Alaska stars in "Oh, Mary!" (Daniel Rampulla / Center Theater Group) One of Broadway’s most popular shows in years, Oh, Mary! is now at the Ahmanson Theatre through Dec. 6. It stars drag performer extraordinaire Alaska Thunderf*ck 5000, known mononymously as Alaska. Alaska caught up with LAist ho...
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CFO Colette Kress will serve as interim chief executive, Nvidia said.
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Five people were shot early Thursday in a trendy Washington, D.C., neighborhood within walking distance of the White House.
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A three-story building collapsed into an adjacent excavation site, where workers were on scene, according to an FDNY dispatch.
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At least three people were killed in a crash involving a wrong-way driver on the 91 Freeway in Riverside, forcing the closure of several lanes Thursday morning....
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Mayor-elect Nithya Raman while campaigning at a rally on the UCLA campus. (Apu Gomes / Getty Images) When Nithya Raman becomes mayor of Los Angeles next month, she’ll have just a year and a half to deliver on a huge promise she made with a summer 2028 deadline. Raman has laid out...
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People line up to attend the Democratic Socialists of America fundraiser on Sunday, May 17. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) The midterm elections saw a “ blue tsunami ” nationwide with a wave of wins for Democrats — but there’s been a deeper undercurrent local...
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Tami Outterbridge and Dominique Moody at her studio in Historic South Central. (Cato Hernández / LAist) For more than a year, Tami Outterbridge has been spreading the word. If you have a piece of artwork from her father, John Outterbridge, let her know . Her father was a prominen...
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Ballots are sorted the day after California’s primary election at the L.A. County Ballot Processing Center on June 3, 2026, in the city of Industry. (Jae C. Hong / Associated Press) The governor’s race was decided minutes after polls closed on Election Day, but on the local level...
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The Nvidia board is reportedly planning to oust CEO Jensen Huang amid reports he engaged in two extramarital affairs.
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At least eight people have died after a building collapsed in Brooklyn, New York, on Wednesday.
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A sentinel at the Tomb of the Unknowns barked a request for a group of people including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to be silent after they had posed for a photo....
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Democrat Scott Colom will win the election for U.S. Senate in Mississippi, The Associated Press projects.
