I spent decades vacationing in the Hamptons, but eventually got tired of it. Loading audio narration… I can’t count how much time I’ve spent sitting in traffic on the Montauk Highway, searching for parking spots at the beach, and waiting for tables at trendy restaurants. “Destination dupes” are all the rage right now, with many … Read more
In the race to build the infrastructure that powers artificial intelligence, Alphabet Inc.’s Google has an enviable position: The company has a healthy cloud computing business, makes its own chips, and has struck deals to share them with companies like Anthropic PBC and Meta Platforms Inc. Google’s success has made its computing resources so valuable, … Read more
Prominent Democratic governors, some considering 2028 presidential bids, gathered Thursday in Los Angeles for a high-dollar fundraiser. Tickets to attend the event cost up to $100,000, according to an invitation. Closed to the press, it was expected to raise more than $1.5 million for the Democratic Governors Assn., among the largest amount the group has … Read more
Brooke Shields would not consider herself an armchair detective by any means. “I don’t want to really know,” she says on a recent weekday. “I’m not big on gore. I like getting just enough clues to make me feel smart, but not to really get it — at the end, I want to be like, … Read more
Hi, and welcome to another edition of Dodgers Dugout. My name is Houston Mitchell and I’m wondering whatever happened to good old rotator cuff injuries? Are you a true-blue fan? Get our Dodgers Dugout newsletter for insights, news and much more. By continuing, you agree to our Terms of Service, which include arbitration and a … Read more
I tried every cheese I could find at Trader Joe's. Ted Berg I tried every cheese I could find at Trader Joe’s and ranked them from worst to best. I didn’t like the white Stilton cheese with apricots at all. Trader Joe’s creamy Toscano cheese soaked in syrah was my favorite. Trader Joe’s has so … Read more
Commercial real estate lenders are done pretending. After years of waiting and hoping that the market would improve, they’re selling off debt on struggling US assets, sometimes writing down as much as 85% of the loan’s payoff amount. Lenders including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Deutsche Bank AG, as well as smaller companies, are showing … Read more
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday moved to withdraw his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns after reports that his administration was poised to create a fund to compensate some of his allies. The disclosure was made in a filing in federal court in Florida, where the lawsuit … Read more
Grafana Labs, the maker of its eponymous popular open source web visualization software, confirmed it had been hacked but that it refused to pay the hackers who had threatened to release the company’s codebase. In a series of posts on social media, the lab said its investigation found that the hackers had abused a stolen … Read more
The best way to incite a riot at a rock club? Start talking about when — exactly — the style of music was born. The same holds doubly true for punk. The hectic, electrified, primal scream of a genre can be traced to the 1960s, but really came alive in the ‘70s. Some fans say … Read more
Tyler Starling of Agoura High is a teenager every coach wishes to have. Regardless of how good he has become in baseball, he continues to play multiple sports to have fun, hang out with his friends and perhaps please his mother, Amanda, who happens to be Agoura’s track coach. In the fall, Starling caught 56 … Read more
Growing up in London, I always dreamed of living in America. Loading audio narration… After visiting New York City for the first time as a 19-year-old, I started daydreaming about moving across the pond and working as a writer in Manhattan. I’d be the British version of Carrie Bradshaw, if you will — minus the … Read more
Elon Musk has turned science fiction into reality for the better part of two decades, making believers rich and earning the benefit of the doubt from many on Wall Street. Away from rockets and electric cars, his companies are bending reality on another plane – convincing analysts to stretch their traditional valuation tools, and assign … Read more
SACRAMENTO — The Democrats’ mantra this election year — especially among wannabe governors — is that the richest Californians should “pay their fair share.” But by any objective measurement, they already do. I’m referring to state taxes, not federal. It’s a valid argument that the most prosperous Americans should kick in more to the federal government, … Read more
It is not just any Tuesday. It is 9 p.m. on a dreary night in Shadow Hills, just miles away from the lush foothills of the Verdugo Mountains. The delicate pitter-patter of a drum’s cymbal is the only sound to break through the thick brick wall of the obscure performance venue, Sun Space, and reach … Read more