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- Paulina Stevens grew up in an insular Romani American family, destined to leave school, marry young, and become a fortuneteller. By 17, her fate was sealed - until she decided to leave it all behind.
- Every weekday, this podcast takes listeners beyond the headlines, with our West Coast outlook on the world. News, entertainment, the environment, immigration, politics, the social safety net, food and culture.
- Features thought-provoking, sound-rich stories about California and the West; this is our first installment.
- Chasing Cosby is a true crime podcast that looks at the rise and fall of comedian Bill Cosby. He cultivated an image as "America's Dad" while at the same time living a secret life where he preyed on woman. The program is hosted by investigative reporter Nicki Weisensee Egan.
- Since the invention of film, filmmakers have tried to trick viewers into believing that an actor is either shorter or taller than they really are. The most classic techniques are sticking an actor on a platform or having them interact with props built to scale. But those need to be paired with clever camera angles and visual effects. In "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" (2001), director Peter Jackson employed a forced perspective so Gandalf would really look like he was interacting with a hobbit. More complex computer-controlled camera moves and blue-screen compositing helped make the shots more complex and were used further in "The Two Towers" (2002), "The Return of the King" (2003), and the "Hobbit" trilogy (2012 to 2014). Performance capture created even more opportunities for actors to play giants on camera in "Avatar" (2009) and "The BFG" (2016), but creating the proper sense of scale gets trickier when these characters have to interact with normal-sized actors. When playing 8-foot-tall Thanos in "Avengers: Infinity War" (2018) and "Avengers: Endgame" (2019), Josh Brolin wore a cutout on his head to fill the gap. A more sophisticated method used in Marvel's "She-Hulk: Attorney at Law" (2022) involved using CG to combine Tatiana Maslany's performance with that of a much taller body double. Now, with "Avatar: The Way of Water" (2022), director James Cameron and the artists at Weta FX figured out some of the most precise and convincing ways yet to size up actors through a combination of floating monitors, virtual cameras, and props.
- The teammates of the Panorama High School girls wrestling team must overcome not just their opponents but the expectations of their friends and family, and what it means to be a girl and a wrestler.
- On a prosperous path from Mexican fields to U.S. tables, a boom in farm exports has enriched growers and retailers and benefited consumers. But for thousands of agricultural workers south of the border, it is a life of exploitation and hardship.
- Richard Marosi and Don Bartletti give readers a "Behind the Series" look at the Los Angeles Times investigation "Product of Mexico."
- Volunteers in the No One Dies Alone program at the Little Company of Mary Medical Center in Torrance make sure dying patients are not left alone.
- The Torrance Police Department's civilian, all-female forensics unit has responded to more than 4,700 calls, collecting more than 2,100 prints and nearly 1,000 DNA samples.
- These were murders that would turn any town on its head.
- Take a trip with the East Side Moto Babes riding club through the streets of downtown Los Angeles.
- Heidi Pascoe is a rarity in Hollywood: a woman willing to jump from heights of 100 feet or more. She's also been clocked in the head, thrown through windows and rammed by speeding cars.
- Alejandrina and her family are nomads, following the pepper trail from farm to farm, season to season. She once dreamed of becoming a teacher. Now, at age 12, she is one of Mexico's estimated 100,000 child farmworkers.
- Ramiro Gomez, an artist from West Hollywood, installs life size cardboard cutouts of nannies, gardeners, valet workers and housekeepers across wealthy neighborhoods such as Beverly Hills and the Hollywood Hills.
- This son of an illegal immigrant, Ricardo Lara is a key figure in the push for immigrant rights bills in the California Legislature.
- The storied track at Hollywood Park closes.
- Two sisters agree to care for Arefa, an Afghan child who was sent to Los Angeles for medical care after being severely burned. The experience changes all three lives.
- Makoto, Benjamin and Penny of Scout Regalia.
- Roy Lawrence was diagnosed with cataracts in January. Nearly a year later, Lawrence still is waiting for the operation. His vision has deteriorated to the point that he is considered legally blind.
- For thousands in Mexico, working the fields means hard labor, squalid living conditions and scant legal protections.
- A claim nailed to an oak tree 131 years ago allows growers in the Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District to annually pump an average of 850,000 acre-feet from the Sacramento River - about 40% more water than the entire city of Los Angeles uses in a year.
- The San Quentin News is one of the country's few inmate-produced publications.
- Drivers discuss the challenge of sharing the road with bicycles in this Los Angeles Times video.
- Arden Hayes is a 5-year-old who likes Legos, doing flips on the couch and presidents. He's crazy for presidents. He knows them by number and party.
- Living on the streets and hooked on methamphetamine, Melissa Marr's life changed when she took up running while living at a shelter.
- Sissy Goodwin is a cross-dresser living in Wyoming.
- After former Luchador, Manual Quiroz, broke his back in the ring he finds redemption in creating masks for other fighters.
- Hollywood has always been keen on disaster flicks. The genre is unique in the sheer size of the spectacles that must be created, with special effects teams building entire cities or worlds only to level them. Movies Insider breaks down the diverse techniques used to create extreme weather phenomena on the big screen, from miniature effects to shaky deck sets to a massive light and rain rig, and show you exactly what these effects looked like behind the scenes.
- Project 50 had a bold objective: Save Skid Row's 50 most vulnerable homeless people from death on the pavement.
- Taxidermist Igor Caragodin has the uncanny ability to make birds lifelike long after death. Fellow taxidermists follow his work like they would a favorite actor's.
- Juggler Nino Frediani performs for a crowd of friends while rehearsing in Las Vegas.
- Portuguese-style bullfighters, or Forcados, do not use capes or swords.
- A hundred years ago - Nov. 5, 1913 - 40,000 people gathered in Sylmar to watch the water arrive for the first time via the Los Angeles Aqueduct from the Owens Valley. It took 5,000 workers five years to complete the $23-million project, which was excavated with dynamite, hand shovels and mule power in rocky canyons and searing desert expanses. See the full story and more photos
- Glenn Weyant's music can last a minute -- or more than half an hour.
- lose-up look at love, caregivers, and the end of life
- Federal officials are investing money to increase the clinic's capacity and help address the major shortage of private doctors in poor communities.
- The Trials of Frank Carson is a true crime podcast that examines the work of Frank Carson the most controversial defense attorney in Stanislaus County, California. The program is hosted by Los Angeles Times reporter Christopher Goffard who discuses the life of the defense attorney would be part of one of the longest criminal trials in California history.
- Over the past 12 years, the City of New York's film and television production industry has grown exponentially, along with an exploding and thriving technology sector. The Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment takes a look back to reflect on the initiatives, programs, people and events that have turned "Made in NY" into a local phrase.
- Where do ho-ho-hoing bearded men go after Dec. 25? Los Angeles Times video reporter Trishna Patel crashes a real-life Santa reunion and has an answer.
- Cyclists ride through the streets of L.A. and describe the joys and hazards of sharing the asphalt with motorists in this Los Angeles Times video.
- While the nation focuses on historic flooding of the Mississippi River, parts of West Texas, Oklahoma and adjoining states are suffering from a drought that rivals the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
- Carlos Sanchez ignored his diabetes for nearly 15 years. Then in February of last year he got a sore on his foot that wouldn't go away. Sanchez went to the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center emergency room, where doctors had to amputate his lower leg.