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Susan Cervantes has made a new home for two of the 126 ficuses that once lined 24th Street.As of May, two stumps that spent 80 years growing on 24th between Harrison and Alabama streets, trees that saw generations of Mission kids pass under their shade, live permanently as exquisitely tiled seats on the corner of 24th and Harrison streets near Mercy Housing's Casa de la Misión, affordable housing for seniors.

Everton have announced chief executive Denise Barrett-Baxendale, chief finance and strategy officer Grant Ingles and non-executive director Graeme Sharp have left their boardroom roles.The Toffees said interim appointments and chairman Bill Kenwright's future will be decided in the next 48 hours.Last month, Everton entered into an exclusivity agreement with US-based MSP Capital over investment in the club.

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Bath Beach Park just got a major makeover, as the Park Department joined southern Brooklyn community leaders to unveil a $5.4 million remodeling of the playground.The project boasts upgrades to old materials and brand new amenities, including a new children's play area, fitness equipment and spray showers.

Paying tribute to the diners that Chicago depended upon




As Eater concludes Diner Land, its week-long celebration of diners across the country, a few concerns continue to pop up.The biggest disagreement is a fundamental one: What defines a diner?What disqualifies a restaurant from being considered a diner?

View as Map Diners are one of the most enduring fixtures of America's restaurant landscape for good reason.They provide food at affordable prices in a casual setting, letting customers get a hearty breakfast not just in the early morning but any time of day.They also offer other comforting fare like milkshakes or burgers that are equally perfect for kids and adults nursing a hangover.

Tucked behind a picket fence, this tidy brick Italianate in Newburgh offers some picturesque charm and a renovated interior.While updated, the house on the market at 14 Elm Street in the architecturally rich city still has some elements that might be familiar to the generations of one family that called it home for over 65 years.

The majority of Digital Underground's projects involve Shock G's visual contributions in some form - whether through photo collages or hand-drawn illustrations credited to an alias.And many more of his drawings and low-brow doodles still exist in privately stored boxes and notebooks, in the care of his friends and family.

Driving down El Monte's Peck Road, between the 10 freeway and the batting cage with a giant golf ball painted with baseball stitches, the array of restaurants boasting vintage signage is impossible to miss.From Taiwanese noodles to churros and horchata to Vietnamese food, the independent restaurants on this strip can satisfy a variety of cravings, but one business on the corner of Lambert Avenue - the iconic Jolly Jug - is particularly eye-catching, with its giant, retro sign advertising the "Southland's most honored sandwiches."

This essay is part of a series called The Big Ideas, in which writers respond to a single question: Who do you think you are?You can read more by visiting The Big Ideas series page.Terence Blanchard?Oh, is he doing jazz now?My agent was asked this some years ago at a breakfast meeting over bagels and not-that-great coffee near the New York Hilton Midtown.

One afternoon in April, in between sets at a daylong hardcore punk fest, three fans Shani Nanje, 23; Dominique Wooten, 25; and Elizabeth Zaldivar, 31, all in town from Atlanta stood in the backyard of the roomy, bare-bones Bushwick venue the Brooklyn Monarch, breaking down how they've seen their musical community change.

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (left) takes part in a demonstration of the Fridays for Future movement to demand the stop of further funding of new fossil projects, in front of the headquarters of German retail banking company Postbank in Bonn, Germany, on June 12, 2023.Bernd Lauter / AFP via Getty Images As the United Nations climate talks in Bonn, Germany became the latest in a string of high-profile negotiations to end with little substantive progress, a coalition of environmental groups on Thursday announced plans for a global mobilization that organizers say will bring millions into the streets to demand an end to planet-wrecking fossil fuel production.

The 2023 Tribeca Festival has unveiled its winners list.The top honors went to "Cypher" for the Founders Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature, "A Strange Path" for Best International Narrative Feature, and "Between the Rains" for Best Documentary Feature.The competition categories include Feature Film, Short Film, Audio Storytelling, Immersive, Games, Human/Nature, and Tribeca X.
"We take great pride in recognizing this year's collection of diverse, trailblazing works and creators," said Cara Cusumano, fest director and vice president of programming, said in a statement.

It's almost 11:30 a.m. on a brisk, sunny Tuesday and Huck Finn Restaurant in McKinley Park is getting busier by the minute.Huck Finn retains the classic American diner traits: Squat glasses of water sweating on linoleum countertops, elderly couples silently stirring creamer into ceramic cups of coffee, toddlers gleefully digging their fingers into piles of scrambled eggs: this is a diner, from its white paneled drop ceiling to the vaguely wood-patterned tiles on the floor.

Thanks to the efforts of thousands of advocates and hard-working politicians and staff, a last-minute deal was hammered out in Sacramento over the weekend to provide emergency state funding for the Bay Area's transit agencies.From a statement issued Monday from San Francisco's Senator Scott Wiener, who lead the fight:

The Legislature's budget agreement is a very positive first step toward securing the future of public transportation in California.

(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

With a torrent of criticism swirling around California's largest environmental cleanup, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla Friday visited Boyle Heights and renewed his call for the federal Environmental Protection Agency to aid state efforts in removing lead contamination from neighborhoods surrounding a shuttered battery recycling plant in Southeast Los Angeles County.

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The Brooklyn Public Library is preparing to host Night in the Library: The Philosophy of Hip-Hop," an all-night philosophical series with keynote addresses, music, discussion and activities inspired by the culture of the genre, on June 17 at the Central Library.

Too hot (with a fever) or too cold (with hypothermia) and our brains sputter and begin to fail - and that's just several degrees off the norm.So our bodies keep everything at a steady temperature.Octopuses don't have that luxury.Their brains require just as much safekeeping as ours, but they're in squishy bodies swimming in water whose temperature can fluctuate by some 20 degrees.

National Geographic explorer-in-residence Lee Berger's daughter Megan and team member Rick Hunter navigate the narrow chutes leading to the Dinaledi chamber of the Rising Star cave system in South Africa, where the remains of the human relative Homo naledi were discovered.(Robert Clark/National Geographic)Deep inside a South African cave, researchers say they have discovered graves dug by our ancient, small-brained relatives more than 100,000years before the oldest known human burials, a claim that would revise the story of our evolution.

When the water came, Alex Gibson was prepared for, as he put it, "regular flooding."But regular flooding was not what surged through multiple counties in Eastern Kentucky in late July of 2022, killing over 40 people and displacing thousands from their homes.For five days, heavy rain struck an area already vulnerable from decades of exploitation.

Once upon a time, furniture was seen as more than just functional objects inside a house but also as heirlooms to be passed from generation to generation.That's not only because of their ornate designs or luxurious materials but also because of the craftsmanship and longevity of these products.Mass-produced furniture these days has nothing on their ancestors, though, especially since they seem to be made to be short-lived in order to encourage buying new ones every so often.

Lush vineyards.Wooded valleys.Rushing rivers.Morning mist and strong afternoon sun.This is Côtes de Bordeaux, where some of the best wine in the world is made.With 111,000 hectares of vineyards, Bordeaux is the largest AOC vineyard in France, producing around 665 million bottles by 5,800 winegrowers.

The California two-spot octopus can edit the RNA in its brain on a massive scale, likely allowing it to keep a clear head in both warm and cool waters.Tom Kleindinst/Marine Biological Laboratory Octopuses are curious and clever.They can solve mazes and puzzles, use tools, and are masters of camouflage.

Community leaders and city officials gathered Monday on the West Side to launch their campaign to measure heat across the city this summer.Chicago is the latest city to participate in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Heat Watch program, which aims to map temperature disparities and raise public awareness.

Image Installed on the grounds of Waddesdon Manor in southeast England, Joana Vasconcelos's nearly 40-foot-high sculpture Wedding Cake (2023) walks the line between patisserie and architecture.Credit...A Rothschild House and Garden.Photo: Chris Lacey The Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos is known for her ambitious oversize sculptures that frequently elevate everyday objects.

What don't we talk about when we talk about cooking?When you forward a recipe to a friend, do you mention the spatters of oil, the physicality of wielding a pan, the nagging feeling that you don't want to cook or the clean satisfaction of tying an apron string?These ignored conversations inspired the English writer and academic Rebecca May Johnson's first book, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen, which aims to upend not only the way we cook but the way we think about cooking.

The walls at Beth's Cafe in Seattle drip with crude crayon drawings of Seahawks logos and random cartoon characters, and the oily odor of 12-egg omelets crammed with bacon lingers in the air.There's a late-night frenzy radiating from every booth, as partygoers refuel between shindigs or, inevitably, crash out before making their way home.

We got down from the car and went inside.I made the line to pay for groceries.He made a party to celebrate his son's birthday.These phrases might sound off to the ears of most English-speaking Americans In Miami, however, they've become part of the local parlance.According to my recently published research, these expressions along with a host of others form part of a new dialect taking shape in South Florida.

Image Credit...Illustration by Jacqueline Tam In the early 2010s, California endured a very severe drought that killed millions of trees and fueled horrific wildfires.That was followed by a total reversal in 2017, the state's second-wettest year on record, which caused landslides, evacuations and $1 billion in damages to roads and highways.

In a world where climate change is increasingly apparent, we all encounter people who are changing their behavior to help protect the environment: People who cycle to work to avoid consuming fuel, carry their own cutlery to avoid using disposable plastic forks, or hang onto their recyclable waste, bypassing trash cans until they can find a proper place to recycle it.

We were going, well, it's not that cold, we can still go out if we were back in Petawawa, we would go out, she said.A moon dog hung low over the horizon.It showed up on the first day of the Canadian soldiers' patrol, and the Inuit rangers guiding them in the country's far north spotted it right away: Ice crystals in the clouds were bending the light, making two illusory moons appear in the sky.

Vin Scully, the iconic voice of the Dodgers for generations of fans, has sorely been missed since he passed away last August.Thankfully fans still are able to hear his voice in some way often whether in a video at Dodger Stadium or a radio hit on AM570 leading up to a ballgame.And folks can spot his image all around the stadium and around Los Angeles through a number of wonderful murals.

For years, a mile-long stretch of sand on the rural San Mateo County coast was known for loud late night parties that left behind huge piles of litter.On Tuesday, the stunning property, once owned by rock singer Chris Isaak, moved a big step closer to becoming a new public park the first of its kind in more than 50 years.

Jonathan Ross has remembered artist John Romita, famed for his role in creating Marvel characters Wolverine and Mary Jane Watson, as a kind, generous, compassionate and thoughtful man following his death, aged 93.Romita died peacefully in his sleep, his son confirmed in a Twitter post on Wednesday, describing his father as the greatest man I ever met.

The Home Rule Music Festival.(Nick Moreland)Gift Article One day in May, Vice President Harris made a surprise visit to HR Records in Brightwood Park, a store that specializes in jazz, soul, reggae and African records.As the VP browsed the racks, owner Charvis Campbell tried to toss her a musical softball, aiming her toward John Coltrane, but Harris demurred and headed deeper, for Charles Mingus.

Jon Rahm was at home last Tuesday, preparing coffee with his children underfoot, when the news arrived in a flood of text messages.Collin Morikawa glanced at Twitter and saw the word there.During breakfast at Michael Jordan's private club in Florida, Brooks Koepka peered at a television and glimpsed a headline.

Albania is a safe country and people who flee from there to seek sanctuary in the UK should not routinely be granted asylum, according to a report published on Monday from a cross-party group of MPs.The report from the home affairs select committee found little evidence to indicate significant numbers of Albanian nationals were at risk in their own country but accepted that some Albanians making asylum claims, mainly women, had been trafficked.

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There's no better reminder that summer is here than to see juicy California stone fruit like peaches, nectarines, plums, and apricots appear at the farmers' market.California is the largest producer of stone fruit in the U.S. In fact, California produces over 90 percent of the nectarines and plums grown in the U.S. and provides approximately 60 percent of all the peaches.

Danish furniture company Takt has launched Spoke Sofa, a sofa that can be fully disassembled and have its parts replaced and recycled, in Copenhagen for 3 Days of Design.Spoke Sofa, which is the brand's first sofa, was developed in collaboration with Norwegian studio Anderssen & Voll.Rooted in circular principles, it aims to provide an alternative to conventional sofas, which are "notoriously wasteful," according to the brand.

It is September 2003 and Sweden have just been awarded a second penalty against San Marino in a European Championship qualifier.The team's designated penalty taker, Kim Kallstrom, has dispatched the first and expects to take this one too.However a 21yearold Zlatan Ibrahimovic has other ideas.He is the player who has been fouled and grabs the ball to take the spot-kick.

The remains of a Roman mausoleum with an astonishing level of preservation believed to be the most intact structure of its kind discovered in Britain have been unearthed in London.The incredibly rare find has been excavated at the The Liberty of Southwark development site, a stone's throw from Borough Market and London Bridge station, the Museum of London Archeology (MOLA) has revealed.

B ig-name musicians and bands are coming to west London next month as part of the Kew The Music series of summer concerts.The annual week-long festival of picnic shows will be held at the Unesco World Heritage site of Kew Gardens in mid-July, with tickets on sale now.Organisers have said guests are welcome to bring food and drink or enjoy the open-air bars and street food stalls.

A beloved late-night underground speakeasy described as a bastion of the old-school Soho faces closure after millionaire neighbours complained of patrons turning it into a haven for drug users.The New Evaristo Club, known as Trisha's after its longtime Italian matriarch, has welcomed generations of musicians from Led Zeppelin to Amy Winehouse through its secret doorway in Greek Street for more than 80 years.

(John Minchillo / Associated Press)

Section 53.49 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code is a classic of lawyerly syntax and needless verbosity.It appears on a sign outside my local public library branch and reads as follows:
"It shall be unlawful for the owner or person having custody of any dog to fail to immediately remove and dispose of, in a sanitary manner, by replacing in a closed or sealed container and depositing in a trash receptacle, any feces deposited by such dog upon public or private property, without the consent of the public or private owner or person in lawful possession of the property, other than property owned or controlled by the owner or person having custody of such dog.

(Michael Pierson / Oceanic Society)

Michael Pierson, a naturalist for the nonprofit eco-tourism organization Oceanic Society, has traveled from the San Francisco coast to the Farallon Islands many times during peak whale-watching season.But on May 7, he decided to deviate from the usual course."It really worked in our favor," Pierson said.

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Thursday, June 8, 2023 by Luz Moreno-Lozano
Austin leaders on Tuesday gave an official thumbs-up to the city's massive rail line project just two weeks after the plan was revealed to the public.The final vote taken by City Council, the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board of Directors and Austin Transit Partnership sets in motion the next phase of the plan, which includes the design work and initiates the funding process.

Jessie Maple, who built careers as a camerawoman and an independent filmmaker when Black women were almost nonexistent in those fields, and who then left meticulous instructions for later generations to follow in her footsteps, died on May 30 at her home in Atlanta.She was 86.Her death was confirmed by E. Danielle Butler, her longtime assistant and the co-author of her self-published 2019 memoir, The Maple Crew.

Joan Marcus took this photo for 42nd Street.Marcus began taking production shots while she was a graduate student estimates she's now photographed 1,000 shows.Joan Marcus Theater is, by its nature, evanescent; every performance is different, based on the chemistry of the cast and the audience.But there are ways theater fans can relive their memories: Playbills and souvenir programs, scripts, cast recordings and production photos.

Anne Mooney, FAIA, LEED AP and founding principal at Salt Lake City- and Los Angeles-based Sparano + Mooney Architecture, knew from her very first design studio course that the industry was meant for her."The work excited and engaged me in a way nothing else had," she said."The late nights and intensely rigorous work somehow energized me and tapped into a level of creativity that I hadn't recognized in me before.

Sometimes it's the small things that can have the biggest impacts because they're taken for granted until they snowball into a catastrophe.Small pieces of trash thrown haphazardly gather to become mounds of garbage that block drains and cause floods.Even the way we clean our clothes, unbeknownst to us, can actually kill our seas and oceans in the long run.

(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

It's a riddle that has both blessed California and still raises worries for the future: Why hasn't L.A. seen a big San Andreas earthquake in generations?And what does that mean when it does come?A new study provides a possible answer - the drying Salton Sea, about 150 miles southeast of L.A., and the lack of sudden, major floodwaters funneling into it since it formed more than a century ago.

(Jeff Chiu / Associated Press; Gary McCullough / Associated Press; Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

The Catholic diocese of Sacramento lies on a dingy stretch of road between a gas station and a graveyard, about two miles from the state Capitol.It's an office building, with a hard-to-find entrance and no church to tend those in need.

Which boy does the actress Maitreyi Ramakrishnan want her character to wind up with by the end of Never Have I Ever?Apparently, it depends on the day at least as far as most reporters are aware.OK, in this interview, I'll be honest I'm going to let you in on my plan, Ramakrishnan, 21, said ahead of the comedy's fourth and final season, which arrived Thursday on Netflix.

(Bobby Bank / WireImage via Getty Images)

Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, better known as professional wrestling legend the Iron Sheik, has died, according to a statement posted on his social media accounts.He was 81."Today, we gather with heavy hearts to bid farewell to a true legend, a force of nature, and an iconic figure who left an incredible mark on the world of professional wrestling," the statement read on his Twitter account, which has more than 642,000 followers.

The chatty daytime talk show The View might seem like an unlikely platform for Tim Scott, a senator from South Carolina and a presidential candidate, to get his footing with Republican primary voters, but he saw an opening on Monday and tried to make the most of it.Mr. Scott, the first Black Republican from the South elected to the Senate since Reconstruction, had asked for an audience on the show after a co-host, Joy Behar, said Mr. Scott doesn't get it when he denies the existence of systemic racism, which is why, she said, he is a Republican.

Borgo San Vincenzo, Tuscany's newest luxury boutique hotel named for the patron saint of winemaking, invites guests to experience the region's legacy of warm hospitality and culinary excellence offering a delightful array of reimagined Tuscan classics, sophisticated wine experiences and artisanal craft cocktails designed by the hotel's talented culinary team.

He sat in the audience watching it all, like a proud grandfather at a college graduation.Fred Wilpon, 86, had owned the Mets when their new class of Hall of Famers Howard Johnson, Al Leiter and the broadcasters Gary Cohen and Howie Rose made their marks with the team.At a news conference before the ceremony on Saturday, Wilpon beamed.

Sorin Giubega's grandfather was a potter.So was his father.And at 8 years old, Mr. Giubega said, he started to play on a pottery wheel, too.Mr. Giubega, now 63, and his wife, Marieta Giubega, 48, are potters in Horezu, Romania, a town in the foothills of the Capatanii Mountains about three hours by car from Bucharest.