Новости за 28.11.2015

The Lakers (2-12) have a second chance to defeat the Trail Blazers (6-10) when they visit Portland on Saturday night.

The Lakers will be short-handed Saturday against the Portland Trail Blazers.

Just after sundown, a woman peeks into Room 209.

Fouad Wawieh and his family appraise her warily. The woman, a resident of this one-star motel on Pomona's rough north side, gestures sloppily for a cigarette. Fouad, who has been chain-smoking Egyptian cigarettes while chopping cucumbers for a salad,...

The two best players in City Section Division III all season have been running back Erik Diaz of Belmont and quarterback David Rothenberg of Hollywood.

The Clippers can only hope it was a sign of things to come. They routed the New Orleans Pelicans, 111-90, on Friday night at Staples Center, finally looking like the team many expected them to be.

On the morning of the day he died, David Taylor and his crew were looking for a "chimney" — a fissure in the earth where steam and oil periodically spurted into the air in an oil field west of Bakersfield.

A deep freeze in California's Sierra is continuing, with one spot east of Redding recording minus-11 degrees.

Midway through the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, movie box office receipts look to be up over 2014 with a trio of movies -- "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay -- Part 2," "The Good Dinosaur" and "Creed" -- fueling a crowded weekend at the multiplex.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art's long-running Tuesday matinee series pays homage to Bing Crosby in December with five of his greatest films. First up on Tuesday is 1956's "High Society," the glossy musical remake of "The Philadelphia Story" also starring Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra. Scheduled...

The median price for single-family homes in Los Angeles County, based on more than 4,800 sales, was $510,000 in October, according to CoreLogic. But how much house does half a million dollars buy? Here’s a sample of homes for sale at about that price around the L.A. area.

A coyote snatched a small dog from inside a Laguna Beach home Monday night, the dog's owners said.

Search for oat-based recipes on visual bookmarking site Pinterest, and it will bring up a screen of oatmeal porn.

In less than a year at Mack Sennett's Keystone Film Co. in 1914, Charlie Chaplin had gone from a member of the stock company to one of the studio's brightest lights.

Baja California is dotted with all-inclusive beach resorts, but if you know where to look you can find vibrant arts and culture as well as authentic food and drink. I found all that and more on my recent trip to Todos Santos. The town is so small you can walk across it in 15 minutes, but it's filled...

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My family's find on our recent trip to Las Vegas: Jerry's is a coffee shop and casino in the throwback style. Tasty breakfast: I ordered bacon and eggs, hash browns and toast for about $6. I think my sister got the winning plate … about $9 for her steak and eggs. It was the tastiest piece...

Consumers are expected to click "proceed to checkout" with their online shopping carts in record numbers this Cyber Monday in what is still the biggest online shopping day of the year.

The names have changed, but the story remains the same: The Ducks can’t put away the Chicago Blackhawks.

History owes a lot to footnotes. In coming up with the script for "Bridge of Spies," I do too.

Quarterback Khalil Tate of Gardena Serra and receiver Tyler Vaughns of Bishop Amat have been named the co-MVPs of the Mission League.

When the opportunity to adapt "The Price of Salt" came to me in the late 1990s, I was young and foolish enough to have no fear of the challenges inherent in adapting Patricia Highsmith's radical 1952 novel. After all, I'd known Highsmith pretty well over the last decade of her life. We'd even chatted...

Thespians, a superstitious lot, insist that "Macbeth" should never be directly referred to inside a theater. If an actor accidentally forgets to call Shakespeare's malevolent masterpiece "the Scottish play," an elaborate ritual is required to prevent all hell from breaking loose.

It was a rainy afternoon in the East Vancouver area, and I was guzzling a beer that was as dark as the storm-laden sky. The Nut Brown Ale at Off the Rail Brewing was sliding down faster than condensation on an ice-cold window.

I met him on OKCupid and with our first words it was love. We wrote poetry to each other and shared our deepest thoughts. When we finally went on our first date, I felt that magic continue as he held my hand and we ran down Ventura Boulevard at midnight. The first three months were beautiful; he...

It is not what anyone in the Los Angeles area wants to believe. When Vin Scully first said in August that next season would realistically be his last broadcasting the Dodgers, willful thinking became rampart.

Every three years across the rice fields and around the farmhouses of rural Japan, about 150 miles north of Tokyo, the landscape changes.