High school football top performers in the Southland
A look at the top performers from high school football games across the Southland during the semifinals of the playoffs on Friday. RUSHING • Darnell Miller, Santee: Rushed for 190…
Los Alamitos avenges loss to San Clemente to win Division 2 football title
Somehow, someway, Los Alamitos is your Southern Section Division 2 football champion. A team of overachievers filled with a roster of best friends combined chemistry, determination and toughness to overcome…
Garcia leads Democrats’ strategy on Epstein probe, to GOP’s dismay
WASHINGTON — Rep. Robert Garcia and his team faced a monumental task on Nov. 5: Sift through more than 20,000 documents obtained from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein in search…
Hard lives in California’s fields: ‘The American dream eats us alive’
The American squatted in the dirt, struggling to free the cantaloupe from its prickly stem, almost toppling over. On either side, men bent at the waist, clearing fruit with one…
Why do all the new shopping bots recommend the same gift for mom?
Amazon.com Inc.’s AI-infused Rufus shopping assistant has new features that make it a “faster, more useful, state-of-the-art shopping companion.” Google’s agentic checkout feature “can do the heavy lifting to help…
Standards have changed what we consider a political scandal
A few weeks ago, Katie Porter’s campaign for California governor was reeling. A day after an irritable TV interview went viral, an old video surfaced of the former Orange County…
Short, beautiful Southern California reads for our doomscrolling times
Amid the fusillade of terrible headlines this year, one pierced my nerdy heart. “Enjoying this headline? You’re a rarity: Reading for pleasure is declining …” was the topper to a…
9 essential plays by Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard, frequently hailed as the greatest British playwright of this generation, had both a remarkable life and a remarkable career. Born in Czechoslovakia in 1937, his family fled to…
The best moments from Camp Flog Gnaw 2025
As natural disasters in Los Angeles go, a rain delay temporarily washing out a music festival is pretty low stakes. But fans had to scramble last week after a sudden…
My ‘situationship’ left me with emotional pain that was unreal
I still remember the month and year our eyes first met. It was June 2019, at a vegan street fair in Pasadena, where I held the hand of my soon-to-be…