Новости за 20.04.2018

Earth Day on Sunday is a good time to think about planning a trip to see California’s redwoods. Yosemite’s spectacular Mariposa Grove, which has been shut for a three-year restoration project, will reopen to visitors June 15.

Small-lot developments have long been plagued by complexity: how to box together single-family homes on tight, row house-style parcels while maintaining privacy. Who wants to watch a neighbor washing his dishes, or worse?

When she barks, her voice cracks.

I see in this baby wolf — the one I just inherited and who may now outlive me — I see in this young pet a playfulness, almost a charisma, that I like very much. It reminds me of her late owner. It reminds me of his inherent boyishness and my own Huckleberry past....

Federal regulators slapped Wells Fargo & Co. with a fine of $1 billion on Friday, punishing the San Francisco bank for abuses that harmed mortgage and auto loan borrowers, and for what regulators said was a pervasive and “reckless” lack of risk management.

Adrien Broner and Jessie Vargas took decidedly different approaches to a Thursday news conference preceding their fight this weekend: Broner groaned on about how the world seems to be against him, while Vargas remained calm in his three-piece suit and plotted how victory over the former four-division...

I was 9 years old. My father was at war.

I watched Vietnam every night on TV, wind blowing through the tall grass of a distant land, numbers of the fallen flashing on the screen, all in black and white, a war in two colors, scary and real in my living room, ticking away in the hour before the latest...

Remember the fable about frogs in a pot of water, oblivious to the temperature slowly changing from tepid to boiling until it's too late? The same thing is true for critics, except it's not water we're immersed in, it's movies.

Social justice is a topic in L.A. smaller-theater productions of "Key Change" by Collective Studio: Los Angeles, "Native Son" by Antaeus, "The Immigrant" by Sierra Madre Playhouse and "Enrique VIII y Catalina de Aragón" by Bilingual Foundation of the Arts.

The year 1968, as I remember it, had the quality of lasting longer than other years, of being in no hurry to be through with you, like a predator playing with its prey before swallowing it whole. I also watched a lot of television.

Most of them probably didn’t know it when they took the stage at their biggest concerts, but Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, Elton John, the Who, Paul McCartney, Kansas, Queen, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, U2 and others among rock music’s most celebrated acts owe a debt of gratitude for their lucrative...

A look at 10 essential, under-the-radar L.A.-area records from 1968, including works by Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, Three Dog Night and Alice Coltrane.

“Beggars Banquet.” “Electric Ladyland.” “Wheels of Fire.”

Rock fans know the important albums from 1968 that helped set the table — along with the opening that year of the Forum in Inglewood and Madison Square Garden in New York — for what we now refer to as arena rock.

But shirtless guitar gods...

“One black, one white, one blonde” was the tagline for a new kind of cop show that premiered in 1968 on the heels of Vietnam’s bloody Tet Offensive, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, a shootout between the Black Panthers and Oakland police and the passage of the Fair Housing Act.

The Doors reveled in their role as rock’s new bad boys when they burst onto the pop music scene in 1966, and two years later, when they helped usher in the nascent era of arena rock with the opening of the Forum in Inglewood. They carried that idea all the way through to the acts they invited to...

COLCOA French Film Festival The annual festival opens with director Eric Barbier’s Promise at Dawn, starring Pierre Niney as celebrated French author and diplomat Romain Gary (real-life husband of Jean Seberg) and Charlotte Gainsbourg as his overbearing mother. Directors Guild Theater Complex,...

In the newly released comedy “Godard Mon Amour,” Michel Hazanavicius’ playful flashback to France in the fateful year of 1968, a young Jean-Luc Godard (played by Louis Garrel) marches with an enormous crowd in Paris. Alongside him is the critic and filmmaker Michel Cournot, whose “Les Gauloises...

The mighty Gold Wing is arguably the most important motorcycle in Honda’s entire lineup.

Geobiologist Victoria Orphan stands at the stern of the research vessel Western Flyer, watching her colleagues put the last touches on an unusual spread. Among the offerings: a large turkey leg, an alligator head and bowls of gelatinous agar that resemble consomme.

While explaining why she recently opted to present her spring 2018 collection through a series of social media posts, designer Rebecca Minkoff said, “I did not feel like live streaming my birth as part of my fashion show.”

Honor the historic contributions of African Americans on a four-day tour this fall to the nation’s capital, offered by Friendly Excursions.

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Friday, April 20, and here’s what’s happening across California:

Nestled in the scenic foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, Sierra Madre retains much of the quaint character that made the town and its surrounding environs a popular tourist destination during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

El gran terremoto de San Francisco de 1906, que esta semana cumplió 112 años, alertó a California ante los peligros de los terremotos.

Cal State, the nation’s largest public university system, will no longer consider a plan to raise tuition for the 2018-19 academic year, Chancellor Timothy P. White announced Friday.

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