Turturro thinks it would be hard to pick Derek Jeter’s pocket but he wants to try. John Turturro and Noah Segan, the writer-director of the @sonyclassics film, joined us in the studio at Envelope Insiders Live and revealed the best tuna melt in New…

Director Jennifer Peedom and cinematographer Stefan Duscio went to extreme lengths to re-create the first-ever summit of Mt. Everest in the Apple Original Film “Tenzing,” which stars Genden Phuntsok and Tom Hiddleston. Peedom and Duscio explained how they pulled off the extreme mountain shoot in…