Editorials, columns and letters to the editor.
Readers write in about the awards-season street closures, the production slump's toll on working crews, the still-shut library reading room, and a stranger who helped at the bottom of a muddy trail.
A middle-school librarian on the students who lost their quiet place when the public reading room went dark, and why a closed public room is never closed to no one.
There is a particular pleasure in an afternoon show at an old revival house, half a dozen strangers scattered in a thousand seats, watching something that was never meant for a phone.
The Hollywood branch closed its landmark reading room for a seismic retrofit meant to last into 2026. A closure that long needs interim service and a schedule the city intends to keep.
The library's reading room closed this month for a retrofit it genuinely needs. That doesn't make the coming fifteen months, without the only free quiet room in the neighborhood, any shorter.
A thin year on the soundstages is no longer a rumor. Sacramento and City Hall can compete for the work that built this town, or explain later why they chose not to.
Readers respond to recent reporting on the neighborhood's last photochemical film lab, the still-dormant Runyon Canyon 10K, the coming closure of the library reading room, and a quiet summer on the soundstages.
A walking-tour guide on the questions visitors ask, the Hollywood they picture before they arrive, and the one they end up taking home instead.
For two weeks in late spring the neighborhood drops purple all over its own sidewalks and stays light past eight. Our columnist would like it to slow down.
A park over the freeway. A skate park under it. We are very good at drawing the future here, and less practiced at pouring it.
