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罗茜·李在她位于默塞德的 19 英亩农场里，由于监管原因，将一半的土地保持干涸且不进行种植。
拘留人员 水 似乎 被污染
阿德兰托拘留中心 持续存在的投诉。
作者：Ruben Vives
Carlitos Ricardo Parias 长期向他的家人抱怨阿德兰托ICE处理中心的饮用水质量。 在他被拘留的南加州设施的一次视频通话中，他最终向他们展示了证据——一个装满饮用水的塑料瓶，里面有看起来像蠕虫般的生物。 Parias 的移民律师 Carlos Jurado 与《时报》分享了该视频的副本。在一次电话采访中，他表示没有人应该喝这样的东西。 “最可悲的是，他们在街上像猎杀动物一样追捕我们，但在监狱里他们甚至不把我们当动物对待，因为没有人会给自己的狗或猫喂这种水，”Jurado 说道。 然而，美国国土安全部的一名发言人否认了关于该设施条件恶劣的任何指控，称其用水源自阿德兰托市。 “这是该地区居民和企业使用的相同水源，”该发言人在给《时报》的电子邮件中写道。“我们设施的工作人员也与非法移民共同饮用该水。员工和非法移民可通过饮水机 24 / 7 全天候获取该水源。”
[见阿德兰托，A8]
作者：Susanne Rust
随着出现“超级”厄尔尼诺现象的可能性持续上升——根据联邦科学家的说法，目前概率为 81%——研究人员正在回顾 2015 年和 2016, 当时，太平洋热浪与强厄尔尼诺现象相结合，使西海岸一些最重要的商业渔业船队陷入混乱。 他们表示，我们可能面临同样的重复。甚至更糟。 “我认为在接下来的这次厄尔尼诺现象中，我们很可能会打破全球气温纪录，”Malin Pinsky 说道。
陷入干涸困境
在财务上给家庭经营农场带来压力， 这些农场最终可能会将土地输给工业种植者
去年，罗茜·李 19 英亩的农场种满了包括玉米、豆类、南瓜、番茄、瓜类、洋葱和小白菜在内的作物——产量之高，使她和丈夫在农贸市场上有很多可供出售。 现在，她将一半的土地保持干涸且不进行种植。她不确定今年能承担从水井中抽取多少水的费用，因为当地地下水机构实施了抽取限制和收费，这最终可能导致数千美元的支出。 “这让我无法种植以前种植的作物，”李站在一片裸露的土田边说道。“我们担心赚的钱不足以支付水费。” 虽然加州具有里程碑意义的地下水保护法旨在遏制大规模的农业过度抽取，但李和其他小规模种植者表示，该法律的实施却产生了相反的效果——惩罚小农场，而有利于工业化农业企业。
作者：Kevin Baxter
在今年夏季世界杯的最后一个周末前，《卫报》报道称，对国际足联（FIFA）主席詹尼·因凡蒂诺的支持率已攀升至历史最高水平。该报报道称，国际足联 211 个成员协会中有 200 多个正式支持因凡蒂诺竞选其第四任期，使其在明年 3 月的投票更像是一场加冕仪式而非选举。
两周后，这种支持消失了。不仅因凡蒂诺的连任竞选计划破碎不堪，而且他甚至可能无法撑到明年春天。英国首相安迪·伯纳姆和西班牙足球协会主席哈维尔·特巴斯已公开要求其辞职；而如前美国足球协会主席卡洛斯·科代罗（Carlos Cordeiro）以及国际足联首席运营官凯文·拉穆尔（Kevin Lamour）等亲信也公开与老板决裂。
那是周五的情况。周六，因凡蒂诺面临的压力进一步增加。欧洲足联（UEFA）——欧洲足球管理机构，也是国际足联六大洲足联中最具影响力的组织，以及中北美及加勒比海足联（CONCACAF）——监管美洲体育项目的两个足联中规模最大的一方，均发表声明称对国际足联领导层失去信心，使得因凡蒂诺的前景充满不确定性。
欧洲足联表示，为了解决这一问题，“任何方案都不应被排除在外”，而中北美及加勒比海足联则宣布，“对该主席任期进行全面清算势在必行”。
导致因凡蒂诺前途发生如此剧烈逆转的核心，是一个被严密封锁的计划：这位国际足联主席打算通过向私人投资者出售世界杯 20% 的股份来筹集 42 亿美元 billion，而这些投资者将在规划和……
[见 Infantino, A4]
……管理权方面拥有影响力。
作者：Ian James / 报道自加州默塞德
根据一份新报告，僵化的收费结构和复杂的法规威胁到加州规模最小的种植者，推动土地向资金雄厚的企业果园集中。
这份由加州大学小农网络和非营利组织家庭农民社区联盟发布的报告警告称，如果州和地方机构不立即采取行动，许多家庭农场可能会被迫破产。
在圣华金谷的许多地区，水务机构采用了统一费率，因此最大的土地所有者支付的每单位水量费用与最小的所有者相同。
然而，小规模种植者的水井通常较浅，在水位下降时更容易干涸。对于一个拥有 20 英亩土地的种植者来说，抽水限制带来的压力可能比一个经营数千英亩土地的大企业更大。
Tomas Ovalle 为本报拍摄
[见地下水, A9]
加州大学圣克鲁兹分校的生态与进化生物学教授表示：“这非常令人担忧，很可能会对海洋渔业产生巨大影响。”
随着海水变暖，植物和动物会做出反应。一些死亡，一些无法繁殖，一些向北迁移，另一些则潜入深海。还有一些会生病，或者在温度升高的情况下更容易受到病原体的攻击。
为了应对全球气候变化，海洋物种迁移其分布范围的速度比陆地物种快 5 到 10 倍。
作者：诺亚·戈德堡 (Noah Goldberg)
两个月前，洛杉矶市长凯伦·巴斯 (Karen Bass) 仍处于相对高涨的势头。在经历了来自右翼斯宾塞·普拉特 (Spencer Pratt) 和左翼尼蒂亚·拉曼 (Nithya Raman) 的激烈挑战后，她在该市 6 月 2 mayoral 初选中成为得票最高者。
“明天将开启这段旅程的下半场，”在选举之夜，巴斯在韩国城的 Line Hotel 向支持者们发表了热情洋溢的讲话。
但近来值得欢庆的事情少了很多。
巴斯的夏天被一系列负面新闻所笼罩。她的竞选团队和行政团队均有工作人员离职。而且，就在毁灭性的 2025 年火灾风暴开始时，她不在市内存；与此同时，博伊尔高地 (Boyle Heights) 的 Lineage 冷藏食品仓库发生火灾，导致周围拉美裔聚集的社区被有毒烟雾笼罩。
而这一切都发生在一份新报告发布之前，该报告显示市内的无家可归人数在三年来首次上升，这动摇了巴斯在秋季决选中对抗拉曼的核心支柱。
“就政策、政治和运作而言，我不知道自初选以来，她的阵营是否传出过哪怕一条好消息，”南加州大学 (USC) 政治传播学教授丹·施努尔 (Dan Schnur) 表示。
[见 Bass, A10]
作者：理查德·温顿 (Richard Winton) 和汉娜·弗赖 (Hannah Fry)
苏詹姆斯 (James Su) 在南加州并非家喻户晓之名，但在圣盖博谷的部分地区，他是一位真正的媒体巨头。
他在 1990 年代初创立了 EDI 媒体 (EDI Media)，乘着亚洲移民的浪潮，通过广播节目、杂志和数字新闻网站，创建了美国最大的中文媒体平台之一。该公司称，这个帝国每年播出的节目超过 2,000 小时，全球覆盖人数超过 35 million。
被他的“光芒”所折服
ラムズ队的新防守之星迈尔斯·加勒特 (Myles Garrett) 在训练营开始之际，以其充沛的精力给队友们留下了深刻印象。体育版, D1
SpaceX 火箭将撞向月球
在去年发射了一对月球着陆器后，这艘废弃的航天器正处于碰撞轨道上。视角版, A2
市长在筹款方面领先对手
巴斯在 6 月收到 $510,000 的捐款，而拉曼筹集了 $170,000。加州版, B1
EDI 媒体网站上的苏詹姆斯个人简介中自豪地称，2012 年，时任州议员的库尔特·哈格曼 (Curt Hagman) 提出了一项决议，在加州设立“苏詹姆斯日”。然而，《洛杉矶时报》无法确认在哈格曼担任议员期间，有任何作者起草过关于宣布“苏詹姆斯日”的立法。
现在，哈格曼和苏詹姆斯都收到了搜查令，这是联邦调查局 (FBI) 针对外国势力干预地方政治而扩大调查的一部分。
联邦调查局特工上周搜查了哈格曼和苏詹姆斯的办公室及住所，以及内陆帝国 (Inland Empire) 和比弗利山庄 (Beverly Hills) 的其他地点。虽然当局拒绝就此案发表评论，但此次行动正值联邦政府调查中国政府干预方式之际。
[见 Su, A8]
罗伯特·高蒂埃 (Robert Gauthier)，洛杉矶时报
洛杉矶终极生日蛋糕
时报美食团队采纳了读者的建议，创作了一个值得庆祝的蛋糕。周末版, L6
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作者：Marcia Dunn
佛罗里达州，卡纳维拉尔角 —— 一枚漂流的 SpaceX 火箭在一年多前发射了一对月球着陆器后，目前正处于与月球的碰撞航线上。
该火箭的末级将于周三无意中撞击月球，这将刻出一个陨石坑，并掀起一股尘埃和碎石烟尘，科学家们（以及天文爱好者们）都渴望观察这一现象。
太空追踪专家比尔·格雷（Bill Gray）预测，撞击速度将达到 5,400 mph —— 是音速的七倍 —— 撞击点位于月球向阳的西边缘附近，靠近爱因斯坦陨石坑（Einstein Crater）。
由于这一过程发生在凌晨时分，美国东部地区和加拿大以及南美洲的大部分地区将拥有最佳观测视角。
虽然科学家们并不太担心这块特定的太空垃圾，但它凸显了随着越来越多的物体挤入轨道而日益增长的威胁。
“上面的空间越来越拥挤了，”计划在加拿大新不伦瑞克省观察后续影响的格雷说道。
SpaceX 从未打算撞击月球。但太空专家表示，如果该末级被推入围绕太阳的轨道，这次碰撞本可以避免。
这将是已知第二枚意外撞击月球的废弃火箭。2022 年，一段中国火箭残骸在月球背面挖掘出两个陨石坑。
对科学家来说幸运的是，即将到来的碰撞将发生在月球正面，其释放的能量相当于 3 吨 TNT 炸药。
撞击闪光将持续...
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它通过使其 2020 年的党团会议陷入一片混乱（花费近一个月时间才确认获胜者）而使自己蒙羞。 这次改变引发了一场混战，因为十几个州都在竞标争取首先投票的机会。 （两个主要政党各自独立地设定了选择总统候选人的规则。预计共和党将坚持传统阵容，从爱荷华州党团会议和新罕布什尔州初选开始，随后是在...
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作者：Michelle Gumede
约翰内斯堡 —— 欧普拉·温弗瑞表示，她将在明年年底关闭她在南非创办二十年的贫困女孩学校。
温弗瑞在与南非前总统纳尔逊·曼德拉讨论教育女孩的变革力量并深受启发后，于 2007 年创办了欧普拉·温弗瑞领导力女孩学院。曼德拉也是该校开学典礼的嘉宾之一。
该学院表示，温弗瑞的慈善基金会负责运营和资助该校，但协议中一直规定，位于约翰内斯堡附近的学院校园最终将移交给省教育部门。
“这个梦想从来不仅仅是建立一所学校，”温弗瑞在学院周三发布的一份声明中表示，“而是投资于年轻女性无限的潜力。这一使命不会随着一个校园的关闭而结束，它将延续在每一个可以通过教育改变未来的女孩身上。”
该学院表示，温弗瑞对教育南非女孩的承诺将通过一个扩大后的全国奖学金计划继续开展，该计划将支持 19...
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（内华达州和南卡罗来纳州。）
上个月，经过近一年的考虑，民主党规则与章程委员会投票决定在 1 月下旬至 2 月底之间的一个窗口期内，由六个州举行竞选活动。按照顺序，分别是：南卡罗来纳州、内华达州、新罕布什尔州、新墨西哥州、密歇根州和弗吉尼亚州。这一名单将提交给民主党全国委员会，并在本月晚些时候进行投票并最终敲定。
毫无疑问，你——一个普通人——可能对此几乎不关注。你有更重要的事情要做，比如刷完《寡妇湾》（Widow’s Bay），或者尽量让自己不被热化。
但党派领导人和政治内部人士对此过程极为重视。其核心利益在于：自夸的权利、适度的经济提升，以及当地分析师和在职官员在有线电视谈话节目中频繁客串的机会。
南卡罗来纳州和内华达州之间的竞争尤为激烈。在南卡罗来纳州，超过 50% 的民主党初选选民是黑人。在内华达州，拉丁裔是一个规模庞大且影响力日益增强的投票群体。因此，这两个州之间的竞争自然带有紧张的种族色彩。考虑到民主党倾向于挑剔痛点并在轻微挑衅下就内讧，这虽令人遗憾但并不意外。
这也相当没有意义。总统竞选日程的顺序虽然有影响，但远非决定性的。
南卡罗来纳州对拜登的成功至关重要。但 COVID-19 疫情的爆发同样关键，它大幅缩减了民主党的提名之争。
巴拉克·奥巴马在 2008 年在艾奥瓦州的胜利给了他巨大的推动，但他在……输给了希拉里。
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专家表示，（光闪烁时间）不到一秒，可能会因为太暗而无法看见。但喷射出的物质流可能会延伸至太空数英里之远，并让望远镜在数十分钟内可见。
“月球上的重力很低，而且没有风将尘埃吹走，”洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室的 Benjamin Fernando 说道，他正鼓励专业人士和业余爱好者共同进行观测。
他在一封电子邮件中补充道：“我们对这次事件感兴趣的部分原因是，为了弄清楚碎片撞击对未来宇航员构成了多大的危险。”
Fernando 预计撞击坑的直径将接近 90 英尺，深度为 16 英尺，从小规模来看在地球上无法看见，但对航天器可见。
美国国家航空航天局（NASA）的月球勘测轨道飞行器和韩国的 Danuri 月球轨道飞行器将收集撞击现场的前后照片。Danuri 将在距离（现场）一两英里范围内运行。
欧普拉·温弗瑞在 2012 年首届毕业典礼前夕，在领导力女孩学院发表讲话。
据费尔南多及其团队称，SpaceX (太空探索技术公司) 的火箭在撞击前仅剩两分钟。
这段被遗弃的火箭部分——长度约为 40 英尺，重量约 10,000 磅——曾在 15, 2025 年 1 月搭载了两艘私人月球着陆器。
其中一艘——Firefly Aerospace 的“蓝色幽灵”号（Blue Ghost）——成为了首个完全成功实现月球着陆的私人航天器。另一艘，来自日本 ispace 公司的着陆器，则以坠毁告终。
科学家表示，由于流星和其他自然天体在猛烈撞击月球前几乎不提供任何预警，因此通过观察像这次即将发生的、且被良好追踪的人造物体撞击，可以学到很多东西。
在阿波罗时代，美国国家航空航天局（NASA）曾将火箭段和月球模块抛向月球以进行地震测量。几十年后的 2009, NASA 有意让其 LCROSS 航天器及其上级在寻找月球南极附近的冰层时坠毁。
随着月球被视为新的旅游目的地，科学家表示，在成群的机器人和宇航员抵达之前，改进碎片监测和交通管制至关重要。
美国和中国正竞相在未来几年内将宇航员送上月球。埃隆·马斯克的 SpaceX (太空探索技术公司) 和杰夫·贝索斯的蓝色起源（Blue Origin）正竞相为 NASA 尚未命名的 Artemis IV 登月者提供着陆器，这些人将接替曾在月球表面漫步的 12 名阿波罗宇航员。
“这次撞击不会成为问题，”退休天体物理学家乔纳森·麦克道威尔（Jonathan McDowell）在电子邮件中表示。“但在未来月球上建立长期基地的环境下，类似的撞击将成为一个问题，我们不能将火箭级留在这种混乱的轨道上。”
邓恩为美联社撰稿。
全国领先学校中才华横溢的女孩们。
根据奥普拉·温弗瑞慈善基金会（Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation）的数据，已有 500 多名女孩从该学院毕业，其中一些人就读于南非、美国和欧洲的顶尖大学。
豪登省（Gauteng provincial）
克林顿在接下来的那一周前往新罕布什尔州，并不得不经过另外六个月的奋斗才赢得了提名。
总统竞选在那个籍籍无名的吉米·卡特悄悄潜入爱荷华州、花数月时间寄宿在人们的客房中，然后通过超越其更显赫的对手而名声大噪的 50 年里，发生了巨大的变化。如今，这场竞选是一场 24 / 7 全天候的活动（涉及 24 和 7），所有 50 个州的选民都在关注。
虽然各地可能会出现一些局部关注点——例如内华达州拟建的尤卡山（Yucca Mountain）核废料场，或南卡罗来纳州低地地区的海滩侵蚀——但无论背景是一片大豆田、一座白色教堂的尖顶，还是一场南方的鱼类油炸聚会，候选人们面对的都是相同的问题和争议，这些也激励着这场竞争。
显然，投票必须从某个地方开始，州与州之间的竞争也自有其合理之处。但是，那些相互攻击，尤其是针对种族和族裔的敌对情绪是多余的，并且不必要地制造分裂。
候选人可以通过构建最强有力的方案并向选民推销，来证明他们是否具备赢得提名的能力。
无论是在拉斯维加斯的一座黑人教堂，还是在北查尔斯顿的一个拉丁裔社区。任何地点都可以。
政府将接管这座占地 52 英亩的学院校园，其中设有 21 间教室、六个科学和计算机实验室、一座拥有 10,000 册藏书的图书馆以及一个 600 个座位的剧院。政府尚未立即说明该物业的具体计划。
豪登省教育部长莱博冈·迈莱（Lebogang Maile）表示，目前就读于该校的学生将能够在不受影响的资金支持下完成学业。
该学院在 2007 年开学后不久便引起了国际关注，当时几名学生指控一名宿舍舍监对其进行身体和性虐待。
温弗瑞前往南非与学生和家长见面，公开道歉，并委托进行独立调查。
该舍监在 2010 年被判定无罪，免于刑事指控。
Gumede 为美联社撰稿。
作者：Toqa Ezzidin
开罗 —— 对于加沙地带的巴勒斯坦人来说，哈马斯宣布同意解除武装是一个微小的希望信号，意味着以色列的攻击可能会停止，让他们能够重建生活以及家中残存的建筑。
但这与地上的现实发生了冲突，因为自特朗普总统周四晚在华盛顿吹捧哈马斯协议以来，以色列的袭击一直在继续，而且在推进 10 月起生效的更广泛的停火协议方面，几乎没有采取任何步骤。
加沙地带 2 million 巴勒斯坦人中绝大多数仍处于流离失所状态，许多人住在帐篷营地中，恶劣的条件和过度拥挤导致了啮齿动物滋生以及水痘等传染病的爆发。
“他们可以谈论撤军和解除武装，”24 岁的三轮车司机 Abdel Moneim Aboul-Roos 说道，他在一次以色列空袭中失去了一条腿。“只要没有食物或药物，我并不在乎这些。”
以色列和哈马斯去年签署了一项由美国支持的停火计划，该计划结束了大规模战斗行动，实现了以色列人质的返回，并允许增加对该巴勒斯坦飞地的人道主义援助。
该计划还要求以色列军队逐步撤出，建立一个国际稳定部队，以及一项旨在解除哈马斯持有武器的计划。
遭受袭击；美国 告知美国公民 准备撤离中东。
作者：Samy Magdy 和 Aamer Madhani
开罗 — 特朗普总统威胁将对伊朗进行更多打击，因为美国正敦促重新开放霍尔穆兹海峡。 周六数小时后，科威特表示，在一名油轮在这一战略水道遭到袭击的同时，该国对来自伊朗的新一轮无人机袭击做出了反应。 与此同时，在巴勒斯坦武装组织哈马斯同意根据美国促成的和平计划解除武装后，以色列对加沙地带进行了猛烈打击。 周五，特朗普在马里兰州坎普戴维总统度假地与内阁成员会面时向记者表示，“我们只想在伊朗赢”，并暗示他预计美国军事行动将持续一段时间。 他表示，美国将“非常强硬”地打击伊朗，直到他们无法承受为止。 当天晚些时候，白宫新闻秘书卡罗琳·莱维特再次表达了美国政府的挫败感，指责德黑兰在6月与美国签署了一份关于休战的谅解备忘录，但随后迅速“违背协议，向商船开火，并杀害了美国士兵”。 “特朗普总统不会坐视不管，允许这种恐怖行为发生，”莱维特在周五晚上的一份声明中说。“伊朗将继续付出代价，直到他们以特朗普总统认为的有意义的方式回到谈判桌前。” 周六，美国国务院向在该地区 10 个国家的美国公民发布了新的安全警报，敦促他们由于与伊朗战争中日益紧张的情势而提高警惕。 这些警告涵盖了巴林、以色列、伊拉克、约旦、科威特、黎巴嫩、阿曼、卡塔尔、沙特阿拉伯
一名女性周六在加沙地带代尔巴拉的阿尔-阿克萨医院附近检查以色列空袭现场。
但由于双方互相指责对方违反停火协议，谈判陷入停滞。哈马斯保留了武器，而以色列军队则拒绝撤出。 自10月以来，以色列在加沙杀害了 1,200 多名巴勒斯坦人，并扩大了其控制的领土范围。 在武装分子袭击中，也有五名以色列士兵丧生。
对以色列和哈马斯的互不信任 特朗普宣布——且哈马斯确认的——路线图，更具体地规定了该武装组织及其盟友被要求移交给新技术官僚政府的武器类型。
哈马斯领导人哈利勒·阿尔-海亚（位于横幅中央，与两位已故领导人在一起），在德黑兰的巴勒斯坦广场。
以及阿拉伯联合酋长国——敦促美国公民为航班取消、临时关闭领空以及其他旅行中断的可能性做好准备。
对科威特的袭击 科威特军方周六表示，其部队正在应对无人机袭击，这些袭击是伊朗对该国进攻的一部分。 在的一份声明中，科威特国防部发言人萨乌德·阿卜杜勒阿齐兹·奥泰比少将表示，无人机击中了“若干重要设施”，包括该国北部的一座政府建筑。他表示没有人员伤亡。 英国海军周六表示，一艘油轮在阿曼海岸外的霍尔穆兹海峡遭到袭击，另一次爆炸发生在附近的一艘船只旁。据称两次事件均未造成人员伤亡。 英国海事贸易组织表示，周五一个不明飞行物在阿曼利马东北 11 海里处击中了该船。此次袭击损坏了船只的机舱。 该组织表示，周六据报在另一艘油轮西北 21 海里外的哈萨卜市附近出现了巨大的水花和一次爆炸。 另有报道称，近日一艘在阿曼海岸附近搁浅的受制裁油轮出现原油泄漏并扩散，靠近一个海洋保...
该文件称，以色列将不参与哈马斯武器的退役工作，且哈马斯应停止在加沙的所有军事行动，以便过渡能够顺利进行并开始恢复。
但加沙居民表示，他们多次被承诺战争将会停止且生活将会改善。他们将该路线图视为一项积极进展，但对于以色列或哈马斯是否会遵守条款仍持怀疑态度。
“够了。我们需要生活有所改善，”住在加沙南部的流离失所的巴勒斯坦人艾曼·艾哈迈德（Ayman Ahmed）说道。他表示希望哈马斯放弃武装，但认为短期内不会发生。
Vahid Salemi 美联社
受保护区域，美联社审阅的卫星图像显示。 作为与美国持续冲突的一部分，伊朗多次攻击未经其授权试图通过霍尔木兹海峡的船只。
以色列袭击加沙 据当地卫生官员称，以色列在周五晚上和周六发起的猛烈袭击造成加沙中部和北部至少四人死亡，数十人受伤。
在以色列军方发出撤离警告后，加沙境内发生了彻夜袭击。以军周六表示，其已袭击了该地区各地的哈马斯目标，并摧毁了五个哈马斯储存设施。
此次袭击发生在哈马斯周五确认将同意解除武装之后，这可能是结束加沙战争的一个潜在突破口，尽管仍存在重大障碍。
以色列尚未正式对该哈马斯协议发表评论，该协议是 10 月宣布的一项由美国斡旋的停火协议的一部分。
该协议要求哈马斯解除武装，并将权力移交给一个独立的巴勒斯坦行政机构。以色列将撤军，并部署一支国际稳定部队。
在周五发布的一条 X 平台帖文中，以色列极右翼议员伊塔马尔·本-格维尔（Itamar Ben-Gvir）称该协议“不可接受”，并表示加沙的杀戮必须继续。“以色列必须获胜，”他说。
埃及作为加沙停火的关键调解国，据埃及官方媒体报道，对哈马斯和其他巴勒斯坦组织在分阶段和平计划中的“积极回应”表示赞赏。
“他们不在乎巴勒斯坦人的生命，”他说。
这场战争始于 2023 年 10 月 7 日，当时由哈马斯领导的武装分子袭击以色列南部，造成约 1,200 人死亡，并将 251 人作为人质带回加沙。根据由哈马斯运行的政府下属加沙卫生部的统计，以色列的报复性攻势已造成 73,300 多人死亡。
该部门保存着详细记录，联合国机构和国际组织普遍认为这些记录是可靠的。该记录未区分平民与武装分子，但表示妇女和儿童约占所有死亡人数的一半。
由于高死亡人数以及持续的攻……
地区动态 8 胡塞武装迫使 8 艘沙特船舶在伊朗支持的叛军宣布在该战略要道封锁沙特航运后，改变了通过曼德海峡的航线。胡塞武装军事发言人亚希亚·萨雷准将周五在一份声明中表示，这些船只已改为绕道非洲好望角以避开封锁。 8 在黎巴嫩南部，以色列军队周五引发爆炸，旨在摧毁十字军时期的博福特城堡（Beaufort Castle）下方的地下隧道网络。以色列称该网络被伊朗支持的真主党武装分子用作指挥中心。这座 12 世纪的城堡也被称为 Al-Shaqif，于 5 月被以色列军队占领。尽管以色列持有异议，该城堡最近仍被列入联合国教科文组织的世界遗产名录。 8 黎巴嫩总统约瑟夫·奥恩表示，以色列的行动在即将举行的罗马谈判前传递了“负面信号”。以色列和黎巴嫩的谈判团队将再次在罗马会面，继续商讨一项计划，根据该计划，以色列将从黎巴嫩南部撤军，以换取真主党的解除武装。 8 以色列军方表示，一名以色列陆军军官在周五夜间至周六在黎巴嫩南部的行动中受中度伤。目前尚不清楚该军官是如何受伤的。黎巴嫩当局或真主党未立即发表评论。自伊朗战争爆发后不久真主党向以色列开火导致冲突重启以来，已有 38 名以色列士兵在黎巴嫩或以色列北部丧生。
阿卜杜勒·卡里姆·哈纳美联社
袭击。其他巴勒斯坦人则表示，他们认为以色列将拒绝做出让步。 在加沙南部，加扎尔·阿斯塔尔住在废墟之中。她表示，这里几乎时刻都有以色列的枪火，这片土地已被变成一个“难以言表的战场”。30 岁的阿玛尔·卡斯金表示，他不相信路线图能迫使以色列军队撤离。卡斯金认为，对于以色列而言，目标不仅是解除哈马斯的武装，而且是将巴勒斯坦人口赶出加沙。“他们会让我们受苦，”他说。
巴勒斯坦人梦想回家
以色列尚未就该路线图发表公开评论
救援人员在搜寻前与巴基斯坦高山俱乐部（Alpine Club of Pakistan）的阿亚兹·艾哈迈德·希格里（Ayaz Ahmed Shigri，居中）站在一起。
巴基斯坦高山俱乐部
作者：Munir Ahmed 和 Riaz Khan
巴基斯坦，伊斯兰堡 —— 据 Purja 的探险公司周六表示，著名的英籍尼泊尔登山者 Nirmal Purja 以及其他 9 名被巴基斯坦雪崩卷走的登山者均已死亡，搜救队正努力寻回他们的遗体。
“世界失去了一位最伟大的登山者，”这家名为 Elite Exped 的公司在声明中表示。该公司强调，它为所有逝者感到悲痛，并补充道：“任何言语都无法减轻这次难以想象的损失所带来的痛苦。”
这个 10 人的探险队于周四在巴基斯坦的 Broad Peak（宽峰）被一场雪崩卷走。救援人员周五发现了四具尸体并寻回了其中三具，但恶劣的天气阻碍了搜救直升机的飞行。在军用直升机的支持下，救援人员已于周六早些时候恢复了对其他失踪者的搜寻。
“这些勇敢的登山者来自不同的国家，但他们被对高山的共同热情所凝聚。他们的逝世是对全球登山界不可估量的损失，”巴基斯坦阿尔卑斯俱乐部主席 Irfan Arshad Khan 说道。
他对参与搜救任务的军方和民间救援人员以及夏尔巴人表示敬意。
“大山以其美丽激励我们，但它们也提醒我们，那些冒险进入喜马拉雅高地和喀喇昆仑山脉的人所面临的巨大风险。”
路线图，但以色列官员在近日的匿名发言中暗示，该文件并不符合该国的利益。
官员们还重申，以色列不会从加沙的“黄线”（Yellow Line）撤离，这条线将东部由以色列控制的领土与该飞地的西部区域分开。
近几个月来，军方沿同一条线附近修建了一道巨大的土堤屏障，并开发了一个被其描述为紧邻土堤的“安全区”，该区域配备了情报和技术资产。
以色列还在其控制的大部分领土上进行了受控爆破和清理行动。
曾居住在那里的巴勒斯坦人尚未返回——并且不确定他们的房屋是否依然屹立。
Anas Nakla 在战争期间从加沙南部的拉法（Rafah）被驱离。他说他知道自己的房子已经被摧毁，但仍然希望带着妻子和孩子回家。
“它已经不存在了，”他说，“但我们可以回去重建。”
同样，在加沙北部不得不离开家园的 Mohamed Hamad 希望由美国支持的路线图能向以色列施压，使其撤出部分控制区域。
他认为，即使只有少数人能回到家中，“也会给其余的人带来希望，让他们相信有一天自己也能回去。”
Ezzidin 为美联社（Associated Press）撰稿。美联社驻特拉维夫记者 Melanie Lidman 和 Sam Mednick 为本报道提供了协助。
“计划，”他说。
周六早些时候，当地警方官员塔希尔·汗（Tahir Khan）表示，阿曼登山者纳希拉·艾哈迈德（Nathira Ahmed）的遗体正被运往首都伊斯兰堡；而美国登山者马洛里·盖斯（Mallory Geis）和尼泊尔登山者巴哈杜尔·古隆（Bahadur Gurung）的遗体仍留在斯卡杜（Skardu）的一家医院，该市是巴基斯坦北部吉尔吉特-巴尔蒂斯坦地区的主要城市。
该团队在尝试攀登博罗德峰（Broad Peak）时遭遇雪崩，随后在周四与大本营失去了联系。
根据高山俱乐部（Alpine Club）的消息，此次远征包括五名尼泊尔登山者、一名阿曼登山者、一名美国登山者、巴基斯坦登山者索海尔·萨基（Sohail Sakhi）、一名仅被确认为王（Wang）的中国登山者，以及另一名身份尚未公开的外国登山者。
此次远征由普贾（Purja）领导，这位出生于尼泊尔的前英国陆军士兵被广泛称为尼姆斯·戴（Nims Dai）。他在 2019 年创下了 189 天攀登世界 14 座最高峰的记录，这一成就被记录在 Netflix 纪录片《14座高峰：没有什么是不可能的》中。
他的记录在 2023 年被打破。
据《纽约时报》报道，普贾的名声在近年来有所受损，因为在他登山团队中的多名女性指控他涉嫌性侵犯和性骚扰。普贾否认了这些指控。
执行未来的活动，包括与赛事挂钩的广播和商业交易。简而言之，因凡蒂诺计划秘密出售世界杯的股份。而一旦细节开始在媒体上泄露，他被迫在周五取消整个计划。在他看来，这正处于其国际足联主席第三任期的顶峰，但在两周后便遭遇了这次令人尴尬的撤退，使其陷入脆弱境地。因凡蒂诺的这个名为“国际足联前行企业”（FIFA Forward Enterprise）的构想，旨在将国际足联的“奶牛”——世界杯——变成一只“金牛”。但为此，他需要国际足联 211 个成员国中至少 106 个国家的批准，因此他向支持他的国家承诺，到 9 月中旬，每个国家将获得 $20 million。而拒绝支持的国家只能获得其中的一小部分。因凡蒂诺确信，这些大笔现金足以买到足够多成员国的默许——或者至少是沉默——从而使计划通过。然而，这次贿赂反而让他自食其果。国际足联在周五晚些时候以因凡蒂诺的名义发布了一份声明，基本上是在说“算了”。
“‘国际足联前行企业’项目旨在为进一步加强我们的国际足联成员协会以及全球体育事业提供基础，特别是在那些最需要支持的国家，”因凡蒂诺的声明中写道。“而且，正如我们从一开始就所说的，只有在大多数国际足联成员协会支持的情况下，并且始终经过与他们、国际足联理事会、各大洲足联以及更广泛的利益相关者的磋商过程，才会实施该计划。”
“在仔细听取所有意见后，很明显该项目造成了某种性质的分歧，无论支持程度如何，这已不再符合最初设定的目标之利益，”声明继续说道。“我们的目的始终是——且将永远是——团结与改进。因此，该提案将不再推进。”
现在的问题变成了因凡蒂诺的主席任期是否还能推进。他不会是第一个被严重击伤的国际足联主席
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詹尼·因凡蒂诺在世界杯开赛前一天的新闻发布会上。
野心不加掩饰，但其坠落的速度和深度之快令人震惊。2026 年世界杯无论以任何衡量标准都取得了巨大的成功。这次历史上规模最大、最复杂的世界杯超出了预期，吸引了超过 6.8 百万现场球迷，全球电视观众超过 60 亿。为期四年的世界杯周期为国际足联带来了约 150 亿美元 billion 的收入，使其成为历史上首个收入超过 100 亿美元 billion 的体育赛事。
尽管领导的是一个总部设在瑞士的组织，且尽管其财富惊人，但在官方定义上仍是一家非营利机构，但因凡蒂诺在突破界限方面从未胆怯。这也不是他第一次尝试将私募股权引入世界杯：2018 年，在他担任国际足联主席的第一任期 2 年后，他曾考虑一项筹集 250 亿美元 billion 以资助赛事的计划，但最终在巨大的反对压力下妥协。
不过，他并没有放弃从世界杯中榨取更多资金的想法。
今年夏天，他在每半场比赛中间引入了三分钟的补水休息时间——表面上是为了应对高温和潮湿，但实际上这是一个噱头，让广播公司能够通过电视广告产生数百万美元的额外收入。国际足联还在决赛期间首次举办了中场表演，出售单价超过 $1 million 的 VIP 门票，并为本届赛事的 104 场比赛引入了动态定价，导致部分座位的价格达到了球迷 4 年前在卡塔尔支付价格的 4 倍。
这使得许多该项运动最忠实的支持者无法承受——而足球比任何其他运动都更属于球迷。这就是为什么球队被称为“俱乐部”，而球迷被称为“支持者”。因此，世界杯并非因凡蒂诺可以随意买卖的资产。因此，人们对他最新想法的抵制立即且毫不留情。
“足球不属于投资者，”伯纳姆在 Instagram 的贴文中表示。“一旦你出卖了一部分，你就彻底出卖了。足球属于球迷。一直如此，也将永远如此。”
然而，真正令利益相关者愤怒的是，因凡蒂诺厚颜无耻地秘密开发 FFE，结果其细节却通过媒体报道泄露。
德国足球协会主席兼国际足联理事会（该组织最具影响力的机构）成员贝恩德·诺伊多夫表示，他是通过阅读报道才首次得知 FFE 的。他上周告诉一家德国新闻机构：“我对我们必须从新闻报道中得知这类事情感到非常惊讶，也很恼火。”
另一个自找的麻烦是因凡蒂诺决定启动该项目
属于 投资者。一旦 你出卖了 一部分，你就 彻底出卖了。足球 属于 球迷。一直如此， 也将永远如此。”
作者：Thomas Adamson 和 Nicolas Garriga
法国，勒波尔日（LE PORGE）—— 周六，欧洲大部分西欧地区的野火紧急情况有所缓解，但最危险的前线转移到了希腊。在那里，大风将火焰吹向一个海滨度假胜地，迫使数百人经由海路撤离，并妨碍了消防飞机的作业。
对于希腊而言，这种危险带有沉痛的回响：2018年，在雅典附近的马提（Mati）海滨社区发生的一场野火造成 104 人死亡，是本世纪欧洲最致命的野火。
在法国西南部，消防员将一场巨大的野火控制在周界之内，约 198,000 人现在获准回家，这次撤离可能是该国和平时期规模最大的一次。
西班牙的主要火源也不再蔓延，葡萄牙的主要火情已得到控制。
周五，第二场法国火灾在 6 小时内迅速蔓延 4 平方英里——据当地政府称，“比全速奔跑的马还要快”——随后在夜间停止扩张。但该火势在周六依然活跃，仍有 2,500 人无法回家。
西欧情况的好转标志着危机顶峰时期的剧烈转变。当时仅法国和西班牙的火灾就迫使 30 万人离开家园和度假地，在夏季假期期间导致城镇空城，并使消防员、飞机和紧急服务部门在应对多起同步发生的紧急情况时承受巨大压力。
根据欧盟的哥白尼气候服务局的数据，欧洲是地球上升温最快的大陆，自 20 世纪 80 年代以来，其升温速度是全球平均水平的两倍多。气温升高和长期干旱使植被更加干燥且更易燃，导致火势蔓延更快且燃烧更剧烈。
风力驱动希腊火势 在希腊，近 500 名消防员周六致力于保护科林斯湾的热门度假胜地波尔托-格尔梅诺（Porto Germeno），此时火焰正撕裂茂密的松林，烟雾遮蔽了阳光。
火灾于周五在邻近的沿海村庄阿吉奥斯-瓦西里奥斯（Agios Vasileios）附近爆发。约 300 人经由海路撤离，当局于周六发布了进一步的撤离令。
“一片原始森林，一个天堂，就这样交到了火神的手中，”60 岁的农民及当地居民 Minas Tzortzanis 说道。“没有语言可以描述发生了什么。毁灭。彻底的毁灭。”
雅典国家天文台的野火气象学家 Theodore Giannaros 估计，受影响面积约 15 至 20 平方英里。当局尚未发布官方的过火面积数据。
此次行动还包括专业的森林火灾小队以及从法国临时部署的人员。
（图注）在法国西南部的勒波尔日，一座房屋在野火中被焚毁，该地是受灾最严重的社区之一。
（文本片段） — 安迪·伯纳姆 (Andy Burnham)，英国首相
与 Thrive Eternal 合作，这是一家由 Joshua Kushner 创立的风险投资公司。Joshua Kushner 现年 41 岁，是 Jared Kushner 的兄弟，后者是特朗普总统的女婿，也是白宫的一名全能顾问和谈判代表。Thrive Eternal 专注于对技术无法取代的稀缺文化机构进行长期投资，但在管理像世界杯这样规模大且复杂的项目方面缺乏相关经验。
此外，这种伙伴关系将使 因凡蒂诺 (Infantino) 进一步进入特朗普的社交圈，这位国际足联 (FIFA) 主席多年来一直公开地向特朗普示好。因凡蒂诺经常访问椭圆形办公室和特朗普在佛罗里达州的马阿拉歌 (Mar-a-Lago) 庄园，他还参加了总统的就职典礼并陪同其……
在全球范围内的访问中。特朗普与因凡蒂诺的关系在去年12月因凡蒂诺向其颁发首届国际足联 (FIFA) 和平奖时受到质疑，随后在上个月，当特朗普三次致电因凡蒂诺，游说撤销美国前锋福拉林·巴洛根在世界杯淘汰赛前被红牌禁赛的决定时，争议进一步升级。国际足联最终允许巴洛根参赛，这在赛事历史上仅是第二次解除红牌禁赛。对某些人来说，因凡蒂诺决定在最新的风险投资中与特朗普的亲信合作已然过火。“考虑到在巴洛根事件后已经存在的对政治干预的担忧，这对因凡蒂诺来说形象非常糟糕，”加州大学洛杉矶分校 (UCLA) 商业法教授、曾在足球经济学领域写作并讲课的史蒂文·A·班克 (Steven A. Bank) 表示，“尤其是该基金由贾里德·库什纳的兄弟领导。”
一旦因凡蒂诺秘密计划的细节开始泄露，拥有 55 个成员、规模最大的国际足联成员协会——欧洲足联 (UEFA) 的领导层举行了紧急会议，会上投票决定抵制所有国际足联的比赛。“有些东西根本不能出售。国际足联世界杯属于足球，永远如此，”欧洲足联在声明中表示。负责监管北美、中美洲及加勒比海地区足球的中北美及加勒比海足联 (CONCACAF) 表示，其 41 个国家同样拒绝该计划，美国足球协会在 X 平台上发布的一篇简短帖子中支持这一观点。该协会写道：“美国足球协会支持中北美及加勒比海足联及其成员。”亚洲足球联合会也加入了其中，在声明中表示其 47 个成员“与欧洲足联和中北美及加勒比海足联团结一致，对国际足联在旗舰赛事中引入私人投资的提议表示严重关切”。
当因凡蒂诺显然无法获得推进计划所需的票数时，他取消了该计划。但这可能不在于想法本身不好，而在于执行方式。足球领域充斥着私人投资者。最大的俱乐部由亿万富翁或主权财富基金拥有，而且许多联赛——
Nicolas Garriga 美联社
以及罗马尼亚，出动了 19 架洒水飞机和 11 辆直升机。 希腊其他地区又爆发了新火灾。纳夫帕克托斯东部的一场大火引发了至少四个村庄的疏散警报。 “极强至大风级别的强风继续造成异常困难的局面，”气候危机与民防部长埃万格洛斯·图尔纳斯 (Evangelos Tournas) 表示。 他指出，极端湍流导致部分飞机无法取水，或无法足够靠近火场进行投水。
吉伦特大火已烧毁波尔多以西 162 平方英里的松林，该面积是巴黎的四倍。 周六时，火势仍被控制在周界内，但尚未被宣布为“固定”——即工作人员认定火势不再蔓延的时刻。 活跃区域和埋藏的热点依然存在。 当局周五重新开放了更多社区，但周六仍有几个社区基本处于荒废状态。由于附近的热点可能会再次复燃，切断有限的道路通道并困住返乡居民，大部分林区的卡普费雷半岛仍处于疏散状态。 “今天，火势依然没有……”
包括由特巴斯监管的西班牙足球甲级联赛（La Liga）——都已经通过与国际足联提议极其相似的方式，将商业股份出售给了私募股权公司。前美国足球协会主席艾伦·罗森伯格（Alan Rothenberg）曾是 1994 年男子世界杯和 1999 年女子世界杯（这两个赛事都是历史上最成功的锦标赛之一）背后的推动力量，他表示，在世界杯中出售私募股权股份的想法并非坏主意。但因凡蒂诺试图实施该计划的方式导致了失败。“所提议的内容并没有那么革命性，”罗森伯格说。“美国职业足球大联盟（MLS）、NFL 的一个子公司、F1 以及我肯定还未过多关注的其他体育项目中，都已经有了私募股权投资者。”
“但我认为所有因素的综合作用注定了它的失败。这确实增加了这样一种可能性，即因凡蒂诺最终变成了伊卡洛斯，飞得离太阳太近了。这实际上可能会在政治上毁灭他。”其他人，包括高盛前副主席科尔代罗，则质疑引入外部投资者的必要性。“国际足联已经拥有极其丰厚的财务资源。该组织拥有数十亿美元的储备金且没有债务，”科尔代罗在辞职信中指出。“如果成员协会认为需要额外的投资来发展这项运动，国际足联已经有足够的财务能力利用现有资源提供支持。”
因凡蒂诺此前也曾无视共识且未受到显著后果，在监管弗拉基米尔·普京治下的俄罗斯 2018 年世界杯和卡塔尔 2022 年赛事期间，他与独裁者关系密切，随后又被指控在一次操纵投票中将 2034 年赛事授予沙特阿拉伯。然而这一次，国际足联内部的利益相关者对因凡蒂诺滥用单方面权力的倾向忍无可忍，于是他们发起了反击，而主席最终退让了。在因凡蒂诺妥协前几个小时，他的一名盟友告诉《金融时报》，他绝不会屈服，并将这次僵局视为一场“生死之战”。因凡蒂诺的总统之位或许还没有彻底终结，但绝对已处于危殆之中。
“已经控制住了，”埃里克·皮托特中校告诉记者。
消防人员在夜间使用了战术焚烧。在 150 英里的火线边缘，热量可能会潜伏在地下并再次喷发。
居民回到废墟
对于返回吉伦特火灾区的居民来说，紧急情况的缓解让他们首次面对失去的一切。
在受灾最严重的社区之一勒波尔日（Le Porge），马修·普莱西斯（Matthieu Plessis）周六回到了一个在家族中传承了七代的家之废墟。就在一周多前，烟雾几乎将下午变成了黑夜，火焰在道路两旁迅速蔓延。现在，这位 40 岁的机修工开车穿过被熏黑的森林，艰难地试图辨认这里曾经矗立过什么。
“这里那里有一些我可以认出的细节，但除此之外，一切都无法辨认了，”普莱西斯说。“你甚至不知道这里曾经有什么，或者谁住在哪里。”
他不得不强行打开房产的大门，因为钥匙已经被烧掉了。一个烟囱和扭曲的金属框架是辨认房间原位置的仅有线索。他经营自行车修理业务的工具和机械也全部消失了。
“这并不容易。我正努力保持坚强并帮助他人，”普莱西斯说。“我不想在接下来的 10 年里一直为自己感到难过。”
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该国在休达（Ceuta）边境 设立了 1,600 英尺长的封锁线。
作者：Sergio Rodrigo Ruíz, Suman Naishadham 和 Akram Oubachir
西班牙，休达 —— 周六，西班牙在其北非领土休达与邻国摩洛哥之间的海边边界安装了一道 1,600 英尺长的屏障，此前在本周早些时候，数万名移民突破了边境。
西班牙政府周六表示，至少有 67 名移民死亡，其中包括一些溺水者，以及另一些在冲破防波堤屏障的踩踏事件中丧生的人。周四至周五之间，50,000 至 60,000 名移民突然抵达该领土，引发了人道主义危机，并再次激起欧洲及其他地区的移民争论，尽管大多数移民很快就返回了。
西班牙社会党政府的批评者，特别是右翼和极右翼政治家，利用了人群冲入休达的戏剧性画面。休达位于直布罗陀海峡，处于地中海的入口处，自 1580 年起就一直是西班牙的领地。
西班牙的移民政策侧重于向缺乏授权的工人授予合法身份以提振其经济，这与欧盟大部分地区以及美国推行的反移民和支持遣返政策形成鲜明对比。
西班牙首相 Pedro Sánchez 谴责了一些欧盟领导人对休达事件的反应，称要求西班牙被暂停在欧盟无国界申根区（Schengen zone）之外的呼吁是“由偏见、假新闻、无知或政治利益驱动的”。近年来，西班牙的非法移民人数少于地中海邻国意大利和希腊。
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于莫斯科餐厅 炸弹袭击中
美联社 (associated press)
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俄罗斯国家媒体援引当地官员的话称，周六莫斯科市中心的一家餐厅发生炸弹爆炸，造成至少 2 人死亡。实施爆炸袭击的人员同样被炸死。
俄罗斯国家通讯社俄新社（RIA Novosti）援引国家反恐委员会的话称，爆炸装置在莫斯科库德林斯卡亚广场（Kudrinskaya Square）的一家餐厅内爆炸时，至少 21 人受伤。
该通讯社称，一名试图将爆炸装置带入餐厅的身份不明女性在爆炸中死亡，一名保安和一名顾客也随之死亡。
俄新社报道称，该女性试图将炸弹偷运进店，但在装置爆炸前，保安拒绝让她进入。
莫斯科调查委员会告诉该通讯社，此次袭击正在调查中。
柏林 —— 德国规模最大的骄傲游行之一的汉堡骄傲游行周六在这座港口城市举行。在柏林类似的游行活动附近发生一起致命袭击一周后，此次游行的安保级别有所提高。
据德国新闻社（DPA）报道，警方和组织者表示，约有 300,000 人参加了此次活动，而去年约为 260,000 人。汉堡警察局局长上周表示，大约两倍……
西班牙民防卫队（GUARDIA CIVIL）警员在西班牙飞地休塔（Ceuta）的水域中打捞起一名移民的尸体。
少数游向休塔市区塔拉哈尔（Tarajal）海滩的移民在抵达后由士兵接管并护送过境。
“对于那些违法者，我们将毫不留情，”西班牙内政部长费尔南多·格兰德-马拉斯卡（Fernando Grande-Marlaska）告诉记者。
当被问及在边境两侧部署重兵的情况下，此次突破是如何发生，以及摩洛哥是否对休塔构成威胁时，格兰德-马拉斯卡为拉巴特政府辩护。
“这些事件需要西班牙和摩洛哥共同评估，”他说。但正是与邻国的合作，使西班牙能够“在 24 小时内扭转局面”。
“摩洛哥对休塔以及西班牙其他地区不构成威胁。它是一个可靠的合作伙伴，”格兰德-马拉斯卡强调。
欧盟推动 组织化应对 其他欧盟
作者：Vasilisa Stepanenko
乌克兰，基辅 — 当局表示，俄罗斯在周六凌晨向乌克兰首都基辅发射了密集的弹道导弹和无人机袭击，造成至少 9 人死亡，33 名平民受伤。
此次袭击发生在两天前的一次大规模俄罗斯攻击之后，那次攻击在乌克兰全境造成至少 10 人死亡，50 多人受伤。莫斯科显然试图利用基辅严重缺乏西方供应的反弹道导弹防御系统的现状。这种无休止的袭击循环，削弱了通过外交手段结束俄罗斯对其邻国持续四年多入侵的可能性。
据乌克兰国家紧急服务部门称，基辅索洛缅斯基区（Solomianskyi）的一栋五层住宅楼被坠落的碎片损坏并引发火灾。救援人员从该建筑的高层疏散了 35 人，其中两人死亡，另有八人受伤，包括两名儿童。
紧急服务部门表示，在基辅的达尔尼茨基区（Darnytskyi），袭击引发的火灾对房屋、车辆和其他建筑物造成破坏，导致 7 人死亡，14 人受伤。
在其他地区，救援人员扑灭了基辅舍甫琴科区（Shevchenkivskyi）一栋非住宅建筑的火灾。
关于该区市长早前报道的人员被困在另一栋住宅楼中的情况，目前没有更多信息。
另有两个市区报告了商业和住宅建筑受损的情况。
立陶宛外交部长表示，由于昨晚导弹击中附近区域，该国驻基辅大使馆受损。
俄罗斯国防部周六表示，已对“基辅的乌克兰军事工业综合体设施和物流中心”发动了“大规模打击”。
总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基（Volodymyr Zelensky）已向美国和其他西方伙伴施压，强调乌克兰需要更多“爱国者”（Patriot）反弹道导弹防御系统以应对来自俄罗斯的导弹袭击。
“每一组弹道导弹拦截弹都能挽救我们人民的生命。而每一个没有它们的夜晚都会导致更多伤亡，”他在最新袭击后在 X 上写道。
这位乌克兰领导人在周五晚间表示，他与副总统 JD Vance 进行了交谈，并讨论了本周早些时候在华盛顿与特朗普总统的会面，泽连斯基将其描述为
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与去年一样数量的警员将保护此次活动。 这次汉堡活动的口号是“酷儿团结。采取立场——为了一个没有恐惧的未来。” 在参与的数十辆卡车中，较晚加入的一辆代表了柏林骄傲节活动：克里斯托弗街日（Christopher Street Day），或简称为 CSD，这是该游行在德国的称呼。该车上的人员被要求穿着深色服装，以表达对上周末袭击遇害者的尊重。
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各国呼吁就塞塔（Ceuta）局势进行紧急磋商并采取协调应对措施。
“我们不能允许失控的大规模跨境、将移民工具化或其他混合威胁，从而制造出非法进入欧盟是可能的假象，或者制造出移民的非法入境可以转化为合法居留的假象，”一封发给欧盟高层官员的信函中如此写道，该信函由丹麦首相办公室于周六公布。“这种认知将鼓励进一步的尝试，削弱对我们共同移民政策的信心，并给所有成员国带来影响。”
意大利、丹麦、奥地利、比利时、保加利亚、塞浦路斯、克罗地亚、捷克共和国、爱沙尼亚、芬兰、德国、希腊、匈牙利、拉脱维亚、立陶宛、马耳他、荷兰、波兰、罗马尼亚、斯洛文尼亚、斯洛伐克和瑞典的领导人签署了这封信，要求现任爱尔兰欧盟轮值主席国召集会议。
“在柏林CSD（克里斯托弗大街日）遭到残暴袭击后，酷儿群体以及社会大众中的许多人都感到不确定，这里和现在是否是合适的地方，”汉堡副市长卡塔里娜·费格班克（Katharina Fegebank）告诉RTL电视台。“我说，现在比以往任何时候都更合适。”
“当你观察这里的氛围，你可以看到这里依然充满喜悦。至少在我看来是这样的，”CSD组织者曼努埃尔·奥皮茨（Manuel Opitz）说。“我认为我们将悲伤留在心中——同时也将柏林留在心中——但我们将自豪感带到了街头，你可以看到这一点。”
7月25日晚，一名司机在距离柏林骄傲活动闭幕派对数百码远的地方，驾驶面包车冲向人群，随后似乎使用大砍刀袭击他人。一名女性被杀，另有许多人受伤。
21岁的嫌疑人阿卜杜勒·巴卢特（Abdul Ballout）在与警方的冲突中被击毙。
一次内政部长视频会议。
桑切斯还要求欧盟内政部长举行视频会议，以“使我们能够针对此类情况制定共同应对方案，并重申外部边境的安全是所有成员国的共同责任，而不仅仅是那些处于欧盟前线国家的责任。”
意大利总理乔治亚·梅洛尼（Giorgia Meloni）已威胁要暂停意大利与西班牙之间开放边境的申根协议，且意大利正重新对从西班牙经由海空抵达的人员实施边境管制。
“在当前的国际背景下，欧盟无法承受这种自私、极化且非法的反应，”桑切斯在信中写道。
移民返回摩洛哥
数百名移民在周六继续返回摩洛哥。他们饥饿且愤怒，其中一些人赤脚或赤裸上身，另一些人带着明显的伤口；他们表示在离开休塔（Ceuta）时，在西班牙一侧的边境遭受了他们所描述的屈辱对待。
移民们沿着一段漫长的防波堤行走，然后通过边境围栏的一个小缺口溜进摩洛哥。大多数移民是摩洛哥人，少数来自撒哈拉以南非洲。
“我决定自己回来，”欧艾尔·拉姆泽兹（Ouail Lamzeiz）说。“我在休塔待了八天，我快要在移民中心获得一张床位了，但我已经好几天没吃饭了。甚至那里的摩洛哥人也没有帮忙，”他补充道，并出示了一份支持其说法的文件。
移民们表示，由于找不到避难所，他们夜里睡在休塔周围的森林里，且经常为食物而争斗。奥斯曼·埃尔·梅尔祖格（Othmane El Merzoug）请求路人借用电话，以便他联系他的……
（图片说明：周六，在乌克兰基辅，应急工作人员在导弹和无人机袭击后扑灭一场火灾。——安东尼奥·塞姆佩雷，美联社）
“积极且富有成效。”
“俄罗斯对我国的空袭仍在继续，防空系统，特别是针对弹道导弹的爱国者拦截系统，仍然是重中之重，”泽连斯基周五在Telegram的一篇帖子中表示。
在7月于土耳其安卡拉举行的北约峰会上，特朗普表示美国将授予乌克兰制造爱国者系统的许可，但周五在马里兰州坎普大卫总统度假地的内阁会议期间，他似乎在回避这一承诺，称尚未就此事做出最终决定。
在第二次空袭警报响起、另一波攻击袭来时，柳德米拉·纳科内奇纳（Liudmyla Nakonechna）在地下掩体中描述她是如何被惊醒的……
（图片说明：叶夫根尼·卢卡茨基，美联社）
凌晨 1:30 响起的剧烈爆炸声。
“我跑进走廊，就站在那里，这时浴室门被炸飞，击中了我的腿，”64 岁的纳科内奇纳（Nakonechna）说道，她在接受癌症治疗后健康状况不佳。“我听到了玻璃破碎的声音。我的阳台被玻璃覆盖，完全被炸毁了，卧室的窗户也被震碎了。”
自 2022 年 2 月 24 日俄罗斯全面入侵以来，纳科内奇纳一直没有在掩体中避难，但她说，压力已经变得难以承受。
“情况一天比一天糟糕，”纳科内奇纳说。“以前每两周一次攻击，或者也许一周一次，而现在几乎每天都在发生。在心理上，这简直难以忍受。”
第二天。 调查人员随后发现了一段视频，其中一名被认为是巴卢特（Ballout）的人承认承担责任，并宣誓效忠伊斯兰国组织。
检察官表示，出生于德国且具有黎巴嫩血统的巴卢特于 2025 年前往黎巴嫩，目标是进入叙利亚加入伊斯兰国。当局表示，他与几名被推定为该组织成员的人取得了联系。
家人，并要求他们寄钱，以便返回距离边境约 190 英里的家乡。
边境生活影响
在休达（Ceuta）的塔拉哈尔（Tarajal）海滩上，日光浴者在很大程度上忽略了向边境走去的大批移民。
21 岁的休达居民穆罕默德·阿卜杜拉蒂夫（Mohamed Abdelatif）表示，边境冲锋破坏了城市的宁静。
“现实是，这并不好，”阿卜杜拉蒂夫在与女友一起涉水进入海中前说道。
为了到达非洲北海岸的休达，移民通常从摩洛哥的夫奈德克（Fnideq）镇游过去，行程约 3 英里才能到达西班牙领土。针对这一涌入情况，西班牙在休达部署了武装部队和额外的警察。在摩洛哥一侧，安全部队与移民发生冲突。当局使用了水炮、催泪瓦斯和警告射击，试图将移民击退。
周六，连接夫奈德克与边境口岸的道路上留下了动乱的痕迹。烧毁的车辆停在路边，空气中仍弥漫着刺鼻的烟味。水炮仍驻守在附近。
“这座城市的生活被扰乱了，”休达主席胡安·赫苏斯·维瓦斯（Juan Jesús Vivas）说。“遣返工作已令人满意地开始，但该进程必须完成。”
但一些成功抵达休达的人表示，他们不打算回去。其中一名是 23 岁的摩洛哥人穆罕默德·哈特里（Mohamed Hatri）。
“他们关闭了一切，这样我们就买不到任何食物，强迫我们返回自己的国家，”他说，并补充道，他和他人决定留下来，“无论我们是否饥饿”。
Ruíz、Naishadham 和 Oubachir 为美联社撰稿。Oubachir 在夫奈德克报道。美联社驻西班牙巴塞罗那的记者 Renata Brito 和驻雅典的记者 Elena Becatoros 为本报道提供了协助。
其他进展
8 俄罗斯的一次空袭造成乌克兰南部赫尔松市一名人员死亡，另有五人受伤，当地官员周六表示。
8 在俄罗斯占领的克里米亚，莫斯科任命的塞瓦斯托波尔市市长米哈伊尔·拉兹沃扎耶夫周六表示，在该市遭受的一次无人机袭击中，一名 60 岁的女性死亡，另有两人受伤。
8 泽连斯基周六表示，乌克兰无人机在夜间袭击了俄罗斯巴什科尔托斯坦共和国的三家炼油厂。泽连斯基在社交媒体上表示，这些炼油厂“每年处理数百万吨石油”，且距离乌克兰不到 1,000 英里。
俄罗斯在线新闻机构 Astra 周六报道称，一架乌克兰无人机导致巴什科尔托斯坦首府乌法的一家炼油厂起火。当地官员表示，一架被击落的无人机碎片在某个未具名的“工业区”引起了“烟雾”。
几个月来，乌克兰几乎每天使用国产武器进行远程无人机和导弹袭击，重创了俄罗斯的石油设施。在俄罗斯全面入侵其邻国四年多后，这一行动引发的燃料危机令克里姆林宫倍感尴尬。
8 泽连斯基周六表示，一艘受到制裁的俄罗斯集装箱船“雅尼娜号”（Yanina）在被乌克兰无人机击中后在黑海沉没，他将该船列为“维持战争努力的设施”之一。
俄罗斯国家核能公司 Rosatom（其航运子公司 FESCO 运营该船）表示，该船装载的是冷冻食品和建筑材料等“民用货物”。
美国检察官 Jeanine Pirro 表示，反思池的损坏是由劣质施工造成的。
否认其关于反思池 损坏的指控
作者：Aamer Madhani
华盛顿 —— 特朗普总统在周六对美国检察官 Jeanine Pirro 的评估提出了严厉批评。Pirro 认为林肯纪念堂反思池的损坏是由于劣质施工造成的，而非如他所声称的那样是蓄意破坏者的所为。Pirro 的办公室在周五的一份法庭文件中，请求撤销对前奥运选手 David Hearn 的刑事指控，此前 Hearn 被指控在反思池为了迎接上个月国家 250 周年诞辰庆祝活动而进行翻修后，故意损坏了该水池。特朗普在社交媒体的一篇帖子中承认，在安装新池底衬里时“可能存在一些承包商方面的问题”。但他继续在没有证据的情况下坚持认为，“主要的损坏是由破坏者造成的！”“关于反思池的问题，我 100% 不同意哥伦比亚特区美国检察官 Jeanine Pirro 的看法，”特朗普在帖子中补充道。这次撤诉对于司法部来说是一个令人震惊的反转，此前司法部一直呼应特朗普的说法，并将这项起诉描述为追究破坏华盛顿地标（特朗普的宠爱项目）责任的行为。尽管 Pirro 得出结论认为没有证据表明蓄意破坏导致了大规模损坏，但总统在周六继续声称，水池的大部分损坏是由破坏者造成的。政府律师在周五提交的 20 页法庭文件中表示，自 Hearn 被起诉以来，内政部提供的补充文件表明，损坏是由承包商安装失误以及“在 2026 年独立日前后的几周内，为了在与 America 250 庆祝活动相关的活动开始前赶完工程而匆忙施工”造成的。此外，最近的一次视觉检查显示，整个水池都存在损坏，包括水池中心地带——检察官表示，破坏者不太可能尝试撕掉该处的衬里。前奥运独木舟运动员 Hearn 被指控撕掉了一块 2 英尺见方的水池衬里。
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印第安纳波利斯 —— 印第安纳州参议院的共和党领导人周五宣布，他将放弃其职位。此前，在该州反对总统特朗普推动国会选区重新划分的六名共和党现任议员在初选中落败。
印第安纳州参议院临时议长罗德里克·布雷（Rodric Bray）在 12 月引起了特朗普的愤怒，因为他在数周内表示该计划缺乏足够的通过支持后，投票反对了重新划分选区的方案。此次否决是在特朗普、副总统 JD 万斯、全国保守派团体及其他方面的激烈游说之后做出的。
自 2018 年起一直担任领导职务的布雷在周五的一份声明中表示，他不会在 11 月参议院共和党人选举领导人时寻求连任该职位。他目前的参议院任期将持续到 2028 年，他将继续留任，但不再担任共和党参议院领导人。
特朗普在社交媒体帖子中对这一消息做出反应，称布雷“愚蠢地领导”了该州参议院，并提到那些在选区划分计划中违抗他的人在 5 月初选中遭遇失败。
布雷在宣布卸任领导职位的声明中并未提及特朗普或选区划分之争。布雷表示，担任这一职务“是我人生中最重大的荣誉之一，但现在是参议院选择另一位领导人之时了”。
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“鉴于所有这些新发现的信息，很难将反思池广泛受损的原因归结为蓄意破坏，更不用说在排除合理怀疑的情况下确定这一事实了，”皮罗在请求法官正式撤销案件的申请书中说道。皮罗由特朗普任命，曾是福克斯新闻（Fox News）的主持人。在申请书中，皮罗还将责任归咎于内政部，称其在“案件之初提供的信息不够详尽”。申请书补充说，如果“内政部能坦率提供其显然掌握的信息，政府就不会寻求大陪审团起诉”。
这与皮罗上个月宣布起诉希恩（Hearn）时的立场形成了剧烈反差，当时她声称政府的指控建立在“海量证据”之上。希恩的法律团队周六批评了特朗普和皮罗，并表示正在代表其客户考虑“法律救济措施”。
“特朗普在生皮罗的气，因为她终于承认了我们在法律文件中一直阐明的事实：特朗普 botched 的翻修工程导致了损坏——而不是戴维·希恩（Davey Hearn）造成的，”法律团队在声明中说。“然而，她声称她及其办公室此前被内政部欺骗，这简直是胡说八道。从传讯之后开始，我们的动议多次证明，反思池的失效应由政府管理层负责，而非戴维。”
特朗普周六还发布了一段时长近四分钟的视频，该视频似乎拍摄自监控摄像头，其中可以看到三个人将手伸进池中，其中一人停留时间较长。总统声称视频显示“有人正用刀或美工刀切割材料，众所周知！”但从这段似乎是从远处拍摄的视频中，无法清晰判断是否发生了蓄意破坏。视频中还能看到工人们站在附近，似乎并没有注意到有人将手伸进水里。
Madhani 为美联社撰稿。
作者：迈克尔·凯西 (Michael Casey)
周六，密歇根州继明尼苏达州之后，报告称该州有九个水系统遭到网络攻击，但一名官员表示，所有系统都在“安全”运行。
上周，当局表示网络攻击的目标是明尼苏达州的 30 多个水系统。攻击来源正在调查中，但这些攻击发生之时，正值有警告称伊朗黑客一直专注于此类系统。
密歇根州在周二收到一项关于企图篡改水系统运行技术的联邦警报后，出现了相关报告。
密歇根州环境、五大湖与能源部传播总监戴尔·乔治 (Dale George) 表示，此后不久，该州收到了“来自密歇根州社区的少量报告，指出其活动与联邦机构描述的情况一致”。他随后表示，共有九个系统受到影响。
乔治在一份声明中说：“所有系统继续安全运行，问题已由当地操作员解决，目前没有已知影响会引发公共卫生担忧。”
联邦调查局尚未公开确认罪魁祸首。一名发言人拒绝透露该局认为谁可能对此负责。
上个月，联邦调查局、网络安全与基础设施安全局以及其他机构在一次咨询通知中警告称，伊朗黑客一直将目标锁定在水和废水系统以及其他关键基础设施部门的运行控制上。
该机构在周六的一份声明中表示：“联邦调查局已知晓近期关于水和废水 (WWS) 部门的公开报道。联邦调查局及其跨部门合作伙伴正全力投入以保护关键基础设施，我们依然具备充足的能力来抵御各类网络威胁。”
数字化战争已成为军事冲突中根深蒂固的一部分，而当地水厂或医疗设施往往缺乏资金和技术知识来安装最新的软件补丁或采取其他安全措施。
这使得它们成为了热门目标，一方面是因为渗透相对容易，另一方面是因为此类干扰可能引发的恐慌。
伊朗对美国水系统运行的兴趣可追溯至多年前。2016, 司法部起诉了一组伊朗黑客，涉及一起针对纽约市附近一座小型大坝的网络攻击。
明尼苏达州 IT 服务部门表示，截至周四，
明尼苏达州普利茅斯及其他城镇的官员提到黑客导致的问题。
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社区中没有居民被要求修改饮用水使用方式的有效请求。 该州机构表示，大多数确认的攻击涉及水系统用于远程监控和控制设备的技术。 该机构称，在引用的事件中，调查人员确认存在涉及系统技术的恶意活动，但这并不意味着每个受影响社区的用水服务都中断了。 周一的几个小时内，布拉汉市要求居民尽量减少用水，因为该市正在试图确定水厂停机的原因。这座拥有约 1,700 人的城市位于明尼阿波利斯以北约 70 英里处，在一份新闻稿中表示，水厂停机是由网络攻击引起的，但并未对水质造成任何问题。 该市表示，攻击者关闭了导致水井和水处理厂停运的运行控制系统。这导致该市在一段时间内只能向居民提供储水塔中的存水。 在普利茅斯（明尼阿波利斯市外一座拥有约 80,000 人的城市），官员们在社交媒体上表示，在遭受网络攻击后，他们的水基础设施通信已于周二下午恢复。 周五，在马里兰州坎普戴维总统度假地举行的一次内阁会议上，特朗普总统在没有证据的情况下声称，明尼苏达州最近的网络攻击是该州的责任，包括民主党州长蒂姆·沃尔兹。 沃尔兹在社交媒体上回应称，特朗普“非常清楚谁应对这次攻击负责，并且知道其他州也受到了打击”，指的是伊朗被怀疑扮演的角色。
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进入地方政府和民选官员的渠道。 苏长期以来一直是圣盖博谷的重要人物，他是一名政治捐赠者、慈善家，也是中美文化交流的推动者。 社交媒体上发布的照片显示，他在西科维纳的电影首映式和社区活动中与政治家和艺术家一起微笑合影，他自 20 世纪 80 年代后期起一直居住在那里。 苏的律师安德鲁·科温表示，他的客户是一名美国公民，在整个政治光谱中进行了合法的竞选捐赠，并不清楚为什么被联邦调查局执行搜查令。 科温表示，在被搜查房产相关的人员中，苏仅认识哈格曼。 该公司最著名的活动之一是华裔电影节，这是一个每年 11 月举行的为期数日的文化活动。EDI 媒体称该活动是唯一一个获得中美两国政府官员正式认可的华裔影视活动。 2022, 洛杉矶县监督委员会将 11 月宣布为华裔电影节和华裔电视节月份，以表彰该活动。 在 2022 年的一段视频中，苏和他的妻子 Slina 站在监督员凯瑟琳·巴格（Kathryn Barger）身边，后者向他们颁发了纪念其在电影节工作中贡献的卷轴，巴格称该活动“将我们作为一个社区团结在一起，用对影视的共同热爱桥接了语言和文化的障碍”。
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以及冷却机。” 该发言人补充说，中心内的被拘留者“获得了适当的膳食、饮用水、医疗护理，并有机会与家人和律师沟通”。
移民权利律师表示，帕里亚斯（Parias）上周拍摄的视频是他们收到的众多投诉之一。尽管联邦法官近期已下令改善饮用水、食物和医疗护理等问题，但该设施的被拘留者仍在投诉。
“我们收到的报告显示，法院的命令在某些方面遭到了违反，”洛杉矶人道主义移民权利联盟（CHIRLA）的政策顾问卡尔·贝格奎斯特（Carl Bergquist）表示。
这家移民权利非营利组织是针对美国国土安全部和美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）提起的一项联邦民事集体诉讼的多个原告之一，诉讼内容涉及……
作者：迈克尔·凯西 (Michael Casey)
《今日》(Today) 节目主持人萨凡纳·古斯里 (Savannah Guthrie) 周六在社交媒体上表示，在当局公布两封勒索信（其中一封称其母亲已死亡）的一天后，她的家人感到“绝望”并“恳请帮助”寻找失踪的母亲。
在调查 84 岁 Nancy Guthrie 失踪案的过程中，当局公布了一封早期的信件，希望有人能认出其书写风格。第二封信则称，Guthrie 在被绑架后不久便已死亡，“现在被埋在自然之中”。这两封信最初都是在 Guthrie 于 2 月 1 日在图森 (Tucson) 市郊家中失踪几天后，被发送至图森的一家电视台。
“我们恳请帮助。我们感到绝望。我们需要有人站出来。有人知道一些情况。有人有所怀疑。有人认出了勒索信中的字迹，”古斯里在她的 Instagram 账号上写道，并配有一张母亲的照片。
“有人注意到了某些不同、奇怪、令人不安或仅仅是不寻常的事情——也许是关于他们深爱的人，”她写道。“也许他们害怕站出来。也许他们心情矛盾。也许他们因为处于这种境地而感到愤怒或难过。但有一个出口——那就是告知你所知道的一切。”
古斯里接着说，她和家人“想要查明她发生了什么，这样我们才能给她应有的尊严，体面地告别——庆祝她那绝对值得称颂的卓越人生”。
周六是 Guthrie 失踪六个月的纪念日。目前尚未逮捕任何嫌疑人。
调查过程中一直笼罩在未解答的问题之中，例如人们认为有多少人参与了……
朱秋波议员 (REP. JUDY CHU) 在 2024 年向苏詹姆斯 (James Su) 颁发认可证书（左）。
“我们相信电影的魅力能为我们的社区带来和平与和谐，”苏詹姆斯说道。
苏詹姆斯在多次采访中长期推广电影节，将其作为促进中美之间理解与社区联系的一种方式。
苏詹姆斯的商业 venture 在过去曾因传播由中国政府生成的内容而受到审查。
2015, 11 月，路透社的一篇报道披露，苏詹姆斯旗下公司在全美大部分地区的广播播报得到了中华人民共和国的资金支持，随后联邦通信委员会对该公司启动了调查。路透社的调查显示，苏詹姆斯的 G&E Studio Inc. 公司 60% 由中国国家广播公司中国国际广播电台的一家子公司持有。
该媒体当时报道称，G&E 租赁了大部分广播……
……在莫哈韦沙漠拘留中心的（相关）投诉。被拘留者还发起了绝食抗议，声称生活条件低劣。
自去年以来，该拘留中心至少有四人死亡。
上个月，美国地区法官桑夏因·S·赛克斯 (Sunshine S. Sykes) 在该诉讼中批准了一项重新提出的初步禁制令申请，要求美国国土安全部和美国移民与海关执法局 (ICE) 对该设施进行改进。
美国国土安全部的发言人对赛克斯法官的裁决表示强烈谴责。
“这是由拜登任命的激进法官试图抹黑我们 ICE 执法部门的另一个例子，”该发言人在给《时报》的电子邮件中写道。
赛克斯在指令中禁止政府将被拘留者安置在行政隔离区，除非这样做是为了应对对工作人员或设施的安全威胁，或者被拘留者本人要求这样做。
该指令要求美国移民与海关执法局 (ICE) 在（期限内）制定并提交……
在华盛顿和费城的两个电台花费时间播放亲华节目。 在调查之后，苏詹姆斯 (音译) 的公司被要求注册为外国代理人。 在2015年的一次采访中，苏詹姆斯 (音译) 告诉路透社，中国国际广播公司的子公司国光世纪传媒持有其公司 G&E 的多数股份，但由于签署了保密协议，他拒绝提供具体细节。苏詹姆斯 (音译) 告诉该媒体，他不是中国的代理人，而是一名商人。 “我们的美国观众和美国公众拥有选择权，”苏詹姆斯 (音译) 当时表示。“他们可以选择听或不听。我认为这就是一种美国价值观。” 西科维纳市议员 Tony Wu 在周四接受《时报》采访时表示，当他被告知苏詹姆斯 (音译) 的住宅和公司正被联邦调查局搜查时，他感到“震惊”。 Wu 表示，他是在2015年竞选市议员期间在挨家挨户拜访时第一次见到苏詹姆斯 (音译) 的。他按响了苏詹姆斯 (音译) 房产的大门铃，这位商人随后出来迎接他。苏詹姆斯 (音译) 很有礼貌，两人进行了简短的交谈，随后当时的候选人继续他的行程。 在当选之后，Wu 和其他议员被邀请到苏詹姆斯 (音译) 位于西科维纳圣贝纳迪诺路上的工作室参加采访，也就是上周被联邦调查局突袭的同一栋建筑。 “他采访过国会议员（男性）、国会议员（女性）和参议员，”Wu 说道。“与他们相比，我们不过是些小人物。” 苏詹姆斯 (音译)、他的公司及其家人还向涵盖整个政治光谱的竞选活动捐款。根据联邦选举委员会的数据，自2003年起，苏詹姆斯 (音译) 在联邦层面向民主党和共和党的竞选活动均捐赠了 $35,500。其中大部分资金——$25,800——捐给了众议员。
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位于加州阿德兰托的阿德兰托ICE处理中心，拍摄于六月。被拘留者声称那里的情况不佳。
14 天内，制定一项旨在实施全面的医疗护理和残障安置系统的补救计划。 为了确保执行，她命令美国移民与海关执法局为该设施提供两名独立第三方监督员的准入权限。一名监督员将重点关注医疗护理和残障安置，另一名则关注通用设施条件。该机构和原告被要求提交一份合格候选人名单。 Bergquist 表示，美国移民与海关执法局已经满足了这两项要求，但仍未解决更紧迫的问题，如水质、食物质量以及卫生状况。 联邦政府已提交了一项紧急请求，要求将该裁定...
参与了她的绑架，以及她是否被某个认识她的人带走。 华盛顿的联邦调查局未对有关勒索信的问题做出回应，包括发送到图森分局的两条信息是否被认定为真实。 皮马县警长办公室在公布这些信件时表示，“我们认为这些独特的语言特征，对于认识或与写信人打过交道的人来说可能是可以识别的。” 第一封信于 2 月 2 日发送，称 Guthrie 安全但很害怕，一旦绑架者收到 $4 million 的加密货币，她将被毫发无损地释放；如果第一项要求未得到满足，赎金数额将增加。信中称，如果收到款项，Guthrie 将在 12 小时内被释放。信中还威胁说，如果不支付赎金就将其杀掉。 “你的母亲知道这件事，她的生命掌握在你们手中，”第一封信写道。“为了最好的结果...”
“希望每个人都能尽快完成这件事。” 第二封信于2月6日发出，称古斯里（Guthrie）在她被带走后不久就去世了。 “她现在已回归自然，”信中写道，“无论你做什么都无法改变结果。”信末附有一句道歉：“我们深表遗憾。” 皮马县（Pima County）警长部门表示，这些信件揭示了独特的措辞模式，并提供了对其写信者心态的洞察。该机构表示，认识该写信者的人可能会认出这些模式。 当局同样将一名嫌疑人的文字作为寻找西奥多·“特德”·卡辛斯基（Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski）的工具，后者被联邦调查局（FBI）称为“潜伏炸弹客”。卡辛斯基在17年间用邮寄炸弹杀死了3人，并导致23人受伤。1995年，他向《华盛顿邮报》以及《纽约时报》施压，要求其发表他那篇35,000字的宣言。最终，在他的兄弟意识到其兄长就是嫌疑人并通知当局后，他被逮捕。
朱迪·朱 (Judy Chu, 民主党-蒙特雷公园)。 根据竞选记录，苏（Su）的妻子 Slina 向联邦选举竞选活动捐赠了 $40,100，其中自2009年以来大约有 $23,000 捐给了朱。 自2021年以来，苏向哈格曼（Hagman）的监督员竞选活动捐赠了 $6,000。记录显示，EDI 媒体在2017年10月至2022年2月期间向其竞选活动捐赠了 $4,000。 这些捐款在全县范围内竞选通常筹集到的资金中仅占一小部分。县记录显示，在2026年的连任竞选中，哈格曼筹集了超过 $270,000 的捐款。 哈格曼未回应《时报》的置评请求。 吴（Wu）表示，在西科维纳（West Covina），苏及其家人以慷慨的时间和金钱而闻名。 在疫情期间，他们迅速行动，向当地消防员捐赠个人防护装备。吴表示，2017年当官员们试图为当地学生建立一项课后计划时，苏及其妻子提出向西科维纳统一学区和科维纳-峡谷统一学区各捐赠 $5,000。 苏还曾担任西科维纳美籍华人协会的首任主席。 除了苏，联邦调查局上周还对现任圣贝纳迪诺县监督员哈格曼、安大略市议员艾伦·瓦普纳（Alan Wapner）和律师弗兰克·利扎拉加（Frank Lizarraga）执行了搜查令。这些人均未回复寻求评论的电话。 当局不愿透露调查目标，也不愿透露是否会有进一步的突击搜查。 联邦当局已
在高等法院审理上诉期间暂停执行。 帕里亚斯（Parias）是一名 TikTok 主播，去年在南洛杉矶被联邦移民执法人员枪击，他表示该设施的情况并未改善。他称，设施工作人员不清理地板、餐桌或微波炉。 “有时是我们自己清理的，”他在一次
警长办公室周五还表示，从古斯里的门铃摄像头中恢复的两段视频可能来自两个不同的日子，并表明一名身份不明的男性在古斯里被带走前做了准备。 当局正在寻求关于任何行为异常、改变外貌、突然离开图森（Tucson）地区，或对本案表现出明显 / 无法解释的兴趣或不感兴趣之人的信息。 “调查人员将继续追踪每一个可行的技术和调查线索，”警长办公室表示，“然而，在我们寻求为南希（Nancy）的家人提供答案的过程中，社区成员仍然是至关重要的资源。” 联邦调查局之前发布了一段戴面具者的监控视频，当局称此人似乎在篡改南希·古斯里的前廊摄像头并用植物将其遮挡。他们将该人描述为一名身高约5英尺9英寸的男性。
一直在调查中国秘密影响当地民选官员的努力，且已持续数年。
今年5月，前阿卡迪亚（Arcadia）市长承认在被指控由中国政府指示在美国推广宣传资料。当局指称，她协助运营一个名为“美国新闻中心”（U.S. News Center）的网站，该网站自称为针对美籍华人提供信息的 news source，并“执行”来自中国政府的指令。
在国家层面，美国情报官员自 2019 年起就一直在警告中国试图影响地方政府的企图。
“他们试图尽早培养人才——通常是州和地方官员——以确保各级政府的政治家在接到电话时，能够随时代表北京的议程进行主张，”时任联邦调查局 (FBI) 局长 Christopher A. Wray 在 2022 年于里根总统图书馆的一次演讲中表示。
联邦当局还指控一名曾担任两任纽约州州长高级副手的女性是中国特工，致力于推动该国政府的议程。该案最终因陪审团无法达成一致而结束，预计她将于明年被重新审理。
认识苏 (Su) 的人们对联邦调查局 (FBI) 的搜查感到惊讶，并表示在更多信息披露之前，他们不会做出评判。
“他似乎很关心自己的社区，”吴表示，“我们不应该给人们贴标签。在我心中，在被证明有罪之前，他就是无辜的。”
《时报》图书馆员 Cary Schneider 为本报道做出了贡献。
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电话采访。
周二晚上，他说他正坐着看电视，这时另一名被拘留者告诉他，饮用水被小生物污染了。
“我们开始四处寻找，结果在到处都发现了：在洗手的地方和淋浴房里，”他说，并补充道，那些小生物看起来像 gusanitos——小虫子。
他说，他在视频中展示的那些像小虫子一样的生物来自一对供 80 人使用的 10 加仑水桶内。他说，这些水被用于饮用、烹饪和冲咖啡。
Larry Aguilar, 27, 是阿德兰托ICE处理中心的一名被拘留者，他在电话采访中表示，是他告诉 Parias 水桶里有小生物的。
“我当时说：‘嘿，看看这个。这就是我们喝的水，’”他回忆道。
当被问及在联邦法院下达命令后，该设施的其他条件是否有所改善时，Aguilar 表示，“一切依然没变。”
“（饮用）水获取时间依然很长，伙食依然不是最好的——有些饭菜有点生，”他说，并补充道，工作人员对前来探视他的家属态度也很粗鲁。
他说，在过去的两个月里，他和其他被拘留者被禁止外出。相反，他说，美国移民与海关执法局 (ICE) 让他们进入一个由四面墙围绕、顶部开放的庭院。
他说，工作人员没有告诉他或其他人为什么不被允许去院子里。“我唯一知道的是，我们在过去的两个月里被关在这里，见不到太阳，”他说。
“全加州的小规模农民正在应对一个日益艰难的环境，”研究人员在报告中表示。“他们是该州最脆弱的地下水用户，适应路径较少，承担新成本的能力也较低。”
研究人员表示，对于耕种面积少于 200 英亩的农户应给予特殊照顾，因为与大型种植者相比，他们拥有的资源通常较为有限。
“问题在于，各机构正在使用‘一刀切’的方法来实施监管，但与大农场相比，小农场使用的水量更少，”加州大学小农网络（University of California Small Farms Network）的共同作者兼研究员 Ngodoo Atume 说道。
研究人员建议，每个地方地下水机构应识别出小规模农民，考虑豁免那些用水量极少的农户，并建立阶梯式收费制度，让抽水量较少的种植者支付较低的费用。
共同作者、家庭农民社区联盟（Community Alliance with Family Farmers）水政策主任 Catherine Van Dyke 表示，按照目前的法律执行方式，这“对于许多已经在苦苦挣扎的企业来说，可能是压死骆驼的最后一根稻草”。
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加利福尼亚州的《可持续地下水管理法》（Sustainable Groundwater Management Act，简称 SGMA）由州长 Jerry Brown 于 2014 年签署成为法律，旨在解决中央谷地含水层迅速枯竭的问题，在该地区，农业过度抽水已导致土地沉降和水井干涸。
该立法促成了地方机构的成立，这些机构负责遏制地下水位的长期下降，包括通过实施抽水限制和收费。虽然法律给予许多地区直到 2040 年的时间来解决过度抽水问题，但一些地方机构已经开始采取严厉措施。
去年，Lee 收到了来自默塞德灌溉-城市地下水可持续发展局（Merced Irrigation-Urban Groundwater Sustainability Agency）的一份出乎意料的账单。账单详细列明了“过度提取的处罚”，金额为 $15,335。
“这给了我巨大的震惊，”她说，“简直像心脏病发作一样。”
Lee 后来得知该机构尚未开始收取罚金，因此这份账单更多是一次警告而非正式账单。
新的抽水限制和费用将于今年生效。但她仍然不清楚她的家庭究竟被允许抽取多少水，或者在账单寄来时他们可能欠多少钱。
由于不愿冒险面临可能抵消她大部分或全部收入的高额罚款，她决定大幅削减用水，任由 9 英亩的土地干涸。
作者：特里·唐 (Terry Tang)
吉尔伯托·卡尔德纳斯 (Gilberto Cárdenas)，一位备受尊敬的社会学家，以及通过学术和艺术促进拉丁裔与奇卡诺 (Chicano) 身份认同的倡导者，已经去世。
根据其家属发布的声明，卡尔德纳斯在经历了长期患病后，于周日在德克萨斯州奥斯汀的家中去世，享年 79 岁。
卡尔德纳斯在圣盖布里尔出生并长大，他深耕于 20 世纪 60 年代和 70 年代的奇卡诺运动。该运动创造了一种社会和政治身份，被那些为平等和民权而奋斗的墨西哥裔美国人所接纳。
卡尔德纳斯用他的相机为这项事业而倡导。他记录了游行、会议和其他社区集会。他也热衷于认可运动中的奇卡诺艺术家，经常用自己的照片交换海报、版画和其他艺术品。他会保存那些即将被扔掉的海报，因为它们具有潜在的文化意义。
“回顾他所有的成就，他是一个如此温柔且谦逊的人，并且非常感激自己的出身，”理查德·弗洛雷斯 (Richard Flores) 说道，他是卡尔德纳斯的朋友，也是德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的墨西哥裔美国研究教授。卡尔德纳斯始终在“努力地不仅为社区做出贡献，也为他如此热爱的艺术家们做出贡献”。
随后，他在圣母大学获得了博士学位，然后被德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校聘为社会学教授。
他在那里讲授移民社会学近 25 年。卡尔德纳斯被认为在该校建立了墨西哥裔美国研究。
1999, 卡尔德纳斯回到圣母大学担任教职。在担任助理教务长期间，他创建了拉丁裔研究学院。
与此同时，他和妻子多洛雷斯·卡里略·加西亚 (Dolores Carrillo García) 积累了近 20,000 件拉丁裔艺术品藏品。2023 年，他们将近一半的藏品捐赠给了德克萨斯大学的布兰顿艺术博物馆。
他们藏品中的其他项目被捐赠给了华盛顿特区的史密森尼美国艺术博物馆、芝加哥的国家墨西哥艺术博物馆以及大学的斯奈特艺术博物馆。
罗茜·李 (Rosie Lee) 在默塞德以东拥有 19 英亩的农场，其中 9 英亩因为地下水抽取限制和费用而被迫休耕。
凯特·塞丘恩 (Kat Sechung) 正在销售由李和穆阿 (Moua) 在默塞德县经营的小农场的蔬菜和水果。
李表示，仅仅是为了理解新规的基本内容就已经很困难了。
即使在李与水务机构的一名工作人员见面并核对她的使用详情后，她仍然感到困惑。
李和她的丈夫查理·穆阿 (Charlie Moua) 仍然向当地一家杂货店出售一些农产品，但他们已经停止驾驶他们的丰田 Tacoma 皮卡前往斯托克顿农贸市场，因为他们不再有足够的商品可卖。
穆阿说，他一直收到客户的电话，询问为什么他们不在市场销售蔬菜，他解释说这是他们的用水问题。
这对苗族美国人夫妇在 2021 年将农场作为退休项目启动时，并没有预料到会陷入这种困境。
李于 1980 年作为难民从老挝来到美国，并从事多年学前教育教师工作，她说她热爱看着庄稼生长并将其交给客户。
穆阿于 1973 年作为学生抵达，曾从事社会工作，他说他喜欢农活以保持活力和健康。
他们与亲戚共同经营农场，亲戚们耕种仅剩的几块地，收获少量的玉米、番茄、秋葵和其他作物。
李说，她的家庭使用了节水滴灌技术，应该被允许抽取更多水以维持农场运转。
她说，她的家庭被收取与巨型杏仁和开心果果园主相同的抽取费，这不公平。
“大农场主，他们是百万富翁，”她说，“小农场，他们仅仅能维持生存，养活家庭。”
中心谷地的农场生产大量坚果、水果、蔬菜和乳制品，在许多地区已迅速耗尽了地下水。随着企业化农场和投资者种植大片杏仁和开心果果园，含水层水位持续下降。与此同时，全球变暖加剧了干旱。
公共政策研究所的研究人员估计，到 2040, 年，多达 900,000 英亩的农地（约占圣华金谷灌溉土地的 20%）可能需要处于干涸状态，这在很大程度上是因为 SGMA 规定的抽水限制。
根据该法律，当地机构负责制定规则，由州监管机构审核。在克洛维斯（Clovis），当地机构尚未实施抽水限制，但农民苏西·博恩曼·席尔瓦（Susie Borneman Silva）表示，她预计限制措施即将出台，且不知道这将如何影响她的小规模杏仁果园。她支持提高效率以保护地下水，但她同样感到担忧。
“我们能否获得足够的水来灌溉果树，维持生存并继续耕种一年？”她说，“我们希望继续务农。”
在更南部的图勒县（Tulare County），艾伦斯沃思进步协会（Allensworth Progressive Assn.）副执行主任特科亚·卡达拉（Tekoah Kadara）表示，抽水费用对于小农户来说太高了。
“要么州政府需要增加对巨头企业的处罚，要么需要为社区和小农户提供激励措施，”他说。
在最近的一项调查中，85% 的小农户告诉研究人员，他们担心由于地下水法规、费用或其他问题而不得不关闭经营。
“应该为小规模农场提供足够水分的某种保证，”共同撰写该报告的约洛县（Yolo County）农民朱迪斯·雷蒙德（Judith Redmond）说道。
她说，如果不做出此类改变，日益收紧的限制可能会迫使小农场关闭，从而使更多土地落在大型农场手中。“这将是一个巨大的损失。”
圣母大学。 Cárdenas 的领导能力使他于 2001 年被乔治·W·布什总统任命为总统白宫研究员委员会成员。2008 年，布什又任命他加入另一个委员会，探讨建立潜在的国家美国拉美裔博物馆。
从 1993 年到 2012 年，Cárdenas 还担任墨西哥裔美国人法律防御与教育基金会（MALDEF）的董事。
总部位于洛杉矶的 MALDEF 主席兼总法律顾问托马斯·桑斯（Thomas Saenz）在的一份声明中称 Cárdenas 是“奇卡诺运动中一位低调的偶像，他所做的一切从未得到充分的认可”。
Flores 表示，Cárdenas 约在十年前从圣母大学退休。他依然活跃在艺术界，并偶尔就其收藏以及社会经济问题发表演讲。
他的遗属包括妻子、两个儿子、三个继子女和九个孙辈。
一场葬礼弥撒定于周六在奥斯汀的圣伊格内修斯·殉道者天主教堂举行。
罗茜·李和她的丈夫查理·穆阿（Charlie Moua），以及一份声称他们可能欠缴约 $15,000 罚金的账单。
加州大学伯克利分校和佩珀代因大学。“巴斯目前唯一可能的连任路径就是筹集足够多的资金，让拉曼的声音根本无法被听到，”施努尔说道。在竞选还剩三个月的时间里，施努尔和其他分析师表示，巴斯有时间扭转局面。尽管如此，他们认为，这个充满负面消息的夏天将迫使巴斯重新设定她的竞选叙事——包括在 Lineage 火灾之后巩固她在东区拉丁裔群体中的支持。在 6 月 2 日的选举中，巴斯赢得了 35 个拉丁裔占多数的社区，包括博伊尔高地（Boyle Heights），而拉曼赢得了 7 个，普拉特仅赢得 1 个。然而，当她在 7 月初 Lineage 火灾后参加一次社区会议时，面对绝大多数是拉丁裔的人群，她听到的是嘘声。“Lineage 火灾深刻地侵蚀了她从城市东区获得的拉丁裔支持，而这是她为 11 月大选所必需建立的。
这对她来说现在将是一个真正的挑战，”波莫那学院的政治学教授萨拉·萨德瓦尼说道。火灾发生时，巴斯正在芝加哥参加巴拉克·奥巴马总统中心揭幕仪式，并在次日晚上回到洛杉矶，而此时火势仍在燃烧，在社区上空笼罩着黑烟，且由于被烧毁建筑中的食物腐烂，恶臭持续了数周。这一事件令人触目地想起，在 2025 年 1 月洛杉矶发生致命的帕利塞德（Palisades）火灾之初，巴斯正身在加纳进行外交访问。在她前往非洲之前，天气预报已预测将有强风且火灾风险较高。“这强化了关于帕利塞德火灾的叙事，即她不在城内，”洛约拉玛丽蒙特大学政治学和奇卡诺 / 拉丁裔研究教授费尔南多·格拉认为。在周五举行的新闻发布会上，巴斯指示
市级机构推迟处理博伊尔高地 Lineage 烧毁冷库仓库的重建许可证申请，直到监管机构找到能够对该项目进行严格环境审查的方法。
螃蟹与三文鱼船队
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Pinsky 表示，这是由于变暖引起的。他说：“因此，我们正看到海洋中出现这类快速变化，而我们的商业渔业必须比陆地上的猎人或农民更早地应对这些变化。”
对于商业捕鱼船队而言，这些变化可能是灾难性的。他们以前也曾应对过数量下降的情况，但通常知道何时以及在何处能找到剩余的资源。
华盛顿大学资源与环境经济学家 Sunny Jardine 表示，捕鱼船队通常依赖少数几个关键物种来维持生计。但她指出，“其中一些渔业每年仅在特定时间开放，因此（渔民）会在开放时参与”，并据此安排计划。如果开放时间被推迟或被关闭，计划可能会被“彻底打乱”。
例如，在 2015-16 季度，加利福尼亚海岸的绒毛蟹（Dungeness crabs）受到了拟壳拟壳藻（Pseudonitzschia）有害藻类爆发的感染，这会导致螃蟹、鱼类、鸟类和海洋哺乳动物发生软壳酸中毒。当人们食用这些受污染的贝类或鱼类时，可能会导致失忆性贝类中毒，从而引发呕吐、腹泻、永久性短期记忆丧失、昏迷或死亡。
结果，在 2015-16 年，监管机构将螃蟹季推迟了数月，最终将通常 7 个月的捕捞期压缩到大约 2 个月。在那个糟糕的季度里，71% 的加州绒毛蟹捕捞船停止了捕鱼，超过 200 个工作岗位丢失。
这对这些渔民来说尤其具有破坏性，因为绒毛蟹往往是他们最赚钱的——
2024 和 2025 年无家可归者人数的下降，一直是 凯伦·巴斯 争取再任四年任期的关键论据。
巴斯告诉记者：“在他们清理好自己制造的烂摊子之前，甚至不应该考虑重建。”
然而，巴斯对 Lineage 公司采取的强硬立场，是在披露其前高级顾问 Yusef Robb 在这家备受审查的公司中担任危机沟通角色之后。
Robb 在今年上半年作为一名不拿薪水的发言人为巴斯工作，在巴斯面临的一些最具争议的问题上代其发表声明，包括关于她淡化帕利塞德（Palisades）火灾事后报告的指控。
市长初选后，市长办公室表示，Robb 转而担任市长不拿薪水的非正式顾问。他于 6 月 19 日起在 Lineage 担任职务。
这两个角色有所重叠，但 Robb 和市长办公室坚称，在 Lineage 火灾问题上，Robb 与市长之间存在缓冲。Robb 此后表示，他将不再为市长提供建议。
巴斯还因为其发表的言论而受到批评，她称被烧毁仓库周围的空气呼吸起来没有危险，尽管一些居民报告称烟雾让他们感到不适。
年度捕获量，贾丁表示，这使得贝类成了一种“镀金的陷阱”。她说，在那段时间里，一些渔民选择等待。其他人尝试捕捞其他物种。而规模最大且财务最稳定的船队则能够向更北的地方航行以寻找螃蟹。
随着这次新的、可能打破纪录的厄尔尼诺现象在巨大的沿海热浪之后接踵而至，加之油价高企，即使是那些大型渔船队可能也必须重新考虑他们愿意在搜寻鱼类上投入多少精力。
因为他们可能需要追踪的不止是品格蟹（Dungeness crabs）。例如，在之前的厄尔尼诺现象期间，曾是加州商业捕捞量最大的市场鱿鱼迁移到了北边的俄勒冈州。它们至今尚未完全恢复。
鲑鱼也遭受了损失，部分原因是干旱影响了内陆河流，而钦努克鲑（Chinook）和库岁鲑（Coho）就在那里洄游产卵，鱼卵孵化，鲑鱼苗再顺流而下游向海洋。
但温暖的海洋往往缺乏这些幼年鲑鱼进入咸水后快速生长所需的高能量猎物。生命这一阶段食物的缺乏降低了它们的生存几率，进而降低了它们返回河流重复这一循环的可能性。
而这正是所发生的情况。2017年，加州和俄勒冈州部分海域的鲑鱼捕捞被关闭。
美国国家海洋和大气管理局（NOAA）西南渔业科学中心的景观与海景生态团队项目负责人内特·曼图亚（Nate Mantua）表示，即将到来的厄尔尼诺现象对加州鲑鱼的影响可能是好坏参半。
如果该系统带来大量降雨（这在厄尔尼诺期间可能会发生），那么充足的水量将使处于河流阶段的鲑鱼受益。但温暖的海洋水会对幼年鲑鱼造成打击，而这种影响在两三年后才会显现。
华盛顿大学水产与渔业科学学院助理教授杰西卡·盖法特（Jessica Gephart）表示，强烈的厄尔尼诺现象也可能影响水产养殖。
美国三分之二的海鲜是进口的；其中大部分是以养殖鱼的形式进入，如大西洋鲑、罗非鱼和越南鲶鱼。2016年，智利沿岸的一次大规模海洋热浪，加上过剩的营养盐，导致了藻类爆发，盖法特称这次事件抹去了超过 40,000 吨的养殖鲑鱼。
渔民在 2015 年捕鱼季失去了工作，当时品格蟹感染了藻类爆发。
凯伦·巴斯 的发言人伊兰娜·莫拉莱斯（Ilanna Morales）表示，市长仅仅是在陈述公共卫生官员得出的结论，即目前的情况不需要强制撤离。
“任何关于市长认为烟雾不危险的断言，都是在歪曲她的言论并脱离上下文，”莫拉莱斯说。
莫拉莱斯还指出，市长对火灾的应对措施包括在波义了高地（Boyle Heights）各地开设移动医疗诊所，提供呼吸健康筛查和氧含量检测。
支持市长的议员莫妮卡·罗德里格斯（Monica Rodriguez）表示，巴斯在应对 Lineage 火灾方面做得很好，但批评者们正集聚攻击一个处于敏感位置的政治人物。
“我们生活在这样一个时代，一旦看到有人处于弱势，所有人都会攻击并扑上去，”罗德里格斯说。“每个人都很愤怒，他们想要责怪某个人。”
市长团队还在反驳关于今年夏天一直充斥着不利消息的断言，并以此为例，宣传近期在英格尔伍德（Inglewood）SoFi 体育场举行的世界杯足球赛取得了巨大成功并提升了洛杉矶的形象。
企业、酒店以及大都会交通（Metro）的客流量。
巴斯的支持者指出了她第二次被任命为洛杉矶大都会交通主席，以及她宣布希望让巴士和火车免费，此外，她的政府在促成市中心“涂鸦大楼”（Graffiti Towers）的新所有权转移方面发挥了作用，这将立即开始清除建筑物上的涂鸦。
“过去几周充满挑战；没有一个市长是完美的，”经营市中心商业团体中心城市协会（Central City Assn.）并支持该市长的内拉·麦科斯克（Nella McOsker）表示。“我认为巴斯在这些危机中有着不懈的愿望去回应、参与并加以纠正。”
洛杉矶无家可归者人数上升
这些危机之一是该市长期存在的无家可归者问题。在整个竞选期间，巴斯反复宣传 2024 到 2025 年连续两年的无家可归者人数下降，将其作为洛杉矶人应给予她另一个四年任期的主要论据之一。
但 2026 年结束了这一积极势头。根据洛杉矶无家可归者服务局的一份报告，今年该市露天无家可归人口上升了 7.9%。
巴斯将州政府和联邦政府的削减资金视为导致增加的部分原因，称特朗普政府的行为导致汽油、杂货和租金价格上涨，从而使一些洛杉矶人陷入无家可归的边缘。巴斯继续引用她就职以来无家可归人数的“历史性下降”——自 2023 年以来整体下降了 11%。
但今年全市范围的上升与拉曼（Raman）的选区形成鲜明对比，后者的无家可归人数实际上减少了 49%。
这种差异给拉曼提供了一个攻击市长的机会，同时宣传她在该选区解决无家可归问题的记录。
“这是一个道德上的愤怒，也是一次失败。巴斯市长领导并捍卫的应对无家可归问题的方法把我们带到了这个局面，”拉曼在数据公布当天的新闻发布会上表示。
市长辩称，她的“内部安全”（Inside Safe）计划至少在一定程度上促成了拉曼选区人数的下降，并主张拉曼作为市议会住房与无家可归委员会主席的身份，使其应对全市范围的……
吉娜·费拉齐 (Gina Ferazzi)，洛杉矶时报
……许多水产养殖业者的主要成本。因此，我们可以预见，许多我们进口的养殖鱼类价格将会上涨，”格法特（Gephart）说。
她表示，即使是内陆物种，如罗非鱼或池塘养殖虾，也可能通过鱼粉供应的中断间接受到厄尔尼诺现象的影响。“鱼粉是对许多物种非常重要的成分，而鱼粉最大的来源是秘鲁鳀鱼，当然，众所周知它深受厄尔尼诺现象的影响，”她在提到这一气候事件名称的由来时说道。
南美渔民几个世纪以来就注意到，每隔几年，一股暖流会在圣诞节前后推向岸边。因此，他们以基督圣子命名：El Niño（厄尔尼诺）。这种暖水是电流变化以及沿海地区典型的冷水上升流停滞的结果，营养贫乏，导致浮游植物和鳀鱼数量剧减。
“这种鱼粉或水产饲料，整体上代表了……”
同样包括无家可归者的人数。
“无家可归者的数量既是对尼蒂亚·拉曼（Nithya Raman）的谴责，也是对凯伦·巴斯（Karen Bass）的谴责。如果你要责怪其中一个人，就必须两个都责怪，”身在住房与无家可归者委员会的罗德里格斯（Rodriguez）说道。
新竞选团队成形
巴斯正准备迎接秋季竞选，并组建了一支由朱莉·查韦斯·罗德里格斯（Julie Chávez Rodríguez）领导的新竞选团队。
查韦斯·罗德里格斯是名声扫地的劳工领袖塞萨尔·查韦斯（Cesar Chavez）的孙女。她曾担任拜登总统中止的 2024 年连任竞选活动的竞选经理，在拜登退出后，她又为副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯（Kamala Harris）担任相同职务。
“她让涂鸦塔（Graffiti Towers）得到了清理，宣布地铁免费，成功举办了世界杯，以及更多举措，”查韦斯·罗德里格斯说。“这些是洛杉矶人能看到并感受到的重大胜利，而不是竞选辞令。市长正在全市范围内落实工作，这就是获胜的方式。”
查韦斯·罗德里格斯在市长之前的首席竞选战略师道格拉斯·赫曼（Douglas Herman）离开后接任。赫曼在博伊尔高地（Boyle Heights）火灾发生一周后离开竞选团队，称离开原因是“战略分歧”。
随同赫曼一起离开的还有媒体顾问拉里·格里索拉诺（Larry Grisolano）和研究主任迈克·赖斯（Mike Rice）。巴斯在市政厅的通讯主管科尔比·李（Kolby Lee）也在今年夏天辞职，她是过去九个月中离开巴斯办公室的一系列通讯人员中的最新一名。
在通用选举的第一个竞选资金周期中，巴斯的募资额显著高于拉曼，她的竞选团队表示，这表明了市长在全市的势头和支持度。巴斯在 6 月筹集了超过 $510,000，而拉曼仅筹集了略高于 $170,000。
支持巴斯的政治顾问迈克·特鲁希略（Mike Trujillo）表示，巴斯今年所面临的这类动荡对于一个大城市的市长来说是常态。
“事情总会发生；情况总在变化，”特鲁希略说。“坏事总在发生，好事也总在发生。”
Brian van der Brug 洛杉矶时报
在 2024 年，钦努克鲑鱼渔业遭受重创。
国家海洋渔业局（National Marine Fisheries Service）发言人迈克尔·米尔斯坦（Michael Milstein）表示，在 2024 年 4 月向州政府提交了请求。
他表示，在该年底作出了灾难认定，国会在 2025 年拨款。
NOAA 在 2026 年向该州拨款 $21.3 百万，此时该州必须提交一份支出计划，概述资金如何分配。
直到 2026 年 6 月资金才拨付——距离提交请求已过去两年零两个月。
中海岸女性渔业协会（Central Coast Women for Fisheries）主席洛里·弗伦奇（Lori French）表示，捕蟹者将“只能拭目以待”厄尔尼诺现象会带来什么。
“我知道当时候到来时，我们都会准备好出海捕鱼，”她说。“海洋总是在变化，而这正是商业捕鱼的魅力之一——我们能获得第一手视角。”
作者：马修·布朗 (Matthew Brown) 和多拉尼·皮内达 (Dorany Pineda)
蒙大拿州利文斯顿 —— 鳟鱼需要凉爽的水域才能生存，但今年夏天创纪录的高温已使水温达到对鱼类致命的水平。 由于经历了异常干燥的冬季且正处于广泛的干旱之中，野生动物官员正禁止在西部各地的河流和溪流中于特定时段进行钓鱼。 水位降低意味着河流升温速度更快。 这些限制旨在减轻包括极受推崇的鳟鱼在内的物种压力。 垂钓者从世界各地前往黄石国家公园或蒙大拿州西部的黑脚河 (Blackfoot River) 寻找这些鱼，后者曾出现在小说和电影《大河之畔》(A River Runs Through It) 中。 随着西南地区的热浪向北扩展至落基山脉并向东跨越高平原，预计本周末将出现更多创纪录的高温。 周五，在蒙大拿州利文斯顿附近的黄石河中，加州居民迈克·韦弗 (Mike Wever) 手持一支飞钓竿，步入湍急的水中。他将另一只手伸进水里。 “不是很冷，”62 岁的韦弗说。 他没有穿飞钓者通常用来保暖的涉水裤，而是穿着短裤。韦弗小心地跨过一个多石的侧道，表示他赞同在每日下午 2 点后关闭黄石河部分河段钓鱼的决定。 “拥有这项资源对我们来说太棒了，”他说，“但我们必须对其进行管理。” 许多鳟鱼垂钓者在用网捕捉后会让鱼游走。但专家表示，处于温度压力下的虹鳟或割喉鳟鱼，即使是为了拍纪念照而短暂离开水面，也可能会死亡。 科罗拉多州今年夏天对 19 条河流实施了限制，总计 635.5 英里，州政府官员称这种情况是前所未有的。 黄石公园在周三将下午钓鱼限制扩大到了整个公园。
黄石河目前扩大了下午钓鱼的限制。由于温度升高，鳟鱼物种面临风险。
同一天，邻近的蒙大拿州野生动物官员扩大了下午钓鱼限制，目前涵盖 1,200 英里的河流。 蒙大拿州鱼类、野生动物和公园管理局渔业部门主管、生物学家亚当·斯特雷纳 (Adam Strainer) 表示，关闭行为“在过去十多年里已经变得非常普遍，有些人甚至会说，从 6 月下旬到 9 月初这已经成了常规”。 这一趋势与气温升高相吻合，因为人为引起的气候变化在加热地球，且干旱变得更加频繁和严重。例如，黄石公园在过去六年中的五年里，由于水温过高而限制钓鱼。 公园官员表示，这比过去频繁得多。 其后果不仅限于生态方面；在许多落基山脉社区，鳟鱼钓鱼与经济紧密交织。 在蒙大拿州黄石河沿岸经营甜水飞钓店 (Sweetwater Fly Shop) 的丹·吉贡 (Dan Gigone) 表示，许多游客正将行程推迟到秋季，以避免夏季低水位和温暖的水流。 “人们意识到，在这里 8 月份是否能钓鱼以及钓鱼效果如何就像一场赌博，”吉贡说，“我在这里待了 22 年，这是我记得最暖的一次……”
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“……”。 温暖的水中含氧量较低，导致鱼类呼吸更加困难。它还会减缓鱼类的生长速度。 保护组织 Trout Unlimited 的 Kirk Deeter 表示，水库水位充足通常有助于在干旱的夏季和低水位年份维持水面高度。 但其中许多水库的水位正处于接近历史最低的水平。 在 Deeter 居住的斯蒂姆博特斯普林斯（Steamboat Springs），干旱以及处于 70 多华氏度的高温水域导致了 Yampa 河的大量鱼类死亡。“这对鳟鱼来说是一个糟糕的预兆，”他说道。 2016 年，野生动物官员关闭了黄石河 183 英里的区域，禁止钓鱼、漂流及其他活动，以防止一种被怀疑导致数万条鱼死亡的寄生虫在低水温且温暖的水域中进一步扩散。 宾夕法尼亚州立大学土木与环境工程教授、该研究的共同作者 Li Li 表示，去年的一项研究发现，“河流热浪”在像美国北部和落基山脉这样的以雪为主的地区发生得日益频繁。 她表示，气候变化正在改变山地积雪的规模和时间，这促成了河流热浪的产生。 研究人员还发现，河流温度足够高到足以令牛鳟等冷水鱼类产生压力的天数在增加。
马修·布朗 (Matthew Brown)，美联社
位于蒙大拿州大叉叉（Bigfork）的 Todd Tanner 鳟鱼学校通常在 5 月至 10 月期间在州西北部组织飞钓课程。 但 Tanner 表示，随着气候变得更加炎热、干燥且更容易引发山火，“这些行程的时间窗口似乎正在变得越来越窄”。 该学校已经调整了课程时间，以避开不利的条件。 “在过去的 34 年里，我一直全职住在蒙大拿州，”他说道。“在 30 年前或 25 年前，这根本是我们不需要考虑的事情。”
Brown 和 Pineda 为美联社撰稿。 Pineda 在洛杉矶发稿。
塔可贝尔（Taco Bell）此前一直处于动荡时期快餐业的绝佳位置。这家总部位于欧文（Irvine）的连锁店开发了一套菜单，既能让担心通货膨胀的消费者负担得起，又能让那些寻求汉堡和披萨以外之选择的顾客感到有趣。在其他快餐店因通货膨胀及其他行业挑战而苦苦挣扎时，其销售额和股价正一路飙升。随后，环孢子虫病爆发了。一场大规模的寄生虫疫情让塔可贝尔跌落神坛，现在它必须重建其增长势头。 “品牌在短期内遭受了明显的销售影响，”塔可贝尔母公司 Yum Brands 的首席执行官 Chris Turner 在周四的财报电话会议上表示。“我们的团队正在快速且透明地采取行动，同时将消费者的安全和健康放在首位。” 不幸的是，塔可贝尔已成为与此次疫情相关度最高的名字之一。6 月，美国疾病控制与预防中心宣布，在五个州销售的塔可贝尔碎生菜是导致 1,600 多个环孢子虫病感染病例的源头。相比之下，2024 年与麦当劳相关的大肠杆菌疫情约导致 100 人感染。2010 年，一次与塔可贝尔相关的沙门氏菌疫情导致 155 人患病。 尽管如此，该公司在周四报告称，第二季度同店销售额增长了 7%，标志着其同店销售额连续第九个季度高于行业平均水平。同时拥有肯德基（KFC）和 Habit Burger and Grill 的 Yum Brands 营业利润同比增长 5%，达到 $6.55 亿美元。 环孢子虫病由环孢子虫引起，可导致腹泻、疲劳、抽搐和体重减轻。在印第安那州、肯塔基州、密歇根州、俄亥俄州和西弗吉尼亚州，已有 90 多人因此次疫情住院。 Aneurin 表示，塔可贝尔以及其他受到此次疫情影响的食品行业企业的恢复情况，将取决于疫情持续的时间长短。
许多美国人 重新拟定购物清单
作者：Dee-Ann Durbin, Terry Tang, Maggie Scales, Sandy Guatibonza 以及 Hikari Mae Hida
Paramount Skydance 董事长 David Ellison 与 加州总检察长 Rob Bonta 再次发生冲突—— 这一次是关于确定 Paramount 能否 完成其近 $1110 亿 美元收购 Warner Bros. Discovery 的交易之反垄断 审判应在何时开始。
在周五的法院文件中，Bonta 及其由 11 位其他民主党总检察长组成的联盟建议，为期两到三周的审判应于 5, 2027 年 4 月开始。
Ellison 领导的 Paramount 予以回绝，表示这家媒体公司希望在 11 月 4 日开始庭审行动。
“我们请求 11 月开庭的日期，足以让双方有足够的时间进行证据开示、搜集证据并准备审判，”Paramount 在一份声明中表示，并称州总检察长请求在春季审判“不过是一种拖延战术”。
负责监督这一高关注度案件的美国地方法院法官 Araceli Martínez-Olguín 现在必须决定日期。
对于 Paramount 而言，这个问题至关重要。
Ellison 希望尽快完成这笔好莱坞巨额交易——将 CNN、HBO 以及华纳兄弟电影和电视工作室纳入 Paramount 旗下。这样做对于维持 Pa- 的凝聚力至关重要。
晚餐吃什么？最近，在 Apral Jack 家里，只要是打折的就吃什么。
50, 岁的 Jack 通过一个应用程序搜寻当地超市的优惠活动。到达商店后，她会查看每周传单，寻找可能遗漏的优惠券。如果货架价格看起来太高，她会尝试去其他地方。
“这里的苹果涨价了，就是我平时吃的那种，所以现在我不在这里买，”住在马萨诸塞州列克星敦的 Jack 说道。
随着数百万美国人承受半个世纪以来最大的杂货价格涨幅，使用优惠券、货比三家和削减开支成为了新的习惯。政府数据显示，自 2019 年初以来，购买居家食用食品的价格上涨了 33%。
随着中东冲突造成更大的价格压力，填满冰箱、冷冻库和储藏室的成本已使“可负担性”成为秋季中期选举的核心议题。
根据劳工统计局的数据， 6 月份碎牛肉的价格达到了每磅 $6.82，比 2019 年初高出 79%。
60, 岁的 Ada Torres 住在休斯顿东北部 45 英里处，她是那些不再购买碎牛肉的人之一。她负责为自己与女儿及三个孙辈共同居住的家庭采购杂货并烹饪。
Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times 突然之间，TACO BELL 跌落一阶
TACO BELL 已成为与此次大规模环孢菌病暴发相关最知名的品牌之一。
Canham-Clyne 是行业刊物 $\text{Restaurant Dive}$ 的记者。 “这是一个规模很大的爆发，”他说。“但如果你观察那些在长期内因爆发而遭受名誉损失的连锁店，通常需要多次爆发，而且通常得是导致人员死亡的爆发。”
7月 17 日，就在美国疾控中心（CDC）宣布与 Taco Bell（塔可贝尔）存在关联的同一天，该连锁店发布了一份公告，称其已完成从餐厅中移除受影响的 Taylor Farms 生菜的工作。Taylor Farms 当天也发布了召回通知，召回特定时间段内源自墨西哥中部的所有冰山生菜。
根据 Placer.ai 的数据，Taco Bell 的客流量在 7月 17 日比该周日的平均水平下降了 31%，次日下降了 30%。
Yum（百胜餐饮）的股价从 7 月峰值下跌了多达 12%。
“价格高得离谱。如今 100 美元的杂货根本买不到什么东西，”Torres 说道。
Jack Chang，33 岁，是旧金山的一名自雇理发师，有三个年幼的孩子，其伴侣目前处于失业状态。
当他们 4 岁的女儿所在的幼儿园有剩余的肉类或面包时，Chang 的伴侣 Tina Chhous 总是主动要求将其带走。Chhous 此外每月还通过联邦补充营养援助计划（SNAP）领取食品援助。
“如果没有那个，我不知道该怎么办，”Chang 说。
Chang 77 岁的母亲 Lien 同样领取 SNAP 援助，并且每周会去两家食品银行。
居住在夏威夷也意味着高昂的杂货账单。该州几乎所有的食物都依赖货船运输，这使得价格极易受到石油市场波动的影响。
Amanda Tabadero，28 岁，是夏威夷欧胡岛的一名糕点师，她记得 2024. 年购买茂宜岛种植的草莓和蓝莓的价格为每磅 $7.99。现在价格涨到了 $11，所以她在烘焙时会在 Costco 购买来自加利福尼亚或墨西哥的浆果，价格为 $5。
Tabadero 说，她最近在檀香山市中心（Chinatown）买的一杯冰咖啡和一袋水果总共花费了 $30。
“这让我很难过，”Tabadero 说。“我想使用当地的食材。”
作者：Caroline Petrow-Cohen
“在一段时间内，消费者对在 Taco Bell 用餐保持谨慎是合理的，即使品牌方宣布已经完全解决了问题，”Canham-Clyne 说。“人们有理由立即怀疑，像这样的问题怎么可能在一天之内就得到修复。”
Taco Bell 由 Glenn Bell 于 1962 年在道尼市（Downey）创立，到 1967. 年在安纳海姆（Anaheim）开设了第 100 家餐厅。该公司于 1970 年上市，并于 2010 年迁至位于尔湾（Irvine）的现总部。
在创立 Taco Bell 之前，Bell 从圣贝纳迪诺（San Bernardino）Mitla Cafe 的朋友和邻居那里获得了灵感，从而创造出了他自己版本的酥脆塔可（crunchy taco）。
在这次爆发之前，Taco Bell 已经找到了自己的发展节奏——分析师表示，其运营优势可能帮助它度过这段艰难时期。
而媒体公司则寻求 11 月 4 日开始。
作者：Meg James
专家表示，塔可贝尔（Taco Bell）的秘诀不仅仅在于一种口味——该品牌实现了文化相关性、菜单创新以及极具吸引力的价值，使顾客不断光顾。
“塔可贝尔长期以来一直被视为一个非常强大的品牌，尽管已经 60 岁了，但它成功地与年轻消费者和文化保持了极高的相关性，”负责餐饮行业的美国银行（Bank of America）高级分析师 Sara Senatore 表示。
Senatore 还将功劳归于塔可贝尔前首席执行官 Brian Nichols，他加强了该餐厅的数字化布局，并吸引更多顾客使用其应用程序进行预订和参加奖励计划。Nichols 在塔可贝尔担任首席执行官三年，随后于 2018 年离开，在 Chipotle 担任相同职位。2024, 他被聘为星巴克（Starbucks）的首席执行官。
包括 Jack in the Box、Wendy’s 和 Carl’s Jr. 在内的快餐品牌今年在多种压力下举步维艰，包括受通货膨胀挤压的低收入消费群体、不断上涨的食品和劳动力成本，以及与快休闲（fast casual）和休闲餐饮替代方案之间日益激烈的竞争。
“无论你看哪里，低于平均收入的消费者都承受着压力，这是更广泛的通货膨胀的结果，”摩根士丹利（Morgan Stanley）股票分析师 Brian Harbour 表示。“最近，这是油价波动的结果。”
但自 2023 年起由首席执行官 Sean Tresvant 领导的塔可贝尔，已熟练地掌握了品牌塑造和数字化吸引力，足以克服这些障碍。Tresvant 此前在耐克（Nike）担任 Jordan 品牌的首席营销官，该品牌在年轻消费者中极其受欢迎——而这正是经常光顾塔可贝尔的同一群体。
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Myung J. Chun Los Angeles Times
派拉蒙（PARAMOUNT）希望尽快完成收购华纳兄弟（Warner Bros.）的交易。
派拉蒙的金融支持联盟及其上涨的开支，主要是法律费用以及对华纳股东不断增加的义务。
今年早些时候，派拉蒙同意向华纳投资者支付所谓的“滴答费”（ticking fee），从 10 月 1. 开始，每股每季度 25 美分。这一举措旨在与网飞（Netflix）的竞标战中赢得投资者的支持。派拉蒙同意向华纳股东支付每股至少 $31。
这些滴答费将使成本每季度增加 $650 million，或每天增加 $7 million。对于派拉蒙而言，在年底前完成交易将消除 2027 年的此类付款。
华纳股价周五上涨 3.3%，至 $26.30——远低于交易价格。派拉蒙股价自 1 月初以来下跌了近 40%；本交易周收盘价为 $7.96。
对于那些已与美国编剧工会（Writers Guild of America）共同参与反垄断诉讼的各州来说，将审判定在明年春天将带来优势。
他们将有更多时间准备案件，同时也能获得筹码
关于派拉蒙，如果双方寻求通过庭外和解解决该问题。 随着时间一分一秒地流逝，派拉蒙可能会更愿意妥协以达成结算，包括出售其希望保留的部分资产。 “原告各州提出了一份节奏快速但切实可行的时间表，在确保有足够时间进行证据开示和审前准备的同时，迅速将此案推向审判，”各州在最新的法院文件中表示。“更短的时间表将是人为压缩的，并可能导致本法院在裁定这起涉及 1100 亿美元 billion 的案件时缺乏完整的记录。” 如果到明年夏天合并失败，派拉蒙还可能面临向华纳兄弟支付 $7-billion 的潜在款项。派拉蒙是主要媒体公司中规模最小的一家，而收购华纳兄弟是埃里森建立一个新的好莱坞巨头的雄心的关键。 包括科罗拉多州、俄勒冈州、纽约州、新泽西州和内华达州在内的各州总检察长认为，这次规模巨大的合并——几十年来好莱坞最大的一次——将违反已实施一个多世纪的《克莱顿反垄断法》。 根据总检察长的诉讼称，如果交易继续进行，仅有四家公司——合并后的派拉蒙-华纳、迪士尼、NBC通用和索尼影业——将控制 86% 的广泛发行电影（在 3,000 家以上的电影院上映）。 派拉蒙-华纳兄弟还将拥有 50 多个有线电视频道，除了 HBO 之外，还包括 CNN、TBS、HGTV、Animal Planet 和 Comedy Central。
首席财务官 Ranjith Roy 表示，该品牌在美国拥有超过 10,000 家门店的长期增长机会。塔可贝尔 (Taco Bell) 的部分优势来自于其对菜系的选择。墨西哥风味的快餐比汉堡和鸡肉三明治能承载更多风味，并提供了更多的创新空间。此外，竞争较少，且在不使用昂贵食材的情况下有更多机会提供管饱的餐食。“从价值角度来看，塔可贝尔一直以极高的性价比著称，”Senatore 说道。“塔可贝尔能够提供 99 美分或 $1.99 的价格点，因为对于像豆类卷饼这样的产品，其成本要比汉堡低得多，且依然能让人感到饱足。”塔可贝尔的 Luxe 超值菜单提供 10 款 $3 或更低价格的单品，包括一份 $1.69 的辣味土豆软塔可和一份 $1.89 的芝士豆类米饭卷饼。它还提供一个可自定义的 Luxe 渴望礼盒 (Luxe Cravings Box)，包含三件单品和一杯饮料，价格为 $7.99。相比之下，Jack in the Box 的中份经典拍肉堡套餐 (Classic Smashed Jack Combo) 包含一个四分之一磅芝士汉堡、薯条和饮料，价格为 $12.29。Chipotle 的鸡肉卷饼（含米饭、豆类、芝士和莎莎酱）外加一份薯片，总价为 $12.50。专家表示，塔可贝尔通过极具创意的菜单选项赢得了客户。他们出售多力多滋 (Dorito) 壳塔可、纳乔调味薯条和墨西哥比萨。虽然一些快餐店过度创新，导致顾客认为其令人疲劳或只是噱头，但塔可贝尔似乎找到了合适的平衡点。“在几乎任何其他餐厅，塔可贝尔的创新速度似乎都太快了，但我认为塔可贝尔的客户群对此表示欢迎并积极响应，”摩根士丹利的 Harbour 说道。Canham-Clyne 预测该品牌将在六个月内恢复活力。“我认为在接下来的 20 年里，很多人会开玩笑说吃塔可贝尔会导致寄生虫性腹泻，”他说。“但我认为这不一定会对该连锁店的长期销售产生影响。”
《华尔街日报》周五报道称，州长加文·纽森并不热衷于进行审判。纽森在公开场合并未支持任何一方。此前有消息人士告诉《时报》，双方一直在游说州长以赢得其支持。
纽森的一位发言人拒绝讨论该篇《日报》文章，表示：“我们的办公室不对匿名来源或未经核实的报道发表评论。”
领导此案的是邦塔，而非纽森。两人均担任全州级公职；邦塔今年正在竞选连任，而人们普遍预期纽森将在 2028 年竞选总统。
派拉蒙最近同意推迟其收购进程，原因是担心可能会输掉一项重要的初步禁令申请——这将引起投资者的恐慌——因此决定在审判能够举行之前取消该交易。
周五，派拉蒙表示，进一步的延迟将“损害法庭之外的许多个人，他们将被剥夺派拉蒙与 WBD 合并后承诺带来的更丰富的内容产品及行业稳定性”。
就邦塔而言，他表示自己“热切”希望推进至审判阶段。
“我们对华纳兄弟 / 派拉蒙非法合并的挑战，是一个彻头彻尾的、明确的反垄断挑战：它关乎保护行业的活力、消费者的钱包，以及在我们的生活中占据中心地位的电影和电视节目的质量，”邦塔在声明中表示。“这次挑战值得进行仔细且彻底的审查。”
作者：卢卡斯·肖 (Lucas Shaw) 和 托马斯·巴克利 (Thomas Buckley)
乔什·达马罗 (Josh D’Amaro) 通过将迪士尼的主题公园打造为全球羡慕的对象，从而登上了华特迪士尼公司 (Walt Disney Co.) 的高层。现在，他需要在公司的流媒体服务中实现类似的奇迹。
达马罗已指示他的领导团队将 Disney+ 视为全球迪士尼粉丝进入公司的“前门”。Disney+ 正在引入新功能，例如更好的推荐算法和竖屏视频，公司表示这将缩小与 Netflix Inc. 和 YouTube 之间的技术差距，并说服用户在应用上花费更多时间。公司正在整合 Hulu 和 ESPN 的节目，将其所有电影、电视剧和体育直播整合到一个平台中。迪士尼还计划增加在韩国等市场的本地节目投资，以便让国际观众有更多理由注册订阅。
MoffettNathanson 分析师罗伯·费什曼 (Rob Fishman) 认为，提高流媒体业务的业绩是达马罗提升迪士尼停滞不前的股价的最佳机会。这家总部位于伯班克 (Burbank) 的娱乐巨头的股价在过去五年中下跌了 40% 以上，其中 2026 年下跌了约 13%。
迪士尼在流媒体方面的做法令投资者感到困惑，他们担心这些服务永远无法取代公司曾经从有线电视网络中获得的收入。在过去三年中，该公司的服务在美国家庭电视观看份额中并未增加，在亚马逊 (Amazon) 和免费观看服务等竞争对手的压力下失去了阵地。在海外，迪士尼网站的影响力远小于国内。7 月，富国银行 (Wells Fargo) 分析师史蒂文·卡霍尔 (Steven Cahall) 建议该公司采取
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Amazon.com Inc.、Microsoft Corp. 以及 Alphabet Inc. 激进的 AI 支出计划提供了最新证据，表明对芯片及相关设备的需求将保持强劲，这给近日遭受重创的该行业带来了宽慰。
亚马逊在周四将其全年资本支出的预测上调至 2200 亿美元 billion，高于此前估计的 2000 亿美元 billion。首席执行官 Andy Jassy 表示，该项支出的绝大部分将用于人工智能。
这一前景是所谓的“超大规模云计算厂商”（即全球最大的云计算提供商）在一系列财报中披露的内容，这些报告显示，在构建 AI 基础设施方面的雄心并未减弱。
“大新闻依然是订单积压量在不断增加，”Navellier & Associates 的创始人兼首席投资官 Louis Navellier 说道。
微软确认了其资本支出预测（不计会计变更的影响）。谷歌母公司 Alphabet 提高了支出预期，Meta Platforms Inc. 则提高了其资本支出指引的下限。
对于生产芯片、网络设备及数据中心所用其他技术的企业来说，这是个好消息。此前，对潜在支出放缓的担忧一直压制着这些公司的股价。
Bloomberg Intelligence 分析师 Kunjan Sobhani 和 Oscar Hernandez Tejada 认为，这些公司未来一年的前景正在好转。
他们在报告中表示：“随着大多数大型超大规模云计算厂商在财报评论中上调或重申资本支出计划，计算和网络芯片制造商在 2026-27 共识预期出现上行空间的可能性正在增加。”
迪士尼高管对该平台寄予厚望，因为供应商正在适应流媒体业务。
完全退出流媒体业务。
根据迪士尼娱乐（Disney Entertainment）和 ESPN 的首席产品与技术官 Adam Smith 的说法，近期对流媒体业务的全面改革已开始产生回报。根据 Nielsen 的数据，美国用户在 Disney+ 上花费的时间比一年前增加了 21%，且迪士尼的流媒体服务在 3 月份创下了美国观众人数最高的一月记录。
“我们一直在从根本上改造我们的方法，”与 Joe Earley 共同管理迪士尼流媒体服务的 Smith 说道，“我们在改变和进化用户体验方面取得了重大进展。”
MoffettNathanson 的 Fishman 表示，虽然其流媒体服务有潜力成为业内最佳，但该公司“需要给投资者一些值得期待的东西，并付诸执行”。
40 亿美元 billion 亏损 随着支付有线电视费用的人数开始……
一名在德克萨斯州谢尔曼（Sherman）Coherent 设施工作的员工，该设施开发用于数据传输的激光器。
亚马逊的投资者对其收益报告表示赞赏，该报告显示其云计算收入连续第五个季度加速增长。传递出的信号是：该公司的挥霍式投入正取得成效。
亚马逊的股价周五最高飙升 16%，创下自 2022 年 2 月以来最大的日内涨幅。
微软也受到了类似的热情欢迎。在报告了四年以来最快的云增长后，其估值在周四增加了近五千亿美元。其市值增加 4500 亿美元，成为历史上任何单一公司单次增长幅度最大的一次。
投资者对 Meta 和 Alphabet 的印象则不那么深刻。这两家公司一直受到投资者对其支出缺乏明确回报之担忧的困扰。Facebook 和 Instagram 的所有者 Meta 在发布报告后的周四下跌了近 8%。它提供了一份疲软的销售预测，同时承诺未来将支出近 7000 亿美元。
富国银行（Wells Fargo & Co.）分析师 Ken Gawrelski 表示，仅仅证明一家公司在大量投资 AI 已经不够了。他说，投资者越来越希望看到回报。
“回到 12 到 18 个月前，重点在于你能花多少钱，以及你能将多少容量上线，”他说。“现在市场已经转向，并且正确地将焦点放在投资回报上。”
谷歌在 7 月 23 日下跌 7.1%，就在此前一天，该公司预计 2026 年全年资本支出将达到 1950 亿美元至 2050 亿美元。这高于之前预测的 1900 亿美元。
无论如何，所有这些支出都将使近期陷入低迷的供应商受益。制造内存芯片的三星电子（Samsung Electronics Co.）和 SK 海力士（SK Hynix Inc.）在上周早些时候大跌，但随后在最新的支出信号中反弹。
CoreWeave Inc.、Nebius Group NV、英特尔（Intel Corp.）和英伟达（Nvidia Corp.）也正从类似的低迷中走出。
据知情人士透露，其中几家公司属于利奥波德·阿申布伦纳（Leopold Aschenbrenner）的对冲基金 Situational Awareness 的公开持仓。该基金在近几周 AI 股市大跌导致损失后，抛售了部分股权。这可能是导致部分股票下跌的原因。
Navellier 表示，目前看来，高估 AI 基础设施需求的风险很小。“一场电力竞赛正在进行中，”他说。“理论上，有一天可能会出现过剩，但我们现在离那还远得很。”
十年前，当时的迪士尼首席执行官鲍勃·艾格（Bob Iger）将流媒体设为公司的首要任务。艾格花费超过 700 亿美元从福克斯（Fox）购买娱乐资产，并投入数十亿美元聘请工程师并为 Disney+ 提供资金支持。
这次支出带来了巨大的内容库和制作管线，使迪士尼能够比任何其他传统媒体公司更好地完成从有线电视到流媒体的过渡。Disney+ 在 2019 年 11 月上线首日就吸引了超过 1000 万客户。当该服务在不到两年的时间内突破 1 亿订阅用户时，该公司股价达到了历史最高点。
然而，尽管华尔街曾鼓励迪士尼牺牲短期利润以专注于吸引用户，但情绪在 2022 年发生了变化，当时 Netflix 报告了令人惊讶的订阅用户流失。在公司们大举投入流媒体导致资金大量流出的同时，他们的电视网络也……
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缩减。投资者开始质疑艾格及其继任者鲍勃·查佩克所做的决定。迪士尼为什么为了收购福克斯的娱乐业务而承担如此巨额的债务？公司是否因为制作了过多的电视剧而毁掉了《星球大战》系列？考虑到体育赛事版权成本的上涨，迪士尼是否还应该拥有 ESPN？
当达娜·沃尔登和艾伦·伯格曼于 2023 年 2 月接管迪士尼的娱乐部门时，该公司的流媒体服务在上一财年刚刚亏损了约 40 亿美元 billion。在激进投资者纳尔逊·佩尔茨的压力下，沃尔登和伯格曼削减了节目预算。根据 Ampere Analysis 的数据，在 2022 年至 2025, 年间，迪士尼委约制作的剧集数量减少了近 50%。他们还提高了价格，使 Disney+ 的费用几乎翻了三倍，同时为不想支付更高费用的人推出了一个包含广告的更便宜选项。在短短三年内，公司将那 40 亿美元 billion 的亏损转变为盈利。
“我们从亏损严重，转变为建立起一个代表华特迪士尼公司潜力的服务，”迪士尼总裁兼首任首席创意官沃尔登在一次采访中表示。“这并不是说我们没有很大的增长空间，但在三年半之后，我对我们所取得的成就感到非常满意。”
理顺流媒体服务的财务状况仅仅是转型计划的一部分。订阅用户增长已陷入停滞，而流媒体在总电视观看时间中的份额在 5% 左右进入平台期。迪士尼拥有世界上最受喜爱的工作室和知识产权组合之一。
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——包括皮克斯动画工作室、漫威工作室和卢卡斯电影公司，以及从《星球大战》到迪士尼公主和《玩具故事》的特许经营系列——但公司在向潜在客户证明这一点时陷入了苦战。 该公司需要弥补巨大的技术差距。Netflix 和 YouTube 花了 20 年时间构建了行业领先的流媒体产品。而迪士尼的各种流媒体服务多年来甚至不在同一技术栈上，使用的编程语言、数据库和软件工具各不相同。“我们需要达到他们的水平，”艾格在 2024. 年说道。随后他聘请了史密斯，后者在过去 2 年中全面改革了流媒体服务并组建了新团队。
一个迪士尼 达马罗一直推动公司接纳“一个迪士尼 (One Disney)”的概念。 当 Disney+ 刚推出时，人们认为它仅面向家庭和儿童——是观看《灰姑娘》或《冰雪奇缘》等迪士尼经典作品的地方。而迪士尼曾与福克斯共同拥有的 Hulu 则是观看更前卫的综合娱乐节目之处，ESPN 则是体育目的地。 史密斯和厄利正致力于让客户了解到，Disney+ 不仅是观看《布鲁伊》和《曼达洛人》的地方，也是观看《熊餐厅》和 NFL 的平台。 “Disney+ 适合每个人，”厄利说道。在美国以外的地区，多年来一直如此。史密斯和厄利已将 Hulu 客户的观看记录整合到 Disney+ 中，以便该应用能识别这些订阅者的喜好。观众在 Disney+ 而非 Hulu 上观看 FX 的剧集不会有任何损失。 迪士尼还将优先考虑
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说服客户购买迪士尼服务的捆绑包。根据 Antenna 的数据，这是该公司在美国的流失率（或取消订阅率）仅为 3% 的重要原因。在行业中，这一表现仅次于 Netflix。迪士尼对“节目内容不足”的说法感到不快。如果将电视网络和流媒体服务合并计算，迪士尼在电视时间份额上仅次于 YouTube。尽管迪士尼推出的原创热门作品远少于 Netflix，但得益于《布鲁伊》以及《Family Guy》、《Bob's Burgers》和《格雷之解剖》的重播，迪士尼在今年的 10 部最受关注的流媒体剧集中占据了 4 部。它还经营着全球最成功的电影工作室，制作了如《玩具故事 5》、《穿普拉达的女魔头 2》以及去年好莱坞票房最高的电影《疯狂动物城 2》。迪士尼流媒体服务最大的增长机会在于海外。
迪士尼长期以来一直沿用经典的好莱坞模式，将其节目出口到全世界。像漫威（Marvel）和皮克斯（Pixar）这样的系列作品在各地都广受欢迎。但在许多市场中，如果没有本土节目，流媒体服务的规模扩张是有上限的。Netflix 和 YouTube 都已经通过开发本土节目取得了显著成效。沃尔登（Walden）已任命埃里克·施里尔（Eric Schrier）负责构建本土语言节目的管线，以补充迪士尼的全球系列作品。迪士尼计划在未来几年将其本土语言节目的预算增加一倍。公司还在竞购拉丁美洲和澳大利亚等市场的更多体育赛事版权。沃尔登表示：“我们有一个明确的增长战略，而这一切始于优秀的叙事。这意味着我们将增加内容支出，特别是美国以外的支出，同时在未来几年显著扩大我们的创意产出。” 达马罗（D’Amaro）设想有一天 Disney+ 应用将不仅成为娱乐中心，而且成为迪士尼所有事务的枢纽——一个购买主题公园门票或玩具的地方。但首先，他需要让粉丝花更多时间观看其电视剧和电影。
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三位在周三维持利率 不变的决定中 持有异议的 美联储官员警告称，在应对 通货膨胀方面行动太晚， 可能会导致日后需要采取 更为激进的政策措施。
“高通胀持续的时间越长， 将其降低就越具挑战性 且成本越高，” 克利夫兰联储主席 Beth Hammack 在周五发布的一份 声明中表示。
明尼阿波利斯联储 主席 Neel Kashkari 在另一份 声明中表示，为了应对 高通胀变得根深蒂固的 风险，他“更愿意在 收集更多关于通胀和 就业路径的数据时， 逐步收紧政策”。
达拉斯联储负责人 Lorie Logan 在周五晚些时候 发布的声明中表示， “近期采取温和行动将降低 日后需要采取更剧烈措施 的可能性”。
美联储官员在上周以 9-3 票通过，决定连续第五次 会议维持基准利率不变。
政策制定者 全年 将目标利率 维持在 3.5% 至 3.75% 的范围内。 但由于中东地区紧张局势 再度升级，以及人工智能 驱动的大规模投资热潮 再次引发了通胀压力， 更多官员 表示支持 潜在的加息。
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由于对前景的看法有所改善，且汽油价格维持在战时高点以下，7月份的消费者信心指数升至五个月最高点。
根据周五公布的调查结果，密歇根大学 7 月份的最终信心指数上涨至 55.2。这比初步估计的 54.4 有所提高。
调查样本收集于 6 月 23 日至 7 月 27 日。在此期间，家庭看到的汽油价格跌至 3 月以来的最低水平，随后中东局势再度紧张，推高了加油站的价格。
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最初是由对美联储政策预期最敏感的短期期限主导，随后跌势转移至对长期通胀前景反应更迅速的长期到期产品。
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“尽管近期有所回升，但情绪比一年前低 11%，反映出对经济普遍持忧虑态度，”她说道。
虽然家庭仍承受着高物价的压力，但上周公布的数据强调了他们的消费如何持续。
经通胀调整后的消费者支出在 6 月份攀升 0.4%，与近一年来最强劲的增幅持平。
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“长端溢价更高，”三井住友银行集团 (SMBC Group) 的利率策略师蒙蒂·甘地 (Monty Gandhi) 表示。 债券交易员也在支付自 3 月以来最高的溢价，以防御长端收益率的进一步攀升。 在声明中，三位持反对意见的委员——他们上周都倾向于加息——指出各种供应冲击有助于推高通胀。 哈马克 (Hammack) 表示，她也看到了经济需求侧的压力。卡什卡里 (Kashkari) 表示，美联储的工具可以成功应对由“连续供应冲击”驱动的通胀，就像在 20 世纪 70 年代末和 80 年代初那样。
指标较上月有所增加。 情绪改善在不同收入、年龄、教育程度和政党中均有所体现。对长期经济形势的看法升至一年来最高点。 消费者预计明年价格将上涨 4.2%，低于上月预期。他们还认为，在接下来的 5 到 10 年中，成本将以 3.3% 的年率上涨，与 6 月份持平。 报告提到，人工智能已成为消费者的一个“显著”因素。 徐 (Hsu) 表示，整体评论偏向负面，尽管消费者同时提到了对生产力的正面影响以及对就业市场的负面影响。
Prakash 为彭博社 (Bloomberg) 撰稿。
马克·希费尔贝恩 (Mark Schiefelbein) 美联社 (Associated Press)
1980 年代。 洛根 (Logan) 认为，即使考虑到供应冲击和生产力的提升，通胀“似乎正趋向于 2 左右，而不是完全达到 2%”——这是美联储官员的目标利率。她表示，劳动力市场、支出和金融市场状况表明，目前的政策并未抑制经济，且如果美联储不采取行动，价格压力不太可能完全冷却。 三位官员均指出，目前整体经济强劲。 周四公布的数据显示，美联储首选的通胀衡量指标——个人消费支出指数在 6 月份下降了 0.1%。 上个月的一份报告显示，由于某些项目的大幅下降，另一项通胀指标也出现了类似的下降。
如何处理注册国内伴侣的资本利得税
作者：利兹·韦斯顿 (Liz Weston)
亲爱的利兹：我们是一对在加州注册了国内伴侣关系的异性伴侣。我们的主要住所已经持有数十年。显然，其价值已经增加，且远超夫妻 $500,000 的房屋销售免税额度。 当我们中一人去世时，联邦税和州税如何计算房屋的成本基础及其增值部分？ 在计算资本利得时，联邦税和州税是否都适用成本基础提升 (step-up basis)？我们没有孩子，我们将把……
汽油价格。现在，经济学家警告称，在 7 月份伊朗战争再次升级推高油价后，今年初夏看到的通胀缓解可能是短暂的。
Hammack 表示，她认为目前的政策并未起到“适当的限制作用”以冷却价格压力，且不认为通胀能够自动回归美联储 2% 的目标。
“现在是联邦公开市场委员会（FOMC）采取行动，加速个人消费支出（PCE）通胀回归 2% 目标，并履行我们对美国人民确保价格稳定的承诺之时，”她说。
同样的三位地区银行行长在美联储 4 月的会议上也持异议。虽然他们当时支持维持利率不变的决定，但他们反对会后声明中的措辞，该措辞暗示下一次利率变动可能会是下调。
在 6 月下旬的一次采访中，Kashkari 将他所认为的广泛通胀压力列为美联储今年可能需要加息的原因。在 6 月的会议上，他与八位同事一致认为今年至少会加息一次。
周五，他表示，采用小幅调整可以让美联储在应对经济变化时具有更大的灵活性。
“在我看来，如果通胀仍然高企，一系列潜在的小幅政策调整将比等待并最终得出结论认为必须采取更大胆行动要好，”Kashkari 说道，并补充说如果通胀消退，官员们可以“放缓或暂停随后的调整”。
这三位领导者还
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答案：加州为注册家庭伴侣提供有价值的税基双重调高（double step-up in tax basis），但联邦政府不提供。在大多数州，当第一位伴侣去世时，夫妇共同拥有的财产的一半将获得一个新的税务价值。这种价值的调高消除了在已故伴侣持有期间产生的任何增值部分的资本利得税。然而，在共同财产州，当第一位配偶去世时，共同持有财产的两半都可以获得价值调高。根据 Wolters Kluwer 税务与会计公司的说法，加州通常将注册家庭伴侣视为与已婚夫妇相同，但国税局（IRS）税务裁定 2013-17 和条例 301.7701-18(c) 明确规定，在联邦税务目的下，“婚姻”和“配偶”不包括注册家庭伴侣。假设你在 20 世纪 80 年代以 $300,000 买入这栋房子，
多年来投入了 $100,000 用于升级，现在价值 200 万美元。当前的税务基数将是 $400,000（销售价格加上升级费用）。这就是你们两人从销售价格中减去以确定潜在应纳税资本利得的金额。由于你在过去五年中至少有两年拥有并居住在该房产中，你可以免除 $500,000 的房屋销售收益（每位所有者 $250,000）。这留下了 $1.1 million 的应纳税收益。如果你其中一人明天去世，在联邦税务目的下，只有一半的财产将调高至当前市场价值，而另一半将保留其 $200,000 的基数，总基数为 $1.2 million。至于州税目的，两半都将获得调高，因此州税的新税务基数将是 200 万美元。另一个需要考虑的因素：一项联邦法律允许幸存配偶在去世两年内出售房屋时享受全额 $500,000 的免税额。该条款不适用于注册家庭伴侣。如你所见，结
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指出通货膨胀率已连续五年以上高于其目标。“每个月高于目标的通胀都会加剧美国家庭和企业的预算压力，”洛根警告道。
投资者大多预期美联储在 7 月 28 日至 29 日的会议上将维持利率稳定。但由于美联储主席凯文·沃什拒绝解释官员们做出该决定的逻辑，且未就政策制定者调整利率所需的条件提供指导，债券市场在周三出现抛售， 30 年期国债收益率升至 19 年来的最高水平。
里士满联储主席汤姆·巴金周五表示，关于美联储基准利率是否足够高以降低通胀，这是一个“非常接近的决定”。
巴金将于明年对货币政策决定进行投票，他告诉《华尔街日报》，他认为有理由撤销去年部分降低利率的操作，但他不确定上周是否会加入同僚的异议行列。“是否必须增加一些约束？我认为这就是问题的关键，”他说道。
周五公布的数据显示，美国第二季度劳动力成本增长保持稳定，表明就业市场对通胀压力的贡献极小。
Mischler Financial Group 利率销售与交易主管托尼·法伦表示，尽管差异很小，但“市场需要的是更低的通胀数据，而不是略高的数据”。
Saraiva, Marte 和 Stanton 为彭博社撰稿。
结婚证在生存方希望或需要在第一任配偶去世后出售房屋时，可能会产生巨大的影响。
根据联邦法律，婚姻还提供许多其他福利。例如，配偶可以领取社会保障配偶和遗属福利，但注册家庭伴侣则没有资格根据伴侣的收入记录领取福利。
配偶在个人退休账户 (IRA) 和雇主退休计划方面也享有特殊权利，例如可以将继承的 IRA 视为自己的账户。而非配偶受益人（包括家庭伴侣）通常必须在 10 年内清空账户。
具体情况可能有所不同，但这些福利数量众多且价值不菲，在许多情况下使婚姻变得值得。请咨询您的税务专业人员和遗产规划律师以获得个性化建议。
亲爱的 Liz：我一直在阅读关于将 IRA 转换为 Roth IRA 的问题，想知道这如何适用于我的情况。我已经领取了强制最低分配金一段时间，并且由于收入较高，我一直在支付医疗保险的附加费。现在转换为 Roth IRA 仍然值得吗？我的孩子们收入很高，因此继承我的 IRA 并为此纳税可能会成为他们的负担。您怎么看？
回答：Roth IRA 是一项极佳的继承资产。受益人通常必须在 10 年内清空账户，但提取资金完全免税。
当然，这种慷慨是有代价的。您必须为您从 IRA 转换的任何金额缴纳税款，而且转换可能会触发更高的医疗保险保费。税务专业人员可以为您提供指导，告知转换是否合理以及如何操作：是随时间逐渐转换还是一次性全部转换。
Liz Weston，注册理财规划师，个人理财专栏作家。问题可通过以下地址寄给她：3940 Laurel Canyon, No. 238, Studio City, CA 91604，或使用 asklizweston.com 的“联系”表单。
洛杉矶时报媒体集团公司（LA Times Media Group Inc.）目前正根据经修订的《1933年证券法》（以下简称“本法”）第 4(a)(2) 节和 / 或其下颁布的 D 条例第 506 条进行优先股的私募发行。Digital Offering（FINRA / SIPC 成员）是本次发行的登记经纪交易商。投资者在投资前应仔细考虑洛杉矶时报媒体集团公司的投资目标、风险和投资期限。与洛杉矶时报媒体集团公司每次股权发行相关的发行文件将包含此项及其他信息，在投资前应仔细阅读。洛杉矶时报媒体集团公司的证券是依赖于经修订的《1933年证券法》（或称“证券法”）第 506(c) 节规定的注册豁免而发行和销售的。据此，您应当意识到：(i) 该证券仅可出售给“合格投资者”，对于自然人而言，是指符合特定最低年收入或净资产门槛的投资者；(ii) 该证券仅在依赖证券法注册要求豁免的情况下发行，且无需遵守适用于证券法注册的特定披露要求；(iii) 证券交易委员会不会对该证券、发行条款或任何发行材料的准确性或完整性进行价值判断或予以批准；(iv) 该证券在转让和转售方面受到法律限制，投资者不应假设其能够转售其证券；投资证券具有风险，投资者应能够承担其投资损失。
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观点 FELIX HORNE 特约撰稿人
加剧这场危机， 否则山火将持续蔓延
总统特朗普上个月主张，加拿大应为近期“污染”美国空气的山火烟雾支付赔偿金，否则将面临额外的关税。他声称在新泽西州举行的世界杯决赛期间，他向加拿大总理马克·卡尼 (Mark Carney) 施压，告诉卡尼必须扑灭这些火灾。
对于特朗普以及近期在信中宣布对加拿大的山火烟雾“失去耐心”的密歇根州国会议员们：我理解你们的想法。作为一名加拿大人，我最希望看到的也是停止飘过边境的霾。空气浓稠，日落景象令人不安，而你们的选民——就像我们的选民一样——在不再像往常一样的夏季中咳嗽不止。
但问题在于：在削减气候政策的同时要求赔偿，就相当于要求加拿大在华盛顿不断添加燃料的情况下灭火。
覆盖美国部分地区的烟雾不仅仅是一个森林管理问题，而是一个气候问题。加拿大的 2023 年山火季是历史最严重的一次，过火面积超过 45 million 英亩——这一面积远大于密歇根州。而到今年 7 月 17 日，又有 5.9 million 英亩的土地毁于火灾。
然而，华盛顿继续拆除美国政府之前应对气候变化的努力。特朗普及其团队正在大幅加速化石燃料的开发，同时拆除许多旨在限制其影响的政策。
团队正在大幅 加速 化石燃料 开发， 同时 拆除 旨在 限制其影响的 政策。
如果在永久实行夏令时的情况下，洛杉矶最新的日出时间将在 8 a.m.。
针对洛杉矶关于是否切换到永久标准时间或永久夏令时的所有焦虑，请问自己这两个问题：
你真的想要洛杉矶的日出在凌晨 5 点之前吗？如果实行全年标准时间，你将在 78 天内面对这种情况。你真的想要洛杉矶的日出在上午 7:30 之后吗？如果实行全年夏令时，你将在 99 天内面对这种情况。
目前一年两次调整时钟的制度利用了太阳的周期，创造了最佳的日出和日落时间。在平均日落 / 日出时间上没有极端的异常。就像人们评价民主制度时所说的：它是最糟糕的政府形式，除了其他那些形式之外。维持现状即可，它仍然是最有效的。
保罗·哈达德 (Paul Haddad) 洛杉矶
与其讨论永久标准时间与夏令时的优劣，为什么不在秋季调整时钟时，直接折中采取一次性的、永久性的仅回退 30 分钟的“秋后回拨”方案？
菲利普·金特 (Philip Ginter) 桑兰德
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绝对没有人有权力拿走我们的时钟并按照其意愿拨动。
夏令时起源于德国和奥地利，旨在为第一次世界大战节省电力。然而在美国，它给孩子们带来了极大的困扰，导致他们最终在黑暗中去上学。与此同时，对于在凌晨驾驶的人来说，这也更危险。
目前的系统并不完美，但人们已经适应了。我们不需要有人告诉我们，他们将为了适应自己的需求而改变我们的生活。
迈克尔·布莱克希尔 (Michael Blackshire)
请帮我们的孩子以及那些在清晨需要日光的人们保持安全。
里克·默维斯 (Rick Mervis) 雷赛达
在夏令时的辩论中，不存在“一刀切”的解决方案。夏令时与标准时间的对立是错误的讨论方向。如果学校应该根据其意愿决定在不同的时间开始或结束……
洛杉矶时报
纽约市的天际线被加拿大最严重野火季产生的烟雾所笼罩。
以限制其影响。他们撤回了清洁能源倡议，削弱了环境审查，并放宽了关键的甲烷监管条例。
该政府甚至在向公司支付资金，以拆除本可为数百万人提供清洁能源的大型风力涡轮机项目，这一切都打着一种让地球生命更难以维系的卢德主义（反技术）意识形态的旗号。
其结果将是温室气体排放量高企，气候变暖加速，以及更多被笼罩在野火烟雾中的夏季天空。
特朗普领导下的这些变化并非细微的技术调整。它们是政治选择，将增加排放并锁定新的化石燃料基础设施，从而使驱动当今严重野火季的条件变得更加糟糕。如果你认为现在的烟雾已经很糟糕了，那么就等着这些项目开始全功率运行吧。
特朗普现在正威胁要对加拿大征收关税，并就污染要求赔偿，而他的政府却在扩大主要负责加热地球的产业。那些写信给加拿大的国会议员，此前投票支持了使烟雾问题恶化的政策。这种厚颜无耻令人震惊。
信中指出了加拿大森林管理方面的不足，并认为加拿大在森林疏伐、燃料减少、计划烧除以及打击纵火执法方面的投入不足。加拿大确实应该在预防和扑救野火方面做更多工作。已有超过 5,300 名消防员被……
在与火灾作斗争的同时，加拿大应投入更多资金，在这些火灾开始前就予以预防，同时加强准备工作和应急响应。
但仅靠森林管理无法解决气候更热、更干燥的状况，正是这些状况使得火灾更加剧烈且更难以控制——这需要面对根本性的危机。随着排放量增加，加拿大的森林正遵循与加利福尼亚州相同的轨迹：变暖的气候使它们变得更热、更干燥，且极易被点燃。大气层不承认国界，更不在乎总统的威胁。污染来自德克萨斯州、宾夕法尼亚州还是艾伯塔省几乎没有区别。它导致了同样的变暖现象，使整个大陆的森林干燥并加剧了火灾。
山火也是北美增长最快的公共卫生威胁之一。目前令空气窒息的烟雾中含有 PM2.5 颗粒——这些微小的污染物可以深入渗透到肺部和血液中，增加哮喘和严重心血管疾病的风险，并导致早逝。在 2023, 年，超过 120 million 名美国人长期暴露在山火烟雾中，包括社区
……季节性的阳光，然后调整 开始 / 结束时间，而不是 时钟。你居住的地方越往北， 白昼时长的变化就越剧烈， 因此某些社区可能 希望根据最合适的情况 更改他们的日程（而非时钟）。 如果太阳升起或 落下时的交通密度过高 成为了一个问题，那么 就将“工作”开始时间 分散开来。调整通勤、 学校和工作时间表 以适应季节。 不要更改时钟！ 根据季节改变行为。而且 我们不应该让立法者 为所有人决定什么 是对我们最有效的。 布鲁斯·法伯 (Bruce Farber) 橡树观点 (Oak View)
关于永久实行夏令时 的争论中缺失的一环： 学生的学业成就。我们知道 缺勤在全国范围内都是 一个问题，尤其是在 疫情之后。阴暗的早晨 无助于让孩子们去上学。 我担任初中和高中教师 已有 20 年以上的时间，我 可以证明，即使学生们 设法准时参加第一节课， 他们的思维在最好情况下 也是迟钝的，而且那还是 在天空有光的时候 （研究证明推迟上学会有帮助， 但这不可行）。 如果我们关心支持 学生的学习，我们就会 做出将他们的需求置于 我们的方便和享乐之上的 选择。 克里斯汀·伯查姆 (Kristin Burcham) 圣莫尼卡 (Santa Monica)
自豪地老去
关于 7 月 26 日《观点之声》版 “肉毒杆菌正悄悄扼杀表演艺术”一文
特约撰稿人尼科尔·阿克曼 (Nicole Ackermann) 一针见血地指出了问题。为什么 女性会认同这种性别歧视的 观念，认为自己的身体和 面孔永远不够完美？ Ulta 和 Sephora 门店的激增， 以及我最近在梅西百货 (Macy’s) 看到的巨大的化妆品展区， 都凸显了女性被不断告知 她们需要看起来更年轻、 更美好。母亲们甚至带着 前青春期的孩子去买这些东西！ 作为一个 70 岁以上、 满脸皱纹的祖母，我 鼓励年轻女性跳过肉毒杆菌、 丰唇和拉皮手术， 在老去的同时保持自豪、 感激和快乐。正如罗杰斯先生 所说：“我喜欢你现在的样子。” 玛丽·库尔提乌斯 (Mary Curtius) 科罗纳多 (Coronado)
你可以看起来老，或者 看起来怪异。我向我的 皮肤科医生提出了这个 观察，现在她会将其重复给 一些考虑注射肉毒杆菌的 患者听。 此外，看起来老也有 好处。在我接近 82 岁生日时， 我发现许多年轻人 对我格外友善且乐于助人。 苏珊·马登 (Susan Madden) 圣巴巴拉 (Santa Barbara)
……密歇根州的各社区。 儿童、老人以及患有 既往健康状况的人群 尤为脆弱，尤其是在 医院关闭且诊所资金不足 导致太多人无法获得 充分护理的农村地区。 一封愤怒的信件无法 保护这些社区。关税或 要求加拿大开一张支票 也同样无济于事。你需要 通过转向清洁能源来 减少排放的政策，同时帮助 社区适应如今已成为 年度危机的现状。 南下的烟雾可能来自 加拿大的森林——但使其 恶化的政治之风也来自 华盛顿。 除非美国改变方向， 明年夏天可能看起来 就像今年一样。或者更糟。 对密歇根州和美国其他 地区的人们：如果你厌倦了 每年夏天呼吸野火烟雾， 而立法者却在指责加拿大 而不是应对气候变化， 请大声说出来。 要求停止新的化石燃料 项目。 除非我们大幅减少 排放，否则烟雾将继续 袭来——每个夏天，每年。 没有任何关税能阻止它。
费利克斯·霍恩 (Felix Horne) 是 总部位于渥太와의 国际气候权利组织 (Climate Rights International) 的高级专家。
关于 7 月 23 日《观点之声》栏目中“审查已过时，霸凌正盛”一文
客座撰稿人西蒙娜·格罗西 (Simona Grossi) 指出，现任政府正利用扣押资金来惩罚那些反对或不认同其政策的公司、组织及其领导层，这一观点是正确的。除了她建议的应对此行为的方法外，我认为司法部门可以直接援引第一修正案来对抗这些压制行动。在“公民联合会 诉 联邦选举委员会”案 (Citizens United vs. FEC, 2010) 中，最高法院裁定，公司和其他外部团体不再被禁止在竞选活动中进行不设限的所谓“独立”支出。这是对“巴克利 诉 瓦莱奥”案 (Buckley vs. Valeo, 1976) 裁决的扩展，后者认为向竞选活动捐款（用金钱影响选民观点）属于言论，因此不能受到限制。
我不赞同“公民联合会”案的大多数意见和裁决。然而，既然法院已裁定限制资金等同于限制言论，那么这些裁决的平等适用将要求：不能因为政府不认同或反对某些表达的信仰和观点，就扣押个人、公司或团体的资金。
尼尔·谢德 (Neal Sheade) 威斯特伍德
关于 7 月 29 日《加州之声》栏目中“照顾一只年迈的毛茸茸朋友”一文
感谢古斯塔沃·阿雷利亚诺 (Gustavo Arellano) 分享 Cosmo 和 Hook 的故事。每天都有年长的犬类在收容所被遗弃，仅仅是因为它们老了或患有疾病。“白面之友” (Frosted Faces) 的使命源于这样一个信念：没有任何年老的犬类或猫类应该在收容所结束生命。为了这个使命，在领养宠物生命旅程终点所经历的心碎是值得的。
汤姆·伊安努奇 (Tom Iannucci) 俄勒冈州 尤金市
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衡量一个国家健康状况的方法有很多。一种是国内生产总值的增长。另一种是经济生产力。但还有一个不那么常规、却值得关注的衡量标准：世界上最才华横溢、最具雄心的人是否想要移民到这里？在美国历史的大部分时间里，答案都是肯定的。来自世界各地的科学家、工程师、企业家、艺术家和奋斗者选择美国，是因为他们相信在这里可以创造某些东西、发现某些东西或创办企业，同时获得更好的生活。我们应该担心有一天这种情况不再成立。不幸的是，特朗普政府似乎决心让这一天尽早到来。其对保护主义的毁灭性拥护不仅针对外国商品和资本，也不仅限于低技能移民，还针对紧缺的外国人才。例如，一项在 7 月初敲定的规定，将外国学生、交流访问者和外国记者的“身份有效期”替换为固定的入境期限。换句话说，它强迫国际学生在停留超过四年时必须寻求政府批准，而不管他们的学业是否能如此快速地完成。它还使得美国大学的国际毕业生通过“选择性实用训练”（Optional Practical Training）计划在毕业后留下来工作变得更加困难。彼得森国际经济研究所的 Amy Nice、Michael Clemens 和 Jeremy Neufeld 最近的一份简报强调了其中的利害关系。作者研究了国际学生——特别是那些学习科学、技术、工程和数学的学生——进入美国大学并最终进入美国劳动力市场的渠道。这是一个极大的
特朗普总统、国务卿马可·鲁比奥和世界首富埃隆·马斯克虽然没有亲手杀死任何人，但他们的行为毫无疑问地导致了数百万无辜民众的不必要死亡——其中包括 4.5 million 名儿童——这些人被切断了美国曾经引以为傲的救命援助。总统在 2025, 1月 20 日签署的首批行政命令之一，就是暂停所有对外援助 90 天。这其实并非简单的暂停，而是美国国际开发局（USAID）走向终结的开始，该机构半个多世纪以来一直在世界各地拯救和改善生命。特朗普命令的影响立即显现。运往撒哈拉以南非洲的抗逆转录病毒 HIV 药物、疟疾防护网和新生儿氧气管在仓库中过期或从未抵达。在海地和苏丹，资金的“暂停”中断了清洁饮水、孕产妇健康和难民口粮计划。不可避免地，人们开始死去。对于这个成立于 1961, 年的机构来说，这是一个悲剧性的终结。该机构是肯尼迪总统的构思，他将软实力的行使视为抵御苏联在海外影响的一种方式。当然，后来 USAID 计划试图抵消的是中国的经济影响。到目前为止，USAID 最大的成就地是其全球健康计划，其中包括乔治·W·布什总统在 2003 年大获成功的 HIV-AIDS 倡议 PEPFAR。在过去的 23 年里，超过 26 million 人的生命得到了拯救，且数百万次新的 HIV 感染被预防。奥巴马总统在 2025 年 6 月给数千名失业者的感谢信中表示：“对于世界上许多人来说，USAID 就代表美国。”恰如其分地，其标志是两幅画...
双手紧握，并配以口号“来自美国人民”。在特朗普第二个任期的开始，美国国际开发署 (USAID) 在 100 个国家开展运作，并雇佣了 10,000 人。通过与东道国合作，该机构资助基础设施项目，提供贷款，并提供资金、食物和技术专长，以促进发展中国家的增长和教育。当特朗普决定撤销其独立机构地位并将其残余部分并入国务院时，USAID 正在整个撒哈拉以南非洲和亚洲地区开展工作，不仅是为了应对艾滋病 (HIV-AIDS) 等健康危机，还要对抗疟疾、结核病，以及致命的埃博拉和马堡病毒的爆发。马斯克鲁莽地承诺
国际学生对于美国劳动力市场依然具有极高的价值。
全球顶尖人才拒之门外
美国不再值得他们为此费心，这种可能性应该令我们感到恐惧
对我们所有人来说都是一条宝贵的管道。 作者发现，美国的科学与技术劳动力严重依赖来自海外的人才。 移民填补了近 1 / 3 的高级 STEM 岗位，以及近 1 / 2 的需要博士学位的岗位。最初入境学习的人员约占拥有学位的 STEM 工作者的五分之一，在博士级别则超过三分之一。 克莱门斯解释说，毕业后留在美国的 STEM 学生“申请新发明专利的率是普通大学毕业生的 4 倍，且负责了美国所有新专利发明中约 10% 的部分”。
去年，在索马里摩加迪沙郊外的马斯拉营地，流离失所的人们从他们临时搭建的住所中向外望去。
观点 ROBIN ABCARIAN 专栏作家
特朗普声称他可以从联邦预算中削减 2 万亿美元。他的白宫顾问团队——被他称为“政府效率部”（Department of Government Efficiency，简称 DOGE）——在乔·罗根（Joe Rogan）的播客中听了一位该机构的古怪批评者发言后，便对 USAID 产生了一种奇异的仇恨。
马斯克在社交媒体帖子中将其称为“犯罪组织”、“一场激进左翼的政治心理战”以及“疯狂的浪费”。（USAID 每年 $40-billion 的拨款仅占联邦预算的约 0.7%。其中用于行政成本的资金不到 20 亿美元 billion。）
就像一群童兵一样，马斯克那群由稚嫩的电脑极客组成的 DOGE 团队（还记得“Big Balls”吗？）很快就被释放了出来。“我们整个周末都在把 USAID 喂进碎木机，”马斯克在 3, 2025 年 2 月发推特称。“本可以去参加一些很棒的派对。但我却做了这件事。”
他缺乏道德底线的情况令人震惊。
正如比尔·盖茨在 May 2025 接受《金融时报》采访时如此深刻地指出：“世界上最富有的人杀死世界上最贫穷的孩子，这画面并不好看。”
如果你想了解 DOGE 以及被任命来摧毁该机构的特朗普政治任命者的无能，我推荐阅读尼古拉斯·恩里奇（Nicholas Enrich）写的《进入碎木机：一名举报者关于特朗普政府如何撕毁 USAID 的叙述》（Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower’s Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID）。恩里奇曾任 USAID 全球卫生代理局长。
恩里奇在书中通过令人瞠目结舌的细节，记录了该政府对 USAID 为期六周的猛攻。
你可能还记得，当 DOGE 发现了一个似乎是对特朗普来说如天赐般的项目时，所引发的愤怒。
“我们识别并阻止了 $50 million 被发送到加沙用于给哈马斯购买避孕套，”特朗普在 29, 2025 年 1 月宣布。“你知道那些避孕套怎么了吗？他们把它们当成了制作炸弹的手段。” 这是一个幻想。该项目专注于生殖健康和艾滋病毒预防，服务于莫桑比克一个名为加沙（Gaza）的地区，与哈马斯的据点相隔一个大洲。
同样地，特朗普任命的一系列政治负责人要么对该机构几乎一无所知，要么……
Voices 撰稿人 VERONIQUE DE RUGY
……美国。他们创立高增长初创公司的速度是美国出生毕业生的六倍。”
这意味着我们可以抛弃那种认为“如果一名外国工程师得到了工作，那么一名美国工程师就必然失去工作”的观念。将保护主义应用于人力资本，依赖于与其他形式的保护主义相同的经济谬误：即认为经济就像一个派，因此允许外国利益者入座会损害已经在桌旁的人。
经济不是那样运作的。天才的人不仅仅是填补现有职位。他们通过发明产品、创立公司、开展研究以及提高周围人的生产力来创造职位。在这个过程中，他们为他人创造了原本不存在的机会。
考虑到华盛顿对与中国竞争的痴迷，对外国学生冷若冰霜显得尤为荒谬。政治家们坚持认为美国正处于一场关乎生存的技术竞赛中。他们花费数十亿美元补贴半导体和其他受宠的行业。他们制定详尽的工业政策，旨在使美国在人工智能、量子计算和先进制造业中占据主导地位。
卡洛斯·奥索里奥（Carlos Osorio）美联社
该机构，或者是有私心。在恩里奇（Enrich）向其由特朗普任命的新上司们汇报该机构的工作后，其中一人说道：“我完全不知道你们做了这么多。作为一名共和党人，当我想到美国国际开发署（USAID）在全球健康领域所做的事情时，我以为就只是——你知道的——堕胎。”（众所周知，或者说应当周知，美国纳税人的资金被禁止用于资助堕胎护理。）一名政治任命官员告诉恩里奇，最近在乌干达爆发的埃博拉疫情是一场“骗局”。
在恩里奇被解雇前的混乱间隙中（他在同一天被告知既是一名关键员工，又被裁员），他及其同事拼命尝试挽救该机构一些最关键的项目。他们相信——事实证明这是一个错误——当鲁比奥（Rubio）宣布负责挽救生命的计划将免受特朗普暂停对外援助的影响时，他是在说实话。
“在我任职期间，绝不会让任何孩子死去，”鲁比奥自信地（但错误地）向众议院外交事务委员会断言。
然后，当一名来自印度、中国或任何其他地方且极具天赋的年轻科学家在美国大学获得高级学位，并希望留在美国为美国经济做出贡献时，我们的政府却说也许他们应该离开。
你可以向亚利桑那州的一家半导体工厂投入数十亿美元的纳税人资金。但你无法通过一项拨款法案来制造天才。
彼得森（Peterson）的研究人员估计，仅仅阻碍三分之一的国际 STEM 毕业生，就可能导致美国经济规模缩小 0.7% 到 1.3%，在十年间大致相当于损失 2000 亿美元 billion 到 4000 亿美元 billion 的 GDP——相当于损失了整个犹他州或南卡罗来纳州的经济总量。
这些估计必然取决于对未来移民和生产力的假设，但我们不需要知道精确的数字就能理解其影响。当高效能的人才离开——或从未到来——我们就失去了他们的想法、企业、发现以及所有相关的经济活动。
这里还涉及更深层次的问题。美国最大的优势之一是人们用脚投票选择这个国家。他们离开熟悉的地方，有时跋涉数千英里，为了在其他地方无法获得的机会。这是对美国制度——我们的市场、法治和创业文化——的一次非凡的信任投票。我们绝不应将其视为理所当然。事实上，如果世界上最聪明的年轻人决定美国不再值得他们如此费心，这种可能性应该让我们感到恐惧。这不仅仅是因为我们将失去他们的经济贡献，而且是因为他们的决定将告诉我们美国已经变成了什么样子。
Veronique de Rugy 是乔治梅森大学 Mercatus 中心的高级研究员。本文与 Creators Syndicate 合作制作。
Farah Abdi Warsameh 美联社
根据波士顿大学布鲁克·尼科尔斯（Brooke Nichols）开发的一个影响计数器（尼科尔斯是公共卫生学院的副教授，一名传染病数学模型专家），在美国国际开发署（USAID）突然终止后的第一年里，近 263,000 名成年人和 518,428 名儿童不必要地死亡。众议院外交事务委员会主席、来自佛罗里达州的共和党人布莱恩·马斯特（Brian Mast）指责尼科尔斯制造“危险的歇斯底里”并传播虚假信息。
但 ProPublica、NPR、《华盛顿邮报》和《纽约时报》等机构的记者已经走遍世界，记录因 USAID 突然失去资金而导致的本可预防的死亡和疾病。
一项发表在《柳叶刀》（Lancet）上的研究得出结论，到 2030, 由于资金撤出，可能导致多达 14 million 人死亡，其中包括 4.5 million 名 5 岁以下儿童。
虽然你永远不会承认，鲁比奥部长，但孩子依然在你任职期间死去。
就像有人说过的那样，干得真是“太出色”了。
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MIRIAM Hellmann 正在重新绘制帕萨迪纳犹太寺庙与中心的壁画，该壁画此前被涂上了反犹太主义的信息。
作者：Jasmine Mendez
周四，数十人聚集在帕萨迪纳的一处寺庙遗址，与他们的犹太邻居共同表达团结。许多人仍对该神圣空间今年多次成为破坏行为的目标感到震惊。
这次聚集是由上个月发生的一起事件促成的，当时 Jenna Leventhal 正准备把她的女儿 Ava 送到夏令营。
在沿着熟悉的 Altadena Drive 开车时，她经过了原帕萨迪纳犹太寺庙与中心（Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center）的遗址，这座拥有百年历史的建筑在去年的 Eaton 火灾中被烧毁。
几乎出于本能，Leventhal 转头看向那个设有护栏的空地。
原建筑外部的部分区域
Voices STEVE LOPEZ 专栏作家 体育场缆车计划能否维持？
当我们进入 8 月并展望秋季时，关于道奇队有两个迫在眉睫的问题成了焦点。
他们能否连续第三次赢得世界系列赛冠军？
以及，那项计划通过缆车将球迷从联合车站（Union Station）运送到道奇体育场的 $500-million 提案，是能够维持下去，还是会彻底失败？
我无法回答第一个问题，尽管我不会打赌他们不能三连冠。
至于第二个问题，如果我是前道奇队所有者兼空中缆车之父 Frank McCourt，我会系好安全带，因为缆车即将遇到剧烈的湍流。
缆车将横穿洛杉矶州立历史公园的一段区域，砍掉数十棵树，并践踏一片经过精心设计的空间
巴斯在筹款方面领先于拉曼
作者：Noah Goldberg
拉比 Lisa Edwards（中间）在修复仪式上拥抱与会者。
一名男子在洛杉矶州立历史公园自拍。拟建的道奇体育场缆车将砍掉该区域的数十棵树。
[见 Lopez, B5]
竞选财务报告显示。 市长在 6 月份筹集了超过 $510,000，她的竞选团队表示，这是她在整个连任竞选期间单月筹集金额最高的一次。 拉曼在同一报告期内筹集了略高于 $170,000，该报告涵盖截至 6 月 30 日的捐款，并于周五晚些时候提交。 市长竞选团队还表示，巴斯获得了来自该市超过 $675,000 的公共资金配套补贴，使其 6 月份的总筹款额超过 $1.1 million。拉曼的团队则表示，她获得了约 $576,000 的配套资金，使她的总额略低于 $750,000。 “6 月成为我们整个竞选活动中最强劲的一个月绝非偶然。这表明洛杉矶人理解这次选举的利害关系，并全力支持。”
墙壁在火焰中幸存，却在 1 月份被喷涂了反犹太主义信息。 最初的涂鸦被迅速清除，并委托创作了一幅壁画来替代。但令 Leventhal 惊讶的是，新壁画被画上了万字标志，并写有“ZIONSIM IS NOT WELCOME”（锡安主义不受欢迎）的信息。 “Zionism”这个词被拼错了。 “自从壁画挂上去以后，我每次看它都充满喜悦，”南加州大学 (USC) 屠杀纪念基金会（该基金会存档大屠杀幸存者的证词）高级总监 Leventhal 告诉《时报》。“ [这一发现] 令人震惊且不安。” 她立即给寺庙负责人拉比 Josh Ratner 打电话，后者通知了当局。洛杉矶县警长部门
[见壁画, B7]
同事歧视言论被起诉
作者：Richard Winton 和 Libor Jany
洛杉矶县检察官周五指控一名洛杉矶警察局 (LAPD) 警官犯有重罪窃听罪，因为他在工作中秘密录制了同事的种族主义、性别歧视和恐同言论。 该警官 Daniel Flores 被指控 16 项窃听或录制机密通信的重罪，这些罪行最高可判处 13 年监禁。 洛杉矶地区检察官 Nathan Hochman 在宣布指控的声明中表示，虽然他认为录音中的言论令人不齿，但 Flores 仍然违反了《加州入侵隐私法》，该法禁止在未经他人同意的情况下录音。 “本案向任何试图在未经对方允许的情况下录制对话的人发出警告：这样做是违法的，并且一直是一种犯罪行为。”
航站楼陷入 混乱纠纷
对休息室运营商提出了 指控。
作者：Alene Tchekmedyian
在洛杉矶国际机场这座面向富豪与名流的专属航站楼里，乘客们在迎接香槟和鱼子酱后，会被直接乘坐定制宝马车送往飞机。这座航站楼在 2017 年启用时是全美首创，旅客只需支付高昂费用，即可跳过排队，且无需进入机场内部即可通过安检。
而现在，这里成为了一个混乱的商业纠纷中心。
Gavin de Becker 是一位名人安全顾问，他的公司最初开发了该航站楼。他现对目前的运营商提出了严重指控。
De Becker 的安全与威胁评估公司的一名律师在给机场官员的信中表示，运营商 PS 管理航站楼的方式造成了安全风险，并指出了前员工发起的待决诉讼。
其中一项诉讼声称，工作人员在未经过适当筛查的情况下将行李直接装上飞机，PS 在法庭文件中否认了这一说法。
De Becker 的公司在 9 月份提起的一项诉讼中指控 PS（原名为 Private Suite）在 2024 年被出售给 Groupe ADP 之前，欺骗洛杉矶市延长了其租约。Groupe ADP 是一家上市的全球机场运营商，其大股东为法国政府。该诉讼要求就名誉受损和失去商业机会寻求赔偿。
多年来，PS 的所有者——现在的 Groupe ADP 以及此前的某家私募股权公司——未能获得适当的市政府批准。
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在加利福尼亚州 50 年多以来，”该声明称。“无论你在哪里工作，无论你是谁——邻居、同事，或者在这种情况下，是一名警察。你在机密对话中的隐私权受到保护，无论谁在进行录音，或者（除极少数例外情况外）录音的原因是什么。”
根据弗洛雷斯（Flores）去年向部门提交的一份内部事务投诉称，他向其上级提交了大约 90 份录音，并表示希望这些证据能被用来惩处相关责任人。
弗洛雷斯的律师 Alan Jackson 猛烈抨击了检察官起诉的决定。
“今天，洛杉矶县地方检察官办公室起诉一名警察犯罪，原因是他举报了洛杉矶警察局内部的种族主义行为，”Jackson 说道。“被起诉的不是那些在录音中使用了种族歧视、性别歧视和反同性恋诋毁词汇的警察。也不是那些坐在政府大楼里，掌握着决定谁能成为 LAPD 警员的权力并说出这些话的警察。该”
作者：Phoebe Huss
在 CalMatters 揭露一项长达 10, 年的合作伙伴关系数周后，一所加州公立大学切断了与一项联邦计划的联系，该计划此前资助校园警察协助边境巡逻队。
“石园行动”（Operation Stonegarden）是由美国国土安全部管理的一项拨款计划，每年平均拨款 $11 million，用于资助加州执法机构与美国海关及边境保护局及其下属机构边境巡逻队合作执行边境安全任务。全州数十个警察部门接收该拨款，其中包括自 2012 年左右起便成为接收者的加州大学圣迭戈分校校园警察。
2 月 10 日，一篇 CalMatters 的文章解释了加州大学圣迭戈分校警察如何利用该拨款在校园附近的海岸线部分区域进行巡逻，这迅速引起了学生的强烈抗议，他们认为这使无证移民和国际学生面临风险。到 2 月 26 日，在学生发送投诉邮件并威胁举行公开集会后，学生 Aryan Dixit 表示，校园警察局长 Lamine Secka 在一次一对一会议中同意退出该拨款计划。
加州大学圣迭戈分校发言人 Melinda Battenberg 拒绝确认校园警察是否已退出该拨款计划。然而，CalMatters 审阅了大学副校长 Niraj Dangoria 在 3 月发送给退休大学员工兼奇卡诺（Chicano）教育倡导领袖 Patrick Velasquez 的内部邮件，邮件进一步确认该学院打算停止使用该拨款，且未来没有重新申请的计划。5 月，负责管理圣迭戈地区“石园”资助行动的圣迭戈县警长办公室 Michael Gonzales 中尉告诉 CalMatters，该大学将不再参与未来的拨款行动。
担忧迅速在校园蔓延
加州大学圣迭戈分校商业经济学四年级学生 Daniel Negrete 表示，他认为自己的校园与边境巡逻队维持工作关系这件事简直“太疯狂了”。
他补充说，一旦消息传出，校园内就出现了大量担忧。根据加州大学圣迭戈分校的学生报纸《卫道者》（Guardian）报道，在 2 月 18 日的一次反美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）罢课游行中，学生们批评了该大学与国土安全部的关系。
“我对大学竟然允许这种情况发生感到……震惊，”Negrete 说道，“高层管理人员中不可能没有人意识到这一点。”
根据一份 2025 年的拨款
作者：Rebecca Ellis
面临多项州级和地方调查的律师事务所 Downtown LA Law Group 表示，计划在未来两个月内退出一项针对该县第二大垃圾填埋场的高风险环境案件。
该事务所主导此次诉讼的律师 Andrew Morrow 周四在法庭上表示，该小组已将 1,200 名垃圾填埋场客户中的约 500 名移交给另一家个人伤害律师事务所。
他表示，大约还有 500 名客户无法联系，可能会被撤出本案。
“我们与这些人中大多数的沟通能力几乎已经枯竭，”Morrow 告诉地区法官 Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong。
该事务所的一名发言人没有回答《时报》关于其为何与针对 Chiquita Canyon 垃圾填埋场诉讼中约 40% 的客户失去联系的问题。该垃圾填埋场被指控允许有毒烟雾飘入附近的住宅。
此次听证会召开之际，Downtown LA Law Group（简称 DTLA）正面临在两起经由加州法院审理的重要案件中被指控律师行为不端的指控。
《时报》此前报道称，在一次性虐待和解案中，该事务所的九名客户表示，他们是为了成为一项历史性的 $4-billion 赔付的一部分而接受付费进行起诉，且在某些情况下伪造了主张。
本月，《时报》报道称，一名演员表示他被派往 Chiquita Canyon 垃圾填埋场周边地区招募客户。
加州大学圣地亚哥分校（UC San Diego）的校园警察自 2012 年起一直获得“石花园行动”（Operation Stonegarden）赠款的资助。
该文件指出，“石花园行动”增强了联邦与地方执法部门之间的协作以保障边境安全。该计划还促进了信息共享，包括通过定期会议和强制性报告。
自 2006 年成立以来，该赠款引发了人们对隐私以及是否遵守加州避风港法（sanctuary law）的担忧。隐私倡导组织电子前沿基金会（Electronic Frontier Foundation）在 2025 年的一份备忘录中要求特朗普总统终止“石花园行动”，并补充说，监控技术公司鼓励警方加入该计划，以便让他们购买其产品。
加州大学圣地亚哥分校警察警曹兼该大学指定的“石花园行动”协调员 Patrick Dobbins 在 11 月告诉 CalMatters，学校使用该赠款支付警员在边境巡逻时的加班费。他补充说，该赠款被用于促进健康与安全。
自 2020 年起，美国国土安全部每年要求赠款接收方优先将警员培训为移民代理人，尽管这在加州避风港法下是非法的。在 2025 年和 2026, 年，这成为了该赠款的整体重点。
Dangoria 在 3 月给 Velasquez 的一封电子邮件中写道，该大学的“石花园行动”资金用于“专注于禁毒和打击人口贩卖的行动，而非移民执法”。
然而，Negrete 表示，他被 2025 年监察长办公室的一项审计结果所困扰，该审计发现仅有 15% 的“石花园行动”资金用于禁毒执法，且根据美国国土安全部的说法，禁毒拦截……
该计划与 Stonegarden 运营是“附带”关系。 “认为这是一个纯洁的计划，且仅仅是为了清理街头毒品的观点是不真实的，”Negrete 说道。
在里弗赛德县 (Riverside County)，县治安官在 2023 和 2024 年为 Stonegarden 执行的大部分交通拦截最终都演变成了“情报开发”，即使在大多数情况下并未缴获毒品且未发生犯罪。治安局通过公共记录请求向 CalMatters 披露了活动报告，但其他警务机构以这些报告属于联邦财产为由，拒绝提供报告。
Battenberg 表示，一旦报告提交给美国国土安全部，加州大学圣迭戈分校 (UC San Diego) 的警察只能查看但不能访问，且未回答加州大学圣迭戈分校是否可以通过记录请求披露其报告。
活动人士谴责大学做法
2 月 17, Dixit 通过电子邮件联系了校园警察局长 Secka，请求就学生关于校园警察利用美国国土安全部拨款的“关键关切”安排一次会议。当时，作为经济学和认知科学专业的学生，Dixit 在学生政府中担任 2025-26 年度多样性、公平与包容副主席，并且是一家鼓励青少年倡导的非营利组织——学生公民自由联盟 (Students’ Civil Liberties Union) 的主席。Dixit 在邮件中抄送了副局长 Frank Johnson 以及警察局的通用行政联系人。
他告诉 CalMatters，他没有收到回复。
2 月 24, 学生公民自由联盟与由 Negrete 领导的研究小组 Ellis Collective 联手，宣布计划在 2 月 26, 举行集会，抗议校园警察从美国国土安全部获取资金。
Dixit 表示，在宣布之后，Secka 同意在抗议前一天与他进行一对一讨论。两人就各种问题进行了辩论以寻找妥协点，Secka 告诉 Dixit，加州大学圣迭戈分校警察局将停止参与 Stonegarden 计划，且明年不再申请。
Secka 没有回应 CalMatters 重复的采访请求。
2 月 26, 约 100 名学生参加了示威活动，发言者谴责了该大学长期与联邦移民当局合作的做法。
圣迭戈州立大学 (San Diego State University) 警察在 Secka 担任该校临时局长期间，于 2013 年获得了 Stonegarden 资金。在那之后的任何可用资金文件中都没有该大学的名单。圣迭戈州立大学警察局的公共信息官 Amanda Stills 表示，该资金用于支持禁毒工作。
全州资金数额增加
根据最近的一份拨款文件，其他机构继续与美国国土安全部合作，后者将加州 Stonegarden 的分配额从 2025 年的 $12.1 百万美元增加到 2026, 的 $13.4 百万美元。
该事务所。一些居民告诉《时报》，他们在未经同意的情况下就被签署了诉讼协议。
加州禁止非律师直接诱导或促使客户签署诉讼协议。这种被称为“capping”的行为因担心其允许律师事务所为了追求高额赔付而剥削受害者而被宣布为非法。
“所有这些指控如果属实，表明律师的行为明显不当，这使得本案中数千名原告的代理资格存疑，”代表垃圾填埋场的律师 Paul Chan 在 7 月 24 日的一份动议中写道。
DTLA 否认了所有不当行为，且此前已...
Adriana Heldiz CalMatters
截至 2025 年，来自 11 个县的警长部门获得了资金，包括里弗赛德、洛杉矶、圣迭戈、橙县、圣路易斯-奥比斯波、圣巴巴拉、文图拉、蒙特雷、圣马特奥、圣贝纳迪诺和帝国县。数十个较小的警察机构也加入了进来，以及州政府机构，如鱼类和野生动物管理局以及加州州立公园。
在 2024 财年，洛杉矶跨机构大都市警察逮捕犯罪任务组（简称 L.A. IMPACT）加入了“石头花园”（Stonegarden）计划。根据总检察长办公室的说法，该任务组调查重大犯罪，特别是涉及麻醉品的案件，并拥有该州最广泛的监控资源之一。
该任务组由来自 48 个地方和州警察机构的约 75 名宣誓警员组成，其完整名单此前尚未公开。L.A. IMPACT 执行董事迈克尔·伯克（Michael Burke）告诉 CalMatters，该任务组的“石头花园”活动仅限于洛杉矶的贩毒调查。
社区对分歧议题发表看法
加州大学圣迭戈分校（UC San Diego）警方在 3 月前未就该项拨款发表任何公开声明。
因此，在 3 月 2 日，一个由教育者组成的当地联盟——圣迭戈奇卡诺 / 拉丁裔高等教育委员会（San Diego Chicano / Latino Concilio on Higher Education，致力于倡导拉丁裔学生的成功）在电子邮件中直接向加州大学圣迭戈分校校长普拉迪普·科斯拉（Pradeep Kosla）施压。
该联盟共同主席维拉斯奎兹（Velasquez）认为，“石头花园”计划分散了警方对校园安全的注意力，并通过授权购买搜索摄像头和数据收集设备而推行监控。他还指出，多宾斯（Dobbins）告诉 CalMatters，校园警员并不执行移民法，而是利用巡逻搜寻通过 panga 船越境的移民。此外，维拉斯奎兹告诉校长，令人不安的是，平民无法从当地警方获取关于“石头花园”的信息。最后，维拉斯奎兹辩称，由于一份 2025 年来自帝国县的拨款文件鼓励警方逮捕所有涉嫌违反移民法的“犯罪外国人”，拉丁裔学生可能会因为其外貌或所说语言而成为目标。维拉斯奎兹写道，该联盟要求大学退出该计划。
副校长当戈里亚（Dangoria）在 3 月 4 日给维拉斯奎兹的电子邮件回复中（经 CalMatters 审阅）确认，大学警方将不再申请该拨款，同时指出校园警方一直遵守一项十年前的加州大学政策，禁止校园警方与美国移民与海关执法局合作，或基于疑似无证移民身份拘留人员。
在 2025 年的采访中，多宾斯告诉 CalMatters，加州大学圣迭戈分校自 2012 年左右以来每年都参与“石头花园行动”。当戈里亚在邮件中表示，大学警方自 2024 年起就未参与“石头花园”活动，大学的沟通团队也确认了这一点。2024 年的资金协议规定，行动将从 2025 年 4 月持续到 2027 年 2 月。
当戈里亚在 3 月 11 日给维拉斯奎兹的另一条信息中写道，警察局可能会申请其他与移民执法无关的国土安全部拨款，“因为美国国土安全部监管许多联邦机构，包括联邦紧急事务管理局（FEMA）”。“石头花园”是由 FEMA 运行的。
“我想重申，加州大学圣迭戈分校致力于培养和维持一个对我们社区所有成员都安全且友好的校园环境，无论其移民身份如何，”当戈里亚写道。
艾伦·J·沙本 (Allen J. Schaben) 洛杉矶时报
他说，关于律师失职的指控来自“一家竞争律师事务所，试图利用媒体和州律师协会在同一诉讼中消除竞争”。
莫罗（Morrow）周四告诉法官，他不认为他的客户的案件应该仅仅因为那些纠缠不休的指控而受到审查。
Huss 是大学新闻网络（College Journalism Network）的撰稿人，该网络是由 CalMatters 与来自加州各地的学生记者共同开展的一项合作。CalMatters 对高等教育的报道得到了大学未来基金会（College Futures Foundation）的一项资助。
……他的律所。 “因为一些与他们无关的事情——即我律所或招聘人员涉嫌的不当行为——而将他们单独列出，我认为这显然是不公平的，”他说道。 垃圾填埋场的律师表示，他们希望获得更多关于由 DTLA 代表的居民如何加入本案的信息。他们已请求法官允许对 DTLA 的客户进行额外审查，并向涉嫌的招聘人员以及该律所的一名合伙人发出传票。 “本案中关于违法行为的主要问题已被加州最大的报纸反复提出并探讨，”钱（Chan）写道。 “必须通过证据开示（discovery）来探讨这些问题，以维护这些程序的完整性。” 弗林蓬（Frimpong）似乎并不认为，一些居民称其在同意起诉以换取的小额现金，足以证明需要对 DTLA 的客户进行特殊的审查程序。 她认为，诉讼总是存在经济激励，而辩方的职责就是以适当的怀疑态度对待所有主张。 “为什么有人因为得到了礼品卡就比那些认为‘我在这件事结束时能拿到 $6,000’的人更容易造假呢？”她说道。
作者：鲁本·维韦斯 (Ruben Vives)
欧文警察局已逮捕一名男子，该男子涉嫌上个月使用喷漆破坏了 13 辆特斯拉。
警方将嫌疑人确定为 25, 岁的欧文居民麦克斯·塞巴斯蒂安·所罗门 (Max Sebastian Solomon)。所罗门就住在发生破坏行为的停车结构对面，他于周三在自家中被拘捕，并因涉嫌重罪破坏行为被登记在案。
该部门在 Instagram 上发布了这一公告，并附上了一张嫌疑人被戴上手铐、两名警员站在其身旁的照片。
欧文警方表示，他们曾处理一起发生在米切尔森大道 (Michelson Drive) 和卡尔森大道 (Carlson Avenue) 交汇处的争执，该区域正是 13 辆特斯拉被破坏的地点。警方调查人员得知，一名男子在交汇处向一辆停下的特斯拉吐口水。随后，他们通过该男子在吐口水事件发生时携带的一份外卖订单，将所罗门确定为嫌疑人，并在其附近的公寓家中将其拘捕。
此次逮捕发生在警方寻求公众帮助识别嫌疑人近一周之后。该嫌疑人被监控摄像头以及特斯拉车载摄像头的视频记录，视频似乎显示了破坏事件的过程。
警方表示，至少有 4 辆特斯拉在 7 月 17, 日被破坏，另有 9 辆在 7 月 23, 日被破坏，并补充说破坏者在车辆上写了“冒犯性语言”。
社交媒体上分享的照片显示，至少有三辆车被喷上了“纳粹”(Nazi) 和“法西斯”(Fascist) 等字样。
欧文警察局
欧文警方逮捕麦克斯·塞巴斯蒂安·所罗门。
作者：凯伦·加西亚 (Karen Garcia)
圣贝纳迪诺县高沙漠地区一个通常平静的湖泊上周传出了喧闹的消息：一条重到破秤的鱼最近被钓起，而另一条被当地人称为“鲶鱼之拉”(Catzilla) 的巨型鱼仍潜伏在湖底的深处。
7 月 26, 日，哈维尔·富恩特斯 (Javier Fuentes) 在凌晨 4:30 醒来，准备在赫斯佩里亚湖公园 (Hesperia Lake Park) 进行一整天的钓鱼之旅，该公园在上午 6 点向钓鱼者开放。
富恩特斯是一名建筑工人，也是一名资深钓鱼爱好者，他经常在休息日将湖里的鱼钓上来，然后交给妻子清理并准备晚餐。“他们是个团队，”富恩特斯的儿媳卡拉·普列托 (Carla Prieto) 说道。
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周四，在欧申赛德 (Oceanside)，一名女性在海滨大道 (the Strand) 观察波浪，由于高潮位导致巨浪拍打海岸线。
作者：Iris Kwok
加利福尼亚州的州最低工资预计将于明年上涨。从 2027 年 1 月 1 日起，全州最低工资将上涨至每小时 $17.40，州长加文·纽瑟姆（Gavin Newsom）在周五对此表示自豪。
纽瑟姆——他一直在考虑 2028 年竞选总统——在的一份声明中表示，加州的财政政策帮助该州成为了“世界上最强经济体之一”，而特朗普政府和共和党领导的国会则未能解决“劳动家庭的日常成本压力”。联邦最低工资自 2009 年以来一直维持在每小时 $7.25。
“多年来，唐纳德·特朗普和共和党人一直阻挠提高联邦最低工资的努力，同时向亿万富翁和大公司提供税收减免，”纽瑟姆说道。“加州选择了不同的道路——一条奖励劳动、增长经济并将劳动家庭置于首位的道路。”
并非所有人都认同。共和党州长候选人史蒂夫·希尔顿（Steve Hilton）周五在社交媒体上谴责最低工资上涨是对工人的“攻击”，并将“摧毁小企业”。
普里托（Prieto）说，他以前也钓到过大鱼，但那天富恩特斯（Fuentes）设法钓到了一条 30 磅重的鲶鱼，简直“撑破了秤”。
在海斯佩里亚娱乐与公园区（Hesperia Recreation and Park District）的 Facebook 帖子中，可以看到富恩特斯正咧嘴笑着，手里抓着一个无法装下这条巨型鲶鱼的抄网——鱼尾部分正从网中悬挂在外。
该州鲶鱼的记录在 22 磅到 113 磅之间，具体取决于品种。但距离这些记录被刷新已经过去了几十年。
普里托对自己岳父钓到 30 磅大鱼并不感到完全惊讶，因为她说他非常热爱这项运动。
“冷冻柜里简直有 20 到 30 条从湖里钓出来的鲶鱼，”她说。“这家伙简直痴迷于此。”
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加文·纽瑟姆在 2023 年签署一项提高快餐店工人最低工资的法案。
目前加利福尼亚州所有雇主的最低工资为每小时 $16.90，不过为了符合市、县规定及其他州法律，部分工人必须获得更高薪酬。
加州的最低工资每年自动增加，以跟上通货膨胀的步伐。现行制度建立于 2016 年，当时时任州长杰里·布朗（Jerry Jerry Brown）签署了一项全美首创的计划，旨在逐步将该州的每小时最低工资提高到 $15，然后在 2024 年起根据通货膨胀每年调整工资。
“这关乎经济正义，关乎人民，”布朗在签署法案时说道。
根据规定，最低工资增加的具体金额与通货膨胀挂钩（由联邦消费者价格指数衡量），且上限为 3.5%。
哈维尔·富恩特斯（JAVIER FUENTES）是一位资深钓鱼者，他在 7 月 26 日在海斯佩里亚湖公园钓到了一条 30 磅重的鲶鱼。
当他带着那条巨型鲶鱼回家时，普里依托说，她在看到那个有鳞的生物之前，听到她的婆婆惊呼道：“他钓到一条大鱼。”
虽然富恩特斯的奖杯鱼代表了该湖近期最大的收获，但传说该湖还住着一个体型更大的伙伴：一条被戏称为“鲶斯拉”（Catzilla）的 50 磅重鲶鱼，它曾被捕获但在几天后逃脱。
公园区官员表示，这条巨鱼是在周四被当地渔民贾斯汀·布劳萨德（Justin Broussard）钓起的，期间经历了一场“让周围钓鱼者惊叹不已的难忘战斗”。
当布劳萨德和他的朋友试图将“鲶斯拉”放入鱼篮以便随后将其释放时，这条 50 磅重的鱼剧烈挣扎并滑脱逃走。
公园区总经理罗伯特·埃尔南德斯（Robert Hernandez）表示，这两条巨型鲶鱼激励了湖边的垂钓社区。
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州法律。州财务总监负责计算调整后的最低工资。
据州长办公室称，在全美 50 个州中，加利福尼亚州的最低工资最高。只有华盛顿特区的最低工资更高，为 $18.40。
该州在 2024 年将快餐店员工的最低工资提高至每小时 $20。快餐业的工资要求适用于在全国拥有 60 家以上分店的连锁店。
研究人员对于快餐业员工加薪所带来的经济影响看法不一，必胜客 (Pizza Hut) 和 Cinnabon 等连锁店曾对此进行抵制。今年早些时候，一家主要的 Carl’s Jr. 特许经营商在申请破产保护时，将每小时 $20 的快餐最低工资作为了理由。
由于纽森在 2023. 年签署的一项由工会支持的法案，加利福尼亚州还提高了大型设施医疗保健工作者的最低工资。根据该立法，许多医疗保健工作者的最低工资在 7 月从每小时 $24 提高到了每小时 $25。
加利福尼亚州的一些城市，包括埃默里维尔 (Emeryville) 和西好莱坞 (West Hollywood)，已选择实施更高的城市最低工资，超过每小时 $20。
大多数州的最低工资高于联邦最低限额。五个由共和党领导的州——阿拉巴马州、路易斯安那州、密西西比州、南卡罗来纳州和田纳西州——没有独立的州最低工资，默认执行联邦最低限额。
尽管 2019 年皮尤研究中心 (Pew Research Center) 的一项民意调查发现，三分之二的美国人支持将联邦最低工资提高到每小时 $15，但该问题仍然存在严重的党派分歧。
赫尔南德斯 (Hernandez) 表示。
“如果有些不是渔民的人也跑到那里去，想看看能不能钓到 [Catzilla]，我一点也不会感到惊讶，”他补充道。
他说，在 Hesperia Lake Park 年初关闭三个月后，围绕该湖的兴奋之情对于该地区和钓鱼社区来说是一个巨大的胜利。
圣诞节的一场大雨给该休闲区造成了严重破坏，包括严重的洪涝和冲刷，导致需要进行大规模清理。
清理完成后，该地区于 4 月重新开放了湖泊，并投放了 2,000 磅的鳟鱼和 500 磅的闪电鳟鱼 (lightning trout)。但目前，鲶鱼才是最大的吸引力。
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1959年9月22日 - 2026年7月3日
Paul James Gifford，66岁， 在经历一场突发疾病后，于 2026年7月3日（星期五） 回到了主身边。Paul 出生于 明尼阿波利斯，此前居住在 加州洛斯加托斯 (Los Gatos, CA)， 近期居住在棕榈泉。
他毕业于加州理工大学圣路易斯奥比斯波分校 (Cal Poly SLO)， 于1981年6月获得会计学 学位。他的会计职业生涯 始于洛杉矶的德勤 (Deloitte)， 随后进入洛杉矶的 Peat Marwick。 Paul 于1994年6月成为 毕马威 (KPMG) 的合伙人。他于 1998年加入 Siebel Systems； 晋升为财务高级副总裁， 并于2006年退休。
Paul 留下了结婚41年的 妻子 Jenny，儿子 Matt (Kaelee) 和 Andy， 以及他心爱的孙女 Sadie。
追思服务将于8月6日 上午11:00 (PT) 在洛斯加托斯的 加略教会 (Calvary Church Los Gatos) 举行。 随后将举行招待会。 完整的讣告及更多服务信息 可见于：https: / www.ocon- normortuary.com / obituaries paul-gifford
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来自佛罗里达州灯塔角 (Lighthouse Point, Florida) 的 David Jackson，93岁， 于2026年7月26日平静离世。 他出生于俄亥俄州克利夫兰， 就读于俄亥俄大学迈阿密分校。 他从事土木工程和建筑管理， 参与了洛杉矶和南佛罗里达州的 项目。1980年，他购买了 佛罗里达群岛的 Jolly Roger 旅游公园， 并在佛罗里达州、爱达荷州阳光谷 和加州之间往返居住。 他的妻子 Charline 于 2018年离世。他留下了 儿子 Andrew，儿媳 Pammela，以及孙辈 Devon, Connor 和 Blythe。
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LYNNETTE RUBY LIPP 1940年6月16日 - 2026年7月11日
Lynnette Lipp（原姓 Ruby, Ruiz, Goldner）于 7月11日 在洛杉矶逝世，其挚爱的丈夫和家人在旁陪伴。Lynnette 1940年出生于伊利诺伊州芝加哥，童年时期移居洛杉矶，20世纪50年代就读于汉密尔顿高中，期间深度参与了音乐项目。
她在生命的大部分时间里都致力于追求教育，获得了音乐、教育、计算机科学和法律方面的学位。Lynnette 担任了一辈子的教师和教育工作者，包括在洛杉矶公立学校担任英语作为第二语言（ESL）教师，以及为教学专业人员开发计算机资源。她热爱动物和音乐，除了教学外，她还拥有并经营一家书法、邀请函和活动公司。她在20世纪80年代迎接并指导了作为难民抵达美国的俄罗斯家庭，并在居住于北加州杰克逊（Jackson）社区期间组织了音乐会、演出和活动。
凭借对公平的终身奉献，她曾担任教师工会代表，是一名活跃的民主党人，并帮助促成了 2003年 法律的通过，允许在加利福尼亚州的公寓和小公寓中合法悬挂美国国旗。
她的遗属包括挚爱的丈夫 Rick Lipp，两个女儿 Nicole（及其丈夫 Allan）Mutchnik 和 Noreen Goldner，妹妹 Eileen Zaroff，妹夫 Irving Zaroff，侄女 Wendy Zaroff Govenar，侄子 Matthew（及其妻子 Lisa）Zaroff，以及三个成年孙辈。葬礼和纪念仪式将私下举行。
Eugene Yasuo Manabe Eugene Yasuo Manabe 于 1934年6月24日 出生在洛杉矶，父母为 Eiko Tanaka 和 Akira Manabe。Gene 是四个孩子中的长子，其他 siblings 为 Junko Phyllis Nishida, Peter Manabe 和 Karen Ann Pecot。Gene 在洛杉矶长大，直到二战期间其家人被送往科罗拉多州的阿马切安置中心（Amache Relocation Center）。战后，他们定居在丹佛。
Gene 毕业于科罗拉多大学药学院。他加入了美国陆军 USAR MSC，并以中尉军衔驻扎在德国。他的药剂师职业生涯包括在 Gavin Herbert Pharmacies, Horton & Converse, Fedco 和 Costco 工作。Gene 于 2026年7月9日 在家中平静离世。他的遗属包括结婚 64年 的妻子 Louise Nakamura，女儿 Leslie McMorrow 及其丈夫 Bill，儿子 Michael Manabe，孙子 Tyler McMorrow，妹妹 Karen Ann Pecot 以及许多侄子和侄女。他最大的乐趣是打高尔夫球、旅行、阅读间谍小说、观看道奇队棒球赛以及参加 Tyler 的体育活动。他温柔的善良将永远留在我们心中。根据其遗愿，将不举行仪式。
讲述他们的故事。
Jean Roddy Rosenbaum-Katz 1921年9月23日 - 2026年7月11日
Jean Roddy Rosenbaum Katz 在亲人们的陪伴下，于 2026年7月11日平静离世。她 在104岁多的岁月里，以优雅、 坚强、幽默感，以及对家人、 朋友和爱犬们坚定不移的爱 而生活。
Jean 1921年出生于德克萨斯州 坦普尔市，她将自己描述为 一名“热爱独立、思想非常 自由的人”。她一生都践行 这些话。16岁时，她就进入 加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA） 就读，并担任其姐妹会的 会长。她对不幸者的慷慨与 关怀，使她后来积极投身于 许多慈善事业和慈善机构。 38年间，Jean 致力于在西奈 山医疗中心（Cedars Sinai Hospital）从事志愿者工作…… 在理事会任职，担任青少年 援助之手（Jr. Helping Hand） 会长，并为西奈山礼品店 开创了礼品销售及促销活动。
Jean 自认为是一个“社交型 人格”，她亲密的朋友们不仅仅 是朋友，更是她的家人，而 其中许多人的子女和孙辈 也延续了这份情谊。她热爱 社交、外出就餐，其款待客人的 技巧深受所有人钦佩。除了 志愿者工作以及陪伴家人和 心爱的四足动物外，她还喜欢 打桥牌和麻将。她热爱当代 艺术和听交响乐。Jean 尤其 因始终穿着得体且发型完美 而闻名并受到赞赏！尽管 她始终保持着高贵之姿，但 Jean 也会通过开个好玩笑 来展现她泼辣的一面。
Jean 拥有两位疼爱她的丈夫， Sandy 和 Sid。她的遗属包括 挚爱的女儿 Linda Rosenbaum 和 Jan Ulrey，她的“儿子” Dave Ulrey，她的“另一个” 女儿 Virginia Katz，以及陪伴 她55年之久的忠诚“伴侣” Carmen。她的家人还想感谢 Rosita 在过去七年里提供的 出色照顾。
由于 Jean 的温暖、坚韧、慷慨、 幽默感、同情心、乐观、优雅、 端庄，尤其是她纯洁的心灵， 她影响了各行各业的人。她 用与她生活方式一致的方式 完成了人生……带着非凡的 优雅、美丽与爱。妈妈，您的 光芒和精神将永远在我们 灵魂中闪耀。
家属建议以捐款代替献花， 请将款项捐至西奈山医疗中心 的 Sanford Rosenbaum 血管 研究捐赠基金。
尽管 一种 原始的 双色 工艺早在1922年就已投入使用， 但直到 三色 系统在《贝基·夏普》（Becky Sharp） 中出现后，观众才对 Technicolor 留下深刻印象。
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Nuala Ryan，SSL，于 2026 年 6 月 24 日在加利福尼亚州纽伯里公园的一家专业护理机构 Mary Health of the Sick 平安离世。她于 1933 年 3 月 14 日出生在爱尔兰莫纳汉，父母是 Mary 和 Thomas Ryan。她于 1951 年加入圣路易斯修女会。作为一名极具天赋的音乐教育家，她在来到南加州之前在爱尔兰任教；1958 年来到南加州后，她在圣约瑟夫小学、马特尔-德高中（Mater Dei High School）和路易斯维尔高中激励了众多学生。在成为一名注册音乐治疗师后，Nuala 在波莫纳的 Lanterman 发展中心服务。直到 2008 年退休前，为发育障碍人士提供充满喜悦的关怀一直是她一生的使命。她留下了希望与爱的持久遗产，持续激励着人们。圣路易斯修女会、她的家人、朋友以及许多被她影响的人将永远怀念 Nuala。基督教葬礼弥撒将于 2026 年 8 月 5 日星期三上午 10:30 在圣迪马斯的圣玛丽圣名教堂（Holy Name of Mary Church）举行。
Maureen Fraser Spell 医学博士 我们亲爱的母亲和祖母在与转移性黑色素瘤短暂斗争后，在 74 岁时离世。她于 1951 年 10 月 22 日出生在纽约布鲁克林，父母是 Donald 和 Kathleen Reilly Fraser。1965 年，她的家人搬到了南加州，最终定居在亨廷顿海滩。
Maureen 于 1969 年以年级首席（Valedictorian）的身份毕业于亨廷顿海滩高中。1971 年，Maureen 与她的高中恋人 Scott Spell 结婚，1972 年 1 月，他们的女儿 Michelle 出生。
Maureen 以医疗转录员的身份开启了她的医学职业生涯，并在当地社区大学修读本科课程。1979 年，她开始在加州大学欧文分校（UC Irvine）就读，并于 1986 年获得医学博士学位。她在 Kaiser Permanente 担任全科医生，最终成为内科主任，并在该职位上工作了 17 年。在退休前一年，她出任洛杉矶地区的助理区域医疗总监，随后于 2016 年正式退休。在 Kaiser 工作期间，Maureen 还曾在好莱坞日落免费诊所（Hollywood Sunset Free Clinic）担任志愿者，为社区中不幸的人们提供优质的医疗护理。
退休后，Maureen 与丈夫 Scott 搬到了加利福尼亚州罗斯维尔，在那里她继续作为远程医疗专业人员为 Kaiser 工作。她还继续在罗斯维尔的圣文森特-德保罗（St. Vincent de Paul）医疗诊所担任医生志愿者。Maureen 对人们的同情心在她为世界救援组织（World Relief）协助阿富汗难民安置、向各种慈善机构捐款以及向所有认识的人传递善意中得到了充分体现。
Maureen 的祖母“Ninny”、父母 Donald 和 Kathleen 以及丈夫 Scott 先于她离世。她的女儿 Michelle O’Neill 和孙子 Thorn 仍在世。Maureen 此外还留下了兄弟 Donald（及 Patty）Fraser，姐妹 Kathleen Laverty，侄子 / 外甥 Chris 和 Ryan，以及侄女 / 外甥女 Kimberly，还有曾侄女 / 曾外甥 Alannah, Eli 和 Alby。愿你平安离去，Maureen。
家属建议向以下机构捐款：罗斯维尔的圣文森特-德保罗（St. Vincent de Paul）；好莱坞日落免费诊所；或萨克拉门托的世界救援组织（World Relief）。
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与人发生 “不当关系”
作者：Salvador Hernandez
一名加登格罗夫警察局（Garden Grove Police Department）的警官因涉嫌与一名参加该局探索者计划（Explorer program）的 16 岁女孩发生多次性行为而面临重罪指控。
Roberto Machuca，32 岁，自 2019 年起成为该局成员，同时还担任该局探索者计划的顾问。
橙县地区检察官办公室的官员在一份声明中表示，加登格罗夫警方于 6 月 26 日获悉 Machuca 与该青少年的“不当关系”。
根据该声明，Machuca 在第二天到岗上班时被逮捕。他还被该局停职。
检察官表示，Machuca 从 5 月开始与该青少年建立性关系。
“执法人员占据着一个极受信任的地位，而他却……”
治疗师性虐待 青少年男孩
作者：Suhauna Hussain
康特拉科斯塔县（Contra Costa County）的检察官指控一名之前的行为健康临床医生在其工作的青少年拘留设施中诱导（grooming）一名青少年男孩，并在其获释后对其进行性虐待。
该女子是来自旧金山的 26 岁 Sofia Ann-Buitron Drotts，她于上周被指控多项重罪，包括非法性交、向未成年人发送有害内容以及持有儿童色情制品。
根据康特拉科斯塔县地区检察官办公室发布的新闻稿，Drotts 当时在马蒂内兹（Martinez）的约翰·戴维斯青少年拘留中心（John Davis Juvenile Detention Center）担任行为健康临床医生，期间被指派负责一名未具名未成年客户。
检察官指称，该青少年与 Drotts 建立了性关系，该关系始于 4 月，一直持续到 7 月 14 日，随后她被逮捕。
康特拉科斯塔县地区检察官办公室
检察官称，一名女性在青少年拘留中心工作期间虐待了一名青少年男孩。
作者：Richard Winton
好莱坞警方正在调查上周在好莱坞一处公寓内发现的三人死亡事件。
据洛杉矶警察局大队长 Mike Bland 称，警方于周二晚上 11:30 左右接到报案，前往 Wilcox Avenue 1900 街区的一处公寓进行安全检查。
“进入现场后，警员发现了三名成年男性死者，”Bland 告诉《时报》。“目前，抢劫凶案组凶案特别科正在现场积极调查导致这些死亡的情况。”
警方最初表示，警员在大约两小时前前往该公寓，发现三名受害者身中枪伤。
Bland 表示，死因尚未确定。目前没有更多细节。
利用了这种信任，为了自身的性快感而利用一名儿童，”地区检察官 Todd Spitzer 在一份声明中表示。“在那些宣誓保护和服务的队伍中，绝不会容忍这种行为。”
Machuca 的律师 Alan Castillo 拒绝就对其客户的指控发表评论。
据检察官称，花园格罗夫警察局的探索者计划面向 14 至 21 岁的人员开放，旨在为他们提供了解从事执法职业的机会。
据检察官称，Machuca 现已不再受雇于该部门。
Machuca 被指控三项非法与未成年人发生性关系的重罪、一项利用异物对未成年人进行性侵犯的重罪以及一项与未成年人进行口交的重罪。
他面临最高五年的监禁。
康科德警方在收到该县缓刑监督部门一名主管的举报后采取了行动。
在一名青少年的家属对该县提起诉讼，指控 Drotts 在该青少年约 15 岁起近两年来对其进行了诱导（groomed）后，相关指控随即被提起。
该起诉由来自 Nienbaum & Curry 律所的奥克兰律师 John Burris 代表家属提起，指控称在该青少年被监禁期间，Drotts “滥用其治疗师的身份，建立了不恰当的情感联系”。
起诉书称，在该青少年 4 月获释后，她继续担任其治疗师。家属的起诉指称，该临床医生的行为“数月以来一直被忽视且未被报告”，且该青少年的缓刑监督员在获释后至少更换了四次。
康特拉科斯塔县未立即回应置评请求。
De Becker 的律师指称，这是为了进行销售。与此同时，PS 指出 2024 年 8 月的一封信函，其中一名洛杉矶世界机场（Los Angeles World Airports）的高管表示不需要城市的批准。PS 在一份声明中称，Gavin de Becker and Associates 的诉讼毫无根据，并指出 PS 的员工需经过一个为期八周的课程，“涵盖该岗位的所有技术方面，包括安全与安保”。一名 PS 发言人表示：“GDBA 正在与 PS 竞争新的机场机会，此次诉讼似乎旨在损害 PS 辛苦建立的声誉，同时利用取证程序获取与这些竞标相关的商业敏感信息。”De Becker 公司的律师 Brandon Young 表示，De Becker 本人及其公司目前都没有在任何其他机场开发或运营航站楼的活跃竞标。拥有并运营 LAX 的市部门 LAWA 的一名发言人表示，该部门在所有机场均“维持严格的安全和安保协议”，并对所有航站楼（包括 PS）进行定期检查，且这些航站楼“始终符合要求”。该发言人拒绝就两家私营公司之间的法律纠纷发表评论。美国运输安全管理局（Transportation Security Administration）的一名发言人未回答有关 PS 的具体问题，仅表示该机构“对从 LAX 出发的商业航班的所有托运和随身行李进行筛查”。在投入数百万美元开发 LAX 的 Private Suite 之后，De Becker 的公司于 2019 年将其权益出售给了私募股权公司 TPG Growth Inc.，后者又在 2024 年将其出售给了 Groupe ADP。在 PS 提供给《时报》的 2024 年 8 月信函中，LAWA 的高管承认 Groupe ADP 已经收购了 PS。De Becker 表示，他仍然是该业务的担保人，这意味着如果出现任何问题，他将承担责任。他补充说，他没有意向接管目前的运营。
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经过多年的社区参与。目前的反对声浪日益增加，其中包括七名前州立公园官员和四名前州立公园与娱乐委员会成员。
这些前工作人员向委员会发送了“警告”信，其中一人认为，市中心天际线的景观将被干扰且商业化。
“每 25-30 秒就有一次被数字广告包裹的缆车在上方 26 英尺处飞过，这将不可逆转地损害景观，以及那种远离都市生活的平静感与逃离感，”前州立公园局局长鲁斯·科尔曼（Ruth Coleman）写道。
四名前委员签署了一封联名信，认为缆车提案“将使得一项私人开发项目永久且不可逆转地缩减、降低并破坏州立公园的完整性”。
他们现在发声，是因为州政府正考虑对公园的总规划进行修订，以允许“对拟议的洛杉矶空中快速交通（LA ART）缆车项目进行考虑和审查”。
那是麦考特（McCourt）在 2018 年提出的构想，而他是一个拥有游说能力且高层人脉广泛的人。麦考特随后将该项目移交给了一个环保组织，但其核心目的依然是将球迷送往道奇体育场，他在那里有财务利益。
关于此事的听证会预计将在秋季举行，且必然会演变成一场激烈的争斗。去年 12 月，大批支持者和反对者在一次嘈杂的地铁董事会会议上对峙。董事会最终批准了缆车项目，但洛杉矶市议会几乎一致反对。因此，定于今秋的对决，其精彩程度可能至少与世界系列赛相当。
PS 的入口，这是一个洛杉矶机场航站楼，人们在这里支付高昂费用以跳过排队。
“我对 LAX 运营的关注仅出于一个原因：我的公司负责确保 Private Suite 在租赁协议下正常运行——如果运行不畅，我的公司将承担责任，”德贝克（De Becker）在由杨（Young）提供的一份声明中表示。“我担心机场在这些问题尚未解决的情况下就迎来奥运会。”
德贝克长期担任政府机构以及像麦当娜（Madonna）和雪尔（Cher）等名人的安全顾问，曾被里根总统任命为总统顾问委员会成员，并撰写了 1997 年的畅销书《恐惧的礼物》（The Gift of Fear）。
在一次广为人知的案件中，亚马逊创始人杰夫·贝佐斯（Jeff Bezos）指派德贝克调查《国家询问报》（National Enquirer）是如何获得贝佐斯的私人短信的。该小报发表了一篇文章，揭露了贝佐斯与前电视主播劳伦·桑切斯（Lauren Sanchez，现为其妻子）的婚外情。在 2019 年 3 月《每日野兽》（Daily Beast）的一篇文章中，德贝克表示他的团队得出的结论是，沙特阿拉伯通过贝佐斯的手机获取了私人信息。
左起：乔恩·克里斯滕森（JON Christensen）、肖恩·伍兹（Sean Woods）和苏珊·赖（Susan Lai），他们反对缆车项目，正在洛杉矶州立历史公园聊天。
郑重声明，我并非反对缆车。它们很有趣，对吧？
但我并不买支持者关于这是一个公共交通项目的说法。他们称数千人将乘车飞往查韦斯峡谷（Chavez Ravine），并帮助缓解出入停车场的糟糕交通，而麦考特在 2012 年以 20 亿美元 billion 的高价出售球队后，获得了这些停车场的部分所有权。
但如果缆车乘客放弃了目前从联合车站（Union Station）开往球场的免费接驳车，能带来多少收益？
此外还有一个更大的问题，我的同事比尔·谢金（Bill Shaikin）在 2022 年探讨过：缆车是否是一个将体育场物业开发成某种“道奇镇”商业盛会的计划的第一阶段？
目前尚不清楚，但我们不要天真。
一名道奇队高管告诉谢金，道奇队支持缆车项目，尽管他们“确实没有”
PS 已扩展到其他主要城市的机场，包括迈阿密、亚特兰大和达拉斯。乘客在等待登机期间，可以付费享受按摩、美甲以及由主厨准备的餐点。年度会员费在 $1,250 到 $4,850 之间，使用私人套房或公共休息室每次飞行还需支付额外费用。如果没有会员资格，休息室每次飞行费用为 $1,295，可容纳四个人的套房则需 $4,950。
“如果你在寻找最时尚的旅行方式，那就是这里，”一位常驻亚特兰大的房地产顾问在一段似乎是在亚特兰大航站楼拍摄的 Instagram 视频中赞叹道。“在我们前往意大利参加婚礼时，PS 为我们的家人完全提升了体验，我们受到了香槟、鱼子酱、气球、书籍和玩具的欢迎……甚至还有印有我们婚礼日期的定制帽子。开玩笑吗？”
当旅行者抵达位于 LAX 南侧的豪华航站楼时，他们可以办理代客泊车，甚至可以在离开时让车辆洗车。
在内部，他们由 TSA 和海关官员进行安检，远离主机场熙熙攘攘的队伍。
“这基本上是一个为那些永远不想看到机场的人而设计的机场，”一位旅游博主在 Instagram 视频中说道。
Keith Jeffries 在该私人航站楼开放时担任 LAX 的 TSA 联邦安全主管，他称其为一个“巨大的”安全资产，因为名人们可以避开粉丝和狗仔队混乱的围堵。
“当你有一个像洛杉矶这样拥有贾斯汀·比伯、卡戴珊家族或那些会造成安全漏洞的人的城市时……这就会产生担忧，”Jeffries 说道，并补充说 PS 支付了安检设备的费用，并向机场报销了指派在该处的 TSA 和海关官员的费用。他表示，由于到处都有闭路电视摄像头，任何关于安全漏洞的指控都可以轻松地被证实或否认。
在 2 月份代表 De Becker 事务所给机场官员的一封信中，Young 表示
参与其中。但我们讨论的是那些极其富有的、唯一真实工作就是研究如何赚更多钱的人。
McCourt 团队建议，缆车将使用私人资金建设，或许是通过出售广告权，且持有道奇队门票的人可免费乘坐。
但在道奇体育场一年中大部分时间关闭，且缆车流量会削弱起步价高达 $40 的惊人停车费收入的情况下，这一切怎么可能算得过来？
有些事情他们没告诉我们，如果你认为纳税人最终不会以某种方式受到影响，那么你要么是被强力球击中了头部，要么是在道奇体育场喝了太多的 $18 啤酒。
如果你想了解关于缆车策略历史的更多细节，我建议你查看 Shaikin 的所有报道，他已经跟踪此案多年，且
提出了一套比缆车好得多的方案：让球迷更容易步行或骑车前往球场。
但让我们回到洛杉矶州立历史公园。
早期的缆车反对意见多来自中国城居民，他们不喜欢住在像游乐园设施一样的东西下面。
但在周三晚上，我见到了几个关注公园影响的人。
“所有这些树都会消失，”前州立公园员工 Sean Woods 说道。他曾向萨克拉门托写过一封信，并参与了 65 场公众会议和研讨会，在这些会议中，社区成员协助设计了公园的方案和使命。
我们处于一片阴凉之地，缆车将与现有的地铁轨道平行运行。公园土地上将建有支撑塔，电缆在头顶悬挂，缆车站则就在外部
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TPG Growth Inc.（买下 De Becker 业务权益的私募股权公司）并未告知市政府 De Becker 的公司已不再参与运营。
TPG Growth 未对置评请求做出回应。
2022年，在仍由 TPG Growth 持有期间，PS 获得了一项为期五年的租约延期。De Becker 的公司在诉讼中指责 PS 在说服市政府授予延期时“装穷”，称其目的是为了弥补 COVID-19 疫情期间（当时极少有人旅行）所遭受的损失。诉讼称，此举是为了让 PS 为一场利润丰厚的出售做准备，同时也阻止了 De Becker 的公司竞标接管该运营项目，而该公司原计划在租约到期时这样做。
PS 表示，租约延期是在“商业航空历史上最动荡的时期之一”由机场官员审核并批准的。
De Becker 的律师认为，当 TPG Growth 将 PS 以未公开的价格出售给 Groupe ADP 时，由于原租约中有一项条款规定市政府有权获得出售款项的一大部分，市政府可能因此损失了数百万美元。市检察官办公室的一位发言人将问题转交给了机场。LAWA（洛杉矶世界机场）的发言人拒绝发表评论。Young 表示，LAWA 拒绝配合关于这些决定之文件的公共记录请求。
在给机场官员的信中，Young 对私人航站楼的安全问题提出了担忧，并指出前员工发起的一系列诉讼。其中一项待决诉讼由 Hugo Garcia 于 11 月提起，他在 PS 担任运营助理约三年。在诉讼中，Garcia 声称他因揭露严重的安保漏洞而遭到报复，抱怨部分经理允许未经过筛查的行李直接上机。诉讼称，当他询问有关漏洞的问题时，经理们感到恼火。Garcia 在 2024 年因迟到和缺勤被解雇，而他声称这些情况是合理的。
代表 Garcia 的律师 Sally Chan 表示，PS 的员工工作过度，且对某些客户设有特例。她拒绝让 Garcia 接受采访。Chan 表示：“这变成了一个服务于权贵之辈的 VIP 计划，安保不再是优先事项。”其他诉讼则指称员工未能获得适当的休息时间。
PS 的发言人表示，自从他的公司出售该航站楼以来，De Becker 及其家人和客户已亲自使用了该私人航站楼 200 次以上，其中包括在该公司提起诉讼后的 50 次。“如果 GDBA 真心相信其目前所指控的安全担忧，那么这些主张与其自身行为很难协调，”该发言人说道。Young 表示，自去年年初以来，De Becker 在五次行程中使用了该豪华航站楼。
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公园。缆车仅将占用 32 英亩空间中的一小部分，但从公园的每一个角落看去，它都会是一个显眼的干扰项。
“我认为这背叛了加州州立公园对周边社区的承诺，这些社区为这座公园进行了艰苦的斗争，”Woods 说道。
他回想起那个前铁路编组站注定要变成一个巨大工业仓库综合体的时期。此前，唐人街为了给联合车站让路而被搬迁，查韦斯峡谷 (Chavez Ravine) 的居民为了给道奇体育场让路而被搬迁。
加入我们的是 Susan Lai，她与 Woods 一起代表洛杉矶州立历史公园之友 (Friends of Los Angeles State Historic Park)。Lai 身材娇小，但她的气势很强。
“这里被称为历史公园是有原因的，”她说，“而 McCourt……与该公园没有任何历史联系。”
“公园，没有与公园的社区联系，也没有与公园的文化联系。”
赖深谙该公园的考古学知识，包括这里的加布里利诺人（Gabrielino）定居点，以及服务于早期城镇的 Zanja Madre 灌溉线。
当我们漫步时，她告诉我，这是另一个政治关联的投机者试图将他们的意志强加于当地社区的案例，她绝不会容忍。
赖继承了她的丈夫科林（Collin）的火炬，科林在奋斗多年以使该公园成为现实后，于去年 96 岁时去世。
“她为整个努力地带来了额外的激情，并真正激励了许多年轻人，”缆车反对者兼洛杉矶公园联盟（Los Angeles Parks Alliance）共同创始人乔恩·克里斯滕森（Jon Christensen）说道。
克里斯滕森带领赖、伍兹和我来到一座草坡顶端。当该公园在 2006 年开放时，我觉得它看起来太扁平且缺乏形状，被百老汇大街（Broadway）和春季大街（Spring）限制得太死。但后来它扩大了，树木长茂盛了，整个公园逐渐让我觉得是一个可以观察和感受洛杉矶的地方。
我最喜欢两件事。
第一，是各种各样的人在草地上野餐、在树下小睡、踢球，或者像周三晚上有 10 个人在做的那样——在我们的下方草地上玩一场飞盘足球，这些随意的活动。
第二，是毫无遮挡的天际线景观，而这可能很快就会消失。而且考虑到视觉效果：道奇队的球迷在高空飞过，而下方的公共公园里则是那些可能需要中彩票才能买得起球票的家庭。
快到道奇队的比赛时间了，如果缆车已经运行，它们在头顶上的距离近到你可以用番茄击中一个。
我并不是在建议这么做。
一名洛杉矶模特兼社交媒体影响力人士此前已因涉嫌从在交友软件上结识的富裕年长男性处盗窃而面临审判；在被指控再次盗窃奢侈品并被执行逮捕令后，她目前被羁押在狱中，不得保释。
Adva Lavie，29岁，于周二被比弗利山警局根据一项在里弗赛德县提交的新重罪盗窃逮捕令逮捕。
该办公室的一位发言人表示，警员在执行逮捕时发现她未佩戴法院要求的电子脚镣，随即促使洛杉矶县地方检察官办公室提起一项额外的轻罪指控，指控其违反了佩戴脚镣的法院命令。
一名法官在周三还下令将其羁押
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法院记录显示，由于缺失GPS电子脚镣，其在没有保释的情况下被羁押。据侦探称，Lavie 此前曾被保释 —— 附带某些条件，包括佩戴电子脚镣 —— 她当时在等待一系列指控的审判，这些指控源于几起抢劫案，目标主要是她追求过恋爱关系的年长富翁。导致她最近一次被捕的新逮捕令来自印第奥警察局 (Indio Police Department) 的一项调查，该调查指控 Lavie 在 2025, 年于印第奥的一家 Airbnb 住所盗窃，根据警方发言人 Abe Plata 警长的说法，她从该人的特斯拉 (Tesla) 汽车中窃取了价值 $10,000 以上的财物。他说，这次盗窃被房屋的监控录像拍到。在与 Lavie 共处一段时间后，受害者报告丢失了一块价值——
组合实施合规分析师，Capital Research and Management Company (加州尔湾市) 招聘。允许混合办公，非居家办公时必须前往尔湾市办公室。工作内容：负责“组合策略”的日常运营，并通过执行输入更改来验证预优化输入。 薪资范围：每年 $125,909 - $201,454，外加公司标准福利。必须拥有在美国工作的不受限权利。申请请将简历发送至全球流动团队：cgapplications@capgroup.com。必须注明职位代码：IR0624VB
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数据分析师：全职，年薪 $77,584 / yr。要求信息管理、商业分析或相关专业学士学位 + 6个月使用 Excel 宏、Python、SQL / Power BI 的经验。请将简历寄至 Attn: CFO, Krol & Krol, 5924 San Fernando Rd., Glendale, CA 91202。
Jam City (加州库尔弗市) 招聘高级数据分析师。要求硕士学位。薪资 $135。简历 + 求职信发送至：recruiting@jamcity.com。
美术 (插画) 教师：EPLEX DB, Inc. 2751 S. Diamond Bar Blvd. Diamond Bar CA 91765
会计师事务所招聘审计员。有多个职位空缺，允许混合工作模式：4 天远程 / 1 天在岗。年薪 $64,314.。请邮寄至 Vasquez & Company LLP, 655 N. Central Ave., #1550, Glendale, CA 91203.
Snap Inc. (圣莫尼卡, 加州) 招聘业务发展代表 (3 名)。*允许混合工作 - Snap 实行“默认协作”方式，要求团队成员在圣莫尼卡办公室工作的时间至少占 80% (平均每周 4 天)。负责在商业广告垂直领域激活并留住广告主。 基本薪资： 年薪 $94,827-$121,000。 有资格获得酌情绩效奖金。 有资格获得受限股票单位 (RSU) 形式的股权。福利详情：https: / careers.snap.com / benefits。 请通过此网站链接申请：bit.ly / 4fWBGwx。机会均等雇主 (EOE)。
助理牧师。要求拥有神学硕士、神学硕士或相关学位。请将简历发送至 Hyun Jong Han, LA Presbyterian Church 616 Shatto PL, Los Angeles CA 90005
综合办公室文员。 执行需要掌握相关系统或程序的各项文书工作。使用电脑输入以准备信件、账单、支票或其他文件。年薪 $36,941。要求 5 个月经验。请将简历发送至 Redeemer, Incorporated, 1114 Ford Drive, W. Covina CA 91792, Attn. Josefina Bernal
芭蕾舞教练。要求学士学位 + 6 个月经验。要求修读过体操理论 / 方法论或相关课程。需提供由证书、文凭或同等凭证证明的正式芭蕾舞培训 / 资格。请将简历邮寄至 Serge Mezheritsky, The Grand Academy of Ballet LLC, 16422 Ventura Blvd., Encino, CA 91436 或发送电子邮件至 serge@thegrandballet.org。
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Momo Souls (洛杉矶, 加州) 招聘厨师 (2 名)，负责根据公司食谱和质量标准准备并烹饪各种菜肴，要求 24 个月经验。年薪 $47,840。简历发送至：Momo Souls, 3500 Overland, Ave., #100, Los Angeles, CA 90034。
GoElite, Inc. 招聘文案撰写员。要求英语、传播学或相关领域学士学位。负责撰写博客文章 / 公司广告 / 营销材料。 薪资：$49,878。 工作地点：帕萨迪纳, 加州。请将简历邮寄至：680 E. Colorado Blvd. #180, Pasadena, CA 91101。
Capital Group Companies Global (洛杉矶, 加州) 招聘数据科学分析师。允许混合工作，非居家办公时必须前往洛杉矶, 加州办公室：负责数据操纵与分析，与业务部门合作以识别并解决业务问题。 薪资范围： 年薪 $125,909 - 201,454，外加标准公司福利。必须拥有在美合法工作权利。申请请将简历发送至全球流动性团队：cgapplications@capgroup.com。必须注明职位代码：LA0824MG
数据库管理员。应用数据库管理系统知识，管理、测试并实施计算机数据库。要求计算机科学或相关领域学士学位或同等外国学位。 工作地点： 安纳海姆, 加州。 薪资范围：年薪 $93,579 至 $96,000。请发送简历至：C. Reyes, Pampanga Food Co. Inc., 1835 N. Orangethorpe Park, #A, Anaheim, CA 92801。
数据库管理员 (弗农, 加州) 确保公司支持日常运行的数据库系统的可靠性、安全性和效率。计算机与信息技术、网络安全或另一个密切相关领域的学士学位；具有 6 个月支持公司 IT 系统的相关工作经验（包括管理 CRM 平台），包括系统数据管理。精通 Git、JavaScript 和 MS Excel。年薪 $93,600-$93,610。请将简历发送至 pinkysirondoors@gmail.com 或 Pinky’s Iron Doors LLC c / o Dion Dersarkissian, 2382 E 48th St, Vernon, CA 90058
高级设计师，WGW Sales Inc., 洛杉矶, 加州 (多个空缺) – 在符合品牌标准的同时，开发具有凝聚力且引领趋势的产品线。薪资：$122,100。详情请联系：samara.kinahan@westernglove.mb.ca。
集成开发人员 (C87)： 要求计算机科学 / 计算机信息系统 / 信息技术或相关技术领域学士学位，并具有 2 年 Workday 云经验。薪资范围为 $117,879.45-$153,110.52 / 年。必须获得在美国全职工作的授权，无需雇主担保。可远程办公。雇主地点：加州洛杉矶。请将简历发送至南加州大学，邮箱 ITSRes@usc.edu，并在主题栏注明职位名称 / 代码。
客户成功高级总监 —— 硕士或同等学历且具有 2 年经验，包括 Insider Threat Platform, Splunk, ArcSight, QRadar, Apache Kafka, Redis, Solr, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Hadoop, Mitre ATT&CK, Shell Scripting 及 Python。年薪 $115,752。请将简历发送至：Saviynt, Inc. 1301 E El Segundo Blvd, Ste D, El Segundo, CA 90245
位于加州西科维纳的 Nexcare LLC 招聘项目经理（多个名额）。 薪资：$159K- $164K。要求有高达 20% 的时间前往大洛杉矶地区的公司地点。符合条件的申请人应将简历发送至 NexcareHR@cdfzone.com，并注明职位编号 #PMN101。
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ADVA LAVIE，29 岁，还面临一项丢弃脚镣监视器的指控。
Plata 表示，财物包括 $8,600、价值约 $700 的路易威登太阳镜以及价值接近 $2,000 的路易威登卡夹。 这起新案件最终将在里弗赛德县审理，与目前在洛杉矶县进行的案件无关。 当局称，Lavie 同时也使用 Mia Ventura, Shoshana 等名字。
位于加州西湖村的 Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. 招聘模拟集成电路 (Analog IC) 设计职员工程师 (F142)： 参与有源电路设计。年薪 $150,000 - $170,000。申请请将简历及参考职位代码 (F142) 发送至 Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. Attn. HR 1.2.519, 5488 Marvell Lane, Santa Clara, CA 95054 或发送至 Opportunities@marvell.com。机会均等雇主 (EOE)。
Netflix, Inc. 现接收位于加州洛杉矶的以下职位的简历： 企业发展助理 (Ref 10145785)： 建议个人投资及投资组合。可能允许远程办公。不远程办公时，必须前往工作地点。该职位的薪资范围为每年 $210,000– $310,000。 统计师，人才分析 (Ref 8049113)： 与合作伙伴及利益相关者协作，以理解与人员相关的业务问题。可能允许远程办公。不远程办公时，必须前往工作地点。该职位的薪资范围为每年 $300,000 – $435,000。 请将简历发送至：USresumes@netflix.com。必须包含参考代码。请勿致电。 机会均等雇主 (EOE)。 www.netflix.com/
Ingram Micro Inc. 招聘位于加州欧文的软件开发经理。负责企业电子商务平台的端到端开发与交付，确保高可用性、可扩展性、安全性和性能；管理并指导软件工程师团队，提供技术指导，进行绩效评估并支持职业发展。根据公司政策，可能允许远程办公 / 居家办公。要求计算机科学或相关领域学士学位，且在所提供职位或 IT 项目管理相关职业中具有 10 年经验。年薪 $184,558 至 $226,800。 联系方式： 请通过职位名称搜索并在以下网站在线申请： https: / www.ingrammicro.com / en-us / careers / work-for-us
多个 IT 职位。全部要求出差 / 搬迁。请将简历及 JC 编号发送至 Saviynt, Inc., 1301 E. El Segundo Blvd, Ste D, El Segundo, CA 90245
(JC4) 高级系统分析师 – 硕士或同等学历，且在以下课程中有学习经历：计算系统架构、数据结构与算法、数据工程与挖掘、软件验证与确认、大数据架构、软件架构与微服务，以及软件测试原则与技术。年薪 $122,616。
(JC5) 计算机程序员 – 硕士或同等学历及 1 年经验，包括 Core Java、OOP 概念、Spring、Spring Boot、Hibernate、RESTful、APIs、QA、DevOps、Git、Scrum、Lambda、微服务、HTTP、REST、Matplotlib、Python 及 GitLab。年薪 $107,827。
(JC6) 高级产品经理 – 学士或同等学历及 5 年 IT 经验，其中包含 2 年 SAP GRC Access Control、SAP ECC、SAP CRM、SAP CUA、SAP Solution Mngr、SOX 合规框架、SPRO 配置、KPI 报告工具、Azur Studios、Jira、Asana、Confluence、Swagger、Postman 及 SAP S / 4HANA 的经验。年薪 $143,458。
网络工程师 (加州长滩) (多个职位) 维护、保障、升级及管理局域网 (Local Area Network)、广域网 (Wide Area Network) 及云网络服务。电信通勤补贴可能提供。要求拥有电气工程、计算机工程、IT 或相关领域的硕士学位或外国同等学位，以及 2 年所提供职位或获得所需经验的任何职位的经验。薪资：年薪 $141,794 至 $190,488。必须具备相关工作经验。请将简历 / 求职信发送至 Welbe Health, LLC., Attn: N. Reinardy, ref:#SG2026, natalie.reinardy@welbehealth.com。请勿致电。机会均等雇主 (EOE)
JASI Inc. 在加州洛杉矶有一个运营经理的职位机会。支持多地点医疗美容中心的运营。年薪 $72,446 至 $80,000。工商管理、公共管理或相关专业学士学位。2 年面向客户的经验。请将简历及 Ref#9338915 发送至 info@ginillebeauty.com。必须在无需担保的情况下合法获得在美国工作的授权。机会均等雇主 (EOE)
Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc. 有一个产品管理高级经理的职位机会。监督整个软件产品开发生命周期。年薪 $134,534.00 至 $211,700.00。可在我们位于加州圣莫尼卡的总部办公室工作，或居住在美国境内任何地方远程居家办公。可能会在目前尚未明确的其他美国地点工作。请将简历及 Ref# 8709066 发送至 recruitment.to@csod.com。必须在无需担保的情况下合法获得在美国工作的授权。机会均等雇主 (EOE)
莎娜 (Shana) —— 正面临一项即将到来的审判，指控其在洛杉矶县发生的一系列事件中犯有两项重大盗窃罪和两项一级住宅盗窃罪。她已就这些指控请求无罪辩护。
拉维 (Lavie) 的律师未立即回应置评请求。
据调查人员称，洛杉矶县的指控源于涉及五名所谓受害者的事件，但在警长办公室发布公告呼吁其他可能的受害者挺身而出后，侦探们得知了数起可能与拉维有关的额外盗窃案。
调查人员表示，除了在网上认识的老年男性外，拉维据称还盗窃了年轻男女以及企业的财物。
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BMO Bank N.A. 现于加利福尼亚州洛杉矶招聘一名高级专家-IC商业关系管理 VII (Senior Specialist-IC Commercial Relationship Management VII)。负责提供市场覆盖策略以扩大投资组合。大约 55% 的时间需在加州境内出差。薪资为每年 $137,717 - $228,000。请将简历发送至 bmobankn.a@bmo.com，并注明参考号 #1386780。
Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design Inc.（加州卡尔弗城）招聘高级设计师。负责通过分析电气照明控制、构建建模系统并制定绘图计划，来规划、设计并提供照明设计，旨在营造一个平衡美学与设计的环境，同时最大限度地提高可持续性。要求：照明设计、室内设计、建筑工程、建筑学、室内建筑学或相关专业的硕士学位或同等学历，以及在以下各项中拥有 1 年且职责递增的学后经验：使用包括 AGI32、Revit、AutoCAD、Adobe Acrobat 或 Bluebeam 以及 Photoshop 在内的软件编写高水平 3D 计算和设计文档；运用行业 / 灯具技术最佳实践、标准、流程和程序，包括在常规产品分销链、灯具设备 / 照明控制预算流程（包括照明采购知识）、行业支持协议和施工管理方面的经验。雇主也将接受上述任何领域或相关领域的学士学位或同等学历，前提是申请人在上述领域拥有 3 年且职责递增的学后经验。允许每周远程办公 2 天。必须居住在可通勤至工作地点的距离内。薪资范围：每年 $89,600 - $95,500。申请网址：https: / hlblighting.com / about-us / join-us / 职位参考号 #822324811
Fluor Enterprises, Inc. 现于加州阿里索维耶霍 (Aliso Viejo) 及加州内其他未预期的 Fluor 办公地点招聘设计工程师 I (Design Engineer I)。将项目绘图标准应用于设计图纸和 3D 布局。每月国内出差 2 次。薪资范围：$111,072 - $120,933。必须拥有在美国工作的不受限权利。简历发送至：US.recruiter@fluor.com。必须注明职位代码 CA0410JA
CxOps, LLC 现于加州埃尔塞贡多 (El Segundo) 招聘 DevOps 工程师：设计、实施、构建、部署、发布并执行配置管理，将变更从低级环境推送到生产环境。允许全职远程办公。年薪 $144,414 - $154,414。申请网址 @ www.jobpostingtoday.com 参考号 #45563
Snap Inc.（加州圣莫尼卡）招聘电气工程师 (Electrical Engineer) 3 名。*允许混合办公——Snap 实行“默认在一起”的方式，期望团队成员至少 80% 的时间在圣莫尼卡办公室工作（平均每周 4 天）。负责 PCB、柔性及刚挠性设计的原理图设计、电路评审、定义和布局评审。底薪：每年 $107,000 - $161,000。有资格获得限制性股票单位 (RSU) 形式的股权。福利详情：https: / careers.snap.com / benefits。请通过此网站链接申请：bit.ly / 49QuzlB。机会均等雇主 (EOE)。
工程师。为电源、电子测试和测量设备提供服务工程和技术支持，通过诊断故障、提供维修、校准、故障排除、预防性维护、客户培训、根本原因分析，并向客户、代理商和销售团队提供技术援助，以确保产品的可靠性、合规性和客户满意度。要求：电气工程、电子工程或相关专业学士学位或国外同等学历，加上在所提供职位、电气工程或相关工作中拥有五年的递增经验。薪资：每年 $162,011.00。邮寄简历至：Shoji Ikegami, Kikusui America, Inc., 3625 Del Amo Blvd., Suite 160, Torrance, CA 90503
工程经理 (Engineering Manager) (Whatnot Inc.; 加州卡尔弗城)：塑造平台和产品策略，确保买家和卖家拥有极佳的通知体验。该职位将监督五 (5) 名软件工程师。允许在美国任何地方远程办公。年薪：$245,000 - $335,000。在线申请网址：https: / jobs.ashbyhq.com / whatnot / 7d29a472-44e8-4960-99ce-b8a6354658ee 或将简历发送至：Emily Pullen @ emilypullen@whatnot.com 参考号：00094314。机会均等雇主 (EOE)。
工程经理 （Whatnot Inc.；加州卡尔弗城）：领导并管理全球信任与安全团队，提供战略方向、指导和引领以确保团队成功。监督五 (5) 名软件工程师和一 (1) 名软件工程实习生。允许在美国境内任何地点远程办公。薪资：每年 $ 245,000 – $335,000。申请方式：https: / jobs.ashbyhq.com / whatnot / 0eb4ee29-89e3-4307-b242-58675a13d9dd 或将简历发送至 emilypullen@whatnot.com
Amazon Studios LLC - 加州卡尔弗城。软件开发工程师 II (AMZ010452)：设计、开发、实现、测试并记录嵌入式或分布式软件应用程序、工具、系统和服务。薪资范围：每年 $143,700-$194,400。有多个职位空缺。提供公司标准福利。在线申请：www.amazon.jobs – 搜索 AMZ010452。机会均等雇主 (EOE)。
Fluor Enterprises, Inc. 在加州阿里索维耶霍招聘 HSE 工程师 III：从事范围广泛且多样化的 HSE 活动项目。薪资：每年 $154,315-$179,500。必须拥有在美国工作的不受限制权利。电子邮件：US.recruiter@fluor.com。必须注明职位代码 CA0318NP
物流系统工程师：全职；进出口；薪资每年 $74880；邮寄简历至：Insight Shipping Inc. 9719 Santa Fe Springs Rd. Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670
油气工程师 (Ke-corp, Inc.; 加州贝克斯菲尔德)：为所有运营提供全面的安全监督。可根据需要前往美国境内预计及意外的工作地点，最高可达 100% 的时间（10% 国内出差）。薪资：每年 $195,233-$230,000。申请：https: / kecorp.us / careers / 或发送电子邮件至 pcodd@kecorp.us
Fluor Enterprises, Inc. 在加州阿里索维耶霍招聘压力容器工程师：使用计算机辅助和手动设计技术进行计算和设计并进行检查。薪资范围：每年 $134,534 - $201,000。必须拥有在美国工作的不受限制权利。电子邮件：US.recruiter@fluor.com。必须注明职位代码 CA0228DB
First American Title Insurance Company 在加州圣安娜招聘高级软件工程师，与跨职能团队合作以交付及时、高质量且经过充分测试的代码。本科或同等国外学历 + 5 年经验。薪资每年 $184,558 - $185,000。可居家办公。简历发送至：clcarter@firstam.com。
软件工程师 (Whatnot Inc.; 加州卡尔弗城)：从零开始构建直观的用户界面。允许在美国境内任何地点远程办公。薪资：每年 $207,000 - $253,000。在线申请：https: / jobs.ashbyhq.com / whatnot / 716e37e8-42a5-41d5-b10c-b8b3730827b6 或将简历发送至：Emily Pullen @ emilpullen@whatnot.com。参考号：00096776。机会均等雇主 (EOE)。
Capital Group Companies Global 在加州洛杉矶招聘解决方案工程师 III。允许混合办公，非居家办公时必须前往加州洛杉矶办公室：提供技术领导力、端到端解决方案所有权及战略，通过产品内多个功能的软件开发生命周期 (SDLC) 活动为解决方案交付做出贡献。薪资：每年 $157,123 - $201,454，外加公司标准福利。必须拥有在美国工作的不受限制权利。申请请将合适简历发送至全球流动团队 (Global Mobility Team)：cgapplications@capgroup.com。必须注明职位代码：LA1030PS
Amgen Inc.; 高级工程师 R-219267 (219267 / 219267.); 加州千橡市; 领导设计、构建和开发快速概念验证 (POC) 自动化解决方案和服务的工作。可远程办公。感兴趣的候选人请将简历发送至 Talent Acquisition @ amgen.com。必须参考职位编号 R-219267。该职位在美国的年度薪资范围为每年 $148,436.00 - $190,516.00。此外，该职位提供股票、退休、医疗、人寿和伤残保险，以及年度奖金资格，或针对销售岗位的其他激励薪酬。更多详情请访问 https: / careers.amgen.com / life-at-amgen / benefits / 。
位于加州千橡市 (Thousand Oaks, CA) 的 AmeriHome Mortgage Company, LLC 招聘高级金融工程师。负责开发并维护公司的每日损益 (P&L) 归因系统。要求拥有数量金融、计算机科学、金融科技或相关领域的硕士或学士学位。硕士学位需 1 年经验，学士学位需 3 年经验。要求具备相关技术技能。薪资：每年 $107,395.00 - $145,295.00。请将简历发送至 hr@westernalliancebank.com，并注明 ID #249。
高级软件工程师 (职位 044)：为公司主网站设计、开发并实现软件代码；添加新功能，维护现有功能。可在美国境内远程办公。薪资：每年 $183,855 - $208k。请将简历及职位代码邮寄至：Personalized Beauty Discovery, Inc., Attn: IPSY HR, 903 Colorado Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90401
一名男子被刺死
作者：Clara Harter
当局表示，周五下午，一名男子在 Sylmar / San Fernando Metrolink 火车站的站台上被致命刺伤。
据部门发言人称，洛杉矶警察局警员在 2:07 p.m. 接到刺杀报告后赶赴现场，发现受害者在地板上流血，随后被宣布死亡。
警员划定了警戒线并开始搜寻嫌疑人，嫌疑人被描述为一名穿着反光背心的男子。
周五下午，一名人员被警员拘留。
Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC 在加州洛杉矶招募软件工程师 II (Software Engineer II)，负责设计、开发和维护后端应用程序，范围涵盖从基于 servlet 的单体 Web 应用到使用 Node.js 及包括 Spring Boot / WebFlux 在内的框架的微服务和响应式 API。要求：计算机科学或相关领域硕士学位或同等学历，且具有 2 年使用 Microsoft SQL Server、Python 和 Microsoft Excel 执行大规模 ETL 工作流和数据转换的经验；与跨职能团队协作开发基于 Java 和 JavaScript 的 Web 应用（包括 Node.js 服务），以将 ETL 输出与报告及分析系统集成；通过预定的 Bash 和 Python 脚本自动化和优化数据流水线，用于重复性工作流、批处理执行、重新运行和故障处理；管理 Linux 服务器，包括作业调度、日志监控和基于角色的用户访问控制，以支持安全稳定的运行环境；利用模式设计、数据规范化、索引策略和 SQL 查询优化来支持可扩展的 ETL 流水线、数据完整性和分析报告；监控、调试和验证端到端数据流，识别数据不一致性以确保 ETL 各阶段的准确性和可靠性；应用数据分析和异常检测技术（包括欺诈检测和风险评分）以揭示使用模式和异常情况；开发分析和异常检测仪表板；以及与利益相关者协作并参与技术设计讨论，将业务需求转化为技术解决方案。根据公司政策，可能允许远程办公和 / 或居家办公。薪资范围：$172,137.00 - $225,100.00 / 年。请申请至 https: / careers.playstation.com / #jobs-list-section 并通过职位 ID 200599 搜索。索尼是一家机会均等雇主 (EOE)。福利包括医疗、牙科、视力、401(k)、带薪休假 (PTO)、健康计划及折扣。更多信息请访问此链接：https: / careers.playstation.com / benefits
长滩农民与商人银行 (Farmers & Merchants Bank of Long Beach) 在加州莱克伍德招募财务报告助理经理 (Fin. Reporting Asst. Mgr)：监督并准备银行的报告要求，包括管理报告、监管电话报告和年度报告。监督 1 名高级财务报告分析师 (Sr. FRA) 和 2 名财务人员 (Staff Accts)。年薪 $135k。请发送简历至：Franco.Vega@fmb.com
金融 Lido Advisors, LLC (加州洛杉矶) 招募投资与分析高级副总裁 (SVP, Investments and Analytics)、财务经理。要求商业、金融或相关领域学士学位，特许金融分析师 (CFA) 认证，以及 2 年财务分析师经验。详情请见 www.lidoadvisors.com / careers
MGM Transformer Co. 在加州弗农招募应用工程经理 (Applications Engineering Manager, AEM-SS)，允许在美国境内任何地点远程办公。担任太阳能及储能应用中液体填充中压变压器的主要技术权威。要求 25% 的时间进行美国国内出差。本科毕业并具有 5 年相关专业经验。薪资 $162,011-$183,000。请将简历发送至 mgm.hr@mgmtransformers.com。邮件主题必须注明职位名称和职位代码。
数字分析经理 Capital Group Companies Global (尔湾, 加州) 招聘。 允许混合办公，非居家办公时必须前往尔湾, 加州 办公室。 领导全企业范围的数字分析策略与执行，使分析计划与全球业务目标及宗旨保持一致。 薪资：每年 $179,273 - $286,837，外加公司标准福利。必须拥有在美国工作的无限制权利。申请请将简历发送至全球流动团队：cgapplications@capgroup.com。必须注明职位代码：IR0122FB
Heaven Doggie Foods LLC (经营名为 T-Swirl Crepe) 招聘总经理。要求拥有酒店管理、餐厅管理或相关领域的硕士学位。负责管理日常运营、质量控制、招聘与解雇。工作地点：坦普尔市, 加州。请将简历邮寄至：5708 Rosemead Blvd. #105, Temple City, CA 91780
Modern Animal 为其卡尔弗城, 加州 办公室招聘高级策略与运营经理，负责规划、指导及协调策略、系统设计与运营执行，并制定政策及优化全渠道策略与工作流。员工可以居家办公，且可基于美国境内任何地点。约 10% 的时间需出差前往不可预见的客户现场及公司美国总部参加会议和培训。薪资：每年 $170,000 - $175,000。发送简历至：recruiting@modernanimal.com。必须注明职位代码 DM
但发言人表示，目前尚不清楚该个体是否已被关押入狱。 凶杀案侦探正继续调查此次袭击可能的动机。 被害者的身份尚未公布。 据该通勤铁路系统的一位发言人称，下午高峰时段开始时，Metrolink 的服务未受影响。 该发言人表示，列车继续通过 Sylmar / San Fernando 站，但要求乘客从后两节车厢乘车和下车，以尽量减少对活跃犯罪现场的干扰。
营销专员 (洛杉矶, 加州) 进行市场研究和营销策略研究。商业管理、营销或相关专业硕士学位。年薪 $75,546。简历发送至：No 1 Beauty & Cosmetic Inc., 1585 Rio Vista Ave, LA, CA 90023
营销项目分析师：开发、管理并优化涵盖搜索、社交、展示 / 重定向、SEO 以及电子邮件 / 培育活动在内的数字营销项目，以驱动潜在客户生成和管线增长。要求拥有项目管理、计划管理、营销、分析或相关专业的硕士学位，且具有 1 年经验。职位位于 Canoga Park, 加州 的 405 ADS INC。完整职位描述及要求请访问：https: / bit.ly / 405marketinganalyst。申请请将简历发送至 job@405ads.com。
GoElite, Inc. 招聘战略合作伙伴专员。要求拥有商业、市场研究或相关领域的学士学位。领导市场研究计划，确定长期合作伙伴关系。薪资：$52,707。工作地点：帕萨迪纳, 加州。请将简历邮寄至：680 E. Colorado Blvd. #180, Pasadena, CA 91101。
运营 首席运营官 Instanpro Inc. 招聘。计算机信息系统、商业或相关领域硕士学位。拥有项目管理、规格与设计以及生命周期流程管理证书者优先。5 年经验。负责运营中的日常业务管理、预算与财务监督，并监督政策、程序和销售以确保收入增长。具备智能物流与技术集成、AI 驱动的路线优化、战略效益和 TMS 集成经验。薪资面议。提供福利。工作地点：弗农, 加州。简历发送至：4668 E. 48th Street, Vernon, CA 90058, Attn: Ms. Jinny Lee。
家庭医学医生 (多个职位) 贝克斯菲尔德, 加州：MD 或国外同等学历，家庭医学 BC / BE 认证，以及加州医学执照或具备获取能力。时薪 $115.00 - $150.00。请将简历通过电子邮件发送至 brar@me.com，由 Infusion and Clinical Services, Inc. (经营名为 Premier Valley Medical Group) 总裁 Dr. Harjeet Brar 接收。
数据科学家：工作地点 Brea / 加州，申请请联系 HL Uriman Inc 的人事经理，邮箱：InfoUriman@gmail.com
Riot Games, Inc. 招聘软件工程经理，工作地点在加利福尼亚州洛杉矶（该职位基于 Riot Games, Inc. 位于加利福尼亚州洛杉矶的办公室。在可通勤距离内允许远程办公。将要求定期到岗）：管理工程师团队，为电子竞技观察员、教练和选手设计、构建并交付新的游戏内功能。要求：硕士学位（或同等学历）+ 2 年经验。薪资：每年 $192,500 - $269,400。请将简历及推荐人发送至 Req. # 19-3882，邮箱：riotgames.job.applications@riotgames.com。
Gensyn, Inc. 在加利福尼亚州西好莱坞招聘多名软件工程师。员工可 stationed 在美国本土任何地方，但需向位于加利福尼亚州西好莱坞的总部汇报。薪资范围 $158,200 – $233,099。请将简历发送至 Gensyn, Inc. 邮箱 jobs@gensyn.ai 并注明职位编号 #SWE26。
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上周，埃森·马奎斯警长确认，警局的阿尔塔迪纳分局已启动一项仇恨犯罪调查，该调查目前仍在进行中。目前尚不清楚该犯罪活动涉及多少人。对于一个已经承受了巨大损失的社区来说，反犹太主义的涂鸦让人感到深受伤害。“当我们不得不担心安全问题时，这非常困难，”在 PJTC 担任成员超过 20 年的戴安·伯尔说道。“我们希望人们能感觉到这是一个我们所有人都属于的空间。”伯尔表示，大约 70 名成员受到了伊顿火灾的影响，信众们一直通过递送食物和关怀包裹来支持这些家庭。她说，团结是唯一的答案。正是这种团结感激励了高中毕业生卡莱布·耶林和奥黛丽·法拉尼克资助创建一幅壁画，以遮盖第一次涂鸦事件。该项目于 5 月完工。这对青年告诉《帕萨迪纳星报》，耶林和法拉尼克通过非营利组织“善良火花青年基金”筹集了 $30,000。法拉尼克告诉《时报》：“我们想用美丽的东西来遮盖仇恨和痛苦，用更多的爱来覆盖仇恨。”耶林解释说，壁画艺术作品的概念来自 PJTC 最年轻的一些成员。“寺庙的孩子们进行了一次头脑风暴，他们把所有想法都摆在了桌面上，”耶林说。“然后，根据他们的想法，我们画了很多罂粟花和孔雀。我们采用了他们的设计，并与一位艺术家沟通使其更具可行性。”布景画家米里亚姆·赫尔曼是该壁画最终产品的技术执行者：图像中有一朵巨大的亮橙色罂粟花、一只蝴蝶和一只孔雀，以及花卉和动物符号。她说，壁画的彩色玻璃外观灵感来自寺庙著名的约柜门。耶林补充道，这是一次“社区努力，尽管发生了火灾，但每个人都团结在一起”。拉特纳在之前接受《时报》采访时表示
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“举报他们的警员。” 杰克逊表示，他打算主张弗洛雷斯是在履行警察职责的范围内进行录音，旨在调查工作场所内的不当行为。 这些对话录制于 2024 年 3 月至 10 月之间，涉及该部门招募部门的成员，这些警员负责决定谁能加入警队。 在《时报》披露这些录音后，其存在引发了广泛谴责，包括洛杉矶警察局局长吉姆·麦克唐纳（Jim McDonnell）以及市长
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“致力于赢得 11 月的这场选举，”市长在的一份声明中表示。
巴斯 (Bass) 和拉曼 (Raman) 在 6 月 2 mayoral primary 中成为得票最高的两名候选人，从而确定在 Nov. 3 general election runoff 中进行决选。
前真人秀明星斯宾塞·普拉特 (Spencer Pratt) 在选举之夜排名第二，但随着邮寄选票的计票，拉曼的票数上升，美联社于 June 8 宣布其为第二名。
巴斯在 June 2 primary 中获得第一名，约获得 34% 的选票，从而晋级 Nov. 3 runoff。拉曼以 29% 的得票率锁定第二名。普拉特约获得 26%。
拉曼在周五的一份声明中表示，巴斯的大部分资金支持来自既得利益者。巴斯获得了包括 Airbnb 和 Douglas Emmett Properties 在内的公司的资金支持。
（拉比们聚集在被焚烧的帕萨迪纳犹太寺庙与中心，此前外墙的一幅壁画被反犹主义涂鸦破坏。）
（代表该地区的监督员凯瑟琳·巴格 (Kathryn Barger) 在活动上发表了讲话。）
拉曼在声明中提到：“企业房东和其他势力强大的利益集团正花费创纪录的资金来维持现状。”他指的是在市长初选中支持巴斯的数百万美元独立支出。
“但洛杉矶是不出售的——我们的基层竞选由数千名小额捐赠者驱动，将继续发力，以实现洛杉矶人所要求的变革。”
巴斯的募款资金来自名人、政治家和商业领袖。导演 J.J. Abrams 捐赠了最高限额 $1,800，BET（黑人娱乐电视台的母公司）前董事长兼首席执行官德博拉·李 (Debra Lee) 也是如此。
洛杉矶市议会议员伊梅尔达·帕迪利亚 (Imelda Padilla) 和海瑟·赫特 (Heather Hutt) 也有捐款，但金额较小。赫特捐赠了 $500，帕迪利亚捐赠了 $100。
在拉曼一方，部分捐赠者来自——
拉特纳 (Ratner) 在周四的演讲中说，第二次破坏行为是对第一起事件的直接回应。“今天，距离我们的神圣空间，我们的礼拜场所，被仇恨言论侵犯已经过去一周了。”
凯伦·巴斯 (Karen Bass) 以及警察工会称这些行为“令人厌恶”且“不可接受”，且此时该部门正难以招募新成员。
杰克逊 (Jackson) 表示，该警官将对指控进行抗辩并主张无罪，且法律仅适用于说话者有合理预期其言论不会被偷听或记录的情况。
杰克逊表示，对弗洛雷斯 (Flores) 的指控传递了一个信号，即“如果你在洛杉矶警察局 (LAPD) 内部记录偏见，你最终将成为那个站在法庭上的人。这告诉他们，最稳妥的做法是听到侮辱性言辞后保持沉默。”
据弗洛雷斯的民事律师格雷格·史密斯 (Greg Smith) 称，LAPD 对弗洛雷斯进行的一项单独行政调查发现其违反了政策，建议停职 22 天且不发薪水。史密斯表示，该处罚尚未由 LAPD 局长最终敲定。
史密斯表示，目前尚不清楚被弗洛雷斯记录的警官是否受到了惩罚。加州法律要求大多数警察人事调查必须保密。
在弗洛雷斯 6 月对该市提起的一项报复诉讼中，该警官声称他听到其上级——
洛杉矶的左翼 而其他人则更偏向建制派。 她从里克·科尔（Rick Cole）那里获得了最高额度的捐款，科尔曾是市审计员肯尼斯·梅希亚（Kenneth Mejia）的助手，目前担任帕萨迪纳的议员，并一直积极支持拉曼的竞选活动。 拉曼还收到了一笔来自前市审计员劳拉·奇克（Laura Chick）的捐款，奇克在市议会任职期间，以对现状的犀利批评而闻名。她还从吉利安·布尔戈斯（Jillian Burgos）那里筹集了 $100，后者在获得美国民主社会主义者支持下竞选洛杉矶市议员但未能当选。 竞选活动筹集的资金对于电视和社交媒体广告、发送至住宅和公寓的直邮广告以及其他竞选必需品的支出至关重要。 候选人不能使用他们在初选中筹集的资金来支付大选的支出。 在初选中，凯伦·巴斯筹集了超过 $3.2 百万，
此前的反犹太主义破坏行为，不仅是对 PJTC 的攻击，也是对我们这里社区的攻击。” 代表该地区的洛杉矶县监管员凯瑟琳·巴格（Kathryn Barger）表示，在周二的董事会会议上，她将把提供破坏行为相关信息的奖金提高到 $20,000。 “我相信我的同事们会支持我并通过这项动议，”巴格说。“这个社区深厚的根基，及其对疗愈和重建坚定不移的承诺，将继续闪耀。” 在寺庙重建期间，PJTC 的会众一直在科罗拉多大道上的帕萨迪纳第一联合卫理公会教堂共用空间，该教堂同样与南加州伊斯兰中心共用礼拜场所。 牧师艾米·艾特肯（Amy Aitken）说，欢迎 PJTC 成员是一种快乐。 “我前几天在和某人聊天，谈到了我们的校园拉比——很多联合卫理公会教堂都没有拉比，但我们有。这就是如何
在诉讼中，弗洛雷斯指称，警员们使用大量贬义词汇来称呼他们认为属于酷儿群体的其他同事。起诉书称，他们还将黑人称为猴子。据诉讼称，有人被听到说：“黑人喜欢葡萄汽水——他们在打篮球之余喜欢吃西瓜。” 不参与此案的加州大学欧文分校法学教授苏珊·西格（Susan Seager）此前告诉《时报》，弗洛雷斯的律师在陈述窃听法仅禁止在有合理预期的情况下秘密录制对话时是正确的。
而拉曼筹集了略低于 $1 百万。两人在初选中都获得了最高额度的匹配资金，$1,257,000。 巴斯有更长的时间进行筹款。市长于 2024 年 7 月宣布竞选连任，而拉曼则在今年 2 月的截止日期当天才加入竞选。 市长还受到独立支出团体的极大青睐，这些团体被要求与竞选活动无关联，他们在支持巴斯方面花费了超过 $2.5 百万。
市长 凯伦·巴斯（左）与议员 尼蒂亚·拉曼 在候选人论坛上。
（此外，诉讼中还提到）其主管是一名亚裔，在开始招募亚裔警员进入该部门之前，曾评论说“亚裔入侵”已经开始。 根据诉讼，其他时候，主管和未具名的同事会对女性发表不当言论，称她们为不可信的“婊子”。 在诉讼描述的另一段对话中，弗洛雷斯说他听到其主管讨论道格拉斯传奇球星费尔南多·瓦伦苏埃拉（Fernando Valenzuela）死于败血性休克，据称该主管告诉下属，这位墨西哥投手“吃太多的”塔可饼。
摄影：Kayla Bartkowski 洛杉矶时报
“它应该是那样的。这是一件美丽的事情，”艾特肯（Aitken）说。“我们很遗憾今天大家聚集在这里，但我们与我们犹太信仰的兄弟姐妹们站在一起，表达团结。”
截至周四，壁画已重新绘制，海尔曼（Hellmann）在墙上增加了一根新的橄榄树枝。拉特纳（Ratner）表示，这根树枝是指托拉（Torah）中关于诺亚在大洪水期间放飞鸽子，而鸽子衔着橄榄枝飞回来的故事。
海尔曼表示，橄榄枝象征着和平。她解释说，壁画原本有一层防涂鸦涂层，但“效果不如我预期的那样好”。她补充道，将涂抹一层全新且改良的涂层。
她花了一整天时间修复这幅壁画。
“那家伙不识字，”一名观察者在路过时对海尔曼说，指的是那个拼写错误的涂鸦标签。
“是的，从某种悲伤的角度来看，这确实有点好笑，”海尔曼说。
沟通内容不会被偷听或记录。
她表示，在非公开场所（例如洛杉矶警察局分局的更衣室）不存在隐私预期。她认为，此类保护是否延伸至办公室内围绕工作展开的对话，目前尚不明确。
此外，根据西格（Seager）的说法，如果警察在“其权限范围内执行公务”，也被允许秘密录制对话。
“大多数法院认为，这一例外情况仅适用于刑事调查的窃听，”西格说。
埃里克·赛尔（Eric Thayer） 洛杉矶时报
巴斯（Bass）。 独立支出团体还花费了 $1.2 million 反对拉曼（Raman），而支持拉曼的支出仅为 $88,000。
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高温持续累积：大峡谷附近一个非常强的高层高压脊将使南加州地区维持高温，远离海滩地区的温度将远高于历史平均水平。沿海地区的低云和雾将迅速消散。除此之外，天气将以晴朗为主。本周早些时候高温将略有缓解。
最高 / 最低气温为整个区域的平均预报值。
山谷 海滩 山地 沙漠
98 / 69 81 / 66 90 / 52 117 / 89
晴朗且炎热 部分晴朗 非常温暖 酷热状态 大部分时间晴朗；温暖 周一 周二 周三 周四
大部分时间晴朗 89 / 68 大部分时间晴朗 86 / 67 85 / 68 86 / 70
南海岸空气质量管理区预报空气质量 空气质量
圣巴巴拉郡 SANTA BARBARA CO.
圣巴巴拉 Santa Barbara
文图拉郡 VENTURA CO.
文图拉 Ventura
奥海 Ojai
77 / 62 95 / 61
75 / 64
奥克斯纳德 Oxnard
76 / 63
从观念角至墨西哥
内海：风向由东南转西，风速 5-10 节。西向涌浪 2 至 3 英尺，南向涌浪 1 英尺。风浪 1 至 2 英尺，早晨有局部雾。 冲浪区：所有郡级海滩的离岸流和潜行波风险均为中等。
郡 高度 周期 方向 温度
圣巴巴拉 2-4’ 11 sec SW 73 文图拉 2-4’ 11 sec SW 72 洛杉矶 73 橙县 10 sec 74 圣迭戈 9 sec
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洛杉矶外港，单位：英尺。
今日 12:38p 4.7 高 6:08a 0.3 低 ------ 高 6:22p 1.9 低 周一 12:07a 4.6 高 6:34a 0.8 低 1:12p 4.9 高 7:25p 1.8 低
敏感人群晒伤所需分钟数
拉斯维加斯, 10 洛杉矶, 10 凤凰城, 10 旧金山, 25
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赫斯佩里亚 103 / 65
卡马里洛 82 / 63
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富勒顿 82 / 69
尔湾 87 / 68
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埃斯孔迪多 92 / 64
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阿纳海姆 92 68 -- 92 67 90 67 阿瓦隆 / 卡塔利娜 87 67 -- 83 62 79 60 贝克斯菲尔德 104 76 107 77 108 78 巴斯托 114 82 114 83 114 81 大熊湖 89 53 90 52 90 52 比shop 108 61 106 59 106 59 伯班克 97 68 95 67 95 66 卡马里洛 84 62 82 63 81 61 查茨沃思 99 69 99 68 97 67 奇诺 103 65 103 65 102 65 康普顿 91 69 89 69 87 69 达纳点 79 68 79 69 77 68 死亡谷 122 98 124 98 122 97 德尔马 82 69 78 69 77 67 埃斯孔迪多 98 63 92 64 91 63 尤里卡 67 55 68 51 67 50 福尔布鲁克 93 62 Tr 90 62 89 62 弗雷斯诺 106 73 107 74 108 73 富勒顿 91 70 90 69 90 70 海梅特 105 65 106 64 105 64 赫斯佩里亚 103 73 103 71 101 70 亨廷顿海滩 80 70 80 69 80 69 艾迪尔怀尔德 91 72 94 70 89 68 尔湾 87 68 87 68 85 67
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打造一个集艺术与公民生活于一体的多用途中心。
作者：Hanna Kang 和 Isaac Ceja
数十名社区成员拿着手电筒，步入了昏暗的 Westlake Theatre（西湖剧院）。他们绕过水洼和碎玻璃，想象着这座拥有百年历史的电影院未来可以变成什么样子。
在剧院内部，大部分地方看起来时间静止了。通往阳台的楼梯上覆盖着灰尘，而一排排破旧的座位依然面向舞台，头顶是剥落的彩绘天花板和装饰性石膏工艺。礼堂上方，一幅褪色的 Anthony Heinsbergen 壁画让人得以窥见这家剧院的往昔。
洛杉矶非营利剧团 Strindberg Laboratory 希望改变现状。
该组织希望购买这座具有历史意义的 Westlake Theatre，并将其转化为一个社区艺术与非营利中心。其方案要求在保留空间原貌的同时，将其改造为一个共享公民中心，用于举办现场演出、电影放映、社区议会会议、讲座、艺术工作坊，以及为社区组织提供办公空间。
这一努力目前处于早期阶段。
该建筑尚未被收购，也没有获得重大资金支持。组织者表示，在开始筹款之前，社区的反馈将有助于决定该项目的最终形态。
该团体的方案估计，收购并修复这座剧院的费用将在 $6 到 $8 百万美元之间。
“这仅仅是第一次集会，”Strindberg Laboratory 的创始人 Michael Bierman 告诉《LA Local》，“这并不是一个封闭的……”
晴朗；温暖 96 / 68 晴朗；温暖 95 / 67 94 / 68 93 / 67
多云 79 / 66 潮湿 77 / 65 多云 76 / 66 77 / 65
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Santa Clarita
Santa Paula
洛杉矶县 (LOS ANGELES CO.)
89 / 61
Simi Valley Chatsworth Burbank Monrovia
99 / 68 97 / 63
95 / 67 99 / 70
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Westlake Village Woodland Hills
91 / 69 85 / 67
93 / 65 98 / 67
Santa Monica
81 / 66 93 / 69 90 / 69
Torrance
Long Beach Newport Beach
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今日升起 / 落下
橙县 (ORANGE CO.)
洛杉矶县 (Los Angeles Co.) 橙县 (Orange Co.) 文图拉县 (Ventura Co.)
太阳 6:05a / 7:53p 6:04a / 7:52p 6:09a / 7:58p 月亮 10:06p / 10:00a 10:05p / 9:59a 10:10p / 10:04a
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周六市区读数
温度 洛杉矶 富勒顿 文图拉*
99 / 62
最高 / 最低 92 / 66 89 / 68 79 / 62 正常最高 / 最低 83 / 65 86 / 67 75 / 59 一年前最高 / 最低 84 / 61 81 / 64 71 / 57 历史最高 / 日期 99 / 1959 96 / 2018 86 / 1980 历史最低 / 日期 51 / 1933 61 / 1998 52 / 1961
106 / 69
安大略
104 / 67
米申维耶霍
欧申赛德
85 / 66
洛杉矶市区 / 南加州大学 93 69 -- 91 69 89 68 洛杉矶国际机场 79 68 -- 80 68 79 67 拉古纳海滩 76 69 79 69 78 69 兰开斯特 106 76 105 76 105 74 长滩 87 70 86 69 85 68 猛犸湖 87 51 89 49 89 48 米申维耶霍 91 67 90 66 89 64 门罗维亚 100 69 99 70 97 68 蒙特雷 69 55 69 55 威尔逊山 90 71 78 69 78 68 尼德尔斯 121 95 119 95 118 92 纽波特海滩 79 70 80 70 80 70 北岭 101 67 99 68 97 66 奥克兰 76 57 77 57 78 56 欧申赛德 85 65 85 66 83 68 欧海 97 60 95 61 92 61 安大略 102 70 102 69 102 68 棕榈泉 118 91 117 89 116 87 帕萨迪纳 96 69 96 68 92 67 帕索罗布列斯 105 56 102 53 98 53 雷丁 108 73 106 74 108 70 里弗赛德 105 68 104 67 103 67 萨克拉门托 102 63 104 62 106 62 圣贝纳迪诺 105 70 105 70 106 69
5 85
6 76
该场地自 1991 年起举办室内跳蚤市场，但其具有历史意义的 1,949 个座位的礼堂一直处于闲置状态。
俱乐部。我们欢迎每一个人，无论是谁。每个人在自己的社区中都有可以贡献的地方。” Bierman 希望创建一个联盟，以推动该项目的实现。他表示，已有几家组织表达了兴趣，大约有 50 人参加了参观活动，其中包括来自韩国城青年与社区中心 (Koreatown Youth and Community Center)、Homies Unidos、LA Commons、洛杉矶历史剧院基金会 (Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation)、中心城市邻里合作伙伴 (Central City Neighborhood Partners) 以及其他社区团体的代表。 根据洛杉矶历史剧院基金会的资料，西湖剧院于 1926 年开业，是一座拥有 1,949 个座位的杂耍剧场和电影宫殿，俯瞰着麦克阿瑟公园。它作为电影院运营直到 1991 年，随后关闭并被
非常温暖 90 / 52 非常温暖 88 / 53 大部分晴朗 87 / 55 部分晴朗 84 / 55
波莫纳/ 公平博览中心 圣贝纳迪诺
100 / 67 102 / 69 105 / 70
惠蒂尔山
奇诺 里弗赛德
圣安娜
83 / 69
98 / 62 90 / 66
拉古纳海滩 圣克莱门特
79 / 69 80 / 67
降水量 洛杉矶 富勒顿 文图拉*
24小时总量（截至下午2点） 0.00 0.00 本季总量（自10月1日起） 18.87 15.62 20.39 上季（10月1日至今日） 7.96 3.93 6.50 本季常态（10月1日至今日） 14.15 11.73 16.00 湿度（最高 / 最低） 89 / 66 93 / 40 90 / 70
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圣迭戈 79 70 78 70 旧金山 73 56 76 56 76 56 圣盖博 97 69 97 68 95 67 圣何塞 86 60 88 60 89 59 圣路易斯奥比斯波 79 55 79 54 76 55 圣安娜 83 70 83 69 83 70 圣巴巴拉 78 63 77 62 74 62 圣克拉里塔 105 66 103 65 100 63 圣莫尼卡码头 79 67 81 66 79 66 圣保罗 90 59 89 86 60 圣罗莎 97 52 97 52 93 50 西米谷 97 64 97 63 94 62 太浩湖谷 89 43 87 39 89 40 特梅库拉 100 63 98 62 96 千橡树 89 90 64 托伦斯 82 70 82 69 81 69 加州大学洛杉矶分校 (UCLA) 83 67 85 67 84 67 范奈斯 100 68 98 67 97 67 文图拉 75 64 73 63 惠蒂尔山 94 69 93 69 90 67 伍兰山 103 67 98 67 96 66 赖特伍德 93 72 91 72 91 69 约巴林达 95 66 95 66 93 65 约塞米蒂谷 94 63 98 63 98 64
改造成室内跳蚤市场。 该市的社区重建局于 2008 年买下该物业，计划将其修复为现场娱乐场所，但该局于 2012 年解散后，这些计划陷入停滞。 2018 年，该物业被出售给 634 Alvarado LLP，这是一个由 Jamison Properties 控制的实体。如今，一楼设有包含服装摊贩、裁缝铺和理发店在内的小企业跳蚤市场，而历史礼堂依然处于闲置状态。 Bierman 表示，下一步是在寻求慈善、地方、州和联邦资金之前成立一个指导委员会。如果组织者能够获得足够的合作伙伴和资金，他希望该联盟能够追
晴朗；炎热 116 / 87 晴朗；炎热 115 / 87 非常温暖 111 / 84 非常温暖 109 / 86
圣贝纳迪诺县 (SAN BERNARDINO CO.)
尤卡谷 (Yucca Valley)
107 / 79
里弗赛德县 (RIVERSIDE CO.)
海梅特 (Hemet) 棕榈 泉 (Palm Springs)
106 / 64 117 / 89
圣地亚哥县 (SAN DIEGO CO.)
拉蒙娜 (Ramona)
波威 (Poway)
84 / 68
在冬季前接管该剧院。 他表示，修复这座建筑 可能需要好几年。 对于许多参加参观的人 来说，这一提议 也具有个人意义。 奥罗拉·科罗娜 (Aurora Corona) 曾是 皮科联合区社区委员会 (Pico Union Neighborhood Council) 成员，她记得 小时候参观过这座剧院。 “这唤回了对其曾经 辉煌时期的记忆，”科罗娜说。“历史 就凝聚在这里。所以对我来说， 使其复兴并恢复原貌 就像是一个梦想。” 她表示，她希望 修复后的剧院能够举办 演出、国际 电影节、艺术节，并为当地艺 术家提供舞台，同时反映 周围社区的特点。 萨拉·萨帕塔·米哈雷斯 (Sara Zapata Mijares) 1969年从尤卡坦 (Yucatán) 搬到了 韦斯特莱克 (Westlake) 社区，当时她 17 岁
东部倾盆大雨，西部酷热难耐：从纽约到格鲁吉亚将出现阵雨、雷阵雨 及洪水般的大雨。风暴 可能伴有破坏性阵风。大部分西部地区 将以晴天和危险的高温为主，而南部落基山脉则散布雷阵雨。
图中显示了当日的降水区域 和最高气温。 –0 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100+ 气温
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温哥华 (Vancouver) 69
卡尔加里 (Calgary) 70
魁北克 (Quebec) 81
里贾纳 (Regina) 84
西雅图 (Seattle)
斯波坎 (Spokane) 74
俾斯麦 (Bismarck) 101
比林格斯 (Billings) 93
波特兰 (Portland) 75
博伊西 (Boise) 86
快速城 (Rapid City) 102
卡斯珀 (Casper) 102 02
里诺 (Reno) 100 00
夏延 (Cheyenne) 97 9
旧金山 (San Francisco) 76
盐湖城 (Salt Lake City) 100
丹佛 (Denver) 101
印第安纳波利斯 (Indianapolis) 76 10 6
弗雷斯诺 (Fresno) 107 07
拉斯维加斯 (Las Vegas) 114
科罗拉多斯普林斯 (Colorado Springs) 94
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洛杉矶 (Los Angeles) 91
阿尔伯克基 (Albuquerque) 97
凤凰城 (Phoenix) 114 14
圣地亚哥 (San Diego) 80
达拉斯 (Dallas)
卢博克 (Lubbock)
图森 (Tucson) 108
埃尔帕索 (El Paso)
奇瓦瓦 (Chihuahua) 95
埃莫西略 (Hermosillo) 108 08
洛斯莫奇斯 (Los Mochis) 8
截至周六下午 2 点的 48 个毗连州极端气温
最高温 117 度，位于加州 尼德尔斯 (Needles) 最低温 37 度，位于加州 特鲁基 (Truckee)
周六 今天 周六 今天
城市 / 最高 / 最低 / 降水 / 最高 / 最低 天气 / 城市 / 最高 / 最低 / 降水 / 最高 / 最低 天气 :--- 亚特兰大 / 86 / 61 / -- / 82 / 71 / Ts / 阿尔伯克基 / 95 / 73 / .15 / 97 / 73 / Pc 安克雷奇 / 70 / 50 / -- / 67 / 58 / Su / 阿斯彭 / 88 / 51 / -- / 92 / 55 / Su 亚特兰大 / 86 / 76 / .08 / 86 / 70 / Ts / 奥斯汀 / 95 / 76 / .03 / 101 / 70 / Su 巴尔的摩 / 87 / 65 / -- / 83 / 74 / Ts / 博伊西 / 101 / 73 / -- / 86 / 53 / Hz 波士顿 / 82 / 69 / -- / 83 / 72 / Cy / 水牛城 / 87 / 66 / .14 / 76 / 65 / R 伯灵顿 (佛蒙特州) / 85 / 64 / .04 / 84 / 70 / Ts / 查尔斯顿 (南卡罗来纳州) / 92 / 80 / Tr / 88 / 76 / Ts 夏洛特 / 87 / 75 / .40 / 83 / 73 / Ts / 芝加哥 / 73 / 65 / 1.93 / 76 / 63 / Pc 辛辛那提 / 82 / 69 / .45 / 78 / 67 / Ts / 克利夫兰 / 81 / 71 / .01 / 77 / 67 / R 哥伦比亚 (南卡罗来纳州) / 93 / 78 / 1.22 / 85 / 75 / Ts / 哥伦布 / 79 / 73 / .10 / 81 / 68 / Ts 达拉斯 / 沃思堡 / 100 / 84 / -- / 97 / 75 / Su / 丹佛 / 93 / 62 / -- / 101 / 72 / Su 底特律 / 81 / 75 / .07 / 75 / 62 / R / 埃尔帕索 / 100 / 77 / .01 / 97 / 76 / Su 尤金 / 79 / 61 / Tr / 79 / 50 / Su / 迈尔斯堡 / 90 / 80 / Tr / 88 / 77 / Ts 哈特福德 / 88 / 64 / .02 / 82 / 71 / Cy / 檀香山 / 88 / 76 / .11 / 88 / 75 / R 休斯顿 / 96 / 80 / Tr / 99 / 75 / Pc / 印度安纳波利斯 / 78 / 69 / 1.60 / 76 / 65 / Ts 杰克逊维尔 (佛罗里达州) / 90 / 73 / 2.34 / 88 / 75 / Ts / 堪莎斯城 / 83 / 64 / Tr / 86 / 65 / Su 诺克斯维尔 / 80 / 70 / .57 / 84 / 69 / Ts / 拉斯维加斯 / 116 / 89 / -- / 114 / 90 / Su 路易斯维尔 / 82 / 74 / .41 / 78 / 69 / Ts / 梅德福德 / 89 / 63 / Tr / 86 / 53 / Su 孟菲斯 / 85 / 77 / .09 / 82 / 71 / Sh / 迈阿密 / 94 / 82 / .54 / 91 / 79 / Ts 密尔沃基 / 69 / 66 / 2.91 / 72 / 63 / Su / 密尼阿波利斯 / 86 / 64 / -- / 84 / 65 / Su 纳什维尔 / 89 / 73 / 1.20 / 81 / 70 / Ts / 新奥尔良 / 95 / 78 / .04 / 92 / 76 / Ts 纽约 / 86 / 72 / Tr / 81 / 74 / Cy / 诺福克 / 88 / 71 / -- / 89 / 77 / Ts 俄克拉荷马城 / 93 / 71 / -- / 95 / 65 / Su / 奥马哈 / 86 / 63 / -- / 88 / 65 / Su 奥兰多 / 91 / 77 / .40 / 87 / 75 / Ts / 费城 / 90 / 73 / Tr / 85 / 75 / Ts 凤凰城 / 117 / 95 / -- / 114 / 93 / Su / 匹兹堡 / 82 / 65 / .08 / 79 / 67 / R 波特兰 (俄勒冈州) / 76 / 64 / .02 / 75 / 54 / Pc / 普罗维登斯 / 84 / 65 / -- / 81 / 72 / Cy 罗利 / 达勒姆 / 88 / 72 / -- / 85 / 74 / Ts / 里诺 / 102 / 62 / -- / 100 / 61 / Su 里士满 / 87 / 69 / -- / 84 / 74 / Ts / 圣路易斯 / 77 / 67 / .16 / 81 / 66 / Pc 盐湖城 / 105 / 73 / -- / 100 / 71 / Hz
岁。她记得麦克阿瑟公园曾是邻里家庭的聚集地。 “这里以前是我和爸爸经常来野餐的公园，他会和很多家庭在这里一起玩球类游戏，”她说。“我记得来这个公园，在这里看电影。” Zapata Mijares 表示，复兴这座剧院还能帮助附近的商家。她说，如果访问附近墨西哥领事馆的人在办理完预约后留在该社区购物或用餐，将有助于促进当地经济。 将剧院转变为社区中心的想法源于 Strindberg Laboratory 寻找永久办公场所的自身需求，此前租金成本的上涨使得维持经营变得日益困难。
温尼伯 92 92
桑德贝 76 76
温尼伯 桑德贝
蒙特利尔 80 80
法戈 90
法戈 90
多伦多 72 72
多伦多
密尼阿波利斯 84 84 8
密尼阿波利斯
底特律 75
底特律 75
水牛城
芝加哥
芝加哥
苏福尔斯
苏福尔斯
克利夫兰 77
费城 85 85 8
费城
奥马哈 88 88
奥马哈
77 7
华盛顿
华盛顿
堪莎斯城 86
堪莎斯城 86
路易斯维尔 78 78 威奇托 93 93
路易斯维尔 威奇托
圣路易斯 81
圣路易斯 81
夏洛特 83
夏洛特 83
纳什维尔 孟菲斯 82
纳什维尔 孟菲斯 82
俄克拉荷马城 95
俄克拉荷马城 95
查尔斯顿
查尔斯顿
伯明翰
伯明翰
杰克逊维尔
杰克逊维尔
圣安东尼奥 100
圣安东尼奥 100
新奥尔良 9
新奥尔良
休斯顿 99 99
休斯顿
迈阿密 91 9
迈阿密 91
坦帕 87
坦帕 87
蒙特雷
蒙特雷
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西雅图 73 61 .02 70 53 Sh 坦帕 88 81 .02 87 79 Ts 图森 109 85 -- 108 84 Su 图卢萨 93 70 -- 91 69 Pc 华盛顿特区 90 71 .09 84 76 Ts 威奇托 89 67 93 67 Su
Acapulco (阿卡普尔科) 93 79 04 91 75 Cy Amsterdam (阿姆斯特丹) 75 55 -- 80 65 Pc Athens (雅典) 88 79 -- 91 74 Su Bangkok (曼谷) 78 06 80 R Barcelona (巴塞罗那) 86 88 77 Su Berlin (柏林) 72 66 57 77 56 Pc Cabo San Lucas (卡波圣卢卡斯) 97 04 94 Cairo (开罗) 102 101 78 Hz Dubai (迪拜) 113 93 111 92 Hz Dublin (都柏林) 68 50 65 56 Cy Havana (哈瓦那) 72 08 76 Ts Ho Chi Minh City (胡志明市) 03 R Hong Kong (香港) 83 90 83 Sh Istanbul (伊斯坦布尔) 84 73 W Jerusalem (耶路撒冷) 92 74 Johannesburg (约翰内斯堡) 62 34 38 Kuala Lumpur (吉隆坡) 08 76 Lima (利马) 70 69 London (伦敦) 59 82 62 Madrid (马德里) 102 66 99 70 Mecca (麦加) 110 85 111 Mexico City (墨西哥城) 06 81 59 Montreal (蒙特利尔) 81 68 69 Moscow (莫斯科) 57 60 Mumbai (孟买) 09 87 New Delhi (新德里) 02 Paris (巴黎) 84 63 Prague (布拉格) 07 61 Rome (罗马) Seoul (首尔) Singapore (新加坡) 90 01 Sh Taipei City (台北市) 95 99 Ts Tokyo (东京) 95 09 94 Vancouver (温哥华) 12 55 Vienna (维也纳) 97 67
图例：Su 晴；Pc 局部多云；Cy 多云；Fg 雾；Prcp 降水；Dr 毛毛雨；Hz 朦胧；Sh 阵雨；Ts 雷阵雨；R 雨；Sn 雪；Sf 小雪；I 冰；Rs 雨夹雪；W 强风；Tr 微量。注：全国极值不包括阿拉斯加和夏威夷。* - 估算数据。 周六读数截至下午 2 点。
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ue 在弗里达·卡罗剧院工作。但在参观完这座三层建筑后，Bierman 意识到这个空间对于单一组织来说太大了。 “我们梦想建立一个社区公共空间，同时也是文化、艺术、剧院、电影、教育、报纸以及每个社区所需的所有这些事物的枢纽，”Bierman 说。 除了筹集数百万美元之外，该计划还面临实际问题。该提案必须解决已经在大楼内经营的企业的未来问题。 Sofía García 在该跳蚤市场内卖了大约一年的衣服，她说她希望修复工作能将顾客吸引回这个空间。 “那会很好，因为这会改善这里的氛围，”García 用西班牙语说。“通过改善剧院，会有更多的人，因此销售额会增加。” García 估计，在大楼外的停车位被取消，以及附近街道施工导致顾客难以光顾她的店铺后，她的销售额大幅下降。 Bierman 承认，如果项目向前推进，摊贩必须参与到对话中来。 “他们是社区的一部分，”他说。“我们不会就这样进来接管并把他们赶走。我们需要与他们交谈，看看他们想要什么。” 最近在跳蚤市场内开了一家裁缝店的 Jesús Sosa Guerra 表示，他支持该提案，但担心现有的租户可能会被取代。 “排挤小企业是不好的，因为我们都需要努力奋斗才能维持生计，”他用西班牙语说。
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右侧，迈尔斯·加雷特 (MYLES GARRETT) 在公羊队训练营中拥抱后卫史蒂夫·阿维拉 (Steve Avila)。在训练营中，无论是在场上还是场下，队友们都被这位 NFL 擒抱之王所折服。
公羊队了解他的履历。看过集锦。收集了所有必要的资料。 但他们并不了解迈尔斯·加雷特的“气场”。 怎么可能了解？ 它并非触手可及，也难以定义。 它就在那里。 “你能感觉到他的存在，”教练肖恩·麦克维 (Sean McVay) 周五说道。 麦克维以前也这样感受并说过。关于亚伦·唐纳德 (Aaron Donald)。 关于杰伦·拉姆齐 (Jalen Ramsey)。 但听公羊队球员谈论加雷特时，这种感觉有所不同。 带有一种神秘感。 “你能感觉到他的气场，”角卫特伦特·麦克杜菲 (Trent McDuffie) 说道。 安全卫昆廷·莱克 (Quentin Lake) 也是这样解释的。 “就是他的存在感，”莱克说，“他的气场。” 迈尔斯·加雷特效应并不局限于防守端。 “场上的每个人都能感觉到，无论他在球场的哪一边，这种气场都笼罩着，”进攻后卫凯文·多特森 (Kevin Dotson) 说。“你能感觉到一种怪兽般的能量。” 作为一名拥有 10 年职业经验、两次获得 NFL 年度最佳防守球员的球员，加雷特在被问到是否意识到自己的气场时笑了。 “我想是的，”他说。“听到他们对我如此尊重，这感觉很棒。”
足球失策：在国际足联主席詹尼·因凡蒂诺 (Gianni Infantino) 搁浅出售世界杯股份的计划后，对其的支持迅速下降。A1
作者：Maddie Lee
道奇队在周五通过一场“牛棚赛”（bullpen game），填补了双能超级巨星大谷翔平 (Shohei Ohtani) 缺席先发轮值带来的空缺。在 9-4 输给波士顿红袜队的比赛中，大谷在进攻端尽到了职责，但道奇队的投手群表现不稳。 “你不能每晚都去追求每一次胜利，”经理戴夫·罗伯茨 (Dave Roberts) 说道。“这不负责任。这不是正确的流程。” 在休息一天以处理左膝持续酸痛后，大谷回到了道奇队的阵容中。在第四局，他击中了红袜队左投手兰格·苏亚雷斯 (Ranger Suarez) 的球，击出了一记反方向二垒安打进入空档，为道奇队贡献了首次击球。 大谷随后为道奇队拿下首分，通过弗雷迪·弗里曼 (Freddie Freeman) 的单打回到本垒——弗里曼将自己的连续击球纪录延长至 10 场，为本赛季道奇队球员的最长纪录。 在下一局，在红袜队撤下苏亚雷斯后，大谷让道奇队的攻势得以延续。面对左投手乔瓦尼·莫兰 (Jovani Morán)，大谷击中了一个变速球并……
[见道奇队报道, D6]
大谷翔平 (SHOHEI OHTANI) 在第五局击出了一支两分本垒打，并在失利的一战中击出二垒安打。
作者：Gary Klein
Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times
30 岁的加雷特是星光熠熠的公羊队中最大的球星之一，无论唐纳德是否结束退休，公羊队都被认为是最有希望赢得超级碗的球队。 加雷特在 2017 年选秀中以第一顺位从德州 A&M 大学被选中，在克利夫兰布朗队的九个赛季中累计完成了 1251⁄2 次擒抱。他是 2023 年以及上赛季的年度最佳防守球员，上赛季他创下了联盟纪录的 23 次擒抱。 6 月，公羊队将边缘冲锋手贾里德·弗斯 (Jared Verse)——一名 2027 年第一轮选秀权以及未来的第二和第三轮选秀权——交易给布朗队以换回加雷特。他被视为这支旨在麦克维执教下赢得第二个超级碗冠军的球队的最后一块拼图。 加雷特正在适应南加州以及这支球队，该队上赛季挺进了 NFC 冠军赛，随后输给了最终的超级碗冠军西雅图海鹰队。 “这里很快就开始感觉像家一样了，”他说。 加雷特很快就让自己融入其中。边缘冲锋手拜伦·杨 (Byron Young) 表示，加雷特的技巧、职业操守和知识在会议室和球场上都得到了传递。 “太惊人了，”杨说。“简直是艺术。”
没有离开过 布鲁姆足球 性能中心。
作者：Ryan Kartje
在南加州大学 (USC) 的第五个秋季训练营开始时，林肯·莱利发现自己沉浸在周围一切新鲜事物之中。具体来说，就是那座耸立在特洛伊人练习场一端的、耗资 $200-million 的顶尖设施，它拥有任何一名足球教练所能要求的所有奢华配置。 “这座建筑太神奇了，”莱利说，“很难解释它有多么不同，多么出色。” 在球场上，在那座闪亮设施的前方，特洛伊人周六还在磨合一件全新的东西：他们的接球阵营。 USC 本周开启训练营时，缺少了其顶尖回归接球手 Tanook Hines 的服务，此前这位大二学生在休赛期接受了一次尚未披露的手术。莱利表示，影响 Hines（他缺席了春季训练）的伤势并非“过于严重”，预计他将在赛季开始时回归。但他的缺席使得特洛伊人面对的是一群完全陌生且未经证明的接球小组；其中许多人是第一次体验大学足球，以及与四分卫 Jayden Maiava 的配合。 “很多新面孔。幸运的是，他利用整个春季和夏季与这些小伙子们一起，开始培养默契和信心，”莱利在谈到 Maiava 时说道。“但这将是我们每天都必须努力的方向。” 在这些新球员中，包括一批预计能立即做出贡献的顶尖接球招募球员。在一定程度上，这也是迫于无奈之举。 大一 接球手
[见 USC, D3]
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棕熊队的球迷们正要求对他最新的大胆预测吹哨
我对 UCLA 橄榄球队原本感觉良好，直到比尔·普拉斯奇（Bill Plaschke）承诺棕熊队将走向伟大。嘿，比尔叔叔，考虑到你的往绩，能不能请你撤回你的预测？也许那样的话，棕熊队才有机会！ 杰克·沃尔夫 (Jack Wolf) 洛杉矶
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尽管他的记录平平，《时报》专栏作家比尔·普拉斯奇再次涉足预测业务。他一如既往地毫无顾忌，预测 UCLA 橄榄球队在聘请新主教练鲍勃·切斯尼（Bob Chesney）后将走向伟大。然而，比尔未能量化他预期球队能取得什么样的成就？仅仅是一个胜场记录？击败同城对手南加州大学 (USC)？或者，我是否敢提到，夺得全国冠军？我想我们都得等着看。 罗布·弗莱什曼 (Rob Fleishman) 普拉森西亚
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UCLA 教练鲍勃·切斯尼带来了获胜的血统，但在《时报》专栏作家比尔·普拉斯奇预言将走向伟大之后，球迷们对此持谨慎态度。
一份延保和道路救援。在那之前：“西伍德吼起来！” (Westwood Ho!) 史蒂夫·罗斯 (Steve Ross) 卡梅尔
一件由刘·阿尔辛多 (Lew Alcindor) 在 1968 年 NCAA 全国冠军赛和 1969 年四强赛中穿着的 UCLA 球衣，预计将在拍卖会上拍出超过 $1 million 的价格。
在过去半个世纪里拥有这件球衣的人——一位曾居住在洛杉矶且非常崇拜现名为卡里姆·阿卜杜尔-贾巴尔 (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) 球员的粉丝——当时为了获得这件梦寐以求的球衣并没有支付那么多钱。
事实上，他根本没有花钱。相反，在 20 世纪 70 年代中后期的一次湖人队比赛后，他在论坛体育馆 (Forum) 的停车场里通过交易得到了它。当时他还是一个住在南门 (South Gate) 的青少年，他拿出了自己最珍贵的财产之一：他的晶体管收音机。
“我以前经常把它放在枕头下听道奇队的比赛，”这次拍卖的委托人一名叫大卫 (David) 的男子说道，由于隐私原因，他要求隐藏姓氏。
那时，大卫和几个朋友经常乘公共汽车前往论坛体育馆，尝试说服球迷将多余的票给他们，以便参加当晚的湖人队比赛。赛后，他们在停车场等待球员离开场馆。
“我们那时候年轻且疯狂。我们一直等到球员出来，然后试着和他们聊天，”大卫说，他提到自己曾经和威尔特·张伯伦 (Wilt Chamberlain) 一起走到了他的车边。
诺利用柳海兰 崩盘，取得 三杆领先
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叶莉米·诺（Yealimi Noh）利用柳海兰（Haeran Ryu）令人意外的崩盘，并在周六恰逢其时地找到了自己的节奏。她在最后 10 个洞中抓下四次小鸟球，以 69 杆（低于标准杆 2 杆）完赛，从而在女子英国公开赛进入最后一轮前取得了三杆的领先优势。
诺是一位 25 岁的北加州人，此前仅获得过一次 LPGA 冠军。她在皇家利瑟姆与圣安妮球场（Royal Lytham & St. Annes）的后九洞没有打出任何柏忌，最终以 206 杆（低于标准杆 7 杆）的成绩领先于另外五名球员。
其中一名球员就是柳海兰，她正试图成为继同为韩国人的朴仁比之后，首位在同年赢得三项大满贯冠军的球员。柳海兰在前半九洞抓了两次小鸟球，一度建立了四杆的领先优势，正朝着这个目标迈进。
她的下滑始于在第 7 洞（标准 5 杆洞）打出一个柏忌，随后在 8 个洞的区间内连续出现五个柏忌，这让她失去了领先地位，并在英格兰兰开夏郡海岸线这个阳光明媚的一天中，在接下来的时间里陷入了追赶模式。
柳海兰最后以连续四个标准杆完赛，成绩为 74 杆，但她看到了积极的一面：她的计分卡上没有出现双柏忌，包括在第 10 洞面对深坑掩体后沿时的情况。
戴维斯·赖利（Davis Riley）在底特律高尔夫俱乐部打出 63 杆（低于标准杆 7 杆），总成绩达到 15 杆以下，取得了领先一杆的优势。由于该球场相对简单，给排行榜上密集分布的众多球员提供了赢得最后一届火箭经典赛的机会。赖利在结尾阶段连续抓到小鸟球，在第 17 洞完成一个 54 英尺的长推，并在 18 洞完成一个 10 英尺的推球，从而与迈克尔·布伦南（Michael Brennan）共同领跑。拉斯姆斯·霍加德（Rasmus Hojgaard，61 杆）、克里斯·柯克（Chris Kirk，66 杆）、里基·福勒（Rickie Fowler，67 杆）和卡梅隆·杨（Cameron Young，68 杆）落后三杆。……进入首届葡萄牙邀请赛最后一轮时，斯图尔特·辛克（Stewart Cink）、帕德里克·哈灵顿（Padraig Harrington）和罗里·萨巴蒂尼（Rory Sabbatini）共同领跑，而 18 洞领先者扎克·约翰逊（Zach Johnson）紧随其后，落后一杆。
涉及勒布朗·詹姆斯的交易。 7 月 14 日：勒布朗并不在寻求另一个冠军。他只是想在让他和家人最快乐的地方打球。 7 月 24 日：勒布朗将他的天赋带到了可以说（目前）是东部会议最强的球队，有机会进入 NBA 总决赛并可能再次赢得一枚冠军戒指。
一件由刘·阿尔辛多（Lew Alcindor）穿着的 UCLA 球衣正在拍卖，预计成交价将超过 $1 百万。
“当时那里还有其他孩子。我们会交换东西，我基本上就是那样得到这件球衣的。” 那时，阿卜杜尔-贾巴尔（Abdul-Jabbar）已经在湖人队成为了一名球星，此前他在传奇的 UCLA 教练约翰·伍登（John Wooden）指导下赢得了三次 NCAA 冠军，并在 1971 年带领密尔沃基雄鹿队获得 NBA 总冠军。
那天晚上将 33 号 Bruins 球衣带到比赛现场的年轻人希望能在上面获得阿卜杜尔-贾巴尔的签名。 不过，大卫（David）说，那个人实际上是南加州大学（USC）的粉丝，所以这次交换相当容易达成。 “那时，晶体管收...
49人队的皮尔索尔赛季报销
旧金山49人队的接球手里基·皮尔索尔（Ricky Pearsall）将对其受伤的右膝进行赛季终结手术，这是这位 2024 年首轮选秀球员遭遇的最新挫折。
总经理约翰·林奇（John Lynch）在周六宣布了皮尔索尔接受后十字韧带修复手术的决定。皮尔索尔在上一赛季最初受伤，并在赛季末回归比赛。但由于膝盖肿胀，他在训练营参加了两次练习后就被停止了活动。49人队表示，前全明星球员迪博·塞缪尔（Deebo Samuel）已通过一份最高价值 $7 百万美元的一年合同重返球队，接替皮尔索尔在名单中的位置。塞缪尔在周六参加了练习，他回到了自己在 NFL 前六个赛季效力的地方。
据三名知情人士透露，检测结果显示，布法罗比尔队的安全卫 C.J. 加德纳-约翰逊（C.J. Gardner-Johnson）在练习中拉伤了右小腿下部。
保罗、詹姆斯及其他人的“坦率诚实”也就那样吧。 里克·所罗门 (Rick Solomon) 巴尔博亚湖 (Lake Balboa)
勒布朗·詹姆斯成了 76 人。讽刺的是，这可能也是他在一份为期两年的合同中能参加的比赛场数。 大卫·马歇尔 (David Marshall) 圣莫尼卡 (Santa Monica)
事后质疑 我还是不明白安德鲁·弗里德曼（Andrew Friedman）为什么要给凯尔·塔克（Kyle Tucker）一份每年 $60 百万美元、为期四年的合同。在塔克之前的五个大联盟赛季中，他的场均打击率为 .269，有 26 支本垒打和 86 次打点。在如今这个薪水膨胀的时代，这听起来像是个年薪 $30 百万美元的球员。怎么回事，安德鲁？ 艾伦·舍汉哈尔 (Allen Schanhaar) 雷东多海滩 (Redondo Beach)
两个里程碑 在过去几周，写信者们在争论道奇队访问白宫的问题时，7月在赛场上发生了涉及道奇球员的两个里程碑事件。麦克斯·蒙西（Max Muncy）超越了隆·塞伊（Ron Cey），成为球队历史本垒打榜的第二名。此外，在进入与红袜队的周末系列赛前，弗雷迪……
“……那些东西当时很受欢迎，”大卫说。 几十年来，他大多时间将这件球衣整齐地存放起来，偶尔拿出来看看或向他人展示。大卫说，最近他“正好在清理东西”，决定是时候与这件心爱的物品告别了。 “我想，你知道，其他人会非常喜欢这个，”大卫说。“而且他们会把它展示出来，人们能比我把它塞在某种储物空间里时获得更多乐趣。”
据 Grey Flannel 拍卖行运营总监迈克尔·鲁塞克（Michael Russek）称，在最初收到球衣时，大卫并不清楚这件球衣的很多历史，只知道它是 UCLA 发行的，且很可能曾在某场比赛中被阿尔辛多（Alcindor）穿着。
通过照片比对发现，他曾在多场比赛中穿着过它，其中包括一些非常重要的比赛。在 1968 年全国冠军赛中，UCLA 以 78-55 击败北卡罗来纳大学，他穿着这件球衣砍下 34 分并抢下 16 个篮板。在随后的赛季中，他在多场比赛中也穿着它，包括棕熊队在全国半决赛中以 85-82 击败德雷克大学的比赛（阿尔辛多在那场比赛中获得了 25 分和 21 个篮板）。
“就在那时，我们才真正意识到我们拥有一样真正特别的东西，”鲁塞克说。
截至周六下午，出价已达到 $850,101，加上 22% 的买家佣金，价格接近 $1.04 百万美元。拍卖将于 8 月 16 日结束。
大卫表示，他对价格上涨如此之快感到“非常惊讶。我其实不熟悉这种拍卖或球衣。但那里有很多 UCLA 的校友，很多人会想要这样的东西。”
这位俄勒冈州居民补充说，他还没有考虑如何处理这笔现金。 “我不是那种在拿到钱之前就制定计划的人，”他说。
YEALIMI NOH 在女子英国公开赛第三轮第 15 洞击球。 Grey Flannel 拍卖行
乔恩·超级 (Jon Super) 美联社
该伤情已向美联社（AP）确认。……堪萨斯城酋长队的接球手 Xavier Worthy（肩部）和 Cyrus Allen（腿部挫伤）因轻伤离开训练营，这使得该位置组的人员进一步减少，而该组在本赛季需要显著提高。……底特律雄狮队签下了自由球员线卫 Devin White，他在 2025 年曾效力于突袭者队。……亚特兰大猎鹰队表示，他们与左前锋 Matthew Bergeron 签署了一份为期四年的延长合同。
金州勇士队重新签下了自由球员后卫 De’Anthony Melton 和 Gary Payton II。
Lorena Wiebes 赢得了环法女子公路赛的第一赛段。这位荷兰自行车手赢得了这场起点和终点均在洛桑市的 85 英里赛段。
Freeman 已经升至 MLB 职业生涯两垒安打榜的并列第 25 位，且在 36 岁时打击率为 .301，并与他人并列本赛季 MLB 两垒安打领先地位。 现在这些成就值得庆祝。 Ken Feldman 塔萨纳 (Tarzana)
升级？ John Mozeliak 首次尝试升级天使队，但开局不顺。用两名受球队控制的年轻球员去交换一名在 A 级联赛打击率为 .247 的 19 岁球员，在短期内看来并不像是一种升级。Mozeliak 可能看不到这次交易的愚蠢后果，因为他将在今年冬天离开，而他的继任者将不得不收拾残局。 Ken Blake 布雷亚 (Brea)
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冠军后遗症干扰 印第安纳大学对 NCAA 冠军的卫冕。
作者：Steve Megargee
芝加哥 —— 印第安纳大学教练 Curt Cignetti 表示，他正在“潜伏于自满之中”，以确保在主导了大学足球历史上最惊人的逆转之一后，不会出现冠军后遗症。
在 Cignetti 到任之前的三年里，该计划的战绩仅为 9-27。在他接手后的前两个赛季中，他带领球队连续进入大学足球季后赛，并赢得了 2025 年全国冠军。他希望自己的计划能够保持在攀升过程中所具备的同样锋芒。
“我们有自己的做事方式，”Cignetti 说道。“我们的队员们志同道合，而我们所做的就是赢球。”
在 Cignetti 领导下，印第安纳大学令人震惊的两年征程已经让这个传统上在 Big Ten 联盟中名不见经传的球队摆脱了其作为碗赛分级计划的地位。
作者：Eddie Pells 和 Teresa M. Walker
作者：Eddie Pells
丹佛 —— 周五，一家联邦法院对 NCAA 的新资格规则造成了可能引发混乱的打击。法院裁定，所有 2022 届高中毕业生运动员中，在今年春天用完第四个赛季大学资格的人员，在本学年均有资格参加第五个赛季。
这一裁决由丹佛的美国地区法官 Charlotte Sweeney做出，预计将面临上诉。该裁决削弱了 NCAA 计划让所谓的“五对五”规则开始生效的方案。
Big Ten 联盟和东南部联盟 (SEC) 周五晚上同意支持一项旨在监管大学体育的参议院法案，结束了极其紧张的一周谈判，并将这项两党支持的措施从看似必然的崩溃边缘拉了回来。
在就有关第三方姓名-形象- likeness (NIL) 交易以及经常在球员与学校之间撮合这些安排的所谓“关联实体”的措辞获得最后一刻的让步后，这两个联盟的学校校长投票支持该法案。
更多细节仍需敲定，但重点是，该法案仍有机会获得所需的 60 票，以停止辩论，并在参议院于下周五进入夏季休会期之前进行最终表决。
夏季休会期现在看来越来越像是一个不可逾越的截止日期。
[南加州大学，来自 D1]
Trent Mosley 和 Kayden Dixon-Wyatt 已经留下了深刻的印象，并应当立即在进攻端担任角色。Tron Baker 是另一位推测能够占据一席之地的球员。而本周加入训练的是一名在今年夏天刚入学的新生外接手，有些人认为他将是这批球员中最优秀的一位——即排名前 60 的招募球员 Boobie Feaster。
Feaster 可能需要时间来进入状态。Hines 在上个赛季就处于类似的境地，当时他也是在夏天才到达校园。尽管如此，他还是在八场比赛中担任首发。但 Hines 在 freshman 赛季开始时已经 19 岁了。Feaster 在 5 月下旬才刚满 17 岁——据推测，他将成为为南加州大学(USC)出战的最年轻球员之一。
接球手并非特洛伊人(Trojans)趋于年轻化的唯一位置。南加州大学(USC)
CURT CIGNETTI 在带领印第安纳大学在短短两个赛季内获得全国冠军后，正面临一项新挑战，但胡西尔人(Hoosiers)表示他们已经为此做好了准备。
历史上的最多失利记录。这一不光彩的荣誉现在属于会议对手西北大学。
胡西尔人显然有着比这更大的长期目标。他们希望在失去了赢得海斯曼奖的四分卫 Fernando Mendoza 之后继续保持势头。Mendoza 在印第安纳大学度过唯一的赛季后，在今年的 NFL 选秀中以首轮顶级秀身份加盟拉斯维加斯突袭者队。
与 2027 年秋季入学的运动员相关。它还有可能对全国各地的球员名单造成混乱——例如，这使得一名在 NFL 训练营中未被选中的球员，有可能决定在即将到来的赛季重返大学参加第五年的学业。
在授予初步禁制令时，Sweeney 法官表示，如果没有该禁制令，球员们“将遭受不可弥补的损害”。她并未认可管理机构关于追溯应用新规则将导致“名单混乱”的论点。
前加州大学洛杉矶分校(UCLA)后卫
《保护大学体育法》(Protect College Sports Act)，这是一项由参议员 Ted Cruz (共和党-德克萨斯州) 和 Maria Cantwell (民主党-华盛顿州) 领导的跨党派努力。
在各大联盟对该法案的大部分内容表示反对后，最终发布了一份简短声明，宣布他们支持“目前草拟的”该法案。Cruz 在社交媒体上发布了一篇简短声明，感谢各联盟并表示：“让我们拯救大学体育。”Cantwell 则表示：“很好。现在可以在保护女性和奥运运动员方面取得进展，并使该立法更接近总统的办公桌。”
特朗普总统也一直在寻求为这个现在向球员支付数百万美元的行业寻找解决方案，他在周四晚些时候介入，这帮助各方回到了谈判桌前。
在制定这项政策中发挥重要作用的德克萨斯理工大学校董 Cody Campbell 称，SEC 和 Big Ten 的支持是“一次重大突破，使我们更接近参议院的投票——以及大学体育一个更好的未来”。
他是该校创纪录的八名被选中球员之一。
“我们需要确保在进入今年时保持与去年相同的蓝图，这包括维持同样的工作伦理，”进攻截锋 Carter Smith 说道。
印第安纳大学通过获得全国顶尖的转会门户人才库，在补充球员名单方面做了出色工作。印第安纳大学的名单
Donovan Dent 此前宣布过退役，他是通过此次裁决获得另一年参赛资格的人员之一。据报道，他在裁决后不久进入了转会门户，并标记为“无接触”，这表明他愿意恢复比赛，但不太可能回到棕熊队(Bruins)。
NCAA 主席 Charlie Baker 不同意法官的观点，他表示该裁决将导致广泛的名单问题，同时提到国会中一项旨在为 NCAA 在参赛资格问题上提供反垄断保护的法案。
“今天的裁决和
参议员 TED CRUZ（左）和 Maria Cantwell 支持该法案，该法案为学校留住球员拨款。
薪资上限提高，新条款出台 经过修订的协议中最具突破性的部分是，学校将被分配 $27.5 million 用于留住球员，这是在现有的 $21.3 million 上限之外。 这可能代表了对 House 和解协议的重大修订——该突破性协议监管着球员的薪酬。其核心理念是，这笔额外资金将取代原本允许在 $21.3 million 上限之上的“关联实体”支付款项。 许多学校抱怨，正是这些款项抹杀了任何关于上限或成本控制的概念。 东南联盟 (SEC) 和十大联盟 (Big Ten) 寻求在法案中使用更强有力的措辞，以确保任何第三方协议确实是外部协议，而非来自学校的多媒体权利合作伙伴，目前大多数此类协议均由这些合作伙伴安排。 尚未解答的问题包括，新上限是否符合 House 和解协议，该协议对硬上限有非常具体的指示，要求提取体育部门某些收入的 22%，在本赛季相当于 $21.3 million。 另一个问题是，大学体育委员会将如何运作？该委员会是主要的姓名、形象和似像权 (NIL) 执法机构，其大部分时间用于分析第三方 NIL 协议，而在这种新安排下，此类协议将大大减少。
Marta Lavandier 美联社
在 18 名转会新成员中，包括前德克萨斯基督大学的四分卫 Josh Hoover 和前密歇根州立大学的接球手 Nick Marsh。 Marsh 较早地体会到了 Cignetti 这种不苟苟之的风格，这名原 the Spartans 球员在一次春季训练中穿着金色球鞋出现，结果遭到了新教练的批评。不过 Cignetti 此后赞扬了 Marsh 的工作习惯，他在过去两个赛季中接球 100 次，获得 1,311 码的推进距离和 9 次达阵。 印第安纳大学能否连续第三次获得季后赛资格，可能取决于 Hoover，他在过去三年中传球推进 9,627 码，完成 71 次达阵和 33 次拦截。他面临着巨大的挑战。 “Fernando 的特别之处在于，当比赛进入关键时刻，在第四节的胜利中，在最后三四分钟里，那是他发挥最好的时候，”Cignetti 说道。 只要 Cignetti 留任，印第安纳大学可能正处于将其打造为年度竞争者的边缘，因为 Hoosiers 队在通过转会门户取得成功之后，在高中招募方面也取得了进展。在过去两周内，印第安纳大学获得了 2027 届五星级接球手 Monshun Sales 和备受关注的 2028 届四分卫 Lukas Prock 的口头承诺。 Cignetti 更加专注于确保他的球队为卫冕冠军做好准备。防守线球员 Tyrique Tucker 被问到，作为一个被追猎者而非猎人进入新赛季感觉如何。 “我们的准备方式……”
“他们给大学体育带来的混乱正是现在通过该法案的时机，”Baker 表示。 今年 6 月，NCAA 批准了针对第一分区运动员的新资格模型，允许在五年时间段内进行五个赛季的比赛。该时间段从其全职入学或其 19 岁生日后的学年开始，以两者中较早发生者为准。
校长赋予球员第五个赛季资格 在其他地方，田纳西州纳什维尔的一位校长周五发布一项裁决，将赋予篮球运动员第五个赛季的参赛资格，并防止 NCAA 将他们排除在转会门户之外。
Susan Walsh 美联社
戴维森县衡法法院 (Davidson County Chancery Court) 的 I’Ashea Myles 向 Jalen Washington 和其他 18 名球员发出临时禁令，允许他们保留参赛资格。 “被告应承认原告具备 2026–2027 篮球赛季的参赛资格，且不得基于被质疑的资格认定而拒绝或阻碍其招募、转会或认证，”Myles 在其 33 页的裁决书中写道。
招募了 35 名球员的新生班级，该班级在全国排名第 1。莱利表示，这批新生中有很多已经入学 7 个月，这也起到了很大作用。
“拥有这么多学期中入学的球员带来了巨大的影响；我的意思是，这一点毫无疑问，”莱利说。“你可以感受到某种自信心的提升。”
“因此，我们在接下来的过程中引入的新人越少，这些球员在场下的适应就越快，他们的表现也就越好。”
这是未来四周秋季训练营的主要目标。在启用布鲁姆足球性能中心（Bloom Football Performance Center）的同时，莱利已经投入了大量时间专注于此。
“在这里的最初几天简直像做梦一样，”莱利说。“说实话，现在很难让球员们愿意回家。我已经 5 天没有离开这里了，我一直留在园区里。”
“我不认为我们是被猎杀的对象，”塔克说。“我们的准备状态就像捕食者一样，而且我们饥渴。归根结底，我们依然带着那种不服输的劲头。”
在这一点上，大十联盟（Big Ten）的媒体可能给塔克和他的队友们提供了一些动力。Cleveland.com 对记者进行的一项调查（该调查被视为大十联盟非正式的季前媒体预测）将卫冕全国冠军的球队排在联盟第三，落后于俄亥俄州立大学和俄勒冈大学。
西格内蒂在去年夺冠之路上击败了俄亥俄州立大学和俄勒冈大学，因此他深知前方的挑战。西格内蒂在 2007 到 2010 年间曾在阿拉巴马大学担任助理教练，他在周四的新闻发布会结束时，解释了为什么他认为大十联盟是大学足球最优秀的联盟。
“我们在中西部这里不搞什么宣传机器，”西格内蒂说。“我们相信一切都是靠努力赢得的，而不是被给予的。当我们表现不佳时，我们会说，‘我们失败了。’我们不会号啕大哭，也不会发牢骚或抱怨。这就是为什么我们是最强的。”
Megargee 为美联社撰稿。
迈尔斯还下令，转会门户（transfer portal）将于周一中午开启，直至 8 月 10 日上午 8 点，供任何想要进入的球员和想要接触球员的学校使用。
去年在范德堡大学效力的华盛顿是德克萨斯审判组（Texas Trial Group）于 7 月 6 日提起寻求禁令投诉的主要原告。其他原告包括：最后效力于德克萨斯大学的钱德尔·韦弗（Chendall Weaver）；密西西比大学的 A.J. 斯特尔（A.J. Storr）；普罗维登斯学院的杰森·爱德华兹（Jason Edwards）；圣波纳文图尔大学的丹尼尔·埃格布尼韦（Daniel Egbuniwe）；以及孟菲斯大学的扎卡里·戴维斯（Zachary Davis）。
Pells 和 Walker 为美联社撰稿。
法案仍面临漫长道路
即便赢得了周五夜晚的胜利，该法案的前路依然漫长。参议员汤米·图伯维尔（Tommy Tuberville，共和党-阿拉巴马州）从一开始就是该法案的坚决反对者。在最新的妥协方案出台之前，参议员比尔·卡西迪（Bill Cassidy，共和党-路易斯安那州）表示，“按照目前的写法”，该法案将“制造混乱并消除学生运动员的机会”。
东南联盟（SEC）的认可是否足以争取到这些参议员以及来自 SEC 州的其他议员的支持，是一个问题。
如果该法案在参议院通过，它仍需在分歧严重的众议院获得通过，而众议院在另一项名为 SCORE 法案的大学相关法案上已经僵持了 1 年多。
此外还涉及一个问题：长期支持该法案的小型联盟，在看到规模更大的竞争对手现在被允许直接向球员支付超过此前 2 倍以上的薪酬后，是否还会继续支持该法案。
几乎所有参与大学体育的人都认同，现状无法维持。
在 NCAA 输掉两起关键法院案件仅数小时后，该消息便传出。这两起案件涉及其一项新规定，该规定拟赋予大多数第一分区 (Division I) 运动员五年时间来完成五个赛季的参赛资格。
NCAA 主席查理·贝克 (Charlie Baker) 利用这些败诉的机会再次敦促通过该法案，他表示：“大学体育各界的领导者们早该呼吁立即通过两党共同支持的《保护大学体育法案》了。”
两度获得全国冠军的康涅狄格大学男子篮球队主教练丹·赫利 (Dan Hurley) 则通过社交媒体，用更激烈的措辞描述了此事的紧迫性。
“谁能来救救大学体育吧。这简直是一场彻头彻尾的 [脏话] 闹剧，”他说道，并在脏话所在位置使用了一个表情符号。
促使NFL强制使用冷水浴缸
作者：Dave Campbell
作者：Dave Campbell
明尼苏达州，伊根 —— 2001年，Korey Stringer在明尼苏达维京人队的训练中晕倒后死于热射病，这促使了各级体育运动安全协议的诸多改变。 其中最至关重要的教训就是：先冷却，后转运。 从Stringer在训练营期间退出一次阻挡训练，到救护车将其送抵医院时，已经过去了将近一个半小时，其核心体温高达108.8度。 尽管那天早晨在明尼苏达州曼卡托的训练场旁，他被转移到了一辆空调拖车中，但由于球队医疗人员在那段时间内缺乏有效的诊断和治疗，使得他的情况更加危急。在他晕倒约 15 小时后，Stringer被宣布死亡，他是已知唯一一名死于劳累性热射病的NFL球员。
Diane Bondareff AP Images for NFL 悲剧之后救命的遗产
KELCI STRINGER在 2022 年的一次Korey Stringer研究所活动上发言，该机构已帮助改变了 50 个州的法律和政策。
明尼苏达州，伊根 —— 失去丈夫的记忆在 25 年后依然清晰得令人心碎，Kelci Stringer 仍能详细地描述她匆忙赶往医院病房的路径，而 Korey Stringer 正是在那里死于劳累性热射病。她是在半夜抵达的，当她看到维京人队的队友 Cris Carter 和 Randy Moss 在地板上抽泣时，她意识到自己来晚了。尽管 2001 年在明尼苏达州曼卡托的那个训练营之初发生了如此悲剧性的错误，但自那时起，Kelci Stringer 将防止他人遭遇这种可预防的死亡视为生命使命。 “我们正在做的工作以及我们开展工作的方式对我来说是最重要的，因为我们正在以一种非常像 Korey 的方式回馈社会，”Stringer 说。 Korey Stringer 研究所以唯一已知死于热射病的 NFL 球员命名，于 2010 年在康涅狄格大学成立，最初只有三名员工，现在拥有 100 人的团队并在佛罗里达州设有分部。首席执行官 Douglas Casa 是一名运动机能学教授，他在 16 岁参加 10 公里赛跑时晕倒，经历过自己的濒死时刻；据他统计，在全美 50 个州中，已有 463 项法律和政策因 KSI 的倡导而得到修改或制定。 “当你做正确的事情时，没有太多医疗情况是 100% 可以预防的，”Casa 说。 KSI 的资金部分来自 Kelci Stringer 对 NFL 提起的不当死亡诉讼的赔偿金。她与 Korey Stringer 的前经纪人 Jimmy Gould 一起，受遗憾和悲伤的激励，致力于创造持久的善举。 “这与钱无关，”Stringer 本周在接受美联社电话采访时表示。“我们在那样的生活中度过了足够长的时间。几百万美元能起什么作用？那无法让他回来。我的目的是寻找答案。并不是为了责备谁。我想的是：‘我能不能知道真相？’那是寻求心理慰藉和获得平静的一部分。” 维京人队在周六纪念了 25 周年纪念日。
在训练营首次向球迷开放的训练赛前正午，凯尔西·斯特林（Kelci Stringer）在悼念活动上发表讲话，而 KSI 则设立了一个帐篷，向公众展示针对各级别运动员、日薪工及军职人员所开展的暑热安全工作。
尽管经历了十年的诉讼，科里·斯特林（Korey Stringer）的亲信圈与维京人队及 NFL 之间建立了一种持久且相互尊重的关系。卡萨（Casa）是联盟通用医疗委员会的成员。负责监督健康与安全的 NFL 执行副总裁杰夫·米勒（Jeff Miller）则是 KSI 的董事会成员。
“凯尔西对科里遗产的坚守以及由此带来的正面影响是非常卓越的，一个人能将悲剧转化为如此具有建设性的成果，这可能很罕见，”米勒表示，“可以说，她及其追求的倡议在所有级别的体育运动中挽救了无数生命。”
今年美国夏季的特点是持续的热浪，这给剧烈运动带来了特别的危险——即便对于体能出众的职业运动员也是如此。随着拉斯维加斯的高温经常突破 110 度，在主教练克林特·库比亚克（Klint Kubiak）的带领下，突击者队在郊区设施地点的训练开始时间定在上午 7:30。
“我曾在 85 起因中暑死亡的法庭案件中担任专家证人，而每一起案件中的受害者如果能得到适当的治疗和冷却，本不需要死去，”道格拉斯·卡萨（Douglas Casa）说道。他是康涅狄格大学科里·斯特林研究所（Korey Stringer Institute）的执行主任。该研究所在 2010 年成立，是其家属对该联盟提起的不当死亡诉讼和解协议的一部分。“只要有一个价值 $150 的冰水浴桶，这些人现在依然能活在这个世界上。”
卡萨是通过诉讼过程与斯特林的遗孀凯尔西·斯特林以及经纪人吉米·古尔德（Jimmy Gould）建立联系的。这位运动学教授对暑热安全课题有个人兴趣，因为他在 16 岁参加纽约帝国体育赛的 10 公里跑时曾与死亡擦肩而过。
卡萨在最后一圈还剩 200 米时昏倒，重新站起来后在还剩约 80 米时再次倒地。当时他处于昏迷状态。
承诺…… 是非常出色的， 而且有人能将 悲剧转化为 建设性的成果， 这可能 并不常见。”
——杰夫·米勒 (JEFF MILLER)，NFL 执行副总裁，评价 Kelci Stringer
亚利桑那红雀队在州立农业体育场 (State Farm Stadium) 内部开始了训练营，但当他们在几周后转移到室外时，他们将在上午进行场上训练。 “我们不需要在高温中折腾，”新任教练迈克·拉弗勒 (Mike LaFleur) 说道。 不过，空调意味着人造草坪，球员们不喜欢人造草坪，因为这会增加受伤风险，且对身体的整体损耗更大。 “炎热是有好处的，”新奥尔良圣徒队教练凯伦·摩尔 (Kellen Moore) 说道，他让队员们在出门前先在室内进行拉伸。“这是一个很好的适应过程。我们试图在可以尽量减少高温影响的时候这样做，但当我们进行大部分足球训练时，我们希望尽可能多地在室外进行。” 当然，理想的平衡点在于不过度劳累且不过于缺乏准备之间。 “我们的优势在于进入年度赛季时知道自己经历过高温，”圣徒队近端锋朱万·约翰逊 (Juwan Johnson) 说道。“我们一直在艰苦磨练，当我们进入一个较凉爽的地区或圆顶球场时，我们就能真正地去击败一些球队。”
底特律狮队跑卫 Jabari Small 在上周的训练营中通过饮水来应对酷热。
医学和技术的进步为 NFL 俱乐部提供了实时数据，用于追踪球员表现，并在潜在问题扩大前发出预警。 在训练前、训练中和训练后的补水现在已成为习惯，这在很大程度上要归功于 Korey Stringer 的去世。冷水浴缸现在是训练场附近必须配备的设备。对恢复的需求也更深地植入了各项协议之中。 为了应对炎热潮湿的环境，圣徒队在训练结束后给球员三小时的休息时间，然后再重新召集开会。 “我从未在任何一个地方经历过……”
持续了两小时。 幸运的是，一位反应迅速的医生将他放入了冷水浸泡浴缸中。尽管这是在被送往医院之后才进行的，但他在现场接受的由运动训练师提供的有效护理，以及在救护车上由急救医疗技术员提供的护理，给了他生存的机会。 “如果 Korey 当时就进入了冷水浸泡浴缸，我们现在就没法在这儿聊天了，”卡萨 (Casa) 在最近的一次采访中说道。“他那天晚上就能和队友们一起吃晚餐了。” 卡萨是 NFL 全体医疗委员会的成员，经常就球员安全问题向联盟提供建议。 每支球队的训练场附近必须配备冷水浴缸，这是 Stringer 去世后的 25 年间增强的众多协议之一，其由来可以追溯到为他所做的努力。
“你有这么多时间可以用来让身体恢复，”约翰逊说。
目前联盟中的大多数球员要么在 2001 年时尚未出生，要么太年轻而不知道科里·斯特林格（Korey Stringer）的去世。然而，与他同时代的人永远不会忘记。
“那可能是我参加过的最热的一次训练营，”底特律狮子队的广播评论员洛马斯·布朗（Lomas Brown）说道。他与斯特林格一样司职进攻截锋，并在 2001 年效力于纽约巨人队。“消息传出时，真的让人心碎。他是个如此棒的小伙子，一名顶尖球员，结果却因为那样的事而离世？”
如今的训练营更多的是一种心理挑战，而非体能折磨。掌握复杂的战术手册和完善技术，比在三小时训练后的全套护具冲刺跑更为重要。
“我们成长在一个勇往直前的时代。训练计划被设计得非常艰苦，”布法罗比尔队的防守协调员吉姆·利昂哈德（Jim Leonhard）说，他在 2001 年是威斯康星大学的新生，并在 NFL 效力了 10 个赛季。“我认为这让从教练、球员到医疗人员的所有人都开始反思：‘这样做是否正确？’”
与 NFL 球员协会签署的集体谈判协议在这一演变过程中起到了很大作用，科里·斯特林格的影响同样深远。
“作为一支球队共同经历艰辛能让大家团结在一起，对吧？”利昂哈德说。“以某种特定方式运行训练营或体能训练会有很多好处。但作为一名年轻球员，这件事让你意识到，比如‘我们并非无坚不摧’。这是你从中得到最大的启示。就像在想，‘天呐，我们最好照顾好自己，也照顾好彼此’。”
坎贝尔（Campbell）为美联社撰稿。美联社体育记者 Mark Anderson、David Brandt、Andrew Destin、Will Graves、Larry Lage、Brett Martel、Charles Odum、Arnie Stapleton、John Wawrow 和 Stephen Whyno 对本报道亦有贡献。
保罗·桑西亚 (Paul Sancya) 美联社
荣誉。 “当我讲述科里的故事时，它将这件事从一个如此悲伤、沉重的地方，转化为一个采取行动的地方，”凯尔西·斯特林格（Kelci Stringer）说。“采取主动总比被动应对要好。”
作者：Joaquin Ruiz
一段成为全职家庭男人的诱人生活，差点将卡利尔·麦克（Khalil Mack）从足球世界中拉走。 “在三月份签署一份为期一年、价值 1800 万美元的合同继续留在电击者队之前，我在考虑退役时一直倾向于回归，”麦克在谈到此事时说道。“但这仅仅是因为考虑到我孩子们所处的生活阶段，在作为父亲和丈夫的平衡，以及努力追求梦想之间。我觉得我仍然能够兼顾两者。” 这位未来的名人堂成员决定演出必须继续。 现在，在进入第 13 个赛季（以及在洛杉矶的第 5 个赛季）并怀揣冠军抱负之际，麦克正沉浸于他在电击者队中作为资深领袖的角色。 “无价之宝，”防守协调员克里斯·奥莱里（Chris O’Leary）在评价这位 35 岁的外线卫的存在时说道。“他是我们防守文化中的旗手。他用行动引领方向。……当他需要发声时，他就会发声。” “在那个更衣室里，有一群年轻的边缘防守球员，他们所做的一切就是观察他的一举一动 [以及] 倾听他所说的一切。这比我能说或能做的任何事情都更有价值。” 他是 2016 年年度最佳防守球员。他曾九次入选职业碗（Pro Bowl）。
[加雷特，来自 D1]
上赛季，杨（Young）创下了职业生涯最佳的 12 次擒杀记录，并被选入职业碗。 随着加雷特现在与他并肩作战，这位职业生涯第四年的球员正在汲取知识并学习他的榜样。尽管身高 6 英尺 4 英寸、体重 272 磅的加雷特所完成的发挥是他人无法复制的。 杨表示，加雷特在球开出时的启动速度非常“疯狂”，并指出加雷特的第一步就能覆盖“三到四码”。 “单就这一点来说就已经太惊人了，”杨说道。 如果三届年度最佳防守球员唐纳德（Donald）结束两年的退休生活以追求另一个超级碗冠军戒指，加雷特的影响力可能会进一步扩大。 加雷特表示，他不会试图影响唐纳德的决定。 但他承认，如果那样会令人兴奋。
高尔夫报告
作者：Doug Ferguson
PGA巡回赛正通过两项公告开始填充其2028年赛程中的“冠军系列赛”部分，其中一项令人惊讶。
Sompo（一家隶属于日本Sompo Holdings的多国保险控股及金融集团）将成为2028年赛程中一项顶级赛事的冠名赞助商，该赛事将提供2000万美元的奖金池，并由顶尖球员参赛。
Sompo将于明年在一家熟悉的地方启动——加州纳帕的Silverado度假村，斯科蒂·舍夫勒（Scottie Scheffler）曾在2025年的一场秋季赛事第19届（也是最后一届）比赛中在那里夺冠。但当巡回赛在2028年转向其“冠军”和“挑战者”赛道时，它将不再留在那里。
2027年的锦标赛将于7月29日至8月1日举行——在英国公开赛两周后——并在周末由CBS电视台转播。目前尚未确定锦标赛的名称，而更令人感兴趣的是2028年及之后的的新市场。这将在稍后公布。
PGA巡回赛渴望进入那些没有常规活动的更大市场，例如丹佛、费城、西雅图、旧金山和纽约。
总部位于百慕大的Sompo财产及意外险首席执行官James Shea表示，这次合作伙伴关系是“Sompo进一步扩大全球品牌知名度，向全球客户、合作伙伴和社区展示我们业务实力的重大机遇”。
周一，巡回赛宣布位于康涅狄格州哈特福德市外的Travelers锦标赛也将成为冠军系列赛的一部分。这在预料之中。自2007年开始的联邦快递杯（FedEx Cup）时代以来，Travelers一直是表现最好的锦标赛之一，且自2023年起一直提供2000万美元的奖金基金。
“无论以什么指标衡量，这都是一项极其成功的赛事，”PGA巡回赛首席执行官Brian Rolapp上个月在Travelers锦标赛上表示，他在那里介绍了冠军系列赛和挑战者系列赛的概念。“我认为他们做了很多我们在冠军系列赛赛事中所寻求的事情。”
闪电队的Khalil Mack在休赛期曾考虑过退休，但决定再打一个赛季。
他的职业生涯已有三次全美职业球员（All-Pro）提名。并且拥有113次擒杀记录。
尽管Mack刚刚经历了一个伤病缠身且表现低迷的年份，但他无需自我介绍。
“他是我们这一代最优秀的球员之一，”进攻协调员Mike McDaniel说道。
然而，或许比Mack在场上的影响力更有价值的是他的领导力。
“噢，伙计，我尽力而为，”Mack说。“我尝试去激励大家。”
他在这方面相当出色。无论是与新秀分享技巧，还是帮助像队友Tuli Tuipulotu这样的上升之星处理模糊的合同谈判，Mack总是让自己能够随时提供帮助，让闪电队组织内部的人成为最好的自己。
“这很独特，”Mack在谈到成为资源时说道。“当你处于那个环境时，你想成为那个你在职业生涯早期希望见到的人……进行那些你在职业早期想要进行的对话，无论是关于财务的，还是其他你想进行且能有人为你倾注心血的对话。”
顶尖防守球员Myles Garrett (95) 与 Puka Nacua (12) 和 Davante Adams (17) 在一起。
“有很多我们可以相互学习的地方，”Garrett说，“我很想在某些事情上向他请教，我想成为这位八次全美职业球员的‘共犯’（志同道合之友）。”
他在 2000 年 2 月 13 日在托里派恩斯（Torrey Pines）获得亚军时进入了奖金榜，并从此一直留在榜单上。他在 2024 年大师赛（Masters）获得最后一名所拿到的最后一张支票（$44,400）使其职业生涯总收入达到 $120,999,166。被超越是不可避免的，而且现在已在眼前。现在就看谁能第一个超过他。
罗里·麦克罗伊（Rory McIlroy）在 2009 年对阵赛（Match Play）的四分之一决赛中出局，那是他的 PGA 巡回赛首秀，他目前在榜单上排名第二，奖金为 $116,446,772。
谢夫勒（Scheffler）在 2018 年拿到了他的第一张 PGA 巡回赛支票，在 3M 公开赛（3M Open）获得亚军后，他的奖金达到了 $116,364,411。
这意味着在进入利润丰厚的联邦快递杯（FedEx Cup）季后赛之前，他们两人距离伍兹（Woods）都仅差 $4 million 多一点——两场季后赛赛事各有 $20 奖金池，而巡回赛冠军赛（Tour Championship）拥有 $40 奖金池，现在这部分被计入正式奖金。
陆军上尉赢得大奖赛资历
马克（Mack）在年幼时于奥克兰在资深老将查尔斯·伍德森（Charles Woodson）和贾斯汀·塔克（Justin Tuck）的指导下，意识到了传承知识的重要性。
“我觉得那是我的职业生涯的催化剂。我有他们可以依靠，有那些榜样可以学习，”马克说道。
如今，这位来自布法罗的球员站在了街道的另一边，作为联盟中较年长的球星之一，为下一代铺路。
“我有朋友已经不打球了，”马克开玩笑地说。
Robert Gauthier 洛杉矶时报
“他们会说，‘嘿，马克，这边很寂寞。’他们总是谈论更衣室和同志情谊。这就是意识到身在更衣室中、与队友在一起并尽可能享受其中的感觉是多么特别。”
说到这一点，马克将品味训练营的每一个瞬间作为重点。
除了展现出这种风范，他已经花时间帮助队友改进技术，抓住每一个教学机会。
“他走过来问我三件事，关于他如何攻击他的对位球员，我认为反之亦然。”
斯科蒂·谢夫勒（SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER）在大奖赛中的杆数表现稳健，但没有奖杯。
普伦基特（Plunkett）从皇家比尔克代尔（Royal Birkdale）匆匆赶回，参加 PGA 澳新巡回赛的美国预选赛。首先，他必须去一家体育用品店为这项四轮赛事买一辆推车。他在佐治亚州瓦尔多斯塔附近的金德卢森林高尔夫俱乐部（Kinderlou Forest Golf Club）并列第二，赢得了下赛季的参赛资格。
“第一轮我肯定有点神志不清，但随着这一周的推进，开始感觉有点恢复正常了，”普伦基特说。
他说他从未去过澳大利亚，但他在大洋彼岸的所有朋友都告诉他那里的咖啡是最好的，“所以我得看看他们是不是在拿这件事开我玩笑。”
普伦基特在西点军校毕业后在陆军服役五年，已经拥有 Korn Ferry 巡回赛的参赛资格，目前在亚巡赛（Asian Tour）打球。
“我有亚巡赛的身份，所以我正试图找出未来在两者之间如何平衡，”他说。“但我真的很兴奋能去澳大利亚，在那里的链路球场上打球。”
谢夫勒的大奖赛表现镜像了他的赛季表现
在训练营期间，加勒特（Garrett）和队友们专注于将他们的天赋融合在防守端的三个层级上。
加勒特绝对是一个“天赋异禀的运动员”，锋线球员科比·特纳（Kobie Turner）说道。
“我们绝对明白应该开启什么样的机会，”上赛季获得 7 次擒杀的特纳说，“如果这些机会没有开启，而他们让他单挑，他将会利用这一点。”
莱克（Lake）表示，加勒特将占据主导地位是“毋庸置疑”的。
“所以现在，”他说，“只要确保，‘嘿，我们能否做好自己的工作，好让这家伙在那边也能尽情发挥？’”
加勒特已经融入了公羊队的文化，这种文化是在麦克维（McVay）执教的九个赛季中建立的，期间公羊队七次进入季后赛，两次打入超级碗并赢得一次冠军。
Scheffler 在今年的四大赛中总杆数低于标准杆最多，最终成绩为低于标准杆 21 杆，但这是他自 2023 年以来首次未能获得大满贯冠军奖杯。 这位世界排名第 1 的选手在大师赛中获得亚军，在美国公开赛和英国公开赛中并列第四。
“需要改进的地方，”麦克在训练结束后谈到帮助新秀进攻截锋特拉维斯·伯克时表示。“我引导他处理那些事情……有点像乔 [奥尔特] 第一年的样子。无论我能分享什么，我都会分享，因为我希望他们能成为最好的自己。” 没有人会对这位身披 52 号球衣的人有任何差评。 相反，闪电队组织中的每个人都知道麦克在日常运作中是多么不可或缺。 “目前，[这些新秀] 不知道除了德温 [詹姆斯] 的方式、贾斯汀 [赫伯特] 的方式、K-麦克的方式之外，还有什么其他方式，”教练吉姆·哈博说道。“除了这些顶尖球员处理事务的方式，他们不知道其他任何方式。……” 麦克是职业球员典范的缩影。 自从在 2014 年选秀中成为总第 5 顺位被选中以来，他一直是同代人中最具统治力的冲传手之一，也是收入最高的球员之一，并且在两者之间，他扮演了终极队长的角色。 “早年有很多教练在我耳边叮嘱我要专业，”麦克说。“我觉得这有助于延长我的职业生涯。……你可以选择你想要的部分，选择对你有用的部分……这就是我给出的建议。” 麦克回到闪电队是为了竞争文斯·隆巴迪奖杯。 但扮演队友们的“大哥”，已然成为一个令人愉快的副线剧情。 “哈博教练怎么说？”麦克反问道。“人类未知之热情。”
他渴望分享自己的知识和经验，但同时也愿意向年轻的队友学习。公羊队的防线前锋包括杨、特纳，以及林线员布雷登·费斯克和普纳·福特等人。 “这个群体在我加入前表现就很出色，”加勒特说。“我只想尝试帮助提升其他球员以及我们这里的组织者。” 他说，在训练营以及赛季准备阶段，仍然有“很多生锈的地方需要磨掉”。 公羊队在澳大利亚墨尔本对阵旧金山 49 人的揭幕战，将是他们衡量加勒特在场之利的首次机会。 这是一个赛季的开始，公羊队的目标是在 SoFi 体育场以赢得超级碗冠军来结束这一季。 “也许，”加勒特说，“这种气场会随着时间的推移而增强。”
杰西卡·希尔美联社
并在 PGA 锦标赛中并列第 14 位。这一切意味着什么？这意味着他的球风一直相当不错，就像在 2026 赛季的其他时间里一样——这个赛季他有 5 次获得亚军，但只有 1 次获胜。 “我一直感到自豪的事情之一就是稳定性。这表明我的球技相当不错，”Scheffler 上周在 3M 公开赛前表示。“只是还不足以在一些赛事中夺冠。” “我还没有打出什么伟大的表现，但在整个赛季中，我的球打得还算不错。”
作者：Jose de Jesus Ortiz
纽约州库珀斯敦 —— 上周末进入国家棒球名人堂的奖牌馆时，达斯蒂·贝克（Dusty Baker）能感受到生命的一部分在眼前闪过。
他不由得注意到，在他效力于亚特兰大勇士队和道奇队时的一些同辈，现在走得慢了，有些甚至需要拐杖或助理的帮助。
“很高兴见到大家，”77 岁的贝克说道。“但你知道，我们老了。我看到以前跑得很快的人现在得用助行器，[而且]他们的孩子都已经长大了。你感觉生命就像电影一样在眼前闪回。”
上周日，杰夫·肯特（Jeff Kent）、卡洛斯·贝尔特兰（Carlos Beltran）和安德鲁·琼斯（Andruw Jones）入堂时，共有创纪录的 60 位棒球名人堂成员聚集在库珀斯敦。贝克随旧金山巨人的代表团一同前往庆祝肯特入堂。肯特将自己的蜕变归功于贝克的帮助，他曾是 2000 年国家联盟最有价值球员、五次全明星，并最终进入名人堂。
然而，尽管贝克试图将注意力集中在肯特身上，但许多人不断告诉他，这次访问是他明年夏天入堂的前奏。他们提醒他，他预计将在 12 月出现在名人堂当代棒球时代委员会（Contemporary Baseball Era Committee）的投票名单中。
如果贝克能获得 16 人委员会中至少 12 票的支持，他将成为首位当选的黑人主教练。
[道奇队，接自 D1]
将球击入右外野看台，完成了一次两分本垒打。
得益于左投手科尔·欧文（Cole Irvin），道奇队仅使用了四名投手。欧文在周五被召回以提供大量投球数。
在先发投球手埃德加多·恩里克塞斯（Edgardo Henriquez）完成一局无失分投球后，威尔·克莱因（Will Klein）的挣扎仍在继续。克莱因此前已陷入为期三周的低谷，期间一直在与糟糕的投球动作作斗争；本场他被击出 3 支安打，出现一次错误的持球截击尝试，保送一人，并击中了威尔逊·康特拉斯（Willson Contreras）的头盔。
克莱因在 1 1 / 3 局中被计 3 分（其中 1 分为自责分）。
随后，欧文完成了他在道奇队的首秀。这位旅途奔波的投手起初表现相当高效，但在第七局溃败，在面对 10 名击球手期间失掉 5 分。
他在六局中被击出 8 支安打，失 6 分。这次尝试至少让牛棚的其他球员保持了体力。
“一个能为家乡球队之一效力的橙县孩子，这非常特别。对此我非常感激，感到快乐且幸运，”来自安纳海姆 Servite 高中的欧文说道。“输球很糟糕，但在我的内心深处...”
巨人队在巴德发生踏板车车祸后暂停对其支付薪水
美联社
由于外野手哈里森·巴德（Harrison Bader）在上周末的一次踏板车事故中加重了左脚伤势，旧金山巨人队正暂停向其支付薪水。
巴德自 5 月下旬起就因左脚足底筋膜炎而缺阵。球队表示，在周日凌晨旧金山发生该事故后，伤情有所恶化。
“在周末期间，哈里森·巴德卷入了一起事故，这推迟了哈里森之前治疗足底筋膜炎的时间表，不幸的是，也推迟了他的赛场回归，”巨人队棒球运营总裁巴斯特·波西（Buster Posey）在周五的一份声明中表示。“我们仍在调查事故情况，但在哈里森能够恢复为俱乐部提供服务之前，我们将暂停向其支付薪水。”
巴德在本赛季前与巨人队签署了一份为期两年、价值 $20.5 百万美元的合同，其中本赛季的基本工资为 $4.5 百万美元。他在本赛季剩余时间内的应得金额为 $1.42 百万美元。
《纪事报》报道称，巴德是在周日凌晨 2 点左右在马里纳区（Marina District）骑踏板车时发生车辆碰撞。他被送往医院治疗，伤势不危及生命。
达斯蒂·贝克（DUSTY BAKER）以 2,183 场胜利位列史上最成功主教练第八名。
——进入名人堂。 “我知道这段历史，”贝克说。“我很幸运能在初期就接触到汉克·亚伦 [Aaron]。”
贝克从小就崇拜杰基·罗宾逊（Jackie Robinson），后者在 1947 年 4 月 15 日打破了棒球的种族藩篱，而这在约翰尼·B. “达斯蒂”·贝克出生于里弗赛德（Riverside）的 26 个月前。
通过吉姆·吉利亚姆（Jim Gilliam）—— 1953 年国联年度最佳新秀，他在加入布鲁克林道奇队之前曾在黑人联盟的巴尔的摩精英巨人队（Baltimore Elite Giants）效力三个赛季——贝克接触到了几位黑人联盟的伟大人物。
吉利亚姆曾带贝克去圣路易斯，在黑人联盟传奇人物“酷爸爸”贝尔（Cool Papa Bell）家中吃午餐。贝克还与萨切尔·佩吉（Satchel Paige）和特德·“双职”·拉德克利夫（Ted “Double Duty” Radcliffe）共度过一段时间。由于与他的布雷夫斯队导师亚伦的友谊，以及在道奇队的时光，
这让我感到自豪能够穿上道奇队的蓝色球衣。”
每年的这个时候，随着周一交易截止日的临近，整个大联盟球队都将牛棚深度视为首要考量。
道奇队全年都会抓住机会增加救援投手。
但道奇队棒球运营总裁安德鲁·弗里德曼（Andrew Friedman）上周指出，他们在休赛期期间努力工作，以防止在交易截止日出现“紧急需求”。
这包括他们的救援投手群。
“当你产生紧急需求时，挑战非常大，因为你支付的是 150 分或 200 分的溢价，”弗里德曼说。“所以我们尝试尽一切努力避免陷入必须采取行动的境地。但当你处于能够对潜在可用资源进行更多选择和机会主义考量的位置时，这会让你处于更有利的局面。因此，我们能拥有多少灵活性，就越好。”
迪亚兹的球速回归了 终结者埃德温·迪亚兹（Edwin Díaz）在从伤病名单回归后的前两场比赛中并非表现完美。
巨人队的哈里森·巴德上周末在马里纳区发生踏板车车祸导致左脚受伤。
贝克接触到了罗伊·坎帕内拉（Roy Campanella）和唐·纽坎比（Don Newcombe），两人在加入布鲁克林道奇队之前都在黑人联盟度过了一段时间。
贝尔、佩吉和坎帕内拉全部入选了名人堂。佩吉是第一位在 1971 年入选名人堂的黑人联盟球员，而在此五年前，特德·威廉姆斯（Ted Williams）在入职演说中为这些球员发声。
“棒球给了每个美国男孩一个卓越的机会，不仅是变得和别人一样好，而是变得比别人更好，”威廉姆斯在 1966 年 7 月 25 日说。“这是人性使然，也是这项运动的精髓，我一直觉得自己非常幸运能够穿上棒球制服，无论是被三振出局还是击出超长距离的全垒打。”
“我希望有一天，萨切尔·佩吉和乔什·吉布森（Josh Gibson）的名字能出现在……”
科尔·欧文（COLE IRVIN）在第七局失掉五分后，凝视着休息区外。
但在经历了手术去除右肘部的五个游离体，以及为期三个月重返大联盟投手丘的康复过程后，人们对他并没有太高的预期。 “在回归的第一场比赛中，我有点焦虑，”迪亚兹（Díaz）在面对西雅图水手队时被击出两支安打并失一分、并在周三录得第五次救援成功后说道。 “但我投出了好球，完成了投球，而且最终[我们]赢得了比赛。明天，我们将观看视频，看看他们[在面对]速球时看到了什么，并做出调整，尝试在下次投球时让他们挥空。” 最大的积极因素是他的速球球速。迪亚兹的
大卫·扎卢博夫斯基（David Zalubowski）美联社
双城队增强薄弱的牛棚 明尼苏达双城队从纽约大都会队交易得到了左投手 A.J. 敏特（A.J. Minter），代价是送出小联盟内野手布鲁因·阿格巴亚尼（Bruin Agbayani）和比利·艾米克（Billy Amick），旨在交易截止日期前加强周五薄弱的牛棚。 19 岁的阿格巴亚尼是前
吉娜·费拉齐（Gina Ferazzi） 洛杉矶时报
可以用某种方式将其添加为那些伟大的黑人球员的象征，他们不在这里，仅仅是因为他们没有获得机会。” 罗宾逊在 1962 年成为首位由美国棒球记者协会选入名人堂的黑人球员。 直到佩吉（Paige）在 1971 届入选之前，黑人联盟（Negro Leaguers）的球员并不被考虑进入名人堂。一年后，吉布森（Gibson）入选。鲁比·福斯特（Rube Foster）在建立起“黑人棒球之父”声誉的过程中，职业生涯担任了多种角色，他是首位作为先驱或行政人员入选的黑人联盟成员。 贝克（Baker）在 1974 年首次访问名人堂参加一场表演赛。他上周末第三次前往库珀斯敦，而这次是他首次为了参加入选仪式而访问。 恰好在 60 年后
大都会队的球迷宠儿，贝尼·阿格巴亚尼（Benny Agbayani）是一名中游内野手，本赛季在低 A 级 Fort Myers 的 10 场比赛中击率 .268。这位 2025 年第六轮选秀球员来自夏威夷，此前一直受到伤病困扰。随后，双城队从巴尔的摩金莺队交易得到了右投手迪安·克雷默（Dean Kremer），以换取小联盟外野手乔姆纳多·雷耶斯（Jhomnardo Reyes）。 30 岁的克雷默本赛季在七次先发中自防御率为 6.50。这位拥有七年经验的右投手在 133 场比赛中取得了 42-44 的战绩，职业生涯防御率为 4.37，所有比赛均在金莺队效力。
其他变动 匹兹堡海盗队从纽约洋基队交易得到了救援投手卡米洛·多瓦尔（Camilo Doval），希望为他们陷入困境的牛棚提供助力。一名知情人士告诉美联社，匹兹堡将送出潜力新秀捕手奥马尔·阿尔丰索（Omar Alfonso）和外野手路易斯·克鲁兹（Luis Cruz）到纽约以换取多瓦尔。 ... 克利夫兰守护者队交易得到了外野手布莱克·珀金斯（Blake Perkins）和右投手
在名义堂阶梯上发表完威廉姆斯的入职演讲后，贝克走进大厅，受到了另一位波士顿红袜队传奇人物大卫·奥蒂兹的雷鸣般欢呼。贝克灿烂地微笑着，点头示意，用西班牙语向奥蒂兹打招呼，轻笑着走到他以及弗拉迪米尔·格雷罗身边，给他们每人一个拥抱并拍了拍背。
几秒钟后，戴夫·温菲尔德加入了这个三人组一起拍照，随后贝克和他的妻子开始与其他名人堂成员及嘉宾交流。
当晚，在巨人队为肯特举办的荣誉派对上，他在一段简短的演讲中向家人、贝克以及几位队友致敬。
随后，肯特预测贝克明年将回归，在棒球的不朽之林中占据一席之地。贝克在担任经理的 26 个赛季中，曾率领五支球队进入季后赛（创纪录），并获得了一次世界大赛冠军和三次分区冠军。
他的经理胜场数在棒球史上排名第八，共 2,183 场，是唯一一位赢得 2,000 场胜利的黑人经理。
周日上午，贝克坐在奥特塞加度假村（Otesaga Resort）里，一边啜饮咖啡，一边啃着特脆培根和蓝莓煎饼。这里是名人堂成员在入职周末期间下榻的地方。他望着奥特塞戈湖，期间有几位名人堂成员停下来向他问好。
奇珀·琼斯走过来地说：“你是不是在为明年的那个座位除尘，达斯蒂？”
贝克大笑着摇了摇头，然后称呼琼斯的名字，拉里。
“没有任何保证，所以如果没有……”
球速在年初有所下降，在他进入伤病名单前的最后两次出场中，球速下降到约 95.5 英里 / 小时。
根据 Statcast 的数据，周三他的快速球平均时速为 96.9 英里 / 小时，最高触及 98.9 英里 / 小时。
“我认为第二天的表现比第一天更好，能让他……”
密尔沃基酿造者队的投手克雷格·约霍被交易至捕捉手波·内勒和右投手科迪·休尔。
内勒和休尔已被列入酿造者队的 40 人名单，并被分配至 3A 纳什维尔队。
等等。
西雅图水手队周五将三垒手 J.P. 克劳福德列入 10 天伤病名单，原因为左腕炎症。……底特律老虎队周五从小联盟征召了备受关注的外野新秀马克斯·克拉克，并在进入交易截止日期前的最后一个系列赛之际，将凯西·迈兹从预定的先发名单中删除。……克莱·霍姆斯准备进行他的第三次康复先发，他正从右腓骨骨折中恢复，并且他认为这有可能是他作为纽约大都会队成员的最后一次先发。……匹兹堡海盗队将瑞安·奥赫恩列入 10 天伤病名单，原因为左四头肌拉伤，预计将缺席六到八周。
“保证？”贝克说道。 “我是认真的。当我这么说的时候，人们觉得我在开玩笑。当比尔·贝尔切克没有进入[职业橄榄球]名人堂时，任何人都有可能进不去名人堂。 “我说的对吧？我就是这么看的。我对此感到震惊。他们可以讨论‘ the Deflategate’（通气门事件），可以讨论媒体。但他赢得的其他 6 次[超级碗]冠军怎么算？” 尽管如此，贝克很清楚，一名黑人经理最终被选入棒球名人堂将意味着什么。 “但我的大部分生活都充满了‘第一个黑人’的故事，从我上高中起就是关于黑人的故事，”他说。“在我高三那年，我高中里的两个黑人就是我和我哥哥。 “这也是我进入葡萄酒行业的部分原因。葡萄酒行业里黑人并不多。我进入但后来离开能源行业的一个原因，也是因为能源行业里黑人不多。” 棒球名人堂至今共有 354 位入选者，其中 23 位是经理。 贝克很可能在明年夏天成为第一位入选的黑人经理。 “我的父母在文化教育中教会了我作为黑人的自豪感，”他说。“我母亲非常看重[黑人历史]，因为她是一名黑人研究教师，所以我有书可读。…… “我希望能够激励其他年轻的兄弟姐妹去实现一些看似无法实现的目标。当我看到黑人教练、黑人球员以及棒球界黑人的地位在退步时，我会感到有些沮丧。”
“回来，”罗伯茨说。 周四，迪亚斯在一局无失分中将水手队的安打限制在 1 支，并完成了两次三振。 罗伯茨表示，由于连续两天投球，迪亚斯预计在周日之前无法出战。
Stewart 受伤 道奇队将布罗克·斯图尔特（防御率 2.45）放入 15 天伤病名单（IL），原因是右肩不适；对应的积极名单变动是为了给欧文腾出空间——这对道奇队的右投手高杠杆深度是一个打击。他们还指定右投手切斯·麦克德莫特离队，以腾出 40 人名单的空间。 “应该是短期内，”罗伯茨谈到斯图尔特的伤病名单逗留期时说。“他在激活期间表现出色，投球非常好。所以我们必须确保，在赛程允许的情况下，对他进行保护，让他休息几周，然后再让他回归。 “这件事我们采取了预先采取措施，并尝试与布罗克沟通，让他理解我们的想法。在牛棚日，我们只是为了确保覆盖面，不想让他或任何其他人处于危险之中。” 这是斯图尔特本赛季第三次进入伤病名单。他本年初在恢复右肩手术后的状态，该手术导致他上赛季提前结束。 随后，在 5 月初被激活几天后，由于左脚骨刺加重，他再次进入伤病名单。 他在 6 月下旬再次回归。 “这更多的是一种形式，”罗伯茨说。“我深信，训练团队也相信这将是短期的。”
不催促 Snell 由于大谷翔平停止投球，道奇队此前考虑让布莱克·斯内尔（接受了肘部游离体手术）提前结束康复指派并回归，以填补空缺。 但他们最终决定让斯内尔本周在 3A 级别进行另一次康复先发，目标是投 5 局。 通过在周五采用牛棚战术，道奇队为原定于周六和周日对阵红袜队的山本由伸和埃米特·希汉争取到了整整一周的休息时间。 同时，他们也避免了让贾斯汀·罗布莱斯基在常规休息时间内投球。
国家联盟
西区 胜 负 胜率 距离榜首 近10场 道奇 69 41 .627 — 6-4
亚利桑那 58 52 .527 11 7-3
圣迭戈 56 54 .509 13 7-3
旧金山 47 63 .427 22 5-5
科罗拉多 43 67 .391 26 3-7
中区 胜 负 胜率 距离榜首 近10场 密尔沃基 68 41 .624 — 6-4
芝加哥 62 48 .564 61⁄2
匹兹堡 55 56 .495 14 3-7
圣路易斯 54 .491 141⁄2
辛辛那提 52 57 .477 16
东区 亚特兰大 65 45 .591
费城 57 53 .518 8 2-8
迈阿密 55 .505 91⁄2 4-6
华盛顿 .495 101⁄2 4-6
纽约 47 64 .423 181⁄2 5-5
美国联盟
西区 休斯敦 .505 9-1
德克萨斯 .500 1⁄2
西雅图 53 58 .477 3 2-8
奥克兰 45 65 .409 101⁄2
天使 42 68 .382 131⁄2
中区 芝加哥 51 .532
克利夫兰 3
明尼苏达
底特律 .473 61⁄2
堪萨斯城 46 .414 13
东区 坦帕湾 64 .587
纽约 62 48 .564 21⁄2
波士顿 51 .532 6
巴尔的摩 .491 101⁄2
多伦多 59 .464 131⁄2
今日赛程 道奇 vs. 波士顿 ......................... 4:20 p.m. 天使 vs. 密尔沃基 ...................... 12:15 p.m. 华盛顿 在 亚特兰大 .................... 10:35 a.m. 费城 在 巴尔的摩 ...................... 10:35 a.m. 圣路易斯 在 多伦多 .................... 10:37 a.m. 匹兹堡 在 辛辛那提 .................... 10:40 a.m. 芝加哥 (AL) 在 坦帕湾 ............... 10:40 a.m. 迈阿密 在 纽约 (NL) .................. 10:40 a.m. 亚利桑那 在 克利夫兰 ................. 10:40 a.m. 德克萨斯 在 休斯敦 .................... 11:10 a.m. 纽约 (AL) 在 芝加哥 (NL) ............ 11:20 a.m. 堪萨斯城 在 科罗拉多 ................ 12:10 p.m. 底特律 在 奥克兰 ....................... 1:05 p.m. 明尼苏达 在 西雅图 .................... 1:10 p.m. 旧金山 在 圣迭戈 ....................... 1:10 p.m.
波士顿 9, 道奇 4
波士顿 打数 得分 安打 敲击分 击球率 Sogard 2b-1b 4 2 1 0 .273 Rafaela cf 5 2 3 2 .286 Abreu rf 4 1 1 0 .248 Contreras 1b 1 0 0 0 .288 Seigler 2b 3 0 0 0 .248 Yoshida dh 5 1 2 1 .264 1-Jones dh 0 1 0 0 .167 Durbin 3b 4 2 2 0 .246 Monasterio ss 5 0 1 2 .258 Duran lf 4 0 2 2 .198 Narváez c 3 0 0 1 .189 总计 38 9 12 8
012 000 501 —9 12 0 洛杉矶 000 130 000 —4 10 2 四坏球—波士顿 5: Sogard 2, Abreu 1, Durbin 1, Duran 1。洛杉矶 3: Pages 1, Tucker 1, Muncy 1。三振—波士顿 9: Sogard 1, Rafaela 1, Abreu 2, Contreras 1, Monasterio 1, Narváez 3。洛杉矶 5: Ohtani 1, Pages 1, Betts 1, T.Hernández 1, Tucker 1。失误—Klein (1), Freeman (1)。留在垒上的跑者—波士顿 10, 洛 杉矶 7。二垒安打—Monasterio (18), Durbin (20), Ohtani (22)。全垒打—Rafaela (12), 击球投手 Irvin; Ohtani (24), 击球投手 Morán。敲击分—Duran 2 (56), Yoshida (20), Rafaela 2 (54), Monasterio 2 (23), Narváez (10), Freeman (54), Alfonzo (3), Ohtani 2 (67)。盗垒—Rafaela (15)。牺牲击球—Narváez。留在得分位置的跑者—波士顿 7; 洛杉矶 3 (Alfonzo 2, Muncy)。得分位置跑者击球 (RISP)—波士顿 3 for 17; 洛杉矶 3 for 9。 推进跑者—Duran, Rojas, T.Hernández。击球双杀—Seigler, Rojas。 双杀—波士顿 1; 洛杉矶 1。 局数 安打 失分 自责分 四坏球 三振 总球数 防御率 Suarez........................42⁄3 4 2 3.15 Morán..........................1⁄3 1 1 0 16 2.84 Bello, W, 3-6 ..................4 5.30 洛杉矶 局数 安打 失分 自责分 四坏球 三振 总球数 防御率 Henriquez......................1 21 2.72 Klein..........................11⁄3 39 3.67 Irvin, L, 0-1....................6 8 6 5 102 9.00 Phillips.........................2⁄3 5 6.14 承接跑者得分—Morán 1-1, Bello 1-0, Irvin 3-2, Phillips 2-1。 故意四坏球—Bello (Muncy), Phillips (Duran)。触身球—Klein (Contreras), Irvin (Narváez)。野手失误送分—Morán, Klein。裁判争议—Bello (投手); Phillips (投手)。 裁判组— Gabe Morales, Doug Eddings, Mike Muchlinski, Emil Jimenez。用时—2:53。 售票数—47,903 (56,000)。
芝加哥白袜 6, 坦帕湾 1
芝加哥 AB R H BI Avg. Antonacci lf 5 1 1 0 .282 Murakami 1b 4 2 2 2 .244 Vargas 3b 3 1 1 1 .240 C.Montgomery ss 4 1 1 2 .217 Benintendi dh 3 1 2 1 .247 B.Montgomery rf 4 0 0 0 .237 Peters cf 4 0 0 0 .268 Meidroth 2b 3 0 0 0 .272 Romo c 4 0 1 0 .138 Totals 34 6 8 6
芝加哥 112 002 000 —6 8 2 坦帕湾 000 100 000 —1 5 0 四球—芝加哥 2: Vargas 1, Benintendi 1。坦帕湾 2: Caminero 2。 三振—芝加哥 2: C.Montgomery 2。坦帕湾 9: Díaz 2, Caminero 1, Mullins 1, Vilade 1, Simpson 1, Palacios 1, Walls 1, Feduccia 1。失误—Romo (6), Meidroth (5)。留在垒上的跑者 (LOB)—芝加哥 4, 坦帕湾 6。二垒安打 (2B)—Mullins (7), Díaz (19)。 全垒打 (HR)—Vargas (23)，对方投手 Martinez；Benintendi (11)，对方投手 Martinez；Murakami (24)，对方投手 Martinez；C.Montgomery (25)，对方投手 Martinez；Caminero (30)，对方投手 Fedde。 打点 (RBIs)—Vargas (64), Benintendi (56), Murakami 2 (51), C.Montgomery 2 (63), Caminero (66)。留在得分位置的跑者—芝加哥 1 (B.Montgomery)；坦帕湾 3 (Palacios, Mesa, Vilade)。得分位置跑者安打 (RISP)—芝加哥 0 for 1；坦帕湾 0 for 6。跑者推进—Mesa, Aranda。
IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Fedde, W, 6-6.................5 4 1 1 0 6 91 4.13 Schweitzer, H, 2...............3 2 43 2.78 Richards........................1 14 3.47
坦帕湾 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Martinez, L, 10-3 .............6 7 6 77 2.77 Cook............................2 38 0.00 Roycroft ........................1 10 7.91 触球 (HBP)—Roycroft (Meidroth)。 裁判— Malachi Moore, Alfonso Marquez, Mike Estabrook, Dillon Wilson。 用时—2:26。售票人数—20,661 (25,025)。
休斯顿 11, 德克萨斯 2
德克萨斯 AB R H BI Avg. Pederson dh 1 1 1 1 .254 c-Foscue dh-2b 1 0 0 0 .260 Langford lf 4 0 1 0 .277 Seager ss 3 1 2 0 .189 d-Cauley ss 1 0 0 0 .227 Nimmo rf 4 0 0 0 .264 Duran 3b 4 0 1 0 .269 Carter cf 4 0 2 1 .207 Burger 1b 4 0 1 0 .236 Lopez 2b-p 4 0 0 0 .289 Wynns c 2 0 0 0 .091 a-Osuna 0 0 0 0 .258 b-Díaz c 1 0 0 0 .248 Totals 33 2 8 2
德克萨斯 000 002 000 — 2 8 休斯顿 030 120 41x —11 18 四球—德克萨斯 2: Pederson 2。休斯顿 5: Alvarez 2, Paredes 2, Wade 1。 三振—德克萨斯 7: Langford 1, Seager 1, Cauley 1, Nimmo 1, Duran 1, Burger 1, Díaz 1。休斯顿 8: Peña 1, Alvarez 1, Altuve 2, Trammell 1, Wade 1, Smith 2。 留在垒上的跑者 (LOB)—德克萨斯 6, 休斯顿 12。二垒安打 (2B)—Seager (7), Trammell (6), Wade (3), Peña (11)。 三垒安打 (3B)—Smith (2)。全垒打 (HR)—Pederson (20)，对方投手 Brown；Paredes (15)，对方投手 Eovaldi；Walker (22)，对方投手 Eovaldi；Diaz (8)，对方投手 Curvelo。打点 (RBIs)—Pederson (42), Carter (29), Wade (12), Alvarez 2 (82), Peña 3 (34), Paredes 2 (60), Walker (63), Diaz (26), Spence (3)。盗垒失败 (CS)—Carter (2)。留在得分位置的跑者—德克萨斯 2 (Seager, Burger)；休斯顿 5 (Walker 2, Dezenzo 2, Paredes)。得分位置跑者安打 (RISP)—德克萨斯 2 for 6；休斯顿 8 for 15。得分位置跑者击球双杀 (GIDP)—Nimmo, Walker。双杀 (DP)—德克萨斯 1 (Lopez, Burger)；休斯顿 1 (Altuve, Peña, Walker)。
Eovaldi, L, 10-9...............5 10 5 94 4.31 Curvelo .........................2 4 54 9.58 Lopez...........................1 24 9.00
休斯顿 Brown, W, 3-1...............52⁄3 104 3.42 De Los Santos ................2⁄3 10 4.26 Sousa ..........................2⁄3 9 3.38 Blubaugh.......................1 13 3.69 King.............................1 13 3.66 承接跑者得分—De Los Santos 2-1。故意四球 (IBB)—由 Curvelo 投给 Alvarez。 触球 (HBP)—Eovaldi (Peña)。救援成功 (S)—Curvelo (投手)。 裁判— Clint Vondrak, Adam Hamari, Todd Tichenor, Tyler Jones。用时—3:01。售票人数—36,621 (41,000)。
洛杉矶 Ohtani dh 5 2 2 2 .291 Pages cf 4 0 1 0 .269 Rojas 2b 4 0 0 0 .276 Freeman 1b 4 0 3 1 .305 Betts ss 4 0 1 0 .233 T.Hernández lf 4 0 0 0 .248 Tucker rf 3 1 1 0 .236 E.Hernández 3b 2 0 1 0 .556 a-Muncy 3b 1 0 0 0 .252 Alfonzo c 4 1 1 1 .200 35 4 10 4
Díaz dh 4 0 1 0 .302 Aranda 1b 4 0 0 0 .281 Caminero 3b 2 1 1 1 .282 Mullins cf 3 0 1 0 .203 a-Vilade rf 1 0 0 0 .256 Simpson lf 4 0 1 0 .290 Mesa rf-cf 4 0 0 0 .217 Palacios 2b 4 0 0 0 .226 Walls ss 3 0 0 0 .214 Feduccia c 3 0 1 0 .234 32 1 5 1
[!NOTE] 本章节源文包含大量外语数据与图片版面，已进行结构化对齐优化。
休斯顿 AB R H BI Avg. Peña ss 5 1 3 3 .317 Alvarez dh 3 0 2 2 .324 e-Dezenzo dh 1 0 0 0 .222 Paredes 3b 3 1 2 2 .257 Walker 1b 5 1 1 1 .235 Altuve 2b 4 0 0 0 .231 Allen 2b 1 1 1 0 .265 Trammell cf-lf 5 1 1 0 .237 Diaz c 5 2 4 1 .261 Wade lf 3 1 1 1 .175 1-Spence cf 1 1 1 1 .162 Smith rf 5 2 2 0 .207 Totals 41 11 18 11
William Liang 美联社 天使队遭遇四连败
天使队先发投手 Ryan Johnson 在周五以 2-6 负于密尔沃基酿造人的比赛中，投了 41⁄3 局，被击出 6 安打并失 5 分。
作者：Mike DiGiovanna
Brice Turang 和 Jake Bauers 在第五局通过本垒打帮助球队在该局拿下 5 分，Shane Drohan 在 6 局中三振 7 人，密尔沃基酿造人在周五晚上的天使球场以 6-2 击败天使队。
Drohan (6-4) 在 4 次安打中失 2 分，并有 1 次保送。这是他为在国家联盟中区领先的酿造人队连续第五次先发投球达到 6 局或更多。
密尔沃基 6，天使 2
密尔沃基 AB R H BI Avg. Turang 2b 3 1 1 2 .271 Chourio lf 5 1 1 0 .273 Yelich dh 5 0 1 0 .240 Contreras c 4 1 1 0 .272 Bauers 1b 4 2 2 3 .269 Mitchell cf 4 0 2 0 .269 Lara rf 4 0 0 0 .261 Hamilton 3b 5 0 0 0 .236 Pratt ss 2 1 1 1 .288 Totals 36 6 9 6
密尔沃基 010 050 000 —6 9 0 天使 000 020 000 —2 4 1 保送—密尔沃基 8: Turang 2, Contreras 1, Bauers 1, Mitchell 1, Lara 1, Pratt 2。天使 1: Siri 1。 三振—密尔沃基 8: Chourio 3, Yelich 1, Contreras 1, Mitchell 1, Lara 1, Pratt 1。天使 10: Neto 2, Trout 1, Schanuel 1, Soler 1, Grissom 2, Adell 3。 失误—Siri (2)。留在一垒 / 二垒—密尔沃基 11, 天使 3。二垒安打—Contreras (16), Mitchell (23)。 本垒打—Turang (16), 对阵 Johnson; Bauers (19), 对阵 Fermin; Guzman (5), 对阵 Drohan。 打点—Pratt (15), Turang 2 (68), Bauers 3 (63), Guzman 2 (16)。盗垒—Yelich (9), Pratt (10), Mitchell (8)。 得点圈留垒—密尔沃基 8 (Contreras, Yelich, Hamilton 2, Turang 2, Bauers, Lara); 天使 0。得点圈打击—密尔沃基 2 for 17; 天使 0 for 1。 推进跑者—Lara。双杀出局—Soler。 双杀—密尔沃基 1 (Hamilton, Bauers)。
IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Drohan, W, 6-4................6 4 2 2 1 7 86 3.48 Anderson.....................11⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 23 3.70 Uribe ...........................2⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 9 2.28 Megill...........................1 0 0 0 0 1 14 2.90
天使 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Johnson, L, 2-6 .............41⁄3 6 5 5 3 3 88 7.63 Fermin........................22⁄3 3 1 1 1 4 36 2.72 Murphy .........................1 0 0 0 2 1 27 0.00 Bachman.......................1 0 0 0 2 0 23 4.17
承接跑者得分—Uribe 1-0, Fermin 2-2。触身球—Anderson (Meckler)。野手不昧操—Johnson。 裁判— Carlos Torres, Mark Wegner, Steven Jaschinski, Nate Tomlinson。 时长—2:45。售票数—43,720 (45,517)。
多伦多 3，圣路易斯 1
圣路易斯 Wetherholt 2b 3 0 0 0 .251 Walker rf 4 0 1 1 .281 Burleson 1b 3 0 1 0 .282 Herrera dh 4 0 0 0 .244 Nootbaar lf 4 0 0 0 .235 Winn ss 3 0 1 0 .243 Church cf 4 1 2 0 .226 Fermín 3b 4 0 0 0 .241 Crooks c 3 0 0 0 .165 32 1 5 1
圣路易斯 000 010 000 —1 5 0 多伦多 000 001 02x —3 9 0 四次球—圣路易斯 3：Wetherholt 1, Burleson 1, Winn 1。多伦多 4：Lukes 1, Springer 1, Varsho 1, Clement 1。三振—圣路易斯 11：Wetherholt 1, Walker 2, Burleson 2, Herrera 1, Nootbaar 1, Winn 1, Church 1, Crooks 2。多伦多 4：Okamoto 1, Varsho 1, Clement 1, Schneider 1。留垒—圣路易斯 7, 多伦多 8。二垒安打—Burleson (27), Guerrero (18), Okamoto (15)。打点—Walker (79), Okamoto (69), Urías 2 (6)。盗垒—Church (6)。得分位置留垒—圣路易斯 4；多伦多 3。得分位置命中率 (RISP)—圣路易斯 1 for 10；多伦多 2 for 10。推进跑者—Fermín 2, Varsho。击球双杀—Clement, Valenzuela, Guerrero。双杀—圣路易斯 3 (Winn, Wetherholt, Burleson; Winn, Wetherholt, Burleson; Wetherholt, Winn, Burleson)。
圣路易斯 局数 (IP) 安打 (H) 失分 (R) 自责分 (ER) 保送 (BB) 三振 (SO) 投球数 (NP) 防御率 (ERA) Leahy...........................6 6 1 1 3 98 3.44 Bruihl ..........................1⁄3 2 16 3.59 Strzelecki, L, 0-1..............1 2 17 9.00 Graceffo........................2⁄3 13 3.15
多伦多 局数 (IP) 安打 (H) 失分 (R) 自责分 (ER) 保送 (BB) 三振 (SO) 投球数 (NP) 防御率 (ERA) Cease...........................6 3 7 96 2.41 Miles............................1 16 3.21 Hoffman, W, 6-7 ..............1 11 4.02 Varland, S, 24-24.............1 15 0.96 承接跑者得分—Strzelecki 2-0, Graceffo 2-2。触身球—Strzelecki (Straw)。野手失误导致跑者进垒 (WP)—Leahy, Cease。 裁判— Junior Valentine, Rob Drake, Jordan Baker, Stu Scheuwater。用时—2:36。售票人数—41,506 (39,150)。
科罗拉多 3, 堪萨斯城 1
堪萨斯城 打数 (AB) 得分 (R) 安打 (H) 打点 (BI) 平均率 (Avg.) Jensen c 4 1 1 1 .235 Thomas cf 3 0 1 0 .230 Caglianone 1b 4 0 0 0 .251 Perez dh 4 0 2 0 .214 Massey 2b 4 0 0 0 .262 Collins lf 4 0 1 0 .242 Rave rf 3 0 1 0 .292 Rojas 3b-ss 3 0 0 0 .237 Velazquez ss 2 0 0 0 .067 a-Loftin 3b 1 0 0 0 .251 总计 32 1 6 1
堪萨斯城 000 001 000 —1 6 科罗拉多 100 200 00x —3 5 四次球—堪萨斯城 1：Thomas 1。三振—堪萨斯城 4：Jensen 1, Caglianone 1, Perez 1, Loftin 1。科罗拉多 8：McCarthy 1, Moniak 1, Goodman 3, Karros 1, Doyle 1, Tovar 1。失误—Massey (2), Rojas (2)。留垒—堪萨斯城 5, 科罗拉多 4。二垒安打—Moniak (13), Doyle (5)。三垒安打—Collins (2)。全垒打—Jensen (15), 由 Sugano 投出。打点—Jensen (54), Rumfield (54), Doyle (5)。得分位置留垒—堪萨斯城 2 (Rojas, Rave)；科罗拉多 3 (Freeman, Johnston, Tovar)。得分位置命中率 (RISP)—堪萨斯城 1 for 3；科罗拉多 2 for 8。推进跑者—Collins, Freeman。击球双杀—Massey。双杀—科罗拉多 1 (Karros, Tovar, Rumfield)。
Wacha, L, 5-8.................6 7 99 3.51 Pearson ........................1 3.27 McGee..........................1 0.00
科罗拉多 Sugano, W, 11-4............62⁄3 83 4.47 Senzatela, H, 4...............2⁄3 9 3.61 Bernardino, H, 6..............2⁄3 13 2.58 Romano, S, 9-11..............1 11 5.74 承接跑者得分—Senzatela 1-0。野手失误导致跑者进垒 (WP)—Wacha。 裁判— Hunter Wendelstedt, Vic Carapazza, Edwin Moscoso, Nic Lentz。 用时—2:08。售票人数—39,317 (50,144)。
天使队 AB R H BI Avg. Neto ss 4 0 1 0 .232 Trout cf 4 0 0 0 .241 Schanuel 1b 4 0 1 0 .279 Soler dh 4 0 0 0 .202 Grissom 2b 4 1 1 0 .264 Adell rf 3 0 0 0 .242 Guzman 3b 3 1 1 2 .237 d’Arnaud c 2 0 0 0 .189 a-Meckler lf 0 0 0 0 .297 Heineman c 0 0 0 0 .179 Siri lf 1 0 0 0 .260 b-Lowe 1 0 0 0 .200 Totals 30 2 4 2
多伦多队 AB R H BI Avg. Lukes rf 2 0 0 0 .279 b-Straw rf 0 0 0 0 .218 Guerrero 1b 4 1 1 0 .265 Okamoto 3b 4 0 1 1 .231 Springer dh 3 1 1 0 .235 Varsho cf 3 1 0 0 .245 Clement 2b-lf 3 0 0 0 .292 Sánchez lf 2 0 0 0 .272 a-Schneider lf 1 0 0 0 .148 c-Urías 2b 1 0 1 2 .233 Valenzuela c 4 0 3 0 .239 Giménez ss 3 0 2 0 .232 Totals 30 3 9 3
科罗拉多队 McCarthy lf 4 0 0 0 .289 Moniak dh 4 1 1 0 .278 Goodman c 4 0 0 0 .251 Rumfield 1b 4 0 1 1 .293 Karros 3b 3 1 2 0 .266 Freeman 2b 3 0 0 0 .250 Johnston rf 3 1 0 0 .283 Carrigg rf 0 0 0 0 .296 Doyle cf 3 0 1 1 .211 Tovar ss 3 0 0 0 .196 31 3 5 2
他们在 13 场比赛中赢得了 9 场。 密尔沃基救援投手 Grant Anderson 投出了干净利落的 1-2-3 第七局，并拿下了第八局的第一次出局；Abner Uribe 在第八局让两名击球手出局；终结者 Trevor Megill 在第九局以一次三振完成全局出局。 先发投手 Ryan Johnson (2-6) 为天使队 (42-68) 投了 4 1⁄3 局，失 5 分且被击球 6 次。天使队目前遭遇四连败，近八场比赛输了七场，近 24 场比赛输了 19 场。 密尔沃基队 (68-41) 在第二局由 Bauers 取得 1-0 的领先。
纽约洋基 2, 芝加哥小熊 0
纽约队 Goldschmidt 1b 4 0 0 0 .250 Rice dh 4 0 1 0 .269 Rosario 3b 3 1 1 1 .235 McMahon 3b 1 0 0 0 .207 Domínguez rf 3 0 0 0 .229 Grisham cf 4 0 0 0 .214 Volpe ss 3 0 0 0 .244 Jones lf 2 1 1 1 .236 Sánchez c 2 0 0 0 .235 a-Wells c 0 0 0 0 .162 Caballero 2b 3 0 1 0 .239 29 2 4 2
纽约 000 110 000 —2 4 0 芝加哥 000 000 000 —0 5 0 第八局 a-保送替换 Sánchez。 保送—纽约 3：Domínguez 1, Jones 1, Wells 1。三振—纽约 8：Goldschmidt 1, Rice 2, Rosario 2, Domínguez 1, Volpe 1, Jones 1。芝加哥 10：Crow-Armstrong 1, Happ 1, Hoerner 1, Conforto 3, Swanson 2, Amaya 2。 残留在垒—纽约 3, 芝加哥 4。二垒安打—Amaya (9)。本垒打—Rosario (10), 击败 Imanaga; Jones (4), 击败 Imanaga。打点—Rosario (28), Jones (12)。得点圈留有跑者—纽约 1 (Rice); 芝加哥 3 (Crow-Armstrong, Hoerner, Bregman)。得点圈跑者表现—纽约 0 / 3; 芝加哥 0 / 3。双杀—Grisham, Goldschmidt, Busch。双杀—纽约 1 (Goldschmidt, Volpe, Goldschmidt); 芝加哥 2 (Hoerner, Busch; Swanson, Busch)。
纽约 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Warren, W, 8-5..............62⁄3 4 0 0 0 7 88 4.14 Blackburn, H, 3 .............11⁄3 0 0 0 0 3 19 2.10 Bednar, S, 23-25 .............1 1 0 0 0 0 11 2.68
芝加哥 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Imanaga, L, 7-9.............62⁄3 4 2 2 0 6 101 3.67 Ferguson .......................1 0 0 0 2 1 24 6.14 A.Kelly........................11⁄3 0 0 0 1 1 18 0.00 接手跑者得分—Blackburn 2-0, A.Kelly 2-0。裁判 U— Tom Hanahan, Ron Kulpa, Scott Barry, Manny Gonzalez。时间 T—2:27。售票数—40,129 (41,363)。
亚利桑那 4, 克利夫兰 1
亚利桑那队 Carroll rf 3 1 0 0 .247 Perdomo ss 4 1 2 1 .231 Moreno c 3 0 1 1 .308 Marte 2b 3 0 1 1 .254 Kepler lf 4 0 0 0 .238 Arenado 3b 4 0 0 0 .242 Del Castillo dh 4 0 0 0 .198 Tawa 1b 2 1 0 0 .214 Vargas 1b 1 0 0 0 .274 Waldschmidt cf 3 1 2 0 .284 Barrosa cf 0 0 0 0 .187 31 4 6 3
亚利桑那 000 000 040 —4 6 0 克利夫兰 100 000 000 —1 3 1 保送—亚利桑那 2: Carroll 1, Tawa 1。克利夫兰 5: Ramírez 2, Hoskins 1, Fry 1, Kwan 1。三振—亚利桑那 4: Marte 2, Del Castillo 2。克利夫兰 5: DeLauter 1, Manzardo 1, Bazzana 2, Hedges 1。失误—Martínez (3)。留垒—亚利桑那 4, 克利夫兰 6。二垒安打—Kwan (14)。打点—Perdomo (38), Moreno (46), Marte (62), Hoskins (34)。盗垒—Ramírez (27)。救援成功—Martínez。得分圈留垒—亚利桑那 1 (Kepler); 克利夫兰 2 (DeLauter 2)。得分圈表现—亚利桑那 3 for 5; 克利夫兰 1 for 6。推进跑者—Ramírez, Martínez。双杀—Kepler, Rocchio。双杀—亚利桑那 1; 克利夫兰 1 .
亚利桑那 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Bratt............................5 3 1 4 2 82 5.23 Clarke ..........................1 0 10 2.19 Loáisiga, W, 3-3...............1 17 2.51 Ginkel, H, 11..................1 11 3.11 Garcia, S, 3-3 .................1 7 2.10
克利夫兰 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Bibee, L, 4-11...............11...............71 2 100 3.81 Sabrowski, BS, 0-2 ...........2 ...........0 10 3.77 Festa...........................2⁄3 6 4.43 Dion ............................1 11 4.34
Sabrowski 在第 8 局面对 3 名打者。 继承跑者得分—Sabrowski 2-2, Festa 2-1。故意四球—由 Bratt 投出 (Ramírez)。触球—Bibee 2 (Moreno, Marte)。牺牲—Bratt (投手)。 裁判— Will Little, Ryan Wills, Jonathan Parra, Lance Barksdale。用时—2:31。 售票人数—36,639 (34,788)。
底特律 13, 运动者 1
底特律 AB R H BI Avg. McGonigle 3b-ss-3b 3 2 1 2 .285
Torres dh 5 0 0 0 .263 Dingler c 6 1 2 4 .269 Greene lf 4 0 0 0 .277 Outman lf 0 0 0 0 .162 Lee 2b 2 0 0 0 .269 a-Keith 3b 1 0 0 0 .263 d-Valencia 1 0 1 0 .417 1-McKinstry 2b 1 1 0 0 .206
Torkelson 1b 4 3 3 0 .216 Clark cf 4 2 3 1 .750 Báez ss-2b-ss 5 2 3 3 .304 Malgeri rf 4 2 1 2 .282 Totals 40 13 14 12
底特律 001 100 074 —13 14 运动者 100 000 000 — 1 保送—底特律 7: McGonigle 2, Torres 1, Greene 1, Torkelson 1, Clark 1, Malgeri 1。运动者 3: Kurtz 1, Wilson 1, Heim 1。三振—底特律 7: McGonigle 1, Torres 1, Dingler 1, Greene 1, Lee 1, Keith 1, Malgeri 1。运动者 7: Kurtz 2, White 1, Butler 2, Bolte 1, McNeil 1。失误—White (2)。留垒—底特律 8, 运动者 5。二垒安打—Valencia (1), Clark 2 (2), Heim (12)。全垒打—McGonigle (10), 由 Springs 投出；Dingler (23), 由 Morales 投出；Malgeri (1), 由 Morales 投出。打点—McGonigle 2 (39), Clark (1), Báez 3 (11), Dingler 4 (72), Malgeri 2 (7), Heim (35)。盗垒—Greene (3)。盗垒失败—Bolte (7)。牺牲飞球—McGonigle。得分圈留垒—底特律 6 ; 运动者 2。得分圈表现—底特律 5 for 16; 运动者 0 for 3。推进跑者—Greene, Báez, Soderstrom。双杀—Báez。双杀— 1.
Holton..........................2 24 3.10 Madden, W, 1-0...............3 56 2.40 Sommers, H, 7................2 15 4.32 De Jesús .......................2 21 3.74
运动者 Springs, L, 3-11...............4 4 5 86 6.17 Juenger.........................1 20 4.15 Basso...........................2 30 5.14 Morales ........................2 8 8 47 14.06
继承跑者得分—Morales 2-2。触球—Holton (Bolte)。捕手传球失误—Heim (0)。 裁判— Adam Beck, Louie Krupa, Jeremie Rehak, Dan Iassogna。用时—2:41。 售票人数—8,926 (14,014)。
芝加哥 AB R H BI Avg. Crw-Armstrong cf 4 0 0 0 .283 Ramirez 3b 4 0 2 0 .319 Busch 1b 4 0 0 0 .240 Bregman dh 4 0 1 0 .248 Happ lf 3 0 1 0 .219 Hoerner 2b 3 0 0 0 .255 Conforto rf 3 0 0 0 .232 Swanson ss 3 0 0 0 .214 Amaya c 3 0 1 0 .243 Totals 31 0 5 0
Martínez rf 3 0 0 0 .221 Ramírez 3b 2 1 0 0 .236 DeLauter dh 4 0 0 0 .277 Hoskins 1b 1 0 1 1 .176 a-Manzardo 1b 2 0 0 0 .210 Rocchio ss 4 0 0 0 .263 Fry lf 1 0 0 0 .183 b-Halpin cf 2 0 0 0 .196 Bazzana 2b 4 0 0 0 .241 Hedges c 3 0 0 0 .276 Kwan cf-lf 2 0 2 0 .251 28 1 3 1
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田径 / 体育 AB R H BI Avg. Kurtz 1b 2 0 0 0 .256 e-Serven c 1 0 0 0 .250 Wilson dh 3 1 1 0 .276 Heim c-1b 3 0 1 1 .236 Soderstrom lf 4 0 0 0 .240 White 3b 4 0 0 0 .269 Butler rf 4 0 0 0 .206 Bolte cf 2 0 1 0 .248 McNeil 2b 3 0 0 0 .246 Williams ss 1 0 0 0 .262 b-Walton ss 1 0 0 0 .292 c-Ornelas ss 1 0 0 0 .000 Totals 29 1 3 1
以及 Garrett Mitchell 击出了一支 9 号击球手 Cooper Pratt 击出了一支 两出局后的浅左场安打。 Pratt 在第五局以保送领先开局， 而 Turang——这位在最高联盟二垒手 中上垒率加长打率 (.834)、二垒安打 (25)、打点 (68)、 得分 (71) 和保送 (61) 均领先的先锋击球手—— 将 Johnson 投出的一记内角切球击飞 398 英尺 越过左中场围墙，击出他的第 16 支本垒打，并取得 3-0 的领先。 Jackson Chourio 击出安打， William Contreras 在一出局时保送，随后 Johnson 被换下
辛辛那提 8, 匹兹堡 7
匹兹堡 AB R H BI Avg. Mangum cf 4 1 2 2 .304 B.Lowe 2b 5 1 3 1 .257 Reynolds lf 5 1 2 0 .268 Valdez rf 3 1 0 1 .271 O’Hearn dh 4 0 1 0 .270 Gonzales 3b 4 1 2 2 .318 Rodríguez 1b 5 1 1 0 .259 Gonzalez ss 3 0 0 0 .231 a-Triolo ss 1 0 0 0 .243 Davis c 4 1 1 1 .173 Totals 38 7 12 7
匹兹堡 210 010 030 —7 12 1 辛辛那提 201 200 03x —8 12 0 保送—匹兹堡 3: Mangum 1, Valdez 1, O’Hearn 1. 辛辛那提 7: De La Cruz 2, Bleday 2, Stephenson 2, Suárez 1. 三振—匹兹堡 8: Mangum 1, B.Lowe 2, Reynolds 1, Valdez 1, Rodríguez 2, Triolo 1. 辛辛那提 12: De La Cruz 1, Bleday 1, Stephenson 2, N.Lowe 2, Suárez 2, Hayes 1, Myers 1, Marte 1, McLain 1. 失误—B.Lowe (10). 留在垒上—匹兹堡 9, 辛辛那提 10. 二垒安打—B.Lowe (25), Stephenson (15), Marte (7). 三垒安打—De La Cruz (5). 本垒打—Mangum (3), 面对 Greene; Bleday (19), 面对 Skenes; Stewart (23), 面对 Skenes. 打点—Gonzales 2 (49), Mangum 2 (23), Valdez (37), Davis (29), B.Lowe (71), Stephenson (30), N.Lowe (35), Bleday (46), Stewart 4 (84). 盗垒—Mangum (20), B.Lowe (2). 牺牲飞球—Valdez. 留在得点圈的跑者—匹兹堡 5 (Valdez, Reynolds 2, Rodríguez 2); 辛辛那提 6 (De La Cruz, Marte 2, Myers, Hayes 2). 得点圈机会—匹兹堡 6 比 13;
辛辛那提 4 比 14. 跑者推进—Bleday. 双杀击球—Stewart. 双杀—匹兹堡 2 (Gonzalez, B.Lowe, Rodríguez; Gonzalez, B.Lowe, Rodríguez). 匹兹堡 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Skenes .........................4 7 5 5 4 7 100 3.90 Kelly ............................3 2 0 0 2 3 40 6.14 Dotel, L, 1-4, BS, 0-1........1⁄3 3 3 2 0 1 18 5.11 Montgomery...................2⁄3 0 0 0 1 1 12 3.80 辛辛那提 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Greene .........................6 7 4 4 2 4 91 6.83 Moll, H, 5 .....................2⁄3 0 0 0 1 2 16 4.36 Ju.Garcia, H, 2................1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 1 2.41 Ferguson, H, 3................1⁄3 2 2 2 0 0 7 4.18 P.Johnson, BS, 1-2...........2⁄3 3 1 1 0 1 17 4.96 Pagán, W, 4-1.................1 0 0 0 0 1 14 4.63 接手跑者得分—Montgomery 1-1, Ju.Garcia 1-0, P.Johnson 2-2. 故意四球—面对 Montgomery (Stephenson). 击身—Pagán (Gonzales). 球员—Montgomery (投手). 裁判— Dan Bellino, Dexter Kelley, Shane Livensparger, Dan Merzel. 比赛时间—2:58. 售票数—30,618 (43,891).
迈阿密 5, 纽约大都会 2
迈阿密 Hicks dh 4 0 0 0 .280 Edwards 2b 4 0 1 1 .291 Lopez ss 4 0 0 0 .322 Stowers 1b 4 1 2 1 .237 Conine rf 3 1 1 0 .269 Ruiz rf 0 0 0 0 .254 Hernández lf 3 1 0 0 .236 Marsee cf 4 1 1 1 .198 Mack c 4 1 2 2 .238 Sanoja 3b 3 0 1 0 .265 33 5 8 5
迈阿密 000 041 000 —5 8 1 纽约 000 010 100 —2 7 0 四球保送—迈阿密 2: Conine 1, Hernández 1。纽约 2: Lindor 1, Alvarez 1。 三振—迈阿密 6: Edwards 1, Conine 1, Hernández 2, Marsee 1, Mack 1。 纽约 12: Ewing 1, Lindor 1, Bichette 1, Robert 3, Young 1, Semien 2, Polanco 2, Alvarez 1。失误—Stowers (7)。留在垒上的跑者—迈阿密 3, 纽约 7。二垒安打—Mack (7), Marsee (13), Stowers (20), Benge (15)。全垒打—Stowers (16), 对阵 Curry; Lindor (9), 对阵 Faucher。打点—Marsee (28), Mack 2 (32), Edwards (40), Stowers (48), Ewing (28), Lindor (25)。盗垒失败—Edwards (4)。留在得点圈的跑者—迈阿密 2 (Conine, Hicks); 纽约 5 (Polanco, Robert 2, Bichette 2)。 得点圈打击—迈阿密 3 击 7; 纽约 2 击 6。推进跑者—Sanoja。 击球员双杀—Robert。双杀—迈阿密 1 (Lopez, Edwards, Stowers)。
迈阿密 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Junk, W, 5-6...................5 3 1 0 2 4 79 4.58 Gibson .........................1⁄3 2 8 5.72 Faucher, H, 13..............11⁄3 4 29 4.63 Zuber, H, 6 ..................11⁄3 23 4.42 Fairbanks, S, 16-19 ..........1 7 6.55
纽约 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Senga, L, 0-8..................4 3 49 8.66 Curry............................5 6 62 3.27 接手跑者得分—Faucher 2-0, Curry 2-2。野手失误送分—Senga。 裁判— Brennan Miller, Brock Ballou, Chris Conroy, Ben May。时间—2:39。售票—33,064 (42,136)。
圣地亚哥 7, 旧金山 0
旧金山 AB R H BI Avg. Arraez 2b 3 0 1 0 .328 Basabe 2b 1 0 0 0 .000 Ramos lf 3 0 0 0 .264 Gilbert lf 1 0 0 0 .236 Eldridge dh 3 0 0 0 .250 a-J.Rodriguez 1 0 0 0 .235 Devers 1b 2 0 0 0 .247 Lee rf 3 0 0 0 .300 Adames ss 3 0 0 0 .225 McCray cf 3 0 0 0 .150 Cavanaugh c 3 0 0 0 .245 Koss 3b 3 0 1 0 .184 总计 29 0 2 0
旧金山 000 000 000 —0 圣地亚哥 201 301 00x —7 12 四球保送—旧金山 1: Devers 1。圣地亚哥 5: Tatis 2, Rengifo 2, France 1。 三振—旧金山 6: Arraez 1, Ramos 1, Eldridge 2, McCray 1, Cavanaugh 1。圣地亚哥 6: Rengifo 1, Machado 1, Merrill 1, Bogaerts 1, Fermin 1, Bowen 1。留在垒上的跑者—旧金山 3, 圣地亚哥 8。二垒安打—Tatis (22), Machado (19)。 全垒打—Bowen (1), 对阵 Whisenhunt。打点—Machado (65), Campusano (15), Bowen (6), France 3 (49)。盗垒—Rengifo (5), Tatis (26)。牺牲击球—Machado, France。留在得点圈的跑者—旧金山 0; 圣地亚哥 4 (Campusano, Bogaerts, Machado, Tatis)。得点圈打击—旧金山 0 击 0; 圣地亚哥 4 击 14。推进跑者—Bogaerts 2。 击球员双杀—Bogaerts, Fermin。双杀—旧金山 2 (Devers, Adames, Devers; Basabe, Devers)。
Whisenhunt, L, 2-2 .........31⁄3 6 74 6.63 Houser........................42⁄3 5 64 4.71
圣地亚哥 B.Rodriguez....................1 13 2.28 Matsui, W, 2-1 ................3 49 2.38 Márquez, S, 1-1...............5 70 4.67 接手跑者得分—Houser 2-2。救援成功—Matsui (投手)。 裁判— Chris Guccione, Nestor Ceja, John Tumpane, Willie Traynor。时间—2:33。 售票—44,057 (40,222)。
辛辛那提 AB R H BI Avg. De La Cruz ss 3 1 1 0 .279 Stewart 1b 5 2 2 4 .255 Bleday lf 3 2 1 1 .229 Stephenson c 3 1 1 1 .252 N.Lowe dh 5 0 2 1 .258 1-I.Johnson dh 0 0 0 0 .100 Suárez 3b 3 0 0 0 .200 Hayes 3b 1 0 0 0 .141 Myers cf 4 0 1 0 .276 Marte rf 4 1 3 0 .200 McLain 2b 4 1 1 0 .192 总计 35 8 12 7
Ewing lf 4 0 1 1 .268 Lindor ss 3 1 2 1 .233 Bichette 3b 4 0 0 0 .256 Benge rf 4 0 3 0 .266 Robert cf 4 0 0 0 .195 Young 1b 4 0 1 0 .253 Baty 2b 2 0 0 0 .220 a-Semien 2b 2 0 0 0 .210 Polanco dh 4 1 0 0 .135 Alvarez c 3 0 0 0 .254 34 2 7 2
Tatis rf 3 2 1 0 .286 Rengifo 2b 3 3 1 0 .238 Machado 3b 4 0 1 1 .214 France 1b 2 0 2 3 .287 Merrill cf 4 1 0 0 .234 Campusano dh 4 0 3 1 .306 Bogaerts ss 4 0 1 0 .218 Fermin c 4 0 1 0 .170 Bowen lf 4 1 2 1 .167 32 7 12 6
天使队右投手 Jose Fermin。 随后 Bauers 击出一支右外野三分本垒打，球速 110 mph，飞行距离 424 英尺，使球队取得 6-0 的领先。 天使队在五局下半将分差缩小至 6-2，当时 Vaughn Grissom 击出安打，Denzer Guzman 击出右中外野的反向击球，这是他本赛季的第五支本垒打。
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巴尔的摩 6, 费城 4
费城 AB R H BI Avg. Turner ss 4 2 3 1 .248 Schwarber dh 2 1 0 0 .251 Harper 1b 4 0 1 1 .252 Bohm 3b 4 0 0 0 .223 Marsh lf 4 0 0 1 .277 Realmuto c 4 1 1 1 .226 Stott 2b 3 0 0 0 .252 Rincones rf 2 0 0 0 .167 a-Hill rf 2 0 0 0 .240 Crawford cf 4 0 1 0 .257 Totals 33 4 6 4
费城 201 001 000 —4 6 0 巴尔的摩 200 000 40x —6 6 0 保送—费城 3: Schwarber 2, Stott 1. 巴尔的摩 6: Beavers 1, Ward 2, Holliday 1, Cowser 2. 三振—费城 7: Schwarber 1, Harper 1, Bohm 1, Realmuto 2, Rincones 2. 巴尔的摩 9: Beavers 1, Alonso 1, Henderson 1, Taveras 2, Mayo 2, Cowser 1, Pozo 1. 留在垒上的跑者(LOB)—费城 5, 巴尔的摩 5. 二垒安打(2B)—Beavers (12), Encarnacion-Strand (2). 三垒安打(3B)—Henderson (4). 本垒打(HR)—Turner (16), off Young; Realmuto (8), off Young; Alonso (23), off Painter. 击入分(RBIs)—Harper (65), Marsh (48), Turner (43), Realmuto (37), Alonso 2 (69), Encarnacion-Strand 2 (11), Henderson 2 (47). 盗垒(SB)—Stott (18), Crawford (14). 留在得分圈的跑者—费城 3 (Rincones, Realmuto, Harper); 巴尔的摩 3 (Taveras 3). 得分圈击球表现(RISP)—费城 1 for 7; 巴尔的摩 3 for 8. 推进跑者—Bohm, Marsh, Turner, Ward. 击球员双杀(GIDP)—Taveras, J.Rogers. 双杀(DP)—费城 2 (Turner, Harper; Stott, Turner, Harper).
IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Painter .........................6 3 2 2 3 82 6.72 Kerkering, L, 6-1, BS, 1-3...2⁄3 4 4 1 27 3.43 Mayza..........................1⁄3 1 12 3.88 Shugart.........................1 12 4.93
巴尔的摩 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Young.........................52⁄3 5 5 94 3.31 Walker .........................2⁄3 17 3.60 Nunez, W, 3-2 ................2⁄3 17 4.30 Cano, H, 9.....................1 2.15 Wells, S, 4-4...................1 10 2.67 接手跑者得分—Mayza 2-2, Nunez 1-0. 故意保送(IBB)—off Mayza (Ward). 触球(HBP)—Kerkering (Alonso). 野手失误(WP)—Painter. 救援成功(S)—Mayza (投手). 裁判(U)— Derek Thomas, Marvin Hudson, Tripp Gibson, Nick Mahrley. 比赛时间(T)—2:37.
亚特兰大 6, 华盛顿 2
华盛顿 AB R H BI Avg. Wood dh 5 0 1 0 .269 García 1b 3 0 0 0 .283 b-Chaparro 1b 2 1 1 1 .228 Crews rf-cf 5 0 2 0 .228 Abrams ss 2 1 1 1 .290 House 3b 4 0 1 0 .233 Lile lf-rf 4 0 1 0 .248 Ford c 3 0 0 0 .174 Tena 2b-lf 4 0 1 0 .249 J.Young cf 2 0 0 0 .236 a-Vivas 2b 2 0 1 0 .240 Totals 36 2 9 2
华盛顿 000 100 001 —2 9 亚特兰大 110 004 00x —6 保送—华盛顿 4: Abrams 3, Ford 1. 亚特兰大 3: Riley 1, Bart 1, Jarvis 1. 三振—华盛顿 7: Wood 2, García 1, Crews 1, House 1, Lile 1, Vivas 1. 亚特兰大 7: Acuña 1, Baldwin 1, Olson 2, Dubón 1, Riley 2. 失误(E)—Abrams (17). 留在垒上的跑者(LOB)—华盛顿 11, 亚特兰大 8. 二垒安打(2B)—House (10), Olson (27). 本垒打(HR)—Abrams (28), off Elder; Chaparro (6), off Hernández; Olson (29), off Griffin; Harris (20), off Griffin. 击入分(RBIs)—Abrams (83), Chaparro (20), Olson (67), Jarvis 2 (10), Harris 3 (64). 盗垒(SB)—Crews (7). 盗垒失败(CS)—Crews (0). 留在得分圈的跑者—华盛顿 6 (House, Abrams, Tena, Ford 2, Crews); 亚特兰大 3 (Baldwin 3). 得分圈击球表现(RISP)—华盛顿 0 for 8; 亚特兰大 4 for 10. 推进跑者—Acuña. 击球员双杀(GIDP)—Bart, Baldwin. 双杀(DP)—华盛顿 3 (House, Tena, García; Abrams, García; Abrams, García).
Griffin, L, 12-3 ..............51⁄3 9 78 3.06 Williams......................22⁄3 63 0.00
亚特兰大 Elder, W, 7-6 ..................6 93 3.84 Hernández, S, 1-1 ............3 62 1.50 接手跑者得分—Williams 1-1. 触球(HBP)—Williams (Acuña). 裁判(U)— Bill Miller, John Bacon, Brian Walsh, Chad Fairchild. 比赛时间(T)—2:33. 售票数—37,664 (41,149).
明尼苏达 AB R H BI Avg. Larnach lf 4 0 0 0 .283 Kreidler ss 0 0 0 0 .243 Jeffers c 4 1 1 1 .293 Clemens 2b-lf 4 0 0 0 .241 Bell dh 4 1 1 0 .242 Lewis 1b-2b 4 1 1 1 .216 Roden rf 2 1 1 0 .205 Martin rf 1 0 0 0 .242 Lee 3b 4 1 1 2 .244 Keaschall cf 3 0 2 1 .259 Gray ss 2 0 0 0 .229 a-Caratini 1b 1 0 0 0 .234 Totals 33 5 7 5
明尼苏达 020 000 210 —5 7 0 西雅图 210 000 000 —3 4 0 四球—明尼苏达 2: Roden 1, Keaschall 1. 西雅图 4: Arozarena 1, Naylor 1, Raleigh 1, Wilson 1. 三振—明尼苏达 8: Larnach 1, Bell 2, Lewis 1, Keaschall 1, Gray 2, Caratini 1. 西雅图 14: Young 2, Arozarena 2, Canzone 1, Rodríguez 2, Wilson 2, Emerson 3, Robles 1, Garver 1. 留在垒上—明尼苏达 3, 西雅图 6. 二垒安打—Keaschall (15), Canzone (17), Raleigh (8). 全垒打—Lee (16), 对手 Miller; Lewis (11), 对手 Ferrer; Jeffers (10), 对手 Bazardo; Young (14), 对手 Matthews. 进之分—Lee 2 (58), Lewis (34), Keaschall (31), Jeffers (36), Raleigh 2 (39), Young (50). 盗垒—Rodríguez (14). 留在得分位置的跑者—明尼苏达 1 (Larnach); 西雅图 5 (Garver 2, Wilson 3). 得分位置跑者击球 (RISP)—明尼苏达 0 for 2; 西雅图 1 for 8. 跑者推进—Naylor, Emerson.
IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Matthews.......................5 4 3 3 2 10 101 5.22 Funderburk, W, 2-1.........1.........11 2 19 3.38 Nance, H, 5...................5...................2 1 11 3.60 Morris, H, 16..................16..................1 6 3.12 Gómez, S, 14-14..............14..............1 1 25 3.26
西雅图 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Miller .........................5...................2 87 2.80 Ferrer, L, 4-2, BS, 3-6........1 15 3.00 Bazardo ......................12 23 2.96 Rucker..........................1 13 4.35 继承跑者得分—Funderburk 1-0, Bazardo 1-1. 触身球—Matthews (Robles). 裁判— Alan Porter, Roberto Ortiz, Jim Wolf, Alex MacKay. 时间—2:45. 售票数—43,489 (47,929).
巴尔的摩 AB R H BI Avg. Beavers lf 3 1 1 0 .243 Alonso 1b 3 2 2 2 .252 Henderson ss 4 0 1 2 .219 Ward dh 2 0 0 0 .247 Taveras rf 4 0 0 0 .223 Holliday 2b 3 1 1 0 .261 Mayo 3b 3 0 0 0 .202 J.Rogers c 1 0 0 0 .160 Cowser cf 2 1 0 0 .206 Pozo c 2 0 0 0 .231 b-Encrncn-Strand 3b 1 1 1 2 .324
Totals 28 6 6 6
亚特兰大 Acuña rf 4 0 0 0 .239 Baldwin dh 5 0 0 0 .275 Olson 1b 4 2 2 1 .263 Albies 2b 4 1 2 0 .263 Harris cf 4 1 2 3 .292 Dubón lf 4 2 2 0 .260 Riley 3b 3 0 1 0 .213 Bart c 3 0 0 0 .226 Jarvis ss 3 0 3 2 .274 34 6 12 6
Young 2b 4 1 1 1 .261 Arozarena lf 3 1 0 0 .280 Canzone dh 4 1 1 0 .261 Rodríguez cf 4 0 1 0 .251 Naylor 1b 3 0 0 0 .261 Raleigh c 3 0 1 2 .164 Wilson 3b 3 0 0 0 .214 Emerson ss 4 0 0 0 .191 Robles rf 2 0 0 0 .243 b-Garver 1 0 0 0 .177 31 3 4 3
[!NOTE] 本章节源文包含大量外语数据与图片版面，已进行结构化对齐优化。
伊利诺伊州，春菲尔德 —— 在过去的几年里，莫内·戴维斯（Mo’ne Davis）一直享受着她的低调。 自戴维斯成为少棒世界系列赛（Little League World Series）中首位投出完封局的女孩以来，已经过去了 11 年。尽管此前从未参加过女性棒球比赛，她仍决定尝试职业女子棒球。 她已经五年没有参加过竞技棒球比赛了，在 24 岁这个年纪，她并不确定能否重返赛场。 然后，她想，为什么不试试呢？在去年夏天参加了腰旗橄榄球比赛后，她感觉到竞技精神再次在体内流动，于是她在女子职业棒球联盟（Women’s Pro Baseball League）的选秀中报名，成为了洛杉矶皇后队（Los Angeles Queens）的首批成员之一。 “我只是想尝试一下，”她在罗宾·罗伯茨球场（Robin Roberts Field）的警告区说道，该联盟计划在本周末进行首场比赛。 “我不希望在生活中留下任何遗憾。我想确保当我回顾过去时，可以说：‘嘿，我尝试过了。’” 戴维斯并不打算重新寻回多年前让她成名的那个状态。 “无论有多少人问，我的答案都一样：我不投球，”她说。“我在做我想做的事，而不是在做所有人想让我做的事。所以无论你是否喜欢，我依然会过我的生活，但我只想向人们展示，我会走到那里并享受其中。” 在 2014 年的少棒世界系列赛中，戴维斯投出了一记 70 英里 / 小时的快球，并成为了首位女性投手——
作者：Marisa Ingemi
作者：Marisa Ingemi
伊利诺伊州，春菲尔德 —— 艾希顿·兰斯代尔（Ashton Lansdell）身上纹有提醒她对自己充满信心的纹身。她说，她的生日 2 月 22 日让天使数字 222 成了她的“天赋”。她腿上还有一个巨大的纹身，写着“梦想直到它成为现实”，那是她在 19 岁时纹上去的。 她在读初级学院第一年时在 Pinterest 上看到这句话，对此产生了共鸣。 她一直梦想成为一名棒球运动员，并深信这终将实现。纹身中甚至有一顶皇冠，这增强了她的信念，认为自己正处于该在的位置——即在新的女子职业棒球联盟洛杉矶皇后队正式亮相。
作者：Anne M. Peterson
俄勒冈州，波特兰 —— 索菲·坎宁安（Sophie Cunningham）表示，她并不担心在印第安纳发烧队（Indiana Fever）近期比赛期间，针对跨性别者参与女性运动的抗议活动会成为这支 WNBA 球队的干扰因素。 坎宁安在周五晚上发烧队对阵波特兰烈火队（Portland Fire）的比赛前发表了上述言论。 在场外，一群人连续第二场比赛集会，以支持坎宁安以及她近期关于跨性别运动员的言论。 “我认为归根结底，我来到这里就是为了履行我的职责，”坎宁安说。“我认为所有在现实生活中认识我的人都知道，我充满了爱。我很活泼。我热爱周围的人。我热爱篮球。我热爱以积极的方式激励下一代。所以这件事根本没有进入我的脑海，也没有进入我队友的脑海。” “再次强调，我来到这里是为了——”
丽贝卡·布莱克威尔（Rebecca Blackwell），美联社 戴维斯找回对棒球的热爱
在大学期间从事垒球运动后，莫内·戴维斯很高兴能重新回到棒球赛场。“我只是想尝试一下，”她说。
在费城对阵纳什维尔的揭幕战中，她投出了一场零封且有 8 次三振，赢得了该赛事的一场比赛。 她在汉普顿大学（Hampton University）垒球队担任中外野手，在两个赛季中，她的职业生涯打击率 .225，击球数 34 次，得分 24 分，打点 16 次。 自从在大学开始打垒球后，棒球就不在她的关注范围内了，但 WPBL 改变了一切。她说她对自己在少棒世界系列赛中击球表现不佳“依然感到愤怒”，并希望在击球区展示她的技巧。 “如果我更多地去投球，我会被更多地拿来与年轻时的自己比较，”她说。
“这就是我，”她说。“我是一个梦想家，深信‘显化’（manifestation）之类的事情。所以，一旦我在很小的时候感觉到这一点，我就觉得，这就是我要做的事情。我不管别人怎么说，没有人能阻止我。” 兰斯代尔（Lansdell）在周六揭幕战前被任命为皇后队（Queens）的队长。在过去的一年里，她有几次走红时刻，从她与萨凡纳香蕉队（Savannah Bananas）一起跳的登场舞（该队是一支类似于哈林篮球队的巡回棒球队，她是首批在那儿打球的女性之一），到一场吸引数百万观众的果卷糖吃速赛。 然而，WPBL 才是她一直等待的舞台，也是她始终相信自己最终会抵达的地方。
打篮球，但我也在这里做我自己，我不会因为人们可能不同意，就以此为阴影、掩饰，或者，你知道，熄灭我的光芒。” 波特兰的集会发生在本周早些时候为坎宁安（Cunningham）举行的类似集会之后，当时发烧队（Fever）正在西雅图风暴队（Seattle Storm）的主场比赛。这两次集会仅吸引了约 24 人参加以及一群旁观者。 “老实说，我与他们没有任何关系，”坎宁安说。“我认为人们只是在行使他们的言论自由权利，做 WNBA 成立以来其他球迷一直在做的事情。因此，我向他们致敬，向所有能够客观、大胆且勇敢地表达真相的人致敬。” 另一场集会计划于周日在明尼阿波利斯举行，届时发烧队将对阵明尼苏达山 Lynx 队。 周二在西雅图，两名坎宁安的支持者坐在气候变化竞技场（Climate Change Arena）的场边，举着标语。风暴队的共同所有者 Ce-
“我的目标是做我想做的事，而不是与 13 岁的自己比较，并让人们知道我已经成长了。我现在是一个成年女性，所以你必须将两者分开。” 那次少棒赛事的经历让她登上了 Wheaties 麦片盒和《体育画报》（Sports Illustrated）的封面，成为了她那个 era. 最著名的女性运动员之一。她从小想打篮球并尝试过美式足球，但在五年没有拿起球棒的情况下，她实际上成为了女性棒球运动员的代表人物。 虽然她身上关注到的一些目光让她感到“烦人”，但将她的竞争心转化为一项职业运动是一个机会。
她在 12 月被选在总排名第七位，当时她的大学垒球生涯刚刚结束，她正在寻找打棒球的方法。 “这一切成真，正说明我走在正确的道路上，”她说。“我一直相信自己的直觉和直觉，并且一直知道我迟早会成为某种职业棒球运动员。但现在我们再次拥有了属于女性的棒球联赛，这真的太特别了。” 兰斯代尔从 4, 岁起就打棒球，她是佐治亚州玛丽埃塔（Marietta, Ga.）惠勒高中（Wheeler High School）第一位在 7A 级别投球的女孩，并带领球队在 2019. 获得地区冠军。她在 2018 年入选美国女子国家队，并在社区大学打球。
她不会失手。
“她人生的大部分时间都处于聚光灯下，”皇后队三垒手艾什顿·兰斯代尔（Ashton Lansdell）说道。“人们倾向于认为她是一个名人，但实际上她是个非常随和的女孩。比如，她只想做一个普通人。我觉得她需要一点时间才能与人们熟络起来，大概是因为她从小就处于关注中心，所以有时会有点害羞。但一旦她打破壳子，她就太棒了。”
皇后队在去年8月她参加联赛试训后，于12月的选秀中以第10顺位选中了戴维斯（Davis）。
4月，戴维斯与印第安纳波利斯小丑队（Indianapolis Clowns）签约，这支球队隶属于香蕉球联赛（Banana Ball League），她在那里担任救火投手出场了几个局。小丑队是对19 40年代和19 50年代巡回比赛的黑人联盟球队的复兴，该队曾包括托妮·斯通（Toni Stone），她是首位在职业男子棒球联赛中打球的女性。
她在大学一年级时撕裂了前交叉韧带。随后COVID-19袭来，导致赛季被取消。她最终决定转向垒球，因为这是获得大学奖学金的唯一途径。她在佛罗里达国际大学打了两个赛季，最后在密西西比大学结束了其职业生涯。
前大联盟中外野手杰基·布拉德利二世（Jackie Bradley Jr.）一直是戴维斯的导师，她说与他以及其他香蕉球运动员一起工作帮助她提升了“棒球智商”。
“能够学习并吸收她的风范，以及她从职业生涯中所学到的东西，这真的是一种荣幸，”皇后队外野手布里塔尼·阿普加尔（Brittany Apagar）说道。“她获得的关注也让我们得到了曝光。”
她天生是一名三垒手，但上周在美利坚队（Americans）效力时打外野，这是她多年来没做过的事。她预计在皇后队将回到三垒位置，并担任内野的领袖。
她记得在同一支女子棒球队停留时间最长的一次，是几年前在国家队待了三周。女子棒球一直非常碎片化，以至于她通常只有在全国锦标赛上，或者偶尔在像莫妮·戴维斯（Mo’ne Davis）这样的人在香蕉队（Bananas）效力时，才能见到其他球员。
“我们之间有相互尊重，”前少棒联盟之星戴维斯在谈到兰斯代尔时说。“我认为能和她一起打球会非常酷。我在香蕉球联赛时没能这样做，但她显然……”
Jae C. Hong美联社
兰斯代尔刚刚结束了一次历史上最出色的女子棒球世界杯表现，她在为赢得冠军的美国队出战期间，15次机会中击球11次，并击出了两支双打球和两支本垒打。
“她拥有D1大学的经验，即便那是垒球，也意义重大，”皇后队外野手布里塔尼·阿普加尔说道。“我很荣幸能向像她这样的人学习；能够接触到这样的运动员，感觉太棒了。”
说道：“我们仍致力于为任何观看风暴队（Storm）比赛的人创造一个友好且相互尊重的环境。”
西雅图的集会宣传了全州范围的投票倡议，IL26-638, 该倡议旨在禁止跨性别学生参加华盛顿州学校的女生体育活动。集会还赞扬了坎宁安（Cunningham），她在最近的采访中表达了支持禁止跨性别运动员参加女生和女性体育项目的观点。
“我来到这里是为了给苏菲·坎宁安（Sophie Cunningham）加油，她如此勇敢地挺身而出，保护我们体育运动和更衣室中的女性和女孩，”在波特兰集会现场的艾米·索萨（Amy Souza）说道。“我是这次活动的组织者，也是西雅图活动的共同组织者。我也在这里，与那些不幸在仅仅想成为这项运动的粉丝、苏菲·坎宁安的粉丝时遭到骚扰的十几岁女孩们站在一起。”
坎宁安遭到了嘘声
戴维斯拥有汉普顿大学和哥伦比亚大学的学位，她是该少棒球队中第三位被职业球队选中的球员，加入了斯科特·班杜拉（Scott Bandura，旧金山巨人队，现处于 3A 级别）和贾里德·斯普拉格-洛特（Jared Sprague-Lott，奥克兰运动队，现处于 A 级）的行列。
但再一次，戴维斯发现自己处于历史的中心。这一次，她并不是唯一一个创造历史的人。
“我试图守护内心的平静，”她说。“我不希望队友们对我产生不同的看法。……我不希望他们把我看作‘哦，她只是为了这个才来这里的’。……我想让他们知道，我是为了你们而来的。我想和你们一起赢球，我是为了团队而来的。”
ously great。”（此处原文不完整） 在本周末之前，很少有 WNBL 球员在女子棒球圈之外为人所知。兰斯代尔（Lansdell）就是其中之一。
在首场比赛前的媒体日，兰斯代尔主持了大部分新闻发布会。作为一名在进入 WPBL 之前就拥有个人影响力、精通社交媒体的年轻强力击球手，她似乎已经准备好成为该联盟的代表人物之一。她没有预料到会成名，甚至没预料到自己会表现得如此出色，但她发现自己成为了一名职业球员，正如她预料的那样。
“这是我一生中在棒球准备方面感觉最充分的一次，”她说。“我已经学到了很多关于女子棒球在身体和心理方面如何运作的知识，现在我可以在这个领域坚持更长时间了。”
当她在第一节中途进入比赛时，波特兰 Moda Center 的观众们发出了欢呼。许多人挥舞着蓝色、粉色和白色的小型跨性别者旗帜。
发烧队以 112-98 击败了火焰队，取得了五连胜。坎宁安（Cunningham）最后得到 13 分，凯特琳·克拉克（Caitlin Clark）砍下 26 分、10 个篮板和 10 次助攻，完成了职业生涯第四次三双。
教练斯蒂芬妮·怀特（Stephanie White）表示，她担心这场争议会分散球队比赛的注意力。
“当然，存在一种挫败感，因为我们想讨论的是篮球，我们想继续磨练我们的比赛，我们想作为一支球队继续成长，”怀特说。“但我也明白，这是我们作为联盟成长过程中的一部分，对吧？”
“这是我们作为联盟成长的一部分，我们必须能够应对，必须能够尽可能地将干扰隔离在外。”
Paul Sancya 美联社 道奇队签下王牌球员 Skubal 冲击冠军
两届赛扬奖得主 Tarik Skubal 加盟道奇队。尽管在 5 月进行了肘部手术，但他此前在老虎队的 16 场先发比赛中防御率（ERA）为 2.79。
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道奇队并不急于为其轮换阵容增加一名具有影响力的先发投手。但周六，这支已被视为世界大赛夺冠热门的球队变得更加强大了。
一名熟悉谈判细节但未获授权公开发言的人士确认，道奇队正从老虎队处收购现任赛扬奖得主 Tarik Skubal，以交换三名潜力球员：外野手 Zyhir Hope 以及右投手 River Ryan 和 Brady Smith。
“在这个联盟中，明星级别的球员并不多，”道奇队棒球运营总裁 Andrew Friedman 本周早些时候表示，“只要有这样的球员可用，我们总是会参与相关对话。我们过去已经证明了自己非常积极。”
道奇队的这次激进举措
工作人员及电讯报道
据报道，火花队于周六晚上同意将全明星后卫 Kelsey Plum 交易至凤凰城水星队。随着球队在 WNBA 交易截止日期前继续进行重建，Plum 在洛杉矶的短暂生涯随之结束。
据 ESPN 报道，火花队在交易 Plum 后获得了后卫 Monique Akoa Makani，以及一个 2027 年首轮选秀权和一个 2028 年次轮选秀权。
此次变动发生在火花队通过与拉斯维加斯王牌队和西雅图风暴队的惊人三队交易获得 Plum 不到两年之后。当时，火花队将 2025 年 WNBA 选秀的 2 号签作为交易方案的一部分，以引进这位两届冠军成员。
火花队在 7 月 12 日取得两连胜后解雇了总经理 Raegan Pebley。此后，火花队遭遇六连败，在季后赛争夺战中进一步掉队。
尽管 Plum 个人表现出色，但这种合作从未转化为球队的成功。火花队在进入截止日期时已完全失去了季后赛希望，且近日报道指出，预计 Plum 在赛季结束后不会续约，这使得交易成为组织在球员进入自由市场前回收资产的最佳机会。
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周六让他们在交易截止日期前两天就得到了最炙手可热的球员。 斯库巴尔在 2025 年获得赛扬奖之后，在 16 场先发中取得了 2.79 的防御率，尽管他在 5 月初接受了手术以去除肘部的游离体。 自从通过微创 NanoNeedle 手术迅速康复后，他在 9 场先发中（防御率 2.87）的表现足以减轻人们对其健康的担忧，且在最近的三场比赛中均投到了第七局。 这位 29 岁的斯库巴尔将在本赛季结束后成为自由球员，因此，目前的战绩为 53-58 且距离美联最后一个外卡席位还差 2½ 场的老虎队，面临着在没有任何回报的情况下失去他的可能性。 道奇队在进入交易截止日期赛季时处于令人羡慕的地位，正如弗里德曼所说，没有“迫切需求”，因此能够坐稳观察市场的
天使队不敌酿酒人队 布莱斯·图朗在第八局击出了一支关键的推进分打点单打，密尔沃基酿酒人队在周六晚上以 3-1 战胜了天使队。 酿酒人队在最近七场比赛中赢了五场，战绩达到 69-41，超越道奇队成为大联盟中战绩最好的球队。 杰克·鲍尔斯击出了一支本垒打，左投手罗伯特·加塞在五局中仅失一分，而右投手查德·帕特里克 (6-4) 投了两个无失分局并赢得胜利。特雷弗·梅吉尔投了第九局，拿到了他的第 18 次救援成功。 豪尔赫·索勒为天使队 (42-69) 贡献了一分。天使队已连续五场失利，且在最近九场比赛中输了八场。 作为预防措施，天使队在周一交易截止日期前，将右投手先发何塞·索里亚诺从先发名单中剔除。天使队在这次牛棚赛中使用了四名投手，其中三名投手投球时间至少达到了两局。
洛杉矶 FC 与温哥华战平，同列西部之首
托马斯·穆勒在下半场末段通过点球得分，主场作战的温哥华白帽队奋起直追，与洛杉矶 FC 战成 1-1 平局。 洛杉矶 FC (10-5-4) 和白帽队 (10-3-4) 依然以 34 分同分占据西部联盟榜首。 白帽队掌控了上半场的大部分时间，但孙兴慜的进球让洛杉矶 FC 在半场时领先。孙兴慜转身射门，皮球越过守门员高冈洋平伸出的手指，钻入球门近角。
银河队在 0-0 平局中维持休赛后不胜纪录
乔纳森·西罗伊斯完成了九次扑救，在达拉斯 FC 与银河队于尊严健康体育公园的比赛中取得了本赛季的首次零封。 达拉斯队 (7-5-6) 被限制在
发展情况。道奇队并没有遵循去年的剧本（去年道奇队通过边缘位置的变动来增强阵容），而是进行了一次大胆的尝试。 在过去的八个月里，道奇队在已经连续两次赢得世界大赛冠军的团队中，加入了最好的自由市场救援投手（埃德温·迪亚兹）、知名度最高的自由市场击球手（凯尔·塔克）以及最受追捧的交易候选人。 道奇队在没有放弃任何大联盟球员的情况下，成功签下了斯库巴尔——这或许是唯一能提升他们星光熠熠阵容的可用球员。 道奇队的轮换阵容正在逐步康复，布莱克·斯内尔（肘关节镜手术）在被激活前预计还将进行一次小联盟康复先发，而泰勒·格拉斯诺（背部痉挛）即将开始康复任务。 双向 天才 大谷
据报道，火花队将得分王凯尔西·普拉姆交易至凤凰城水星队，以换取后卫莫妮克·阿科阿·马卡尼、一个 2027 年首轮选秀权和一个 2028 年次轮选秀权。
然而，大谷在处理左膝伤病期间，已经快一个月没有投球了。尽管道奇队一直坚持认为他们对大谷重返投手丘充满信心，但自他在全明星赛休息期间接受 Orthovisc 注射以润滑关节以来，他的时间表一直难以预测。
随着斯库巴尔的加入，道奇队拥有全棒球界最强的季后赛轮换阵容，在面对受伤风险时拥有安全保障。
此外，在他们追求三连冠的过程中，不必担心在季后赛中面对斯库巴尔。
在道奇队放弃的潜力球员中，瑞安最接近大联盟。如果不是因为反复出现的腿后腱受伤，这位 27 岁的球员今年早就会被考虑征召上阵。根据 MLB Pipeline 的数据，瑞安是道奇队体系中排名第 2 的投手，他在今年 8 次 3A 启动赛中，自责分率（ERA）为 4.63。
拉法埃拉和红袜队破坏山本由伸的先发表现
如果不是因为红袜队中外野手塞丹内·拉法埃拉，山本由伸周六的先发表现本应是统治级的。
在道奇队 3-2 的主场失利中，拉法埃拉的两支本垒打造成了波士顿队对山本由伸的大部分伤害。山本由伸在 8 局中将红袜队的得分控制在 3 分，被击球 4 次。
根据 Statcast 的数据，拉法埃拉在第一局接到了山本由伸投出的第一球——一个向上且向内漂移的分叉球，直接将其击入左外野看台。两局之后，拉法埃拉在 0-2 的落后球数下奋力反击，击出了一个高耸的个人单分本垒打，球飞到了左中外野第三排座位。
这是拉法埃拉职业生涯中第二次在单场比赛中击出多支本垒打。
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连续第二场比赛未能破门。银河战队 (5-7-7) 在世界杯休息期后 MLS 比赛恢复以来，经历了 2 场失利和 2 场平局。
天使之城在堪萨斯城战平
天使之城 FC 与 Current 队在常规赛系列赛中保持平手，在堪萨斯城以 1-1 战平。
天使之城的新秀泰勒·苏亚雷斯在比赛开始不足 15 分钟时率先破门，当时卡里娜·拉盖雷将球传向禁区中心，苏亚雷斯在门将马里莎·乔丹面前完成射门，打入她的首个 NWSL 进球。
堪萨斯城 (9-7-2) 在 10 分钟后迅速做出回应，海莉·霍普金斯在空中接住伊齐·罗德里格斯的传球，通过凌空抽射过了门将安吉丽娜·安德森。
天使之城 (7-7-2) 在 6 月解雇教练亚历克斯·斯特劳斯后，战绩为 3-1-1，将于 8 月 9 日在西雅图进行下一场比赛。两支球队目前在积分榜上同列第八，均积 23 分。
皇后队赢得首场比赛
莫内·戴维斯和洛杉矶皇后队在伊利诺伊州斯普林菲尔德的一场雨中首秀中，以 10-8 击败纽约海茨队。这是美国近 30 年来首个女子职业棒球联赛的开赛。
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其服务于社区的艺术中心将进行一项耗资 $22-million 的重新设计。作者：珍·霍罗维茨 (JANE HOROWITZ)
由洛杉矶郡立艺术博物馆领导的旨在保护瓦茨塔的 15 年计划目前资金短缺，与此同时，一项耗资 $22-million 的校园翻新工程即将启动。这种情况突显了社区组织者和该遗址领导层所指出的问题：在保护和维护这座城市最重要的文化地标之一时，采取的是一种零碎的方法。几十年来，洛杉矶市和私人基金会一直投入资金保护这些塔楼——这是由意大利移民萨巴托·“西蒙”·罗迪亚 (Sabato “Simon” Rodia) 建造的、拥有 102 年历史的民间艺术杰作。但是，虽然地标本身经历了多年的艰苦修复（该工作最近在完成度达到 90% 时停止），但周围的艺术校园却是断断续续地发展。现在，经过 14 年的规划，一项同样宏大的投资将被用于改造瓦茨塔艺术中心校园 (WTACC)，该中心 50 多年来一直是至关重要的文化和教育中心。这次工程将是 WTACC 自 1970 年开放以来的首次重大升级，领导者希望这次转型能够毫无中断地进行，直到完工。
“这是在投资瓦茨的人民，并创造一个让社区感到自豪的空间，”市长凯伦·巴斯在电子邮件中写道。“感谢我们州、郡和当地合作伙伴、慈善支持者以及社区组织的奉献，我们离创建一个更绿色、更健康、更充满活力的校园又近了一步，这在服务于未来几代洛杉矶人的同时，也将延续瓦茨的遗产。”校园翻新计划于 10 月动工，目标是在 2028 年夏季奥运会前完工。该项目通过公共和私人资金的组合进行资助，其中包括来自贝佐斯地球基金 (Bezos Earth Fund) 的 $10.1 million 投资，该基金是由亚马逊执行主席杰夫·贝佐斯创立的气候慈善组织。
重新设计将重塑游客体验校园的方式。在东 107 街沿线将增加 30,000 平方英尺以上的公园空间，同时具备气候韧性的景观设计将改善雨水管理并创造更凉爽的公共空间。其露天剧场将增加更多座椅和遮阳设施，将委任创作新的公共艺术作品，此外还将增加步行道、集会区并种植 200 棵树，使塔楼成为这个 5 英亩校园的物理中心。
“长期以来，现在就是合适的时机，”WTACC 主任 罗茜·李·胡克斯 (Rosie Lee Hooks) 谈到该项目时表示。
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long gestation during a recent interview. The center offers free art, film and music classes for students and seniors, houses an art gallery and hosts two annual music festivals. Thousands of artists, filmmakers and musi- cians have passed through its doors as students and instructors. Hooks, who has led the center since 2010, said the project’s long timeline reflects more than bu-
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reaucracy. “之所以花了这么长时间，是因为我们在瓦茨（Watts），”她说道，并指出该社区面临着自 1965 年瓦茨起义以来数十年的投资不足。“人们仍然害怕来到这里。然而，我们的社区文化底蕴非常深厚。” 支持者表示，这种投资不足的历史体现在校园本身。 “这就是瓦茨以及洛杉矶其他有色人种社区的发展故事。种族主义的规划实践，加上对城市艺术和文化设施投资的缺乏，导致了管理和设计上的随意性，”洛杉矶社区土地信托基金会 (LANLT) 执行主任 Tori Kjer 在一封电子邮件中写道。该组织自 2012 年开始与市政府合作重新设计校园，当时开始规划将塔楼相邻的一块空地纳入校园。 景观设计呼应了罗迪亚（Rodia）自身的艺术创作过程。从 1921 年开始的 33 年间，他将数千件各异的物品——包括马赛克瓷砖、盘子、玻璃、贝壳和陶器——转化为 17 个相互连接的结构，其中一个高度超过 99 英尺。“‘组合艺术’（Assemblage）就是通过许多不同的部分创造出有意义之物的实践，”负责校园景观建筑设计的 Studio Zewde 创始人兼负责人 Sara Zewde 在电子邮件中写道。“与其抹除这些历史，让校园感觉像是始终是一个单一的……”
“在有足够空间的情况下，我们希望景观能够对它们进行颂扬。”
自WTACC开放以来，校园景观基本保持不变。虽然此后增加了几栋建筑和公共艺术品，但LANLT的Kjer将该场地描述为“混凝土、破旧种植区和草地的混杂体……动线脱节且引导标识有限”。
WTACC项目在2021年获得了动力，当时加州第68号提案全州公园计划授予了一笔$4.5 million的拨款。次年，议员Mike A. Gipson（民主党-卡森）在州预算中又争取到了额外的$4 million。
Gipson表示，一旦这笔资金落实，“就产生了一种多米诺骨牌效应”，帮助吸引了更多的公共和私人投资。
“这将是一个滋养灵魂的空间，”市文化事务部（负责管理这些塔楼）总经理Daniel Tarica说道，“我们终于能够让整个校园发挥作用了。”
根据加州公园与休闲部门的数据，沃茨塔每年吸引约40,000名游客，并于1990.被指定为美国国家历史地标。6月，该地被列入世界古迹基金会的“无可替代的美国”名单，成为美国10个濒危历史遗址之一。虽然Gipson希望翻修后的校园能吸引更多国际游客，但他也希望更多洛杉矶人能发现这座城市标志性的文化地标之一。Gipson说：“这些塔楼讲述了一个关于洛杉矶的故事。我们希望人们知道，沃茨塔是洛杉矶身份的一部分。”
Tarica表示，该项目的设计旨在服务于社区居民，就像服务于游客一样。他说：“这是一个巨大的资源，我们作为部门、作为城市一直在奋斗，以确保我们有资金继续开展教学……和项目活动。”
然而，对于Hooks来说，这次翻修的成功最终将由其对周边社区的影响来衡量。她认为，在艺术教育被削减数十年的情况下，该校园填补了这一空白，同时为居民提供了一个聚集和学习的场所。
她说：“我们的社区负担不起艺术，尤其是现在面临着所有关于健康、食物、工作以及美国移民与海关执法局拆散家庭的问题。”
该项目的资金仅限于校园翻修，不包括沃茨塔的保护工作。LACMA副馆长Diana Magaloni表示，完成该项目还需要约$412,000。市府已拨出$150,000用于持续的维护和监测。Magaloni和Tarica都表示，他们对在洛杉矶迎接2028年夏季奥运会之前完成保护活动和校园改造持乐观态度。
Tarica说：“如果能拥有这笔资金来完成校园修复和（塔楼修复），为我们登上世界舞台做好准备，那将太棒了。”
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“每个人都想成为 我”：一位派对女孩的光环
一批来自伊芙·巴比茨（Eve Babitz）的新书信集揭示了一位极致的好莱坞内部人士，她将才华倾注于写作，而将天才留给了生活
作者：史蒂夫·沃瑟曼 (STEVE WASSERMAN)
首先要说明的是：伊芙·巴比茨是一位在洛杉矶具有重要影响力的非主流作家，五年前去世，享年 78 岁。她曾过近四分之一个世纪的隐居生活，因为 1997 年在用火柴点燃她的 Tiparillo 香烟时遭遇了一场震惊且致残的意外。她那件薄薄的印度裙子起火了，将连裤袜灼烧进她的肉里，导致她身体超过一半面积被三度烧伤。此后她再未发表过作品，尽管包括我在内的许多人都极力推崇她的天赋。在她遭遇不幸时，我是《洛杉矶时报》的图书编辑。我长期以来一直钦佩她，尤其是那部活泼且不可或缺的《慢时光，快陪伴》（Slow Days, Fast Company），该书于 1977 年首次出版，是一系列充满胆量与灵气的迷人且深刻的故事。我向当时报社的编辑约翰·卡罗尔 (John Carroll) 建议，让他聘请她担任专栏作家，并敦促巴比茨直接写信给他。她这么做了，而那封 2000 年 10 月的信，就是由莉莉·阿诺利克 (Lili Anolik) 专业编辑并挑选的书信集《太洛杉矶：未寄出的信（但有些寄了）》(Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were)) 中收录的最后一封信。巴比茨告诉卡罗尔，“报社需要的是一些能引起轰动的作家，人们为了跟上潮流不得不阅读这些文章。”巴比茨很清楚自己在说什么。自从 20 世纪 50 年代末在好莱坞高中就读的青少年时期起，她就一直生活在那种前沿状态中。
《太洛杉矶：未寄出的信（但有些寄了）》（左图）通过伊芙·巴比茨本人的私人文字，提供了一个审视她的另一种视角。上图：巴比茨（最右）与她的父亲索尔 (Sol)、母亲梅 (Mae) 以及妹妹米兰迪 (Mirandi)。顶图：1980 年的巴比茨。
巴比茨作品的死后复兴是非常令人欢迎的。然而，存在过度称赞其功绩的风险。她是那个光鲜亮丽的洛杉矶的毫不掩饰的推崇者，而那个洛杉矶已成为崛起中的创意精英的代名词，她发现这些精英的风采与自恋令她无法抗拒。阿诺利克在她热烈的序言中主张：“这些信件包含了你想要的一切”，且通常“深刻”且“时而精彩，总是幽默”。她说这些信件值得与弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫 (Virginia Woolf) 永恒的《一间自己的房间》并列在短小的书架上，因为它们“与弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫著名的宣言一样坦率，一样清晰，一样残酷，一样细腻”。但愿如此。遗憾的是，几乎单枪匹马地完成了巴比茨文学挖掘工作的阿诺利克，由于太爱她的研究对象，以至于几乎对巴比茨的缺陷视而不见，无论是在写作还是生活方面。在阿诺利克 2014 年 3 月那篇引人入胜的《名利场》(Vanity Fair) 专访的推动下，通过此前出版的两本书——《好莱坞的伊芙》(Hollywood’s Eve) (2019) 和《迪迪恩与巴比茨》(Didion and Babitz) (2024) ——阿诺利克已成为巴比茨最坚定的支持者。现在凭借《太洛杉矶》，这个标题取自巴比茨本人那种过分激进的写作风格，她收集并编辑了一批书信。这些信件精彩地揭示了巴比茨洞察“深层浅薄”的眼光，并探讨了她私人生活中很大程度上由自我造成的创伤与她公众人格的闪亮光辉之间那层模糊的界限。巴比茨本人通过这 197 封信（其中仅有 30 封被她寄出），以一种阿诺利克并不理解的方式地意识到了自己天赋的局限性，尽管她努力挣脱那种在每一个转弯处都试图挫败她的艺术和写作野心的“男性说教”文化，即便她的编辑和崇拜者们寻求（通常与她共同
（热烈的鼓励）潜入她的床单之中。伊芙·巴比茨（Eve Babitz）于 1943 年出生于好莱坞的新贵家庭。她出生于布鲁克林的父亲索尔（Sol）曾先后担任洛杉矶爱乐乐团和 20 世纪福克斯影业工作室管弦乐团的第一小提琴手。索尔最终与莉莉·梅·拉维奥莱特（Lily Mae Laviolette）结婚，后者是一位美丽的、愿意皈依犹太教的卡真天主教徒。伊芙的教父是索尔的好友伊戈尔·斯特拉文斯基（Igor Stravinsky）。14 岁时，随着青春期的到来，巴比茨的蜕变使她成为了好莱坞高中的“快车女孩”们重点招揽的对象——这些自称“雷鸟女孩”（Thunderbird Girls）的女生们开着酷炫的汽车在日落大道上巡游，寻找机会。20 岁时，巴比茨为了宣传帕萨迪纳艺术博物馆的杜尚回顾展，拍摄了一组与全副武装的马塞尔·杜尚（Marcel Duchamp）对弈的裸体照。当时，巴比茨正与该博物馆 32 岁的已婚馆长沃尔特·霍普斯（Walter Hopps）偷情，这或许解释了巴比茨为何不愿拍摄面部照片，以免让出席开幕式的霍普斯夫人识破。一个月后，巴比茨在（未寄出的）信中倾诉道：“现在一切对我来说都太美好了，我简直不敢相信。没有什么比同时拥有两个男朋友更能让你满足的了。周围有这么多优秀的男孩，他们带你约会、看电影，我觉得自己就像个青少年。（我正在找回失去的青春。）我可以盛装打扮，肆无忌惮地调情，捉弄人们，或者做一些像是深情地凝望着窗外之类的事，天呐，这简直美得无法用语言形容。……只要这一切能永远持续下去——虽然不可能，但我可以。”
在接下来的生命中，她一直被两种力量撕扯：一种是日常生活的刺激——巡游当时的社交热点（60 年代初的 Barney’s Beanery，她在那里结识了许多洛杉矶崭露头角的艺术家——埃德·基恩霍尔兹、比利·阿尔·本格斯顿、拉迪·迪尔、彼得·亚历山大，以及鲁莎兄弟埃德和保罗，她与两兄弟都发生过关系，而保罗成了一个分分合合的男友，他的双性恋倾向使得这段关系有时显得脆弱；在吉姆·莫里森成名之前，她诱惑了他；随后在 60 年代末，Troubadour 成了她的快乐猎场——仅举几位：史蒂夫·马丁、格伦·弗雷、唐·亨利、J.D. 萨瑟、乡村乔·麦克唐纳、杰克逊·布朗；之后又是 Ports 餐厅，她在那里占据了一张角落桌）——以及药物的诱惑——兴奋剂、酸类药物（她摄入的频率惊人）、当然还有大麻，到了 70 年代中期，悲剧地成为了可卡因的顶峰。她进入了她恰如其分地称之为“肮脏狂欢”（squalid over-boogie）的时代。
书中对名人的提及不绝于止，如果你像我一样，对搜集这些名字有着贪得无厌的渴望，那么这本书不会让你失望。尽管如此，书中仍有许多页平淡的随笔——“我打扫了房子，洗了衣服，并誓言戒烟”——这解释了为什么巴比茨作为一名小说家是失败的（见她那部糟糕的《性与愤怒》），而作为一名短篇小说和散文作家却是顶尖的，因为她以一种时尚的方式挖掘了自身感性的深度，而这种深度恰恰与她对他人的冷漠程度成正比。
纽约评论书刊 (New York Review Books)
在她为了取悦一名已婚情人并惊吓到达达主义之父——那个毫无防备的杜尚而脱衣后的 30 年初，以及在 1982 年加入匿名戒酒会（AA）的八年后——那一年，她挚爱的父亲在 70 岁时死于亨廷顿舞蹈症，这种疾病最终也将夺走她的生命——她放弃了毒品、酒精，且（几乎完全）放弃了写作，因为她一直认为写作是依赖于某种形式的毒品而实现的。她自豪地回顾道：“每个人都想成为我——他们用向往的眼神看着我，说：‘天哪，你真是玩得太尽兴了。’” 她的看法并不完全错误。无论在当时还是现在，她都吸引了许多仰慕者，被视为典型的加州女孩，一个狄俄尼索斯的女儿，对享乐的追求没有任何顾虑或遗憾。她厌恶那些将东海岸视角带入末日景象的人，比如纳撒尼尔·韦斯特，后者在阳光灿烂的洛杉矶中只看到了毁灭与阴郁。相比之下，巴比特看到的则是乐观的一面。如果说琼·狄迪恩会被经常刮起的炎热圣安娜风搞得不安焦虑，巴比特则沉溺其中，回忆起她和姐姐在孩童时期如何冲出去拥抱这些风，疯狂地旋转着。
在 1977 年写给约瑟夫·海勒的一封未寄出的信中，她自豪地宣布：“我是一个喜欢洛杉矶而非讨厌它的八卦故事讲述者。” 海勒曾在她读完初版《第22条军规》后寄去一封自荐迷信信时支持她的作品，当时她年仅 20 岁。她提到了自己的“肤浅天性”，写道：“我觉得自己像一条逆流而上的三文鱼，决心到达浅水区，无论河流反向奔流得多么湍急。” 根据这些信件的证据，她有两个伟大的挚爱：大西洋唱片公司的主要创始人艾哈迈德·厄特根，以及为厄特根工作的著名录音工程师兼制作人汤姆·道德。两人之中，厄特根更胜一筹，如果非要找原因，那是因为他拥有巨额财富，使他们在比弗利山庄酒店的常驻度假屋进行幽会成为可能，并配有豪华轿车的接送服务，以及顶级的香槟和其他各种兴奋剂。厄特根优雅而博学，且举止自然，没有他不认识的人，也没有人不接他的电话。1969 年两人坠入爱河时，厄特根已婚，年龄 45 岁，比巴比特大 20 岁。在她同意为詹·温纳新创办的《滚石》杂志撰写他的人物简介时，她便开始与他同床共枕。但写作进展不顺。温纳想要一篇比她愿意写的更强硬的文章。最终，她放弃了这项任务，并声称（这并非不合理）她不明白自己如何能客观地描写一个她所爱的男人。
巴比特以不顾后果的勇敢和典范般的鲁莽与危险共舞。她曾有胆量摆脱一名企图强奸她的歹徒：当被告知不要尖叫时，她以难以想象的冷静地问道：“为什么不能？” 那男人随即逃跑了。就像奥斯卡·王尔德评价自己的生活一样，也可以这样评价巴比特：她将才华花在了写作上，而将天赋留给了生活。她将天生的机智与大胆雕琢成一件活生生的艺术品，令所有进入她轨道的人目眩神迷。她对生活的渴望触手可及。信件就是证明。她无所畏惧地接近人们，离开时也无需道歉。她是自己的主宰。她是那个看似拥有一切的女孩。她唯一缺失的，就是缺乏经验。
摘自保罗·鲁沙
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如果你的理想海滩之旅包含尽可能少的交谈和尽可能多的翻页，那么你来对地方了。从关于复杂母女关系的苦甜故事，到充满神秘气息的诱人小镇戏剧，我们策划了一份夏季书单，承诺带给你逃离之感——以及一点戏剧冲突。在我们的书评人推荐下，你将被传送到法国的一个度假小镇，或是马蒙特酒店（Chateau Marmont）的一个逝去年代。如果海岸边没有浪漫在等待你，你会在我们的选书中找到充足的浪漫——以及那些在最后一章结束后仍让你心潮澎湃的秘密和充满渴望的凝视。—— Maddie Connors
G.P. Putnam's Sons
GO GENTLE 作者：Maria Semple G.P. Putnam’s Sons：384 页 （现已出版） Semple 的喜剧才华是实打实的： 这位小说家以编剧开启职业生涯， 参与过的剧集包括 《你对我如此痴迷》（Mad About You） 和《发展停滞》（Arrested Development）。 读者可能知道她是 小说《伯纳黛特去哪了》（Where’d You Go, Bernadette） 的作者—— 她在本书中延续了 同样古灵精怪的 幽默感。故事围绕 哲学家 Adora 展开， 她在遇到一名 迷人的陌生人后， 生活发生了翻天覆地的变化。 这部小说包含几条 情节线，Semple 处理得游刃有余；我非常喜欢 看到这本书陷入一种愉悦的、 几近失控的混乱之中。 在幽默和狂野的剧情转折之下， 这是一部关于衰老、 优雅的作品—— 睿智、富有同情心，而且，是的，温柔。 —— Michael Schaub
Summit Books
ALMOST LIFE 作者：Kiran Millwood Hargrave Summit Books: 384 pages （现已出版） 1978 年一个酷热的夏天，Erica 和 Laure 在巴黎圣心大教堂的台阶上浪漫邂逅，当时前者太年轻、太天真，而后者则太疲惫、太世故。在 Erica 随身携带的一本法国小说吸引下，她们开始了一段短暂而热烈的情事，随后 Erica 回到英国大学就读。随着数十年的时光流逝，她们在不同的尺度上，并在不同的时间点对彼此表现出残酷、冷漠，以及无法抗拒的吸引力。Erica 认为自己是双性恋，最终嫁给了一位继承了遗产的同行作家，并育有两个女儿。Laure 那充满气味与感官刺激的波希米亚式（注：即肮脏的）左岸公寓，与 Erica 豪华的乡间别墅形成鲜明对比，这凸显了“异性相吸”这一古老的主题，但同时也强调了当激情真实且性爱绝佳时，环境（无论肮脏还是华丽）是多么地无关紧要。—— Bethanne Patrick
Scribner
GHOST TOWN 作者：Tom Perrotta Scribner: 288 pages Perrotta 是一位擅长讽刺郊区生活的作家（作品包括《选举》、《 the Leftovers》），他带来的这个故事对乡愁的刻画就像一次完美的 bong 抽吸一样强效。故事背景设定在 20 世纪末新泽利州（N.J.）的 Creamwood，并简短而深刻地回顾了叙述者当下的生活——他是一位成功的作家，创作了一系列名为《幽灵教师》（Ghost Teacher）的作品，但却害怕回家。 1974 年，Jimmy Perrini 是镇上消防局长 13 岁的儿子，他的生活在青春期的诱惑与一场使其发育停滞数十年的死亡之间摇摆。成年后的 Perrini（现在被称为 Jay Perry）将 1974 年（Top 40 播放列表、甜腻的谷物麦片和刺鼻的洗发水）与 2024 年的数字化泥潭联系在一起。书中有通灵板和几个幽灵，但这并不是一本旨在让人恐惧或惊悚的书。它以一种忧伤而甜蜜的视角，探讨了成长经历如何塑造我们——在那个我们希望摆脱它们的时间之后，直到我们希望永远不要忘记它们的时刻。— B.P.
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Little, Brown & Co.
Little, Brown & Co.
《大地之怪》(MONSTER OF A LAND) 作者：Lauren Hough Penguin Random House：336 页 （现已出版） 如果说夏天是充满无尽希望的季节，那么开阔的公路就是它的守护神。再加上一只狗和在德克萨斯州一座死气沉沉的小镇上的一次令人不寒而栗的邂逅，就构成了 Hough 的《大地之怪》。这部回忆录带领读者在美国家乡进行一次旅程，与斯坦贝克的《与查理同行》颇为相似——而这正是 Hough 本人所引导的对比。即便如此，Hough 是一个截然不同的导游。她的游记由个人声音驱动，带有日记风格，完全是原创的。这位自称身高 6 英尺的女同性恋者及空军退伍军人，开着一辆 2001 年的道奇面包车横跨全国，带来了一个既犀利又充满同情心的视角。其结果是对一个分裂的美国所勾勒出的幽默、共情且偶尔尖锐的画像。当然，去公路旅行吧——但请随身带上这本书。—— M.C.
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Mariner Books
《单身女孩》(SINGLE GIRLS) 作者：John Searles Mariner Books：384 页 如果一个男人在破坏你夏日的乐趣，我想建议你离开他？至少，这就是海伦·格利·布朗（Helen Gurley Brown）在 1965, 年会给出的建议，这位 It-girl 塑造了《Cosmopolitan》杂志。几十年后，包括我在内的女性都应对她心存感激。布朗是一位先驱，她敦促女性为了追求事业雄心而推迟结婚，她的智慧在今天依然及时且具有启发性（当然，她也给出过一些糟糕的建议。谁没给过呢？）。Searles 曾在布朗领导下的《Cosmopolitan》担任编辑，他的《单身女孩》重新想象了她从职业生涯早期崛起，到革命性地接管该杂志的经过。这部小说机智、文字精炼，是对一位通过拒绝怜悯单身女性而吸引全国关注的女性所作的真挚刻画——而 1960 年代纽约市媒体帝国的世界同样具有诱惑力。—— M.C.
《艾伦选择退出》(ALAN OPTS OUT) 作者：Courtney Maum Little, Brown & Co.：352 页 当然，我只能代表我自己，但我每天大约有 100 次在幻想用大锤砸碎我的智能手机。那些提醒你有多少未读邮件和未回复短信的小红圈？它们可以直接滚回地狱，那是它们该去的地方。Maum 这部令人捧腹的新小说主角艾伦·安德森（Alan Anderson）会同意这一点：这位康涅狄格州的广告主管在丢失一个重要客户后，决定搬进家里的游戏房，并摒弃现代生活的种种琐碎，包括他的智能手机，这让他的名媛妻子薇薇安（Vivian）大为震惊。Maum 细致地刻画人物，并灵巧地捕捉到了小说中高调的郊区设定所自带的幽默感。这是一本非常适合带到海滩上的书——但也许你应该把手机留在家里，以免你把它扔进大海。—— M.S.
日落大道上的城堡 (THE CHATEAU ON SUNSET) 作者：Natasha Lester Ballantine Books，384 页 （现已出版） “如果你注定要陷入麻烦，那就去马蒙特吧，”这部以 20 世纪 50 年代的马蒙特城堡酒店 (Chateau Marmont) 为背景的哥特小说在开篇如此写道。在如今这个时代，很难想象还能在马蒙特城堡——这个逝去 era. 的遗迹中——陷入那种“良性”的麻烦。庆幸的是，我们的主角艾莉亚·琼斯 (Aria Jones) 为我们做到了。这部小说是对《简·爱》在世纪中叶的重新想象，捕捉了制片厂 era, 时代那种狂热的魅力与潜在的混乱，每个角色都比前一个更加狡黠且令人费解。其结果是一部具有鲜明旧好莱坞色彩的哥特故事，向马蒙特城堡酒店持久的神秘感致敬。对话极其紧凑且犀利，会让你不由自主地屏住呼吸。在《日落大道上的城堡》中，疯狂、残酷和难搞的女人是完美的陪伴者。— M.C.
Ballantine Books
泳池屋 (POOL HOUSE) 作者：Mary H.K. Choi Flatiron Books：336 页 （现已出版） 崔 (Choi) 以其广受好评的三部青年小说而闻名，但她的最新著作证明了她在为成年读者写作方面同样具有才华。小说讲述了演员文 (Moon) 的故事，她的职业生涯已不复当年之勇，且刚刚失去了爱人；以及文的女儿史蒂夫 (Stevie)，她渴望离开与母亲共居的洛杉矶家中。然而生活另有安排——两人被迫将房屋出租，搬进书名中提到的那个建筑中以节省开支。我非常喜欢崔处理衰老、阶级和家庭主题时那种罕见的敏锐感；这是一部即便对娱乐业没有持久兴趣的读者也能产生共鸣的好莱坞小说。— M.S.
Flatiron Books
THE SUMMER BOY 作者：Philippe Besson，译者：Sam Taylor Scribner：208 页 （现已出版） Besson 2017 年的小说《Lie With Me》在其故乡法国取得了巨大成功，而由 Molly Ringwald 翻译的英文版本更是不可错过。他的最新作品是另一个成长故事，这次围绕着六名在 1985 年夏天于一个法国度假岛上度日的青少年展开。小说以一个名叫 Philippe 的 18 岁青年的视角讲述，他心中暗恋一个名叫 Nicolas 的年轻人，而后者突然失踪了。这并非一部轻盈、无忧无虑的浪漫小说；Besson 并不害怕触及悲剧，且处理得十分细致。这类小说常见的问题是容易陷入怀旧和感伤，但 Besson 巧妙地避开了这两个陷阱。那些想要重温青少年之爱的兴奋与痛苦，且不要求圆满结局的读者，将会从中发现许多值得欣赏之处。— M.S.
Scribner
G.P. Putnam’s Sons
SOCIAL ANIMALS 作者：Camille Perri G.P. Putnam’s Sons：320 页 （现已出版） Perri 新小说封面上一只一脸不悦的布鲁塞尔格里芬犬，立刻向读者预示，这将是一部围绕着一些可爱四足动物展开的诙谐小说。书里讲述了三位女性在一家狗狗公园里交织在一起的生活，其中一人在调查另一人是否可能不忠。虽然这部小说核心是一个悬疑故事，但它也非常甜蜜且幽默。Perri 对狗狗公园以及经常出没于此的那些有时古怪的人十分了解；她对犬类及其人类同伴的描述精准得惊人。除非你的毛茸茸朋友们——就像我的那些（向 Arvo, Otterpop! 和 Darla 致意）——要求你不能低头看书，以确保他们没有惹太多麻烦，否则这会是一本在狗狗公园阅读的绝佳书籍。— M.S.
Pushkin Press
COOKING IN THE WRONG CENTURY 作者：Teresa Präauer Pushkin Press：176 页 （周二出版） 看过奥利维亚·王尔德（Olivia Wilde）电影《The Invite》的人应该会对这部小说感兴趣。该书篇幅相对较短，但典故密集，并在 2024. 获得了德国不莱梅文学奖。一对被称为“主人”和“女主人”的夫妇，邀请另一对被称为“丈夫”和“妻子”的夫妇，以及一名身为学者的瑞士男子共进晚餐。无论这些人是在进行礼貌的交谈、激烈的辩论还是内心冲突，他们都在向读者展示，对于任何动脑筋且在一个迅速恶化的星球上享有过多特权的人来说，21 世纪的生活已变得像走钢丝一样。虽然某些时刻——例如女主人沉思草莓现在一年四季都能买到时——使这一点变得显而易见，但书中关于同一夜晚不同版本的“平行时空”设定使其更具超现实感。— B.P.
THE AMATEUR 作者：Chris Bohjalian Doubleday：336 页 （周二出版） 一方面，这可能是 Bohjalian 迄今为止最精致、最商业化的小说，在适合影视化的元素上甚至超越了《The Flight Attendant》（稍后详述）；另一方面，这可能是 Bohjalian 最具心理深度的小说，通过第一人称视角展现了傲慢、崩溃以及一个来之不易的生命重启机会。Mira Winston 统治着她的新泽西家乡及其富裕的乡村俱乐部，她在 17 岁时就能在打球水平上胜过所有会员以及几乎所有职业选手；人们认为她迟早会转为职业选手是理所当然的。然而，在 Mira 的练习球击穿网格并杀死了一名球童（她的高中同学之一）后，她的未来变得阴暗得多。虽然在针对她的案件构建期间，她被允许就读大学，但她崩溃了并返回家中，发现自己因为许多其他原因而被人们议论纷纷——而直到最后的反转，真相才被揭开。— B.P. Doubleday
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St. Martin’s Griffin
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巴登饰演的这个深沉的凯迪因被判定谋杀妻子而入狱近二十年。当新证据的发现导致凯迪获得自由后，他的新任务就是折磨安娜（艾米·亚当斯 饰）和汤姆·鲍登（帕特里克·威尔逊 饰），他们分别是其案件的律师和检察官，如今两人已结婚并育有两个青少年孩子。
凯迪将他们的生活变成了一个充满偏执——事实上，是充满恐惧的陷阱，同时又为自己制造了合理的否认空间以逃避后果。这是一场恶意且无情的心理轰炸。“他是一个 2026 年的马克斯·凯迪。这是一种不同的处理侵犯隐私和侵入角色心理的方式。数字世界现在让一切都变得非常不同，”他解释道。“我们对关于自己的言论和文字极度敏感。我们被如此多的信息淹没，以至于有时我们无法分辨真伪。”
虽然在 1991 年的电影中，观众知道德尼罗饰演的凯迪犯下了性犯罪，这使他成为“一个绝对令人厌恶的角色”，但巴登表示，这个新版本
【巴登重塑了他的马克斯·凯迪（上图），使该角色与之前的版本有所区别。这位演员（上图）表示：“一个好的反派有很多裂缝，而这正是让他更具有人性的一面。”】
描绘的是一个在美司法系统手中遭受苦难的复杂人物。
“在这里我们明白，他因为一件他没做过的事情而被监禁。他可能做过其他事情，但他会说：‘是你们把我变成了这个怪物。’ 事实的确如此。从那一刻起，一种复仇和破坏的心态便产生了，”巴登在谈到他的凯迪时说道。
最后一集展示了凯迪在公众面前被揭露真面目，就在他得知自己应对其儿子的死亡负责之前。巴登将他描述为一只“垂死之兽”，他失去了对他精心策划以重建形象的叙事的掌控。
该角色的剧本编写时考虑到了演员的西班牙口音。这个凯迪在西班牙长大，直到 13 岁搬到北卡罗来纳州并在街头学习英语。巴登与著名的方言教练蒂姆·莫尼奇（Tim Monich）合作。
为了在台词中融入一丝南方口音，因为他意识到他的角色不需要听起来像母语使用者。“我不精通双语，”巴德姆（Bardem）说道。考虑到他在美国参与了数十年的众多英语作品，这一说法有些令人震惊。“用英语演戏对我来说更容易，因为对话是既定的，”他说，“但到了需要即兴发挥的时候，我觉得很困难。在英语中这对我来说仍然不够自然。”这位奥斯卡奖得者认为，用英语工作有一种自由感，因为词语的情感意义较低。“我在说英语时可以更大胆。我可以更少地受到抑制地表达词汇或将想法具体化，因为我没有那么深的情感依附，”他解释道，“但当你用母语说话时，你的身体会变得紧张，因为你会想：‘我完全理解我所讲述内容的全部情感频谱。’”
在他备受赞誉的职业生涯现阶段，巴德姆只对那些探索“带有潜在人性矛盾”的角色感兴趣。他过去曾扮演过单一维度的角色，但远离挚爱之人的代价太高。这份工作必须与他所放弃的宝贵时间相匹配。《恐惧岬》（Cape Fear）的剧组为巴德姆安排了工作两周、随后休息五或六天的日程，让他能回访家人，其中包括他同样出名且抢手的妻子佩内洛普·克鲁兹（Penélope Cruz），以及他们的两个正值青春期的孩子：15 岁的 Leo 和 13 岁的 Luna。
《恐惧岬》在佐治亚州的亚特兰大和萨凡纳拍摄。他说，回西班牙的路途虽远，但可以承受，且绝对值得。“我在合同中要求的一少数事项之一就是与家人相处的时间，而这一点一直受到尊重；佩内洛普和我一直通过管理我们的项目，确保我们中总有一个人陪在孩子身边。”
凭借在《老无依托》（No Country for Old Men）中饰演令人不安的杀手以及在《天天空陨》（Skyfall）中饰演优雅的网络恐怖分子的获奖演出，观众可能会将巴德姆与阴森的角色联系在一起（他的 Cady 也加入了这一行列）。他说，扮演这类角色很有满足感。“确实，具有这种阴暗面的人物非常吸引人去扮演，”他说，“反派总是比英雄更引人注目。英雄是完美的正直之辈。而一个好的反派有很多裂痕，这正是让他更具人性的地方。”
然而，近年来，巴德em有意识地努力参与一些孩子们可以观看的项目，特别是在他们还小的时候，比如奇幻音乐剧《鳄鱼莱尔》（Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile）以及真人版重拍的《小美人鱼》（The Little Mermaid），他在片中饰演特里顿国王。
“我需要我的孩子们看到我在做什么，”他说，“他们知道我会离开家两周然后回来，我会给他们讲述并展示照片，但他们之前还没法看我的任何电影，因为那些电影更多是面向成年人的。”
克鲁兹和巴德姆一直鼓励孩子们的创意追求。如果他们最终选择在艺术领域生活，他们不会感到惊讶。“我不认为他们会成为科学家或律师，这很合理。我不知道他们是否会成为‘星二代’（nepo babies），但我们意识到孩子总是受父母所作所为的影响，”巴德姆说。
每当巴德姆或克鲁兹收到新角色的邀约时，夫妻俩会先进行讨论，然后让孩子们参与到对话中。这很...
巴登认为，重要的是让里奥和露娜知道表演给他们的父母带来了多么充实的生活。 “他们知道，我们能将热爱转化为生计，内心充满巨大的感激之情。而且他们明白，我们回报这份天赋的方式，就是竭尽全力，给予它应有的全部关注，”他说。 孩子们小时候对在银幕上看到父母没那么感兴趣，但现在改变了。“他们把《邀请》看了三遍，非常喜欢。他们还看了《回归》和《Bandidas》，”他说。“他们看了我在《F1》里的演出，里奥正在看《恐怖岬》。” 今年6月，巴登的手印和脚印被留在TCL中国剧院的入口处，从而成为了好莱坞历史的一部分。参加仪式的有导演迈克尔·曼、丹尼斯·维伦纽瓦以及制片人杰瑞·布鲁克海默。 “那一刻我非常想念我的母亲，因为那里有那么多经典男女演员的脚印。我想象我的母亲看到我的手脚印就在加里·库珀旁边，而他曾是她生命中最爱的人之一，”他说。巴登表示，迈克尔·曼能出席活动让他感觉很不真实。他们在二十多年前就曾合作过《t-Collateral》（侧击）。“我在80年代对《迈阿密 vice》（迈阿密风云）非常痴迷，”巴登说。他补充道，在这次拍摄中穿的西装让他想起了那部标志性的剧集和电影。 巴登与维伦纽瓦的最新合作作品《沙丘：第三部》将于12月上映。他回忆起拍摄电影开场序列时的快乐，那是一场演员们全身覆盖着泥泞的战斗。这让他想起了童年的游戏。“丹尼斯会笑我对我说：‘你为什么在笑？’而我会说：‘这就是我以前在校园里玩的游戏，但现在是真的。现在我看向右边，我麾下有 50 个人，’”他说。“我很幸运能与提莫西 [夏拉马] 拍摄一些场景。我看到他饰演的保罗与第二部中的保罗非常不同，”巴登继续说道。“岁月流逝，现在的保罗掌控着权力，同时也是权力的受害者。” 巴登对巴勒斯坦人目前的困境直言不讳，他希望人们能将从消费的虚构作品中汲取的教训应用到动荡的世界中。“我们在《星球大战》中支持反抗军，希望他们击败达斯·维达；或者我们在《沙丘》中站在弗雷曼人的一边。在虚构作品中，我们总是选边站队。然而，当我们现实生活中目睹压迫者地进行压迫、虐待和侵犯最基本权利时，我们似乎很难站在被压迫者一边，”巴登解释道。“这绝不能发生。” 即便是在最近的世界杯期间（西班牙队夺冠），这位演员在观看比赛时依然倡导停止杀戮。一段疯传的视频显示他在一场比赛中与一名巴勒斯坦男子交流。“生存即反抗，”巴登告诉他。在社交媒体上，他分享了国家队球星之一拉明·亚马尔挥舞巴勒斯坦国旗的照片。“以色列在这些罪行上所享有的豁免权——无论是法律层面还是国际支持层面——都造成了一种深刻的无力感，”他说。 巴登承认，有人直接或间接地要求他降低发声支持的强度。但他并不担心遭到抵制。相反，他从未像现在这样感受到来自志同道合的普通民众的支持。“如果我如此幸运地拥有美好的生活，能从事我热爱的工作，并能为我的家庭提供稳定和安全，我怎能不利用这种特权去谴责我认为错误的事情？”
那些带有... 阴暗色彩的 角色非常 吸引人。 反派总是比 英雄更 引人入胜。”
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电视配乐师化身为 摇滚重击者
艾美奖得主 BEAR McCREARY 在新专辑《THE SINGULARITY: EKLEIPSIS》中释放内心的金属乐之魂
作者：BRYAN REESMAN
获得艾美奖的作曲家 Bear McCreary 走了一条通往交响摇滚的逆向之路。前卫摇滚乐手传统上会将交响元素融入其中；其他摇滚乐队则会为自己的歌曲制作管弦乐版本。而 McCreary 则是从创作电视和电影配乐开始，发现了内心的金属乐之魂，并从此通过他的“Singularity”项目将这两个世界联系在一起。这一切构成了对该经典公式的一种不同诠释。¶ 两张专辑中的第二张《The Singularity: Ekleipsis》于上周发行，其中包含了吉他手 Steve Vai、Coheed and Cambria 主唱 Claudio Sanchez、Fall Out Boy 主唱 Patrick Stump 以及 McCreary 的弟弟 Brendan 的贡献，后者在半数曲目中演唱。这张多面性的专辑给人一种“我是 Bear，听我咆哮”的感觉。¶ “我太喜欢这句话了，”他在接受《时报》两小时的采访时笑着说，“我想把它印在海报上。我觉得《The Singularity》就像是一个为他人写了 20 年音乐的人所爆发的一次情绪宣泄，所有这些想法突然地喷涌而出。”在第一张《Singularity》专辑发行两年后，《Ekleipsis》对他而言感觉更加聚焦且更具个人色彩。
第一张《Singularity》 双专辑邀请了 Serj Tankian、Corey Taylor、Rufus Wainwright 和 Joe Satriani 等嘉宾， 与一部图形小说相联系。 该小说讲述了一个男人在 多元宇宙的每一次生命中， 都多次在反派人物手中 经历失去与死亡的故事。 这在结尾处引导出一个 重大的揭秘。尽管 McCreary 表示《Ekleipsis》并未与 那个宇宙脱节，但它并不 严格地绑定在某个叙事中。 “我并不是打算再次创作 一张概念专辑，” McCreary 承认，“但所有 歌词中都有某种紧迫感。 其中一半是具体地在讨论 我们共同生活在其中并 试图以某种方式克服的 这个世界。” McCreary 的音色多样性 在《Ekleipsis》中得以延续。 Gojira 主唱 Joe Duplantier 与 McCreary 兄弟以及 保加利亚之谜女声合唱团 在《Black Box》中合作， 创造出一部不和谐且宏伟的 作品。在与著名鼓手 Stewart Copeland 合作的 高能量曲目《Pray for a Storm》的初步阶段， 这位作曲家采取了即兴 创作的方式。 “让我们在没有任何准备的 情况下进入你的工作室，” McCreary 回忆起他告诉这位 充满活力的打击乐手的话。 “我甚至不打算带任何想法。 我们插上乐器，架好麦克风， 然后开始演奏。我想捕捉 你的想法和能量，然后根据 我得到的碎片将其塑造成 一首歌。” McCreary 将新的尝试视为 一次学习经历。他根据合作者 喜欢的工作方式与他们对接。 在创作那首气势磅礴的 《Cool Kids》时，他与枪花 (Guns N’ Roses) 贝斯手 Duff McKagan 和红辣椒 (Red Hot Chili Peppers) 鼓手 Chad Smith 合作，对此深感震撼。 “那些家伙是真正的歌曲 匠人，”这位作曲家宣称。 “我认为他们作为词曲作者 没有得到应有的认可。他们 曾为 Ozzy Osbourne 写歌。”
他们专注于反复打磨一段吉他即兴演奏（riff），直到它达到完美效果。我们带着一段 Duff 写的即兴曲走进录音室，最后在 Slash 的加入下，带着这首歌走出来。我们从他们身上获得了那种乐队合作的经验。”
McCreary 最著名的作品包括为《星际之门：太空堡垒》（Battlestar Galactica）、《行尸走肉》（The Walking Dead）以及《指环王：力量之戒》（The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power）等剧集创作的配乐，以及《哥斯拉：怪兽之王》（Godzilla: King of the Monsters）等电影和《战神》（God of War）系列电子游戏。二十年前，他在与 Anthrax 乐队吉他手兼《星际之门》粉丝 Scott Ian 的一次晚餐中接触到了金属乐。
“‘我认识你。你是个热爱 Sepultura 的家伙，’”Ian 告诉他，为这位作曲家建立了一次音乐上的联系。McCreary 被激起了好奇心，在聆听了 Sepultura 将民俗元素融入的巴西死亡金属后深陷其中。他的金属乐之旅由此开启。
从那时起，McCreary 就一直渴望投身于这个领域。在这次探索中，他有一位重要的合作伙伴。
“在摇滚方面，我兄弟是我的秘密武器，”McCreary 说，“他的摇滚知识储备弥补了我的不足。我们的侧重点不同。他是一个极佳的制作人，因为他能敏锐地察觉到哪些东西是无用的，或者歌曲的哪个部分没有发挥作用。有这样一个人的影响是非常好的。他有出色的歌词感，且拥有令人惊叹的嗓音。”
McCreary 表示，Brendan 往往是他们歌词创作的推动力，而“有时我们会与他人共同创作。Claudio Sanchez 撰写了《Sweet Misery》的所有歌词。这取决于具体情况。”
在《One Fine Day》中，较年轻的 McCreary 是推动歌词创作的文字大师。“这首歌讲述了我们作为亚美尼亚裔移民的经历，以及探讨这对我们意味着什么，”McCreary 详细解释道，“所有的歌曲都非常私人化，这也是这张唱片与上一张唱片的不同之处。上一张唱片中很多歌曲也是私人的，但我还写了一首关于一个坠入爱河的自动机的古怪歌曲。”
在与摇滚偶像合作之前，McCreary 在已故偶像级人物 Elmer Bernstein 最后的近十年生命中得到了他的指导。这位崭露头角的年轻作曲家在南加州大学 (USC) Thornton 音乐学院学习期间，为 Bernstein 整理音乐档案，列席录音环节，并旁听了三年他的高级课程。
McCreary 说，Bernstein “真正地让我走上了现在的道路，并不是因为我从他那里学会了如何编曲或如何写音乐。而是他向我展示了一种我可以在 15 或 16 岁时想象自己拥有的生活，那是你真正决定人生航向的关键时期。” 那个舵将他引向了许多彼岸。McCreary 正在与 Zoe Sarnak（《Galileo》）共同创作音乐剧《粒子狂热》（Particle Fever）。普利策奖入围者及托尼奖得主 David Henry Hwang（《蝴蝶夫人》）负责剧本，托尼奖提名者 Leigh Silverman（《Suffs》）担任导演。该剧基于同名纪录片，讲述了在欧洲核子研究组织（CERN）的大型强子对撞机中发现希格斯玻色子（即“上帝粒子”）的故事。该剧将于 2027 年 2 月在 La Jolla Playhouse 首演。“这是一部关于一项极具雄心的发现的、非常震撼且诚挚的摇滚音乐剧，”McCreary 说，“我希望它能像人们在《汉密尔顿》中发现的那样，具备某种自信和趣味，而《汉密尔顿》的主题同样是非常枯燥的，是你八年级时会学到的那种知识。”
“级别。”这位 47 岁的作曲家散发出一种极具感染力的乐观活力。他热爱挑战，并表示他意识到魅力和吸引力是敲开大门并证明自己才华的宝贵资产。“我的天性是非常积极且乐于协作的，”他承认道，“但在我 20 多岁时，我表现得过于亢奋，以至于开始让人们感到厌烦。我学到的教训就是需要收敛一些。”他的创作能量依然不减。他甚至为通过 Twitter 结识的电影制片人为短片配乐。（“我随时准备投入工作。”）他为一小群核心追随者记录自己的音乐生活，博客已经写了 20 年。（“回想起来，如果杰里·戈德史密斯在 80 年代就这么做了，天哪，我的生活将会截然不同。”）McCreary 最初是一名高中键盘手，后来在大学接触到了手风琴，这种乐器让他能有更大的舞台活动空间，后来他在为《Outlander》系列创作的音乐中将其发挥到了极致。
他喜欢在演奏手摇风琴时甩头，这是他在 2010 年开始接触的乐器，随后被用于《黑帆》剧集和《战神：诸神黄昏》游戏中。为了在 2025 年的演出中演奏节奏部分，他学习了吉他。那些吉他扫弦在最近德国的 Wacken Open Air 音乐节上得到了展现。McCreary 9 月的“Singularity”西海岸八场巡演将于 9 月 17 日抵达洛杉矶。McCreary 曾与管弦乐团在欧美演出其交响乐曲，但现在他也热爱大声地摇滚。
雄心勃勃的 McCreary 获得成功的一个大秘诀可以追溯到伯恩斯坦教给他的关于简单性的教训。“我为《战神》写的那个宏大主题，用钢琴的一个手指就能弹奏，”McCreary 透露道，“这就是核心所在，也是我在音乐中寻找的东西。大多数时候，这意味着其中有一段能让你记住的旋律，而无论它的制作多么精良，无论多么宏大，或者声音多么响亮，都无关紧要。好歌就是好歌，无论乐队演奏得多么出色，这其实并不重要。只要歌曲足够好，就能与人们产生共鸣。”
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《Whistler》，作者 Ann Patchett (Harper: $30) 一名女性在经历了一场令两人分离的创伤性事件数十年后，在大都会艺术博物馆与她的前继父重逢。
《Yesteryear》，作者 Caro Claire Burke (Knopf: $30) 一位“传统妻子”网红突然在 1855 年的残酷世界中醒来。
《Cool Machine》，作者 Colson Whitehead (Doubleday: $30) 这位普利策奖得主的哈莱姆三部曲以 1980 年代纽约的一次最后抢劫收尾。
《The Calamity Club》，作者 Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau: $35) 在 1933 年的密西西比州，一群女性朋友建立了一种不屈的纽带。
《The Correspondent》，作者 Virginia Evans (Crown: $28) 一名终身书信作者在面对痛苦的过去。
《Land》，作者 Maggie O’Farrell (Knopf: $32) 一个家庭在大饥荒后的 1860 年代爱尔兰挣扎生存。
《The Things We Never Say》，作者 Elizabeth Strout (Random House: $29) 一场改变生活的事件迫使一名高中教师面对隐藏的真相。
《Country People》，作者 Daniel Mason (Random House: $30) 一个家庭离开舒适的湾区住所，前往佛蒙特州的荒野生活一段时间。
《Daughters of the Sun and Moon》，作者 Lisa See (Scribner: $29) 三名中国女性建立了一种出人意料的纽带，帮助她们在内战后的洛杉矶坚持并繁荣。
《It Will Come Back to You》，作者 Sigrid Nunez (Riverhead Books: $29) 这位国家图书奖得者的首部短篇小说集。
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《Regime Change》，作者 Maggie Haberman 和 Jonathan Swan (Simon & Schuster: $34) 这两位记者记录了唐纳德·特朗普第二任总统任期内动荡的第一年。
《Strangers》，作者 Belle Burden (Dial Press: $30) 一名女性探讨她的婚姻、婚姻的终结，以及她以为自己了解的那个男人。
《London Falling》，作者 Patrick Radden Keefe (Doubleday: $35) 一个家庭在 19 岁的儿子突然去世后，发现了他在伦敦犯罪地下世界的秘密生活。
《The Land and Its People》，作者 David Sedaris (Little, Brown & Co.: $30) 一篇关于成为旅行者、兄弟和终身朋友意味着什么的散文集。
《Lessons From Cats for Surviving Fascism》，作者 Stewart Reynolds (Grand Central Publishing: $13) 一本关于在面对威权主义胡言乱语时如何运用猫类智慧的指南。
《Famesick》，作者 Lena Dunham (Random House: $32) 这位演员、作家兼导演对疾病、名声、性等话题的坦率反思。
《The Price of Becoming》，作者 Ryan Hawk (Harper Edge: $32) 一本关于获得成功的实用手册。
《Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About》，作者 Isabel Klee (William Morrow: $28) 一名 20 多岁的女性在纽约市寻找真爱的经历，以及帮助她找到真爱的那些狗。
《The Day After》，作者 Brian Tyler Cohen (Harper: $29) 呼吁进步主义者在有机会时如何在美行使权力。
《Make Believe》，作者 Mac Barnett (Little, Brown & Co.: $20) 一次对儿童读物和讲故事之力的赞美。
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在 Syd 成长的 Mid-City 社区，现在很多人把这位 34 岁的音乐家称为“市长”。“在新冠疫情期间，我整天待在草地上向每个人挥手，”她笑着说。最近，一群被 Syd 描述为“不听话的青少年”在她父母家附近的街道上漂移开车。“我跑出去对他们说：‘嘿！停下！’我有一辆卡车停在前面，所以我觉得‘你们别想把我的东西给搞砸了’。而且他们还把身体探出窗外——这真的很危险。”她再次笑了起来。“在安全问题上，我像个老古董。”Syd 最近发行的新专辑愉快地接纳了一种成熟感——她说，“感觉比以往任何时候都更有自信”。《Beard》（胡须）——这个标题灵感源自 Syd 妻子的要求，希望她保留上唇的细小绒毛——将关于浪漫承诺和专业成就的思考，融入到闪亮的 R&B 律动中，其中偶尔带有 Afrobeats 或 bossa nova 的风格。这是 Syd 在近二十年前作为洛杉矶嘻哈团体 Odd Future 的成员崭露头角以来的第三张个人长篇专辑；距离她与 The Internet 乐队合作的上一张专辑也已过去八年，该乐队是一个由她与 Matt Martians 及 Steve Lacy 共同组成的、曾获格莱美奖提名的灵魂乐组合（后者在 Syd 发布《Beard》的同一天发布了他的新曲《Oh Yeah?》）。然而，尽管她已经成长了很多，Syd 说，“讽刺的是，我觉得自己比以往任何时候都年轻”。《Beard》模糊的封面照片显示了她剃掉的头发和略显忧伤的眼睛，她补充道，“这准确地捕捉到了我想通过音乐表达的东西。这是一种非二元性的形象，如果你看着它而不知道我是谁，你可能会好奇：那是一个 12 岁的男孩吗？”
Syd 和我在杰斐逊大道（Jefferson Boulevard）一家拥挤的咖啡馆里聊天，她说她每天都会来这里。（有这么多人向她打招呼，让我倾向于相信这一点。）这家餐厅离她的家不远，而她的家距离父母家仅 8 分钟车程；她说，最终她的父母计划与 Syd 及其妻子、模特西蒙娜·克莱（Simone Clay）交换房产，这样这对夫妇就能实现成为大房子里寄养母亲的梦想。
“凭借我拥有的一切特权以及我为自己创造的所有平静，我很希望能将此传播出去，”Syd 说。她的全名是悉尼·本内特（Sydney Bennett），她的弟弟特拉维斯（Travis，以 Taco 之称）同样在 Odd Future 团体中成长，随后成为一名成功的演员。Syd 在她为父母建造的工作室和北好莱坞一家由拉斐尔·萨迪克（Raphael Saadiq）拥有的工作室之间录制了《Beard》，这位资深 R&B 巨星被 Syd 视为某种程度上的导师。这位歌手表示，她能共鸣萨迪克在制作个人唱片、在乐队中工作（就他而言是 Tony! Toni! Toné!）以及写作和制作之间切换的方式。
“我想要细微差别，我想要质感，我想要不完美，”Syd 在谈到她的音乐时说道。
本周电视编辑 Maira Garcia 和电视评论家 Robert Lloyd 推荐一部关于动物生存的动画故事，以及一部令人愉悦的素描喜剧的回归。
《FLOW》 HBO Max 如果你有孩子，且他们像我的孩子一样，那么很难让他们摆脱一遍又一遍观看同一部电影的循环。幸运的是，从我们打开《Flow》的那一刻起，他们就被这个故事吸引了：一只黑猫与一只狐猴、一只水豚、一只狗和一只秘书鸟聚集在一起，当洪水淹没他们游荡的土地时，他们被迫在船上生存。片中没有对话，但这并不意味着他们没有交流——喵喵声、啾啾声、嘎嘎声和吠叫声取代了人类的语言。
（左图）一只猫、一只狗和一只鸟在《Flow》中聚集在一起。 （右图）Carrie Brownstein 和 Fred Armisen 出现在《Portlandia》中。
人类语言（这里找不到任何人）。景象绚丽且渲染精美，那些在被淹没的世界中漂浮的动物同样如此，其中包括它们在旅途中遇到的一头鲸鱼。这部拉脱维亚电影在 2025 年赢得了奥斯卡最佳动画长片奖。
……为其他艺术家提供支持，就像 Syd 在 Beyoncé 2022 年的《Renaissance》专辑中所做的那样。 “Syd 只是在音乐中寻找那些有呼吸感的东西，”负责贝斯演奏并共同制作了《Beard》中几首曲目的 Saadiq 说道。“她一直在进化，而且她的进化并非为了追随流行——而是因为她热爱这样做。像 Syd 和我这样的人，从小就开始接触这些。我们是那种会在社区里走出去说‘有人想加入这段轨道吗？有人想一起玩吗？’的人。” 《Beard》中的歌曲如《Closet》和《My Love》反映了 Syd 近期生活中的变化，其中不乏她去年决定结婚的决定，她将此部分归因于对同性婚姻在美国合法地位能维持多久的不确定性。 “你知道最高法院的，”她耸肩说道。 在意识到自己经常在宿醉中醒来后，她也戒酒了。“我周围的人并没有说‘她在喝酒’，”Syd 说，“但那是每天都在喝，而且就在家里。每个人对酒精的关系都不同，我发现我的关系与无聊挂钩，我认为这可能比与悲伤挂钩要好。但这也让这件事在被定义为‘问题’之前变得有点困难，你明白我的意思吗？我必须意识到：好吧，这对别人来说可能不是问题，但它对我没有帮助。”于是 2 1⁄2 年前，她停止了饮酒——而且是在一个有些人无法想象在没有酒精的情况下度过的假期里。Syd 说：“兄弟，我是在完全清醒的状态下迎接除夕的。” 《Beard》还涵盖了 Syd 事业上的转变。在履行了与哥伦比亚唱片公司的合同后，这位歌手去年签约了华纳唱片公司，那里由她的高中旧友 Tim Hinshaw 监管一家名为 Free Lunch 的精品厂牌。这份新合约激励她改变创作流程，并与一组作家和制作人举办了歌曲创作营，其中包括 Nova Wav 组合，他们也曾为……
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PORTLANDIA Netflix PODLANDIA： 与 FRED 和 CARRIE 一起重温 YouTube 最好的朋友 Fred Armisen（此前曾出演《SNL》）和波特兰人 Carrie Brownstein（目前仍是 Sleater-Kinney 乐队成员，他们将于 9 月 8 日在 Greek Theatre 演出）刚刚开始公开重温他们那部精彩的地域特定素描喜剧。《Portlandia》最初在 2011-18, 年期间于 IFC 有线频道播出，它既赞美也讽刺了其
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这座以工艺驱动、生活方式多元、充满创业精神且古灵精怪的主持城市。主演们扮演了许多角色，包括“他们自己”，并迎来了一系列著名嘉宾，名单太长无法一一列举，但足以证明，如果你在这一世纪关注文化，那么你最喜欢的一些名人很可能会出现在这里。（不过，我会提到已故的 Monkees 成员 Michael Nesmith，他饰演 Kyle MacLachlan 扮演的市长的父亲；当时的波特兰市长 Sam Adams 饰演 MacLachlan 的助手。）作为一部喜剧，该剧并不缺乏张力——“如果说有一个整体主题……”
与碧昂丝（Beyoncé）合作；在《Beard》中，这对组合共同创作并制作了朗朗上口的《Callin》和《Jasmin 17》，后者是一首以中性香水命名的、充满情欲的卧室曲。 (专辑的其他合作者包括 James Fauntleroy、Van Hunt、Rodney Jerkins、Big Sean 和 Jordan Ward。) 鉴于她在为碧昂丝创作并制作《Plastic Off the Sofa》——一首后来赢得格莱美奖的感官复古灵魂乐曲——时所担任的高调角色，我告诉 Syd，我假设在那之后，其他 A 级艺人立即纷纷邀请她进入录音室合作。“老实说，那个机会并没有给我带来更多的制作机会，”她回答道，令我惊讶。“没有人来找我，比如‘嘿，能给我弄几个伴奏（beats）吗？’ ”不过，她并不在意，因为这次经历所起的作用是“给了我为自己制作这张专辑的信心”。而且无论如何，她即将开始一次个人巡演，更不用说还要完成一张期待已久的 Internet 乐队专辑。乐队一直在她的住所断断续续地录音，六月份她花了一周时间在乔治亚州农村的 Martians 工作室工作。“我们可能比以往任何时候都更加亲密，”Syd 在谈到乐队时说道，乐队鼓手 Christoper Smith 在《Beard》和 Lacy 发布同一天也发行了另一张个人专辑。Syd 不想透露太多关于 Internet 乐队新音乐的消息。但她表示，到目前为止，该组合一直避免使用 Auto-Tune，她觉得这种人声处理软件已经变得令人遗憾地无处不在。“我想要细微差别，我想要质感，我想要那种不完美，”她说。“我宁愿自然地出错，也不愿不自然地不出错。”
在我写这部剧首播时的评论中，我写道：“在这里，天堂包含了它自身的一部分地狱——正确地生活需要努力，放松会引起压力，而责任与愤怒之间仅有一线之隔。”但这个播客虽然并非没有批评，却只承诺与优秀伙伴共度美好时光。— R.L.
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摄影：Eric Thayer 《洛杉矶时报》 在这些正念射箭课上，“释放”精准击中红心
在灵性顾问兼弓箭手安吉·法德尔 (Angie Fadel) 的指导下，洛杉矶地区的女性正瞄准过去的创伤、前任以及倦怠——一次一支箭地将其击碎。
给一个女孩一副弓箭，带她走进森林，一切似乎都变得可能。这就是我在范努斯 (Van Nuys) 的伍德利公园射箭场 (Woodley Park Archery Range) 一个开阔地带的干草堆前摆好姿势时的想法。我潜意识里化身为凯特尼斯 (Katniss)，采取了一个“力量姿态”：肩膀后展，双腿微屈，弓身靠在身体上部。我将一支带有橙色羽毛、虽然小巧但看起来凶猛的箭滑入弓弦的“箭槽”，深吸一口气，然后将紧绷的弓弦拉至下颌，一只眼睛闭上，另一只眼睛因专注而眯起。接着，我做了一件对我来说通常感觉不可能的事情：我松手了。箭矢向前飞驰，发出清晰的“呼啸”声，随后是远处的一声“啪嗒”。我完全脱靶了，箭刺入干草堆的位置距离红心有一英尺多远。但当弓弦在手臂中颤动时，那种释放感是显而易见的，且令人极度满足。这就是“正念射箭”。
射箭这种看似具有军事色彩的行为与平和的冥想似乎截然相反。但在“安吉·法德尔灵魂关怀”(Angie Fadel Soulcare) 这里，两者结合得恰到好处。法德尔主持的正念射箭工作坊将冥想、呼吸法等躯体实践、沉浸式自然疗法以及射箭指导相结合。法德尔表示，其核心理念是让参与者在具有疗愈力的自然环境中聚集，同时意识到他们想要放下的一些事物（例如一份不令人满意的工作或一段有毒的关系），或者他们正在追求并希望引入生活中的事物。
工作坊开始时，法德尔会引导一段简短的冥想，让参与者放松并沉心下来，随后进行自然漫步，以便他们进一步沉浸在当下，并明确今天的目标究竟是什么——他们要射向什么，或者瞄准什么。然后，参与者使用法德尔提供的彩色马克笔在纸上画出自己的个人目标。一个目标可能像一幅代表某种情绪的抽象画，另一个则可能是单词和符号的组合，如“爱”、“$”和“健康”。或者像之前的一位射箭者那样，画一个唐纳德·特朗普 (Donald Trump) 的插图。
“我见过了各种各样的目标，”法德尔说。“人们把他们的父母、前任，甚至强奸犯——那些给他们带来最大伤害的事物——画在目标上，因为如果你能击中那个东西，身体会感觉好受一些。当你击中正面美好的事物时，情况也是一样，这是一种身体内的希望机制。”
法德尔的射箭指导不仅关注技术精准度，同样关注这项运动在身体上的感受。她说，深呼吸、瞄准并射击一个深思熟虑的目标，这些缓慢、稳健且有意识的步骤本身就是一种强大的行为。
“即便箭没有飞向你想要的地方，你的身体里也会立即产生一种感觉良好的反应，”法德尔说。“当你松开弦的那一刻，有一种能量，一种运动——真实的物理能量在流动。神奇的事情发生了。它能帮助身体中淤积的东西得到释放。这是躯体性的。如果你真的击中了目标，那就是额外的奖赏，因为纸张被击中的那一声脆响感觉会更好。”
法德尔住在俄勒冈州的波特兰，称自己为“灵魂协作伙伴”，拥有灵性陪伴硕士学位，曾在波特兰的一家教会担任牧师十年，帮助成员寻找非传统的灵性道路。她从事射箭运动已有 15 年以上的时间。她将这两项实践结合起来……
“我最喜欢的部分是我们可以制作自己的目标，”29 岁的正念射箭参与者凯蒂·李 (Kati Lee) 说道。上方照片中，课程参与者们拿着他们创建的目标图像。
tices —— 灵性陪伴和射箭 —— 在它们有机地融合在一起之前，这两者是分开的。在 2011 年攻读硕士学位期间，她在半途发现一个朋友是射箭大师。自她在华盛顿农村长大起，就一直想学习射箭，于是她请求对方给她上一次课。
“就那一节课，但它改变了我的生活，”法德尔说。“我正在做一件我一直梦想做的事情。它开启了一些我之前没意识到可以被开启的东西。”
法德尔发现射箭具有日益增强的疗愈作用。当时她正在进行大量的荣格心理学内省日记记录。当她在日记中记录生活中的挑战时 —— 比如学校的压力或难以相处的室友，“或者仅仅是整个社会，”她说 —— 她会将这些挑战以文字的形式写在靶心上。射击这些文字帮助她处理冲突。然而，她起初认为射箭带来的有益副作用仅限于她个人。
然后，她带一位处境艰难的朋友去上了第一节射箭课，对方的反应非常深刻。
“我意识到，你知道吗？这真的有效。我可以让你从从未接触过弓箭，到离开时神经系统得到放松。我想：我必须研究出如何将这种体验分享给其他人。”
现在，通过 Soulcare，法德尔在波特兰以及全美各地（包括科罗拉多州、德克萨斯州和加利福尼亚州各地）举办多种类型的射箭工作坊。她每年多次来到洛杉矶主持工作坊。其中一个工作坊是“正念射箭”课，不要将其与她的另一门包含荣格日记记录的“冥想射箭”课程混淆；此外还有提供灵性指导的一对一射箭环节。
法德尔表示，赋能女性和少数群体是她射箭工作坊的核心部分。
“射箭场可能是一个非常由白人男性主导的空间，”她说。“而那种站姿，手里拿着弓箭，进行射击 —— 这种感觉非常男性化。而且[男性]大多数时候在占据空间方面没有任何问题。因此，对于一名酷儿女性、一名跨性别者、非二元性别者，或者任何在社会中被边缘化的人来说，这是一种提醒自己能够占据空间的练习。去采取一种充满力量的姿态，并感觉到：‘我被允许出现在这里’。”
安吉·法德尔 (ANGIE FADEL) 指导正念射箭，左。 参与者玛丽·萨巴·德黑兰 (Mary Saba Tehran)，中。
在正念射箭工作坊内 我们的工作坊在开阔的场地上以轻微的拉伸开始。那是一个阴凉多云的日子，当微风吹动树叶时，一只小郊狼在远处的草坪上飞奔。在自我介绍环节，参与者们分享了他们来此的原因。“我其实是一个非常焦虑的人，”26 岁的瑞秋·克利珀 (Rachel Clipper) 说，“所以我一直在寻找能让我感到内心更平静并促进身心连接的东西。” 29 岁的凯蒂·李 (Kati Lee) 说，作为一个“《饥饿游戏》女孩”，她一直觉得射箭很酷。“但吸引我不断回归的是其中的正念部分，”她说。“我最喜欢的部分是我们自己制作靶子。” 在自然漫步期间，我们在交错的泥土小径上缓缓而行，法德尔指出了野玫瑰丛、白杨树和接骨木，并分享了一个制作糖浆的配方。当我们来到一片林间空地的水域 —— 伍德利公园湿地 (Woodley Park Wetlands)
——我们看着远处一只雄姿英概的鸬鹚舒展双翼。“想想你想摧毁什么，才会让你感到舒畅，”法德尔在我们回到射击场时说道。“或者想接纳什么、放下什么，或者与什么达成和解。你可以把这一切都写在你的靶心上。”于是我们照做了。我们蜷缩在射击场旁的一张野餐桌前，制作作品并享用由法德尔提供的零食，在咀嚼花生和燕麦棒的同时，我们每一个人都陷入了沉默的素描和涂鸦之中。这感觉就像在参加夏令营。李放下她的马克笔。“好了，”她说道，注视着她的靶心。靶心上装饰着如同同心圆心形般的文字，如“健康”、“爱”、“家庭”和“朋友”。70 岁的伊冯娜·戈隆布（Yvonne Golomb）说她高中在体育课上练过射箭。那时她很害羞，但射箭让她感到大胆。如今她退休了，她渴望再次找回那种感觉，并重返这项运动以获得精神滋养。“这是一段美好的回忆，它让我感到强大，让我感到自由，”她说。“现在我退休了，我正在重新探索它。我想找回那些记忆。”当箭术课程时间到来时，法德尔引导我们做最后一次躯体练习以放松身体。她让我们从脚部到耳朵拍打身体各部位，然后抖掉所有残留的压力。接着她对我们进行单独指导，让我们一组射三箭，瞄准目标。“呼吸，锁定目标，好，现在平稳地……”她对一名参与者指导道。31 岁的梅·克莱尔·拉普朗特（May Claire La Plante）说，她今天在用法德尔教她的“适应性姿势”射箭，以便在手术后增强手臂力量。“刚开始我因为射不中而感到非常沮丧，”拉普朗特说。“我甚至没把箭射完。但重新站起来并再次尝试——尽管有伤在身，且伴随着所有随之而来的心理负担——这真的给了我力量。”“正中红心！”克利珀在旁边欢呼，她的焦虑似乎消散了。她的箭正中了靶心。靶心上写了什么？一个迷宫般的文字螺旋，中心位置写着“和平”、“爱”和“创造性掌控”。我的运气没那么好，反复脱靶。“试着放松握力，”法德尔指导道。她调整了我的姿势。“现在，呼吸。”面对这样一个极其精准的目标——将一支纤细的箭射入黑点的中心——放松握力似乎违背直觉。但我照做了，让弓缘松散地，甚至有些摇晃地搁在手指间。我瞄准并射出。这一次，箭矢飞得强劲且笔直。又过了一轮，它正好落在纸靶上，就在我的红心上方。“看到了吗？”法德尔兴高采烈地说。“射箭不在于一次性做对，而在于重复。你越能感受到自己的身体，在重复中越放松，你就越出色。很少有人一次都射不中目标的。”她眯起眼睛看着我的靶心，然后转向我。“是因为他们放松了，而且因为他们信任我，”她补充道。“并且他们学会了更加信任自己。”
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庆祝 15 岁生日
LIKHO，一只俄罗斯蓝猫，在长滩拥有众多粉丝
LIZABETH Kobliha 知道她的独眼猫 Likho 比她自己的朋友还多。多到在 7 月 11 日 Likho 的 15 岁生日派对上，她位于长滩市中心商店外的人行道——那里是这只猫度过全部时光的地方——变成了一个临时集市。
现场有售卖桃子馅甜点、手表、热狗的摊贩，还有提供纹身和面部彩绘的服务。一名 DJ 正在打碟庆祝。
“他是个很出色的商人。我们有[他的]贴纸、T 恤、钥匙扣和徽章，而且这一切都算在他的账户和名下，”Kobliha 在谈到这只猫时说道。
在 Likho 漫游于这间 7,000 平方英尺的“长滩复古精品店”（Long Beach Vintage Etc）之前，这里曾有 Apollo。这只“大布偶猫”刚来时健康状况不佳，但它是完美的店猫。Apollo 是一只缅因猫，在 2015 年抵达一年后因癫痫发作在 13 岁时去世，它解决了店里的老鼠问题，并带来了“如此多的爱与活力”。
同样地，Likho 是一只独眼的俄罗斯蓝猫，在 Kobliha 收养它时它 8 岁，且同样病弱，但她依然想要它。
“我一直想开一家自己的店，这样我就能有一只店猫，”Kobliha 说，并补充道，她是被那些有猫在里面“悠闲打盹”的书店所启发。
2016 年，Kobliha 在浏览 Facebook 时，一段视频吸引了她的注意。视频中，一名女性在一个囤积癖者的车库里，在 Likho 面前挥动着羽毛玩具，Likho 跳了起来试图抓住它。
这篇帖子是由 Sia Barbi 与流浪猫联盟（Stray Cat Alliance）动物救援组织合作发布的，当时这只猫已经被……
作者：CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS
完成我们的“101 个最佳加州体验”
保罗·普雷斯顿和苏珊·哈克尔的旅程始于 2024 年
作者：JULIUS MILLER
在 2023 年 12 月，Paul Preston 意识到他的女友 Susan Huckle 非常喜欢公路旅行和清单。因此，在圣诞节时，他送给她一份《洛杉矶时报》的“101 个最佳加州体验”小册子——这是一份旅行者愿望清单，突出了我在探索该州四十年来最推荐的目的地。
让我很高兴听到的是，这份礼物大获成功。
Preston 和 Huckle 仔细阅读了它，并勾掉了他们已经去过的地方。然后，他们踏上了旅程。
现在，在工作之余花费了 2 1⁄2 年时间游历该州后，他们回来报告说，他们已经覆盖了清单上的所有 101 个地点。
尽管两人也前往过州界以外的地方，但 Huckle 表示，完成加州之行的探索“在过去两三年里完全主导了我们的生活”。她在勾掉最后一个方框后给我发了一封感谢信。
收到信后，我很想打电话给他们了解更多情况。当然，我接通电话时，这对夫妇正处于一次一日游的途中。
“我们正在外面探索，”Preston 说，“所以你现在接触到的正是我们的状态。”
他们现在也结婚了。那是去年 7 月在约塞米蒂谷（Yosemite Valley）举行的，没错，那里也在清单上。
Huckle，41 岁，是一名演员，也是 35 频道《本周洛杉矶》（L.A. This Week）的主持人、环球影城表演者以及一名作家，她在加州中海岸的圣玛丽亚长大。
Preston，56 岁，同样是一名演员。他带领电影拍摄地之旅，并主持播客、电影知识竞赛之夜和特别活动。他在东海岸长大并就读大学，因此在 2020 年两人相识时，他在加州奔波的里程数相对较少。
他们的“加州 101”旅程始于 2024 年初的一次帕索罗布尔斯（Paso Robles）之旅，在那里他们看到了 46 号公路沿线的绿色山坡、莫罗岩（Morro Rock）以及赫斯特城堡（Hearst Castle）附近的皮耶德拉斯布兰卡（Piedras Blancas）象海豹。
“然后，”Preston 说，“我们就一直走下去。”
两人一致认为，其中一些最让他们满意的一站是他们从未听说过的地方，例如圣华金谷斯特雷特莫尔（Strathmore）小镇的 Orange Works，以及被人们称为“西方埃利斯岛”的天使岛州立公园。Huckle 将天使岛称为“自然之美与伟大、强大且具有历史感信息的结合体”。
摄影：Jason Armond Los Angeles Times
到今年年初，剩下的打卡地点已经不多了。
四月，他们去了棕榈泉附近的印第安峡谷 (Indian Canyons) 和阳光地庄园 (Sunnylands estate)，约书亚树附近的整合体 (Integratron)，以及里弗赛德的奇奇·马林奇卡诺艺术与文化中心 (Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture)。
六月，他们乘筏漂流于美国河南叉 (South Fork of the American River)，期间在旧萨克拉门托 (Old Sacramento) 停留，最后前往哥伦比亚州立历史公园 (Columbia State Historic Park)。
随后，他们列出了自己的心仪清单。
伊丽莎白·科布利哈 (ELIZABETH Kobliha)（左图）抱着她的猫 Likho。当她开起这家古董店时，她就知道自己想要一只店猫，就像那些淡定的书店猫一样。
被遗弃在汉考克公园 (Hancock Park) 的家中。在 90 年代初期，西亚 (Sia) 和她的同卵双胞胎姐妹谢恩 (Shane) 在时尚和流行文化领域引起了轰动，经常为香奈儿 (Chanel)、蒂埃里·穆格勒 (Thierry Mugler) 和让-保罗·高缇耶 (Jean Paul Gaultier) 担任模特。她们成名于《洛杉矶时报》报道了日落大道上一块由这对双胞胎拍摄、衣着极其清凉且导致多起车祸的广告牌之后。
“特定一代的男人们会对她们非常痴迷，”科布利哈在谈到芭比双胞胎时说道。在退出模特行业后，她们转向动物权益保护，并为救援组织以及猫类的“捕捉-绝育-放回”(TNR) 项目担任志愿者。
科布利哈想要领养 Likho，但首先它需要进行一项 $3,000 的手术来移除一只受感染的眼睛，费用由流浪猫联盟 (Stray Cat Alliance) 支付。
“他们处理好了一切，然后我们就得等待它康复，”她回忆道。“整个过程中我一直在想：‘天哪，如果没成功怎么办？如果猫到了这里完全疯疯癫癫的怎么办？’”
这种担忧是多余的。全职住在店里的 Likho 在一天之内就适应了环境。“从那时起，它就成了店里一个美好的点缀，”科布利哈说。
它随后成为了这家店的形象大使，店外还有一幅专门为它绘制的壁画来欢迎顾客。这幅画是由当地壁画艺术家拉琼·米勒 (LaJon Miller) 创作的，在 Likho 的派对期间，米勒还在人行道上创作另一幅作品。
“我也被卷入其中了，”他在谈到 Likho 的粉丝群时说道。“它在这一条街上担任我的缪斯已经有一段时间了……它就在店周围溜达，放松，打个小盹，和每个人打交道，所以它社交能力很强。”
科布利哈说，Likho 从未损坏过店里那些有数百年历史的物品，但它惊吓到了疑似的幽灵。科布利哈相信，曾经与这栋 1922 年建筑中的店铺有关的幽灵——一名因肥胖而受辱的杂货店顾客，以及一名自杀而亡的前家具店老板——仍然在她的店摊间徘徊。
“我们能看到阴影身影……在某个区域，它们来回走动。它们什么也不做，但吓死人了，”科布利哈描述这些异常目击事件时说道。“Likho 很有保护欲，当它在身边时，我们确实感到非常安全。”她补充道，“不过也有点奇怪，它在睡觉时，会突然跳起来环顾四周。”
Likho 最大的粉丝可能是一个名叫多姆·戈麦斯 (Dom Gomez) 的男人。他住在步行即可到达店铺的距离内，通常在……之后前来拜访。
苏珊·哈克尔 (Susan Huckle) 的前 10 名清单： l 约塞米蒂谷 (Yosemite Valley) l 恶水盆地 (Badwater Basin) l 猛犸山 (Mammoth Mountain) l 天使岛州立公园 (Angel Island State Park) l 奇奇·马林中心 (Cheech Marin Center) l 约书亚树国家公园 (Joshua Tree National Park) l 美国河南叉 (American River South Fork) l 托马莱斯湾的马歇尔商店 (The Marshall Store on Tomales Bay) l 圣克鲁斯岛 (Santa Cruz Island) l 阳光地 (Sunnylands)
在玛丽皇后号上的一家餐厅里工作长时间的轮班。他穿着工作制服参加了生日派对：一件白色纽扣衬衫和黑色西裤。头发梳得很平整；双手背在身后。当他谈到Likho时，语气温柔，神情庄重，仿佛那是他自己的孩子。“时间过得真快，你知道吗？”在谈到这些年来探访Likho时，他微笑着说。“他得到了这里所有女士以及我的很多爱……他有很多粉丝。我不知道谁更出名，是穆罕默德·阿里还是Likho猫。”在之前的一次生日里，戈麦斯想给Likho买件礼物。他选了一件儿童牛仔夹克，并将其改装成适合猫穿的，背面还贴了Cure乐队的补丁，但遗憾的是，衣服“有点太大了”。明年，他打算尝试送一件毛衣。“那就是我的小伙伴，”他说。“今天是个特别的日子。我以前不知道猫能活这么久，但我认为他依然有很强的生命力……我希望他能再活100年。”
l 格里菲斯天文台 l 卡塔利娜岛 l 猛犸山 l 美国河南叉 l 位于比숍的Erick Schats烘焙店 l 亨廷顿图书馆 l 棕榈泉空中缆车 l 圣迭戈巴尔博亚公园
既然他们已经游览了该州的这么多地方，我产生了一些疑问。首先，在名单之外，他们会将哪些地点包含在内？ 他们一致认为应该是阿尔卡特拉斯岛。此外，作为红杉树的仰慕者，普雷斯顿喜欢卡拉韦拉斯大树州立公园。作为一名狂热的骑行者，哈克喜欢从托伦斯到太平洋帕利塞兹的22英里长马文·布劳德自行车道。 那么，名单上的地点有令人失望的吗？ “卡梅尔传教团，”哈克迅速说道。“那里很美，传教团是加州历史的重要组成部分。”但她说，传教团对自己历史的描述似乎经过了“粉饰”，很少提到历史学家在记录传教团历史时日益关注的原住民损失和创伤。 哈克说：“我就在想，‘拜托伙计们，现在已经没有人真的这么想了，对吧？’” 在完成《时报》的“101个最佳加州体验”后，什么将决定他们的下一次旅行？ 为此他们也有一份名单。 哈克拿起了一本洛杉矶指南——丹尼·詹森的《秘密洛杉矶》，这对夫妇计划从书中的起点开始，即三叉纪念碑（Triforium），这座多色雕塑于1975年建在市政厅外（且曾设有音乐功能）。 在那之后呢？也许是极乐谷之面（Faces of Elysian Valley），这是一座环岛雕塑，哈克说它“看起来像是在赛普拉斯公园中心地带的复活节岛”。 这样一来，书中就只剩下大约138个目的地需要覆盖了。 如果有人能完成这件事，那一定是他们两个。
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埃里克·安德森 探访奥克斯纳德 在奥克斯纳德 值得体验、参观和品尝的 10 件事
作者：蒂姆·切斯特 (TIM CHESTER)
对于你来说，奥克斯纳德 (Oxnard) 可能只是前往圣巴巴拉 (Santa Barbara) 或欧海 (Ojai) 途中的一个高速公路路牌，但如果你就此错过，将会失去很多乐趣。比如，这里有一个规模庞大的港口，却没有南部同类港口那种拥堵的交通或炫耀的富裕感。这里有数英里宽的白沙滩，当你铺下毛巾时，周围不会立刻就挤满另一个家庭。这是一个多元且惬意的城市，拥有充满活力的亚文化（有人认同 Nardcore 吗？）以及一些相当不错的塔可 (tacos)。¶ 这里有很多消磨时间的方式。也许可以参加一次遗产广场 (Heritage Square) 的建筑之旅，或者在海事博物馆品尝九月的浓汤节 (Chowderfest) 美食。在水上，你可以尽情地划桨板，在乘船远航中与鲸鱼交流，或者心血来潮地前往海峡群岛 (Channel Islands)。¶ 它是文图拉县 (Ventura County) 唯一的加州文化区，这一荣誉由加州艺术委员会授予，该委员会表示：“从 Gue-laguetza 和 Fiestas Patrias 到六月节庆祝活动，从 Nardcore 朋克表演、低底盘车巡游、 fandangos 到民俗芭蕾 (Ballet Folklorico)，该区的文化生活丰富多彩且深深植根于社区。” 饶舌歌手 / 制作人且身为奥克斯纳德本地人的 Anderson .Paak 将其第三张专辑以该市命名，并在该地区举办了 .Paak House 音乐节。¶ 此外，奥克斯纳德还是 Netflix 宠儿达拉斯牛仔队啦啦队的夏季度假地。二十年来，牛仔队一直在该市举行训练营，而这一次，啦啦队原定于周五参加奥克斯纳德粉丝之夜和开幕式，并将在周日举办一场舞蹈培训班。¶ 奥克斯纳德也许不够精致，但这当然增加了它的魅力。要了解这个社区，你必须在 101 高速公路出口后行驶几英里——但这次绕行将为你带来一个充满活力的南加州周末。
在 DW Drums 展厅 探索定制鼓是如何制造的
DW Drums 就像一个隐藏的惊喜，就位于高速公路旁那些反乌托邦式的亚马逊仓库对面，是所有鼓手 (paradiddle) 必须朝圣的地方。参观仅限周四下午 2 点且需预约，但非常值得花时间前往。参观始于一个摆满了底鼓踏板的大厅，结束于一个存放着庞大金箔套鼓的房间，该套鼓属于 Rush 乐队的尼尔·佩尔特 (Neil Peart)，此外还有 Zappa 鼓手特里·博齐奥 (Terry Bozio) 那套夸张且庞大的设备的一大部分。 在这之间，鼓手们有无数可以钻研的细节。友好的工作人员将演示他们在复杂的钻孔机打出所有正确孔位之前，如何切割和塑造木材。喷漆房里的艺术家们会添加漆面，其他团队则负责安装鼓皮和硬件并对鼓进行精调。这是一个计算机与工匠和谐共存的愉快场所。这里有蒸汽朋克风格的鼓、法拉利风格的鼓，以及装饰着骷髅的鼓。当然，海报上的戴夫·格罗尔 (Dave Grohl) 也在俯视着这一切。 l 3450 Lunar Court, Oxnard, (805) 485-6999, dwdrums.com
在 Tacos La Bonita 品尝 quesabirria 塔可
奥克斯纳德的旅游局最近推出了一条塔可之旅路线，这不仅仅是一个营销噱头；这座城市确实拥有一些值得尝试且低调的地点来满足你对 birria 的渴望。在 Tacos La Bonita 的专业吃法是点一份浓稠多奶酪的 quesabirria 塔可，或者几份塞满 asada（烤牛肉）或 pastor（腌猪肉）的 tacos con tortilla a mano（使用新鲜制作的玉米饼）。其他选项包括 lengua en salsa（番茄酱炖牛舌）和 campechano 混合肉馅。 这里的布置很简单：在墙上的窗口下单，然后在木结构顶棚下的桌子旁找一个彩色的凳子坐下。这里是个明亮愉快的地方——我们访问时到处是圣诞红和灯泡招牌——但可能会很冷。记得带件夹克。这家店自 2010 年起就开业了，最近推出了一辆 Sweet & Salty 餐车，售卖吉拿果 (churros)、salchipulpos（炸热狗段）和 elote en palo（涂抹了 Cotija 奶酪和辣椒的甜玉米）。 l 437 South C St., Oxnard, @tacos_la_bonita
探索‘Ololkoy海滩公园的沙丘 ‘Ololkoy海滩公园在 2023 年被重新命名为楚马什语中意为“海豚”的词汇，这是一个非常贴切的名称。在此时此地与海峡群岛之间，你可能会看到这些与公园同名的生物跃出海面——这里是一个能唤起海豚般灵动快活之感的场所。在翻新完工的游乐场路口停车，将车停在由成排棕榈树簇拥的广阔草坪旁。从这里出发，沿着栈道走一段路（轮椅亦可通行），穿过气势磅礴的沙丘，数英里长的沙滩和浪花就在前方等待。此外，这里还有一条基本受保护的自行车道，向南延伸约一英里即可到达奥克斯纳德港 (Oxnard Harbor)。途中会经过曼德勒海滩 (Mandalay Beach) 的扎卡里沙丘 (Zachari Dunes)，以及一家设施相当不错的希尔顿酒店，那里设有泳池、火坑和海景套房，如果你想过夜且正好有积分可以抵扣，不妨入住。 l 1601 S. Harbor Blvd., Oxnard, (805) 385-7950, oxnard.gov / locations / parks / beach-park
在 Beacon Coffee 喝杯拿铁补充能量 Beacon 是该地区最好的咖啡店之一，这在很大程度上要归功于店主 John Wheir，他常在全球各地与生产商会面，并极度关注每一杯咖啡的品质。这里提供全系列的饮品——浓缩咖啡、拿铁，以及带有薰衣草或古哈希利辣椒 (guajillo chili) 气息的摩卡——同时还出售各种马克杯、帽子和各类用于调制完美咖啡的周边器具。 你可以参加一次专注于拿铁拉花的咖啡师培训课程，或者参加“冲煮方法课程”，在那里他们会用同一种咖啡尝试几种不同的冲煮方式，“以此对比风土、品种、工艺以及这些因素如何影响你杯中的口感”。如果你在较晚的时间抵达，还可以去隔壁的 Poseidon Brewing Co. 尝试一杯杏子艾尔 (apricot ale) 或蓝莓大黄淡色艾尔 (blueberry rhubarb blonde)。 从技术上讲，Beacon 仅在圣克拉拉河对岸，位于文图拉 (Ventura) 的南郊，但我们将其归为奥克斯纳德的推荐地。在 101 号公路北行多花几分钟时间前往这里是值得的。另一个严格位于市区内的选择是：靠近高速公路的 Collection Riverpark 购物中心内的 Ragamuffin Coffee Roasters。 l 5777 Olivas Park Drive Suite R, Ventura, beaconcoffee.com
在 Teatro 剧院追寻鲍勃·迪伦的足迹 流线型现代主义风格的 Teatro 剧院坐落在一条平凡街道的一家 Arco 加油站旁，姿态独特——它也拥有同样引人入胜的历史。该剧院在 1929 年开业时最初名为 Boulevard Theater，在 60 年代开始放映西班牙语电影后被更名为 Teatro Boulevard。 在 90 年代，Mark Howard 和制作人 Daniel Lanois（以参与制作《Joshua Tree》专辑而闻名）将其改造为录音室。Willie Nelson、Iggy Pop 和 U2 等艺人都曾在此录音。迪伦则从他位于马里布的家中开车前来，完成了获得格莱美奖的专辑《Time Out of Mind》。 这座奥克斯纳德最古老的剧院目前不对公众开放，但其招牌已经修复，值得快速停留观赏。既然你在该区域，不妨顺便看看附近另一座历史剧院：The Vogue，它于 1941 年开业，但现在成了跳蚤市场。 时代，总是变迁的。 l 626 S Oxnard Blvd., Oxnard, teatro theater.com
乘坐渡轮前往 海峡群岛国家 公园，在海洞中 划皮划艇 皮划艇也分等级。如果你之前的经验仅限于在遍布游艇的码头或平静的湖泊中绕圈，那么请做好心理准备。在圣克鲁兹岛的蝎子锚地（Scorpion Anchorage）周边游览海洞，将带你穿过充满海狮的教堂般巨大的洞穴，以及狭小如棺材般的岩石孔洞——你必须向后倾斜才能通过。在此过程中，布满海藻的海浪起伏不定，进一步刺激你的肾上腺素。上次我们去的时候，看到有人把桨拍在了岩石上给弄断了。 海峡群岛冒险公司（Channel Island Adventure Co.）提供 2½ 到 5 小时的游览行程，在冒险前后，你还可以选择徒步或潜水。你可以将渡轮票添加到游览价格中，或通过 Island Packers 单独购买。仅仅前往群岛本身就是一次有趣的旅程，从奥克斯纳德（或文图拉）港口出发，航程一小时，通常会有几十只——甚至上百只——海豚陪同。 l 3550 Harbor Blvd., Oxnard, (805) 642-1393, islandpackers.com
在 Bottle & Pint 喝一杯 IPA
直到最近，奥克斯纳德在 Del Norte 街上还拥有一家真正世界级的精酿啤酒店 Casa Agria。遗憾的是，其品酒室在 2026 年初关闭了，但我们正祈祷他们能找到一种方法
凯莉·坎特罗尔 (KYLIE CANTRALL) 推荐的 洛杉矶最佳周日度过方式
完美的一天应包括徒步旅行和品尝西班牙小馅饼 (EMPANADAS)
凯莉·坎特罗尔热爱在圣费尔南多谷 (the Valley) 度过休息日。¶ 坎特罗尔在洛杉矶地区出生并长大，自 7 岁开设 YouTube 频道以来便一直活跃在娱乐业。如今 21 岁的她一直在好莱坞的阶梯上稳步上升，涵盖了从动画配音到主演真人剧集的各种角色，同时在社交媒体上拥有数百万粉丝。目前，她在青少年及儿童群体中最为出名，是因为她在迪士尼“后裔” (Descendants) 系列中饰演的红心皇后 (Red) 这一成名角色，而《后裔：邪恶仙境》(Descendants: Wicked Wonderland) 已于 7 月 17 日上映。作为一名斜杠青年，坎特罗尔还希望她的新八首歌 EP——恰如其名地称为《谷女孩的问题》(Valley Girl Problems)（她一直在 TikTok 上通过“谷女孩生活”旅行日志进行宣传）——能进一步推动她在主流流行音乐领域的职业发展。¶ 正因为这些雄心壮志，坎特罗尔几乎时刻都处于忙碌状态。除了周日。“周日是我一周中最喜欢的日子，”她说，“因为在那一天我可以做很多事情。”¶ 以下是坎特罗尔在阳光明媚的周日会做的一切。本次采访经编辑以确保长度和清晰度。
再次重新开业并 供应那些传奇的 酸味鸡尾酒。 与此同时， 位于 Collection Riverpark Annex 食品广场的 Bottle & Pint 是品尝本地及远方艾尔啤酒的次佳选择。 菜单随季节更替，但你可以期待来自 Moorpark Enegren 的德式拉格啤酒，来自 Ventura Topa Topa 的松针味 IPA，以及来自 MadeWest 的波特啤酒，还有大量 Firestone 和 Russian River 的佳作。 在喝了一瓶或一品脱（或两杯）之后，饥饿感不可避免地会袭来，因为隔壁 Mongo Q 蒙古烧烤厨房 6 英尺长的热盘散发出的香味飘然而至。Annex 就像是一个微型的大中央市场 (Grand Central Market)。 选择包括 Gordo’s 辣鸡、Love Pho Cafe、Silverlake Ramen 以及 Ragamuffin Coffee Roasters（与 Bottle & Pint 一样，均始于 Newbury Park）。而且，出于某种原因，其中间竟然开着一家随机的珠宝店。 Collection Riverpark 本身是一个高端商业街的综合体——这里有 Cheesecake Factory，那里有 H&M——还有电影院、投斧馆以及大量步行户外空间，可以坐在阿第伦达克椅子上放松，或者打乒乓球、玩玉米洞游戏。 停止标志上写着“停下来闻闻大海”，虽然在这里不能真的这么做（太平洋大约在五英里外），但这是一种恰当的情怀。 l 550 Collection Blvd. Suite 160, Oxnard, @bottleandpintoxnard
在海峡群岛海事博物馆 欣赏大师级工艺的 模型船 海峡群岛海事博物馆 (Channel Islands Maritime Museum) 是一座小巧而精美的两层建筑，俯瞰港口，有友好的讲解员准备为你导览。常设展厅展示了 1600s 至 1800s 的欧洲海景艺术家作品，从美国独立战争到南北战争期间船只的演变，以及对古代亚洲航海世界的研习。这里还设有轮换展览，最近一次是关于南加州鹈鹕的展览。 然而，最令人震撼的可能是 Edward Marple 的模型船系列，他在 1960s 到 1990s 之间创作了九个令人惊叹的复杂比例模型。他复刻的 1664 年由查理二世下水的 HMS Royal Katherine 号，仅船体部分就包含 8,000 多个销钉，显然，你无法质疑他的专注程度。 展览还还原了他的工作空间。另一个值得浏览的房间：存放着大量的骨制模型，这些模型是由法国战俘在 1790 年至 1815 年的拿破仑战争期间制作的。他们利用肉类配给中的骨头，凭记忆复刻了这些模型。 l 3900 Bluefin Circle, Oxnard, (805) 984-6260, maritime-museum.org
在 Ox & Ocean 享用 草饲肉类或海鲜大餐
插图由 Lindsey Made This 绘制；摄影由 Allen J. Schaben 为《洛杉矶时报》拍摄
作者：MARAH EAKIN
即使你不住宿，也要抽时间在 Zachari Dunes 的主餐厅吃顿午餐——如果你想在用餐时欣赏海景，记得要求户外桌位。这是一个宁静的场所，头顶挂着串灯，周围点缀着仙人掌，远处传来泳池瀑布的流水声，以及偶尔传来的孩子跳水时发出的快乐尖叫声。
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Blake Fagan For The Times
菜单专注于当地采购的农产品，分为农场、牧场和海洋三类——考虑到其地处农场、牧场与海洋之间，这并不令人惊讶。轻盈的午餐选择包括一份搭配甜薯、薄片萝卜和南瓜油醋汁的三文鱼谷物碗。在我们上次光顾时，鱼肉被煎得恰到好处，并撒上了碎开心果。分量更足的选择包括一份搭配烤波布拉诺辣椒和凉拌卷心菜的三角肉三明治（用长卷面包制成），或者一份配有自制培根、洋葱酱、酸黄瓜和切达干酪的汉堡。
离开时请留意高挑的大堂：那里贴满了以当地农业为主题的海报和照片；有一张亨利·奥克斯纳德（Henry Oxnard）的照片，这位城市的命名者穿着领结，修剪着胡须，看起来文雅但略显惊愕；此外还有一艘由海峡群岛海事博物馆借展的模型船。 l 2101 Mandalay Beach Road, Oxnard, oxand oceanoxnard.com
在 Mrs. Olson's 感受 Nardcore 朋克 Nardcore 始于 '80s——这是硬核朋克的一个子类型，主要由奥克斯纳德的乐队组成（因此得名）。如果你在寻找一场现场演出，或者想看一些同样喧闹快速的南加州乐队，在港口有一个意想不到的地点。 从船员的角度来看，Mrs. Olson's 看起来就像任何其他海边海鲜小屋一样，户外桌下铺着沙子，日光浴爱好者们正大快朵颐着巨大的盘装鱿鱼圈。
9 A.M. 睡眠，然后徒步 我会买个酸奶当早餐，然后出门前往 Fryman Canyon 进行一次早晨的小徒步。 那是我的首选地点，因为我喜欢你可以实际控制运动强度。这不算最艰苦的徒步——实际上相当平缓——但有几个上坡点。当你想要和朋友见面并走走路，但又不想在聊天时累到快要死掉的时候，这里真的是完美之选。
NOON 农贸市场的恩潘纳达 (Empanadas) 徒步之后，我通常会去 Studio City 农贸市场。我会买一杯加燕麦奶的小香草拿铁，然后会在 King’s Empanadas 这个摊位前停下，因为他们做出了我最喜欢的洛杉矶恩潘纳达。我会点碎鸡肉口味的，虽然个头小巧可爱，但非常有饱腹感。 那里还有另一个摊贩 [Bautista Family Organic Ranch] 售卖椰枣，那绝对是我一生中吃过最好的椰枣。它们基本上就是甜点，口感像焦糖一样甜。 我总会在市场买一些浆果，比如覆盆子和蓝莓。还有一个摊贩 [Thyme for Honey] 制作不同口味的格拉诺拉麦片，他们的咖啡味格拉诺拉太绝了，所以我每次也会买那个。
2 P.M. 跳蚤市场的发现 我可能会和朋友约好一起去 Silverlake 跳蚤市场，我最近非常喜欢那里。不过对我来说开车要花一点时间，因为我在圣费尔南多谷，大概需要 25 到 30 分钟。 在 Silverlake 跳蚤市场，我在珠宝类产品上运气很好，发现了很多非常棒的戒指、项链和耳环，或者其他随机的小玩意。我最后总会买一块水晶。就像有一种能量瞬间占据了我。 我也许还能走运找到一件可爱的短款紧身 T 恤 (baby tee)。他们有非常棒的古董艺术家 T 恤，上次去的时候我买到了一件很可爱的珍妮特·杰克逊 (Janet Jackson) 《Rhythm Nation》巡演 T 恤。
4 P.M. 抹茶停留 在逛完 Silverlake 跳蚤市场 [在 Atwater Village 举行] 之后，我会去一家我痴迷的咖啡店。它叫 Laveta，那里有我喝过最好的抹茶。顶部有浓郁的奶盖，店内的氛围和环境也很酷。
下午 6 P.M. 顶篷敞开，与交通拥堵抗争 我喜欢时不时地出去尽情玩乐，好让自己脱离圣费尔南多谷的封闭圈，但在逛完 Laveta 之后，我大概就会回家。我想我可能会遇到下午 6 p.m. 的交通高峰，但我会开着我的 Mini Cooper，敞开顶篷听音乐。也许是 Sade，也许是 Brandy。如果路况畅通且我在高速公路上疾驰，我可能会放一点 Kim Petras。
晚上 7 P.M. 洗衣服与《早间新闻》 我大概会尝试在 7 点前到家洗衣服。我会看《早间新闻》（The Morning Show），这是我目前最喜欢的剧集。也许我还会敷个面膜。晚餐的话，如果我想犒劳一下自己，就去买些 Katsuya。他们在谷地的那家店有我最爱的寿司，我非常喜欢吃寿司。我会点一份 Robert 卷，如果心情特别好，甚至会点一份味噌汤。我还得加一份香辣金枪鱼脆米饭。 在那之后，可能就是继续看《早间新闻》，然后我通常尝试在晚上 11 p.m. 前上床睡觉。
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最受欢迎的 新生日蛋糕
读者投票选出：一款填充浆果，并涂有奶油奶酪和打发鲜奶油糖霜的蛋糕。
这是一个关于生日蛋糕的故事，或者更准确地说，是寻找一款生日蛋糕的故事。最完美的那款生日蛋糕。一款能够代表广阔且多元的洛杉矶的最受欢迎的庆祝蛋糕。¶ 让我回顾一下。¶ 今年早些时候，《洛杉矶时报》美食团队开始痴迷于生日蛋糕，思考它对不同的人意味着什么，以及是否存在一款标志性的生日蛋糕。¶ 副美食编辑 Betty Hallock 通过一项调查向公众提出了这个问题。该调查邀请美食版块的读者和社交媒体上的关注者写下他们最喜欢的生日蛋糕、填充物和糖霜。答案与这座城市本身一样多样：三奶蛋糕 (Tres leches cake)、榛子蛋白酥 (Hazelnut dacquoise)、热带水果蛋白 meringue (Tropical fruit pavlova)！¶ 综合最受欢迎的生日蛋糕是搭配奶油奶酪糖霜的胡萝卜蛋糕。（这就是极致的胡萝卜蛋糕。）¶ 但如果分解成单个组成部分，最受欢迎的蛋糕胚层是黄色蛋糕，巧克力紧随其后。最好的蛋糕填充物？更多的糖霜（当然了！），其次是新鲜浆果（非常有洛杉矶特色）。最受欢迎的糖霜？奶油奶酪，打发鲜奶油紧随其后。
我们决定将这些大众投票选出的最受欢迎组件组合在一起，打造出这款极致的生日蛋糕。这就是最终成品：一款浓郁的黄色蛋糕，涂有奶油奶酪与打发鲜奶油混合的糖霜，中间填充了新鲜浆果，而且，没错，还有更多的
2 小时 30 分钟（包括冷却和冷藏时间）
根据《洛杉矶时报》的一项调查，这座城市最受欢迎的生日蛋糕由这三个部分组成：黄色蛋糕、浆果填料和奶油奶酪霜。这款蛋糕具有黄油、香草和蛋黄的浓郁风味。其口感轻盈，组织结实——这是一款有分量且能与轻盈、柔软且风味浓郁的糖霜完美搭配的蛋糕。这并非黄油霜，而是由打发奶油、奶油奶酪以及法式酸奶油（crème fraîche，或可用酸奶油 sour cream）和马斯卡彭奶酪（mascarpone）组合而成。（如果在装饰过程中，糖霜变得太软或太暖，请将其放入冰箱冷藏几分钟，然后再继续。）这种酸甜浓郁的糖霜与蛋糕中填充的浆果果酱和新鲜浆果搭配在一起也非常美味。 注：本配方可制作一个三层 8 或 9 英寸的蛋糕。您将需要烘焙纸、喷雾油和烘焙盘（三个 8 或 9 英寸圆形盘）、裱花袋、抹刀以及手持搅拌机或立式搅拌机。
黄色蛋糕配方
2 1⁄2 杯 (285 克) 蛋糕粉 2 1⁄2 茶匙 烘焙粉 1⁄4 茶匙 小苏打 1 茶匙 犹太盐 2 块 (226 克) 黄油，微软化（仍保持硬度，无油腻感） 1 3⁄4 杯 (350 克) 细砂糖 5 个 大号蛋黄 1 汤匙 加 1 茶匙 纯香草精 1 杯 充分摇匀的酪乳 (buttermilk) 2 个 大号蛋白
糖霜配方
2 杯 (454 克) 奶油奶酪，室温（冷室温） 1 杯 (227 克) 马斯卡彭奶酪，室温（冷室温） 1⁄4 杯 (60 克) 法式酸奶油或酸奶油，室温（冷室温） 1 汤匙 纯香草精 1 1⁄2 茶匙 犹太盐 1 1⁄2 杯 加 2 汤匙 (195 克) 糖粉，量好后筛匀 2 杯 (454 克) 冷藏的高脂打发奶油
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4 杯 (约 660 克) 新鲜混合浆果（蓝莓、覆盆子、黑莓对半切、草莓），切成 ½ 英寸的小块
糖霜。这款蛋糕将老派的生日蛋糕回忆与现代对新鲜度和季节性的强调结合在一起。这就是您的生日蛋糕，洛杉矶，哒哒！ 在所有这些之后，这款反向工程设计的蛋糕与洛杉矶最受喜爱的烘焙店蛋糕之一——Sweet Lady Jane 的三重浆果蛋糕极其相似，而后者又与 Whole Foods 热门的香缇浆果蛋糕相似。而它们的先驱则是洛杉矶最受欢迎的浆果蛋糕之一：中国城 Phoenix Bakery 的标志性蛋糕。 但请拭目以待：我们的这款比这两者都更好。 Whole Foods 的香缇浆果蛋糕其特点是蛋糕层和糖霜中都加入了杏仁提取物。杏仁味非常明显。所以如果
1 制作蛋糕：在三个 8 或 9 英寸的蛋糕盘底部铺上烘焙纸，并在底部和侧面喷上喷雾油。备用。调整烤架使其中一个位于中心位置，并将烤箱预热至 350°F。
2 使用细网筛，将面粉、烘焙粉和小苏打一起筛入一个大碗中。加入盐，用搅拌器搅拌均匀。备用。
3 在安装了搅拌桨的立式搅拌机碗中（如果使用手持搅拌机，则使用大碗）加入黄油和糖，用中高速度搅拌，直到黄油颜色变浅、蓬松且呈奶油状，约 2 到 3 分钟；在黄油积聚时，停下来刮除搅拌桨和碗壁上的食材。（黄油有可能过度打发；不要搅拌太久，以免黄油变暖且油腻。）依次加入蛋黄，每次加入一个，用中低速搅拌约 15 秒直到融入，再加入下一个蛋黄。
4 在所有蛋黄全部混合均匀后，加入香草精，用中低速搅拌至融合即可，约 5 到 10 秒。加入约三分之一的干性配料，用低速搅拌至结合。加入约一半的酪乳，继续搅拌至结合。重复加入另外三分之一的面粉和剩余的酪乳，最后加入剩余的干性配料并搅拌结合。刮拭碗底以松开可能粘住的食材，然后将面糊最后搅拌几圈，确保所有成分完全融合。置于一旁。
作者：CAROLYNN CARREÑO
如果你不喜欢杏仁味（我不喜欢），那你也不会喜欢这款蛋糕。（但我还是把买到的那一整块都吃掉了。为了研究。） SLJ 蛋糕的蛋糕层与我们的相似——它们富含黄油，轻盈且蛋黄浓郁——不过我们的黄油味更浓，同样轻盈且风味更佳。三莓蛋糕的糖霜就是纯奶油（乏味），而我们将奶油奶酪糖霜的独特风味，与打发奶油的轻盈清爽特质相结合，再加上浓郁的三层奶油马斯卡彭奶酪和微酸的法式酸奶油。这款糖霜极具个性。此外，我们的蛋糕还有一层薄薄的果酱层，以增加浓郁度和风味深度。 SLJ 蛋糕就像是在吃浆果奶油（如果你足够努力，甚至能说服自己这很健康）。而我们的更像是一款用于特殊场合（例如生日！）的蛋糕。 我从小没在习惯吃黄油蛋糕的家庭长大，也没在习惯做自制生日蛋糕的家庭长大。当我母亲做蛋糕时，她做的是胡萝卜蛋糕——因为含有蔬菜，她觉得让我吃这个没压力。至于生日，她会从当地面包店订购大片蛋糕。那些蛋糕确实是黄色的，铺着厚厚的果酱和白色糖霜，顶部则是根据我当时的痴迷之物而定制的场景：足球场、滑雪坡、网球场，或者一个小号手站在中心位置的乐队。 所以当我决定制作这款蛋糕时，我没有任何经验。我对黄油蛋糕来说是一张白纸。（你知道蛋黄才是让黄油蛋糕呈现黄色的原因吗？）老实说，我一直觉得没有理由去做黄油蛋糕，因为你可以做像胡萝卜蛋糕或巧克力蛋糕那样风味浓郁的蛋糕。黄油蛋糕看起来有点枯燥，但我渴望证明自己错了。 回首往事，漫长旅程的第一步总是显得壮阔而勇敢。多年前，我的第一步是尝试了 Claire Saffitz 的《Dessert Person》一书中的黄油蛋糕。我的
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用手指按压，如果上色不均则进行旋转，9 英寸蛋糕约为 20 到 22 分钟，8 英寸蛋糕约为 22 到 24 分钟。将蛋糕从烤箱中取出，在烤盘中完全冷却至少 1 小时。
5 将蛋白放入中碗或装有打蛋头附件的立式搅拌机碗中。用中速打发至起泡沫且不再透明，约 1 到 2 分钟。将速度调至高速，打发至蛋白出现软峰——蛋白应能保持形状，但当你提起打蛋器时，峰顶会下垂 / 塌陷——另需 1 到 2 分钟。如果你使用的是立式搅拌机且没有第二个碗，请小心地将蛋白转移到碗中，注意不要使其消泡。
6 将蛋白加入面糊中，用刮刀轻轻翻拌，仅翻拌至融合即可，尽可能保持面糊的充气感。
8 制作糖霜：将奶油芝士、马斯卡彭芝士和法式酸奶油放入安装了搅拌桨附件的立式搅拌机碗中，用中速搅拌至混合均匀，约 1 分钟。停止搅拌，用刮刀刮净碗壁和搅拌桨。加入香草精和盐，用中速混合。刮净碗壁并加入糖粉；先用低速搅拌使其润湿，防止糖粉飞溅出碗外，约 30 秒。将速度调至中速，搅拌至完全融入，约 1 分钟。将搅拌碗从底座上取下。清理搅拌桨并刮净碗壁。在打发奶油期间将其放置一旁。
我的朋友 Jen 是一位痴迷于烘焙蛋糕的人，也是这个项目中的我的意见反馈者，她非常推崇 Saffitz。这款蛋糕结合了黄油（为了风味）和油（为了口感），它是我对黄油蛋糕的所有预想：还算不错。 接着我尝试了另一款蛋糕，我的朋友 Nate 和 Sarah（两人都是我咖啡聚会中的食品专业人士）说这款蛋糕值得极力推荐，出自 Stella Parks 的书《Brave-Tart》。这款蛋糕最令人惊讶的是它需要多达 ½ 杯（相当于 8 到 9 个）蛋黄——且完全不需要蛋白。它的味道像磅蛋糕一样美味，但不是我在寻找的那种经典黄油蛋糕。 我至少又做了半打蛋糕，并邀请 Jen 再做半打。我
9 将洗净的搅拌碗和打蛋器放入冷冻库冷藏几分钟。将其从冷冻库取出。用高速打发奶油直到出现坚硬的顶峰，约 2 分钟 30 秒（如果使用手持搅拌器和不锈钢搅拌碗，时间则略长）。
10 将打发的奶油加入糖霜中，用刮刀轻轻翻拌至混合均匀。完成的糖霜应看起来像云朵一样，并能保持蓬松的顶峰。将糖霜放入冰箱冷藏，直到准备使用或至少冷藏 20 到 30 分钟。您可以在前一天晚上制作糖霜；如果糖霜变硬，可以通过搅拌入一汤匙奶油来使其软化，以便于装饰。
11 蛋糕冷却后，将其倒扣以脱模。撕掉并丢弃烘焙纸。再次倒扣，使拱起的顶部朝上。使用一把长锯齿刀切掉蛋糕的拱起部分（拱起部分应该很小），使顶部平整。
12 在带有旋转转盘的蛋糕托盘上，或直接在蛋糕架或盘子上装饰最为方便。将第一层蛋糕叠放在选定的底座上。将一半的果酱涂抹在蛋糕层上，边缘留出 3⁄4 英寸不涂果酱。将一半的浆果均匀地撒在蛋糕层上，即每层放置四种浆果各约 1⁄3 杯（55 克），总共约 1 1⁄3 杯（220 克）浆果。将 1 杯（160 克）糖霜舀在蛋糕上的浆果之上，用抹刀将其均匀地涂抹至边缘。在顶部放置另一层蛋糕，涂抹剩余的果酱，撒上 1 1⁄3 杯浆果，并涂抹另一杯糖霜。最后放上未装饰的蛋糕层。在顶部和侧面涂抹另外 1 1⁄2 杯（240 克）糖霜，用抹刀抹平边缘。使用剩余的糖霜和约 2
浆果蛋糕是洛杉矶最受欢迎的蛋糕种类。 建议做成三层。
吃了很多蛋糕。她吃了很多蛋糕。她的伴侣也吃了很多蛋糕。我妈妈和她的护理人员也吃了很多蛋糕。而我们（遗憾地）扔掉了一些黄油蛋糕。 终于，我研制出了一款不会让我产生“为什么不直接做巧克力蛋糕？”这种想法的黄油蛋糕。 就是这款蛋糕：一款轻盈、充满黄油香气、以香草为主调的蛋糕，我认为它拥有完美的蛋黄与蛋白比例（蛋白需打发至软峰状态并拌入面糊中，以减轻...
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约可制成 3 杯，足够一个 6 英寸的分层蛋糕使用
番茄叶承载着花园中最绿色的香气——那是当你抚过藤蔓后留在手上的气味。它们闻起来像被捕捉在手中的夏天。这种鲜绿色的油脂融入到这款绸缎般顺滑的黄油霜中，让原本熟悉的糖霜变得芬芳且带有草本气息，而这种微妙的陌生感正是吸引你再次品尝的理由。
番茄叶油配方
4 紧实杯（约 100 克）新鲜番茄叶 2 杯（440 克）中性油，如葡萄籽油
番茄叶黄油霜配方
3 个大号（约 1 / 3 杯或 80 克）蛋白
约 3 / 4 杯（167 克）细砂糖
接近 2 杯（433 克）无盐黄油，处于凉爽的室温，切成小块
1 / 3 茶匙粗盐 2 汤匙至接近 1 / 4 杯（30 至 50 克）番茄叶油，根据口味调整
蛋糕）、黄油和香草。 我选择了全黄油蛋糕。 因为这是一个简单的蛋糕，黄油是至关重要的风味组成部分，我不希望削弱它（许多黄油蛋糕是用油和黄油混合制作的）。 为了追求全黄油那无可替代的风味，我愿意接受稍微更实一些的蛋糕口感。 至于糖霜——让我告诉你，我尝试了很多种，包括一种从烹制蛋黄和奶油成卡仕达酱开始的黄油霜——这款结合了奶油芝士来增加风味，并用打发奶油来增加体积。 马斯卡彭（一种类似于凝结奶油的意大利三重奶油芝士）为其提供了因缺少黄油而缺失的结构。如果用黄油，对于搭配浆果来说就太厚重了。 最后拌入的法式酸奶油（或酸奶油）赋予了它一种明亮的酸爽基调，与浆果以及黄油蛋糕搭配起来非常美味。 这款蛋糕是否适合你还有待观察。我喜欢它的一点在于，它是一款“民主”的蛋糕，将我们带回了最初可能的起点，只是变得更优秀了，证明了投票过程确实有效。即便是在面对蛋糕时。
1 制作番茄叶油：从健康的、未喷洒农药的番茄植株上剪取新鲜枝条。像摘欧芹一样将叶子从枝条上摘下，丢弃所有茎部。洗净。如果叶子新鲜且娇嫩，彻底擦干后直接进入搅拌步骤。
2 对于较坚硬的叶子，放入沸水中焯烫 15 秒，然后立即放入冰水中冷却 30 秒。沥干并挤干水分。
3 将叶子塞入搅拌机中。加入油，用高速档搅拌至完全顺滑，呈现鲜绿色，且因刀片摩擦而发热。
Catherine Dzilenski 为《时报》撰写
4 如果你只需要亮丽的颜色和更纯净的质感，请通过细筛网过滤。如果不过滤，则可以获得带有颗粒感且风味更浓郁的体验。（约可制成 2 杯。）可用于下方的黄油霜中，或舀入油醋汁、果酱或涂在吐司上的里科塔奶酪中。立即放入干净的密封容器内冷藏，并在 3 天内使用，或迅速分成小份冷冻，最多保存 3 个月。绝不要将新鲜番茄叶油存储在室温下。
5 制作黄油霜：将厨师机的金属搅拌盆放在一个小锅的微沸水之上，确保盆底不接触水。加入蛋白和糖，不断搅拌直至糖溶解，且混合物在糖果温度计或即时读数温度计上达到 161 度；此时它看起来应有光泽，在两个手指之间感觉完全顺滑。
6 给厨师机安装打蛋器附件，用中高档速度打发蛋白，直到蛋白霜浓稠、有光泽并能维持挺立的尖角，且搅拌盆感觉仅微温。
7 少量多次地加入黄油，确保每次加入的黄油完全融入后再加入下一次。如果混合物变稀或看起来像结块，继续搅拌：它会重新融合。当质地顺滑浓稠时，加入盐。
8 将搅拌机调至低速， 缓慢倒入 2 汤匙（30 克）番茄叶油。根据口味增加用量，最高可达近 1 / 4 杯（50 克），直到奶油霜呈现鲜明的香气和绿色，但仍能保持形状为止。 为了获得极致丝滑的效果， 请切换至搅拌桨附件，以低速搅拌至如静水般平滑。密封存储于冰箱中可保存 1 个月，或冷冻保存最多 6 个月。使用前请将其恢复至凉爽的室温并重新打发。
来自黄油霜女王 ROSE WILDE
洛杉矶烘焙师将水果、花卉、香草 和裱花转化为前卫艺术
作者：BETTY HALLOCK
Rose Wilde 位于西亚当斯（West Adams）的花园是洛杉矶前卫蛋糕制作与装饰的活生生的成长中心。这里遍布番茄植株、百香果藤、玫瑰、薰衣草、大波斯菊、香草和产蛋的鸡。在最近的一个七月早晨，这位身为资深园艺师、食品保存专家以及在线烘焙店 Red Bread 创办者的糕点厨师，在后院的凉亭下为 16 位学生装饰师提供了 6 英寸的层叠蛋糕，以及几夸脱加入番茄叶油而呈淡绿色的瑞士蛋白黄油霜。一个装满番茄叶糖霜的大型餐饮盘放在整颗番茄、草莓以及成束的向日葵、洋甘菊花朵、黄花球和新鲜番茄叶旁边。这些是洛杉矶最先进蛋糕的标志：花卉、香草以及新鲜的水果和蔬菜。
谈到蛋糕，巴黎以精湛的技术和欺骗眼睛的奢华而闻名，东京以纯净的蛋糕架构和几何感著称，而首尔则以极简主义和柔和的色调见长。洛杉矶则在一种由少数几家由具有美学眼光的专业糕点厨师领导的微型烘焙坊所开创的美学领域处于前沿。“我们能接触到的资源比任何地方的人都多，”在投身烘焙生活之前曾是一名律师的 Wilde 说道，“这种丰盈感和季节性，你怎么能不心动？有太多的东西可以激发灵感。”
在蛋糕文艺复兴的中心，通过对诸如复杂维多利亚时代 Lambeth 裱花等趋势的重新诠释，洛杉矶最著名的蛋糕被描述为流动、自然且“完美地不完美”。“让季节引导，”Wilde 在谈到洛杉矶的蛋糕风格时说，“丰盈胜过精准，大量的不对称，柔软的架构，而且我们拥有丰富的植物知识。”Wilde 拿着一个装有她最喜欢的 Ateco 796 凸出圆锥形花嘴的裱花袋，指导她的学生们：“不要局限于你们习惯的河流和湖泊。在任何地方、到处寻找灵感。你的风格是通过练习而来的。”
以下是 Wilde 关于蛋糕装饰的技巧，将让你的黄油霜之梦成为现实：
使用蛋糕转盘 值得投资（$10 到 $70）买一个旋转蛋糕架，它有一个抬高的平台，允许你将蛋糕流畅且连续地旋转 360 度。
确保蛋糕稳定 你的蛋糕重量应由黄油霜支撑：例如，如果你在做橄榄油蛋糕，厚重的黄油霜能更好地使其稳定。给自己一个坚实的基础，这样你才有平静的心情和时间进行装饰。如果你的蛋糕结构不稳定，它会开始滑动和融化。她通过在蛋糕层之间加入糖霜来构建，并将整个蛋糕冷冻一夜。
准备好工具 在蛋糕摆在面前之前就选好裱花嘴。将装满黄油霜的裱花袋以及任何装饰物品——花卉、水果、糖珠、果酱、任何你想尝试的粉末——准备好并放在触手可及的地方。“你可以把这里布置成你的艺术空间，”Wilde 说，“这样你就能给自己预留装饰所需的时间和空间。如果你先拿出蛋糕，再选择花嘴，那么在蛋糕融化的时候你只是在浪费时间。”
从抹面底霜（Crumb Coat）开始 第一层非常薄的糖霜可以抚平蛋糕表面，填补裂缝和缝隙，并锁住碎屑。它应该薄到可以透视。
把“第一块煎饼”处理掉 使用托盘或一张羊皮纸来练习裱花。“把那些‘第一块煎饼’般的旋转花纹处理掉，”Wilde 说，“这样你就不会把所有的希望和梦想都寄托在第一次挤压上。你总是可以将那些部分刮回碗里。”你甚至可以只制作黄油霜（不需要蛋糕）来练习裱花，看看“这个花嘴或那个花嘴效果如何”。你应该多尝试。
糕点厨师 Rose Wilde 认为，错误是通往创造力的门。
正确使用弯头抹刀 “我经常在 TikTok 上看到人们用错了，”Wilde 说道。请使用弯头抹刀的背面。在给蛋糕抹奶油时，在顶部放上一大坨奶油，将抹刀的尖端或弯曲处作为中心的支撑点，在转盘上旋转蛋糕，将奶油向外推。在侧面涂抹黄油奶油时，使用抹刀划出新月形的弧度。Wilde 表示，如果只是来回涂抹，对于蛋糕来说动作太生硬了。划出“C”形弧度可以减轻移动奶油时的摩擦感。
多走动 “很多学生保持在同一个位置，身体僵硬，只移动手和手臂，”Wilde 说道。“我在移动弯头抹刀时会弯腰、歪头，”即使在使用转盘时也是如此，“这样我才能看清自己在做什么。”装饰蛋糕时的动作幅度比你想象的要大。要从各个角度观察。如果你走动得不够多，你就只是在装饰其中一面。
运用奇数原则 Wilde 表示，她非常注重构图，并依赖奇数，因为奇数会强迫眼睛在整个蛋糕上移动以试图解析某种图案，从而创造出动态的视觉趣味。
让错误引导你 对抗完美主义。为了减轻压力，不要执着于某个特定的结果。Wilde 鼓励蛋糕装饰者让设计自然而然地产生。即使你有一个精确的计划，当黄油奶油被磕掉、出现缝隙或气泡时，你也可以灵活调整。“那是放置花朵或花瓣的绝佳位置，”Wilde 说道。“面对蛋糕这块空白画布的‘暴政’时，错误可以成为通往创意的一扇大门。”
摄影：Catherine Dzilenski 为本报拍摄 洛杉矶 15 款最适合 生日派对的 蛋糕
用你梦寐以求的甜点来庆祝你的特别日子，包括一款适合公主的瑞典蛋糕，以及一款节日风味的“三乳蛋糕”（Tres Leches）。 由洛杉矶时报工作人员报道
在你的生日里，你可以尽情享受蛋糕的美味。那么，你会选择哪一款？洛杉矶最好的烘焙店代表了全球多样化的传统，并从这座城市全年可获得的高质量农产品中汲取灵感，准备为你打造梦幻的生日蛋糕。¶ 也许是一款来自传奇古巴咖啡馆、浸满三乳并层叠着打发奶油和莓果的海绵蛋糕。或者，你可能渴望一款来自丹麦糕点店、带有薄荷绿杏仁膏糖霜的卡仕达公主蛋糕。又或者，是一款来自纽约创立的标志性烘焙店洛杉矶旗舰店、顶端点缀着蛋糕松露且撒满彩屑的生日蛋糕？¶ 从小埃塞俄比亚区的一家百年烘焙店，到回声公园（Echo Park）的一家轮番供应季节性甜点的披萨店，这里为你推荐 15 款最适合下次庆祝活动订购的生日蛋糕。—— Danielle Dorsey
CAKE MONKEY
说到生日蛋糕，我倾向于避开经典口味，寻找那些能让我想起最爱甜点的蛋糕。Cake Monkey 的苹果碎蛋糕（6 英寸 $60）就像是一个蛋糕形式的焦糖苹果派，在柔软的香草蛋糕层之间填满了苹果酒烤苹果、浓郁的焦糖和黄油碎。它被一层顺滑的焦糖黄油奶油包裹，进一步激发出苹果的甜味。可以将这款视为派爱好者的生日蛋糕。此外，还有一款巧克力蛋糕，层叠着花生酱和黑巧克力黄油奶油糖霜以及棉花糖。如果你在寻找经典款，Cake Monkey 也能提供，包括三莓、胡萝卜和彩色糖粒（Funfetti）口味。该烘焙店在圣费尔南多谷（San Fernando Valley）有一个仅限自提的网点，在费尔法克斯（Fairfax）有一家店面。两处均要求整单蛋糕提前至少 48 小时通知。—— Jenn Harris 10844 Chandler Blvd., North Hollywood, (818) 508-9579, cakemonkey.com, @cakemonkeybakery
COPENHAGEN PASTRY Karen Hansen 的糕点柜里摆满了 rumkugle、kransecake、kringle 和其他丹麦特色甜点，包括丹麦酥，这里的丹麦酥采用传统工艺，将薄层面团与黄油折叠 27 次而成。尽管糕点非常吸引人，但庆祝活动的重心通常是 Hansen 优雅的蛋糕。口味选择包括杏桃巧克力、香蕉奶油、覆盆子柠檬慕斯以及 Othello（一种经典的丹麦生日蛋糕）——但也许最特别的是公主蛋糕。这款瑞典蛋糕在洛杉矶较为罕见，它将冰凉的香草卡仕达酱、有弹力的海绵蛋糕、酸甜的自制覆盆子果酱和一顶蓬松的打发奶油精致地层叠在一起，最后用开心果色的杏仁膏圆顶覆盖。口感奶油般顺滑，散发着杏仁和莓果的香气，总能赢得大家的喜爱。好在它提供 8 英寸圆形蛋糕（$55）或 16 x 11 英寸片形蛋糕（$135），以供应更大规模的派对。需要快速解决？公主蛋糕和另外几款蛋糕全天也按切片出售。有时你可能会发现某些整款蛋糕可直接购买，但 Copenhagen Pastry 要求当日订购蛋糕至少提前四小时通知。—— Stephanie Breijo 11113 Washington Blvd., Culver City, (310) 839-8900, copenhagenpastry.com, @copenhagenpastry
COSTCO 凭借实惠的价格、自助挑选的选项以及大量多样化的装饰奶油主题，这家全球最受欢迎的仓储超市也是生日蛋糕的坚实选择。与美食广场及其著名的热狗一样，您需要办理 Costco 会员资格——或者找一个拥有会员证的朋友——才能购买蛋糕，但为了这份奖励，克服这个障碍是值得的。价格从 10 英寸圆蛋糕的 $17.99 到半页形蛋糕的 $27.99 不等，无论填充物是巧克力慕斯还是香草芝士蛋糕慕斯。两种口味都充满了奢华感和怀旧情调，尤其是那款配有搅打软糖糖霜的浓郁湿润巧克力蛋糕。在烘焙区每天都可以找到一批先到先得的蛋糕：有些是原味的，有些则点缀着玫瑰、气球、其他糖霜艺术或通用的“生日快乐”字样。定制订单可以包含文字信息和姓名，以及蜡烛、小熊和彩虹等主题。订单应至少提前三天提交，可以通过 Costco 应用程序在线订购，或在烘焙区通过纸质表格面订。— S.B. l 2207 W. Commonwealth Ave., Alhambra, (626) 289-7164, costco.com
ENA BAKERY 甜点师 Sasha Piligian 以开创代表“景观遇上兰贝斯 (Lambeth)”装饰前沿的洛杉矶风格蛋糕而闻名——她刚刚将她的微型烘焙店重新命名为 Ena。“大家都通过我的 Instagram 账号 (@sashimi1) 认识我，”Piligian 说道，她曾在 Gjusta 和 Sqirl 开始接触蛋糕制作。她夏天经常推出的一款蛋糕是橄榄油蛋糕（$115 起），搭配桃子果酱、柠檬马鞭草卡仕达酱和酸蜂蜜奶油霜。柑橘雪丰蛋糕则由草莓酱、百香果凝乳和打发鲜奶油层叠而成。按照她的标志性风格，蛋糕顶部可能会点缀极简的曲线形挤花糖霜、甜豌豆花、渐变色的黄色和橙色树莓，以及粉色的手指柠檬鱼子酱。“我认为这些蛋糕在某种程度上是‘完美的不完美’，质朴而精致，有趣且异想天开，但又非常具有匠心。” 蛋糕请至少提前一周在线订购；提供自取和配送选项。— Betty Hallock l 672 S Santa Fe Ave., Los Angeles, enabakery.com, @sashimi1
FLOURING 在 Flouring，蛋糕看起来就像艺术品。紫山药椰子和百香果口味分别镶嵌着可食用紫色和黄色花朵，而有些蛋糕的糖霜看起来像大理石，另一些则像画家的调色盘，布满了彩色糖霜的涂抹与斑点。它们可以是分层状、多层塔状，或者是页状或条状。店主 Heather Wong 的蛋糕不仅美观，而且同样美味，有时还会将中国和墨西哥风味以及更广泛的全球趋势融入她的文化传承中。她的一些招牌产品（5 英寸价格为 $65-$80）包括甜度适中的黑芝麻脆蛋糕、甜咸口味的意大利开心果蛋糕，以及包裹在椰子糖霜中的甜紫山药蛋糕，其质地如此轻盈，几乎在触碰舌尖时就融化了。
蛋糕棒、迷你帕夫洛娃 (pavlovas)、曲奇和部分精选蛋糕通常供应给到店顾客，但 Flour-ing 要求预订其招牌蛋糕至少提前 72 小时。— S.B. l 932 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, flouringla.com
HANSEN’S CAKES 这家位于小埃塞俄比亚区 (Little Ethiopia) 核心地带、拥有百年历史的烘焙店不再由 Hansen 家族经营，但新业主致力于传承几代洛杉矶人深爱的配方。该蛋糕店通过 Goldbelly 提供全国配送，是定制婚礼和生日蛋糕的信赖之选，其名人客户包括卡戴珊家族 (the Kardashians)，他们让该店招牌的手绘篮织花纹设计走红。如果想要经典款，柠檬奶油霜填充的柠檬蛋糕（6 英寸 36 美元）展现出阳光般的黄色内馅，口感绵密且丰富，但不过分甜腻。如果您不想只尝试一种口味，这里还提供杯子蛋糕——包括一口大小的迷你杯子蛋糕。— D.D. l 1060 S. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, (323) 936-4332, hansenscakes.com, @hansencakesbakery
LARK CAKE SHOP Lark 是一家主打怀旧家常风味生日蛋糕的必访烘焙店：巧克力慕斯、红丝绒、莓果短蛋糕、胡萝卜、椰子、Funfetti 和冰盒蛋糕 (icebox cakes) 都是深受儿童和成人喜爱的经典款。杯子蛋糕版本同样如此。Lark 的蛋糕线条简洁，采用当地食材制作，点缀以简约而优雅的装饰。（不过这里也有一些极尽奢华的定制选项。）其纯正的巧克力蛋糕（49 美元起），搭配巧克力慕斯、打发奶油和巧克力甘纳许，是任何地方最浓郁的巧克力蛋糕之一。甜点柜中经常有完整的蛋糕，方便临时寻找的人购买。提供自取和配送服务。— B.H. l 3337 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, (323) 667-2968, larkcakeshop.com, @larkcakeshop
通过将您最喜爱的怀旧甜点的精华部分结合，打造出令人满足的口味，包括一款受 Tosi 家族农场及其奶奶著名的玉米烘烤启发而创作的 chewy 甜咸口玉米曲奇，以及带有燕麦曲奇底的黏稠 Milk Bar 派。最畅销的生日蛋糕（6 英寸 65 美元）是大多数杂货店销售的香草彩 confetti 蛋糕预混粉的升级版，由三层彩点香蚁草蛋糕夹在奶油芝士糖霜层之间，顶部撒有彩色糖粒和一圈碎粒生日蛋糕松露球。该款蛋糕还提供无麸质版本（6 英寸 78 美元），此外还有四重巧克力以及搭配脆米片的胡萝卜棉花糖等口味。蛋糕支持当日自取，如需配送需至少提前 48 小时预订。— D.D. l 7150 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, (213) 341-8423, milkbarstore.com, @milkbarstore
NAGOMI CAKE HOUSE 草莓短蛋糕（6 英寸 38 美元）是一款深受好评的日式甜点，以其轻盈的质地和温和的甜味著称。而这恰恰是这家位于加迪纳 (Gardena) 的小型日式烘焙店的明星产品。这是一款松软的海绵蛋糕，层叠着新鲜草莓和轻盈的打发奶油，与微妙的甜味完美平衡。在 Nagomi Cake House 的展示柜中，您还能找到更多选择，包括顶端点缀莓果的巧克力奶油蛋糕、柔软的舒芙蕾芝士蛋糕以及栗子蒙布朗 (Mont Blanc)，所有产品均可预订。— Angela Osorio l 15915 S. Western Ave. # D, Gardena, (310) 780-5579, nagomi-cakehouse.com / eng, @nagomicakehouse
PHOENIX BAKERY 这是一个能让每个人都满意的地方。Phoenix Bakery 如今标志性的草莓打发奶油蛋糕被誉为“洛杉矶最受欢迎的蛋糕”，这并非没有道理。它轻盈、不过甜，充满了新鲜莓果，被云朵般轻盈的打发奶油糖霜包裹，边缘围有一圈杏仁片以增加脆度。对于几代洛杉矶的孩子（包括我自己的孩子）来说，这就是生日蛋糕。它在 20 世纪 70 年代后变得出名，当时它被...
这是由已故的 Lun F. Chan 构思的，是对草莓短蛋糕的一种奢华扩展，采用了双层雪纺蛋糕底（同样是洛杉矶的发明）。你可以在这家由 Chan 的兄弟 Fung Chow Chan 于 1938 年创立的糕点店订购三奶蛋糕（tres leches）和其他类型的蛋糕，但几乎每个人来这里都是为了这款草莓蛋糕，除了节假日外，这款蛋糕几乎总是为到店顾客提供。由于 6 英寸蛋糕（可供 5 到 6 人食用）的价格从 $29.95 起，这成了这座城市中让生日变得特别且最实惠的方式之一。—— Laurie Ochoa l 969 N. Broadway, Los Angeles, (213) 628-4642, @phoenixbakery
PORTO’S BAKERY 这家由 Rosa Porto 于 1960 年创立的古巴糕点店在洛杉矶和橙县拥有 6 家分店，并将 refugiagos 和 empanadas 销往全国，以便其大批粉丝可以在家中烘烤这些点心。除了甜咸口味的糕点、面包和曲奇，Porto’s 还提供适合各种庆祝活动的完整蛋糕，包括边缘点缀着黄油全麦碎的草莓短蛋糕，以及周围环绕着手指饼干的提拉米苏雪纺蛋糕。但如果你想尝试在其他地方买不到的口味，请订购 Milk N’ Berry 蛋糕 ($40.75)。这款海绵蛋糕充分浸泡在 Rosa 的三奶酱汁中，并加入少许白兰地调味——你会发现奶油边缘的蛋糕底部积了一小滩液体。将多余的液体浇在冰淇淋球上，效果最佳。—— D.D. l 3614 W. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank, (818) 846-9100, portosbakery.com, @portosbakery
RED BREAD Rose Wilde 创作“加州浪漫”风格的蛋糕，其口味源于她对全谷物和“从根到花”食材的热情：无花果叶、草本植物、柑橘、浆果、核果和蜂蜜。目前的夏季蛋糕（$135 起）包括红糖或巧克力雪纺，以及酪乳、橄榄油或开心果蛋糕，搭配樱桃酱、番茄叶黄油霜和柚子甘那许等内馅和糖霜。每一款蛋糕都以她的有机风格装饰，采用流畅的 Lambeth 裱花、绚烂的花卉和最新鲜的农产品。订单需提前 5 天预约，可在周三至周六取货。Wilde 还提供蛋糕装饰工作坊，且始终抢购一空。—— B.H. l 3853 3rd Ave., Los Angeles, eatredbread.com
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很难找到高度定制化的纯植物基蛋糕，而能找到斑斓（pandan）和酸柑（calamansi）等口味的则更为罕见。但除了 ensaymadas、填充 pandesal 和椰蓉肉桂卷，全素的 San & Wolves Bakeshop 还提供完整蛋糕。店主 Kym 和 Arvin Torres 几乎所有食材都由店内自制，包括无乳凝炼奶，因此他们建议至少提前两周订购蛋糕，以确保在繁忙的烘焙日程中占据一席之地。可以选择 6 或 8 英寸圆型两层蛋糕 ($50-65)、半片蛋糕 ($200) 或极其上镜的心形蛋糕 ($55)，并可自由组合黄油霜和蛋糕口味，如紫薯 (ube)、酸柑、黑芝麻、斑斓、巧克力和香草。只要有充足的预订时间，他们的蛋糕装饰师可以实现自定义色调、知名角色以及精致的裱花留言。—— S.B. l 3900 E. 4th St., Long Beach, sanandwolves.com
SWEET LADY JANE 也许是洛杉矶最具代表性的蛋糕之一，Sweet Lady Jane 的三色浆果蛋糕（6 英寸 $90）在这家深受喜爱的糕点店几乎被停产
这家店在 2023. 年底突然关门。但当第三代烘焙师 Julie Ngu 和丈夫 Matt Clark 在两个月后接手成为新业主时，他们保留了原有的配方。这款黄色黄油蛋糕以轻盈的打发奶油搭配草莓、蓝莓和覆盆子，每种水果各占一层。很难想象，当 Jane Lockhart 刚开设 Sweet Lady Jane 时，这款蛋糕并不在开业菜单上——但它在几个月后被加入后，迅速攀升至销量冠军之位，并一直延续至今。—— Melody Xu l16403 Ventura Blvd., Suite C, Encino, sweetladyjane.com
QUARTER SHEETS 在疫情期间，已经是资深糕点厨师的 Hanna Ziskin 意识到自己在制作蛋糕方面拥有潜在的、天才级的才华——香料味、质地细腻的层叠蛋糕，巧妙地结合了慕斯、果酱、卡仕达酱和奶油，外层包裹着黄油霜，顶端装饰着雅致的花卉。她改良的圆顶公主蛋糕现在是 Quarter Sheets 甜点菜单上的主打产品。不过，真正能在我家中获得“生日蛋糕”地位的是她的季节性创意作品。请查看该餐厅的网站，获取每月更新的全款蛋糕选项。你会发现像这样的构思：可可雪纺蛋糕搭配黑醋栗巴伐利亚奶油、黑莓果酱和巧克力奶油，周围环绕着冲绳黑糖黄油霜；或者橄榄油蛋糕搭配分层椰子卡仕达酱、草莓果酱和新鲜草莓卡仕达酱，周围环绕着海盐椰子黄油霜。这些精美的蛋糕是一项投资：一个 6 英寸蛋糕的价格通常在 $120 到 $140 之间。为了特殊场合，其显而易见的精湛工艺和食材品质值得这次挥霍。—— Bill Addison l1305 Portia St., Los Angeles, quartersheetspizza.com, @quartersheets
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位于伍德兰山 (Woodland Hills) 的 TAÍNOS L.A. 菜单唤起人们对波多黎各家常菜的深切怀旧之情
Taínos L.A.
在伍德兰山的 Taínos L.A. 门口，一个小喇叭里传出切分音打击乐和快速钢琴节奏的激昂声音。波多黎各国旗的条纹在风中飘扬。室内，墙上一个霓虹粉色招牌将房间染成红色，上面写着：“No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí”，翻译过来就是“我不想离开这里”。这同时也是 Bad Bunny 2025 年在波多黎各圣胡安举办的驻场演唱会名称。“多亏了 Bad Bunny，波多黎各文化正迎来一个高光时刻，”Taínos L.A. 的老板奥德萨·罗德里格斯 (Odessa Rodriguez) 说道。她很可能是对的。这位艺术家在 2 月份的超级碗中场秀是该活动电视播出历史上观看人数最多的演出。但我直觉认为，她餐厅里座无虚席的情况，更多是由于厨房里传出的 mofongo（捣制绿原plantain）、pernil（烤猪肩肉）和 rellenos de papa（土豆球）。
如果你参加过洛杉矶的办公室聚餐、洗礼仪式或毕业派对，你可能对 Porto’s Bakery 的 rellenos de papa 非常熟悉。这家连锁店的填入 picadillo（肉末碎）的炸土豆泥球几十年来一直是洛杉矶 rellenos de papa 的金标准。直到现在。Taínos L.A. 土豆球外层的土豆泥环轻盈得惊人，口感蓬松，且带有芝士般的质感。土豆融化在粗粒牛肉馅中心，风味浓郁且带有微妙的甜味，并融合了 culantro（香叶芹）如草本般清新明亮的口感。球体裹上日式面包糠 (panko)，然后油炸至金黄色外壳勉强维持形状，在第一口咬下时随即崩塌。
Rellenos de papa 是罗德里格斯在波多黎各家乡最怀念的食物之一。洛杉矶虽然有许多拉丁美洲聚居区，但这座城市仍然缺乏一个集中的波多黎各人中心，这促使这位前活动策划人决定创造自己的中心。她联系了她的叔叔埃德温·托雷斯 (Edwin Torres)——他在波多黎各担任了数十年的主厨——两人通过一个幽灵厨房启动了一家弹出式餐厅。他们以加勒比地区的原住民命名，将其称为 Taínos L.A.。
TAÍNOS L.A. 的老板奥德萨·罗德里格斯 (Odessa Rodriguez)、尼克·瓦瓦措利斯 (Nick Varvatsoulis) 和主厨埃德温·“叔叔”·托雷斯 (Edwin “Tio” Torres)（左上）；牛肉 empanadillas（馅饼）；配有虾和蒜油的 Loiza 式 mofongo；以及配有 yautia（大芋头）的烤 churrasco 牛排。
今年早些时候，他们在温图拉大道 (Ventura Boulevard) 上的一个小型餐厅空间开设了 Taínos L.A.，位于托潘加购物中心 (Topanga Mall) 南约两英里处。
其菜单旨在唤起人们对波多黎各家常菜的深切怀旧之情。除了土豆球，这里还有 empanadillas，以巨大的半月形口袋状呈现，内馅可选牛肉末、鸡肉丝或虾。面皮比阿根廷的 empanada 更薄且更脆，呈现出像云吞皮一样的琥珀色酥皮，并布满气孔。托雷斯为其配备了两种蘸料。第一种是 pique，一种辛辣的醋味辣酱，带有泰国辣椒的灼热感。第二种是 mayoketchup，一种经典的波多黎各酱料，主要由番茄酱和蛋黄酱制成，并加入大蒜提味。
“城里的人做菜是一套方式，南方的人又是另一套，”罗德里格斯在谈到波多黎各饮食的地域性时说道。虽然托雷斯在波多黎各南海岸城市庞塞 (Ponce) 长大，但他曾在圣胡安工作多年，使得这些波多黎各美食变得精炼
通过他前往加州的特定路线来审视。在圣胡安，他研发了或许是他最重要的食谱：mofongo（摩风戈），这是波多黎各非正式的国民菜。这种捣碎的青香蕉在整个岛屿、多米尼加共和国和古巴随处可见。Torres 的 mofongo 更有颗粒感而非糊状，大蒜味浓郁，黑胡椒味辛辣。它被盛成一个紧实的圆堆，口感在块状、碎粒状和顺滑之间波动。Torres 使用一个 pilón（木臼），加入自己用猪油炸的 chicharron（炸猪皮）来制作。mofongo 中散布着许多猪皮脆粒，每一次跳跃的酥脆感与咸味都像是一种奖励。为了向东北沿海城市洛伊萨（Loiza）致敬，Torres 还在 mofongo 上铺满了饱满、甜美的虾仁，并淋上大蒜油；在洛伊萨，你会发现无数餐厅和海边小摊在出售大蒜虾配 mofongo 或 tostones（炸蕉片）。
这种淀粉质的捣碎食品恰好也是 Rodriguez 的侄子 Kyle Diesel 最喜欢的能量来源。这位拳击手在波多黎各重量级排名第一，在美国排名第二。Rodriguez 将她的拳击腰带挂在餐厅后方的一面墙上。“他吃很多 mofongo，”她说，“所以他出拳非常有力。”我近期不会戴上拳击手套，但 mofongo 吃起来确实像那种能激发超人力量的食物。
接着是 arroz con gandules（豆子饭），一堆米饭和格威豆，即使作为正餐我也会很愉快地将其吃完。“顾客总是进来点 arroz con gandules，”Rodriguez 说，“他们在考验我们。”我不知道它是否尝起来像你波多黎各祖母做的 arroz con gandules，但对于任何从小吃米饭和豆子长大的人来说，Torres 的版本在核心层面上令人满足。
每一粒泛黄的米饭都经过焦糖化处理，口感完美地达到了 al dente（有嚼劲），并融入了 sofrito（西班牙式炒料）那甜辣且带有草本气息的风味。gandules（格威豆）形态完整，口感比黑豆稍硬，中心带有令人愉悦的粉质感。
它是搭配大块 pernil（烤猪肩肉）的首选淀粉主食。Torres 用大量黑胡椒和大蒜为猪肉调味，然后用低温慢烤约五小时。析出的油脂形成了一层甜而黏稠的硬壳，而肉质则呈现出浓郁、丝滑的质感，如此之嫩，几乎入口即化。如果你在寻找 pernil 上常见的像玻璃一样脆的皮层，这里是没有的。Rodriguez 解释说，由于她采购的特定部位的猪肉，这无法实现。我向你保证，你不会想念那层 cuerito（猪皮）。
事实证明，墙上的霓虹灯招牌——以及 Bad Bunny——是对的。随着第二份 rellenos de papa（土豆馅饼）即将上桌，我不想离开这里。
摄影：Jess Torres 为《时报》拍摄
22757 Ventura Blvd., Woodland Hills, (747) 320-6326, instagram.com / tainos_la 价格：前菜 $12-$26，主菜 $24-$41，配菜 $6-$7，儿童餐 $6-$12，mofongo 拼盘 $32-$69，甜点 $7-$8。 详情：周四至周一下午 4 点至晚上 10 点营业。路边停车计费。 推荐菜品：Empanadillas（小馅饼）；rellenos de papa（土豆馅饼）；mofongo（摩风戈）；pernil 和 arroz con gandules（烤猪肉与豆子饭）；churrasco 和 yautia（烤牛排与大芋头）；pollo guisado（炖鸡）。 饮品：餐厅正在办理酒类许可证。目前提供软饮料和刺果番荔枝等新鲜果汁。
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从我的篮子里拿出来。“你把整个店都买下来了，”他说。 咚。这个笑话冷场了。 由于他在等待回应，我不得不表现出一种不符合我性格的礼貌。我含糊地说道：“这个地方让我想起纽约了，”希望这样能结束对话。 “我就是纽约人！但我 5 岁时就搬到这里了。我现在 86 岁。” 比我大 20 岁，状态依然不错。为他高兴。一定是因为奶酪和面食饮食法。 我没问，但他主动提供了大量关于自己的信息：仍在工作，独居，热爱音乐，享受美食。“我一直支持艺术，”他在询问我是否是艺术家后说道。我散发出那种气质吗？ 我的牛仔裤、运动鞋和连帽衫都是纯色且性别中立的。你可能会认为这种装扮会吸引女性，但也许女性更擅长照顾自己，不会到处广播她们对陪伴的需求。我加快脚步走向我的车，坐进驾驶座后一秒也不停留，立即检查信息。我从停车场的后方滑出，穿过小巷。几天后在 Gelson’s 超市，我注意到一个年长男人在盯着我看我阅读芥末酱标签上的成分表。在我揭穿他在偷看后，他笑了，这让我惊恐地退缩，迅速飞奔到宠物食品区躲了起来。一分钟后他出现了，审视着我购物车的物品，并以里面的猫粮作为开场白，询问起我的猫。我说我有 5 只猫，如果算上每天出现讨第三或第四顿饭的半野化之猫，这倒是实话。我的社区里有很多心地善良的动物爱好者。我希望我“猫女”的形象——通常是瞬间驱离男性的利器——能让这个男人走开。在结账时，另一个年长男人询问我正小心翼翼地横放在快速移动传送带上的葡萄酒。葡萄酒、猫粮和芥末酱。这个男人想知道我之后晚餐准备做什么来搭配这瓶酒。我想，你竟然敢问我这个问题。也许他想象的是一场共享的晚餐，碰杯，然后在沙发上看着一部怀旧电影，最后舒服地陷入沉睡并大声放屁。在另一个人类的陪伴下他会很安全，对方可能会给他盖上毯子，并在额头上亲他一下，而这个动作我通常只留给我的猫。单身老年人的孤独是真实的，而关于哪个性别更易受影响的矛盾报告对我来说毫无意义。我会得出自己的非科学结论。我只能说，我已经几十年没感受到这么多关注了。我的朋友 Marlene 同样经历过这种超市现象——原因显而易见，因为她漂亮且金发——她说这些男人要么在找护士，要么在找钱包。第二天，在上午晚些时候看完牙医后，我在威尔希尔大道（Wilshire Boulevard）的 Bristol Farms 超市，一个比我矮（我 5 英尺 4 英寸）的年长男人提出
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帮我从顶层货架拿一包燕麦片（老年人的主食）。他评论说我购物车里的辣金枪鱼寿司是个不错的选择。我心想，你觉得我为什么买这个？而且，我刚看完牙医，正期待着一顿冰凉且柔软的午餐，而 Bristol Farms 的寿司还算不错。我是半个日本人，对超市的寿司比较挑剔。此外，我正处于一种极度饥饿状态，那是离开牙医诊所后压力释放时常伴随的饥饿感。我迫不及待地想在进车的一瞬间就撕开包装，尽管我知道在尝试进食时，鱼肉和米饭块会从我麻木的嘴里掉出来，搞得一团糟。咕噜噜……好烫！我心想，应该说是“一团糟”才对。也许我应该接受那个男人的好意帮我够顶层货架，即便这意味着我可能得把他托起来，并冒着发生意外肢体接触而传达错误信号的风险。我扫视了停车场，好奇这些豪华车中哪一辆是他的。我在遮阳板镜子里检查牙齿，立刻被厚重下垂的腮帮子、眼袋和老年斑吓到了。我想，如果这个家伙是个孤独的整形外科医生会怎样。也许我该找个包包（指寻找机会）。在加州，每个人似乎都有一个精通塔罗牌和占星术的朋友。虽然我持怀疑态度，但我还是给我的通灵朋友打了电话，想看看这次突然受到男性关注是否有原因，以及我以后是否应该考虑叫外卖。当她告诉我没看到任何异常时，我感到非常失望。也许下次有年长男性向我调情时，我会尝试一次社会实验，上钩看看这场“老年求偶之舞”会如何发展。到时我会告诉你们结果的。作者曾任路透社全球摄影主管。搬到洛杉矶后，她成为了一名作家。她的 Instagram 账号为 @nancy glowinski，同时也在 Substack 上发文。
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作者：Ralph Sharaga & Doug Peterson
横向 1 鱼类清理工具 7 额外选项 12 昂贵的德国汽车 16 平板支撑锻炼的肌肉 19 华丽炫目的 20 笨拙的 21 檀香山艺术博物馆所在地 22 AAA 的工作 23 对一名 Cy Young 传记的赞美之词？ 25 《Voyage to India》的歌手 26 《The Mole》主持人 Shapiro 27 “你最近怎么 — ？” 28 铃声响起后 29 “在这里” 30 血红蛋白中的矿物质 31 例如：卷心菜沙拉 33 对一名冥想指南的赞美之词？ 37 救生专业人士 40 地下探险者 43 贸易博览会 44 手机服务缩写 45 波罗的海首都 47 拥有植物系列产品的玩具 48 传单 50 紫外线过滤测量值 53 对一名攀岩者日记的赞美之词？ 56 总的来说 58 《Priscilla》编剧 / 导演 Coppola 59 伊斯兰教分支 60 开罐器 62 演艺圈的大满贯
上周答案： “9 TO 5”
亲爱的埃里克：几年前，我直接参与并挽救了“彼得”的生命。在此次事件之前我不认识彼得，不久之后，他及其家人联系了我，对我表示感谢并请求见面，显然是在更好的环境下见面。
我同意了这次会面，但坦白说，我现在完全后悔了。彼得是个非常体面的人，但我们之间没有任何共同语言。然而，他及其几位家人不停地给我打电话、发短信等等。在他们眼中，我是他的英雄，而这似乎等同于要成为他的朋友。但说实话，我并不喜欢他。
他没有做错任何事。他只是一个我不会选择与之交友的人。然而，由于考虑到我们相识的经过，我感到很愧疚，所以一直在回应。我已经减少了回复短信的频率，希望他们能心领神会，但他和他的家人并没有意识到。
我不想与他们中的任何人成为朋友。我只是不知道如何在不伤害他们感情的情况下做到这一点。关于如何摆脱他们，您有什么建议吗？我知道我听起来很糟糕，我很抱歉，但我真的需要他们停止打扰我。
——非英雄 (Not the Hero)
亲爱的“英雄”：你的核心诉求并不糟糕。如果你不是在救彼得的生命时与他相识，脱离这段关系可能会更容易。
进行一次简短、清晰且友善的“分手”对话是可能的。告诉彼得，你很高兴当时能在他身边提供帮助，但持续的联系让你感到有些压力。你可以说类似这样的话：“我现在没有心态去交新朋友，但祝你一切顺利。”
听到这话可能会有些刺耳，但诚实总比心中怀恨要好。你现在所做的是传达你的需求，而不是继续尝试满足他的期望。告诉他，你很高兴能救了他的命，并祝愿他在余生中万事如意。
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横向 63 愤怒 (Wrath) 65 水或电 (Water or elec.) 67 荒野探险 (Wild adventure) 70 对机械师手册的称赞？ (Praise for a mechanic's handbook?) 74 交叉质询的后续 (Cross-examination follower) 75 — & Chandon 香槟 (— & Chandon Champagne) 76 法国式的否认 (French denials) 77 晚年资金 (Funds for one's golden yrs.) 78 食谱中的少量单位 (Small recipe amts.) 81 像公羊 (Like rams) 83 剧烈的政策变动 (Drastic policy change) 86 — 500 89 对希望之钻历史的称赞？ (Praise for a Hope Diamond history?) 92 抬高的火车 (Raised trains) 93 像开瓶器的部分 (Like part of a corkscrew) 95 奢侈鞋类品牌 (Luxury shoe brand) 96 哥本哈根居民 (Copenhagen resident) 97 加拉哈德的头衔 (Galahad's title) 98 “你可以走了” ("You can leave now") 99 跑步机设置 (Treadmill setting) 101 霸王龙 — (Tyrannosaurus —) 102 对调酒师指南的称赞？ (Praise for a bartender's manual?) 107 营养数据 (Nutrition figs.) 109 灰色 (Grayish) 110 “Muy —” 111 钟楼的声音 (Belfry sound) 114 布基纳法索的邻国 (Burkina Faso neighbor) 117 演唱《Houdini》的歌手 Lipa ("Houdini" singer Lipa) 118 六次艾美奖得主 Tyne (Six-time Emmy winner Tyne) 119 对潜水员回忆录的称赞？ (Praise for a scuba diver's memoir?) 123 繁忙的医院区域 (Hectic hosp. areas) 124 设计师 Gucci (Designer Gucci) 125 打鼾的原因 (Snoring cause) 126 缺乏 30-Across (126 30-Across deficiency) 127 获得“揉捏”治疗的地方？ (Place to get much-kneaded therapy?) 128 奶酪色调 (Fromage hue) 129 聚会食品 (Party spreads) 130 归零 (Zeroes out)
纵向 1 浸透 (Drench) 2 婴儿床 (Baby bed) 3 手递送的费用？ (Cost of hand delivery?) 4 鞋带 (Shoestrings) 5 拥有共同文化 (Sharing a common culture) 6 健身房单位 (Gym unit) 7 印度北方邦的旅游城市 (Uttar Pradesh tourist city) 8 — Punk：“Get Lucky”二人组 (— Punk: "Get Lucky" duo) 9 书呆子类型 (Nerdy type) 10 计分板上的 NBA 雷霆队 (The NBA's Thunder, on scoreboards) 11 《The Daily》播客制作人，简写 ( "The Daily" podcast producer, briefly) 12 吹嘘 (Brag about) 13 苍鹭栖息地 (Heron habitat) 14 削减 (Shaves (down)) 15 在某种程度上追求 (Go after, in a way) 16 多足类制造者 (Centipede maker)
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在一场 $1 / $2 的现场无限额德州扑克现金局中，有效筹码为 $300。一名中位玩家跟注（limped），随后截断位（cutoff）也跟注。我们的英雄（Hero）在按钮位持有 J♥10♥ 加注到 $12。虽然在按钮位加注这手相当强力的牌确实应该考虑，但跟注或更大额度地加注（例如到 $16）也是合理的选择。跟注能保持底池较小，通常能放大你的隐含赔率和翻牌后优势（假设你打得好）；而更大额度的加注则能让你更频繁地在翻前直接拿下底池。
当你加注在 $8 到 $12 之间时，你会发现你几乎不可能在翻前赢得底池，这意味着你通常需要翻牌面不错才有较好的获胜机会。
只有截断位跟注，翻牌（flop）为 A♥Q♦8♥，使英雄获得了同花听牌和双头顺子听牌。截断位在 $29 的底池中率先下注 $10。大多数时候，当有人在对翻前加注者范围极其有利的牌面上率先下注时，他们通常持有边际成手牌或垃圾听牌。考虑到英雄持有 J♥10♥，这降低了对手持有听牌的可能性，因此他可能持有弱 A，通过下注来尝试“探路”。
英雄跟注，转牌（turn）为 10♦，截断位过牌。在转牌被过牌给时，英雄应假设其中对（middle pair）很少是最佳手牌，尽管在面对像 7♥6♥ 这种垃圾同花听牌时偶尔会是。真正的问题在于，对手是否会在转牌加河牌的连续下注中弃掉 A。
英雄随后过牌，河牌（river）为 Q♠，对手在 $49 的底池中下注 $15。在赛后的手牌分析中，英雄向我提到，他见过该对手在河牌圈用边际价值牌小额下注两次，而用绝对强牌（nuts）大额下注一次。这让英雄认为对手持有 A 的可能性远大于持有 Q。因此，英雄唯一可行的选择要么是直接弃牌，要么是作为诈唬加注，于是英雄加注到 $60。英雄现在必须评估对手是否会因为加注而弃掉 A。
如果你确信对手很少会拿着 A 跟注，那么加注就非常有意义。我认可英雄 $60 的尺寸，不过为了最大限度地提高弃牌率，稍微大一点可能更好。只要确保你的加注额足够大，能让对手通常弃掉他们的大部分顶对即可。
对手抱怨了一分钟，说英雄在河牌圈撞到 Q 真是太走运了，然后摊牌弃掉了 A♣2♣。
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ROSIE LEE, on her 19-acre farm in Merced, is leaving half the land dry and unplanted because of regulations.
detainee water appears tainted
creatures highlights persistent complaints at Adelanto lockup.
By Ruben Vives
Carlitos Ricardo Parias had long complained to his family about the quality of drinking water at the Ade- lanto ICE Processing Cen- ter. In a video call from the Southern California facility where he is detained, he fi- nally showed them proof — a plastic bottle filled with drinking water and what ap- peared to be worm-like cre- atures. Carlos Jurado, Parias’ immigration attorney, shared a copy of the video with The Times. In a phone interview, he said no one should drink something like it. “The saddest thing is that they hunt us like ani- mals on the streets and they don’t even treat us like ani- mals in jails because no one would give that kind of water to their dog or cat,” Jurado said. A Department of Home- land Security spokesperson, however, denied any claim of poor conditions at the facil- ity, saying it gets its water from the city of Adelanto. “It is the same water used by residents and businesses in the area,” the spokes- person wrote in an email to The Times. “Our staff mem- bers at the facility also con- sume the water alongside il- legal aliens. Employees and illegal aliens have access to this water supply 24/7 through water fountains
[See Adelanto, A8]
By Susanne Rust
As the chances of a “su- per” El Niño continue to rise — now 81%, according to fed- eral scientists — researchers are looking back to 2015 and 2016, when a Pacific heat wave combined with a strong El Niño threw some of the West Coast’s most im- portant commercial fishing fleets into turmoil. They say we could be looking at a repeat. Or worse. “I think we’re likely to break global temperature records with this next El Niño,” said Malin Pinsky,
LEFT OUT TO DRY
financially straining family operations that may end up losing land to industrial growers
Last year, Rosie Lee’s 19-acre farm was filled with crops including corn, beans, squash, tomatoes, melons, onions and bok choy — so much that she and her hus- band had plenty to sell at a farmers mar- ket. Now, she is leaving half her land dry and unplanted. She’s uncertain how much water she can afford to pump from her well this year because the local groundwater agency has imposed pump- ing restrictions and fees, which could end up costing thousands of dollars. “It’s preventing me from growing what I used to grow,” Lee said as she stood be- side a bare-dirt field. “We’re afraid that we do not make enough to pay for the wa- ter.” While California’s landmark ground- water conservation law was designed to rein in massive agricultural overpump- ing, Lee and other small-scale growers say its implementation is doing the oppo- site — penalizing small farms while favor- ing industrial agribusinesses.
By Kevin Baxter
Heading into the final weekend of this summer’s World Cup, the Guardian reported that support for FIFA president Gianni Infantino had climbed to record levels. More than 200 of FIFA’s 211 member asso- ciations formally endorsed Infantino’s bid for a fourth term as head of world soc- cer’s governing body, the pa- per reported, making next March’s vote more of a coro- nation than an election. Two weeks later, that support disappeared. Not only is Infantino’s reelection campaign in tatters, but there’s a chance he won’t
By Ian James | reporting from merced, calif.
survive until the spring, with British Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Javier Tebas, president of Spain’s soccer association, calling for his resignation and close confi- dants such as Carlos Cordeiro, the former presi- dent of U.S. Soccer, and Kev- in Lamour, FIFA’s chief op- erating officer, publicly breaking with their boss. That was Friday. On Sat- urday, the pressure on In- fantino increased with the Union of European Football Assns. (UEFA), the govern- ing body for soccer in Europe and the most influential of FIFA’s six continental con- federations, and CONCA- CAF, the largest of two con- federations overseeing the
According to a new report, rigid fee structures and complex regulations threaten to harm California’s smallest growers, driving land consolidation in fa- vor of deep-pocketed corporate orchards. The report by the University of Califor- nia Small Farms Network and the non- profit group Community Alliance with Family Farmers warns that without im- mediate action by state and local agen- cies, many family farms could be forced out of business. In many areas of the San Joaquin Val- ley, water agencies have adopted flat fees, so the largest landowners are paying the same per-volume rate as the smallest ones. However, small growers often have shallower wells that are more vulnerable to going dry when water levels drop. Pumping restrictions can also be more difficult for a grower with 20 acres than for a big business operating on thousands of acres.
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[See Groundwater, A9]
sport in the Americas, both issuing statements saying they have lost confidence with FIFA leadership, leav- ing Infantino’s future very much in doubt. “No option should be off the table” to address that, UEFA said, while CONCA- CAF declared that “a com- prehensive reckoning with this presidency is impera- tive.” At the center of that dramatic reversal in Infanti- no’s future was a closely guarded scheme the FIFA president had to raise $4.2 billion by selling a 20% stake in the World Cup to private investors, who would be giv- en influence in planning and
[See Infantino, A4]
professor of ecology and evo- lutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz. “So it’s very con- cerning and it is likely to have very big impacts on marine fisheries.” As ocean waters warm, plants and animals respond. Some die. Some don’t repro- duce. Some move north. Others go to deeper water. Then there are those that get sick or become suscep- tible to pathogens fueled by the increasing tempera- tures. Marine species are shift- ing their ranges five to 10 times faster than land species in response to global
of discontent poses obstacle to reelection
homelessness and staff turnover create new campaign challenges.
By Noah Goldberg
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was riding rela- tively high two months ago, weathering pitched chal- lenges from Spencer Pratt on the right and Nithya Ra- man on the left to emerge as the top vote-getter in the city’s June 2 mayoral pri- mary. “Tomorrow begins the second half of this journey,” an ebullient Bass told sup- porters at the Line Hotel in Koreatown on election night. There’s been a lot less to cheer about lately. Bass’ summer has been beset by a string of negative news. Staff members on both her campaign and ad- ministration teams have left. She was away from the city — just as she was at the
mogul faces probe
Covina exec who rode an immigration wave to create an empire.
By Richard Winton and Hannah Fry
James Su is far from a household name in South- ern California, but in parts of the San Gabriel Valley, he was a true media mogul. He founded EDI Media in the early 1990s, riding a wave of Asian immigration to cre- ate one of the largest Chi- nese media platforms in the U.S. with radio programs, a magazine and a digital news site. The company says the empire broadcasts more than 2,000 hours of pro- gramming annually, reach- ing more than 35 million peo- ple worldwide.
AWED BY HIS ‘AURA’
Myles Garrett, the Rams’ new defensive star, impresses his teammates with his energy as training camp gets underway. SPORTS, D1
SpaceX rocket to crash into moon Discarded spacecraft is on a collision course after launching a pair of lunar landers last year. PERSPECTIVES, A2
Mayor tops rival in fundraising
Bass received $510,000 in contributions in June while Raman raised $170,000. CALIFORNIA, B1
start of the devastating 2025 firestorms — when a blaze ignited at the Lineage cold- storage food warehouse in Boyle Heights, inundating the heavily Latino surround- ing neighborhoods with nox- ious fumes. And that was all before the release of a new report showing that homelessness in the city rose for the first time in three years, under- cutting a pillar of Bass’ fall runoff campaign against Ra- man. “In terms of policy, poli- tics and operations, I don’t know if there has been a sin- gle piece of good news that has come out of her camp since the primary,” said Dan Schnur, a professor of politi- cal communications at USC,
[See Bass, A10]
Su’s bio on the EDI Media website boasts that in 2012 then-state Assemblyman Curt Hagman put forth a resolution giving Su his own day in California. However, The Times was not able to confirm legislation by any author relating to the decla- ration of a James Su Day during Hagman’s terms in the Assembly. Now, both Hagman and Su have been served search warrants as part of a widen- ing FBI investigation into foreign influence in local pol- itics. Agents last week raided Hagman and Su’s offices and homes, along with other locations in the Inland Em- pire and Beverly Hills. While authorities have declined to comment on the case, it comes amid a federal probe into the ways the Chinese government has made in-
[See Su, A8]
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begins the presidential balloting turns into an unnecessary conflict.
ome 2028, the Democratic presi- dential campaign promises to be a banger, with all sorts of intrigue and sub- plots layered within a wide- open fight for the nomina- tion. There’s the prospect of same-state rivals going at it. (California’s Gavin Newsom vs. Kamala Harris; Geor- gia’s Sen. Jon Ossoff vs. Sen. Raphael Warnock.) There’s sure to be a generational divide, a split over how much time and energy Democrats should spend rehashing the Trump era, and, inevitably, a clash between standard-bearers of the left, the far left and the party’s increasingly small center-left. All that remains in the offing, however, as none of the major prospects have formally declared their candidacies. Political tradi- tion, and self-preservation, require waiting at least until after November’s midterm election to jump into the race. In the meantime, Demo- crats have seemingly re- solved at least one 2028 fight, a fracas marked by snarking, backbiting and plenty of acrimony — all the things that make our poli- tics such a grand and glori- ous endeavor. We speak of the contest to determine which state will hold the first vote of the 2028 nominating process. And the winner is … South Carolina! This was a blow to Ne- vada, the runner-up in the calendar sweepstakes, and not a very sporting one at that. The state Democratic Party issued a huffy news release, insisting Nevada will be the candidates’ first true test of 2028 — emphasis added — reprising the argu- ment over which state offers the best starting path to reclaim the White House and, thus, deserves the coveted lead voting slot. (California, a perennially frustrated onlooker, is not set to vote until March 7, several weeks into the bal- loting, which is supposed to start Jan. 22.) For decades, the political calendar was unchanged and, mostly, unchallenged. Iowa went first, holding its quaint and quirky
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MIKE SCHMIDT votes in the South Carolina Republican primary in 2024.
precinct caucuses — neigh- bors gathered in church halls, school libraries and the like as they worked through arcane rules involv- ing “realignment” and “via- bility thresholds” — fol- lowed by New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary. In 2024, President Biden shook things up. He’d failed miserably in Iowa in his runs for presi- dent, so Biden had no prob- lem slotting South Carolina first after the state resurrected his lifeless 2020 candidacy. (Iowa didn’t help
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itself by making a thorough mess of its 2020 caucuses, taking nearly a month to certify a winner.) The change set off a free-for-all this time around, as a dozen states bid for the chance to vote first. (The two major political parties set the rules for choosing their presidential nominees, independent of one another. Republicans are expected to stick to the traditional lineup, starting with the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, followed by contests in
ada, and much of South America should have the best views. While scientists are not too concerned about this particular piece of space junk, it highlights the grow- ing threat as more and more items cram into orbit. “Things are getting crowded up there,” said Gray, who plans to view the aftermath from New Bruns- wick, Canada. It was never SpaceX’s in- tent to hit the moon. But space experts said the crash could have been avoided if the upper stage had been nudged into orbit around the sun. It will be the second dead rocket known to crash into the moon accidentally. A Chinese rocket segment dug out a pair of craters on the lunar far side in 2022. Luckily for scientists, the upcoming smashup will occur on the moon’s near side, packing the equivalent energy of three tons of TNT. The impact flash, lasting
By Michelle Gumede
JOHANNESBURG — Oprah Winfrey says she will close the school for under- privileged girls she set up in South Africa two decades ago at the end of next year. Winfrey opened the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in 2007 af- ter being inspired by conver- sations with former South African President Nelson Mandela about the transfor- mative power of educating girls. He was among the guests at the school’s open- ing ceremony. Winfrey’s charitable foundation ran and funded the school, but it was always part of the agreement that the academy campus near Johannesburg be ultimately handed over to the provin- cial education department, the academy said. “The dream was never simply to build a school,” Winfrey said in a statement issued by the academy on Wednesday. “It was to invest
Andrew Harnik Associated Press
Nevada and South Car- olina.) Last month, after nearly a year of consideration, the Democratic Party’s Rules and Bylaws Committee voted for six states to hold their contests in a window between late January and the end of February. They are, in order, South Car- olina, Nevada, New Hamp- shire, New Mexico, Michi- gan and Virginia. The lineup will be presented to the full Democratic National Com- mittee to be voted on and finalized later this month.
less than a second, will prob- ably be too dim to see, ac- cording to experts. But the stream of ejected material could stretch for several miles into space and remain visible to telescopes for tens of minutes. “The gravity on the moon is low and there is no wind to blow the dust away,” said Los Alamos National Labo- ratory’s Benjamin Fer- nando, who’s encouraging observations by profession- als and amateurs alike. “Part of the reason for our interest in this event is to figure out how much of a hazard debris impacts pose to future astronauts,” he added in an email. Fernando anticipates an impact crater nearly 90 feet across and 16 feet deep, too small to see from Earth but visible to spacecraft. NASA’s Lunar Recon- naissance Orbiter and South Korea’s Danuri lunar orbiter will gather before- and-after shots of the crash scene. Danuri will stray within a mile or two of the
OPRAH Winfrey speaks at the Leadership Academy for Girls in 2012 on the eve of the first graduation.
in the limitless potential of young women. That mission doesn’t end with one cam- pus. It continues in every girl whose future can be trans- formed through education.” The academy said Win- frey’s commitment to edu- cating South African girls would continue through an expanded national schol- arship program supporting
Doubtless, you — a nor- mal person — have paid little or no attention to any of this. You’ve got more important things to do, like binge-watching “Widow’s Bay,” or not melting. But party leaders and political insiders take the process extremely seriously. At stake: bragging rights, a modest economic boost and the chance for local analysts and office-holders to make frequent guest appearances on the cable-TV chat shows. The jostling grew par- ticularly fierce between South Carolina and Nevada. More than 50% of the Democratic primary elec- torate in South Carolina is Black. In Nevada, Latinos are a substantial and in- creasingly powerful voting bloc. So, naturally, the com- petition between the two states assumed fraught racial overtones, which is unfortunate but not surpris- ing, given Democrats’ pen- chant for picking at sore spots and turning on each other at the slightest provo- cation. It was also rather point- less. The order of the presi- dential calendar is conse- quential, but far from deter- minative. South Carolina was vital to Biden’s success. But so, too, was the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which sharply curtailed the Demo- cratic nominating fight. Barack Obama’s 2008 vic- tory in Iowa gave him a huge lift, but he lost to Hillary
SpaceX rocket just two min- utes before impact, accord- ing to Fernando and his team. The abandoned rocket segment — measuring some 40 feet and weighing around 10,000 pounds — hoisted two private lunar landers on Jan. 15, 2025. One of them — Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost — became the first private spacecraft to pull off a fully successful lunar touchdown. The other, Japan-based is- pace’s lander, wrecked. With meteoroids and other natural objects offer- ing little if any warning be- fore walloping the moon, sci- entists said there’s much to learn by observing well- tracked strikes by human- made objects like the one coming up. NASA hurled rocket sec- tions and lunar modules into the moon during the Apollo era for seismic measure- ments. Decades later, in 2009, NASA intentionally crashed its LCROSS space- craft and upper stage in
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academically talented girls at leading schools across the country. More than 500 girls have graduated from the acade- my and some have attended top universities in South Af- rica, the United States and Europe, according to the Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation. The Gauteng provincial
Clinton the following week in New Hampshire and had to fight another six months before winning the nomination. Presidential campaigns have changed drastically in the 50 years since a little- known Jimmy Carter qui- etly burrowed into Iowa, spent months bunking in folks’ extra bedrooms, then burst to national fame by outperforming his more prominent rivals. Today, the race is a 24/7 affair, followed by voters in all 50 states. While local concerns may come up here and there — the proposed Yucca Moun- tain nuclear waste dump in Nevada, beach erosion in South Carolina’s Lowcoun- try — the same issues and controversies confront candidates and animate the contest regardless of whether a field of soybeans, a white church steeple or a Southern fish fry serves as the backdrop. Obviously, the voting has to begin somewhere and the competition between states is well and good. But the trash-talking and, espe- cially, antagonism over race and ethnicity is gratuitous and needlessly divisive. Candidates will show they have the stuff to win the nomination, or not, by building their best case and pitching it to voters. No matter if it’s a Black church in Las Vegas or a Latino neighborhood in North Charleston. Any location will do.
search of ice near the lunar south pole. With the moon seen as a new travel destination, sci- entists said it’s crucial to im- prove debris monitoring and traffic control before packs of robots and astronauts ar- rive. The United States and China are racing to land as- tronauts on the moon in the next few years. Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin are vying to provide the lander for NASA’s yet-to- be-named moonwalkers of Artemis IV, who will succeed the 12 Apollo astronauts who strolled the lunar sur- face. “This impact will not be a problem,” retired astro- physicist Jonathan McDow- ell said in an email. “But in a future where there are long- term bases on the moon, similar impacts would be an issue and we need not to leave rocket stages in chaot- ic orbits of this kind.”
Dunn writes for the Associated Press.
government will take over the 52-acre academy cam- pus, which has 21 class- rooms, six science and com- puter laboratories, a 10,000- volume library and a 600- seat theater. It did not im- mediately say what the plans for the property were. Gauteng Provincial Min- ister for Education Lebo- gang Maile said those cur- rently enrolled in the school will be able to complete their education with uninter- rupted financial support. The academy drew inter- national attention shortly after opening in 2007 when several students accused a dormitory matron of phys- ically and sexually abusing them. Winfrey traveled to South Africa to meet with students and parents, publicly apolo- gized, and commissioned an independent investigation. The matron was acquit- ted of criminal charges in 2010.
Gumede writes for the Associated Press.
continue, they fear its forces won’t withdraw from their territory.
By Toqa Ezzidin
CAIRO — For Palestin- ians in Gaza, Hamas’ an- nouncement that it had agreed to disarm was a small sign of hope that Israel’s at- tacks might end, allowing them to rebuild their lives and what remains of their homes. But it also clashed with the reality on the ground, as Israeli strikes have contin- ued since President Trump touted the Hamas deal late Thursday in Washington, and where few steps have been taken to advance a broader ceasefire agree- ment that went into effect in October. Most of Gaza’s 2 million Palestinians are still dis- placed, many living in tent camps, where poor condi- tions and overcrowding have led to rodent infestations and outbreaks of infectious diseases such as chicken- pox. “They can talk about withdrawal and disarma- ment,” said Abdel Moneim Aboul-Roos, 24, a tuk-tuk rickshaw driver who lost his leg in an Israeli airstrike. “I don’t care about any of it as long as there is no food or medicine.” Israel and Hamas signed a U.S.-backed ceasefire plan last year that ended major combat operations, saw the return of Israeli hostages and allowed for an increase in humanitarian aid to the Palestinian enclave. It also called for the grad- ual withdrawal of Israeli troops, the creation of an in- ternational stabilization force and a program to de- commission weapons held by Hamas.
suffer attacks; U.S. tells Americans to be ready to flee Mideast.
By Samy Magdy and Aamer Madhani
CAIRO — President Trump threatened more strikes on Iran as the United States presses for the re- opening of the Strait of Hor- muz. Hours later on Saturday, Kuwait said it responded to anew round of drone attacks from Iran while a tanker was struck in the strategic waterway. Meanwhile, Israel carried out heavy strikes on the Gaza Strip after the Pal- estinian militant group Hamas agreed to disarm under a U.S.-brokered peace plan. Speaking to reporters Friday during a meeting with members of his Cabinet at the Camp David presi- dential retreat in Maryland, Trump said that “we just want to win” in Iran and sig- naled that he expected U.S. military action to continue for some time. He said the U.S. will hit Iran “very hard” until they can’t take it anymore. Later that day, White House Press Secretary Kar- oline Leavitt expressed the U.S. administration’s frus- tration anew, charging that Tehran in June signed a memorandum of under- standing with the U.S. on a truce but then quickly “broke it, shot at commer- cial ships, and killed Ameri- can soldiers.” “President Trump is not going to stand by and allow this terrorist behavior to oc- cur,” Leavitt said in a state- ment Friday evening. “Iran will continue to pay until they come to the table in, what President Trump deems, a meaningful way.” On Saturday, the U.S. State Department issued new security alerts for Americans in 10 countries in the region to exercise heightened caution due to the escalating tensions in the war with Iran. The warnings — covering Bahrain, Israel, Iraq, Jor- dan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia
A WOMAN inspects an Israeli airstrike scene Saturday near Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al Balah in Gaza Strip.
But as each side accused the other of violating the ceasefire, negotiations stalled. Hamas held onto its weapons and the Israeli mili- tary refused to withdraw. Since October, Israel has killed more than 1,200 Pal- estinians in Gaza and ex- panded the amount of terri- tory it controls. Five Israeli soldiers have also been killed in militant attacks.
A distrust of Israel and Hamas The road map Trump an- nounced — and that Hamas confirmed — addresses in more specific terms the type of weapons the militant group and its allies will be re- quired to hand over to a new technocratic government.
HAMAS leader Khalil al-Hayya, center on banner with two late leaders, in Tehran’s Palestine Square.
and United Arab Emirates — urged U.S. citizens to pre- pare for the possibility of flight cancellations, tempo- rary airspace closures and other travel disruptions.
Attacks on Kuwait Kuwait’s military said Saturday that its forces were responding to drone at- tacks, which were part of Iran’s assaults on the coun- try. In a statement, Maj. Gen. Saud Abdulaziz Al-Otaibi, spokesman for Kuwait’s De- fense Ministry, said the drones hit “a number of vital facilities,” including a gov- ernment structure in the country’s north. He said there were no casualties. The British navy said Saturday that a tanker was struck and a separate explo- sion hit close to a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Oman. No casu- alties were reported in either incident, it said. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Organiza- tion said an unknown pro- jectile hit the vessel on Fri- day 11 nautical miles north- east of Lima, Oman. The at- tack damaged the vessel’s engine room. The group said that on Saturday a large splash and an explosion were reported close to another tanker while it was sailing 21 nauti- cal miles northwest of Khasab city. Separately, crude oil ap- peared to be leaking and spreading in recent days from a sanctioned tanker grounded off the coast of Oman, close to a marine pro-
The document says that Is- rael will not be involved in the decommissioning of Hamas’ weapons and that it should halt all military oper- ations in Gaza so the transi- tion can proceed and recov- ery can begin. But residents in Gaza say they have been repeatedly promised that the war will stop and their lives will im- prove. They see the road map as a positive devel- opment but remain skepti- cal that either Israel or Hamas will adhere to the terms. “This is enough. We need improvement in our lives,” said Ayman Ahmed, a dis- placed Palestinian living in southern Gaza. He said he hopes Hamas gives up its arms but does not see it hap- pening anytime soon.
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tected area, satellite images reviewed by the Associated Press show. Iran has repeatedly at- tacked vessels attempting to transit through the Strait of Hormuz without its authori- zation as part of its ongoing conflict with the U.S.
Israel strikes Gaza Intense Israeli strikes Friday night and Saturday killed at least four people in central and northern Gaza and wounded dozens more, according to local health of- ficials. The strikes overnight in Gaza followed evacuation warnings by Israel’s military, which said Saturday that it had struck Hamas targets across the territory and dis- mantled five Hamas storage facilities. The strikes came after Hamas confirmed Friday that it would agree to disarm in a potential breakthrough for ending the war in Gaza, though major obstacles re- main. Israel has not officially commented on the Hamas deal, which is part of a U.S.- brokered ceasefire an- nounced in October. That agreement called for Hamas to disarm and hand over power to an inde- pendent Palestinian admin- istration. Israel was to with- draw and an International Stabilization Force was to be deployed. In a post on X on Friday, Israeli far-right lawmaker Itamar Ben-Gvir called the deal “unacceptable” and said the killings in Gaza must continue. “Israel must
“They don’t care about Palestinians’ lives,” he said. The war began when Hamas-led militants at- tacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people and taking 251 others back to Gaza as hos- tages. Israel’s retaliatory of- fensive has killed more than 73,300 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which was part of the Hamas-run government. The ministry maintains detailed records viewed as generally reliable by United Nations agencies and inter- national organizations. It does not distinguish be- tween civilians and mili- tants, but says women and children make up around half of all fatalities. Because of the high death toll and ongoing at-
win,” he said. Egypt, a key Gaza cease- fire mediator, lauded Hamas and other Palestinian groups for “their positive re- sponse” in the phased peace plan, Egyptian state-run media reported.
In the region 8 Houthi rebels forced eight Saudi ships to reroute from the Bab el-Mandeb Strait after the Iranian- backed rebels announced a blockade on Saudi shipping in the choke point. Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, the mili- tary spokesman for the Houthis, said in a statement Friday that the vessels changed route to the Cape of Good Hope around Africa to avert the blockade. 8 In southern Lebanon, Israeli forces set off explo- sions Friday to destroy an underground tunnel net- work under the Crusades- era Beaufort Castle that Is- rael says had been used by Iran-backed Hezbollah mili- tants as a command center. The 12th century castle, also known as Al-Shaqif, was seized by Israeli forces in May. It was recently added to UNESCO’s World Herit- age List over Israel’s objec- tions. 8 Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun said the Israeli operation sent “negative messages” ahead of upcom- ing talks in Rome. Israeli and Lebanese negotiating teams are set to meet again there to continue working out a plan under which Isra- el would withdraw from southern Lebanon in ex- change for Hezbollah’s dis- armament. 8 An Israeli army officer was moderately wounded during operational activity in southern Lebanon overnight into Saturday, Is- rael’s military said. It was not immediately clear how the officer was wounded. There was no immediate comment from Lebanese authorities or Hezbollah. Thirty-eight Israeli soldiers have been killed in Lebanon or northern Israel since that conflict reignited when Hezbollah fired at Israel shortly after the start of the Iran war.
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tacks, other Palestinians say they believe Israel will refuse to make concessions. In southern Gaza, Ghazal Astal lives among the rubble. She said there is near-constant Israeli gun- fire and the territory has been transformed into an “indescribable battlefield.” Ammar Kaskeen, 30, said he doesn’t believe the road map will force Israeli troops to withdraw. For Israel, ac- cording to Kaskeen, the goal is not only to disarm Hamas but to also drive the Pal- estinian population out of Gaza. “They will make us suffer,” he said.
Palestinians dream of returning home
Israel has not com- mented publicly on the road
RESCUERS stand with Ayaz Ahmed Shigri, center, of the Alpine Club of Pakistan, before the search.
Alpine Club of Pakistan
Pakistan avalanche
By Munir Ahmed and Riaz Khan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Famed British Nepali climber Nirmal Purja and all nine other climbers swept away by an avalanche in Pakistan have died, and search teams were trying to recover their bodies, Purja’s expedition company said Saturday. “The world has lost one of mountaineering’s greatest climbers,” the company, Elite Exped, said in a state- ment. It stressed that it mourned all the lives lost, adding: “No words can ease the pain of this unimagin- able loss.” The 10-member expedi- tion was swept away by an avalanche Thursday on Pa- kistan’s Broad Peak. Rescu- ers found four bodies and re- covered three of them Friday in harsh weather that ham- pered flights by search and rescue helicopters. Rescuers backed by military helicop- ters had resumed a search earlier Saturday for the oth- ers. “The loss of these coura- geous climbers, who came from different nations united by their passion for the mountains, is an immea- surable loss to the global mountaineering fraternity,” said Irfan Arshad Khan, the president of the Alpine Club of Pakistan. He paid tribute to the military and civilian rescu- ers and sherpas who took part in the search mission. “The mountains inspire us with their beauty, but they also remind us of the immense risks faced by those who venture into the high Himalaya and Karako-
map, but Israeli officials, speaking anonymously over recent days, have signaled that the document does not align with the country’s in- terests. The officials also re- iterated that Israel would not withdraw from the Yel- low Line in Gaza, which divides Israeli-controlled territory in the east with the western part of the en- clave. In recent months, the military has built a massive earthen barrier roughly along the same line, devel- oping what it described as a “security zone” adjacent to the berm, equipped with in- telligence and technological assets. Israel has also carried out controlled demolitions and clearing operations across much of the territory it con- trols. Palestinians who lived there have yet to return — and are unsure whether their homes are still stand- ing. Anas Nakla was dis- placed from Rafah in south- ern Gaza during the war. He said he knows his house has been destroyed but still wants to return home with his wife and children. “It doesn’t exist any- more,” he said. “But we can return and rebuild.” Similarly, Mohamed Hamad, who had to leave his home behind in northern Gaza, hopes that the U.S.- backed road map will pressure Israel to leave some of the areas it controls. He believes that even if only a small number of peo- ple could go back to their homes, “it will give hope to the rest that some day they may also return.”
Ezzidin writes for the Associated Press. AP writers Melanie Lidman and Sam Mednick in Tel Aviv contributed to this report.
ram,” he said. Earlier Saturday, a local police official, Tahir Khan, said the remains of Omani climber Nathira Ahmed were being flown to the capi- tal, Islamabad, while the bodies of American climber Mallory Geis and Nepalese climber Bahadur Gurung remained at a hospital in Skardu, the main city in Pa- kistan’s northern Gilgit-Bal- tistan region. The team lost contact with their base camp Thurs- day after the avalanche struck Broad Peak as they attempted to scale the mountain. According to the Alpine Club, the expedition in- cluded five Nepalese climb- ers, the Omani and Ameri- can climbers, Pakistani climber Sohail Sakhi, a Chi- nese climber identified only as Wang and another foreign climber whose identity has not been released. The expedition was led by Purja, the Nepal-born for- mer British army soldier widely known as Nims Dai. He climbed the world’s 14 highest peaks in a record 189 days in 2019, an achievement featured in the Netflix docu- mentary “14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible.” His record was broken in 2023. Purja’s reputation has been tarnished in recent years, as multiple women in his climbing groups have ac- cused him of sexual assault and harassment, according to reporting by the New York Times. Purja denied the alle- gations.
executing future events, in- cluding broadcasting and commercial deals tied to the tournament. In short, Infantino was planning, in secret, to sell shares in the World Cup. And once details began leak- ing in the media, he was forced Friday to scrap the whole thing, an embarrass- ing retreat that has left him vulnerable just two weeks af- ter he had seemingly reached the heights of his third term as FIFA presi- dent. Infantino’s idea, called the FIFA Forward Enter- prise, was intended to turn the World Cup, FIFA’s milk cow, into a golden calf. But to do so, he needed the approv- al of at least 106 of FIFA’s 211 member countries, so he promised countries that backed him that they would receive $20 million each by mid-September. Those who declined would get just a fraction of that. Infantino was certain the piles of cash would buy the acquiescence — or at least the silence — of enough members for the plan to go through. Instead, the bribe blew up in his face and FIFA issued a statement late Fri- day, under Infantino’s name, that basically said “never mind.” “The FIFA Forward En- terprise project was in- tended to provide a basis for further strengthening our FIFA Member Associations and our sport worldwide, es- pecially in those countries where support is most needed,” Infantino’s state- ment read. “And more so, as we said from the outset, to do this only if a majority of the FIFA Member Associa- tions were in support and al- ways subject to a consulta- tion process with them, the FIFA Council, the Confed- erations and wider stake- holders. “Having listened care- fully to all the views, it has become clear that the proj- ect has created divisions of a nature that, regardless of the level of support, are no longer in the interest of the objective set out in the first place,” the statement con- tinued. “Our purpose has al- ways been — and will always be — to unite and improve. As a result, this proposal will not proceed.” The question now be- comes whether Infantino’s presidency will proceed. He wouldn’t be the first FIFA president to be griev- ously wounded by
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GIANNI INFANTINO at a news conference the day before the World Cup began.
unchecked ambition, but the speed and depth of his fall is staggering. The 2026 World Cup was, by nearly ev- ery measure, wildly successful. The largest and most complex World Cup in history exceeded expecta- tions, drawing more than 6.8 million live fans and a global TV audience of more than 6 billion. The four-year World Cup cycle brought FIFA rev- enues of about $15 billion, making it the first sporting event in history to earn more than $10 billion. Infantino has never been shy about pushing bounda- ries despite heading a Swiss- based organization that, its wealth notwithstanding, is officially a nonprofit. Nor was this the first time he tried to bring private equity into the World Cup: In 2018, two years into his first term as FIFA president, he con- sidered a plan to raise $25 billion to fund tournaments, only to cave in the face of massive opposition. He didn’t give up the idea of squeezing more money out of the World Cup, though. This summer, he intro- duced three-minute hydra- tion breaks in the middle of each half — ostensibly a nod to the heat and humidity, but in reality a ruse that al- lowed broadcasters to gen- erate millions in additional revenue through TV com- mercials. FIFA also staged a halftime show for the first time ever during the final, sold VIP tickets priced at
more than $1 million each and introduced dynamic pricing for the tournament’s 104 games, driving prices for some seats to four times what fans paid four years ago in Qatar. That pushed the tourna- ment beyond the reach of many of the sport’s most loy- al supporters — and soccer, more than any other sport, belongs to the fans. It’s why teams are called clubs and fans are called supporters. The World Cup, then, wasn’t Infantino’s to sell. So the pushback to his latest idea was immediate and un- sparing. “Football does not belong to investors,” Burnham said in an Instagram post. “Once you have sold a piece, you have sold out. Football be- longs to the fans. It always has, and it always will.” What really angered stakeholders, however, was Infantino’s brazen move to develop the FFE in secret, only to have its details leak through media reports. Bernd Neuendorf, presi- dent of the German soccer association and a member of the FIFA Council, the group’s most influential body, said he first learned of the FFE by reading about it. “I was very surprised, and also annoyed, that we had to find out about something like this from the press,” he told a German news outlet last week. Another self-inflicted wound was Infantino’s deci- sion to launch the project
belong to investors. Once you have sold a piece, you have sold out. Football belongs to the fans. It always has, and it always will.’
By Thomas Adamson and Nicolas Garriga
LE PORGE, France — Europe’s wildfire emergency eased across much of West- ern Europe on Saturday, but its most dangerous front shifted to Greece, where gale-force winds drove flames through a seaside re- sort, forced hundreds to flee by sea and hampered fire- fighting aircraft. For Greece, the danger carried grim resonance: A 2018 wildfire at the seaside community of Mati, near Athens, killed 104 people, Europe’s deadliest wildfire this century. In southwestern France, firefighters held a vast wild- fire within its perimeter, with about 198,000 people now allowed to return home after what may have been the country’s largest peace- time evacuation. Major fires in Spain were also no longer advancing, and Portugal’s main blaze was under control. A second French fire stopped expanding overnight after racing across 4 square miles in six hours Friday — “faster than a horse at full gallop,” accord- ing to the prefecture. But it remained active Saturday, and 2,500 people were still unable to return home. The gains in Western Eu- rope marked a sharp turn from the height of the crisis, when fires in France and Spain alone drove a third of a million people from homes and vacation sites, emptied towns during the summer holiday season and stretched firefighters, air- craft and emergency serv- ices across simultaneous emergencies. Europe is Earth’s fastest- warming continent, heating at more than twice the glob- al average since the 1980s, ac- cording to the European Union’s Copernicus climate
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— Andy Burnham, British prime minister
with Thrive Eternal, a ven- ture capital firm founded by Joshua Kushner, the 41-year- old brother of Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and a kind of all-purpose White House advisor and negotia- tor. Thrive Eternal focuses on long-term investments in scarce cultural institutions that technology cannot re- place, but it has little rele- vant experience in manag- ing something as large and complicated as a World Cup. Moreover, the partner- ship would draw Infantino further into the orbit of Trump, whom the FIFA president has openly courted for years. Infantino, who has been a frequent vis- itor to the Oval Office and Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, attended the president’s inauguration and accompanied him on
A HOME burned in a wildfire in Le Porge, one of the hardest-hit communities in southwestern France.
service. Rising tempera- tures and prolonged drought leave vegetation drier and more combustible, allowing fires to spread fast- er and burn more intensely.
Winds drive fires in Greece In Greece, nearly 500 fire- fighters worked Saturday to protect Porto Germeno, a popular resort on the Gulf of Corinth, as flames tore through thick pine forest and smoke blocked out the sun. The fire broke out Friday near the neighboring coastal village of Agios Vasileios. About 300 people were evac- uated by sea, and author- ities issued further evacua- tion orders Saturday. “A pristine forest, a para- dise, was surrendered to the hands of the fire,” said Minas Tzortzanis, a 60-year-old farmer and resident. “There are no words to explain what has happened. Destruction. Total destruction.” Theodore Giannaros, a wildfire meteorologist at the National Observatory of Athens, estimated that 15 to 20 square miles had been af- fected. Authorities had not issued an official burned- area figure. The operation also in- cluded specialized forest fire teams, crews temporari- ly deployed from France
visits around the world. Trump’s relationship to Infantino was questioned when Infantino presented him with the first FIFA Peace Prize last December, then became even more con- troversial when Trump phoned Infantino three times to lobby to have the red card suspension of U.S. forward Folarin Balogun overturned ahead of a World Cup elimination game last month. FIFA eventually cleared Balogun to play, marking just the second time in tour- nament history a red card ban has been lifted. For some, Infantino’s decision to partner with someone close to Trump on his latest ven- ture was a bridge too far. “It’s a really bad look for Infantino given the concerns about political interference that were already there after Balogun,” said Steven A. Bank, a professor of busi- ness law at UCLA who has written and lectured on the economics of soccer. “Espe- cially with the fund led by Jared Kushner’s brother.” Once details of Infanti- no’s secret plan began to leak, leaders of UEFA, with 55 members the largest FIFA confederation, held an emergency meeting, during which it voted to boycott all FIFA competitions. “Some things are simply too important to sell. The FIFA World Cup belongs to football. It always will,” UEFA said in a statement. CONCACAF, which over- sees soccer in North Ameri- ca, Central America and the Caribbean, said its 41 coun- tries also rejected the plan, an opinion the U.S. Soccer Federation backed in a sparse post on X. “U.S. Soccer stands with CONCACAF and its mem- bers,” it wrote. The Asian Football Con- federation joined in, saying in a statement its 47 mem- bers stand “in solidarity with UEFA and CONCACAF in expressing serious concerns over FIFA’s proposal to in- troduce private investment into FIFA’s flagship compe- titions.” When it became obvious Infantino would not get the votes he needed to go for- ward, he pulled the plug on his plan. But it may not have been so much that the idea was bad as it was the execu- tion. Soccer is awash with pri- vate investors. The biggest clubs are owned by billion- aires or sovereign wealth funds, and many leagues —
Nicolas Garriga Associated Press
and Romania, 19 water- dropping planes and 11 heli- copters. New fires erupted else- where in Greece. A blaze east of Nafpaktos prompted evacuation alerts for at least four villages. “The very strong to gale- force winds continue to cre- ate exceptionally difficult conditions,” Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Min- ister Evangelos Tournas said. Extreme turbulence was preventing some aircraft from collecting water or ap- proaching the fires closely enough to make drops, he said. The Gironde fire has burned 162 square miles of pine forest west of Bor- deaux, an area four times the size of Paris. It remained contained within its perimeter Sat- urday but had not been de- clared “fixed” — the point at which crews determine that a fire is no longer advancing. Active sectors and buried hot spots persisted. Authorities reopened more communities Friday, but several remained largely deserted Saturday. Much of the forested Cap Ferret peninsula stayed evacuated because a nearby hot spot could flare again, cut its lim- ited road access and trap re- turning residents. “Today, the fire is still not
including Spain’s La Liga, which Tebas oversees — have sold commercial stakes to private equity firms in much the same way FIFA proposed. Alan Rothenberg, a for- mer U.S. Soccer president and the driving force behind the 1994 men’s World Cup and 1999 women’s World Cup, among the most suc- cessful tournaments in his- tory, said the idea of selling a private equity stake in the World Cup isn’t a bad idea. But the way Infantino tried to implement his plan led it to failure. “What is proposed is not that revolutionary,” Rothen- berg said. “There have been private equity investors in MLS, in one of the subsidi- aries of the NFL, in F1, and I’m sure in other sports that I haven’t paid much atten- tion to. “But I think the combina- tion of everything has doomed it. It does raise the possibility that Infantino, he’s finally become Icarus and gotten too close to the sun. It actually may doom him politically.” Others, including Cordeiro, a former vice chairman at Goldman Sachs, questioned the need to bring in outside investors. “FIFA already has access to extraordinary financial resources. The organization sits on billions of dollars in reserves and no debt,” Cordeiro pointed out in his resignation letter. “If mem- ber associations believe ad- ditional investment is needed to develop the game, FIFA already has the finan- cial capacity to provide that support from its existing re- sources.” Infantino has flouted consensus before without significant consequence, cozying up to autocrats while overseeing the 2018 World Cup in Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the 2022 tournament in Qatar before being accused of awarding the 2034 tournament to Saudi Arabia in a rigged vote. This time, however, the stakeholders within FIFA were pushed too far by In- fantino’s penchant for wield- ing unilateral power, so they pushed back and the presi- dent blinked. Hours before he backed down, an ally of Infantino’s told the Finan- cial Times that he would not bend, seeing the standoff as “a fight to the death.” Infantino’s presidency might not be dead, but it is surely in critical condition.
fixed. It is contained,” Lt. Col. Eric Pitault told report- ers. Crews used tactical burns overnight. Along 150 miles of fire edge, heat could remain hidden underground and erupt again.
Residents return to ruins
For residents returning to the Gironde fire zone, the easing emergency brought a first reckoning with what had been lost. In Le Porge, one of the communities hardest hit, Matthieu Plessis returned Saturday to the ruins of a home that had been in his family for seven generations. Just over a week earlier, smoke had turned the after- noon almost to night as flames raced along both sides of the road. Now the 40-year-old mechanic drove through blackened forest and struggled to identify what had once stood there. “There are little details here and there that I recog- nize, but otherwise every- thing is unrecognizable,” Plessis said. “You don’t even know what was here any- more, or who lived where.” He had to force open the property’s gate because its key had burned. A chimney and twisted metal frames were among the few clues to where the rooms had been. The tools and machinery from his bicycle repair busi- ness were gone. “It’s not easy. I’m trying to stay strong and help other people now,” Plessis said. “I don’t want to spend the next 10 years feeling sorry for my- self.”
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the country sets up a 1,600-foot blockade on Ceuta’s border.
By Sergio Rodrigo Ruíz, Suman Naishadham and Akram Oubachir
CEUTA, Spain — Spain on Saturday installed a 1,600-foot barrier on the sea border between its North Af- rican territory of Ceuta and neighboring Morocco after tens of thousands of mi- grants breached the frontier earlier in the week. At least 67 migrants died, including some who drowned and others who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier, the Spanish government said Saturday. The sudden arrival of 50,000 to 60,000 mi- grants in the territory be- tween Thursday and Friday sparked a humanitarian cri- sis and reignited the immi- gration debate in Europe and beyond, though most of the migrants soon went back. Critics of Spain’s socialist government, notably right and far-right politicians, seized upon the dramatic images of crowds storming into Ceuta, which sits on the Strait of Gibraltar at the en- trance to the Mediterranean Sea and has been a Spanish possession since 1580. Spain’s migration policy has focused on granting legal status to workers lacking au- thorization to boost its econ- omy, in contrast with anti- migration and pro-deporta- tion policies being promoted across much of the EU and in the U.S. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez denounced the reaction of some Euro- pean Union leaders to the events in Ceuta, saying calls for Spain to be suspended from the EU’s borderless Schengen zone were “driven by prejudice, fake news, ig- norance, or political inter- est.” Spain in recent years has had fewer illegal mi- grants than Mediterranean neighbors Italy and Greece. On Saturday morning, a
wounded in Moscow restaurant bombing
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A bomb detonated at a restaurant Saturday in central Moscow, killing at least two people, Russian state media said, citing local officials. The bomber was also killed. At least 21 people were also injured when the explo- sive device detonated at the restaurant on Kudrinskaya Square in Moscow, the Na- tional Anti-Terrorism Com- mittee said, quoted by Rus- sian state news agency RIA Novosti. An unidentified woman who attempted to carry the explosive device into the restaurant died in the blast, as did a security guard and a patron, the news agency said. Ria Novosti reported that the woman attempted to smuggle the bomb into the establishment, but the security guard refused to let her in before the device ex- ploded. The attack is under in- vestigation, the Moscow In- vestigative Committee told the news agency.
BERLIN — Hamburg’s Pride parade, one of Germa- ny’s biggest, made its way through the port city with in- creased security Saturday, a week after a fatal attack near its counterpart in Berlin. Police and organizers said about 300,000 people at- tended, compared to about 260,000 last year, German news agency DPA reported. Hamburg’s police chief said last week that roughly twice
GUARDIA CIVIL officers recover the body of a migrant from the water in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.
few migrants who swam to Ceuta’s urban Tarajal beach were met by soldiers who es- corted them across the bor- der. “We are relentless against those who break the law,” Spanish Interior Min- ister Fernando Grande- Marlaska told journalists. Asked how the breach could have happened given the heavy security on both sides of the border and whether Morocco posed a threat to Ceuta, Grande- Marlaska defended the gov- ernment in Rabat. “The events require an evaluation by Spain and Mo- rocco,” he said. But it was the cooperation with its neighbors that allowed Spain “to revert the situa- tion in 24 hours.” “Morocco is not a threat to Ceuta, or to the rest of Spain. It is a reliable part- ner,” Grande-Marlaska em- phasized.
EU pushes for organized response Other European Union
By Vasilisa Stepanenko
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia launched an intense barrage of ballistic missiles and drones overnight into Sat- urday, killing at least nine people and wounding 33 ci- vilians in the Ukrainian capi- tal, Kyiv, authorities said. The strikes follow a major Russian attack two days earlier that killed at least 10 people and wounded more than 50 others across Ukraine, as Moscow appar- ently looks to exploit Kyiv’s critical shortage of Western- supplied anti-ballistic mis- sile defenses. The relentless cycle of attacks dims the po- tential of reaching a diplo- matic end to Russia’s more than four-year-old invasion of its neighbor. A five-story residential building in Kyiv’s Solomian- skyi district was damaged by falling debris, and a fire broke out. Rescue workers evacuated 35 people from the upper floors of the build- ing and two people died, with eight reported injured, including two children, ac- cording to Ukraine’s state emergency service. In the Darnytskyi district of Kyiv, seven people were killed and 14 injured after the attack caused fires and damage to houses, vehicles and other buildings, the emergency services said. Elsewhere, emergency workers extinguished a fire in a nonresidential building
as many officers as last year would protect the event. The Hamburg event’s motto this time was “Queer in solidarity. Take a stand — for a future without fear.” Alate addition to the doz- ens of trucks taking part was one representing the Berlin Pride event: Christopher Street Day, or CSD for short, as the parades are known in Germany. People on that truck were asked to wear dark clothing as a sign of re- spect for the victims of last weekend’s attack.
countries called for urgent talks and a coordinated re- sponse to the situation in Ceuta. “We cannot allow uncon- trolled mass crossings, the instrumentalization of mi- gration or other hybrid threats to create the percep- tion that illegal entry into the European Union is pos- sible. That a migrant’s illegal entry can turn into legal stay,” said a letter to top EU officials, released Saturday by the Danish prime min- ister’s office. “Such a percep- tion would encourage fur- ther attempts, undermine confidence in our common migration policy and have repercussions for all Mem- ber States.” Leaders of Italy, Den- mark, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Esto- nia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Ro- mania, Slovenia, Slovakia and Sweden signed the let- ter asking the EU’s current Irish presidency to convene
in Kyiv’s Shevchenkivskyi district. There was no additional information about earlier re- ports by the district mayor that people were trapped in another residential build- ing. Damage to commercial and residential buildings was reported in two other city districts. Lithuania’s foreign min- ister said the country’s em- bassy in Kyiv was damaged when missiles struck nearby overnight. Russia’s Defense Min- istry said Saturday it had launched a “massive strike” against “Ukrainian military- industrial complex facilities and logistics centers in Kyiv.”
Kyiv seeks defenses President Volodymyr Ze- lensky has pressed the United States and other Western partners over Ukraine’s need for more Pa- triot anti-ballistic missile defense systems to counter missile attacks from Russia. “Every package of ballis- tic missile interceptors saves the lives of our people. And every night without them results in more casu- alties,” he wrote on X follow- ing the latest attacks. The Ukrainian leader late Friday said he spoke to Vice President JD Vance and discussed a meeting with President Trump earlier in the week in Washington, which Zelensky described as
“After the brutal attack on the CSD in Berlin, many are unsure in the queer com- munity but also in society whether here and today is the right place,” Hamburg’s deputy mayor, Katharina Fegebank, told RTL televi- sion. “I say, now more than ever.” “When you look at the at- mosphere here, you can see that there’s still joy. At least, that’s how it seems to me,” said CSD organizer Manuel Opitz. “I think we carry the grief in our hearts — and
a videoconference of interior ministers. Sánchez also asked for a videoconference of EU inte- rior ministers to “enable us to establish a common re- sponse to situations of this kind and reaffirm that the security of our external bor- ders is a shared responsibil- ity of all Member States, and not only of those on the Union’s front line.” Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has threat- ened to suspend Italy’s open-border Schengen agreement with Spain, and Italy was reimposing border controls for people arriving from Spain by air and sea. “In the current interna- tional context, the European Union cannot afford this kind of selfish, polarizing and unlawful reaction,” Sánchez wrote in his letter.
Migrants head back to Morocco
Hundreds of migrants continued to make their way back to Morocco on Sat- urday. Hungry and angry,
EMERGENCY workers extinguish a fire Saturday in Kyiv, Ukraine, after attacks by missiles and drones.
“positive and productive.” “The Russian air strikes on our country continue and air defense, specifically in- terceptors for Patriot sys- tems against ballistic mis- siles, remains a top priority,” Zelensky said Friday in a post on Telegram. At a NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, in July, Trump said the U.S. would give Ukraine a license to make Patriot systems, but he appeared to move away from that commitment on Friday during a Cabinet meeting at the presidential retreat in Camp David, Md., saying he had not yet made a final decision on the matter. From a basement shelter where she was taking cover as a second air alarm sounded for another wave, Liudmyla Nakonechna de- scribed how she was awoken
Berlin in our hearts, too — but we’re bringing our pride out onto the streets, and you can see that.” Late July 25, a driver plowed a van into people a few hundred yards from the closing party of the Berlin Pride event before attacking others with what appears to have been a machete. A woman was killed and many other people were in- jured. The 21-year-old suspect, Abdul Ballout, was killed in a confrontation with police
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some barefoot or shirtless and others nursing visible injuries, they said they were leaving Ceuta after what they described as degrading treatment on the Spanish side of the border. Migrants walked along a long stretch of wave break- ers before slipping into Mo- rocco through a small breach in the border fence. Most of the migrants were Moroccans, and a smaller number were from sub-Sa- haran Africa. “I decided to come back on my own,” said Ouail Lamzeiz. “I spent eight days in Ceuta, and I was about to get a bed at the migrant cen- ter, but I hadn’t eaten for days. Even the Moroccans there didn’t help,” he added, showing a document sup- porting his account. Migrants said they spent their nights sleeping in the forests around Ceuta be- cause they could not find shelter, and they often fought over food. Othmane El Merzoug asked passersby to borrow a phone so he could reach his
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by loud explosions at 1:30 a.m. “I ran into the corridor and was standing there when the bathroom door was blown off its hinges and struck me in the leg,” said Nakonechna, 64, whose health is poor after undergo- ing cancer treatment. “I heard the sound of shatter- ing glass. My balcony was covered in glass and it was completely blown apart, while the windows in my bedroom were also blown out.” Nakonechna had not tak- en cover in a shelter since Russia’s full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, but the stress became too much, she said. “It’s getting worse by the day,” Nakonechna said. “Whereas before there was an attack once every two
the next day. Investigators later found a video in which a person be- lieved to be Ballout claimed responsibility and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group. Prosecutors have said Ballout, who was born in Germany and has Lebanese roots, traveled to Lebanon in 2025 with the goal of going to Syria to join Islamic State. He made contact with sev- eral people who were pre- sumed members, author- ities said.
family and ask them to send money for the journey back to his hometown, about 190 miles from the border.
Effect on life along border
Along Ceuta’s Tarajal beach, sunbathers largely ig- nored the streams of mi- grants walking toward the border. Ceuta resident Mo- hamed Abdelatif, 21, said the border rush had ruptured the city’s peace. “The reality is, it’s not good,” Abdelatif said, before wading into the water with his girlfriend. To reach Ceuta, on the northern African coast, mi- grants often swim from the Moroccan town of Fnideq, covering about 3 miles to reach Spanish territory. In response to the influx, Spain deployed its armed forces and additional police in Ceu- ta. On the Moroccan side, se- curity forces clashed with migrants. Authorities used water cannons, tear gas and warning shots to try to turn back migrants. On Saturday, the road linking Fnideq to the border crossing bore the scars of the unrest. Burned-out vehicles sat along the roadside, while the acrid smell of smoke still hung in the air. Water can- nons remained stationed nearby. “Life in this city has been disrupted,” said Ceuta Pres- ident Juan Jesús Vivas. “The return of people has begun satisfactorily, but the proc- ess must be completed.” But some who made it to Ceuta say they do not intend to go back. Among them was Mohamed Hatri, a 23-year- old Moroccan. “They’ve closed everything down so that we can’t buy anything to eat, to force us to return to our country,” he said, adding that he and others were de- termined to stay “whether we’re hungry or not.”
Ruíz, Naishadham and Oubachir write for the Associated Press. Oubachir reported from Fnideq. AP writers Renata Brito in Barcelona, Spain, and Elena Becatoros in Athens contributed to this report.
weeks, or maybe once a week, now it happens practi- cally every day. It is incred- ibly hard to bear this psycho- logically.”
Other developments 8 A Russian airstrike killed one person and wounded five more in the city of Kherson in southern Ukraine, local officials said Saturday. 8 In Russian-occupied Crimea, the Moscow-ap- pointed head of the city of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, said Saturday that a 60-year-old woman was killed and two other people wounded in a drone attack on the city. 8 Ukrainian drones struck three Russian oil re- fineries overnight in the Russian republic of Bashko- rtostan, Zelensky said Sat- urday. The refineries “proc- ess millions of tons of oil each year” and are located less than 1,000 miles from Ukraine, Zelensky said on social media. The Russian online news outlet Astra reported Sat- urday that a Ukrainian drone set an oil refinery in Ufa, the capital of Bashkor- tostan, ablaze. Local offi- cials said debris from a downed drone caused “smoke” at an unnamed “in- dustrial zone.” Ukraine’s almost daily long-range drone and mis- sile strikes using domes- tically developed weapons have battered Russian oil fa- cilities for months. The oper- ation has brought a fuel cri- sis that is embarrassing the Kremlin more than four years after Russia’s all-out invasion of its neighbor. 8 A sanctioned Russian container ship, the Yanina, sank in the Black Sea after being hit by Ukrainian drones, Zelensky said Sat- urday, listing the ship as among “facilities that sus- tain the war effort.” Russia’s state nuclear en- ergy company, Rosatom, whose shipping subsidiary FESCO operates the vessel, said the ship was carrying “civilian goods” such as frozen food and construc- tion materials.
U.S. ATTY. Jeanine Pirro says the damage at the Reflecting Pool resulted from shoddy construction.
for refuting claim on Reflecting Pool
By Aamer Madhani
WASHINGTON — Presi- dent Trump on Saturday sharply criticized U.S. Atty. Jeanine Pirro’s assessment that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was the result of shoddy con- struction and not the work of vandals, as he claims. Pirro’s office, in a court filing Friday, moved to drop criminal charges against a former Olympian, David Hearn, who had been ac- cused of deliberately dam- aging the pool after it went through a renovation ahead of the nation’s 250th birth- day celebration last month. Trump, in a posting on social media, acknowledged that there “may have been some contractor difficulty” in the installation of a new pool liner. But he continues to insist, without evidence, that “the major damage was caused by VANDALS!” “I disagree 100% with Jea- nine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, on the Reflecting Pool,” Trump added in his post. The dismissal was a strik- ing reversal for a Justice De- partment that had previ- ously echoed Trump’s claims and billed the prose- cution as pursuing account- ability for damage at a Wash- ington landmark, a pet proj- ect of Trump. Despite Pirro’s conclusion that there was no evidence of vandalism re- sulting in widespread dam- age, the president continued to allege Saturday that most of the damage to the pool was caused by vandals. Government lawyers in their 20-page court filing Fri- day said that additional documents provided by the Interior Department since the indictment of Hearn show that the damage was the result of a botched in- stallation by a contractor as well as “the rush to complete the project prior to events associated with the America 250 celebration in the weeks surrounding Independence Day 2026.” In addition, a recent visu- al inspection revealed dam- age throughout the pool, in- cluding in the middle — where prosecutors say a vandal would not likely have attempted to peel the lining. Hearn, a former Olympic canoeist, was accused of pulling up a two-foot-square piece of the pool’s lining.
leader who defied Trump will step down
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INDIANAPOLIS — The Republican leader of the In- diana Senate announced Friday that he would give up his position after six GOP in- cumbents who opposed President Trump on his con- gressional redistricting push in the state lost their primaries. Indiana Senate Presi- dent Pro Tem Rodric Bray drew the ire of Trump in De- cember when he voted against the redistricting plan after saying for weeks that it didn’t have enough support to pass. The rejec- tion came after intense lob- bying from Trump, Vice President JD Vance, na- tional conservative groups and others. Bray, who has held his leadership position since
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“Given all of this newly discovered information, it is difficult to attribute the widespread damage to the Reflecting Pool to vandal- ism, let alone to establish that fact beyond a reason- able doubt,” Pirro, a Trump appointee and former Fox News host, said in her filing asking a judge to formally dismiss the case. In the filing, Pirro also blamed the Interior Depart- ment for providing “less than fulsome information at the outset of the case.” The filing added that had “DOI been forthcoming with the information clearly in its possession, the government would not have sought a grand jury indictment.” It was a jarring turn in position from Pirro, who claimed the government’s case was built on “tremendous evidence” when she announced the in- dictment against Hearn last month. Hearn’s legal team on Saturday criticized both Trump and Pirro and said it was weighing “legal reme- dies” on behalf of their client. “Trump is mad at Pirro because she finally admitted what we made clear in our le- gal filings all along: Trump’s botched renovation was re- sponsible for the damage — not Davey Hearn,” the legal team said in a statement. “However, her claim that she and her office were previ- ously duped by Interior is nonsense. Starting immedi- ately after the arraignment, our motions repeatedly proved that the administra- tion was to blame for the Re- flecting Pool failures, not Davey.” Trump on Saturday also posted a nearly four-minute video that appears to have been taken from a security camera, in which three indi- viduals can be seen with their hands in the pool, in- cluding one for an extended period. The president claimed the video shows “material is being cut with a knife or a box cutter, for all to see!” It’s not clear from the vi- deo, which appears to be shot from some distance, that any vandalism oc- curred. Workers can also be seen standing nearby and don’t appear to notice the people sticking their hands into the water.
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2018, said in a statement Fri- day that he would not seek reelection to the post when Senate Republicans choose their leaders in November. His current Senate term runs through 2028 and he will remain in office, albeit not as the Republican Sen- ate leader. Trump reacted to the news in a social media post by saying Bray had “foolishly led” the state Senate, noting the May primary defeats of those who defied him on the redistricting plan. Bray did not mention Trump or the redistricting fight in his statement an- nouncing his decision to step down from the leader- ship position. Bray said holding the job “has been among the most significant honors of my life, but it’s time for the Senate to choose another leader.”
systems in Minnesota, Michigan
By Michael Casey
Michigan on Saturday joined Minnesota in report- ing cyberattacks on nine of the state’s water systems, but an official said all sys- tems were operating “safely.” Last week, authorities said cyberattacks targeted more than 30 water systems in Minnesota. The source of the attacks is being investi- gated, but they came amid warnings that Iranian hack- ers have been focused on such systems. Reports surfaced in Michigan after the state re- ceived a federal alert Tues- day about attempts to tamper with water systems’ operational technology. Soon afterward, the state received “a small number of reports from Michigan com- munities indicating activity consistent with what federal agencies described,” said Dale George, the director of communications at the state’s Department of Envi- ronment, Great Lakes, and Energy. He later said nine systems were impacted. “All systems continued to operate safely, issues were addressed by local op- erators, and there are no known impacts that posed a public health concern,” George said in a statement. The FBI has not publicly identified a culprit. A spokesperson declined to say who the bureau thought might be responsible. Last month, the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infra- structure Security Agency and other agencies warned in an advisory that Iranian hackers have been targeting water and wastewater sys- tems and the operational controls of other critical in- frastructure sectors. “The FBI is aware of re- cent public reporting around Water and Wastewa- ter (WWS) sectors,” the
OFFICIALS in Plymouth, Minn., and other towns cited problems with hackers.
agency said in a statement Saturday. “The FBI and our interagency partners are fully engaged to protect criti- cal infrastructure and we re- main well-equipped to pro- tect against cyber threats of all varieties.” Digital warfare has be- come ingrained in military conflict, and local water plants or healthcare facili- ties often lack the funds and know-how to install the lat- est software patches or take other security steps. That has made them a fa- vorite target, both because of the relative ease of pen- etrating them and because of the panic such disrup- tions can cause. Iran’s interest in the op- erations of water systems in the U.S. dates back years. In 2016, the Justice Depart- ment charged a group of Ira- nian hackers in connection with a cyberattack targeting a small dam near New York City. Minnesota IT Services said that as of Thursday,
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there were no active re- quests from communities for residents to modify usage of their drinking water. The state agency said most of the confirmed at- tacks involved technology that water systems use to re- motely monitor and control equipment. It said that in the inci- dents cited, investigators confirmed there was ma- licious activity involving the system’s technology, but that didn’t mean every im- pacted community had its water service disrupted. For a few hours Monday, the city of Braham asked residents to minimize water use as it tried to determine why the water plant was off- line. The city of about 1,700 people, located about 70 miles north of Minneapolis, said in a news release that the water plant outage was due to a cyberattack, but it didn’t cause any issue with water quality. The city said the attack- ers shut down the operating
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controls that shut down the well and water treatment plant. That left the city for a time able to provide resi- dents only with the water held in the water tower. In Plymouth, a city of about 80,000 outside Minne- apolis, officials said on social media that their water infra- structure communications had been restored by Tues- day afternoon following a cy- berattack. During a Cabinet meet- ing on Friday at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland, President Trump claimed without evidence that recent cyberattacks in Minnesota were the fault of the state, including Demo- cratic Gov. Tim Walz. Waltz responded on so- cial media, saying that Trump “knows exactly who is responsible for this attack, and knows that other states were hit too,” referring to Iran’s suspected role.
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roads into local govern- ments and elected officials. Su has long been a major figure in San Gabriel Valley as a political donor, philan- thropist and a promoter of cultural exchanges between China and the United States. Photos posted on social media show him smiling and posing with politicians and artists at film premieres and community events in West Covina, where he’s lived since the late 1980s. Su’s attorney, Andrew Cowan, said his client is an American citizen who made legal campaign donations across the political spec- trum and does not have any idea why he was served with search warrants by the FBI. Cowan said that of the peo- ple connected with the prop- erties searched, Su is only fa- miliar with Hagman. One of the company’s most well-known events is the Chinese American Film Festival, a multi-day cultur- al function held annually in November, that EDI bills as the only Chinese American film and television event offi- cially recognized by both U.S. and Chinese govern- ment officials. In 2022, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervi- sors declared the month of November as Chinese American Film Festival and Chinese American Televi- sion Festival Month in honor of the event. In a video in 2022, Su and his wife, Slina, stood next to Supervisor Kathryn Barger, as she presented them with scrolls commemorating their work on the festival, which she said “brings us to- gether as a community and bridges the barriers of lan- guage and culture with a common love of film and television.”
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and coolers.” The spokesperson added that detainees at the center “are provided with proper meals, water, medical treat- ment, and have opportuni- ties to communicate with their family members and lawyers.” Immigrant rights attor- neys say Parias’ video, taken last week, is one of a number of complaints they’ve re- ceived from detainees at the facility despite a federal judge’s recent order to im- prove potable drinking wa- ter, food and medical care, among other issues. “We’ve received reports that there have been some violations of the court or- der,” said Carl Bergquist, policy counsel with the Co- alition for Humane Immi- grant Rights Los Angeles, or CHIRLA. The immigrant rights’ nonprofit is one of several plaintiffs in a federal civil class-action lawsuit against Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over condi-
help find 84-year-old mother after officials release ransom notes.
By Michael Casey
“Today” show host Sa- vannah Guthrie said Sat- urday on social media that her family was “desperate” and “begging for help” in the disappearance of her mother, a day after author- ities released two ransom notes including one saying that she had died. Authorities released an early note in the investiga- tion into the disappearance of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, hoping that some- one will recognize the writ- ing style. A second note said Guthrie died shortly after she was kidnapped and “is buried in nature now.” Both notes initially were sent to a Tucson television station days after Guthrie went missing from her home out- side Tucson on Feb. 1. “We are begging for help. We are desperate. We need
REP. JUDY CHU presents a certificate of recognition to James Su, left, in 2024.
“We believe the charm of film can bring the peace and harmony to our communi- ties,” Su said. Su has long promoted the film festival in interviews as a way to foster understand- ing and community between China and the U.S. Su’s business ventures have faced scrutiny in the past for distributing content generated by the Chinese government. In November 2015, the Federal Communications Commission launched an in- vestigation into a firm owned by Su after a Reuters report revealed that its ra- dio broadcasts across chunks of the U.S. were fi- nancially backed by the Peo- ple’s Republic of China. The Reuters investigation re- vealed Su’s company, G&E Studio Inc., is 60% owned by a subsidiary of Chinese state-run radio broadcaster China Radio International. The outlet reported at the time that G&E leased the majority of broadcast
tions at the Mojave Desert detention center. Detainees have also launched hunger strikes, claiming subpar conditions. At least four people have died at the detention center since last year. Last month, U.S. District Judge Sunshine S. Sykes granted a renewed motion for a preliminary injunction in the lawsuit, ordering Homeland Security and ICE to make improvements at the facility. The Homeland Security spokesperson blasted Sykes for her ruling. “This is another example of a Biden-appointed activ- ist judge trying to smear our ICE law enforcement,” the spokesperson wrote in an email to The Times. In her order, Sykes barred the government from placing detainees in admin- istrative segregation unless doing so was necessary to address a security threat to staff or the facility, or if a de- tainee requested it. The order required that ICE develop and file, within
someone to come forward. Someone knows something. Someone suspects some- thing. Someone recognizes the writing in the ransom de- mand notes,” Guthrie wrote on her Instagram account, alongside a photo of her mother. “Someone has noticed something different, strange, troubling or just un- usual — perhaps with some- one they deeply love,” she wrote. “Perhaps they are afraid to come forward. Per- haps they are conflicted. Perhaps they are angry or upset for being in this situa- tion. There is a way out — to tell what you know.” Guthrie went on to say she and her family “wanted to find out what happened to her, so that we can give her the dignity of a proper good- bye — a celebration of her re- markable life that she so de- serves.” Saturday was the six- month mark since Guthrie disappeared. No suspects have been arrested. The investigation has been dogged by unanswered questions, such as how many people are believed to
time on two stations in Washington and Philadel- phia to air China-friendly programming. After the investigation, Su’s company was required to register as a foreign agent. In a 2015 interview, Su told Reuters that China Ra- dio International subsidiary Guoguang Century Media holds a majority stake in his company, G&E, but de- clined to offer specifics cit- ing a nondisclosure agree- ment. Su told the outlet that he is not an agent for China, but a businessman. “Our U.S. audience and our U.S. public has the choice,” Su said at the time. “They can choose to listen or not listen. I think this is an American value.” West Covina Councilman Tony Wu said in an interview with The Times on Thurs- day that he was “shocked” when he was told that Su’s house and business were be- ing searched by the FBI. Wu said he first met Su in 2015 when he was door
THE ADELANTO ICE Processing Center in June in Adelanto, Calif. Detainees claim subpar conditions there.
14 days, a remedial plan to implement comprehensive systems for medical care and disability accommoda- tions. To ensure compliance, she ordered ICE to provide access to two independent, third-party monitors to the facility. One monitor would focus on medical care and disability accommodations, and the other on general fa-
have taken part in her ab- duction and whether she was taken by someone who knew her. The FBI in Washington did not respond to questions about the ransom notes, in- cluding whether both mes- sages sent to the Tucson sta- tion have been deemed legit- imate. In releasing the notes, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said that “we believe these distinctive lin- guistic characteristics may be recognizable to someone who knows or has interacted with the notes’ writer.” The first note, sent Feb. 2, said Guthrie was safe but scared and would be re- leased unharmed once her captors received $4 million in cryptocurrency, with the ransom amount increasing if the first demand was not met. It said Guthrie would be released within 12 hours if the payment was received. It also included a threat to kill her if the ransom wasn’t paid. “Your mother is aware of this and her life is in your hands,” the first note read. “It is in the best interest of
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knocking in his campaign for City Council. He rang the gate on Su’s property and the businessman came out to greet him. Su was polite and the two had a brief con- versation before the then- candidate went on his way. After he was elected, Wu and other council members were invited to participate in an interview at Su’s studio on San Bernardino Road in West Covina, the same building that was raided by the FBI last week. “He interviewed congressmen, congress- women, senators,” Wu said. “We are just small potatoes compared to them.” Su, his company and his family have also given to campaigns from across the political spectrum. Accord- ing to the Federal Election Commission, Su has do- nated $35,500 to both Demo- cratic and Republican cam- paigns at the federal level dating back to 2003. The ma- jority of the funds — $25,800 — were donated to Rep.
cility conditions. The agency and the plaintiffs were re- quired to submit a list of qualified candidates. Bergquist said ICE has met these two requirements, but still has not addressed more immediate issues such as water and food quality, as well as sanitation. The federal government has filed an emergency re- quest asking to put the rul-
everyone to have this com- pleted as soon as possible.” The second notewas sent Feb. 6 and said Guthrie died shortly after she was taken. “She is buried in nature now,” it said. “Nothing you could have done could have changed the outcome.” The note ended with an apology: “We are truly sorry.” The Pima County Sher- iff’s Department said the notes reveal a distinctive pattern of word choices and provide insight into the writ- er’s mindset. The agency said someone who knows the notes’ writer may recog- nize the patterns. Authorities similarly used a suspect’s writings as atool to find Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, branded the “Unabomber” by the FBI. Kaczynski, who killed three people and injured 23 others with mail bombs over a 17- year span, pressured the Washington Post, in con- junction with the New York Times, to publish his 35,000- word manifesto in 1995. He was finally arrested after his brother realized his sibling was the suspect and notified authorities.
Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park). Su’s wife, Slina, gave $40,100 to federal election campaigns, with roughly $23,000 going to Chu since 2009, according to campaign records. Su has donated $6,000 to Hagman’s supervisor races since 2021. EDI Media do- nated $4,000 to his campaign from October 2017 to Febru- ary 2022, records show. Those donations are a frac- tion of the funds typically raised in the countywide races. For his 2026 reelection campaign, Hagman raised more than $270,000 in con- tributions, county records show. Hagman did not respond to requests for comment from The Times. In West Covina, Su and his family are known to be generous with their time and money, Wu said. They were quick to step up with personal protective equipment donations to lo- cal firefighters during the pandemic. When officials were trying to get an after- school program for local stu- dents up and running in 2017, Su and his wife offered to do- nate $5,000 each to the West Covina Unified School Dis- trict and Covina-Valley Uni- fied School District, Wu said. Su also served as the first president of the Chinese American Assn. of West Co- vina. In addition to Su, the FBI served search warrants last week for Hagman, now a San Bernardino County supervi- sor, Ontario Councilmem- ber Alan Wapner and attor- ney Frank Lizarraga. None returned calls seeking com- ment. Authorities would not identify the target of the in- vestigation or whether more raids were coming. Federal authorities have
ing on hold while a higher court considers an appeal. Parias, a TikTok streamer who was shot by federal immigration agents in South L.A. last year, said conditions at the facility haven’t improved. He said the facility’s staff does not clean the floors, dining ta- bles or microwave. “Sometimes we do that ourselves,” he said in a
The sheriff’s office also said Friday that two videos recovered from Guthrie’s doorbell camera might be from two separate days and indicate an unidentified male prepared ahead of when Guthrie was taken. Authorities are seeking information on anyone who was behaving differently, changed their physical ap- pearance, suddenly left the Tucson area or had a notice- able or unexplained interest or disinterest in the case. “Investigators continue to pursue every available technological and investiga- tive lead,” the sheriff’s office said. “However, community members remain a vital re- source as we seek to provide answers for Nancy’s family.” The FBI had released surveillance videos of a masked person who author- ities said appeared to tamp- er with a camera on Nancy Guthrie’s front porch and block it with a plant. They described the person as a male about 5 feet, 9 inches tall.
been investigating secret Chinese efforts to influence local elected officials for sev- eral years. In May, the former mayor of Arcadia pleaded guilty to accusations that she was di- rected by the Chinese gov- ernment to promote propa- ganda in the United States. Authorities alleged she helped run a website called U.S. News Center that branded itself as a news source for Chinese Ameri- cans and “executed direc- tives” from the Chinese gov- ernment. On the national level, U.S. intelligence officials have been warning about Chinese efforts to influence local governments since at least 2019. “They look to cultivate talent early — often state and local officials — to en- sure that politicians at all levels of government will be ready to take a call and advo- cate on behalf of Beijing’s agenda,” then-FBI Director Christopher A. Wray said during a speech at the Reagan Presidential Library in 2022. Federal authorities have also charged a woman who had served as a senior depu- ty to two New York gover- nors with being a Chinese agent working to push that government’s agenda. Her case ended in a hung jury, and she is expected to be retried next year. People who know Su were surprised about the FBI raid and said they won’t pass judgment until more infor- mation comes to light. “He seems to care about his community,” Wu said. “We shouldn’t be labeling people. In my mind, he is in- nocent until proven guilty.”
Times librarian Cary Schneider contributed to this report.
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phone interview. On Tuesday night, he said he was sitting down, watching television when another detainee told him that the drinking water was contaminated with critters. “We started looking around and we found them throughout: where we washed our hands and the showers,” he said, adding that the critters looked like gusanitos — little worms. He said the small worm- like creatures he showed in the video came from inside a pair of 10-gallon coolers used by 80 people. He said that water is used for drinking, cooking and making coffee. Larry Aguilar, 27, a de- tainee at the Adelanto facil- ity, said in a phone interview that he was the one to tell Parias about the creatures in the water coolers. “I was like, ‘Hey, look at this. This is what we’re drinking,’ ” he recalled. Asked if any other condi- tions had improved at the fa- cility following the federal court order, Aguilar said, “everything still remains the same.” “The [drinking] water still takes a long time to get, the meals are still not the best — some of the meals come a little bit raw,” he said, adding staff are also rude to family who visit him. In the last two months, he said, he and other detainees have not been allowed to go outside. Instead, he said, ICE has them go into a courtyard surrounded by four walls with an open ceil- ing. He said staff haven’t told him or others why they’re not allowed to go out in the yard. “All I really know is that we’ve been locked in here for the last two months without seeing the sun,” he said.
“Small-scale farmers across California are naviga- ting an increasingly difficult environment,” researchers say in the report. “They are among the state’s most vul- nerable groundwater users and have fewer pathways to adapt and less capacity to absorb new costs.” Special accommodations should be made for those farming less than 200 acres, who often have limited re- sources compared with larger growers, the research- ers said. “The issue is that agen- cies are using a one-size-fits- all method to impose regula- tions, but small farms are us- ing less water compared to larger farms,” said Ngodoo Atume, a co-author and re- searcher for the UC Small Farms Network. The researchers sug- gested each local ground- water agency identify the smaller farmers, consider exempting those that use minimal water and set fees in a tiered system that al- lows growers who pump less to pay less. Co-author Catherine Van Dyke, director of water pol- icy for the Community Alli- ance with Family Farmers, said with the way the law is being implemented now, it “could be the final straw for a lot of businesses that are al- ready struggling.”
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California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, or SGMA, was signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown in 2014, and was intended to address rapid aquifer depletion in the Central Valley, where overpumping for agriculture has caused land to sink and wells to go dry. The legislation led to the formation of local agencies that are responsible for halt- ing chronic declines in groundwater levels, includ- ing by imposing pumping limits and fees. While the law has given many areas until 2040 to address overpump- ing, some local agencies have started clamping down. Last year, Lee got an un- expected invoice from the Merced Irrigation-Urban Groundwater Sustainability Agency. It detailed “penal- ties for overextraction” and listed an amount of $15,335. “It just gave me a real shock,” she said, “almost like a heart attack.” Lee learned the agency hadn’t yet started charging penalty fees, so the invoice was more a warning than a bill. The new pumping limits and fees are going into effect this year. But she still doesn’t understand exactly how much water her family is allowed to pump, or how much money they might owe when the bill comes. Not wanting to risk big fines that could wipe out most or all of her earnings, she decided to cut back dra- matically and leave nine acres dry.
Latino identity, art, dies at 79
By Terry Tang
Gilberto Cárdenas, a highly respected sociologist and advocate for advancing Latino and Chicano identity through academia and art, has died. Cárdenas died Sunday at his home in Austin, Texas, after a long illness, accord- ing to a statement released by his family. He was 79. Born and raised in San Gabriel, Cárdenas became deeply entrenched in the Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s, which cre- ated a social and political identity embraced by Mexi- can Americans fighting for equality and civil rights. Cárdenas advocated for the cause with his camera. He documented marches, meetings and other commu- nity gatherings. He also loved to acknowledge Chi- cano artists in the move- ment and often swapped his photos for posters, prints and other artworks. He would save posters that were about to be thrown away be- cause of their potential cul- tural significance. “Looking at all his accom- plishments, he was such a gentle and humble man and really appreciated where he
ROSIE LEE’S 19-acre farm east of Merced, nine acres of which she is leaving dry because of groundwater pumping restrictions and fees.
KAT SECHUNG sells fruits and vegetables from the small farm run by Lee and Moua in Merced County.
Just trying to under- stand the basics of the new rules has been difficult, Lee said. Even after Lee met with a member of the water agen- cy’s staff to go over her usage details, she came away con- fused. Lee and her husband, Charlie Moua, still sell some produce to a local grocery but they have stopped driv- ing their Toyota Tacoma to the Stockton farmers mar- ket because they no longer have enough to sell. Moua said he keeps get- ting calls from customers asking why they aren’t sell- ing vegetables at the mar- ket, and he explains that it’s their water problem. The Hmong American couple hadn’t expected to be in this predicament when they started the farm in 2021 as a retirement project. Lee, who arrived in the United States as a refugee from Laos in 1980 and worked for years as a pre- school teacher, said she loves watching her crops grow and handing them over to customers. Moua, who arrived as a student in 1973 and worked as a social worker, said he en- joys farmwork to stay active and in shape.
came from,” said Richard Flores, a friend and Mexican American studies professor at University of Texas at Austin. Cárdenas was al- ways “trying to make a con- tribution not only to the community but the artists he so loved.” He went on to earn a doc- torate at the University of Notre Dame and then was hired by the University of Texas at Austin as a sociolo- gy professor. He spent nearly 25 years lecturing on the sociology of immigra- tion. Cárdenas is credited with establishing Mexican American studies there. In 1999, Cárdenas went back to Notre Dame as a fac- ulty member. In his role as assistant provost, he cre- ated the Institute for Latino Studies. In the meantime he and his wife, Dolores Carrillo García, had amassed a col- lection of nearly 20,000 pieces of Latino art. In 2023, they donated nearly half to the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas. Other items in their collec- tion went to the Smithsoni- an American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the Na- tional Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago and the Snite Museum of Art at the Uni-
They share the farm with relatives, who work the few remaining fields and harvest small amounts of corn, to- matoes, okra and other crops. Lee said her family, which uses water-saving drip irri- gation, should be allowed to pump more to keep the farm going. She said it’s unfair that her family is charged the same pumping fees as the owners of giant almond and pistachio orchards. “Big farmers, they are millionaires,” she said. “Small farms, they are just enough to survive, to raise a family.”
Farms in the Central Val- ley, which produce large quantities of nuts, fruits, vegetables and dairy prod- ucts, have rapidly depleted groundwater in many areas. Aquifer levels have con- tinued to drop as corporate farms and investors have planted vast almond and pistachio orchards. At the same time, global warming has intensified droughts. Researchers at the Pub- lic Policy Institute have estimated that as much as
versity of Notre Dame. Cárdenas’ leadership earned him an appointment in 2001 by President George W. Bush to the President’s Commission on White House Fellows. In 2008, Bush named him to another commission to explore a po- tential National Museum of the American Latino. Cárdenas was also on the board of the Mexican Ameri- can Legal Defense and Edu- cation Fund from 1993 to 2012. In a statement, Thomas Saenz, president and gen- eral counsel of MALDEF, based in Los Angeles, called Cárdenas “a quiet icon of the Chicano movement, never adequately appreciated for all he did.” Cárdenas retired from Notre Dame about a decade ago, Flores said. He was still active in the art world and occasionally gave talks on his collection as well as so- cioeconomic issues. He is survived by his wife, two sons, three stepchildren and nine grandchildren. A funeral Mass was scheduled Saturday at St. Ignatius Martyr Catholic Church in Austin.
LEE and her husband, Charlie Moua, with an invoice claiming they could owe about $15,000 in penalty fees.
900,000 acres of farmland, about 20% of the San Joaquin Valley’s irrigated land, may need to be left dry by 2040, largely because of pumping limits under SGMA. Under the law, local agen- cies are responsible for set- ting rules, which state regu- lators review. In Clovis, the local agency hasn’t yet imposed pumping
restrictions, but farmer Susie Borneman Silva said she expects limits soon and doesn’t know how it will af- fect her small almond or- chard. She supports becom- ing more efficient to pre- serve groundwater, but she’s also concerned. “Are we going to get enough water to water our trees and stay alive and farm another year?” she said. “We
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want to continue farming.” Farther south in Tulare County, the pumping fees are too high for small far- mers, said Tekoah Kadara, associate executive director of the Allensworth Prog- ressive Assn. “Either the state needs to increase penalties on the gi- ants, or they need to offer in- centives for communities and small farmers,” he said. In a recent survey, 85% of small farmers told research- ers they are concerned about having to shut down their operations because of groundwater regulations, fees or other concerns. “There should be some guarantees of enough water for a smaller farm,” said Ju- dith Redmond, a Yolo County farmer who co-wrote the report. Without such changes, the tightening restrictions could force small farms to shut down and leave more land in the hands of large farms, she said. “It would be a great loss.”
UC Berkeley and Pepperdine. “Bass’ only possible path to reelection at this point is raising so much money that Raman simply can’t be heard,” Schnur said. With three months to go in the campaign, Schnur and other analysts say Bass has time to turn things around. Nonetheless, they say, the summer of bad news will force Bass to reset her campaign narrative — in- cluding shoring up her sup- port with Eastside Latinos in the wake of the Lineage fire. Bass carried 35 Latino-majority neighbor- hoods in the June 2 election, including Boyle Heights, compared with seven for Ra- man and just one for Pratt. Yet when she attended a community meeting in early July in the wake of the Linea- ge fire, she was met with boos from the largely Latino crowd. “The Lineage fire has deeply eroded the Latino support she was getting from the eastern side of the city, which she needed to build towards November. That’s going to be a real chal- lenge for her now,” said Sara Sadhwani, a professor of pol- itics at Pomona College. Bass was in Chicago at the dedication of the Barack Obama Presidential Center when the fire broke out and returned to Los Angeles the next evening as the fire con- tinued to burn, casting a black plume of smoke over the neighborhood and leav- ing a stench for weeks as food rotted in the burnt building. The episode was a stark reminder that Bass was abroad on a diplomatic trip in Ghana at the start of the deadly Palisades fire in Los Angeles in January 2025. High winds and elevated fire risk were forecast as she de- parted for Africa. “It reinforces the narra- tive of the Palisades, her be- ing out of town,” said Fer- nando Guerra, a professor of political science and Chica- na/o Latina/o studies at Loy- ola Marymount University. At a news conference Fri- day, Bass ordered city agen- cies to delay the processing of rebuilding permits for the Lineage burned-out cold- storage warehouse in Boyle Heights until regulators have found ways to subject the project to strict environ- mental review.
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warming, Pinsky said. “So we’re seeing these kinds of rapid changes in the ocean and our commercial fisheries are having to deal with these changes much sooner” than hunters or far- mers on land, he said. For commercial fishing fleets, these changes can be disastrous. They’ve had to deal with declines before, but have generally known when and where to find what is still there. Fishing fleets often rely on a few key species to make ends meet, said Sunny Jar- dine, a resource and envi- ronmental economist at the University of Washington. But “some of these fisher- ies are only open during cer- tain times during the year, so [fishermen] participate in one when it’s open,” she said, and schedule accordingly. That can get “really thrown off if openings are delayed” or shut down. During the 2015-16 season, for instance, Dungeness crabs off the coast of Califor- nia were infected by a harm- ful algal bloom of Pseudo- nitzschia, which causes do- moic acid poisoning in crabs, fish, birds and marine mammals. When people eat these contaminated shell- fish or fish, they can get am- nesic shellfish poisoning, which can lead to vomiting, diarrhea, permanent short- term memory loss, coma or death. As a result, in 2015-16, regulators delayed the crab season for months, ulti- mately squeezing the typical seven months down to roughly two. During that ter- rible season, 71% of Califor- nia Dungeness boats stopped fishing and more than 200 jobs were lost. It was particularly dam- aging for these fishermen because Dungeness crabs tend to be their most lucra-
A DECLINE in homelessness in 2024 and 2025 had been a key part of Karen Bass’ case for another four years.
“They shouldn’t even think about rebuilding until they’ve cleaned up the mess they’ve created,” Bass told reporters. The harsh line Bass is taking against Lineage, however, comes after disclo- sures that one of her former top advisors, Yusef Robb, had taken on a role doing cri- sis communications for the highly scrutinized company. Robb spent the first half of the year working for Bass as an unpaid spokesperson, delivering statements for the mayor on some of the most controversial issues she faced, including allega- tions that she watered down an after-action report on the Palisades fire. After the mayoral pri- mary, Robb transitioned to a role as an unpaid, unofficial advisor to the mayor, her of- fice said. He took on a role with Lineage on June 19. The roles overlapped, but Robb and the mayor’s office insisted there was a buffer between Robb and the may- or regarding the Lineage fire. Robb has since said he would no longer advise the mayor. Bass also received criti- cism for comments she made that the air surround- ing the burned-out ware- house wasn’t dangerous to breathe, despite some resi- dents reporting feeling sick from the smoke.
tive catch of the year, mak- ing the shellfish, Jardine said, a kind of “gilded trap.” During that stretch, she said, some fishermen waited it out. Others tried to fish for other species. And others, the biggest and most finan- cially stable fleets, were able to travel farther north to look for the crabs, she said. As this new, potentially record-breaking El Niño barrels in on the heels of a massive coastal heat wave and with gas prices high, even those large fishing fleets may have to recon- sider what effort they’re will- ing to expend on searching for fish. Because it probably won’t be just Dungeness crabs they’ll have to follow. During that earlier El Niño, for instance, market squid, which had been the largest commercial fishery by volume in California, moved north to Oregon. They’ve never fully re- bounded. Salmon also suffered, partly because drought had affected inland rivers, where Chinook and Coho migrate to spawn, eggs hatch, and salmon fry swim back down- stream to the ocean. But warmer oceans are also often bereft of the high- energy prey these juvenile salmon need for rapid growth when they reach the saltwater. The lack of food at this life stage reduces their odds of survival, which then lowers the chances they’ll re- turn to the rivers to repeat the cycle. And that’s just what hap- pened. In 2017, salmon fish- ing was closed along parts of the California and Oregon stocks. Nate Mantua, the pro- gram lead for the Landscape and Seascape Ecology Team at the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administra- tion’s Southwest Fisheries
Bass spokesperson Ilanna Morales said the mayor was simply stating what public health officials had determined, which was that conditions didn’t war- rant a mandatory evacua- tion. “Any assertion that the mayor does not think smoke is dangerous is distorting her remarks and taking them out of context,” Mor- ales said. Morales also noted that the mayor’s response to the fire included opening mobile health clinics throughout Boyle Heights, providing respiratory health screen- ings and oxygen level checks. Councilmember Monica Rodriguez, who has en- dorsed the mayor, said that Bass has done a good job re- lated to the Lineage fire, but that critics are piling on to a politician in a susceptible position. “We live in a day and age where you see someone vul- nerable, and everyone at- tacks and pounces,” Rodri- guez said. “Everyone is an- gry, and they want to blame someone.” The mayor’s team is also pushing back on assertions that it’s been a summer of unrelenting bad news, tout- ing among other things the recent World Cup soccer matches at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium as a major success that boosted L.A.
FISHERMEN lost jobs during the 2015 fishing season when Dungeness crabs were infected by an algal bloom.
Science Center, said the up- coming El Niño is likely to be a mixed bag for California’s salmon. If the system brings a lot of rain, which can happen during an El Niño, that big water will benefit salmon that are in their river stages. But the warm ocean water will be a blow to juvenile salmon, and that won’t show up until two or three years later. Jessica Gephart, an as- sistant professor at the Uni- versity of Washington’s School of Aquatic and Fish- ery Science, said a strong El Niño could also affect aqua- culture. Two-thirds of U.S. seafood is imported; much of that comes in the form of farmed fish, such as Atlantic salmon, tilapia and Viet- namese catfish. In 2016, a big marine heat wave off the coast of Chile, combined with excess nutrients, led to an algae bloom that Gephart said wiped out more than 40,000 tons of farmed salmon.
businesses, hotels and Met- ro ridership. Bass supporters pointed to her second appointment as chair of L.A. Metro along with her announcement that she wants to make buses and trains free, as well as her administration’s role in helping broker new own- ership for the downtown “Graffiti Towers” that would begin immediate abatement of the tagging on the build- ings. “The last few weeks have been challenging; no mayor is perfect,” said Nella McOsker, who runs the downtown business group Central City Assn. and has endorsed the mayor. “I think that Bass has a relentless desire to respond, engage and correct in the midst of these crises.”
In L.A., a rise in homelessness One of those crises is the city’s chronic problem with the homeless population. Throughout her campaign, Bass has repeatedly touted two straight years of decreases in homelessness from 2024 to 2025 as one of her main arguments for why she should be given another four years by Angelenos. But 2026 ended that pos- itive run. The city’s unshel- tered homeless population went up 7.9% this year, ac-
Even inland species, such as tilapia or pond-based farmed shrimp, she said, could be affected by El Niño indirectly through a break- down in fish meal supplies. “Fish meal is a really im- portant ingredient for many species, and the largest source of fish meal is the Pe- ruvian anchoveta, which of course is known to really be impacted by El Niño,” she said, referring to the deriva- tion of the name of the cli- mate event. South American fisher- men had noticed for cen- turies that every few years, a warm water current pushed ashore around Christmas. So they named it after the Christ child: El Niño. The warm water, the result of change in currents and stalling of the typical cold water upwelling that oc- curred along the coast, was nutrient-poor and led to steep crashes in phytoplank- ton and anchovy popula- tions. “That fish meal or aqua feed, as a whole, represents
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cording to a report by the Los Angeles Homeless Serv- ices Authority. Bass cited cuts at the state and federal level as partially responsible for the increase, saying that Trump administration actions have led to higher gas, groceries and rent prices, which have driven some Angelenos to the edge of homelessness. Bass continued to cite a “historic decline” in home- lessness since she took office — an 11% drop overall since 2023. But the uptick citywide this year contrasted sharply with Raman’s district, where homelessness actually de- creased by 49%. The discrepancy gave Raman an outlet to attack the mayor while touting her own record on homelessness in her district. “This is a moral outrage and it is a failure. The ap- proach to homelessness that Mayor Bass has led and defended brought us here,” Raman said at a news con- ference the day the numbers were released. The mayor has argued that her own program, In- side Safe, was at least par- tially responsible for the drop in Raman’s district and also argued that Raman’s role as chair of the Housing and Homelessness Commit- tee on the council makes her responsible for citywide
the majority cost for a lot of aquaculture farmers,” Gephart said. “So we should expect there to be increasing prices for many of those farmed fish that we import.” Already, the warming ocean waters are changing the mix of fish. Off the Southern California coast, fishermen are catching do- rado and yellowfin much earlier than usual. Unfortunately, experts say, the federal process for helping financially affected fishermen may lead to fur- ther pain. Paid through NOAA, financial relief often takes years. The program is “almost universally believed to be broken,” said Anthony Rog- ers, senior fisheries econo- mics and climate fellow at the Ocean Conservancy. “Imagine you got a hurri- cane or tornado, and it de- stroyed your house, and then you’re told, ‘We’ll pay you for that in three years.’ Most people can’t do that, and fishermen are no differ- ent.”
homelessness numbers as well. “The homeless count is as much an indictment of Nithya Raman as it is of Karen Bass. If you’re going to blame one, you have to blame them both,” said Rod- riguez, who sits on the Hous- ing and Homelessness Com- mittee.
A new campaign team takes shape Bass is gearing up for the fall campaign with a new campaign team, led by Julie Chávez Rodríguez. Chávez Rodríguez, a granddaughter of disgraced labor leader Cesar Chavez, was campaign manager for President Biden’s aborted 2024 reelection campaign, and then took the same role for Vice President Kamala Harris after Biden dropped out. “She’s getting Graffiti Towers cleaned up, an- nounced a fare-free Metro, hosted a successful World Cup, and more,” said Chávez Rodríguez. “Those are big wins that Angelenos see and feel, it’s not campaign rheto- ric. The mayor’s getting things done across the city and that’s how you win.” Chávez Rodríguez came on after the mayor’s previ- ous top campaign strategist, Douglas Herman, left the campaign a week after the Boyle Heights fire began, citing “strategic differences” for his departure. Along with Herman, me- dia consultant Larry Grisolano and research di- rector Mike Rice also left. Bass’ director of commu- nications at City Hall, Kolby Lee, also resigned this sum- mer, the latest in a string of Bass’ communications staff to leave her office over the past nine months. Bass did significantly outraise Raman in the first campaign finance cycle of the general election, which her campaign said showed the mayor’s momentum and support in the city. Bass raised more than $510,000 in June, while Raman took in just over $170,000. Political consultant Mike Trujillo, who is supporting Bass, said the kinds of tur- bulence Bass has faced this year is par for the course for a big-city mayor. “Stuff happens; things are always moving,” Trujillo said. “Bad things are always happening, and good things are always happening.”
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In 2024, the Chinook salmon fishery was hit hard. A request to the state was made in April 2024, said Michael Milstein, a spokes- man for the National Marine Fisheries Service. A determination of disas- ter came at the end of that year, he said, and Congress appropriated funds in 2025. The allocation of $21.3 mil- lion was made to the state by NOAA in 2026, at which point the state had to sub- mit a spending plan outlin- ing how the funds were to be distributed. The funds weren’t dis- bursed until June 2026 — two years and two months after the request was made. Lori French, president of Central Coast Women for Fisheries, said crabbers will “just have to wait and see” what the El Niño brings. “I know that we all will be ready to fish when the time comes,” she said. “The ocean is always changing, and that is one of the beauties of com- mercial fishing — we get the firsthand view.”
By Matthew Brown and Dorany Pineda
LIVINGSTON, Mont. — Trout need cool water to sur- vive, but record heat this summer has driven water temperatures to lethal levels for fish. Wildlife officials are ban- ning fishing during certain hours on rivers and streams across the West, following an exceptionally dry winter and amid widespread drought. Lower water levels mean riv- ers heat up more rapidly. The restrictions aim to reduce stress on species in- cluding highly prized trout. Anglers travel from around the world to find the fish in Yellowstone National Park or western Montana’s Black- foot River, featured in the novel and movie “A River Runs Through It.” More record tempera- tures are forecast this week- end as a heat wave in the Southwest expands north into the Rocky Mountains and east across the High Plains. On the Yellowstone River near Livingston, Mont., Cali- fornia resident Mike Wever waded into the swiftly mov- ing water Friday with a fly- fishing rod in one hand. He dipped his free hand into the water. “Not very cold,” said Wever, 62. He lacked the customary waders that keep fly fishers warm. Instead, he wore shorts. Stepping carefully across a rocky side channel, Wever said he was OK with the decision to close stretches of the Yellowstone to fishing after 2 p.m. daily. “It’s great for us to have this resource,” he said. “But we have to manage it.” Many trout anglers let their catch swim free after netting it. But temperature- stressed rainbow or cut- throat trout can die if they’re out of water even briefly for a commemorative photo, ex- perts say. Colorado has imposed restrictions this summer on 19 rivers totaling 635.5 miles, a situation state officials say is unprecedented. Yellowstone expanded afternoon fishing restric-
THE YELLOWSTONE RIVER now has expanded restrictions on afternoon fishing. Trout species are at risk due to rising temperatures.
tions last Wednesday to the whole park. The same day, wildlife of- ficials in neighboring Mon- tana broadened afternoon fishing restrictions to now cover 1,200 miles of rivers. Closures “have become very common over the last decade-plus, some might even say very routine from late June through early Sep- tember,” said biologist Ad- am Strainer, administrator of the fisheries division at Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks. That trend coincides with rising temperatures as human-caused climate change warms the planet and droughts become more frequent and severe. Yellow- stone, for example, has re- stricted fishing due to high
water temperatures during five of the last six years. That’s much more often than in the past, according to park officials. The consequences aren’t just ecological; trout fishing is closely entwined with the economy in many Rocky Mountain communities. Dan Gigone, who runs Sweetwater Fly Shop along the Yellowstone River in Montana, says many visitors are pushing trips to the fall to avoid low and warm sum- mer water flows. “People are realizing Au- gust is a crap shoot here in terms of whether you’re go- ing to be able to fish and how good the fishing will be,” Gigone said. “I’ve been here 22 years and this is the warmest stretch I remem-
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ber.” Warm water contains less oxygen, making it harder for fish to breathe. It also slows their growth. Full reservoirs usually help buoy water levels dur- ing dry summers and low- water years, said Kirk Deeter with the conserva- tion group Trout Unlimited. But many of those reser- voirs are at near-record lows. In Steamboat Springs where Deeter lives, drought and warm waters in the mid-70s killed a massive number of fish on the Yampa River. “That’s a bad harbin- ger for the trout,” he said. In 2016, wildlife officials closed 183 miles of the Yel- lowstone River to fishing, rafting and other activities
to prevent a parasite sus- pected of killing tens of thou- sands of fish from spreading further in the low and warm water. A study last year found “river heat waves” are in- creasingly happening in snow-dominated areas such as the northern U.S. and the Rockies, said Li Li, a profes- sor in civil and environmen- tal engineering at Pennsyl- vania State University and a co-author of the study. Climate change, she said, is changing the size and tim- ing of the mountain snow- pack, and that’s contrib- uting to river heat waves. The researchers also found more days when rivers were warm enough to stress cold-water species like bull trout.
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Todd Tanner’s School of Trout in Bigfork, Mont., typically organizes fly-fish- ing classes from May to Oc- tober in the state’s north- west. But “the window for those trips seems to be growing narrower” as condi- tions get hotter, drier and more wildfire-prone, said Tanner. The school has shifted classes to avoid adverse con- ditions. “I’ve been in Montana full time for the last 34 years,” he said. “This wasn’t some- thing that we even thought about 30 years ago or 25 years ago.”
Brown and Pineda write for the Associated Press. Pineda reported from L.A.
Taco Bell was sitting sol- idly in the sweet spot for fast food in troubled times. The Irvine-based chain had developed a menu that was affordable enough for consumers worried about inflation and also fun enough for those looking for more than just hamburgers and pizza. Its sales and stock price were soaring at a time when fast-food outlets are struggling amid inflation and other industry chal- lenges. Then came cyclospo- riasis. A massive parasitic outbreak has taken Taco Bell down a peg, and now it has to rebuild its momen- tum. “The brand has seen a meaningful near-term sales impact,” said Chris Turner, chief executive of Taco Bell’s owner Yum Brands, on an earnings call Thursday. “Our teams are acting quickly and transparently while keeping the safety and well-being of our consumers as the top priority.” Unfortunately for Taco Bell, it has become one of the biggest names associated with the outbreak. In June, the Centers for Disease Control and Preven- tion announced that shred- ded lettuce served at Taco Bell in five states was the source of more than 1,600 cy- closporiasis infections. In comparison, an E. coli out- break linked to McDonald’s in 2024 infected around 100 people. In 2010, a salmonella outbreak tied to Taco Bell sickened 155 people. Still, on Thursday, the company reported same- store sales increased 7% in the second quarter, marking the ninth consecutive quar- ter of same-store sales growth that outpaced in- dustry averages. Yum Brands, which also owns KFC and Habit Burger and Grill, saw operating profits increase 5% to $655 million year over year. Caused by the parasite cyclospora, cyclosporiasis can cause diarrhea, fatigue, cramping and weight loss. More than 90 people have been hospitalized as a result of the outbreak in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia. How Taco Bell and oth- ers in the food industry tou- ched by the outbreak re- cover will depend on how long it lasts, said Aneurin
many Americans to rewrite shopping lists
By Dee-Ann Durbin, Terry Tang, Maggie Scales, Sandy Guatibonza and Hikari Mae Hida Paramount Skydance Chairman David Ellison and California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta are clashing again — this time over when the anti- trust trial to determine whether Paramount can complete its nearly $111-bil- lion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery should be- gin. In court documents Fri- day, Bonta and his coalition of 11 other Democratic attor- neys general proposed a two- to three-week trial be- ginning April 5, 2027. Ellison’s Paramount pushed back, saying the me- dia company would like to start the courtroom action on Nov. 4. “Our request for a No- vember trial date is more than sufficient to give both sides the time they need to conduct discovery, gather evidence, and prepare for trial,” Paramount said in a statement that called the state attorneys general re- quest for a springtime trial “nothing more than a stone- walling tactic.” U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín, who is overseeing the high- profile case, now must pick the date. For Paramount, the issue is hugely important. Ellison wants to wrap up the massive Hollywood deal — bringing CNN, HBO and the Warner Bros. film and television studios under Pa- ramount — as soon as pos- sible. Doing so is crucial to holding together Pa-
What’s for dinner? Lately, at Apral Jack’s house, it’s whatever is on sale. Jack, 50, scouts an app for deals at her local supermar- ket. When she reaches the store, she looks in the weekly circular for coupons she might have missed. If shelf prices look too high, she tries someplace else. “The apples went up here, the ones I eat, so now I’m not going to get them here,” said Jack, who lives in Lexington, Mass. Couponing, comparison- shopping and cutting back are new habits for millions of Americans as they absorb the biggest jump in grocery prices in a half-century. Buy- ing food to eat at home has gotten 33% more expensive since the beginning of 2019, government figures show. With a conflict in the Mid- dle East creating more price pressures, the cost of filling refrigerators, freezers and pantries has made afford- ability a central issue in the fall midterm elections. The price of ground beef reached $6.82 a pound in June, which is 79% more than at the beginning of 2019, according to Bureau of La- bor Statistics data. Ada Torres, 60, who lives 45 miles northeast of Hous- ton, is one of the people no longer buying it. She does the grocery shopping and cooking for the home she shares with her daughter and three grandchildren.
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TACO BELL has become one of the biggest names associated with the massive cyclosporiasis outbreak.
Canham-Clyne, a reporter for the trade publication Restaurant Dive. “It’s a very large out- break,” he said. “But if you look at chains that have really suffered in the long term from reputation harm from outbreaks, it usually takes repeated outbreaks, and it usually takes out- breaks that kill people.” On July 17, the same day the CDC announced the link to Taco Bell, the chain is- sued a release saying it had completed removal of af- fected Taylor Farms lettuce from its restaurants. Taylor Farms also issued a recall that day of all iceberg lettuce sourced from Central Mexi- co from a certain time pe- riod. According to Placer.ai, Taco Bell’s foot traffic dropped 31% on July 17 com- pared to the day-of-week av- erage, and was down 30% the next day. Yum’s shares lost as much as 12% from their July
“Prices are sky-high. One hundred dollars’ worth of groceries these days is noth- ing,” Torres said. Jack Chang, 33, is a self- employed barber in San Francisco with three young children and a partner who is unemployed. When their 4-year-old daughter’s preschool has leftover meat or bread, Chang’s partner, Tina Chhous, offers to take it. Chhous also receives monthly food assistance through the federal Supple- mental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. “Without that, I don’t know what I would do,” Chang said. Chang’s 77-year-old mother, Lien, receives SNAP aid, too, and visits two food banks each week. High grocery bills come with living in Hawaii. The state gets nearly all its food from cargo ships, making prices vulnerable to oil mar- ket spikes. Amanda Tabadero, 28, a pastry chef on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, remembers buying Maui-grown straw- berries and blueberries for $7.99 per pound in 2024. Now that they cost $11, she buys berries from California or Mexico at Costco for $5 when she bakes. Tabadero said an iced coffee and a bag of fruit she recently purchased in Hono- lulu’s Chinatown came to $30. “It makes me sad,” Tabadero said. “I want to use local stuff.”
By Caroline Petrow-Cohen
peak. “Consumers would rea- sonably be wary about eat- ing at Taco Bell for some time, even after the brand gives its all clear,” Canham- Clyne said. “There’s reason to be immediately suspi- cious of the idea that a prob- lem like that could be recti- fied in one day.” Taco Bell was founded by Glenn Bell in 1962 in Downey and opened its 100th restau- rant in Anaheim by 1967. The company went public in 1970 and moved into its current headquarters in Irvine in 2010. Before founding Taco Bell, Bell drew inspiration from his friends and neigh- bors at Mitla Cafe in San Bernardino to create his own version of a crunchy taco. Before the outbreak, Taco Bell had found its stride — and analysts say its operational advantages could carry it through the rough patch.
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Experts say Taco Bell’s secret sauce isn’t just one flavor — the brand has achieved cultural relevance, menu innovation and com- pelling value that keep cus- tomers coming back. “Taco Bell has long been known as a very strong brand and has managed to stay very relevantto younger consumers and to the cul- ture, despite being 60 years old,” said Sara Senatore, a Bank of America senior ana- lyst covering restaurants. Senatore also credited past Taco Bell chief execu- tive Brian Nichols for ramp- ing up the restaurant’s dig- ital presence and bringing more customers to its app for ordering ahead and re- wards programs. Nichols served as chief executive for Taco Bell for three years be- fore leaving in 2018 to fill the same role at Chipotle. In 2024, he was hired as chief executive for Starbucks. Fast food brands includ- ing Jack in the Box, Wendy’s
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PARAMOUNT hopes to close its deal for Warner Bros. as soon as possible.
ramount’s coalition of finan- ciers and controlling its ris- ing expenses, primarily legal fees and escalating obliga- tions to Warner sharehold- ers. Early this year, Pa- ramount agreed to pay Warner investors a so-called ticking fee of $.25 per share per quarter, beginning Oct. 1. The overture was aimed at winning over investors dur- ing a bidding war with Netflix. Paramount agreed to pay Warner shareholders at least $31 a share. Those ticking fees would increase the cost by $650 mil- lion every quarter or $7 mil- lion a day. For Paramount, fi- nalizing the transaction by year’s end would eliminate such payments in 2027. Warner shares gained 3.3% Friday to $26.30 — well below the deal price. Pa- ramount stock is down nearly 40% since early Janu- ary; it ended the trading week at $7.96. For the states — which have been joined in the an- titrust litigation by the Writ- ers Guild of America — set- ting the trial for next spring would bring advantages. They would have more time to prepare their case while also gaining leverage
and Carl’s Jr. have struggled under the pressure of several forces this year, including a low-income consumer group that’s squeezed by inflation, rising food and labor costs and increasing competition with fast casual and casual dining alternatives. “Anywhere you look, the below-average-income con- sumer has been pressured, and that’s a function of broader inflation,” said Bri- an Harbour, an equity ana- lyst at Morgan Stanley. “More recently, it’s a func- tion of gas prices.” But Taco Bell, led since 2023 by Chief Executive Sean Tresvant, has mas- tered its branding and dig- ital appeal skillfully enough to overcome these obstacles. Tresvant previously worked for Nike as chief marketing officer of the Jordan brand, which is wildly popular among younger consumers — the same group that often frequents Taco Bell. YumBrands Chief Finan-
over Paramount, should the two sides seek to resolve the issue out of court. With the clock ticking, Paramount might be more willing to compromise to reach a settlement, includ- ing selling some of its hoped- for assets. “Plaintiff States propose a fast-paced but realistic schedule that moves this case rapidly to trial while en- suring sufficient time for dis- covery and pretrial prepara- tion,” the states said in the latest court documents. “A shorter timeline would be artificially compressed and risks depriving this Court of a full record on which to de- cide this $110 billion case.” Paramount also faces a potential $7-billion payment to Warner Bros. should the merger collapse by next summer. Paramount is the smallest of the major media companies and acquiring Warner Bros. is key to Ellison’s ambitions to build a new Hollywood colossus. The state attorneys gen- eral, including from Col- orado, Oregon, New York, New Jersey and Nevada, have argued that the block- buster merger — the largest in Hollywood in decades — would violate the Clayton Antitrust Act, which has been on the books for more than a century. If the deal goes forward, just four companies — a post-merger Paramount- Warner, Disney, NBCUni- versal and Sony Pictures — would control 86% of movies that are widely released (in more than 3,000 movie theaters), according to the attorneys general lawsuit. Paramount-Warner Bros. would also own more than 50 cable channels, in- cluding CNN, TBS, HGTV, Animal Planet and Comedy Central, in addition to HBO.
cial Officer Ranjith Roy said the brand has a long-term growth opportunity in the U.S. of more than 10,000 stores. Some of Taco Bell’s ad- vantages come from its choice of cuisine. Mexican- inspired fast food can pack in more flavor than burgers and chicken sandwiches and offer more room for innova- tion. There’s also less com- petition and more opportu- nity for filling meals without expensive ingredients. “From a value perspec- tive, Taco Bell just has al- ways been known for very, very sharp value,” Senatore said. “Taco Bell can afford to offer price points of 99 cents or $1.99 because for some- thing like a bean burrito, the cost is going to be much lower than a hamburger, and it can still be very satiating.” Taco Bell’s Luxe Value Menu offers 10 items for $3 or less, including a spicy potato soft taco for $1.69 and a cheesy bean and rice burrito for $1.89. It also has a cus- tomizable Luxe Cravings Box that comes with three items and a drink for $7.99. In comparison, the Jack in the Box medium Classic Smashed Jack Combo comes with a quarter-pound cheeseburger, fries and a drink for $12.29. Chipotle’s chicken burrito with rice, beans, cheese and salsa, plus a side of chips, totals $12.50. Taco Bell wins customers over with creative menu op- tions, experts said. They sell tacos with Dorito shells, na- cho-seasoned fries and a Mexican pizza. While some fast food joints have over-innovated to the point where custom- ers see it as tiring or gim- micky, Taco Bell appears to have found the right bal- ance. “In almost any other restaurant, Taco Bell’s pace of innovation would seem too fast-paced, but I think that the Taco Bell customer base welcomes that and re- sponds to it,” said Harbour from Morgan Stanley. Canham-Clyne predic- ted the brand will bounce back within six months. “I think a lot of people are going to be making jokes about getting parasitic diar- rhea from Taco Bell for the next 20 years,” he said. “But I don’t think it’s necessarily going to impact the chain’s sales long term.”
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Gov. Gavin Newsom was not ea- ger for a trial to take place. Newsom has not publicly favored either side. Sources have previously told The Times that both sides have been lobbying the governor to win his support. A Newsom spokesperson declined to discuss the Jour- nal article, saying: “Our of- fice doesn’t comment on anonymous sources or un- verified reporting.” Bonta — not Newsom — is leading the case. Both hold statewide of- fice; Bonta is running for reelection this year and Newsom is widely expected to run for president in 2028. Paramount recently agreed to delay its acquisition amid concerns that it was poised to lose an important motion for a pre- liminary injunction — which would have rattled investors — and scuttled the deal until a trial could be held. On Friday, Paramount said further delays “harm the many individuals out- side this courtroom who will be denied the expanded con- tent offerings and industry stability that a combined Paramount-WBD promises to bring.” For his part, Bonta has said he was “eager” to move forward to a trial. “Our challenge to the un- lawful Warner Bros./Pa- ramount merger is a clean- cut antitrust challenge through and through: it’s about protecting the vi- brancy of an industry, the pockets of consumers, and the quality of films and tele- vision programs that take center stage in many of our lives,” Bonta said in a state- ment. “This challenge de- serves careful and thorough review.”
By Lucas Shaw and Thomas Buckley
Josh D’Amaro rose to the top of Walt Disney Co. by turning its theme parks into the envy of the world. Now he needs to perform a similar trick with the company’s streaming services. D’Amaro has instructed his leadership team to think of Disney+ as the front door for the company’s fans worldwide. Disney+ is intro- ducing new features, like a better recommendation al- gorithm and vertical videos, which it says will close the technological gap with Net- flix Inc. and YouTube and persuade users to spend more time on the app. The company is integrating pro- gramming from Hulu and ESPN to bring its full com- plement of movies, TV shows and live sports into one place. Disney also plans to increase its investment in local programming in mar- kets like South Korea so in- ternational viewers have more reasons to sign up. Improving the perform- ance of the streaming busi- ness is D’Amaro’s best shot at lifting Disney’s stagnant share price, according to Rob Fishman, an analyst at MoffettNathanson. Shares in the Burbank-based enter- tainment giant have fallen more than 40% over the last five years, including about 13% in 2026. Disney’s approach to streaming has confounded investors, who worry that the services will never re- place the money the com- pany once made from cable networks. The company’s services haven’t increased their share of U.S. domestic TV viewing in three years, ceding ground to rivals that include Amazon and free-to- watch services. Overseas, Disney’s sites have a much smaller footprint than at home. In July, Wells Fargo analyst Steven Cahall rec- ommended the company get
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Aggressive AI spending plans by Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Alpha- bet Inc. have provided fresh evidence that demand for chips and related equip- ment will remain strong, of- fering relief to a sector that’s been battered in recent days. Amazon boosted its fore- cast for full-year capital ex- penditures to $220 billion on Thursday, up from a previ- ous estimate of $200 billion. And Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy said most of that spending will go toward arti- ficial intelligence. The outlook was part of a rush of earnings reports de- livered by so-called hyper- scalers — the world’s largest cloud computing providers — and they showed there’s been no letup in ambitions for building AI infrastruc- ture. “The big news continues to be the order backlogs are getting bigger and bigger,” said Louis Navellier, founder and chief investment officer of Navellier & Associates. Microsoft affirmed its capital expenditure fore- cast, absent the impact of an accounting change. Google parent Alphabet raised its spending outlook, and Meta Platforms Inc. increased the low end of its guidance for capital expenditures. That’s good news for the businesses that make chips, networking gear and other technology used in data cen- ters. Fears of a potential spending slowdown had weighed on shares of those companies. Now their outlook for the coming year is brightening, according to Bloomberg In- telligence analysts Kunjan Sobhani and Oscar Hernan- dez Tejada. “With most large hyper- scalers raising or reiterating capital spending plans in their earnings commentary, the likelihood of upside to 2026-27 consensus for com- puting and networking chip- makers is growing,” they said in a note.
DISNEY EXECUTIVES have high hopes for the platform as providers adapt to the streaming business.
out of the streaming busi- ness altogether. A recent overhaul of the streaming operations has begun to pay dividends, ac- cording to Adam Smith, chief product and technol- ogy officer for Disney Enter- tainment and ESPN. Time spent on Disney+ in the U.S. is up 21% from a year ago and Disney’s streaming services registered their best month of viewership in the U.S. in March, according to Nielsen. “We’ve been fundamen- tally revamping our ap- proach,” said Smith, who runs Disney’s streaming services alongside Joe Ear- ley. “We’ve made great strides in changing and evolving the experience.” While its streaming serv- ices have the potential to be the best in the business, MoffettNathanson’s Fish- man said the company “needs to give investors something to be excited about and go execute on it.”
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Amazon investors ap- plauded its earnings report, which showed that cloud computing revenue acceler- ated for a fifth straight quar- ter. The message: The com- pany’s spending spree is get- ting results. Shares of Amazon soared as much as 16% on Friday, notching the biggest intra- day gain since February 2022. Microsoft got a similarly warm reception. It added nearly half a trillion dollars to its valuation on Thursday after reporting the fastest cloud growth in four years. The $450-billion increase to its market capitalization was the biggest single bump for any company in history. Investors were less im- pressed with Meta and Al- phabet. The companies were dogged by concerns that their expenditures didn’t have a clear payoff. Meta, owner of Facebook and Instagram, dropped nearly 8% on Thursday fol- lowing its report. It deliv- ered a weak sales forecast paired with commitments for almost $700 billion in fu- ture spending. It’s no longer enough to show that a company is in- vesting heavily in AI, said Ken Gawrelski, an analyst at Wells Fargo & Co. Investors increasingly want to see a re- turn, he said. “Go back 12 to 18 months ago, it was about how much could you spend and how much capacity could you
slip a decade ago, Disney’s then-CEO, Bob Iger, made streaming the company’s top priority. Iger spent more than $70 billion to buy enter- tainment assets from Fox and billions more to hire en- gineers and fund program- ming for Disney+. This spending, which brought in an enormous content library and produc- tion pipeline, enabled Dis- ney to manage the transition from cable to streaming bet- ter than any other legacy media company. Disney+ attracted more than 10 mil- lion customers on its first day in November 2019. When the service eclipsed 100 mil- lion subscribers in less than two years, shares in the com- pany hit an all-time high. Yet while Wall Street had encouraged Disney to sacri- fice short-term profits to fo- cus on signing up customers, sentiment changed in 2022 when Netflix reported a sur- prising loss of subscribers. Companies were hemor- rhaging cash to invest in streaming at the same time their TV networks were
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bring online,” he said. “Now the market has pivoted, and is rightly focused on the re- turn on investment.” Google fell 7.1% on July 23, the day after projecting full- year capital expenditures will be $195 billion to $205 bil- lion in 2026. That was up from a previous forecast of $190 billion. In any case, all that spending is poised to benefit suppliers that had been under a cloud recently. Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., which make memory chips, slumped early last week — only to rebound on the latest spending signals. CoreWeave Inc., Nebius Group NV, Intel Corp. and Nvidia Corp. are emerging from similar slumps. Several of these compa- nies were among the public holdings of Leopold Aschen- brenner’s hedge fund, Situa- tional Awareness, which sold off some of its equity po- sitions after losses in the AI stock rout in recent weeks, according to people familiar with the matter. That may have accounted for some of the stock declines. For now, there seems to be little risk of overestimat- ing AI infrastructure de- mand, Navellier said. “There is a power race underway,” he said. “In theory, there could be a glut one day, but we’re nowhere near that.”
shrinking. Investors started to question the decisions Iger and his successor Bob Chapek had made. Why had Disney taken on so much debt to buy the en- tertainment businesses from Fox? Had the company ruined the Star Wars fran- chise by making too many TV shows? Should Disney even still own ESPN given the rising cost of sports rights? When Dana Walden and Alan Bergman took charge of Disney’s entertainment division in February 2023, the company’s streaming service had just lost about $4 billion in the previous fiscal year. Under pressure from activist investor Nelson Peltz, Walden and Bergman cut back on programming, reducing the number of shows Disney commis- sioned by almost 50% be- tween 2022 and 2025, accord- ing to Ampere Analysis. They also raised prices, nearly tripling the cost of Disney+, while introducing acheaper option with ads for those who don’t want to pay more. In just three years, the company turned that $4-bil- lion loss into a profit. “We went from losing a lot of money to building a serv- ice that represents the po- tential of the Walt Disney Company,” Walden, Disney’s president and first chief cre- ative officer, said in an inter- view. “That’s not to say we don’t have a lot of room to grow, but after three and a half years, I feel great about what we’ve accomplished.” Getting finances in order at the streaming services was just one part of the turn- around plan. Subscriber growth had slowed to a crawl while streaming’s share of total TV time plateaued at about 5%. Disney owns one of the most beloved collec- tions of studios and intel- lectual property in the world
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One Disney D’Amaro has pushed the company to embrace the concept of One Disney. When Disney+ first launched, there was a per- ception it was just for fam- ilies and kids — a place to go for Disney classics like Cin- derella or Frozen. Hulu, which Disney once co- owned with Fox, was where you went for edgier general entertainment program- ming, while ESPN was the destination for sports. Smith and Earley are work- ing to teach their customers that Disney+ is the place to watch not just “Bluey” and “The Mandalorian,” but also “The Bear” and the NFL. “Disney+ is for every- one,” Earley said. This has been true outside the U.S. for years. Smith and Earley have integrated Hulu cus- tomers’ viewing history into Disney+ so the app can rec- ognize what those subscrib- ers do and don’t like. Viewers won’t lose anything by watching a show from FX on Disney+ instead of Hulu. Disney has also prioritized
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convincing customers to buy a bundle of Disney’s serv- ices. That’s a big reason the company’s churn, or cancel- lation rate, sits at just 3% in the U.S., according to An- tenna. It’s the second best in the industry after Netflix. Disney chafes at the no- tion that its programming is insufficient. Disney is sec- ond only to YouTube in share of TV time if you com- bine its TV networks and streaming services. Though it doesn’t release nearly as many original hits as Netflix, Disney has four of the 10 most-watched streaming se- ries this year thanks to “Bluey” and reruns of “Fam- ily Guy,” “Bob’s Burgers” and “Grey’s Anatomy.” It also operates the most suc- cessful movie studio in the world, producing hits such as “Toy Story 5,” “The Devil Wears Prada 2” and Holly- wood’s top-grossing film last year, “Zootopia 2.” The biggest opportunity for growth in Disney’s streaming services is abroad. Disney has long op- erated in the classic Holly- wood model, exporting its programming to the world. Franchises like Marvel and Pixar are popular every- where. But there is a limit to how big a streaming service can get in many markets without local programming. Both Netflix and YouTube have tapped into local pro- gramming to great effect. Walden has put Eric Schrier in charge of building out the pipeline of local-lan- guage shows that can com- plement Disney’ global fran- chises. Disney plans to dou- ble its budget for local-lan- guage programming over the next few years. It’s also bidding on more rights to sports in markets like Latin America and Australia. “We have a clear growth strategy, and it starts with great storytelling,” Walden said. “That means increas- ing our content spend, par- ticularly outside the U.S., while significantly expand- ing our creative output over the next several years.” D’Amaro imagines one day the Disney+ app will be a hub not just for entertain- ment but for all things Dis- ney — a place to buy tickets to the theme parks or toys. But first he needs to get fans to spend more time watch- ing its TV shows and movies.
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Dear Liz: We are a het- erosexual couple who are registered domestic part- ners in California. We have owned our primary resi- dence for decades. Obvi- ously, its value has in- creased and is well past the $500,000 home sales exemp- tion limit for couples. When one of us passes away, how is the basis and the appreciation of the residence calculated for federal and state taxes? Does the step-up basis come into play for both federal and state taxes when calculating capital gains? We do not have any children and are leaving the
gasoline prices. Now, econo- mists warn the inflation re- lief seen earlier this summer may be short lived after a re- escalation of the Iran war pushed oil prices up again in July. Hammack said she did not see policy as “appropri- ately restrictive” to cool price pressures, and was not confident inflation would re- turn to the Fed’s 2% goal on its own. “Now is the time for the FOMC to act to speed the re- turn of PCE inflation to our 2% objective and deliver on our commitment to price stability for the American people,” she said. The same three regional bank presidents dissented at the Fed’s April meeting. While they supported the decision to hold interest rates then, they objected to language in the post-meet- ing statement that sug- gested the next rate move would likely be a cut. In an interview in late June, Kashkari cited what he saw as broad inflationary pressure as a reason the Fed would likely need to raise rates this year. He joined eight of his colleagues at the June meeting in penciling in at least one hike this year. On Friday, he said using small adjustments could give the Fed more flexibility to respond to shifts in the economy. “If inflation remains ele- vated, in my view, a potential series of small policy moves would be better than waiting and eventually concluding that even bolder actions were necessary,” Kashkari said, adding that officials could “slow or pause subse- quent adjustments” if infla- tion fades. The three leaders also
bulk of our estate to charity.
Answer: California offers the valuable double step-up in tax basis to registered domestic partners, but the federal government does not. In most states, one half of a couple’s jointly owned property gets a new value for tax purposes when the first partner dies. This step-up in value eliminates capital gains taxes on any appreciation that happened during the deceased part- ner’s ownership. In community property states, however, both halves of jointly owned property can get the step-up in value when the first spouse dies. California generally treats registered domestic part- ners the same as married couples, but IRS Revenue Ruling 2013-17 and Regula- tion 301.7701-18(c) specify that “marriage” and “spouse” do not include registered domestic part- nerships for federal tax purposes, according to Wolters Kluwer Tax & Ac- counting. Let’s say you bought the house for $300,000 in the 1980s, invested $100,000 in upgrades over the years and it’s worth $2 million today. The current tax basis would be $400,000 (the sales price plus the upgrades). That’s the amount the two of you would subtract from the sales price to determine the potentially taxable capital gain. You could exempt $500,000 of the home sale proceeds ($250,000 per owner) since you’ve owned and lived in the property at least two of the past five years. That leaves a taxable gain of $1.1 million. If one of you died tomor- row, only half of the property would get stepped up to the current market value for federal tax purposes while the other half would retain its $200,000 basis for a total basis of $1.2 million. For state tax purposes, both halves would get the step-up so the new tax basis for state taxes would be $2 million. Something else to con- sider: A federal law allows the full $500,000 exclusion for surviving spouses if they sell the home within two years of the death. That provision is not extended to registered domestic part- ners. As you can see, a mar-
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noted that inflation has been above their goal for more than five years. “Every month of above-target infla- tion compounds the strain on the budgets of American families and businesses,” Logan warned. Investors mostly ex- pected the Fed to leave rates stable at the July 28 to 29 meeting. But bond markets sold off Wednesday and yields on 30-year Treasury bonds rose to the highest levels in 19 years after Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh de- clined to explain officials’ ra- tionale for the decision and didn’t offer guidance on what it would take for policy- makers to adjust rates. Richmond Fed President Tom Barkin said Friday it was a “close call” on whether the Fed’s benchmark rate is high enough to bring down inflation. Barkin, who will vote on monetary policy decisions next year, told the Wall Street Journal he saw a case for undoing some of the rate reductions made last year, but he was not sure if he would have joined his peers in dissenting last week. “Do you have to add some re- straint? I think that’s the question,” he said. Data out Friday showed U.S. labor cost growth re- mained steady in the second quarter, indicating the job market is doing little to con- tribute to inflationary pres- sures. While the difference was small, “the market needs lower inflation data, and not slightly higher,” said Tony Farren, managing director in rates sales and trading at Mischler Financial Group.
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riage certificate could make an enormous difference if the survivor wanted or needed to sell the home after the first death. Marriage confers a num- ber of other benefits under federal law. A spouse can receive Social Security spousal and survivor ben- efits, for example, but regis- tered domestic partners aren’t eligible for benefits on a partner’s earnings record. Spouses also have special rights with IRAs and em- ployer retirement plans, such as being able to treat an inherited IRA as their own. Non-spouse beneficia- ries, including domestic partners, generally must empty the accounts within 10 years. Your mileage may vary, but the benefits are numer- ous and valuable enough to make marriage worthwhile in many cases. Please talk to your tax pro and estate planning attorney for indi- vidualized advice.
Dear Liz: I have been reading the questions about converting an IRA to a Roth and want to know how it might apply to my situation. I have been getting my required minimum distribu- tions for a while, and I have been paying the surcharges on Medicare because of my higher income. Would it still be worth it to convert to a Roth? My children have very good income so inherit- ing my IRA and paying the taxes on that will probably be a burden. Thoughts?
Answer: A Roth IRA is a wonderful asset to inherit. Beneficiaries typically must empty the account within 10 years, but the withdrawals are entirely tax free. That generosity comes at a cost, of course. You’d have to pay the taxes on any amounts you convert from your IRA, and the conver- sions could trigger even higher Medicare premiums. A tax pro can guide you about whether conversions make sense as well as how to do them: gradually over time or all at once.
Liz Weston, Certified Financial Planner, is a personal finance columnist. Questions may be sent to her at 3940 Laurel Canyon, No. 238, Studio City, CA 91604, or by using the “Contact” form at asklizweston.com.
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grow until U.S. stops fueling the crisis
the political winds making it worse are from Washington
resident Trump argued last month that Canada should pay damages — or face additional tariffs — for the wildfire smoke re- cently “poisoning” American air, and claimed that he strong-armed Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney during the World Cup final in New Jersey, telling Carney he needed to stop the fires. To Trump and the Michigan members of Congress who recently declared in a letter that their “pa- tience has run out” with Canada over the wildfire smoke: I get where you’re coming from. As a Canadi- an, I’d love nothing more than to stop the haze drifting over the bor- der. The air is thick, the sunsets are unsettling and your constituents — just like ours — are coughing through summers that are no long- er what they used to be. But here’s the thing: Demand- ing compensation while gutting cli- mate policy is asking Canada to put out the fires while Washington keeps adding more fuel. The smoke blanketing part of the U.S. isn’t just a forest manage- ment problem. It’s a climate prob- lem. Canada’s 2023 wildfire season was the worst in our history, with more than 45 million acres burned — an area considerably larger than Michigan. And by July 17 of this year, another 5.9 million acres of land was lost to fire. Yet Washington continues to dismantle previous efforts by the U.S. government to tackle climate change. Trump and his team are greatly accelerating fossil fuel de- velopment while dismantling many of the policies designed to
team are greatly accelerating fossil fuel development while dismantling policies designed to limit its effects.
L.A.’S latest sunrise would be at 8 a.m. under permanent daylight saving time.
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egarding all the hand-wringing in Los Angeles over whether to switch to perma- nent standard time or permanent daylight saving time, ask yourself these two ques- tions: Do you really want sunrises in L.A. that precede 5 a.m.? That’s what you’ll get for 78 days under year-round standard time. Do you really want sunrises in L.A. that come after 7:30 a.m.? That’s what you’ll get for 99 days under year-round daylight saving time. The current system of changing our clocks twice a year takes advantage of the sun’s cycles to create optimal sunrise and sunset times. There are no crazy extremes in the average sunset/sunrise times. It’s like what they say about democracy: It’s the worst form of government except for the other ones. Leave well enough alone, it still works best. Paul Haddad Los Angeles
Rather than discuss the pros and cons of permanent standard time versus day- light saving time, why not just split the difference with a one-time and permanent “fall back” of just 30 minutes when changing the clocks in the fall? Philip Ginter Sunland
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limit its effects. They have rolled back clean energy initiatives, weakened environmental review and loosened critical methane regulations. The administration is even pay- ing companies to dismantle mas- sive wind turbine projects that would have delivered clean energy to millions, all in the name of a Luddite ideology that makes life on our planet less tenable. The result will be high green- house gas emissions, a faster- warming climate and more sum- mers filled with wildfire smoke blanketing the skies. The changes under Trump are not minor technical tweaks. They are political choices that will in- crease emissions and lock in new fossil fuel infrastructure, making the conditions that drive today’s severe wildfire seasons that much worse. If you think the smoke is bad now, just wait until those projects start operating at full capacity. Trump is now threatening Can- ada with tariffs and demanding damages for pollution while his ad- ministration expands the industry principally responsible for heating the planet. The members of Con- gress who wrote the letter to Cana- da voted for policies that are mak- ing the smoke problem worse. The audacity is stunning. The letter points to short- comings in Canada’s forest man- agement, and argues that Canada has underinvested in thinning forests, fuel reduction, prescribed burns and enforcement against ar- son. Canada should certainly do more to prevent and fight wildfires. More than 5,300 firefighters were
their will. Daylight saving time originated in Germany and Austria as an effort to con- serve electricity for World War I. However, in the U.S., it wreaks havoc on children who end up going to school in the dark. Meanwhile, it’s more dangerous for those driving in the early hours. The current system isn’t perfect, but people have adapted. We don’t need someone telling us they are going to change our lives to suit their needs.
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Please help our children stay safe, as well as those who need daylight in their earliest hours. Rick Mervis Reseda
There is no “one-size- fits-all” solution in the day- light saving time debate. Daylight saving versus standard time is the wrong discussion to have. If schools should start or end at different times based on
THE NEW YORK CITY skyline is blanketed in smoke from Canada’s worst wildfire season.
battling the fires, and Canada should commit additional funding to preventing these blazes before they start, while strengthening preparedness and emergency re- sponse. But forest management alone cannot address the hotter, drier conditions that are making fires more intense and more difficult to control — that requires con- fronting the underlying crisis. As emissions rise, Canada’s forests are following the same trajectory as in California: a warming climate is leaving them hotter, drier and primed to burn. The atmosphere does not recognize borders, and certainly doesn’t care about presi- dential threats. It makes little dif- ference whether the pollution comes from Texas, Pennsylvania or Alberta. It contributes to the same warming that dries forests and intensifies fires across the con- tinent. Wildfires are also one of North America’s fastest-growing public health threats. The smoke now choking the air contains PM2.5 particles — tiny pollutants that can penetrate deep into the lungs and bloodstream, raising the risk of asthma and serious cardiovas- cular disease, while contributing to premature death. In 2023, more than 120 million Americans were exposed to wildfire smoke for pro- longed periods, including commu-
the seasonal sun, then move the start/end times, not the clocks. The length of day- light hours is more dramatic the farther north you live, so some communities may want to change their sched- ules (not their clocks) based on what works best. If high-traffic density while the sun is rising or setting is an issue, then spread out the “work” start times. Adapt commute, school and work schedules to fit the seasons. Don’t change the clocks! Change the behavior based on seasons. And we shouldn’t have lawmakers deciding for all people what works best for us. Bruce Farber Oak View
Missing in the debate about permanent daylight saving time: student achievement. We know low attendance is a problem nationwide, particularly since the pandemic. Dark mornings are not going to help get kids to school. I’ve been a middle and high school teacher for more than 20 years and I can attest that even when stu- dents manage to arrive for first-period class on time, their brains are sluggish at best, and that’s when there is some light in the sky (research proves starting school later would help, but that’s not feasible). If we care about support- ing students’ learning, we’ll make choices that put their needs above our conven- ience and enjoyment. Kristin Burcham Santa Monica
age with pride
Re “Botox is quietly killing the art of acting,” Opinion Voices, July 26
Guest contributor Nicole Ackermann hit the nail on
nities across Michigan. Children, seniors and people with preexisting health conditions are especially vulnerable, particu- larly in rural areas where hospital closures and underfunded clinics leave too many people without ad- equate care. An angry letter won’t protect those communities. Neither will a tariff or a demand that Canada write a check. You need policies that cut emissions through a shift to cleaner energy while helping communities adapt to what’s now an annual crisis. The smoke drifting south may come from Canadian forests — but the political winds making it worse are also coming from Washington. Unless the United States changes course, next summer will probably look just like this one. Or worse. To the people of Michigan and the rest of the United States: If you’re tired of breathing wildfire smoke every summer while law- makers blame Canada instead of tackling climate change, speak up. Demand an end to new fossil fuel projects. Unless we dramatically reduce emissions, the smoke will keep coming — every summer, every year. And no tariff will stop it.
Felix Horne is a senior expert with Climate Rights International based in Ottawa.
the head. Why are women buying into this sexist no- tion that their bodies and faces are never good enough? The proliferation of Ulta and Sephora, and the gigantic cosmetic floor space I saw at Macy’s re- cently, highlight how wom- en are constantly told they need to look younger and better. Mothers are taking preteens to buy this stuff! As a grandmother over 70 with plenty of wrinkles, I encourage young women to skip the Botox, the plumped lips and the facelifts, and just be proud, grateful and happy as you age. As Mister Rogers said, “I like you just the way you are.” Mary Curtius Coronado
You can look old, or you can look weird. I made that observation to my derma- tologist, and she now re- peats it to some of her pa- tients who are considering Botox injections. Besides, there are ben- efits to looking old. As I approach my 82nd birthday, I find that many young people are especially kind and helpful to me. Susan Madden Santa Barbara
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Re “Censoring is out. Bully- ing is in,” Opinion Voices, July 23
Guest contributor Si- mona Grossi is correct when she points out that this current administration is using the withholding of money to punish corpora- tions and organizations or their leadership who oppose or disagree with its policies. In addition to the method she proposes to deal with this behavior, I believe that the 1st Amend- ment can be invoked by the judiciary directly against
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these repressive actions. In Citizens United vs. FEC (2010), the Supreme Court ruled that corporations and other outside groups could no longer be prohibited from unlimited supposedly “independent” spending on campaigns. This was an expansion of the court’s decision in Buckley vs. Valeo (1976) that contributions to campaigns (money to sway voters’ opinions) was speech and therefore could not be limited. I disagree with the Citi- zens United majority opin- ion and ruling. However, since it was ruled that lim- iting money is equivalent to limiting speech, equal appli- cation of those decisions would therefore demand that money cannot be with- held from persons, corpora- tions or groups because of governmental disagree- ment or opposition to those expressed beliefs and opin- ions. Neal Sheade Westwood
heartbreak
Re “Caring for an old, furry friend,” California Voices, July 29
Thank you to Gustavo Arellano for sharing Cosmo and Hook’s story. Senior dogs are abandoned at shelters every day just be- cause they have grown old or have health conditions. Frosted Faces’ mission, guided by the belief that no senior dog or cat should end their lives in a shelter, is worth the heartbreak one endures at the end of their adopted pets’ journey. Tom Iannucci Eugene, Ore.
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here are many ways to measure the health of a country. One way is growth of gross domes- tic product. Another is economic productivity. But there’s a less conventional measure worth watching: Do the world’s most tal- ented and ambitious people want to immigrate here? Throughout most of America’s history, the answer has been an emphatic yes. Scientists, engi- neers, entrepreneurs, artists and strivers from around the world have chosen the United States be- cause they believed they could build something, discover some- thing or start a business while making a better life in this country. We should worry about the day when that is no longer true. Unfortunately, the Trump ad- ministration seems determined to make that day arrive sooner rather than later. Its destructive embrace of protectionism is not merely di- rected against foreign goods and capital. It’s not limited to low-skill immigrants, either. It’s also di- rected against in-demand foreign talent. For instance, a rule finalized in early July replaces “duration of status” for foreign students, ex- change visitors and foreign jour- nalists with fixed admission peri- ods. In other words, it forces inter- national students to seek govern- ment approval to stay for longer than four years, regardless of whether their studies can be com- pleted that quickly. It also makes it more difficult for international graduates of American universi- ties to stay and work after gradua- tion through the Optional Practi- cal Training program. A recent brief by Amy Nice, Michael Clemens and Jeremy Neufeld of the Peterson Institute for International Economics high- lights the stakes. The authors ex- amine the pipeline through which international students — particu- larly those studying science, tech- nology, engineering and math- ematics — enter American uni- versities and eventually the Ameri- can workforce. It is an enormously
resident Trump, Secre- tary of State Marco Rubio and richest-man-in-the- world Elon Musk have not personally killed anyone, but their actions are un- questionably causing the unnec- essary deaths of millions of inno- cent people — including 4.5 million children — who have been cut off from the lifesaving aid the U.S. was once proud to provide. One of the president’s first executive orders on Jan. 20, 2025, was a 90-day pause on all foreign assistance. It wasn’t really a pause; it was the beginning of the end for the U.S. Agency for Inter- national Development, which has been saving and improving lives around the world for more than half a century. The effects of Trump’s order were felt immediately. Shipments of antiretroviral HIV medications, malaria nets and oxygen tubes for newborn infants expired in ware- houses or never arrived in sub- Saharan Africa. In Haiti and Sudan, the funding “pause” halted programs for clean water, mater- nal health and refugee food ra- tions. And, inevitably, people began to die. It’s been a tragic end for an agency that was founded in 1961, the brainchild of President Ken- nedy, who saw the exercise of soft power as a way to counter Soviet influence abroad. Later, of course, it was Chinese economic influence that USAID programs sought to neutralize. By far, USAID’s greatest tri- umph was its global health pro- gram, which included President George W. Bush’s massively suc- cessful 2003 HIV-AIDS initiative, PEPFAR. In the last 23 years, more than 26 million lives have been saved, and millions more new HIV infections have been pre- vented. “To many people around the world,” President Obama said in a June 2025 message of gratitude to the thousands who lost their jobs, “USAID is the United States.” Fittingly, its logo was a drawing of two hands clasping with the slo- gan “From the American people.” At the beginning of Trump’s second term, USAID operated in 100 countries and employed 10,000 people. Working with host coun- tries, it funded infrastructure projects, made loans and provided money, food and technical exper- tise to boost growth and education in developing nations. When Trump decided to kill it as an independent agency and fold its remains into the State Depart- ment, USAID was working all over Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia to combat not just health crises like HIV-AIDS, but also malaria and tuberculosis, and outbreaks of the deadly viruses Ebola and Mar- burg. Musk, who foolishly promised
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS remain enormously valuable to the American workforce.
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America is no longer worth the trouble should terrify us
valuable pipeline for all of us. The authors found that Ameri- ca’s science and technology work- force depends heavily on talent from abroad. Immigrants fill nearly 1 in 3 advanced STEM posi- tions and nearly 1 in 2 requiring a doctorate. People who first en- tered the country to study repre- sent about one-fifth of degree- holding STEM workers and more than one-third at the doctorate lev- el. Clemens explains that the STEM students who stay in the U.S. after graduation “patent new inventions at four times the rate of typical college graduates and are responsible for around 10 percent of all new inventions patented in
DISPLACED PEOPLE look out from their makeshift homes in Maslah camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, last year.
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Trump he could shave $2 trillion from the federal budget with his White House advisory team, which he calls the Department of Gov- ernment Efficiency, or DOGE, developed a bizarre hatred for USAID after hearing a wacky critic of the agency on Joe Rogan’s podcast. In social media posts, Musk called it a “criminal organization,” “a radical-left political psy op” and a “crazy waste of money.” (US- AID’s $40-billion annual appropri- ation totaled only about 0.7% of the federal budget. Less than $2 billion went to administrative costs.) Like an army of child soldiers, Musk’s DOGE team of callow computer nerds — remember “Big Balls”? — were soon unleashed. “We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper,” Musk tweeted on Feb. 3, 2025. “Could gone [sic] to some great parties. Did that instead.” His lack of moral clarity is stunning. As Bill Gates so poignantly put it in a May 2025 Financial Times interview, “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a
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the United States. They found high-growth startup companies at six times the rate of US-born graduates.” That means we can dispense with the idea that if a foreign engi- neer gets a job, an American engi- neer must have lost one. Protec- tionism applied to human capital relies on the same economic fallacy that underlies other forms of pro- tectionism: the belief that the economy is like one pie, and hence, allowing foreign interests to take a seat hurts those already at the ta- ble. Economies don’t work that way. Talented people don’t merely fill existing jobs. They create them by inventing products, starting com-
pretty one.” If you want a window onto the fecklessness of DOGE and the Trump political appointees put in place to wreck the agency, I recom- mend “Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower’s Account of How the Trump Administration Shred- ded USAID,” by Nicholas Enrich, formerly USAID’s acting adminis- trator for global health. In headshaking detail, Enrich chronicles the administration’s six-week assault on USAID. You may recall the outrage when DOGE found a program that seemed like a gift from the gods to Trump. “We identified and stopped $50 million being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas,” Trump announced on Jan. 29, 2025. “And do you know what’s happened to them? They’ve used them as a method of making bombs.” This was a fantasy. The program, fo- cused on reproductive health and HIV prevention, served a region of Mozambique called Gaza, a conti- nent away from the Hamas strong- hold. Likewise, the parade of politi- cal appointees Trump put in charge either knew little about the
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panies, conducting research and making the people around them more productive. In the process, they create opportunities for other people that otherwise wouldn’t ex- ist. Giving a cold shoulder to for- eign students is particularly ab- surd when you consider Washing- ton’s obsession with competing against China. Politicians insist that America is engaged in an ex- istential technological race. They spend billions subsidizing semi- conductors and other favored in- dustries. They develop elaborate industrial policies intended to make America dominant in artifi- cial intelligence, quantum comput- ing and advanced manufacturing.
agency, or had axes to grind. After Enrich delivered a presentation on the agency’s work to his new Trump-appointed bosses, one of them said, “I had no idea you did all this. As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in glob- al health, I assumed it was just — you know — abortions.” (It’s com- mon knowledge, or should be, that American tax dollars are prohib- ited from funding abortion care.) One political appointee told Enrich that Ebola, which had recently broken out in Uganda, was “a scam.” During the chaotic interlude before Enrich was fired (after being told on the same day he was an essential employee and was being laid off), he and his col- leagues desperately tried to save some of the agency’s most critical programs. They believed — wrongly as it turned out — that Rubio was being truthful when he announced that programs respon- sible for saving lives would be exempt from Trump’s pause on foreign aid. “No children are dying on my watch,” Rubio confidently (but incorrectly) asserted to the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Then, when a potentially bril- liant young scientist from India, China or anywhere else earns an advanced degree at an American university and wants to stay and contribute to the American econo- my, our government says perhaps they should leave. You can throw billions of tax- payer dollars at a semiconductor factory in Arizona. You cannot manufacture genius through an appropriations bill. The Peterson researchers esti- mate that discouraging just one- third of international STEM graduates could leave the Ameri- can economy 0.7% to 1.3% smaller, roughly equating to $200 billion to $400 billion in GDP over a decade — equivalent to losing the entire economy of Utah or South Car- olina. Those estimates necessarily de- pend on assumptions about future immigration and productivity, but we don’t need to know the precise numbers to understand the effect. When productive people leave — or never arrive — we lose their ideas, businesses, discoveries and all re- lated economic activity. There is also something deeper at stake. One of America’s greatest strengths is that people vote for this country with their feet. They leave familiar places, sometimes traveling thousands of miles, for possibilities unavailable else- where. It’s an extraordinary vote of confidence in American institu- tions: our markets, rule of law and culture of entrepreneurship. We should never take it for granted. Indeed, the possibility that the world’s brightest young people will decide America is no longer worth the trouble should terrify us. Not simply because we will lose their economic contributions, but be- cause their decision will tell us something about what America has become.
Veronique de Rugy is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. This article was produced in collaboration with Creators Syndicate.
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According to an impact counter developed by Boston University’s Brooke Nichols, an associate professor in the School of Public Health and an infectious disease mathematical modeler, in the first year after USAID was abruptly ended, nearly 263,000 adults and 518,428 children died unnecessari- ly. House Foreign Affairs Chair- man Brian Mast, a Florida Repub- lican, accused Nichols of “danger- ous hysteria” and of spreading misinformation. But journalists at ProPublica, NPR, the Washington Post and the New York Times, among oth- ers, have traveled the world to document the preventable deaths and illness caused by the abrupt defunding of USAID. A study in the Lancet con- cluded that by 2030, as many as 14 million people could die due to the defunding, including 4.5 million children under age 5. Not that you will ever admit it, Secretary Rubio, but children are still dying on your watch. Heckuva job, as someone once said.
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Photographs by Kayla Bartkowski Los Angeles Times ‘To cover hate with more love’ Neighbors restore defaced mural at Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center
MIRIAM Hellmann repaints the mural that had been vandalized with antisemitic messages at the Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center.
By Jasmine Mendez
Dozens of people gath- ered Thursday at a Pasa- dena temple site to stand in solidarity with their Jewish neighbors, many still reeling from the fact that their sa- cred space has been the tar- get of several acts of vandal- ism this year. The gathering was prompted by an incident last month when Jenna Lev- enthal was on her way to drop off her daughter Ava at summer camp. Cruising down a familiar stretch of Al- tadena Drive, she passed the site where the century-old Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center once stood before it burned down in last year’s Eaton fire. Almost by instinct, Lev- enthal turned to look at the empty, rail-guarded lot. Parts of the original exterior
Voices STEVE LOPEZ COLUMNIST Will stadium gondola plan stay aloft?
s we head into August and look to the fall, two burning questions are front and center when it comes to the Dodgers. Will they win a third straight World Series championship? And will the $500-million propos- al to ferry fans by gondola from Union Station to Dodger Stadium remain aloft or crash and burn? I can’t answer the first question, although I wouldn’t bet against a three-peat. As for the second question, if I were former Dodgers owner and aerial tram godfather Frank Mc- Court, I’d fasten my seat belt, be- cause the gondola is about to hit some heavy turbulence. The gondola would slice through a section of L.A. State Historic Park, wipe out dozens of trees and trample a space that was carefully designed
Bass is outpacing Raman in fundraising
By Noah Goldberg
RABBI Lisa Edwards, center, hugs attendees at the restoration ceremony.
A MAN takes a selfie at L.A. State Historic Park. A proposed Dod- ger Stadium gondola would wipe out dozens of trees in the space.
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paign finance reports show. The mayor took in more than $510,000 in June, which her campaign said was the most they had raised in a single month throughout her campaign for reelection. Raman raised just over $170,000 in the same report- ing period, which covers con-
tributions through June 30 and were filed late Friday. The mayor’s campaign also said that Bass qualified for more than $675,000 in publicly funded matching funds from the city, bringing her total to more than $1.1 million raised in June. Ra- man’s team said she had
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qualified for about $576,000 in matching funds, making her total just under $750,000. “It’s no accident that June was our strongest month of the entire cam- paign. It shows that Ange- lenos understand the stakes of this election and are fully
wall survived the flames, only to be vandalized with antisemitic messages in January. The original graffiti was quickly removed, and a mu- ral was commissioned in its place. But to Leventhal’s surprise, the new mural was defaced with swastikas and a message reading, “ZI- ONSIM IS NOT WEL- COME.” The word “Zi- onism” was misspelled. “Ever since the mural was put up, I look at it out of pure joy,” Leventhal, a senior di- rector at the USC Shoah Foundation, which archives testimonies of Holocaust survivors, told The Times. “[The discovery] was shock- ing and upsetting.” She immediately called the temple’s leader, Rabbi Josh Ratner, who notified authorities. The Los Ange- les County Sheriff Depart-
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secret recordings of colleagues’ bigotry
of racist, homophobic, sexist comments broke the state’s privacy law.
By Richard Winton and Libor Jany
Los Angeles County prosecutors on Friday charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues’ racist, sex- ist and homophobic com- ments on the job. The officer, Daniel Flo- res, was charged with 16 fel- ony counts of eavesdropping on or recording confidential communications — crimes that carry a sentence of up to 13 years in prison. In a statement announc- ing the charges, L.A. Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman said that while he found the re- corded comments deplor- able, Flores still violated the California Invasion of Pri- vacy Act, which prohibits re- cording others without their consent. “This case serves as a warning to anyone seeking to record a conversation without the other person’s permission that doing so is illegal and has been a crime
terminal at LAX in messy dispute
consultant has made accusations against the lounge operator.
By Alene Tchekmedyian
At the exclusive terminal for the rich and the famous at Los Angeles International Airport, passengers are greeted with champagne and caviar, then whisked di- rectly to their planes in a customized BMW. The terminal, which for a steep fee allows travelers to skip the lines and pass through security without stepping foot inside the air- port, was the first of its kind in the U.S. when it opened in 2017. Now, it’s at the center of a messy business dispute. Gavin de Becker, a secu- rity consultant for celebri- ties whose firm originally de- veloped the terminal, has leveled serious accusations against the current op- erator. An attorney for De Beck- er’s security and threat as- sessment firm said in a letter to airport officials that the way the operator, PS, is managing the terminal cre- ates security risks, pointing to pending lawsuits by ex- employees. One lawsuit claims that workers loaded luggage directly onto planes without proper screening, which PS denied in a court filing. A lawsuit filed in Septem- ber by De Becker’s firm ac- cuses PS, originally known as the Private Suite, of trick- ing the city of Los Angeles into extending its lease be- fore the company was sold in 2024 to Groupe ADP, a pub- licly traded global airport operator whose majority shareholder is the govern- ment of France. The lawsuit seeks damages for reputa- tional harm and lost busi- ness opportunities. Over the years, the own- ers of PS — now Groupe ADP and before that a pri- vate equity firm — failed to get the proper city approval
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in the state of California for over 50 years,” the statement read. “It doesn’t matter where you work or who you are — a neighbor, a co- worker or, in this case, a po- lice officer. Your right to pri- vacy in a confidential con- versation is protected, no matter who is doing the re- cording or, with few excep- tions, why they are doing the recording.” Flores turned over roughly 90 recordings to his superiors, according to an internal affairs complaint he filed with the department last year, which said he hoped the evidence would be used to discipline those re- sponsible. Flores’ attorney, Alan Jackson, blasted the deci- sion by prosecutors to pur- sue charges. “Today the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office charged a police officer with a crime for reporting racism inside the Los Ange- les Police Department,” Jackson said. “Not the offi- cers who were recorded us- ing racial, sexist and anti- gay slurs. Not the officers who sat in a government building and said those things while holding the power to decide who be- comes an LAPD officer. The
By Phoebe Huss
A California public uni- versity cut ties with a federal program that paid for cam- pus police to aid Border Pa- trol, within weeks of CalMat- ters revealing the decade- long partnership. Operation Stonegarden, a grant managed by the De- partment of Homeland Se- curity, allocates an average of $11 million each year for California law enforcement agencies to work with U.S. Customs and Border Pro- tection and its subagency Border Patrol on border se- curity missions. Dozens of police forces throughout the state receive the grant, in- cluding campus police at UC San Diego, a recipient since about 2012. On Feb. 10, a CalMatters article explained how UC San Diego police used the grant to patrol sections of the coastline near campus, quickly setting off an uproar among students who felt it placed undocumented and international students at risk. By Feb. 26, after stu- dents emailed complaints and threatened to hold a public rally, student Aryan Dixit said the campus police chief, Lamine Secka, agreed to leave the grant program in a one-on-one meeting. Melinda Battenberg, a spokesperson at UC San Di- ego, declined to confirm whether campus police left the grant program. Howev- er, internal emails sent in March from a university vice chancellor, Niraj Dangoria, to Patrick Velasquez, a re- tired university employee and Chicano education ad- vocacy leader, that were re- viewed by CalMatters, addi- tionally confirmed that the college intended to cease us- ing the grant and has no plans to reapply in the fu- ture. In May, Lt. Michael Gonzales of the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office, which manages Stonegar- den-funded operations in the San Diego area, told Cal- Matters the university will not be involved in future grant operations.
Concern spread quickly on campus Daniel Negrete, a fourth- year business economics student at UC San Diego, said he found it “crazy” his campus maintained a work- ing relationship with Border Patrol. Once the news broke, there was a lot of on-campus concern, he added. Students at a Feb. 18 anti-ICE walkout criticized the university’s re- lationship with Homeland Security, according to UC San Diego’s student news- paper, the Guardian. “I was ... shocked that the university was letting this happen,” Negrete said. “There’s no way that at least someone in higher adminis- tration wasn’t aware of this.” According to a 2025 grant
By Rebecca Ellis
Downtown LA Law Group, a law firm facing multiple state and local in- vestigations, says it plans to bow out of a high-stakes en- vironmental case against the county’s second-largest landfill within the next two months. Andrew Morrow, an at- torney spearheading the liti- gation for the firm, said in court Thursday that the group has passed off about 500 of its 1,200 landfill clients to another personal injury firm. Roughly 500 more clients, he said, could not be reached and will probably be dis- missed from the case. “We have sort of ex- hausted our ability to com- municate with most of these people,” Morrow told Dis- trict Judge Maame Ewusi- Mensah Frimpong. A spokesperson for the firm did not respond to questions from The Times into what precipitated it los- ing touch with roughly 40% of clients in the litigation against Chiquita Canyon landfill, which has been ac- cused of allowing toxic fumes to waft into nearby homes. The hearing comes as Downtown LA Law Group, or DTLA, faces allegationsof attorney misconduct in two significant cases moving through California courts. The Times reported this
CAMPUS POLICE at UC San Diego have received funding from the Operation Stonegarden grant since 2012.
document, Operation Stonegarden enhances col- laboration between federal and local law enforcement to secure borders. The pro- gram also promotes infor- mation sharing, including through regular meetings and mandatory reports. Since its 2006 founding, the grant has raised con- cerns about privacy and ad- herence to California’s sanc- tuary law. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a pri- vacy advocacy group, asked President Trump to end Stonegarden in a 2025 memo, adding that surveil- lance technology companies encourage police to join the program to get them to buy their products. Patrick Dobbins, a UC San Diego police sergeant and the university’s desig- nated Stonegarden coordi- nator, told CalMatters in No- vember that the university used the grant to pay for offi- cers to work overtime on border patrols. He added that the grant was used to promote health and safety. Every year since 2020, Homeland Security re- quested grant recipients to prioritize training officers as immigration agents, though that is illegal in California under the sanctuary law. In 2025 and 2026, that became the grant’s overall emphasis. Dangoria wrote in a March email to Velasquez that the university’s Stone- garden funds are used “for operations focused on drug and human trafficking and not immigration enforce- ment.” However, Negrete said he was bothered by a 2025 Of- fice of Inspector General au- dit that found only 15% of Stonegarden funds are used for drug enforcement and that, according to Home- land Security, drug interdic-
DOWNTOWN LA Law Group has lost touch with several clients in the suit against Chiquita Canyon landfill.
fall that nine of the firm’s cli- ents in a sex abuse settle- ment said they had been paid to sue — and in some cases make up their claims — to become part of a his- toric $4-billion payout. This month, The Times reported that an actor said he’d been sent to the area around the Chiquita Canyon landfill to recruit clients for
tion is “incidental” to Stone- garden operations. “The position that this is an innocent program and simply taking drugs off the streets is not true,” Negrete said. In Riverside County, most traffic stops carried out for Stonegarden in 2023 and 2024 by county sheriff’s officers resulted in “intel de- velopment” even when, as in most cases, no drugs were seized and no crime was committed. The Sheriff’s Department disclosed ac- tivity reports to CalMatters through public record re- quests, though other police agencies refused to provide the reports, stating that they are federal property. Battenberg said UC San Diego police can view but not access reports once they are submitted to Homeland Security, and did not answer whether UC San Diego could disclose its reports through record requests.
Activists condemn university’s practice
On Feb. 17, Dixit con- tacted Secka, the campus police chief, by email, re- questing to schedule a meet- ing regarding “critical stu- dent concerns” about cam- pus police utilizing Home- land Security grants. At the time, Dixit, an economics and cognitive science stu- dent, served in student gov- ernment as the 2025-26 asso- ciate vice president of diver- sity, equity and inclusion, and was the president of the Students’ Civil Liberties Union, a nonprofit organiza- tion encouraging youth ad- vocacy. Dixit copied Assist- ant Chief Frank Johnson and the Police Department’s general administrative con- tact on the email. Dixit received no re-
the firm. Some residents told The Times they’d been signed up for lawsuits with- out their consent. California bans non-at- torneys from directly solicit- ing or procuring clients to sign up for lawsuits. The practice, known as capping, was outlawed over concerns it allows law firms to exploit victims in pursuit of hefty
sponse, he told CalMatters. On Feb. 24, the Students’ Civil Liberties Union teamed up with the Ellis Collective, a research group directed by Negrete, and an- nounced a rally scheduled for Feb. 26 to protest campus police getting money from the Department of Home- land Security. After the announcement, Dixit said, Secka agreed to meet with him for a one-on- one discussion a day before the protest. The two de- bated various issues to find places of compromise, and Secka told Dixit that the UC San Diego Police Depart- ment would halt participa- tion in Stonegarden and not reapply for it the next year, Dixit said. Secka did not respond to repeated interview requests from CalMatters. On Feb. 26, about 100 stu- dents attended the demon- stration, and speakers con- demned the university’s long-standing practice of working with federal immi- gration authorities. San Diego State Uni- versity police received 2013 Stonegarden funding while Secka was the interim police chief there. That university is not listed in any available funding documents more re- cent than that. Amanda Stills, a public information officer for San Diego State’s Police Department, said the funds supported drug inter- diction efforts.
Statewide funding shows an increase
Other agencies continue to collaborate with Home- land Security, which in- creased California’s Stone- garden allotment from $12.1 million in 2025 to $13.4 mil- lion for 2026, per a recent grant document.
payouts. “All of the allegations, if accurate, show patently im- proper conduct by lawyers that calls into question the representation of thousands of Plaintiffs in this case,” Paul Chan, an attorney rep- resenting the landfill, wrote in a July 24 motion. DTLA has denied all wrongdoing and previously
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As of 2025, sheriff’s de- partments from 11 counties receive funding, including Riverside, Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Monterey, San Ma- teo, San Bernardino and Im- perial. Dozens of smaller po- lice agencies have joined in as well, alongside state agenciessuch as the Depart- ment of Fish and Wildlife and California State Parks. In fiscal year 2024, the Los Angeles Interagency Metropolitan Police Appre- hension Crime Task Force, known as L.A. IMPACT, joined Stonegarden. The task force investi- gates major crimes, espe- cially involving narcotics, and possesses some of the state’s most extensive sur- veillance resources, accord- ing to the attorney general’s office. It’s composed of about 75 sworn officers from 48 local and state police agencies, a full list of which has not been made public previously. Michael Burke, L.A. IM- PACT’s executive director, told CalMatters that the task force’s Stonegarden ac- tivities are limited to drug trafficking investigations in Los Angeles.
Community weighs in on divisive issue
UC San Diego police had not released any public statements about the grant by March. So on March 2, a local co- alition of educators called the San Diego Chicano/Lat- ino Concilio on Higher Education, which advocates for Latino student success, pressed UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Kosla directly in an email. Velasquez, the coalition’s co-chair, argued that Stone-
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said the claims of attorney misconduct come from “a competing law firm at- tempting to use the press and the State Bar to elimi- nate competition in the same litigation.” Morrow told the judge Thursday that he didn’t be- lieve his clients’ cases should be scrutinized solely be- cause of the allegations dog-
garden distracts police from campus safety and pro- motes surveillance by au- thorizing purchases of search cameras and data- collecting devices. He also noted that Dobbins told Cal- Matters that campus offi- cers do not enforce immigra- tion law, but use the patrols to search for migrants who cross the border on panga boats. Also unsettling, Ve- lasquez told the chancellor, is that civilians cannot ob- tain information about Stonegarden from local po- lice. Finally, Velasquez ar- gued, since a 2025 grant document from Imperial County encourages police to apprehend all “criminal aliens” suspected of violat- ing immigration law, Latino students might be targeted on the basis of their appear- ance or language spoken. The coalition demanded the university leave the pro- gram, Velasquez wrote. Dangoria, the vice chan- cellor, confirmed in a March 4 emailed response to Ve- lasquez, reviewed by Cal- Matters, that university po- lice would not reapply for the grant, also stating that cam- pus police have followed a decade-old UC policy bar- ring campus police from working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement or detaining people based on suspected undocumented immigration status. In the 2025 interview, Dobbins told CalMatters that UC San Diego had par- ticipated in Operation Stonegarden every year since about 2012. Dangoria stated in her email that university police have not participated in Stonegarden activities since 2024, something the univer- sity’s communications team affirmed. The 2024 funding agreement states opera- tions would last from April 2025 to February 2027. Dangoria wrote in anoth- er message to Velasquez on March 11 that the Police De- partment might apply for other Homeland Security grants not related to immi- gration enforcement, “as DHS oversees many federal agencies, including the Fed- eral Emergency Manage- ment Agency.” Stonegarden is run by FEMA. “I want to reiterate that UC San Diego is deeply com- mitted to cultivating and maintaining a campus envi- ronment that is safe and wel- coming for all members of our community, regardless of immigration status,” Dangoria wrote.
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ging his firm. “Singling them out for something they had nothing to do with — alleged miscon- duct on the part of my firm or recruiters — is I think just patently unfair,” he said. Attorneys for the landfill say they want more informa- tion on how the residents represented by DTLA joined the case. They have re- quested a judge’s permis- sion to conduct extra vetting on DTLA clients and serve subpoenas on the alleged re- cruiter as well as a partner at the firm. “Major issues of unlawful conduct in this case have been repeatedly raised and explored by California’s larg- est newspaper,” Chan wrote. “They must be explored through discovery to protect the integrity of these pro- ceedings.” Frimpong appeared un- convinced that small amounts of cash, which some residents said they re- ceived in exchange to sue, were enough to warrant a special vetting process for DTLA clients. Lawsuits always have a fi- nancial incentive, she ar- gued, and it’s the defense’s job to treat all the claims with a healthy amount of skepticism. “Why would that be the case that someone who got a gift card is more likely to fal- sify than someone who thinks ‘I’m going to get $6,000 at the end of this?’ ” she said.
suspected of Tesla vandalism is arrested
resident spray-painted several vehicles with ‘offensive language.’
By Ruben Vives
The Irvine Police Depart- ment has arrested a man suspected of vandalizing 13 Teslas with spray paint last month. Police identified the sus- pect as Max Sebastian Solo- mon, 25, of Irvine. Solomon, who lived across the street from the parking structures where the vandalism oc- curred, was taken into cus- tody at his home Wednesday and booked on suspicion of felony vandalism. The department made the announcement on Insta- gram with a photo of the sus- pect in handcuffs with two officers standing nearby. Irvine police said it had responded to an altercation at the intersection of Michel- son Drive and Carlson Ave- nue, the general area where the 13 Teslas had been van- dalized. Police investigators learned that a man had spat on a Tesla that was stopped at the intersection. They lat- er identified Solomon as the suspect through a takeout order he was carrying when the spitting incident oc- curred and took him into custody at his apartment home nearby. The arrest comes nearly a week after police sought help from the public in iden- tifying a suspect who was caught on video recorded by the surveillance cameras and the Teslas’ cameras, which appeared to show the vandalism incident. Police said at least four Teslas were vandalized on July 17, and an additional nine more on July 23, adding that the vandal wrote “offen- sive language” on the vehi- cles. Photos shared on social media showed at least three vehicles had been spray- painted with the words “Nazi” and “Fascist.”
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IRVINE POLICE arrest Max Sebastian Solomon.
By Karen Garcia
A normally serene lake in the high desert region of San Bernardino County was buzzing last week with news that a scale-breaking fish was recently landed, and an- other monster fish, known to locals as “Catzilla,” still lurks in the lake’s dark depths. On July 26, Javier Fuen- tes woke up at 4:30 a.m. to prep for an all-day fishing ex- cursion at Hesperia Lake Park, which opens to anglers at 6 a.m. Fuentes, a construction worker, is a dedicated angler who often spends his days off reeling in fish from the lake and then turning over his catch to his wife for cleaning and preparing for dinner. “They’re a team,” said Carla Prieto, Fuentes’ daughter-in-law.
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A woman checks out the waves along the Strand as heavy surf due to high tide crashes on the shoreline on Thursday in Oceanside.
By Iris Kwok
California’s statewide minimum wage is set to rise next year. Starting on Jan. 1, 2027, the statewide minimum wage will rise to $17.40 an hour, an increase Gov. Gavin Newsom boasted about on Friday. Newsom — who has been eyeing a 2028 presidential run — said in a statement that California’s fiscal poli- cies helped turn the state into “one of the strongest economies in the world” while the Trump adminis- tration and the Republican- led Congress fail to address “everyday cost pressures for working families.” The fed- eral minimum wage has re- mained at $7.25 per hour since 2009. “For years, Donald Trump and Republicans have blocked efforts to raise the federal minimum wage while handing tax breaks to billionaires and big corpora- tions,” Newsom said. “Cali- fornia has chosen a different path — one that rewards work, grows the economy, and puts working families first.” Not everyone agreed. Re- publican gubernatorial can- didate Steve Hilton took to social media on Friday to de- cry the minimum wage in- crease as an “attack on work- ers” that will “crush small businesses.”
He’s caught large fish be- fore, Prieto said, but on that day Fuentes managed to reel in a 30-pound catfish that “literally broke the scale.” In the Hesperia Recre- ation and Park District’s Facebook post, Fuentes is seen grinning while gripping his landing net that can’t contain the massive catfish — the fish’s tail end is shown dangling out of the net. The state records for cat- fish range from 22 pounds to 113 pounds, depending on the species. But it has been decades since any of those records were set. Prieto wasn’t entirely surprised her father-in-law landed the 30-pounder be- cause she said he’s very dedi- cated to the sport. “There’s literally about 20 to 30 catfish from the lake in the freezer,” she said. “This guy is all about it.”
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GAVIN NEWSOM signs a bill in 2023 to raise fast-food workers’ minimum wage.
The current minimum wage in California for all em- ployers is $16.90 an hour, though some workers must be paid more to comply with city and county rules and other state laws. California’s minimum wage automatically in- creases each year to keep pace with inflation. The cur- rent system was established in 2016, when then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a first-in-the-nation plan to
When he came home with the monster catfish, Prieto said she heard her mother- in-law exclaiming, “He caught a big fish,” before she laid eyes on the scaly cre- ature. While Fuentes’ prize fish represents the lake’s biggest catch in some time, legend has it that the lake is home to an even larger counterpart: a 50-pound catfish dubbed “Catzilla,” which was caught but escaped days later. The behemoth fish was hooked on Thursday by local fisherman Justin Broussard after an “unforgettable bat- tle that had nearby anglers watching in amazement,” district officials said. When Broussard and his friend attempted to put Catzilla into the fishing bas- ket, with the intention of then releasing it, the 50- pounder violently thrashed
gradually boost the state’s hourly minimum wage to $15 an hour, then adjust the wage annually based on in- flation starting in 2024. “This is about economic justice, it’s about people,” Brown said during the bill signing. The specific amount of the minimum wage increase is tied to inflation — as mea- sured by the federal con- sumer price index — and capped at 3.5%, according to
JAVIER FUENTES, a dedicated angler, landed a 30-pound catfish on July 26 at Hesperia Lake Park.
and slipped free. The two massive catfish have energized the fishing community at the lake, said Robert Hernandez, general manager of the park district.
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state law. The state director of finance is responsible for calculating the adjusted minimum wage. California has the high- est minimum wage out of all 50 states, according to the governor’s office. Only Washington, D.C.’s min- imum wage ranks higher, at $18.40. The state in 2024 raised minimum wage for fast-food workers to $20 an hour. The fast-food wage requirement
Hesperia lacks the widely available activities found in an urban center, so when monstrous fish are caught in the local lake, “it picks up traction pretty quickly,”
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applies to chains with more than 60 locations nation- wide. Researchers have been split on the economic im- pacts of the pay increase for fast-food workers, which chains such as Pizza Hut and Cinnabon have fought. Earlier this year, a major Carl’s Jr. franchiseecited the $20 fast-food minimum wage when he applied for bank- ruptcy protection. California also has higher minimum wages for health- care workers at large facili- ties as a result of a union- backed bill Newsom signed in 2023. Under the legisla- tion, many healthcare work- ers’ minimum wages in July rose from $24 an hour to $25 an hour. Some cities in California, including Emeryville and West Hollywood, have opted to impose even higher city minimum wages exceeding $20 per hour. Most states have min- imum wages above the fed- eral minimum. Five Republi- can-led states — Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennes- see — do not have an inde- pendent state minimum wage and default to the fed- eral minimum. While a 2019 Pew Re- search Center poll found that two-thirds of Ameri- cans support raising the fed- eral minimum wage to $15 an hour, a deep partisan split over the issue remains.
Hernandez said. “I wouldn’t be surprised if we get some people that are not fisherman and get out there just trying to see if they can catch [Catzilla],” he added. The excitement sur- rounding the lake is a huge win for the district and the fishing community after Hesperia Lake Park closed for three months at the start of the year, he said. A downpour on Christ- mas Day caused severe damage to the recreational area, including significant flooding and washouts prompting a massive clean- up. Once the cleanup was completed, the district re- opened the lake in April and stocked it with 2,000 pounds of trout and 500 pounds of lightning trout. But, for now, the catfish are the big draw.
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Graduating Cal Poly SLO, he received his Accounting degree June 1981. His accounting career began at Deloitte in Los Angeles, then Peat Marwick LA. Paul became a Partner of KPMG in June 1994. He joined Siebel Systems in 1998; rising to Sr. VP, Finance, retiring in 2006.
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David Jackson, 93, of Lighthouse Point, Florida, passed away peacefully on July 26, 2026. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and attended Miami of Ohio University. He worked in civil engineering and construction manage- ment for projects in Los Angeles and South Florida. In 1980 he purchased the Jolly Roger Travel Park in the Florida Keys and split time between Florida, Sun Valley, Idaho and California. His wife, Charline, passed away in 2018. He is survived by his son Andrew, daughter-in-law Pammela, and grandchildren Devon, Connor and Blythe.
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LYNNETTE RUBY LIPP June 16, 1940 - July 11, 2026
Lynnette Lipp, née Ruby, Ruiz, Goldner, passed away July 11 surrounded by her beloved husband and family in Los Angeles. Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1940, Lynnette moved to Los Angeles as a child, attending Hamilton High School in the 1950s, where she was deeply engaged in the music program.
She pursued education throughout much of her life, earning degrees in music, education, computer science, and law. Lynnette served as a lifelong teacher and educa- tor, including within the Los Angeles public schools, as an English as a second language (ESL) teacher, and computer resource developer for teaching professionals. She was a lover of animals and music, and in addition to teaching, she owned and operated a calligraphy, invi- tation and event company. She welcomed and mentored Russian families who arrived as refugees to the United States in the 1980s, and or- ganized music, concerts and events during her time living in the Northern California community of Jackson.
With a lifelong devotion to fairness, she served as a teacher’s union representa- tive, an active Democrat, and helped secure the 2003 law allowing American flags to legally be displayed at con- dominiums and apartments in the state of California.
She is survived by her beloved husband Rick Lipp, two daughters, Nicole (& Allan) Mutchnik and Noreen Goldner, her younger sister Eileen Zaroff, brother-in-law Irving Zaroff, niece Wendy Zaroff Govenar, nephew Matthew (& Lisa) Zaroff, and three adult grandchildren. Services and memorial will be private.
Eugene Yasuo Manabe Eugene Yasuo Manabe was born in Los Angeles on June 24, 1934 to Eiko Tanaka and Akira Manabe. Gene was the eldest of four children Junko Phyllis Nishida, Peter Manabe and Karen Ann Pecot. Gene grew up in Los Angeles until his family was sent to Amache Relocation Center in Colorado during WWII. After the war, they settled in Denver. Gene graduated from the University of Colorado School of Pharmacy. He joined the U.S. Army USAR MSC and was stationed in Germany as a First Lieutenant. His pharma- ceutical career included Gavin Herbert Pharmacies, Horton & Converse, Fedco and Costco. Gene peacefully passed away at home on July 9, 2026. He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Louise Nakamura, daughter Leslie McMorrow, husband Bill, son Michael Manabe, grandson Tyler McMorrow, sister Karen Ann Pecot and many nephews and nieces. His greatest joys were playing golf, traveling, reading spy books, watching Dodger baseball and attend- ing Tyler’s sports. His gentle kindness will forever remain in our hearts. There will not be a service per his wishes.
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Jean Roddy Rosenbaum-Katz September 23, 1921 - July 11, 2026
Jean Roddy Rosenbaum Katz passed away peacefully, surrounded by loved ones, on July 11, 2026. She lived her 104+ years with elegance, strength, a sense of humor, and an unwavering love for her family, friends, and dogs.
Born in Temple, TX in 1921, Jean described herself as a “lover of independence, with very liberal ideas.” She lived by those words her entire life. At the age of 16, she attended UCLA, serving as President of her Sorority. Her generosity and caring for those less fortunate, led her to later become active in many philanthropic causes and charities. For 38 years, Jean dedicated herself to vol- unteer work at Cedars Sinai Hospital…serving on the Board of Governors, acting as President of Jr. Helping Hand, and originating giftware and sales promotion for the Cedars Sinai Gift Shop.
A self-described “people person,” Jean’s dear friends were more than friends, they were her family, and many of their children and grandchil- dren have continued in their place. She loved socializing, dining out, and was admired by all for her hostessing skills. Apart from her vol- unteer work and time with her family and beloved four legged animals, she enjoyed playing bridge and mahjong. She loved contemporary art and going to the symphony. Jean was especially known and appreciated for always being impeccably dressed and, of course, for her perfectly coiffed hair! And while never appearing less than regal, Jean was never above showing her feisty side by cracking a good joke.
Blessed with two ador- ing husbands, Sandy and Sid, Jean is survived by her beloved daughters, Linda Rosenbaum and Jan Ulrey, her “son,” Dave Ulrey, her “other” daughter, Virginia Katz, and Carmen, her de- voted “companion” for over 55 years. Her family would also like to thank Rosita for her wonderful caregiving over the past seven years.
Jean touched the lives of people from all walks of life because of her warmth, per- severance, generosity, sense of fun, compassion, positivity, elegance, graciousness, and especially, her beautiful heart. She completed her life as she lived it…with exceptional grace, beauty, and love. Mom, your light and spirit will forever shine in our souls.
In lieu of flowers, our family would appreciate a donation to The Sanford Rosenbaum Endowment Fund For Vascular Research at Cedars Sinai Hospital.
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Nuala Ryan, SSL, died peacefully on June 24, 2026, at Mary Health of the Sick, a skilled nursing facility in Newbury Park, CA. Born on March 14th, 1933, in Monaghan, Ireland, to Mary and Thomas Ryan, she entered the Sisters of St. Louis in 1951. A gifted music edu- cator, she taught in Ireland before coming to Southern California in 1958, where she inspired students at St. Joseph Elementary School, Mater Dei High School, and Louisville High School. After becoming a registered music therapist, Nuala served at Lanterman Development Center in Pomona. Her joy- ful ministry to people with developmental disabilities remained her life’s calling until her retirement in 2008. She left an enduring legacy of hope and love that continues to inspire. Nuala is lovingly remembered by the Sisters of St. Louis, her family and friends, and the many individuals whose lives she touched. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Wednesday, August 5th, 2026 at 10:30 AM at Holy Name of Mary Church, San Dimas.
Maureen Fraser Spell MD Our beloved mother and grandmother passed away at 74 years old after a brief struggle with metastatic melanoma. She was born in Brooklyn, New York on October 22, 1951 to Donald and Kathleen Reilly Fraser. In 1965, her family moved to Southern California eventu- ally settling in Huntington Beach.
Maureen graduated Valedictorian of her class from Huntington Beach High School in 1969. In 1971 Maureen married her High School sweetheart Scott Spell, and in January of 1972 their daughter Michelle was born.
Maureen began her career in medicine as a medical transcriptionist and attended undergraduate classes at the local community college. In 1979 she began attending classes at UC Irvine and received her Doctorate in Medicine in 1986. She worked as a General Practitioner for Kaiser Permanente and eventually became Chief of Internal Medicine and held that position for 17 years. One year before retiring, she became Assistant Area Medical Director for the Los Angeles area after which she officially retired in 2016. During her years at Kaiser, Maureen also volunteered at the Hollywood Sunset Free Clinic providing quality medi- cal care to the less fortunate in her community.
After her retirement, Maureen with her husband Scott moved to Roseville, California where she contin- ued to work for Kaiser as a tele-health professional. She also continued her volunteer work as a physician for St. Vincent de Paul, Roseville’s medical clinic. Maureen’s compassion for people was evident working for World Relief in the resettlement of Afghani refugees, donating to various charities and shar- ing her kindness with all she knew.
Maureen was preceded in death by her grandmother “Ninny”, her parents, Donald and Kathleen, and her hus- band, Scott. She is survived by her daughter, Michelle O’Neill and grandson, Thorn. Maureen also leaves a brother, Donald (and Patty) Fraser and a sister, Kathleen Laverty, nieces and nephews, Chris and Ryan, and Kimberly, as well as great nieces and nephews, Alannah, Eli and Alby. Go in peace, Maureen.
The family suggests dona- tions to St. Vincent de Paul, Roseville; the Hollywood Sunset Free Clinic; or World Relief, Sacramento.
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of ‘inappropriate relationship’
By Salvador Hernandez
A Garden Grove Police Department officer is facing felony charges for allegedly having multiple sexual en- counters with a 16-year-old girl who was taking part in the department’s Explorer program. Roberto Machuca, 32, had been a member of the department since 2019 and was also an advisor to the de- partment’s Explorer pro- gram. Garden Grove police learned about Machuca’s “inappropriate relation- ship” with the teenager on June 26, officials with the Or- ange County district attor- ney’s office said in a state- ment. The next day, Machuca showed up for his shift and was arrested, ac- cording to the statement. He was also placed on leave by the department. Prose- cutors say Machuca began the sexual relationship with the teen in May. “Law enforcement offi- cers occupy a position of im- mense trust, and he ex-
therapist sexually abused teen boy
By Suhauna Hussain
Prosecutors in Contra Costa County have charged a former behavioral health clinician with grooming a teen boy in the juvenile de- tention facility where she worked, and sexually abus- ing him after his release. The woman, 26-year-old Sofia Ann-Buitron Drotts of San Francisco, was charged last week with multiple fel- ony counts, including unlaw- ful sexual intercourse, send- ing harmful subject matter to a minor and possession of child pornography. Drotts had been working as a behavioral health clini- cian at the John Davis Ju- venile Detention Center in Martinez when she was as- signed the unnamed minor as a client, according to a news release from the Con- tra Costa County district at- torney’s office. Prosecutors allege the teenager and Drotts en- gaged in a sexual relation- ship that began in April and lasted until July 14, at which point she was arrested by
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inside a Hollywood apartment, police say
By Richard Winton
Police in Hollywood are investigating the deaths of three people found inside an apartment in Hollywood last week. According to Los Angeles Police Department Capt. Mike Bland, police respond- ed to an apartment in the 1900 block of Wilcox Avenue around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday for a welfare check. “Once inside the loca- tion, officers discovered three deceased males, all adults,” Bland told The
ploited that trust to take ad- vantage of a child for his own sexual gratification,” Dist. Atty. Todd Spitzer said in a statement. “That conduct will never be tolerated among the ranks of those sworn to protect and serve.” Machuca’s attorney, Alan Castillo, declined to com- ment on the charges against his client. The Garden Grove Police Department’s Explorer pro- gram is available for people between the ages of 14 and 21, according to prosecutors, and offers an opportunity for them to learn about pursu- ing a career in law enforce- ment. According to prose- cutors, Machuca is no longer employed by the depart- ment. Machuca has been charged with three felony counts of unlawful sexual in- tercourse with a minor, one felony count of sexual pen- etration by a foreign object of a minor and one felony count of oral copulation with a minor. He faces a maximum pos- sible sentence of five years in prison.
Concord police after they re- ceived a tip from a supervi- sor at the county’s Proba- tion Department. The charges were filed soon after the teenager’s family filed a claim against the county alleging Drotts had groomed the teenager for nearly two years, begin- ning when he was around 15 years old. The claim, filed by Oak- land attorney John Burris of Nienbaum & Curry on be- half of the family, alleged that while the teenager was incarcerated, Drotts “abused her position as his therapist to establish an in- appropriate emotional con- nection.” The claim said she con- tinued her role as the teen- ager’s therapist after he was released in April. The fam- ily’s claim alleges the clini- cian’s conduct “went over- looked and unreported for months” and that the teen- ager’s probation officer has changed at least four times since his release. Contra Costa County did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Times. “At this time, Rob- bery Homicide Division, Ho- micide Special Section, is at- scene actively investigating the circumstances leading to these deaths.” Police initially said offi- cers went to the apartment about two hours earlier and found three victims suffer- ing from gunshot wounds. Bland said the causes of death have yet to be deter- mined. No additional details were available.
for the sales, De Becker’s at- torneys have alleged. PS, meanwhile, pointed to an August 2024 letter in which a Los Angeles World Airports executive said that city ap- proval was not required. PS said in a statement that Gavin de Becker and Associates’ lawsuit is mer- itless, noting that PS associ- ates go through an eight- week course “covering all technical aspects of the role, including safety & security.” “GDBA is competing against PS for new airport opportunities, and the law- suit appears designed to damage PS’s hard-earned reputation while using the discovery process to obtain commercially sensitive in- formation related to those bids,” a PS spokesperson said. Brandon Young, an at- torney for De Becker’s firm, said that neither De Becker nor his firm has any active bids to develop or run termi- nals at any other airports. A spokesperson for LAWA, the city department that owns and runs LAX, said it “maintains rigorous safety and security proto- cols” across all airports, con- ducting regular inspections of all terminals, including PS, which are “consistently in compliance.” The spokes- person declined to comment on the legal dispute between the two private companies. A Transportation Secu- rity Administration spokes- person did not answer spe- cific questions about PS and would say only that the agency “screens all checked and carry-on baggage on commercial flights depart- ing from LAX.” After pouring millions of dollars into developing the Private Suite at LAX, De Becker’s company sold its interest in 2019 to the private equity firm TPG Growth Inc., which in turn sold it to Groupe ADP in 2024. In the August 2024 letter, which PS provided to The Times, the LAWA executive acknowledged that Groupe ADP had acquired PS. De Becker said he re- mains a guarantor of the business, meaning he’s on the hook if anything goes wrong. He added that he has no interest in taking over the current operation.
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with years of community input. And the mounting opposition now includes seven former state park officials and four former members of the state Park and Recreation Commis- sion. The former staffers have sent “don’t you dare” letters to the commission, and one of them argued that the view of the downtown sky- line would be cluttered and commercialized. “Gondola cars encased in digital ads, flying 26 feet overhead every 25-30 sec- onds would irreparably impair the vista, and the sense of calm and escape from urban life,” wrote former state parks director Ruth Coleman. The four former commis- sioners have signed a joint letter arguing that the gon- dola proposal “would enable a private development to permanently and irrepara- bly shrink, degrade, and destroy the integrity of a state park.” They’re speaking up now because the state is consid- ering an amendment to the park’s general plan that would allow for “consider- ation and review of the proposed Los Angeles Aeri- al Rapid Transit (LA ART) gondola project.” That was McCourt’s brainchild, back in 2018, and he’s a guy with lobbying muscle and friends in high places. McCourt later han- ded off the project to an environmental group, but the idea is still to deliver fans to Dodger Stadium, where he has financial inter- ests. A hearing on the matter is expected in the fall, and it’s sure to be a cage fight. Last December, throngs of supporters and foes squared off at a raucous Metro board meeting. The board ultimately green- lighted the gondola, which the L.A. City Council has almost unanimously opposed. So the showdown scheduled for this fall could be at least as interesting as the World Series.
THE ENTRANCE of PS, a Los Angeles airport terminal where people pay a steep fee to skip the lines.
“My focus on the LAX op- eration is for one reason only: My company is respon- sible for Private Suite per- forming properly under the lease — and my company is liable when they do not,” De Becker said in a statement provided by Young. “I am concerned about the airport going into the Olympics with these issues unresolved.” De Becker, long known as a security consultant for government agencies and celebrities such as Madonna and Cher, was appointed by President Reagan to a presi- dential advisory board and wrote the 1997 bestseller “The Gift of Fear.” In a highly publicized case, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos tasked De Becker with investigating how the National Enquirer obtained Bezos’ private texts. The tabloid had published an ar- ticle exposing Bezos’ extra- marital affair with former TV anchor Lauren Sanchez, now his wife. In a March 2019 piece in the Daily Beast, De Becker said his team concluded that Saudi Ara- bia accessed and gained pri- vate information from Be- zos’ phone.
JON Christensen, left, Sean Woods and Susan Lai, who oppose the gondola, chat at L.A. State Historic Park.
For the record, I’m not anti-gondola. They’re fun, right? But I’m not buying the proponents’ claim that this is a public transit project. They say several thousand people would soar up to Chavez Ravine and help relieve the miserable traffic in and out of parking lots, which McCourt took part ownership of after selling the team back in 2012 for a cool $2 billion. But how much is gained if gondola riders ditch the free shuttle buses that now run to the ballpark from Union Station? Then there’s a much bigger question, which my colleague Bill Shaikin ex- plored in 2022: Is the gon- dola phase one of a plan to develop stadium property into some kind of Dodger- town commercial extrava- ganza? Unclear, but let’s not be naive. A Dodgers executive told Shaikin the Dodgers sup- port the gondola project, although they are “really not
PS has expanded to air- ports at other major cities, including Miami, Atlanta and Dallas. Passengers can pay to get access to mas- sages and manicures as well as chef-prepared meals while they wait to board. Annual memberships range from $1,250 to $4,850, with additional fees per flight for private suites or communal lounges. Without a membership, the lounge costs $1,295 a flight, and a suite, which fits four people, goes for $4,950. “If you’re looking for the chicest way to travel, this is it,” an Atlanta-based real es- tate advisor gushed in an In- stagram video that appears to have been filmed at the Atlanta terminal. “As we headed to Italy for our wed- ding, PS completely elevat- ed the experience for our family as we were welcomed with champagne, caviar, bal- loons, books and toys ... and even custom hats with our wedding date. Are you kid- ding?” When travelers arrive at the luxury terminal on the southern flank of LAX, they can valet their car and even get it washed while they’re
involved” in it. But we’re talking about fabulously wealthy people whose only real job is figuring out how to make more money. Team McCourt has suggested the gondola will be built with private money, perhaps from selling adver- tising rights, and that rides will be free to Dodger ticket holders. But how would any of that pencil out with Dodger Stadium closed most of the year, and with gondola traffic chipping away at revenue from parking fees that start at a monstrous $40? There’s something they’re not telling us, and if you think there’s no threat of taxpayers getting dinged one way or another at some point, you’ve either been hit in the head by a line drive or you’ve had too many $18 beers at Dodger Stadium. If you want more details on the history of the gondola gambit, I suggest you check out all the reporting by Shaikin, who has been on the case for years, and of-
away. Inside, they’re screened by TSA and cus- toms officials, far from the teeming lines of the main air- port. “It’s basically an airport designed for people who ne- ver want to see the airport,” a travel influencer said in an Instagram video. Keith Jeffries, who was the federal security director for TSA at LAX when the private terminal opened, called it a “tremendous” se- curity asset because celebri- ties can avoid chaotic scrums of fans and papa- razzi. “When you have a city like L.A. that has Justin Bieber, or the Kardashians, or folks that create a security vulner- ability ... that creates a con- cern,” Jeffries said, adding that PS paid for the screen- ing equipment and reim- burses the airport for TSA and customs officers who are assigned there. He said that with closed-circuit cameras everywhere, any al- legation of a security breach easily can be validated or disproved. In a February letter to air- port officials on behalf of De Becker’s firm, Young said
fered up a far better idea than a gondola: Make it easier for fans to walk or bike to the ballpark. But let’s get back to L.A. State Historic Park. Much of the early gon- dola opposition was from Chinatown residents who didn’t like the idea of living under what would resemble an amusement park ride. But on Wednesday evening, I met with some people whose focus is the impact on the park. “All of these trees would be gone,” said Sean Woods, a former state parks em- ployee who penned one of the letters to Sacramento, and who was involved in some of the 65 public meet- ings and workshops at which community members helped with the design and mission of the park. We were in a shady spot, where the gondola would run parallel to the existing Metro train tracks. There’d be supporting towers on park property, with cables dangling overhead, and a gondola station just outside
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that TPG Growth Inc., the private equity firm that bought De Becker’s interest in the business, did not in- form the city that De Beck- er’s firm no longer was in- volved in operations. TPG Growth did not re- spond to a request for com- ment. In 2022, while it still was owned by TPG Growth, PS secured a five-year lease ex- tension. In its lawsuit, De Becker’s firm accused PS of “crying poor” when it per- suaded the city to grant the extension so it could recover losses sustained during the COVID-19 pandemic, when few people were traveling. The move was made to pre- pare PS for a lucrative sale, the lawsuit said, and also prevented De Becker’s firm from bidding to take over the operation, which the firm had planned to do when the lease was set to expire. PS said the lease exten- sion was reviewed and ap- proved by airport officials “during one of the most dis- ruptive periods in the his- tory of commercial avia- tion.” De Becker’s attorneys contend that when TPG
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the park. The gondola would occupy only a small slice of the 32-acre space, but it would be a visible distraction from every inch of the park. “I think it’s a betrayal of California State Parks’ commitment to the commu- nities that surround this park, that fought dearly for this park,” Woods said. He was reflecting on a time when the former rail- yard was destined to be- come a giant industrial warehouse complex. And this followed the history of Chinatown having been relocated to make way for Union Station, and resi- dents of Chavez Ravine being relocated to make way for Dodger Stadium. Joining us was Susan Lai, who along with Woods represents Friends of Los Angeles State Historic Park. Lai is small in stature, but she swings for the fences. “This is called a historic park for a reason,” she said, “and McCourt … has no historical connection to the
Growth sold PS to Groupe ADP for an undisclosed amount, the city may have left millions of dollars on the table because of a section in the original lease that they say entitles the city to a sig- nificant part of the payment from a sale. A spokesperson for the city attorney’s office referred questions to the airport. The LAWA spokesperson de- clined to comment. Young said LAWA has re- fused to comply with public records requests for docu- ments about those deci- sions. In the letter to airport of- ficials, Young raised security concerns about the private terminal, pointing to a series of lawsuits by ex-employees. One pending lawsuit was filed in November by Hugo Garcia, who worked as an operations associate at PS for about three years. In the lawsuit, Garcia claims he faced retaliation for speak- ing up about serious security breaches, complaining that some managers allowed un- screened luggage directly onto planes. Managers were irritated when he asked questions about the breaches, the lawsuit said. Garcia was fired in 2024 for tardiness and absences that he claims were justified. Sally Chan, an attorney representing Garcia, said that PS employees are over- worked and exceptions are made for certain customers. She declined to make Garcia available for an interview. “It became a VIP pro- gram for rich and powerful people, where security wasn’t prioritized,” Chan said. Other lawsuits allege that employees were not giv- en proper rest breaks. The PS spokesperson said that De Becker, his fam- ily and clients have used the private terminal themselves more than 200 times since his company sold it, includ- ing 50 times since the com- pany filed its lawsuit. “If GDBA genuinely be- lieved the safety concerns it now alleges, it is difficult to reconcile those claims with its own conduct,” the spokesperson said. Young said De Becker has used the luxury terminal on five trips since the begin- ning of last year.
park, no community con- nection to the park, and no cultural connection to the park.” Lai is steeped in the archaeology of the park, the Gabrielino establishment here, the Zanja Madre irri- gation line that served the early pueblo. As we strolled, she told me this is another case of politically connected profit- eers trying to impose their will on the local community, and she won’t stand for it. Lai is carrying a torch lit by her husband, Collin, who died last year at the age of 96 after years of fighting to make the park a reality. “She’s brought an extra fire to this whole effort, and really inspired a lot of young people,” said Jon Christensen, gondola foe and co-founder of the Los Angeles Parks Alliance. Christensen led Lai, Woods and me to the top of a grassy hill. When the park opened in 2006, I thought it seemed too flat and shape- less, too hemmed in by Broadway and Spring. But it later expanded, the trees filled in and the whole park grew on me as a place to see and feel Los Angeles. I loved two things most of all. The unstructured activ- ities enjoyed by a broad mix of people picnicking on the grass, napping under a tree, kicking a ball around or doing what 10 guys were doing Wednesday evening — playing a game of Frisbee football in the meadow below us. And the unfettered sky- line view, which could soon be lost. And consider the optics: Dodgers fans soaring over a public park enjoyed by families who might need to hit the lottery to afford tickets to a game. It was almost Dodger game time, and if the gondo- las were up and running, they’d be close enough overhead that you could hit one with a tomato. Not that I’m recom- mending that.
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GoElite, Inc. seeks Copy Writer. Bach. in Eng., Comm. or rel. field reqd. Write copy for blog posts/co. ad./mktg. materials Salary: $49,878. Worksite: Pasadena, CA. Mail resumes to: 680 E. Colorado Blvd. #180, Pasadena, CA 91101.
Data Science Analyst sought by Capital Group Compa- nies Global in Los Angeles, CA. Hybrid work permitted, when not WFH must report to Los Angeles, CA office.: Performs data manipulation & analytics, working w/bus. functions to identify & to respond to bus. problems. Salary Range: $125,909 - 201,454/yr, + std co. ben- efits. Must have unrestricted right to work in U.S.To apply, send resume to Global Mo- bility Team: cgapplications@ capgroup.com. MUST REF. JOB CODE: LA0824MG
Database Administrator. Ad- minister, test, & implement computer databases, apply- ing knowledge of database management systems. Req. Bach. in Comp. Science., or rel. field or foreign equiv. Jobsite: Anaheim, CA. Wage range: $93,579/yr to $96,000/yr. Send resume: C. Reyes, Pampanga Food Co. Inc., 1835 N. Orangetho- rpe Park, #A, Anaheim, CA 92801.
Database Administrator (Vernon,CA) Ensure the reli- ability, security, & efficiency of the co’s d/base systems supporting day-to-day op- erations. Bachelor’s deg in comp and info tech, cyber- security, or another closely rltd field; 6 mos of work exp supporting a co’s IT systems (incl administering CRM platforms), incl system data mgmt. Proficiency in Git, Ja- vaScript, & MS Excel. Annual wage $93,600-$93,610. Send resume to pinkysirondoors@ gmail.com or, Pinky’s Iron Doors LLC c/o Dion Der- sarkissian, 2382 E 48th St, Vernon, CA 90058
Senior Designer, WGW Sales Inc., Los Angeles, CA (mul- tiple openings) – Develop cohesive, trend forward product lines while meet- ing brand standards. Salary: $122,100. For info, samara. kinahan@westernglove. mb.ca.
Integration Developer (C87): Reqs BS in CS/CIS/IT or rltd tech field w/2 yrs Work- day cloud exp. Pay scale $117,879.45-$153,110.52/yr. Must be authorized to work F/T in US without employer sponsor. May work remotely. Employer location: Los An- geles CA. Email resume with job title/code in subject field to University of Southern California, ITSRes@usc.edu
Sr. Director of Customr Suc- cess -MS/equiv & 2 yrs exp incl Insidr Threat Platform, Splunk, ArcSight, QRadar, Apach Kafka, Redis, Solr, MySQL, Oracl, SQL Srvr, Hadoop, Mitre ATT &CK, Shell Scripting, & Python. $115,752/yr. Send résumé to: Saviynt, Inc. 1301 E El Segundo Blvd, Ste D, El Segundo, CA 90245
Nexcare LLC in West Covina, CA seeks Project Manager (multiple). Salary: $159K- $164K. Travel to company locations in Greater L.A. area required up to 20% of time. Qualified applicants should email resumes to NexcareHR@cdfzone.com, quoting job #PMN101.
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ADVA LAVIE, 29, also faces a charge of ditching an ankle monitor.
$8,600, Louis Vuitton sun- glasses worth about $700 and a Louis Vuitton card holder worth close to $2,000, Plata said. This new case will even- tually be handled in Riv- erside County and is unre- lated to the ongoing case in L.A. County. Lavie — who authorities say also goes by the names Mia Ventura, Shoshana and
Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. in Westlake Village, CA seeks Analog IC Design StaffEngineer (F142): Par- ticipate in Active-circuit de- sign. $150,000 - $170,000/ yr. TO APPLY please send your resume with reference Job Code (F142) to Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. Attn. HR 1.2.519, 5488 Marvell Lane, Santa Clara, CA 95054 or to Opportunities@marvell. com. EOE.
Netflix, Inc. is accepting resumes for the following positions in Los Angeles, CA Associate, Corporate De- velopment (Ref 10145785) Recommend individual in- vestments and collections of investments, known as portfolios. Telecommuting may be permitted. When not telecommuting, must report to worksite. The wage range for this position is $210,000– $310,000 per year. Statistician, Talent Analytics (Ref 8049113) Collaborate with Partners and stakehold- ers to understand people- related business problems. Telecommuting may be permitted. When not tele- commuting, must report to worksite. The wage range for this position is $300,000 – $435,000 per year. Email resume to: USresumes@netflix.com. Must include Ref. code. No phone calls please. EOE. www.netflix.com/
Ingram Micro Inc. seeks Managers, Software Devel- opment in Irvine, CA. Over- see the end-to-end dev & delivery of an enterprise e- commerce platform, ensur- ing high availability, scalabil- ity, security, & performance; manage & mentor a team of SW engineers, providing tech guidance, conduct- ing performance reviews, & supporting career dev. Telecommuting / working from home may be permis- sible pursuant to company policy. BS in CS or rel field & 10 yrs exp in the job offered or in an IT Project Mgmt-re- lated occupation. $184,558 to $226,800/yr. CONTACT: Search by title and apply online at https://www.ingrammicro. com/en-us/careers/ work-for-us
Mult IT jobs. All req. travel/ reloc. Send résumé w/ JC# to Saviynt, Inc., 1301 E. El Segundo Blvd, Ste D, El Se- gundo, CA 90245 (JC4) Sr. Systs Anlyst – MS/ equv & courswrk in: Com- puting Systs Arch., Data Structurs & Algorithms, Data Engineering & Mining, Soft- wre Verification & Validation, Big Data Architctures, Soft- wre Arch. & Microservics, & Softwre Testing Principls & Techniques. $122,616/yr. (JC5) Comp Prgrmmr – MS/ equv & 1yr exp incl. Core Java, OOP concepts, Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernat, REST- ful, APIs, QA, DevOps, Git, Scrum, Lambd, Micro Srvcs, HTTP, REST, Matplotlib, Py- thon, & GitLab. $107,827/yr. (JC6) Sr. Product Mngr – BS/ equv & 5yrs IT exp incl. 2 yrs w/ SAP GRC Access Control, SAP ECC, SAP CRM, SAP CUA, SAP Solution Mngr, SOX complianc framwrks, SPRO configuration, KPI report- ing tools, Azur Studios, Jira, Asan, Confluenc, Swaggr, Postman, & SAP S/4HANA. $143,458/yr.
Network Engineer (Long Beach, CA) (Mult pos) Mn- tain, secure, upgrde, & mnge Local Area Ntwrk, Wide Area Ntwrk, & cloud ntwrk services. Tlcmmt’g Prms- sble. Req. Mstrs deg or frgn eqvlnt in Elctrcl Engg, Comp Engg, IT, or rltd fld, & 2 yrs of exp in the job offrd or any pos in which rqr’d exp was gaind. Salary: $141,794 to $190,488/yr. Must have relvt work exp. Apply res/cvr let to Welbe Health, LLC., Attn: N. Reinardy, ref:#SG2026, natalie.reinardy@wel behealth.com. No calls. EOE
JASI Inc. has an oppty in Los Angeles, CA for an Op- erations Manager. Support the ops of multi-location medical spa. $72,446/yr to $80,000/yr. Bachelor’s in Business Admin, Public Ad- min, or relatd. 2 yrs custom- er-facing exp. Email resume w/Ref#9338915 to info@ ginillebeauty.com. Must be legally auth to work in the U.S. w/o spnsrshp. EOE
Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc.hasanopptyforaSr.Mgr, Product Mgmt. Oversee the entire S/W prod. develop- ment lifecycle. $134,534.00/ yr to $211,700.00/yr. May wrk from our HQ office in Santa Monica, CA or reside anywhere in US & wrk re- motely from home. May wrk at other US locatns not prsntly known. Email re- sume w/ Ref# 8709066 to recruitment.to@csod.com. Must be legally auth to work in the U.S. w/o spnsrshp. EOE
Shana — was facing an up- coming trial for two counts of grand theft and two counts of first-degree resi- dential burglary from inci- dents in L.A. County. She has pleaded not guilty to the charges. An attorney for Lavie did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The L.A. County charges stem from incidents involv- ing five alleged victims, ac- cording to investigators, but after the Sheriff’s Depart- ment released a bulletin call- ing for other possible victims to come forward, detectives learned of several additional burglaries possibly linked to Lavie. In addition to older men she met online, Lavie alleg- edly stole from younger men and women, as well as busi- nesses, investigators said.
Times staff writer Summer Lin contributed to this report.
BMO Bank N.A. seeks a Se- nior Specialist-IC Commer- cial Relationship Manage- ment VII in Los Angeles, CA. Provide market coverage strategies to expand port- folios. Approximately 55% travel primarily through- out CA. Salary $137,717- $228,000/yr. Send resume to bmobankn.a@bmo.com & reference #1386780.
Horton Lees Brogden Light- ing Design Inc. (Culver City, CA) Sr. Designer, to plan, dsgn, & furnish light- ing dsgns through anlss of electrical lighting controls, build modeling sys, & dvlp drawing plans to dsgn an envrmnt that balances aesthetics & dsgn, while si- multaneously maximizing sustainability. Reqs: Master’s deg or for equiv in Lghtng Dsgn, Interior Des, Archtctrl Engin, Archtctre, Interior Archtctre, or rel, plus 1 yr of prgrssvly resp post-bacc exp in each of the follwng: Prdcng high-lvl 3D calcs & dsgn doc using SW prgrms incl: AGI32, Revit, AutoCAD, Adobe Acrobat or Bluebeam, & Photoshop; usng industry/ luminaire tech best practic- es, stndrds, prcsses, & prcdrs, consistng of exp in the cust- mry prdct distr chains, the luminaire equipmnt/light- ing cntrl budgetary prcss (incl knwledge of lightng procuremnt), ind spprt pro- tocols & construction admin. Emplyer will also accpt bach deg or for equiv in any of above or rel fields provided applcnt possesses 3 yrs of prgrssvly resp post-bacc exp in the areas above. WFH al- lowed 2 days p/wk. Must live w/i commuting distance to the worksite. Salary Range $89,600 - $95,500/yr. Apply at: https:// hlblighting.com/about-us/ join-us/ job ref #822324811
Design Engineer I sought by Fluor Enterprises, Inc. in Aliso Viejo, CA & unantici- pated Fluor office locs in CA. Apply project drawing stds to dsgn drawings & 3D lay- out. Domestic travel 2 times/ mo. Salary Range: $111,072 - $120,933. Must have unre- stricted right to work in U.S. Email Resume: US.recruiter@ fluor.com. Must ref job code CA0410JA
CxOps, LLC seeks DevOps Engineer in El Segundo, CA: Design, implement, build, deploy, release, and perform configuration management to push changes to lower environments to Produc- tion environment. Full-time Telecommuting permitted. $144,414/yr. - $154,414/yr. Apply @ www.jobpostingto day.com Ref#45563
Electrical Engineer (3) sought by Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, CA) *Hybrid work permitted - Snap practices a “default together” approach & expects team members to work in Santa Monica ofc at least 80% of time (avg 4 days/wk). Own schematic dsgn, circuit review, def. & layout review for PCB, Flex & Rigid Flex dsgns. Base sal- ary: $107,000-$161,000/yr. Eligible for equity in form of RSUs. Our Benefits: https:// careers.snap.com/benefits. Apply through this website link: bit.ly/49QuzlB. EOE.
Engineer. Perform service engineering and techni- cal support for power sup- plies, electronic test and measurement equipment by diagnosing faults, pro- viding repairs, calibration, troubleshooting, preven- tive maintenance, customer training, root cause analysis and technical assistance to clients, agents and sales teams to ensure product reliability, compliance and customer satisfaction. Req. Bachelor’s Degree in Electri- cal Engineering, Electronics Engineering or related field or foreign equivalent plus five years of progressive ex- perience in job offered, elec- trical engineering or related work. Salary: $162,011.00/ year. Mail resume: Shoji Ike- gami, Kikusui America, Inc., 3625 Del Amo Blvd., Suite 160, Torrance, CA 90503
Engineering Manager (Whatnot Inc.; Culver City, CA): Shape the platform and product strategy to ensure buyers and sellers have a great Notifications experience. This position will supervise five (5) Soft- ware Engineers. Telecom- muting is permitted from anywhere in the U.S. Sal- ary: $245,000 - $335,000 per year. Apply online at: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ whatnot/7d29a472-44e8- 4960-99ce-b8a6354658ee Or, send resume to: Emily Pullen @ emilypullen@ whatnot.com Ref: 00094314. An EOE.
Engineering Manager (Whatnot Inc.; Culver City, CA): Lead and manage the GlobalTrustandSafetyteam, providing strategic direc- tion, mentorship, and guid- ance to ensure the team’s success. Supervises five (5) software engineers and one (1) software engineer- ing intern. Telecommuting permitted from anywhere in the U.S. Salary: $ 245,000 – $335,000 per year. To Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ whatnot/0eb4ee29-89e3- 4307-b242-58675a13d9dd or send resume to emilypullen@whatnot.com
Amazon Studios LLC - Culver City, CA. Software Dev Engi- neer II (AMZ010452): Design, develop, implement, test, and document embedded or distributed software ap- plications, tools, systems and services. Salary Range: $143,700-$194,400/yr. Mul- tiple Positions Available. Standard company ben- efits available. Apply online: www.amazon.jobs – search- ing by AMZ010452. EOE.
HSE Engineer III sought by Fluor Enterprises, Inc. in Aliso Viejo, CA: Work on projects of broad & diverse scope for HSE activities. Salary: $154,315-$179,500/ Yr. Must have unrestricted right to work in U.S. Email: US.recruiter@fluor.com. Must ref job code CA0318NP
Logistics Systems Engineer: f/t; import & export; Salary $74880/yr; Mail Resume: In- sight Shipping Inc. 9719 Santa Fe Springs Rd. Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670
Oil and Gas Engineer (Ke- corp, Inc.; Bakersfield, CA): Provide comprehensive safety oversight for all oper- ations. May trvl to anticipat- ed & unanticipated worksite locations w/in U.S. as need- ed, up to 100% of time (10% dom. trvl). Slry: $195,233- $230,000/yr. Apply: https:// kecorp.us/careers/ or email pcodd@kecorp.us
Pressure Vessel Engineer sought by Fluor Enterprises, Inc. in Aliso Viejo, CA: Per- form & check calculations & dsgns using computer-aided & manual dsgn techniques. Salary Range: $134,534 - $201,000/yr. Must have unrestricted right to work in U.S. Email: US.recruiter@ fluor.com. Must ref job code CA0228DB
Senior Software Engineer sought by First American Title Insurance Company in Santa Ana, CA to work with a cross-functional team to deliver timely, high quality & well tested code. BS or for- eign equivalent + 5 yrs. exp. $184,558 - $185,000/yr. May work from home. Resumes to: clcarter@firstam.com.
Software Engineer (Whatnot Inc.; Culver City, CA): Build intuitive user interfaces from the ground up. Telecom- muting is permitted from anywhere in the U.S. Salary: $207,000 - $253,000 per year Apply online at: https:// j o b s . a s h b y h q . c o m / whatnot/716e37e8-42a5- 41d5-b10c-b8b3730827b6 Or, send resume to: Emily Pullen @ emilpullen@whatnot.com Ref: 00096776. An EOE.
Solutions Engineer III sought by Capital Group Compa- nies Global in Los Angeles, CA. Hybrid work permitted, when not WFH must report to Los Angeles, CA office.: Provides Technology Lead- ership, End-to-End Solution Ownership, & Strategy con- tributing to solution deliv- ery through SDLC activities for multiple features w/in a product. Salary: $157,123 - $201,454/yr, plus std co. benefits. Must have unre- stricted to work in U.S.To apply, send right resume to Global Mobility Team: cgapplications@capgroup. com. MUST REF. JOB CODE: LA1030PS
Amgen Inc.; Sr Engineer R-219267; Thousand Oaks, CA; Lead efforts to design, build, and develop rapid Proof-of-Concept (POC) automated solutions and services. May Telecommute. Interested candidates email resume to Talent A c q u i s i t i o n @ a m g e n . com. Must reference Job # R-219267. The annual sal- ary range for this position in the U.S. is $148,436.00 - $190,516.00 per year. Also, this position offers stock, retirement, medical, life and disability insurance and eli- gibility for an annual bonus or for sales roles, other in- centive compensation. For more details visit https:// careers.amgen.com/life-at- amgen/benefits/.
AmeriHome Mortgage Company, LLC in Thousand Oaks, CA seeks Sr. Financial Engineer. Develop & main- tain firm’s daily P&L attri- bution system. Req MA or BA in Quantitative Finance, Computer Science, Financial Technology or rel fld. 1 yr exp req w/ MA or 3 yrs req w/ BA. Technical skills re- quired. Salary: $107,395.00 - $145,295.00/yr. Email resume to hr@westernall iancebank.com referencing ID #249.
Sr. Software Engineer (Job 044): Design, develop & im- plement software code for company’s primary website; add new features, maintain existing functionality. May telecommute in US. Salary: $183,855 - $208k per yr. Mail resume & ref job code: Per- sonalized Beauty Discovery, Inc., Attn: IPSY HR, 903 Colo- rado Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90401
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A man was fatally stabbed on the platform for the Sylmar/San Fernando Metrolink train station Fri- day afternoon, authorities said. Los Angeles Police De- partment officers respond- ed to the reported stabbing at 2:07 p.m. and found the victim bleeding on the ground, where he was pro- nounced dead, according to a department spokes- person. Officers established a pe- rimeter and began searching for the suspect, who was de- scribed as a man in a reflec- tive vest. One person was detained by officers Friday afternoon,
Sony Interactive Entertain- ment LLC seeks Software Engineer II in Los Angeles, CA to dsgn, dvlp, & maintain backend apps ranging from servlet-based monolithic web apps to microservices & reactive APIs using Node. js & frameworks incl Spring Boot/WebFlux. Req’s: Mas- ter’s in CS or rel. field or equiv & 2 yrs of exp perform- ing large-scale ETL work- flows & data transformation using Microsoft SQL Server, Python, & Microsoft Excel; collaborating w/ cross- functional teams to dvlp Java & JavaScript based web apps, incl Node.js srvcs, to integrate ETL outputs w/ re- porting & analytics syst’s; au- tomating & optimizing data pipelines through sched- uled Bash & Python scripts for recurring workflows, batch execution, reruns, & failure handling; administer- ing Linux servers, incl job scheduling, log monitoring, & role-based user access control, supporting secure & stable operational envi- rons; utilizing schema dsgn, data normalization, index- ing strategies, & SQL query optimization to support scalable ETL pipelines, data integrity, & analytical report- ing; monitoring, debugging & validating end-to-end data flows, identifying data inconsistencies to ensure accuracy & reliability across ETL stages; applying data analysis & anomaly-detec- tion techniques, incl fraud detection & risk scoring to surface usage patterns & irregularities; dvlping ana- lytics & anomaly-detection dashboards; & collaborating & participating in tech’l dsgn discussions w/ stakehold- ers to translate bus. req’mts into techn’l solutions. Tele- commuting &/or working from home may be per- missible pursuant to com- pany policies. Salary range: $172,137.00 - $225,100.00/ yr. Please apply to https://ca- reers.playstation.com/#jobs- list-section & search by Job ID 200599. Sony is an EOE. Benefits incl medical, dental, vision, 401(k), PTO, wellness & discounts. For more info, visit this link: https://careers. playstation.com/benefits
Farmers & Merchants Bank of Long Beach seeks Fin. Reporting Asst. Mgr in Lakewood, CA: Oversight & prep Bank’s reporting reqs, including mgmt. reports, regulatory call & annual re- port. Supv. 1 Sr. FRA & 2 Staff Accts. $135k/YR. Email CV: Franco.Vega@fmb.com
FINANCE Lido Advisors, LLC. of Los Angeles, CA seeks a SVP, Investments and Ana- lytics, Financial Manager Bachelors in Business, Fi- nance or a related field, Chartered Financial Analyst Certification, and 2 years as a financial analyst. See www.lidoadvisors.com/ careers for details
MGM Transformer Co. seeks an Applications Engineering Manager (AEM-SS) in Ver- non, CA with Telecommute permitted from anywhere in U.S. Serve as primary tech authority on liquid-filled medium voltage transform- ers for solar & energy stor- age appls. Travel req 25% of time US domestic travel. BS flwd by 5yrs prog rltd exp.$162,011-$183,000. Send resumes to mgm.hr@ mgmtransformers.com. Must reference job title and job code in subject line.
Digital Analytics Manager sought by Capital Group Companies Global in Irvine, CA. Hybrid work permit- ted, when not WFH must report to Irvine, CA office. Lead enterprise-wide digital analytics strategy & execu- tion to align analytics initia- tives w/ global bus goals & objectives. Salary:$179,273 - $286,837/yr, + std co. ben- efits. Must have unrestricted right to work in U.S.To apply, send resume to Global Mo- bility Team: cgapplications@ capgroup.com. MUST REF. JOB CODE: IR0122FB
Heaven Doggie Foods LLC d/b/a T-Swirl Crepe seeks Gen. Mgr. Mstrs in Hospital- ity, Rest. Mgmt or closely rel. field. Manage daily ops, quality control, hiring/firing. Worksite: Temple City, CA. Mail resumes to: 5708 Rose- mead Blvd. #105, Temple City, CA 91780
Modern Animal seeks Sr Manager of Strategy & Op- erations for its Culver City, CA office to plan, direct & coordinate strategy, sys de- sign & operational execution & formulate policies & im- prove omnichannel strategy & workflow. Employee may work from home & can be based anywhere in the U.S. Travel approx. 10% of the time to unanticipated client sites & the company’s HQs in the U.S. for meetings and training. Salary: $170,000 - $175,000/yr. Send resume: recruiting@modernanimal. com. Must ref job code DM
but information was not im- mediately available on whether that individual had been booked into jail, the spokesperson said. Homicide detectives are continuing to investigate for a possible motive for the at- tack. The victim’s identity has not yet been released. Metrolink service was not affected as the afternoon rush hour began, according to a spokesperson for the commuter rail system. Trains continued to run through the Sylmar/San Fernando station, but pas- sengers were asked to board and exit through the back two cars to minimize disrup- tion at the active crime scene, the spokesperson said.
Marketing Specialist (Los Angeles, CA) Conduct re- search on markets and marketing strategy. Master’s in business admin, market- ing, or related. $75,546/yr. Resumes to: No 1 Beauty & Cosmetic Inc., 1585 Rio Vista Ave, LA, CA 90023
MARKETING PROGRAM ANALYST: Develop, manage, & optimize digital market- ing programs across search, social, display/retarget- ing, SEO, & email/nurture campaigns to drive lead generation and pipeline growth. Req Master’s de- gree in Project or Program Mgmt, Marketing, Analyt- ics, or related and 1yr exp. Position at 405 ADS INC in Canoga Park, CA. For full job desc and reqs visit: https:// bit.ly/405marketinganalyst. To apply, send resume to job@405ads.com.
GoElite, Inc. seeks Strategic Partnership Specialist. Bach. in Bus., Mkt. Res. or rel. field reqd. Lead mkt res. initatives, identify long term p’ships. Salary: $52,707. Worksite: Pasadena, CA. Mail resumes to: 680 E. Colorado Blvd.
OPERATION Chief Operat- ing Officer for Instanpro Inc. Master degree in Com- puter Information System, Business, or related field. Certificates in Project Man- agement, Specification and Design, and Lifecycle Pro- cess Management a plus. 5 yrs. exp. Daily business man- agement in operations, bud- geting & financial oversight, and overseeing policies, pro- cedures, and sales to ensure revenue growth. Experience with smart logistics & tech integration, AI driven route optimization, strategic ben- efits, and TMS integration. Commensurate salary. Ben- efits. Job site: Vernon, CA. Send resume to: 4668 E. 48th Street, Vernon, CA 90058, Attn: Ms. Jinny Lee.
Family Medicine Physician (Multiple Positions) Bakers- field, CA: MD or frgn equiv, BC/BE in Fam. Med., & CA Med. lic or ability to obtain. $115.00 - $150.00/hr. Send CV to Dr. Harjeet Brar, Presi- dent, Infusion and Clinical Services, Inc. dba Premier Valley Medical Group, via email to brar@me.com.
Data Scientist: Jobsite Brea/ CA, apply to HR Manager for HL Uriman Inc at InfoUriman@gmail.com
Riot Games, Inc. seeks Manager, Software Engineering in Los Angeles, CA (Position based out of Riot Games, Inc.’s office in Los Angeles, CA. Telecommuting is per- mitted w/in commutable distance of this location. Periodic on-site attendance will be req’d): Manage team of engineers to design, build, & deliver new in-game features for esports observ- ers, coaches, & players. Req’s: MS(or equiv.) + 2 yrs. exp. Salary: $192,500 - $269,400 per yr. Submit resume w/ refs to Req. # 19-3882 at: riotgames.job.applications@ riotgames.com.
Gensyn, Inc. seeks multiple Software Engineers in West Hollywood, CA. Employee may be stationed anywhere in the continental U.S., but will report to headquar- ters in West Hollywood, CA. Salary range $158,200 – $233,099. Please email resumes to Gensyn, Inc. at jobs@gensyn.ai quoting job
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Sr. Software Engineer (Santa Clarita, CA), Analyze/docu- ment data flows across mul- tiple enterprise systems/ trading/accounting, com- pliance/risk platforms for accurate data integration/ reporting. Reqs BS in Comp Sci/Comp Apps/closely reltd (foreign equiv). 5 yrs relev exp. or MS deg in same + 3 yrs relev exp. Reqs 3 yrs exp. in MS Analysis Ser- vices (SSAS)/MS Integration Services (SSIS)/python for finance(Investment funda- mentals & Data Analysis)/ biz Intelligence(Data Mod- elling/Data Warehousing/ dimension modeling) Mas- ter Data mgmt/Python/ SQL Server. Reqs Python for finance Investment Fun- damentals/Data Analysis certification. $184558/yr. 50% Trvl/reloc. Resume to Infotron Solutions, 27125 Si- erra Hwy, Ste. 325 (2nd Flr.), Santa Clarita, CA 91351
Personal Service Supervisor: Supervise and coordinate the work of personal ser- vices technicians and front desk staffin a salon environ- ment; schedule employees, assign duties, and monitor workflow based on appoint- ment volume; train staffin service procedures, sanita- tion standards, and custom- er service practices; monitor employee performance and ensure adherence to estab- lished service and hygiene standards; resolve client complaints and service is- sues to maintain customer satisfaction; monitor inven- tory of supplies and ensure availability of products and materials needed for daily operations. 40hrs/wk. Req. High School Diploma and 48months experience as Fa- cility Supervisor/Establish- ment Supervisor. Resumes: Lash House LA Inc, 8377 W 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA 90048
Full-Stack Web Developer Needed. Send resumes to FBR Marble, Inc., 6851 N. Par- amount Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90805. Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or related field required. Job is located in Long Beach, CA. Sal- ary ranges from $129,667- 130,000 per year.
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ment’s Altadena station launched a hate crime inves- tigation, which remains on- going, Capt. Ethan Marquez confirmed last week. It re- mains unclear how many people were involved in the crime. For a community that has already endured im- mense loss, the antisemitic graffiti felt deeply personal. “It is very difficult when we need to be worried about security,” said Dianne Burr, a member of PJTC for more than 20 years. “We want peo- ple to be able to feel that this is a space where we all be- long.” Burr said about 70 mem- bers were affected by the Eaton fire and that congre- gants have been supporting families through food deliv- eries and care packages. She said that unity has been the only answer. It was that sense of unity that motivated high school seniors Caleb Yellin and Au- drey Farahnik to fund the creation of a mural to cover the first graffiti incident. The project was completed in May. Yellin and Farahnik raised $30,000 through the nonprofit Sparks of Kind- ness Youth Fund, the pair told the Pasadena Star-News. “We wanted to cover the hate and pain with some- thing beautiful,” Farahnik told The Times. “To cover hate with more love.” Yellin explained that the concept for the mural’s art- work came from some of the youngest members of PJTC. “The kids who belong to the temple had a brain- storming session, and they put all their ideas on the ta- ble,” Yellin said. “Then, from their ideas, we drew out a lot of poppies, peacocks. We took their designs, and we talked to an artist to make it more feasible.” Scenic painter Miriam Hellmann was the skillful hand behind the mural’s fi- nal product: an image of a gi- ant, bright orange poppy, a butterfly and a peacock, along with floral and faunal symbols. The mural’s stained-glass look was in- spired by the temple’s fa- mous ark doors, she said. It was a “community ef- fort, and everybody coming together, despite everything that happened in the fire,” Yellin added. Ratner said in a previous interview with The Times
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officer who reported them.” Jackson said he intends to argue that Flores made the recordings within the scope of his duties as a police officer, investigating mis- conduct within the work- place. The conversations were taped between March and October 2024 involving members of the depart- ment’s recruitment unit, whose officers are tasked with deciding who can join the police force. After The Times revealed the recordings, their exist- ence drew wide condemna- tion, including by LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell, Mayor
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invested in winning this race in November,” the mayor said in a statement. Bass and Raman emerged as the top two vote- getters in the city’s June 2 mayoral primary, setting up the Nov. 3 general election runoff. Former reality TV star Spencer Pratt was in second place on election night, but Raman gained as mail-in ballots were counted and was declared the second-place finisher by the Associated Press on June 8. Bass advanced to the Nov. 3 runoff after taking first place in the June 2 pri- mary, winning about 34% of the vote in the primary. Ra- man secured the second spot with 29%. Pratt got about 26%. In a statement Friday, Raman said that much of Bass’ financial support comes from vested interests. Bass has obtained finan- cial support from compa- nies including Airbnb and Douglas Emmett Proper- ties.
RABBIS gather at the burned Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center after a mural on an outside wall was vandalized with antisemitic graffiti.
SUPERVISOR Kathryn Barger, who represents the area, spoke at the event.
that the second vandalism act was a direct response to the first incident. “Today we mark one week since our sacred space, our place of worship, was
Karen Bass and the police union, which called them “reprehensible” and “unac- ceptable” at a time when the department was struggling to attract recruits. Jackson said the officer will fight the charge and plead not guilty, and that the law only applies where the speakers have a reasonable expectation that what they say would not be overheard or recorded. Jackson said the charge against Flores sends a mes- sage that “if you document bigotry inside the LAPD, you will be the one who ends up in a courtroom. It tells them the safe move is to hear slurs and say nothing.”
“Corporate landlords and other powerful interests are spending record sums to preserve the status quo,” Raman said in the state- ment, referring to millions in independent expenditures spent during the mayoral primary in support of Bass. “But Los Angeles is not for sale — and our grass- roots campaign, powered by thousands of small-dollar donors, will continue to ramp up to deliver the change Angelenos are de- manding.” Bass’ fundraising haul came from celebrities, politi- cians and business leaders. Director J.J. Abrams gave the maximum $1,800, as did Debra Lee, the former chairman and CEO of BET, the parent company of Black Entertainment Tele- vision. L.A. City Councilmem- bers Imelda Padilla and Heather Hutt also contrib- uted, though in smaller de- nominations. Hutt gave $500 and Padilla gave $100. On Raman’s side, some contributors came from the
violated with words of hate,” Ratner said in a speech Thursday. “Targeting a mu- ral created to be a source of healing and communal in- spiration, in response to a
A separate administra- tive investigation of Flores by the LAPD found him guilty of policy violations and recommended a 22-day suspension without pay, ac- cording to Greg Smith, Flo- res’ civil attorney. The disci- pline has not yet been final- ized by the LAPD chief, Smith said. Smith said it wasn’t clear whether any of the officers that Flores recorded have been punished. California law requires most police per- sonnel investigations to be kept confidential. In a retaliation lawsuit that Flores filed in June against the city, the officer claimed he overheard his su-
left flank of Los Angeles while others were more es- tablishment. She took in the maxi- mum from Rick Cole, a for- mer aide to City Controller Kenneth Mejia who serves as a council member in Pasa- dena and has been actively supporting Raman’s cam- paign. Raman also picked up a donation from former City Controller Laura Chick, who gained a reputation as a sharp critic of the status quo during her time at City Hall. She also raised $100 from Jillian Burgos, who ran for L.A. City Council endorsed by the Democratic Social- ists of America, but lost. The funds raised by the campaigns will be critical for spending on television and social media ads, direct mai- lers to houses and apart- ments and other campaign essentials. Candidates cannot use funds they raised in the pri- mary to pay for general elec- tion expenditures. In the primary, Bass raised more than $3.2 mil-
prior act of antisemitic van- dalism, is an assault not only on PJTC, but on our commu- nity here.” L.A. County Supervisor Kathryn Barger, who repre-
pervisor, who was Asian, re- mark that an “Asian inva- sion” had begun, before starting to recruit officers of Asian descent to the unit. Other times, according to the lawsuit, the supervisors and unnamed colleagues made inappropriate com- ments about women, refer- ring to them as “bitches” who couldn’t be trusted. In another conversation described in the lawsuit, Flo- res said he heard his super- visor discuss the death of Dodgers legend Fernando Valenzuela from septic shock, allegedly telling sub- ordinates that the Mexican pitcher “ate too many” ta- cos.
MAYOR Karen Bass, left, and Councilmember Nithya Raman at candidate forum.
lion, while Raman raised just under $1 million. Both received the maximum amount of matching funds, $1,257,000, during the pri- mary. Bass had much longer to fundraise. The mayor an- nounced her reelection bid in July 2024, while Raman
sents the area, said that dur- ing Tuesday’s board meet- ing, she will raise the award money to $20,000 for anyone with information about the vandalism. “I’m confident that my colleagues are going to sup- port me and approve this motion,” Barger said. “The deep roots of this communi- ty, and its unwavering com- mitment to healing and to rebuilding, continue to shine.” While the temple’s recon- struction continues, PJTC congregants have been shar- ing a space at First United Methodist Church of Pasa- dena on Colorado Boule- vard, which also shares its place of worship with the Is- lamic Center of Southern California. Pastor Amy Aitken said it has been a joy to welcome PJTC members. “I was speaking to some- body the other day, and I was talking about our campus rabbi, which not a lot of United Methodist churches have, but we do. And it is how
Flores alleged in the suit that the officers referred to other colleagues they be- lieved to be queer with a slew of derogatory terms. They also referred to Black people as monkeys, the complaint said. “Black people like grape soda — they enjoy wa- termelon between basket- ball,” one was overheard say- ing, according to the lawsuit. Susan Seager, a UC Irvine law professor who is not involved in the case, pre- viously told The Times that Flores’ lawyer is correct in stating that the eavesdrop- ping law bans secret taping of conversations only in situations in which there is a reasonable expectation that
joined the race on the filing deadline in February of this year. The mayor was also heav- ily favored by independent expenditure groups, which are required to be unafilli- ated with the campaigns, that spent more than $2.5 million in support of
Photographs by Kayla Bartkowski Los Angeles Times
it should be. It is a beautiful thing,” Aitken said. “We’re sorry that we’re all here to- day, but we stand in solidari- ty with our Jewish siblings of faith.” As of Thursday, the mu- ral was repainted, with Hell- mann adding a new olive tree branch to the wall. Ratner said the branch is a refer- ence to the story in the To- rah of Noah sending out a dove during the Great Flood and the bird returning with an olive branch. Hellmann said the olive branch symbolizes peace. She explained that the mu- ral had an anti-graffiti coat- ing, but “it just didn’t work as well as I hoped.” A new and improved coating will be applied, she added. She spent a whole day re- storing the mural. “The guy couldn’t spell,” one observer told Hellmann, referring to the misspelled tag, as they walked by. “Yeah, that was actually kind of funny in a sad way,” Hellmann said.
the communication would not be overheard or record- ed. She said there is no ex- pectation of privacy in non- public settings, such as a locker room at an LAPD sta- tion house. It’s less clear whether such protections extend to conversations at the office that revolve around work, she said. Separately, police offi- cers are also allowed to se- cretly record conversations if they are “acting within the scope of his or her author- ity,” according to Seager. “Most courts say this ex- ception only applies to tap- ing for criminal investiga- tions,” Seager said.
Eric Thayer Los Angeles Times
Bass. Independent expendi- ture groups also spent $1.2 million opposing Raman, while only $88,000 was spent in support of Raman.
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Heat continues to build: A very strong upper-level ridge of high pressure near the Grand Canyon will contin- ue the high heat across the Southland with temperatures away from the beaches well above the historical average. Any low clouds and fog near the coast will quickly clear. Otherwise, sunshine will be the rule. The high heat will lessen just a bit early this week.
High/low temperatures are average forecasts for entire zone.
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Inner waters: Wind southeast becoming west at 5-10 knots. West swell 2 to 3 feet and south swell at a foot. Wind waves 1 to 2 feet, patchy fog early. Surf zone: The risk of rip currents and sneaker waves will be moderate at all county beaches.
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buy old movie palace and create a multi-use hub for arts, civic life.
By Hanna Kang and Isaac Ceja
Armed with flashlights, dozens of community mem- bers stepped into the dark- ened Westlake Theatre, sidestepping puddles and broken glass as they imag- ined what the century-old movie palace could become. Inside, much of the thea- ter looks frozen in time. Dust coats the staircases leading to the balcony, while rows of worn seats still face the stage beneath peeling painted ceilings and decora- tive plasterwork. Above the auditorium, a faded An- thony Heinsbergen mural offers a glimpse of the thea- ter’s past. Los Angeles nonprofit theater company Strind- berg Laboratory hopes to change that. The organization wants to purchase the historic Westlake Theatre and trans- form it into a community arts and nonprofit hub. Its proposal calls for pre- serving the space while adapting it into a shared civic center that could host live performances, film screenings, neighborhood council meetings, lectures, arts workshops and office space for community organi- zations. The effort is in its early stages. The building has not been purchased, no major funding has been secured and organizers say commu- nity input will help deter- mine what the project ulti- mately becomes before fundraising begins. The group’s proposal estimates acquiring and restoring the theater would cost between $6 and $8 million. “This is just the first gathering,” Michael Bier- man, founder of Strindberg Laboratory, told The LA Lo- cal. “It’s not an exclusive
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THE SITE has hosted an indoor swap meet since 1991, but its historic 1,949-seat auditorium has stood unused.
club. We welcome everybody and anybody. Everybody has something to input in their community.” Bierman wants to create a coalition to see the project come to life. Several organi- zations have already ex- pressed interest, he said, and about 50 people at- tended the tour, including representatives from the Koreatown Youth and Com- munity Center, Homies Uni- dos, LA Commons, the Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation, Central City Neighborhood Partners and other community groups. The Westlake Theatre opened in 1926 as a 1,949-seat vaudeville and movie palace overlooking MacArthur Park, according to the Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation. It operated as a movie theater until 1991, when it closed and was con-
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verted into an indoor swap meet. The city’s Community Redevelopment Agency bought the property in 2008 with plans to restore it as a live entertainment venue, but those plans stalled after the agency was dissolved in 2012. In 2018, the property was sold to 634 Alvarado LLP, an entity controlled by Jamison Properties, and today, the ground floor houses a swap meet with small businesses, including clothing vendors, tailors and a barbershop, while the historic audito- rium remains unused. Bierman said the next step is forming a steering committee before seeking philanthropic, local, state and federal funding. If or- ganizers can secure enough partners and financing, he hopes the coalition can pur-
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chase the theater by winter. Restoring the building, he said, would likely take sev- eral years. For many who attended the tour, the proposal was also personal. Aurora Corona, a former Pico Union Neighborhood Council member, remem- bers visiting the theater as a child. “It just brings back mem- ories of the glory of the way it was,” Corona said. “The his- tory is here. So for me, revi- talizing and bringing back to what it was is like a dream.” She said she hopes the re- stored theater could host performances, international films, festivals and local art- ists while reflecting the sur- rounding community. Sara Zapata Mijares ar- rived in the Westlake neigh- borhood from Yucatán in 1969, when she was 17 years
Drenching rain east, searing heat west: Showers and thunderstorms with flooding downpours will occur from New York to Georgia. Storms could contain damaging gusts. Sun and dangerous heat will be the rule across much of the West while thunderstorms dot the southern Rockies.
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High 117 in Needles, Calif. Low 37 in Truckee, Calif.
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old. She remembers when MacArthur Park served as a gathering place for families in the neighborhood. “This used to be a park where my dad and I used to come and have picnics and he would play ballgaming here with a lot of families,” she said. “I remember com- ing to the park and coming to watch movies here.” Zapata Mijares said re- viving the theater could also help nearby businesses. Visi- tors to the nearby Mexican consulate, she said, could help boost the local econo- my if they stayed in the neighborhood to shop or eat after their appointments. The idea to transform the theater into a community hub grew out of Strindberg Laboratory’s own search for a permanent home after ris- ing rental costs made it in- creasingly difficult to contin-
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Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times All wrapped up in his energy
MYLES GARRETT, right, hugs guard Steve Avila at Rams training camp, where teammates have been awed on and off the field by the NFL’s sack leader.
The Rams knew the resume. Saw the highlights. Gath- ered all the intel required. But they were not aware of Myles Garrett’s aura. How could they? It’s not tangible, nor easily defined. It’s just there. “You just feel him,” coach Sean McVay said Friday. McVay felt and said that before. About Aaron Donald. About Jalen Ramsey. But listening to Rams players talk about Garrett, this feels different. Mystical. “You can just feel his aura,” cornerback Trent McDuffie said. Safety Quentin Lake explained it the same way. “Just his presence,” Lake said, “his aura.” The Myles Garrett effect is not confined to the defense. “Everybody on the field can kind of feel this aura sitting on whatever side of the field he’s on,” offensive guard Kevin Dotson said. “You just feel this monster energy.” Garrett, a 10th year pro and two-time NFL defensive player of the year, laughed when asked if he was conscious of his aura. “I guess,” he said. “It’s great to hear that they have re-
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The Dodgers patched two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani’s absence from the starting rotation with a bullpen game on Friday. In a 9-4 loss to the Boston Red Sox, Ohtani did his part with his bat, but the Dodgers’ pitching wavered. “You just can’t chase ev- ery single win, every single night,” manager Dave Rob- erts said. “It’s not responsi- ble. It’s just not the right process.” Back in the Dodgers’ line- up after a day off to address lingering soreness in his left knee, Ohtani had the Dod- gers’ first hit, an opposite- field double into the gap off Red Sox left-hander Ranger Suarez in the fourth inning. Ohtani later scored the Dodgers’ first run, crossing the plate on a single from Freddie Freeman — who ex- tended his hitting streak to 10 games, the longest by a Dodger this season. The next inning, Ohtani kept the Dodgers’ rally going after the Red Sox pulled Suarez. Facing left-handed Jovani Morán, Ohtani turned on a changeup and
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SHOHEI OHTANI hit a two-run homer in the fifth and also doubled in the loss.
‘aura’ from Garrett as defensive star settles into the Southland
By Gary Klein
of our future.
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spect for me.” Garrett, 30, is one of the biggest stars on a star-studded Rams team that is favored to win the Super Bowl, regard- less of whether Donald comes out of retirement. Garrett, the No. 1 pick in the 2017 draft out of Texas A&M, amassed 1251⁄2 sacks in nine seasons with the Cleve- land Browns. He was defensive player of the year in 2023 and also last season, when he recorded a league-record 23 sacks. In June, the Rams sent edge rusher Jared Verse, a 2027 first-round pick and future second- and third-round picks to the Browns for Garrett. He was regarded as the final piece for a franchise intent on winning a second Super Bowl title under McVay. Garrett is acclimating to Southern California and a team that advanced to the NFC championship game last season before losing to the eventual Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks. “It’s starting to feel like home rather quickly,” he said. It did not take long for Garrett to ingratiate himself. His skill, work ethic and knowledge are imparted in the meet- ing room and on the field, edge rusher Byron Young said. “It’s amazing,” Young said. “It’s art.”
receivers give Riley new hope at USC
days without leaving the Bloom Football Performance Center.
By Ryan Kartje
At the start of his fifth fall camp at USC, Lincoln Riley found himself enamored with all that felt new around him. Namely the state-of- the-art, $200-million facility towering over one end of the Trojans’ practice field, with all the luxuries any football coach could ask for. “This building is mag- ical,” Riley said. “It’s hard to explain how different, how fantastic it is.” On the field, in front of that gleaming facility, the Trojans also were breaking in something entirely new on Saturday: their receiving corps. USC opened training camp this week without the services of its top returning
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wideout, Tanook Hines, af- ter the sophomore under- went an offseason surgical procedure that has yet to re- vealed. Riley said the injury affecting Hines, who missed the spring, isn’t “overly seri- ous” and that he’s expected back for the start of the sea- son. But his absence leaves the Trojans with a totally new and unproven group to catch passes; many of them are getting their first experi- ence of college football, and of quarterback Jayden Mai- ava. “A lot of new bodies. For- tunately he had spring and all summer with all these guys to start developing that chemistry and that confi- dence,” Riley said of Maiava. “But that’s going to be some- thing we have to work at ev- ery single day.” Among those new play- ers is a host of top receiver recruits expected to contrib- ute right away. Partly, out of necessity. Freshmen wideouts
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Bruins fans are calling for a whistle on his latest bold prediction
I was feeling good about UCLA football, until Bill Plaschke prom- ised Bruin greatness. Hey, Uncle Bill, could you please retract your prediction, considering your track record? Maybe then, the Bruins will have a chance! Jack Wolf Los Angeles
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Despite his middling record, Times columnist Bill Plaschke has once again entered the prediction business. Unrestrained as ever, he predicts greatness for UCLA football, courtesy of its new head coaching hire, Bob Chesney. How- ever, Bill fails to quantify what he expects the team to achieve? Is it simply a winning record? A victory over crosstown rival USC? Or, dare I mention, a national champi- onship? I guess we’ll all have to wait. Rob Fleishman Placentia
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an extended warranty and road- side assistance. Until then: “West- wood Ho!” Steve Ross Carmel
A UCLA jersey worn by Lew Alcindor in the 1968 NCAA national champi- onship game and the 1969 Fi- nal Four is set to garner more than $1 million at auction. The man who has owned it for the last half-century — a former Los Angeles resi- dent who was a huge fan of the player now known as Ka- reem Abdul-Jabbar — didn’t have to pay nearly as much for the coveted jersey. In fact, he paid no money at all. Instead, he traded for it after a Lakers game in the Forum parking lot back sometime in the mid-to-late 1970s, giving up one of his prized possessions as a teen- ager living in South Gate: his transistor radio. “I used to listen to Dodger games on it under my pil- low,” said the auction’s con- signor, a man named David who asked to have his last name withheld because of privacy concerns. Back then, David and some friends often took the bus to the Forum, where they tried to convince fans to give them their extra tickets to attend the Lakers game that night. Afterward, they waited in the parking lot for players to leave the arena. “We were young and crazy. We waited till the play- ers came out and kind of talked to them,” said David, who says he once walked with Wilt Chamberlain to his car.
Noh makes most of Ryu’s collapse, takes a three-stroke lead
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Yealimi Noh took advan- tage of a surprising collapse by Haeran Ryu and found her rhythm at just the right time Saturday, with four birdies over the last 10 holes for a two-under 69 that gave her a three-shot lead going into the final round of the Women’s British Open. Noh, the 25-year-old Northern Californian with only one LPGA title, played bogey-free on the back nine at Royal Lytham & St. Annes and finished at seven- under 206 to lead over five players. One of them is Ryu, who is trying to become the first player since fellow South Ko- rean Inbee Park to win three straight majors in the same year. Ryu was headed in that direction with a pair of bird- ies on the front nine to build a four-shot lead. Her slide began with a bo- gey on the par-five seventh, the start of five bogeys in an eight-hole stretch that cost her the lead and put her in a chasing mode the rest of the sunny day along the Lanca- shire coast of England. Ryu finished with four straight pars for a 74 and saw the bright side. She kept double bogeys off her card,
rade involving LeBron James. July 14: LeBron is not looking for another championship. He just wants to play where he and his family will be most happy. July 24: LeBron takes his tal- ents to arguably (now) the best team in the Eastern Conference with a “shot” to go to the NBA Finals and possibly win another ring.
A UCLA jersey worn by Lew Alcindor is up for auc- tion and set to fetch a price of more than $1 million.
“And there were other kids there. We would trade stuff, and that is basically how I got the jersey.” By then, Abdul-Jabbar was a star with the Lakers, after winning three NCAA ti- tles under legendary UCLA coach John Wooden and leading the Milwaukee Bucks to an NBA champi- onship in 1971. The young man who brought the No. 33 Bruins jersey to the game that night was looking to have it signed by Abdul-Jabbar. He was actually a USC fan though, David said, so the trade was fairly easy to pull off. “Back then, transistor ra-
including the 10th hole when she was against a back lip of a pot bunker.
Davis Riley shot a seven- under 63 to reach 15 under and took a one-shot lead at Detroit Golf Club, where the relatively easy course will give a lot of players on the tightly packed leaderboard a chance to win the last Rocket Classic. Riley closed with consecutive birdies, making a 54-foot putt at No. 17 and a 10-footer at 18 to pull into a first-place tie with Michael Brennan. Rasmus Hojgaard (61), Chris Kirk (66), Rickie Fowler (67) and Cameron Young (68) were three shots back. ... Stewart Cink, Padraig Harrington and Rory Sabbatini share the lead entering the final round of the inaugural Por- tugal Invitational as 18-hole leader Zach Johnson lurks one back.
49ers’ Pearsall done for season
San Francisco 49ers re- ceiver Ricky Pearsall will have season-ending surgery on his injured right knee in the latest setback for the
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dios were real popular,” David said. Over the decades, he mostly kept the jersey stored away neatly, occa- sionally pulling it out for a look or to show others. Re- cently, David said, he was “just cleaning things out” and decided it was time to part ways with the cherished item. “I said, you know, some- one else will really enjoy this,” David said. “And they’ll display it, and people can enjoy it more than I will stuck in some kind of storage thing.” According to Michael Russek, director of opera- tions for Grey Flannel Auc-
YEALIMI NOH plays a shot on the 15th hole during the third round of the Women’s British Open.
2024 first-round pick. General manager John Lynch announced the deci- sion on Saturday for Pearsall to undergo surgery to repair his posterior cruci- ate ligament. Pearsall ini- tially hurt the knee last sea- son and came back to play late in the season. But he was shut down after two practices in training camp because of swelling in the knee. The 49ers said former All-Pro Deebo Samuel had returned to the team on a one-year deal worth up to $7 million to take Pearsall’s place on the roster. Samuel took part in practice on Sat- urday as he returned to the place where he played for his first six seasons in the NFL.
Tests revealed Buffalo Bills safety C.J. Gardner- Johnson strained his lower right calf in practice, three people with knowledge of
So much for “candid honesty” from Paul, James and company. Rick Solomon Lake Balboa
LeBron James is a 76er. Ironi- cally, that’s also the number of games he might play over a two- year contract. David Marshall Santa Monica
Second guessing I still don’t understand Andrew Friedman paying Kyle Tucker $60 million a year for four years. Over Tucker’s previous five major league seasons, he averaged .269 with 26 homers and 86 RBIs. That sounds like a $30 million a year guy in these inflated salary times. What gives, Andrew? Allen Schanhaar Redondo Beach
Two milestones While letter writers debated the Dodgers’ visit to the White House the last few weeks, two milestones involving Dodger players occurred on the field in July. Max Muncy overtook Ron Cey for second place on the team’s career home run list. Also, entering their weekend se- ries against the Red Sox, Freddie
tions, David didn’t know a lot about the jersey’s history when he first brought it in, only that it was issued by UCLA and likely had been worn by Alcindor in a game at some point. Photo-matching re- vealed that he had worn it in several games, including some very significant ones. He wore it while scoring 34 points with 16 rebounds in UCLA’s 78-55 victory over North Carolina in the 1968 national championship game and also during multi- ple games the following sea- son, including the Bruins’ 85-82 victory over Drake in a national semifinal game (Al- cindor had 25 points and 21 rebounds). “That’s when it really started to come together that we have something that’s truly special,” Russek said. As of Saturday after- noon, bidding had reached $850,101, with a 22% buyer’s premium bringing the price to nearly $1.04 million. The auction ends Aug. 16. David said he was “very surprised at how it took off so quick. I’m not familiar with these kind of auctions or jerseys, really. But there’s a lot of alumni from UCLA down there, and a lot of peo- ple would like something like that.” The Oregon resident added that he hasn’t thought about what he’s go- ing to do with all that cash. “I’m not the kind of per- son who does plans for mon- ey until I have it,” he said.
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the injury confirmed to the AP. ... Kansas City Chiefs wide receivers Xavier Worthy (shoulder) and Cyrus Allen (leg bruise) left training camp with minor in- juries, depleting a position group that needs to be sig- nificantly improved this sea- son. ... The Detroit Lions signed free-agent linebacker Devin White, who played with the Raiders in 2025. ... The Atlanta Falcons said they signed left guard Matthew Bergeron to a four-year extension.
The Golden State Warri- ors re-signed free agent guards De’Anthony Melton and Gary Payton II.
Lorena Wiebes won the first stage of the Women’s Tour de France. The Dutch cyclist won the 85-mile ride that started and finished in the city of Lausanne.
Freeman had moved into a tie for 25th on the MLB career doubles list, and at age 36 was batting .301 and was tied for the MLB lead in doubles this season.. Now those achievements de- serve to be celebrated. Ken Feldman Tarzana
Upgrade? John Mozeliak’s first foray into upgrading the Angels is off to a rocky start. Trading two young, team-controlled players for a 19-year-old hitting .247 in Class A doesn’t seem like an upgrade any time soon. Mozeliak probably won’t be around to see the folly of this trade as he will leave this winter and his successor will have to pick up the pieces. Ken Blake Brea
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hangover will derail defense of Hoosiers’ NCAA championship.
By Steve Megargee
CHICAGO — Indiana coach Curt Cignetti says he’s “stalking complacency” as he makes sure there’s no championship hangover now that he’s orchestrated one of the most remarkable turnarounds in college foot- ball history. Cignetti took over a pro- gram that had gone 9-27 the three years before his arrival and led it to College Football Playoff appearances in each of his first two seasons, win- ning the 2025 national title. He wants his program to maintain the same edge it carried while working its way up. “We have a way of doing things,” Cignetti sad. “We’ve got guys that have been to- gether and all we do is win.” Indiana’s stunning two- year run under Cignetti al- ready has allowed the tradi- tional Big Ten also-ran to shed its status as the Bowl Subdivision program with
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DENVER — A federal court dealt a perhaps chaos- inducing blow to the NCAA’s new eligibility rule Friday when it ruled that all high school class of 2022 athletes who exhausted their fourth season of college eligibility this spring are eligible for a fifth season this school year. The ruling from U.S. Dis- trict Judge Charlotte Sweeney in Denver, ex- pected to be appealed, undercuts the NCAA’s plan to have the so-called “five for five” rule go into play start-
The Big Ten and South- eastern Conferences agreed Friday night to support a Senate bill that seeks to regulate college sports, end- ing a breakneck week of ne- gotiations and pulling the bi- partisan measure out of what looked like a certain death spiral. School presidents from both conferences voted to back the bill after receiving last-minute concessions over language regarding third-party name-image- likeness deals and the so- called “associated entities” that often broker those ar- rangements between play- ers and schools. More details need to be worked out, but the headline is that the bill still has a chance to earn the 60 votes it needs to halt debate and head to an up-or-down vote before the Senate heads for summer break next Friday. The summer recess is in- creasingly looking like an in- tractable deadline for the
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Trent Mosley and Kayden Dixon-Wyatt already made a strong impression and should immediately step into roles on offense. Tron Baker is another who pre- sumably could carve out a place. And joining them this week at practice, after just enrolling this summer, is a freshman wideout who some believe will be the best of the bunch, top-60 recruit Boobie Feaster. It may take Feaster time to get up to speed. Hines stepped into a similar posi- tion last season, having just arrived on campus for the summer. He proceeded to start eight games anyway. But Hines was 19 years old by the start of his fresh- man season. Feaster just turned 17 in late May — and presumably would be one of the youngest players ever to suit up for USC. Receiver isn’t the only po- sition at which the Trojans are trending young. USC
CURT CIGNETTI is facing a new challenge after leading Indiana to a national championship in just two seasons, but the Hoosiers say they’re prepared for it.
the most losses in history. That dubious honor now be- longs to conference rival Northwestern. The Hoosiers obviously have bigger long-term goals than that. They want to keep it going without Heisman Trophy-winning quarter- back Fernando Mendoza, who went to the Las Vegas Raiders as the top pick in this year’s NFL draft after his lone season at Indiana.
ing with athletes who enroll in college in fall 2027. It also has potential to wreak havoc on rosters across the country — for in- stance, opening the possibil- ity that an undrafted player in an NFL training camp could decide to try to head back to college for a fifth year this upcoming season. In granting the prelimi- nary injunction, Sweeney said the players “will suffer irreparable harm without” it. She did not sign onto the governing body’s argument that applying the new rule retroactively would create “roster chaos.” Former UCLA guard
Protect College Sports Act, a bipartisan effort headed by Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Maria Cantwell (D- Wash.). After the conferences, which had balked at large sections of the bill, put out a short release announcing they supported the act “as currently drafted,” Cruz put out a short statement on so- cial media thanking the leagues and saying: “Let’s save college sports.” And Cantwell said: “Good. Now progress can be made in pro- tecting women and Olympic athletes and moving the leg- islation closer to the Presi- dent’s desk.” President Trump, who has also been seeking fixes for an industry that now pays its players millions, got involved late Thursday, which helped push the parties back to the negotiat- ing table. Cody Campbell, the Texas Tech regent who has played a big role in shaping this policy, called the SEC and Big Ten support “ a ma- jor breakthrough that
He was one of a school- record eight players drafted. “We need to make sure that we keep the same blue- print as last year going into this year, and that includes maintaining the same work ethic,” offensive tackle Cart- er Smith said. Indiana did a remarkable job of restocking its roster by getting one of the nation’s top collections of transfer portal talent. Indiana’s list
Donovan Dent, who previ- ously announced his retire- ment, was among those who earned another year of eligi- bility via the ruling. He re- portedly entered the trans- fer portal soon after the rul- ing with a no contact tag, suggesting he is open to re- suming play but unlikely to return to the Bruins. NCAA president Charlie Baker disagreed with the judge, saying the ruling will cause widespread roster problems while referencing a bill in Congress designed to provide the NCAA an- titrust protection on the eli- gibility issues. “Today’s rulings and the
SENS. TED CRUZ, left, and Maria Cantwell back the bill that allots money for schools to retain players.
moves us closer to a Senate vote — and a better future” for college sports.
Increased salary cap, new language The most groundbreak- ing part of the reworked deal is the $27.5 million that schools would be allotted to retain players, in addition to
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of 18 transfer newcomers in- cludes former Texas Chris- tian quarterback Josh Hoo- ver and ex-Michigan State wide receiver Nick Marsh. Marsh got an early indi- cation of Cignetti’s no-non- sense approach, as the for- mer Spartans player showed up for a spring practice in gold cleats and got criticized by his new coach. Cignetti has since praised the work habits of Marsh, who caught
chaos they bring to college sports are exactly why it’s time to pass this bill,” Baker said. In June, the NCAA ap- proved its new eligibility model for Division I athletes that will allow five seasons of competition over a five-year period that begins with their full-time enrollment or the academic year following their 19th birthday, whichev- er occurs first.
Chancellor grants players fifth season Elsewhere, a Nashville, Tenn., chancellor issued a ruling Friday that will give
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the $21.3 million cap that al- ready exists. It could represent a ma- jor reworking of the House settlement — the ground- breaking agreement that governs paying players. The idea is that the extra money will take the place of pay- ments from “associated en- tities” that were allowed above and beyond the $21.3
100 passes for 1,311 yards and nine touchdowns over the last two seasons. Indiana’s chances of earning a third straight play- off bid could depend on Hoo- ver, who threw for 9,627 yards, 71 touchdowns and 33 interceptions over the last three years. He has rather large shoes to fill. “What separated Fer- nando was when the game was on the line, those fourth- quarter wins, the last three minutes, four minutes, that’s when he played his best football,” Cignetti said. Indiana could be on the verge of establishing itself as an annual contender as long as Cignetti sticks around, as the Hoosiers have followed up their portal success by making inroads in high school recruiting. Over the last two weeks, Indiana has gained verbal commitments from 2027 five-star wide re- ceiver Monshun Sales and highly regarded 2028 quarterback Lukas Prock. Cignetti is more focused on making sure his team is prepared for its title defense. Defensive lineman Tyrique Tucker was asked how it felt to enter a season as the hunted rather than the hunter. “We prepare in a way we
basketball players a fifth season of eligibility and pre- vent the NCAA from keeping them out of the transfer por- tal. I’Ashea Myles of the Davidson County Chancery Court issued a temporary in- junction to Jalen Washing- ton and 18 other players to retain their eligibility. “Defendant shall recog- nize Plaintiffs as eligible for the 2026–2027 basketball season and shall not deny or impede their recruitment, transfer, or certification on the basis of the challenged eligibility determination,” Myles wrote in her 33-page ruling.
million cap. It was those payments that, many schools com- plained, obliterated any idea of a cap or controlled cost. The SEC and Big Ten sought stronger language in the bill to guarantee that any third-party deals are truly outside deals and not com- ing from the schools’ multi- media-rights partners, which currently arrange the majority of those deals. Among the questions still unanswered are whether the new cap will comport with the House settlement, which had very specific instruc- tions about the hard cap, calling for 22% of a certain part of athletic department revenues, which equals $21.3 million this season. Also, another question would be what would hap- pen to the College Sports Commission, which is the main name, image and like- ness enforcement arm that spends the bulk of its time analyzing third-party NIL deals that would be greatly reduced under this arrange- ment?
bringing in a 35-player class that ranked No. 1 in the na- tion. It also helps, Riley said, that so much of that class has been enrolled for seven months. “Having as many mid- years made a massive differ- ence; I mean, there’s no question about it,” Riley said. “You can feel some of the confidence level. “And so the less that we can have new as we go on, the more these guys settle in off the field, the better they play.” That’s the primary goal over the next four weeks of fall camp. One that Riley al- ready has spent plenty of time focused on, while breaking in the Bloom Foot- ball Performance Center “These first few days in here have honestly been a lit- tle bit of a dream,” Riley said. “It’s honestly been hard to get players to go home. I haven’t left this place in five days. I haven’t left the com- pound.”
wouldn’t think we’re being hunted,” Tucker said. “We’re preparing like we’re preda- tors and we’re hungry. We still have that chip on our shoulder, ultimately.” Big Ten media may have given Tucker and his team- mates some ammo in that regard. A Cleveland.com poll of reporters that serves as the unofficial Big Ten pre- season media forecast had the defending national champions finishing third in the conference, behind Ohio State and Oregon. Cignetti understands the challenge ahead after beat- ing both Ohio State and Ore- gon on the way to the title last year. Cignetti, who worked as an assistant at Al- abama from 2007 to 2010, closed his news conference Thursday by explaining why he believes the Big Ten is col- lege football’s best confer- ence. “We don’t run a hype machine up here in the Mid- west,” Cignetti said. “We be- lieve everything is earned, not given. When we fall short, we say, ‘We fell short.’ We don’t cry a river, whine and complain. That’s why we’re the best.”
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Myles also ordered that the transfer portal open at noon Monday until 8 a.m. on Aug. 10 for any player want- ing to enter and schools wanting to reach out. Washington, who played last season at Vanderbilt, was the lead plaintiff in the complaint filed July 6 by the Texas Trial Group seeking the injunction. Others in- clude Chendall Weaver, last at Texas; A.J. Storr, Missis- sippi; Jason Edwards, Provi- dence; Daniel Egbuniwe, St. Bonaventure; and Zachary Davis, Memphis.
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A long road remains for the bill Even with Friday night’s victory, the bill has a long road ahead. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) has been a staunch opponent of the bill since the beginning. Be- fore the latest compromise, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said that “as written today,” the act “creates chaos and eliminates opportunity for student-athletes.” Whether the SEC’s ap- proval is enough to get those senators and others from SEC states on board is one issue. If the bill clears the Sen- ate, it would still then need to pass the narrowly divided House, which flailed on an- other college bill called the SCORE Act, for more than a year. There’s also the matter of whether smaller conferenc- es, long in favor of the bill, would remain so now that their bigger competition is being allowed to directly pay players more than double what was previously al- lowed.
Compromise comes after court losses Almost everyone in- volved in college sports agrees that the status quo isn’t working. The news broke only hours after the NCAA lost a pair of key court cases in- volving its new rule that would give most Division I athletes five years to com- plete five seasons of eligibili- ty. Using those losses as an- other chance to urge for pas- sage of the bill, NCAA presi- dent Charlie Baker said “it is long past time leaders across college sports call for the immediate passage of the bipartisan Protect Col- lege Sports Act.” Two-time national cham- pion men’s basketball coach Dan Hurley of Connecticut used social media to outline the stakes in more colorful terms. “Somebody please come and fix College Sports. It’s a complete [expletive] show,” he said, using an emoji where the expletive would go.
EAGAN, Minn. — The memory of losing her husband is so haunt- ingly clear 25 years later that Kelci Stringer could still draw a detailed picture of her hurried path to the hospital room where Korey String- er died from exertional heat stroke. Having arrived in the middle of the night, she realized she was too late once she saw Vikings team- mates Cris Carter and Randy Moss sobbing on the floor. For all that went tragically wrong at the beginning of that training camp in 2001 in Mankato, Minn., Kelci Stringer has since made a life mission of keeping oth- ers from such a preventable death. “The work we’re doing and the way we’re doing the work is most important to me because we’re giv- ing back in a way that’s very exem- plary of Korey,” Stringer said. Named after the only NFL play- er known to have died from heat stroke, the Korey Stringer Insti- tute opened in 2010 with three em- ployees at the University of Con- necticut and now has a 100-person staff and a satellite branch in Flor- ida. Chief Executive Douglas Casa, a professor of kinesiology who sur- vived his own brush with death at age 16 when he collapsed while run- ning a 10-kilometer race, has counted 463 laws and policies over all 50 states that have been changed or created by KSI’s advo- cacy. “Not too many medical situa- tions are 100% preventable when you do the right things,” Casa said. Funding for KSI was part of the settlement of the wrongful death lawsuit filed against the NFL by Kelci Stringer, who with Korey Stringer’s former agent, Jimmy Gould, was inspired to bring about lasting good from the regret and sadness. “It wasn’t about the money,” Stringer said this week in a phone interview with the Associated Press. “We lived that life long enough. What is a couple million dollars going to do? That can’t bring him back. My purpose was to find answers. It wasn’t to find any blame. It was, ‘Can I just know?’ That was part of the closure and part of the peace.” The Vikings marked the 25-year anniversary on Saturday after-
led to mandatory cold tubs in NFL
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By Dave Campbell
EAGAN, Minn. — Korey Stringer’s death from heat stroke in 2001 after he col- lapsed at practice with the Minnesota Vikings prompted many changes to safety protocols across all levels of sports. There’s no lesson learned more vital than this: Cool first, transport second. Almost an hour and a half passed from when Stringer exited a blocking drill during training camp and arrived by ambulance at a hospital with a core body tempera- ture of 108.8 degrees. Though he was moved to an air-conditioned trailer by the practice field that morn- ing in Mankato, Minn., the lack of effective diagnosis and treatment by the team’s medical staff during that time made his outlook all the more dire. About 15 hours af- ter he collapsed, Stringer was pronounced dead, the only known NFL player to die from exertional heat stroke.
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KELCI STRINGER speaks at a 2022 event for the Korey Stringer Institute, which has helped changed laws and policies in 50 states.
stroke, his widow continues her mission advocating for safety
noon prior to their first open-to- fans practice of training camp, with Kelci Stringer speaking at the tribute and KSI staffing a tent with a public display of the work being done on heat safety with athletes at all levels, day laborers and military members. Despite the decade of litigation, Korey Stringer’s inner circle has forged a lasting and respectful rela- tionship with the Vikings and the NFL. Casa is on the league’s gen- eral medical committee. NFL exe- cutive vice president Jeff Miller, who oversees health and safety, is on KSI’s board of directors. “Kelci’s commitment to Korey’s legacy and the good that can come from it is exceptional and probably unusual that somebody can chan- nel tragedy into something so con- structive,” Miller said. “It’s fair to say she and the advocacy she has pursued has saved numerous lives across all levels of sports.”
Heat management remains vital This summer in the U.S. has been marked by persistent heat waves, creating particular danger for strenuous exercise — even for well-conditioned pro athletes. As highs routinely rise past 110 degrees in Las Vegas, the Raiders with new coach Klint Kubiak have been starting practice at 7:30 a.m. at their suburban facility.
“I’ve been an expert wit- ness in 85 court cases of peo- ple dying from heat stroke, and in every single one the person didn’t need to die if they were properly treated and cooled,” said Douglas Casa, the executive director of the Korey Stringer Insti- tute at the University of Con- necticut that was estab- lished in 2010 as part of the settlement of the wrongful death lawsuit his family brought against the league. “With a $150 tub of ice and water, these people would still be alive.” Casa got connected with Stringer’s widow, Kelci Stringer, and agent, Jimmy Gould, through the litiga- tion. The professor of kinesi- ology had a personal inter- est in the subject of heat safety, from his own brush with death at age 16 while running a 10-kilometer race at the Empire State Games in New York. Casa collapsed on the fi- nal lap with 200 meters re- maining, got back up and fell again with about 80 meters to go. He was unconscious
commitment ... is exceptional and probably unusual that somebody can channel tragedy into something constructive.’
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The Arizona Cardinals started camp inside State Farm Stadium, but when they move outside in a couple of weeks they’ll do their on- field work in the morning. “We don’t need to mess with the heat,” new coach Mike LaFleur said. Air conditioning means artifi- cial turf, though, which players dis- like for the increased injury risk and harder overall toll on their bodies. “The heat’s good,” said New Or-
DETROIT LIONS running back Jabari Small drinks water to manage the heat in training camp last week.
for two hours. Fortunately, a quick- thinking physician placed him in a cold water immer- sion tub. Though that came after he was taken to a hospi- tal, the effective on-site care he received from an athletic trainer and in the ambu- lance from emergency medi-
cal technicians gave him a fighting chance to survive. “If Korey had gone in a cold immersion tub, we would not be chatting right now,” Casa said in a recent interview. “He would’ve had dinner with his teammates that night.” Casa, who is on the NFL’s
leans Saints coach Kellen Moore, who has his team stretch inside be- fore heading out. “It’s a good expo- sure. We’re trying to find different margins when we can kind of min- imize that when it’s not necessary, but when we do most of the bulk of football we want to be outside as much as we can.” The ideal balance, of course, is between being overexerted and be- ing underprepared. “We have an advantage to go into the year knowing we’ve been in the heat,” Saints tight end Juwan Johnson said. “We’ve been grind- ing away, and when we get into a cooler area or a dome, then we can really go and get after some teams.”
Heat safety advances Medical and technological ad- vancements have given NFL clubs real-time data for tracking player performance and flag potential problems before they get bigger. Hydration before, during and after practice is second nature now, thanks in no small part to Ko- rey Stringer’s death. Cold tubs are mandatory equipment near the practice fields. The need for recov- ery is more deeply embedded in protocols too. The Saints, as an antidote to their hot and humid environment, give players three hours off after practice before reconvening for meetings. “I’ve never been in a place where
general medical committee, regularly advises the league on player safety matters. The mandatory presence of cold tubs near the practice fields for every team, one of many protocols enhanced in the 25 years since Stringer’s death, can be traced to the work that’s been done in his
you get that much time off to get your body back,” Johnson said. The majority of players in the league now were either not born yet in 2001 or are too young to have known about Korey Stringer’s death. Those who were contempo- raries of his, though, will never for- get. “That was probably one of the hottest camps I had ever been in,” said Detroit Lions radio announc- er Lomas Brown, who played offen- sive tackle like Stringer and was with the New York Giants in 2001. “When the news came out, it just stung. He was such a great dude, a big-time player, and then for that to take him out?” Training camps these days are much more of a mental challenge than a physical grind, with master- ing complex playbooks and per- fecting techniques outweighing full-pad post-practice sprints after three-hour practices. “We grew up in an era where you got after it. Workouts were de- signed to be very hard,” said Buf- falo Bills defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard, who was a freshman at Wisconsin in 2001 and played 10 sea- sons in the NFL. “I think it made everyone from coaches, players and medical staff to kind of step back and reevaluate: ‘Is this the right way to do things?’ ” The collective bargaining agreement with the NFL Players Assn. has had plenty to do with this evolution, and so has Korey String- er. “Going through hard things as a team brings you together, right?” Leonhard said. “There’s a lot of good behind running a training camp or a conditioning session a certain way. But being young as a player it was one of those things, like, ‘We’re not invincible.’ That was the biggest piece you took from it. It was like, ‘Oh, man, we better take care of ourselves and take care of each other.’ ”
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honor. “When I tell Korey’s story, it takes it from such a sad, morbid place to a place of such action,” Kelci Stringer said. “It’s better to be proac- tive than reactive.”
likely in his final NFL season, still enjoys leading by example.
By Joaquin Ruiz
A tempting life as a full- time family man nearly pulled Khalil Mack away from football. “I was leaning towards coming back the whole time,” Mack said of mulling retirement before signing a one-year, $18-million con- tract in March to remain with the Chargers. “But it’s just considering the stage of life my kids are at, that bal- ance of being a dad and a husband but still trying to follow the dream. I feel like I’m still in a position to do both.” The future Hall of Famer decided the show must go on. And now, with champi- onship aspirations entering his 13th season, and fifth in Los Angeles, Mack is bask- ing in his role as the Char- gers’ elder statesman. “Priceless,” defensive co- ordinator Chris O’Leary said of the 35-year-old out- side linebacker’s presence. “He’s the flag bearer of our culture on defense. He leads the way with his actions. … When it’s time for him to say something, he’s going to say something. “You’ve got a group of young edges in that room that all they’re doing is watching everything he does [and] listening to everything he says. It’s more valuable than anything I can say or do.” He’s the 2016 defensive player of the year. He has nine Pro Bowl selections and
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Last season, Young re- corded a career-best 12 sacks and was voted to the Pro Bowl. With Garrett now lining up alongside him, the fourth-year pro is soaking in knowledge and learning from his example. Though Garrett, at 6 feet, 4 inches and 272 pounds, makes plays that can’t be repli- cated by others. Garrett’s quickness off the ball is “insane,” Young said, noting that Garrett eats up “three or four yards,” with his first step. “That right there alone is amazing,” Young said. Garrett’s influence could be magnified if Donald, a three-time defensive player of the year, ends a two-year retirement to pursue anoth- er Super Bowl ring. Garrett said he would not try to sway Donald’s deci- sion. But he acknowledged that it would be exciting to
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Championship Series for 2028
By Doug Ferguson
The PGA Tour is starting to fill in the Championship Series portion of its 2028 schedule with a pair of an- nouncements, one of them a surprise. Sompo, a multinational insurance holding and fi- nancial group that is part of Japan-based Sompo Hold- ings, will be the title sponsor of one of the premier events on the 2028 schedule that will have $20-million purses and the top tier of players. Sompo will get started next year at a familiar place — Silverado Resort in Napa, Calif., where Scottie Schef- fler won the 19th and final edition of a fall event in 2025. But it won’t be staying there when the tour shifts to its “Championship” and “Chal- lenger” tracks in 2028. The 2027 tournament will be July 29 to Aug. 1 — two weeks after the British Open — and televised by CBS on the weekend. Still to be de- termined is the name of the tournament and, of greater interest, the new market for 2028 and beyond. That will be announced later. The PGA Tour is eager to hit larger markets where it doesn’t have a regular pres- ence, such as Denver, Phila- delphia, Seattle, San Fran-
THE CHARGERS’ Khalil Mack mulled retirement over the offseason but decided to play one more season.
three All-Pro nods under his belt. And 113 sacks to his name. Mack, despite coming off an injury-riddled down year, has never needed an intro- duction. “He’s one of the best play- ers of our generation,” offen- sive coordinator Mike McDaniel said. Yet, perhaps even more invaluable than Mack’s on- the-field influence is his leadership. “Oh, man, I try,” Mack said. “I try to motivate.” He’s pretty good at it. Whether by sharing pointers with rookies or
ELITE END Myles Garrett (95) with Puka Nacua (12) and Davante Adams (17).
be a “partner in crime” with the eight-time All-Pro. “There’s a lot we can
cisco and New York. James Shea, the chief executive officer of Ber- muda-based Sompo Prop- erty & Casualty, said the partnership is a “major op- portunity for Sompo to fur- ther expand our global brand awareness and show- case the strength of our business to customers, part- ners and communities around the world.” On Monday, the tour an- nounced the Travelers Championship outside Hartford, Conn., would also be part of the Championship Series. That was expected. The Travelers has been one of the highest performing tournaments during the FedEx Cup era that began in 2007 and has offered $20 mil- lion prize funds since 2023. “This has been an ex- tremely successful tourna- ment by every metric,” PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp said last month at the Trav- elers Championship, where he introduced the concept of the Championship and Challenger series. “I think they do a lot of things that we’re looking for in a Cham- pionship Series event.”
helping rising stars such as teammate Tuli Tuipulotu navigate fuzzy contract ne- gotiations, Mack makes himself available to help those in the Chargers’ or- ganization become their best selves. “It is unique,” Mack said of being a resource. “When you’re in that room, you want to be the guy you wanted to see early on … have those conversations that you wanted to have early on in your career, whether it was financial [or] different conversations you wanted to have and guys pouring into you.”
learn from each other,” Gar- rett said, “and I’d love to pick his brain on the things he
money list when he was run- ner-up at Torrey Pines on Feb. 13, 2000, and he has stayed there ever since. His last check for finishing last at the 2024 Masters ($44,400) pushed his career earnings to $120,999,166. Being passed is inevi- table and now is in clear view. It’s just a matter of who tops him first. Rory McIlroy, who lost in the quarterfinals of the 2009 Match Play in his PGA Tour debut, is second on the list at $116,446,772. Scheffler, who cashed his first PGA Tour check in 2018, moved to $116,364,411 with his runner-up finish in the 3M Open. That leaves both of them just over $4 million away from Woods coming into the lucrative FedEx Cup post- season — $20 million purses at two playoff events, and the Tour Championship with its $40 million bonus pool that now counts as offi- cial money.
Army captain earns his major stripes
Mack learned the impor- tance of passing down knowledge as a youngster in Oakland under the tutelage of seasoned veterans Charles Woodson and Justin Tuck. “I feel like it [was] the cat- alyst for my career. I had them to lean on and those examples to lean on,” Mack said. Nowadays, the Buffalo product stands on the other side of the street, paving the way for the next generation as one of the league’s older stars. “I got friends that don’t play anymore,” Mack jested.
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does to attack his matchups and I think the same could be said vice versa.”
SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER has a solid score to par in majors, but has no trophies.
Plunkett raced back from Royal Birkdale to play in a U.S. qualifier for the PGA Tour of Australasia. First, he had to stop at a sporting goods store to buy a push cart for the four-round event. He tied for second at Kinderlou Forest Golf Club near Valdosta, Ga., to earn his card for next season. “I was definitely a little delirious round one, but as the week’s gone on, started to feel a little bit back to nor- mal,” Plunkett said. He said he has never been to Australia, but all his friends from Down Under have told him the coffee is the best, “so I’ve got to see if they’re pulling my leg or not about that.” Plunkett, who spent five years in the Army after grad-
“They’re like, ‘Aye, Mack, it’s lonely on this side.’ They’re always talking about the locker room and camarade- rie. It’s just knowing how special being in the locker room is and being around your guys and enjoying it while you can.” On that note, Mack has made it a point to savor ev- ery moment of training camp. Beyond looking the part, he has already spent time helping teammates better their technique, jumping at the opportunity to teach. “He walked up and asked me three things that he can
During training camp, Garrett and teammates are focused on blending their talents at all three levels of the defense. Garrett is a “freak athlete for sure,” lineman Kobie Turner said. “We definitely under- stand the opportunities that should get opened up,” said Turner, who had seven sacks last season, “and if those op- portunities don’t open up and they leave him soloed up, he’s going to take advan- tage.” There is “no question” Garrett will dominate, Lake said. “So now,” he said, “it’s just making sure, ‘Hey, can we do our job so this guy can go cut it loose over there too? ’” Garrett has embraced the Rams’ culture, built dur- ing McVay’s nine seasons during which the Rams made seven playoff appear- ances and played in two Su- per Bowls, winning one.
uating from West Point, al- ready has had a Korn Ferry Tour card and currently plays the Asian Tour. ”I have Asian Tour status so I’m trying to figure out the balance of the two moving forward,” he said. “But I’m really excited to get out to Australia and get on the links out there.”
Scheffler’s majors mirror his season
Scheffler had the lowest combined score to par in the majors this year, finishing at 21-under par, but without a major trophy for the first time since 2023. The world’s No. 1 player was runner-up at the Mas- ters, tied for fourth in the U.S. Open and British Open
work on,” Mack said of help- ing rookie offensive tackle Travis Burke after practice. “I talked him through that stuff … kind of reminds me of Joe [Alt] his first year. What- ever I can share, I’m going to share, because I want them to be the best version of themselves.” No one has anything bad to say about the man who wears No. 52. Instead, everyone in the Chargers’ organization knows how integral Mack is to the day-to-day opera- tions. “Right now, [the rookies] don’t know any other way to do it than the way Derwin [James] does it, the way Justin [Herbert] does it, the way K-Mack does it,” coach Jim Harbaugh said. “They don’t know any other way to do it than the way those best players go about their busi- ness. …” Mack is the epitome of a pro’s pro. Since being the No. 5 overall pick in the 2014 draft, he has been one of the most dominant pass rushers of his generation, one of the richest players off it, and in between, the ultimate cap- tain. “I had a lot of coaches that were in my ear about be- ing a professional early,” Mack said. “I feel like that’s helped prolong my career. … You can take what you want and take what works for you … that’s kind of the advice I give.” Mack returned to the Chargers to compete for the Vince Lombardi Trophy. But playing big brother to his teammates, has been a joyous subplot. “What’s Coach Harbaugh say?” Mack asked rhetori- cally. “Enthusiasm unknown to mankind.”
He is eager to share his knowledge and experience but also learn from younger teammates. The Rams’ de- fensive front features Young, Turner, and linemen Braden Fiske and Poona Ford, among others. “This group was doing great without me,” Garrett said. “I want to just try to help elevate other guys and the playmakers that we have here.” There is still “a lot of rust to knock off,” during camp and the lead-up to the sea- son, he said. The Rams’ opener against the San Francisco 49ers in Melbourne, Australia, will be their first opportunity to measure the benefit of Garrett’s pres- ence. It’s the start of a season the Rams aim to end with a Super Bowl victory at SoFi Stadium. “Maybe,” Garrett said, “the aura will increase over time.”
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and tied for 14th in the PGA Championship. What does it all mean? That he’s been playing pretty good golf, much like the rest of a 2026 season that features five runner-up finishes but only one win. “One of the things that I’ve always kind of prided myself on is the consistency. That’s something that shows that I’m playing some pretty good golf,” Scheffler said last week before the 3M Open. “It just hasn’t been quite good enough to win some tournaments. “I haven’t played any great golf yet, but I’ve played some nice golf over the course of the season.”
to be MLB’s first Black manager joining the Cooperstown legends.
By Jose de Jesus Ortiz
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. —Dusty Baker could sense a portion of his life as he en- tered the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s Plaque Gal- lery last weekend. He couldn’t help but notice that some of his contemporaries from when he played with the Atlanta Braves and Dodgers were walking slower, in some cases with the help of a cane or an as- sistant. “I’m glad to see every- body,” said Baker, 77. “But you know, we’re getting old. I see guys in walkers who used to run fast, [and] their kids that are grown. You kind of see your life flash before your eyes.” A record 60 Baseball Hall of Famers were in Coopers- town as Jeff Kent, Carlos Beltran and Andruw Jones were inducted last Sunday. Baker traveled with the San Francisco Giants’ contin- gent to celebrate Kent, who credits Baker with helping transform him into the 2000 National League most valu- able player, a five-time All- Star and eventually a Hall of Famer. As much as Baker tried to keep his focus on Kent, how- ever, many kept telling him that this visit was a prelude to his induction next sum- mer. They reminded him that he’s expected to be on the Hall’s Contemporary Baseball Era Committee ballot in December. If Baker receives at least 12 votes from the 16-member committee, he’ll become the first Black manager elected
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sent it into the right-field stands for a two-run homer. The Dodgers used just four pitchers, thanks to left- hander Cole Irvin, whom they called up Friday to pro- vide bulk. After opener Edgardo Henriquez threw a scoreless inning, Will Klein’s struggles continued. Adding to his three-week skid, during which Klein’s been fighting bad mechanics, he gave up three hits, made an errant pickoff attempt, issued a walk and hit Willson Con- treras in the helmet. Klein was charged with three runs (one earned) over 11⁄3 innings. Irvin then made his Dod- ger debut. What began as a largely efficient outing by the journeyman fell apart in the seventh, when he gave up five runs over 10 batters. He gave up eight hits and six runs over six innings. The effort at least kept the rest of the bullpen fresh. “Orange County kid that gets to play for one of his hometown teams is pretty special, and I’m pretty thankful for that, and happy and blessed,” said Irvin, a product of Servite High in Anaheim. “It sucks to lose, but there’s a part of me
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The San Francisco Gi- ants are suspending pay- ment to injured outfielder Harrison Bader after he ag- gravated his injured left foot during a scooter accident last weekend. Bader has been out since late May dealing with plan- tar fasciitis in his left foot. The team said the injury got worse following the accident early last Sunday morning in San Francisco. “Over the weekend, Har- rison Bader was involved in an accident that has delayed Harrison’s prior treatment timeline for plantar fasciitis and, unfortunately, his re- turn to the field,” said Giants president of baseball opera- tions Buster Posey in a statement Friday. “We are still investigating the cir- cumstances of the accident, but will be suspending pay- ment to Harrison until he is able to resume performing services for the club.” Bader signed a two-year, $20.5-million contract with
DUSTY BAKER is eighth among the winningest managers with 2,183 victories.
to the Hall. “I know the history,” Baker said. “I was fortunate enough to be around Hank [Aaron] in the beginning.” Baker grew up idolizing Jackie Robinson, who broke baseball’s color barrier on April 15, 1947, 26 months be- fore Johnnie B. “Dusty” Baker was born in Riverside. Through Jim Gilliam, the 1953 NL rookie of the year who spent three seasons with the Baltimore Elite Gi- ants of the Negro Leagues before joining the Brooklyn Dodgers, Baker met several Negro League greats. Gilliam once took Baker to eat lunch at Negro League legend Cool Papa Bell’s home in St. Louis. Baker also spent time with Satchel Paige and Ted “Double Duty” Radcliffe. Because of his friendship with Aaron, his Braves mentor, and his time with the Dodgers,
that’s proud that I get to wear Dodger blue.” This time of year, bullpen depth is top of mind for teams across MLB, with the trade deadline on Monday approaching. The Dodgers jump on op- portunities throughout the year to add relievers. But Andrew Friedman, the Dodgers’ president of baseball operations, noted last week that they worked over the offseason to prevent them from having an “acute need” at the trade deadline. That includes their relief corps. “When you have an acute need, it’s really challenging, because you’re paying 150 cents, 200 cents on the dol- lar,” Friedman said. “So we try to do everything we can to avoid not having to do something. But when you’re able to be in a position to be a little bit more selective and opportunistic about what potentially is available, it just puts you in a better posi- tion. So as much flexibility as we can have, the better.”
Díaz’s velocity is back Closer Edwin Díaz wasn’t perfect in his first two games back from the injured list.
THE GIANTS’ Harrison Bader hurt his left foot in a scooter crash last weekend in the Marina District.
the Giants before this sea- son that includes a $4.5-mil- lion base salary for this sea- son. He is owed $1.42 million for the rest of the season. The Chronicle reported that Bader was involved in a vehicle collision while riding his scooter around 2 a.m. Sunday in the Marina Dis- trict. He was taken to a hos- pital for non-life-threat- ening injuries.
Baker met Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe, who spent time in the Negro Leagues before joining the Brooklyn Dodgers. Bell, Paige and Campa- nella all were inducted into the Hall. Paige was the first Negro Leaguer inducted into the Hall in 1971, five years after Ted Williams used his induction speech to advocate for those players. “Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else, but to be better than someone else,” Williams said on July 25, 1966. “This is the nature of man and the name of the game, and I’ve always been a very lucky guy to have worn a baseball uniform, to have struck out or hit a tape-mea- sure home run. “And I hope that some- day the names of Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson in
COLE IRVIN stares out of the dugout after giving up five runs in the seventh.
But after undergoing surgery to remove five loose bodies from his right elbow, and a three-month process to return to a major league mound, he wasn’t expected to be. “My first game back, I was a little bit anxious,” Díaz said after giving up two hits and a run to the Seattle Mariners en route to record-
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Twins bolster their thin bullpen The Minnesota Twins ac- quired left-handed reliever A.J. Minter from the New York Mets for minor league infielders Bruin Agbayani and Billy Amick, reinforcing a thin bullpen Friday ahead of the trade deadline. The 19-year-old Ag- bayani, the son of former
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some way can be added as a symbol of the great Negro players that are not here, only because they were not given a chance.” Robinson became the first Black player elected to the Hall by the Baseball Writers’ Assn. of America in 1962. Negro Leaguers weren’t considered for the Hall until Paige was elected in the 1971 class. A year later, Gibson was inducted. Rube Foster, who in building a reputation as “the father of Black baseball” held many roles in his career, was the first Negro Leaguer to be in- ducted as a pioneer or execu- tive. Baker first visited the Hall of Fame to play an ex- hibition in 1974. He made his third trip to Cooperstown last weekend, which marked his first visit for an induction ceremony. Exactly 60 years after
ing his fifth save Wednesday. “But I threw strikes, I made pitches, and at the end of the day [we] got the W. Tomor- row, we’ll see the video to see what they were [seeing] on the fastball and make an ad- justment and try the next time to make some pitches to make them chase.” The biggest positive was his fastball velocity. Díaz’s
Mets fan favorite Benny Ag- bayani, is a middle infielder who hit .268 in 10 games for Fort Myers in low Class A this season. The sixth-round 2025 draft pick, a native of Hawaii, has been limited by injuries. Later, the Twins ac- quired right-handed pitcher Dean Kremer from the Bal- timore Orioles in exchange for minor league outfielder Jhomnardo Reyes. Kremer, 30, has a 6.50 ERA in seven starts this sea- son. The seventh-year right- hander has gone 42-44 with a career 4.37 ERA in 133 games, all with the Orioles.
In other moves The Pittsburgh Pirates acquired reliever Camilo Doval from the New York Yankees in hopes of giving their struggling bullpen a boost. Pittsburgh is sending prospects Omar Alfonso, a catcher, and Luis Cruz, an outfielder, to New York for Doval, a person with knowl- edge of the deal told the AP. ... The Cleveland Guardians acquired outfielder Blake Perkins and right-handed
Williams’ induction speech on the steps of the Hall of Fame, Baker walked into the Hall and was greeted by the loud roars of another Boston Red Sox legend, David Or- tiz. Baker smiled widely and nodded, greeted Ortiz in Spanish, chuckled and walked over to him and Vladimir Guerrero, giving each of them hugs and pats on the back. A few seconds later, Dave Winfield joined the trio for a picture before Baker and his wife began to mingle with other Hall of Famers and guests. Later that night at a party the Giants held in Kent’s honor, he paid tribute to his family, Baker and a few teammates during a short speech. Then Kent predicted that Baker will return next year to take his place among baseball’s immortals. Baker won a World Series title and three pennants as a man- ager while leading a record five teams to the playoffs over 26 seasons as a man- ager. He’s eighth on baseball’s managerial wins list with 2,183, the only Black man- ager with 2,000 victories. While sipping coffee and munching on extra crispy bacon and blueberry pan- cakes Sunday morning, Baker sat at the Otesaga Re- sort where the Hall of Famers stay during induc- tion weekend. He looked out at Otsego Lake while several Hall of Famers stopped to say hello. Chipper Jones stopped by and said, “You dusting off that chair for next year, Dusty?” Baker laughed and shook his head before calling Jones by his first name, Larry. “There ain’t no guaran- tees, so why am I going to look forward if there ain’t no
velocity was down to begin the year, dipping to about 95.5 mph in his last two out- ings before landing on the in- jured list. On Wednesday, his fast- ball averaged 96.9 mph and he touched 98.9, according to Statcast. “I thought the second day was better than the first, and it’s great to have him
pitcher Craig Yoho from the Milwaukee Brewers for catcher Bo Naylor and right-hander Codi Heuer. Naylor and Heuer have been assigned to the Brewers’ 40- man roster and assigned to triple-A Nashville.
Etc. The Seattle Mariners placed third baseman J.P. Crawford on the 10-day in- jured list Friday with left wrist inflammation. ... The Detroit Tigers called up prized outfield prospect Max Clark from the minor leagues Friday and scratch- ed Casey Mize from his scheduled start as they be- gan their final series before the trade deadline. ... Clay Holmes is set to make his third rehab start as he re- turns from a broken right fibula, and he thinks there is a chance that it could be his final start as a member of the New York Mets. ... The Pittsburgh Pirates placed Ryan O’Hearn on the 10-day injured list with a strained left quad and he is expected to miss six to eight weeks.
guarantees?” Baker said. “I’m serious. People think I’m kidding when I’m saying that. When Bill Belichick did not get in the [Pro Football] Hall of Fame, anybody has a chance to not get in the Hall of Fame. “Am I right? That’s how I look at it. I was shocked. They can talk about Deflate- gate, they can talk about the media. What about the other six [Super Bowls] he won?” Nonetheless, Baker ap- preciates what it would mean for a Black manager to finally be elected to base- ball’s Hall. “But most of my life had been full of ‘first Black guy’ stories, Black man stories from the time I was in high school,” he said. “The two Blacks at my high school were me and my brother in my last year of high school. “That’s some of the rea- sons I went into the wine business. There’s not many Blacks in the wine business. One reason why I started but stopped in the energy business was because there’s not many Blacks in the energy business.” There have been 354 in- ductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame, 23 as man- agers. Baker likely will be the first Black manager next summer. “I was taught pride from my mom and dad in culture about being Black,” he said. “My mom was really big [on Black history] because she was a Black Studies teacher, so we had books that I read. … “I’m hoping I can moti- vate other young brothers and sisters to achieve some things that don’t seem achievable. It’s a little bit dis- heartening when I see re- gression of Black coaches, Black players, Blacks in baseball.”
back,” Roberts said. Díaz limited the Mari- ners to one hit in one score- less inning Thursday and tallied two strikeouts. After pitching back-to- back days, Díaz was ex- pected to be unavailable un- til Sunday, Roberts said.
Stewart injured The Dodgers put Brock Stewart (2.45 ERA) on the 15-day IL because of right shoulder discomfort as the corresponding active roster move for Irvin — a hit to the Dodgers’ right-handed, high-leverage depth. They also designated right- hander Chayce McDermott for assignment to clear room on the 40-man roster. “Should be short term,” Roberts said of Stewart’s IL stay. “He’s done a great job when he’s been active on really pitching well. So we’ve got to make sure, with the calendar on our side, we’ve got to protect him and take a couple weeks and then get him back. “This is something that we are being proactive on and really try to talk through it with Brock and under- standing our thought be- hind it, with the bullpen day just the coverage and not trying to put him or anyone else in harm’s way.” This is Stewart’s third stint on the IL this season. He began the year recover- ing from the right shoulder surgery that ended last sea- son. Then days after being ac- tivated in early May, he landed on the IL again, after aggravating a bone spur in his left foot. He returned again in late June. “This is just more of a for- mality,” Roberts said. “I really believe, the training staff believes that it’s going to be short term.”
Not rushing Snell The Dodgers had been considering bringing back Blake Snell (loose body el- bow surgery) from his rehab assignment early to bridge the gap with Ohtani shut down from pitching. They instead decided to have Snell make another re- hab start at triple A this week, in which he’ll target five innings. By utilizing a bullpen game Friday, the Dodgers built in a full week of rest for Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Emmet Sheehan, who were scheduled to start Saturday and Sunday against the Red Sox. And they avoided pitch- ing Justin Wrobleski on regular rest.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
West W L Pct. GB L10 DODGERS 69 41 .627 — 6-4
Arizona 58 52 .527 11 7-3
San Diego 56 54 .509 13 7-3
San Francisco 47 63 .427 22 5-5
Colorado 43 67 .391 26 3-7
Central W L Pct. GB L10 Milwaukee 68 41 .624 — 6-4
Chicago 62 48 .564 61⁄2 6-4
Pittsburgh 55 56 .495 14 3-7
St. Louis 54 56 .491 141⁄2 3-7
Cincinnati 52 57 .477 16 7-3
East W L Pct. GB L10 Atlanta 65 45 .591 — 7-3
Philadelphia 57 53 .518 8 2-8
Miami 56 55 .505 91⁄2 4-6
Washington 55 56 .495 101⁄2 4-6
New York 47 64 .423 181⁄2 5-5
AMERICAN LEAGUE
West W L Pct. GB L10 Houston 56 55 .505 — 9-1
Texas 55 55 .500 1⁄2 5-5
Seattle 53 58 .477 3 2-8
Athletics 45 65 .409 101⁄2 2-8
ANGELS 42 68 .382 131⁄2 3-7
Central W L Pct. GB L10 Chicago 58 51 .532 — 5-5
Cleveland 56 55 .505 3 3-7
Minnesota 56 55 .505 3 7-3
Detroit 52 58 .473 61⁄2 5-5
Kansas City 46 65 .414 13 5-5
East W L Pct. GB L10 Tampa Bay 64 45 .587 — 7-3
New York 62 48 .564 21⁄2 6-4
Boston 58 51 .532 6 7-3
Baltimore 54 56 .491 101⁄2 5-5
Toronto 51 59 .464 131⁄2 5-5
Today’s games Dodgers vs. Boston ......................... 4:20 p.m. Angels vs. Milwaukee ...................... 12:15 p.m. Washington at Atlanta .................... 10:35 a.m. Philadelphia at Baltimore ................ 10:35 a.m. St. Louis at Toronto ........................ 10:37 a.m. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati .................. 10:40 a.m. Chicago (AL) at Tampa Bay .............. 10:40 a.m. Miami at New York (NL) .................. 10:40 a.m. Arizona at Cleveland ....................... 10:40 a.m. Texas at Houston ............................ 11:10 a.m. New York (AL) at Chicago (NL) .......... 11:20 a.m. Kansas City at Colorado .................. 12:10 p.m. Detroit at Athletics ........................... 1:05 p.m. Minnesota at Seattle ........................ 1:10 p.m. San Francisco at San Diego ............... 1:10 p.m.
BOSTON 9, DODGERS 4
Boston AB R H BI Avg. Sogard 2b-1b 4 2 1 0 .273 Rafaela cf 5 2 3 2 .286 Abreu rf 4 1 1 0 .248 Contreras 1b 1 0 0 0 .288 Seigler 2b 3 0 0 0 .248 Yoshida dh 5 1 2 1 .264 1-Jones dh 0 1 0 0 .167 Durbin 3b 4 2 2 0 .246 Monasterio ss 5 0 1 2 .258 Duran lf 4 0 2 2 .198 Narváez c 3 0 0 1 .189 Totals 38 9 12 8
Boston 012 000 501 —9 12 0 Los Angeles 000 130 000 —4 10 2 Walks—Boston 5: Sogard 2, Abreu 1, Durbin 1, Duran 1. Los Angeles 3: Pages 1, Tucker 1, Muncy 1. Strikeouts—Boston 9: Sogard 1, Rafaela 1, Abreu 2, Contreras 1, Monasterio 1, Narváez 3. Los Angeles 5: Ohtani 1, Pages 1, Betts 1, T.Hernández 1, Tucker 1. E—Klein (1), Freeman (1). LOB—Boston 10, Los Angeles 7. 2B—Monasterio (18), Durbin (20), Ohtani (22). HR—Rafaela (12), off Irvin; Ohtani (24), off Morán. RBIs—Duran 2 (56), Yoshida (20), Rafaela 2 (54), Monasterio 2 (23), Narváez (10), Freeman (54), Alfonzo (3), Ohtani 2 (67). SB—Rafaela (15). SF—Narváez. Runners left in scoring position—Boston 7; Los Angeles 3 (Alfonzo 2, Muncy). RISP—Boston 3 for 17; Los Angeles 3 for 9. Runners moved up—Duran, Rojas, T.Hernández. GIDP—Seigler, Rojas. DP—Boston 1; Los Angeles 1. Boston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Suarez........................42⁄3 4 3 3 2 2 65 3.15 Morán..........................1⁄3 3 1 1 0 0 16 2.84 Bello, W, 3-6 ..................4 3 0 0 1 3 58 5.30 Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Henriquez......................1 1 0 0 0 1 21 2.72 Klein..........................11⁄3 3 3 1 1 3 39 3.67 Irvin, L, 0-1....................6 8 6 6 3 5 102 9.00 Phillips.........................2⁄3 0 0 0 1 0 5 6.14 Inherited runners-scored—Morán 1-1, Bello 1-0, Irvin 3-2, Phillips 2-1. IBB_off Bello (Muncy), off Phillips (Duran). HBP_Klein (Contreras), Irvin (Narváez). WP—Morán, Klein. AS—Bello (pitcher); Phillips (pitcher). U— Gabe Morales, Doug Eddings, Mike Muchlinski, Emil Jimenez. T—2:53. Tickets sold—47,903 (56,000).
CHICAGO WHITE SOX 6, TAMPA BAY 1
Chicago AB R H BI Avg. Antonacci lf 5 1 1 0 .282 Murakami 1b 4 2 2 2 .244 Vargas 3b 3 1 1 1 .240 C.Montgomery ss 4 1 1 2 .217 Benintendi dh 3 1 2 1 .247 B.Montgomery rf 4 0 0 0 .237 Peters cf 4 0 0 0 .268 Meidroth 2b 3 0 0 0 .272 Romo c 4 0 1 0 .138 Totals 34 6 8 6
Chicago 112 002 000 —6 8 2 Tampa Bay 000 100 000 —1 5 0 Walks—Chicago 2: Vargas 1, Benintendi 1. Tampa Bay 2: Caminero 2. Strikeouts—Chicago 2: C.Montgomery 2. Tampa Bay 9: Díaz 2, Caminero 1, Mullins 1, Vilade 1, Simpson 1, Palacios 1, Walls 1, Feduccia 1. E—Romo (6), Meidroth (5). LOB—Chicago 4, Tampa Bay 6. 2B—Mullins (7), Díaz (19). HR—Vargas (23), off Martinez; Benintendi (11), off Martinez; Murakami (24), off Martinez; C.Montgomery (25), off Martinez; Caminero (30), off Fedde. RBIs—Vargas (64), Benintendi (56), Murakami 2 (51), C.Montgomery 2 (63), Caminero (66). Runners left in scoring position—Chicago 1 (B.Montgomery); Tampa Bay 3 (Palacios, Mesa, Vilade). RISP—Chicago 0 for 1; Tampa Bay 0 for 6. Runners moved up—Mesa, Aranda. Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Fedde, W, 6-6.................5 4 1 1 0 6 91 4.13 Schweitzer, H, 2...............3 1 0 0 2 2 43 2.78 Richards........................1 0 0 0 0 1 14 3.47 Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Martinez, L, 10-3 .............6 7 6 6 0 2 77 2.77 Cook............................2 1 0 0 2 0 38 0.00 Roycroft ........................1 0 0 0 0 0 10 7.91 HBP—Roycroft (Meidroth). U— Malachi Moore, Alfonso Marquez, Mike Estabrook, Dillon Wilson. T—2:26. Tickets sold—20,661 (25,025).
HOUSTON 11, TEXAS 2
Texas AB R H BI Avg. Pederson dh 1 1 1 1 .254 c-Foscue dh-2b 1 0 0 0 .260 Langford lf 4 0 1 0 .277 Seager ss 3 1 2 0 .189 d-Cauley ss 1 0 0 0 .227 Nimmo rf 4 0 0 0 .264 Duran 3b 4 0 1 0 .269 Carter cf 4 0 2 1 .207 Burger 1b 4 0 1 0 .236 Lopez 2b-p 4 0 0 0 .289 Wynns c 2 0 0 0 .091 a-Osuna 0 0 0 0 .258 b-Díaz c 1 0 0 0 .248 Totals 33 2 8 2
Texas 000 002 000 — 2 8 0 Houston 030 120 41x —11 18 0 Walks—Texas 2: Pederson 2. Houston 5: Alvarez 2, Paredes 2, Wade 1. Strikeouts—Texas 7: Langford 1, Seager 1, Cauley 1, Nimmo 1, Duran 1, Burger 1, Díaz 1. Houston 8: Peña 1, Alvarez 1, Altuve 2, Trammell 1, Wade 1, Smith 2. LOB—Texas 6, Houston 12. 2B—Seager (7), Trammell (6), Wade (3), Peña (11). 3B—Smith (2). HR—Pederson (20), off Brown; Paredes (15), off Eovaldi; Walker (22), off Eovaldi; Diaz (8), off Curvelo. RBIs—Pederson (42), Carter (29), Wade (12), Alvarez 2 (82), Peña 3 (34), Paredes 2 (60), Walker (63), Diaz (26), Spence (3). CS—Carter (2). Runners left in scoring position—Texas 2 (Seager, Burger); Houston 5 (Walker 2, Dezenzo 2, Paredes). RISP—Texas 2 for 6; Houston 8 for 15. GIDP—Nimmo, Walker. DP—Texas 1 (Lopez, Burger); Houston 1 (Altuve, Peña, Walker). Texas IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Eovaldi, L, 10-9...............5 10 6 6 1 5 94 4.31 Curvelo .........................2 4 4 4 4 2 54 9.58 Lopez...........................1 4 1 1 0 1 24 9.00 Houston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Brown, W, 3-1...............52⁄3 6 2 2 2 5 104 3.42 De Los Santos ................2⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 10 4.26 Sousa ..........................2⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 9 3.38 Blubaugh.......................1 0 0 0 0 1 13 3.69 King.............................1 1 0 0 0 0 13 3.66 Inherited runners-scored—De Los Santos 2-1. IBB—off Curvelo (Alvarez). HBP—Eovaldi (Peña). S—Curvelo (pitcher). U— Clint Vondrak, Adam Hamari, Todd Tichenor, Tyler Jones. T—3:01. Tickets sold—36,621 (41,000).
Los Angeles AB R H BI Avg. Ohtani dh 5 2 2 2 .291 Pages cf 4 0 1 0 .269 Rojas 2b 4 0 0 0 .276 Freeman 1b 4 0 3 1 .305 Betts ss 4 0 1 0 .233 T.Hernández lf 4 0 0 0 .248 Tucker rf 3 1 1 0 .236 E.Hernández 3b 2 0 1 0 .556 a-Muncy 3b 1 0 0 0 .252 Alfonzo c 4 1 1 1 .200 Totals 35 4 10 4
Tampa Bay AB R H BI Avg. Díaz dh 4 0 1 0 .302 Aranda 1b 4 0 0 0 .281 Caminero 3b 2 1 1 1 .282 Mullins cf 3 0 1 0 .203 a-Vilade rf 1 0 0 0 .256 Simpson lf 4 0 1 0 .290 Mesa rf-cf 4 0 0 0 .217 Palacios 2b 4 0 0 0 .226 Walls ss 3 0 0 0 .214 Feduccia c 3 0 1 0 .234 Totals 32 1 5 1
Houston AB R H BI Avg. Peña ss 5 1 3 3 .317 Alvarez dh 3 0 2 2 .324 e-Dezenzo dh 1 0 0 0 .222 Paredes 3b 3 1 2 2 .257 Walker 1b 5 1 1 1 .235 Altuve 2b 4 0 0 0 .231 Allen 2b 1 1 1 0 .265 Trammell cf-lf 5 1 1 0 .237 Diaz c 5 2 4 1 .261 Wade lf 3 1 1 1 .175 1-Spence cf 1 1 1 1 .162 Smith rf 5 2 2 0 .207 Totals 41 11 18 11
William Liang Associated Press Angels drop their fourth straight
ANGELS STARTER Ryan Johnson gave up five runs and six hits in 41⁄3 innings in a 6-2 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday.
By Mike DiGiovanna
Brice Turang and Jake Bauers powered a five-run fifth inning with home runs, Shane Drohan struck out seven in six innings, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the An- gels 6-2 on Friday night at Angel Stadium. Drohan (6-4) gave up two runs on four hits and walked one while delivering his fifth straight start of six innings or more for the National League Central-leading Brewers,
MILWAUKEE 6, ANGELS 2
Milwaukee AB R H BI Avg. Turang 2b 3 1 1 2 .271 Chourio lf 5 1 1 0 .273 Yelich dh 5 0 1 0 .240 Contreras c 4 1 1 0 .272 Bauers 1b 4 2 2 3 .269 Mitchell cf 4 0 2 0 .269 Lara rf 4 0 0 0 .261 Hamilton 3b 5 0 0 0 .236 Pratt ss 2 1 1 1 .288 Totals 36 6 9 6
Milwaukee 010 050 000 —6 9 0 Angels 000 020 000 —2 4 1 Walks—Milwaukee 8: Turang 2, Contreras 1, Bauers 1, Mitchell 1, Lara 1, Pratt 2. Angels 1: Siri 1. Strikeouts—Milwaukee 8: Chourio 3, Yelich 1, Contreras 1, Mitchell 1, Lara 1, Pratt 1. Angels 10: Neto 2, Trout 1, Schanuel 1, Soler 1, Grissom 2, Adell 3. E—Siri (2). LOB—Milwaukee 11, Angels 3. 2B—Contreras (16), Mitchell (23). HR—Turang (16), off Johnson; Bauers (19), off Fermin; Guzman (5), off Drohan. RBIs—Pratt (15), Turang 2 (68), Bauers 3 (63), Guzman 2 (16). SB—Yelich (9), Pratt (10), Mitchell (8). Runners left in scoring position—Milwaukee 8 (Contreras, Yelich, Hamilton 2, Turang 2, Bauers, Lara); Angels 0. RISP_Milwaukee 2 for 17; Angels 0 for 1. Runners moved up—Lara. GIDP—Soler. DP—Milwaukee 1 (Hamilton, Bauers). Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Drohan, W, 6-4................6 4 2 2 1 7 86 3.48 Anderson.....................11⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 23 3.70 Uribe ...........................2⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 9 2.28 Megill...........................1 0 0 0 0 1 14 2.90 Angels IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Johnson, L, 2-6 .............41⁄3 6 5 5 3 3 88 7.63 Fermin........................22⁄3 3 1 1 1 4 36 2.72 Murphy .........................1 0 0 0 2 1 27 0.00 Bachman.......................1 0 0 0 2 0 23 4.17 Inherited runners-scored—Uribe 1-0, Fermin 2-2. HBP_Anderson (Meckler). WP—Johnson. U— Carlos Torres, Mark Wegner, Steven Jaschinski, Nate Tomlinson. T—2:45. Tickets sold—43,720 (45,517).
TORONTO 3, ST. LOUIS 1
St. Louis AB R H BI Avg. Wetherholt 2b 3 0 0 0 .251 Walker rf 4 0 1 1 .281 Burleson 1b 3 0 1 0 .282 Herrera dh 4 0 0 0 .244 Nootbaar lf 4 0 0 0 .235 Winn ss 3 0 1 0 .243 Church cf 4 1 2 0 .226 Fermín 3b 4 0 0 0 .241 Crooks c 3 0 0 0 .165 Totals 32 1 5 1
St. Louis 000 010 000 —1 5 0 Toronto 000 001 02x —3 9 0 Walks—St. Louis 3: Wetherholt 1, Burleson 1, Winn 1. Toronto 4: Lukes 1, Springer 1, Varsho 1, Clement 1. Strikeouts—St. Louis 11: Wetherholt 1, Walker 2, Burleson 2, Herrera 1, Nootbaar 1, Winn 1, Church 1, Crooks 2. Toronto 4: Okamoto 1, Varsho 1, Clement 1, Schneider 1. LOB—St. Louis 7, Toronto 8. 2B—Burleson (27), Guerrero (18), Okamoto (15). RBIs—Walker (79), Okamoto (69), Urías 2 (6). SB—Church (6). Runners left in scoring position—St. Louis 4 ; Toronto 3. RISP_St. Louis 1 for 10; Toronto 2 for 10. Runners moved up—Fermín 2, Varsho. GIDP—Clement, Valenzuela, Guerrero. DP—St. Louis 3 (Winn, Wetherholt, Burleson; Winn, Wetherholt, Burleson; Wetherholt, Winn, Burleson). St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Leahy...........................6 6 1 1 1 3 98 3.44 Bruihl ..........................1⁄3 2 0 0 0 1 16 3.59 Strzelecki, L, 0-1..............1 0 2 2 2 0 17 9.00 Graceffo........................2⁄3 1 0 0 1 0 13 3.15 Toronto IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Cease...........................6 3 1 1 3 7 96 2.41 Miles............................1 1 0 0 0 2 16 3.21 Hoffman, W, 6-7 ..............1 0 0 0 0 2 11 4.02 Varland, S, 24-24.............1 1 0 0 0 0 15 0.96 Inherited runners-scored—Strzelecki 2-0, Graceffo 2-2. HBP—Strzelecki (Straw). WP—Leahy, Cease. U— Junior Valentine, Rob Drake, Jordan Baker, Stu Scheuwater. T—2:36. Tickets sold—41,506 (39,150).
COLORADO 3, KANSAS CITY 1
Kansas City AB R H BI Avg. Jensen c 4 1 1 1 .235 Thomas cf 3 0 1 0 .230 Caglianone 1b 4 0 0 0 .251 Perez dh 4 0 2 0 .214 Massey 2b 4 0 0 0 .262 Collins lf 4 0 1 0 .242 Rave rf 3 0 1 0 .292 Rojas 3b-ss 3 0 0 0 .237 Velazquez ss 2 0 0 0 .067 a-Loftin 3b 1 0 0 0 .251 Totals 32 1 6 1
Kansas City 000 001 000 —1 6 2 Colorado 100 200 00x —3 5 0 Walks—Kansas City 1: Thomas 1. Strikeouts—Kansas City 4: Jensen 1, Caglianone 1, Perez 1, Loftin 1. Colorado 8: McCarthy 1, Moniak 1, Goodman 3, Karros 1, Doyle 1, Tovar 1. E—Massey (2), Rojas (2). LOB—Kansas City 5, Colorado 4. 2B—Moniak (13), Doyle (5). 3B—Collins (2). HR—Jensen (15), off Sugano. RBIs—Jensen (54), Rumfield (54), Doyle (5). Runners left in scoring position—Kansas City 2 (Rojas, Rave); Colorado 3 (Freeman, Johnston, Tovar). RISP—Kansas City 1 for 3; Colorado 2 for 8. Runners moved up—Collins, Freeman. GIDP—Massey. DP—Colorado 1 (Karros, Tovar, Rumfield). Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Wacha, L, 5-8.................6 5 3 1 0 7 99 3.51 Pearson ........................1 0 0 0 0 0 7 3.27 McGee..........................1 0 0 0 0 1 5 0.00 Colorado IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Sugano, W, 11-4............62⁄3 5 1 1 0 2 83 4.47 Senzatela, H, 4...............2⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 9 3.61 Bernardino, H, 6..............2⁄3 0 0 0 1 0 13 2.58 Romano, S, 9-11..............1 0 0 0 0 1 11 5.74 Inherited runners-scored—Senzatela 1-0. WP—Wacha. . U— Hunter Wendelstedt, Vic Carapazza, Edwin Moscoso, Nic Lentz. T—2:08. Tickets sold—39,317 (50,144).
Angels AB R H BI Avg. Neto ss 4 0 1 0 .232 Trout cf 4 0 0 0 .241 Schanuel 1b 4 0 1 0 .279 Soler dh 4 0 0 0 .202 Grissom 2b 4 1 1 0 .264 Adell rf 3 0 0 0 .242 Guzman 3b 3 1 1 2 .237 d’Arnaud c 2 0 0 0 .189 a-Meckler lf 0 0 0 0 .297 Heineman c 0 0 0 0 .179 Siri lf 1 0 0 0 .260 b-Lowe 1 0 0 0 .200 Totals 30 2 4 2
Toronto AB R H BI Avg. Lukes rf 2 0 0 0 .279 b-Straw rf 0 0 0 0 .218 Guerrero 1b 4 1 1 0 .265 Okamoto 3b 4 0 1 1 .231 Springer dh 3 1 1 0 .235 Varsho cf 3 1 0 0 .245 Clement 2b-lf 3 0 0 0 .292 Sánchez lf 2 0 0 0 .272 a-Schneider lf 1 0 0 0 .148 c-Urías 2b 1 0 1 2 .233 Valenzuela c 4 0 3 0 .239 Giménez ss 3 0 2 0 .232 Totals 30 3 9 3
Colorado AB R H BI Avg. McCarthy lf 4 0 0 0 .289 Moniak dh 4 1 1 0 .278 Goodman c 4 0 0 0 .251 Rumfield 1b 4 0 1 1 .293 Karros 3b 3 1 2 0 .266 Freeman 2b 3 0 0 0 .250 Johnston rf 3 1 0 0 .283 Carrigg rf 0 0 0 0 .296 Doyle cf 3 0 1 1 .211 Tovar ss 3 0 0 0 .196 Totals 31 3 5 2
who won their nine in 13 games. Milwaukee reliever Grant An- derson threw a 1-2-3 seventh and got the first out of the eighth, Ab- ner Uribe retired two batters in the eighth, and closer Trevor Megill re- tired the side in order with a strike- out in the ninth. Starter Ryan Johnson (2-6) gave up five runs and six hits in 41⁄3 innings for the Angels (42-68), who lost their fourth straight, seventh of eight and 19th in the last 24. Milwaukee (68-41) took a 1-0 lead in the second when Bauers
N.Y. YANKEES 2, CHICAGO CUBS 0
New York AB R H BI Avg. Goldschmidt 1b 4 0 0 0 .250 Rice dh 4 0 1 0 .269 Rosario 3b 3 1 1 1 .235 McMahon 3b 1 0 0 0 .207 Domínguez rf 3 0 0 0 .229 Grisham cf 4 0 0 0 .214 Volpe ss 3 0 0 0 .244 Jones lf 2 1 1 1 .236 Sánchez c 2 0 0 0 .235 a-Wells c 0 0 0 0 .162 Caballero 2b 3 0 1 0 .239 Totals 29 2 4 2
New York 000 110 000 —2 4 0 Chicago 000 000 000 —0 5 0 a-walked for Sánchez in the 8th. Walks—New York 3: Domínguez 1, Jones 1, Wells 1. Strikeouts—New York 8: Goldschmidt 1, Rice 2, Rosario 2, Domínguez 1, Volpe 1, Jones 1. Chicago 10: Crow-Armstrong 1, Happ 1, Hoerner 1, Conforto 3, Swanson 2, Amaya 2. LOB—New York 3, Chicago 4. 2B—Amaya (9). HR—Rosario (10), off Imanaga; Jones (4), off Imanaga. RBIs—Rosario (28), Jones (12). Runners left in scoring position—New York 1 (Rice); Chicago 3 (Crow-Armstrong, Hoerner, Bregman). RISP—New York 0 for 3; Chicago 0 for 3. GIDP—Grisham, Goldschmidt, Busch. DP—New York 1 (Goldschmidt, Volpe, Goldschmidt); Chicago 2 (Hoerner, Busch; Swanson, Busch). New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Warren, W, 8-5..............62⁄3 4 0 0 0 7 88 4.14 Blackburn, H, 3 .............11⁄3 0 0 0 0 3 19 2.10 Bednar, S, 23-25 .............1 1 0 0 0 0 11 2.68 Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Imanaga, L, 7-9.............62⁄3 4 2 2 0 6 101 3.67 Ferguson .......................1 0 0 0 2 1 24 6.14 A.Kelly........................11⁄3 0 0 0 1 1 18 0.00 Inherited runners-scored—Blackburn 2-0, A.Kelly 2-0. U— Tom Hanahan, Ron Kulpa, Scott Barry, Manny Gonzalez. T—2:27. Tickets sold—40,129 (41,363).
ARIZONA 4, CLEVELAND 1
Arizona AB R H BI Avg. Carroll rf 3 1 0 0 .247 Perdomo ss 4 1 2 1 .231 Moreno c 3 0 1 1 .308 Marte 2b 3 0 1 1 .254 Kepler lf 4 0 0 0 .238 Arenado 3b 4 0 0 0 .242 Del Castillo dh 4 0 0 0 .198 Tawa 1b 2 1 0 0 .214 Vargas 1b 1 0 0 0 .274 Waldschmidt cf 3 1 2 0 .284 Barrosa cf 0 0 0 0 .187 Totals 31 4 6 3
Arizona 000 000 040 —4 6 0 Cleveland 100 000 000 —1 3 1 Walks—Arizona 2: Carroll 1, Tawa 1. Cleveland 5: Ramírez 2, Hoskins 1, Fry 1, Kwan 1. Strikeouts—Arizona 4: Marte 2, Del Castillo 2. Cleveland 5: DeLauter 1, Manzardo 1, Bazzana 2, Hedges 1. E—Martínez (3). LOB—Arizona 4, Cleveland 6. 2B—Kwan (14). RBIs—Perdomo (38), Moreno (46), Marte (62), Hoskins (34). SB—Ramírez (27). S—Martínez. Runners left in scoring position—Arizona 1 (Kepler); Cleveland 2 (DeLauter 2). RISP—Arizona 3 for 5; Cleveland 1 for 6. Runners moved up—Ramírez, Martínez. GIDP—Kepler, Rocchio. DP—Arizona 1; Cleveland 1 . Arizona IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Bratt............................5 3 1 1 4 2 82 5.23 Clarke ..........................1 0 0 0 0 1 10 2.19 Loáisiga, W, 3-3...............1 0 0 0 1 1 17 2.51 Ginkel, H, 11..................1 0 0 0 0 0 11 3.11 Garcia, S, 3-3 .................1 0 0 0 0 1 7 2.10 Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Bibee, L, 4-11...............71⁄3 3 2 2 1 3 100 3.81 Sabrowski, BS, 0-2 ...........0 2 2 1 1 0 10 3.77 Festa...........................2⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 6 4.43 Dion ............................1 0 0 0 0 1 11 4.34 Sabrowski pitched to 3 batters in the 8th Inherited runners-scored—Sabrowski 2-2, Festa 2-1. IBB—off Bratt (Ramírez). HBP—Bibee 2 (Moreno,Marte). S—Bratt (pitcher). U— Will Little, Ryan Wills, Jonathan Parra, Lance Barksdale. T—2:31. Tickets sold—36,639 (34,788).
DETROIT 13, ATHLETICS 1
Detroit AB R H BI Avg. McGonigle 3b-ss-3b 3 2 1 2 .285
Torres dh 5 0 0 0 .263 Dingler c 6 1 2 4 .269 Greene lf 4 0 0 0 .277 Outman lf 0 0 0 0 .162 Lee 2b 2 0 0 0 .269 a-Keith 3b 1 0 0 0 .263 d-Valencia 1 0 1 0 .417 1-McKinstry 2b 1 1 0 0 .206
Torkelson 1b 4 3 3 0 .216 Clark cf 4 2 3 1 .750 Báez ss-2b-ss 5 2 3 3 .304 Malgeri rf 4 2 1 2 .282 Totals 40 13 14 12
Detroit 001 100 074 —13 14 0 Athletics 100 000 000 — 1 3 1 Walks—Detroit 7: McGonigle 2, Torres 1, Greene 1, Torkelson 1, Clark 1, Malgeri 1. Athletics 3: Kurtz 1, Wilson 1, Heim 1. Strikeouts—Detroit 7: McGonigle 1, Torres 1, Dingler 1, Greene 1, Lee 1, Keith 1, Malgeri 1. Athletics 7: Kurtz 2, White 1, Butler 2, Bolte 1, McNeil 1. E—White (2). LOB—Detroit 8, Athletics 5. 2B—Valencia (1), Clark 2 (2), Heim (12). HR—McGonigle (10), off Springs; Dingler (23), off Morales; Malgeri (1), off Morales. RBIs—McGonigle 2 (39), Clark (1), Báez 3 (11), Dingler 4 (72), Malgeri 2 (7), Heim (35). SB—Greene (3). CS—Bolte (7). SF—McGonigle. Runners left in scoring position—Detroit 6 ; Athletics 2. RISP—Detroit 5 for 16; Athletics 0 for 3. Runners moved up—Greene, Báez, Soderstrom. GIDP—Báez. DP— 1. Detroit IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Holton..........................2 1 1 1 1 1 24 3.10 Madden, W, 1-0...............3 2 0 0 2 2 56 2.40 Sommers, H, 7................2 0 0 0 0 3 15 4.32 De Jesús .......................2 0 0 0 0 1 21 3.74 Athletics IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Springs, L, 3-11...............4 4 2 2 5 2 86 6.17 Juenger.........................1 0 0 0 1 2 20 4.15 Basso...........................2 4 3 2 0 2 30 5.14 Morales ........................2 6 8 8 1 1 47 14.06 Inherited runners-scored—Morales 2-2. HBP—Holton (Bolte). PB—Heim (0). . U— Adam Beck, Louie Krupa, Jeremie Rehak, Dan Iassogna. T—2:41. Tickets sold—8,926 (14,014).
Chicago AB R H BI Avg. Crw-Armstrong cf 4 0 0 0 .283 Ramirez 3b 4 0 2 0 .319 Busch 1b 4 0 0 0 .240 Bregman dh 4 0 1 0 .248 Happ lf 3 0 1 0 .219 Hoerner 2b 3 0 0 0 .255 Conforto rf 3 0 0 0 .232 Swanson ss 3 0 0 0 .214 Amaya c 3 0 1 0 .243 Totals 31 0 5 0
Cleveland AB R H BI Avg. Martínez rf 3 0 0 0 .221 Ramírez 3b 2 1 0 0 .236 DeLauter dh 4 0 0 0 .277 Hoskins 1b 1 0 1 1 .176 a-Manzardo 1b 2 0 0 0 .210 Rocchio ss 4 0 0 0 .263 Fry lf 1 0 0 0 .183 b-Halpin cf 2 0 0 0 .196 Bazzana 2b 4 0 0 0 .241 Hedges c 3 0 0 0 .276 Kwan cf-lf 2 0 2 0 .251 Totals 28 1 3 1
Athletics AB R H BI Avg. Kurtz 1b 2 0 0 0 .256 e-Serven c 1 0 0 0 .250 Wilson dh 3 1 1 0 .276 Heim c-1b 3 0 1 1 .236 Soderstrom lf 4 0 0 0 .240 White 3b 4 0 0 0 .269 Butler rf 4 0 0 0 .206 Bolte cf 2 0 1 0 .248 McNeil 2b 3 0 0 0 .246 Williams ss 1 0 0 0 .262 b-Walton ss 1 0 0 0 .292 c-Ornelas ss 1 0 0 0 .000 Totals 29 1 3 1
and Garrett Mitchell singled and No. 9 batter Cooper Pratt dunked a two-out single to shallow left. Pratt led off the fifth with a walk and Turang, the leadoff man who led major league second basemen in on-base-plus-slugging percent- age (.834), doubles (25), RBIs (68), runs (71) and walks (61), drove an inside cutter from Johnson 398 feet over the wall in left-center for his 16th homer and a 3-0 lead. Jackson Chourio singled, William Contreras walked with one out, and Johnson was pulled in fa-
CINCINNATI 8, PITTSBURGH 7
Pittsburgh AB R H BI Avg. Mangum cf 4 1 2 2 .304 B.Lowe 2b 5 1 3 1 .257 Reynolds lf 5 1 2 0 .268 Valdez rf 3 1 0 1 .271 O’Hearn dh 4 0 1 0 .270 Gonzales 3b 4 1 2 2 .318 Rodríguez 1b 5 1 1 0 .259 Gonzalez ss 3 0 0 0 .231 a-Triolo ss 1 0 0 0 .243 Davis c 4 1 1 1 .173 Totals 38 7 12 7
Pittsburgh 210 010 030 —7 12 1 Cincinnati 201 200 03x —8 12 0 Walks—Pittsburgh 3: Mangum 1, Valdez 1, O’Hearn 1. Cincinnati 7: De La Cruz 2, Bleday 2, Stephenson 2, Suárez 1. Strikeouts—Pittsburgh 8: Mangum 1, B.Lowe 2, Reynolds 1, Valdez 1, Rodríguez 2, Triolo 1. Cincinnati 12: De La Cruz 1, Bleday 1, Stephenson 2, N.Lowe 2, Suárez 2, Hayes 1, Myers 1, Marte 1, McLain 1. E—B.Lowe (10). LOB—Pittsburgh 9, Cincinnati 10. 2B—B.Lowe (25), Stephenson (15), Marte (7). 3B—De La Cruz (5). HR—Mangum (3), off Greene; Bleday (19), off Skenes; Stewart (23), off Skenes. RBIs—Gonzales 2 (49), Mangum 2 (23), Valdez (37), Davis (29), B.Lowe (71), Stephenson (30), N.Lowe (35), Bleday (46), Stewart 4 (84). SB—Mangum (20), B.Lowe (2). SF—Valdez. Runners left in scoring position—Pittsburgh 5 (Valdez, Reynolds 2, Rodríguez 2); Cincinnati 6 (De La Cruz, Marte 2, Myers, Hayes 2). RISP—Pittsburgh 6 for 13; Cincinnati 4 for 14. Runners moved up—Bleday. GIDP—Stewart. DP—Pittsburgh 2 (Gonzalez, B.Lowe, Rodríguez; Gonzalez, B.Lowe, Rodríguez). Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Skenes .........................4 7 5 5 4 7 100 3.90 Kelly ............................3 2 0 0 2 3 40 6.14 Dotel, L, 1-4, BS, 0-1........1⁄3 3 3 2 0 1 18 5.11 Montgomery...................2⁄3 0 0 0 1 1 12 3.80 Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Greene .........................6 7 4 4 2 4 91 6.83 Moll, H, 5 .....................2⁄3 0 0 0 1 2 16 4.36 Ju.Garcia, H, 2................1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 1 2.41 Ferguson, H, 3................1⁄3 2 2 2 0 0 7 4.18 P.Johnson, BS, 1-2...........2⁄3 3 1 1 0 1 17 4.96 Pagán, W, 4-1.................1 0 0 0 0 1 14 4.63 Inherited runners-scored—Montgomery 1-1, Ju.Garcia 1-0, P.Johnson 2-2. IBB_off Montgomery (Stephenson). HBP_Pagán (Gonzales). S—Montgomery (pitcher). U— Dan Bellino, Dexter Kelley, Shane Livensparger, Dan Merzel. T—2:58. Tickets sold—30,618 (43,891).
MIAMI 5, N.Y. METS 2
Miami AB R H BI Avg. Hicks dh 4 0 0 0 .280 Edwards 2b 4 0 1 1 .291 Lopez ss 4 0 0 0 .322 Stowers 1b 4 1 2 1 .237 Conine rf 3 1 1 0 .269 Ruiz rf 0 0 0 0 .254 Hernández lf 3 1 0 0 .236 Marsee cf 4 1 1 1 .198 Mack c 4 1 2 2 .238 Sanoja 3b 3 0 1 0 .265 Totals 33 5 8 5
Miami 000 041 000 —5 8 1 New York 000 010 100 —2 7 0 Walks—Miami 2: Conine 1, Hernández 1. New York 2: Lindor 1, Alvarez 1. Strikeouts—Miami 6: Edwards 1, Conine 1, Hernández 2, Marsee 1, Mack 1. New York 12: Ewing 1, Lindor 1, Bichette 1, Robert 3, Young 1, Semien 2, Polanco 2, Alvarez 1. E—Stowers (7). LOB—Miami 3, New York 7. 2B—Mack (7), Marsee (13), Stowers (20), Benge (15). HR—Stowers (16), off Curry; Lindor (9), off Faucher. RBIs—Marsee (28), Mack 2 (32), Edwards (40), Stowers (48), Ewing (28), Lindor (25). CS—Edwards (4). Runners left in scoring position—Miami 2 (Conine, Hicks); New York 5 (Polanco, Robert 2, Bichette 2). RISP—Miami 3 for 7; New York 2 for 6. Runners moved up—Sanoja. GIDP—Robert. DP—Miami 1 (Lopez, Edwards, Stowers). Miami IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Junk, W, 5-6...................5 3 1 0 2 4 79 4.58 Gibson .........................1⁄3 2 0 0 0 1 8 5.72 Faucher, H, 13..............11⁄3 1 1 1 0 4 29 4.63 Zuber, H, 6 ..................11⁄3 1 0 0 0 2 23 4.42 Fairbanks, S, 16-19 ..........1 0 0 0 0 1 7 6.55 New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Senga, L, 0-8..................4 2 3 3 2 4 49 8.66 Curry............................5 6 2 2 0 2 62 3.27 Inherited runners-scored—Faucher 2-0, Curry 2-2. WP—Senga. U— Brennan Miller, Brock Ballou, Chris Conroy, Ben May. T—2:39. Tickets sold—33,064 (42,136).
SAN DIEGO 7, SAN FRANCISCO 0
San Francisco AB R H BI Avg. Arraez 2b 3 0 1 0 .328 Basabe 2b 1 0 0 0 .000 Ramos lf 3 0 0 0 .264 Gilbert lf 1 0 0 0 .236 Eldridge dh 3 0 0 0 .250 a-J.Rodriguez 1 0 0 0 .235 Devers 1b 2 0 0 0 .247 Lee rf 3 0 0 0 .300 Adames ss 3 0 0 0 .225 McCray cf 3 0 0 0 .150 Cavanaugh c 3 0 0 0 .245 Koss 3b 3 0 1 0 .184 Totals 29 0 2 0
San Francisco 000 000 000 —0 2 0 San Diego 201 301 00x —7 12 0 Walks—San Francisco 1: Devers 1. San Diego 5: Tatis 2, Rengifo 2, France 1. Strikeouts—San Francisco 6: Arraez 1, Ramos 1, Eldridge 2, McCray 1, Cavanaugh 1. San Diego 6: Rengifo 1, Machado 1, Merrill 1, Bogaerts 1, Fermin 1, Bowen 1. LOB—San Francisco 3, San Diego 8. 2B—Tatis (22), Machado (19). HR—Bowen (1), off Whisenhunt. RBIs—Machado (65), Campusano (15), Bowen (6), France 3 (49). SB—Rengifo (5), Tatis (26). SF—Machado, France. Runners left in scoring position—San Francisco 0; San Diego 4 (Campusano, Bogaerts, Machado, Tatis). RISP—San Francisco 0 for 0; San Diego 4 for 14. Runners moved up—Bogaerts 2. GIDP—Bogaerts, Fermin. DP—San Francisco 2 (Devers, Adames, Devers; Basabe, Devers). San Francisco IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Whisenhunt, L, 2-2 .........31⁄3 7 6 6 4 3 74 6.63 Houser........................42⁄3 5 1 1 1 3 64 4.71 San Diego IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA B.Rodriguez....................1 0 0 0 0 2 13 2.28 Matsui, W, 2-1 ................3 1 0 0 0 2 49 2.38 Márquez, S, 1-1...............5 1 0 0 1 2 70 4.67 Inherited runners-scored—Houser 2-2. S—Matsui (pitcher). U— Chris Guccione, Nestor Ceja, John Tumpane, Willie Traynor. T—2:33. Tickets sold—44,057 (40,222).
Cincinnati AB R H BI Avg. De La Cruz ss 3 1 1 0 .279 Stewart 1b 5 2 2 4 .255 Bleday lf 3 2 1 1 .229 Stephenson c 3 1 1 1 .252 N.Lowe dh 5 0 2 1 .258 1-I.Johnson dh 0 0 0 0 .100 Suárez 3b 3 0 0 0 .200 Hayes 3b 1 0 0 0 .141 Myers cf 4 0 1 0 .276 Marte rf 4 1 3 0 .200 McLain 2b 4 1 1 0 .192 Totals 35 8 12 7
New York AB R H BI Avg. Ewing lf 4 0 1 1 .268 Lindor ss 3 1 2 1 .233 Bichette 3b 4 0 0 0 .256 Benge rf 4 0 3 0 .266 Robert cf 4 0 0 0 .195 Young 1b 4 0 1 0 .253 Baty 2b 2 0 0 0 .220 a-Semien 2b 2 0 0 0 .210 Polanco dh 4 1 0 0 .135 Alvarez c 3 0 0 0 .254 Totals 34 2 7 2
San Diego AB R H BI Avg. Tatis rf 3 2 1 0 .286 Rengifo 2b 3 3 1 0 .238 Machado 3b 4 0 1 1 .214 France 1b 2 0 2 3 .287 Merrill cf 4 1 0 0 .234 Campusano dh 4 0 3 1 .306 Bogaerts ss 4 0 1 0 .218 Fermin c 4 0 1 0 .170 Bowen lf 4 1 2 1 .167 Totals 32 7 12 6
vor of Angels right-hander Jose Fermin. Bauers then crushed a three- run homer to right, the ball leaving his bat at 110 mph and traveling 424 feet, for a 6-0 lead. The Angels trimmed the deficit to 6-2 in the bottom of the fifth in- ning when Vaughn Grissom sin- gled and Denzer Guzman drove an opposite-field shot to right-center, his fifth homer of the season.
DiGiovanna writes for the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE 6, PHILADELPHIA 4
Philadelphia AB R H BI Avg. Turner ss 4 2 3 1 .248 Schwarber dh 2 1 0 0 .251 Harper 1b 4 0 1 1 .252 Bohm 3b 4 0 0 0 .223 Marsh lf 4 0 0 1 .277 Realmuto c 4 1 1 1 .226 Stott 2b 3 0 0 0 .252 Rincones rf 2 0 0 0 .167 a-Hill rf 2 0 0 0 .240 Crawford cf 4 0 1 0 .257 Totals 33 4 6 4
Philadelphia 201 001 000 —4 6 0 Baltimore 200 000 40x —6 6 0 Walks—Philadelphia 3: Schwarber 2, Stott 1. Baltimore 6: Beavers 1, Ward 2, Holliday 1, Cowser 2. Strikeouts—Philadelphia 7: Schwarber 1, Harper 1, Bohm 1, Realmuto 2, Rincones 2. Baltimore 9: Beavers 1, Alonso 1, Henderson 1, Taveras 2, Mayo 2, Cowser 1, Pozo 1. LOB—Philadelphia 5, Baltimore 5. 2B—Beavers (12), Encarnacion-Strand (2). 3B—Henderson (4). HR—Turner (16), off Young; Realmuto (8), off Young; Alonso (23), off Painter. RBIs—Harper (65), Marsh (48), Turner (43), Realmuto (37), Alonso 2 (69), Encarnacion-Strand 2 (11), Henderson 2 (47). SB—Stott (18), Crawford (14). Runners left in scoring position—Philadelphia 3 (Rincones, Realmuto, Harper); Baltimore 3 (Taveras 3). RISP—Philadelphia 1 for 7; Baltimore 3 for 8. Runners moved up—Bohm, Marsh, Turner, Ward. GIDP—Taveras, J.Rogers. DP—Philadelphia 2 (Turner, Harper; Stott, Turner, Harper). Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Painter .........................6 3 2 2 3 6 82 6.72 Kerkering, L, 6-1, BS, 1-3...2⁄3 2 4 4 1 2 27 3.43 Mayza..........................1⁄3 1 0 0 1 0 12 3.88 Shugart.........................1 0 0 0 1 1 12 4.93 Baltimore IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Young.........................52⁄3 5 4 4 2 5 94 3.31 Walker .........................2⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 17 3.60 Nunez, W, 3-2 ................2⁄3 0 0 0 1 1 17 4.30 Cano, H, 9.....................1 0 0 0 0 1 17 2.15 Wells, S, 4-4...................1 0 0 0 0 0 10 2.67 Inherited runners-scored—Mayza 2-2, Nunez 1-0. IBB_off Mayza (Ward). HBP_Kerkering (Alonso). WP—Painter. S—Mayza (pitcher). U— Derek Thomas, Marvin Hudson, Tripp Gibson, Nick Mahrley. T—2:37.
ATLANTA 6, WASHINGTON 2
Washington AB R H BI Avg. Wood dh 5 0 1 0 .269 García 1b 3 0 0 0 .283 b-Chaparro 1b 2 1 1 1 .228 Crews rf-cf 5 0 2 0 .228 Abrams ss 2 1 1 1 .290 House 3b 4 0 1 0 .233 Lile lf-rf 4 0 1 0 .248 Ford c 3 0 0 0 .174 Tena 2b-lf 4 0 1 0 .249 J.Young cf 2 0 0 0 .236 a-Vivas 2b 2 0 1 0 .240 Totals 36 2 9 2
Washington 000 100 001 —2 9 1 Atlanta 110 004 00x —6 12 0 Walks—Washington 4: Abrams 3, Ford 1. Atlanta 3: Riley 1, Bart 1, Jarvis 1. Strikeouts—Washington 7: Wood 2, García 1, Crews 1, House 1, Lile 1, Vivas 1. Atlanta 7: Acuña 1, Baldwin 1, Olson 2, Dubón 1, Riley 2. E—Abrams (17). LOB—Washington 11, Atlanta 8. 2B—House (10), Olson (27). HR—Abrams (28), off Elder; Chaparro (6), off Hernández; Olson (29), off Griffin; Harris (20), off Griffin. RBIs—Abrams (83), Chaparro (20), Olson (67), Jarvis 2 (10), Harris 3 (64). SB—Crews (7). CS—Crews (0). Runners left in scoring position—Washington 6 (House, Abrams, Tena, Ford 2, Crews); Atlanta 3 (Baldwin 3). RISP—Washington 0 for 8; Atlanta 4 for 10. Runners moved up—Acuña. GIDP—Bart, Baldwin. DP—Washington 3 (House, Tena, García; Abrams, García; Abrams, García). Washington IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Griffin, L, 12-3 ..............51⁄3 9 6 6 2 3 78 3.06 Williams......................22⁄3 3 0 0 1 4 63 0.00 Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Elder, W, 7-6 ..................6 4 1 1 3 3 93 3.84 Hernández, S, 1-1 ............3 5 1 1 1 4 62 1.50 Inherited runners-scored—Williams 1-1. HBP_Williams (Acuña). . U— Bill Miller, John Bacon, Brian Walsh, Chad Fairchild. T—2:33. Tickets sold—37,664 (41,149).
MINNESOTA 5, SEATTLE 3
Minnesota AB R H BI Avg. Larnach lf 4 0 0 0 .283 Kreidler ss 0 0 0 0 .243 Jeffers c 4 1 1 1 .293 Clemens 2b-lf 4 0 0 0 .241 Bell dh 4 1 1 0 .242 Lewis 1b-2b 4 1 1 1 .216 Roden rf 2 1 1 0 .205 Martin rf 1 0 0 0 .242 Lee 3b 4 1 1 2 .244 Keaschall cf 3 0 2 1 .259 Gray ss 2 0 0 0 .229 a-Caratini 1b 1 0 0 0 .234 Totals 33 5 7 5
Minnesota 020 000 210 —5 7 0 Seattle 210 000 000 —3 4 0 Walks—Minnesota 2: Roden 1, Keaschall 1. Seattle 4: Arozarena 1, Naylor 1, Raleigh 1, Wilson 1. Strikeouts—Minnesota 8: Larnach 1, Bell 2, Lewis 1, Keaschall 1, Gray 2, Caratini 1. Seattle 14: Young 2, Arozarena 2, Canzone 1, Rodríguez 2, Wilson 2, Emerson 3, Robles 1, Garver 1. LOB—Minnesota 3, Seattle 6. 2B—Keaschall (15), Canzone (17), Raleigh (8). HR—Lee (16), off Miller; Lewis (11), off Ferrer; Jeffers (10), off Bazardo; Young (14), off Matthews. RBIs—Lee 2 (58), Lewis (34), Keaschall (31), Jeffers (36), Raleigh 2 (39), Young (50). SB—Rodríguez (14). Runners left in scoring position—Minnesota 1 (Larnach); Seattle 5 (Garver 2, Wilson 3). RISP—Minnesota 0 for 2; Seattle 1 for 8. Runners moved up—Naylor, Emerson. Minnesota IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Matthews.......................5 4 3 3 2 10 101 5.22 Funderburk, W, 2-1.........11⁄3 0 0 0 0 2 19 3.38 Nance, H, 5...................2⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 11 3.60 Morris, H, 16..................1 0 0 0 0 0 6 3.12 Gómez, S, 14-14..............1 0 0 0 2 1 25 3.26 Seattle IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Miller .........................51⁄3 3 2 2 2 3 87 2.80 Ferrer, L, 4-2, BS, 3-6........1 2 2 2 0 1 15 3.00 Bazardo ......................12⁄3 2 1 1 0 3 23 2.96 Rucker..........................1 0 0 0 0 1 13 4.35 Inherited runners-scored—Funderburk 1-0, Bazardo 1-1. HBP—Matthews (Robles). . U— Alan Porter, Roberto Ortiz, Jim Wolf, Alex MacKay. T—2:45. Tickets sold—43,489 (47,929).
Baltimore AB R H BI Avg. Beavers lf 3 1 1 0 .243 Alonso 1b 3 2 2 2 .252 Henderson ss 4 0 1 2 .219 Ward dh 2 0 0 0 .247 Taveras rf 4 0 0 0 .223 Holliday 2b 3 1 1 0 .261 Mayo 3b 3 0 0 0 .202 J.Rogers c 1 0 0 0 .160 Cowser cf 2 1 0 0 .206 Pozo c 2 0 0 0 .231 b-Encrncn-Strand 3b 1 1 1 2 .324
Totals 28 6 6 6
Atlanta AB R H BI Avg. Acuña rf 4 0 0 0 .239 Baldwin dh 5 0 0 0 .275 Olson 1b 4 2 2 1 .263 Albies 2b 4 1 2 0 .263 Harris cf 4 1 2 3 .292 Dubón lf 4 2 2 0 .260 Riley 3b 3 0 1 0 .213 Bart c 3 0 0 0 .226 Jarvis ss 3 0 3 2 .274 Totals 34 6 12 6
Seattle AB R H BI Avg. Young 2b 4 1 1 1 .261 Arozarena lf 3 1 0 0 .280 Canzone dh 4 1 1 0 .261 Rodríguez cf 4 0 1 0 .251 Naylor 1b 3 0 0 0 .261 Raleigh c 3 0 1 2 .164 Wilson 3b 3 0 0 0 .214 Emerson ss 4 0 0 0 .191 Robles rf 2 0 0 0 .243 b-Garver 1 0 0 0 .177 Totals 31 3 4 3
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — For the last few years, Mo’ne Davis has enjoyed her ano- nymity. It had been 11 years since Davis was the first girl to pitch a shutout at the Little League World Series when she decided to give pro wom- en’s baseball a shot despite having never played base- ball with women before. It had been five years since she played competitive baseball, and at age 24, she wasn’t sure if a comeback was in the cards. Then, she decided, why not? After playing flag foot- ball last summer, she felt the competitive juices start to flow again, so she entered her name in the Women’s Pro Baseball League draft and became one of the first members of the Los Angeles Queens. “I just wanted to try it out,” she said from the warn- ing track at Robin Roberts Field, where the league was set to play its first games this weekend. “I don’t like to go through life regretting anything. I want to make sure I can look back and be like, ‘Hey, I tried it out.’” Davis won’t be looking to rediscover what made her a sensation all those years ago. “No matter how many times anyone asks, the an- swer is gonna stay the same: I’m not pitching,” she said. “I am doing what I want to do. I’m not doing what everyone else wants me to do. So whether you like it or not, I’m still gonna live my life, but I just want to show peo- ple, like, I’m gonna go out there and have fun.” In the 2014 Little League World Series, Davis fired a 70-mph fastball and became the first female pitcher to
By Marisa Ingemi
By Marisa Ingemi
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Ashton Lansdell is tattooed with reminders of her faith in herself. Her birthday, Feb. 22, makes the angel number 222 her “birthright,” she said. She also has a large leg tattoo that reads “dream un- til it’s your reality” that she got when she was 19. She saw a Pinterest post with the saying during her first year in junior college and it resonated with her. She always dreamed of be- ing a baseball player and truly believed it would hap- pen. The tattoo even has a crown on it, strengthening her belief that she’s right where she’s supposed to be, debuting for the new Wom- en’s Pro Baseball League’s Los Angeles Queens.
By Anne M. Peterson
PORTLAND, Ore. — Sophie Cunningham said she’s unconcerned that the rallies against transgender participation in women’s sports that have accompa- nied the Indiana Fever’s re- cent games are a distraction for the WNBA team. Cunningham made the comments before the Fe- ver’s game Friday night against the Portland Fire. Outside, a group rallied for the second consecutive game in support of Cunning- ham and her recent com- ments about transgender athletes. “I think at the end of the day, I come in and I do my job,” Cunningham said. “I think everyone who knows me personally, they know that I’m full of love. I’m bub- bly. I love the people around me. I love basketball. I love inspiring the next genera- tion and doing that in a pos- itive light. And so that doesn’t even cross my mind. Doesn’t cross my team- mates’ minds. “And again, I’m here to
Rebecca Blackwell Associated Press Davis rediscovers her love of baseball
AFTER PLAYING softball in her college days, Mo’ne Davis is happy to get back to playing baseball. “I just wanted to try it out,” she says.
win a game in the tourna- ment when she tossed a shutout with eight strike- outs in Philadelphia’s open- ing game against Nashville. She played center field for the Hampton University softball team and where she posted a career batting aver- age of .225 with 34 hits, 24 runs and 16 RBIs over two seasons. Baseball hadn’t been on her radar since she started playing softball in college, but the WPBL changed everything. She said she was “still mad” that she didn’t hit well in the Little League World Series and wants to show off her skills in the bat- ter’s box. “If I did go pitch more, I would get compared to my younger self more,” she said.
“That’s just who I am,” she said. “I’m a dreamer, big believer in manifestation and all that stuff. So like, once I think I felt that at a very young age, I was like, this is what I’m gonna do. I don’t care what anyone says. No one’s gonna stop me.” Lansdell, who was named the captain of the Queens before their opening day on Saturday, has had several viral moments in the last year, from her walk-up dances with the Savannah Bananas, a Harlem Globe- trotters-esque traveling baseball team for whom she was one of the first women to play, to a fruit roll-up eating contest that reached mil- lions of viewers. The WPBL, though, is what she’s been waiting for, and where she always be- lieved she would find herself.
play basketball, but I’m also here to be me, and I’m not gonna like shadow that or hide or, you know, dim my light just because maybe people don’t agree with that.” Portland’s rally came af- ter a similar rally for Cun- ningham earlier in the week before the Fever’s game at the Seattle Storm. Both ral- lies only attracted about two dozen participants and a bevy of onlookers. “I have honestly had nothing to do with them,” Cunningham said. “I think it’s people just practicing their rights of freedom of speech and doing what other fans have been doing since the WNBA has started. And so props to them, props to everyone who is able to be competent and be bold and courageous enough to to speak their truths.” Another rally was planned for Sunday in Min- neapolis when the Fever play the Minnesota Lynx. In Seattle on Tuesday, two Cunningham support- ers sat courtside at Climate Change Arena holding signs. A co-owner of the Storm, Ce-
“My goal is to do what I want to do, not to be compared to my 13-year-old self, and let people know that I’ve grown. I’m an adult woman now, so you have to separate the two.” That Little League run led to her being on the cover of Wheaties boxes and Sports Illustrated and be- coming one of the most well- known female athletes of her era. She grew up wanting to play basketball and dab- bling in football, but she has been the de facto face of women who play baseball without picking a bat up for a half-decade. Though some of the at- tention on her is “annoying,” channeling her competi- tiveness into a professional sport was an opportunity
She was drafted seventh overall in December, right as her college softball career had come to a close and she was looking for ways to play baseball. “The fact that this all is coming true just goes to show that I’m on the right path,” she said. “I’ve always trusted my gut and my intu- ition, and I always knew that I was going to be a profes- sional baseball player of some sort. But the fact that we now have our own league for women in baseball again is just so special.” A baseball player since age 4, Lansdell was the first girl to pitch at the 7A level at Wheeler High School in Mar- ietta, Ga., and led them to a regional title in 2019. She made the U.S. women’s na- tional team in 2018 and played junior college ball her
she wouldn’t miss. “She’s been in the spot- light most of her life,” Queens third baseman Ash- ton Lansdell said. “People kind of expect her to be this celebrity person, and she’s honestly just such a chill girl. Like she just wants to be a normal person. It takes her a little bit to warm up to peo- ple, I think because she’s been in the spotlight her whole life, so maybe she can be a little shy at times. But when she starts breaking out of her shell, she’s awe- some.” The Queens selected Davis with the 10th pick in December’s draft after she participated in the league’s tryout last August. In April, Davis signed with the Indianapolis
freshman year but tore an anterior cruciate ligament. Then COVID-19 hit, wiping out the season. She eventu- ally decided to switch to soft- ball because it was the only way to get a college schol- arship. She played two sea- sons at Florida Interna- tional before finishing her career at Mississippi. “She has D1 college expe- rience, and even though it’s softball, that’s huge,” Queens outfielder Brittany Apgar said. “I’m honored to learn from someone like her; like, getting the chance to be around an athlete like that is amazing.” Lansdell is coming off one of the best women’s baseball World Cup appearances ever, hitting 11 for 15 with two doubles and two home runs for the tour- nament-winning U.S.
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Clowns of the Banana Ball League, where she got in some innings as a relief pitcher. The Clowns are a re- vival of a 1940s and 1950s barnstorming Negro League team that included Toni Stone, the first woman to play in a professional men’s baseball league. Former MLB center field- er Jackie Bradley Jr. has been a mentor for Davis, and she said working with him and other Banana Ball play- ers helped her develop her “baseball IQ.” “It’s such an honor to be able to learn and soak up how she carries herself and, like, what she’s learned from her careers,” Queens out- fielder Brittany Apagar said. “The exposure she’s gotten exposes us as well.”
A natural third baseman, she played the outfield last week for the Americans, something she hadn’t done in years. She expected to be back at third base for the Queens, where she will be their leader in the infield. Her longest period of time with one women’s base- ball team that she can re- member is three weeks with the national team a few years ago. Women’s baseball has been so fragmented that she usually sees other play- ers only at national tourna- ments and occasionally when some, like Mo’ne Davis, have a stint with the Bananas. “There’s mutual respect there,” Davis, the former Little League star, said of Lansdell. “I think it’ll be really cool to play with her. I didn’t do that with Ba- nana ball, but she’s obvi-
said: “We remain committed to creating a welcoming and respectful environment for anyone who attends a Storm game.” The Seattle rally pro- moted statewide ballot ini- tiative, IL26-638, that would bar transgender students from participating in girls’ athletics at Washington schools. It also praised Cun- ningham, who voiced sup- port for barring transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports in recent in- terviews. “I am here to be a cheer- leader for Sophie Cunning- ham, who has so bravely put her head above the parapet to protect women and girls in our sports and in our locker rooms,” said Amy Souza, who was among those at the Portland rally. “I was an organizer of this event, I was a co-organizer of the Seattle event. I’m also here, standing in solidarity with those teen girls who, unfortunately, were har- assed when they were just trying to be fans of the sport, fans of Sophie Cunning- ham.” Cunningham was booed
Davis, who has degrees from Hampton and Colum- bia, became the third person from that Little League team to be drafted profes- sionally, joining Scott Ban- dura (San Francisco Giants, now in triple A) and Jared Sprague-Lott (Athletics, now in class A). But once again, Davis finds herself in the middle of history. This time, she’s not alone in making it. “I try to protect my peace,” she said. “I don’t want my teammates to look at me any differently. ... I don’t want them to look at me as like, ‘Oh, she’s only here for this.’ ... I want them to know I’m here for you guys. I’m here to, you know, win games with you guys, and I’m here for the team.”
ously great.” There are few WNBL players who were known outside of women’s baseball before this weekend. Lans- dell is one of them. On media day before the first games, Lansdell em- ceed much of the news con- ference. As a young, social- media-savvy slugger who had a platform before the WPBL, she seems primed to be one of the faces of the league. She didn’t predict the fame or even how good she would be but finds her- self a professional, exactly as she knew she’d be. “This is the most base- ball-prepared I’ve felt in my whole life,” she said. “I’ve learned so much about what works physically and men- tally in women’s baseball, and now I can do it for a long- er time.”
by the Moda Center crowd in Portland when she entered the game midway though the first quarter. Many waved small pink, blue and white transgender flags. The Fever defeated the Fire 112-98 for their fifth straight win. Cunningham finished with 13 points and Caitlin Clark had her fourth career triple-double with 26 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists. Coach Stephanie White said she was concerned that the controversy was dis- tracting from the team’s play. “You know there is a frus- tration, of course, because we want to talk about basketball and we want to continue to work on our game and we want to contin- ue to grow as a team,” White said. “But I also understand this is part of our growth edge as a league, right? “It’s part of our growth as a league, and we have to to be able to manage, we have to be able to insulate as much as we can.”
Paul Sancya Associated Press Dodgers land ace Skubal for title chase
TWO-TIME reigning Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal heads to the Dodgers with a 2.79 ERA in 16 starts with the Tigers despite undergoing an elbow procedure in May.
By Maddie Lee
The Dodgers didn’t need to add an impact starter to their rotation. But on Saturday, the team already considered the favorite to win the World Series got a lot better. The Dodgers are acquiring reigning Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal from the Tigers for three prospects, outfielder Zyhir Hope and right-handed pitchers River Ryan and Brady Smith, a person familiar with the negotiations who was not authorized to speak pub- licly confirmed. “There just aren’t that many star-level players in the game,” Dodgers president of baseball op- erations Andrew Friedman said earlier this week. “Any time one is available, we’re always going to participate in those conversations. We’ve shown to be very aggressive in the past.” The Dodgers’ aggressive move
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The Sparks reportedly agreed to trade All-Star guard Kelsey Plum to the Phoenix Mercury on Saturday night, ending a brief stint in Los Angeles as the franchise continues its rebuild ahead of the WNBA trade deadline. ESPN reported the Sparks ac- quired guard Monique Akoa Makani, a 2027 first-round draft pick and a 2028 second-round se- lection for Plum. The move comes less than two years after the Sparks acquired Plum in a blockbuster three-team trade with the Las Vegas Aces and Seattle Storm, sending the No. 2 pick in the 2025 WNBA draft as part of the package to land the two- time champion. The Sparks fired general man- ager Raegan Pebley on July 12 fol- lowing two straight wins. Since then, the Sparks have lost six in a row and dropped further out of back in the playoff race. Despite Plum's individual suc- cess, the partnership never trans- lated into team success. The Sparks entered the deadline well outside the playoff picture, and re- ports in recent days indicated Plum was not expected to re-sign after the season, making a trade the organization's best opportuni- ty to recoup assets before free
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on Saturday landed them the most sought-after player two days be- fore the trade deadline. Skubal has followed up his 2025 Cy Young season with a 2.79 ERA in 16 starts, despite undergoing an operation to remove a loose body from his elbow in early May. Since a speedy recovery from the minimally invasive NanoNee- dle procedure, he’s done enough in nine starts (2.87 ERA), pitching into the seventh inning in each of his last three, to assuage concerns about his health. The 29-year-old Skubal is set to hit free agency after this season, so the Tigers — who are 53-58 and 21⁄2 games out of the last American League wild-card spot — faced the likelihood of losing him in free agency for no return. The Dodgers entered trade- deadline season in an enviable po- sition, without an “acute need,” as Friedman put it, and were able to sit back and watch how the market
Angels fall to Brewers Brice Turang had a go-ahead RBI single in the eighth inning, and the Milwaukee Brewers finished off a 3-1 victory over the Angels on Sat- urday night. The Brewers won for the fifth time in their last seven games and moved past the Dodgers for the best record in the majors at 69-41. Jake Bauers hit a home run, and left-hander Robert Gasser gave up one run over five innings, while right-hander Chad Patrick (6-4) went two scoreless innings to pick up the win. Trevor Megill pitched the ninth for his 18th save. Jorge Soler drove in a run for The Angels (42-69), who have lost five consecutive games and eight of nine, scratched pulled right- hander starter José Soriano from his start outing as a precaution in advance of Monday’s trade dead- line. The Angels used four pitchers in a bullpen game, with three going at least two innings.
LAFC, Vancouver battle to a draw atop West
Thomas Müller scored on a pen- alty kick late in the second half as the host Vancouver Whitecaps bat- tled back for a 1-1 draw with LAFC. LAFC (10-5-4) and the White- caps (10-3-4) remain tied atop the
developed. Rather than follow the playbook of last year, when the Dodgers supported their roster with moves around the periphery, they took a big swing. Over the past eight months, the Dodgers have added the best free agent reliever (Edwin Díaz), the highest profile free-agent hitter (Kyle Tucker), and the most cov- eted trade candidate to a team that’s won back-to-back World Se- ries titles. The Dodgers managed to land Skubal, perhaps the only available player who could elevate their star- studded roster, without parting with any major-league players. The Dodgers’ rotation is pro- gressing toward health, with Blake Snell (arthroscopic elbow surgery) set to make one more minor-league rehab start before being activated and Tyler Glasnow (back spasms) on the cusp of starting a rehab as- signment. Two-way phenom Shohei
THE SPARKS reportedly traded top scorer Kelsey Plum to the Phoenix Mercury in exchange for guard Monique Akoa Makani, a 2027 first-round draft pick and a 2028 second-round selection.
Western Conference with 34 points apiece. The Whitecaps controlled most of the opening half, but Son He- ung-min’s goal gave LAFC the lead at halftime. Son spun and sent a shot into the short side of the net past the outstretched fingers of goalkeeper Yohei Takaoka.
Galaxy remain winless since break in 0-0 draw
Jonathan Sirois made nine saves to earn his first clean sheet of the season as FC Dallas played the Galaxy to a scoreless draw at Dig- nity Health Sports Park. Dallas (7-5-6) was held without
Ohtani, however, hasn’t pitched in almost a month, while managing a left knee ailment. Though the Dod- gers have continued to insist they’re confident Ohtani will re- turn to the mound, his timeline has proved unpredictable since he re- ceived an Orthovisc injection over the All-Star break to lubricate the joint. With Skubal joining the ranks, the Dodgers have the best postsea- son rotation in baseball, with a safety net in case of injury. As a bonus, they don’t have to worry about facing Skubal in the playoffs in their quest for a three- peat. Of the prospects the Dodgers gave up, Ryan is the closest to the majors. The 27-year-old would have already been under consider- ation for a call-up this year if it wer- en’t for a recurring hamstring in- jury. Ryan — the No. 2 ranked pitcher in the Dodgers’ system, ac- cording to MLB Pipeline — has a
agoal for the second straight game. The Galaxy (5-7-7) have two losses and two draws since MLS play resumed following the World Cup break.
Angel City draws in K.C. Angel City FC and the Current remained level in their regular-sea- son series, playing to a 1-1 draw in Kansas City. Angel City rookie Taylor Suarez opened the scoring less than 15 minutes into the match when Ca- rina Lageyre threaded a pass to the center of the box and Suarez fin- ished past goalkeeper Marisa Jor- dan for her first NWSL goal. Kansas City (9-7-2) responded a
4.63 ERA in eight triple-A starts this year.
Rafaela and Red Sox spoil Yamamoto’s start Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s start Saturday would have been domi- nant if it weren’t for Red Sox center fielder Ceddanne Rafaela. Rafaela’s pair of home runs ac- counted for most of Boston’s dam- age against Yamamoto in the Dod- gers’ 3-2 home loss. Yamamoto held the Red Sox to three runs and four hits through eight innings. Rafaela jumped all over the first pitch he saw from Yamamoto in the first inning, a splitter, according to Statcast, that drifted up and in. He drove it into the left-field stands. Two innings later, Rafaela bat- tled back from a 0-2 count and sent a towering solo homer three rows deep in left-center field. It was the second multi-homer game of Rafaela’s career.
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little more than 10 minutes later when Haley Hopkins met Izzy Rodriguez’s cross in the air and volleyed past goalkeeper Angelina Anderson. Angel City (7-7-2), which is 3-1-1 since firing coach Alex Straus in June, next plays at Seattle on Aug. 9. The teams are tied for eighth in the standings with 23 points.
Queens win first game
Mo’ne Davis and the L.A. Queens rallied for a 10-8 win over the New York Heights in Spring- field, Ill., in a rainy debut for the first women’s professional baseball league in the U.S. in nearly 30 years.
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WITH A $22-MILLION REDESIGN OF ITS ARTS CENTER THAT SERVES THE COMMUNITY. BY JANE HOROWITZ
15-YEAR campaign led by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to con- serve Watts Towers has run out of financing at the same time that a $22- million renovation of the campus is poised to take flight. The situation highlights what commu- nity organizers and the site’s leadership say is a piecemeal approach to the protection and pres- ervation of one of the city’s most important cultural landmarks. For decades, the city of Los Angeles and private foundations have in- vested in preserving the towers, the 102-year-old masterpiece of folk art built by Italian immi- grant Sabato “Simon” Rodia. But while the landmark itself under- went years of painstaking conservation, which was recently halted at 90% complete, the arts cam- pus surrounding it evolved in fits and starts. Now, after 14 years of planning, an equally ambitious investment is being made to transform the Watts Towers Arts Center Campus (WTACC), which has served as an essential cultural and educational center for more than 50 years. The work will mark the first major upgrade of the WTACC since it opened in 1970, and lead- ers hope the transforma- tion continues uninter- rupted until it reaches the finish line. “This is about invest- ing in the people of Watts and creating a space the community can be proud of,” Mayor Karen Bass wrote in an email. “Thanks to the dedica- tion of our state, county and local partners, phil- anthropic supporters and community organiza- tions, we’re one step closer to creating a greener, healthier and more vibrant campus that honors the legacy of Watts while serving gen- erations of Angelenos to come.” The campus reno- vation is slated to break ground in October, with completion targeted before the 2028 Summer Olympics. The project is funded through a patch- work of public and pri- vate sources, including a $10.1 million investment from the Bezos Earth Fund, the climate philan- thropy organization founded by Amazon Executive Chair Jeff Bezos. The redesign will re- shape how visitors expe- rience the campus. More than 30,000 square feet of park space will be added along E. 107th Street, while climate-resilient
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ROSIE LEE HOOKS, top, has led Watts Towers Arts Center Campus since 2010. Buildings, above and left, will be expanded upon after the groundbreaking in October. At left, a model from Studio Zewde of the proposed renovations.
reaucracy. “It took so long because we’re in Watts,” she said, noting that the neighborhood has faced decades of disinvestment dating to the 1965 Watts uprising. “People are still scared to come down here. Howev- er, our community is very, very rich in culture.” That history of under- investment is reflected in the campus itself, sup- porters say. “This is the story of development in Watts and other communities of color in Los Angeles, where racist planning practices, combined with a lack of investment in the city’s arts and culture facilities, create a hap- hazard approach to management and de- sign,” Tori Kjer, executive director of the Los Ange- les Neighborhood Land Trust (LANLT), wrote in an email. The organiza- tion has partnered with the city on the campus’ redesign since 2012, when planning began to incor- porate a vacant lot ad- joining the towers into the campus. The landscape design echoes Rodia’s own artis- tic process. Over the course of 33 years begin- ning in 1921, he trans- formed thousands of disparate objects — including mosaic tiles, plates, glass, shells and pottery — into 17 inter- connected structures, one of which rises more than 99 feet. “Assemblage is the practice of creating something meaningful from many distinct parts,” Sara Zewde, founder and principal of Studio Zewde, the land- scape architecture firm designing the campus, wrote in an email. “Rather than erase those histories and make the campus feel as though it had always been a singu-
lar space, we wanted the landscape to celebrate them.” The campus’ land- scape has remained largely unchanged since WTACC opened. Since then, several buildings and public artworks have been added, but LANLT’s Kjer described the site as a “hodgepodge of con- crete, worn-out planting areas and grass ... with a disjointed flow and lim- ited way-finding.” The WTACC project gained momentum in 2021 when California’s Proposition 68 Statewide Park Program awarded a $4.5 million grant. The following year, Assembly- member Mike A. Gipson (D-Carson) secured an additional $4 million in the state budget. Once that funding was committed, “it was just a domino effect,” Gipson said, helping attract additional public and private investment. “This will be a space that will be nourishing for the soul,” said Daniel Tarica, general manager of the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs, which manages the towers. “We’re finally going to be able to make the whole campus useful.” Watts Towers attract about 40,000 visitors a year, according to the California Department of Parks and Recreation, and were designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1990. In June, the site was added to the World Monuments Fund’s “Irreplaceable America” list of 10 endan- gered historic sites in the United States. While Gipson hopes the reno- vated campus will attract additional international visitors, he also wants more Angelenos to dis- cover one of the city’s defining cultural land-
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marks. “The towers tell a story about Los Angeles,” Gipson said. “We want people to know that the Watts Towers are part of who Los Angeles is.” Tarica said the project is designed to serve neighborhood residents as much as tourists. “It’s a huge resource, and we have fought as a department, and as a city, to make sure that we have the funding to continue teaching … and program- ming,” he said. For Hooks, however, the renovation’s success will ultimately be mea- sured by its impact on the surrounding community. She sees the campus as filling a void left by dec- ades of cuts to arts edu- cation while providing a place where residents can gather and learn. “Our community can- not afford art, especially now with all of the issues around health, around food, around jobs, around ICE separating families,” she said. The project’s funding is restricted to renovating the campus and does not include the conservation of the Watts Towers. LACMA Deputy Director Diana Magaloni said about $412,000 is needed to finish the project. The city has allocated $150,000 for ongoing maintenance and monitoring, and both Magaloni and Tarica said they remain optimistic the conservation cam- paign and campus trans- formation will be com- pleted before Los Angeles welcomes the world for the 2028 Summer Olympics. “It would be amazing to have this funding to be able to do the campus restoration and [the towers restoration] in preparation for us to be on the world stage,” Tarica said.
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‘EVERYBODY WANTED TO BE ME’: A PARTY GIRL’S AURA
A NEW COLLECTION OF LETTERS FROM EVE BABITZ REVEALS AN ULTIMATE HOLLYWOOD INSIDER WHO SPENT HER TALENT ON WRITING AND RESERVED HER GENIUS FOR HER LIFE
BY STEVE WASSERMAN
AST THINGS FIRST: Eve Babitz is a major minor L.A. writer who died five years ago at age 78. She spent nearly a quarter-century as a recluse, having suffered in 1997 a shocking and disfiguring accident while striking a match to light her Tiparillo. Her thin Indian skirt caught fire, searing her pantyhose into her flesh, leaving her with third-degree burns over more than half her body. She never published again, though many championed her gifts, including me. At the time of her misfortune, I was book editor of the Los Angeles Times. I had long admired her, especially the rollicking and indispensable “Slow Days, Fast Company,” first published in 1977, a charming and insightful series of stories bursting with pluck and sass. I recommended to John Carroll, the then-editor of the paper, that he make her a columnist and urged Babitz to write him directly. She did, and that letter from October 2000 is the last included in “Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were),” a book of letters expertly edited and chosen by Lili Ano- lik. Babitz tells Carroll that “what the paper needs is some writers that cause such an uproar, people will have to read it in order to stay abreast of the edge.” Babitz knew what she was talking about. She’d been living on that edge since she was a teenager at Hollywood High in the late 1950s.
“TOO L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were),” left, offers an alternative look at Eve Babitz through her own personal writings. Above: Bab- itz, far right, with her father, Sol, her mother, Mae, and her younger sister, Mirandi. Top: Babitz in 1980.
The posthumous resurrection of Babitz’s writings is most welcome. Yet there is a risk of overpraising her merits. She was an unabashed booster of the glossy L.A. that be- came synonymous with a rising creative elite whose élan and narcis- sism she found irresistible. Anolik makes the case in her perfervid introduction: “The letters are everything you could want” and often “profound” and “frequently brilliant, invariably amusing.” She says they deserve to be put on the short shelf next to Virginia Woolf’s imperishable “A Room of One’s Own” for they are “every bit as can- did, every bit as lucid, every bit as brutal, every bit as delicate as Vir- ginia Woolf’s celebrated manifesto.” If only. Regrettably, Anolik, who is al- most singlehandedly responsible for Babitz’s literary exhumation, has so fallen in love with her subject as to almost blind her to Babitz’s defects, both with respect to her writing and to the life. With two previous books — “Hollywood’s Eve” (2019) and “Didion and Babitz” (2024) — prompted by Anolik’s riveting March 2014 Vanity Fair profile, Ano- lik has become Babitz’s greatest champion. Now with “Too L.A.,” a title taken from Babitz’s own over- oxygenated writing, she has gath- ered and edited a trove of letters. They brilliantly reveal Babitz’s eye for the deep shallow as well as ex- plore the porous boundary between the largely self-inflicted injuries of her private life and the glittering sheen of her public persona. Babitz herself, on the strength of these 197 letters, only 30 of which she ever mailed, understood in a way Anolik doesn’t the limitations of her tal- ents, even as she strives to slip the shackles of a mansplaining culture which at almost every turn tried to blunt her ambitions, both artistic and writerly, even as her editors and admirers sought (often with her
ardent encouragement) to slip between her sheets. Eve Babitz was born in 1943 to Hollywood neo-royalty. Her Brook- lyn-born father, Sol, was first violin- ist for both the Los Angeles Philhar- monic Symphony and then the 20th Century Fox Studio Orchestra. Sol would ultimately marry Lily Mae Laviolette, a beautiful Cajun Catho- lic shiksa willing to convert to Juda- ism. Eve’s godfather was Sol’s good friend Igor Stravinsky. When pu- berty burst upon her at age 14, Bab- itz’s blossoming made her a prime candidate for induction by the fast- track girls at Hollywood High who called themselves the Thunderbird Girls and cruised the Sunset Strip in their cool cars, looking for the main chance. At 20, Babitz posed nude playing chess with the fully clothed Marcel Duchamp to promote Duchamp’s retrospective exhibition at the Pasa- dena Art Museum. At the time, Babitz was having an affair with the museum’s 32-year-old married director, Walter Hopps, which per- haps explains Babitz’s reluctance to have her face photographed so as not to give the game away to Mrs. Hopps, who attended the opening. A month later, Babitz confides in an (unsent) letter: “Everything’s so fabulous for me now I can’t believe it. There’s nothing like two boyfriends to do it for you every time. There are such fabulous boys around and they take you out on dates and to movies and I feel just like a teenager. (I’m recapturing my lost youth.) I get to get dressed up and I flirt outra- geously and put people on and I do things like look soulfully out the window and man it’s just too hoozie for words. ... If only all of this could last forever — not that it will, but I can.” She spent the rest of her life torn between the excitements of every- day life — cruising the hangouts du jour (Barney’s Beanery in the early
1960s where she met many of L.A.’s up-and-coming artists — Ed Kien- holz, Billy Al Bengston, Laddie Dill, Peter Alexander, and the Ruscha brothers, Ed and Paul, both of whom she’d bed, Paul becoming an on-again, off-again boyfriend whose bisexuality made for a sometimes tenuous connection; and after se- ducing Jim Morrison before he be- came famous; and later the Trouba- dour in the late 1960s which was a happy hunting ground — Steve Martin, Glenn Frey, Don Henley, J.D. Souther, Country Joe Mcdon- ald, Jackson Browne, to name only a few, and then Ports restaurant where she anchored a corner table) — and the seductions of drugs — uppers, acid (which she seemed to ingest with an alarming frequency), pot, of course, and then by the mid-1970s, tragically, an Everest of cocaine. She had entered what she aptly called the era of “squalid over- boogie.” The name-dropping is relentless and if, like me, you have an insa-
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tiable appetite for hoovering them up, this volume will not disappoint. Still, there are many pages of vapid jottings — “I cleaned the house, did the laundry, and vowed to quit smoking” — that suggest why Bab- itz was a failure as a novelist (see her dud “Sex and Rage”) and a superb writer of short stories and essays that stylishly plumbed the depths of her own sensibility precisely in the degree to which she was uninter- ested in other people. N
EARLY 30 YEARS after she stripped to please her married lover and startle the unsuspecting Duchamp, the father of Dada, and eight years after she joined AA in 1982 — the year her beloved father died of Huntington’s disease at age 70 which ultimately would also kill her — and gave up drugs and alcohol and (almost entirely) writing as well, which had always been seen by her as enabled by dope of one kind or another, she boasted that, looking back, “Every- body wanted to be me — they looked at me with yearning faces, and said, ‘Boy, you sure had fun.’ ” She was not entirely wrong. She had struck many admirers both then and now, as the quintessential California girl, a daughter of Dionysus, whose devotion to pleasure was free of misgiving or regret. She detested the East Coast avatars of apoca- lypse, like Nathanael West, who saw only doom and gloom in sunny L.A. Babitz, by contrast, saw things sunny side up. If Joan Didion was unsettled and made anxious by the hot Santa Anas that regularly kicked up, Babitz luxuriated in them, recalling how she and her sister would as young girls rush to embrace them, spinning madly round and round. In a 1977 unsent letter to Joseph Heller, who had championed her work when she had sent him an unso- licited fan letter after having read “Catch-22” when it was first published and she was barely 20, she declares proudly: “I’m a gossip storyteller who likes L.A. rather than hates it.” She refers to her “shallow na- ture,” writing that “I feel like an up- stream salmon, determined to reach the shallow water, no matter how fast the river is running the other way.” On the evidence of these letters, she had two great loves: Ahmet Erte- gun, a principal founder of Atlantic Records, and Tom Dowd, renowned recording engineer and producer who worked for Erte- gun. Of the two, Ertegun had the edge, if for no other reason than he came with buckets of dough, making possible assignations at his regular bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel with limo pickup and drop-off serv- ices, and the best Champagne and other assorted stimulants. Ertegun was effortlessly elegant and erudite, and there was no one he didn’t know and who wouldn’t return his calls. He was married, age 45, 20 years older than Babitz, when they fell for each other in 1969. She began sleep- ing with him even as she agreed to profile him for Jann Wenner’s newly launched Rolling Stone. The writing didn’t go well. Wenner wanted a tougher piece than she was willing to write. Ultimately, she abandoned the assignment, claiming (not un- reasonably) that she didn’t see how she could write objectively about a man she loved. Babitz courted danger with heed- less bravado and exemplary reck- lessness. She once had the moxie to rid herself of a would-be rapist: When told not to scream, she said with unimaginable sangfroid: “Why not?” The man bolted. It might be said of Babitz, as Oscar Wilde said of his life, that she spent her talent on her writing and reserved her genius for her life. Sculpting her natural gifts of wit and brazenness into a living artwork, she dazzled all who came within her orbit. Her lust for life was palpable. The letters are proof. She came at people without fear. She left them without apology. She was the boss of herself. She was the girl who seemed to have it all. The only thing she lacked was inex- perience.
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to pack for a summer escape with substance
If your ideal beach trip involves minimal talking and maximum page-turning, you’re in the right place. From bittersweet stories of complicated mother-daughter relationships to delicious small- town dramas dripping in mystery, we have curated a summer book selection that promises escape — and a little drama. With the help of our book reviewer’s recommendations, you’ll be trans- ported to a French resort town or a bygone era at the Chateau Marmont. If romance isn’t waiting for you on the shore, you’ll find plenty of it in our selections — along with secrets and lustful stares that will keep you stirred long after the final chapter. — Maddie Connors
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GO GENTLE By Maria Semple G.P. Putnam’s Sons: 384 pages (Out now) Semple comes by comedy honestly: The novelist began her career as a screenwriter whose credits include series such as “Mad About You” and “Arrested Development.” Readers might know her as the author of the novel “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” — she brings her same sense of offbeat humor to this book, which follows Adora, a philosopher whose life is upended when she meets an in- triguing stranger. There are several plotlines in this novel, which Semple juggles with aplomb; I loved witnessing the book descend into a kind of joyful, barely controlled chaos. Beneath the humor and the wild plot twists is a graceful book about aging — intelli- gent, compassionate and, yes, gentle. — Michael Schaub
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ALMOST LIFE By Kiran Millwood Hargrave Summit Books: 384 pages (Out now) Erica and Laure meet cute, on the steps of Sacré-Coeur in Paris one blistering summer day in 1978 when the former is too young and naive and the latter is too weathered and jaded. Drawn to- gether by the French novel Erica carries, they embark on a brief and heated affair before Erica returns to university in England. As the decades unspool, they are in different measures and at different times cruel, cool and compelled to each other. Erica believes she is bisexual and winds up married to a fellow writer who has inherited wealth, with whom she has two daughters. The contrast between Laure’s bohemian (read: squalid) Left Bank flat with its smells and sensa- tions, and Erica’s posh country home underscores the age-old trope of “oppo- sites attract,” but it also emphasizes how little atmosphere — filthy or fabu- lous — matters when the passion is real and the sex is splendid. — Bethanne Patrick
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GHOST TOWN By Tom Perrotta Scribner: 288 pages (Out now) Perrotta, that satirist of suburbia (“Election,” “The Leftovers”), offers a story as potent with nostalgia as the perfect bong hit. It’s set in late-20th- century Creamwood, N.J., with brief but incisive returns to the narrator’s present-day life as a successful writer of a series called “Ghost Teacher” who dreads a trip home. In 1974, Jimmy Per- rini is a 13-year-old son of the town fire chief whose life teeters between adolescent tempta- tions and a death that arrests his devel- opment for decades. The adult Perrini, now known as Jay Perry, ties 1974 (Top 40 playlists, sugary cereals and pun- gent shampoos) to 2024’s digital mo- rass. There’s a Ouija board and a cou- ple of ghosts, but this isn’t meant to be a scary or even a spooky book. It’s a sad and sweet look at how our upbringings shape us long past when we wish to outrun them, on to a time when we hope we’ll never forget them. — B.P.
NEW SKIN By Sarah Wang Little Brown & Co.: 304 pages (Out now) You can get a new face, but you can’t get a new family. That’s the darkly funny conceit of Wang’s novel, “New Skin,” which follows a daughter grappling with her mother’s addiction to plastic surgery. The tightly woven plot feels almost Lynchian, following a mother and daughter locked in a deranged cold war as the mother recovers from yet another procedure. Despite its morbid and often scathing tone, the novel offers brilliant observations on identity, beauty standards — and the compli- cated inheritances passed between mothers and daughters. It will cut you open, only to sew you back up. — M.C.
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MONSTER OF A LAND By Lauren Hough Penguin Random House: 336 Pages (Out now) If summer is the season of endless promise, the open road is its patron saint. Throw in a dog and a chilling encounter in a torpid Texas town, and you have the makings of Hough’s “Monster of a Land.” The memoir takes readers on a journey through rural America not unlike Steinbeck’s “Travels With Charley.” — a comparison Hough herself invites. That said, Hough is a very different tour guide. Voice-driven and diaristic, her travelogue is wholly original. A self-described 6-foot-tall lesbian and Air Force veteran, she traverses the country in a 2001 Dodge van, bringing a perspective that is as sharp as it is compassionate. The result is a funny, empathetic and occasionally cutting portrait of a divided America. Hit the open road, sure — but bring this book with you. — M.C.
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SINGLE GIRLS By John Searles Mariner Books: 384 Pages (Out now) If a man is ruining your summer fun, might I suggest you leave him? At least, that’s what Helen Gurley Brown would have advised in 1965, the It-girl who shaped Cosmopolitan. Decades later, women — including myself — have her to thank. A pioneer who urged women to delay marriage in pursuit of career ambition, Brown’s wisdom remains timely and inspiring today. (Sure, she doled out some bad advice too. Who hasn’t?). “Single Girls” by Searles, who worked as an editor at Cosmopolitan under Brown, follows a reimagined account of her rise from her early career to her revolutionary takeover of the magazine. The novel is witty, tightly written and a heartfelt portrait of a woman who gripped the nation’s attention by refusing to pity single women — and the world of 1960s New York City’s media empire is equally seductive. — M.C.
ALAN OPTS OUT By Courtney Maum Little, Brown & Co.: 352 pages (Out now) I can only speak for myself, of course, but I fantasize about taking a sledge- hammer to my smartphone roughly 100 times a day. Those little red circles that remind you how many unread emails and unanswered text messages I have? They can go straight to hell, where they belong. Alan Anderson, the protagonist of Maum’s hilarious new novel, would agree: After the Connecticut adver- tising executive loses a key account, he decides to move into his family’s playhouse and eschew the trappings of modern life, including his smartphone, much to the consternation of his social- ite wife, Vivian. Maum paints her char- acters with care, and she nimbly locates the humor intrinsic to the novel’s high- toned suburban setting. It’s the perfect book to bring to the beach — but maybe leave your phone at home, lest you hurl it into the ocean. — M.S.
THE CHATEAU ON SUNSET By Natasha Lester Ballantine Books, 384 pages (Out now) “If you must get into trouble, do it at the Marmont,” reads the opening of this gothic novel set at the Chateau Mar- mont in the 1950s. It’s hard to imagine getting into good trouble these days at the Chateau — a relic of a bygone era. Thankfully our protagonist, Aria Jones, does it for us. A midcentury re- imagining of “Jane Eyre,” the novel captures the feverish glamour and underlying chaos of the studio era, with each character proving more cunning and bewildering than the last. The result is a gothic tale with a distinctly Old Hollywood twist, paying homage to the enduring mystique of the Chateau Marmont. The dialogue is so taut and snappy, you’ll find yourself holding your breath. Madness, cruelty and difficult women are welcome bedfellows at “The Chateau on Sunset.” — M.C.
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POOL HOUSE By Mary H.K. Choi Flatiron Books: 336 pages (Out now) Choi is known for her well-received trio of young-adult novels, but her latest book proves that she’s just as talented at writing for older audiences. The novel follows Moon, an actor whose career has seen better days and who has just lost her lover, and Stevie, Moon’s daughter, who is desperate to leave the Los Angeles home she shares with her mother. Life has other plans — the pair are forced to rent out their home and move into the titular struc- ture to save money. I loved the way Choi deals with themes of aging, class and family with a rare sensitivity; this is a Hollywood novel that will resonate even with readers who don’t have an abiding interest in the entertainment industry. — M.S.
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THE SUMMER BOY By Philippe Besson, translated by Sam Taylor Scribner: 208 pages (Out now) Besson’s 2017 novel “Lie With Me” was a huge success in his native France, and the Eng- lish-language version of the book, translated by Molly Ringwald, is unmissable. His latest book is another coming-of-age tale, this time centered around six teenagers spend- ing the summer of 1985 on a French resort island. The novel is told from the point of view of an 18-year-old named Philippe nursing feelings for a young man named Nicolas, who suddenly disappears. This isn’t a wispy, carefree romance; Besson isn’t afraid to tackle tragedy, and he does it with great care. A common problem with novels like these is that they can easily descend into nostalgia and sentimentality, but Besson avoids both of those traps deftly. Readers who want to revisit the excitement and pain of teenage love, and don’t demand a happily-ever-after ending, will find so much to admire here. — M.S.
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SOCIAL ANIMALS By Camille Perri G.P. Putnam’s Sons: 320 pages (Out now) The peeved Brussels griffon on the cover of Perri’s new novel instantly clues readers in that they’re in for a wry novel centered around some lovable four-legged critters. The book follows three women whose lives intertwine at a dog park, with one investigating anoth- er for possible infi- delity. While the novel is a mystery at its heart, it’s also extremely sweet and funny. Perri knows her way around dog parks, and the some- times-odd people who frequent them; her description of canines and their human companions are uncannily accurate. This would be a great read for a dog park, unless your furry friends, like mine (shout-out to Arvo, Otterpop! and Darla), require you to keep your nose out of your book to make sure they’re not getting into too much trouble. — M.S.
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COOKING IN THE WRONG CENTURY By Teresa Präauer Pushkin Press: 176 pages (Tuesday) Those who have seen Olivia Wilde’s “The Invite” should be fascinated by this relatively slim in pages but dense with allusions novel that won Germany’s Bremer Literature Prize in 2024. One couple, called the host and the hostess, ask another couple, called the husband and the wife, to a dinner party, along with a Swiss man who is an academic. Whether the assem- bled are engaging in polite conversation, spirited debate or internal conflict, they’re showing read- ers what a tightrope 21st-century life has become for anyone who uses their brain and enjoys more than their share of privilege on a swiftly deteriorating planet. While some moments, as when the hostess muses that strawberries are now available any time of the year, make this obvious, it’s the sliding-doors aspect of the book with different ver- sions of the evening that make it more surreal. — B.P.
THE AMATEUR By Chris Bohjalian Doubleday: 336 pages (Tuesday) On one hand, this may be Bohjalian’s most polished, commercial novel yet, surpassing even “The Flight Attend- ant” in its screen-friendly elements (more on those shortly); on the other hand, this may be Bohjalian’s most psychological novel, with a first-person perspective through hubris, break- down and a hard-earned second chance at life. Mira Winston rules her New Jersey hometown and its well- heeled country club, where she, at 17, outgolfs every member and almost all of the pros; it’s considered a given that she’ll turn pro at some point. However, Mira’s future looks much darker after her practice drive breaks through netting and kills a caddy, one of her high-school classmates. Although she’s allowed to attend college while the case against her is built, she falls apart and returns home to find she’s being talked about for many other reasons too — and it will take a last-minute twist for the truth to be told. — B.P. Doubleday
for lovers of romance
IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY By Alicia Thompson Berkley: 400 pages (Out now) Calling a book a “lovely walk” may not sound like a ringing endorsement, but it’s what makes Thompson’s latest romance such a delight to read. Jess is 37 and stuck in a dead-end job when she goes on a very bad date and offhandedly wishes she’d met her date’s younger brother instead. And because wishes occa- sionally do come true, she wakes up the next day in Ireland (not Florida, where her bad date was) and comes face-to-face with Eamonn, the 29-year-old, po- etry-loving mechanic she’d wished for. They quite literally go for a long walk that feels like a dream unfolding. Eamonn and Jess’ romance is a slow burn underscored by dialogue so charming that it almost feels like watching a great play, while Ireland is painted so vividly it becomes a charismatic character in its own right. If you’re looking to escape into a new reality (and that just so hap- pens to be walking along cobblestone roads next to a gorgeous Irish mechanic), then add “In Every Possible Way” to your beach bag. — E.L.R.
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SCANDAL OF THE SUMMER By Alexandra Vasti St. Martin’s Griffin: 368 pages (Out now) Pirates, princesses and petticoats (oh my!) abound in Vasti’s “Scan- dal of the Summer.” Brainy Lady Ruby is a Regency-era woman who has decided she’d rather not be married or become a spin- ster. So she does what any rea- sonable debu- tante would and skips town with her two besties to a remote estate. Things get compli- cated, though, when Ruby meets Captain Archer (a smuggler of stockings …), who also lives at said estate. Seeing as Ruby and Archer both have secrets to hide, they’re initially defensive. But Archer has dimples, so their sharp barbs quickly turn flirtatious. One thing leads to another and, natu- rally, they’re soon getting handsy in a cove (he is a pirate, after all). Fast-paced and jam-packed with high jinks, “Scandal of the Sum- mer” features an alarming number of puppies that are sometimes tucked into pockets. So come for the dimples, and stay for the pocket puppies. — E.L.R.
DOWN TO EARTH By Julia Turshen Simon & Schuster: 224 pages (Out now) A farm in upstate New York may not be the classic beach read setting, but Turshen’s sweet, sap- phic romance will make you recon- sider vacation plans. When Paige and her son relocate to the fic- tional town of Sungold, they’re looking for a fresh start. What they get is fresh produce from Frankie, the town’s beloved local farmer, and for Paige, an unexpected crush. Bonus here is that Turshen is a celebrated cookbook author, so she has the unique (and charm- ing) ability to make any food sound Michelin-starred — call me after you read about the tomato and mayo sandwich. “Down to Earth” offers heaping servings of found family, nostalgia (there’s a lovely roller rink scene), and a slow-burn romance that’s worth savoring. — Erin La Rosa Simon & Schuster
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TROPESICK By Lauren Okie Avon Books: 416 pages (Out now) We romance readers love our tropes, and Okie’s “Tropesick” is a clever love letter to the genre. Katie and Tyler were childhood friends and neighbors (see? Tropes abound already!) who haven’t seen each other in almost a dec- ade. But when they’re forced to ghostwrite a romance novel together, the chemistry quickly returns. Part of the fun is watching Okie weave as many romance-isms into the novel as possible, and I very much enjoyed Katie’s dELiA*s-inspired ward- robe, Tyler’s brooding, cinnamon- roll-hero energy, and a surprise cat named Pinot. But like all great romance novels, this one has a steady emotional heartbeat tied to grief, addiction and trauma that are delicately woven throughout. If you’re a devoted romance reader who loves analyzing why tropes work in the first place and wants summer to feel surprisingly emo- tional, then “Tropesick” deserves a spot in your carry-on bag. — E.L.R.
Erik Carter For The Times How Javier Bardem got inside our heads
THE ACTOR DISCUSSES THE ‘CAPE FEAR’ FINALE AND HOW HE REINVENTED THE VILLAIN TO BE MORE CEREBRAL AND INTRUDE ON HIS VICTIMS’ PSYCHES. BY CARLOS AGUILAR
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LONE AND ENGULFED in the darkness of a Madrid cinema, Javier Bardem watched Martin Scorsese’s 1991 psychological thriller “Cape Fear” after learning he’d be starring in an episod- ic reimagining of the crime saga for Apple TV — the series finale is now streaming. ¶ He arranged the private screening to symbolically request Robert De Niro’s blessing to play the dangerously charismatic Max Cady, an ex-con parched for revenge against those who had a hand in his impris- onment. De Niro received an Oscar nomination for that role. ¶ “It was my way of honoring the work he did back then and, at the same time, to detach myself from that performance and ask his permission to create my own take,” Bar- dem tells me in Spanish while sitting at a restaurant inside a Beverly Hills hotel. ¶ His informal getup, a T-shirt and shorts, contrasts with the elegant environment primed for business lunches and ostentatious dinners. He ex- udes an easygoing air. A quintessential cool dad casually sipping on an iced Diet Coke as he shares anecdotes about his passion for acting.
Bardem, 57, agreed to play Cady because the version of the character that the show’s creator, Nick Antosca, envisioned was not only decidedly distinct from those em- bodied by De Niro and Robert Mitchum, the latter of whom starred in a 1962 film adaptation, but also tailored to him as a Spanish man. Had it been a standard remake, Bardem would have passed. Still, like the films, the show also “drinks from the fountain” of John D. Mac- Donald’s 1957 novel “The Execu- tioners.” What remains intact across all versions of Cady is a devilish sense of humor and a lack of self- importance. In any of his iterations, he has nothing to lose. That makes him lethal. The cerebral Cady that Bardem inhabits spent nearly two decades in prison convicted for his wife’s mur- der. When the discovery of new evidence results in Cady’s freedom, his new mission is to torment Anna
(Amy Adams) and Tom Bowden (Patrick Wilson), the attorney and prosecutor on his case, who are now married and have two teenage chil- dren. Cady turns their lives into a trap of paranoia and, indeed, fear, while procuring plausible deniability to avoid consequences. It’s a malicious and relentless barrage of the mind. “He’s a 2026 Max Cady. It’s a dif- ferent way of approaching violation of privacy, and the intrusion of the characters’ psyches. The digital world has made everything very different now,” he explains. “We are hyper-aware of what is said and written about us. We are inundated with so much information that, at times, we can’t tell what is true and what is false.” While in the 1991 film the audience is aware that De Niro’s Cady com- mitted sexual crimes making him “an absolutely despicable charac- ter,” Bardem says this new version
BARDEM reshaped his Max Cady, above, to make the character distinct from past itera- tions. “A good villain has many cracks, which is what makes him more hu- man,” says the actor, top.
portrays a complex person who’s suffered at the hands of the Ameri- can justice system. “Here we understand that he was imprisoned for something he didn’t do. He may have done other things, but he says, ‘You turned me into this monster.’ It’s true. From that point on, a vengeful and destructive mind- set developed,” Bardem says of his Cady. The final episode shows the pub- lic unmasking of Cady, just before he learns he is responsible for his own son’s death. Bardem describes him as a “dying beast” who has lost con- trol of the narrative that he so me- ticulously orchestrated to rebuild his image. The character was written to account for the actor’s Spanish accent. This Cady grew up in Spain until he moved to North Carolina at 13 and learned English on the streets. Bardem worked with re- nowned dialect coach Tim Monich
to infuse his speech with a hint of a Southern drawl, aware that his character didn’t have to sound like a native speaker. “I’m not bilingual,” Bardem says. The statement is somewhat shock- ing, considering he’s worked in the U.S. for decades in numerous Eng- lish-language productions. “Acting in English is easier for me because the dialogue is set,” he says. “But when the time comes to impro- vise, I find it difficult. That still doesn’t come naturally to me in English.” There’s a freedom to working in English since words have less emo- tional significance, the Oscar-win- ner believes. “I can be more daring in English. I can say the words or ver- balize the thoughts with much less inhibition, because I am not as emotionally attached,” he explains. “But when you speak in your mother tongue, your body tenses up a bit because you think, ‘I understand the full emotional spectrum of what I’m talking about.’ ” At this stage in his lauded career, Bardem is interested only in roles that explore “contradictions with an underlying humanity.” He’s played one-dimensional parts in the past, but the cost of being away from his loved ones is too high. The job has to measure up to the trade-off of precious time he’s sur- rendering. The “Cape Fear” production structured the schedule for Bardem to work for two weeks followed by five or six days off, allowing him to travel back to his family, which includes his famous and just as in-demand wife, Penélope Cruz, and their two teenage children, Leo, 15, and Luna, 13. “Cape Fear” filmed in Atlanta and Savannah, Ga. That’s a long trip back to Spain but manageable and certainly worthwhile, he says. “One of the few things I ask for contractu- ally is time with family, and that has always been respected; Penélope and I have always managed our projects in such a way that one of us is always present for our kids.” Thanks to his award-winning turn as an unnerving killer in “No Coun- try for Old Man” and the dapper cyberterrorist in “Skyfall,” audiences might associate Bardem with sinister characters (his Cady joins the ranks). And they are satis- fying to portray, he says. “It’s true that characters with that kind of darkness are very at- tractive to play,” he says. “The villain is always more compelling than the hero. The hero is perfectly upright. A good villain has many cracks, which is what makes him more human.” In recent years, however, Bardem made a deliberate effort to work on projects that his children could watch, particularly when they were younger, namely the fantasy musical “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” and the live-
action remake of “The Little Mer- maid,” in which he played King Triton. “I needed my children to see what I do,” he says. “They knew I’d leave home for two weeks and then come back, and I’d tell them about it and show them photos, but they hadn’t been able to watch any of my movies yet because they were geared more toward adults.” Cruz and Bardem have always encouraged their children’s creative pursuits. It wouldn’t surprise them if they eventually pursue a life in the arts. “I don’t see them becoming scientists or lawyers, which makes sense. I don’t know if they will be- come ‘nepo babies’ or not, but we are conscious that children always feed on what their parents do,” Bardem says. Every time either Bardem or Cruz gets an offer for a new role, the cou- ple discuss it and then bring their kids into the conversation. It’s im-
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portant, Bardem believes, that Leo and Luna know how fulfilling acting is for both of their parents. “They know we feel immense gratitude for being able to make a living from our passion. And they understand that the way we try to live up to that gift is by doing our absolute best and giving it the full attention it deserves,” he says. When they were younger, the kids weren’t interested in seeing their parents on screen, but that’s changed. “They have seen ‘The Invite’ three times. They love it. And they’ve watched ‘Volver’ and ‘Bandi- das,’ ” he says. “They’ve watched me in ‘F1,’ and Leo is watching ‘Cape Fear.’ ” In June, Bardem became part of Hollywood history when his hands and footprints were added to the entrance of TCL Chinese Theatre. The ceremony included directors Michael Mann and Denis Villeneuve and producer Jerry Bruckheimer. “I missed my mother so much at that moment because there are so many footprints of classic actors and actresses there. I imagine my mother seeing my hands and feet next to Gary Cooper, who was one of
characters with ... darkness are very attractive to play. The villain is always more compelling than the hero.’
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the loves of her life,” he says. It felt surreal, Bardem says, to have Mann present at the event. They worked together on “Collat- eral” over two decades ago. “I was crazy about ‘Miami Vice’ in the ’80s,” Bardem says. The suit he wore in the photo shoot for this piece, he adds, reminded him of that emblematic series and film. Bardem’s latest collaboration with Villeneuve, “Dune: Part Three” hits theaters in December. He re- calls the joy of shooting the film’s opening sequence, a battle where the cast was covered in mud. It reminded him of childhood play. “Denis would laugh and say to me, ‘But why are you laughing?’ And I’d say, ‘This is what I used to do in the schoolyard, but now it’s for real. Now I look to my right, and I have 50 guys under my command,’ ” he says. “I was lucky enough to shoot some scenes with Timothée [Chala- met]. I saw him playing a Paul who is very different from the Paul in the second film,” Bardem continues. “Years have passed, and Paul is now wielding power and is a victim of that power.” Outspoken about the ongoing plight of Palestinians, Bardem wishes more people could apply the lessons they mine from fiction they consume to the world in turmoil. “We root for the rebels in ‘Star Wars’ and want them to defeat Darth Vader, or we side with the Fremen in ‘Dune.’ We always take sides in fiction. Yet, when we witness oppression, abuse and the violation of the most fundamental rights by an oppressor in real life, we seem to struggle to stand with the op- pressed,” Bardem explains. “That cannot be.” Even while attending matches at the recent World Cup, where Spain won the title, the actor advocated for an end to the carnage. A viral video shows him engaging with a Palestinian man at a match. “Exist- ence is resistance,” Bardem tells him. On social media he’s shared images of Lamine Yamal, one of his national team’s stars, waving the Palestinian flag. “The impunity Israel enjoys re- garding these crimes, both legally and in terms of international sup- port, creates a profound sense of powerlessness,” he says. Bardem admits he’s been asked, whether directly or indirectly, to tone down his vocal support. But he doesn’t fear backlash. On the con- trary, he’s never felt more support from everyday people who share his mindset. “If I’m so privileged to have a good life where I work doing what I love and can provide my family with stability and security, how could I not use that privilege to denounce those things that I think are wrong?”
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EMMY WINNER BEAR McCREARY CHANNELS HIS INNER METALHEAD IN NEW ALBUM ‘THE SINGULARITY: EKLEIPSIS’
BY BRYAN REESMAN
MMY-WINNING COMPOSER Bear McCreary has taken a reverse road to symphonic rock. Prog rockers have traditionally integrated symphonic el- ements; other rock bands have done orchestral ver- sions of their songs. McCreary began creating televi- sion and film scores, discovered his inner metalhead, and has since bridged those worlds with his “Singular- ity” project. It all adds up to a different take on that time-honored formula. ¶ The second of the two albums, “The Singularity: Ek- leipsis,” came out last week and features contributions from guitarist Steve Vai, Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez, Fall Out Boy frontman Patrick Stump and McCreary’s younger brother Brendan, who sings on half the tracks. The mul- tifaceted album feels like “I am Bear, hear me roar.” ¶ “I love that quote,” he says, laughing, during his two-hour interview with The Times. “I want to put that on the posters. I feel like ‘The Singular- ity’ is a temper tantrum of a record from someone who had been writing music for other people for 20 years, then all these ideas exploded out.” Two years after the release of the first “Singular- ity” album, “Ekleipsis” feels more focused and personal to him.
The first “Singularity” double album — which fea- tured guests like Serj Tankian, Corey Taylor, Rufus Wainwright and Joe Satriani — tied into a graphic novel about a man who repeatedly experiences loss and death at the hands of a villainous character in his every life across their multiverse. This leads to a major revelation at the end. Although McCreary says that “Ekleipsis” is not disconnected from that universe, it is not strictly tied to a narrative. “I wasn’t setting out to write a concept album again,” McCreary admits, “but there’s something immediate in all the lyrics. Half of them are specifically talking about the world that we all find ourselves living in and trying to overcome in some way.” McCreary’s sonic diversity continues with “Ekleipsis.” Gojira frontman Joe Du- plantier collaborated with the McCreary brothers and the Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices choir on “Black Box” to create a work of dissonant majesty. The composer im- provised his way through the initial stages of “Pray for a Storm,” his high-energy collaboration with famed drummer Stewart Copeland. “Let’s all go into your stu- dio with nothing,” McCreary recalls telling the irrepress- ible percussionist. “I’m not even going to bring an idea. We’ll plug in our instruments, set the mics up and play. I want to capture your ideas and your energy, then shape it into a song based on the pieces that I get.” McCreary sees new en- deavors as a learning experi- ence. He meets his collabora- tors in the way they like to work. He was awed while writing with Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan and Red Hot Chili Peppers drum- mer Chad Smith on the an- themic “Cool Kids.” “Those guys are true song- smiths,” the composer de- clares. “I think they’re unrec- ognized as songwriters. They wrote for Ozzy Osbourne.
They’re focused on hammer- ing down a riff until it works. We walked into a studio with a riff that Duff had written and walked out with this song that we brought Slash onto. We got that band experience [with them].” McCreary is best known for scoring series like “Battle- star Galactica,” “The Walk- ing Dead” and “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” along with movies such as “Godzilla: King of the Monsters” and the “God of War” video game franchise. He gained entry into metal through a dinner with An- thrax guitarist and “Battle- star” fan Scott Ian two dec- ades ago. “ ‘I know you. You’re a guy who loves Sepultura,’ ” Ian told him, invoking a musical link for the composer. In- trigued, McCreary listened to Sepultura’s folk-infused Brazilian death metal and loved it. His metal journey began. Ever since, McCreary has been itching to dive into that arena. He has an important collaborator in that quest. “My brother’s my secret weapon when it comes to rock,” McCreary says. “His body of [rock] knowledge makes up for mine. Our em- phasis is in a different place. He is a fantastic producer because he’s got a really good radar for when things are useless, when a part of a song isn’t pulling its weight. It’s a very good influence to have someone like that. He’s got a great lyrical sense and an incredible voice.” McCreary says Brendan is often the driving force of their lyrical efforts, and “some- times we co-write with other people. Claudio Sanchez wrote all the lyrics on ‘Sweet Misery.’ It just depends.” The younger McCreary was the propelling word- smith on “One Fine Day.” “It’s about our experience as being in the Armenian dias- pora and exploring what that means to us,” McCreary elaborates. “All the songs are very personal, which is an-
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MUSICIANS Joe Duplantier of Gojira, from top, Stewart Copeland and Slash are among the guests on “Ekleipsis.”
other thing that sets this record apart from the last record. Many of them were personal, but I also had a weird song about an automa- ton that fell in love.” Before he jammed with rock icons, McCreary was mentored by the late, iconic Elmer Bernstein for nearly the last decade of his life. The burgeoning young composer organized Bernstein’s music archives, sat in on recording sessions and audited his senior-level classes for three years while studying at the Thornton School of Music at USC. McCreary says that Bern- stein “really set me on the path that I am now on, not because I learned how to orchestrate or how to write music from him. But he showed me the life that I
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“ALL THE songs are very personal,” says McCreary of his latest album.
could envision myself having when I was 15 or 16, that cru- cial time when you’re really setting the rudder for where you’re going to go in life.” That rudder has steered him to many shores. Mc- Creary has been co-writing the musical “Particle Fever” with Zoe Sarnak (“Galileo).” Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony winner David Henry Hwang (“M. Butterfly)” wrote the book, and Tony nominee Leigh Silverman (“Suffs”) is its director. It is based on the documentary of the same name about the discovery of the Higgs boson — the “God particle” — at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. It will debut at the La Jolla Playhouse in February 2027. “It is a really kick-ass, earnest rock musical about a really ambitious discovery,” McCreary says. “My hope is that it actually has some of the swagger and fun that people found in ‘Hamilton,’ which also was a very dry subject that you learned about in eighth grade.” The 47-year-old composer exudes an infectiously up- beat energy. He loves chal- lenges and says he learned that charisma and charm are valuable assets to get in the door to prove one’s talents. “I’m wired to be very pos- itive and collaborative,” he concedes. “But I got so op- pressively excited in my 20s that I started annoying peo- ple. My lesson was walk it back.” His creative energy contin- ues unabated. He’s even scored shorts for filmmakers he met through Twitter. (“I’m down to work.”) He has been blogging about his musical life for 20 years for a core group of followers. (“In hind- sight, if Jerry Goldsmith had done that in the ’80s, my God, my life would be different.”) McCreary started as a high school keyboardist, then found the accordion in col- lege, an instrument that gave him greater stage motion and which he later used to great effect in his music for the “Outlander” series. He loves to headbang while playing the hurdy-gurdy, an instru- ment he picked up in 2010 and later employed in the “Black Sails” show and “God of War: Ragnarok” video game. He learned guitar to play rhythm during his 2025 shows. Those riffs were on display at the recent Wacken Open Air festival in Germany. McCreary’s eight-date Sep- tember “Singularity” tour of the West Coast hits L.A. on Sept. 17. McCreary has per- formed his symphonic scores in Europe and America with orchestras, but now he also loves to rock out (loud). A big secret of the ambi- tious McCreary’s success harks back to lessons of simplicity that Bernstein taught him. “The giant theme that I wrote for ‘God of War’ can be played with one finger on a piano,” McCreary reveals. “That is the thing that it boils down to, and that is what I listen for in music. Most of the time it means there’s a melody in there that sticks with you, and it doesn’t mat- ter how well it is produced or how epic it is or how loud it is. A good song is a good song is a good song, and it really doesn’t matter how good a band performs. If the song is good, it will connect with people.”
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A NEWFOUND SENSE OF ACCOMPLISHMENT AMID MAJOR LIFE CHANGES
MIKAEL WOOD POP MUSIC CRITIC
N THE Mid-City neigh- borhood where Syd grew up, lots of people now refer to this 34-year-old musician as the mayor. “During COVID, I’d spend all day on the grass waving at everybody,” she says with a laugh. More recently, a bunch of “unruly teenagers,” as Syd describes them, have been doing doughnuts in the street near her parents’ house. “I’m out there talking about, ‘Hey! Stop!’ I had one of my trucks parked in front, so I was like, ‘Y’all ain’t finna mess my s— up.’ But also they were hanging out the window — it was really dangerous.” She laughs again. “I’m an old head when it comes to safety.” Syd’s recently released new album happily embraces a sense of maturity — of “feeling more sure of myself than I ever have,” she says. “Beard” — the title was inspired by Syd’s wife’s request that she maintain the peach fuzz on her upper lip — sets thoughts of romantic commitment and professional achievement against gleaming R&B grooves that occasionally nod toward Afrobeats or bossa nova. It’s Syd’s third solo LP since she emerged nearly two decades ago as a member of the Los Angeles hip-hop collective Odd Future; it also comes eight years after her most recent album with the Internet, the Grammy-nomi- nated soul-music combo she shares with Matt Martians and Steve Lacy (the latter of whom dropped his new “Oh Yeah?” on the same day Syd dropped “Beard”). Yet for all the growing up she’s done, “ironically, I feel younger than I’ve ever felt,” Syd says. “Beard’s” blurry cover photo, which shows her shaved head and slightly doleful eyes, “cap- tures exactly what I was trying to portray with the music,” she adds. “It’s kind of this nonbinary image, where if you’re looking at it and you don’t know who I am, you might wonder: Is that a 12-year-old boy?” Syd and I are talking over coffee at a crowded spot on Jef- ferson Boulevard that she says she visits every day. (So many people say hi to her that I’m inclined to believe it.) The restaurant isn’t far from her house, which itself is just an eight-minute drive from her folks’ place; eventually, she says, her parents plan to swap homes with Syd and her wife, the model Simone Clay, so that the couple can fulfill their dream of becom-
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FLOW HBO Max If you have children and they’re like mine, it can be hard to get them out of the loop of watching the same movie over and over again. Thankfully, from the moment we turned on “Flow,” they were capti- vated by the story of a black cat who bands together with a lemur, a capybara, a dog and a secretary bird as a flood swallows the land they roam and they’re forced to survive on a boat. There’s no dialogue, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t communicating — meows, chirps, squawks and barks sub in for hu-
“I WANT nuance, I want texture, I want the lack of perfection,” says Syd of her music.
ing foster moms in the larger house. “With all my privilege and with all the peace I’ve been able to create for myself, I would love to spread that,” says Syd, whose full name is Sydney Bennett and whose younger brother Travis (known as Taco) also came up through Odd Future before finding success as an actor. Syd recorded “Beard” be- tween a studio she built at her parents’ place and a studio in North Hollywood owned by Raphael Saadiq, the veteran R&B star whom Syd counts as something of a mentor. The singer says she can relate to the way Saadiq moves between making solo records, working in a band (in his case Tony! Toni! Toné!) and writing and produc-
A CAT, dog and bird band to- gether in “Flow,” left. Carrie Brown- stein and Fred Armisen in “Portlandia.”
man language (there are no humans to be found here). The vistas are colorful and beautifully rendered, as are the animals as they float through their inundated world, which includes a whale they encounter on their journey. The Latvi- an film won the Oscar for animated feature in 2025,
ing for other artists, as Syd did on Beyoncé’s 2022 “Renais- sance” album. “Syd is just looking for things in music that are breathing,” says Saadiq, who plays bass and co-produced several cuts on “Beard.” “She keeps developing, and she’s not developing to be relevant — she’s developed because she loves doing it. Peo- ple like Syd and myself, we’ve been at this since we were kids. We were the ones in the neigh- borhood who’d walk outside and say, ‘Anybody want to get on this track? Anybody want to play?’ ” Songs on “Beard” like “Clos- et” and “My Love” reflect recent changes in Syd’s life, not least her decision to get hitched last year, which she attributes in part to an uncertainty about how long same-sex marriage will remain legal in the United States. “You know the Supreme Court,” she says with a shrug. She also quit drinking after realizing that she was waking up more often than not with a hangover. “People around me weren’t like, ‘She be drinking,’ ” Syd says. “But it was every day, and it was just at the crib. Every-
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craft-driven, lifestyle- diverse, entrepreneurial, whimsical host city. The stars, playing many roles including “themselves,” welcomed a roster of notable guests too lengthy to even begin to list, but suffice it to say if you’ve been alive to cul- ture in this century, the odds are some of your favorites will appear here. (I will mention, however, late Monkee Michael Nesmith, who plays the father of Kyle MacLach- lan’s mayor; actual Port- land then-Mayor Sam Adams appears as Mac- Lachlan’s assistant.) As a comedy, the series did not lack for tension — “If there’s an overall theme
body has a different relationship to it, and I found that mine was tied to boredom, which I think is probably better than it being tied to sadness. But that’s also what made it a little bit harder to call it a problem, you know what I mean? I had to realize: OK, this might not be a problem for someone else, but it’s not serving me.” So 2 1⁄2 years ago, she stopped — and on a holiday some can’t imagine without booze. Says Syd: “I raw-dogged New Year’s Eve, bro.” “Beard” encompasses shifts in Syd’s business too. After fulfill- ing her contract with the Colum- bia label, the singer signed last year to Warner Records, where an old high school pal, Tim Hin- shaw, oversees a boutique label called Free Lunch. The new deal inspired her to mix up her cre- ative process and hold a song- writing camp with an assort- ment of writers and producers, among them the duo Nova Wav, who’ve also worked with Bey- oncé; on “Beard,” the duo co- wrote and co-produced the hooky “Callin” and “Jasmin 17,” a lusty boudoir jam titled after the unisex fragrance. (Additional collaborators on the album include James Fauntleroy, Van Hunt, Rodney Jerkins, Big Sean and Jordan Ward.) Given her high-profile gig writing and producing Beyoncé’s “Plastic Off the Sofa” — a sensual retro-soul number that went on to win a Grammy — I tell Syd that I assume the offers came rolling in immediately afterward to join other A-list acts in the studio. “To be honest, that opportuni- ty didn’t give me any more pro- ducing opportunities,” she an- swers, to my surprise. “Nobody was reaching out — like, ‘Hey, can I get beats?’ ” She’s not bothered, though, since what the experience did do was “give me the confidence to produce this album for myself.” And anyway, she’s got a solo tour coming up, not to mention a long-awaited Internet LP to finish. The band has been re- cording intermittently at her place, and in June she spent a week working at Martians’ stu- dio in rural Georgia. “We’re closer than we’ve prob- ably ever been,” Syd says of the band, whose drummer, Christoper Smith, put out yet another solo record on the same day as “Beard” and Lacy. Syd doesn’t want to reveal too much about the Internet’s new music. But she will say that so far the group has avoided using Auto- Tune, the vocal-processing software that she feels has be- come sadly ubiquitous. “I want nuance, I want texture, I want the lack of perfection,” she says. “I’d rather mess up natu- rally than not mess up unnatu- rally.”
here,” I wrote when the show premiered, “it’s that heaven contains its own portion of hell — that right living takes work, relaxation causes stress, and that a thin line separates responsi- bility and rage.” But the podcast, while not un- critical, promises only good times with good company. — R.L.
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Photographs by Eric Thayer Los Angeles Times LETTING GO HITS THE BULL’S-EYE AT THESE MINDFUL ARCHERY CLASSES
GUIDED BY SPIRITUAL COUNSELOR-ARCHER ANGIE FADEL, L.A.-AREA WOMEN ARE TAKING AIM AT PAST TRAUMA, EXES AND BURNOUT — ONE ARROW AT A TIME.
IVE A GIRL a bow and arrow, take her to the woods, and any- thing feels possible. That’s what I was thinking as I positioned myself in front of bales of hay in an open field at the Woodley Park Archery Range in Van Nuys. Channeling my inner Katniss, I took a “power stance:” shoul- ders back, legs slightly bent, bow cradled in my upper body. I slid a small but fierce-looking arrow bearing orange feathers onto the bow “nock,” filled my lungs with air, then heaved the tense bowstrings back to my jaw, one eye closed and the other narrowed in concentra- tion. Then I did what often feels impossible for me: I let go. The arrow hurdled forward, unleashing an audible woosh followed by a distant thwack. I missed my target entirely, stab- bing the hunk of hay more than a foot away from the bull’s-eye. But the feeling of release as the bowstrings were left vibrating in my arms was palpable, in- tensely satisfying. This was Mindful Archery. The seemingly militaristic act of archery and peaceful meditation may seem diametri- cally opposed. But at Angie Fadel Soulcare, they make perfect sense together. Fadel leads workshops in Mindful Archery that combine medita- tion, somatic practices such as breathwork, immersive nature therapy and archery instruc- tion. The idea, Fadel says, is for participants to gather in a heal- ing nature setting while becom- ing mindful of something they want to either let go of (an un- fulfilling job or toxic relation- ship, for example) or something they’re aiming for and want to bring into their lives. Fadel leads a short guided meditation at the start of the workshop for participants to relax and get grounded, followed by a nature walk so they can further sink into the moment and become clear on what, exactly, their targets will be for the day — what they’ll be shooting for, or at. Then participants draw their individual targets on paper with colored markers that Fadel provides. One target might look like an abstract drawing representing a feeling, another might be a jumble of words and symbols such as “Love,” “$” and “Health.” Or an illustration of Donald Trump, as one past archer aimed for.
“I’ve seen everything,” Fadel says. “People have put their parents, their exes, people have put rapists — the most damag- ing things that have happened to them — on a target because if you can hit that thing, it feels better in your body. The same thing happens when you hit something good, it’s a hopeful mechanism in the body.” Fadel’s archery instruction is as much about how the sport feels in the body as it is about technical precision. The slow and steady, intentional steps of deep breathing, taking aim and shooting at a carefully consid- ered target is a powerful act, she says. “Even if the arrow doesn’t go where you want, there’s this immediate thing that happens in your body that feels good,” Fadel says. “When you let go of that string, there’s an energy, there’s a movement — actual, physical energy moves. Some- thing magical happens. It helps the things that are stuck in the body get unstuck. It’s somatic. Then it’s an extra bonus if you do hit your target, because the slap of the paper feels even better.” Fadel, who lives in Portland, Ore., and calls herself “a soul- collaborator,” has a masters in spiritual companionship and spent a decade working as a pastor in a Portland church helping members find untradi- tional spiritual paths. She’s also been an archer for more than 15 years. She came to both prac-
“MY favorite part is that we make our own targets,” says Kati Lee, 29, a Mindful Archery participant. Above, class participants hold images of the targets that they created.
tices — spiritual companion- ship and archery — separately before they organically en- twined. Midway through pursu- ing her master’s in 2011 she discovered a friend was a mas- ter archer. She’d always wanted to learn archery, since she was a kid growing up in rural Wash- ington, and she persuaded him to give her a lesson. “It was just one lesson, but it changed my life,” Fadel says. “I was doing something that I’d always dreamed of doing. It unlocked something I didn’t realize could be unlocked.” Fadel found archery increas- ingly therapeutic. She was doing a lot of introspective Jungian journaling at the time. As life challenges came up in her journaling — the stress of school or a difficult roommate, “or just society as a whole,” she says — she’d put them on tar- gets in the form of words. Shoot- ing at them helped her process the conflict. She thought the beneficial side effects of archery were particular to her, however. Then she took a struggling
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friend out for her first archery lesson and the response was profound. “I realized, you know what? This works. I can take you from never touching a bow to your leaving with your nervous sys- tem relaxed. I thought: I have to figure out how to give this to other people.” Now with Soulcare, Fadel conducts multiple types of archery workshops in Portland and around the country, includ- ing in Colorado, Texas and throughout California. She comes to Los Angeles to lead workshops several times a year. One workshop is a Mindful Archery class, not to be con- fused with her other course Meditative Archery, which involves Jungian journaling; and there’s a one-on-one ar- chery session with spiritual guidance. Empowering women and minorities, Fadel says, is a key part of her archery workshops. “An archery range can be a very white, male-dominated space,” she says. “And the stance, with a bow and arrow in your hand, shooting — it’s very male. And [men] don’t have any problem, most of the time, taking up space. So it is a prac- tice to remind ourselves, as a queer woman, a trans person, nonbinary person, anybody that’s kind of othered in our society, to be able to take up space. To adopt a power stance and be, like, I’m allowed to be here.”
ANGIE FADEL leads Mindful Archery, left. Participant Mary Saba Tehran, center.
Inside the Mindful Archery workshop Our workshop began with gen- tle stretching in an open field. It was a cool, overcast day and as the wind rustled the tree leaves, a baby coyote raced across the lawn in the distance. During introductions, attendees shared why they were here. “I’m actually a very anxious person,” said Rachel Clipper, 26, “so I’m always looking for some- thing to help me feel more grounded and promote mind- body connection.” Kati Lee, 29, said that as a “‘Hunger Games’ girlie,” she’d always thought archery was cool. “But what drew me to keep coming back was the mindful part of it,” she said. “My favorite part is that we make our own targets.” During the nature walk, we ambled down a tangle of dirt trails as Fadel pointed out wild rose bushes, Aspen trees and elderberry, giving a recipe for syrup. When we came to a body of water in a clearing — the Woodley Park Wetlands — we watched as a majestic-looking cormorant stretched its wings in the distance. “Think about what would feel good to either annihilate,” Fadel said as we returned to the range. “Or bring in, or let go of, or make peace with. You can put all of it on your target.” And so we did. We hunkered down at a picnic table by the archery range for crafting and snacks that Fadel provided, every one of us falling into silent sketching and scribbling as we munched on peanuts and gran- ola bars. It felt like summer camp. Lee set her markers down. “Done,” she said, contemplating her target. It was adorned with words such as “Health,” “Love,” “Family” and “Friends” inside concentric hearts. Yvonne Golomb, 70, said she’d done archery as a high school student in gym class. She was shy back then, but archery had made her feel bold. Now that she’s retired, she’s craving that feeling again and is return- ing to the sport for sustenance. “It’s this nice memory, it made me feel strong, it was freeing,” she said. “Now that I’m retired I’m exploring it. I wanted to bring back those memories.” When it was time for our archery lesson, Fadel con- ducted one last somatic exer- cise to loosen us up. She had us tap up and down our body parts, from our feet to our ears, before shaking out any remain- ing stress. Then she coached us, indi- vidually, as we took aim at our targets in sets of three. “Breathe, zero in on your target, OK, now smooth …,” she said, hovering over one at- tendee. May Claire La Plante, 31, said she was doing archery today, in an “adaptive stance” Fadel had taught her, to build up her arm strength after a surgery. “I was feeling very frustrated that I couldn’t get it at the be- ginning,” La Plante said. “I didn’t even finish my arrows. But getting back up and the act of trying again — despite the injury and all the baggage that comes with it — is really empow- ering.” “Bull’s-eye!” Clipper cheered nearby, her anxiety seemingly dissipated. She’d hit her target, dead center. What was on it? A labyrinth-like spiral of words with “Peace,” “Love” and “Cre- ative Control” at the epicenter. I wasn’t having as much luck and was missing my target repeatedly. “Try loosening your grip,” Fadel coached. She adjusted my stance. “Now breathe.” It seemed counterintuitive to slacken my grip given such a precise goal — to land a slender arrow in the epicenter of a black dot. But I did, letting the edge of the bow sit loosely, even wobbly, between my fingers. I took aim and shot. This time the arrow flew strong and straight. Another round later and it landed smack on the paper target, just above my bull’s-eye. “See?” Fadel said, elated. “Archery isn’t about doing it right, it’s about repetition. The more you can be in your body, and relaxed with the repetition, the better you are. Rarely do I have someone not hit their target at least one time.” She squinted at my target, then turned to me. “It’s because they’re relaxed and it’s because they trust me,” she added. “And they learn to trust themselves more.”
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LIKHO, A RUSSIAN BLUE CAT, HAS PLENTY OF LONG BEACH FANS
LIZABETH Kobliha knows her one-eyed cat Likho has more friends than she does. So much so that at his 15th birthday party on July 11, the sidewalk outside her downtown Long Beach store where he spends all his time transformed into a makeshift fair. There were vendors selling peach cobbler, watches, hot dogs and offering tattoos and face paint. A DJ spun records in celebration. “He’s a very good business- man. We’ve got stickers, T-
Y DECEMBER 2023, Paul Preston realized that his girlfriend Susan Huckle was a big fan of road trips and lists. So for Christmas, he gave her L.A. Times’ “101 Best California Experiences” zine, a traveler’s bucket list highlight- ing my top destinations throughout my four decades of traveling the state. The gift, I’m delighted to hear, was a hit. Preston and Huckle went through it and checked off locations they’d seen already. Then they hit the road. And now, after 2 1⁄2 years of roaming the state between work assignments, they’re back to report that they’ve covered all 101 locations on that list. Though the two have also trav- eled beyond state lines, the quest to cover California “to- tally informed our lives for the last two or three years,” said Huckle, who sent me a note of thanks after ticking the last box. After the note arrived, I was eager to call them and learn more. I caught the couple, of course, in the middle of a day trip. “We’re out exploring,” Pres- ton said. “So you’re getting what we’re about.” They’re also now married. That happened last July in Yosemite Valley, which, yes, was on the list. Huckle, 41, an actor, a host on “L.A. This Week” on Channel 35, a Universal Studios performer and an author, grew up in Santa Maria on California’s Central Coast. Preston, 56, is also an actor. He leads movie location tours and hosts podcasts, movie trivia nights and special events. He grew up and went to college on the East Coast, so he had fewer California miles under his belt when the couple met in 2020. Their California 101 travels began in early 2024 with a trip to Paso Robles, where they saw
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shirts, keychains and buttons [of him], and it all goes under his account, his name,” Kobliha says of the cat. Before Likho roamed the 7,000-square-foot Long Beach Vintage Etc, there was Apollo. The “big rag doll” came in with health problems but was the perfect shop cat. Apollo, a Maine coon who died at 13 following a seizure a year after his arrival in 2015, had curbed the shop’s mouse problem and brought “so much love and energy.” Similarly, Likho, a one-eyed Russian Blue, also was ailing when Kobliha took him in at 8
Photo Illustration by Bakr Muhammad Los Angeles Times Completing our ‘101 Best California Experiences’
PAUL PRESTON AND SUSAN HUCKLE’S TRAVELS BEGAN IN 2024
the green slopes along Highway 46, Morro Rock and the ele- phant seals at Piedras Blancas near Hearst Castle. “And then,” Preston said, “we just kept going.” Some of their most satisfying stops, the two agreed, were places they hadn’t heard of, such as Orange Works in the Central Valley town of Strath- more and Angel Island State Park, sometimes known as the Ellis Island of the West. Huckle called Angel Island “a marriage of natural beauty with great, powerful, historic information.”
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years old, but she wanted him anyhow. “I always wanted to open my own shop so I can have a shop cat,” Kobliha says, adding she was inspired by bookstores with cats “just chilling.” In 2016, Kobliha was swiping through Facebook when a video stopped her scroll. In it, a wom- an inside of a hoarder’s garage bobbed a feather toy in front of Likho, who jumped up to catch it. The post was made by Sia Barbi in collaboration with animal rescue group Stray Cat Alliance after the cat had been
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By early this year, there were only a few destinations left to check. In April, they did the Indian Canyons and Sunnylands es- tate near Palm Springs, the Integratron near Joshua Tree and the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in Riverside. In June, they rafted the South Fork of the American River, along with stops in Old Sacramento and, last of all, Columbia State Historic Park. Then they made their own favorites lists.
ELIZABETH Kobliha, left, holds her cat Likho. When she opened a vintage store, she knew she wanted a shop cat just like chill bookstore cats.
abandoned at the Hancock Park home. During the early ’90s, Sia and identical twin sister, Shane, made waves in the fashion and pop culture worlds, often modeling for Chanel, Thierry Mugler and Jean Paul Gaultier. Their rise to fame began after the Los Angeles Times covered a Sunset Boule- vard billboard featuring the twins wearing little clothing that had been causing car accidents. “Guys of a certain generation would get very hot and bothered over them,” Kobliha says of the Barbi twins. As they exited the modeling industry, they pivoted into animal activism and volun- teering for rescue groups and trap, neuter and return pro- grams for cats. Kobliha wanted to adopt Likho, but first he’d need a $3,000 operation to remove an infected eye, paid for by the Stray Cat Alliance. “They took care of every- thing, then we had to wait be- cause he had to recuperate,” she recalls. “The whole time I’m thinking, ‘Oh my God, what if it doesn’t work out? What if the cat gets here and is just abso- lutely bonkers?’ ” That fear was for nothing. Likho, who lives at the shop full-time, acclimated within a day. “He has been a beautiful addition ever since then,” Kobliha says. He’s since become the face of the shop, with a mural dedi- cated to him outside to welcome customers. That was done by local muralist LaJon Miller, who worked on another on the side- walk during Likho’s party. “I got adopted into it,” he says of the Likho fandom. “He’s been my muse on this street for a while. … He just roams around
Susan Huckle’s top 10: l Yosemite Valley l Badwater Basin l Mammoth Mountain l Angel Island State Park l Cheech Marin Center l Joshua Tree National Park l American River South Fork l The Marshall Store on Tomales Bay l Santa Cruz Island l Sunnylands
the store, chills, does his little nap thing, and hangs out with everybody, so he’s very social.” Likho has never harmed the centuries-old objects in her shop, Kobliha says, but he has spooked suspected ghosts. Kobliha believes ghosts once connected to shops at the 1922 building — a former patron of a grocery store shamed for his obesity and a former furniture shop owner who died by suicide — still roam her store’s stalls. “We see shadow figures … There’s a certain area where they pass back and forth. They don’t do anything, but they’re scary as hell,” Kobliha says of unusual sightings. “Likho is very protective, and we do feel really safe when he’s around. “It is a little weird, though, when he’s sleeping, and then suddenly he will jump up and look around,” she adds. Likho’s biggest fan may be a man named Dom Gomez. He lives within walking distance of the shop, and tends to visit after long shifts at a restaurant aboard the Queen Mary. He stopped by the birthday party wearing his work uniform: a white, button-down shirt and black slacks. His hair slicked; his hands behind his back. When he speaks of Likho, he speaks with a tender cadence and dignified countenance, as if he were his own. “Time flies, you know?” he says, smiling, of visiting Likho over the years. “He gets a lot of love from all the ladies that work here and myself ... he has a lot of fans. I don’t know who’s more famous, Muhammad Ali or Likho the Cat.” On a previous birthday, Gomez wanted to get Likho a gift. He settled on a kid’s denim jacket he modified for a cat with a patch for the Cure on the back but, regrettably, it was a “little too big.” Next year, he’ll give it another shot with a sweater. “That’s my little buddy right there,” he says. “Today is a special day. I didn’t know a cat could live that long, but I think he’s still got a lot of energy to live … maybe another 100 years, I hope.”
l Griffith Observatory l Catalina l Mammoth Mountain l American River South Fork l Erick Schats’ Bakery in Bishop l The Huntington l Palm Springs Aerial Tramway l Balboa Park, San Diego
Now that they’ve seen so much of the state, I had ques- tions. For one, which spots not on the list would they have included? Alcatraz, they agreed. Also, as an admirer of redwoods, Preston liked Calaveras Big Trees State Park. As an avid cyclist, Huckle liked the 22-mile Marvin Braude Bike Trail from Torrance to Pacific Palisades. And was anything on the list a disappointment? “The Carmel Mission,” Huckle said quickly. “It’s beau- tiful and the missions are an important part of California history.” But she said the mis- sion’s account of its own history seemed “whitewashed,” saying little about the Native loss and trauma that historians are increasingly recognizing in accounts of the missions. Said Huckle: “I was like, ‘C’mon guys, nobody really thinks this anymore, right?’ ” Now that they’re done with The Times’ “101 Best California Experiences,” what will shape their next trips? They have a list for that. Huckle picked up an L.A. guide, Danny Jensen’s “Secret Los Angeles,” and the couple plans to start where the book does, with the Triforium, a many- colored sculpture that went up outside City Hall in 1975 (and once featured music). After that? Maybe the Faces of Elysian Valley, a traffic circle sculpture that Huckle said “looks like Easter Island in the middle of Cypress Park.” That will leave only about 138 more destinations in the book to cover. If anybody can do it, it’s these two.
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Eric Anderson Visit Oxnard 10 things to do, see and eat in Oxnard
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F OXNARD TO YOU is just a freeway sign on the way to Santa Barbara or Ojai, you’re missing out on a few things. Like an extensive harbor with none of the traffic or showy affluence of its south- ern cousins. Miles and miles of white sand where you won’t find another family right next to you as soon as you lay down a towel. A diverse, chilled city with an energetic subculture (Nardcore, anyone?) and some pretty decent tacos. ¶ There are a bunch of ways to spend your time here. Take an architecture tour around Heritage Square, perhaps, or taste your way around September’s Chowderfest at the Maritime Museum. On the water, you can paddleboard ’til you drop, commune with whales on a boat excursion or skip off to the Channel Islands on a whim. ¶ It’s the only California Cultural District in Ventura County, an honor bestowed by the California Arts Council, which says that “from Gue- laguetza and Fiestas Patrias to Juneteenth celebrations, Nardcore punk shows, lowrider cruises, fandangos, and Ballet Folklorico, the district’s cultural life is exuberant and deeply rooted in community.” Rapper/producer and Oxnard native Anderson .Paak named his third album after the city and has hosted the .Paak House music festival in the region. ¶ And Oxnard is a summer home to Netflix darlings the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. For two decades, the Cowboys have held their training camp in the city, and this time around, the cheerleaders were sched- uled to join the scene for Oxnard Fan Night on Friday and the opening ceremony, and they’re hosting a dance clinic on Sunday. ¶ Oxnard may not be overly polished, which, of course, adds to its charm. To get to know the community, you’ll have to veer a few miles off the 101 Freeway — but the detour makes for a vibrant SoCal weekend.
Discover how custom drums are made at DW Drums’ showroom
DW Drums is a secret delight just across from one of those dystopian Amazon warehouses off the freeway and an es- sential pilgrimage for those who paradiddle. Tours are only offered by appointment at 2 p.m. on Thursdays, but it’s worth finding the time. It begins in a lobby full of kick drum pedals and ends in a room housing an enor- mous gold-plated kit belonging to Rush’s Neil Peart and a large portion of Zappa drummer Terry Bozio’s ridiculously ex- pansive setup. In between there are bottomless ways for drummers to geek out. Friendly staff will demon- strate how they cut and shape the wood before complex drilling mach- ines make all the right holes. Artists in spray booths add the lacquer, and other teams add the skins and hardware and fine tune the drums. It’s a convivial place where computers and artisans work in friendly harmony. There are steampunk drums and Ferrari drums and skull-clad drums. Dave Grohl peers down from a poster, of course. l 3450 Lunar Court, Oxnard, (805) 485-6999, dwdrums.com
Grab a quesabirria taco at Tacos La Bonita Oxnard’s tourist board recently launched a taco trail and it’s not just a marketing ploy; the city really is home to some worthy and unassuming places to get your birria fix. The pro move at Ta- cos La Bonita is the goo- ey, cheesy quesabirria taco or a couple of the tacos con tortilla a mano (with freshly made tor- tillas) stuffed with asada or pastor. Other options include lengua en salsa (beef tongue in tomato sauce) and the campechano mixed meat filling. The setup here is simple: Order from a hole in the wall and find a colorful stool at a table under one of the wooden structures. It’s a bright and cheerful spot — all poinsettias and lightbulb signs on our visit — but can be chilly. Bring a jacket. The joint has been around since 2010 and it recently launched a Sweet & Salty truck
slinging churros, salchip- ulpos (fried hot dog pieces) and elote en palo (sweetcorn slathered in Cotija cheese and chili). l 437 South C St., Oxnard, @tacos_la_bonita
Explore the sand dunes at ‘Ololkoy Beach Park ‘Ololkoy Beach Park was renamed for the Chu- mash word for “dolphin” in 2023, and it’s a fitting moniker. You might see the namesake creatures break the surface of the ocean between here and the Channel Islands — and it’s a place that en- genders a very playful delphinoid sense of being. Pull off the road at the newly refurbished play- ground and park by the huge swaths of grass flanked by rows of palm trees. From here, it’s a short walk (also acces- sible via wheelchair) along boardwalks through the imposing sand dunes, where miles of sand and surf await. There’s a mostly pro- tected bike path leading to Oxnard Harbor a mile or so south, too. It passes Zachari Dunes on Man- dalay Beach, a decent Hilton hotel with a pool, firepits and oceanfront suites if you want to stay overnight and have points to burn. l1601 S. Harbor Blvd., Oxnard, (805) 385-7950, oxnard.gov/locations/ parks/beach-park
Refuel with a latte from Beacon Coffee
Beacon is one of the best coffee spots in the area,
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and much of that is thanks to owner John Wheir, who travels to meet producers globally and cares about the cup. It offers the full gamut — espressos, lattes, mochas tinged with lavender or guajillo chili — alongside a range of mugs, hats and all kinds of coffee para- phernalia for making the perfect brew. Drop in for a barista training session focused on latte art or one of the Brewing Methods Classes where they take one coffee and brew it several different ways “to com- pare terroir, varietal, process, and how that affects what you taste in the cup.” If you come later in the day, you could always follow up with an apricot ale or blueberry rhubarb blonde at Posei- don Brewing Co. next door. Beacon is technically just across the Santa Clara River and in the southern outskirts of Ventura, but we’re calling it for Oxnard. It’s worth the extra few minutes on the 101 north. Another option that’s strictly in the city: Ragamuffin Coffee Roasters at the Collection Riverpark close to the freeway. l 5777 Olivas Park Drive Suite R, Ventura, beaconcoffee.com
Follow in the footsteps of Bob Dylan at the Teatro The Streamline Moderne Teatro Theater strikes a curious pose next to an Arco in an otherwise unassuming street — and it boasts an equally in-
triguing history. Origi- nally called the Boule- vard Theater when it opened in 1929, it was renamed Teatro Boule- vard in the ’60s when it started screening Span- ish-language films. In the ’90s, Mark How- ard and producer Daniel Lanois (of “Joshua Tree” fame) converted it into a recording studio. Willie Nelson, Iggy Pop and U2 are among the acts to record there. Dylan drove up from his Malibu home to work the Grammy- winning “Time Out of Mind.” Oxnard’s oldest thea- ter is closed to the public, but the signage has been restored and it’s worth a quick stop. While you’re in the area, check out another historic theater nearby: The Vogue, which opened in 1941 but now houses a swap meet. Those times, they’re always a-changin’. l 626 S Oxnard Blvd., Oxnard, teatro theater.com
Ferry to Channel Islands National Park to kayak through sea caves There’s kayaking and then there’s kayaking. If your previous experience involves circumnavigat- ing yacht-filled marinas or calm lakes, buckle up. A tour of the sea caves around Scorpion Anchor- age on Santa Cruz Island will take you through cathedral-sized caverns full of sea lions as well as coffin-sized rocky aper- tures so tight you have to lean back to get through. The kelp-filled ocean swells and recedes while you’re at it, just to ratchet up the adrenaline. We saw someone snap a paddle on a rock last time we did it. The Channel Island Adventure Co. runs tours spanning 2½ to five hours, and you can hike or snorkel before or after the adventure. Add on a ferry ticket to the tour price or buy separately through Island Packers. Just getting to the islands is a fun, hourlong boat trip out of Oxnard (or Ven- tura) harbor that’s often accompanied by dozens — if not hundreds — of dolphins. l 3550 Harbor Blvd., Oxnard, (805) 642-1393, islandpackers.com
Sink an IPA at Bottle & Pint
Until recently, Oxnard had a truly world-class craft beer spot with Casa Agria on Del Norte. Its taproom sadly closed in early 2026, but we’re crossing all our fingers and toes they find a way
HOW TO HAVE THE BEST SUNDAY IN L.A., ACCORDING TO KYLIE CANTRALL
A PERFECT DAY WOULD INCLUDE HIKING AND GRABBING EMPANADAS
YLIE CANTRALL LOVES having a day off in the Valley. ¶ Born and raised in the L.A. area, Cantrall has been working in entertainment since launching a YouTube chan- nel at 7 years old. At 21, she’s been rising through Hollywood’s ranks, doing everything from animated voices to toplining live-action series, all while garnering millions of social media followers. These days, she’s best known to the teen, tween and under set for her starmaking turn as Red in Disney’s “Descendants” franchise, with “Descendants: Wick- ed Wonderland,” which dropped July 17. Ever the multi-hyphenate, Cantrall is also hop- ing her new eight-song EP — the aptly-titled “Valley Girl Problems,” which she’s been promoting with “Life of a Valley Girl” travelogs on TikTok — will help further her career in mainstream pop music. ¶ Because of all that ambition, Cantrall is busy nearly all of the time. Except Sundays. “Sunday is my favorite day of the week,” she says, “and that’s because of all the things I get to do.” ¶ Here’s everything Cantrall would do on a sunny Sunday. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
to reopen and serve up those legendary sours again soon. In the meantime, Bottle & Pint at the Col- lection Riverpark’s An- nex Foodhall is the next best thing for ales both local and long-distance. The menu changes with the saisons, but expect German-style lagers from Moorpark’s Enegren, piney IPAs and porters from Ventura’s Topa Topa and MadeWest respectively, and plenty of Firestone and Russian River goodness. Hunger will inevitably strike after a bottle or a pint (or two), with the smells wafting over from the Mongo Q Mongolian BBQ Kitchen’s 6-foot hot plate next door. The Annex is like a mini Grand Central Market. Options include Gordo’s Hot Chicken, Love Pho Cafe, Silverlake Ramen and a Ragamuffin Coffee Roasters (which, like Bottle & Pint, started life in Newbury Park). And, for some reason, a ran- dom jewelry shop in the middle of it all. The Collection River- park itself is a broad mix of high street joints — Cheesecake Factories here, H&Ms there — a cinema, ax-throwing and plenty of pedestrianized outdoor space to chill in an Adirondack or play table tennis or cornhole. Stop signs say “stop and smell the ocean,” and though you can’t exactly do that here (the Pacific is about five miles away), it’s an apt sentiment. l 550 Collection Blvd. Suite 160, Oxnard, @bottleandpintoxnard
Admire the model ships of a master craftsman at the Channel Islands Maritime Museum The Channel Islands Maritime Museum is a small but beautifully formed two-story build- ing overlooking the har- bor with friendly docents prepared to show you around. Permanent galleries showcase Euro- pean seascape artists of the 1600s to 1800s, the evolution of ships from the American Revolution
to the Civil War and a study of the ancient Asian maritime world. It also runs rotating exhib- itions, most recently on the pelicans of Southern California. Perhaps the most striking, though, is the collection of model ships by Edward Marple, who created nine impressively intricate scale models between the 1960s and the 1990s. His version of the HMS Royal Katherine, which was launched by Charles II in 1664, contains more than 8,000 dowels in the hull alone, apparently, so you can’t question his dedication. The exhibition also recre- ates his workspace. An- other room worth perus- ing: the one housing an
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extensive collection of bone models, crafted by French prisoners of war during the Napoleonic Wars between 1790 and 1815. They used bones from their rations of meat and recreated the models from memory. l 3900 Bluefin Circle, Oxnard, (805) 984-6260, maritime-museum.org
Graze on turf or surf at Ox & Ocean
Even if you’re not spend- ing the night, make time for lunch at Zachari Dunes’ main restaurant — and ask for an outdoor table if you want a glimpse of the ocean while you eat. It’s a peace- ful spot, with string lights overhead, cacti and a
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distant soundtrack pro- vided by the pool’s water- fall and the odd joyful shriek from a cannon- balling kid. The menu is focused on locally sourced pro- duce and is divided into farm, ranch and ocean — unsurprising given its location amid farms, ranches and the ocean. Light lunchtime options include a salmon grain bowl with sweet potato, wafer-thin slices of radish and a pumpkin vinai- grette. The fish was beau- tifully seared and dusted with crushed pistachio on our last visit. Heartier options include a tri-tip sandwich with roasted poblano and slaw on a hoagie roll, or a burger with house-made bacon,
9 A.M. SLEEP, THEN HIKE I’ll grab a yogurt for breakfast and then head out the door, on my way to Fryman Canyon for a little morning hike. That’s my go-to spot because I like that you can actually control how hard you want the work- out to be. It’s not the craziest hike — it’s actu- ally pretty calm — but there are a couple of incline points. It really is the perfect place for when you want to meet up with a friend and get some steps in, but you also don’t want to be dying while you’re trying to have a conversation.
NOON EMPANADAS AT THE FARMERS MARKET After a hike, I’ll usually go to the Studio City Farmers Market. I’ll get a little vanilla latte with oat milk, and I’ll stop at this stand, King’s Empanadas, because they make my favorite empanada in L.A. I get the shredded chicken one, which is cute and tiny but really filling. There’s another ven- dor there [Bautista Family Organic Ranch] that sells dates, and they’re literally the best dates I’ve ever had in my life. They’re desserts, essentially. They’re so caramelly and sweet. I always get berries at the market, too, like raspberries and blueber- ries. There’s another vendor [Thyme for Honey] who makes dif- ferent flavors of granola, and their coffee-flavored granola is so bomb that I’ll always get that too.
2 P.M. FLEA MARKET FINDS I’d probably meet up with a friend and go to the Silverlake Flea Market, which I’ve been really liking recently. It’s a bit of a drive for me since I’m in the Valley, though, like a cute 25 to 30 minutes. At the Silverlake Flea Market, I’ve had a lot of luck with jewelry, like I’ve found a lot of really great
onion jam, pickles and cheddar. Check out the high- ceiling lobby on the way out: It’s filled with posters and photographs themed around local agriculture; a picture of Henry Ox- nard, the city’s namesake looking dapper if a bit startled in bow tie and trimmed ’stache; and a model ship on loan from the Channel Islands Maritime Museum. l 2101 Mandalay Beach Road, Oxnard, oxand oceanoxnard.com
Catch some Nardcore punk at Mrs. Olson’s Nardcore kicked off in the ’80s — a subgenre of hardcore punk com- prised primarily of Ox- nard bands (hence the portmanteau). If you’re looking for a live hit, or to see some similarly loud and fast SoCal bands, there’s an unlikely spot right at the harbor. From a boater’s view- point, Mrs. Olson’s looks like any other seaside seafood shack, with sand underneath the outdoor tables and sunseekers gobbling huge plates of
rings, necklaces, and earrings, or little random other things. I always end up picking up a crystal too. It’s like an energy that just takes over me. I might also luck out and find a cute baby tee. They have really good vintage artist T-shirts, and I got a cute Janet Jackson Rhythm Nation tour shirt last time I was there.
4 P.M. MATCHA STOP After the Silverlake Flea [which is held in Atwater Village], I’ll go to a coffee shop that I’m obsessed with. It’s called Laveta, and they have the best matcha I’ve ever had. It’s got a good cream top, and the shop has a cool vibe and ambience.
6 P.M. FIGHTING TRAFFIC WITH THE TOP DOWN I like to go and frolic every now and then just to get out of my Valley bubble, but after Laveta I’d prob- ably head home. I’m thinking I’d hit some 6 p.m. traffic, but I’d be listening to music with the top down in my Mini Cooper. Maybe some Sade, maybe some Brandy. I might throw in a little Kim Petras if traffic is clear, and I’m speeding down the free- way.
7 P.M. LAUNDRY AND ‘THE MORNING SHOW’ I’d probably try to be home by 7 to do laundry. I’d watch “The Morning Show,” which is my favor- ite show right now. Maybe I’d do a face mask too. For dinner, I’ll go pick up some Katsuya if I’m feeling crazy. Their spot in the Valley has my fa- vorite sushi, and I’m a big sushi gal. I’ll get the Robert roll and maybe even a miso soup if I’m feeling crazy. I’ve got to add crispy rice with spicy tuna too. After that, probably just more “Morning Show” and then I usually try to be in bed by 11 p.m.
fried food. Inside, though, it’s a different story. An old steampunk piano lines the way in, bath- room stalls are tiled in records and the walls are decked in a hodgepodge of neon artworks, wooden face masks, graffiti and glitterballs. A kind of psychedelic Cheshire cat grins out from behind the stage. Recent bands have included L.A. ’70s punk- ers Angry Samoans, Huntington Beach noise- makers Guttermouth, and Looking West. Check the site or hit up VCHC Shows or Underground Sounds Productions on Instagram for the latest. The Mystery Shop is another, well, spot for “underground music from the 805” (the cell- phone code that spans the region). It also hosts tabletop gaming and collectibles and sells comics. The Oxnard Performing Arts Center, meanwhile, is your go-to for tribute acts and the odd touring musician. It’s run by the same promot- ers that host gigs at the Canyon in Agoura Hills. l 2800 Harbor Blvd., Oxnard, (805) 985-9151, mrsolsons.com
new favorite birthday cake
WHAT READERS VOTED FOR: A BERRY-FILLED CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE AND WHIPPED CREAM FROSTING.
HIS IS THE STORY of a birthday cake, or rather, the pursuit of a birthday cake. The best birthday cake. One single favorite celebration cake to represent sprawling, diverse Los Angeles. ¶ Let me backtrack. ¶ Earlier this year the Los Angeles Times Food team began obsessing about birthday cake, what it meant to different people, and what was the iconic birthday cake, if there was one. ¶ Deputy Food editor Betty Hallock put the question out to the public with a survey. The survey asked readers of the Food section and followers on social media to name their favorite birthday cake, filling and frosting. The answers were as mixed as the city itself: Tres leches cake. Hazelnut dacquoise. Tropical fruit pavlova! ¶ The overall favorite birthday cake was carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. (This one’s the ultimate carrot cake.) ¶ But broken down into single components, the favorite cake layer was yellow, with chocolate at its heels. Best cake filling? More frosting (duh!), followed by fresh berries (so L.A.). Most popular frosting? Cream cheese, with whipped cream a close second.
We decided to build a crowd- sourced composite of those favorite components to create the ultimate birthday cake. And here you have it: a rich yellow cake with cream-cheese-and- whipped-cream frosting, filled with fresh berries and, yes, more
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The city’s favorite birthday cake, according to an L.A. Times survey, is a composite of these three components: yellow cake, berry filling and cream cheese frosting. This cake is flavorful with butter, vanilla and egg yolks. Its texture is light, with a sturdy crumb — a cake of substance that’s also an excellent match for an airy, soft frosting that’s big on flavor too. Not a buttercream, this is a combination of whipped cream, cream cheese and both crème fraîche (or sour cream) and mascar- pone. (If while decorating, the frosting becomes too soft or warm, pop it into the refrigerator for a few minutes, then continue.) The tangy, creamy frosting is also delicious with the cake’s filling of berry jam and fresh berries. Note: This makes a three-layer 8- or 9-inch cake. You’ll need parchment paper, cooking spray and baking pans (three 8- or 9-inch round pans), a piping bag, offset spatula and a handheld mixer or a stand mixer.
For the yellow cake
2 1⁄2 cups (285 grams) cake flour 2 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
1⁄4 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon kosher salt 2 sticks (226 grams) butter, barely softened (still firm and not greasy) 1 3⁄4 cups (350 grams) granulated sugar 5 large egg yolks 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 1 cup well-shaken buttermilk 2 large egg whites
For the frosting
2 cups (454 grams) cream cheese, at cool room temperature 1 cup (227 grams) mascarpone, at cool room temperature
1⁄4 cup (60 grams) crème fraîche or sour cream, at cool room temperature 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract 1 1⁄2 teaspoons kosher salt 1 1⁄2 cups plus 2 tablespoons (195 grams) powdered sugar, sifted after measuring 2 cups (454 grams) cold heavy whipping cream
For assembly
4 cups (about 660 grams) fresh mixed berries (blueberries, raspberry, blackberries halved, strawberries), cut into ½-inch pieces
frosting. It’s a cake that marries old-school birthday cake mem- ories with modern emphasis on freshness and seasonality. It’s your birthday cake, L.A. Ta-da! After all that, this reverse- engineered cake is strikingly similar to one of L.A.’s most beloved bakery cakes, the triple berry cake from Sweet Lady Jane, which is itself similar to the popular Chantilly berry cake from Whole Foods. And their precursor is one of L.A.’s most popular berry cakes: the iconic one from Phoenix Bakery in Chinatown. But you wait and see: Ours is better than both. The Whole Foods Chantilly berry cake is defined by the almond extract in both the cake layers and the frosting. The almond flavor is not subtle. So if
1 Make the cake: Line the bot- toms of three 8- or 9-inch cake pans with parchment paper and spray the bottom and sides with cooking spray. Set aside. Adjust the oven racks so one is in the center position and heat the oven to 350°F.
2 Using a fine mesh sifter, sift the flour, baking powder and baking soda together into a large bowl. Add the salt and stir with a whisk to combine. Set aside.
3 Combine the butter and sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment (or a large bowl if you’re using a handheld mixer) and beat over medium-high speed until the butter is lightened in color, fluffy and creamy, 2 to 3 min- utes, stopping to scrape down the paddle and bowl as the butter accumulates. (It is pos- sible to overwhip butter; you don’t want to beat it so long that the butter gets warm and greasy.) Add the egg yolks one at a time, beating at medium- low speed for about 15 seconds until incorporated before add- ing the next egg.
4 After all the egg yolks are incorporated, add the vanilla and mix on medium-low speed just to incorporate, 5 to 10 sec- onds. Add about one-third of the dry ingredients and mix on low to combine. Add about half of the buttermilk and continue to stir to combine. Repeat with another third of the flour and the remaining buttermilk, and finally add the remaining dry ingredients and stir to combine. Scrape the bottom of the bowl to loosen any ingredients that
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you don’t like almond flavor (I don’t), you’re not going to like that cake. (But I ate the entire square I bought anyway. Re- search.) The cake layers of the SLJ cake are similar to ours — they’re buttery, light and rich with egg yolks — though ours is more buttery, just as light and more flavorful. The frosting for the triple berry cake is straight- up whipped cream (snore), where ours marries the distinct flavor of cream cheese frosting with the airy, refreshing quali- ties of whipped cream plus rich, triple-cream mascarpone and tangy crème fraîche. This frost- ing has character. Plus our cake has a thin jam layer for added richness and depth of flavor. The SLJ cake is like eating berries and cream (if you tried hard enough, you might even convince yourself it was heal- thy). Ours is more like a special occasion (e.g. birthday!) cake. I did not grow up in a yellow- cake home, or a homemade- birthday-cake home for that matter. When my mom made cake, it was carrot cake — be- cause of the vegetables in- volved, she felt good about letting me eat it. For birthdays, she ordered sheet cakes from the local bakery. Those were indeed yellow, with a thick layer of jam and white frosting and topped with a scene that my mom custom ordered depend-
may be stuck, then give the batter a few final turns to en- sure everything is fully incorpo- rated. Set aside.
5 Put the egg whites in a me- dium bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Beat at medium speed until foamy and no longer translucent, about 1 to 2 min- utes. Increase the speed to high and beat until the egg whites have soft peaks — whites should hold their shape, but the peaks droop/slump when you lift up the beaters — another 1 to 2 minutes. If you used a stand mixer and don’t have a second bowl for it, gently transfer them to a bowl, taking care not to deflate them.
6 Add the egg whites to the batter and gently fold them in with a spatula, folding them in only until they’re just incorpo- rated, keeping the batter as aerated as possible.
ing on my obsession at the time: a soccer field, a ski slope scene, a tennis court, a band with the trumpet front and center. So when I set out to make this cake, I didn’t have any history with it. I was a yellow cake blank slate. (Did you know that egg yolks are what make yellow cake yellow?) To be hon- est, I never thought there was a reason to make yellow cake, when you could make a flavor bomb like carrot cake or choco- late cake instead. Yellow cake seemed kinda boring, but I was eager to be proven wrong. The first steps on a long journey seem epic and brave, when you look back on them. My first step on this journey, many many cakes ago, was the yellow cake from Claire Saffitz’s book, “Dessert Person.” My
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pressed with your finger, rotat- ing them if they are browning unevenly, about 20 to 22 min- utes for 9-inch cakes and about 22 to 24 minutes for 8-inch cakes. Remove the cakes from the oven and let them cool fully in the pans for at least 1 hour.
8 Make the frosting: Combine the cream cheese, mascarpone and crème fraîche in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and beat on medium speed until combined, about 1 minute. Stop and scrape down the bowl and paddle with a spatula. Add the vanilla and salt and mix on me- dium speed to combine. Scrape down the bowl and add the powdered sugar; start on low speed to moist- en it and keep it from flying out of the bowl, about 30 seconds. Increase the speed to medium and beat until it’s incorporated, about 1 minute. Take the bowl off the stand. Clean the paddle and scrape down the bowl. Set aside while you whip the cream.
friend Jen, an obsessive cake baker and my sounding board on this project, loves Saffitz. The cake, made with a combina- tion of butter (for flavor) and oil (for texture) was everything I already thought about yellow cake: It was fine. I moved on to one that my friends Nate and Sarah, both food professionals in my coffee klatch, said was rave-worthy, from Stella Parks’ book, “Brave- Tart.” What was remarkable about that cake is that it called for a whopping ½ cup (which equals eight to nine) egg yolks — and zero whites. It was delicious in a pound cake sort of way, but not the classic yellow cake I was looking for. I made at least half a dozen more cakes and enlisted Jen to make half a dozen more still. I
9 Chill the clean bowl and beat- ers in the freezer for a few min- utes. Remove them from the freezer. Whip the cream at high speed until stiff peaks form, about 2 minutes and 30 seconds (slightly longer if you are using a handheld mixer and a stainless steel mixing bowl).
10 Add the whipped cream to the frosting and gently fold it in with a spatula until combined. The finished frosting should look like a cloud and hold billowy peaks. Refrigerate the frosting until you’re ready to use it or for at least 20 to 30 minutes to chill. You can make the frosting the night before; if it becomes stiff, loosen by whisking in a table- spoon of cream to help ease of decorating.
11 When the cakes are cooled, invert them to remove them from the pans. Peel off and discard the parchment paper. Invert again so the domed sides are facing up. Use a long ser- rated knife to slice off the domed part (there will be very little dome) of the cakes so the tops are flat.
12 Decorating is easiest on a cake board with a turntable or directly onto a cake stand or plate. Stack your first cake layer onto your chosen base. Spread half of the jam over the cake layer, leaving a 3⁄4-inch rim with no jam. Scatter half of the berries evenly over the cake layer, or about 1⁄3 cup (55 grams) of each type of your four berries on each layer for a total of about 1 1⁄3 cups (220 grams ) of berries. Spoon 1 cup (160 grams) of the frosting over the berries on the cake and use an offset spatula to spread it in an even layer to the edges. Place another cake layer on top, spread the remain- ing jam, scatter 1 1⁄3 cups berries and spread another cup of frosting. Top with the final undressed cake layer. Frost the top and sides with another 1 1⁄2 cups (240 grams) of frosting, using your offset spatula to smooth the edges. Use the remaining frosting and about 2
BERRY cake is L.A.’s favorite kind of cake. Make it three layers.
ate a lot of cake. She ate a lot of cake. Her partner ate a lot of cake. My mom and her care- givers ate a lot of cake. And we (regrettably) threw away some yellow cake. Finally I came up with a yellow cake that doesn’t make me say, “Why wouldn’t you just make chocolate cake instead?” This is that cake: a light, but- tery, vanilla-forward cake with what I think is the perfect ratio of egg yolks, egg whites (whip- ped to soft peaks and folded into the batter, to lighten the
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Makes about 3 cups, enough for one 6-inch layer cake
Tomato leaves hold the garden’s greenest perfume — the scent that clings to your hands after brushing through the vines. They smell like summer caught on your hands. Their vivid green oil slips into this satin-smooth buttercream, turning a familiar frosting fragrant, grassy and just strange enough to make you lean in for another taste.
For the tomato leaf oil
4 packed cups (about 100 grams) fresh tomato leaves 2 cups (440 grams) neutral oil such as grapeseed
For the tomato leaf buttercream
3 large (about 1⁄3 cup or 80 grams) egg whites
About ¾ cup (167 grams) granulated sugar
Scant 2 cups (433 grams) unsalted butter, at cool room temperature, cubed
1⁄3 teaspoon kosher salt 2 tablespoons to scant ¼ cup (30 to 50 grams) tomato leaf oil, to taste
cake), butter and vanilla. I opted for an all-butter cake. Because it’s a simple cake, butter is a crucial flavor compo- nent and I didn’t want to take any of it away (many yellow cakes are made with a combina- tion of oil and butter). I was willing to allow a slightly more solid cake experi- ence for the inimitable flavor of all butter. The frosting — and let me tell you, I made many, including a buttercream that starts with cooking egg yolks and cream into a custard — combines cream cheese for flavor and whipped cream for volume. Mascarpone, an Italian triple-cream cheese similar to clotted cream, gives it the struc- ture it misses from not having butter. Butter was too heavy to
1 Make the tomato leaf oil: Cut fresh branches from a healthy, unsprayed tomato plant. Pull the leaves from the branches as you would parsley, discarding all stems. Wash well. If the leaves are new and tender, dry them thoroughly and proceed directly to blending.
2 For sturdier leaves, blanch in boiling water for 15 seconds, then shock in ice water for 30 seconds. Drain and squeeze very dry.
3 Pack the leaves into a blender. Add the oil and blend on high until completely smooth, vivid green and warm from the fric- tion of the blades.
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go with berries. And crème fraîche (or sour cream) folded in at the end gives it a bright tangy note that is delicious with the berries — and yellow cake. Whether this cake is for you remains to be seen. What I love about it is that it’s a democratic cake that brought us back to where we might have started, only much better, proving that the voting process indeed works. Even when it comes to cake.
4 Strain through a fine-mesh sieve if you want only the brilliant color and a cleaner finish. Leave unstrained for a speckled, full-flavor experi- ence. (Makes about 2 cups.) Use in the buttercream below, or spoon into vinaigrettes, curds or ricotta piled on toast. Refrigerate immediately in a clean airtight container and use within 3 days, or freeze promptly in small portions for up to 3 months. Never store fresh tomato leaf oil at room temperature.
5 Make the butter- cream: Set the metal bowl of a stand mixer over a small pot of simmering water, mak- ing sure the bowl does not touch the water. Add the egg whites and sugar and whisk con- stantly until the sugar has dissolved and the mixture reaches 161 degrees on a candy or instant-read thermometer; it should look glossy and feel completely smooth between two fingers.
6 Fit the stand mixer with the whisk attachment and whip the egg whites on medium- high until the meringue is thick, glossy and holding stiff peaks, and the bowl feels barely warm.
7 Add the butter a little at a time, letting each addition disappear before adding more. If the mixture loosens or looks curdled, keep mixing: it will come back together. When smooth and thick, add the salt.
8 With the mixer on low, slowly stream in 2 table- spoons (30 grams) tomato leaf oil. Add more to taste, up to just short of 1⁄4 cup (50 grams), stopping when the butter- cream is vividly fragrant and green but still holds its shape. For an ultra-silky finish, switch to the paddle attach- ment and beat on low until smooth as still water. Store airtight in the refrigerator for up to 1 month or freeze for up to 6 months. Bring to cool room temperature and re- whip before using.
FROM ROSE WILDE, BUTTERCREAM QUEEN
L.A. BAKERS TURN FRUIT, FLOWERS, HERBS AND PIPING INTO AVANT-GARDE ART
BY BETTY HALLOCK
Rose Wilde’s West Adams garden is a living, growing hub for L.A.’s vanguard of cake making and decorating. It’s teeming with tomato plants, passion fruit vines, roses, lavender, cosmos, herbs and chickens for eggs. On a recent July morning under a gazebo in her back- yard, the master gardener, preserver and pastry chef behind online bakery Red Bread supplied 16 student decorators with 6-inch layer cakes and several quarts of Swiss meringue buttercream, tinged pale green with tomato leaf oil. A large catering pan filled with the tomato leaf frosting sat next to whole tomatoes, strawberries and bunches of sunflowers, chamomile blos- soms, craspedia and fresh tomato leaves. These are the telltales of L.A.’s most prog- ressive cakes: florals, herbs and fresh fruit and vegetables. When it comes to cake, Paris is known for technical mastery and trompe l’oeil extravagance, Tokyo for pris- tine cake architecture and geometry, and Seoul for mini- malism and pastel hues. Los Angeles is on the cut- ting edge for an aesthetic pioneered by a handful of micro-bakeries led by expert pastry chefs with an eye for beauty. “We have access to more than anyone else anywhere,” said Wilde, who was a lawyer before the baking life took over. “Abundance and season- ality, how can you not? There’s too much to be inspired by.” In the middle of a cake renaissance and reinterpret- ing trends such as intricate, Victorian-era Lambeth piping, L.A.’s most prominent cakes are described as fluid, natural and perfectly imperfect. “Let the seasons lead,” Wilde said of L.A.’s cake style. “Abundance over precision, lots of asymmetry, soft archi- tecture, and we have a lot of botanical knowledge.” Holding a pastry bag fitted with her favorite Ateco 796 protruding cone tip, Wilde instructed her class: “Don’t stick to the rivers and lakes that you’re used to. Look for inspiration anywhere and everywhere. Your style comes with practice.” Here are Wilde’s tips for decorating cakes that will make your buttercream dreams come true:
Use a cake turntable It’s worth making an invest- ment ($10 to $70) in a rotating cake stand, which has a raised platform and allows you to spin a cake 360 degrees smoothly and continuously.
Make sure your cake is stable The weight of your cake should be supported by your butter- cream: If you’re working with olive oil cake, for example, heavy buttercream is going to stabilize it better. Give yourself a solid base so you have the calm and time to decorate. If your cake is not structurally sound, it’s going to start slid- ing and melting. She builds the layers of cake with frosting in between and freezes the whole cake overnight.
Have your tools laid out Choose piping tips before the cake is in front of you. Have your pastry bags filled with
MISTAKES are doors to creativity, says pas- try chef Rose Wilde.
buttercream and any decorating items — flowers, fruit, sugar pearls, jams, any powders you want to play with — at the ready and within reach. “Set up your artist space, if you will,” Wilde said, “so you can allow yourself to have the time and space to decorate. If you pull out your cake, then choose your tips, you’re just burning time while the cake is melting.”
Start with a crumb coat A first, very thin layer of frosting smooths out the surface of the cake, fills in cracks and crevices, and locks in the crumbs. It should be thin enough to see through it.
Get the “first pancakes” out of the way Use a tray or a sheet of parch- ment to practice piping on. “Get those ‘first pancake’ swirls out of the way,” Wilde said. “So you’re not putting all of your hopes and dreams into the first squeeze. You can always scrape that back into your bowl.” You can just make buttercream (no cake necessary) and practice piping to see “how this tip or that tip looks.” You should play.
Use an offset spatula correctly “I always see people on TikTok using it wrong,” Wilde said. Use the back side of the offset spatu- la. To frost a cake, put a gener- ous dollop of frosting on the top and use either the tip or the bend of the offset spatula as an anchor in the center and spin the cake on your turntable, pushing the frosting away. To spread buttercream on the sides, use crescent-moon- shaped motions with the spatu- la. If you just go back and forth, it’s a rough motion for cake, Wilde said. The sweep of a “C” shape softens the friction of moving frosting.
Move around “A lot of students stay in the same position, stiff, moving only their hand and arm,” Wilde said. “I am bending, cocking my head as I move my offset spatula,” even when using a turntable “so I can see what I’m doing.” There is more movement than you think to decorating a cake. Look at it from all sides. If you’re not moving around enough, you’re just decorating one side.
Use the rule of odds Wilde said she thinks a lot about composition and relies on odd numbers, which force the eye to move around the entirety of the cake to try to resolve a pattern, creating dynamic visual interest.
Let your mistakes guide you Fight perfectionism. To take the pressure off, don’t be married to one particular outcome. Wilde encourages cake decorators to let the design come organically. Even if you have an exacting plan, you can pivot when your buttercream is nicked or there’s a gap or air bubble. “That’s the perfect place for a flower or a petal,” Wilde said. “When faced with the tyranny of a cake blank canvas, mistakes can be a great open door to creativity.”
Photographs by Catherine Dzilenski For The Times 15 of L.A.’s best cakes for a birthday party
CELEBRATE YOUR SPECIAL DAY WITH THE DESSERT OF YOUR DREAMS, INCLUDING A SWEDISH TORTE FIT FOR A PRINCESS AND A FESTIVE TAKE ON TRES LECHES. BY LOS ANGELES TIMES STAFF
N YOUR BIRTHDAY, you get to have your cake and eat it too. So what will it be? Representing a global array of traditions and drawing inspiration from the city’s year-round access to enviable produce, L.A.’s best bakeries are ready to make the birthday cake of your dreams. ¶ Perhaps it’s a sponge cake soaked with tres leches and layered with whipped cream and berries from a legendary Cuban cafe. Or maybe you crave a custardy princess cake with mint-green marzi- pan icing from a Danish pastry shop. Or what about a sprinkle-flecked birthday cake topped with cake truffles from the L.A. flagship of an iconic NYC-founded bakery? ¶ From a century-old bakery in Little Ethiopia to an Echo Park pizzeria slinging a rotation of seasonally driven desserts, here are 15 of the best birthday cakes to order for your next celebration. — Danielle Dorsey
CAKE MONKEY
When it comes to birthday cake, I tend to veer away from classic flavors in search of cakes that remind me of my favorite des- serts. The apple crumble cake ($60 for 6 inches) from Cake Monkey is a caramel apple pie in cake form, filled with cider- roasted apples, rich caramel and a buttery crumble in be- tween layers of tender vanilla cake. It’s surrounded in a smooth caramel buttercream that helps coax even more sweetness from the apples. Consider this the birthday cake
for pie lovers. Or there’s a choco- late cake layered with both peanut butter and dark choco- late buttercream frostings and marshmallows. If you’re looking for a classic cake, Cake Monkey makes it, including triple berry, carrot and Funfetti. The bakery has a pickup-only location in the San Fernando Valley and a storefront in Fairfax. Both require a 48-hour minimum notice for whole cake orders. — Jenn Harris l10844 Chandler Blvd., North Hollywood, (818) 508-9579, cakemonkey.com, @cakemonkeybakery
COPENHAGEN PASTRY Karen Hansen’s pastry case overflows with rumkugle, kransecake, kringle and other Denmark specialties, including the Danish, here made tradi- tionally by folding thin layers of pastry with butter 27 times. But as much of a draw as the pastries are, celebrations are really fueled by Hansen’s ele- gant cakes. They come in op- tions such as apricot chocolate, banana cream, raspberry lemon mousse, and the Othello — a classic Danish birthday cake — but perhaps her most special is the princess cake. Somewhat of a rarity in Los Angeles, this Swedish torte delicately layers chilled vanilla custard with springy sponge cake, sweet-tart house raspberry jam and a crown of fluffy whipped cream, then covers it all in a pistachio- hued marzipan dome. Creamy and singing of almonds and berries, it’s always a crowd- pleaser. Good thing it’s avail- able as an 8-inch round cake ($55) or a 16-by-11-inch sheet cake ($135) to feed a larger party. Need a quick fix? The princess cake — and a few oth- ers — are also sold by the slice throughout the day. You’ll sometimes find select whole cakes ready for walk-in pur- chase, but Copenhagen Pastry requests at least four hours of notice for same-day cake or- ders. — Stephanie Breijo l11113 Washington Blvd., Culver City, (310) 839-8900, copenhagenpastry.com, @copenhagenpastry
COSTCO With affordable prices, walk-in options and a slew of decorative frosting themes, one of the world’s favorite grocery ware- houses is also a birthday-cake stalwart. As with the food court and its famous hot dog, you will need a Costco membership — or a friend with one — in order to purchase a cake, but the hurdle is well worth the reward. Prices range from $17.99 for 10-inch round cakes to $27.99 for half sheet cakes, whether filled with chocolate mousse or vanilla cheesecake mousse. Both fla- vors are decadent and nostal- gic, especially when it comes to the rich, moist chocolate cake with whipped fudge icing. A selection of first-come, first- served cakes can be found daily in the bakery section: some plain, and others with roses, balloons, other frosting art or generic “Happy Birthday” notes. Custom orders can in- clude written messages and names along with themes like candles, bears and rainbows. Orders should be placed at least three days in advance, and can be ordered online through the Costco app or in person via a paper form at the bakery. — S.B. l 2207 W. Commonwealth Ave., Alhambra, (626) 289-7164, costco.com
ENA BAKERY Pastry chef Sasha Piligian — known for pioneering L.A. cakes that represent the vanguard of landscape-meets-Lambeth decorating — just rebranded her micro-bakery as Ena. “Ev- eryone knows me by my Insta- gram handle (@sashimi1),” said Piligian, who fell into cake mak- ing at Gjusta and Sqirl. A recur- ring summer cake is her olive oil cake (starting at $115) with peach jam, lemon verbena custard and sour honey butter- cream. A citrus chiffon has layers of strawberry jam, pas- sion fruit curd and whipped cream. In her signature style, the cakes might be topped with minimal curves of piped frost- ing, sweet pea blossoms, gradi- ent-colored yellow and orange raspberries and pink-hued finger lime caviar. “I think the cakes are sort of perfectly im- perfect, rustic but also delicate, fun and whimsical but also very intentional.” Order cakes online at least one week in advance; pickup and delivery options available. — Betty Hallock l 672 S Santa Fe Ave., Los Ange- les, enabakery.com, @sashimi1
FLOURING At Flouring the cakes look like works of art. Ube coconut and passion fruit varieties are inlaid with edible purple and yellow flowers, respectively, while some look as though their frost- ing is made of marble and oth- ers are almost a painter’s pal- ette of colorful frosting smears and splotches. They can come layered, tiered or in sheet or cake-bar form. Owner Heather Wong’s cakes are just as deli- cious as they are beautiful, and they sometimes incorporate her own heritage with Chinese and Mexican flavor, as well as a broader global bent. Some of her signatures ($65-$80 for 5 inches) include the not-too- sweet black sesame crunch, the sweet-salty Italian pistachio, and the sweet ube cake enrobed in a coconut frosting so light in texture that it practically melts on contact with your tongue.
Cake bars, mini pavlovas, cook- ies and select cakes are often available for walk-ins, but Flour- ing requests at least 72 hours for preordering its signature cakes. — S.B. l 932 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, flouringla.com
HANSEN’S CAKES The century-old bakery in the heart of Little Ethiopia is no longer run by the Hansen fam- ily, but its new owners are com- mitted to upholding recipes that generations of Angelenos have come to love. The cake shop ships nationwide on Gold- belly and is a trusted favorite for custom wedding and birthday cakes, with a celebrity clientele that includes the Kardashians, who made the bakery’s signa- ture hand-decorated basket weave design go viral. For some- thing classic, the lemon cake with lemon buttercream ($36 for 6 inches) filling reveals a sun- shine-yellow interior that’s densely spongey and rich but not overly sweet. Cupcakes — including bite-size mini cup- cakes — are available if you don’t want to commit to just one flavor. — D.D. l1060 S. Fairfax Ave., Los Ange- les, (323) 936-4332, hansenscakes.com, @hansencakesbakery
LARK CAKE SHOP Lark’s a go-to bakery with birth- day cakes in nostalgic home- made flavors: chocolate mousse, red velvet, berry short- cake, carrot, coconut, Funfetti and icebox cakes are classics that are appealing to everyone — kids and adults alike. Same with the cupcake versions. Lark’s are clean-lined cakes made with local ingredients and decorated with simple flour- ishes that come across as ele- gant. (But there are some over- the-top custom options too.) Its straightforward chocolate cake (starting at $49) with chocolate mousse, whipped cream and ganache is one of the chocolati- est cakes anywhere. There are often whole cakes in the pastry case for anyone looking last- minute. Pickup and delivery options available. — B.H. l 3337 Sunset Blvd., Los Ange- les, (323) 667-2968, larkcakeshop.com, @larkcakeshop
satisfying flavors with the best parts of your favorite nostalgic desserts, including a chewy, sweet-savory corn cookie in- spired by Tosi’s family farm and her grandma’s famous corn- bake and the gooey Milk Bar pie with an oat cookie crust. The best-selling birthday cake ($65 for 6 inches) is a gussied-up version of the vanilla confetti cake mix sold at most grocery stores, with three tiers of rain- bow-dotted vanilla cake sand- wiched between layers of cream cheese frost- ing, topped with sprin- kles and a ring of crum- bly birthday cake truf- fles. It’s also available gluten-free ($78 for 6 inches), along with flavors like quadruple chocolate and carrot- marshmallow with crispy cereal. Cakes are available for same-day pickup and can be delivered if ordered at least 48 hours in advance. — D.D. l 7150 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, (213) 341-8423, milkbarstore.com, @milkbarstore
NAGOMI CAKE HOUSE Strawberry shortcake ($38 for 6 inches) is a popular Japanese dessert praised for its light texture and mild sweetness. It also happens to be the star of the show at this small Japanese bakery in Gardena. It’s a fluffy sponge cake layered with fresh strawberries and light whipped cream, perfectly balanced with a subtle sweetness. You’ll find additional options in the display case at Nagomi Cake House, including a chocolate cream cake topped with berries, a soft souffle cheesecake and a chest- nut Mont Blanc, all available for preorder. — Angela Osorio l15915 S. Western Ave. # D, Gardena, (310) 780-5579, nagomi-cakehouse.com/eng, @nagomicakehouse
PHOENIX BAKERY This is the people pleaser. Phoenix Bakery’s now-iconic strawberry-and-whipped- cream cake has been called “L.A.’s most popular cake” for good reason. It’s light, not too sweet, packed with fresh berries and surrounded by a cloud of airy whipped-cream frosting with a border of sliced almonds for crunch. For generations of L.A. kids, including my own, this is the birthday cake. It became famous in the 1970s after it was
dreamed up by the late Lun F. Chan as an extravagant expan- sion of strawberry shortcake with a double-layer base of chiffon cake (another L.A. invention). You can order tres leches and other types of cakes at the bakery, founded in 1938 by Chan’s brother, Fung Chow Chan, but nearly everyone comes in for the strawberry cake, which except for holidays is almost always available for walk-ins. And with prices start- ing at $29.95 for a 6-inch cake that serves five to six people, it’s also one of this city’s most af- fordable ways to make a birth- day special. — Laurie Ochoa l 969 N. Broadway, Los Ange- les, (213) 628-4642, @phoenixbakery
PORTO’S BAKERY The Cuban bakery founded by Rosa Porto in 1960 has six loca- tions across L.A. and Orange County and ships its refugiagos and empanadas nationwide so its legions of fans can bake the treats at home. In addition to sweet and savory pastries, breads and cookies, Porto’s also offers whole cakes befitting celebrations of all kinds, includ- ing a strawberry shortcake rimmed with buttery graham streusel and a tiramisu chiffon cake bordered with a ring of ladyfingers. But for something you won’t get anywhere else, order the Milk N’ Berry cake ($40.75). The sponge cake is thoroughly soaked in Rosa’s tres leches that’s sweetened with a touch of brandy — expect a pool of it to gather at the bot- tom of the cake around the whipped cream rim. Pour the excess liquid over a scoop of ice cream for maximum results. — D.D. l 3614 W. Magnolia Blvd., Bur- bank, (818) 846-9100, portosbakery.com, @portosbakery
RED BREAD Rose Wilde creates “California romantic” cakes in flavors driv-
en by her passion for whole grains and “root to blossom” ingredients: fig leaves, herbs, citrus, berries, stone fruit, hon- ey. Current summer cakes (starting at $135) include brown sugar or chocolate chiffon, and buttermilk, olive oil or pistachio cake, with fillings and frostings such as cherry jam, tomato leaf buttercream and yuzu ganache. Each is decorated in her organic style with fluid Lambeth piping, exuberant florals and the fresh- est produce. Orders require five days’ notice for pickup Wednes- days through Saturdays. Wilde also offers cake-decorating workshops, which consistently sell out. — B.H. l 3853 3rd Ave., Los Angeles, eatredbread.com
SAN & WOLVES BAKESHOP
It’s rare to find hyper-customiz- able plant-based cakes, and rarer still to find them in flavors such as padan and calamansi. But in addition to ensaymadas, stuffed pandesal and coconut- topped cinnamon buns, the entirely vegan San & Wolves Bakeshop offers full cakes. Owners Kym and Arvin Torres prepare nearly every ingredient in-house, including dairy-free condensed milk, so they recom- mend ordering a cake at least two weeks in advance to guar- antee its place in their busy baking schedule. Opt for 6- or 8-inch round two-layer cakes ($50-65), half sheet cakes ($200) or the extremely photogenic heart-shaped cakes ($55), with mix-and-match buttercream and cake flavors such as ube, calamansi, black sesame, pandan, choco- late and vanilla. With ample order-ahead time their cake decorators can deliver custom color palettes, famous charac- ters and gently piped messages. — S.B. l 3900 E. 4th St., Long Beach, sanandwolves.com
SWEET LADY JANE Perhaps one of L.A.’s most iconic cakes, the triple berry cake ($90 for 6 inches) at Sweet Lady Jane was almost discon- tinued when the beloved bakery
chain shuttered abruptly in late 2023. But when third- generation baker Julie Ngu and husband Matt Clark took over as its new owners just two months later, they left the recipe untouched. The yellow butter cake features light whipped cream with strawberries, blueberries and raspberries each having their own layer. It’s hard to believe that this cake wasn’t on the opening menu when Jane Lockhart first opened Sweet Lady Jane — but once it was added a few months later, it quickly sky- rocketed to the top selling spot and has been there ever since. — Melody Xu l16403 Ventura Blvd., Suite C, Encino, sweetladyjane.com
QUARTER SHEETS During the pandemic, Hanna Ziskin, already an accomplished pastry chef, realized her latent, savant-level talent for cakes — spiced, fine-crumbed layers stacked with uncanny combina- tions of mousses, preserves, custards and creams encased in buttercream and crowned with tasteful florals. Her take on domed princess cake is a staple now on the dessert menu at Quarter Sheets. It’s her sea- sonal creations, though, that qualify for birthday-cake status in my household. Check the restaurant’s website for a monthly changing menu of whole-cake options. You’ll find imaginings like cocoa chiffon with black currant Bavarian cream, blackberry preserves and chocolate cremeux ringed with Okinawan brown sugar buttercream, or olive oil cake tiered coconut custard, straw- berry preserves and fresh straw- berry custard surrounded by salted coconut buttercream. These beauties are an invest- ment: Costs for a 6-inch cake typically run between $120 and $140. For a special occasion, the evident mastery and quality of ingredients merits the splurge. — Bill Addison l1305 Portia St., Los Angeles, quartersheetspizza.com, @quartersheets
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THE MENU AT TAÍNOS L.A. IN WOODLAND HILLS TRIGGERS AN ACHE OF NOSTALGIA FOR PUERTO RICAN HOME COOKING
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HE propul- sive sounds of syncopated percussion and fast piano rhythms pulse from a tiny speaker perched just outside the door to Taínos L.A. in Woodland Hills. The stripes of the Puerto Rican flag billow in the wind. Inside, a neon pink sign on the wall casts the room in a reddish glow. It reads: “No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí,” which translates to “I don’t want to leave here.” It’s also the name of Bad Bunny’s 2025 concert residency in San Juan, Puerto Rico. “Puerto Rican culture is having a moment, thanks to Bad Bunny,” says Taínos L.A. owner Odessa Rodriguez. She’s probably right. The artist’s Super Bowl halftime show in Febru- ary was the most watched in the event’s televised history. But I have a hunch that her crowded dining room has more to do with the mo- fongo, pernil and rellenos de papa coming out of the kitchen. If you’ve been to an office potluck, baptism or graduation party in Los Angeles, you’re likely familiar with the rellenos de papa at Porto’s Bakery. The mini-chain’s picadillo-stuffed, fried mashed potato balls have served as the gold standard for rellenos de papa in Los Angeles for decades. Until now. The halo of mashed potato that forms the exterior of the potato balls at Taínos L.A. is remarkably light, fluffy and borders on cheesy. The potatoes melt into a center of coarse ground beef, deeply savory with a subtle sweetness, and complex with the grassy, herbal brightness of culantro. The balls are coated in panko bread- crumbs, then fried until the golden shell just holds together, and col- lapses with the first bite. Rellenos de papa are one of the foods Rodri- guez missed most from her home in Puerto Rico. L.A. has many Latin American enclaves, but the city still lacks a con- centrated hub for Puerto Ricans, prompting the former event planner to create her own. She connected with her uncle Edwin Torres, who worked for decades as a chef in Puerto Rico, and the two launched a pop- up restaurant out of a ghost kitchen. They called it Taínos L.A., after the indigenous people of the Caribbean.
TAÍNOS L.A.’S own- ers Odessa Rodriguez, Nick Varvatsoulis and chef Edwin “Tio” Torres, top left; beef empanadillas; mofongo Loiza with shrimp and garlic oil; and grilled churrasco steak with yautia.
Earlier this year, they opened Taínos L.A. out of a small restaurant space on Ventura Boulevard, about two miles south of the Topanga Mall. The menu is designed to trigger an ache of nos- talgia for Puerto Rican home cooking. Besides the potato balls, there are empanadillas, served as
giant half-moon pockets filled with either ground beef, shredded chicken or shrimp. The dough is thinner, and crisper than an Argentine empanada, with an amber, wonton- like crust riddled with bubbles. Torres presents them with two condi- ments. The first is pique, a sharp, vinegary hot sauce that throbs with the heat of Thai chiles. The second is mayoketchup, a classic Puerto Rican sauce made primarily of ketchup and mayonnaise with a kick of garlic. “People from the city cook one way, people from the south another,” says Rodriguez of the regionality of Puerto Rican cuisine. While Torres grew up in Ponce, a city on Puerto Rico’s southern coast, he spent years cooking in San Juan, making this Puerto Rican food distilled
through the lens of his specific route to Cali- fornia. In San Juan, he devel- oped what might be his most important reci- pe:mofongo, the unoffi- cial national dish of Puerto Rico. The mashed green plantains are found all over the island, the Dominican Republic and Cuba. Torres’ mo- fongo is more mash than mush, aggressive with garlic and hot with black pepper. Served in a tightly packed mound, it has a chunky texture that oscillates between lumpy, crumbly and smooth. Torres prepares it in a pilón with chicharron he lard-fries himself. There are plenty of pork crack- lings scattered through- out the mofongo, but each little prized pop of crunch and salt feels like a reward. Torres also serves the mofongo smothered in plump, sweet shrimp slick with garlic oil in homage to the northeast- ern coastal city of Loiza, where you’ll find count- less restaurants and beach shacks selling garlic shrimp over mo- fongo or tostones. The starchy mash also happens to be the favor- ite fuel of Rodriguez’s nephew, Kyle Diesel. The boxer is ranked as the No. 1heavyweight in Puerto Rico and second in the United States. Rodriguez has his boxing belts affixed to a wall near the rear of the restaurant. “He eats a lot of mo- fongo,” she says. “That’s why he hits really hard.” I won’t be tying on boxing gloves anytime soon, but the mofongo does taste like the sort of thing that might channel superhuman strength. Then there’s the arroz con gandules, a mound of rice and pigeon peas I’d happily eat as a meal. “Customers always come in to order the arroz con gandules,” says Rodriguez. “They are testing us.” I don’t know whether it will taste like your Puerto Rican grand- mother’s arroz con gand- ules, but Torres’ version satisfies on a core level for anyone who grew up eating rice and beans. Each grain of yellow- tinged rice is caramelized and perfectly al dente, infused with the sweet- peppery, herbaceous flavors of sofrito. The gandules hold their shape, with a bite that’s a bit firmer than a black
bean, and a pleasantly farinaceous center. It’s the accompanying starch of choice for hulk- ing slabs of pernil. Torres seasons the pork with lots of black pepper and garlic, and cooks it low and slow for around five hours. The rendered fat creates a sweet and sticky crust, while the meat takes on a rich, silky quality that’s so tender, it nearly melts. If you’re looking for the glass-like layer of crispy skin you’re likely to find on pernil, it’s absent here. Rodriguez explained that with the specific cut of pork she’s sourcing, it wasn’t an option. I prom- ise you won’t miss the cuerito. Turns out, the neon sign on the wall — and Bad Bunny— were right. With a second order of rellenos de papa on the way, I don’t want to leave here.
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22757 Ventura Blvd., Woodland Hills, (747) 320-6326, instagram.com/tainos_la Prices: Appetizers $12-$26, main dishes $24-$41, side dishes $6-$7, kids’ plates $6-$12, mofongo plates $32-$69, desserts $7-$8. Details: Open from 4 to 10 p.m. Thursday through Monday. Metered street parking. Recommended dishes: Empanadillas; rellenos de papa; mofongo; pernil and arroz con gandules; churrasco and yautia; pollo guisado To drink: The restaurant is in the process of getting a liquor license. In the meantime, there are soft drinks and fresh juices like soursop.
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hoodie were all plain and gen- der neutral. You’d think looking that way I would attract wom- en, but maybe women are better at taking care of themselves and don’t go around broadcast- ing their need for company. I hastened my step to my car, not dawdling for a second to check messages once planted in the driver’s seat. I slipped out the back of the lot and through the alley. A few days later at Gelson’s, I caught an older man watching me read ingredients on a mus- tard label. He smiled after I busted him for looking, which made me recoil in horror and quickly dart over to hide in the pet food aisle. He showed up a minute later, eyeing the con- tents of my shopping cart and used the cat food in it as an icebreaker to ask about my cat. I said I had five cats, which was true if you included the semi-feral ones who show up every day for their third or fourth meal. There are a lot of kindhearted animal lovers in my neighborhood. I hoped my cat lady image, normally an instant man repellent, would make the man go away. At the checkout, another older man asked about the wine I was carefully laying down sideways on the fast-moving conveyor belt. Wine, cat food and mustard. This man wanted to know what I was making for dinner later that would go with the wine. You did not just ask me that, I thought. Perhaps he pictured a shared meal, clinking glasses and maybe a nostalgic movie on the sofa before comfortably sinking into slumber and loud farting. He’d be safe in the com- pany of another human being who might cover him with a blanket and kiss him on the forehead, a gesture I generally reserve for my cats. Loneliness in single older people is real, and conflicting reports about which gender is more susceptible tell me noth- ing. I’ll draw my own unscien- tific conclusions. All I can say is I haven’t been shown this much interest in decades. My friend Marlene, who has also experi- enced this supermarket phe- nomenon — and it’s easy to see why because she is pretty and blond — says the men are either looking for a nurse or a purse. The following day, after a late-morning dentist appoint- ment, I was at the Bristol Farms on Wilshire Boulevard when an older man who was shorter than I am (I’m 5-foot-4) offered
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to help me get a package of muesli (an old person staple) from the top shelf. He commented that the spicy tuna sushi in my cart was a good choice. Why do you think I’m getting it? I thought. Also having just come from the den- tist, I was looking forward to a cold and soft lunch, and Bristol Farms’ is pretty decent. I’m half Japanese and critical of super- market sushi. Plus, I was fam- ished with the kind of hunger that accompanies the dissipat- ing stress after leaving the dentist. I couldn’t wait to rip into the container the minute I got in the car despite knowing that I’d make a big mess attempting to ingest my lunch while hunks of fish and rice tumbled out of my numb mouth. Grrrrr … hot! Hot mess was more like it, I thought. Maybe I should have been receptive to the man’s kind offer to reach the top shelf even if it meant I might have had to hoist him up and risk copping an accidental feel that would clearly send the wrong message. I scanned the parking lot and wondered which one of these luxury vehicles was his. I checked my teeth in the visor mirror and was immediately horrified by thick saggy jowls, eye bags and liver spots. What if this guy was a lonely plastic surgeon, I thought. Maybe I should be looking for a purse. In California, everyone seems to have a friend who is into tarot and astrology. I’m skeptical but I called my clair- voyant friend to see if there was a reason for this sudden male attention and whether I should consider getting delivery from now on. How disappointing when she told me she saw noth- ing out of the ordinary. Maybe the next time an older man flirts with me, I’ll try a social experiment and take the bait to see where this geriat- ric mating dance could go. I’ll have to let you know how it turns out. The author is a former glob- al head of photography for Reuters. Since moving to Los Angeles, she’s become a writer. She’s on Instagram @nancy glowinski as well as on Substack.
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Aries (March 21-April 19): What will happen if you trim extra words from your con- versations, your stories, your instructions or your re- quests? Try it and find out. Taurus (April 20-May 20): Those who do nothing invite very little criticism. Those who take initiative at- tract opinions. Keep that in mind as you sort through the feedback. Gemini (May 21-June 21): Someone can be funny, gen- erous, vain, insecure, ambi- tious and pretentious all at once because people are mixtures. Seek information without judging. Cancer (June 22-July 22): Every time you put yourself through a bit more life, you collect another piece of evi- dence that you’re capable of handling whatever comes next. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): In some restaurants, food can be ordered on a heat scale of zero to five, with zero being an absence of pepper and five being fire. If today were a dish, it would be hot as they come. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’ve spent enough time beating yourself up over what didn’t happen. Instead of working through the par- ticular situation, try this one on for size: Who cares? Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): You don’t have to slow down your thoughts to be happy. A still mind is more of a poetic ideal than a psychological reality. Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): You may feel an urgency to- day that wasn’t there before. Narrow down your options, shorten your lists, forget about some of the rules. Sagittarius (Nov. 22- Dec. 21): Some like to shop for options, others study and plan, as for you — see the problem, fix the problem, not theoretically but materi- ally. And you do it fast. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It seems you’ve over-ob- ligated yourself. But don’t stress. This all fits together when put in the right order. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): As much as you don’t want to lean on anyone, it may be your best move. Peo- ple favor those they help. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): Your life has been shaped by moments when you expected something that didn’t exist yet. Today, the thing to align isn’t expec- tation, but prediction. Today’s birthday (Aug. 2): It’s your Year of the Voice Command. Doors open when you speak your wishes. As you develop and share your unique takes, whole rooms reorganize around you. Casual introductions lead to oversized opportuni- ties, which you’ll leverage through this new chapter. More highlights: You’ll make ever-bigger deals. Family both depends on you and el- evates you. Pisces and Can- cer adore you. Lucky num- bers: 1, 4, 30, 22 and 15.
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Dear Eric: A few years ago, I was directly responsible for saving “Peter’s” life. I did not know Peter before this event and soon afterward he and his family reached out to thank me and ask to meet me, obviously under better circumstances. I agreed to the meeting and, to be blunt, I regret it completely. Peter is a per- fectly decent person. But we just don’t have anything in common. But he and several members of his family will not stop calling me, texting me, et cetera. I’m his hero, which in their eyes seems to translate to being his friend. But, honest to God, I do not like him. He has done nothing wrong. He is just not some- one I would choose to be friends with. However, I keep responding due to feeling horrible about it/how we ac- tually met. I have backed off in responding to text mes- sages, hoping that they would take a hint, but he and his family haven’t. I don’t wish to be friends with any of them. I just don’t know how to do so without hurting their feelings. Any
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advice on how to get rid of them? I know I sound hor- rible and I’m sorry, but I seri- ously need them to stop bo- thering me. Not the Hero
Dear Hero: Your core de- sire isn’t so horrible. If you hadn’t met while saving Pe- ter’s life, it would probably be easier to disengage. It’s possible to have a “breakup” conversation that’s brief, clear and kind. Tell Peter that you’re glad you were able to be there for him but that the ongoing contact has been a little in- tense. It’s fine to say some- thing along the lines of “I’m not in a place to be friends but I wish you well.” This may sting to hear, but it’s better to be honest than to carry resentment. What you’re doing is com- municating what you want, rather than continuing to try to meet his expectations. Tell him that you’re glad to have saved his life and you wish him nothing but the best for the rest of it.
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POKER Jonathan Little
In a $1/$2 live no-limit hol- d’em cash game with $300 ef- fective stacks, a player from middle position limped, as did the cutoff. Our Hero then raised to $12 from the button with the J♥10♥. While you should cer- tainly consider raising this decently strong hand from the button, both calling and raising larger, perhaps to $16, are also reasonable op- tions. Calling keeps the pot small, often amplifying your implied odds and postflop advantage (assuming you play well), while raising larger allows you to pick up the preflop pot with no con- test more often. When you make it be- tween $8 and $12, you will find that you almost never win the pot preflop, meaning you usually have to flop well to have a good shot to win. Only the cutoff called, and the flop came A♥Q♦8♥, giving Hero a flush draw and double-gutshot straight draw. The cutoff led for $10 into the $29 pot. Most of the time, when someone leads on a board that should be ex- cellent for the preflop rais- er’s range, they usually have
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a marginal made hand or a junky draw. Given Hero’s J♥ 10♥make it less likely for the opponent to have a draw, he likely has a weak Ace that is betting to try to “find out where it stands.” Hero called, the turn was the 10♦, and the cutoff checked. When checked to on the turn, Hero should as- sume his middle pair is rarely the best hand, al- though it will be occasionally when he is against a junky flush draw like 7♥6♥. The real question is whether the opponent will fold an Ace to a turn plus river bet. Hero checked behind, the river was the Q♠, and the opponent bet $15 into the $49 pot. In his post-hand
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analysis to me, Hero men- tioned that he has seen his opponent bet small on the river twice with marginal value hands and large on the river once with the nuts. This made Hero think the opponent was much more likely to have an Ace than a Queen. So, Hero’s only via- ble options are to simply fold or to raise as a bluff, so Hero raised to $60. Hero must now assess if the opponent will fold an Ace to a raise. If you are confident the opponent will rarely call with an Ace, raising makes a lot of sense. I like Hero’s $60 sizing, although a bit larger may be better in order to really maximize fold equity. Just be sure that the amount you raise to is large enough that your opponent will usu- ally fold most of their top pairs. The opponent grumbled for a minute about how lucky Hero was to catch their Queen on the river before folding A♣2♣face-up.
Little is a professional poker player with more than $9.3 million in live tournament earnings.
IN THE BLEACHERS By Steve Moore
NON SEQUITUR By Wiley
CURTIS By Ray Billingsley
FRAZZ By Jef Mallett
这份 PDF 翻译质量较高，但在细节处理和个别术语上存在瑕疵。以下是审计报告：
# Los Angeles Times - 02.08.2026.pdf，此为内部清理/文件名标签，属于交付缺陷。Carlos Cordeiro, the ... 在译文中被强行补全为“前美国足球协会主席卡洛斯·科代罗”，但缺失了原文中紧随其后的 Kevin Lamour 的完整职务描述（译文虽提及 Lamour，但来源并非当前预览段落）。4.2 billion 被译为 42 亿美元 billion，重复使用了单位且格式冗余。June 2 mayoral primary 译为 6 月 2 mayoral 初选，未将 mayoral 翻译为“市长”。91/69 等温度数据在译文中被部分省略或仅以表格形式呈现，未完全对齐源文的所有数值分布。FRAZZ 被译为 Frazz（未翻译），而其他漫画名如 NON SEQUITUR 被译为 不合逻辑，处理标准不统一。mayoral (Page 1)billion (Page 1)S-Across $\rightarrow$ 30-Across (Page 60) 虽有翻译，但部分索引仍保留英文格式。结论： 存在阻塞性问题（Blocking Issues），主要集中在严重的文本幻觉（自行补全大段内容）和段落内容混淆（将其他页快讯插入正文）。建议重新校对。