Cody Bellinger rounds third after hitting a two-run home run in the first inning. (Mark J. Terrill / Associated Press) Howdy, I’m your host, Houston Mitchell. Let’s get right to the news. Newsletter Go beyond the scoreboard Get the latest on L.A.’s teams in the daily Sports Report newsletter. Enter email address Sign Me Up … Read more
The crowd gathers around Negashi Armada at a Factory Made reading. (Anya GTA) 1 The reading was more of a house show in more of an uncovered garage. Nitrous-filled balloons and chaos-theory fashion dotted the buoyant crowd, who treated the writers as rock stars, and the literary event turned out more of a parenthesis than … Read more
Tom Hanks has sparked fresh health concerns among fans following his appearance on “Saturday Night Live!” over the weekend. The Academy Award-winning actor, 68, appeared on the show to support host Martin Short, alongside stars Scarlett Johansson, Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Wiig and John Mulaney. But soon after coming out during the show’s Five-Timers … Read more
David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash. (Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images) David Crosby was a crucial voice of both the hippie idealism and the world-weary realism of the classic-rock era. As a founding member of the Byrds and later Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, he helped invent folk-rock and country-rock in the 1960s … Read more
Japanese automakers Honda and Nissan have announced plans to join forces, forming the world’s third-largest automaker by sales as the industry undergoes dramatic changes in its transition away from fossil fuels. The two companies said they had signed a memorandum of understanding on Monday and that smaller Nissan alliance member Mitsubishi Motors also had agreed … Read more
After a couple of rocky stretches, the Ducks’ “Generation Y” line of twentysomethings Corey Perry, Ryan Getzlaf and Dustin Penner is playing its best hockey of the season, and a big reason is the consistent spark provided by Perry. Perry, selected by the Ducks in the first round of the 2003 draft, has been on … Read more
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) told a jury Friday how he had taken his son and nephew for a late-night drink March 30 to overcome a melancholy mood, but denied that he heard screams or saw any evidence that his nephew had raped a woman later on the lawn of the family’s oceanfront estate. In … Read more
As a bemused crowd of would-be illegal immigrants looked on from a makeshift hilltop refreshment stand, Republican presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan on Tuesday stepped into a confrontational arena that sums up his often confrontational campaign: the U.S.-Mexico border. “I am calling attention to a national disgrace,” Buchanan told reporters, his suit and shoes dusty … Read more
FLAMINGO: A Photographer’s Odyssey by Hara (Abrams: $35; 128 pp . , paperback original). This striking volume chronicles the author’s safari to photograph the flamingos of Africa’s Great Rift Valley. Simultaneously graceful and gawky, flamingos have few defenses against predators and rely on a hostile environment of alkali-encrusted mud flats, where the daytime temperature can … Read more
Iain Armitage, left, and Jim Parsons on the set of “Young Sheldon.” The series finale aired on Thursday. (Bill Inoshita / Warner Bros. Entertainment) If this story began with a narrator, it would go something like this: Seven years ago, just a few weeks from making his debut as the face of “Young Sheldon,” the … Read more
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