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Yoko Ono’s ‘Wish Trees’ at the Broad is a snapshot of the mood in Los Angeles right now.

Yoko Ono’s ‘Wish Trees’ at the Broad is a snapshot of the mood in Los Angeles right now.

Published by Sam Flores

A wish is a deeply personal thing, often fleeting and silent. But sometimes, a wish is a collective endeavor, a bold and communal call for action. Yoko Ono’s “Wish Tree” installation is both. The piece — which Ono has staged more than 250 times in 35-plus countries — draws on a Japanese tradition at Buddhist temples that invites visitors to scribble their hopes and dreams onto paper tags and tie them to the branches of a tree. The wishes are left dangling amid the tree leaves, like budding fruit. Ono’s very first “Wish Tree” — a baby grapefruit tree planted in a wooden box — was shown in 1996 at Santa Monica’s Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Bergamot Station. It was part of Ono’s solo show there. After the exhibition closed, the gallery planted the tree on its property. It was so meaningful to Wayne that when her gallery left Bergamot Station in 2018 (it’s now located in West Adams), she re-planted the iconic tree in her own backyard — in Pacific Palisades. It tragically burned …

Progressive Nithya Raman advances to November runoff against Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass

Progressive Nithya Raman advances to November runoff against Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass

Published by Sam Flores

Los Angeles mayoral candidates Nithya Raman and Spencer Pratt. Gina Ferazzi | Ronaldo Bolaños | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images Progressive city council member Nithya Raman has advanced to a November runoff against Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, setting up an unexpected matchup between two Democrats and former political allies to run the struggling city of nearly 4 million. The outcome means Spencer Pratt, a Republican and former reality television personality from “The Hills,” is out of the running. His candidacy had drawn national attention because of his celebrity and willingness to challenge liberal governance in a city dominated by Democrats, but the buzz did not translate into enough votes to make the runoff. Raman made a last-minute entry into the race, after she had endorsed Bass for reelection. She was elected to the council with the support of the Democratic Socialists of America, and the election will test whether voters in the heavily Democratic city want to move further to the political left to address long-running problems of homelessness, buckled streets and sidewalks and climbing rent and …

World Cup gives Los Angeles a chance to showcase Olympic readiness

World Cup gives Los Angeles a chance to showcase Olympic readiness

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No matter how many times someone has been to Los Angeles, Schloessman said, she hopes that the fan zones will “drive people to places that they wouldn’t have ordinarily gone to because they haven’t heard about it.” Los Angeles has had something of a sports hosting marathon in recent years, with the Super Bowl, golf’s U.S. Open and the college football national championship all taking place there between 2022 and 2023. It’s all been building toward hosting two of the biggest sporting events in the world. “We said, ‘OK, we’ve got this run of events, and it’s all leading to the road to ’28,’” Schloessman said. “So how do we make sure that we are building on it each time and we’re not starting over? And so we said, ‘Let’s use the same team of experts across each of these events so they learn something new each time.’ We’re building a better experience each time, and we’re using what we learned the last time.” Public transit is one area where the World Cup will be …

Hermès first women’s show in Los Angeles hosted in Bel-Air

Hermès first women’s show in Los Angeles hosted in Bel-Air

Published by Sam Flores

How do you reserve your seat at an Hermès show? A Birkin bag, apparently. Even before pulling up to the Second Chapter of the Hermès women’s ready-to-wear fall-winter show in Bel-Air — the house’s first women’s show in Los Angeles — photographer Tyler Matthew Oyer was texting me photos of women at check-in clutching their Birkins in one hand, phone and ID in the other. “They are everywhere.” I took a photo of my yellow raffia bag, the handle tied with an Hermès horse scarf that once belonged to my maternal grandmother. Getting to the destination was like ascending to a parallel universe of the Getty, in similar excursion-like fashion — only instead of cable cars, we gathered into black vans with tinted windows that climbed the mountains opposite the museum. After a solid 20 minutes of winding roads, we reached the grand reveal: a butter-yellow pavilion, delectable and whimsical like a giant cake on stilts, plastered with all-caps neon signage, SILHOUETTES ON THE HORIZON. The structure, designed by Maybe Paris with Hermès creative director …

Here’s how your neighborhood voted for Los Angeles mayor

Here’s how your neighborhood voted for Los Angeles mayor

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In the race for Los Angeles mayor, incumbent Karen Bass and City Councilmember Nithya Raman will face each other in the Nov. 3 runoff. With 98.5% of the expected vote counted, reality television personality Spencer Pratt, who was in second place on election night, saw his votes fall to third as mail-in ballots were counted. This story is based on an updated snapshot of precinct-level results provided by the L.A. County registrar Wednesday. The county previously shared detailed preliminary results June 3, saying finalized data would be made available June 26. “We just updated again this morning, given the high number of requests and continued interest,” said Michael Sanchez, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder’s office. This story is based on a Times analysis of the roughly 850,000 ballots processed so far. Karen Bass 34% 290,800 votes Nithya Raman 29% 245,500 votes Spencer Pratt 26% 216,000 votes 98.5% of expected votes in Preliminary results as of June 10. View most recent results » This map shows the margin and density of votes by …

Defense tech, AI, and fundraising take center stage at StrictlyVC Los Angeles

Defense tech, AI, and fundraising take center stage at StrictlyVC Los Angeles

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With just two weeks to go, StrictlyVC Los Angeles is quickly approaching. On Thursday, June 18, at The Aerospace Corporation Campus in El Segundo, investors, founders, and tech leaders will gather for an evening of conversation exploring some of the most consequential shifts taking place across venture capital, defense technology, artificial intelligence, and advanced industry. Secure your spot here. For executives navigating a rapidly changing technology landscape, StrictlyVC offers something increasingly difficult to find: direct access to the people building, funding, and shaping the next generation of companies. The conversations are candid, the audience is highly curated, and the insights extend far beyond what can be found in headlines, podcasts, or social media feeds. Image Credits:Slava Blazer Photography / TechCrunch Who’s taking the stage in Los Angeles The evening begins with Ethan Thornton, founder of Mach Industries. In his session, “Built for a New Era of Defense Technology,” Thornton will share his perspective on building a hard tech company at speed and how advances in autonomy, manufacturing, and national security are transforming the defense sector. His story reflects a broader movement of founders tackling ambitious challenges in …

L.A. Times and Sonoro Studios launch “The De Los Podcast”

L.A. Times and Sonoro Studios launch “The De Los Podcast”

Published by Sam Flores

Before the Latinx Files was a newsletter, it was a seed of an idea. “Wouldn’t it be great if the Los Angeles Times had a dedicated space to tell stories about the Latino experience?” I’d ask rhetorically to anyone who would listen before spouting on about how Los Angeles is half Latino. That we make up 40% of California’s total population and account for nearly 1 in 5 Americans. Consider subscribing to the Los Angeles Times Your support helps us deliver the news that matters most. Become a subscriber. And then the whole world watched the fallout after the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, forcing Americans and institutions to reckon with race, discrimination and policing. The Times was no exception. In the aftermath of the tragedy, the paper reflected on its past failures to fairly cover L.A.’s communities of color, apologized for it and promised to do better. It was in this environment that the Latinx Files sprouted to life. After talking endlessly about it, I was tasked with creating a news product …

The Tao of RaiNao – Los Angeles Times

The Tao of RaiNao – Los Angeles Times

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It’s safe to say that Naomi Ramírez, a.k.a. RaiNao, has had one of the most blessed career arcs of her generation. Bad Bunny himself called the singer-songwriter “my favorite artist from Puerto Rico” back in 2022, when she was still an up-and-coming indie promise. By 2025, she earned a feature on his Grammy-winning album, “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” — and elicited the screams of thousands when they sang their song “Perfumito Nuevo” together onstage during his San Juan residency shows later that summer. RaiNao’s music straddles the mystical and the commercial. Her alt-reggaeton is tinged with lyrical flourishes that oscillate between poetic and salacious in the same bar; which she occasionally follows up with jazzy asides from her tenor saxophone. Released May 25 via Rimas Entertainment, RaiNao’s sophomore LP, “Marcriá,” arrived two years after her previous effort “Capicú.” In her latest offering, the 32-year-old pivots from the darker sound of her debut, moving toward a meditative approach (in the very literal sense) to the music that colors life in the Caribbean. The name “Marcriá” is …

Live Election 2026 primary results, updates: California, Los Angeles County and local races

Live Election 2026 primary results, updates: California, Los Angeles County and local races

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p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> The Times’ results pages reveal how Californians voted for governor, U.S. House seats and in local city, school board and ballot measure races. Every registered voter in the state receives a ballot by mail. Polls close at 8 p.m. on June 2, and mailed ballots need to be postmarked on or before that day. Winners may not be known on election night due to the high volume of mail-in ballots arriving after election day. The vote counts on these pages update periodically as results are reported by the Associated Press and the L.A. County registrar. On election day, those results include in-person voting as well as any mail-in ballots already received. In the days and weeks following, votes will be reported approximately once a day, as they are processed by county registrars. Voters can track their own cast ballot here. The Associated Press surveys the numbers posted by local election officials. The AP projects the winner for all statewide and federal races using vote returns and other data. A race may be called …

New restaurants and pop-ups to try in Los Angeles in June 2026

New restaurants and pop-ups to try in Los Angeles in June 2026

Published by Sam Flores

Daniel Patterson, the chef behind San Francisco’s Coi, who once helmed Alta Adams alongside chef Keith Corbin, has opened a new tasting restaurant in Hollywood, alongside his wife and former music journalist and producer Sarah Lewitinn. Jacaranda challenges stereotypes of stuffy or restrained fine dining restaurants with a Gen X playlist, casual service and lively conversations among guests. This approach, as Patterson told reporter Stephanie Breijo, better reflects the ethos of Los Angeles, where your next great meal is just as likely to come from a street vendor as it is from a 10-course dinner. The restaurant holds only one seating per night, to allow diners the opportunity to linger as you would at a friend’s dinner party, as well as a multi-course lunch on Sunday. Source link