Month: December 2019

LAS VEGAS —  UCLA’s offense was a mess. The point guard hesitated to take open shots, the big men couldn’t score on collapsing defenders and seemingly everyone on the roster committed turnovers. Watching it all inside T-Mobile Arena was a player who could have solved many of the problems. Daishen Nix surveyed his future teammates from…

Two of the surprise basketball teams in the opening month of the season have been Corona Centennial (10-2) and King-Drew (11-1), with each winning tournament championships on Saturday. In Las Vegas, Centennial won the toughest division of the Tarkanian Classic, taking the Platinum title with four consecutive victories culminating with a 71-55 win over Las…

‘Twas a couple of weeks before Christmas, when the culprit sneaked up to a San Pedro home, snatched a package on the porch and ran off with the goods. But a witness quickly caught the thief: an unlikely but rather anxious bushy-tailed squirrel. The package was returned to its owner. The incident was caught on…

A joyous New Orleans-style Second Line parade to honor the roughly 1,000 homeless people who have died in Los Angeles County this year turned to anger on Friday, as skid row mourners stopped at City Hall to denounce elected officials for not halting the growing death toll. Dozens of skid row residents and advocates, all…

A storm will bring widespread rain to Southern California from Sunday through Monday evening, according to the National Weather Service, and winter weather advisories are in effect beginning as early as noon on Sunday for the higher elevations. Snow levels are expected to be in the range of 5,500 to 6,500 feet on Sunday, but…

Click:light novel The Torah scrolls lay strewn on the floor of Nessah Synagogue, some wrinkled and unraveled, others thrown on chairs alongside shredded prayer books. Piles of blue and white tallits and kippahs littered the floor, pulled from their cubbies by a vandal who had broken into the house of worship during Shabbat. Around 7…

The cinema business has seen a rise lately in “event screenings,” where movies play in special formats like 70mm or HFR, or where they’re booked only in a few theaters for limited runs. The idea is to make the theatrical experience more attractive by making it more exclusive. By contrast, in the world of VOD…

Good morning, and welcome to the Book Club newsletter. Join us on Jan. 27 when the book club launches its 2020 season by welcoming Ocean Vuong, award-winning poet and author of the bestselling “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.” Vuong’s debut novel takes the form of a letter from a son to a mother who cannot…

When director Robert Eggers set out to make his mind-bending 19th century drama “The Lighthouse,” starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson as a pair of lighthouse keepers descending into madness, he chose to shoot the film in black-and-white using an aspect ratio dating to the days of silent movies. Eggers knew that format, known in…

“A meow!” Artist and unconventional game developer Keita Takahashi has just overheard a feline through the telephone line. He laughs and begins asking questions about said cat. It’s the moment Takahashi seems most comfortable and chatty during our long-distance interview, a detour from discussing his latest game, which is about explosions, golden poop and, ultimately,…