The best Torched stories, worst year edition
LA always feels empty this time of year. But at the end of 2025, the city feels not just deserted, but deflated.
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What if the world doesn't come?
If millions of international visitors do, in fact, come to LA, it will be at their own peril
Torched Talks with LA Commons' Karen Mack
What's planned for arts and culture in 2028? Join us at Friday, May 23 at noon on Zoom
Dying to host the Olympics
During this week's budget hearings, councilmembers repeatedly asked if improvements around Olympics venues were taking precedence over obligations to their constituents to deliver safer streets
Heading into year two
LA got burned. By the fires, yes. But also by a self-induced fiscal catastrophe
The transit-first (no, really) games
In the end, LA28 put the events where the public transportation will already be
Bump, set, spike
Santa Monica mounted a sustained, publicly transparent campaign to challenge what LA28 was offering. And, in the end, that's probably what sent the organizing committee packing for other shores
Torched turns 1: A week of talks and toasts April 21-25
In a time of great uncertainty, Torched will always be about people coming together for LA
Significant headwinds
On Friday we saw the first serious challenge of LA28's venue plan, which had gone largely uncontested by LA city leaders. And we saw an LA city councilmember openly accuse LA28 of making backroom deals to create that venue plan
"We're here every Saturday"
Since February, protesters have been gathering weekly along the Americana's idealized main street as part of the worldwide #TeslaTaketown rallies
LA28 wants to become a civic organization now
Just one question: why didn't LA28 think of itself as a civic organization before?