There’s always been a black hole in the center of the California sunlight, and the Santa Ana winds blow through ... of essays “Slouching Toward Bethlehem” without at least one eye on the ...

As the L.A. fires rage, we’re reminded of movies, books and songs that speak to the city’s love-hate relationship with the forces that shape it.

"Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse," Joan Didion, a native California writer, said in her 1968 ...

a native California writer, said in her 1968 book of essays, Slouching Toward Bethlehem. "(T)he violence and the unpredictability of the Santa Ana affect the entire quality of life in Los Angeles ...