Новости за 29.03.2018

The Hollywood invasion of Broadway, and theater in general, continues with grand entrances by Ryan Murphy, Tina Fey and more television stars than we can count. Here is some of the most notable casting news and more.

L.A.’s most-popular restaurant, Dodger Stadium, reopens this week with at least 10 new food items on the menu.

Shortly after learning he’d won the Nobel Prize in physics, Richard Taylor stared at his reflection in a mirror.

“Above all, be the heroine of your own life, not the victim,” said the writer, reporter and filmmaker Nora Ephron in a 1996 commencement speech at her alma mater, Wellesley College. Throughout her career Ephron had mentored many younger women, including the novelist Meg Wolitzer, author, most recently,...

Carpinteria loves to call itself the “home of the world’s safest beach” and although that may be true, my wife and I discovered that Carpinteria, on a blustery spring day, had much more to offer than choppy surf and blowing sand. The tab: One night at the Best Western Plus Carpinteria Inn cost...

The Los Angeles World Affairs Council is offering a fall tour of Russia that features expert discussions on Czarist Russia, Russian journalism, Vladimir Putin and U.S.-Russia relations.

"Colonial Californiano" has been a symbol of status. It has also been reviled by architects and scholars who say it erases California's Mexican past.

The last time major league baseball was seen in Southern California, it was climbing out a back window and racing into winter, its arms full of stolen hopes, its cruelty snuffing a historic roar into stony silence.

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Thursday, March 29, and here’s what’s happening across California:

Mexico earthquake devastation spurs California cities to action, despite the costs

When Dara Khosrowshahi took over as Uber’s chief executive last August, he faced a pile of festering problems. Near the top: The company’s troubled driverless-car program, then embroiled in a major lawsuit over trade-secrets theft with arch-foe Waymo, and suffering after a series of defections...

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Carmina Escobar can sound like insects, spaceships, angels and hurricanes. Her tones are primal and ethereal; rooted in nature yet otherworldly. "Your voice," she says, "is a sonic trace of who you are, your identity."

With a 20-0 record and 20 knockouts, England’s Anthony Joshua has given boxing’s heavyweight division the jolt it needed from its extended slumber through the Klitschko brothers era.

Officials at Los Angeles Unified will tell you that the nation’s second-largest school system is doing well or at least has shown strong signs of improvement. Others are not so sure.

In one longtime landing spot for a succession of immigrants, tension has become a part of daily life amid President Trump’s immigration crackdown.

The guns were kept in a 1920s-era vault in a municipal building on North Alameda.

As President Trump tangles with his own Justice Department, the country could be plunging toward a constitutional crisis. Whatever one thinks of the various allegations and ongoing investigations related to the president, it’s getting hard to imagine that Trump will agree to answer the special...

When Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced Monday that he was adding a question about citizenship to the 2020 census, he offered this dubious explanation: that the information would somehow make it easier for the Justice Department to root out violations of the Voting Rights Act. But lawyers...

On Wednesday the Supreme Court heard arguments in the second of two lawsuits it will decide this term that challenge partisan gerrymandering — the time-dishonored practice of drawing legislative district lines to give one political party an unfair advantage. Wednesday’s argument involved a map...

The election for Alameda County district attorney heated up this month when one candidate, civil rights attorney Pamela Price, criticized the incumbent, Dist. Atty. Nancy O’Malley, for accepting a controversial campaign contribution.

When Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger ran for governor, they both benefited from celebrity. Who in the voting booth didn’t recognize their names?

To the editor: Springtime is the season of renewal. Easter, for Christians, is an especially holy time, a time for reflection. (“Disdain that fuels homelessness,” March 27)

To the editor: Regarding “Pelosi is running in every race,” on the front page of The Times, March 27, four or more relatively spineless and/or deceitful forces come together in discrediting one of the most effective speakers of the House of Representatives we’ve had, Nancy Pelosi.