Новости за 29.03.2016

Daisy Ridley's character Rey was an integral part of J.J. Abrams' "Star Wars" new class. But how did the director know that this relatively unknown actress could help lead the charge in the galaxy far, far away? Her audition tape certainly helped. Watch Ridley's strong audition clip for the role...

Say what you will about "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" (and people have said plenty), at 2 hours and a 33 minutes — packing in three of the comic-book realm's biggest icons, a psychotic supervillain, a giant alien monster and more plot threads than you can shake a kryptonite-tipped spear...

Patty Duke, former child star and Academy Award winner for her performance as Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker," has died at 69. 

It’s no secret that downtown’s Grand Central Market food hall is overflowing with great places to grab a bite (ie Egg Slut, Sticky Rice, Knead, Belcampo Meat Co. and Wexler's Deli, to name just a few). But now there are more than two dozen varieties of craft beer available throughout the market....

In the latest bizarre twist in an incendiary presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s campaign manager was charged with battery Tuesday after a reporter alleged that he forcibly grabbed her following a news conference in Florida this month.

Kehlani Parrish apparently attempted suicide Monday after rumors surfaced that the R&B singer had cheated on her ex-boyfriend, Cleveland Cavalier point-guard Kyrie Irving, with rapper, PartyNextDoor.

Just several years after its glitzy launch, StudentsFirst, the Sacramento-based education group started by former Washington, D.C., schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, is merging with another education advocacy organization, 50Can.

Cycling has suffered the death of yet another rider, the third in as many days.

Wentworth Miller, star of Fox's soon-to-be-revived "Prison Break" and current Captain Cold on the CW's "DC's Legends of Tomorrow," took to Facebook on Monday to strike back at a fat-shaming meme centered around his appearance and, in the process, became the latest celebrity to make an effort to...

Timothy Bradley has financial incentive to reject the comments Manny Pacquiao has issued about gay people, but Bradley gets most upset when he considers Pacquiao’s viewpoint through the lens of his life experiences.

The first family of music -- at least in TV land -- is back.

It's been 117 days since we last saw the Lyon family at the center of Fox's hit hip-hop family soap opera "Empire." The midseason finale in December saw Lucious (Terrance Howard) losing control of his company to son Hakeem (Bryshere Y....

After weeks of trying, the FBI says it's managed to get into the locked iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. made a casual revelation over the weekend, tweeting that he intends to have his brain donated for concussion research after his death.

Name of restaurant: Ombu Grill is a sleek, modern grill-your-own restaurant named after the ombu "tree," a large shrub that is native to Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. It has been open for six months, almost hidden behind a Korean dessert shop off Western Avenue.

The first generation of arena-EDM is losing one of its top touring acts.

Whew! It looked like it might have been the end of Paul Pierce’s career for a few frightening moments Monday night at Staples Center before the veteran forward walked off the court under his own power and the Clippers finished off the Boston Celtics for a 114-90 victory. Here are five takeaways...

Miesha Tate said weeks ago that she sympathized with Ronda Rousey, who has admitted to having had suicidal thoughts after losing a match and her UFC bantamweight title to Holly Holm in November.

Advice on how to attract and manage millennial employees has become a fixture of business journalism and corporate reports. Thanks to extensive research, we know that millennials may come to the workplace with “a sense of entitlement, a tendency to overshare on social media, and frankness verging...

A legal battle weighing privacy rights against the government's need to investigate terrorism came to an end Monday when the FBI said it found a way to gain access to Syed Rizwan Farook's iPhone 5c.

In the 1989 film “Field of Dreams,” Kevin Costner’s character famously heard -- “If you build it, they will come” -- and created a baseball diamond for ghosts to play ball.  

BB-8 sure knows how to draw a crowd.

The character from the 2015 film "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" on Monday evening made a surprise appearance at the Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport.

It was all in honor of the inaugural flight of ANA's (All Nippon Airways')...

Good morning. It is Tuesday, March 29. Every day is a good hair day for this San Francisco baby. Here's what else is happening in the Golden State:

To the editor: As a native of Los Angeles with deep roots in Hollywood, I would propose that those who take their production dollars to Georgia (and New York for that matter) are complicit in bastardizing the very fabric of what made the “Hollywood product” desirable in the first place. (“Hollywood...

To the editor: Polling inaccuracies have long been with us. “Dewey Defeats Truman,” after all, was a headline from the 1948 presidential election. (“Why the polls get it wrong,” Opinion, March 27)

The first story my son read on his own was a work of fan fiction. I wrote it. In its entirety it read, “Hulk poops on Spider-Man.”My son giggled ecstatically. He was 3. Of course, as we grow older and wiser and more discriminating, we recognize that we're not supposed to laugh every time someone...