Gary Dauphin

Butler remains an essential literary presence even in her absence, her work not simply growing in esteem but taking on new coloring and resonance with each passing year.

The latest installment of Urban Letters, a public art project by the knit graffiti collaborative Yarn Bombing Los Angeles, takes the form of "#BLACK LIVES MATTER."

The Discostan collective, hosted at Footsie's Bar in Los Angeles, is a celebration of musical traditions and cross-cultural sounds from Beirut to Bangkok via Bombay.

Please keep an eye on KCET's Twitter and Facebook accounts for updates about our coverage of Hurricane Irene. Depending on the situation on the East Coast, we may be breaking into our regularly scheduled programming to carry live updates from our news ...

It's long been a general L.A. media axiom that The Los Angeles Times' best days were behind it, but, as Edward James Olmos tells Harrison Ford at the end of Blade Runner: "It's too bad she won't live... But then again, who does?"

The July primetime and general schedule .pdfs are now available.

UPDATE - THE STREAM HAS ENDED. But we'd still love to hear your thoughts on Prop. 8 in comments. Also, as new streams become available, we will update this page.

The hipsters of our gentrification fantasies are always white. We rarely imagine the possibility of colored, middle-class hipsters carrying both universal dreams of cheap rents and their own peculiar set of ambivalences on slouched shoulders.

A review by Cinema Series host Pete Hammond. Get the critical verdict.

After several days of rain, the sun finally broke out today, but the air has the distinct tang of fall. We went to the KCET.org Southern California Flickr Pool for images of Los Angeles in rain. If you have any you'd like to share, please add them to t...