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3 million coronavirus masks arrive in California as part of quiet deal with Chinese company

In all, the state received some 3 million surgical masks made by BYD, a company known for building electric vehicles with an assembly plant in Los Angeles County.




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Column: Sick of religious limits on care, a hospital seeks to end partnership with Catholic system

The prestigious Hoag Hospital wants to exit its partnership with a Catholic healthcare system.




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Bake like a pro: Measure ingredients by weight with this conversion chart

The best baking tip is measuring ingredients by weight, as professional bakers do, to ensure the most accurate and consistent results.




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Bon Temps in the Arts District closes permanently, a casualty of the shutdown

Lincoln Carson has decided to close his lauded Arts District restaurant permanently because of the coronavirus outbreak.




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Surviving the Shutdown: San Pedro Fish Market has sold over 15,000 shrimp trays since stay-at-home started

San Pedro's historic waterfront market is offering discounted shrimp trays to draw in customers




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You've named and fed it. Now what to do with all that extra sourdough starter?

Now that sourdough baking has become a shutdown trend, here are some suggestions for what to do with extra starter.




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Column: 'Blue Highways' author William Least Heat-Moon on the art of traveling in place

A after visiting every U.S. county in the lower 48, William Least Heat-Moon is the master of the topographical journey. Now 80, he takes another trip through his new novel — into the imperfect history of American democracy.




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Meet the heartland Evangelicals who feed America

Marie Mutsuki Mockett's 'American Harvest' looks at the divide between the heartland and those who seldom think about where our food comes from.




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Review: Queer authors reinvent the artist biography as revisionist memoir

Jenn Shapland's "My Autobiography of Carson McCullers" and Mark Doty's "What Is the Grass," about Walt Whitman, are hybrid memoir-biographies.




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How a rough Apartheid-era school spawned an award-winning YA novel

Malla Nunn's "When The Ground is Hard," winner of the 2019 Times Book Prize for young-adult literature, revisits South Africa's toughest years.




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Mom, 13 cats, Bogart, a restless dog and no WiFi: Rick Bragg self-isolates in Alabama

The journalist has plenty of space in Alabama, but it still gets lonesome. Luckily there's Larry McMurtry, Humphrey Bogart and Jerry Lee Lewis.




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They came to make art in isolation; the pandemic forced them to stay

While guests of Provincetown's Fine Arts Work Center are stuck through June, canceled residencies across the U.S. endanger an artistic ecosystem.




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Letters to the Editor: The COVID-19 pandemic sickens NIMBYs with heartlessness

Laguna Woods residents express dismay at their neighbors' opposition to using a nearby hotel as housing for homeless coronavirus patients.




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Letters to the Editor: Trump is No. 1 in headlines that start with 'president lashes out'

This is what happens when we elect a failed-businessman-turned-reality TV star as president.




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Letters to the Editor: Restart the economy? We can't even stock enough toilet paper right now

It's insane to think life can return to normal soon when we haven't even figured out how to get enough milk and toilet paper into stores.




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Letters to the Editor: The Democratic Party's #MeToo hypocrisy on Joe Biden is stunning

Democrats who expect all voters sick of President Trump to vote for Joe Biden are insulting people who care more about the issues than the party.




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Letters to the Editor: Start reopening California by rationing access to beaches and trails

Californians feel hopeless, so some are protesting. The solution is to limit access to public spaces without completely closing them.




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Thelma Schoonmaker on editing 'Irishman' and her long partnership with Martin Scorsese

Thelma Schoonmaker began working with Martin Scorsese in 1967. Over the years, she says, it has become more of a collaboration.




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At the Vanity Fair Oscar party, Jerry from 'Cheer' is cooler than Kim Kardashian West

Go behind the scenes of the Vanity Fair Oscar party, where Jerry Harris from "Cheer" was the big star and Julia Butters had eaten her turkey sandwich.




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Oscars 2020: Our favorite Vanity Fair party looks

Kate Hudson, along with Billy Porter, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian West, Martha Stewart and more, brought standout style to Vanity Fair's annual Oscars affair.




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Actress Abbe Lane parts with Palm Desert retreat

In Palm Desert, singer-actress Abbe Lane and her husband, theatrical agent Perry Leff, have sold their golf course retreat for $2.91 million.




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Historic Art Deco garage in Koreatown to be centerpiece of new apartment-retail complex

The structure is a rare example of Art Deco style used for a garage. It will still be used to park cars but also will have amenities for apartment tenants.




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Parties and politics at the Sundance Film Festival


The Sundance Film Festival is where luminaries from the worlds of art, commerce, and politics meet over collagen-infused cocktails to talk about movies.




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Diego Schwartzman fights through injury to win match


It was the longest match in the history of the Buenos Aires tournament.




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Daniel Azulay, Brazilian artist and educator, dies of coronavirus at 72


Daniel Azulay, one of Brazil’s most prominent children’s artists and educators, died March 27 at 72 in Rio de Janeiro. Azulay was being treated for leukemia when he contracted the coronavirus.




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South African anti-apartheid activist Denis Goldberg dies at age 87


Despite recieving help from the Israeli government in the negotiated release of his 22-year imprisonment, Goldberg remained a vocal critic of Israel and avid supporter of the BDS movement.




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Farmers charter flights to bring fruit-pickers to UK as travel shutdown causes shortage of foreign workers

Nearly 200 Romanian agricultural workers flown from Bucharest to London Stansted in first of series of flights to plug gap in workforce




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Coronavirus: When will cruises start again and should I book?

There may be some great bargains ahead, but also a lot to weigh up




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Justice Department spots signs of fraud in applications for small business coronavirus bailout

'Whenever there's a trillion dollars out on the street that quickly, the fraudsters are going to come out of the woodwork'




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Coronavirus: Heathrow to start temperature checks on arriving passengers

Screening technology will be trialled in Terminal 2, without passengers being aware they are being checked




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Musk announces a $35,000 Model 3, closure of most retail stores, and a no-profit quarter

Three years after he promised to sell an all-electric Model 3 mass-market sedan for $35,000 before incentives, Elon Musk may finally be coming through.




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In a throwback, Musk's tweets target Tesla co-founder Martin Eberhard

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk turned to Twitter on Sunday to open up old wounds with one of Tesla's co-founders before announcing he had "deleted" his Twitter account.




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Tesla beats expectations, delivers 95,000 vehicles in the second quarter

Tesla Inc. delivered 95,200 vehicles to customers in the second quarter, outperforming analysts' expectations.




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Tesla loses $408 million as technology chief J.B. Straubel departs

Tesla's $408-million second-quarter loss raises the question: How will Tesla ever make money?




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Tesla residential rooftop solar panels catch fire, and the lawsuits start flying

On top of fires at Amazon and Walmart facilities, Tesla may have problems with residential power systems, a much bigger part of its sputtering solar business.




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SUVs have made a startling rise in Germany. Now comes the backlash

Tensions boiled over this month when a Porsche Macan jumped a curb in central Berlin and plowed into a crowd of pedestrians, killing four.




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Tesla's Smart Summon is a glitchy 'science experiment,' Consumer Reports says

Smart Summon, the feature that lets Teslas drive themselves through parking lots, is drawing increasing criticism.




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The electric Mustang is just the start of Ford's drive to hit 50 mpg in 6 years

Ford turns to electrified pickups, performance cars and SUVs to meet California's greenhouse gas regulations.




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Alquilé un Tesla Model 3 en Turo, el servicio de auto compartido

Compartir el coche de persona a persona parece extraño, pero es fácil, aunque un poco caro




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Tesla reports a fourth-quarter profit, and its stock soars again

With stock price in the stratosphere, Tesla grows earnings again. But questions about the future remain.




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Review: 'Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint,' obscurity to art world star

Hilma af Klint didn't invent abstract art, but her stature today reflects something more important




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Brian Dennehy was 'a tough guy' but also a real sweetheart, his famous friends say

Sylvester Stallone, Mia Farrow and Lin-Manuel Miranda are among celebs saluting Brian Dennehy, the towering Irish American actor who died Wednesday at 81.




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Review: 'Abe' takes the stomach route to Israeli and Palestinian hearts, but it's all overdone

Noah Schnapp of "Stranger Things" and Seu Jorge try to cook up a recipe for unity in "Abe."




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Join 'That Thing You Do!' band for a reunion watch party honoring Adam Schlesinger

A watch party with fictional band the Wonders, from Tom Hanks' 1996 film "That Thing You Do!," will honor songwriter Adam Schlesinger, who died from COVID-19.




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Review: Documentary 'Pahokee' finds heart and hope in a small Florida town

Four high school seniors in the small rural town of Pahokee, Fla., are the subjects of an observational and empathetic new documentary.




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Reopening California: Hollywood is figuring out how to start rolling again

Hollywood is eager to get back to work after the coronavirus outbreak, but union officials, studio executives and others must first agree on new protocols to make filming safe again.




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Review: Smartly scripted 'Tammy's Always Dying' pits mother and daughter in toxic cycle

"Tammy's Always Dying" is a low-key, insightful comic drama about a striving woman and her albatross-like mother, played by Felicity Huffman.




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Second City's free 'Last Show Left on Earth': Your quarantine must-watch of the day

Something sketchy this way comes: "30 Rock" alum Jack McBrayer hosts "The Second City Presents: The Last Show Left on Earth."




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Artists, live industry brace for a year without concerts: 'Is there a better place for spreading disease?'

Epidemiologists and government officials agree that large-scale concerts and festivals can't be safely held until 2021, a crushing blow.




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At 'One World' concert, earnestness, uplift and even some glorious showbiz artifice

Starring Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Rolling Stones and more, Global Citizen's "One World: Together at Home" broadcast raised $127 million for the W.H.O.