Новости за 25.03.2018

A second woman has come forward to accuse Lynwood Councilman Edwin Hernandez of behaving inappropriately toward her while she was employed with the city.

The late artist depicts ordinary folks doing ordinary things in a nation torn asunder by race, class and sex.

Cinderella Inland Pacific Ballet offers a family-friendly take on the classic fairytale. Lewis Family Playhouse, 12505 Cultural Center Drive, Rancho Cucamonga. Sun., 2 p.m. (also in Claremont, April 21-22, and Riverside, April 28-29). $41 and up. discounts available. (909) 482-1590.

March 29

Ready Player One

An immense virtual reality universe of the future is the location of a treasure hunt after its creator dies and leaves his fortune to be found within. With Tye Sheridan, Letitia Wright, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance. Written by by...

As I strolled through Grand Central Market in downtown Los Angeles one day, one of the longtime vendors flashed her big smile at me, so I stopped to ask how things were going.

GREECE

Presentation

John McKinney, a.k.a. the Trailmaster, will discuss hiking the Holy Mountain, Mt. Athos, Greece

When, where: 6:30 p.m. March 28, the Adventure 16 store, 11161 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles

Admission, info: Free. (310) 473-4574.

ROUTE 66

Presentation

Sandi Wheaton will present...

American Youth Symphony Works by Ravel, John Adams and Jennifer Higdon plus Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1 featuring pianist Vladimir Feltsman. Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., L.A. Sun., 7:30 p.m. $15-$45. (323) 850-2000.

Capsule reviews are by Philip Brandes (P.B.), F. Kathleen Foley (F.K.F.), Margaret Gray (M.G.), Charles McNulty (C.M.) and Daryl H. Miller (D.H.M.).

Horse racing newsletter

Mail Rail zipped untold numbers of sacks of letters between sorting offices on 22 miles of private subway track. Few Londoners knew this secret underground line existed until a new Postal Museum opened and the railway was reinvented as a unique ride for visitors.

What a great front-page photo by Wally Skalij for the Puebla, Mexico, article [“Prides of Puebla,” by Christopher Reynolds, March 18].

It’s bunnies, bunnies, bunnies for Easter weekend, with a sprinkling of dogs, Jerry Garcia and zombies.

Both Republicans and Democrats are complaining about Nancy Pelosi again, which can only mean that everything’s going exactly as she’s planned.

President Trump’s nomination of Gina Haspel to head the CIA has stirred objections from many quarters. After 9/11, Haspel ran an illegal black site in Thailand where a man was tortured, and she later wrote a memo calling for the destruction of proof of such “enhanced interrogations.” She has paid...

It’s even worse than I feared.

I left Facebook in 2013, less for my own sake than for what my presence on the service was doing to others. I knew that anyone who “liked” my page could have their data harvested in ways they wouldn’t necessarily approve.

Over the past five years, people have not...

A Chicago alderman is planning to introduce an ordinance letting property owners protect graffiti as art after a cleanup blitz near a site being pitched to Amazon claimed an unintended target.

To the editor: President Trump wants to give the death penalty to drug dealers. (“Following Trump’s lead, Sessions urges federal prosecutors to seek death penalty against major drug dealers,” March 21)

To the editor: Here’s hoping that L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti’s laudable goal of halving homelessness in five years and reaching “functional zero” by 2028 does not follow the path of “Vision Zero,” his 2015 executive order calling for a 20% reduction in pedestrian deaths by 2017 — a program that instead...

To the editor: The dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law, Erwin Chemerinsky, needs lessons in logic. He writes that it should be easy for the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the California law requiring health clinics opposed to abortion to inform women of their abortion options. (“If it wasn’t related...

To the editor: The healthcare bill itself, SB 562, may be dead in the water. But the issue of single-payer healthcare (not-for-profit, publicly financed, guaranteed, lifetime, health care for all) in California is not. (“Medical tourists, undocumented immigrants and ballooning costs: California's...

South Korea's coast guard said it rescued all 163 people from a ferry that hit a large rock in waters off the country's southwestern coast Sunday. At least six people sustained minor injuries.

Massive oil drilling rigs stretch across the horizon here like giant carnival rides — 85 in all, lighting the night sky across two counties that sit atop one of the biggest fossil fuel deposits in the nation.