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SERIES The Great American Baking Show: Holiday Edition The remaining bakers focus on flaky and flavorful pastries and holiday cookies. 9 p.m. ABC Doctor Who Fans don’t don’t have to wait until the Jan. 1, 2020, season premiere, as the animated lost episode “The Macra Terror,” features the TARDIS arriving on a human colony that…

Regarding “The Millennium 100” [Dec. 22]: In recognizing Frank Gehry’s Disney Hall, Deborah Borda’s amazing leadership and Gustavo Dudamel’s new directions in both music and community outreach as three of your 100 top cultural moments of the new millennium, you have further cemented the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s status as the best and most influential symphony…

Click:three drawers When director Chad Stahelski’s third chapter of the “John Wick” saga arrived in theaters this past May, critics and general audiences fell for its amped-up, well-choreographed fights, stunning backdrops and the return of its mysterious protagonist portrayed by Keanu Reeves. Also playing a crucial part in making Wick’s world come to life was…

The Disneyland Express bus that takes travelers to and from LAX and John Wayne Airport will stop operations Jan. 7. It’s the second airport shuttle service to recently announce a shutdown. Earlier in December, SuperShuttle said that the company would cease nationwide operations at the end of the year. Shuttle operator Coach USA Southern California…

Hawaii’s state bird is making a comeback. The nene (prounounced “nay-nay”) dwindled to fewer than 100 birds in the wild; today that number is greater than 3,000. Earlier in December, the native goose was removed from the endangered species list — but that doesn’t mean they’re easy for visitors to see. “Hawaii Volcanoes National Park…

Dumpling art, ice tubing and Pasadena history can all be part of your last weekend of the decade. Los Angeles Santa’s North Pole Village has moved from the Arctic to Wisdome.LA, an Arts District event space composed of five domes. Explore the village’s life-size elf houses, collection of nutcrackers and Northern Lights show complete with…

The holidays have been good to Southern California ski resorts this year. Thanksgiving brought a weekend of good snowfall, and Christmas is set to do the same. New storms in the local mountains are predicted to bring more than 2 feet of snow through Thursday evening, just in time for the post-holiday rush to the…

WASHINGTON —  Democratic presidential contender Michael R. Bloomberg cut ties with a contractor that used prisoners to make calls for his presidential campaign, he said in a statement Tuesday. The former New York mayor said his campaign was unaware of the arrangement until a reporter sought comment. Earlier Tuesday, online news site the Intercept reported that…

With the 2020 presidential campaign in full swing, it is clear that the defining issue of the election will be economic inequality — and that puts America’s billionaires in the dock. Proposals for a tax on extreme wealth have been put on the table by Democratic candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, eliciting responses of…

America’s top shale field is becoming increasingly gassy as drilling slows down, undercutting profits for explorers at a time when investors are demanding better returns. Natural gas has long been a nuisance in the Permian Basin in Texas and New Mexico, where a massive glut weighs on prices, with crude producers sometimes having to pay…