Month: January 2020

SERIES Chicago Med After a major accident at O’Hare Airport, the Emergency Department fears for the safety of one of their crew. Nick Gehlfuss, Yaya DaCosta, S. Epatha Merkerson and Oliver Platt star in this new episode of the medical drama. 8 p.m. NBC Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter and…

The striking installation of ceramic works at Nonaka-Hill makes Keita Matsunaga’s interest in architecture immediately apparent. The artist has set his sculptures on shelves at different heights within a metal scaffold, playing their hand-built organic forms and earthen surfaces against the structure’s angularity and uniform industrial material. That binary opposition, visually arresting as it is,…

The Skirball Cultural Center, one of the nation’s largest Jewish cultural institutions, will announce Wednesday that founding President and Chief Executive Uri D. Herscher will retire this summer and will be succeeded by L.A. civil rights attorney Jessie Kornberg. Herscher has led the Skirball since its inception in the 1980s and public opening in 1996.…

Indonesia’s Lion Air considered putting its pilots through simulator training before flying the Boeing Co. 737 Max but abandoned the idea after the plane maker convinced them in 2017 it was unnecessary, according to people familiar with the matter and internal company communications. The next year, 189 people died when a Lion Air 737 Max…

Major U.S. stock indexes closed mixed Tuesday, shedding most of their gains from earlier in the day, after a published report revealed that an interim trade deal between the U.S. and China does not remove tariffs on Chinese goods. The benchmark S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite finished slightly off their record highs from a day…

PG&E Corp. is nearing a deal with a group of bondholders led by Pacific Investment Management Co. and Elliott Management Corp. that would entitle them to a mix of equity and new debt if they scrap their rival restructuring plan, people familiar with the matter said. The California power giant announced a potential deal at…

For decades, a 32-acre La Jolla hilltop estate was the home of Copley Publishing head James Copley and his wife, Helen, owners of the San Diego Union and Tribune newspapers. Their son and heir, David Copley, took up residence after they passed away. Known as Foxhill, the elegant, ocean-view French country-style manor surrounded by meticulously…

Americans are drinking more now than when Prohibition was enacted — a trend that’s been rising for two decades with no clear end in sight. That’s the picture painted by federal health statistics, which show increases in per-capita alcohol consumption and emergency room visits, hospitalizations and deaths tied to drinking. The statistics aren’t all bad,…

NEW YORK —  In this era of bottomless mimosas, craft beers and ever-present happy hours, it’s striking to recall that 100 years ago the United States imposed a nationwide ban on the production and sale of all types of alcohol. The Prohibition era, which lasted from Jan. 17, 1920, until December 1933, is now viewed as…

VATICAN CITY —  Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI distanced himself Tuesday from a book on priestly celibacy and asked to be removed as its coauthor after the project gave the impression that the retired pope was trying to interfere with the reigning one. Benedict’s longtime secretary, Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, said in a statement that there had been…