World & Nation
Mark Burnett, the power producer who helped reintroduce Donald Trump to a national television audience with “The Apprentice,” is being tapped as special envoy to the U.K.
Entertainment & Arts
New York City Center Encores! production of ‘Once Upon a Mattress,’ starring Sutton Foster, arrives at the Ahmanson Theatre direct from Broadway.
Movies
The UCLA Festival of Preservation uncovers a lost film by Charles Burnett, the first Los Angeles Festival of Movies is underway and two of the year’s best arrive in theaters: ‘The Beast’ and ‘La Chimera’
Awards
Some of ‘Palm Royale’s’ funniest moments involve the veteran performer struggling to speak upon waking from a coma.
At the Golden Globes, ‘Anora’ star Mark Eydelshteyn recounts receiving an unsolicited phone number written in lipstick.
In churches across long-stifled Syria, Christians have marked the first Sunday services since Bashar Assad’s ouster in an air of transformation.
California
Mark Murphy, three-time mayor of Orange, has died. Nicknamed “Mr. Orange,” Murphy was among the city’s fiercest boosters.
First called the Santa Claus Lane Parade, the event has been held every year except 1942 through 1944 during World War II and in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
About 200 men, some from the neighboring Twin Towers lockup, attended this year’s Christmas Mass at Men’s Central Jail in downtown L.A., celebrated by Archbishop José Gomez.
The 136th Rose Parade kicked off at 8 a.m. PST on New Year’s Day and rolled along 5.5 miles of Pasadena streets before a crowd of hundreds of thousands.