Hot Property Newsletter: The Beach Boys still 'get around' in housing circles
What are the chances that one of the three remaining original Beach Boys would be a player in the current real estate market and the former home of another would be up for grabs? This week’s collection also includes properties associated with a best-selling novelist, a boxing champion and a king (of sorts). Our Home…
What is this sport called pickleball anyway?
What is pickleball anyway? The sport, according to the USA Pickleball Assn., was invented near Seattle in the 1960s when the children of several families became bored with their usual summertime activities. Their dads adapted ping-pong paddles and came up with some simple rules. The game took off and is now is played around the…
Merry Christmas. Here's a tiny Anna Wintour for your tree
It’s easy to forget that the first Christmas tree adornments were relatively simple. Celebrants in 16th century Germany, the birthplace of the decorated evergreen, relied on apples, baked goods, candles and tin ornaments. Apparently, they were unable to track millennial influencers on Instagram or Etsy to tell them otherwise. These simple, homespun ornaments are still…
Trump suspends plan to classify Mexican cartels as terrorist groups
Mexico City — The United States will not classify Mexican drug cartels as international terrorist organizations — at least for now. President Trump tweeted Friday afternoon that he was holding off on the designation at the request of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, “a man who I like and respect, and has worked so well…
Nikki Haley says Charleston church shooter 'hijacked' meaning of Confederate flag
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said in an interview that a man who gunned down nine worshipers at an African American church in her state in 2015 “hijacked” the ideals many connected to the Confederate battle flag. Haley told conservative political commentator and Blaze TV host Glenn Beck that the flag had meant “service…
Iran frees Chinese American scholar for U.S.-held scientist
TEHRAN — Iran and the U.S. conducted a prisoner exchange Saturday that saw a detained Princeton scholar released for an Iranian scientist held by America, marking a rare diplomatic breakthrough between Tehran and Washington after months of tensions. In a trade conducted in Zurich, Switzerland, Iranian officials handed over Chinese American graduate student Xiyue Wang, detained…
Racing! Los Alamitos opens short meeting
Hello, my name is John Cherwa and welcome to our horse racing newsletter as we welcome back Michael Wrona to race calling in Southern California. Los Alamitos is back and running Friday in a short seven-day thoroughbred meeting. This week is Friday through Sunday and next week is Thursday through Sunday. Weekday posts are 1…
Instagram’s Decision, Explained
The Instagram interns Matt and Maht explain how the social-media company’s brave new likes policy will affect you.
Ralph Lauren’s American Dreams
Early on in “Very Ralph,” the new HBO documentary about Ralph Lauren, the camera enters the designer’s princely office at his company’s headquarters in New York. Like a modern-day Wunderkammer, the expansive wood-panelled room is packed nearly to bursting with objects big and small, mementos of Lauren’s fifty-plus-year career: an old-timey bicycle seemingly plucked out…
Facts vs. Fiction in the Impeachment Proceedings Against Donald Trump
Listen with: iTunes WNYC Stitcher TuneIn This week, after two months of questioning seventeen former and current State Department and White House officials, the House Intelligence Committee released its report on the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. What has the country learned with certainty about how the Administration tried to strong-arm the new President of…