SAN DIEGO — San Diego officials say they hope to get a windfall of up to $40 million sometime this year from a lawsuit that challenges how the county divides up property tax collected by the city’s former redevelopment agency. The Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento is expected to rule this year in the […]
In response to likely dramatic increases in state-mandated residential planning, Newport Beach has drawn up a plan that both resists and cooperates with the state. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey City leadership has indicated an interest in appealing the methodology used by the Southern California Assn. of Governments to tentatively require Newport to plan for […]
With public and political pressure mounting to get homeless people off the streets of California, a task force appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom is recommending that local governments face tough new legal sanctions for failing to make progress. In a report released Monday, the Council of Regional Homeless Advisors is calling for an amendment to […]
Aviation crews with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department made two rescues last week in the Mt. Baldy area for hikers unprepared for the elements. At 2:30 p.m. Friday, two L.A. residents in their late 20s were hiking the Devil’s Backbone trail, east of the Mt. Baldy summit, in extremely icy conditions, according to the […]
As a friend wisely reminded me earlier this awards season: Never assume that just because someone or something didn’t win an award, earn a nomination or land on a year-end list, the person or organization didn’t see the work in question. Having been on the receiving end of such assumptions myself — why yes, indignant […]
After months of uncertainty, this year’s wide-open awards season appeared to come into focus Monday morning with the nominations for the 92nd Academy Awards, with the dark comic-book smash “Joker” leading the field with 11 nominations followed closely by the World War I drama “1917,” Martin Scorsese’s gangster epic “The Irishman” and Quentin Tarantino’s 1960s […]
What is the point of Netflix if the year that it receives more Oscar nominations than any other studio is the year that we return to the status quo of no female directing nominees and exactly one person of color nominated in the acting categories? Seriously, is this the brave new world of streaming? Where […]
Cynthia Erivo reacts to her double Oscar nominations and being the sole nominee of color in the four acting categories. British actress Cynthia Erivo received her first two Oscar nominations on Monday morning for her performance as the iconic freedom fighter and abolitionist Harriet Tubman in Kasi Lemmons’ “Harriet” and for co-writing that film’s anthemic […]
SERIES NCIS The team investigates the crash of an F-18 fighter jet and the disappearance of its pilot in this new episode of the procedural drama. Mark Harmon, David McCallum and Wilmer Valderrama star. 8 p.m. CBS Crisis on Infinite Earths The massive superhero crossover event concludes with new episodes of “Arrow” and “DC’s Legends […]
Around 2:30 Sunday afternoon, Zubin Mehta had likely just finished conducting Siegfried’s heroic “Funeral Music” as part of his Los Angeles Philharmonic Wagner program at Walt Disney Concert Hall. At that same time, several miles down the 710 Freeway, comic book aficionados were no doubt celebrating superheroes galore at Long Beach Comic Expo in the […]