Fiery Joshua Trees ablaze in a California wildfire create the striking cover image for “High Desert,” the new collection of poems by poet, editor and translator André Naffis-Sahely. “A lot of the fire poems I wrote were around the 2019 fires when you’d get up in the morning and brush ash off the car, so…
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MILWAUKEE — It was a good afternoon for the Yankees, even before the first pitch against the Brewers. Scott Effross threw a live batting practice, including facing Anthony Rizzo. Both came through it ready to take their next steps. “Everything’s feeling really good,” Effross said after throwing at American Family Field before Friday’s opener of…
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The surfers traveled with sand collected from around the world – each grain a symbol of peace through the sport of surfing. South Korean surfers Suhyun Im and Suok Hong pour sand from Jungmun beach, Jeju Island during the sand ceremony at the opening ceremony for the 2022 International Surfing Association World Surfing Games in…
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Alexandra Gedda, 17, of Virginia Beach, takes a picture of her mother Stella with the iconic Hollywood sign on Wednesday, June 29, 2022 in Los Angeles. The famous sign will be a 100 next year. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) The Hollywood sign, photographed on Friday, September 16, 2022, is set to…
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LOS ANGELES — First lady Jill Biden continued her two-day visit to Los Angeles on Friday, Sept. 16, encouraging Democrats to “work harder” to elect more allies to Congress during a private fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee. With the midterm elections less than two months away, Biden urged those in attendance to imagine how…
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The world according to Jim: • If you aren’t a subscriber to the new “Game Day” newsletter produced by Kevin Modesti – and if you aren’t getting it in your inbox every morning, what are you waiting for? – you missed a discussion on Thursday morning on injury information, how different Southern California teams disclose…
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The Funeral of Her Majesty the Queen is set for Monday at 11 a.m. British Summer Time, or 3 a.m. Pacific, at Westminster Abbey. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and a symbol of stability in a turbulent era that saw the decline of the British empire and disarray in her own family, died last…
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A second straight win, a wish fulfilled, a team that looks to be discovering itself again. All of those things were on display at Citi Field on Friday night. The Mets took care of the Pirates 4-3 after knocking them around on Thursday. They answered their fans’ pleas for good, normal baseball after getting surprisingly…
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Jordan Lyles was one pitch away from getting out of the fifth inning unscathed. Instead, the full-count curveball left the bat of Toronto Blue Jays star George Springer in a hurry, sailed over the outfield fence and brought the Rogers Centre crowd to its feet, creating the kind of noise few Orioles players have experienced…
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SAN FRANCISCO — The return from Tommy John surgery is not always a straight line. Tommy Kahnle thought he had recovered from his August 2020 procedure when he joined the Dodgers in May and pitched in a major league game for the first time in nearly 20 months. He wasn’t. “I feel like last time…
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