Keeping your holiday celebration low-key? Some restaurants in Marina del Rey are open on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Joan Didion, the revered author and essayist whose precise social and personal commentary in such classics as “The White Album” and “The Year of Magical Thinking” made her a uniquely clear-eyed critic of turbulent times,

Avg. household income, bottom 20%: $10,545 — 349th lowest of 1,775 cities > Share of all income in New York that went to top 20%: 57.4% — 38th highest of 1,775 cities (tied) > Share of all income in New York that went to bottom 20%: 2.

The five Princetonians will join a cohort of 151 students at Tsinghua University in Beijing and will pursue a one-year master’s degree in Global Affairs. The cohort includes students from 33 different countries and 106 universities.

Assuming the spring and early summer bring a semblance of sanity, here are three reasons they will win the Western Conference and play for the championship: • Klay Thompson fulfills every expecation upon his return.

Joan Didion was a writer uniquely attuned to the disorder and fragmentation of our times, the dizzying changes overtaking America since the 1960s, when, as she wrote in “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” lines from Yeats’s famous poem “ The Second Coming ” reverberated “in my inner ear as if they were surgically implanted there”: For Didion,

Keeping your holiday celebration low-key? Some restaurants in Culver City are open on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

A Flood Advisory has been issued for Western Los Angeles County, including the San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys, the Santa Monica Mountains and the Malibu coast.

"Wild Indian," which started the year with a berth at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival, is ending it with three nominations for the Independent Spirit Awards. The film was written and directed by Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.

Chase Stokes’ reaction to Madelyn Cline and Zack Bia dating after their breakup shows that he supports his ex-girlfriend and Outer Banks co-star no matter what. Madelyn and Zack —a DJ who has also dated Madison Beer—were first linked in December 2021 when Zack attended Madelyn’s 24th birthday party at Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica,