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The story of Notre-Dame’s restoration starts with a fire, as Claire Tabouret is well aware. Officials in France have chosen her, a Frenchwoman who, for the last 10 years, has called Los Angeles home, to help bring its $900 million, yearslong resurrection project to the finish line. She will create stained glass windows in several…
In the days leading up to the show, organizers said that they had already raised more than $60 million from ticket sales and corporate sponsorships. They say that they plan to distribute donations with the advice of the Annenberg Foundation and that aid will be distributed both for short-term relief efforts and long-term initiatives to…
A slow-moving rainstorm system was bringing a reprieve to Southern California on Monday after a lengthy dry spell, but also caused some mudslides in areas scarred by this month’s wildfires, forcing road closures and making driving hazardous. The storm had dropped about half an inch of rain in downtown Los Angeles by early Monday morning,…
All they could grab were stuffed animals, toothbrushes, Barbie dolls and blankets. Their bunk beds, cleats and clothes burned with their houses. The New York Times interviewed 10 children and their parents about what it was like to flee the fires in Los Angeles. They talked about what they are worried about, and what is…
More Los Angeles-area schools reopened on Thursday for the first time since wildfires swept the region this month and forced officials to shutter buildings in the areas hit by fires. In the Pasadena Unified School District, six campuses reopened, out of more than two dozen that had been closed since the fire. Roughly two-thirds of…
President Trump has repeatedly blamed Gov. Gavin Newsom and other California leaders for the fires that devastated Los Angeles. The president has charged that the state’s Democrats have stubbornly refused to send enough water to Southern California to fight fires, which he attributed to their desire to protect the delta smelt, a threatened species of…
Rain and cooler temperatures will bring relief to Southern California this weekend, after a prolonged stretch of dry, breezy weather that allowed wildfires to thrive. The parched landscape between Los Angeles and San Diego hasn’t seen any significant precipitation so far this winter, providing plenty of dry vegetation to fuel the fires. A storm system…
Danica Pinner and Nick Campbell weren’t sure they could manufacture that kind of uplift when they married on Jan. 12 in Los Angeles at the El Rey Theater. A few days before, “we were like, I have no idea how we’re going to do this,” Mr. Campbell said. “You could see the smoke in the…
As soon as an evacuation order was lifted in her neighborhood, Arlynn Page raced back to her charred street in Altadena, Calif., to see what was left of her hillside home. The two houses next door were rubble, but hers was unscathed. Then she went inside. A stinging haze hung in the living room. Her…
The two most essential ingredients to any successful Los Angeles-based reality television show are mammoth multi-million-dollar homes and their sun-soaked, scenic views. As drama has unfolded over sex tape rumors, divorces and petty arguments about “ugly leather pants,” palatial real estate has served as a glamorous backdrop for several binge-worthy series. Over eight frothy, bright-skied…
