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What we saw at the the Boyle Heights Youth Festival
8+ hour, 1+ min ago (144+ words) LA Local Families, kids and teens packed 1st Street over the weekend for the Boyle Heights Youth Festival, a youth-led celebration and block party. The event, coordinated by the Boyle Heights Arts Conservatory and planned largely by young people, featured free…...
An arts and culture spectacle is coming to LA. Olympic organizers just released a first look
4+ week, 14+ hour ago (469+ words) By Libby Rainey'for LAist Originally published on May 7, 2026 Olympics organizers have released a first look at plans for a celebration of arts and culture across Los Angeles during the summer of 2028. Known as the "Cultural Olympiad," the programming will include…...
Community Events in Los Angeles
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (80+ words) T. H. C. : Battleship Potemkin (1925) silent film World Premiere of live musical score by George Sarah of T. H. C " string quartet + vocal quartet + Electronics. LA Local News for your neighborhood, our LA. From listening sessions to tabling at local events, from planning local candidate…...
Let's Not Die! Adam Mc Kay climate comedy show comes to LA
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (637+ words) Breaking into the LA comedy scene and solving climate change can both feel impossible. This Saturday, comedian Zach Schiffman and Academy Award-winner Adam Mc Kay's Yellow Dot Studios will attempt to move the needle on both with an Earth Day-themed…...
East LA's Sounds of Music is at risk of closing
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (712+ words) Just a few blocks away from East LA's Whittier Boulevard arch " a symbol of Chicano pride " Sounds of Music has served as a cultural hub for decades." The record store, which has specialized in Chicano soul, oldies and "souldies" since…...
Rapper Dumbfoundead talks K-town, Asian representation in memoir 'SPIT"
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (1292+ words) Koreatown-raised entertainer Dumbfoundead tells it straight: "I don't think I'm just Korean or Korean American. I'm more Koreatown than both of those labels. The Korean American rapper, born Jonathan Park, moved to Koreatown at 3 and has lived there ever since....
Sara Porkalob's "Dragon Mama' at Geffen Playhouse
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (820+ words) On a simple open stage with just a chair and minimalist production design Sara Porkalob has nowhere to hide in her one-woman show "Dragon Mama," now running at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. The solo performance tells the story…...
Nipsey Hussle Square dedicated at Crenshaw and Slauson
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (699+ words) Nipsey Hussle earned accolades for his music, but for many fans, it was his connection and investment in South LA's Crenshaw District that cemented his legacy." On Saturday, seven years after his death, the city formally dedicated the intersection of…...
Come talk Bad Bunny and the Super Bowl at this Eastside pl'tica
4+ mon, 2+ day ago (574+ words) Bad Bunny isn't just topping charts " he's landed on college syllabi. Now, as the Puerto Rican superstar is set to take the stage at the Super Bowl halftime show this Sunday, a Cal State LA professor is inviting the wider…...
You just stumbled into the hottest secret concert in Los Angeles " in a mall
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (690+ words) How a viral musician packed City Center in Koreatown for a solo show. The hottest concert in Koreatown this past weekend may have been an impromptu, after-hours, one-man show at a closed shopping mall. As the clock approached 10 p. m. last Friday,…...