What Jim McDonnell's selection as LAPD chief means for the department
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Friday announced Jim McDonnell as the city’s next police chief, ending a months long search after Michel Moore said he was stepping down from the department’s top job. "Chief McDonnell is a leader, an innovator, and a change maker, and that's what we need in L.A.," Bass said at a news conference. "I'm appointing Chief McDonnell because he and I have aligned in our desire to change the direction of Los Angeles by preventing crime in the first place. Responding urgently when crime takes place and to hold people accountable and bring down crime." McDonnell was with the LAPD for 28 years and was later elected Los Angeles County sheriff before losing his bid for a second term. He also served as police chief for Long Beach and most recently served as the director of the USC Price School’s Safe Communities Institute. McDonnell will now have to make sure the department of nearly 9,000 officers is ready for the 2026 World Cup and the 2028 Olympics. Today on AirTalk, we speak with LAist Civics and Democracy Correspondent Frank Stoltze and Zev Yaroslavsky, director of the Los Angeles Initiative at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, and former member of the L.A. County Board of Supervisors and L.A. City Council
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As Amazon calls its employees back to the office we look at the state of hybrid work
Last week, Amazon’s CEO announced that all 350,000 of the company’s corporate employees will be mandated to return to the office five days a week beginning in January. Immediately worker’s made their dissatisfaction known while many executives and managers are pushing for a return to pre-pandemic norms. There is some evidence to suggest that in-person models produce better work. Another study amongst Microsoft employees found that remote work negatively impacted the creativity and culture of a workplace. But as researchers have pointed out, every job is different and in-person models might be more useful for some workplaces than clothes. So how do employers and workers find a happy medium that can satisfy both sides? We want to hear from you. Have you been asked to return to the office? How has that impacted your work and your life in general? Call us at 866-893-5722 or email us at atcomments@laist.com.
Joining us on AirTalk to discuss the state of hybrid work is Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes contributor writing about workplace culture and CEO and founder of Reflection Point, an organization that works to improve workplace culture and Raj Choudhury, associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business School.
Food Friday: The first-ever Manhattan Beach Food & Wine Festival
We’re heading to the coast where delicious food will be served and drinks poured, all within picturesque Manhattan Beach. The inaugural Manhattan Beach Food & Wine festival kicks off Friday, Oct. 11 through Saturday, Oct. 12. Acclaimed chefs will serve up tastings, and the event will include more than 20 wineries and more than 20 distilleries and breweries. Bret Thompson, chef and owner of Pez Coastal Kitchen in Pasadena and Pez Cantina in DTLA, is one of four chefs partnering with La Brea Bakery for the events. He joins Austin Cross in the studio to discuss and offer a literal taste of what people can expect.
FilmWeek: ‘Joker: Folie a Deux,’ ‘The Outrun,’ ‘Blink,’ and more
Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Lael Loewenstein and Claudia Puig review this weekend’s new movie releases on streaming and on demand platforms.
Joker: Folie a Deux Wide Release
The Outrun In Select Theaters
Blink In Select Theaters
Stripped For Parts: American Journalism On The Brink Laemmle Royal [West LA]
Daytime Revolution In Select Theaters One Night Only on October 9th [Wednesday]
The Problem with People Laemmle Royal [Sawtelle]
White Bird In Select Theaters
Feature: Daniel Day-Lewis returns to the big screen, we discuss his contributions to acting
Daniel Day-Lewis is coming out of retirement, seven years after his last movie, for a film directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis. The project was announced Tuesday by Focus Features and Plan B, who are partnering on “Anemone.” The film, Ronan Day-Lewis’ directorial debut, will star his father along with Sean Bean and Samantha Morton. The two Day-Lewises co-wrote the film. Earlier Tuesday, Daniel Day-Lewis and Bean were spotted driving a motorbike through Manchester, England, stoking intrigue about his impending return to acting. After making Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2017 film “Phantom Thread,” the 67-year-old said he was quitting acting. Given Day-Lewis’s decades-long filmography, and 3 Academy Awards to his name, we thought it’d be good to look back at his legacy to help contextualize how significant his contributions have been.
With files from the Associated Press
