TRENDING:
Fire rebuild lags
Metro fare capping
17-day jazz festival
Silverton's new steakhouse
'The Clock' at LACMA
The World Cup month, reviewed
NEWS
A Year and a Half On, LA's Fire Rebuild Is Still Barely a Rebuild
Permits are moving three times faster than before the January 2025 fires — and most displaced residents still can't get home. What the recovery numbers actually say.
By Robert Guicheteau · August 4, 2026
The Palisades Fire, photographed from the Ballona Wetlands roughly 40
minutes after it was first reported on Jan. 7, 2025.
(Grigory Heaton / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)
NEWS
The stories shaping the cityA year and a half on, the fire rebuild is still barely a rebuild
More than 70% of displaced residents remain displaced — even as permits move 3x faster.
The countdown cities: World Cup '26, Super Bowl '27, Olympics '28
Three years of global hosting duties will reshape how Los Angeles moves.
FOOD
Where the city eats next
Silverton goes west: an Italian steakhouse for the Palisades
Spacca Tutto may be the most-watched opening of the summer.
The spring roll institution comes to Long Beach
Brodard lands at 2nd & PCH — cutting a generation's pilgrimage in half.
TRANSIT
How LA moves
Fare capping arrives — and the monthly pass rides into the sunset
From September, ride enough and the rest of the month is free. No upfront pass required.
Metro's three-year sprint to the world stage
Taller fare gates, TAP-to-Exit, new station restrooms — and three global events on the clock.
CULTURE
Worth leaving the house for
Seventeen days of jazz, starting in Leimert Park
Free park concerts across the city; John Legend and Janelle Monáe close it out at Dockweiler.
'The Clock' runs all night at LACMA
Marclay's 24-hour masterpiece gets a specially ticketed round-the-clock screening Aug 22.
OPINION
Columns by Robert Guicheteau
Golden hour is a civic institution
The best thing in Los Angeles is free, daily, and distributed with perfect equality.
In defense of knowing one neighborhood well
Shrink your radius. Walk it. Earn your opinion about this city.
IN REVIEW
The last few months in Los Angeles, caught up on
The month the World Cup ran through Inglewood
Eight matches at SoFi, ending with the only quarterfinal on US soil.
In Review · July 2026
The Cup kicked off here: USA–Paraguay at SoFi
The opener, and a citywide fan-fest footprint from the Coliseum to Union Station.
In Review · June 2026
Pride at 56
Hollywood's parade honored Jeff Hiller, Mia Yamamoto, and the late Shirley Raines.
In Review · June 2026
Stage notes: a 20-year homecoming
New York City Ballet returned to the Dorothy Chandler — plus Grande and Shakira in residence.
In Review · June 2026
May Day, MacArthur Park to Grand Park
A march, and a call for an "economic blackout."
In Review · May 2026
Yoko Ono, seven decades at The Broad
Her first solo museum show in Southern California.
In Review · May 2026