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L.A. Affairs: I'm a trans woman. And, for once, I wasn’t fetishized | https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2021-06-05/la-affairs-im-a-trans-woman-and-i-wasnt-being-fetishized | null | As a trans woman, I feel like a fling, a phase, a passing interest for someone to explore before they settle down — with someone else.
Or at least I did — until I got a boyfriend.
We met on Hinge after exchanging Leonard Cohen references.
He was cis and straight, but I tried not to hold it against him. Our first dat... |
Essential California Week in Review: Vaxxed and rich? | https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2021-06-05/newsom-emergency-vaccines-incentives-essential-california-week-in-review | null | Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It is Saturday, June 5.
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Could Antonio Villaraigosa come back to the Los Angeles mayor's office? | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-05/could-antonio-villaraigosa-come-back-to-the-mayors-office | null | The Biden administration has yet to announce whether it will name Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti as U.S. ambassador to India. But the jockeying to fill his seat is already underway.
One of the prospects who has generated buzz at City Hall is former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who held the job from 2005 to 2013 before... |
As wildfires decimate the giant sequoia, California faces unprecedented loss | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-05/california-wildfires-are-decimating-the-giant-sequoia | null | When wildfire tore through giant sequoia groves in the Sierra Nevada last year, researchers estimated hundreds of the towering trees — maybe 1,000 — were killed.
Now, almost nine months later, experts have revised that figure tenfold. A new draft report puts the toll at 7,500 to 10,600 trees — 10% to 14% of the world’... |
G-7 nations sign key pact to make tech giants pay more taxes | https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-06-05/g-7-nations-sign-key-pact-to-make-tech-giants-pay-fair-taxes | null | The Group of 7 wealthy democracies agreed Saturday to support a global minimum corporate tax of at least 15% to deter multinational companies from avoiding taxes by stashing profits in low-rate countries.
G-7 finance ministers meeting in London also endorsed proposals to make the world’s biggest companies — including... |
Need help ditching your car for a train or bus? Meet an L.A. public transit superfan | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-05/la-public-transit-fan-preaches-trains-buses-over-cars | null | Remember those pandemic days when our streets and our freeways were wide open? When in no time at all you could drive from anywhere to the beach? When the air seemed to clear and allow us to glimpse a different, more breathable and more free-flowing city?
Wasn’t it beautiful? Wouldn’t it have been great if we could ha... |
Want free accommodations when traveling? Try housesitting | https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-06-05/housesitting-job-travel-free-accommodations | null | If you yearn to travel but don’t have much of a budget for it, you may want to consider housesitting.
Housesitting is generally unpaid work. You and the homeowner essentially barter what you have for what you want. And when housesitting in another country, because no money changes hands, you avoid having to secure gov... |
L.A. teachers union to vote on urging U.S. to cut aid to Israel, sparking controversy | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-05/la-teacher-union-vote-israelis-palestinians-conflict | null | The leadership body of the Los Angeles teachers union is expected to vote in September on a resolution that would urge the U.S. government to end all aid to Israel — a move that has sparked internal debate, drawn praise and scorn from the outside, and diverted some of the union’s focus from post-pandemic education issu... |
Barbara Ferrer mourns the 24,000 dead in L.A. County and wonders if she did enough | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-05/facing-tough-covid-calls-ferrer-charts-steady-la-course | null | The pandemic was spreading fast across Los Angeles County. Barbara Ferrer was trying to stop it, but her moves were turning many against her.
Business owners lamented her lockdown orders, preachers ignored indoor worship bans, and politicians pressured her to loosen mandates. Social media lit up with hate and, in a fe... |
Black, Latinx and female entrepreneurs are still ignored by most venture capitalists | https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-06-05/black-latinx-and-female-entrepreneurs-are-still-ignored-by-most-venture-capitalists | null | As voices of protest rang out during the pandemic year, Jorge Rios had a front row.
The former high school teacher from Mexico wasn’t just watching crowds massing in the U.S. and elsewhere over George Floyd’s murder, Black Lives Matter, anti-government sentiment and other issues. Rios was monitoring rows of computer e... |
What time does the 2021 Belmont Stakes start? What TV channel is it on? | https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2021-06-05/what-time-is-belmont-stakes-start-2021-horse-race | null | If a major horse race is held in a city that never sleeps, does it really matter what time the race is? Of course it does. And that is today’s question: What time is the Belmont Stakes?
As always, it depends on where you live. If you are here on the border of Queens and Nassau counties in the shadow of New York City, ... |
Lakers' biggest offseason problem: What to do at center? | https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2021-06-05/lakers-offseason-preview-free-agent-center-andre-drummond-montrezl-harrell-marc-gasol | null | In some ways it was the perfect way for the season to end, Lakers coach Frank Vogel making a drastic lineup change at the position that was unsettled this season.
The Lakers signed Marc Gasol last offseason to a two-year contract to be their starter. They added Montrezl Harrell as a backup. Then, in a talent grab afte... |
Hernández: Kawhi Leonard's virtuoso game must be just the start for Clippers | https://www.latimes.com/sports/clippers/story/2021-06-05/clippers-mavericks-game-6-kawhi-leonard-virtuoso-effort | null | He did what LeBron James couldn’t, which is why the Clippers are alive and the Lakers aren’t.
Twenty-three months after he agreed to move to the less-glamorous and frequently ridiculed franchise in Los Angeles, Kawhi Leonard became a bonafide Hollywood leading man.
Ignore for a moment that his masterpiece was staged ... |
Illegal Serbian Orthodox church on Bosniak woman's land is demolished | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-06-05/illegal-serbian-orthodox-church-on-bosniak-womans-land-is-demolished | null | Bosnian authorities have demolished a Serbian Orthodox church that was illegally built on land owned by a Bosniak woman, after a 20-year-long legal battle that saw the case reach the European Court of Human Rights.
Workers and construction machinery arrived at Fata Orlovic’s yard in the village of Konjevic Polje earl... |
Horse racing newsletter: It’s Belmont Stakes day | https://www.latimes.com/sports/newsletter/2021-06-05/belmont-stakes-horse-racing | null | Hello, my name is John Cherwa and welcome back to our horse racing newsletter, as we see if any of the three Santa Anita-based horses can win the last leg of the Triple Crown.
The big news from Belmont Park is Irad Ortiz Jr., who was scheduled to ride Known Agenda, was injured when he was unseated during the fifth rac... |
Hey, Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, it's happening here, and you can stop it | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/newsletter/2021-06-05/kyrsten-sinema-save-democracy-opinion | null | Good morning. I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, June 5, 2021. Let’s take a look back at the week in Opinion.
Here’s something sad: We’re starting to get an answer to the question of what it must have felt like when past democratic societies weakened to the point that authoritarians could gain power and elections ... |
Op-Ed: Living and dying with COVID in India's caste system | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-06-05/pandemic-deaths-india-cremations | null | A hospital in Patna, India, was ready to eject a COVID-19 patient to admit my uncle, whose oxygen level had dipped. But through our family connections with local politicians and senior bureaucrats, we got a bed for my uncle at another hospital. Once he was admitted, half a dozen doctors started to stabilize him.
As on... |
Abcarian: Why Katie Hill has to pay legal fees for a newspaper that published nude photos of her | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-06-05/column-it-may-sound-outrageous-to-force-katie-hill-to-pay-attorneys-fees-for-peo | null | I feel for former U.S. Rep. Katie Hill, I really do.
Hill, 33, was a rising Democratic star from a traditionally red California district. Her political career came crashing down in 2019 after she left her husband. Someone leaked salacious photos of her with a female campaign staffer, and the House Ethics Committee lau... |
Op-Ed: Why Congress must abolish the most destructive abortion restriction ever passed | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-06-05/biden-hyde-amendment-budget-abortion | null | Three years after the Supreme Court legalized abortion in Roe vs. Wade in 1973, Congress made it significantly harder for low-income women to access the procedure by passing the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal Medicaid funding for abortions. It was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1980 — and remains in effect.
In our... |
Opinion: Math is really hard, so of course everyone has an opinion on it | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-06-05/readers-have-strong-opinions-on-californias-new-math-rules | null | Almost everything seems polarizing nowadays, but math education stands out as one of those rare nonpolitical topics on which everyone seems to have a strong opinion. Those of us who went to school in California surely remember clawing our way into advanced trigonometry or calculus to get into our preferred UC or Cal St... |
Protests erupt again after man is killed by deputies in Minneapolis | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-06-05/protest-erupts-again-over-man-killed-by-deputies-in-minneapolis | null | Protesters faced off with officers in Minneapolis early Saturday over the shooting death of a man by members of a U.S. Marshals task force.
Photos from the scene following a vigil for Winston Boogie Smith Jr., 32, showed dumpster fires in the street and a line of officers standing guard. It was the second night of pro... |
GOP sees opening to revive attacks on Fauci after release of email trove | https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-06-05/gop-sees-opening-to-revive-attacks-on-fauci-after-release-of-email-trove | null | Dr. Anthony Fauci has been a political lightning rod since the early days of the pandemic, lionized by the left as a beacon of truth in an administration that badly mismanaged the pandemic and villainized by the right as a misguided, spotlight-seeking bureaucrat seeking to undermine former President Trump.
But with th... |
UCLA softball can't counter perfect game by Alabama's Montana Fouts in loss | https://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/story/2021-06-04/ucla-softball-perfect-game-alabama-montana-fouts-womens-college-world-series | null | Montana Fouts got the perfect birthday present.
The Alabama pitcher turned 21 on Friday and celebrated by pitching the first perfect game in the Women’s College World Series since 2000 in a 6-0 win over No. 2 UCLA in the second round.
Fouts, a junior, struck out 14 in front of a record crowd of 12,337 and propelled A... |
High school baseball: Southern Section playoff results and updated pairings | https://www.latimes.com/sports/highschool/story/2021-06-04/high-school-baseball-southern-section-playoff-results-friday | null | SOUTHERN SECTION BASEBALL
DIVISION 1
First round, Thursday unless noted
Capistrano Valley 8, Chaminade 3 (Friday)
Yucaipa 15, Vista Murrieta 4 (Wednesday)
Damien 2, South Hills 0
Huntington Beach 1, Santa Margarita 0 (8)
Corona 13, Redondo 4
Sherman Oaks Notre Dame 4, Crescenta Valley 0
Ayala 3, Beckman 2
Ora... |
High school basketball: City boys’ and girls’ playoff results and updated pairings | https://www.latimes.com/sports/highschool/story/2021-06-04/high-school-basketball-city-boys-and-girls-playoff-results-friday | null | CITY BOYS’ BASKETBALL
OPEN DIVISION
Quarterfinals, Friday unless noted
Westchester 64, El Camino Real 45
King/Drew 61, Narbonne 52
#6 Granada Hills at #3 Fairfax, Saturday, 1:30 p.m.
#7 Grant at #2 Birmingham, Saturday, 3 p.m.
Semifinals, Wednesday, 7 p.m.
#5 King/Drew at #1 Westchester
Fairfax/Granada Hills w... |
High school softball: City playoff results and updated pairings | https://www.latimes.com/sports/highschool/story/2021-06-04/high-school-softball-city-playoff-results-friday | null | CITY SOFTBALL
OPEN DIVISION
Quarterfinals, Monday, 3 p.m.
#8 Los Angeles Marshall at #1 San Pedro
#5 Granada Hills at #4 Granada Hills Kennedy
#6 Birmingham at #3 Carson
#7 Legacy at #2 El Camino Real
NOTES: Semifinals, June 15, 3 p.m. Championship, June 19, 12 p.m.
DIVISION I
First round, Friday
Harbor Teach... |
High school baseball: City playoff results and updated pairings | https://www.latimes.com/sports/highschool/story/2021-06-04/high-school-baseball-city-playoff-results-friday | null | CITY BASEBALL
OPEN DIVISION
First round, Wednesday, 3 p.m.
#1 Granada Hills, bye
#9 Narbonne at #8 Birmingham
#12 Venice at #5 Wilmington Banning
#4 San Pedro, bye
#3 Los Angeles Roosevelt, bye
#11 El Camino Real at #6 Sylmar
#10 Chatsworth at #7 Palisades
#2 Cleveland, bye
NOTES: Quarterfinals, June 11, 3 p... |
Clippers' Game 7 history: Better than you think, at least in the first round | https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2021-06-04/clippers-game-7-history-first-round | null | The Clippers will play the ninth Game 7 in franchise history Sunday. It’s been a mixed bag, with far greater luck in the first round than the second. The Clippers have won three of four opening-round Game 7’s. The franchise is more famous for its 0-4 mark in second-round Game 7s (which includes a 1975 series loss, as t... |
Dodgers go from frustrated to scoring flurry in win over Braves in NLCS rematch | https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2021-06-04/dodgers-braves-nlcs-julio-urias-gavin-lux-runs | null | The Dodgers couldn’t solve Ian Anderson in the first four innings Friday at Truist Park. The Atlanta Braves’ right-hander, the same starter the Dodgers faced in Game 7 of the NLCS last October, didn’t surrender a hit. The only baserunners reached on an error and two walks. Anderson recorded six strikeouts, five with hi... |
California’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons is unconstitutional, federal judge rules | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-06-04/californias-three-decade-old-ban-on-assault-weapons-is-unconstitutional-federal-judge-rules | null | A federal judge Friday overturned California’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons, ruling that it violates the constitutional right to bear arms.
U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego ruled that the state’s definition of illegal military-style rifles unlawfully deprives law-abiding Californians of weapon... |
High school boys’ basketball: Southern Section playoff results and updated pairings | https://www.latimes.com/sports/highschool/story/2021-06-04/high-school-boys-basketball-southern-section-playoff-results-and-updated-pairings | null | SOUTHERN SECTION BOYS’ BASKETBALL
OPEN DIVISION
Friday
POOL A
#1 Sierra Canyon (3-0) 82, #4 Etiwanda (2-1) 76
#8 St. John Bosco (1-2) 76, #5 Ribet Academy (0-3) 66
POOL B
#2 Corona Centennial (2-1) 84, #3 Mater Dei (1-2) 69
#6 Damien (2-1) 77, #7 Harvard-Westlake (1-2) 72
DIVISION 1
Semifinals, Friday
Capist... |
Devean Williams gives his best for Narbonne, but it's not enough against King/Drew | https://www.latimes.com/sports/highschool/story/2021-06-04/devean-williams-heart-condition-narbonne-city-section-playoffs | null | It was in December of 2019 that junior guard Devean Williams of Harbor City Narbonne started experiencing chest pains.
“I knew it wasn’t regular,” he said.
He spent a month in the hospital undergoing treatment and tests for a condition that was diagnosed as myocarditis, inflammation of the heart. He played in only tw... |
LAPD investigating vandalism at home of City Council President Nury Martinez | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-04/lapd-investigating-vandalism-at-home-of-city-council-president | null | Police are investigating a vandalism crime at the home of Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez that was caught on video.
Martinez said in a statement that she woke up Friday morning and found graffiti at her home and damage to her car.
Security video that Martinez posted on Twitter shows a person pouring ... |
Elliott: Simone Biles shows her human side while proving again she's the greatest | https://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/story/2021-06-04/simone-biles-us-gymnastics-championships-olympics | null | The sequined outline of a goat, sketched on the right shoulder of Simone Biles’ leotard, sparkled under the lights at Dickies Arena as she waited to perform her floor exercise routine Friday night. Biles is acknowledged to be the goat of women’s gymnastics — Greatest of All Time — and she came to the U.S. championships... |
Clippers force Game 7 on Kawhi Leonard's clutch play in 45-point performance | https://www.latimes.com/sports/clippers/story/2021-06-04/clippers-mavericks-game-6-kawhi-leonard-45-points | null | For 39 minutes, everything teetered.
This first-round playoff series. The Clippers’ window of championship opportunity. When the 18,324 inside American Airlines Center were at their loudest Friday night, whacking together team-provided noisemakers and swinging white towels, it felt like even the red-brick building its... |
Portland Trail Blazers part ways with coach Terry Stotts after playoff loss | https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2021-06-04/portland-trail-blazers-part-ways-with-coach-terry-stotts | null | No team in the NBA has a longer active streak of postseason appearances than the Portland Trail Blazers, who have gotten there in each of the last eight seasons.
That wasn’t enough to save Terry Stotts, and Portland will have a new coach next season.
The Trail Blazers and Stotts parted ways Friday, according to a per... |
Mother is arrested after death of 3-year-old girl who was left in hot car | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-04/visalia-hot-car-death-arrest | null | A woman has been arrested after her 3-year-old daughter died after being left in a hot car in the San Joaquin Valley city of Visalia for several hours while the adult tended to a marijuana grow, police said Friday.
Eustajia Dominguez Mojica, 28, was booked Friday on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter and child enda... |
Coronavirus Today: Were you a winner? | https://www.latimes.com/science/newsletter/2021-06-04/vax-for-the-win-lottery-vaccine-gavin-newsom-coronavirus-today | null | Good evening. I’m Russ Mitchell, and it’s Friday, June 4. First, we’d like to ask you to do us a favor.
As the economy reopens and life returns to something close to normal for many Californians, we’re rethinking how this newsletter can best serve you. What do you like (or dislike) about this newsletter, and what do y... |
Roundup: Downey's Omar Serrano throws perfect game in 1-0 playoff win over Westlake | https://www.latimes.com/sports/highschool/story/2021-06-04/omar-serrano-downey-throws-perfect-game-high-school-sports | null | The opening games of the high school baseball playoffs on Friday featured one outstanding pitching performance after another. It showed that coaches around the Southland have their ace pitchers in peak form.
The best performance was turned in by Omar Serrano of Downey in a Division 4 opener on the road against Westlak... |
El Salvador is riding the waves as global surfing's newest mecca | https://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/story/2021-06-04/el-salvador-is-riding-the-waves-as-global-surfings-newest-mecca | null | A 13-mile stretch of Salvadoran shoreline the government has named Surf City is one of the world’s newest surfing meccas. At the center of those 13 miles are La Bocana and El Sunzal, two top surfing spots known collectively as El Tunco after the distinctive volcanic rocks just a few feet off the beach.
It’s a place wh... |
Big rig crash in Lancaster leaves four dead, including two children; another child is in critical condition | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-04/big-rig-collides-with-car-in-lancaster-multiple-fatalities | null | A car crash involving a big rig Friday morning in Lancaster killed two children and two adults, with another child in critical condition, according to the California Highway Patrol.
An 18-wheeler and a Dodge Challenger collided just after 9 a.m. on Avenue G near 30th Street, CHP Officer Amber Wright said.
The Dodge... |
Rookies Bobby Brown III, Robert Rochell are kindred spirits on Rams' defense | https://www.latimes.com/sports/rams/story/2021-06-04/rookies-bobby-brown-iii-robert-rochell-rams | null | During the run-up to the NFL draft, defensive lineman Bobby Brown III and cornerback Robert Rochell got to know each other while working out at the same training facility.
The Rams selected both Brown, who played at Texas A&M, and Rochell, from Central Arkansas, in the fourth round.
The rookie teammates have spent t... |
The baby was dying in an ambulance, stuck in Jakarta gridlock. Volunteer motorcyclists cleared the way | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-06-04/indonesia-ambulance-escort | null | The ambulance wailed, but the cars, trucks and scooters did not budge. The old man inside needed an emergency CT scan. But in this city, home to some of the world’s most miserable traffic, drivers are unforgiving and conditioned to hold their ground, even with someone’s life on the line.
It seemed hopeless. But out of... |
Lakers fan favorite Alex Caruso faces the unknown of free agency | https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2021-06-04/lakers-alex-caruso-free-agency-contract | null | Alex Caruso’s decision on his future with the Lakers is looming, and whether he takes his services to another team or returns won’t be decided until August when the NBA’s free-agency period opens.
He just finished his fourth season with the Lakers, his role increasing every year as Caruso became a key contributor to ... |
Brandon Garfinkel of Granada Hills talks about Highlanders being No. 1 seed in baseball | https://www.latimes.com/sports/highschool/story/2021-06-04/brandon-garfinkel-granada-hills-appears-baseball | null | It’s time for Episode 41 of Friday Night Live, where Los Angeles Times prep sports columnist Eric Sondheimer joins broadcaster Randy Rosenbloom for a discussion about high school sports in Southern California.
This week’s guest is Granada Hills junior pitcher/third baseman Brandon Garfinkel.
He talks about the Highla... |
Vanessa Bryant chalks up another legal victory in fight over Kobe crash photo leak | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-04/vanessa-bryant-gets-legal-victory-and-more-time-to-investigate-whether-more-deputies-got-kobe-crash-photos | null | Vanessa Bryant secured a legal victory Friday in her lawsuit against Los Angeles County over deputies and firefighters who allegedly shared grim photos of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, their daughter Gianna and seven others.
A federal judge ruled her attorneys should have more time to pursue their inv... |
Chargers ownership dispute might push NFL to get involved, lawyer contends | https://www.latimes.com/sports/chargers/story/2021-06-04/chargers-ownership-dispute-dea-spanos-roger-goodell-nfl | null | Two months after a sister of Chargers controlling owner Dean Spanos filed a court petition to try to force the sale of the team, a dispute has emerged over whether the matter should be resolved by the NFL or through the judicial system.
In an ex parte petition filed Thursday, the attorney for Dea Spanos Berberian aske... |
Bipartisan infrastructure talks falter after Biden rejects modest GOP offer | https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-06-04/time-for-bipartisan-infrastructure-talks-running-short-after-biden-capito-talk-again | null | President Biden on Friday rejected the latest counteroffer on infrastructure spending from a group of Senate Republicans as far too little, leaving the bipartisan talks at what looks to be an unresolvable impasse.
The lead Republican negotiator, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, raised her offer by $50 billi... |
Hearing set for lawsuit aimed at stopping dismantlement of San Onofre nuclear plant | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-04/hearing-set-for-lawsuit-aimed-at-stopping-dismantlement-at-san-onofre-nuclear-plant | null | A June 16 court date has been set to hear a lawsuit filed by an advocacy group against the California Coastal Commission, seeking to stop dismantlement work at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff will consider the petition by the Samuel Lawrence Foun... |
Long Beach takes over Queen Mary, vowing to preserve the landmark ship | https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-06-04/long-beach-takes-over-queen-mary | null | Long Beach has taken back control of the Queen Mary from the ship’s operating company amid concerns that the 87-year-old vessel has not been properly maintained, the city announced Friday.
“For the first time in decades, Long Beach has full control of the Queen Mary. We will be fully engaged in the preservation of th... |
Lil Nas X will call you by your name, if you want, during Pride Month Cameo campaign | https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-06-04/cameo-pride-month-lil-nas-x-pentatonix-charity | null | Which would you rather have Lil Nas X deliver via video, a pep talk or a roast? Or maybe a message from Satan himself?
It’s something worth considering, as the “Old Town Road” rapper is one of the celebs who will join personalized-video platform Cameo during Pride Month, with all profits going to benefit LGBTQ chariti... |
What's on TV Saturday: 'Gone Mom: The Disappearance of Jennifer Dulos' on Lifetime | https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2021-06-04/whats-on-tv-saturday-gone-mom-the-disappearance-of-jennifer-dulos-on-lifetime | null | During the coronavirus crisis, the Los Angeles Times is making some temporary changes to our print sections. The prime-time TV grid is on hiatus in print but an expanded version is available in your daily Times eNewspaper. You can find a printable PDF online at: latimes.com/whats-on-tv.
Open House (N) 8 p.m. NBC
Cri... |
Accused Poway synagogue shooter signs conditional plea agreement | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-04/poway-synagogue-shooter-plea-agreement | null | The man accused of opening fire in a Poway synagogue, killing one person and wounding three others, has signed a conditional plea agreement that is now in the hands of the U.S. attorney general, who is still deciding whether to pursue the federal death penalty in the case, attorneys said at a court hearing Friday.
The... |
MLS suspends Galaxy's Derrick Williams additional five games for 'serious foul play' | https://www.latimes.com/sports/soccer/story/2021-06-04/mls-suspends-galaxys-derrick-williams-five-games | null | Galaxy defender Derrick Williams has been suspended for five additional games by the MLS Disciplinary Committee for “serious foul play” in the first half of the team’s May 22 game in Portland.
Williams was given a straight red card and was forced to sit one game for his late, reckless challenge on the Timbers’ Andy P... |
Guests on Sunday talk shows: San Francisco Mayor London Breed | https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2021-06-04/guests-on-sunday-talk-shows-mayor-london-breed-d-san-francisco | null | CBS News Sunday Morning Former police commissioner of New York City and Boston and LAPD ex-chief Bill Bratton. Police reform: Mayor London Breed (D-San Francisco). Police Chief Edgar Rodriguez, Moville, Iowa. Emilio F. Miyares, president of Concerns of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S.). (N) 6 a.m. KCBS
Good Morning America ... |
Our TV critic has reviewed 9 Stephen King-related series. Here's how they stack up | https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2021-06-04/stephen-king-series-ranked-best-worst-liseys-story-apple | null | If you do anything long enough, patterns will emerge, and as I sat down to review the Apple TV+ miniseries “Lisey’s Story,” the latest television work adapted from or inspired by Stephen King’s fiction, it struck me that I had been here before, or somewhere like it, not once but many times. “Lisey’s” makes the ninth Ki... |
'Drake & Josh' star Drake Bell pleads not guilty to charge of child endangerment | https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2021-06-04/drake-bell-accused-child-endangerment-nickelodeon | null | One of the stars of the popular Nickelodeon children’s show “Drake & Josh” faces criminal charges regarding a girl he met online who attended a 2017 concert of his in Ohio when she was 15.
Jared Drake Bell, 34 — known professionally as Drake Bell — pleaded not guilty on Thursday in a Cleveland courtroom to a felony c... |
COVID-19 state of emergency will last beyond June 15, Newsom says | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-04/covid-19-state-of-emergency-will-last-beyond-june-15-newsom-says | null | California’s COVID-19 state of emergency order will remain in place beyond June 15, despite plans to fully reopen the state’s economy on that date, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday.
The state of emergency declaration — issued in early March 2020, when coronavirus cases started to mushroom statewide — gives Newsom and he... |
2 San Diego police officers among three people killed in wrong-way crash in San Ysidro | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-04/3-dead-in-wrong-way-crash-on-i-5-in-san-ysidro-traffic-diverted-at-sr-905 | null | Three people are dead, including two San Diego Police Department officers, after a wrong-way driver heading north in the southbound Interstate 5 lanes in San Ysidro collided with an oncoming car Friday morning, authorities said.
The fiery head-on crash happened just before 10:25 a.m. on the I-5 near State Route 905, ... |
Tory Carlon wanted to be a firefighter since he was a kid. He was killed after a 20-year career | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-04/tory-carlon-wanted-to-be-a-firefighter-since-he-was-a-kid-he-was-killed-after-a-20-year-career | null | Tory Carlon was fiddling with a BB gun when the bullet hit a metal fence, ricocheting back and injuring the young teenager’s eye.
First responders swarmed to the pasture where the child was playing, saving him from a potentially blinding incident.
Inspired by the emergency professionals who aided him, his nieces la... |
Tiffany Haddish as Olympian Florence Griffith Joyner? Biopic casting divides fans | https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-06-04/tiffany-haddish-florence-griffith-joyner-movie | null | A forthcoming biopic about Olympic track-and-field legend Florence Griffith Joyner starring comedian Tiffany Haddish is officially off and running.
But not everyone is on board with Hollywood’s approach to the late athlete’s legacy.
A representative for Haddish confirmed Friday to The Times that the “Girls Trip” brea... |
Stocks end the week higher as U.S. jobs report calms Fed fears | https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-06-04/stocks-end-the-week-higher-as-us-jobs-report-calms-fed-fears | null | Wall Street closed out a week of mostly choppy trading with broad gains Friday, pushing the S&P 500 to its second straight weekly gain.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 0.9% and finished with a 0.6% gain for the week. Technology stocks were the biggest gainers and did the most to drive the broader market higher. M... |
School district agrees to pay $3 million in bullied child's suicide | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-06-04/school-district-agrees-to-pay-3m-in-bullied-childs-suicide | null | The parents of an 8-year-old boy who killed himself after being bullied repeatedly at an Ohio school have reached a tentative $3-million settlement with his school district.
The agreement announced Friday will go to the school board for Cincinnati Public Schools on Monday for approval in the Gabriel Taye case that dat... |
Julianne Moore leaves nothing on the table in 'Lisey's Story.' It's not quite enough | https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2021-06-04/liseys-story-stephen-king-apple-tv-review | null | For the Apple TV+ miniseries “Lisey’s Story,” Stephen King has taken it upon himself to adapt what he has described as one of his own favorite books, the tale of a writer (dead, not quite departed) and the woman who loves him.
It’s an A-list cast. Clive Owen plays Scott, the writer, successful on par with King himsel... |
Serena Williams coaches herself to comeback victory at French Open | https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2021-06-04/serena-williams-rallies-french-open-win | null | Even a 23-time Grand Slam champion needs to remind herself now and then how to play winning tennis.
Serena Williams employed verbal motivation to help her recover from a 4-1 deficit in the second set of a 6-4, 6-4 victory over fellow American Danielle Collins in the third round of the French Open on Friday.
Yelling, ... |
FDA approves obesity drug that helped people cut weight 15% | https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-06-04/fda-approves-obesity-drug-that-helped-people-cut-weight-15 | null | Regulators on Friday said a new version of a popular diabetes medicine could be sold as a weight-loss drug in the U.S.
The Food and Drug Administration approved Wegovy, a higher-dose version of Novo Nordisk’s diabetes drug semaglutide, for long-term weight management.
In company-funded studies, participants taking W... |
How Philip Glass turns the circus into opera that's magical and profound | https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-06-04/philip-glass-opera-circus-days-nights | null | A drum beats. An accordion joins in, like the music of a clown. A trombone further adds a circusy effect. A bearded lady, aerial acrobat, juggler, lion tamer and trapeze artist all materialize under the big top.
For the record:
4:56 p.m. June 7, 2021An earlier version of this article misspelled Cirkus Cirkör’s name a... |
Indie Focus: A myth made modern in 'Undine' | https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/newsletter/2021-06-04/undine-all-light-everywhere-the-conjuring-the-devil-made-me-do-it-indie-focus | null | Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo's daughter shares her queer identity: 'You are not alone' | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-06-04/cuomo-daughter-queer-identity | null | Michaela Kennedy-Cuomo, the daughter of New York’s governor, used a social media post Thursday to share her “queer identity” and call for allies to speak up against homophobia.
“To those who are contending with the compulsive heterosexuality our society force feeds us and innate attraction beyond cis het folks, please... |
No taste for a pandemic-set fantasy? Netflix's binge-worthy new show may change that | https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2021-06-04/sweet-tooth-netflix-dc-comics | null | A plague with no antidote. Conspiracy theories gone mad. Apocalyptic consequences. Netflix’s revelatory “Sweet Tooth” takes all the nightmarish what-ifs that have rendered us sleepless for more than a year and turns them into a vivid escapist fantasy series that pits darkness and despair against innocence and hope, t... |
'Next big wave': Radiation drugs track and kill cancer cells | https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-06-04/next-big-wave-radiation-drugs-track-and-kill-cancer-cells | null | Doctors are reporting improved survival in men with advanced prostate cancer who received an experimental drug that delivers radiation directly to tumor cells.
Few such drugs are approved now, but the approach may become a new way to treat patients with other hard-to-reach or inoperable cancers.
The study tested an ... |
Attention Class of 2021: Get ready for commencement with these celebrity speeches | https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-06-04/what-makes-a-great-celebrity-commencement-speech | null | Most would probably agree the best graduation addresses are inspirational: encouraging, with some hint of the challenges ahead as well as reassurances that they can be overcome. Of course, those can be mere platitudes if not backed by personal experiences. It helps — a lot — to be funny. Throwing in local references ca... |
Devin Booker channeled Kobe Bryant when scoring 47 points to beat Lakers | https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2021-06-04/devin-booker-channeled-kobe-bryant-when-scoring-47-points-to-beat-lakers | null | It wasn’t a Lakers player who exemplified Kobe Bryant’s “Mamba mentality” in Game 6 of a first-round playoff series Thursday night. It was Suns guard Devin Booker who scored 47 points, shooting eight of 10 from behind the three-point arc while making all nine of his free throws as Phoenix ended the Lakers’ season.
In ... |
Pill shows benefit in certain hard-to-treat breast cancers | https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-06-04/pill-shows-benefit-in-certain-hard-to-treat-breast-cancers | null | A pill has been shown to help keep certain early-stage, hard-to-treat breast cancers at bay after initial treatment in findings being reported early because they are so promising.
Study results were released Thursday by the American Society of Clinical Oncology ahead of its annual meeting. They were also published in... |
Opinion: Facebook to be Trump-free at least until 2023 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-06-04/opinion-facebook-trump | null | Former President Trump’s abject failure to build a big audience for his personal website this year shone a spotlight on just how much he depended on the White House and, especially, major social media networks to amplify his voice. And on Friday, one of those networks — Facebook — announced that it will continue to kee... |
'Jupiter's Legacy' is over, and its cast members are not taking the cancellation well | https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2021-06-04/jupiters-legacy-cast-members-not-taking-cancellation-well | null | After arriving as one of Netflix’s top original series in early May, the American superhero fantasy series “Jupiter’s Legacy” has already been canceled — and the cast is not taking it well.
The streamer announced Wednesday that it would not renew the series, developed by Steven S. DeKnight and based on the comic boo... |
How are you making friends now that the pandemic is easing? | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-04/how-are-you-making-friends-post-pandemic | null | Now that COVID-19 restrictions are easing up across Southern California, we can finally start emerging from our homes and interacting with other human beings.
But ... how do you do that?
We’d like to know how you are reconnecting with old friends or even making new ones post-pandemic. What’s working, what’s not? Then... |
Letters to the Editor: Why accept a Lakers loss? Just reinstate them as NBA champs | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-06-04/lakers-loss-just-reinstate-them-as-nba-champs | null | To the editor: The Los Angeles Times, an enemy of the people, reported incorrectly that the Lakers lost to the Phoenix Suns in the first round of the NBA playoffs. We all know that this outcome can’t be correct. A conspiracy is afoot.
An audit of the results and an investigation into the scorekeeper must be immediate... |
How HBO Max's hot new comedy took down the toxic man in 'every single stand-up club' | https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2021-06-04/hacks-hbo-max-episode-8-jean-smart-hannah-einbinder | null | The following contains spoilers from Episode 8 of “Hacks” on HBO Max.
#MeToo has rid Hollywood of many sexual predators and empowered women in the entertainment industry to speak out against assault and harassment of all kinds. But what about the women of earlier eras who managed to persist — and perhaps even thrive... |
Experts see strides on AIDS, but COVID-19 halted progress | https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-06-04/experts-see-strides-on-aids-but-covid-19-halted-progress | null | Has COVID-19 derailed the fight against HIV? Some researchers say the pandemic has siphoned away health workers and other resources, setting back a U.S. campaign to decimate the AIDS epidemic by 2030.
Saturday marks the 40th anniversary of the first report that brought AIDS to the attention of the public. For a time,... |
Exclusive: Biden has quietly deployed an app for asylum seekers. Privacy experts are worried | https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-06-04/asylum-bidens-got-an-app-for-that-with-privacy-risks-and-surveillance-beyond-border | null | Facing a backup of tens of thousands of migrants stranded at the U.S.-Mexico border, the Biden administration is betting on a technological fix: a mobile app.
In recent weeks, U.S. border officials have taken an unprecedented step, quietly deploying a new app, CBP One, which relies on controversial facial recognition,... |
Rock Your World, Essential Quality hope for Belmont Stakes success | https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2021-06-04/belmont-stakes-advance-rock-your-world-essential-quality | null | The Kentucky Derby was perfectly set up with two undefeated horses next to each other in the starting gate. Essential Quality, the favorite, was in the 14th position, and Rock Your World, the second favorite, was in the 15th. What could go wrong?
Well, a funny thing happened on the way to the finish line. Way before t... |
Heart reaction probed as possible rare vaccine link in teens | https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-06-04/heart-reaction-probed-as-possible-rare-vaccine-link-in-teens | null | Health authorities are trying to determine whether heart inflammation that can occur along with many types of infections could also be a rare side effect in teens and young adults after receiving the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
A report on seven U.S. teen boys in several states, published online Friday in Pediatr... |
Klete Keller negotiating a plea bargain in U.S. Capitol riot case | https://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/story/2021-06-04/olympic-swimmer-klete-keller-could-get-plea-bargain-storming-the-capitol | null | A plea bargain could be in the works for swimmer Klete Keller, the five-time Olympic medalist from USC charged in the U.S. Capitol riot, according to a motion filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Washington.
“The parties have also begun discussing a potential resolution of this case and need more time to continue t... |
U.S. report makes no definitive finding about UFOs, sources say | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-06-04/ufos-aliens-government-pentagon-report | null | The U.S. government cannot give a definitive explanation of aerial phenomena spotted by military pilots but has found no evidence that they are linked to aliens, according to two officials briefed on an intelligence report examining the issue.
The report due to Congress later this month examines multiple unexplained s... |
In tears, Kim Kardashian says she can't be a wife who follows Kanye West's every move | https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2021-06-04/kim-kardashian-kanye-west-marriage-problems-kuwtk | null | Kim Kardashian felt like a failure as her marriage to Kanye West was crumbling earlier this year.
“I feel like a f— failure, that it’s, like, a third f— marriage,” the 40-year-old mom and entrepreneur said in a flashback clip during Thursday’s episode of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.” “Yeah I feel like a f— loser... |
14 classic movies and festivals in L.A. this week: 'Magnolia,' 'Selena,' 'Casablanca' | https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-06-04/things-to-do-in-la-oc-classic-movies-jennifer-lopez-selena-tom-cruise | null | Find a flick with our weekly curated list of classic movies, cult favorites, film festivals, etc., streaming online or coming soon to a theater, drive-in, pop-up or rooftop near you.
“Bridesmaids” 10th-anniversary screenings of this R-rated 2011 comedy starring Maya Rudolph as a bride-to-be and Kristen Wiig as her BFF... |
News Analysis: Drama over Netanyahu's possible ouster could complicate U.S.-Israel ties | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-06-04/drama-over-israeli-leaders-possible-ouster-could-complicate-us-ties | null | When America’s top diplomat came to Israel late last month, one meeting was more discreet than all the rest.
No journalists and only a handful of aides were invited to observe Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken’s encounter with a centrist Israeli politician named Yair Lapid in the nighttime hours of May 25 at a Je... |
Newsom kicks off plan to incentivize COVID-19 vaccinations as critics lash out | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-04/newsom-vaccine-lottery-giveaway-campaign-california-recall-covid | null | Gov. Gavin Newsom stood on a set designed to look like a game show on Friday and drew winners of the first cash prizes in California’s COVID-19 vaccine lottery, part of an effort to boost immunizations that also gives the governor a chance to give away $116.5 million to potential voters before the recall election.
“O... |
John Boyega exits Netflix's 'Rebel Ridge' a week into film's production | https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-06-04/john-boyega-departs-rebel-ridge-for-family-reasons | null | With Netflix citing “family reasons,” John Boyega has abruptly exited the lead role in the upcoming film “Rebel Ridge” a week into shooting.
“‘Rebel Ridge’ is pausing temporarily as we look to re-cast John Boyega, who needed to leave the project for family reasons,” a Netflix spokesperson said in a statement.
“We re... |
Guatemalan lives are thrown into upheaval by failed immigration bids | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-06-04/guatemalan-lives-are-thrown-into-upheaval-by-failed-immigration-bids | null | Alvina Jerónimo Pérez tries to avoid going out. She doesn’t want to see neighbors. She’s even changed the chip in her cellphone since her failed journey to the United States.
The 42-year-old woman is fearful her unsuccessful migration could cost her more than she can bear — even the single-story concrete block house h... |
Asylum-seekers help produce Italy's famous Brunello wine | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-06-04/asylum-seekers-help-produce-italys-famous-brunello-wine | null | Summer is arriving in Italy’s wine country in Tuscany, and the leaves on the vines shimmer in gold and green.
Yahya Adams moves his gloves through the foliage, removing excess buds and shoots to make the vines stronger.
He’s among 24 asylum-seekers from Africa and Asia who are working in the vineyards of Tenute Silvi... |
Trump's Facebook ban may end in time for the 2024 presidential campaign | https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2021-06-04/facebook-says-trump-ban-may-expire-in-2023-if-conditions-permit | null | Donald Trump is too dangerous to allow on Facebook right now, the social media company has decided. Instead, the former U.S. president will have to wait until at least Jan. 7, 2023, to make his triumphant return to the site — giving him just enough time to log back on for the next presidential race.
Responding to a ma... |
Three kale salads to keep in your fridge all summer long | https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2021-06-04/three-kale-salads-to-keep-in-your-fridge-all-summer-long | null | I’m a kale hater. Well, a raw kale hater, specifically. I can eat the cooked stuff if I have to (I’d always prefer a turnip/collard/mustard green or Swiss chard), but raw is downright torturous. It’s exceedingly chlorophyll-y, not to mention, there’s all that chewing.
However, the one preparation where its textural st... |
In this season of obstacles, Lakers couldn't regain health | https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2021-06-04/lakers-season-derailed-by-injuries-health | null | Instead of having his jersey soaked in champagne and being clouded by cigar smoke, LeBron James handed his uniform to Devin Booker, a trophy for the Phoenix Suns’ young star to take with him after he helped end what seemed like the longest season an NBA team has ever undertaken.
It’s been nearly 330 days since the Lak... |
Why L.A. monument status for 'Pop Art nun' Corita Kent's studio matters for women in art | https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-06-04/corita-kent-studio-receives-los-angeles-monument-status-rare-achievement-for-woman-artist | null | If you drew a Venn diagram that brought together Charles Eames, Pop Art, commercial printing, social justice movements, the Second Vatican Council and 1960s Los Angeles, only one person could inhabit the space where those areas intersect: Corita Kent.
A nun in the order of the Immaculate Heart of Mary for more tha... |
Movies on TV this week: 'The Diving Bell And The Butterfly' on Cinemax; 'Taxi Driver' on TMC | https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2021-06-04/movies-on-tv-this-week-the-diving-bell-and-the-butterfly-on-cinemax-taxi-driver-on-tmc | null |
Movies on TV for the entire week, June. 6 - 12 in interactive PDF format for easy downloading and printing
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Four Star Films, Box Office Hits, Indies and Imports, Movies A - Z
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L.A.’s youngest Black and Latino residents are least likely to be vaccinated for COVID-19 | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-04/youngest-black-and-latino-residents-far-less-likely-to-be-vaccinated-in-l-a-county | null | In a troubling sign, rates of COVID-19 vaccinations among Los Angeles County’s youngest eligible Black and Latino residents are significantly lower than for other racial and ethnic groups, and officials are expanding efforts to make shots available across the region.
Among people 16 and older, only 41% of Black resi... |
California moving toward workplaces without masks: What you need to know | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-04/california-workers-vaccines-covid-mask-rules-what-to-know | null | California took a major step this week to define what COVID-19 workplace safety rules will look like as the pandemic continues to fade.
A state safety board on Thursday recommended relaxing workplace safety rules for people vaccinated against COVID-19 — meaning that, on June 15, employees will probably be able to ta... |
From L.A. library to late night: Linda Lindas take viral 'Racist, Sexist Boy' to TV | https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2021-06-04/linda-lindas-racist-sexist-boy-jimmy-kimmel-live | null | Los Angeles punk sensations the Linda Lindas have no idea if the “poser” and “jerkface” who inspired their viral hit “Racist, Sexist Boy” is aware of their overnight fame.
But more importantly: “Doesn’t matter,” they told late-night host Jimmy Kimmel with a collective shrug met by cheers and applause.
After electrif... |
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