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Amazing Things to Do (and Eat!) in Newport Beach This Father’s Day The Butchery – A backyard BBQ makes for an excellent way to celebrate the day. You’ll want to cook up the best beef possible, which makes a visit to The Butchery in Crystal Cove essential. The store’s highly trained knife-wielding wizards can break...

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Newport Beach offers a wealth of unique things to do for (and with!) Dad on Father’s Day. Golfing with Dad at Pelican Hill Give your dad the ultimate SoCal experience with a round of golf at the Pelican Hill Golf Club. The North Course beckons golf aficionados with panoramic views of the ocean and expansive,...

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Visit Newport Beach is the 2019 Smart Stars Awards recipient for the top CVB/DMO in the west. This honor is extremely meaningful as it comes from meetings industry professionals who share their experience of working with our team; from the RFP to site visit, to property selection and program execution. Smart Meetings has made it...

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Mindfulness, a term that seems to be everywhere these days: mindful meditation, mindful seminars, mindful meetings. In it’s simplest terms, mindfulness means presence of heart. That’s the definition given to it by  Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program. He should know; after all, he launched his program nearly 40 years ago...

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Several Newport Beach Restaurants Serve Decadent Donuts Newport Beach is sprinkled with venues that have thoroughly explored the culinary possibilities of these fried dough concoctions. While the following examples provide decidedly different takes than the ones found at the neighborhood doughnut shop, the delicious essence that makes a donut so magical remains front and center,...

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Gorgeous beaches, palm-tree lined streets and world class dining and shopping make Newport Beach a vacationer’s paradise. With summer in full swing, the complimentary Balboa Peninsula Trolley let’s locals and visitors enjoy the very best one of Orange County’s most popular beach destinations without the hassle of parking and traffic. Efficient, convenient, and free, the...

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Did you know Newport Beach is only 20 minutes from Disneyland, making it the ideal getaway after a visit to the happiest place on earth? And if you’re planning to make a trip for the opening of Disneyland’s new land, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, this is just the blog for you. If a Disneyland vacation...

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The Angels believe they can help newly acquired catcher Jonathan Lucroy improve both offensively and defensively.

The Angels have a new closer in Cody Allen and there isn't any manager in baseball who knows him better than Indians skipper Terry Francona.

Mike Trout and owner Arte Moreno met separately with the media on Monday, but neither would confirm that extension talks have begun between the Angels and Trout's agent, Craig Landis.

The Angels will be without left fielder Justin Upton early in Spring Training, as he's dealing with right knee patellar tendinitis but is expected to be ready for Opening Day, manager Brad Ausmus said on Monday.

The next five weeks will see lots of shuffling on Major League rosters. Here are the most intriguing positional battles on each of the 30 MLB clubs.

Angels first baseman Albert Pujols met with the media for the first time this spring on Sunday and said he's fully healthy after undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his left knee in late August.

Shohei Ohtani is continuing to make progress in his rehab from Tommy John surgery. On Sunday, he said he is hopeful he'll be able to start hitting off a tee in the next week.

Who do the Angels have in the pipeline? Get scouting reports, video, stats, projected ETAs and more for the Halos' Top 30 Prospects on MLB Pipeline's Prospect Watch.

On this opening week of Spring Training, all 30 Major League teams have one thing in common: optimism. Here's an optimism cheat sheet for each of them.

The Angels added a veteran lefty reliever, as Dan Jennings officially signed a Minor League deal on Saturday and joined the club for workouts at the club's Spring Training complex. Jennings will earn $1 million, plus incentives, if he makes the club.

The Angels announced their Minor League coaching staffs on Saturday, including former Major League catcher Lou Marson being named the new manager of Triple-A Salt Lake and former big leaguer David Newhan as the new skipper at Double-A Birmingham.

After undergoing surgery in late June to repair a torn left labrum in his left shoulder that required nine anchors to be inserted to keep everything in place, Zack Cozart is healthy and looking for a bounce-back season with the Angels.

After Ohtani's nearly unprecedented two-way success during his American League Rookie of the Year campaign last year, more clubs are looking into the possibility of having players who can both pitch and play a position. Walsh fits that bill, as he has been a power-hitting first baseman and outfielder in the Minors, but he's made 10 pitching appearances over the past three seasons as well. The Angels are experimenting with him doing both this spring and this upcoming season.

Right-hander Matt Harvey sustained a glute strain while participating in agility drills on Wednesday and will be out for roughly a week and a half, Angels manager Brad Ausmus said Thursday.

The 2019 MLB season feels so close now. Spring Training has begun. Players are taking the field. So it's time to rank the best of the best.

Shohei Ohtani, who is aiming for a return in May as a designated hitter but won't pitch in 2019, isn't able to participate in the on-field workouts with his teammates, but has progressed to swinging the bat and working out indoors.

The 30 prospects below all are getting very long looks this spring with an eye toward breaking camp with the parent club. Even if they start the year in the Minors, they all should get the chance to contribute at some point in the very near future.

Guatemalans went to the polls Sunday to elect a new president, congressional representatives and other lawmakers amid widespread disenchantment with a corruption-plagued political system long unresponsive to poverty and violence.

Authorities continued counting votes from across the country late...

Gary Woodland won the U.S. Open on Sunday, stepped off the 18th green at Pebble Beach and made a beeline for his parents.

Swarmed by photographers, he first embraced his mother, Linda, then delivered a hug to his father, Dan, that was so emotional and vigorous it was closer to a football collision.

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When Alex Verdugo was in the throes of a 22-game slump in which he hit .211 with no homers from May 12 to June 10, Dave Roberts implored the rookie outfielder to “use the big part of the field,” an approach that can help a hitter focus more on line drives up the middle and less on pulling the ball.

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Penn & Teller: Fool Us David Copperfield is featured in the season premiere of the unscripted competition. Featured magicians also include Jan Reinder, Ondrej Psenicka and Giancarlo Bernini. Alyson Hannigan hosts. 8 p.m. CW

The Bachelorette After all the drama, Hannah decides to examine...

Russell Martin singled in the go-ahead run in the eighth inning, Alex Verdugo made a game-saving catch for the final out and the Los Angeles Dodgers rallied to beat the Chicago Cubs 3-2 on Sunday night.

Cody Bellinger hit his 23rd homer in front of his parents on Father's Day.

Martin struck out...

Warning: This story contains spoilers from Sunday’s episode of “Big Little Lies.”

No one knows what’s troubling Bonnie Carlson. One of “Big Little Lies”’ infamous “Monterey Five” — a group of affluent women trying to cover up details of their involvement in the killing of one of their husbands...

Vince McMahon tells the story about flying back home from one of his WWE events in Los Angeles, comfortably stylish in a “bad ass” all-black Global Express private jet. His son-in-law, best known as Triple H, stops in the aisle to ask: “Hey, by the way, who is that guy, Joe Cohen?”

McMahon’s reply:...

The 32-year-old man shot and killedby an off-duty police officer in a Costco store on Friday night in Corona was nonverbal and had an intellectual disability, according to a family member.

Kenneth French of Riverside lived with his parents and had the mental capacity of a teenager, said his cousin,...

Gary Woodland has captured the U.S. Open, overcoming the back-nine pressure at Pebble Beach to hold off two-time defending champion Brooks Koepka for a three-shot victory.

Woodland all but sealed his first major title when he chipped off a tight lie on the green on the 17th hole to tap-in range...

Dallas Eakins is expected to be announced as the next Ducks coach on Monday.

Eakins is set to take over for the fired Randy Carlyle, the Los Angeles Times has learned, after he coached the team’s minor league affiliate San Diego Gulls for four seasons. He was always considered to be a strong candidate...

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Make a trip this Labor Day weekend to LACMA and squeeze every last drop out of summer before it’s gone! Friday evening Jazz at LACMA presents Janis Mann, known as a singer for her style and improvisational skills, at 6 pm. Tour the galleries for our latest displays, including the work of 29 abstract artists […]

Somebody, a new messaging service developed by filmmaker, artist, and writer Miranda July, debuts today. The app is a new way to communicate: rather than connecting directly with another person, Somebody helps mediate interaction by introducing a third party to the mix. It works like this: when a message is sent from person A to person B […]

I remember visiting the Picasso Museum in Barcelona and being fascinated by one of Picasso’s school text books on display. I can’t remember the textbook’s subject because that part was irrelevant. My fascination lay in what had been drawn in the margins. I imagined a young Picasso bored by his teacher and distracted by a […]

Kimono for a Modern Age, currently on view in the Pavilion for Japanese Art, showcases how kimono designs evolved to integrate traditional and modern patterns with new chemical dyes and textile techniques during the first half of the 20th century. As a summer intern in LACMA’s Conservation Center, I had the privilege of walking through the […]

End your summer on a high note with free tours, live music, art workshops, and fun talks and courses at LACMA! On Friday, Jazz at LACMA brings us the spiritual jazz sounds of the Phil Ranelin Jazz Ensemble at 6 pm on the outdoor stage in front of Chris Burden’s Urban Light. In the galleries, […]

This June LACMA received a wonderful gift of over 500 posters from Marc Treib, professor emeritus of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to his notable career as a historian of architecture and landscape, Treib is an accomplished graphic designer whose work has been the subject of several exhibitions and international publications. […]

For better or worse, every family has a unique dynamic. It’s a vibe that can be difficult to describe and only sometimes is intentionally cultivated. But despite its predominately subliminal nature, a family’s dynamic exerts a strong force. As kids, we began to realize what differentiated our home only by comparing ours to others. As […]

In the last few weeks of summer take advantage of free art tours, live music, film screenings, and creative workshops at the museum! This Friday evening, Jazz at LACMA presents the high-energy sounds of jazz, hip-hop, pop, and world music by Katisse and his band at 6 pm. In neighboring Torrance, enjoy the LACMA9 Shorts […]

Few artists come along who blur the lines of the aesthetic paradigms of “fine art” or “folk art” and transcend both with a truthfulness and verve that allows us to see within the mythology. Sam Doyle is such an artist. He gives us more than mere images of vivid clarity, he opens an intimate world […]