• Sun. Dec 7th, 2025

The Pulse of Southern California

SoCal Chronicle

  • Home
  • ‘Superhero’ by Tim Blake Nelson is a Hollywood satire on the Marvel machine

‘Superhero’ by Tim Blake Nelson is a Hollywood satire on the Marvel machine

On the Shelf Superhero By Tim Blake Nelson Unnamed Press: 424 pages, $32 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose…

Lakers’ Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves lament their turnover issues

p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> Jaxson Hayes grabbed a rebound late in the second quarter and passed the ball to Luka Doncic, who promptly threw a bad pass for a turnover. A few…

The week’s bestselling books, Dec. 7

The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Source link

Pacific Palisades residents preserve community with block party

At the block party on Duende Lane, Elissa Atwood was delighted Saturday morning to greet neighbors she hadn’t seen in months, hoping their reconnection would help preserve the sense of…

Why is FIFA President Gianni Infantino courting President Trump?

About 30 minutes into Friday’s World Cup draw at the Kennedy Center, a landmark that Donald Trump would like to rename for himself, the president was called on stage to…

Elizabeth Holmes is apparently angling for a Trump pardon

For a while, it seemed Elizabeth Holmes was everywhere. Peering wide-eyed and black-turtlenecked from a shelf load of magazine covers. Honored as a “Woman of the Year” by Glamour. Touted…

Online child safety advocates urge California to increase protections

SACRAMENTO — Julianna Arnold wasn’t alarmed when her teen daughter first joined Instagram. Many people her age were using it. And her daughter Coco had a social life and other…

Is RFK Jr. better on women’s health than Newsom? We’re about to find out

It’s a bad look when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ahead of you on scientifically sound health policy — women’s health, to make matters worse — but that’s exactly what…

Carson can’t stop Delano Kennedy’s Wing T in Division 3-A regional loss

There was no stopping 205-pound senior running back Jace Demacabalin and the Wing T offense executed by Robert Kennedy High from Delano, 30 minutes outside of Bakersfield. Not even City…

‘SNL’ recap: Melissa McCarthy demonstrates why she’s a repeat host

Along with Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, Melissa McCarthy is one of those performers who’s been on “Saturday Night Live” so many times, as a host or making extremely memorable…