For decades, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” has been celebrated as one of the defining teen comedies of the 1980s. But for actor Mia Sara, the reality behind the scenes was far less idyllic than the film’s enduring reputation might suggest. Released in 1986, the John Hughes-directed classic follows a wisecracking Chicago teenager who fakes an…
Los Angeles County Museum of Art is being gifted its first paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Édouard Manet, in addition to four works by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Alfred Sisley, Wilhelm Lehmbruck and Maurice Brazil Prendergast. The artwork comes from the Pearlman Foundation, which is dividing its collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Modernist art —…
To win a Southern Section Division 1 softball championship this season, a team is going to have to figure out how to topple JSerra pitcher Liliana Escobar. It’s not easy. She pitched the Lions into the Division 1 semifinals on Wednesday with a 1-0 win over Gardena Grove Pacifica. She struck out 10 and walked…
Two years after Tommy John surgery on his right elbow, Aidan Martinez returned to the mound for Birmingham High on Monday in the closer’s role and responded with three strikeouts and three walks and no hits in 1 1/3 innings in the Patriots’ 7-4 win over Ventura in the Easton tournament. It’s another positive development…
The indictment is remarkable in its detail, laying out a web of corruption at the highest levels of the Mexican government. At the center, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, is Sinaloa Gov. Rubén Rocha Moya, accused of allowing his state’s eponymous cartel to operate with impunity after its leaders guaranteed his election by…
DALLAS — The Lakers are as shorthanded as they can be, their dynamic starting backcourt of Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves out with injuries at a pivotal time of the season. They’re the offensive engines for a Lakers team battling for the No. 3 playoff seeding in a competitive Western Conference. The 41-year-old LeBron James is now…
HIGH SCHOOL FLAG FOOTBALL TUESDAY’S RESULTS SOUTHERN SECTION Agoura 50, Simi Valley 7 Arroyo Valley 7, Vista del Lago 0 Azusa 19, Ontario 12 Beaumont 56, Rancho Mirage 0 Bonita 32, Chaffey 0 California Military Institute 7, Arlington 6 Claremont 38, Victor Valley 6 Compton 26, Nogales 0 Esperanza 42, Anaheim 7 Fountain Valley 15,…
Over the last decade or so, publishers of American genre fiction have borrowed a page from Hollywood’s playbook by essentially packaging novels like films, grafting together collaborators from two different A-lists: those that feature bestselling novelists and major celebrities. Large commercial rewards have been reaped from these crossbred literary partnerships. Bill and Hillary Clinton, to…
WASHINGTON — A political influencer has filed a complaint against Tom Steyer’s campaign for governor, saying the committee failed to notify her of disclosure requirements, as required by law, when she was paid to meet with Steyer in March and later produced social media content from the meeting. What’s more, she said the Steyer campaign falsely accused…
The girls of “Love Island USA” said they chose to dump Gabriel Vasconcelos from the villa because “he’s constantly looking for the next best thing, and we don’t feel like the villa will ever bring him someone he’s content with.” Gabriel says he’s still asking why. The bombshell entered the villa on Day 2 and…