Month: December 2019

Howdy, I’m your host, Houston Mitchell. Let’s get right to the news. ANGELS So do you bat them Mike Trout–Anthony Rendon–Shohei Ohtani, or Rendon-Trout-Ohtani, or some other combination? That’s a good problem that Angels manager Joe Maddon will have next season, as the Angels agreed to a seven-year, $245-million deal with Rendon on Wednesday night […]

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When Magic forward Jonathan Isaac fouled Dwight Howard, a crowd of Isaac’s teammates were around him. Some scuffling ensued and suddenly Howard was surrounded. Enter Jared Dudley. “Dwight gets fouled a lot but Dwight fouls a lot, so it goes both ways, sometimes it’s going to be chippy,” Dudley said. “Sometimes they jack him up […]

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Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Thursday, Dec. 12, and I’m writing from Los Angeles. Newsletter Get our Essential California newsletter On a September afternoon nine years ago, a man named Manuel Jaminez Xum was fatally shot by LAPD officers not far from MacArthur Park in the Westlake neighborhood of Los […]

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CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand —  When a big earthquake strikes, the public’s attention immediately goes to the physically injured, the dead, or to collapsed buildings. But something else also starts: the toll on mental health. Traumatic stress rises in the aftermath of a disaster, researchers say. One study examining survivors of 10 disasters found that one-third of […]

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When the composer and conductor Oliver Knussen, a gentle and towering giant of British music, suddenly died of a massive heart attack at 66 last year, he was beloved. A year and a half later, he is already taking on the stature of a legend. The takeaway from the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s tribute to Knussen […]

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The filmmaking twins Jen and Sylvia Soska made one of the most vibrant and ferocious horror movies of recent years with 2012’s “American Mary,” a gory exploration into extreme body-modification. The Soskas’ projects since have been more generic; but they’re back on their game with “Rabid,” an uneven but often energizing remake of David Cronenberg’s […]

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If “Breathless” star Jean Seberg hadn’t existed, a hard-boiled novelist would have had to invent her — a glittering Hollywood/New Wave icon of modern style and civil rights outspokenness who survived a gantlet of male impresarios only to be laid low by FBI smear tactics harsher than any showbiz gossip monger’s. And in Benedict Andrews’ […]

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