Новости за 01.12.2017

If you’re in Hawaii on the first Friday of the month and you hear air raid sirens, relax. It is only a test.

After my marriage ended I felt too raw to consider jumping into online dating. At first I said no when friends offered to set me up, but when I found myself feeling lost on my child-free evenings, I started saying yes.

Jared Mazzaschi went car shopping well prepared. He was a cash buyer who knew what he wanted, and he had agreed upon the price of the car with the Glendale dealer.

This week in L.A.'s small-theater scene: Independent Shakespeare Company's "A Christmas Carol With Charles Dickens," 24th Street Theatre's "Pang!," the Latino Theatre Company's "The Latina Christmas Special" and Fountain Theatre's "A Piece of My Mind."

In early May, the queen arrived at Hornsey Town Hall in London. The 1930s building, now an arts center, was standing in for a hospital on the final episode of the second season of “The Crown,” which premieres Dec. 8 on Netflix. The queen was actually actress Claire Foy, dressed in a perfectly crisp...

When art director Francis Giglio signed on to work on the TBS animated series “The Cops” last summer, he believed he had a full-time job through next May. The project starring the comic dream team of Louis C.K. and Albert Brooks meant steady income for the 36-year-old Newhall resident, who is supporting...

Anniversary Classics Director John Boorman’s stark 1967 neo-noir, Point Blank, starring the coldly marvelous Lee Marvin as Walker, a man double-crossed and out for revenge, was overlooked upon its release but has been influential to contemporary filmmakers. Key scenes were shot on Alcatraz. Angie...

Unusual events bring a twist to the winter holidays, if you know where to go. Check out the crab pot Christmas trees in Morro Bay, Calif., or an upstate New York brewery's very artificial keg tree.

Here’s a look at what roughly $600,000 buys right now in West Saticoy, Ventura and Montalvo in Ventura County.

“Mrs. Caliban” by Rachel Ingalls is an unusual book with an unusual publication history. First published in 1982, the slim surrealist masterpiece is the story of a romance between a lonely housewife and (stick with me here) an amphibious humanoid named Larry. It was Ingalls’ third book of fiction...

Designers Adam Shulman and Heidi Nahser Fink are known for creating one-of-a-kind conversation pieces for their fine jewelry company, James Banks Design.

Advocates for seniors and the middle class have been warning for weeks that the Republican drive to cut taxes for the wealthy is the prelude to a larger attack on Social Security and Medicare.

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Friday, Dec. 1, and here’s what’s happening across California:

The wartime evacuation of Finnish children more than 70 years ago might have been an historical footnote, its cost to human health and happiness lost in the passage of time. More than 70,000 Finnish children were separated from their parents in a frantic rout and whisked away to institutions and...

Ready or not, Senate Republicans plan to vote on a tax overhaul plan today.

To the editor: According to Zac Crippen, an “effective way to attack” sexual harassment and violence is for our nation to see the inherently intimacy-damaging, sexual-aggression driving, addictive-forming outcomes of viewing sexual imagery for pleasure, arousal and entertainment (also known as...

Arthur Christopher Schaper sat in the back of the Huntington Park City Council chambers, wearing a “Make America Great Again” cap and a Donald Trump flag around his shoulders like a cape.

If you don't have a holiday savings fund stashed away, smart planning and clever shopping can ensure you don't end up struggling to pay off debt.

Santa Monica-based C Magazine has brought the pages of its glossy lifestyle publication to life — for five weeks only — at the newly renovated Westfield Century City shopping center in a pop-up shop stocked with an impressively deep bench of top-tier Golden State brands.

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To the editor: The problems in Mexico with the construction of housing tracts is heartbreaking but not surprising. (“A failed vision,” Nov. 26)

L.A. has set aside millions of dollars to fund its "street strategies" to help homeless people, including mobile showers and bathrooms. But of the $7.5 million budgeted in 2016-17, more than $2 million was returned to city coffers and nearly $2 million was diverted to pay for sweeps.

Val McDermid’s first crime novel, “Report for Murder,” was published in 1987 while the Scottish native worked in as Northern bureau chief for a Sunday tabloid. In the three decades that followed, McDermid penned more than thirty other novels spanning four crime series as well as half a dozen stand-alone...

When Los Angeles leaders gave a $270-million tax break to the developer of a 1,000-room luxury hotel at L.A. Live more than a decade ago, they argued that the incentive was vital to help the struggling convention center and to catalyze redevelopment in South Park.