Nestled inside Katya Apekina’s novel “Mother Doll” are four generations of mothers, whose lives, stretching from the Russian Revolution through to modern Los Angeles, are haunted by the mistakes and miscommunications between the generations. Zhenia lives in L.A. while her family is back in Boston; she’s struggling to cope with her beloved grandmother’s dementia, her…
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A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled Tuesday honoring Dr. Dre for his career as a performer, producer, founder and CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and Beats Electronics, and co-founder and president of Death Row Records. Snoop Dogg and music impresario Jimmy Iovine joined Dr. Dre in speaking at the ceremony in front…
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PLAYA VISTA — It would be easy to skip the hard part and concentrate on getting to the reward. But Clippers coach Tyronn Lue said looking past the final 15 games in favor of the playoffs is not what’s going on, despite the outward appearance. The Clippers have slipped into something of a funk lately. They…
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Christen Press’ dreams came true when she signed with Angel City FC and played for her hometown team. In the eighth game of the club’s inaugural season, the star forward suffered an ACL injury. “I always think about the moment that I found out I had the privilege of being Angel City’s first player,” Press…
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Last year, state lawmakers broke from tradition by not including an exception for the California coast in a major housing law. That deliberate omission came despite opposition from the California Coastal Commission — the voter-created state agency tasked since 1976 with scrutinizing anything that gets built, demolished, dug, divvied up, fixed, tamped down or clear…
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Lily Girma | Bloomberg News (TNS) Tourism in Egypt was roaring back with a vengeance in 2023: The land of the pharaohs welcomed 14.9 million international visitors throughout the year, a record number since the pro-democracy uprising of 2011. For a country mired in economic woes, the visitor boom painted a promising trajectory. That was…
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State Attorney General Rob Bonta on Tuesday announced the filing of more than 27 felony charges against three men allegedly involved in an organized retail crime operation that targeted high-end stores in Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Riverside, Alameda and Santa Clara counties resulting in more than $300,000 in losses. The investigation included personnel from…
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LOS ANGELES — Long before Julian Lewis was the heir apparent at quarterback USC, he was simply a seventh-grader playing ball at Pace Academy in Atlanta, and his father T.C. needed advice. They’d written the script for Lewis since he was 7, chasing greatness. Life was calculated, decisions structured around football dreams. And as Lewis…
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By Holden Lewis | NerdWallet A landmark legal settlement between home sellers and the real estate industry could cause a shakeup in the way homes are bought and sold, beginning this summer. The National Association of Realtors announced Friday that it had agreed to pay $418 million to settle more than a dozen antitrust lawsuits…
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Over the last 15 months, Huntington Beach has taken an abrupt turn, not to the right, but rather backward. The extreme City Council majority has slammed the transmission into reverse, stripping gears, and likely permanently damaging the engine of our local government. Rushing to take advantage of a low-turnout March primary, the council majority put…
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