Los Angeles Times – Page 81

From left, Perfuma, Frosta, Adora, Scorpia and Bow in an episode of "She-Ra and the Princesses of Power."

Once ‘so secret,’ a queer Netflix series finally puts all its cards on the table

May 18, 2020 at 11:53 a.m.

WARNING: This story contains spoilers from the fifth and final season of "She-Ra and the Princesses of Power." "She-Ra and the Princesses of Power" has always been about Adora and...

As Los Angeles County embarks on a slow reopening, there are more reasons to leave the house: Some stores are offering curbside pickup, hikers are headed back to some trails and beachgoers can dip their toes in the Pacific. Going outside typically requires wearing clothes. So with the coronavirus still a very real threat, how worried do you have to be about the virus hitching a ride home on your shirt, pants or shoes?

Can the coronavirus live on clothes and shoes? And for how long?

May 18, 2020 at 11:25 a.m.

How worried should you be about the virus hitching a ride home on your shirt?

Appreciation: Lynn Shelton, director of ‘Humpday’ and ‘Sword of Trust,’ found beauty in human imperfection

May 18, 2020 at 8:59 a.m.

One of the most wrenching scenes I saw in any movie last year arrives a few minutes into "Sword of Trust," the eighth independent feature written and directed by Lynn...

Fred Willard is shown in a scene from "Castle."

Appreciation: Fred Willard, beloved American weirdo, was the special sauce in satire comedy

May 18, 2020 at 5:31 a.m.

Fred Willard, beloved American weirdo, colossus of eccentric normality, is gone. For an actor rarely cast in a lead role — he is probably best known for the improvisational ensemble...

Senators listen as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks remotely during a virtual Senate Committee for Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing, Tuesday, May 12, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Seated from left are Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., center, and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.

Commentary: Coronavirus changed the media landscape overnight. Welcome to the new normal

May 17, 2020 at 6:38 a.m.

"Am I on?" asked Joe Biden, searching for a cue from someone off-camera during his first official campaign rally as the presumptive Democratic nominee for president. Equipped with sunglasses, a...

Oprah Winfrey speaks during Oprah's 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus Tour.

‘You are the chosen class’: The most inspiring quotes from Oprah’s virtual graduation

May 16, 2020 at 6:47 a.m.

You get a diploma! You get a diploma! Everybody gets a diploma! Millions of viewers tuned in Friday to watch Oprah Winfrey headline a star-studded virtual graduation ceremony for the...

Washington State Department of Agriculture entomologist Chris Looney displays a dead Asian giant hornet, a sample brought in from Japan for research, Thursday, May 7, 2020, in Blaine, Wash. The new Asian hornets that have been found in Washington state may be deadly to honeybees, but bug experts say the Asian giant hornet is not a big threat to people. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, Pool)

Panicked over ‘murder hornets,’ people are killing native bees we desperately need

May 15, 2020 at 12:16 p.m.

LOS ANGELES — People, get a grip. Yes, the Asian giant hornet, now famously known as the "murder hornet," is one huge scary wasp, capable of decimating an entire colony...

A pronghorn antelope pauses while eating wildflowers along a highway where cattle once grazed near the Mojave Desert town of Beatty, Nevada on Wednesday, May 6, 2020. "Pronghorn are following lush buffets of rain-fed wildflowers," said California director of the nonprofit Western Watersheds Project Laura Cunningham.

Desert mystery: Why have pronghorn antelope returned to Death Valley?

May 15, 2020 at 12:15 p.m.

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — More than a century after railroads, ranchers and hunters vanquished their ancestors, pronghorn antelope are returning to this unforgiving expanse of desert along the...

Elle Fanning stars as Catherine the Great in Hulu's new take on the subject, "The Great."

Review: Hulu’s ‘The Great’ tears up the history books with Elle Fanning. It’s not Shakespeare, but it works

May 15, 2020 at 8:42 a.m.

And so we come to our second quality television series about Catherine II of Russia in the space of seven months, "The Great," with a marvelous Elle Fanning as the...

Closed broadway theaters during the coronavirus pandemic on April 8, 2020 in New York City.

Digital theater is all the rage, but could it destroy the live stage?

May 14, 2020 at 8:09 p.m.

No one at this point can answer when live performance will come back. Not the medical experts. Not theater owners and producers. And not the unions that represent the creative...

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