Stephen Sondheim is often credited with reinventing the American musical; it would be truer to say that he turned it inside out. Musicals grew out of vaudeville, that theatrical melting pot, making new Americans out of glitter and pasteboard glued together with dreams. But at least as early as 1957, when West Side Story stormed […]

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Thomas Otte and Paul Readman commented in the introduction to their collection By-Elections in British Politics, 1832–1914 (2013), that by-elections “have rarely left their mark on the scholarly literature”. Since then, however, a number of scholars have taken the midterm single-constituency electoral contest far more seriously. Matthew Roberts, Katrina Navickas and James Thompson have encouraged […]

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Mighty Santa Ana winds left their mark across the Southland on Monday, toppling trees and power lines as gusts reached more than 40 mph in some areas. In Sylmar, a large pine tree crashed onto a home, punching holes through the roof and narrowly missing a child’s bedroom. “We hear cracking and then a big […]

Sources tell TMZ that a grand jury will be asked to consider a murder indictment against R&B singer D4vd in connection with the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, a teenager whose body was found inside the trunk of a vehicle registered to him in September. “It’s obviously a very stressful time for the attorney and […]

Enjoy the sunshine early this week — it won’t last. With the ground still saturated from the Christmas atmospheric river, another Pacific storm is headed for Southern California, promising significant rainfall. Rain will begin Tuesday evening along the Central Coast and gradually shift eastward, according to the National Weather Service. The heaviest precipitation is expected […]

An Altadena homeowner says he’s fed up and considering legal action against the state after a bear moved into the crawlspace beneath his home. Ken Johnson, who lives in Altadena, told KTLA he’s working on getting an attorney after the California Department of Fish and Wildlife removed a bear trap and advised him to “wait […]

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said that her defense of survivors of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and threat to disclose the identities of some of the men who abused them broke her relationship with President Donald Trump, who said his “friends will get hurt” if she went through with it.  Greene’s claim came in remarks […]

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman held a press conference Monday to discuss the murder charges a woman faces in connection with a DUI crash that left a high school tennis prodigy dead earlier this year. Jenia Resha Belt was hit with a murder charge last week after she allegedly struck 18-year-old Braun Levi around […]

Over the weekend, Covid-cautious individuals shared clips on social media of Jon Stewart punching down on people who are masking, who are presumably doing so to protect themselves from Covid, the flu, and other infectious diseases that are spreading across the United States. On the December 11 episode of the podcast The Weekly Show With […]

The man who allegedly planted two pipe bombs in Washington, DC, the night before the January 6 Capitol riot told investigators after his arrest earlier this month that someone needed to “speak up” for people who believed that the 2020 election was stolen, according to a court filing on Sunday.  Federal prosecutors said that the […]