After a 3 year wait, the Stagecoach Country Music Festival returned to the Empire Polo Club in Indio this past weekend. Our photographers on site, Will Lester and Jennifer Cappuccio Maher selected a number of their favorite images that range from the unexpected Carrie Underwood collaboration with Guns and Roses lead singer Axl Rose to…
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How many times have we heard the sports cliché about a team as family? In the case of the men’s basketball team representing the United States at the 24th Summer Deaflympics, currently underway in Caxias do Sul, Brazil, it’s not a cliché. The Valencias, from California School for the Deaf, Riverside are well represented, featuring brothers…
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You start from the perspective that it’s hard to have perspective when it comes to NBA salaries. It all seems a bit obscene. But then you cycle back to what was termed particularly outrageous last August, with the Miami Heat attracting particular inspection. A four-year, $184 million extension for Jimmy Butler that carries him through…
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The Miami Heat’s Eastern Conference impending semifinal playoff series took a dramatic and unexpected turn Friday when the Philadelphia 76ers confirmed that All-Star center Joel Embiid is out indefinitely due to a right orbital fracture and concussion. In a statement, the 76ers said, “Joel Embiid suffered a right orbital fracture and mild concussion in last…
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In June 2018, right after covering the opening event for Disney California Adventure’s Pixar Pier, my son and I walked past the Paradise Pier Hotel. He pointed to its sign and asked, “How long until they change the name of that?” Late last month, the Disneyland Resort finally announced that it soon will change the…
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Eric Conn turned himself into a local hero, running colorful ads in the Kentucky and West Virginia area where he worked as a lawyer. His marketing touted his wildly successful rate for scoring Social Security medical benefits for applicants but naturally left out what was later revealed: Fraud that he and a judge were perpetrating.…
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In the previous round, an initial beatdown left the Atlanta Hawks beaten down, as if they appreciated their limitations. This time around, the Miami Heat are finding themselves with an opponent after a blowout Game 1 loss that believes it has the answers for something better, even as it continues in the absence of All-Star…
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TORONTO — The Yankees may have started slow, but they couldn’t have ended the month of April better. They finished the first calendar month of the season with the best record in baseball, their pitching on point and their offense rolling. And very early in May it looks like they could be getting even stronger.…
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Like most political debates these days, the issue of policing has become unnecessarily divisive. After a Minneapolis officer killed George Floyd in 2020, the nation endured a wave of protests and riots, with some leftists even calling for the “defunding” of police departments. In the face of a post-pandemic crime wave, most conservatives have…
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James Harden casually listened as reporters suggested the Miami Heat defense got to him. Could there be a more apropos ending to Monday’s Game 1 than this? And could there be a more fitting ending than Harden dismissing the idea. Did he think the Heat’s P.J. Tucker, his one-time teammate in Houston, knew how to…
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