Новости за 25.12.2015

Spending Christmas in jail is nothing new for Matthew Abplanalp.

Still, he said, it is heartbreaking to be apart from his teenage daughter and elderly father.

And he is determined it will never happen again. He will enter a drug rehabilitation program when he is released in February.

“I’m not going...

Santa has come and gone. There's wrapping paper strewn all over the floor. And the family is starting to bicker.

Kobe Bryant will be playing in his final Christmas game when the Lakers host the Clippers at 7:30 p.m. at Staples Center.

Officers arresting a man on a drug-related warrant this week recovered some unexpected contraband: dozens of pieces of stolen mail, including more than $55,000 in checks meant for veterans, police said.

Troy Warner, a defensive back from Mission Hills High, committed to BYU in September but had recently considered switching his commitment to USC.

After days of wet weather leading up to Christmas Eve, parishioners of St. James the Great Episcopal Church were relieved with a forecast of drier conditions Thursday.

Look at a list of the musicians whose songs and albums are among the biggest sellers of 2015 — or are among the most nominated for February's Grammy Awards — and of course you'll find Adele, Taylor Swift and the Weeknd.

SUNDAY

It doesn't get much more star-studded than two new editions of "Variety Studio: Actors on Actors." 6 and 7 p.m. KOCE

They'll be baking 'em, eating 'em and perhaps even throwing 'em in the new competition series "Cupcake Wars Kids." 9 p.m. Food Network

"The House Sitter" didn't feed the cat...

Director Quentin Tarantino had never commissioned a custom film score and is famous for fabricating his soundtracks with existing songs and score cues. He chalks this up — as he said during a recent Q&A at the Directors Guild — to the fact that "I didn't ever want to trust a composer with the soul...

Is it possible to become converted in a single bite? Because with a single fried chicken wing at the original Portland Pok Pok in 2007, I dropped my prejudices about non-European cooking in Oregon, the crossover potential of extreme Asian funk, and the ability of a non-Thai to prepare anything...

True Religion jeans co-founder Kym Gold, who in November sold her home in Malibu for $18.45 million, has bought a newly built house in Encino for $6.3 million.

According to Alice Waters in the "Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook," whenever legendary chef Jeremiah Tower made blini at Chez Panisse, he'd recount how his Russian uncle felt about butter. You had enough only when it ran down and dripped off your elbows as you ate the blini. His were, of course, topped...

Forget the dogs barking out "Jingle Bells."

Portuguese airline TAP, which turned 70 years old in 2015, has come up with a clever version of the classic Christmas song. It uses the click of seat belts, the snap of tray tables and other aircraft sounds.

OK, maybe not every single note comes from...

If part of Christmas means sharing the holiday with others, some veterans received an early gift.

There are many things you could drink with your New Year's Eve supper, but if you're making an Italian feast, you would do well to ring out the last day of the year with Lambrusco. Even if you're not cooking a vat of tortellini in brodo yourself, the fizzy, bittersweet wine from the area around...

In Bologna where Steve Samson's mother, Anna, grew up, tortellini is the dish of celebration, part of the meal at every special occasion — birthdays, weddings, even New Year's Eve. So when the chef/owner of Sotto and his entire family went back to Bologna this past summer to celebrate his parents'...

In the first visit by an Indian leader to Pakistan in more than a decade, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his Pakistani counterpart in Lahore on Friday, rekindling hopes for a detente between the rival nations. 

Snowy conditions and a tornado battered Northern California as yet another storm moved through.

Inside Starburns Industries, a castle-shaped warehouse on Isabel Street in Burbank, Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson were peering over a miniature movie set at their star, a distinguished, melancholy-looking puppet named Michael.

Sports radio and television host Colin Cowherd has sold his home in Naples, Fla., for $3.9 million. The buyer was Allen Lenzmeier, the former president and chief operating officer of Best Buy Co.

Reading poetry on Christmas might not be a widespread tradition, but maybe it should be. With all the clamor of kids playing with their new toys, family members catching up with one another and basketball blaring on the TV, it's probably a good idea to reserve a little time to yourself.

Merry Christmas. It's Friday, Dec. 25. For an inspiring holiday story about Los Angeles, we turn the clock back to 1969: the "hobo" hero and the cop who would be famous. Here's what else is happening in the Golden State:

So many lumps of coal, so little time. We've seen a lot of mischief and bad behavior this year, from mean-spirited campaign pledges to deceptive diesel engines to stubbornly profligate water use. (And that's not even counting the truly evil deeds of 2015, starting with the Charlie Hebdo killings...

Each Christmas, even as we watch our children unwrap the toys and gadgets that some faceless multinational corporation or other sneakily persuaded them to want, we worry that we're spoiling the next generation and debasing the noble spirit of the holidays. Where is the peace on Earth and goodwill...

Luke's account of the birth of Jesus probably conjures sentimental feelings for most people. It might even call to mind the soulful recitation given by Linus in “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” Now, I have nothing against sentimentality, but if that's all we get out of the story of the birth of Jesus,...