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Encounter with Ice Age past, gift shop for crafts, global view
New programming at local museums promises encounters with Los Angeles’ past, from an Ice Age animal to the Scottish Rite Masonic Temple-turned-Marciano Art Foundation. Holiday gift shopping and exhibits on animation and works by Black artists are also featured this month. Ice Age Encounters returns Wed., Dec. 4, to the La Brea Tar Pits in […]

Veteran officer, executive named chief
•Jim McDonnell to take helm at LAPD, pending vote by City Council A seasoned policeman and former Long Beach police chief and Los Angeles County sheriff, Jim McDonnell, has been selected to be the new chief of police for the City of Los Angeles. Mayor Karen Bass selected McDonnell, 65, last month after a monthslong […]

Family festival at ‘Collide’
• PST ART to come to LACMA, La Brea Tar Pits Explore the intersection between art and science at several programs offered this and the next several months in what is among the largest art events in the world, PST ART: Art + Science Collide. LACMA A two-channel film and sculptural installation, “American Artist: The […]

New TVC appeals filed
By the Oct. 15 deadline, there were six appeals filed of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission’s recent approval of a major real estate development project proposed at the former CBS TV studio at Beverly Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue. “The process has been opaque and poorly managed. The project is out of scale and out […]

ELECTION Candidates, 19 propositions are on ballot
For local readers, the most interesting and contentious runoff election races probably are two — the U.S. Congress 30th District seat long held by U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (now running for U.S. Senate) and the Los Angeles County District Attorney race, where Nathan Hochman is challenging incumbent George Gascón. Some Larchmont Chronicle readers also get […]