Month: January 2020

The days may be numbered for an Irvine family member’s former Newport Beach estate known as the “Big Blue House,” with a replacement nearly five times its size potentially on the way. City permits have been issued to demolish the gated 1930s-era house at 401 Avocado Ave., which was the home of Kathryn Irvine Wheeler…

Violent crime in Los Angeles declined for the second consecutive year in 2019, which was the 10th consecutive year the city saw fewer than 300 homicides. Gang-related homicides and crime related to homelessness remain persistent trouble spots, officials said. But the overall crime picture continued several positive trends from the previous year, and officials said…

Thanks to December storms, much of Southern California will ring in the new year with above-normal precipitation. Meanwhile, the northern part of the state remains mostly below normal after the first six months of the rainfall season, according to Jan Null of Golden Gate Weather Services. Northern California’s rainy season got off to a late…

Ajai Singh Mehta, known as Sonny, had an insatiable appetite for books. He poured that passion into the publishing world, where he served as president and editor in chief of Knopf for 32 years and chairman of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group for a decade. Under his leadership, Knopf published some of the world’s greatest…

Author A.H. Tammsaare is hardly a household name in North America, but in Estonia he’s one of the nation’s most prominent literary figures. If American high school students are reading John Steinbeck’s ”The Grapes of Wrath” or “Romeo and Juliet,” then Estonian teenagers are dreading the text of Tammsaare’s challenging “Truth and Justice, Part One.”…

The final “Sunday Night Football” game of the season drew the fourth-largest audience of the 14-week-old 2019-20 prime-time television season. The San Francisco 49ers’ 26-21 victory over the Seattle Seahawks, which was not decided until Seattle tight end Jacob Hollister was tackled on the San Francisco 1-yard line with nine seconds to play, averaged 22.846…

Memo from: Reynolds, C To: Expense reporting Re: Travel in 2019 Greetings, unseen corporate expense account enforcement officers. It’s been a busy year, and from the bottom of my carry-on bag, I thank you for signing off on all (well, most) of this year’s expenditures on the road. Especially that New Orleans hotel during Mardi…

“Why do they let this woman out on her own?” You may be asking yourself that after you read this. I’m asking myself this after writing it. But, at least, you are getting the unfiltered truth: I am not a travel superhero. In fact, when it comes to travel details, I’m probably a C-/D+ student,…

Free for the weekend? Bike for dim sum, bond with rescued animals or celebrate the new year with running, vision boarding or Japanese traditions. Los Angeles Young professionals can cut, paste and collage their way to a goal-focused new year at the Fab Grad Vision Board Party at Hill Top Coffee and Kitchen’s View Park…

In a decade of extreme wealth creation in markets, few assets did more to enrich investors than stocks in the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 index. Their combined value jumped by more than $7 trillion, ending with the best year since the bull run began. Powered by a near-doubling in Apple and gains exceeding 50% in Microsoft…