David Wharton
@dwharton.bsky.social
Former @latimes.com journalist. Borderline obsessive fencer.
If you've ever been curious about the Olympic sport of #fencing -- and you live in #losangeles - check out our adult group class on Tuesday nights. It's all about learning and getting some exercise in a casual, friendly environment. #physicalfitnesstraining #swordfighting #engarde
@mdmusiclog.bsky.social posted a write-up of the Americana show at Maui Sugar Mill Saloon the other night. Nice words about Jed's Dead. Many thanks. michaelsmusiclog.blogspot.com/2026/03/lois...
Lois Blaisch & Friends, The Sallys, and Jed's Dead at Maui Sugar Mill Saloon, 3-25-26
Lois Blaisch We all know Tiffany from those Sci-Fi channel movies (and, yes, I know they switched it to Syfy, but that's just stupid) like M...
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In West Hills CA, a hateful, violent protest … with crossing guards. #NoKings
@latimes.com "Pets for Profit," a look at the big-money pet industry, has earned 1st-place at National Press Club awards. Congrats to colleagues @melodygutierrez.bsky.social & Alene Tchekmedyian -- we put much work & passion into this. @pressclubdc.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...
Pets for profit: An in-depth investigation
A deep look into exploitation within the nation's multibillion-dollar pet industry, from the unregulated pipeline of puppies and other animals imported to California, to lax oversight that enables abu...
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Honored that our "Pets for Profit" series in the @latimes.com was a finalist for the @ire.org FOI Award. Congrats to my colleagues and to @jacl.bsky.social, who launched and oversaw much of the work. See the stories here: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Pets for profit: An in-depth investigation
A deep look into exploitation within the nation's multibillion-dollar pet industry, from the unregulated pipeline of puppies and other animals imported to California, to lax oversight that enables abu...
latimes.com
Seeing more and more social media posts (on various platforms) about bringing the Canadian boycott south of the border, ie: Americans buying only Canadian whiskey and shifting their vacation plans northward.
#Tesla owner driving past #TeslaTakedown protest at Westfield Topanga in Woodland Hills CA pulled over, opened his hatch & handed out these posters. Very cool.
Old F-18 fighter pilot here with 80+ combat missions - launch times on a strike mission ARE ABSOLUTELY CLASSIFIED.
VIDEO They are literally searching for a clump of ashes — a favorite aunt’s burned-up urn — in a sea of ashes. My final appearance on “LA Times Today” reveals how archeologists find cremated remains in wildfire burn areas spectrumnews1.com/ca/southern-...
How archeologists find cremated remains in burn areas
"LA Times Today" investigates
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Los Angeles trees are absorbing more carbon dioxide than researchers expected, per a new study out of USC: www.latimes.com/california/n... via @ryan-fonseca.bsky.social
‘L.A. trees are kicking ass.' Urban plants capture more CO2 than expected, study finds
A researcher tracking CO2 emissions across a swath of the city says trees are ‘uncanny’ air cleaners.
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“Anything to feel weightless again.” Great Handsome Family show.
Waiting on the Handsome Family at Barnsdahl Gallery Theater
LA fires: “If we don’t do something different, we’re going to re-create what just happened,” @ucanr.bsky.social wildfire specialist Max Moritz tells @dwharton.bsky.social. “Homes may still have to be greater than some minimum distance apart. It could be 10 feet or 15 feet. No one knows.”
David Wharton@dwharton.bsky.social · last yr.Fire-ravaged neighborhoods in Altadena & Pacific Palisades are basically rebuilding from scratch. It's an awful situation but fire science experts say they have a chance to come back safer & stronger. Check out this graphic explanation. @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/s...
Fire-ravaged neighborhoods in Altadena & Pacific Palisades are basically rebuilding from scratch. It's an awful situation but fire science experts say they have a chance to come back safer & stronger. Check out this graphic explanation. @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/s...
Can fire-gutted suburbs rebuild safer? Here's what the experts say
Though no community can be made fireproof, discarding past urban design practices could make areas abutting wilderness safer from the kind of wildfire that hit Altadena and Pacific Palisades.
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It was 1982 when I first walked into the @latimes.com, never imagining this job would take me around the world to write about a cemetery in Russia & boxers in Lesotho, murder in Tahiti & war in Iraq, plus 20 years of Olympics. Goodbye & thanks to all who made this place feel like home.
VIDEO: Like searching for a needle in a haystack. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA_D...
Finding the cremated remains of loved ones in homes destroyed by wildfire
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VIDEO: Can you really find a clump of ash in a sea of ashes? After wildfire destroys Aunt Cecilia's urn in an Altadena home, these archaeologists -- and their talented dog -- launch an amazing search. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Lost in a sea of ash: When wildfire destroys a home — and a loved one's urn — the search begins
A husband-wife archeology firm in Santa Rosa has developed a process to find cremains, the kind kept in an urn, among ashes of burned houses.
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Is this great or what? Who needs an all-star game? Gimme 4Nations
VIDEO CHALLENGE: Everyone thinks they're good drivers, but are they? Here are 5 traffic laws that people might not know. www.latimes.com/00000194-423...
Think you’re a good driver? Take this test
Some traffic laws are obvious. Others can be tricky.
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VIDEO: Think you're a good driver? Let's see if you know these 5 traffic laws. www.latimes.com/00000194-423...
Think you’re a good driver? Take this test
Some traffic laws are obvious. Others can be tricky.
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Cowboy night at LAKings and Nick Nickson says he’s more of a swing guy. Asleep at the Wheel, he says. Ok, I see you.
The people of #LosAngeles are telling us about what they lost in the #wildfires -- a favorite quilt, a family piano, their local library -- and what those things meant to them. Add your story to the chorus ... www.latimes.com/california/s...
What we lost in the fires
Times' readers share what they lost in the Eaton and Palisades fires
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President Trump seems determined to trash conservation and clean energy on public lands. But I wanted an example of how they can work together in harmony. So I hiked at Chuckwalla National Monument, designated last month by President Biden. My @latimes.com column: www.latimes.com/environment/...
Column: Forget Trump's wrecking ball. Here's how to treat America's public lands
Chuckwalla National Monument is a great example of how to balance renewable energy and conservation.
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Finally getting off 101 after an hour trapped behind crowds who streamed onto the freeway to protest Trump immigration policies.
The Times spoke to team behind "The Stringer" and an attorney for former AP photographer Nick Ut about the film's claims that Ut did not take the photo known as "Napalm Girl" during the Vietnam War.
Inside a new documentary's provocative allegations about a famed Vietnam War photo
The Times spoke to team behind "The Stringer" and an attorney for former AP photographer Nick Ut about the film's claims that Ut did not take the photo known as "Napalm Girl."
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NEW: In a generation, Silicon Valley has gone from a collection of indifferent, politically naive entrepreneurs to king-making lords of the political universe. It would be inspiring -- if their outsized influence and blatant pandering weren't so dingy and gross. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
Column: The rise of Silicon Valley, from indifference to lords of the political universe
The assembly of billionaires at Trump's inauguration was a display of wealth and power unlike any before. The display was all the more remarkable given how recently many in tech were politically naive...
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