USC president’s aim in teaching a classics course is to ‘light a fire’ for humanities
C.L. Max Nikias hasn’t taught a full-time course since becoming USC’s president nearly six years ago.
But in his return to the classroom this semester, the former electrical engineer didn’t focus on circuits or radar but on the ethical implications of the Greek tragedy “Antigone,” demonstrating…
President Trump? Oh, he’ll be great, just like his border wall
We have a very beautiful state here.
Absolutely beautiful.
And people are always saying to me, whether they live in California or they’re visiting from somewhere else in the country or the world, hey, this is fantastic. That’s what they say about California. They’ve never seen anything like it.
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On his Santa Monica mountaintop, a billionaire envisions lofty thoughts on politics and culture
Nicolas Berggruen scuffs along a dirt road overgrown with foxtails, high in the Santa Monica Mountains. The Los Angeles basin falls at his feet.
The skyscrapers of downtown, the gantry cranes at the port and the peaks of Catalina are diminished by a vast panorama stretching from Saddleback Mountain…
The government wants your fingerprint to unlock your phone. Should that be allowed?
As the world watched the FBI spar with Apple this winter in an attempt to hack into a San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, federal officials were quietly waging a different encryption battle in a Los Angeles courtroom.
There, authorities obtained a search warrant compelling the girlfriend of an alleged…
A parallel Chinese-language Internet helps immigrants navigate life in America
When Grace Hui moved to Los Angeles from China in 2014 and Googled the Chinese characters for “Los Angeles immigrant,” the first result was Chineseinla.com.
The Chino Hills-based website, a disorganized Yelp-meets-Craigslist hybrid, was a throwback, and Hui, 29, thought some of the posts were phishing…
In reversal, staff of Coastal Commission recommends approval of Newport Beach hotel and housing project
In a reversal of its previous position, the staff of the California Coastal Commission is recommending approval of a hotel and housing complex on the last big block of private land on the Southland coast.
The proposal to build an upscale hotel, retail space and hundreds of homes on a coastal bluff…
Trump spurs a fresh wave of Latino activism
As Donald Trump’s presidential campaign moves into California, he’s being met by a revitalized, youthful Latino-rights movement playing from a different rule book than its predecessors.
Trump faced large and hostile demonstrations outside a rally Thursday night in Costa Mesa and at the Burlingame…
Connor Everts dies at 88; artist’s work was focus of 1960s obscenity trial
Connor Everts, a Los Angeles-area artist and former longshoreman whose sociopolitical art was the subject of a 1960s obscenity trial, died Sunday at his Torrance home. He was 88.
The cause was not disclosed.
Everts completed his early work at night after working full days on the docks. His career…
UC Davis campus divided amid new questions on chancellor’s performance
She was one of roughly 300 people who were considered to become chancellor of UC Davis. But in one powerful interview, Linda Katehi shot to the top of the list — at least for Linda Bisson, a three-decade Davis professor who headed the faculty search subcommittee in 2009.
She was brilliant, accomplished…
Park 16 years in the making pays tribute to Vietnam veterans and their letters home
It’s been nearly 47 years since Marine Pvt. Ernie Pinamonti was killed in Vietnam by small arms fire, and 16 since his grieving father donated land for a park in his son’s memory.
Carl Pinamonti died in 2007 without ever seeing the memorial built, but earlier this week the park he called “Ernie’s…
Former Montana Sen. Conrad Burns dies; influenced energy policy
Former Montana Sen. Conrad Burns, a former cattle auctioneer whose folksy demeanor and political acumen earned him three terms and the bitter disdain of his opponents, died Thursday. He was 81.
Burns died of natural causes at his home in Billings, Montana Republican Party Executive Director Jeff…
Dead whale (pieces) hauled away from San Onofre State Beach
Apparently the warnings worked.
When crews fired up a hydraulic excavator and sank its heavy, fanged bucket into the carcass of a gray whale on San Onofre State Beach Thursday morning, few people came to witness the spectacle.
Just one day earlier, a state parks official warned the curious to stay…
Walter Kohn dies at 93; UC Santa Barbara physicist shared Nobel Prize in chemistry
Walter Kohn, a UC Santa Barbara physicist who shared a Nobel Prize for a widely used theory in materials science — and who warned that “science is both a wonderful and terrible force in our world” — died April 19. He was 93.
Kohn’s health had declined in recent months after he broke his hip in…
Protesters slam San Diego State’s response to ‘Palestinian terrorists’ fliers
San Diego State University officials are assessing how to move forward after a protest late Wednesday that involved dozens of students surrounding President Elliot Hirshman and preventing him from leaving campus for about two hours.
The protest was in response to an email Hirshman and Vice President…
Bullet train agency approves a new business plan with 26 pages of changes
The California high-speed rail authority approved a new two-year business plan Thursday that attempts to patch up concerns and problems that erupted up and down the state over details of a draft plan that was issued in February.
The final plan incorporates 26 pages of changes, including many that…
Were you part of the biggest protest California has ever seen?
In a massive display of force in numbers, roughly half a million immigrants and their supporters took to the streets of Los Angeles 10 years ago decrying federal bills that would criminalize providing food or medical services to undocumented immigrants and build a wall along the U.S.’ southern…
How did the 2006 immigration protests affect you?
As part of a massive national movement, roughly half a million immigrants and their supporters took to the streets of Los Angeles 10 years ago, decrying federal bills that would criminalize providing food or medical services to undocumented immigrants and build a wall along the U.S.’ southern border….
Rocks placed below a San Diego overpass to deter homeless camps spark a debate
Jagged rocks installed to deter homeless encampments below a freeway overpass have sparked a debate between people arguing for compassion and residents demanding safer, cleaner streets.
City crews installed the riprap next to the walls of the 5 Freeway overpass late last week at the request of…
County officials look to parcel tax to help L.A.’s park-poor communities
In Malibu, sandwiched between a sprawling national recreation area and a 13-mile beachfront, an abundance of parkland is one of the community’s many charms. The city has on average 13 acres of parks for each 1,000 residents.
But miles away in the San Gabriel Valley communities of El Monte and South…
80 attorneys in one courtroom help Porter Ranch residents defeat gas company in one battle
Two months after the Aliso Canyon gas leak was capped, the sprawling scope of litigation against Southern California Gas Co. was on display Wednesday in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom.
About 80 attorneys — from 73 law firms, representing thousands of plaintiffs in 131 legal actions — introduced…
Willie Williams, Los Angeles police chief after the 1992 riots, dies at age 72
Willie L. Williams, the first African American chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, who steadied the agency in the tumultuous wake of the 1992 riots but was distrusted as an outsider by many officers and politicians, has died. He was 72.
Williams died after a long struggle with pancreatic…
Anne Douglas celebrates her birthday at the skid row women’s shelter that bears her name
Anne Douglas could have celebrated her birthday at home in Beverly Hills with her husband, actor Kirk Douglas.
Instead, she sat behind a silver-and-pink birthday cake Wednesday as women lined up, weeping, to embrace and thank her for starting the Los Angeles Mission’s Anne Douglas Center for Women…
Top L.A. County sheriff’s official sent emails mocking Muslims, blacks, Latinos and women
A top Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department official forwarded emails with jokes containing derogatory stereotypes of Muslims, blacks, Latinos, women and others from his work account during his previous job with the Burbank Police Department, according to city records.
Tom Angel, who is Sheriff…
Philadelphia’s top cop offers a reformist style
Outsider: Willie Williams expects resistance if chosen as L.A. police chief. But he is accustomed to tough battles.
Where are they now? Charles Manson’s family, four decades after horrific murder spree
In the summer of 1969, Charles Manson and his murderous “family” went on a rampage in Los Angeles that left nine people dead. Victims of the so-called Tate-LaBianca murders included actress Sharon Tate (wife of director Roman Polanski) and Los Feliz residents Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. Here’s…
San Diego officials join the move for a study on suicide-prevention barriers on Coronado Bridge
Since the San Diego-Coronado Bridge opened in 1969, the landmark two-mile span has been the site of more than 360 suicides. And the numbers have surged over the last four years.
Now, San Diego officials are moving forward with a study to determine whether suicide barriers or nets could be installed…
Body of woman stabbed 150 times and found near site of Manson killings is identified after 47 years
Los Angeles police have identified the body of a woman found stabbed 150 times in 1969 near the site of the Manson family killings as a 19-year-old from Montreal, People magazine reported Wednesday.
Police have identified the woman as Reet Jurvetson, who moved to Los Angeles from Montreal the year…
Medi-Cal will soon cover immigrant children here illegally, but adults pose a bigger test
Ever since Obamacare took effect two years ago, many California legislators have been fighting to get health insurance for those it left out — the quarter of all immigrants in the country illegally who live within the state’s borders.
Next month, California will make a sizable dent in that effort…
A tiny Eiffel Tower is a reminder of barbershop owner’s daughter, killed in Paris attacks
There was a salad, small sandwiches and peanuts.
Her daughter’s send-off to Paris was a neat, organized and quiet affair that ended before the night grew old.
To Beatriz Gonzalez, it seemed like a formal baptism into a brave new world that many immigrants who came to America poor could only dream…
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