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Pop star Sabrina Carpenter hosted βSaturday Night Liveβ for the first time ever, but it sure didnβt feel like it. Carpenter was the musical guest last year when Jake Gyllenhaal hosted, and at the 50th anniversary special, she performed with Paul Simon and appeared in a sketch. Whether itβs because sheβs done the show both…
Before sunup on Jan. 8, as the Eaton fire roared across the San Gabriel Mountains, a blaze of texts and calls lit up my phone with a ferocity of their own. Iβm used to being a switchboard of sorts β as a journalist, inevitably, word travels to and through me. In those chaotic, early hours,…
Ulysses Jenkins, the pioneering Los Angeles-born video artist whose avant-garde compositions embodied Black experimentalism, has died. He was 79. Jenkinsβ death was confirmed by his alma mater Otis College, where he studied under renowned painter and printmaker Charles White in the late 1970s and returned as an instructor years later. The Los Angeles art and…
As the investigation into the abduction of Nancy Guthrie entered its third week, officials said Monday they cleared direct members of her family as possible suspects. βThe family has been nothing but cooperative and gracious and are victims in this case,β Chris Nanos, the sheriff of Pima County (Ariz.), said in a statement. βTo be…
Tuesday night, Gustavo Dudamel was back at the Hollywood Bowl. This summer is the 20th anniversary of his U.S. debut β at 24 years old β conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and becoming irrepressibly besotted with the amphitheater. He walked on stage, now the proud paterfamilias with greying hair and a broad welcoming smile on…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ As progressives seek to place a new tax on billionaires on Californiaβs November ballot, a Republican congressman is moving in the opposite direction β proposing federal legislation that would block states from taxing the assets of former residents. Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-Rocklin), who faces a tough re-election challenge under Californiaβs redrawn congressional maps, says he…
SATURDAYβS RESULTS BOYS CITY SECTION Harbor Teacher 52, Maywood Academy 36 SOUTHERN SECTION Alemany 70, Saugus 63 Alta Loma 68, Orange Vista 65 Arcadia 52, San Gabriel Academy 47 Arroyo Valley 59, Jurupa Valley 48 Azusa 66, Bolsa Grande 53 Banning 55, San Gorgonio 47 Beverly Hills 47, Highland 41 Bishop Amat 92, Pioneer 45…
Octopus Energy Group is on the brink of selling a big stake in its software arm, Kraken Technologies, at a valuation that will cement its status as one of Britain’s biggest private companies. Sky News has learnt that Octopus Energy has lined up a syndicate of investors to buy between 10% and 20% of Kraken….
At this moment, 2.5 billion people β a population bigger than China’s β own Apple products. But it all started on a sidewalk near Cupertino, California, where, in 1971, engineering prodigy Steve Wozniak met a charismatic, rebellious high-schooler named Steve Jobs. “And who was to know there was gonna be a company in the future?”…
Those who snub Father Time like to say that 50 is the new 30. A different Father β Benedictine priest Maximilian Maxwellβ sprinkled holy water in the end zone before his beloved Pittsburgh Steelers took on the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday with the AFC North title on the line. Fifty is the new 30 also…
