Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Friday, Jan. 17, and I’m writing from Los Angeles. There are hundreds if not thousands of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings held across Los Angeles every week, in church basements and community centers and restaurant backrooms. But few meeting venues are better known in L.A.’s sprawling recovery […]
A woman who described herself as the biological mother of 11-year-old Roman Lopez says she found out about her son’s death from an online article. Rochelle Lopez, who lives in Wisconsin, told Sacramento’s KOVR-TV Channel 13 that no one had contacted her about Roman, who was found dead Saturday in Placerville, Calif. She told KOVR […]
Click:Customised parent bobblehead SERIES America’s Most Musical Family Blanco Brown performs in the opener of the two-episode season finale. Then, the three finalists perform for judges Ciara, David Dobrik and Debbie Gibson, who will pick the winner. 8 p.m. Nickelodeon Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector While Lincoln and Amelia (Russell Hornsby, Arielle Kebbel) […]
On May 1, Halsey wore a shiny suit jacket to join BTS for a televised rendition of their euphoric disco-pop collaboration “Boy With Luv” at the Billboard Music Awards. Less than three weeks later, the singer was back on screens with a bloody nose in the video for her song “Nightmare,” in which she sings […]
Tyler Perry makes an inauspicious debut on streaming giant Netflix with the premiere of his “A Fall from Grace,” a convoluted legal/romantic thriller that, ironically, might be best enjoyed with a theaterful of moviegoers whose astounded reactions might be more entertaining than this off-the-rails potboiler. Perry, the film’s writer, director, executive producer and costar, reportedly […]
Elizabeth White grew up middle-class and well traveled. The daughter of a career Army officer, she attended public schools and went on to Oberlin College, after which she got a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. She found a job at the World Bank and bought her first home. […]
Portland’s Chinatown is not the bustling Chinatown of San Francisco. But between 1870 and 1900, it was the second-largest in the country. Today the neighborhood, in Portland’s Old Town district, is an eclectic mix of Asian and Western influences. You can zen out in Lan Su Chinese Garden, a haven — including pavilions, a koi-filled […]
If you didn’t know hair pat-downs were a thing with TSA screenings, you should now. Native American activist Tara Houska underwent a hair search at the airport Monday during which the agent pulled her braids behind her shoulders and said “giddyup.” The TSA has since apologized to Houska, who shared what happened to her at […]
Joshua Tree National Park, already gaining popularity faster than any other California national park, set an attendance record in 2019, an early tally shows. Preliminary park statistics shows Joshua Tree logged almost 3 million recreational visitors for the year — and that was a year that included vandalism, trash and toilet troubles during a partial […]
If you sometimes feel as though the world is conspiring against you and your flight plans, wonder no more. It is — but for different reasons, although all fall under the banner of the “state of the world.” First is the cost of a ticket. Second is the cost to the environment. Here are the […]