Hot Property: The Dude abides Oprah's offer for Montecito estate
1/16 Jeff Bridges and his wife, Susan Geston, sold their Spanish-style estate in Montecito to media mogul Oprah Winfrey for $6.85 million. (Eric Foote) 2/16 The four-acre property is the latest purchase in the Santa Barbara area for Winfrey, who owns a large estate and a horse farm in the area. (Eric Foote) 3/16…
Hot Property Newsletter: When a home title reads like a who's who in Hollywood
It’s not uncommon to see a luxury property pass from one player in the entertainment industry to another. After all, the factors that appealed to the seller — privacy, security, location — would likely appeal to another celebrity. This week’s chain game sees a renowned actor handing off to a media mogul and a reality…
L.A.’s free tree giveaway for yards and streets hopes to bring 90,000 new plantings
Want a free tree for your yard or neighborhood? L.A.’s Green New Deal to plant 90,000 trees in the city over the next two years is a bonus for residents. The city will give out up to seven free yard and/or street trees to qualifying residents. More than two dozen species are listed on the…
Esteban Ocon enjoys best career quali in Baku
Esteban Ocon was as usual hot on the heels of Force India team mate in qualifying for this weekend’s the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. The young French driver continues to accumulate experience and progress on his learning at an unabated pace. “It’s the best qualifying position in my career and I am very happy about how…
L.A. plans to plant 90,000 trees in two years. What can we learn from its oldest trees?
Rachel Malarich faces a pressing task: overseeing the planting of 90,000 trees over the next two years in Los Angeles, home to the largest urban forest in the United States. As the city’s first forest officer, the veteran arborist needs to boost the tree canopy by at least 50% in shade-starved low-income areas by 2028.…
Downtown pop-up brings film, fashion and food to the Million Dollar Theater
Click:Electric passenger tricycle Scott Sternberg’s Entireworld brand is popping up at downtown L.A.’s Million Dollar Theater for a three-week flurry of film, food, fashion and fun that kicks off with a free daylong marathon repeat screening of “Groundhog Day” on Dec. 7. Dubbed the Million Dollar Pop Up Shop, it’s cinephile Sternberg’s latest effort to…
Boy Scouts of America mortgages vast New Mexico ranch as collateral
The Boy Scouts of America has mortgaged one of the most spectacular properties it owns, the vast Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico, to help secure a line of credit as the financially strapped organization faces a growing wave of new sex-abuse lawsuits. The BSA said Friday that it has no plans to sell the…
Justice Department unveils plan on missing and slain Native Americans
PABLO, Mont. — Atty. Gen. William Barr announced a nationwide plan Friday to address the crisis of missing and slain indigenous people as concerns mount over the level of violence that community faces. Barr announced the plan, known as the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Initiative, during a visit with tribal leaders and law enforcement officials…
Inside Hong Kong's besieged Polytechnic University, a few dozen holdouts plot their next move
HONG KONG — The campus of Hong Kong Polytechnic University looks like a bomb blast site covered in graffitied pro-democracy slogans. Nearly every inch of ground is blanketed in broken glass, strewn bricks, water bottles, umbrellas, gloves, nails, clothing and chairs. Chemical smells and industrial odors hang in the air. A crudely-built brick wall serving as…
Bougainville vote could help create world’s newest nation
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The Pacific people of Bougainville on Saturday began voting in a historic referendum to decide if they want to become the world’s newest nation by gaining independence from Papua New Guinea. The referendum runs over two weeks and is a key part of a 2001 peace agreement that ended a brutal civil…