A man was killed Monday in a possible gang-related shooting in Santa Ana, authorities said. The shooting occurred about 7:35 p.m. near 17th Street and North Spurgeon Street, said Cmdr. Matt Sorenson of the Santa Ana Police Department. When officers arrived, they found a man with a gunshot wound...
Good morning. It is Monday, Oct. 12. Golf courses in the Coachella Valley are hoping to get younger people interested in the sport with GolfBoards, which are a cross between a surfboard and an electric scooter. Here's what else is happening in the Golden State: Subscribe to the newsletter TOP STORIES...
If there's one team sportswriters love, it's St. John Bosco. The Braves have played six games this season, and every game has resulted in a running clock in the fourth quarter, making sportswriters very happy with making their deadlines. Now the Braves (6-0) are expected to have a tougher time...
On the surface, the new exhibition at the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) in Long Beach doesn't seem unusual. A series of more than two dozen paintings and mixed-media works by Mexican American artists from around Southern California depict various guises of landscapes — from a tight city...
Check out these upcoming culinary events: Taste of Mexico Food Festival — The fifth annual celebration of Los Angeles' rich Mexican culinary scene is returning to La Plaza de Cultura y Artes in downtown Saturday. Highlights include food tastings, a tequila tent, a mezcaleria installation, a michelada...
Snapchat added online media company Refinery29 to its Discover feature on Monday. Refinery29 targets young women with health and beauty information, drawing 25 million unique website visitors a month. Its Discover channel will feature tutorials, quizzes and recipes “programmed to inspire and empower...
Dating to 1886, this Queen Anne Victorian in Pasadena’s Madison Heights area recently received a landmark designation from the city. Featuring a front porch and gable trim, the charming two-story includes first-floor areas zoned for either business or residential use and an upstairs apartment previously...
From Fred Cole to Rose Marie Reid and beyond, Los Angeles has a long history of producing fashionable swim and resort wear with a celebrity angle that sells it to the wider world. And today, Hale Bob is one of the L.A. labels carrying on the tradition. Founded 14 years ago by Paris transplant Daniel...
The late, great Peter Boyle may have shuffled off this mortal coil nearly a decade ago, but anyone who was lucky enough to be at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre on Saturday night will tell you his memory —and legacy of laughter – is alive and well. The occasion was the International Myeloma Foundation’s...
Green Zone, visitors to the San Gabriel Valley know, is a pan-Asian restaurant in the sweet spot of Valley Boulevard, known for its light, almost greaseless takes on what I suppose you could call fusion cooking, and an insistence, rare in that part of town, on organic ingredients. Even among people...
Big things are happening on Friday night in Calabasas, and it doesn't have anything to do with the Kardashians. Camarillo (6-0), ranked No 1 in the Northern Division, faces Calabasas (6-0), ranked No. 1 in the Western Division, in a game that should reveal plenty about both teams. Camarillo gave...
Temperatures soared to 100 degrees over the last three days, making it the longest stretch of scorching triple-digit heat in downtown Los Angeles in more than 25 years, forecasters say. The record-breaking heat could be felt across the Southland, but the temperatures were consecutively hot in downtown...
The thinking man’s sex symbol. That’s the woman Los Angeles designer Maria Korovilas is catering to with her label, Korovilas, launched through the Gen Art Fresh Faces in Fashion show in 2012. Korovilas and her business partner, Katie Bernhisel, who met at USC, have developed a growing business...
It was a celebration of individuality Saturday night at the Hammer Museum’s Gala in the Garden, a fundraiser for the museum that has become so successful in its 13 years that it has nearly outgrown its garden setting. Neither heat wave nor Obamajam could spoil the party sponsored by Bottega Veneta,...
During the 2014 football season, a camera crew from ESPN's E:60 followed the Bernstein High football team. On Wednesday at 8 p.m. (PDT), a film entitled, "Lettermen," debuts about how Bernstein's coach, Maski Matsumoto, helped change lives with a simple request from the parents. He asked them to...
Steve Martin rushed to the edge of the stage at the Hammer Museum’s annual gala on Saturday evening in Los Angeles, just after hip hop singer Aloe Blacc finished performing a three-song set for a crowd of about 600 people. “You were great, just great, Martin enthused. “I didn’t realize I was sitting...
Miami Heat forward-center Chris Bosh, who returned to action this month after suffering a career-threatening injury in February, has put his home court in Pacific Palisades back up for lease at $45,000 a month. Bosh bought the Mediterranean-style home in Pacific Highlands in 2012 for $9.4 million,...
The skillful technique seen in textiles here is a testament to the spirit of the Pueblo and Navajo people, particularly those whose artistry dates to the turmoil between 1860 and 1880, when change rained down on native lands in the form of railroads, American military and settlers from Eastern...
What does about $425,000 buy you in Los Angeles? In one area, an early-1900s period home and in another, a newer 3,570-square-foot house with a range of amenities. Here’s a sampling of homes in Los Angeles County on the market at that price point. SUN VALLEY: Built in the 1940s, this renovated...
Model and television personality Tyra Banks has put her romantic Beverly Hills estate on the market at $7.75 million. She renovated the Spanish Colonial-style home, built in 1926, while maintaining key architectural elements. The "FabLife" series co-host put an estimated $2 million into work on...
"Development opportunity," "selling for land value" and "as is" are phrases used in real estate listings to describe tear-downs, those homes probably destined for the proverbial wrecking ball. Mansions with multimillion-dollar price tags, former homes of famous owners, and estates designed by renowned...
This Midcentury Modern "treehouse" in Silver Lake is sited to capture 180-degree views from the mountains to the ocean. Made of redwood, maple, concrete and steel, the multistory Modernist home opens to expansive deck space for indoor-outdoor living. Location: 1977 Lucile Ave., Los Angeles 90039...
In keeping with an old showbiz tradition, Steve Martin is using his star power to vouch for a little-known talent he thinks the public should know and love — Lawren Harris, a Canadian landscape painter who died in 1970, famed in his homeland but all but unheard of in the United States. Martin,...
A New York City newspaper blogger assailed UCLA on Friday for investigating a Kanye West-themed fraternity and sorority party where students showed up in blackface, saying the university should be defending free speech instead of policing the campus for political correctness. "We are increasingly...
The Los Angeles Unified School District on Friday tentatively lifted its day-old suspension of commercial filming at campuses to allow five film projects to move forward. At the same time, the district will continue a review of existing practices and update, as needed, district procedures for handling...
California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris slammed Congress on Friday for failing to pass gun control legislation after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012. Harris, a candidate for U.S. Senate, drew raucous applause from the audience at the Politicon convention in downtown Los Angeles as...
A man who witnesses said shot a homeless man to death and wounded a second at the order of a Venice hotel owner has been arrested, Los Angeles police announced Friday. On Monday, the FBI fugitive task force arrested Francisco Cardenaz Guzman, 28, on suspicion of killing 26-year-old Jascent Warren...
The LAPD sent its dive unit into a Van Nuys storm drain Thursday, looking for an "unknown dark object" that officers told investigators they saw a man holding before they fatally shot him. Police said the man threw a 40-ounce beer bottle through the back window of the officers' patrol car on Saturday...
A heat wave gripped Southern California on Friday, with one Ventura County community hitting the highest temperature reading since record-keeping began. A weather station near Camarillo Airport recorded 108 degrees, breaking the all-time high of 103 recorded on Sept. 23, 1978. Elsewhere, triple-digit...
A man and woman have been taken into custody in the fatal shooting of a man during a dispute Thursday evening in Pico Rivera, sheriff’s officials said. Deputies stopped and arrested Vincent Rodriguez, 28, and Mary Bedolla, 47, on Whittier Boulevard, several blocks away from the shooting, according...
A UCLA football player has been arrested on suspicion of raping a fellow student at an off-campus party, the Los Angeles police said Friday. Adam Searl, a punter on the team, was arrested and booked Thursday afternoon on three counts of suspicion of rape. He posted $300,000 bond and was released...
With President Obama visiting Los Angeles on Saturday and two major sports events scheduled on the same day, drivers are bracing for another #Obamajam. Obama’s whirlwind fund-raising visit could create more headaches than usual because of the sports matches. In Pasadena, more than 90,000 fans are...
Thomas Wylde, the Los Angeles brand that ignited the celebrity trend of rock 'n' roll skull-printed silk scarves in 2006, has had a reboot, with a new creative director. Jene Park, formerly chief operating officer, replaced Paula Thomas, the tough-talking, model-turned-stylist-turned-founder of...
Rob Morrow of “Numb3rs” fame has listed his singular house in Santa Monica for sale at $7.2 million. Designed by architect Melinda Gray, the three-story house is described as “modern-classic style” in the listing. The loft-like space is divided on the main floor by an industrial-vibe staircase....
Three Orange County beaches remained closed Friday after a more than 10-foot shark rushed toward a surfer at Sunset Beach. The water along Bolsa Chica State Beach, Seal Beach and Sunset Beach could reopen by 4 p.m. Friday. Meanwhile, signs have been posted warning swimmers and surfers of the shark...
Just in for a "very, very short" time from Paris, Dior Homme creative directorKris van Assche recently sat in the courtyard at the Chateau Marmont for a chat before heading upstairs to host a cocktail party for the likes of John Legend, ASAP Rocky, Miles Teller, Orlando Bloom and male model of...
The telescoping glass walls of this contemporary-style home slide away to reveal an infinity-edge swimming pool and spa set off by a backdrop of 270-degree city and ocean views. Herringbone wood floors, gallery walls and a wall fireplace done in Negro Marquina marble lend an air of refinement to...
When Alexis Rivera, a music manager who lives and works in the northeast Los Angeles enclave of Highland Park, exits his little storefront office, he has on occasion witnessed a culture collision between a famous comedian and a reclusive hip-hop producer that to him typifies the thriving state...
When you walk down 6th Street in Koreatown about a quarter to nine some night, perhaps on your way to an early cocktail at the Walker Inn or a late cheeseburger at Cassell's, you are likely to run across an odd scrum of people lining the sidewalk outside the Hotel Normandie, not quite all of whom...
If you've been spending way too much time driving around Chinatown stalking chef Andy Ricker, whether at his Pok Pok Phat Thai counter in the Far East Plaza or at the construction site that has been Pok Pok LA since January, then we have happy news. Ricker says that on Monday he'll open reservation...
Chanting “Black Bruins matter,” UCLA students crammed into Chancellor Gene Block’s office Thursday, demanding a response after some students wore blackface to a Kanye West-themed fraternity party.Holding signs reading, “Our culture is not a costume,” hundreds of students marched on campus days...
If you've had a drink in Los Angeles in the last 10 years, chances are you've tried a cocktail dreamed up by Julian Cox. The bartender, known for his smoky barbacoa mezcal drink at the now-closed Rivera in downtown Los Angeles, is behind some of the best bar programs in the city, including those...
A gown-clad guitarist jamming Hendrixesque, a Donald Trump hat cameo and a bumper crop of barely covered bosoms sound like a recipe for late-night television, but it actually was the closing show of day three of Arts Hearts Fashion’s lineup at the Taglyan Complex in Hollywood. The label was Stello,...
Art Hearts Fashion’s third day of L.A. fashion week shows at the Taglyan Complex in Hollywood kicked off Wednesday with presentation of five kids-wear brands including the runway debut of a collection by 11-year-old cancer survivor from Dallas named Noa Sorrell. Sorrell’s line, which didn’t even...
A federal judge Thursday ordered the city of Inglewood to pay the legal fees of a local resident whom the city unsuccessfully sued for using snippets of City Council meetings in YouTube videos that were critical of elected officials. In a 12-page decision filed Thursday, federal Judge Michael Fitzgerald...
The Los Angeles City Council on Friday will consider an ambitious proposal to mandate the retrofitting of as many as 15,000 older buildings that are vulnerable to collapse in a catastrophic earthquake. The measure, initially proposed by Mayor Eric Garcetti, is potentially costly for property owners,...
Miles Aldridge is a fashion photographer with an eye for the tragedy behind the glamour. The women in his pictures are extravagantly beautiful and impeccably dressed but often reside within scenes of domestic bliss minus the bliss. His work is like a series of vivid single-frame movie melodramas:...