Safi Nazzal

Jan 11, 2025 | latimes.com | Safi Nazzal

How to combat misinformation while doomscrollingDebunking myths during a natural disaster is difficult, but not impossibleDuring a natural disaster misinformation can run rampant, hindering emergency response information, urgent relief efforts, and increasing community distress. Navigating the seemingly endless flow of fire footage and official statements can be difficult. Here are some useful tips from Times’ reporter Karen Garcia on how to avoid being deceived by misinformation online.

Jan 10, 2025 | latimes.com | Safi Nazzal

Designed by engineers Richard Corsi and Jim Rosenthal during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Corsi-Rosenthal box can be built for about a quarter of the cost of some commercial air purifiers, and can help keep your indoor spaces safe from particulate pollution. L.A. Times 404’s Judeh and Frogwolf show you how to build this homemade system in a video originally published July 2023.

Jan 8, 2025 | latimes.com | Safi Nazzal

How to support fire victims and firefighters While firefighters continue battling the three major wildfires unleashed on Los Angeles County during intense wind gusts and progressively drier conditions, aid groups are mobilizing to aid tens of thousands of evacuees and displaced people. The Times’ Karen Garcia has compiled a list of national, state, and local organizations you can support as needs evolve during the developing disaster.

Dec 26, 2024 | latimes.com | Safi Nazzal

Here’s how organists accompany silent films at this historic L.A. theater Old Town Music Hall, home to the Mighty Wurlitzer theater pipe organ, has presented countless silent films and cartoons to its modern audiences, and usually without reading sheet music. For over half a century, Old Town Music Hall has performed live musical accompaniments to silent films, cartoons, and sing-alongs, while housing their behemoth mainstay, the Mighty Wurlitzer theater pipe organ.

Dec 20, 2024 | latimes.com | Safi Nazzal

Standing between untouched Verdugo Mountain habitat and 221 luxury homes is a bumblebee. Crotch’s bumble bee. Broadly speaking, you could also say it’s No Canyon Hills, the coalition of botanists, artists and citizen scientists, that discovered the protected species in the 300 acres of open space slated to become a gated community. They’ve subsequently been sued by the developer’s attorneys for trespassing and setting up wildlife cameras, having caused “irreparable harm” to the company.