Новости за 12.10.2017

One might say he received an offer he couldn’t refuse.

Film actor Robert Duvall, whose scores of credits include the “Godfather” trilogy, has sold an investment property in West Hollywood for $1.605 million, or $30,000 less than his asking price.

Set behind hedges and a gate, the 1920s home is...

Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, opened 20 years ago this week and changed the course of architecture, the history of Los Angeles and the career path of at least one American architecture critic.

Instapoet Rupi Kaur says "Good art will always break boundaries, and that's what the gatekeepers are also seeing." The Instagram star's first bestselling book "Milk and Honey" has a follow-up and Kaur seems unstoppable.

One might say it’s among the most stunning falls from grace Hollywood has ever seen, but the word “grace” has rarely been used where Harvey Weinstein is concerned.

At its core, Modernism Week in Palm Springs is all about historical preservation. Which explains why a gorgeous Spanish Adobe - one of the oldest surviving homes in the Coachella Valley - is part of the tour.

President Trump is moving Thursday to scale back rules on health insurance across the country in the administration’s most ambitious effort to date to use its regulatory powers to undermine the Affordable Care Act.

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We know that Congress is just unimaginably busy right now, so perhaps it’s understandable that 11 days after funding for a crucial children’s healthcare program expired, the lawmakers still haven’t gotten around to restoring it.

The degree of difficulty got higher, and nastier, when the Kings went from one Pacific Division foe to another.

The latest movie by Guillermo del Toro is the genre-hopping “The Shape of Water,” which manages all at once to be a romance, an espionage thriller, a period story, a monster movie and even make time for a full-fledged musical number. His previous feature, “Crimson Peak,” was a gothic romance and...

The popular Signorello Estate winery in Napa and the historic Round Barn of Fountaingrove in Santa Rosa have been destroyed by wildfires sweeping across parts of Napa and Sonoma counties.

Thousands of firefighters battled through another tense night on the fire lines across Northern California, officials said early Thursday, and increasing winds prompted authorities to evacuate entire towns as flames descended.

In 2015, the Smithsonian asked music lovers to submit photos they'd taken of their favorite rock 'n' rollers. Four-thousand pictures later, the book "Smithsonian Rock and Roll: Live and Unseen," by industry vet Bill Bentley, emerged as a catalog of musical history with a candid, fan-based edge.

Christian Palmaz used hoes, shovels and rakes to keep flames from his family’s 19th century vineyard estate home on the flanks of Mt. St. George in eastern Napa County.

And the gold medal goes to: Bishop Creek, which is currently bursting with fall color, and will reach its peak this weekend. Further north, Mammoth Lakes and June Lake are expected to peak over the next 10 days.

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Thursday, Oct. 12, and here’s what’s happening across California:

Foodies, wine lovers and those who enjoy cooking will be thrilled by this 10-day tour of Lisbon, Porto and the Douro River Valley.

To the editor: The whole country is wondering why Stephen Paddock committed mass murder in Las Vegas. Is it really that difficult to understand? (“Of course we need to talk about gun violence in America. The question is how to do it effectively,” Opinion, Oct. 6)

When John Carpenter was a boy, he found some music paper and started scribbling away “like a crazy person,” he said. His father, a music professor at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, played the piece — Carpenter’s first avant-garde composition.

Donald Trump is a salesman who has never let truth get in the way of peddling a product. As president, he tried unsuccessfully to sell various schemes to repeal and replace Obamacare by using the same technique he used to sell the bogus curriculum of Trump University: make outlandish claims of...