Новости за 24.02.2017

Bold, colorful stripes are sartorial perennials, and this season, they’re everywhere, from dresses, tops and capes to chokers, hoop earrings and bags.

President Trump has dominated the news for months — a mixed blessing for him, albeit a spotlight he craves — but this week his opponents seized much of the attention.

As of 10 a.m. Friday morning, 7,929 tickets had been sold for tonight’s Southern Section Open Division basketball semifinals at USC’s Galen Center.

Essential Politics: California Republicans gather for their state convention in Sacramento Feb. 24, 2017, 10:43 a.m. This is Essential Politics, our daily look at California political and government news. Here's what we're watching right now: The California Republican Party will host its convention...

At conservative gathering, Trump tries to define a new GOP Feb. 24, 2017, 10:42 a.m. A look at President Trump's administration and the rest of Washington: At CPAC, president calls for Republican unity Trump says deportations are coming "at a rate that nobody's ever seen before" Treasury secretary...

Essential Education: Financial aid applications are due in less than a week Feb. 24, 2017, 10:38 a.m. Welcome to Essential Education, our daily look at education in California and beyond. Here's the latest: L.A. Unified is holding financial aid workshops through Saturday. The deadline for applying...

Step into "Michelle Fierro: New Paintings" and it's clear that the L.A. artist is a first-rate noodler. Each of her 17 paintings at c.nichols project in Mar Vista comes off as casual, comfortable in its own skin and blissfully unburdened by the idea that art's job is to keep up appearances. The...

At conservative gathering, Trump tries to define a new GOP Feb. 24, 2017, 10:42 a.m. A look at President Trump's administration and the rest of Washington: At CPAC, president calls for Republican unity Trump says deportations are coming "at a rate that nobody's ever seen before" Treasury secretary...

Today in Entertainment: 'The Get Down' to return to Netflix; Rihanna named Harvard Humanitarian of the Year Feb. 24, 2017, 10:25 a.m. With the Oscars around the corner and much of Hollywood still focused on the twists and turns of the presidency of Donald Trump, here's what's new and interesting...

It looks like there might be an unwelcome guest at Hollywood's biggest night Sunday: Mother Nature.

Throughout the fall campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump and his allies loved the USC/L.A. Times "Daybreak" poll -- the only major survey that consistently showed him winning.

If "Charles Garabedian and His Contemporaries" were a movie, it would have an amazing cast, a killer script and a director who knew how to get the best out of his team. At L.A. Louver, the five-room, 18-artist exhibition pays homage to Garabedian, who died last year at 93 after a 60-year career...

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) had the most coruscating mind and enigmatic character of any writer in English. Sturdily built, with bright blue eyes, bristling brows and double chin, he was an energetic walker and long-distance rider. He loved congenial dinners, French wine, lively conversation and...

Starting any sort of business can be an intimidating prospect. To be in the mercurial fashion trade? Even more so, which might explain why a number of successful Los Angeles-area fashion labels and businesses are run by family members, who conjoin their tastes, share the risk and divvy up the work...

When you hit Irenia at the right time in the afternoon, maybe late on a Saturday when the lunch rush has faded away, you may run into a couple of old guys who look as if they’ve never left their table in the bar, nursing bottles of San Miguel and idly crunching their way through a bowl of dilis,...

If he wins the Oscar for adapted screenplay for “Fences,” the late playwright August Wilson will join an impressive group of posthumous winners and nominees.

At conservative gathering, Trump tries to define a new GOP Feb. 24, 2017, 10:42 a.m. A look at President Trump's administration and the rest of Washington: At CPAC, president calls for Republican unity Trump says deportations are coming "at a rate that nobody's ever seen before" Treasury secretary...

In the wake of the Trump administration's decision to roll back protections that allow transgender students to use bathrooms based on their gender identity, artists across the continuum have taken to social media and the airwaves.  At the top of the list? Beyoncé, who posted on her Facebook page...

Today in Entertainment: 'The Get Down' to return to Netflix; Rihanna named Harvard Humanitarian of the Year Feb. 24, 2017, 10:25 a.m. With the Oscars around the corner and much of Hollywood still focused on the twists and turns of the presidency of Donald Trump, here's what's new and interesting...

A lot has happened in the world since Ron Nagle's last solo show in Los Angeles, which was in 2005. A lot more has happened in his work, which is still intimate, whimsical and sensual, yet now asks big existential questions without suggesting that the answers might be simple, direct or logical....

Former USC football player Gerald Washington’s unlikely path to a heavyweight championship fight has been cleared. Now, he just needs to find openings to land punches on champion Deontay Wilder.

Essential Education: Trump rescinds Obama's guidance on transgender students Feb. 24, 2017, 4:13 a.m. Welcome to Essential Education, our daily look at education in California and beyond. Here's the latest: Applications for college financial aid through the California Dream Act are much lower than...

Turkey's news agency said Friday that a car bombing killed 60 people near a town just captured from Islamic State militants by Turkish forces and Syrian opposition fighters.

The idea of a polarized country watching the Oscars is not new‎. For nearly half a century, there have been regular occurrences of the show dropping into the middle of serious national strife.

In her 35 years as a therapist, Arlene Drake has never heard so many clients talking about the same issue. Week after week, they complain of panic attacks and insomnia because of President Trump. They’re too anxious to concentrate at work. One woman’s fear turned into intense, physical pain.