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Percival Everett and Jason De León win National Book Awards
1 month ago

Percival Everett and Jason De León win National Book Awards

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Percival Everett’s “James,” a daring reworking of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” has won the National Book Award for fiction. Jason De León’s “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling” won for nonfiction, where finalists included Salman Rushdie’s memoir about his brutal stabbing in 2022, “Knife.” The prize for young people’s literature …

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Column: Ysabel Jurado vanquished Kevin de León. Will winning change her?
1 month, 1 week ago

Column: Ysabel Jurado vanquished Kevin de León. Will winning change her?

LA Times  

Ysabel Jurado had every reason to gloat when I caught up with her earlier this week at the Highland Park home she shares with her father and teenage daughter. A tenant rights attorney and political novice, Jurado also overcame a self-inflicted wound after being caught on a recording saying “F— the police.” When she gets sworn in next month, she …

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Mariachis, struggling since the pandemic, get a tiny home in Boyle Heights
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Mariachis, struggling since the pandemic, get a tiny home in Boyle Heights

LA Times  

For three years, mariachi musician Ramiro Becerra has been living in a motor home near Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights. “It’s the kind of life that sometimes makes you feel like you don’t want to keep on living.” Mariachi musician Ramiro Becerra checks out one of tiny homes he will move into in the Boyle Heights Tiny Home Village. Los …

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Column: You said you were the anti-De León, Wendy. You’re more like a disappointment
1 year, 1 month ago

Column: You said you were the anti-De León, Wendy. You’re more like a disappointment

LA Times  

The L.A. politics chisme mill flooded my phone with texts and calls this morning. Not the candidate for the L.A. City Council 14th District seat held by Kevin de León in a race that’s roiling Eastside politics. Considered one of De León’s two main challengers, her arrest will inevitably launch a sea of “Wino Wendy” opposition mailers from now until …

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Carín León and Formula One’s Sergio Pérez discuss their musical collaboration, ‘Por La Familia’
1 year, 2 months ago

Carín León and Formula One’s Sergio Pérez discuss their musical collaboration, ‘Por La Familia’

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — In the music video for “Por La Familia,” a new track from Carín León and BorderKid, León is whisked away into a surrealist landscape inspired by Mexico. Red Bull Racing’s “Checo” Pérez is the sole Mexican Formula One driver on the 2023 grid and the most successful Mexican driver in the motorsport’s history. “We’re happy to bring …

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Carín León and Formula One's Sergio Pérez discuss their musical collaboration, 'Por La Familia'
1 year, 2 months ago

Carín León and Formula One's Sergio Pérez discuss their musical collaboration, 'Por La Familia'

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy In the music video for …

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D.A. sends audio leak eavesdropping probe back to LAPD for additional investigation
1 year, 2 months ago

D.A. sends audio leak eavesdropping probe back to LAPD for additional investigation

LA Times  

The L.A. District Attorney’s Office asked the LAPD to continue investigating the surreptitious recording of L.A. politicians in 2021 at the headquarters of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, above. The Los Angeles Police Department’s investigation into last year’s incendiary audio leak focuses on two former Los Angeles County Federation of Labor employees who now face potential felony eavesdropping …

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L.A. on the Record: KDL, absurdist theater and a trick play
2 years ago

L.A. on the Record: KDL, absurdist theater and a trick play

LA Times  

Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record. Hugo Soto-Martínez, one of two new council members who’d vowed to leave chambers if De León was present, said he did not initially realize that De León was in another room casting votes. Along with Bass’ emergency order on homelessness, the council also approved a one-month extension of the city’s COVID-19 …

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Mayor’s new emergency order runs up against an unresolved problem: chaos at City Hall
2 years ago

Mayor’s new emergency order runs up against an unresolved problem: chaos at City Hall

LA Times  

Mayor Karen Bass takes questions from the media at the city’s Emergency Operations Center after declaring a state of emergency over homelessness. Ricci Sergienko, co-founder of the activist group known as the People’s City Council, pointed out that even President Biden called for De León’s resignation after the secretly recorded conversation became public. Reedy’s attorney called that account untrue, saying …

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Momentous mayor’s race will be a pitched battle over how to fix L.A.’s ills
3 years, 3 months ago

Momentous mayor’s race will be a pitched battle over how to fix L.A.’s ills

LA Times  

The race to succeed Eric Garcetti as L.A. mayor is heating up, with Rep. Karen Bass set to join a field of candidates that includes Councilmen Kevin de León and Joe Buscaino and City Atty. Courtni Pugh, De León’s strategist, said she is reluctant to draw comparisons to New York’s election, since that city used a “ranked choice” voting system. …

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