By The Associated Press LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office said he spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by phone on Saturday afternoon, the latest chat between the two leaders who talk to each other regularly. Johnson confirmed to Zelenskyy that the U.K. would reopen its embassy in Kyiv next week. He also…
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The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival kicked off its encore weekend on Friday, April 22 in a cool way. No, seriously, it was one of the coolest days temperature-wise in the festival’s history. It was also Earth Day, and longtime festival partner Global Inheritance had multiple programs focusing on sustainability happening around the event.…
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Orioles left-hander John Means will undergo season-ending Tommy John elbow reconstruction surgery, Means announced Saturday on Twitter. Recovery time for Tommy John surgery typically exceeds a year, meaning Baltimore will be without its ace for the rest of 2022 and most likely a portion of 2023. An All-Star in 2019 who made his second straight…
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Growing a papaya tree is a simple matter. If you plant papaya seeds now from store-bought fruit, you will probably see a crop within a year. Papaya trees will die in a frost but they may be grown successfully from Granada Hills to San Bernardino and everywhere south of the line between those two points.…
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Thousands of local papers have shuttered their doors in recent years, and those surviving are facing unprecedented challenges in remaining both economically viable and as the lifeblood of their communities. All the while, Big Tech monopolies like Alphabet and Meta – through sites like Google News and Facebook News – have come to dominate the…
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Last week, we talked book covers, and this time we’ll be slipping under those covers. As in, what’s going on in that unseen space between the dust jacket and the book? Turns out, a lot in some cases. I stopped in at the Hastings Ranch branch of Vroman’s bookstore recently and came across a display of…
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This past month has been a hoot at our house since daughter Sara unexpectedly became cozy with the sidewalk while walking my neighbor’s dog. Considering how much she loves fashionable high heels (Sara not the dog), it is ironic that she was wearing flip flops when the 60-pound pup lunged toward a baby carriage. Sara…
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How can you tell when an NFL draft lacks the same talent as past years? When most teams in possession of a top-five pick would rather trade down, but they can’t find a willing partner — it’s not a very good draft class. That’s how underwhelming the crop of talent for the 2022 NFL draft…
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Forty-five years later, singer Michael Des Barres listens to the self-titled debut of Detective and hears the a tantalizing potential for greatness in its grooves.. A bluesy hard rock band, it found its way to Swan Song Records thanks to Des Barres’ friendship with guitarist Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, the band behind the label.…
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It is easy to say it’s been only two weeks of games, a bunch of them played in unseasonably cold and miserable conditions, after an abbreviated spring training. The only problem with that explanation for the Yankees’ hard-to-watch, inept hitting is that this isn’t just two weeks but rather an extension of what we witnessed…
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