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<p> Los viajeros pueden esperar mejores tarifas de ida y vuelta en estas vacaciones. (Foto de archivo de Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)</p>

Unos 42 millones de personas toman las carretera este ‘Memorial Day’

May 15, 2019 at 11:21 a.m.

Espere más autos en la carretera y más filas en el aeropuerto el fin de semana del Memorial Day. El Club de Automovilismo (AAA) dice que 41.5 millones de estadounidenses comenzarán la...

Two fans beat Dodgers traffic by walking 22 miles to the game

May 20, 2019 at 3:30 p.m.

Sometimes it really is the journey, not the destination. Occasionally it's both. Last week, nine hours before game time, Jay Lewitt and Rick Gottesman — buddies since grade school, pals...

Chris Erskine and two USC music professors take a look at Vin Scully's melodic play-calling style.

Voice of Dodgers announcer Vin Scully is sweet music to the ears

May 20, 2019 at 3:25 p.m.

Tonally, he's a tenor. Spiritually, he's Frank Sinatra. Across seven decades, Vin Scully has bewitched baseball fans with That Voice — full of swing, moxie, and sonic opulence. He uses...

#MillennialPledge backlash is ‘what you get when you raise an entire generation without spanking’

June 16, 2018 at 2:14 p.m.

I think what really frosted the millennials was when I suggested they pledge not to name their first-born son “Uber.” Up to that point, they were fine. My Saturday column,...

Millennials, you literally cannot call yourselves adults until you take this pledge

June 16, 2018 at 1:56 p.m.

I admire and adore the millennials. Obviously, it's because I am one. That doesn't mean that we millennials, ages 18 to 34, can't do better. Below is a pledge all...

FOR LOVE OF THE GAME (1999): This time Costner portrays a washed-up pitcher in his final major league game -- which is announced by the far-from-washed-up Vin Scully.

Kevin Costner, in ‘McFarland, USA,’ returns to a film genre he’s owned

June 16, 2018 at 12:51 a.m.

No sport gives itself over to mystical lyricism the way baseball does, and Kevin Costner owns the songbook. Yet the 60-year-old actor, burnished by the California sun till he's become...

Man About Town: ‘Mormon’ fails to make a convert

May 23, 2019 at 1:08 p.m.

I'd wanted to take an actual Mormon to see "The Book of Mormon," but the closest I could come was the lovely and patient older daughter — so well scrubbed...

No punches pulled in story of a broadcasting original

May 9, 2019 at 3:21 p.m.

When ABC Sports guru Roone Arledge was suggesting Howard Cosell for "Monday Night Football," NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle replied: "Cosell? Why don't you just dig up Attila the Hun?" Such...

Around the world in way less than 80 pavilions

August 22, 2021 at 8:33 p.m.

VANCOUVER - If you never hear from me again, here's what happened: My older daughter storms into town to mooch off me at the Olympics, immediately unplugs the clock/radio and...

Some camps in the Sierra open all winter

August 22, 2021 at 7:50 p.m.

Most Sierra Nevada campgrounds and RV parks shut down in winter, but a few stay open to accommodate cross-country skiers, snowshoers, skiers and snowmobile enthusiasts. "We put our water lines...

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