Dangerous Diablo winds fueling Kincade fire with wind gusts up to 76 mph
Forecasters had been warning for days that dangerous Diablo winds were coming. Now, those conditions have produced a monster fire in Sonoma County. The Kincade fire was burning out of control, consuming 10,000 acres in just a few hours. What are the conditions firefighters are facing? The area around the fire is seeing severe fire…
Newsletter: The particular schadenfreude of sentencing in the college admissions scam
Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Thursday, Oct. 24, and I’m writing from Los Angeles. Newsletter Get our Essential California newsletter It was an unseasonably warm afternoon in Los Angeles when news broke of the latest sentencing in the college admissions scandal. One can only imagine that it would have been…
Orange County firefighters battle blaze in Santiago Canyon
Orange County firefighters were battling a brush fire in Santiago Canyon set off by a burning car early Thursday. The Orange County Fire Authority used air drops and hand crews to battle the blaze that broke out near Santiago Canyon Road and Highway 241 east of the city of Orange around 3:30 a.m. As of…
Datebook: MOCA explores an art movement inspired by feminine and domestic traditions
Paintings that draw from the feminine and the domestic, a Day of the Dead celebration in three languages and an artist-made carousel in Venice. Here are a dozen exhibitions and events to check out in the coming week: “With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972-1985,” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.…
Review: ‘Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace’ marks rise and fall
A celebration of the grand American shrines to cinema that rose to glitzy prominence during the 1920s, April Wright’s well-researched “Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace,” might not quite live up to its title, but it does a decent job of capturing those golden years. Sparing no expense when it came to…
Review: Lessons of Watergate: Tom Brokaw brings historic perspective to impeachment drama
As the drumbeat to impeach President Trump grows louder, Tom Brokaw — a dean of American broadcast journalism — has stepped forward to recall the only time Congress successfully compelled a commander in chief to resign rather than be ousted. Actually, you could say the 79-year-old Brokaw was similarly compelled by his Random House publishers…
New Las Vegas ice bar is coming to the Linq Promenade
Las Vegas is building a new ice bar in a big way. A dozen ice-carving pros will come to the desert to create Icebar, a standalone lounge adorned with statues of Golden Knights hockey players, daredevil Evel Knievel, 12-foot angel wings (for the Insta crowd) and a North Pole scene. It will take almost 100…
Real-life Las Vegas 'ninjas' get things done
Concierges at Las Vegas resorts can get you reservations at hot restaurants and tickets to sold-out shows. But they do much grander things too. When a couple wanted something special for their daughter’s 21st birthday, the team at the Venetian sprang into action. “We came up with the idea of giving her a red carpet,…
Vegas Escapes: At this new museum, it's all about you
Can we ever get enough of ourselves? Apparently not, as a new museum opening in Las Vegas might suggest. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey My name is Catharine Hamm, and I’m the travel editor for the Los Angeles Times. We also have stories this month for you about how brides can party for free, the…
Homebuilders ditch Nest after Google ties devices to its digital assistant
Several residential builders have stopped buying and installing Google’s Nest devices after the internet giant overhauled how Nest technology works with other gadgets. The Alphabet Inc. unit bought Nest in 2014 for $3.2 billion to enter the smart-home market. Nest has become one of the largest makers of internet-connected thermostats, smoke alarms and locks. The…