Inside San Diego Symphony's 104-year-old theater organ
SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Symphony’s 1921 Robert-Morton Theatre Organ will be in the spotlight at the orchestra’s Friday and Saturday concerts, which will feature Weicheng Zhao performing Saint-Saëns’ Symphony No....Read more
Gadgets: Portable power
The need for portable power varies by user. If there is one power bank that will fit the bill for most, it's Raycon's Magic Laptop Power Bank 5-in-1, with five versatile outputs.
It has a travel-friendly compact design,...Read more
A look ahead to the highly anticipated video games of 2025
The last time a new “Grand Theft Auto” game launched, Barack Obama was president and Bruce Willis was still filming “Die Hard” movies. Since then, fans have been clamoring for a new entry to the series, but the ...Read more
Virtual reality games worth a look
One of the most underrated parts of gaming is virtual reality. The hardware has developed rapidly and developers are figuring out what works and what doesn't. That has led to games that play less like tech demos and more...Read more
Jim Rossman: USB charging is not an exact science
This week a reader writes, “I have not experienced this before, but I have a Satechi external battery which I use to charge my Apple Watch (and other things). It charges with USB-C.
"Last weekend we were at a very ...Read more
Jennifer Lopez film premiere in Hollywood scrapped due to Pacific Palisades fire
Jennifer Lopez's 'Unstoppable' premiere was cancelled due to the Pacific Palisades fire.
Residents in the upmarket area of Los Angeles have been fleeing their homes after "life-threatening" winds sparked a bushfire across...Read more
Mandy Moore and her kids evacuate their home amid Pacific Palisades wildfire
Mandy Moore and her children have evacuated their home amid the Pacific Palisades wildfire.
The 40-year-old actress - who has children August, three, Oscar, 23 months, and Louise, who was born in September 2024, with ...Read more
Motherhood made me question a lot, says Brenda Song
Brenda Song's experience of motherhood made her "question a lot".
The 36-year-old actress - who has sons Dakota, three, and Carson, two, with fiance Macaulay Culkin - has revealed that motherhood has given her a new ...Read more
Pamela Anderson: I always knew I was capable of more
Pamela Anderson always knew she was capable of more than "just running around in a bathing suit".
The 57-year-old actress shot to stardom in the 90s, playing CJ Parker on the hit TV series 'Baywatch' - but Pamela feels ...Read more
Editorial: Biden goes after water heaters as days in office wind down
As President Joe Biden’s White House tenure winds down, he continues to put progressive policies before people.
His administration’s latest move is to ban certain natural gas water heaters from the market as an anti-...Read more
Commentary: The IRS faces more cuts under Trump. Here are three ways that could hurt the economy
Donald Trump’s election with Republican House and Senate majorities has put the Internal Revenue Service back in the spotlight. The agency lost $20 billion in funding under the latest deal to avoid a government shutdown,...Read more
Crossroads of care: Special education assistants and teacher aides at odds amid Chicago Public Schools cuts
CHICAGO — Beatrice Garcia credits the special education classroom assistants at Henderson Elementary in Englewood for helping her son speak.
“He hasn’t been verbal,” said Garcia. “But now that he’s been with (...Read more
Mayo Clinic Q and A: How belly breathing benefits your body, mind
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: Is breathing from your belly beneficial? If so, can you explain why and how to do it?
ANSWER: From the day you're born, you know how to breathe correctly. That means letting the diaphragm — the large, ...Read more
Caseworkers coax homeless people out of Las Vegas' tunnels for treatment
LAS VEGAS — Case manager Bryon Johnson flashed a light into a dark tunnel beneath the glitz of the Las Vegas Strip on a recent fall afternoon. He stepped into an opening in a concrete ditch littered with trash and ...Read more
An endangered Hawaiian crow went extinct in the wild. The San Diego Zoo is trying to help save them
SAN DIEGO — A decades-long effort to save a critically endangered Hawaiian crow from extinction is taking a new strategy — relocating the birds to a different island than their historical home. And the San Diego Zoo ...Read more
Editorial: Trump at the wheel: Time to govern, responsibly
Donald Trump, formally and peacefully certified this week as the next president, wants to launch his second term by ramming through a “big, beautiful bill” that will encompass everything from immigration to energy to ...Read more
An early look at House members who could be vulnerable in 2026
WASHINGTON — A new president with an ambitious agenda. Stark ideological divisions within both parties. And a deeply divided House with Republicans holding a slender majority.
Those are some of the dynamics that will be...Read more
Trash incinerators disproportionately harm Black and Hispanic people
MIAMI — When leaders of Florida’s most populous county met in September to pick a site for what could become the nation’s largest trash incinerator, so many people went to the government center to protest that ...Read more
Keep yourself and your money safe from these four scams
The holiday season often includes gift-giving to loved ones and charitable causes, but authorities say the threat of scammers seeking to trick victims into giving them large sums of money and personal information persists ...Read more
Royal Caribbean faces more legal woes after former crew member spied on passengers
Royal Caribbean is facing more legal trouble after a former crew member admitted to spying on cruise passengers, including children, in their bathrooms and showers after planting small cameras in their cabins to record ...Read more
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