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6 days ago | 
yahoo.com | Leila Brady
Rob DelliBovi doesn't just know how the A-list travels. He’s the one orchestrating the show. DelliBovi started as a head of sales and marketing at hotels in New York City and noticed a recurring issue:High-profile guests — celebrities, athletes, politicians — would arrive unannounced, and unprepared hotels would scramble to meet their needs. So DelliBovi took matters into his own hands and started a travel company. RDB Hospitality has been booking itineraries for celebs since 2009.
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6 days ago | 
yahoo.com | Leila Brady
At this year’s Milken Institute Global Conference, Los Angeles Magazine publisher Christopher Jelinella sat down with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for a wide-ranging conversation that offered Angelenos an intimate look at their city’s leader.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Leila Brady
Los Angeles’s top homelessness official faced misconduct allegations involving crony hiring, destroyed records, and inappropriate behavior, according to two whistleblower claim letters obtained by LAist. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority quietly paid $800,000 to settle these allegations against LASHA's CEO Dr. Va Lecia Adams Kellum.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Leila Brady
The union representing Los Angeles City firefighters was placed in emergency conservatorship Monday after an audit uncovered what its umbrella organization called misuse of union funds by top leaders.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Leila Brady
On Tuesday, Mayor Bass announced that the LA Marathon will be moved to accommodate the Oscars, as the events were originally scheduled on the same day. The 2026 Los Angeles Marathon, originally slated for March 15, will now take place later in the month. The scheduling conflict emerged earlier this year when the McCourt Foundation and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences independently announced the same date for their events.
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1 week ago | 
lamag.com | Leila Brady
Established in 2019 by Uber co-founder Garrett Camp, Aero, a semi-private airline, emerged from a simple idea: Commercial air travel is exhausting and frustrating, but private jets are inefficient and expensive. The solution? Make flying feel luxurious again by delivering a private jet experience without the private jet price tag. “The idea was to create something that bridged this gap between purely private charters and the first-class airline experience,” says Ben Klein, Aero CEO.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Leila Brady
Established in 2019 by Uber co-founder Garrett Camp, Aero, a semi-private airline, emerged from a simple idea: Commercial air travel is exhausting and frustrating, but private jets are inefficient and expensive. The solution? Make flying feel luxurious again by delivering a private jet experience without the private jet price tag. “The idea was to create something that bridged this gap between purely private charters and the first-class airline experience,” says Ben Klein, Aero CEO.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Leila Brady
On a Sunday morning in January 2022, Freddy Escobar, the longtime president of the firefighters' union representing the Los Angeles Fire Department, clocked in for a 24-hour shift. The next night, he reported for a 14-hour overnight. Then he did it again the night after that. Escobar isn’t just any firefighter.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Leila Brady
Starting at 7 p.m. Monday, about 55,000 union workers across Los Angeles County will walk off the job in a two-day strike expected to disrupt a wide range of public services. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 721 said the strike stems from the county’s failure to fairly negotiate a new contract.
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3 weeks ago | 
lamag.com | Leila Brady
“It is genuinely unhinged to oversee a RAID on an organization’s headquarters and then APPLY TO WORK THERE,” L.A. Times reporter Keri Blakinger wrote on social media. Yet that’s exactly what former Sheriff of Los Angeles County Alex Villanueva allegedly did. Recently, he applied for a job with L.A. Metro, an agency his department once targeted in a controversial investigation.
