One winter when Kevin Hiroshi Donan was a child growing up in Flint, Mich., he went to play outside with some of his father’s Frisbees – or at least he thought the round, black, grooved discs were Frisbees. Donan hurled the discs, watching as they disappeared into the deep snow. “When the snow melted away,…
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At one time, Mark Rylance hadn’t been aware of the real-life story of the worst golfer in the history of the British Open. But when a screenplay about Maurice Flitcroft, a shipyard crane operator who managed to enter the Open in 1976 despite never playing a single round of golf, came his way, well, that…
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An Anaheim residents’ group has appealed a March court ruling that quashed its lawsuit alleging the city broke the state’s open meetings law in crafting and approving the Angel Stadium sale. The People’s Homeless Task Force OC last week filed the appeal of Orange County Superior Court Judge David A. Hoffer’s ruling in favor of…
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Summer marks the return of free music to downtown Los Angeles as Grand Performances kicks off its concert series in June with a four-month lineup of shows that will feature music from all over the globe, from cumbia and classical to jazz and jam bands. “We’re really taking people on a trip around the world,”…
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Isaiah Wong will stay in Coral Gables for at least another year. The standout guard announced Wednesday that he would withdraw from the NBA draft and return to Miami for his fourth season with the Hurricanes. “Isaiah is truly one of the finest guards in the history of our program, as well as an excellent…
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By LOLITA C. BALDOR | Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Biden administration says it will send Ukraine a small number of high-tech, medium-range rocket systems, a critical weapon that Ukrainian leaders have been begging for as they struggle to stall Russian progress in the Donbas region. The rocket systems are part of a new $700…
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With the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, coupled with the extensive logistics sector in the Inland Empire, Southern California is a major hub of getting goods around. So what does a majority of the California Assembly want to do so? Make it harder and costlier for goods to get around. Asm. Eloise…
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The arrival of June means two things for the Chicago Cubs. It’s two months until the trade deadline — and four months until the end of the season. But despite a 20-29 record and the fact they trail the division-leading Milwaukee Brewers by 11 games entering the month, the Cubs haven’t reverted to lovable loser…
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Thirty-five years after the first visitors splashed down a water slide at Wild Rivers in Irvine, the countdown is on for the popular water park that closed in 2011 to open anew — and just in time for summer. The park has set June 20 as opening day, but there are a host of to-dos…
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It was back to a marathon for the Miami Heat, 106 games when counting preseason, regular season and postseason. There were the high-water marks of pushing past the Atlanta Hawks and Philadelphia 76ers in the playoffs, and the low ebbs of four losses of 20 or more during the regular season and then the final…
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