Новости за 08.07.2017

How a Santa Monica couple created a Midcentury Modern home built to their exacting standards.

Welcome to a very hot July weekend, when temperatures are threatening to hit triple digits in much of the Los Angeles area. Maybe head to the farmers market when it just opens, then get somewhere cool. That might be your kitchen, where you could sample the figs that are now in season, or try some...

This Italianate home in Redlands brings to mind the Old Country, with its cast concrete exterior, imported Italian wood doors and Palladian windows.

Ready to ditch your lawn and save water?

We’ve gone through our archives and compiled some magical turf-removal transformations.

In most cases, the homeowners we talked to experienced a renewed connection to nature and their neighbors after they removed their lawn and replaced it with a drought-tolerant...

Making sense of airline loyalty reward programs is about to get even more difficult.

David Hockney turns 80 on July 9, and the Getty is celebrating his legacy with dual exhibits. One of photographs and another featuring self portraits.

New on Blu-ray

“Their Finest” (Lionsgate DVD, $19.98; Blu-ray, $24.99; also available on VOD)

The British historical romance “Their Finest” is a real find: an entertaining, moving and mostly family-friendly film that not enough people saw in theaters. Gemma Arterton stars as a Welsh writer who...

The Cat That Changed America There is probably more than one lonely heart living a solitary life in the Hollywood Hills, and maybe more than a few sporting authority-ordered GPS homing devices, but none so famous as the magnificent Griffith Park mountain lion, P-22, featured in this in new 2017...

Actor Zachary Levi of “Chuck” fame listed his home in Studio City for $1.399 million and in less than two weeks had an offer in hand.

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It is Saturday, July 8. Here’s what you don’t want to miss this weekend:

To the editor: Big cities have their blight, violent crime, homelessness and lack of jobs. This is not good. These conditions must be resolved if we are to prosper as a great nation.

To the editor: The Times is correct to support a state bill to ban pet stores from selling cats, dogs and rabbits bred for that purpose. (“That puppy in the window may have come from a bad breeder,” editorial, July 5)

To the editor: Jonah Goldberg tries to draw an equivalence between President Trump’s ego-driven tweets and the media’s response to them. Goldberg claims, “The media rival the president in self-absorption and self-regard.” (“There's a word for Trump's relationship with the media: Co-dependence,”...

For the last several years — and very likely before then too — many readers would submit letters to the editor around the Fourth of July either expressing their affection for this country or registering dissent in an upbeat patriotic way. Two letters printed last Tuesday, on July 4, displayed this...

Shabab extremists from neighboring Somalia beheaded nine civilians in an early-morning attack on a village in the southeast, Kenyan officials said Saturday, as concerns grew that the group had taken up a bloody new strategy.

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen came to power 14 months ago on pledges to keep the peace with China without declaring formal independence or getting too close to Beijing.

From top to bottom, the futuristic-looking Dream Hotel tries hard to live up to its name.

Sevyn Streeter felt defeated. She was nearly 15 years into a career that included stints in two (albeit short-lived) singing groups and writing credits for Ariana Grande, Chris Brown, Brandy, Kelly Rowland, Alicia Keys, Tamar Braxton, Fantasia Barrino and Chris Brown.

Korean American actor Edward Hong has played characters in dozens of TV shows and movies over the years, including as “Math Olympian Dude,” “Chinese Man #2” and, in a top-rated network sitcom, “Male Night Nurse.”

There are many reasons people may be barred from entering the state of Israel. If they present a risk of criminal or terrorist activity, for instance. If they tell lies at the border or don’t cooperate with border officials. If they’re suspected of trying to immigrate illegally.

Two Americans were gored and several other people were injured Saturday during the second running of the bulls at this year's San Fermin festival in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona, officials said.

Italian firefighters say eight bodies have been pulled from the rubble of a five-story apartment building that partially collapsed in a seaside town south of Naples.