Walt Disney Co.βs ABC is forcefully resisting Federal Communications Commission efforts to soften the networkβs programming, accusing the federal agency of an overreach that violates 1st Amendment freedoms. Last week, the FCC took the unusual step of calling in the licenses of eight Disney-owned television stations for early review. The move β widely interpreted as…
With her breakthrough role in Cameron Croweβs βAlmost Famous,β Kate Hudson received her first Oscar nomination at age 21. This season, she reaches another high note β and makes the case for a second nomination β with her performance as Claire Sardina, one half of a Neil Diamond tribute band, in the romantic drama βSong…
MEXICO CITYΒ βΒ Jalen Aybar and his girlfriend, Jaslim Landaverde, had just smiled for pictures atop the Pyramid of the Moon at the famed Mexican archaeological site of TeotihuacΓ‘n on Monday when they heard the crackle of gunfire. A woman lay sprawled on the ground nearby. A man wearing a black mask was approaching, holding a raised…
CIF City and Southern Section football scores from across the Southland on Saturday, Sept. 27.
Γngela Aguilar may be an elegant interpreter of mΓΊsica Mexicana, a genre that her family has dominated for generations. Yet when I sit across from the 21-year-old singer at a dining hall on Olvera Street, she exudes a commanding diva spirit that is all her own. It is a fierceness that surfaces most prominently when…
BΓ©la Guttmann may be the most consequential soccer coach youβve never heard of. But if it werenβt for Guttmann, you may never have heard of PelΓ©. And Brazil may never have become the greatest soccer-playing country on Earth. Thatβs because Guttmann changed the shape of modern Brazilian soccer β and changed the sport forever β…
Sir Keir Starmer and other ministers will hold regular news conferences in a radical shakeup of government communications. The announcement on Thursday, shortly before parliament broke up for Christmas, was criticised by “furious” political journalists who raised concerns about transparency from a government that promised to raise standards. Former Tony Blair adviser Tim Allan, who…
Beckham Borquez of Sherman Oaks Notre Dame suffered a spill during the running of the 110 high hurdles on Saturday night at the Arcadia Invitational. Initially, he was more upset at himself for falling over one of the last hurdles and landing on the track. You could see skin on his shoulder was exposed after…
It was Dodger Stadium on Wednesday, when the grass outside the baseline and the bright red sign high above center field read βUNIQLO FIELD.β It will be Dodger Stadium on Thursday, when the defending World Series champions open their new season, and forevermore. The official name of our summer home is now Uniqlo Field at…
Ace Frehley, who played lead guitar as a founding member of the face-painted, blood-spewing, fire-breathing hard-rock band Kiss, died Thursday in Morristown, N.J. He was 74. His death was announced by his family, which said heβd recently suffered a fall. βIn his last moments, we were fortunate enough to have been able to surround him…