Miller Sanford President Biden granted his son a “full and unconditional” pardon on Sunday. (Patrick Semansky / Associated Press) Days later I’m still seething that President Biden gave a “full and unconditional” pardon to his troublesome surviving son. And yet, reluctantly, I have to say that I’d have done the same thing — minus some of the … Read more
Los Angeles Times News Quiz this week: A presidential pardon, ‘Moana 2’ breaks a record I hope you enjoyed last week’s politics-free News Quiz, because this week I’m right back at it, testing your news knowledge on all kinds of politics from Gov. Newsom’s special session that kicked off on Monday to the swearing-in of … Read more
Peter Navarro, former UC Irvine professor and noted China hawk, was tapped by President-elect Donald Trump as a senior trade and manufacturing advisor. Navarro spoke in March before turning himself in to a federal prison to serve a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images) Some of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet … Read more
How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Molly Baz Molly Baz ended up in Los Angeles by chance. In March 2020, she was vacationing in L.A. with her family when government officials issued a stay-at-home order due to COVID. She didn’t feel comfortable going back to her crowded apartment building in New … Read more
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The Mujeres de Aztlán mural, painted in 1976, in the Ramona Gardens housing project as seen in 2020. (Josie Norris / Los Angeles Times) My home office looks like a Jenga game of nonfiction books I read about Southern California Latino life this past year — and almost none were duds. They ranged from a … Read more
How a makeup designer meticulously created those eye-popping looks for ‘The Substance’ Demi Moore was a trouper. Her full concentration was always on the process, according to prosthetic makeup designer Pierre Olivier Persin, speaking from Paris about his work on “The Substance,” Moore’s much-lauded body-horror movie. The actor sat through a makeup process that could … Read more
The potential policy changes raise questions about medical autonomy and whether such a system would lead to a different MAID regime in Alberta Alberta Mental Health and Addiction Minister Dan Williams makes an announcement at Bev Facey High School in Sherwood Park, Alta., on Sept. 11, 2024.Photo by Greg Southam /Postmedia The Alberta government is … Read more
The lobby of the Northern California Veterans Cemetery in Igo, Calif., where a sailor killed at Pearl Harbor will be buried Friday. (Northern California Veterans Cemetery ) Kathie Svoboda has never met her Uncle William, but a new relationship has been forged 83 years after his death. The Navy serviceman, killed in the 1941 attack … Read more
‘Magnolia’ made me want to write about movies. Then Hollywood stopped making movies like ‘Magnolia’ So now then. This is the story of a budding cinephile who stumbled upon an unusual film and resolved, insofar as any 13-year-old can set firm intentions, to spend the rest of his life watching, and writing about, movies. An … Read more
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