Awards
The director took the best picture Oscar for his 2013 drama ’12 Years a Slave.’ Can he do it again?
California
LAPD Cmdr. Steve Lurie, who oversaw the West Bureau by the UCLA campus, will take over UCLA’s Office of Campus Safety in February.
Entertainment & Arts
The Kennedy Center downplays CPAC comments from longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon that a choir composed of Jan. 6 rioters will perform at the Kennedy Center.
Mayor Karen Bass selected developer and civic leader Steve Soboroff to lead Los Angeles’ recovery and rebuilding efforts in the wake of the Palisades fire.
Sports
Steve Kerr, coach of the Warriors and the U.S. Olympic basketball team, spoke at the Democratic National Convention in support of Vice President Kamala Harris and running mate Tim Walz.
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Television
Jimmy Kimmel praised the Watch Duty app, Steve Guttenberg and first responders in his first opening monologue since the start of the ‘very scary’ L.A. fires.
Business
Steve Davis is helping recruit staff at DOGE, Elon Musk’s effort to reduce government waste, in addition to his day job as president of Musk’s tunneling startup, the Boring Company.
Steve McQueen set out to bring the ‘ghosts’ of wartime London to light in ‘Blitz,’ a movie centered on the love between a single mother and her son.
To columnist Steve Lopez, the firing of the Los Angeles Fire Department chief looks like an act of political desperation as much as a take-charge moment by Bass.