https://thelaglobe.com/ Los Angeles news, food, transit, and culture — sharp digests of the city's essential stories, plus original columns. en-us https://thelaglobe.com/fire-rebuild.html https://thelaglobe.com/fire-rebuild.html News The most important story in Los Angeles is still the slowest one. Eighteen months after the January 2025 fires destroyed more than 16,000 structures — with property and cap… Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0700 https://thelaglobe.com/countdown-cities.html https://thelaglobe.com/countdown-cities.html News Los Angeles is now inside a three-year window of hosting duties that will reshape how the city moves. Engineering News-Record reports Metro officials are advancing preparat… Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0700 https://thelaglobe.com/spacca-tutto.html https://thelaglobe.com/spacca-tutto.html Food The most-watched opening of the summer might be Spacca Tutto, the Italian steakhouse Nancy Silverton — of Mozza fame — is bringing to Pacific Palisades in partnership with … Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0700 https://thelaglobe.com/brodard-long-beach.html https://thelaglobe.com/brodard-long-beach.html Food Brodard — the Fountain Valley Vietnamese restaurant whose grilled pork spring rolls have justified a generation of freeway trips — is opening a branch at Long Beach's 2nd &… Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0700 https://thelaglobe.com/metro-fare-capping.html https://thelaglobe.com/metro-fare-capping.html Transit Quietly, one of the most rider-friendly changes in years: monthly fare capping arrives in September, meaning once you've tapped your way to the cost of a pass, the rest of … Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0700 https://thelaglobe.com/jazz-festival.html https://thelaglobe.com/jazz-festival.html Culture The event of the month: a 17-day jazz festival opens August 7 in Leimert Park — the right neighborhood to start it in, full stop — with an opening night featuring Lalah Hat… Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0700 https://thelaglobe.com/the-clock-lacma.html https://thelaglobe.com/the-clock-lacma.html Culture Christian Marclay's The Clock — the 24-hour film montage that tells the actual time, minute by minute, through thousands of movie clips — returns with a specially ticketed … Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0700 https://thelaglobe.com/why-start-a-paper.html https://thelaglobe.com/why-start-a-paper.html Opinion Everyone I told about this project had the same reaction, which was a kind of polite wince. A publication? Now? The wince is fair. Starting a paper in 2026 is like opening … Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0700 https://thelaglobe.com/golden-hour.html https://thelaglobe.com/golden-hour.html Opinion There is a moment, most evenings, when Los Angeles stops pretending to be a collection of freeways and becomes what it actually is: the most beautiful accident in urban his… Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0700 https://thelaglobe.com/one-neighborhood.html https://thelaglobe.com/one-neighborhood.html Opinion The great lie about Los Angeles is that you have to conquer it — that being an Angeleno means having a take on all four hundred neighborhoods, a favorite taco in each one, … Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0700 https://thelaglobe.com/world-cup-july.html https://thelaglobe.com/world-cup-july.html In Review Before this paper existed, the biggest sporting event on Earth spent a month running through Inglewood. SoFi Stadium hosted eight World Cup matches in all — five group stag… Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0700 https://thelaglobe.com/world-cup-opener.html https://thelaglobe.com/world-cup-opener.html In Review The United States opened its home World Cup on June 12 against Paraguay at SoFi Stadium, and returned June 25 to close the group stage against Türkiye, per SoFi Stadium. … Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0700 https://thelaglobe.com/pride-56.html https://thelaglobe.com/pride-56.html In Review LA Pride threw its 56th annual parade through Hollywood in June, honoring grand marshals Jeff Hiller, activist Mia Yamamoto, and the late Shirley Raines, founder of the non… Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0700 https://thelaglobe.com/stage-notes.html https://thelaglobe.com/stage-notes.html In Review June's quietest big deal: New York City Ballet landed in Los Angeles for the first time in more than 20 years, with a two-program run at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, per … Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0700 https://thelaglobe.com/may-day.html https://thelaglobe.com/may-day.html In Review On May 1, a rally at MacArthur Park became a march to Grand Park downtown, with organizers calling for a broader "economic blackout" — urging people to skip work, school, a… Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0700 https://thelaglobe.com/yoko-ono-broad.html https://thelaglobe.com/yoko-ono-broad.html In Review May brought Yoko Ono's first-ever solo museum exhibition in Southern California: a seven-decade showcase of the artist and activist's work at The Broad, per LAmag's May gui… Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0700