The Chargers’ blockbuster trade for star edge rusher Khalil Mack was likely the start of a drastic makeover for Brandon Staley’s defense. Staley’s history of helping young defensive players reach their potential played a part the Chargers’ decision to hire him as the head coach last year, but Staley has often shifted the praise toward…
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La Plaza de Cultura y Artes in downtown L.A. is taking a deep dive into the contributions to the American artistic landscape made by Chicano and Chicana artists with the new exhibition “L.A. Memo: Chicana/o Art from 1972-1989,” which opens March 18. The exhibition includes more than 50 mixed-media pieces by approximately 30 artists who…
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Brent Renaud, an acclaimed filmmaker who traveled to some of the darkest and most dangerous corners of the world for documentaries that transported audiences to little-known places of suffering, died Sunday after Russian forces opened fire on his vehicle in Ukraine. The 50-year-old Little Rock, Arkansas, native was gathering material for a report about refugees…
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A recent column in this space was headlined “Inflation, the cruelest tax.” Well, if inflation is the cruelest tax, then inflation’s impact on gasoline, combined with the nation’s highest tax, can only be characterized as “cruel and unusual punishment.” In addition to inflation and taxes, other government policies related to petroleum are counterproductive. These include…
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NEW YORK — Trevor Zegras acknowledged the strangeness of it all, lining up Saturday against his good friend Jack Hughes when the Ducks faced the New Jersey Devils in Newark, N.J. Zegras also acknowledged the fear of it, too, whenever he was on the ice at the same time as Hughes. “It was definitely weird…
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Former President Barack Obama announced Sunday that he has tested positive for Covid-19. “I’ve had a scratchy throat for a couple days, but am feeling fine otherwise,” he said on his official Twitter account. Obama also said that his wife, former first lady Michelle Obama, has tested negative. “Michelle and I are grateful to be…
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Q: I just had my slope stripped — Brazilian peppers had invaded, and they choke out everything. It is a good-sized slope and I am looking for economical and maintenance free ground cover/bushes to cover it. I have quite a few jade plants partially on it, great plants, and some aloe vera as well. What…
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From the time the gates opened for the first Boots in the Park at SilverLakes in Norco on Saturday, fans were ready to party. The weather was warm and breezy, and there was fried food and barbecue, cold drinks, country music and good vibes all around. Attendees who showed up early played games on the…
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Famed in the current political moment for uniformly progressive legislation and the Assembly and state Senate members who write those laws, California was very much not always in the liberal vanguard. We weren’t just the state that produced in one case and nurtured in the other Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. As late as 1964,…
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Gavin Newsom was always going to win re-election this year by a big margin. It doesn’t matter how incompetent he is; it comes down to basic math. Nearly half of the state’s voters are registered Democrats, around a quarter are Republican. Registered whatevers tend to vote for their party, because that’s how it goes. Throw…
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