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By ELLIOT SPAGAT JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS, Calif. — A group of migrants from China surrendered to a Border Patrol agent in remote Southern California as gusts of wind drowned the hum of high-voltage power lines, joining others from Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia and elsewhere in a desert campsite with shelters made from tree branches. Their arrival…
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Festival Pass is a newsletter that lands in your inbox weekly. But during prime festival season you get bonus editions, too! Subscribe now. Happy Thursday! Another music festival-filled weekend is upon us as BeachLife Ranch returns to Redondo Beach Friday, Sept. 22-Sunday, Sept. 24. The alternative country and Americana sister festival to the annual more reggae…
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Over 500 student-athletes, parents and coaches stood in the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, chanting “I am lovable and capable” on Wednesday night. “It was amazing and they were so engaged,” local psychiatrist Alan Ludington said. “It was amazing. Wonderful.” Ludington was the one who had instructed the crowd to stand and shout the affirmation.…
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The 132-page publication will be delivered with the Sept. 24 edition of the Orange County Register, but you can read it now.

From their nightmare factory in Greeley, Colorado, husband-and-wife team Ed Edmunds and Marsha Taub-Edmunds have been making elaborate monsters and masks for more than four decades. Their company, Distortions Unlimited, then dispatches the creepy cast of artfully crafted characters — like animatronic circus clowns, life-sized werewolves, and a toothy 11-foot-tall “Sleeping Giant” — to commercial…
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“Stop Making Sense” is heading back to where it belongs: The big screen. The 1984 Jonathan Demme-directed masterpiece, which many consider to be the greatest concert film of all time, opens in IMAX theaters on Sept. 22. One week later, on Sept. 29, distribution widens to include other theaters across the country. In either format,…
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Bruce Gelker can’t remember most things. But he always remembered George Tirebiter. The origins of USC’s first mascot are notoriously ambiguous, but the 100-year-old Gelker would tell it to his grandsons Garrett and Garth as such: While a football player at USC in the 1940s, he’d see this random mutt that showed up on campus,…
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The smoke that blew into the Bay Area this week, after what has been a blissfully mild wildfire season in California so far this summer, has rekindled an unhealthy and growing trend: Many of the the improvements America has made in reducing air pollution since 2000 are now being diminished — particularly in Western states…
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A big chunk of the recently reimagined Mickey’s Toontown is once again behind construction walls as Disneyland crews work to address persistent problems that continue to plague the popular kiddie playland. Centoonial Park remains closed through Oct. 22 for a month-long refurbishment and Goofy’s How-to-Play Yard will close Oct. 23 for additional work, according to…
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Symptoms of an overdose can vary widely, depending on which substance, or substances, the person used. But increasingly, bystanders are finding themselves in the role of first responder as public overdose deaths increase in Denver. Here are some symptoms of drug overdoses and tips on how to respond, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental…
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