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The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country.

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patricia i. escárcega

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Andy Hermann

Writer, podcaster, editor and journalist based in Los Angeles, with credits in Billboard, The L.A. Times, Vice, Downbeat, L.A. Magazine, NPR Music, Wondery and Rolling Stone.

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Cait Writes

As a strategic consultant and writer, I continue to follow my passion while taking a path less traveled. I have spent more than 10 years working with global corporations and …

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Earl Anthony Wayne

Earl Anthony Wayne is currently teaching as a Distinguished Diplomat in Residence at American University's School of International Service. He is a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center …

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Sandra Cuffe

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Latest Articles

The Dodgers booted the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Then came a big-league backlash

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence were among the thousands who turned out to participate in the 2019 AIDS Walk L.A. With their kabuki white face paint, electric blue humor and black medieval garb, the satirical nuns of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence have long been California’s most recognizable drag outfit, …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

A year later, Taiwanese church remembers mass shooting in Laguna Woods

The church choir performs during the memorial service marking the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting at Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods. When Feng Feng Lee saw a strange man with closely cropped white hair at her church, she didn’t think much of it. Hours later, the man …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

Mandarin classes are a new battleground between China and Taiwan

In the relaxed cadences of her native Taiwan, Kelly Chuang instructed her students to repeat after her. She projected the written Chinese for the phrases onto a whiteboard. “Taiwan” appeared in the traditional form, with 25 strokes in the second character alone. The four adults were studying Mandarin, Taiwanese style …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

America's Top Model, Koreatown-style — older immigrants strike a pose and fulfill a dream

Youngjoo Chang, Hey Kyung Lee and Seonghee Jung pose for a photo after their Silver Models USA audition at the Line LA Hotel on April 15 in Los Angeles. As a girl in South Korea, Kristen Yoo walked with books on her head to cultivate a model’s ramrod straight posture. …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

The Times podcast: The music genre Korean elders 'trot' to

Retirees at the Koreatown Senior and Community Center dance to trot hits led by Janet Chon, center. “Trot” is a Korean music genre that has been around for decades. But in recent years, it has exploded in popularity in Southern California. The biggest fans? Immigrant seniors. Today, we talk about …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

Moon Bin, of K-Pop group Astro, dies at 25; bandmates 'in enormous grief and sorrow'

Moon Bin of K-pop group Astro was found dead of an apparent suicide. He was 25. Moon Bin, a member of the popular K-pop group Astro, died Wednesday. He was 25. Yonhap News TV, citing an unnamed police source, said the singer and actor died by suicide. Moon’s manager alerted …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

Long Beach's new year festival: Some Cambodian Americans aren't happy with the name Sankranta

At Long Beach’s first Sankranta festival to celebrate the Cambodian new year, people knelt and prayed at a mound of sand called a stupa, decorated with bright yellow flowers to honor ancestors. They snacked on Cambodian barbecue pork chops with Belgian waffles and browsed booths with shirts featuring Angkor Wat, …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

Hate crime suspect sought after defacing Koreatown mosque

Law enforcement officials work Monday near the Islamic Center of Southern California, which was vandalized early Sunday morning, in Los Angeles. Los Angeles police are searching for a man seen on video defacing a mosque in Koreatown with “anti-Islamic hate words” on Sunday, authorities said. Surveillance camera footage shows the …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

Bodies found in two separate house fires in Los Angeles County

Two bodies were found in separate house fires in Los Angeles County this weekend, authorities said. Firefighters discovered a man’s body about 8:30 a.m. Sunday while battling a fire at a garage apartment in the 8000 block of Alverstone Avenue in Westchester, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. “An …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

Easter celebrations get underway in Southern California

Angels adorn windows at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown L.A. Easter Sunday services are underway in much of Southern California, marked by sunrise Masses and free meals for homeless individuals. The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels is marking the holiday with a 10 …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

Taiwan president's meeting with McCarthy inflames divide among local immigrants

A scuffle breaks out between supporters of China and supporters of Taiwan as Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen visits the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Wednesday in Simi Valley. As a highly anticipated meeting took place between Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Nancy Yingli Son shouted into …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

A 'game changer' for immigrants: Job-ready college classes in their native language

Professor Carlos Brown instructs a class in Spanish at Los Angeles City College, where students learn to become home healthcare providers. When a friend asked Andrea White Rubio if she was interested in caring for an 84-year-old man with early dementia and diabetes during the pandemic, she considered her job …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

How Korean Americans shaped K-pop, and vice versa

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Wednesday, March 29. I’m Jeong Park, a reporter covering Asian American communities for The Times, coming from Mid-City. When I introduce myself and say what I do for a living, people have asked me: Do you cover K-pop? No, I …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

L.A. Marathon 2023: Thousands hit the streets for the 38th annual trek from downtown to Century City

It was Miguel’s first full marathon, and for the last few months the 13-year-old has been going to Whittier Narrows Park every Sunday to run 10 miles with his Student Run LA group as part of his 22-mile regimen in preparation for the big day. Roxana Fuentes, Miguel’s mother, held …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

How a Korean American found healing by retracing the first Korean immigrants' ocean voyage

In the sailing yacht’s cramped living area, nearly 20 sticky notes reminded Jin Woo Nam and his crew of the tasks ahead — buffing and waxing, applying a special paint to prevent barnacles from sticking, fixing a leaky water heater. Nam, 63, didn’t seem stressed. On this day in early …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

DeSantis touts Florida approach during California visit

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told a crowd in Simi Valley on Sunday that the “woke mind virus” infiltrating schools, corporations and other institutions in California and other Democratic strongholds led to an influx of residents to his state, showing the popularity of his anti-liberal policies. Widely seen as a contender …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

Search continues for suspects in San Pedro beach shooting that left 5 wounded

Los Angeles police on Sunday were searching for two suspects who opened fire the evening before on a group gathered for a San Pedro beach barbecue, wounding five, two of them critically. The two male suspects approached the group of 10 to 20 people at Royal Palms Beach near Paseo …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

K-Pop isn’t the only hot ticket in Koreatown — how 'trot' is captivating immigrants

With other members of a fan club, she has spent six straight hours discussing her favorite singer — his latest appearance on a Korean variety show, the dolls of him they are purchasing from South Korea. Last month, Kim was among the thousands of Korean Americans in matching turquoise blue …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

As a gang member, he killed a man. Now, he faces deportation to South Korea

After getting out of prison, Justin Chung told his story on podcasts and TikTok. He knew he would face tough questions — that sharing about a graduation or family Thanksgiving would be punctuated by reminders of his horrible mistake. “You took a life and the 14 years does not give …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

加州三起重大枪案 使悲伤哀悼中的亚裔美国人提出痛苦的问题

Anh Do is a Metro reporter covering Asian American issues and general assignments. A second-generation journalist, she has worked at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times, Orange County Register and Nguoi Viet Daily News, the largest Vietnamese-language newspaper in the U.S. Jeong Park is an Asian American communities reporter for …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

加州三起重大槍案 使悲傷哀悼中的亞裔美國人提出痛苦的問題

Anh Do is a Metro reporter covering Asian American issues and general assignments. A second-generation journalist, she has worked at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times, Orange County Register and Nguoi Viet Daily News, the largest Vietnamese-language newspaper in the U.S. Jeong Park is an Asian American communities reporter for …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

They say sheriff's helicopters buzz lowest over Black homes, and they're out to prove it

Law enforcement helicopters routinely buzz around Greater Los Angeles. But in certain neighborhoods, they swoop in — low and loud. So say two community groups that are studying the effects of helicopters on the health of county residents. “The higher the proportion of Black population, the lower the altitude of …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

76-year-old man fatally shot one and injured two, including his daughter, authorities say

A 76-year-old man is accused of killing one person and injuring two others — including his own daughter — in a shooting Friday afternoon at a plant nursery in the San Diego community of Fallbrook, sheriff’s officials said. A man who appeared to be in his 50s was found dead, …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

MTV launched a reality show set in WeHo. Even WeHo was not impressed

Last Friday, as Trunks in West Hollywood hosted its weekly “RuPaul’s Drag Race” viewing party, laughter, chatter and excitement filled the air — just as it must have at bars up and down Santa Monica Boulevard as the reality competition’s drag performers revealed their outfits for their latest challenge: making …
By Justin Ray Digital Journalist, Social Media Specialist
• Los Angeles Times

'Felt like they didn't exist': Monterey Park officials apologize for not acknowledging firefighters

Monterey Park City Manager Ron Bow apologized to the city’s Fire Department on Tuesday, saying he should have acknowledged sooner the department’s first responders’ role — and their pain — in responding to the Jan. 21 mass shooting. “Our Fire Department took a back seat,” Bow said at a news …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

First hate crimes, now mass shootings. For some Asian Americans, feeling safe means owning a gun

Guns have always made Lynn Kim nervous. She had never considered firing — let alone buying — one herself. But that changed last week after two mass shootings in California, two days apart, carried out by older Asian American men who targeted fellow Asian Americans. After hearing the news, Kim, …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

3 California mass shootings force grieving Asian Americans to ask painful questions

Their motives for mass murder appeared to be different — workplace enmity, law enforcement officials said, or personal resentment, or a political conflict in a homeland across the ocean. But they were all Asian men of retirement age, who within the past year have been accused of expressing their bitterness …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times

Vice President Kamala Harris visits growing memorial for Monterey Park shooting victims

On Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris joined in what has become a nightly ritual in Monterey Park, as hundreds gathered in front of the dance studio where 11 people were gunned down amid Lunar New Year revelry Saturday night. Weaving through a crowd that included dozens of reporters, people carried …
By Jeong Park
• Los Angeles Times