Deshaun Watson threw a 14-yard touchdown pass to DeAndre Hopkins with 2:15 left, lifting the Houston Texans to a 29-22 comeback victory over Sam Darnold and the New York Jets on Saturday night. After Darnold and Jets took their first lead of the game on Elijah McGuire’s 2-yard touchdown run, Watson… Source: latimes.com – Los […]
Blog: Could this city be the next capital of cool?
(Credit iStock) Greenville, South Carolina, wants to be the next Portland, Oregon, aka the capital of the cool and artsy. The southern town began attracting artists in 2005, with the introduction of an annual, three-day festival called Artisphere. The arrival of well-established artists in the former milltown coincided with a gradual growth in real estate […]
Blog: Lonzo Ball Combines Triple-Double with Defensive Showcase
As Lonzo Ball walked off the court after playing 35 minutes of nonstop activity, LeBron James was the first man to embrace the 21-year-old. The sophomore guard had just dropped his first triple-double of the season — 14 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in a win over Charlotte — as he and James became […]
Blog: What we learned from the Kings’ 4-3 overtime loss to the Penguins
Toffoli might be cursed. Down 2-0 late in the opening period, Toffoli grabbed a pass from Nikita Scherbak and snapped it past Matt Murray from the right side. It would have ended Toffoli’s 15-game scoring slump, but Pittsburgh challenged it and replays showed that Kempe was across the blue line before Scherbak’s carried in the […]
Blog: For Syrians in a former rebel bastion, reconciling with the government means a return to normalcy — at a price
A rain of mortar shells, artillery and bombs followed. Rebels in Duma continued fighting. But in April, a week after a suspected chlorine attack on Duma that was widely blamed on loyalist forces, the town’s dominant rebel faction, the Army of Islam, surrendered its heavy weapons and accepted safe passage north to Idlib province. Source: […]
Blog: L.A. Phil violinist Vijay Gupta is leaving the orchestra and taking his song to the streets
Gupta, 31, is creating part-time operations and management positions at Street Symphony. The nonprofit is moving from Gupta’s living room into its first office, a downtown space it will share with the homeless advocacy and performance group Los Angeles Poverty Department. He’s also hoping to expand its fellows program, in which skid row musicians study […]