The most fraudulent presidency in the history of the nation is about to come to an end. Joe Biden leaves office at 9 a.m. Pacific Time on Monday, Jan. 20. During the inaugural ceremonies, federal employees will remove every trace of the Biden administration from the White House. They should check behind the sofas and…
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The beginning of a new year is the ideal time to harness those feelings of guilty excess and summon the resolve to lighten up. I know it’s no fun. As I sort through my own home, I have a whole arsenal of excuses to avoid letting go of what should go. To fuel my momentum,…
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The Black Widow Bride in Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion who had a dark habit of beheading her husbands has traded in her axe for a new backstory that softens her murderous tendencies and makes her a more mournful and lovesick figure. Walt Disney Imagineering will introduce a new ghostly bride using projection technology in the Haunted…
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Declan Durcan and his wife wept with relief when they got the call last Sunday telling them they could rent a three-bedroom house in Brentwood. It was a small but consequential bit of good news after a devastating, heart-rending week. Their Pacific Palisades home was transformed into rubble Jan. 7 when an inferno devoured their…
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“How expensive?” tracks measurements of California’s totally unaffordable housing market. The pain: Southern California tenants last year hunted for housing in some of the nation’s tightest apartment markets. The source: My trusty spreadsheet reviewed a year-end report by RentCafe on rental availability at big apartment complexes nationwide. The data tracked 139 U.S. markets, including six…
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MELBOURNE, Australia — Learner Tien and Alex Michelsen were born about 15 months apart and first crossed paths a decade ago when they were playing in Southern California tennis tournaments for kids. Tien, now 19, and Michelsen, 20, are close friends, frequently play the video game Fortnite together, trained with each other all offseason at…
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Firefighters have made overnight progress battling back the deadly Los Angeles blazes. The Eaton fire was 73% contained as of 7 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 18, up from 65% the day before. The Palisades fire was 43% contained as of 7 a.m. on Saturday, up from 39% on Friday evening. Eaton fire Cal Fire said…
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Restaurants and other food vendors ordered to close and allowed to reopen by Orange County health inspectors from Jan. 9 to Jan. 16. Wetzel’s Pretzels at Irvine Spectrum Center, 618 Spectrum Center Drive, Irvine Closed: Jan. 15 Reason: Rodent infestation Reopened: Jan. 15 Food sales at La Palma Groceries, 1763 W. La Palma Ave., Anaheim…
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By REBECCA BOONE, GENE JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER L. KELLER, CLAUDIA LAUER and AMY TAXIN The first evacuation order covering neighborhoods closest to the start of the devastating Pacific Palisades wildfire didn’t come until about 40 minutes after some of those homes were already burning, according to an Associated Press analysis of emergency communications and interviews with…
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LONG BEACH — A player on the Cabrillo High School boys frosh-soph soccer team died Friday evening following an on-field medical emergency during a home game against Long Beach Poly. The Long Beach Unified School District released a statement regarding the passing of the unidentified student: “We are heartbroken to share that a Cabrillo High…
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