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Rapper and actor Vince Staples stars in this five-episode Netflix series where he plays a regular guy, more or less, who lives in a world that's anything but.

The 13 most essential L.A. works of short fiction, from a Little Tokyo proto-noir to Fitzgerald, Wodehouse, Bradbury and generations of Chicano pioneers.

Author and Ultimate Bookshelf contributing editor David Kipen digs for treasure in a bibliography of L.A. fiction — and celebrates the "ghost novels."

For those who do not know, Co-Star is an app that gives you your daily horoscope and star chart. I have had the app for a few months now, but I only use it to check my chart whenever someone asks me for my astrological placements. I am not even sure I believe in astrology....

Damien Chazelle's pounding tribute to Twenties cinema is a finally faltering blast