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Benjamin Svetkey

Reporter · US

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Sep 11, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Benjamin Svetkey

    ‘Star Trek’ at 60: ‘Strange New Worlds’ Co-Creator Akiva Goldsman on Why It Keeps Boldly Going (opens the original)

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    Time is relative, especially for Akiva Goldsman. One minute he’s a kid playing with toy phasers and zipping around the galaxy on an imaginary starship. The next he’s a grown-up Hollywood producer who’s — still playing with toy phasers and zipping around the galaxy on an imaginary starship. As Star Trek passes its 60th anniversary, Goldsman, 64, is nearing the end of his own five-year mission as co-creator of Strange New Worlds, the Paramount+ prequel that focuses on the adventures of Captain Chr

  2. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Benjamin Svetkey

    Los Angeles Showed Its True Colors After Sept. 11 (opens the original)

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    One morning in October 2001 — about a month after Sept. 11 — Los Angeles woke up with a new landmark. Towering over the intersection at Wilshire and Westwood, covering the entire side of a 12-story building, was a 60-foot-tall, fully glammed-up soldier in combat fatigues cradling an M-16. She looked like a Victoria’s Secret model who’d wandered into Fallujah — beautiful, scary and ridiculous — but at the time she somehow made perfect sense. Twenty-five years on, it’s hard to remember just how te

  3. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Benjamin Svetkey and Julian Sancton Editors

    Your Favorite Hollywood Hotspot? Guess Who Owns It. (opens the original)

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    What do Annabel’s, Sexy Fish, Delilah and the Bird Streets Club have in common — besides serving as Leonardo DiCaprio’s natural habitat? They’re all now controlled by investment interests tied to Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Abu Dhabi royal who has been snapping up trophy properties across L.A. — and whose acquisition spree recently sparked rumors up and down the strip that the Sunset Tower Hotel and Jeff Klein’s San Vicente clubs might be next. The buying began here in September, whe

  4. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Benjamin Svetkey and Julian Sancton Editors

    Does This Erewhon Smoothie Make Me Look Fat? (opens the original)

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    The most notable thing about the new Erewhon market that recently opened in Thousand Oaks isn’t that it finally lets Ventura residents buy a $21 smoothie without crossing county lines. It’s that it’s the 16th Erewhon. Add two more stores planned for 2027 — in downtown L.A. and Costa Mesa — plus another reportedly in the works at a still-undisclosed location, and you’re at 19. That’s perilously close to 20, a number that could put a chill in Los Angeles’ long, steamy love affair with the uber-bou

  5. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Benjamin Svetkey and Julian Sancton Editors

    You’ll Never Guess Adam Scott’s Favorite Indiana Jones Movie (opens the original)

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    Matthew Broderick picked Dog Day Afternoon, Sarah Jessica Parker went with The Way We Were. And Adam Scott? For some cockamamie reason, he chose Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Yes, the one with the chilled monkey brains. If Dave Karger’s new book, 50 Movie Nights, proves anything, it’s that Hollywood stars can be just as head-scratchingly inexplicable in their favorite movie choices as the rest of us. “It’s the movie that speaks to you, that you feel a connection to, not necessarily the b

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