Month: February 2020

The Rev. Kori Pacyniak is believed to be the first transgender, nonbinary priest in the Roman Catholic Womenpriests movement. SAN DIEGO —  The conversation began in typical fashion, with a question many grandparents ask: “When you grow up,” Kori Pacyniak’s grandmother wondered, “what would you like to be?” At that point, the chat took an atypical…

Authorities are investigating an officer-involved shooting that resulted in the death of a man whom police were chasing on foot. The shooting happened at about 10:10 p.m. Sunday, in the area of East Rhea Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue in Long Beach. Officers had tried to stop a man on a bicycle for…

Homicide detectives are investigating three dead bodies that were found Monday morning near a gravesite in a Perris cemetery. The victims, described only as three men, were discovered sometime before 10:30 a.m. at the Perris Valley Cemetery in the 900 block of North Perris Boulevard, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. Sheriff’s deputies roped…

Click:F80001-1 It was a rare thing, a few decades ago, to hear anyone in academia talk about Central Americans. “People would study Mexicans with no problem,” said Cecilia Menjívar, professor of sociology at UCLA. “But Central Americans were seen as a niche, a small group of people that didn’t seem as relevant.” But on a…

If “West Adams,” now at the Skylight, had been produced three years or so ago, it might have been dismissed as overwrought. Who knew that such drastic change could transpire in such a short span of time? Playwright Penelope Lowder has her finger firmly on the pulse of American culture, and this patient is in…

In 2018, Pam Tanowitz choreographed T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets,” with an original score by Kaija Saariaho and a scenic design that incorporates paintings by Brice Marden. It was the 75th anniversary of the publication of Eliot’s four meditations on time and spiritual transience written at the start of World War II. The premiere, which included…

NEW YORK —  Novelist Charles Portis, a favorite among critics and writers for such shaggy dog stories as “Norwood” and “Gringos” and a bounty for Hollywood whose droll, bloody western “True Grit” was a bestseller twice adapted into Oscar-nominated films, died Monday at age 86. Portis, a former newspaper reporter who apparently learned enough to swear…

SERIES NCIS The team tries to piece together how a retired Navy officer obtained a rare and valuable coin. Mark Harmon and David McCallum star in this new episode of the procedural drama. 8 p.m. CBS The Flash After months of searching for Sue Dearbon (Natalie Dreyfuss), Ralph (Hartley Sawyer) gets a lead on her…

A suitcase that’s heavyweight but lightweight, a battery charger that can get a car battery or a mobile phone going again, a vacuum that works on wet or dry messes, and a light that turns fingers into flashlight are our gear items for the month that make your traveling life easier. It just keeps growing…

Elon Musk’s first electric car plant in Europe is facing legal delays that could set the project back by several months after a court halted work on clearing a forest for the new Tesla Inc. factory near Berlin while it considers a challenge by environmentalists. The Berlin-Brandenburg higher administrative court issued a temporary injunction against…