Lengthy earlier than Zack Fox was making scene-stealing appearances in “Abbott Elementary,” releasing music and amassing hundreds of thousands of views on his sweat-inducing DJ units, he was finest recognized for his Twitter jokes. Fox, a graphic artist and emcee for Atlanta-based indie label Terrible Data on the time, was posting absurdly humorous tweets beneath the alias “Bootymath,” raking in tens of hundreds of followers. His simple social media presence and comedic chops are...

Pirating, as evidenced by centuries of tales and one of many best theme park rides, has lengthy fascinated. Seafaring and sword preventing suggest journey. Cube video games? Bluffing and technique. And in the event you’re actually fortunate, possibly you’ll discover a mermaid. Viewers members seen throughout a manufacturing of “Pirates Wanted,” an interactive manufacturing from Final Name Theatre. (Gabriella Angotti-Jones/The Los Angeles Instances) Final Name Theatre, a...

Glacier Nationwide Park, Mont. — JOHAN regarded up. Jenna was operating towards him. She had yelled one thing, he wasn’t certain what. Then he noticed it. The open mouth, the tongue, the enamel, the flattened ears. Jenna ran proper previous him, and it struck him — a flash of fur, two jumps, 400 kilos of lightning. It was a grizzly, and it had him by his left thigh. His thoughts began racing — to Jenna, to the journey, to preventing, to escaping. The bear jerked him forwards and...

At Whisky a Go Go, the Doorways had been the home band throughout the summer time of 1966. Weapons N’ Roses and Bob Marley and the Wailers recorded stay albums on the Roxy. Van Halen received their begin at shuttered nightclub Gazzarri’s. It’s simple that West Hollywood’s Sundown Strip is a legendary music mecca — significantly on the subject of rock ‘n’ roll. To rejoice the wealthy historical past and lore of the enduring 1.7-mile strip, the Sundown Strip Enterprise Enchancment District...

Among the many herd of aspiring actors who transfer to Los Angeles to pursue their Hollywood goals, Manny Jacinto was positive to set modest expectations for himself. “In my head, I was going to come here a few times,” says Jacinto, who grew up in Richmond, Canada. “I was going to try pilot [season] once, fail, come back next year, fail again, and I was going to repeat that pattern probably for the next five years until hopefully, fingers crossed, I landed something.”...

A sprawling social membership centering on racquet sports activities — the ever-present pickleball and rising padel, a mix of tennis and squash — is making its approach to downtown L.A. subsequent summer time. With the cheeky title Ballers, the membership can be housed within the former Macy’s constructing at The Bloc, which spans 100,000 sq. ft. It is going to be outfitted with 18 pickleball courts and 4 padel courts — marking the primary pickleball and padel courts to open within the DTLA...

Even if you happen to’re undecided you’ve seen Alan Tudyk within the quite a few movies or TV exhibits he’s appeared in, you’ve positively heard him. Tudyk has been endearing audiences along with his vocal stylings ever since 2002’s “Ice Age” — he voiced characters just like the Duke of Weselton in “Frozen,” Heihei the rooster in “Moana” and King Sweet in “Wreck-It Ralph.” In Sunday Funday, L.A. individuals give us a play-by-play of their supreme...

p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> Las Vegas — I flip a bend and see a determine in a cornfield. The grey sky is foreboding, a storm clearly on the horizon. Once I take a step ahead, I’m hit with a gust of wind and fog. Immediately, it’s now not a silhouette within the haze however a scarecrow, shrouded in hay, lurching towards me. Solely I’m not on a Midwestern farm, and there’s no risk of extreme climate. I‘m in a warehouse in Las Vegas, walking through a...

Melissa Etheridge has all the time written what she feels, and what she’s feeling proper now, at this second in her life, is liberated. The people-rock legend, greatest recognized for her raspy ‘90s anthems (cue “Come to my window …”), just finished recording a new album due out next year. A theme that permeates throughout her lyrics? Setting herself free. In Sunday Funday, L.A. people give us a play-by-play of their ideal Sunday around town. Find...

State parks officers say they’re unveiling a lottery-style drawing system for choose campsites in three of California’s most sought-after state park campgrounds: Malibu Creek, Morro Bay and McArthur-Burney Falls. The brand new system started this month at Malibu Creek, permitting would-be campers to enter a lottery for attainable openings eight months away — on this case, from March 1 to April 1, 2026. Drawings are held seven months forward of the keep, giving the winners 30 days to assert...

p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> For thousands of years, the Chumash people lived along California’s Central Coast and on its Channel Islands. Then the newcomers arrived — Spanish explorers, Catholic missionaries, Mexican rancheros, California settlers — and the Chumash way of life was dismantled, their people enslaved and their traditions, culture and language forbidden. So it’s hardly surprising that the main message at the new Santa Ynez Chumash Museum and Cultural...

p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> By now, many Disney fans have had a chance to see the officially released images by the company as well as close-up pictures taken by park guests. There have been quibbles, to say the least, with many a fan showing snapshots of the animatronic side by side with pictures of a much younger Disney. It’s important to note that the figure captures Disney in 1963. Disney died in 1966 at 65. The show has me thinking a bit on how the animatronic...

p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> It’s all about a California (and high-growth) state of mind. A park photographer, Kristin Wagner, photographs visitors as they enter Disney’s California Adventure, just below a recreation of the Golden Gate Bridge. (Don Kelsen/Los Angeles Times) In a period of grand expansion, Disneyland would start to become a proper resort — a metamorphosis that, while it didn’t work immediately, would be course-corrected and set...

Image this: A gaggle of 21-year-olds squeeze right into a sales space, pull the curtain and smile for the digital camera. After a collection of mysterious analog rumblings, the sales space expels a tiny strip of prints. The posers crowd in to savor the tiny movie prints — and lift their cameras to snap digital photos of them. Whereas boomers blink in puzzlement, legions of digital natives have embraced the old-school ritual and equipment of the picture sales space — and the individuals at San...

Superstar make-up artist and entrepreneur Patrick Ta admits that he’s always falling out and in of affection with Los Angeles — the place he’s referred to as house for the final 13 years. “[But] right now, I’m obsessed with Los Angeles,” says the San Diego native. “I feel like I am experiencing new friendship groups. For me, what makes a place magical are the people that you surround yourself with, and this entire beginning of almost summer has been the best networking and...

Kou Mariya hasn’t proven her work to her household. That’s as a result of Mariya, not her actual title, resides a twin id, and to guard her privateness, solely probably the most sacred of confidants — or enterprise companions — can know her true persona. Mariya, to her greater than 84,000 followers on YouTube, is a pleasant, flirtatious vampire singer, as excited to talk about her digitized outfits and equipment as she is to sing a late ’90s pop track. She performs as an animated avatar...