California
UC chancellors will be paid about $900,000 at Davis and Irvine; a bit less at Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Riverside and Merced; and nearly $1.2 million at San Francisco.
Sept. 20, 2024
For the last 70 years, Wilmington residents have faced off to become the blue-collar community’s honorary mayor. The winner gets a two-year term that offers no salary, no staff and no political power.
Sept. 18, 2024
Food
Best Bet pizza to open in Culver City, a new cocktail bar from one of South Bay’s top Italian restaurants, Sticky Rice expands, a festive holiday market and more.
Dec. 14, 2022
The state’s legal weed industry faces a wave of turmoil, allowing other states to gain ground.
Sept. 21, 2024
Entertainment & Arts
San Diego Symphony used its pandemic closure as an opportunity to gut parts of Jacobs Music Center, built in 1929 as a movie palace. The goal: improve sound and sight lines, replace seats and otherwise entice the audience to return.
Sept. 23, 2024
There’s no trendy, expensive shortcut to self-discovery.
The punishment for Rosa Gonzalez, now a deputy, came after she accused department officials of discrimination.
Sept. 14, 2024
Trump bought his cliffside golf course in Rancho Palos Verdes after the 18th hole fell into the ocean. Now, the scenic city is a disaster zone.
Sept. 13, 2024
Movies
Sebastian Stan plays a facially deformed actor who emerges from a miracle cure to realize he’s lost something deeper, in a movie co-starring Renate Reinsve.
A 500-pound bear crashed a picnic. What happened next set off a heated debate.