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Padilla’s top priorities include public safety, economic development. Ayao wants a special LAPD street cleanup team.

Bass said money raised by the Mayor’s Fund will be used to assist tenants, advising them of new renter protections meant to help keep people housed.

The eulogies are coming in for pioneering Chicana politician Gloria Molina, who died Sunday night — Mother’s Day — after a three-year battle with cancer.

The eulogies are coming in for pioneering Chicana politician Gloria Molina, who died Sunday night — Mother’s Day — after a three-year battle with cancer.

L.A. City Hall isn't united when it comes to supporting a candidate in the District 6 race. But some City Council members have made endorsements.

Thrilling and Tragic Stories of Jewish Circus Artists and Owners Before World War II Coming to The Braid Circus Jews achieved international fame – until World War II changed their fate.  by Alexa Criscitiello The thrilling and tragic stories of Jewish artists and circus owners who captivated Europe with their amazing acts in the late 19th and early 20th centuries are coming to The Braid for Circus Jews, an international Zoom event on Sunday, August 8. Historians and performer Stav Meishar ...

Todays Jewish mother is nothing like the one-dimensional stereotype that plagued her predecessors. Shes inspiring, collaborative, and successful-and three of them and their successful kids will be featured in a new Sunday Morning with The Braid event (formerly Jewish Womens Theatre) on May 2, a week before Mothers Day. One pair of guests are an acclaimed comedian and her 90-year-old mom, who recently joined her daughters monthly shows. The second duo are a nonprofit manager-mom and her son, who...

Flores died of complications from a myelodysplastic syndrome, a blood disorder, said her grandson, Trevor Davis. The first woman to represent District 15, which comprises the L.A. Harbor and residential and commercial neighborhoods, Flores was known for her loyalty to her district and her push to make city government more transparent. She navigated a City Council viewed as a “boy’s club,” using canniness and persuasion, rather than shouting or arm-twisting, to get what she wanted. She was...