Good morning. It’s Saturday, and this is your one-minute, weekly roundup of L.A. Material’s best work.
1. Who will rule Los Angeles County?
In 2028, voters will anoint L.A. County’s first elected CEO: a newly created, extraordinarily powerful position that some are already referring to as the monarch of L.A. County. The far-off race has, accordingly, already been the source of much intrigue. We broke down the field of potential players who might make a run at the office.
2. An empty WeHo condo is going viral for housing wild coyotes.
It’s a story practically engineered for TV news: A pack of coyotes has taken over an abandoned, half-built West Hollywood condo, and their howls are reverberating through the neighborhood day and night. Except, the most outrageous part of the entire saga might not have anything to do with the coyotes, but instead the series of failures that created the luxe dog house in the first place.
3. For decades, Nikki Finke was Hollywood’s most-feared journalist.
The entertainment reporter’s bruising commentary made her one of the most-read — and in some quarters, most-despised — journalists in town. When she died in 2022, she left behind an unpublished book that features her telling of Hollywood history. This week, we exclusively revealed that her estate is shopping the manuscript.
MORE MATERIAL
TWENTY YEARS AGO, the Silversun Pickups released their wildly successful music video for the song “Lazy Eye.” We spoke with members of the band about their era-defining indie-rock classic and a bygone age of Silver Lake.
IN THE LATEST installment of our “Receipts” series, Little Fish Melrose Hill opened its books to show the math behind running the buzzy restaurant.
A FAIR AMOUNT of panic is brewing online about the coming “Super El Niño” weather pattern. We dug into what it actually means for you.
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SHOOTER JENNINGS created a neat video game that lets you wander 1930s L.A., get into shootouts with other players, and replenish health points at Musso & Frank.
CHECK OUT these 10 minutes of raw home-video footage of the Sunset Junction Street Fair in 1991, 1992 and 2002.
LAIST ROUNDED up the best ice cream in Southern California.
