Новости за 12.03.2016

Malibu Creek State Park, in the Calabasas area north of Los Angeles, is a great hiking hangout, replete with sunny hillsides, shady valleys and hidden streams and lakes. But it's so popular that parking, especially on the weekend, is a nightmare. (It could be even more crowded while Runyon Canyon...

It would be easy, really easy, to hate on Rob Lowe for rolling out a signature fragrance with a nearly $90 price tag and a name, 18 Amber Wood, that could have been plucked off the stage at Jumbo's Clown Room on Hollywood Boulevard, but then you have to consider two things: The actor, who quietly...

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It's almost impossible to describe this period romance without using the word "lovely," even though the word makes the movie sound more lightweight than it is. Director John Crowley and screenwriter Nick Hornby hold fast...

Courtney Guerra's lifestyle reflects the best of Southern California. A former professional beach volleyball player, the UC Santa Barbara grad picked up farming and cooking skills at Napa's legendary Meadowood resort and gardens before returning to the Los Angeles area. The Venice resident's latest...

Marion Davies was so much more than publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst's mistress. Hearst created a film production company, Cosmopolitan Pictures, which created star vehicles for Davies.

Grab your hoops:

Hoopurbia — billed as the world's first ever urban hula hooping festival — is coming to Los Angeles.

The weeklong event starts March 14 at locations including Echo Park, downtown Los Angeles and Venice: It's designed for people who want to dive into the hot hula hooping trend,...

Beloved New York eatery Shake Shack is planting its buns on the West Coast for the first time, opening Tuesday on a busy block in West Hollywood.

Oprah once said, "Your home should be the thing that rises up to meet you." That's serious curb appeal. "We live in a crazy world," says Laura Morton, certified landscape professional and owner of Laura Morton Design in West Hollywood. "We have busy days ... when you come back home you should feel...

With Shake Shack moving into the Los Angeles area, it's time to see how well you can recognize the competition. To test the true burger aficionados, we're making this tough. All you get is the photo and an overview of ingredients. Do you know which chains sell these burgers? READ MORE: Shake Shack,...

Good morning. It is Saturday, March 12. Here’s what you don’t want to miss this weekend:

To the editor: To deduce that the caesarean delivery rate has been decreasing because insurance companies have demanded cost cutting misses all the efforts made by health groups to educate not only obstetricians, but also hospital administrators and the public regarding the risks involved with...

Almost from the moment that the Cunninghams saw the Los Feliz home that they would eventually buy, they knew that they wouldn't use the spacious dining room for its intended purpose.

Every season sees a fresh cycle of fashion trends that are often as fleeting (polka dots, anyone?) as they are exciting to take part in day to day (wide-legged pants are back!). This time around, however, there are fashion selections with major staying power such as bomber jackets, cropped denim...

To the editor: The Times takes issue with the anti-free-trade rhetoric coming from the presidential campaigns of Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders. ("Sanders and Trump dump on free trade, but they're not telling the whole story," editorial, March 10)

Nancy and Ronald Reagan were larger-than-life figures globally. But the president and the first lady, who died Sunday, were also locals who interacted with the denizens of Los Angeles. Consequently, some readers have written letters sharing memories of those encounters.

To the editor: In his op-ed article praising Donald Trump for promising to broker Israeli-Palestinian negotiations from a neutral standpoint, Dov Waxman has the role of an effective mediator backward. ("Trump's one good foreign policy idea: neutrality in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," Opinion,...

Can young children represent themselves in immigration court? One federal immigration judge thinks so. Judge Jack Weil is assistant chief immigration judge for the U.S. Department of Justice. Part of his job includes coordinating training for other immigration judges and court staff. In a recently...

Armed with cans of spray paint, 28-year-old Afghan graffiti artist Shamsia Hassani ventures into the streets of Kabul to create feminist murals on the walls of abandoned, bombed-out buildings. She has to work fast - only 15 to 20 minutes before she flees. Some works are left incomplete. But for...

Disneyland's properties are home to many familiar, friendly and family-approved pop tunes, but music's rebellious, tough and even slightly salacious side has a presence at the resort as well. You'll find it in a part of the park where a youth-driven, jukebox-focused culture has sprung to life.

The Mexican man accused of killing five people in the Midwest this week had a history of violence and arrests in Los Angeles, according to court records obtained by the Los Angeles Times.

Good morning. I'm Paul Thornton, The Times' letters editor, and it is Saturday, March 12. Readers in Arizona (most of it, anyway) and Hawaii, ignore this sentence: Don't forget to set your clocks ahead one hour tonight. But before we time-travel into the future, let's take a look back at the week...

Netflix delivered two new comedies Friday occupying opposite ends of the fresh/frozen aisle. "The Characters" is a revolving-star sketch series offering a "Portlandia"-like showcase to rising comedians, a concept with mixed but consistently interesting results; "Flaked" stars Will Arnett as yet...

Though he had directed some of the most acclaimed documentaries of the contemporary era, Joe Berlinger was just a regular guy grappling with personal issues when he decided to attend a Tony Robbins seminar back in 2012.Robbins had reached out to Berlinger after seeing the filmmaker’s Metallica...

When Honest Co. launched five years ago, the Santa Monica firm targeted a market uncommon among start-ups: diapers.

A trial that may determine whether a Southern California law school overstated the success of its graduates has landed at the center of a national discussion over how law schools have marketed themselves.