It’s Thanksgiving morning. The temperature is in the low 50s. There’s a few rain drops. Lake Balboa Birmingham football players are walking onto their field for practice. Sophomore Arlis Boardingham, who is 6 feet 4 and 205 pounds, arrives wearing a wool mask that covers his entire face except for his eyes. He’s also wearing […]
L.A.’s elected leaders are on the brink of passing a law that would deprive them of one of their biggest sources of political money — real estate companies with projects pending at City Hall. Under the proposal, those companies and their executives would be prohibited from giving directly to the election campaigns of city candidates. […]
Marine Corps says there’s no indication the case is related to earlier high-profile allegations of smuggling by Pendleton Marines. SAN DIEGO — A junior enlisted Marine was arrested early Monday on suspicion of bringing unauthorized immigrants into the U.S. through the San Ysidro Port of Entry, the Marine Corps said in a statement. The unnamed Marine […]
Click:electronic distributors A storm system will produce moderate to heavy rain in the Southern California region through midday Wednesday, the National Weather Service said. There is a chance of thunderstorms, and the heaviest rain is likely to fall between 4 a.m. and 2 p.m. A flash flood watch is in effect for Orange County and […]
Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Wednesday, Dec. 4, and I’m writing from Los Angeles. Newsletter Get our Essential California newsletter Kamala Harris was all smiles and campaign talking points (middle-class tax cuts, affordable childcare, good teacher salaries) as she chopped vegetables and stirred the turkey stock ahead of Thanksgiving dinner […]
In 1923, prominent Los Angeles music booster Artie Mason Carter, known as the “mother of the Hollywood Bowl,” made a grand declaration on the city’s future: “It is impossible to sing and frown, and there is no better way of molding this city, with its continuous influx of strangers, into one solid mass of fine […]
When it comes to legends, it’s hard to think of two actors more deserving of the title than Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce — both have been knighted for their contributions to the arts, both have long and storied resumes on stage, film and television. So when Fernando Meirelles began to consider who might be […]
The premise is simple: Suppose there were a single Academy Awards ceremony that included all the top movies and performances of all time? Would “Casablanca” beat “The Wizard of Oz”? How would you pick between Ingrid Bergman and Cher? Who would win lead actor, director? Whom would you choose as host? And if, in this […]
In her first show in L.A., Paris-based Tatiana Trouvé stages architectural interventions in both large galleries at Gagosian. One leans dystopian, the other utopian. Both are ambitiously staged, immersive environments that insinuate themselves into the psychic realm via the physical, dramatically redefining the spaces our bodies move through. Both rely on high production values and […]
Travelers visiting Denver this holiday season won’t find any pine or fir needles on the city’s signature Mile High tree. Instead, they’ll find LED lights — 60,000, to be specific — on a 110-foot-tall sculptured tree at one of the entrances to the Denver Performing Arts Complex. “We have never actually done anything like this […]