With games like this, Shy Odom won't stay under the radar at Sierra Canyon for long
It was five hours before the Sierra Canyon boys’ basketball team took the floor against Cathedral Catholic and the line in front of the San Diego Montgomery High School gym was hundreds of people long. It had been like that all week as the Trailblazers, the star-studded No. 1 team in the state, played three…
Racing! A brief conversation with Aidan Butler
Hello, my name is John Cherwa and welcome back to our horse racing newsletter as we send you a YouTube clip that is guaranteed to make you laugh. At the recent California Horse Racing Board meeting a bunch of reporters (including me) caught up with Aidan Butler, acting chief executive of California racing for The…
Suspect in fatal shooting of San Diego restaurant employee is arrested in Tennessee
SAN DIEGO — A man who is suspected of shooting three Church’s Chicken employees, killing one of them, over a dispute about money was arrested Friday in Tennessee, San Diego police said. Albert Lee Blake, 49, was taken into custody at a residence in Memphis, the U.S. Marshals Service said in a release. San Diego investigators…
Navy secretary denies report that he threatened to resign over Trump interference in SEAL review
SAN DIEGO — U.S. Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer denied a New York Times report Saturday that he had threatened to resign or be fired if President Trump intervenes to stop an administrative review of a SEAL at the center of a botched war crimes court-martial. Spencer delivered the denial from the Halifax International Security Forum…
Earthquake: 6.3 quake strikes near Adak, Alaska
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake was reported Saturday afternoon at 4:54 p.m. 65 miles from Adak, Alaska, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. No tsunami warning was issued. Click Here: jean paul gaultier perfume In the past 10 days, there has been one earthquake of magnitude 3.0 or greater centered nearby. The earthquake occurred at a…
Newsletter: Evil in the shadow of Disneyland, and the detective who cracked the case
Today’s special Sunday edition of the Essential California newsletter comes from Los Angeles Times Deputy Managing Editor Shelby Grad: What happened on the streets of Orange County in 2013 was evil. Women were being grabbed, their bodies later dumped in a local landfill. Two men were eventually arrested, labeled serial killers. There was public outrage,…
Cate Blanchett is fun to watch in the otherwise mixed 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette'
New on Blu-ray “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” (20th Century Fox DVD, $29.98; Blu-ray, $34.99; also available on VOD) In the dramedy, Cate Blanchett plays a cranky, agoraphobic architect who mysteriously disappears, leaving her precocious teenage daughter, Bee (played by Emma Nelson) to piece together the meaning of her life. Maria Semple’s bestselling novel tells Bernadette’s…
Raymond Kappe, California architect promoted pre-fab as environmentally friendly, has died
Raymond Kappe’s first attempt to shape the future of California architecture ended in failure. After starting the architecture program at Cal Poly Pomona in 1968, he was fired as the department’s chairman. Kappe said it was because his program was too “free-swinging.” Undaunted, he recruited six faculty members — future Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne,…
Feedback: Heated opposition plus a few strong defenders of LACMA's expansion plan
Dolly’s reach In her profile of Dolly Parton [“Here to Lift You Up,” Nov. 17], Meredith Blake writes that Parton is “a figure beloved in equal measure by drag queens and devout Christians.” I wish the media would stop using “devout Christians” as a synonym for “evangelical and fundamentalist Christians.” A person can be a…
Essential Arts: MOCA becomes SoCal arts biggest unionization target
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