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Over the past few days, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., which hosts the annual ceremony, has been bulking up its roster of presenters. They now include: Sam Rockwell, Jessica Chastain, Gary Oldman, Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Allison Janney, Saoirse Ronan, Chadwick Boseman, Kaley Cuoco, Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Sterling K. Brown, Justin Hartley, William H. Macy, Lupita Nyong’o, Lena Waithe, Halle Berry, Harrison Ford, Ben Stiller, Dick Van Dyke, Mike Myers, Chrissy Metz, I...

I came across an article on negotiation ethics that intrigued me because I am co-teaching ADR Ethics at USC Gould School of Law this semester.   Typically, before I discuss the topic of mediation ethics with my students, I delve into the topic of “negotiation ethics” in general.

The article, entitled “Negotiation Research Exa...

It was far from beautiful, but the win column was nonetheless replenished, and that’s all that mattered to the Lakers.

They survived an ghastly offensive first half and rode another strong defensive effort to capture a 107-100 victory over Chicago.

“It was a good thing we made a commitment to each other to be a top-10 defensive team,” coach Luke Walton said, “because we heavily relied on our defense again tonight.”

Walton’s club is n...

As the daughter of late fashion designer Perry Ellis, accessories designer Tyler Ellis was quite familiar with the industry when founding her eponymous line in 2011. The LA-based designer realized when launching her brand that the luxury market for accessories was largely dominated by the global conglomerates and therefore found a niche for herself as an independent label that offers consumers an individual and authentic product, whose design and quality could rival those of the big fashion h...

The Los Angeles City Planning Commission has signed off on proposals Bastion Development Corporation construct two apartment buildings in western Koreatown.

The Vancouver-based firm filed plans last year to redevelop a small medical office building&#...

OCTOBER 30, 2018

LARB PRESENTS William T. Vollmann’s introduction to Ivo Andrić’s Omer Pasha Latas: Marshal to the Sultan, translated by Celia Hawkesworth and published by NYRB Classics today.

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“If we all had the opportunity, courage and strength to transform just a part of our imaginings […] into...

On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to expand the county’s Law Enforcement-Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program into new areas of LA County.

Through LEAD officers send people with mental health or substance abuse issues who have committed low-level crimes to community-based services, rather than incarcerating them.

In November 2017, the county launched the LEAD pilot program, modeled after an identical, much-lauded

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People call this a young city, and in a way, they’re right. “L.A. is all about reinventing itself, and abolishing the history of the past,” Sean Woods of the California Parks Department tells me as we stand, sweating, beneath the Baker Street Viaduct. The Metro Gold Line whizzes by, gracing us with a merciful breeze. I glance behind me and take in the majesty of downtown’s skyline. He continues, “What we’re trying to do is uncover it in new, exciting and en...