California
Watch L.A.
Sept. 13, 2024
Sparks
The WNBA team in Portland, Ore., will be owned and operated by Raj Sports, led by Lisa Bhathal Merage and Alex Bhathal. They paid $125 million for the franchise.
Sept. 18, 2024
USC Sports
Chess taught Miller Moss and Kamari Ramsey, the quarterbacks of USC’s offense and defense, how to see the whole field and adapt strategies.
Aug. 29, 2024
Chargers
Joey Bosa was the Chargers’ leading tackler during a Week 1 win over the Raiders, but a back injury kept him out of practice Thursday ahead of the Carolina game.
Sept. 12, 2024
World & Nation
In the midst of one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, a chess club for kids is thriving in a camp for the displaced in eastern Congo.
Aug. 10, 2024
The remote Duck Valley reservation that straddles Nevada and Idaho has battled toxic contaminants on its land for decades.
Sept. 10, 2024
Entertainment & Arts
The campus will host a free, one-night-only reading of the play, drawn from interviews with eyewitnesses of the attacks, after its off-Broadway run earlier this year.
Sept. 5, 2024
Movies
James Darren, the teen idol who famously played surfer boy Moondoggie in the midcentury ‘Gidget’ films, died Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center at 88.
Sept. 3, 2024
Over the last two decades, Mexican singer-songwriter Natalia Lafourcade has established herself as one of the most revered and celebrated artists from Latin America. This week, she’ll be performing two shows at the Hollywood Bowl.
Hollywood Inc.
After years of complaining about Google’s dominance in search, Yelp sued after a federal judge recently ruled that Google has an illegal monopoly in search.
Aug. 30, 2024