Новости за 20.02.2016

Thousands of mourners, including much of Washington's legal establishment, gathered Saturday at the nation's largest Roman Catholic church for what Cardinal Donald Wuerl wryly described as a "simple parish family Mass" to honor and remember the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

I'm not saying I'll ever leave California and move to Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina or Nevada. But for months now, I've wished I had a front-row seat to the parade of presidential wannabes in the most entertaining primary season ever.

The antihero superhero tale “Deadpool” got off to another roaring weekend on Friday, bringing in more than $16 million on its way to a three-day estimate of around $55 million. Last week the Ryan Reynolds-starring action-comedy posted the biggest opening ever for an R-rated film in North America.

An off-duty Los Angeles police officer exchanged gunfire with a suspect after a deadly drive-by shooting early Saturday in San Pedro, police said.

The battle between the FBI and Apple Inc. over whether the tech giant should help open the locked cellphone of one of the San Bernardino shooters took a decidedly more heated tone Friday.

A California appeals court on Friday overturned the second-degree murder conviction of a driver who struck a man and drove two miles with his body embedded in her windshield.

A decade ago, Los Angeles city planners gave an energy company permission to drill up to 540 wells and produce up to 5,000 barrels of oil a day on a Wilmington site next door to a youth baseball field and blocks of homes.

Adam and Ryan Goldston, the 28-year-old identical-twin founders of breakout Los Angeles sneaker line Athletic Propulsion Labs, sat at a small, round table earlier this month in the glass-fronted showroom of their office. The space, outfitted with a pingpong table and sneaker samples, was tucked...

Traffic around a closed section of the 91 Freeway in Corona was normal early Saturday morning, according to transportation officials.

A few days shy of his 43rd birthday, L.A. native Ben "Baller" Yang gathered friends and family for a January dinner in a converted Mid-City smog check center to celebrate the launch of his upscale contemporary menswear line, an improbable third act in an already improbable career arc that includes...

We may think we want to live like rock stars, but Los Angeles real estate agent Skyler Hynes knows better. When client, alternative rocker and Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro decided to list his Hancock Park bungalow, the home's celebrity aura would only go so far. It had to be "de-gothed,"...

For anyone hoping to understand Friday's vote to elect a new FIFA president, it might help to think of it in terms of the ongoing Democratic and Republican primaries.

The highs and the lows of Grammy coverage

Regarding "The Grammys: The Trouble With a Swift Win" [Feb. 13]: Kudos to Mikael Wood — in one sentence, he provided the most apt summation of the Grammys' raison d'être ever penned: a celebration of "finely wrought arrangements, exceptional playing and...

No chimney? No problem.

Indoor bioethanol fireplaces are in vogue, exuding the primal warmth of a roaring fire even within chimney-deprived houses and apartments.

Models can be installed into recessed cavities, over existing walled-off fireplaces or hung on walls. Portable versions can be placed...

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art houses all kinds of treasures -- ancient Greek ceramics, West Mexican sculpture, thoroughly contemporary art. But just how unusual is it for the museum to collect a house?

Lithe bodies reaching toward the heavens doing sun salutations on a helipad overlooking the Hollywood sign as the morning sun streams over the Capitol Records building. Chiseled bodies "visualizing" success and calling out affirmations in a spin class overlooking picturesque palm trees and the...

A shallow magnitude 3.4 earthquake was reported Saturday morning near Ferndale on California's northern Pacific Coast, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 4:51 a.m. Pacific time at a depth of 10.6 miles.

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One of the best newspaper dramas ever made, the multi-Oscar-nominated film is based on the true story of a Boston Globe investigative reporting team that uncovered a pattern of sexual abuse and hush-money payoffs within their...

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I just returned from Aspen, where I had a wonderful day cross-country skiing at Ashcroft. At the end of the first leg of the 3.5-mile course, I was pleasantly surprised to find the Pine Creek Cook House. It is a beautiful modern log cabin, and the food was outstanding. I had parsnip soup,...

In late afternoons on Roatán Island, after the deluge of day-trippers from cruise-ship visit-days vanished, my friend Michel and I strolled along the sand and dined on fresh fish and seafood — with rice and beans, of course — roasted chicken, brick-oven pizza or steak at one of the beachside cafés,...

It's a big year for décolletage, and that means — in this season of shoulder-baring, deep-V-plunging and midsection-revealing cut-out gowns — that celebrities and Academy Award nominees preparing to walk the red carpet on Oscar Sunday (and be scrutinized by million of viewers worldwide) aren't...

"Ba-na-na dough-nut! Ba-na-na dough-nut!" Every afternoon, Milton's singsong call drifted down the beach and started me drooling.

This Valentine's Day, I celebrated a brand-new relationship — with my Nest Learning Thermostat.

Actor Joel Kinnaman, who will appear in the upcoming fourth season of “House of Cards” and the summer blockbuster “Suicide Squad,” has put his home in the Hollywood Hills West area on the market for $2.795 million.

When the artist, poet, activist and educator José Montoya died in 2013, he left a treasure trove of drawings in his Sacramento studio. The sketches — some 4,000 of them, accumulated over more than half a century of travels around California and beyond — were created on just about any material the...