The week’s bestselling books, Aug. 17
The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Source link
Chloë Sevigny: ‘Monsters” Cooper didn’t heed Netflix ‘talking points’
Over the course of her three-decade career, Chloë Sevigny has built an eclectic résumé playing complex women whom she describes as “the moral compass” or…
L.A.’s underground art scene comes alive in new video game, ‘Blippo+’
More than 100 artists, musicians, comedians, actors and performers from L.A.’s thriving, multifaceted underground art scene are featured in a new experimental video game named…
L.A.’s fires reshaped the city. They may also have triggered changes in our bodies
It’s been seven months since I looked up from my desk here in The Times’ El Segundo office and saw smoke roiling over the horizon.The…
Rupert Murdoch to disclose health issues in Trump WSJ lawsuit
President Trump has dropped his demand that Rupert Murdoch immediately testify in the president’s libel lawsuit over a Jeffrey Epstein story in the Wall Street…
Morecambe suspension: Fans and staff tell true story of financial crisis
"We'll still gather together and talk about the old times, what we've done and where we've been. But we should still be able to do…
Love Island legend Laura Anderson reveals couple she wants to win series and says it would be ‘a lovely little story’
LOVE Island star Laura Anderson has backed Toni Laites and Cach Mercer to win when the series reaches its climax tomorrow night.The Scottish beauty, who…
Gustavo Dudamel returns to the Hollywood Bowl; Gamble House adds art
When looking at a majestic residence like the 1908 Gamble House — a Craftsman crown jewel of Pasadena — its easy to romanticize the lives…
‘Chief of War’ review: Jason Momoa centers Hawaiian warrior’s story
A slow-paced, fact-based period drama of war and love in precolonial Hawai’i, “Chief of War,” premiering Friday on Apple TV+, presents co-creator and star Jason…
A climate-saving lithium mine could doom an endangered desert flower
Two scenes. Two storytellers. Two visions for a climate-altered American West.On an overcast spring morning, I hopped a low metal fence off a lonely dirt…
Smithsonian fights to keep Discovery: L.A. arts and culture this weekend
The Smithsonian Institution has faced pressure from President Trump since March when he issued his “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” executive order, which…
The Santa Ynez Chumash Museum: What to expect when you visit
p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix"> For thousands of years, the Chumash people lived along California’s Central Coast and on its Channel Islands. Then the newcomers arrived — Spanish…
California needs a little less farmland, a lot more solar power
Amid a string of setbacks for clean energy — tariffs, the Trump administration, Tesla’s declining sales numbers — California officials delivered a big win last…
The painful road to freedom: A North Korean escapee’s story
1 of 2 | Jihyang Kim escaped from North Korea in spring 2012 when she was 19 years old. Today, she is a Fulbright scholar…
Trump sues Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch for $10bn over Epstein story | Donald Trump News
US Justice Department files a motion in Manhattan federal court to unseal grand jury transcripts in the Epstein cases.United States President Donald Trump has filed…
Why artists loved Cole’s French Dip: L.A. arts and culture this weekend
Artists are formed by the spaces they spend time in — and in the case of countless Los Angeles artists, writers and musicians, that place…
The power grid battle that’s dividing California environmentalists
In an early episode of the TV series “Lost,” the plane crash survivors stranded on a mysterious island are running low on water. A fight…
The week’s bestselling books, July 20
Hardcover fiction1. Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books: $30) A story of friendship, love and adversity during the 1980s Space Shuttle program.2. Vera, or…
Do the Emmys still matter? Yes, art and TV matter more than ever
The 77th Emmys nominations have been announced and given the state of just about everything, it’s easy not to care.Our president is dismantling large portions…
Contributor: Uncle Sam wants you … to rat on national parks that reflect true history
Few initiatives of the Trump administration more seriously undermine our understanding of the nation’s past than Executive Order 14023 from March 27, which promises “to…