People who love the hit ABC-TV show “Dancing with the Stars” will have the chance to see their favorite competitors and professional dancers in the touring show “Dancing with the Stars — Dare to Be Different.” The tour will make multiple stops in Southern California, including Sunday, March 13 at the Fred Kavli Theatre in…
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NIMBY activists in the city of Berkeley successfully used the state’s landmark environmental law to freeze enrollment levels at the university, compromising admissions for the incoming fall class. In doing so, NIMBYs are blocking student access to the University of California’s flagship campus. Many of California’s Democratic lawmakers are understandably furious, but they have…
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LOS ANGELES — Scientists from Cedars-Sinai have reported research findings that have opened the possibility to a new therapy for COVID-19 patients, a discovery made in a biologic substance created by re-engineered human skin cells. The substance stopped SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, from reproducing and protected cells when tested in human lung cells,…
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After receiving a tip on June 30 that a man was selling large amounts of illegal fireworks in a South Los Angeles neighborhood, the Los Angeles Police Department showed up in force and found dozens of boxes of contraband stacked high in an alley. So far, so good. Police have the responsibility to…
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USC put to rest any rumors about Andy Enfield’s future Wednesday, announcing that the Trojans’ men’s basketball head coach had signed an extension through the 2027-28 season. Enfield, in his ninth season at USC, had been connected through media reports to the opening at Maryland earlier this season. But USC athletic director Mike Bohn gave…
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The math for National Pi Day hasn’t been as good in recent years as it used to be, but it will be possible to get deals on pizza and pie on Monday, March 14. Pi is what mathematicians call the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, making it appropriate to indulge in round…
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For many Americans, their ancestors’ first glimpse of the United States was the Statue of Liberty, emblazoned with a call welcoming the “huddled masses” and “wretched refuse” of the old world to breathe free. America’s greatest strength is still our ability to absorb the best of what the world has to offer and to turn…
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It was the last 15 minutes of a nine-hour sportfishing boat trip on Monday, March 7, when a fisherman aboard the Clemente dropped his line baited with live sardine in an area three miles off Camp Pendleton known as Box Canyon. It wasn’t long until the bait was taken and whatever was hooked ran the…
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“I love going to work,” Ted Danson says. “I love writers. I love actors. I love studios. I love driving through the gate, I really do.” For Danson, of course, the television studio – and your living room – is a place where everybody knows his name. It has been 40 years since Sam Malone…
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California is a shining example of economic and social progress, a beacon to the rest of the nation and the rest of the world. Doubt it? It must be true because Gov. Gavin Newsom said it Tuesday in his fourth State of the State address, declaring, “now, in the midst of so much turmoil with…
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