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洛杉矶时报

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2026年8月30, 2026，星期日

ETHAN SWOPE 美联社 大瑟尔地区火势肆虐 一辆消防车经过普拉斯基特火灾现场，火势正向大瑟尔的1号公路蔓延。在消防员努力控制附近廷伯火灾的同时，普拉斯基特大火在周五和周六迅速扩大。加利福尼亚州，B3

他们对人工智能有很多话要说

好莱坞的配音演员担心人工智能正在夺走他们的工作，他们正在展开反击。

作者：尼莱什·克里斯托弗

好莱坞的配音演员——最早一批与人工智能替代问题作斗争的群体之一——正就如何应对人工智能而产生分歧。

知名且资深的演员正利用它来赚更多的钱。非明星演员则表示，工作机会已大幅下降，而且他们被诱导去训练自己的替代者。

工会希望对该技术实施进一步限制。一些演员在抵制创建廉价克隆声音以承接工作的冲动，但许多非工会的自由职业者表示他们别无选择。

“我很害怕，”34, 岁的斯泰西·里维拉说道。她是一名常驻洛杉矶的配音演员，为网飞（Netflix）等公司拍摄广告并从事相关工作，她目前正抵制让自己的声音被用于人工智能的诱惑。“我不知道我现在所做的事情在未来五年内是否还能成为一个选项。”

尽管如此，AI声音正悄无声息地占据屏幕和扬声器。

一个迈克尔·凯恩的声音克隆版为时长13小时的《奥德赛》有声书担任旁白。这位英国演员已将其声音授权给纽约的AI语音公司ElevenLabs。马修·麦康纳则利用该技术为其时事通讯创建了西班牙语版本。

ElevenLabs的语音市场提供数十个个性化克隆声音——包括演员朱迪·嘉兰、物理学家理查德·费曼以及像土豆头先生这样的热门角色——供创作者合法授权并获得使用报酬。

资深演员大卫·劳伦斯 XVII 表示，知名演员通过允许克隆其声音以成为语音助手而获得数百万加元。他是 SAG-AFTRA 有声书指导委员会的成员，该委员会负责批准 [见 Voice, A11]

罕见癌症在橙县郊区儿童中蔓延

拉德拉牧场出现六例尤文肉瘤病例

作者：克拉拉·哈特

17岁的布罗迪·马特森在生命的最后一年经历了地狱般的痛苦。喂食管、输血、救护车接送、剧烈的恶心以及深入骨髓的疼痛。

他以惊人的勇气与之抗争，凭借在足球场上磨练多年的坚毅，但疾病继续吞噬着他。

在与尤文肉瘤抗争20个月后，布罗迪于3月去世。根据美国癌症协会的数据，这种骨癌极其罕见，全美国每年仅有约200名儿童和青少年被诊断出患此病。

在布罗迪被诊断出患病并去世后，他的父母收到了拉德拉牧场其他家庭的消息，那些家庭的孩子也患有同样的罕见疾病。

警钟开始敲响。橙县社区的成员统计出，在2013年至2024年之间，至少有六例尤文肉瘤病例在儿童和年轻人中被诊断出来。

“对于这个社区的成员来说，确实有理由感到担忧，”希望之城国家医疗中心的儿科血液肿瘤专家珍妮特·尹博士说道，她专门从事 [见 Cancer, A8]

邦妮·里根在儿子瑞安出生时收到了这条项链。瑞安去年去世了。“他是我们唯一的孩子，所以他是我们宇宙的中心。” KAYLA BARTKOWSKI 洛杉矶时报

“奇迹”律师吸引移民

JASON ARMOND 洛杉矶时报 SYLVIA VELAZQUEZ 表示，亚历山德拉·洛扎诺“看起来像是个能帮到我的好人”。

作者：Itzel Luna

在西尔维亚·维拉斯奎兹位于南洛杉矶的家中，她供奉的圣母玛利亚神龛上曾摆放着一个马克杯、铅笔和一份来自亚历山德拉·洛扎诺律师事务所的日程本——这些品牌周边产品上印着洛扎诺标志性的金色长发、红唇和灿烂的笑容。

这位 57 岁的墨西哥移民经常向神圣的圣像祈祷，请求她保护洛扎诺。洛扎诺是一位著名的移民律师，维拉斯奎兹曾向她支付了 $15,000 以寻求帮助办理美国签证。

“当我与洛扎诺签署合同后回到家，我对着我的小圣母哭了起来，”在家里经营美发店的维拉斯奎兹说道，“这个女人看起来像是个能帮到我的好人。”

她说，这一切感觉就像是神圣的干预，直到几个

[见 Lawyer, A16]

纽森修订火灾责任计划

州长对一项立法进行了全面修改，该立法原计划将公用事业引发的火灾的大部分成本转嫁给保险公司。商业版，A10

洛杉矶警察局公布殴打视频

监狱监控录像显示，一群警员将 58 岁的何塞·卡洛斯·霍约斯-穆诺兹（Jose Carlos Hoyos-Munoz）压在身下，后者在不久后被发现死亡。加利福尼亚版，B1

涉大麻丑闻的政治人物被判刑

里卡多·帕切科（Ricardo Pacheco）因受贿被判最高 18 个月监禁，艾萨克·加尔万（Isaac Galvan）因协助行贿被判 18 个月监禁。加利福尼亚版，B1

天气

天气 晴朗且温暖。 洛杉矶盆地：89 / 68。B8

数据中心监管达成协议

加州立法者就解决设施能源使用的立法达成妥协。

作者：DAKOTA SMITH 和 BLANCA BEGERT

萨克拉门托 —— 经过数周的激烈谈判，州立法者于周五就监管加州不断增长的数据中心行业能源使用的立法达成了一项妥协。此次行动是由社区对这些设施的愤怒以及部分社区对高额公用事业账单的担忧所触发的。

立法者和倡导者表示，其目标是保护消费者免受这些庞大设施推高电费的影响，并追踪这些中心巨大的能源和水资源消耗。

代表科技公司的商业团体认为，一些拟议的限制和要求，加上加州高昂的能源成本和可用土地的匮乏，将使数据中心难以在州内开设。

他们表示，如果该行业转移到其他地方，各市政府将面临失去这些中心带来的税收和就业机会的风险。

在 2026 年会期的最后几周，两项监管这一争议行业的法案占据了州议会的主要议程，吸引了州长加文·纽森（Gavin Newsom）以及代表全球一些最具影响力公司（包括谷歌、Meta、亚马逊以及 Anthropic 和 OpenAI 等人工智能公司）的行业组织和游说者的参与。

由参议员史蒂夫·帕迪拉（Steve Padilla，民主党-丘拉维斯塔）和议员里克·查韦斯·兹布尔（Rick Chavez Zbur，民主党-洛杉矶）提出的拟议立法于周五敲定，该立法将为数据中心的电

[见 Data centers, A7]

乔什·库什纳成为洛杉矶湖人队所有者的之路

很大程度上被避之不及。

作者：劳伦斯·达米恩托（LAURENCE DARMIENTO）

当马克·沃尔特（Mark Walter）的保险业务受到联邦调查，且这位湖人队和道奇队的所有者可能陷入财务困境的消息传出时，乔什·库什纳（Josh Kushner）察觉到了一个商业机会。

这位纽约风险投资家致电前迪士尼首席执行官鲍勃·伊格尔（Bob Iger）——两人此前曾合伙竞标拉斯维加斯的一支新NBA球队——询问他们是否可以转而收购洛杉矶这支标志性的篮球球队。

两人迅速达成一致，库什纳联系了沃尔特，并在72小时内完成了交易以避免竞价战。就这样，特朗普总统的女婿贾里德·库什纳（Jared Kushner）的弟弟被推入了此前一直被他

虽然与政治活跃的哥哥相比，库什纳可能相对不为人知，但他迅速且低调地攀升至商业阶层的顶端，估计净资产达167亿美元。

他于2010年在就读哈佛商学院期间创立的 Thrive Capital 公司，目前管理资产超过650亿美元。其投资对象包括一些全球顶尖的年轻公司，例如 OpenAI、SpaceX 以及在南加州迅速扩张的国防承包商 Anduril。

库什纳拒绝接受采访。

与这位投资者共事的人将他的商业敏锐度、低调的举止和令人敬畏的职业操守归功于其成功，这些品质吸引了合作伙伴、创始人以及导师——包括 [见库什纳，A12]

美国国家航空航天局（NASA）寻找“地球双胞胎”的一次巨跃

罗曼望远镜将利用喷气推进实验室（JPL）的技术来揭示宇宙的奥秘。

作者：诺亚·哈格蒂（Noah Haggerty）

美国国家航空航天局（NASA）定于周日上午发射其最新的数十亿美元望远镜，科学家们聚集在佛罗里达州的太空海岸，屏息等待起飞。

在搭载 SpaceX 的猎鹰重型火箭升空后，南希·格雷斯·罗曼（Nancy Grace Roman）空间望远镜有望极大地扩展我们对太阳系外行星的认知，并推进对难以捉摸的“地球双胞胎”的搜寻。该天文台还将帮助科学家更好地理解不可见的“暗物质”与“暗能量”之间的宇宙拉锯战——这场竞赛的结果将决定宇宙是膨胀还是坍缩。

包括加州理工学院和 NASA 喷气推进实验室（JPL）人员在内的庞大工程师和科学家团队，花费了十多年时间开发这座耗资43亿美元的望远镜。作为 NASA “旗舰级”天体物理任务的一员，其享有盛名的同类项目包括哈勃和詹姆斯·韦伯空间望远镜。

罗曼望远镜以在 NASA 内部力主哈勃望远镜的女性命名，它将围绕这座拥有36年历史的天文台进行探索性巡航。它观察天空的细节将与哈勃一样清晰，但它一年能巡天覆盖的区域，哈勃需要1,000年才能完成。

“这确实需要集体的力量，”JPL 负责日冕仪传感器的仪器科学家瓦妮莎·贝利（Vanessa Bailey）说道，该传感器将辅助搜寻其他世界。“我在南达科他州的农村长大，离我最近的小镇大约有2,000人。已经有超过2,000人以某种方式为

[见望远镜，A16]

观点

声音 马克·Z·巴拉巴克（MARK Z. BARABAK）专栏作家

别现在看，但参议院之争突然变得关键

前北卡罗来纳州州长罗伊·库珀（Roy Cooper，居中）是他所在参议院选区的热门人选。 AL DRAGO 彭博社

今天我们讨论政治预测、死亡与税收。

天哪！距离选举日只剩 65 天了。

看着美国民主制度摇摇欲坠时，时间过得真快。

仍然认为共和党会失去众议院吗？

你友好的政治专栏作家不做预测。未来尚未发生，很难预知。但我们最好的指南——历史趋势——表明，民主党在 11 月 3 日极有可能夺取控制权。

他们只需要翻盘三个席位。回顾半个多世纪以来，不在白宫的政党在期中选举中的平均增益超过两打。即便共和党通过激进的选区划分（gerrymandering）制造了优势，但一位极不受欢迎的总统所带来的沉重负担，仍威胁到竞争激烈以及部分原本不那么激烈的选区中的许多共和党人。

目前，最大的问题似乎是 11 月会带来一场蓝色浪潮、一场巨大的蓝色浪潮，还是仅仅是一次涟漪。

那么争夺参议院控制权的战斗如何？

这就是事情变得有趣的地方。

“民主党仍然需要几乎每一场关键竞选都向他们倾斜，”负责为 Cook Report 追踪参议院竞选的杰西卡·泰勒（Jessica Taylor）在最近的一篇分析中写道。但她接着说，“在一次类似于 2006 年的浪潮选举中”——当时民主党获得了六个参议院席位——“即使是那些唐纳德·特朗普总统以两位数优势获胜的州，也可能进入民主党的触及范围。”

随着通货膨胀持续恶化，与伊朗的战争拖延，以及特朗普的政治地位稳步下降，情况正是如此。

在北卡罗来纳州，前民主党州长罗伊·库珀正与前共和党全国委员会主席迈克尔·沃特利（Michael Whatley）竞争，库珀获胜的可能性似乎很大。在那里的胜利将为民主党提供他们需要翻盘的四个席位之一。

此外，在阿拉斯加州、爱荷华州、俄亥俄州和德克萨斯州，还有少数几个共和党正努力维持的红州席位。

请详细说说。

在阿拉斯加州，前众议员玛丽·波托拉（Mary Portola）在 8 月 18 日的初选中成功获得了近 50% 的选票，这一点值得关注，因为她与共和党现任议员丹·萨利文（Dan Sullivan）在同一张选票上竞选，后者排名第二。（另一位丹·萨利文也出现在选票上；根据阿拉斯加州的前四名制度，两名萨利文都将与波托拉一起进入 11 月的决选。（第四个名额尚待确定。）

在俄亥俄州，前参议员谢罗德·布朗（Sherrod Brown）在特朗普 landslide 式获胜导致其 2024 年连任失败前曾当选三次，现在他面对的是共和党人乔恩·休斯顿（Jon Husted），后者被任命填补 JD Vance 成为副总统后留下的空缺。休斯顿被证明是一个不够稳健的候选人，而布朗则在发起一场强有力的回归竞选。

在爱荷华州，众议员艾希莉·欣森（Ashley Hinson，南加州大学毕业生及前 KABC-TV 实习生！）正与州众议员乔什·图雷克（Josh Turek）竞争。该州一直受到特朗普关税和油价飙升的打击——尤其是支撑爱荷华州至关重要的农业经济的柴油燃料。图雷克还可能受益于州长领先者罗布·桑德（Rob Sand）发起的强力竞选，桑德在民主党候选人名单中排名首位。

然后是德克萨斯州。

民主党梦想破碎之地！

显然，你很了解政治历史。

尽管经历了无数次的炒作与希望，但自1994年以来，民主党在德克萨斯州的州级选举中从未获胜。这一次，他们将梦想寄托在州代表詹姆斯·塔拉里科（James Talarico）身上，他曾是一名神学生，且在网络上走红。然而，让这场竞选具有高度竞争力的原因在于共和党提名人肯·帕克斯顿（Ken Paxton）极其糟糕的个人条件，其斑驳的履历包括被起诉、被弹劾以及涉嫌通奸。除此之外，他的筹款能力相当差，且尚未能弥合残酷的共和党初选所留下的创伤。

那么，一切都对民主党有利了？

不一定。他们寄予厚望、旨在翻盘夺取参议院控制权的两个州——缅因州和密歇根州，现在变得棘手起来。

缅因州曾被认为是民主党最好的夺取机会。现任参议员苏珊·柯林斯（Susan Collins）是唯一一名在2024年由卡玛拉·哈里斯（Kamala Harris）赢得的州中参选的共和党人。随后出现了格雷厄姆·普拉特纳（Graham Platner），以及他煽动性的社交媒体帖子、纳粹纹身和性侵指控。他在7月退出竞选，由前伐木工、前州参议院议长特洛伊·杰克逊（Troy Jackson）接替，由于起步较晚，杰克逊有大量差距需要追赶。

曾四次连任的柯林斯有赢得艰苦竞选的历史。普拉特纳的溃败无疑没有给杰克逊或民主党带来任何帮助。

与此同时，在密歇根州，进步派的阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德（Abdul El-Sayed）以微弱优势击败了一位更倾向于中间路线的竞争对手，赢得了民主党的提名。问题在于，埃尔-赛义德是否过于左翼（坦率地说，是否潜藏着过多的反穆斯林情绪），以至于无法在这个“紫色州”获胜。共和党提名人、前代表迈克·罗杰斯（Mike Rogers）在两年前参选，当时仅以不足0.5个百分点的差距落败。

很有参考价值。但在接下来的65天里，可能会发生很多事情。没错。

这就是为什么我们坚持只写专栏。如果你想要预测，请去问算命先生或咨询你的“神奇8号球”。

哦？

在本轮选举周期开始时，夺取控制权似乎对民主党来说几乎是不可能的。

11月的选票上有35场竞选。其中，考虑到一方对另一方的优势，近两打竞选在开始之前实际上就已经结束了。在剩余的竞选中，大多数在特朗普于2024年获胜的州举行，广义上讲，这对共和党来说是友好的地形。

民主党需要翻盘夺取四个参议院席位，直到不久前，这种不利的政治版图还让这一挑战显得几乎不可逾越。

现在呢？

现在，像非党派的 Cook Political Report 的专家那样聪明的博彩分析师表示，参议院的控制权现在处于五五开的状态。

“考虑到版图上的党派挑战，共和党仍然保持着结构性优势，并且”

民主党的狂欢！

别高兴得太早。五五开意味着共和党维持参议院多数席位的可能性同样大。

明白了。那么请详细分析一下。

让我们先从民主党的优势开始，当然，带有惯常的免责声明……

……除了死亡和税收，没有什么事是绝对的。明白了，请继续。

一度看来，乔治亚州处于五五开状态，因为民主党人乔恩·奥索夫（Jon Ossoff）在特朗普赢得的这些战场州之一寻求连任。但奥索夫筹集了巨额资金，且抽到了一个竞争力并不强的对手——共和党代表迈克·柯林斯（Mike Collins）。最近，围绕奥索夫的讨论更多集中在他潜在的2028年总统竞选，而非他11月的连任。

与此同时，在北

削减用水计划令城市与农民担忧

一名人员站在亚利桑那州佩吉市附近瓦威普码头（Wahweap Marina）的一处观景台上。 约翰·洛彻（JOHN LOCHER）美联社

依赖科罗拉多河的地区面临不确定性并担忧用水短缺。

作者：吴飞宇（WUFEI YU） 及 多拉尼·皮内达（DORANY PINEDA）

菲尼克斯 —— 在菲尼克斯市郊，一个高度依赖科罗拉多河的小镇已经限制了增长，重启了旧水井并达成了用水协议。

但凯夫克里克（Cave Creek）市长罗伯特·莫里斯（Robert Morris）无法摆脱一种真实的可能，即这些措施不足以让这个拥有约 5,000 人的沙漠社区在未来长期生存。而最近一项旨在解决河流流域日益加深危机的联邦计划也无济于事。

凯夫克里克几乎所有的用水都来自这条河流，该河流为美国西部 4000 万 人提供服务，但由于气候变化、需求增加和过度使用，水量一直在减少。该镇今年已被迫削减用水，而在新的联邦计划下，它将面临更多的损失。

莫里斯将这种情况比作规划应对陨石撞击。“你可以看到它在逼近，但你无法避开，也不知道损失会有多大，”他说。

这种不确定性延伸至美国七个州、部落国家以及墨西哥。农民们正在决定哪些作物值得投资。菲尼克斯可能会首次失去部分市政和工业用水，并转而寻求备用水源。而居民们可能面临价格更高的水费。

内华达州上周通过起诉内政部和美国垦务局（U.S. Bureau of Reclamation）提高了赌注，称如果该地区在未来十年必须承担计划中高达 70% 的科罗拉多河用水削减，拉斯维加斯地区的基本需求将无法得到满足。

垦务局周四表示，不对诉讼发表评论。

“不确定性将继续向错误的方向积累，”亚利桑那州水资源部主任汤姆·布沙茨克（Tom Buschatzke）表示。

西部水库水位创历史新低

在美国西部，水主要储存在水库、含水层和积雪中。但创纪录的降雪干旱意味着用于补充这些水源的水量大大减少。

美国最大的两个水库是科罗拉多河系统健康状况的晴雨表：米德湖（Lake Mead）和鲍威尔湖（Lake Powell）。两者在本月均触及历史低点。

由垦务局运营的其他八个水库最近记录到了至少过去 30 年来的最低水位。其中包括新墨西哥州的象牙山湖（Elephant Butte Lake），该湖对于向新墨西哥州南部、德克萨斯州和墨西哥的农作物供水至关重要。格林山水库（Green Mountain Reservoir）服务于科罗拉多州西部，而怀俄明州的根西水库（Guernsey Reservoir）则将水输送给该州东部和内布拉斯加州西部的农民。

根据垦务局的计划，加利福尼亚州、内华达州和亚利桑那州在未来两年内每年将共同削减 125 万 英亩-英尺的用水量——足以填满 600,000 多个奥运标准游泳池——且根据情况可能会有更大规模的削减。科罗拉多州、犹他州、怀俄明州和新墨西哥州目前不被要求削减，但可以自愿减少用水。

虽然厄尔尼诺现象可能会在未来几个月给北落基山脉和西南部带来强降水，但这无法抹去数十年的干旱。

“干旱是一种缓慢移动的现象，进入干旱状态和走出干旱状态都需要一段时间，”最近一份美国干旱监测图的作者、高级研究科学家大卫·莫科（David Mocko）表示。

农民不愿播种

约翰·博尔茨（John Boelts）在亚利桑那州尤马（Yuma）种植蔬菜、甜瓜、硬粒小麦和其他作物——该地区生产了北美冬季食用叶类蔬菜的约 90%。

那里的农民拥有高优先级的用水权，在未来两年内可能会避免科罗拉多河供水量的削减，但博尔茨表示，这种暂时的缓解不足以让他们制定长期计划。这使得农民不愿开垦新 acreage 播种。

他表示，在该地区生长繁茂的柑橘、椰枣和其他果园作物需要数年时间才能达到商业产出。

“我们种植的没有任何一种食物是可以速成的，”亚利桑那州农业局主席博尔茨说。“牛肉需要数年时间才能产出。你今天吃的生菜？农民在六个多月前就在研究如何种植这种作物了。”

雷·马丁内斯（Ray Martinez）在科罗拉多河印第安部落（Colorado River Indian Tribes）居住的保留地种植苜蓿。该部落拥有该河流一些最古老的用水权，虽然其在亚利桑那州的配额巨大，但陈旧的灌溉系统和基础设施的匮乏使得大部分水资源无法触及。

马丁内斯和水务部门担心是否有足够的水量来完成本生长季。为了帮助支撑米德湖（Lake Mead）的水位，他已经让部分农田闲置多年未播种。他说，如果水库水位继续下降，流入他及邻近农场的地表水将受到进一步限制。

“不幸的是，大自然有其运行的方式，而我们对此无能为力，”他补充道。

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安大略省省长对特朗普做出强力回应

安大略省省长道格·福特在五十点保护区（Fifty Point Conservation Area）为安大略湖揭幕一块巨型标牌。

道格·福特以一块巨型“安大略湖”标牌回应“美国湖”法令。

作者：罗布·吉利斯（Rob Gillies）

多伦多 —— 安大略省省长道格·福特（Doug Ford）周六针对特朗普总统的“美国湖”法令，在加拿大海岸线竖起了一块广告牌大小的信息牌——“安大略湖。现在且永远”，而加拿大领导人们对这一举动的反应更多是嘲讽而非愤怒。

福特身穿一件加拿大国家足球队球衣，在加拿大格里姆斯比（Grimsby）附近揭幕了该标牌并拍照留念。这块 24x12 英尺的标牌立在 6 英尺高的支架上，顶部距离地面约 18 英尺 —— 大约两层楼高。该信息同时以法语重复呈现。

此次展示是在特朗普签署行政命令，指示美国联邦机构将安大略湖称为“美国湖”之后进行的。在经历了数月的关税压力、将加拿大变为美国第 51 个州的威胁以及对加拿大领导人的攻击后，加拿大的反应将反抗与嘲弄交织在一起。

福特表示，特朗普试图重新命名该湖是因为安大略省和加拿大正在“为自己挺身而出”，并认为这个名字将比总统的任期更长久。

“在特朗普总统离任很久之后，这里依然会被称为安大略湖，”福特在发布于社交媒体的一段视频中说道。

加拿大人 嘲讽特朗普

马尼托巴省省长瓦布·基纽（Wab Kinew）将特朗普比作一支试图重启旧金曲的过气摇滚乐队。

“你知道当一支摇滚乐队真的走下坡路时，你会看到他们在赌场里演奏一些 50 年前的歌曲。我认为这就是唐纳德·特朗普总统任期目前所处的阶段。就像他认为自己在墨西哥湾这件事上拥有一个真正的热门金曲，一个真正的经典老歌，”基纽说道，他指的是特朗普将墨西哥湾重新命名为“美国湾”的行政命令。“他试图重启那个，试图为他的支持基础演奏金曲。但我认为这里的每个人都觉得这有点可悲，而且这不是他的最佳作品。”

嘲讽不仅限于政治人物。加拿大历史学家罗伯特·博思韦尔（Robert Bothwell）的措辞更为犀利。

“地球上最伟大的国家竟然把这个白痴当回事？”博思韦尔说道。

但博思韦尔表示，这场争端比笑话更严重，他认为特朗普更广泛的目标是“使加拿大从属化，最好将其变成殖民地，最坏则将其并入美国”。

多伦多大学名誉教授尼尔森·怀斯曼（Nelson Wiseman）表示，特朗普“希望加拿大像一个附庸国一样行动，但加拿大拒绝这样做。这让他恼火”。

谈判破裂后互放狠话

此次争端发生之际，长期盟友之间的关系因贸易问题而恶化。谈判于上周破裂，两国政府互相指责对方在最后时刻提出要求，加拿大宣布将于下月起实施报复性关税。

特朗普的命令还出在与福特之间不断升级的口水战之中。在接受美联社（Associated Press）采访时，福特表示，罗纳德·里根会对特朗普的关税政策感到“作呕”，并对“特朗普总统感到厌恶”。

特朗普反击称福特的言论是“虚张声势”，称其为总理马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）的“走狗”，并嘲讽他是已故多伦多市长罗布·福特（Rob Ford）那个“缺乏魅力、缺乏智能且整体令人失望的兄弟”。

特朗普周六继续推广新名称，转发了一张模因图，图中显示长着特朗普式金发的加拿大雁在用步枪射击，以“保护”美国湖。

特朗普多次利用地图来表达政治观点。椭圆形办公室曾一度展示过一张“美国湾”地图，且特朗普曾发布过将加拿大描绘成美国一部分或第 51 个州的图像。

一个源自原住民的名字

安大略湖（Lake Ontario）这个名字源于休伦原住民的词汇“oni- atarí:io”，意为“闪光之水之湖”。成立于1867年的加拿大安大略省便以此湖命名。

温达特民族（Wendat Nation）大酋长皮埃尔·皮卡德（Pierre Picard）称特朗普的举动是在企图抹除原住民的历史。皮卡德的族人历史上居住在从圣劳伦斯河谷到五大湖的地区，且其语言赋予了安大略湖这个名字。

“我想告诉他，对于我们这个民族来说，拥有一个能够根除我们的历史、文化和身份的总统是不可接受的，”皮卡德说道。

加拿大总理马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）拒绝了这一举措，并指出该湖具有原住民根源，且其名称早于加拿大联邦成立和美国《独立宣言》。特朗普不能要求加拿大采用新名称。

叙利亚库尔德人警惕地观察其武装力量并入军队

BADERKHAN AHMAD 美联社 在叙利亚卡米什利，一名男孩经过描绘库尔德人与伊斯兰国战士战斗的壁画。

作者：Hogir al Abdo

叙利亚，卡米什利

叙利亚，卡米什利 —— 叙利亚东北部的库尔德人对曾经控制该地区的库尔德领导力量被解散的公告持有复杂的情绪，而与叙利亚有利益关系的国际参与者则对这一步骤表示欢迎。

库尔德领导的叙利亚民主力量（SDF）指挥官马兹卢姆·阿卜迪（Mazloum Abdi）周二宣布该组织正式解散。多年来，该组织控制着一个事实上的自治区，该区域一度涵盖了叙利亚约25%的领土。

在1月份的一次政府攻势中，该组织失去了其持有的大部分土地。其战士目前正被整合进官方的国家军队，而其控制的民事机构正被移交给国家。

这次过渡比许多人预期的要顺利，临时总统艾哈迈德·沙拉（Ahmad al-Sharaa）承诺将加强库尔德人的权利，在他在掌权之前，库尔德人在阿萨德王朝的统治下长期被边缘化。

许多库尔德人最初对沙拉政府持怀疑态度。参与推翻前叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德（Bashar Assad）攻势的部分反叛组织在过去也曾与叙利亚民主力量（SDF）发生冲突。

给新体制一个机会

但卡米什利（Qamishli）的公民社会活动人士穆罕默德·阿尔·穆罕默德（Mohammed al Mohammed）表示，他信任阿卜迪（Abdi），后者领导了长年与伊斯兰国武装分子的战斗。

“我们相信[阿卜迪]将军及其团队能够为库尔德人的利益而工作，并能够保障我们的权利，”他说。“我们的权利是基本权利——能够使用我们自己的语言说话，生活在我们的土地上，能够自行管理我们的土地，并且不再像在阿萨德政权时期那样，因为是库尔德人而遭到袭击。”

来自卡米什利以西阿穆达镇（Amuda）的伊娃·谢赫·穆萨（Eva Sheikh Mousa）表示，只要库尔德人的权利得到尊重，SDF作为一个组织对她来说并不重要。

“无论谁能保障库尔德人的权利，包括使用我们自己语言的权利、在农场自由耕作的权利，以及政治权利，并且如果我们能在新叙利亚中成为积极的参与者，这才是库尔德人所追求的，”她说。“并不是说SDF消失了，库尔德人也就随之消失了。”

有些人对正在发生的变革更为谨慎。朱万·穆罕默德（Jwan Mohammed）在2018年土耳其军队及其盟友叙利亚反对派战士的攻势中，从阿夫林镇（Afrin）被驱逐。库尔德平民以及SDF战士被赶出了攻势中被占领的地区，尽管一些流离失所者现在已开始返回。

穆罕默德表示，他同意与国家军队合并，但对于看到SDF作为一个组织走向终结感到不快。

他说，SDF“做出了巨大的牺牲，他们与伊斯兰国作战”，“现在，他们说SDF这个名字不再存在了。这太过了，而且很难接受。”

自从中央政府接管并取消燃料补贴以来，原SDF控制地区的居民也受到了价格上涨的沉重打击。近几个月来，由于物价上涨和生活条件恶化，当地爆发了抗议活动。

国际社会对解散表示赞赏

但东北部的整合极大地推动了阿尔-沙拉（Al-Sharaa）政府的发展，该政府在国家开始从一场近14年的内战中恢复之际，一直致力于统一国家。

SDF解散的公告得到了国际参与者的赞赏。

法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙（Emmanuel Macron）在周三的一份声明中祝贺叙利亚在“昨日采取的决定性步骤中，将叙利亚民主力量和平整合进叙利亚

世界非正式最年轻国王，3岁在乌干达加冕，34岁逝世

作者：罗德尼·穆胡穆扎（Rodney Muhumuza）

乌干达，坎帕拉 —— 乌干达的一位部落君主奥约·尼姆巴（Oyo Nyimba）已经逝世。他婴儿时期便登上了古老的王位，童年时期作为“童王”令世界各国领导人着迷。他享年34岁。

托罗（Tooro）国王的死讯由总理卡尔文·鲁沃米雷·阿基基（Calvin Rwomiire Akiiki）于周五早些时候宣布。

“王位的延续得到了保证，”这位托罗总理在声明中表示，“陛下留下了一位王子作为继承人，其身份将在适当的时间根据托罗王国的传统和习俗正式公布。”

这一死讯令许多乌干达人感到震惊，因为他们此前并不知晓国王正在国外接受某种未知疾病的治疗。周五，各界发表了悼词。

托罗当局此前曾向乌干达民众保证，奥约依然在世，但处于危急状态，这使得许多乌干达人不得不突然面对他在相对年轻的年纪去世的事实。

“这很难以理解，”议会副议长托马斯·塔耶布瓦（Thomas Tayebwa）表示。

被人们熟知的奥约国王在父亲去世后，于1995年3岁时加冕。他曾是一个穿着色彩鲜艳的长袍、令数十万臣民崇拜的好奇孩子。在加冕礼上，他经历了一系列部落仪式，正式成为奥约·尼姆巴·卡班巴·伊古鲁·鲁基迪四世（Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV）国王。

奥约拥有世界非正式最年轻国王的称号，即使是在国家活动中与他接触的世界领导人也对他感到着迷。在年满18岁成年之前，他通过王国任命的摄政王领导他的子民。

利比亚领导人穆阿迈尔·卡扎菲（Moammar Gadhafi）就是那些将托罗王室视为自己大家庭成员的人之一。在2011年10月去世前，卡扎菲曾多次访问乌干达，并多年支持奥约及其王太后。

当时18岁的托罗国王奥约于2010年在乌干达的 Fort Portal 承担起全部职责。

随着年龄增长，奥约被认为是一个注重隐私的安静之人。他在去世时仍未婚，被广泛视为乌干达最抢手的单身汉。今年9月，议长承诺只要奥约决定结婚，他将支付彩礼；对此，坐在王位上的国王报以微笑。

马克·霍费尔（MARC HOFER）美联社

托罗是乌干达古老的王国之一。

在脱离英国殖民统治独立后，一位主张统一国家的共和制总统曾禁止传统王国的存在，但这些王国在1993年得到了恢复。

它们没有政治权力，但作为部落文化的守护者拥有权威。

奥约王国的所在地是西部一座偏远的城市—。

国王逝世，挪威进入新王室时代

周五，哀悼者在雨中伫立，目送哈拉尔五世国王的遗体抵达奥斯陆王宫。 HEIKO JUNGE 美联社

周六，市政厅和教堂纷纷开放，以共同悼念 89 岁的哈拉尔，其子继位。

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奥斯陆 —— 周六，数万名哀悼者向挪威国王哈拉尔五世表达敬意。在该君主以 89 岁之龄逝世一天后，人们在奥斯陆王宫外摆放鲜花和吊唁卡。

随着挪威民众络绎不绝地走过，五彩缤纷的花海覆盖了王宫前的广场——斯洛特广场（Slottsplassen）。据挪威广播公司（NRK）报道，一名宫廷园丁清理了王宫南侧的部分花束，以保持通道畅通。NRK 还报道称，宫廷工作人员收集了在夜间大雨中被淋湿的卡片，并将其晾干，以便为后世保存哀悼者的信息。

在全国各地，教堂和市政厅在周六特意开放，以便人们点燃蜡烛，并在吊唁册上写下对已故国王的思念。

周五晚上，灵柩从哈拉尔逝世的奥斯陆国家医院抵达王宫。

“这很特别，亲密且美好。我将右手放在胸前，向他以及王室表达感激之情，”46 岁的罗尼·埃尔维克（Roni Ervik）在表达敬意时告诉 NRK。他说，他也是代表来自挪威西部的家人向已故国王致敬。

哈拉尔五世于周五上午逝世，其 53 岁的儿子，王储哈康（Crown Prince Haakon），成为了哈康八世国王。

哈康采用了“一切为了挪威”的座右铭，该座右铭可追溯到他的曾祖父。他的妻子成为了梅特-玛丽王后（Queen Mette-Marit），而他的长女英格丽德·亚历山德拉（Ingrid Alexandra）成为了王储公主及王位继承人。

哈康对其王室职责十分熟悉。随着父亲年事渐高且近年来健康状况下降，他曾多次出任国家摄政。

王宫在一份声明中表示，周六下午，新国王与英格丽德·亚历山德拉王储公主在宫内迎接了挪威首相约纳斯·加尔·斯托雷（Jonas Gahr Store）以及挪威路德教会的主教，当时哈拉尔国王的灵柩正处于停灵状态。

哈康将于周六晚上发表就任国王后的首次演说，预计他将在演说中赞颂其父亲。

王宫表示，周日，挪威教会将在全国范围内举行追思礼拜，王室成员预计将参加在奥斯陆西南方向阿斯克教堂（Asker Church）举行的仪式。

他在不久的将来将面临的任务包括，在妻子此前与已故性犯罪者杰弗里·爱泼斯坦（Jeffrey Epstein）的接触，以及其继子的强奸罪定罪引发争议后，巩固对君主制的支持。

葬礼日期尚未确定，但该国已正式进入哀悼期。据 NRK 报道，一些人决定将婚礼和洗礼等庆祝活动推迟到哀悼期结束后举行。

挪威的君主制根基深厚，其起源可追溯到九世纪的哈拉尔·发 the Fairhair 国王。1905 年挪威从瑞典重新获得独立时，在一次全民公投中，四分之三的选民赞成恢复君主制。如今，由于权力掌握在选举产生的议会手中，这一角色在很大程度上是象征性的，但该国王室在向全球推广这个富裕国家方面仍发挥着作用。

科学家调查疱疹病毒是否导致沙丁鱼大量死亡

作者：米歇尔·古梅德 (MICHELLE GUMEDE)

约翰内斯堡 —— 南非的科学家们正在调查为何该国西部和南部部分海岸出现大量沙丁鱼死亡或濒死冲上岸的现象，以及在鱼类体内检测到的某种疱疹病毒是否为此原因。

本月发生的沙丁鱼大规模死亡事件至今令该国的林业、渔业和环境部感到困惑，不过科学家们已得出至少一项结论：这是相关病毒——沙丁鱼疱疹病毒（pilchard herpesvirus，简称 PHV）——首次在南非近海的沙丁鱼中被发现。

据南非环境部称，PHV 与 20 世纪 90 年代澳大利亚发生的两次沙丁鱼大规模死亡事件有关，该病毒会导致沙丁鱼鳃部发炎和增厚，从而干扰其氧气吸收。

沙丁鱼（sardines）和pilchards（另一种沙丁鱼类）属于同一种鱼，其中沙丁鱼是指年龄较小、体型较小的个体。

该部门表示，PHV 是一种鱼类病毒，已知对人类健康不构成风险，且检测到该病毒并不意味着商业捕捞的健康沙丁鱼或罐装沙丁鱼产品不安全。

来自受影响区域的数十条沙丁鱼（部分已死亡，部分仍存活）正由南非水生生物多样性研究所和当地的一所大学的科学家进行检查。

该部门在的一份声明中表示，初步结果显示，从大规模死亡事件中收集的死鱼体内 PHV 水平持续偏高，而接受检查的活鱼体内病毒水平则各不相同。

科学家还考虑了海洋中发现的有害藻类、异常低的海水温度或低氧环境是否可能是导致沙丁鱼死亡的原因，但环境部表示，“证据越来越多地指向 PHV 是最主要的解释”。

南非夸祖鲁-纳塔尔大学的生物科学讲师达琳·沃斯卢（Dalene Vosloo）并未参与此次调查，她表示，疱疹病毒可能无法解释全部情况，“多种因素共同导致此次死亡事件的可能性依然存在”。

她指出，水质或温度的变化会使鱼类更容易患病。

在调查继续进行的同时，沙丁鱼的死亡还引发了其他并发症。运营该电站的公司表示，位于南非西海岸开普敦北部的库伯格核电站（Koeberg Nuclear Power Station）由于死沙丁鱼堵塞了海水进水口，不得不将其两个机组之一的功率削减 $50%。

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4人承认纵火焚烧救护车罪名

今年早些时候，伦敦犹太社区的车辆遭到破坏。

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伦敦——周五，四名男子承认在今年早些时候于北伦敦的一次纵火袭击中破坏了四辆犹太社区救护车。许多人表示，此次袭击是伊朗战争爆发的直接结果。

伦敦中央刑事法院的鲍比·切马-格拉布（Bobbie Cheema-Grubb）法官表示，量刑将于2027年春季进行，届时另一名涉嫌参与救护车袭击的男子的独立审判也将结束。

哈姆扎·伊克巴尔（Hamza Iqbal），20岁；雷汉·汗（Rehan Khan），19岁；朱德克斯·阿特沙奇（Judex Atshatshi）和赛义夫·阿里（Saif Ali），两人均为18, 岁，他们面临破坏或损坏财产以及对是否危及生命持鲁莽态度的指控。

在3月23日凌晨被焚毁的四辆救护车由 Hatzola 拥有，这是一家在北伦敦戈尔德斯格林（Golders Green）地区运营的犹太志愿者慈善机构。

每辆救护车的成本约为 $340,000.

此次袭击是美国和以色列于2月28日首次对伊朗发动攻击后，数周内发生的几起被认定为反犹太主义事件之一。

据称，三名被告点燃了装满物资的车辆，而第四人则在车内等待。由此引发的火灾导致救护车内的气罐爆炸，附近的公寓和一座犹太会堂也遭到火灾破坏。

检察官利奥·西利格（Leo Seelig）暗示该事件具有

荷兰研究所警告称特朗普形状的摇头丸可能致命

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海牙——一家荷兰药物成瘾和心理健康研究所周五警告用户，一种形状像美国总统特朗普头部的摇头丸可能致命。

备受推崇的特林博斯研究所（Trimbos Institute）表示，最近在一家为用户提供用药前药物检测的中心网络中，有几颗此类药丸被上交。

该研究所警告称：“绝对不要使用这些药丸。”

它发布了一张药丸的照片，药丸的一面描绘了特朗普的头部，另一面则在一条垂直线的两侧印有“NL”和“Trump”字样。其中一颗药丸面部为绿色，另一颗为黄色。

该研究所在其网站和社交媒体上发布的“红色警报”中警告称，这些药丸含有高浓度的 PMMA（对甲氧基甲基苯丙胺）化学物质，这种物质与摇头丸的活性成分 MDMA 相似。

印第安纳州警察局佩鲁分局 这些药丸并非首款特朗普形状的药丸。

然而，PMMA 的起效速度比 MDMA 慢，这可能会导致用户因为他们

马塞洛·佩雷斯·德尔·卡皮奥（MARCELO PÉREZ DEL CARPIO）为《时报》供稿

特朗普委内瑞拉石油协议细节披露较少

作者：柯林·宾克利（COLLIN BINKLEY） 及 胡安·帕布罗·阿拉埃斯（JUAN PABLO ARRÁEZ）

2月，委内瑞拉卡比马斯（Cabimas）广场上的石油工人纪念碑。一些委内瑞拉人认为这项石油协议是一种背叛。

华盛顿——除了总统特朗普在社交媒体上发布的一条帖子外，白宫对于他所谓的在委内瑞拉达成的“世界历史上最大的石油协议”几乎没有透露任何信息。

特朗普表示，周五晚上宣布的协议将使美国在委内瑞拉巨大的石油储备中获得股份。这是实现其从该国提取能源目标的一步，此前美国军队在1月的深夜突袭中抓获了时任总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗（Nicolás Maduro），并将其带到纽约面临联邦贩毒指控。

委内瑞拉代理总统德尔西·罗德里格斯（Delcy Rodríguez）将该协议描述为迈向经济复苏的一步，将使该国的石油工业现代化。

但对于诸如储备何时能开始钻探以及谁将为此出资等问题的答案尚未立即明确。目前尚未公布任何协议文本。

已知与未知情况概览：

条款内容为何？

美国政府与委内瑞拉一家未具名的私营运营商成立了一家新的私营公司，该公司被授予了为期 100 年的广大未开发油田的开发权。

罗德里格斯的一份声明称，该协议涉及 17 个油田的开发，其证实潜力为 650 亿美元 桶。声明称，该协议可为委内瑞拉石油工业吸引 1000 亿美元 billion 的投资，并为加拉加斯带来超过 2090 亿美元 billion 的税收。

特朗普表示，该协议由国务卿马尔科·鲁比奥、国防部长皮特·海格塞斯和罗德里格斯协商达成。

该协议使美国获得这家新私营公司 55% 的实际产量，包括所有权股份以及按成本价购买石油的权利。一名未获授权公开讨论此事且要求匿名的美国官员表示，美国购买的石油将与军用石油一起进入美国战略石油储备。

该官员称，这家公司将成为仅次于沙特阿美公司（Saudi Aramco）的全球第二大证实储量企业持有者。

汽油价格会下降吗？

短期内可能不会。

特朗普表示，该协议将有助于降低美国人的汽油价格。对于这位共和党总统来说，这是一个重要目标，因为伊朗战争减缓了波斯湾石油的运输，导致在 11 月美国大选前数月价格依然处于高位。

但专家多次警告，委内瑞拉破旧的石油基础设施需要数年时间和数十亿美元才能修复。

预计产量不会迅速大幅提升。

纽约大学能源、气候正义与可持续发展实验室主任艾米·迈尔斯·贾费（Amy Myers Jaffe）表示，该协议“从长远来看可能有所帮助，但它无法在劳工节（Labor Day）周末改变零售加油站的汽油价格”。

双方均未明确谁将支付基础设施投资费用以及成本多少。

根据 AAA 的数据，周六美国汽油的平均价格约为每加仑 $4.08。去年同期平均价格为 $3.20。

委内瑞拉人将如何反应？

委内瑞拉部分人士认为，这背叛了其政府数十年来反复声明的立场：委内瑞拉的资源属于委内瑞拉，领导层绝不允许美国政府染指这些资源。

周六在加拉加斯东部的一个市场，道格拉斯·博哈斯（Douglas Borjas）表示他对这一公告感到愤怒。

在谈到委内瑞拉领导人时，他说：“我认为他们这样做是为了维持权力。就像是在说，‘只要你们让我继续在这里掌权，我就把大量石油交给你们。’”

他补充道：“委内瑞拉人民值得更好的待遇。委内瑞拉拥有可以开发的资源，但应该是为了人民的利益，而不是为了腐败精英的利益。”

哈佛大学教授、前委内瑞拉规划部长里卡多·豪斯曼（Ricardo Hausmann）称这是一场“可耻的交易”。

豪斯曼在社交媒体上表示：“委内瑞拉人不会尊重这项非法的交易，也没有任何美国大型石油公司会认真对待，因为他们知道这不会持久。”他补充说，罗德里格斯“没有合法性或宪法权力让委内瑞拉承诺达成此类协议”。

还有哪些问题待解决？

许多重要细节仍不明确，包括私人运营商的身份、谁将承担必要的投资，以及美国在该公司中的股份如何分配。

美国将获得该公司 $55\%$ 的实际产量，但目前尚不清楚其中有多少比例来自所有权股份，多少比例来自以成本价购买石油的权利。

此外，工业界的反应也尚不明确。考虑到政治的不确定性和受损的基础设施，说服美国大型石油公司重返该地区可能会是一项挑战。

雪佛龙（Chevron）是唯一一家在委内瑞拉积极进行生产的美国石油公司，该公司拒绝置评。

在特朗普的宣布之前，雪佛龙已经就在扩大在该国投资进行谈判。

凯投宏观（Capital Economics）首席气候与大宗商品经济学家大卫·奥克斯利（David Oxley）表示，从表面上看，这项协议可能会使美国的石油储备翻倍，并减少对加拿大和墨西哥原油的依赖。但奥克斯利在评论文章中警告称，目前仍存在物流障碍，并表示委内瑞拉储备的价值在前总统雨果·查韦斯（Hugo Chavez）时期可能被夸大了。

他写道，即使有法律和安全保障，也不确定美国石油公司是否“会渴望投资”。

Binkley 和 Arráez 为美联社（Associated Press）撰稿。Arráez 在委内瑞拉加拉加斯报道。美联社记者 Moriah Balingit 和美联社经济记者 Paul Wiseman 在华盛顿参与了此次报道。

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新奥尔良地标性医院将迎来翻新

图拉恩大学（Tulane University）的帕特里克·诺顿（PATRICK Norton）和杰夫·本杰明（Jeff Benjamin）在慈善医院（Charity Hospital）大楼的大厅内。该校正主导这项 $500-million 的翻新工程。 杰拉尔德·赫伯特（GERALD HERBERT）美联社

慈善医院自 2005, 年飓风卡特里娜袭击该市后一直关闭。

作者：杰克·布鲁克（Jack Brook）

新奥尔良 —— 在飓风卡特里娜的混乱中，新奥尔良的慈善医院成为了心碎与英雄主义的交汇之地。当时，在没有电力或可用医疗设备的情况下，医生们竭力维持患者生命，而洪水将他们困在昏暗的大厅中数日之久。

这座巨大的医院是新奥尔良的地标，长期以来一直为该市最弱势的居民提供医疗服务。在 2005. 最后一名患者和工作人员获救后，医院被关闭。现在，随着路易斯安那州在周六纪念这场风暴 21 周年，这座长期空置且受风暴损坏的大楼正处于重获新生的边缘。

该建筑将用于医学研究

杜兰大学今年夏天宣布，正牵头开展一项耗资 $500-million 的计划，将慈善医院（Charity Hospital）改造成一座先驱性的医学研究设施，将这座 20 世纪 30 年代的装饰艺术风格建筑转变为市中心的生物医学创新枢纽。工程预计将于今年秋季开工。

当地领导人对该项目表示支持。在纽奥良，部分医院自卡特里娜飓风以来一直像阴影一样笼罩着这座城市。在原纪念医院（现名为奥克什纳浸信会医疗中心），数十名患者在洪水将其困在没有电力的酷暑环境中后死亡。

本月，拆除人员开始拆除另一个综合体——林迪·博格斯医疗中心（Lindy Boggs Medical Center），该中心在卡特里娜飓风后已荒废空置 20 多年。

卡特里娜飓风是美国历史上最具破坏性和致死率最高的飓风之一，在五个州造成近 1,400 人死亡，估计造成 2000 亿美元 billion 的损失，摧毁了附近墨西哥湾沿岸的房屋，并用毁灭性的洪水淹没了整个社区。

杜兰大学的领导层表示，恢复这座标志性建筑标志着在摆脱飓风阴暗日子的进程中迈出了重大一步。

杜兰大学校长迈克尔·菲茨（Michael Fitts）表示，慈善医院“反映了纽奥良对社区医疗保健的承诺”，而“现在它正以一种同样致力于社区的方式回归”。

此前的努力均以失败告终

几代以来，慈善医院系统一直充当纽奥良的安全网，无论患者是否拥有医疗保险均提供治疗。这座面积达 100 万平方英尺的主楼自卡特里娜飓风以来一直处于空置状态。在随后的几十年里，各种重新开发方案均以失败告终。

该医院由路易斯安那州立大学（LSU）运营，该校认定卡特里娜飓风给建筑造成的损坏过于严重而无法重新开放——这一评估遭到了部分医院员工和社区成员的质疑。相反，路易斯安那州立大学利用联邦灾难救援资金开设了一家新医院。

在卡特里娜飓风在路易斯安那州登陆后，纽奥良联邦堤坝系统的失效导致全市约 80% 的地区被淹。

医生回忆 划船前往医院

杜兰大学医学院院长李·哈姆（Lee Hamm）博士回忆起自己曾划着独木舟穿过被淹没的城市，去查看患者和医护人员的安危。

“在那一刻，每个人都表现出了极大的勇气，”哈姆说，“人们都在尽力做他们需要做的事情。”

新的医学研究枢纽计划于 2029 年完工。

计划包括为医学和公共卫生项目提供空间，菲茨将其称为“杜兰大学历史上规模最大、最重要的倡议”。新设施还将包括可容纳数百名研究人员的实验室、生物医学初创公司空间以及教室。

哈姆表示，他希望该枢纽能推动造福整个墨西哥湾南部地区的医学进步。

纽奥良市长海伦娜·莫雷诺（Helena Moreno）对慈善医院建筑光明的未来充满期待，她称此次重新开发是“令人欢迎的一步，也是让这座历史建筑恢复生产用途的机会”。

Brook 为美联社（Associated Press）撰稿。

弗林特危机不再采取进一步问责措施

密歇根州总检察长达娜·内塞尔（Dana Nessel）表示，“正义避开了弗林特人民”，这令人沮丧。

密歇根州总检察长表示，关于铅污染水的报告是最终行动。

作者：杰奎琳·加农（JACQUELINE GANUN）和戴维·柯林斯（DAVID COLLINS）

密歇根州兰辛 —— 密歇根州总检察长达娜·内塞尔表示，周二发布的一份关于该市铅水危机的报告，是其办公室在问责方面能采取的最后一步，此前州最高法院的一项裁决终止了针对前州长及其他八人的刑事案件。

2014年，为了节省资金，官员们开始从弗林特河抽取水，导致旧管道中的铅渗入该市的饮用水中，弗林特居民经历了数年的健康担忧。这份长达101页的报告大部分内容提供了危机的历史、当地和州政府官员缓慢的反应，以及试图对包括前共和党州长里克·斯奈德（Rick Snyder）在内的九人提起42项重罪和轻罪指控的经过。

处于最后一个任期的民主党人内塞尔表示，该报告旨在对刑事调查进行详尽的公开记录，她对这些细节从未在法庭上提交给陪审团感到遗憾。

内塞尔说：“我希望这份揭示我们致力于此次多年努力的调查员和检察官内部运作方式，以及引导他们的事实和证据的报告，能够讲述弗林特水危机故事的一部分，并将真相交给最值得拥有它的弗林特人民。”

2019年就职后，内塞尔解雇了一名提起刑事指控的特别检察官，并组建了一支新的律师团队来确定是否构成了犯罪。该团队最终对斯奈德和其他关键官员提起指控，并将证据提交给一名担任单人大陪审团的法官。

州最高法院在2022年撤销了这些指控，称根据大陪审团法，该法官没有权力发出起诉书。

内塞尔没有参与刑事案件，而是决定专注于解决针对该州的诉讼，并将自己与刑事调查隔离开来。但在周二，她为检察官直接向法官寻求指控的决定进行了辩护，称这在当时是“最明智的举措”。她还质疑该裁决的政治影响，指出参与6-0裁决的两名大法官是由斯奈德任命的。法院的第三名由他任命的成员则在案件中回避。

内塞尔说：“我认为这些事情是无法分开的。”

她表示，令人沮丧的是“正义避开了弗林特人民”，他们将无法在刑事法庭上看到官员为水危机承担责任。

美联社周二发送了一封电子邮件寻求斯奈德的评论。

检察官在2023年表示，将于次年发布一份总结其调查情况的报告。

内塞尔表示，由于必须对大陪审团程序中必须保密的信息进行脱敏处理，并总结数百万份其他文件，因此花费了更多时间。

资金匮乏的弗林特在停止从底特律取水并开始从弗林特河取水（等待连接到新的区域系统）期间，处于州政府的财务控制之下。此举是为了节省资金。但用于处理河水的化学物质导致铅从旧管道中渗出。

就在州卫生官员称水质安全时，医生们开始报告弗林特儿童血液中出现高水平的铅。

斯奈德在2015年9月承认了铅污染问题，随后州政府为弗林特学校提供了水过滤器并对水质进行了检测。2016年初，他宣布弗林特进入紧急状态。国会最终批准了一项授权全国水利项目的法案。约$170 million被拨给弗林特，用于解决饮用水中的铅污染问题。

2020年，一名法官批准了一项金额为$626-million的赔偿协议，用于补偿弗林特居民及其他接触过铅污染水的受害者。弗林特水危机促使该州以及其他州的社区开始寻求改善饮用水输送到家庭和企业的解决方案。

GaNun和Collins为美联社（Associated Press）撰稿。Collins在康涅狄格州哈特福德报道。美联社底特律记者Corey Williams对本报道亦有贡献。

男子因雇凶杀害妻子前夫被定罪

作者：Ed White

佛罗里达州杰克逊维尔 —— 一名被指控策划在佛罗里达州道路上枪杀一名微软设计经理的男子，周三在一场雇凶杀人案中被定罪。该案件源于受害者与其富有的前妻之间多年来在子女监护权安排上的激烈冲突。

贾里德·布里根（Jared Bridegan）在 2022 年走出其 SUV 试图移走杰克逊维尔海滩（Jacksonville Beach）道路上的一条轮胎后被枪杀。这次袭击让警方困惑了数月，因为他们难以理解一个没有明显敌人的男人，为何会在女儿坐在汽车安全座椅的情况下被杀害。

检察官认为，他被杀是因为他与前妻珊娜·加德纳（Shanna Gardner）在双胞胎子女的抚养问题上存在持续的争端。

38 岁的马里奥·费尔南德斯·萨尔达纳（Mario Fernandez Saldana）被判定犯有一级谋杀罪和唆使谋杀罪，面临自动判处终身监禁的刑罚。他与 39 岁的加德纳结婚，后者的审判定于 9 月开始。

“他们想要掌握大部分决策权。他们想要更多的监护权，甚至是 60-40 的比例，”助理州检察官克里斯蒂娜·斯蒂夫勒（Christina Stifler）周二在杜瓦尔县（Duval County）法院的结案陈词中说道。

“无论他们对这种情况的看法是完全正确还是完全错误都无关紧要。重要的是他们如何解决这个问题，”斯蒂夫勒说。“他们在有其他替代方案的情况下，通过处决一名男子来解决问题。这就是我们今天聚集在这里的原因。”

检察官表示，费尔南德斯·萨尔达纳雇佣了亨利·特农（Henry Tenon）来执行这次致命的伏击。特农与布里根没有个人关系，但曾是费尔南德斯·萨尔达纳在杰克逊维尔出租房的租客。检察官将其描述为“基本上处于无家可归状态，在别人的沙发上寄宿，银行账户透支”。

陪审员看到了三张在谋杀案后开给特农的总额为 $10,000 的支票，上面标注为费尔南德斯·萨尔达纳支付的杂工费用和一项商业创意 —— “祝好运！！”

警方表示，在故意放置在道路上的轮胎轮毂上发现了特农的 DNA。他最初承认有罪并同意出庭指证费尔南德斯·萨尔达纳，但随后反悔，并将于 2027 年接受审判。

辩护律师杰西·德赖瑟（Jesse Dreicer）告诉陪审员，费尔南德斯·萨尔达纳没有杀害布里根的动机。费尔南德斯·萨尔达纳与加德纳已经分居，加德纳在杀人事件后搬到了华盛顿州。她在 2023 年被逮捕。

“他绝对没有从贾里德·布里根的死亡中获得任何利益，”德赖瑟说，并指出没有任何证词表明费尔南德斯·萨尔达纳告诉过任何人布里根“死有余辜”。

加德纳是一家总部位于犹他州的工艺品公司 Stampin' Up! 联合创始人的女儿。

布里根在停下他的大众 Atlas 准备将轮胎移开时被开枪击中两次。此前，他刚与双胞胎孩子共进晚餐后将两个孩子送回加德纳家中。在他去世时，他与基尔斯滕·布里根（Kirsten Bridegan）结婚，两人育有两个孩子。

基尔斯滕·布里根告诉陪审团，她丈夫与加德纳离婚后的关系“相当糟糕”，并补充说“完全没有信任”。她说这干扰了孩子们的医疗预约，甚至影响了学校的常规会议。

他的妻子表示，布里根曾在总部位于犹他州的 Clean Simple Eats 担任首席技术官，在去世前曾在微软工作了不到一年。

White 为美联社撰稿。

美国移民海关执法局逮捕英国极右翼挑衅者米洛·扬诺普洛斯

作者：萨菲亚·里德尔（SAFIYAH RIDDLE）

据美国国土安全部称，美国移民官员周四在纽奥良逮捕了英国极右翼评论员米洛·扬诺普洛斯（Milo Yiannopoulos）。

移民官员周五宣布，扬诺普洛斯在路易斯·阿姆斯特朗纽奥良国际机场被捕。他被指控在 2019 年 5 月通过纽约市合法进入美国后逾期逗留。一名国土安全部发言人在电子邮件中写道，在扬诺普洛斯未能出席其移民听证会后，一名移民法官于 7 月 22 日发布了最终驱逐令。

“他选择违反我国法律，逾期逗留，”国土安全部发言人在一份电子邮件声明中写道。

美国移民海关执法局（ICE）的在线被拘留者查询系统未说明扬诺普洛斯的具体关押地点，但引导其家属和法律代表前往该机构位于路易斯安那州亚历山德里亚的办公室，那里是国际航班的遣返中心。

扬诺普洛斯的代表未回应置评请求。目前尚不清楚他是否拥有法律代表。

这名英国国民最近为说唱歌手 Ye（原名坎耶·韦斯特，Kanye West）工作，Ye 计划于周五晚上在纽奥良演出。

扬诺普洛斯是著名的保守主义事业拥护者，经常在公开场合采取挑衅立场，批评女权主义、伊斯兰教和移民。他尤其支持特朗普总统对移民的打击行动。

“未来 20 年零移民。没有任何如果，没有任何但是，”扬诺普洛斯去年在社交平台 X 上写道。

扬诺普洛斯在 2010 年代初期作为保守派网站 Breitbart News 的一名煽动性作者而名声大噪。2017 年，一段他支持恋童癖的视频在网上重新出现后，他从该公司辞职。他随后为这些言论道歉，并表示自己未成年时曾是性侵受害者。

扬诺普洛斯周五被捕之际，正值特朗普移民打击行动导致全国范围内拘留人数增加。

极右翼保守派活动人士劳拉·卢默（Laura Loomer）在两人公开不和多年后，迅速在社交媒体上对扬诺普洛斯的被捕表示赞赏。

“我是第一个报道米洛非法在美国境内、并在那里煽动针对特朗普总统的暴力以及为‘叛徒’马乔里·格林工作的人，”卢默在 X 上写道。

围绕扬诺普洛斯的争议在 2017 年期间激增，当时他开展了所谓的全国大学校园“键盘侠学院巡演”（Troll Academy Tour）。当一些学生抗议扬诺普洛斯的出现并指责其发表仇恨言论时，爆发了冲突；而另一些人则将其视为言论自由的捍卫者。大约在那个时候，Buzzfeed 报道了扬诺普洛斯与自称白人民族主义者的亲密关系。

扬诺普洛斯继续在保守派活动圈中工作。据《华盛顿邮报》报道，2022 年，他曾担任前美国众议员马乔里·泰勒·格林（Marjorie Taylor Greene）的实习生。他还负责了 Ye 短暂的 2024 年总统竞选活动。最近，扬诺普洛斯担任 Ye 的发言人，而 Ye 在发表反犹太言论后（该说唱歌手随后为此道歉）陷入了自身的争议之中。

里德尔为美联社撰稿。

JULIO CORTEZ 美联社 图中为 2021 年的扬诺普洛斯，他周四在路易斯安那州被联邦移民特工逮捕。

立法者就数据中心监管达成协议

摄影：MYUNG J. CHUN 洛杉矶时报 摄影：MYUNG J. CHUN 洛杉矶时报 7月，加利福尼亚州弗农市一座 49.5 兆瓦数据中心在建的无人机视角图。对人工智能基础设施需求的激增正推动全美及全球范围内数据中心的繁荣。

[数据中心，接 A1] 电使用。

该立法要求加利福尼亚州公共事业委员会制定针对数据中心用电的特殊费率和更新规则，包括基础设施升级所需的新电力成本。

萨克拉门托关于数据中心的辩论集中在它们应支付多少电费和基础设施费用，以及这应该是由州议会还是由加利福尼亚州公共事业委员会强制执行。后者监管投资者所有的公用事业公司，并由州长任命的委员会控制。

与其他一些州不同，加利福尼亚州并未出现大规模新数据中心的汹涌浪潮，州领导层也未寻求像德克萨斯州和纽约州州长那样实施暂停建设令。

尽管如此，专注于改革州公用事业的倡导者在今年试图抓住时机制定严格的监管措施，包括强制数据中心支付输电升级和山火缓解工作的费用。

公用事业改革倡导者和环境领袖在周六对此反应不一。

公用事业改革网络（TURN）的高级职员律师马修·弗里德曼（Matthew Freedman）赞扬了两项法案的最终措辞，称该立法将防止数据中心的成本“被强加给其他客户”，同时帮助加利福尼亚州实现其清洁能源目标。

平价能源运动（Affordable Energy Campaign）的创始人莫妮卡·恩布雷（Monica Embrey）称最后一刻的修正案“令人担忧”。

具体而言，她指出，对于使用自有能源的数据中心缺乏清洁能源要求，且有一项条款允许公用事业公司在州政府最终确定监管规定之前的过渡期内，与数据中心签署自己的能源协议。

成员包括谷歌（Google）和微软（Microsoft）的数据中心联盟（Data Center Coalition）代表未立即回应置评请求。

数据中心已经存在数十年，但由于人工智能（AI）的兴起而迅速扩张。

这些中心为从流媒体服务到视频会议通话的所有设备提供动力。

加利福尼亚州的数据中心通常比在全美其他地区引起轰动的 500 兆瓦以上巨型 AI 设施规模要小。

电费成本以及州政府对燃气发电机的监管，使得绝大多数数据中心的规模被限制在 100 兆瓦以下。

但随着提案数量的增加，反对声音愈发激烈且日益增长。

加州公共政策研究所 7 月的一项民意调查显示，73% 的居民反对在他们的社区建设数据中心。

反对意见集中在用水量、空气和噪音污染，以及数据中心因增加电网压力而导致电费上涨的可能性，因为这需要昂贵的升级和新的电力供应。

加州能源委员会预计，目前占全州需求 2% 的数据中心用电量将在未来 10 年内翻倍。

蒙特雷公园市在 6 月成为全美首个通过全民投票永久禁止数据中心的城市，圣盖博谷至少还有另外四个城市实施了暂停建设令。

在洛杉矶东南部，帝国县、沙漠温泉市和棕榈泉市也对暂停建设令进行了投票，而科切拉市则永久禁止了此类设施。

在中央谷地，图勒县本月通过了一项暂停建设令，因为当地居民对在该地区当地博览会场建设小型数据中心的提案表示反对。

在圣何塞——该州数据中心开发的聚集地，居民们在最近的一次公开听证会上涌现，要求在市政府更新数据中心标准期间实施暂停开发禁令。

纽森去年否决了由议员戴安·帕潘（Diane Papan，民主党-圣马特奥）提出的立法，该法案原本要求数据中心披露并证明其用水量。

州长表示，他不愿对“这一至关重要的数字基础设施”的开发施加“僵化”的报告要求。

另外两项要求数据中心披露能源和用水情况的法案最近获得了州立法者的批准。

与其他州立法者一样，帕潘表示她希望与这些中心合作，而不是禁止它们。

“我一直在说，‘帮我们帮你们。’只要我们能保持透明和有条理，我们都能把这件事做好，”帕潘说道，她的选区包括硅谷。

帕迪拉的选区包括帝国谷，那里一名开发商在 75 英亩土地上建设数据中心的计划正引发激烈的抵制。

倡导者和立法者在监管数据中心能源使用的两种方案上产生了分歧。

一个由环保组织组成的更广泛的联盟支持由 TURN 赞助的帕迪拉提出的 SB 886, 法案，该法案要求数据中心预先支付为满足其需求而进行的更广泛的电网升级费用。这一方案被纳入了最终的方案包。

TURN 指出，加州电网运营商最近的一项传输计划预计，在 PG&E 服务区域（目前及拟建数据中心最集中的地区），数据中心增加的电力需求将导致电网（包括输电线）产生高达 18 亿美元 billion 的升级成本。

PG&E 则倾向于一种不那么严格的方法。在上一周的一封电子邮件中，一名 PG&E 发言人辩称，SB 886 将“带来客户成本增加的风险，并延迟服务于该州日益增长的能源需求所需的关键基础设施”。

数据中心联盟（Data Center Coalition）反对这两项法案，理由是它们“单独针对”了一种电力用户。

数据中心联盟政府事务总监卡拉·邦德（Khara Boender）表示，土地和电力的高成本以及可用土地的缺乏，仅仅是加州没有出现数据中心激增的部分原因。

她表示，数十个州为数据中心提供某种形式的豁免，但加州没有。

她上周表示，在金州增加监管“将发出另一个信号，即该州是一个更具挑战性的数据中心开发地”。

FBI取消对求职者的嫖娼禁令

作者：埃里克·塔克（ERIC TUCKER）

华盛顿——据知情人士透露，联邦调查局（FBI）将取消对曾与妓女发生性行为的申请人的绝对禁聘令，转而将以更全面的方式考虑至少部分曾有此类行为的候选人。

这种不再采取自动取消资格的做法，符合联邦执法部门以及这家作风严谨的局方内部不断演变的招聘标准。几年前，该局放宽了对候选人过去使用大麻行为的处理方式；而近期，由于该局在寻求补充员额时被认为放宽了招聘要求，现任和前任特工对此表示担忧。

根据今年春天发布的一份指南，以及一名不被授权讨论内部决策且要求匿名的知情人士的描述，该局仍打算拒绝那些在审查过程中被发现近10年内从事过嫖娼行为、总次数达到3次或以上、或在担任信任职位期间从事此类行为的申请人。对于其他人，该局将允许考虑该行为的背景，而不是将其视为自动被FBI招聘流程拒绝的理由。

其实际影响尚不明确，因为许多从事过嫖娼行为的人可能仍会被立即取消资格，或者在FBI测谎员和安全官员的进一步审查中被剔除。

FBI表示，此次调整旨在考虑到一些在其他方面合格的候选人（包括军人）可能在嫖娼合法的地方从事过此类行为，并为了照顾那些本身可能是性虐待受害者的申请人。

“认为此类犯罪行为在FBI不再导致取消资格的说法是错误的。任何从事过上述此类刑事性行为的申请人当然没有资格被雇用，认为除此之外的情况是荒谬的，”FBI在的一份声明中表示，并称背景调查过程是“广泛且详尽的”。

该声明补充道：“FBI过去以及将来将始终为美国政府的申请人和雇员维持最高标准的适用性要求。”

招聘规则整体放宽

即便如此，这一转变发生之时，现任及前任官员正担心联邦调查局（FBI）以及更广泛的司法部在面临由退休、自愿辞职和解雇引发的大规模人员流失时，放宽了招聘要求。例如，该局已采取措施，使其内部专业人员更容易成为特工，并为来自其他联邦执法机构的申请人提供缩短期限的培训学院课程。

“如果他们将性行为的门槛降低到包含嫖娼，这说明申请人池的情况如何？他们试图招募更多的人，在我看来，这表明目前的申请人池极其匮乏，”在联邦调查局工作超过20年的退休特工丹尼尔·布伦纳（Daniel Brunner）表示。

2015年，时任司法部长埃里克·霍尔德（Eric Holder）发布了一份备忘录，重申所有司法部雇员均被禁止招嫖或接受卖淫服务，包括在卖淫合法的地方。但在该指令发布之前和之后，联邦调查局和其他联邦执法机构都周期性地遭遇过在海外任职的特工被指控与妓女发生性关系的事件。

例如，就在去年，司法部监察长证实了相关指控，一名主管特别特工在海外期间多次招嫖并使用妓女，且在交易过程中使用了局方配发的手机。

退休的联邦调查局高管克里斯·皮霍塔（Chris Piehota）表示，如果该局放宽对需要定期更新安全许可的现任雇员的标准，他会感到更加不安。但他表示，他能理解联邦调查局对于青少年或大学生时期的行为倾向于“宽容”。

“我不认为大学时期的所作所为会让你成为一个更好或更差的候选人，”皮霍塔说。“这就是为什么他们设有筛选流程，这就是为什么他们设有审查流程。负责招聘和雇佣的人员会考量所有这些因素。”

背景调查与测谎测试

联邦调查局的申请人需经过一个多步骤的申请和审查流程，其中包括背景调查、详细的问卷调查、信用检查、对邻居和同事的访谈以及测谎测试。

这一全面的方案旨在揭露申请人过去任何的犯罪行为，以及可能使雇员易受敲诈的尴尬个人信息。

重罪定罪、家庭暴力定罪、尿检不合格以及违反局方药物政策等因素被视为自动取消资格的项。华盛顿律师丹尼尔·迈耶（Daniel Meyer）专门从事背景调查和安全许可流程，他表示，虽然新指南将允许对在测谎承认中披露过嫖娼经历的申请人进行更广泛且结合语境的评估，但此类承认通常被视为进入联邦调查局、中央情报局（CIA）和国家安全局（NSA）等机构潜在雇员的“死刑判决”。

“当年轻人来问我应该在哪里找工作时，我会说，如果你过去有任何关于妓女或药物的记录，请远离这三家机构，”迈耶说。“如果你刚步入社会，且有严重的药物问题或嫖娼问题，这三家机构——那将是对申请的死刑判决。”

塔克（Tucker）为美联社（Associated Press）撰稿。

法官称特朗普不能驱逐批评以色列的学生

裁决中引用了第一修正案的重要性。

美联社

圣何塞 —— 加利福尼亚州的一位联邦法官引用第一修正案的重要性称，美国政府在特朗普政府试图驱逐非公民的行动中，违宪地禁言了以色列在加沙战争的批评者及其他人士；特朗普政府称这些非公民在表达观点时扰乱了大学校园。

诺埃尔·怀斯（Noël Wise）法官在周五的一项裁决中，为斯坦福大学的学生报赢得了一场胜利。该报此前表示，一些国际学生因担心被驱逐而不敢发声。

该决定在很大程度上借鉴了近一年前波士顿一名美国地区法官的调查结果，后者裁定特朗普政府仅因某些非公民支持巴勒斯坦人并批评以色列而将其列为驱逐目标，此举违反了宪法。

怀斯写道，言论自由和新闻自由是“美国持久民主的基石”。在废除联邦政府执行驱逐相关条款的部分规定时，该法官引用了违反第一修正案和第五修正案的言论自由及模糊性缺陷。

怀斯引用了美国移民当局在 2025 年 3 月对支持巴勒斯坦人及反对以色列行动之人士采取的报复行为 —— 包括联合国机构委任的专家在内，越来越多的人认为这些行动等同于种族灭绝。法官还引用了针对在 Turning Point USA 联合创始人查理·柯克（Charlie Kirk）去年 9 月被杀后对其持批评态度之人士的报复行为。

“明天，或者甚至就在今天，目标可能会包括任何在美国行使言论自由、仅仅表达政府不喜欢之观点的人，”这位圣何塞的法官说道。

“这种恶性循环与承认我们自由发言权利的宪法背道而驰，”她补充道。“在这里，你可以同时厌恶一个人的言论内容，同时热爱这个珍视允许这种自由的国家。对我们宪法赋予的言论自由权的热切保护，是对我国强大且无畏精神的一次有力证明。”

司法部在周六未对寻求就该决定发表评论的消息做出回应。

发起此次诉讼的个人权利与表达基金会（Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression）律师康纳·菲茨帕特里克（Conor Fitzpatrick）对该裁决表示赞赏。

“在美国，言论自由不仅仅属于那些说着政府认同之话的人，”菲茨帕特里克在发布的一份声明中表示。

悲痛的父母在拉德拉牧场寻求答案

拉德拉牧场镇绿地公园（Town Green park）的凉亭。居民们对农药暴露表示担忧。

摄影：KAYLA BARTKOWSKI 洛杉矶时报

[癌症，接 A1 页] 尤文肉瘤。

Yoon 表示，社区报告的数据在她看来很不寻常，值得进一步调查，但她指出，要证明这些病例之间存在任何因果联系将“极其困难”。

目前尚不清楚尤文肉瘤的环境诱因。关于该病发病风险因素的研究十分有限，部分原因是这种癌症极其罕见。

为了回应居民的担忧，加利福尼亚州癌症登记处（California Cancer Registry）正在审查拉德拉牧场的数据，该地居住人口约为 26,000 人。他们的分析预计将于今年秋季完成，届时将评估该地区是否存在尤文肉瘤或其他癌症的聚集区。

美国疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）将“癌症聚集区”定义为：在特定时间段内，特定区域内同一类癌症的病例数高于预期。但对于什么才算“异常高”，并没有一个固定的计算公式。

流行病学家洛根·斯佩克特（Logan Spector）和约瑟夫·维梅尔斯（Joseph Wiemels）警告称，即使确定拉德拉牧场存在聚集区，也可能找不到明显的原因。

他们在《橙县登记报》（Orange County Register）的一篇评论文章中写道：“事实上，巧合可能是出现表面聚集区的原因。在美国这样一个规模的国家，在几十年的时间里，某些病例在时间和空间上随机地紧密出现是很可能的。”

“这里一定有问题”

概率论的知识对于那些失去孩子的父母来说，几乎无法缓解他们的挫败感。

“这里一定有问题，”拉德拉牧场居民邦妮·里根（Bonnie Regan）说道，她的儿子瑞安（Ryan）于2025年10月死于尤文肉瘤。“我以前甚至从未听说过这种癌症。”

尤文肉瘤是一种生长在骨骼或软组织中的侵袭性癌症，主要影响10至20岁的儿童和青少年。

这种病通常表现为持续性的剧痛，强度之大甚至能将熟睡的患者惊醒。尹（Yoon）表示，如果能在身体的孤立部位早期发现，其生存率约为70%，但如果开始转移，生存率则会下降到30%左右。

瑞安在2017年被诊断出患有尤文肉瘤，当时他29岁，比该病的典型发病年龄要晚。他与癌症抗争了八年，直到病情扩散至肺部、肩膀、大脑、脊柱、淋巴结、肾上腺和胃部。

“他是我们唯一的孩子，所以他是我们宇宙的中心，”邦妮说道。

达斯汀·马特森（Dustin Matteson）表示，没有一天，甚至没有一个小时，他不是在思念儿子布罗迪（Brody）。

“他是将我们家庭凝聚在一起的纽带，”他说。“我早晨走下楼梯时，他会像个橄榄球运动员一样向我展示肌肉，然后说：‘达斯汀·马特森，你今天打算变得伟大吗？’”

尽管尤文肉瘤目前没有被证实的病因，但马特森和其他居民仍决心寻找答案。

“感觉在我们居住的地方，由于病例数量如此之多，这里应该是能够查明原因的地方，”他说。

一群居民组成了一个名为“拉德拉健康观察”（Ladera Health Watch）的团体，旨在收集健康数据，审查当地环境和农药记录，并推动对尤文肉瘤病例进行官方调查。他们还对关于乳腺癌和脑瘤的传闻报道，以及高发过敏率和儿童慢性病感到担忧。

迪安·克林（DeAnn Kling）是她所在街道上被诊断出患有乳腺癌的三个人之一。她同样深知失去孩子的痛苦。她的16岁女儿乔娜·海姆斯（Johnna Haymes）于2020年因肺部突然出现血栓而去世。

“农药、水、房屋或土壤中一定有什么问题，”克林说道。“肯定有。”

居民们最初将努力集中在限制农药使用上，以减少化学物质接触，并希望以此减少社区疾病。

拉德拉牧场维护公司（Ladera Ranch Maintenance Corp.，社区业主协会）和卡皮斯特拉诺统一学区（Capistrano Unified School District）最近均同意暂时停止使用用于除草和调节植物生长的产品。

参与“拉德拉健康观察”的居民还担心，拉德拉牧场地下的旧油气井以及附近的普里马·德谢查（Prima Deshecha）垃圾填埋场是否可能是环境污染的来源。

“这口井上方不得建设”

拉德拉牧场（Ladera Ranch）是一个占地 4,000 英亩的大规模规划社区，坐落在米申维耶霍（Mission Viejo）和圣胡安卡皮斯特拉诺（San Juan Capistrano）之间，于 1998 年开始建设，并于 2006 年基本完工。该社区被宣传为家庭可以“扎根并展翅”之地，拥有薄荷绿的草坪、白色栅栏、口袋公园和凉亭，让人想起星空镇（Stars Hollow）那种精心打理的迷人风情。

在这座风景如画的社区地下，坐落着两口废弃的油井，分别位于柑橘巷（Citrus Lane）15 号和花葱街（Agapanthus St.）41 号附近。这两口井都没有产油或产气的历史，并且在 21 世纪初 DMB 开发公司建设拉德拉牧场期间，都被该公司进行了“再次废弃”处理——这意味着为了确保密封件符合当前的安全标准而进行了第二次关闭。

拉德拉健康观察（Ladera Health Watch）的成员查阅了油井档案，并担心柑橘巷的油井可能没有按照现行标准重新密封。他们已要求负责监管该州闲置和废弃油井的加州地质能源管理部门（CalGEM）重新评估该油井的完整性，并确定是否需要进一步调查。

“由于农药、水、房屋或土壤，一定有什么问题。肯定有。”

—— 迪安·克林（DEANN KLING）， 拉德拉牧场居民

迪安·克林是她所在街道上被诊断出患有乳腺癌的三个人之一。 基思（KEITH）和邦妮·里根（Bonnie Regan）拿着一张瑞安（Ryan）的照片，他被诊断出患病时年仅 29 岁。

DMB Development 未能就该油井的重新封弃多次请求发表评论。

活跃及废弃的油气井会将苯、挥发性有机化合物和放射性物质等致癌物扩散到周围的土壤、水和空气中。靠近油井与儿童白血病和淋巴瘤发病率升高有关。

然而，今年 1 月发表的一项研究发现，在加利福尼亚州，靠近活跃及废弃的油气开发项目与儿童尤文肉瘤的风险之间没有统计学上的显著相关性。

一些居民对柑橘巷（Citrus Lane）油井的重新封弃文件中的一条注释感到担忧，该注释写道：“在进一步考虑之前，不得在此井上方建筑”，但并未解释为何需要此警告。该注释以手写形式出现了两次，并在油井封弃的最终报告中再次以打印形式出现。

加州大学欧文分校（UC Irvine）环境健康副教授吉尔·约翰斯顿（Jill Johnston）表示，她在对南加州油井的研究中从未遇到过这样的注释。

“要么是存在某种物理情况导致其上方建筑不稳定，要么是存在潜在的化学物质暴露，”她说。“我认为这就是该评论出现的原因。”

时任州油气主管代理、签署最终报告的肯尼斯·亨德森（Kenneth Henderson）在电话采访中表示，他不记得为什么会包含这条注释，但他推测可能是“油井封堵可能不符合当前的标准”。

负责监管 CalGEM 的保护部（Department of Conservation）的一位发言人表示，该评论似乎是起草最终报告的州工程师留下的笔记，可能是由于“文书错误”而包含在内。

然而，手写笔记中明确写道“放入最终信函”。该发言人未对这些指令发表评论。

该发言人还指出，CalGEM 通常建议不要在密封的油井上方放置建筑物，且建筑不得阻碍进入油井。

尽管如此，房屋建在油井上方或相邻位置是很常见的。

根据 CalGEM 的数据，加利福尼亚州全境约有 240,000 口活跃、闲置和废弃的油井，其中洛杉矶县有 22,000 多口，橙县有数千口。

“虽然 CalGEM 承认按照当前要求封堵和密封的油井发生泄漏的可能性较低，但不能保证绝对没有，”该发言人说道。

“我们正处于风口之上”

布罗迪的父亲达斯汀·马特森认为，附近普里马·德谢查（Prima Deshecha）垃圾填埋场的排放物可能与儿子的病情有关。

“吹过那个填埋场的主导风向正是从南部和西南部直接穿过拉德拉牧场，”他说，“我们正处于风口之上。”

目前尚无研究发现尤文肉瘤存在环境诱因。在极少数发现环境毒素与尤文肉瘤病例之间存在关联的研究中，其中一项研究分析了美国各地工业场所排放的空气化学物质。

研究人员发现，高水平的污染物——包括二甲苯、乙苯、甲苯、萘、镍化合物和苯并[g,h,i]苝——与县级层面尤文肉瘤诊断率的增加相关。

这项由加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）研究人员领导的研究结论指出：“虽然不能推断出因果关系，但这些发现支持对尤文肉瘤的环境风险因素进行进一步调查，特别是在高排放的地理集群中。”

马特森仔细阅读了该研究，并表示他发现位于拉德拉牧场五英里范围内的普里马·德谢查垃圾填埋场排放了研究人员标记的部分相同污染物，这让他感到“非常惊恐”。

研究发现，乙苯水平较高的县，每百万人报告的尤文肉瘤病例约为 13.56 例，而低暴露县为每百万人 9.33 例。甲苯水平较高的县，每百万人报告的病例为 12.88 例，而低暴露县为 7.35 例。

该研究将高暴露县定义为乙苯年排放量中位数为 51 磅，甲苯年排放量中位数为 44 磅的县。

2024 年，南海岸空气质量管理区报告称，普里马·德谢查垃圾填埋场每年排放约 2,681 磅乙苯和 55 磅甲苯。

“切身之痛”

政府机构正在等待加州癌症登记处（California Cancer Registry）的分析结果，然后再决定是否开展进一步调查。

然而，“拉德拉健康观察”（Ladera Health Watch）的成员们正在推进他们自己的研究。

他们正与加州富勒顿州立大学的一个团队合作，在拉德拉进行水质和土壤检测。他们还制定了一项拟议的害虫管理政策，旨在推动拉德拉转向一个优先采用有机方式、毒性最低的景观计划。此外，他们正与立法者合作，倡导州政府更加关注农药使用与公共健康，增加对尤文肉瘤可能原因的研究资金，并提高社区层面癌症数据的透明度。

对于当地律师杰克琳·弗伦奇（Jaclyn French）来说，参与健康观察组织已成了她的第二份工作。她花费了数百小时提交公共记录请求，在深夜研读农药报告，并在民选官员与担忧的居民之间担任联络员。

她的邻居在 2023 年就读初中时被诊断出患有尤文肉瘤，自从布罗迪去世后，她就无法停止思考这种疾病。

“我有一个 10 岁的儿子，正处于这些被诊断出患病孩子的年龄段，这让我觉得这件事离我非常近，是切身之痛，”她说。

尽管心怀恐惧，但她并不准备离开这个她称之为家的社区，也不打算放弃该团体寻求答案的努力。

“我们的社区规模很小，关系紧密，”她说，“我们对邻居有一种个人的责任感。”

公园管理局支持特朗普拱门计划，尽管其将影响历史遗迹

作者：马修·戴利（MATTHEW DALY）

华盛顿 —— 国家公园管理局的一份新报告支持总统特朗普提议修建的拱门，尽管报告指出，该建筑会对华盛顿众多地标（包括华盛顿纪念碑以及林肯纪念堂和杰斐逊纪念堂）之间的视线产生不利影响。

这份周五发布的报告称，这座高 250 英尺的拱门可能会破坏其计划选址（紧邻纪念桥）附近数十个具有历史意义的遗址布局。

华盛顿的许多纪念碑、建筑和遗址在过去数十年中经过精心规划，旨在反映国家历史上的重要时刻，并通过将它们与其他遗址连接起来的视线来唤起象征意义。报告称，该拱门将干扰比预期更多的地标之间的视线。

但公园管理局的报告表示，“从保护角度来看，使纪念圆环（Memorial Circle）变得敏感的相同特性，也正是使其成为该工程在历史上合适选址的特性。”

报告称，该项目的影响无法被“完全避免，除非将拱门从历史认定的选址移走，或者取消主要纪念特征，而这两者都无法满足该工程的目的和需求”。

报告指出：“因此，纪念圆环以外的替代选址并非合理的规避方案。”

这份由公园管理局提交的 133 页报告支持特朗普的拱门计划，并可能在政府应对三名退伍军人和一组历史学家发起的法律挑战时，起到加强论据的重要作用。

这座拟建的高耸拱门上个月获得了一个关键联邦委员会的初步批准。它将影响数十处历史房产的“完整性”，因为它会改变它们之间“定义特征的视觉和空间关系”。

报告中提到的最明显因素之一是，该拱门将打破林肯纪念堂、纪念桥与阿灵顿之屋（前邦联将军罗伯特·E·李的故居）之间的对齐关系。报告称，这种对齐“旨在通过横跨波托马克河的协调纪念性构图，在物理和象征意义上将南北方统一起来”。

林肯纪念堂与阿灵顿之屋的连接是数十个被列为直接受拟建结构影响的历史遗址和建筑之一。报告补充说，国家广场、美国国会大厦、华盛顿纪念碑、杰斐逊纪念堂、乔治敦历史区、旧海军天文台、基桥、国家大教堂以及其他遗址也将受到影响。

代表原告的公共公民诉讼组（Public Citizen Litigation Group）律师尼古拉斯·桑索内（Nicolas Sansone）表示，该报告再次“证实了我们一直以来的说法：该项目将产生巨大影响并改变国家广场”。

桑索内表示，该报告强调了法律挑战者的主张，即如此规模和重要性的项目“应由国会做出决定”，而不应通过行政命令匆忙通过。

戴利为美联社撰稿。

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纽森放弃大部分山火责任计划

该立法原将把公用事业公司引发的山火的大部分成本转移至财产保险公司

州长加文·纽森视察由 PG&E 设备引发的 2021 年迪克西火灾造成的损失。 JOSH EDELSON AFP via Getty Images

作者：MELODY PETERSEN

在与立法者达成的一项深夜协议中，州长加文·纽森同意放弃推动一项立法，该立法原将把更多由公用事业公司引发的山火成本转移至财产保险公司，这将导致全州的保费大幅上涨。

在与立法者进行了数周的闭门谈判以及山火幸存者抗议之后，州长还撤回了一项提案，该提案原将减少火灾受害者可获得的赔偿金额，并将更多损失成本转移给地方政府。

山火受害者和其他批评人士称该计划为企业救助。

根据周六上午 7:26 公布的一份 96 页法案，纽森与立法者就旨在降低未来公用事业引发山火成本的一些措施达成了一致。

该法案将限制代表保险公司的律师的某些费用，同时禁止对冲基金和私募股权公司从山火索赔中获利。

去年，对冲基金提出购买保险公司针对南加州爱迪生公司（Southern California Edison）在伊顿火灾（Eaton fire）中的索赔权，这引发了改革呼声。

该法案还将创建一个州级计划，以便更快地向山火受害者支付款项。

“对于未来的火灾幸存者来说，这都是真正的进步，”纽森在的一份声明中表示。

“尽管如此，这个系统需要全面的结构性改革，而非局部改革，”他补充道。“我敦促立法机构在明年以此进步为基础，完成我们已经开始的工作，以确保山火基金（Wildfire Fund）的长期可持续性，稳定电费，并确保火灾受害者不再在破产程序中沦为无担保债权人。”

这项复杂的立法是通过对一项名为 Senate Bill 492 的法案进行剔除和修订而加入的，其提交时间距离周一立法会议结束不足三天。

由于 2016 年一项经选民批准的提案要求法案或修正案在州参议院或众议院投票前至少 72 小时必须印刷出版，因此会议现在必须延长至周二。

伊顿山火幸存者和其他团体数周以来一直要求纽森公布该立法，以便他们能够查看细-

节。

周一晚上，50 多名伊顿火灾幸存者出现在萨克拉门托的州长官邸前进行抗议，当时纽森正在那里为立法者举行活动。

“谁该买单？”他们高喊道。“股东应该买单！”

周六，山火受害者赞扬了那些抵制州长推动有利于公用事业公司立法的立法者。

“来自加州各地的幸存者来到萨克拉门托，要求我们的民选代表与那些房屋、社区和生活被摧毁的人们站在一起，”每一个火灾幸存者网络（Every Fire Survivor's Network）执行主任乔伊·陈（Joy Chen）表示。“他们倾听了。在州内一些最强大利益集团的巨大压力面前，他们将幸存者和加州家庭放在了中心位置。”

自从去年的伊顿火灾导致部分投资者撤资且股价暴跌以来，爱迪生公司以及该州另外两家大型营利性公用事业公司一直一直在游说纽森和立法者，以进一步屏蔽他们及其股东的山火责任。

政府火灾调查人员表示，这场导致 19 人死亡并摧毁数千栋房屋的火灾，是由爱迪生公司在伊顿峡谷（Eaton Canyon）的一条停用输电线上的电弧引起的。尽管自 1971 年起就未使用该线路，但爱迪生公司仍将其保留在原处。

已有 11,000 多户家庭对该公用事业公司提起诉讼，指控其行为过失，该公司对此予以否认。

公用事业公司请求纽森加强一项由他与立法者在 2019 年创建的框架，旨在保护公用事业公司在设备引发灾难性火灾后免于破产。该法律创建了一个 $21-billion 山火基金，目前该基金正向爱迪生公司偿付其向同意不起诉的受害者支付的赔偿金。

去年，在会议最后几天披露的立法中，纽森又创建了第二个 180 亿美元 billion 的基金，用于支付未来的火灾费用。

根据纽森工作人员发送给立法者的机密文件，州长还希望将基金为公用事业公司偿付的山火损失金额上限设定为 60 亿美元 billion，并要求电力用户支付超过该金额的费用。这将限制公用事业公司对火灾的责任，但会增加电费。

该措施并未出现在周六上午公布的立法中。

纽森在周六的声明中表示，该法案将通过禁止高管在火灾后领取奖金，来加强引发火灾的公用事业公司的问责制。细则规定，公司必须制定一项计划，防止高管在导致 500 栋或更多建筑受损的火灾后获得“短期”奖金。

州长曾在 2019 年吹嘘他的立法将公用事业公司高管的薪酬与公司的安全绩效挂钩。但相关措辞允许公司自行决定如何实施。

尽管发生了致命的伊顿火灾，爱迪生国际公司（Edison International）首席执行官佩德罗·皮萨罗（Pedro Pizarro）及其他高管去年获得的奖金依然飙升。皮萨罗在 2025, 获得了 $16.600 万 的现金、股票和其他补偿，比 2024 年增长了 20%。

新立法仅适用于爱迪生公司、太平洋天然气电力公司（Pacific Gas & Electric）和圣迭戈天然气电力公司（San Diego Gas & Electric）。根据加州林业和消防保护局的数据，这三家营利性公用事业公司导致了加州最具破坏性的 20 场火灾中的至少 7 场。

金钱话题

如何处理继承 IRA 的逾期提取

亲爱的利兹：我在 2010 年通过一项信托继承了父亲的个人退休账户（IRA）。当时我并不知情，现在才发现我本应在接下来的几年里提取这笔钱，但我没有这么做。

我今年 5 月年满 73 岁，想请教关于这个账户我该如何处理的建议。

回答：赶紧去找税务专业人士。你需要进行一些资金分配，缴纳税款，并减轻罚金。

根据 2019 年的《安全法》（SECURE Act），如今继承 IRA 的规定要求大多数非配偶受益人在 10 年内清空账户。

在此之前，大多数受益人可以将最低强制提取额（RMD）分摊在自己的终身时间内。

根据信托类型的不同，你可能被要求以你父亲提取资金的相同速度进行 RMD 提取。但无论如何，都应该进行资金分配。

Wolters Kluwer 税务与会计首席分析师马克·卢斯康伯（Mark Luscombe）表示，你（或者更好的选择是你的税务专业人士）需要重建自 2010 年以来本应进行的资金分配记录。

这些分配应尽快完成，然后你（或你的税务专业人士）可以申请减免可能产生的 25% 消费税罚金，否则你将需要为错过的分配支付这笔罚金。

你的税务专业人士将需要一份信托副本、你父亲的去世日期，以及此后每年 12 月 31 日的 IRA 余额。

亲爱的利兹：那位询问 Roth 转换的读者还应该考虑到，他们或其配偶最终将成为寡妇 / 鳏夫，并将受到所得税“寡妇罚金”的影响。

Roth 转换现在可以保护幸存者免受部分此类税收打击。

回答：所谓的“寡妇罚金”，是指许多幸存者在失去配偶后，由于报税状态从“夫妻联合申报”变为“单身”状态，而面临的更高财务负担。

虽然他们的收入可能会下降，但税收和其他成本可能会上升。

在免税账户中拥有至少一部分资金可以帮助应对这种情况以及退休后的许多其他情况，这就是为什么如果你有能力，在工作期间为 Roth 账户注资至关重要。

Roth 供款的主要缺点是你无法在供款时获得前期的税收减免。

不过，转换则更为复杂。

转换会触发税单并产生连锁反应，例如降低获得税收抵免、财务援助或医疗保险补贴的资格。

晚年转换可能会增加联邦医疗保险（Medicare）的保费，并导致更多的社会保障金支票被征税。这就是为什么转换应在与税务专业人士仔细咨询后才予以考虑。

有关于金钱的问题？您可以在此处提交。

利兹·韦斯顿（Liz Weston）是注册理财规划师，也是一名个人理财专栏作家。问题可寄至 3940 Laurel Canyon, No. 238, Studio City, CA 91604，或通过 asklizweston.com 的“联系”表单发送。

继承 IRA 的规定要求大多数非配偶受益人在 10 年内清空账户。 LM OTERO 美联社

洛杉矶国际机场航空公司餐饮供应商受审

MICHAEL BLACKSHIRE 《洛杉矶时报》在英格尔伍德设有办事处。 总部位于芝加哥的 FLYING FOOD GROUP 在英格尔伍德设有办事处。

一份投诉指称该食品供应商使员工暴露在不卫生的环境中。

作者：SUHAUNA HUSSAIN

数十盘菜肴长出绿色霉菌。活蛆和苍蝇。蟑螂在垃圾桶附近爬行。

本月早些时候，一些照片和视频将这些令人作呕的污染物发送给了一家州监管机构。这些资料是代表英格尔伍德一家设施的员工提交的，该设施负责为从洛杉矶国际机场起飞的几家主要航空公司烹饪和包装机上餐食。

向加利福尼亚州职业安全与健康管理局（Cal / OSHA）提交的投诉指称，航空公司餐饮公司 Flying Food Group 在负责为美国最繁忙机场之一准备数千份航空餐食的设施内部，使员工暴露在健康危害和不卫生的环境中。

代表酒店和机场员工的工会 Unite Here Local II 表示，这只是该设施员工在不安全条件下工作的最新案例。该设施为包括汉莎航空、法国航空、新加坡航空、澳洲航空、维珍航空和新西兰航空在内的国际航空公司提供服务。

该公司在一份声明中反驳称，工会在长达数年且“旷日持久且充满争议的谈判”期间，提出了一个“虚假且具有误导性”的叙述，并且提交给州政府的照片“未能准确描述”该设施的情况。

Flying Food Group 强烈否认投诉的实质内容，并在声明中写道，“图像经过摆拍、操纵、脱离语境，或以扭曲其含义的方式呈现”。

该公司表示：“我们坚定支持我们的食品安全和卫生标准，并将全力配合任何监管审查。”

在 8 月 5 日提交的涉及霉变食物的投诉中，一名在周四洛杉矶世界机场（LAWA）董事会上自称 Sonia Cerón 的员工表示，她在 6 月下旬被告知要清洗一个长时间未开启的餐车中的餐盘。

投诉称，她在餐车中“发现了数十盘覆盖着腐烂霉菌食物的菜肴”。“许多餐盘中似乎含有活蛆和苍蝇，散发出令人难以忍受的恶臭。”

根据投诉，Cerón 建议将这些餐盘扔掉，但一名主管告诉她这些餐盘在即将起飞的航班上需要使用。工会的投诉称，在处理霉变餐盘时，她经历了“胃痛、头痛以及鼻腔异样感，她认为这是由于吸入绒毛状霉菌引起的”。

投诉指称，公司没有提供防护设备或口罩以降低空气传播风险。

Cerón 在该公司担任洗碗工约 8 年。

Flying Food Group 是一家总部位于芝加哥的公司，在全国主要机场（包括洛杉矶、旧金山、纽约市和华盛顿特区大都会区）为航空公司生产定制餐食和小吃，并在全美运营 19 个餐饮设施，其中最大的设施之一位于英格尔伍德。

近年来，Unite Here Local 11 就英格尔伍德设施提交了大量投诉，指称存在各种工资和健康问题，这表明了谈判桌上的一场激烈斗争。

当被问及 Flying Food Group 的多次劳工投诉以及被州安全监管机构确认的违规行为时，一名 LAWA 发言人在电子邮件中表示，Cal / OSHA 将负责裁定任何健康和安全违规行为，且洛杉矶国际机场（LAX）的服务供应商必须遵守法律。

Flying Food Group 的员工自 2016 年起已加入工会。其最近的一份涵盖约 700 名员工的集体谈判合同于 2022 年到期，此后工会领导层与公司一直未能就新合同达成协议。

工会此前向市级官员发送信函，敦促对该公司展开调查，但收效甚微。直到今年早些时候，该设施在 1 月份发生的一起小型火灾，以及随后员工在市议会会议上的证词，促使机场管理机构开始关注，并于 2 月份对该公司启动了审查。

埃莉莎·瓦伦西亚（Elisa Valencia）回忆道，她在轮班开始时正在收集食物秤、量杯和托盘，这时三名厨师大喊着从她身边飞奔而过。她跟着他们跑向一个她此前从未注意到的出口，但在跑之前她瞥了一眼厨房，看到炉灶旁的墙上火焰在翻卷——《洛杉矶时报》审阅的火灾视频记录显示了这一场景。

该设施的一名员工阿拉塞利·贝尔扎内斯（Araceli Berzanes）在采访中表示，当火警响起时，她和一名同事正在设施的冷藏室里制作三明治。她说，他们试图推开进入房间的那扇门，但门被外面的链条锁死了。

加州职业安全与健康管理局（Cal / OSHA）在 5 月份对该公司开出了 18,000 美元的罚单，原因是该公司未能确保冷藏室的门可以从内部打开，且未设置警告标志提醒在确保内部无人之前不得锁门。

Flying Food Group 发言人安吉拉·卡里翁（Angela Carrion）表示，公司已提起上诉。

Flying Food Group 及其他获得 LAX 运营许可的企业受机场董事会“承包商责任计划”的约束。该计划旨在确保公共资金仅授予有能力且合法合规的承包商，并要求其承诺遵守工资、安全及其他劳动法。

洛杉矶世界机场（LAWA）是管理 LAX 和范奈斯机场（Van Nuys Airport）的市级机构。在 2 月 17 日通知 Flying Food Group 将对其指控进行审查的信函中，LAWA 提醒该公司有义务在任何其他政府机构对其经营行为启动调查时及时报告，并表示多年来的指控“可能会使 FFG 的可靠性、质量、适用性和能力受到质疑”。

Flying Food Group 以及数十家其他机场供应商的五年期许可证在 6 月底到期面临续签，而当时机场管理局正处于一段混乱时期。

LAWA 今年因与一名沟通顾问签署的一份高达 600,000 美元的巨额合同而受到审查。该顾问在开始为 Lineage Logistics 工作的同时，还担任市长凯伦·巴斯（Karen Bass）的非正式顾问，而 Lineage Logistics 位于博伊尔高地（Boyle Heights）的冷食仓储设施在 6 月份发生了火灾。

与此同时，一个专门为往返洛杉矶的富豪和名流服务的专属航站楼正陷入一场混乱的商业纠纷；而旨在 2028 年奥运会前缓解机场交通、备受期待的电动“自动人行道”列车，仍深陷技术故障、法律问题和财务不确定性的泥潭。

LAWA 选择将 Flying Food Group 及大多数其他供应商的期限延长六个月——这比典型的运营许可证期限短得多——但在其公布的名单中，并未将 Flying Food Group 的状态标记为“有风险”，也没有给出任何关于正在进行的调查或违规行为的通知。

机场官员未对多次关于 Flying Food Group 调查状态的置评请求做出回应。

AI语音接管屏幕与扬声器

[Voice, from A1] 这些交易。

劳伦斯表示，演员需要争取合理的报酬和保护措施，以避免被取代。当雇主不尊重这些权利时，他不得不越来越多地拒绝接活。

“尽管我们身处这样的现实，但我依然是人类声音的捍卫者，”劳伦斯说。“我总是问：‘那么，你们提供什么？我的保障底线是什么？’而他们的反应就像是：‘保障底线？真有趣。’”

尽管存在抵触情绪，但随着一线演员及其遗产管理机构授权将声音用于电影和在线平台，经过授权的克隆声音在好莱坞正被逐渐接受。曾针对未经授权的克隆采取法律行动的摩根·弗里曼，现在对公司克隆他的声音持开放态度。

但在那些在道德上反对克隆的演员与拥抱这一新现实的演员之间，依然存在裂痕。

Reddit上最大的在线配音社区之一 r / VoiceActing 充满了焦虑和愤怒，但几乎没有解决方案。

“基于原则，无论给多少钱我都绝不会这么做，”一名配音演员在论坛中写道。

“我们痛恨生计的丧失。我们痛恨这种艺术形式被从我们身边夺走，”该Reddit论坛的版主告诉《洛杉矶时报》。

尼克·迈耶（Nick Meyer）是一名居住在洛杉矶的26岁配音演员，他此前告诉《洛杉矶时报》，去年他拒绝了一笔$100,000的报价，对方要求录制他的声音以训练AI复制模型，他认为这是一种生存风险。“我不会为了薪水牺牲我的道德，无论这笔钱有多少，”迈耶去年表示。

对于许多从事个人财务业务的人来说，就业市场出现了崩溃的迹象。为Instagram内容、YouTube解说视频、在线课程和低预算有声书等提供配音的小型工作，正越来越多地被AI语音所取代。

在2023年旷日持久的编剧和演员罢工中，好莱坞为争取免受AI侵害的保护而进行了艰苦斗争。代表约160,000名演员及其他表演者的工会 SAG-AFTRA 一直要求在数字化复制品的使用上获得知情同意、公平报酬、更多控制权以及透明度。

今年6月签署的最新协议对制片厂使用数字化复制品设定了限制。合同要求制片厂在利用演员声音创建复制品之前必须通知演员。即使在项目完成后，如果使用其复制品，演员也必须签字同意，并获得与现场表演相当的报酬。

此外，制片厂在重播中使用数字化复制品时需要支付剩余报酬，且在罢工期间不得使用复制品。

洛杉矶配音演员斯泰西·里维拉（STACY RIVERA）就是那些对允许将声音用于AI持谨慎态度的人之一。

成立于2022年的非营利游说团体——全国配音演员协会（National Assn. of Voice Actors）代表全球30,000名专业配音演员，该协会指出，市场上80%的配音工作被视为自由职业，不受工会规则的覆盖。

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该行业团体一直在警告自由职业者，放弃声音权利可能会导致职业生涯终结。在了解到许多职业早期的配音演员被利用后，他们发布了一份NAVA AI附加合同，这是一份免费的补充协议，演员可以在缺乏联邦法律的情况下将其添加到合同中，以保护自己的肖像和身份。

“我认为进入这个行业的新人没有获得足够的信息，无法就是否授权其声音做出理性的决定，”配音演员劳伦斯说。“我认为大量这类人才正在被利用。”

SAG-AFTRA 已全力支持游说一项名为《禁止伪造法案》（No Fakes Act）的联邦政策，该政策将制定一项国家政策，赋予每个人对其自身声音和肖像的权利，并使所有未经授权的使用行为成为非法。

尽管如此，这场争论仍在激烈进行，而配音演员们正处于前线。他们希望保护自己的生计并需要赚钱，因此许多人采取了工会不鼓励的行动。

Jessica Hepburn, 44, 于 2019 年开始在印第安纳州韦恩堡花费 $250 搭建的家庭工作室中录制有声书。通过录制音频广告、企业电子学习视频和YouTube解说视频，她赚到了不错的钱。

“我做的很多工作是为那些规模较小的人、小企业、初创公司和广告服务的，”她说，“他们寻找的是价格低廉但质量有保证的人。”

不幸的是，这正是AI语音的优势领域。赫本的收入在 2023 年开始崩塌。

“我的收入减半了，”她说，今年的收入不足 $40,000，“我快绝望了。”

现在，她开始尝试进入娱乐产业中一个AI竞争较少的配音领域：情色文学。

她说，大多数AI语音生成软件还没有掌握高层次的情感表达和尖叫。

“我认为凭借目前的要求，AI永远无法进入情色领域，”她说。

一些资深演员也在以极低的价格出售自己的声音。

Alicia McCalla, 56, 是一名小说作家，五年来一直在亚特兰大的家中从事配音工作。她决定无视工会的建议，克隆自己的声音。她将六小时的声音样本上传到ElevenLabs，创建了一个与她的原声几乎无法区分的克隆版本。

在她将这个“温暖且悦耳”的声音投放市场后，钱就开始进账了。

“有了这种数字化旁白，我什么都不用做。我可以睡觉赚钱，”麦考拉说。

虽然麦考拉对自己的决定感到满意，但她的声音出现在某些地方让她感到惊讶，她在广告和一部关于迈克尔·杰克逊的纪录片中听到了自己的声音。

“这就是克隆的问题，”她说，“当你授权你的声音时，你根本不知道这些项目具体是什么。”

超过 10,000 名创作者通过在ElevenLabs的语音库中列出其克隆声音来赚取被动收入。该公司表示，其已支付了 2200万美元，自11月以来的支付额翻了一番。公司称，创作者对自己的声音拥有完全控制权，可以更新授权条款、限制使用场景，或将自己的声音从市场中移除。

尽管如此，艺术家发现未经授权的克隆声音的故事已变得屡见不鲜。NAVA列出了超过 100 名在网上发现自己声音克隆版本的演员。

目前有数十起针对AI公司的诉讼，指控其未经授权训练软件模型。本月，芝加哥提起了一项针对包括Meta、ElevenLabs、苹果、亚马逊和微软在内的九家科技公司的集体诉讼。原告称，这些公司在未经同意的情况下收集了语音和音频文件。

在洛杉矶的配音演员里维拉感到自己陷入了进退两难的境地。她曾为网飞（Netflix）的真人秀节目《恋爱盲选》（Love is Blind）录制墨西哥语和巴西语音频，有时在她的三居室家中录音，家里有一个铺有声学泡沫的隔音录音室。

她希望坚持从事工会工作，但这类机会一直很稀少。去年她获得了一个机会，今年则有三个。

当她有机会获得一笔巨额报酬——来自一家不受SAG-AFTRA规则约束的大型科技公司，用于训练AI，报酬高达五位数时，她拒绝了。

“我立刻说，‘绝对不行’，”里维拉说，“这种掠夺行为已经到了令人恐惧的程度，而且正成为一种新常态。”

为什么财政部的债券回购效果有限

作者：克里斯托弗·鲁加伯 (CHRISTOPHER RUGABER) 和 斯坦·乔 (STAN CHOE)

尽管财政部长斯科特·贝森特 (Scott Bessent) 努力抑制长期借贷成本，但利率依然维持在高位，这表明华尔街投资者仍对日益增长的政府债务、科技公司的巨额借贷以及美联储致力于抗击通胀的决心感到担忧。

本月早些时候，贝森特宣布财政部将从下个月起将债券回购计划的规模翻倍，从每次操作 20 亿美元 billion 增加到 40 亿美元 billion，这一举措令金融市场感到意外。回购旨在减少 10 年期至 30 年期债券的供应并提升其价格。当债券价格上涨时，其收益率会下降。

贝森特告诉 CNBC，债券回购计划的规模可能会超过 40 亿美元 billion。

“我们拥有强大的工具箱，所以我们拭目以待，”贝森特说。“我们认为收益率并未反映潜在的基本面。”

债券收益率的上升推高了消费者和企业的借贷成本，而特朗普政府已将降低利率设定为首要目标。由于今年抵押贷款利率走高，房屋购买量已出现下滑。

特朗普总统经常要求美联储降低利率，但目前的利率上涨主要是由金融市场驱动的。

专家：赤字削减主要取决于国会

贝森特还表示，特朗普政府可能会在周一之前宣布一项旨在减少政府预算赤字的新举措。

他认为，赤字将在今年达到顶峰，部分原因是关税退税这一临时因素推高了赤字。

虽然赤字多年来一直处于高位，但整体债务在周三突破了 $40 trillion，这是一个惊人的记录，而就在几个月前的 4 月，国家债务首次突破 $39 trillion 大关。此外，国会预算办公室上周估计，今年政府收入与支出之间的年度缺口将超过 2 万亿美元，在非经济衰退时期，这是一个极其惊人的数字。

但道明证券 (TD Securities) 美国利率策略主管根纳迪·戈德堡 (Gennadiy Goldberg) 表示，减少赤字主要取决于国会，而非财政部。

“我们看到的是，市场仍然有点怀疑财政部是否能够且愿意为其中一些举措提供支撑，”戈德堡说。

另一个推高收益率的因素是大型科技公司为了建设 AI 数据中心而筹集的债务规模。它们大量发行债券，为债券投资者提供了更多选择，从而降低了债券价格并推高了其收益率。

投资者对美联储应对通胀持怀疑态度

由于伊朗战争何时才能让油轮再次自由离开波斯湾仍存在不确定性，导致油价持续攀升，通胀依然是一个威胁。

美联储通常通过提高基准利率来抑制借贷和支出，从而冷却经济，以此对抗通胀。然而，新任美联储主席凯文·沃什（Kevin Warsh）尚未发出信号，表明美联储是否将采取此类措施。

在7月下旬最近的一次新闻发布会上，他对于是否将提高利率视为正确方法播下了混乱的种子。

他还暗示，美联储可能很快会更换用于监测通胀的衡量指标，其目标是将通胀率维持在2%。根据美联储首选的衡量标准，通胀率已连续五年多高于该水平，且6月份为$3.7%。

美国银行证券（Bank of America Securities）美国利率策略主管马克·卡巴纳（Mark Cabana）表示，借贷成本上升的一个关键原因是“对于美联储将如何遏制通胀”以及“万一情况不按计划发展”时将采取什么行动，“存在极高且不确定的疑虑”。

然而，沃什强调他不想提供此类信号，因为他希望金融市场根据经济状况而非根据对美联储行动的预期来设定利率。贝森特（Bessent）的干预似乎与这一目标背道而驰，因为市场现在正在考虑财政部可能会采取哪些后续步骤来控制利率。

“现在球在美联储这边，而球实际上在凯文·沃什手中，”卡巴纳说。“市场正在质疑，沃什会做出回应吗？他会制定一个更好的计划吗？”

在前任杰罗姆·鲍威尔（Jerome Powell）于5月任期届满后，沃什由特朗普任命。特朗普曾因鲍威尔没有降息而对他发起猛烈攻击，这引发了人们的担忧，认为沃什倾向于通过降低利率来安抚特朗普。

在美联储7月28-29日的利率会议后，短期债券收益率有所下降，而长期收益率则有所上升。法国巴黎银行（BNP Paribas）的策略师表示，这是对美联储会议的一次不寻常反应，可能表明投资者认为美联储希望将基准利率维持在较低水平而非较高水平。

财政部回购规模相对较小

虽然贝森特在谈论数十亿美元的债券回购，但财政部市场规模如此之大，以至于即使是这种规模的购买可能也不会产生太大影响。投资银行麦格理（Macquarie）的分析师估计，美国政府本季度需要发行近5500 亿美元 billion的债券来为其运营提供资金。

历史也表明，政府对债券市场的干预效果有限。

瑞银财富管理（UBS Wealth Management）的策略师指出日本和英国之前的例子，认为“虽然此类措施可以降低波动性并提供暂时缓解，但在财政、通胀或供应动态依然不利的情况下，它们未能永久降低借贷成本”。

鲁加伯（Rugaber）和崔（Choe）为美联社（Associated Press）撰稿。

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艾格。

“我立刻被乔什的好奇心所吸引，这种好奇心似乎是无限的，而这通常是我被人们吸引的地方……尤其是那些希望在商业世界中取得成功的人，”艾格在一次采访中说道。

但库什纳的崛起并非一帆风顺。

他不得不抵御关于他是“资源咖”（nepo baby）的侮辱，并处理围绕其富有的开发商父亲所引发的丑闻后果，其父亲因逃税和其他指控被判处两年联邦监禁。

库什纳是一名民主党捐赠者，但注册为独立人士，他也必须小心行走在钢丝绳上，以避免与特朗普政府产生纠葛，而他的兄弟目前正试图为该政府斡旋一项伊朗和平协议。由于他的妻子——超级名模兼企业家卡莉·克劳斯公开支持民主党，这一挑战变得更加复杂。

哈佛商学院前院长、现任 Thrive 执行主席尼廷·诺里亚回忆起 2016 年特朗普首次当选后库什纳接触他的情景。

“他说，‘尼廷，我该怎么做？’我说，‘只需专注于业务。不要说话，不要行动。尽可能让自己变得透明，因为你有一门伟大的生意要经营，而这件事只会成为干扰……一旦你陷入这种干扰，它将变得如此巨大，以至于会将你吞噬。’”

“总经理”

41岁的库什纳依然拥有一头浓密的头发和少年般的神态。无论好坏，他的生活一直与金钱、商业、政治和特权交织在一起。

1997年，当他还是个七年级学生时，克林顿总统访问了约瑟夫·库什纳希伯来学院（Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy）的校园。这是他位于家乡新泽西州利文斯顿的一所现代正统派K-8学校，因其父亲的捐赠而以其祖父的名字命名。

这位12岁的学生会成员讲述了在犹太新年等重大节日期间吹响的羊角号（shofar）如何唤醒犹太人去反思并坚定他们的信仰。他告诉一家犹太报纸，克林顿是一个“非常友善的人”，正“试图在中东一个非常糟糕的时期争取和平”。

四年后，现身高6英尺3英寸的库什纳进入了雷·库什纳叶希瓦高中（Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School）的篮球队，该校是以他祖母的名字命名的。

“他会遭到其他球队孩子的嘲讽。他们会说，‘噢，总经理，库什纳，总经理，’”球队助理教练科里·桑迪斯基（Cory Sandusky）回忆道，“他处之泰然。这反而能激励他。他会对这种嘲讽微笑，然后说，‘好吧，我们开始吧！’”

桑迪斯基表示，库什纳对这种嘲讽早有准备。

他的父亲查尔斯扩展了新泽西州的房地产开发业务，而这项业务是由他的祖父——一名波兰大屠杀幸存者——在最初从事建筑劳工之后创办的。

库什纳公司（Kushner Cos.）在多个州建设并收购公寓，而查尔斯则成为一名慈善家和民主党的主要捐赠者。他甚至被任命为纽约和新泽西港务局的董事会成员，负责9 / 11事件后世界贸易中心遗址的重建工作。

在感恩节，他的父亲会带着他一起去考察潜在的房地产收购项目。

“这个想法是，当所有人都在放松时，你应该在工作，”库什纳在2012年告诉《福布斯》杂志，“球不会自动传到你面前。”

扎克伯格效应

库什纳的勤奋让他考入了哈佛大学，但就在他于 2004 年入学之时，马克·扎克伯格做出了那个著名的决定——辍学去创建后来成为 Facebook 的公司。

宿舍创业成了一种风潮，库什纳也不例外。

在大三那年，他与两名哈佛商学院的学生共同创办了一个名为 Vostu 的巴西社交网络，该项目在转向游戏开发后取得了成功。

2011 年，他告诉彭博电视（Bloomberg TV），巴西 $50\%$ 的互联网用户都注册了该平台。

Vostu 最终逐渐没落，但对于这位初出茅庐的企业家和投资者来说，这是一次很好的学习经历。

2008 年大学毕业后，库什纳跟随许多同龄人一样前往华尔街。

在金融危机爆发时，他在高盛工作了一年，但随后决定那里不适合自己。

次年，他进入哈佛商学院深造，并在那里孕育了 Thrive 的构想。

通过一次真正的意外，他还决定创办一家利用技术进步的健康保险公司。

它将专注于处于不同阶段和行业的顶尖企业家，且持股时间通常比一般公司更长——有时甚至参与共同创办。

卡特勒的母亲刚刚去世，他当时没兴趣谈生意。库什纳出现了——这位风险投资家形容他长相英俊但也有点“书呆子气”——并且准备好倾听。

库什纳在 2010 年还在攻读 MBA 学位时迎来了他的重大突破。

当时他正在为 Thrive 寻找资金，并成功获得了一次与 General Catalyst 的联合创始人、风险投资家乔尔·卡特勒（Joel Cutler）会面的机会。

在 2010 年的一次野球赛中脚踝骨折后，他收到了一份保险账单。

“他可能是少数几个具有足够敏感度，能够坐上几个小时谈论私人事务的男人之一，”卡特勒在回忆起在哈佛广场办公室的那次会面时说道。

“我完全不知道这意味着什么，”库什纳在 2023 年 Colossus 媒体网站的一个播客节目中回忆道。“我对自己说，‘为什么互联网、软件、数据和设计正在改变我们周围的每一个[其他]行业？’”

还将他介绍给了普林斯顿大学捐赠基金的主管，后者向 Thrive 的首个机构基金投资了 \1000万美元。

库什纳也经历过自己的地狱：他的父亲因逃税和非法竞选捐款被判处两年监禁，该案于 2005 年定罪。

“我说，‘如果你足够大胆去做两件事，并且认为你能完成这两件事……那么也许你是那种可以尝试三件事看看结果如何的人，’”与库什纳保持联系的诺里亚（Nohria）说道。

“我是一名风险投资家。我的工作就是寻找那些我认为能在世界上做出他人无法完成的非凡之事的年轻人，”现已退休且与库什纳关系密切的卡特勒说道。

保险公司

库什纳曾想退出研究生学院，因为他觉得在经营创业公司的同时无法在学业上投入足够的精力，但最终被说服留了下来。

围绕该起起诉的丑闻因其父亲试图阻止亲属与当局合作而进一步升级。他在该案中承认有罪，罪名是在雇佣一名妓女与其姐夫发生关系并将录像发送给其姐姐后，对证人进行报复。

他在 Thrive 早期取得的成功之一是在 2012 年，当时库什纳推出了一家名为 Oscar 的健康保险公司，在《平价医疗法案》建立的市场中直接向个人销售保险。他的 Vostu 共同创始人之一马里奥·施洛瑟（Mario Schlosser）被委以重任。

该公司投入大量广告，提供与医生的在线聊天、部分免费的面对面就诊以及透明的手术定价。在人们怀疑该项目能否持久之际，Oscar 经历了多年的亏损，但最终实现了反弹。

库什纳还因 Thrive 击败竞争对手，向 Instagram 投资 $11.5-million 而登上头条——在这一轮融资之后 72 小时，扎克伯格便以 10 亿美元 billion 收购了这家照片分享网站。这立即使 Thrive 的投资价值翻了一番。

“到我上高中时，我的父亲已经取得了巨大的成就，”乔什·库什纳（Josh Kushner）告诉 Colossus，“他在商业和慈善领域都产生了深远的影响。然后一夜之间，我们全家成了弃儿。”

库什纳决定他想要建立一种不同类型的风险投资公司。

Instagram 的这次操作预示了一系列涉及知名创业公司的获利投资：Spotify、支付处理器 Stripe、在线眼镜零售商 Warby Parker、吉列的颠覆者 Harry's，以及 Twitch 和 Reddit。

“试图创建一家新的国家健康保险公司是一件非常大胆的事情，”罗伯特·伍德·约翰逊基金会（Robert Wood Johnson Foundation）的医疗保健分析师凯瑟琳·汉普斯特（Katherine Hempstead）表示。

这使其股价上涨了一倍多，将市值推高至 90 亿美元 billion 以上，增加了 Thrive 以及身为副主席且持有个人股份的库什纳的净利润。与此同时，其他 20 多家与“奥巴马医保”相关的创业公司——该计划曾遭到特朗普政府的预算削减——已经失败。

但随后出现了由国际足联主席詹尼·因凡蒂诺（Gianni Infantino）促成的交易，旨在创建一个实体来处理这个世界足球组织的商业企业，包括门票销售、广播权和赞助权。

特朗普在 2020 年赦免了年长的库什纳，并在 2024 年任命他为美国驻法国大使。

保险公司 Oscar 宣布在参保人数和利润方面有所增长。

该公司宣布其首笔交易是对旧金山巨人队持有少数股权。

诚然，Thrive 这些年来也投资了一些失败项目，包括被过度炒作的 Fab 电子商务平台，以及销售极其复杂的高科技台式榨汁机的 Juicero。

最近，库什纳公司（Kushner Cos.）的物业管理部门 Westminster Management 在 2022 年支付了 $3.2500 万 的民事罚款和赔偿金，以解决马里兰州提起的一项诉讼。该诉讼指控数千名租户被收取非法费用，而物业却未得到维护。

Thrive Eternal 原本将成为一项 $4.2-billion 资本筹集计划的领投方，但由于人们担心世界上最受欢迎的运动被过度商业化，立即引发了全球性的抵制。

尽管如此，在该公司本月的第一封正式投资者信函中，库什纳自豪地表示，其第二至第十支基金在一项关键财务绩效指标中排名在前四分之一，其中几支排名在前 $5\%$ 。

在国际足联终止合作后的 Thrive 会议中，诺里亚（Nohria）在场。他说库什纳处理此事的方式堪称典范。

该公司并未承认有错。库什纳公司在电子邮件中表示，乔什·库什纳从未参与过这家家族企业。

随着卡特与库什纳建立起深厚的关系，他向 Thrive 的 $5-million 初始基金投入了 $1-million 的投资。他

2023, Thrive 向 OpenAI 投资了 1.3亿美元，当时这家初创公司的估值为 290 亿美元 billion。Thrive 总共投资了超过 20 亿美元 billion，而如今这家 AI 领军企业的价值约为 8500 亿美元 billion。在萨姆·奥特曼 2023 年被董事会罢免后，库什纳还帮助他重新获得了首席执行官的职位。

“当我们因为国际足联（FIFA）的交易而颜面尽失时，他在全公司面前站出来说：‘是我误判了这种情况。我感到很羞愧。我们本可以做得更好，’这位前哈佛院长回忆道。‘当你的领导者这样做时，你就知道这家公司是他会为你撑腰的。’”

“我认为没有比乔什更令人敬畏、高效、勇猛、忠诚、聪明且纯粹的风险投资家（VC）了，”奥特曼在给《时报》的一份声明中表示。“他和 Thrive 是与我们生死与共的伙伴。”

库什纳还创立了 Thrive Holdings，这是一个旨在收购并持有那些能从 AI 运营应用中获益的公司之工具。OpenAI 持有其股份。Thrive Holdings 本月宣布，已从包括软银在内的投资者那里筹集了 20 亿美元 billion，估值为 $12-billion。

不久之后，库什纳做出了他职业生涯中最引人注目的举动，与艾格联手以 $12.5-billion 的估值收购了湖人队的多数股权——这是体育特许经营权历史上支付的最高金额。

高潮与低谷

今年对库什纳来说，是经历极大起伏的一年。

4月，库什纳成立了 Thrive Eternal，这是一个旨在收购独特企业并长期持有的投资工具。

库什纳和艾格将湖人队视为一个购买超高端资产并长期持有的罕见机会。

两人是通过各自的妻子结识的，她们都有模特背景。

艾格的妻子是广播记者威洛·贝（Willow Bay），她曾是一名模特，现任南加州大学安嫩伯格传播与新闻学院院长。

库什纳和艾格在2019年共进午餐，两人十分投缘——以至于艾格在2022年投资了 Thrive 并担任顾问，直到同年11月他回到迪士尼公司后不得不退出该职务。

“（他）很谦逊，这意味着他很快就表现出自己清楚哪些是自己不知道的，以及哪些是他需要了解的，”艾格告诉《时报》。“他准备充分，所以没有浪费我的时间。他提出过很多具体且非常具体的问题。”

艾格不愿讨论关于湖人队的计划或他们如何为这笔交易融资。预计他将负责日常运营，而库什纳将专注于 Thrive。

一个生存故事

在喧嚣的商业生涯中，库什纳的生活中有一个恒定的因素，他认为这让他保持冷静。

他每周都会庆祝安息日，关掉手机，专注于妻子和三个年幼的孩子。他在播客中称这是“我们能想象到的最伟大的事情”。

但还有另一件与他的犹太血统相关的事情让他能客观地看待生活——那就是他的祖母在波兰家乡逃离纳粹清洗时所经历的艰辛。

在另一个 Colossus 播客的讲述中，他提到在1943年，她与家人中幸存的成员以及其他约250名囚犯，用勺子挖掘了一条600英尺长的地下隧道，以逃离犹太隔离区。

她在附近的森林里与游击队员生活了数月，与丈夫在意大利难民营度过了数年，并于1949年抵达美国重新开始生活。

“我对自己的成就感到非常自豪……但我所做的一切都无法与她的成就相提并论，”他说。

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如今没有哪颗冉冉升起的星能像多莉·帕顿那样保持中立

公众已习惯于要求名人对政治分歧表态，而那些拒绝表态的人则会受到惩罚

多莉·帕顿于周二去世，享年 80 岁。在那个瞬间，美国做了一件它几乎从未做过的事：达成了一致。民主党人和共和党人，有信仰的人和没有信仰的人，都为这位虔诚且公开信仰基督教的女性表达了同样的哀思，而那些彼此厌恶的人同样在争相认领她。这看起来像是信仰依然可以属于每个人的证明，但实际上，这是对那个可能实现此目标的时代的悼词。

帕顿之所以能成功，是因为她成长在一个已不复存在的国家。如果现在有人——任何人——试图建立同样的职业生涯，那是不可能实现的。

我是洛杉矶基督堡国际教会（Christ Citadel International Church）的一位信仰长辈，一名在美式基督教环境中度过一生的黑人女性。我的传统从未有过远离政治的奢侈：黑人教会构建了民权运动，因为中立并非一个选项；而黑人新教徒依然是美国政治中最可靠的被争取对象，同时也是最可靠的被忽视群体。看着一位白人南方基督徒在 60 年间始终不表态，并因此被所有人喜爱，这让我觉得她的去世不仅仅是一位歌手的损失。它揭示了这个国家曾经为像她那样远离政治且不因此受罚的信仰留有多少空间。

那种信仰从未是温软、毫无争议的。它是一种具有挑战性的信仰，严肃对待爱的诫命——号召信徒追随耶稣的慈悲之路。她在烟雾山脉长大，在五旬节派的氛围中成长，是 12 个孩子中的第四个，也是一名牧师的孙女。她将童年时代的教会称为“地狱之火与硫磺”，并说她还是个女孩时，在家人家附近的一座废弃教堂里独立找到了上帝——那是一栋破旧的建筑，人们在那里喝酒，但墙上依然留着圣经经文。

这是一个非常典型的基督教故事，一个非常新教且美国化的故事。然而，这里对这种纯正信仰的包容度正变得越来越低。而惩罚这种信仰的，很大程度上是政治家。

在第二任期内，特朗普总统在国内外不遗余力地测试多莉式信仰的底线。在尼日利亚，他以基督徒被杀为由威胁采取军事行动，警告称他将对那些他所谓的“如今已蒙羞的国家”中的伊斯兰恐怖分子采取“火力全开”的行动。在南非，他为那些声称面临种族主义的白人布尔人建立了一条快速通道难民管道。

这种测试在国内也有法律层面的博弈。2025 年 7 月，美国国税局（IRS）告知一家联邦法院，教会可以在讲坛上支持候选人而不会失去免税地位，这是自 1954 年以来由《约翰逊修正案》维持的壁垒再次被突破。

帕顿通过远离这场争斗来构建自己的身份。她以其他方式公开践行她的信仰，例如创建“想象力图书馆”（Imagination Library）、低调地捐助灾难救援、奉行一种“只要爱每一个人”的激进且简单的神学，以及在丈夫卡尔·迪恩 2025 年去世后表达的质朴哀思，而她从未将这种悲痛转化为某种政治诉求。她的神学体现在她的行动中，而非她主张的观点中。她两次拒绝了总统自由勋章。在被直接问及 2016 年大选时，她简单地表示，她尽量不介入政治。

已故的多莉·帕顿通过“想象力图书馆”等慈善事业践行她的信仰。

这完全符合一种将信仰视为服务而非效忠的高尚传统。然而，如果这句话由当今一位冉冉升起的公众人物说出，同样的话会被解读为在回避，她会受到来自双方的压力，被要求证明自己的忠诚，否则任何一方都不会让她保留她的受众。

这种压力很容易得到证明。一项 2022 年的皮尤（Pew）调查发现，77% 的美国人（包括 62% 的白人福音派信徒和 63% 的黑人新教徒）认为教会不应为候选人背书。尽管如此，神职人员依然在这样做，且每年地表现得更加公开：ProPublica 和《德克萨斯论坛报》（Texas Tribune）发现，在短短两年的时间窗内，至少发生了 20 起此类违规行为，比美国国税局（IRS）在之前十年中调查的次数还要多。人们并不喜欢这种情况，但他们对此习以为常——以至于现在每个信仰传统和公众人物都被迫在某些红线问题上（如堕胎、同性恋权利、移民）选择立场。在这种环境下，任何像帕顿那样的人物都无法开启自己的职业生涯。

这种中立的使命以及对共同利益的追求，正在从个人转向机构。没有任何一个人能像帕顿在 30 年间那样占据中立地带，因此这项工作越来越多地落在那些旨在集体协作、且在结构上拒绝在政治争议中选边站队的组织身上。

联合宗教倡议（United Religions Initiative）就是一种模式，这是一个基层跨信仰网络，在 100 多个国家拥有 1,100 多个地方团体，通过制度设计而非运气，每天在开展这项工作。世界穆斯林联盟（Muslim World League）是另一个例子。在特朗普因尼日利亚对待基督徒的方式而称其为“蒙羞的国家”九个月后，该联盟在秘书长穆罕默德·阿尔-伊萨（Mohammed Al-Issa）的领导下，本月在尼日利亚召集了数十位基督教和穆斯林领袖，共同通过关于宗教合作的《阿朱巴联合宣言》（Ajuba declaration），共同承诺停止让宗教被转化为特朗普所开启的那种忠诚度测试。

这就是取代帕顿这类人物的形式——不是一个继任者，而是一套系统。个人会被迫表态，而机构如果构建得当，则不必如此。

这一切并非在将帕顿神圣化。尽管维持中立无疑充满挑战，但她的公开中立也让她得以避开一些棘手的问题。最令人瞩目的是让她的中立成为可能的社会氛围：一个仍然愿意让一名基督徒在虔诚的同时不表态，并让她的粉丝自行决定这意味着什么的国家。

如果情况没有改变，下一个多莉·帕顿（Dolly Parton）将没有 30 年的时间来积累追随者，公众就会要求她在当下的某个试金石问题上选边站队。她将只有一个新闻周期的时间，而无论她如何应对这次测试，结果都会让她失去半个国家的支持。解决这种不宽容文化的方案并不始于华盛顿，而始于那些将讲坛回归讲坛的会众，始于那些在政治纷争之上开展工作的基层网络，以及始于我们其余的人——拒绝将公众人物的沉默解读为她在隐瞒什么。

在多莉·帕顿数十年的成名生涯中，我们看到了一个人被允许同时保持虔诚且不表态的样子。我们应该注意到，早在她离去之前，这种情况就已经变得几乎不可能了。

娜塔莉·比斯纳尔（NATHALIE BEASNAEL）拥有神学博士学位，是洛杉矶基督堡国际教会（Christ Citadel International Church）的信仰长辈，也是 Health4Peace 的创始人。她担任乍得共和国驻美国的外交使节。

PATRICK DOYLE 加拿大新闻社 / 美联社 新关税影响各类加拿大出口产品，从曲棍球杆到蜂蜜。

特朗普将加拿大逼得太远

关于 8 月 25 日《美国对一系列加拿大商品征收 50% 关税》一文

《洛杉矶时报》关于美加贸易谈判破裂的报道，并未提及美国谈判代表显然在最后一刻提出的其他条款，而这些条款至少在一定程度上导致加拿大总理马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）中断了谈判。关税税率仅仅是问题的一部分。

据卡尼称，其他条款包括要求加拿大限制未来与其他国家的贸易协议，并削弱其对法语及法语文化的支持。卡尼表示，美国人的态度是将加拿大视为“美国的子公司”。这导致了谈判的破裂。

因此，现在我们与长期盟友、贸易伙伴及最近的邻国进入了一场贸易战。此前我们已经在与中国的贸易战中失败，并在与伊朗的军事战争中失利。华盛顿还剩下什么聪明人吗？

关于 8 月 23 日《新关税威胁美加紧密联盟》一文

读到特朗普及其对加拿大商品征收新关税的计划时，我感到很愤怒。关税是我们美国消费者为进口商品支付的税款。

虽然我不希望为我可能从加拿大购买的商品支付额外费用，但我同样感到愤怒和悲哀

彼得·兰根伯格（PETER LANGENBERG） 南帕萨迪纳

关于特朗普对待我们的盟友和邻国加拿大的方式。

美国与加拿大一直保持着长期、和平的友谊。现在特朗普的行为正使我们与另一个国家——我们的邻国——产生隔阂。随着我们欺凌其他国家，美国的全球地位在持续下降。

卡罗尔·卡拉斯（CAROL KARAS） 卡马里略

特朗普追溯到了大萧条时期，援引 1930 年《关税法》第 338 条，威胁对加拿大征收 50% 的关税。

我在八年级的历史课上学到，1930 年的斯穆特-霍利关税法（Smoot-Hawley tariffs）是一个错误，而“保护主义”是一个注定失败的方案，是一个禁忌词。

洛杉矶时报 创立于 1881 年 12 月 4 日 加州时报出版物

那些拒绝从历史错误中吸取教训的人，注定会重

读者来信

复它们。 强尼·汤普森（JOHNNY THOMPSON） 圣迭戈

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关于 8 月 26 日《加拿大计划对美国征收高达 50% 的关税》一文

让我看看我是否理解正确。特朗普对加拿大生气，因为加拿大不听他的话。所以，为了惩罚加拿大，特朗普对加拿大商品征收关税。这些关税最终将由美国纳税人支付，这意味着它们本质上是对美国人的征税。

现在，作为报复，加拿大财政部长（其姓氏恰如其分地叫作 香槟 / Champagne）将提高对美国商品的关税。这些关税最终将由加拿大消费者支付。很难从中看到任何赢家，但谁是输家显而易见。

：：

鲍勃·威克斯（Bob Wicks） 布雷亚

我今天就要订购我的加拿大国旗和 T 恤。

来吧，欧洲。来吧，墨西哥、中国、日本以及任何其他被我们这位像校园霸凌者一样的总统所残害的国家。支持加拿大，让特朗普知道适可而止。

卡罗尔·卢特内斯（CAROLE LUTNESS） 瓦伦西亚

：

正如人们归于圣雄甘地的名言所说，以眼还眼会让全世界失明。让我们停止这一切吧。

托马斯·D·彭菲尔德（THOMAS D. PENFIELD） 卡迪夫海滨

这篇文章报道称，伊朗战争“到今年年底可能会使多达 2340 万 名儿童陷入贫困”。这清楚地表明，特朗普总统对伊朗战争所造成的破坏和悲剧的涟漪正不断扩大，在全球范围内变得更加广泛且令人心碎。

穷人总是承受最多

每当局势恶化，当飙升的燃料价格给经济和个体家庭带来压力时，承受损害最深的一向是最贫穷的人。在贫困国家，那些本可以在学校中寻求学习庇护并保证每日一餐的孩子们，被从学校带走去支撑那些买不起食物的家庭，他们的父亲再也买不起运行船只、以捕鱼为生的燃料。

关于 8 月 25 日的《伊朗战争对儿童教育造成影响》一文

被带离学校、被迫工作的儿童总是更容易受到剥削——导致其发育迟缓，健康受损。

毫无疑问，基于所有显而易见的原因，特朗普曾被警告攻击伊朗是一个巨大的错误。那些基于其傲慢且脱离事实的决定所带来的后果，永远不会触及他本人、他的家人，或者我们大多数生活尚可的人。受苦最深的永远是穷人。

贾娜·K·谢克（JANA K. SHAKER） 佩布尔比奇

退伍军人面临艰难转型

关于 8 月 25 日的《为了让退伍军人远离监狱，请在他们退伍前提供帮助》一文

在 9 / 11 袭击事件后，美国选择攻击阿富汗。我记得当时，当地一家广播站在双子塔惩教设施前采访了洛杉矶县警长部门的一位发言人。我永远不会忘记那位发言人告诉当地记者的那样的话：既然这场战争已经开始，那么在未来，洛杉矶县的监狱中将包含大量从战场归来的退伍军人，就像一直以来那样。

作为一名海军陆战队退伍军人，我可以证明在从军队生活向平民生活转型过程中缺乏支持。

你被指令执行的暴力，以及你目睹或直接参与的暴力，在你脱下制服后并不会随之消失。非常感谢客座撰稿人戴维·“麦克”·麦克尤恩（David "Mac" MacEwen）在支持退伍军人方面所做的工作。

萨尔瓦多·希门尼斯（SALVADOR JIMENEZ） 洛杉矶

市场是城市历史的一部分

关于 8 月 23 日的《体育场拆除将为长滩传说关闭一个章节》一文

这篇文章遗漏了在退伍军人纪念体育场举行的一项重要活动：长滩古董市场。每个月，都有 800 名经销商和数千名买家前往该展会寻找宝藏。

自 1982 年创立以来，每年举办 14 场展会。无论风雨，无论是夏季的酷暑还是冬季的阴冷潮湿，该展会都会照常举行。它可能不是一项体育赛事，但每年确实能吸引数万名跳蚤市场爱好者。

我认为它值得作为长滩历史的一部分被提及。

GC·伯恩斯坦（GC BERNSTEIN） 洛杉矶

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新手母亲可能面临的恐怖念头

一名示威者在普利茅斯高等法院外参加支持林赛·克兰西的集会时进行了直播。 JOSH REYNOLDS 美联社

对于那些杀害自己孩子的母亲的故事，我完全没有所谓的“病态痴迷”。同样，那些像《克莱默夫妇》那样离开孩子去寻找自我的女性故事，也让我深感不安。

母子之间的纽带如此深厚且神圣，以至于对我来说，母亲抛弃孩子，更不用说夺走他们的生命，是不可想象的。然而，当然，这种事情确实发生过。

我一直努力不去关注林赛·克兰西的故事。这位马萨诸塞州的母亲在2023年1月杀害了她的三个孩子。当克兰西在他们位于达克斯伯里的两层住宅地下室用健身带勒死他们时，科拉5岁，道森3岁，卡兰则只有8个月大。

本周，我的好奇心战胜了厌恶感。我观看了一部分克兰西谋杀案审判的直播。

我并不假装能准确理解是什么驱使这位前产科护士杀害自己的孩子，但我确实理解产后激素、焦虑和失眠是如何颠覆即使是一个理智女性的心理健康的。

根据庭审证词以及她对医疗服务提供者提起的一项诉讼，在实施那场灾难性行为之前的几个月里，克兰西被多名专业人员开具了13种精神类药物，甚至曾短暂住院。

她两次拨打自杀热线，她的律师表示，由于她没有具体的自杀计划，热线告知她联系她的医疗服务提供者。克兰西向家人、朋友和邻居讲述了她的律师在法庭上描述的“侵入性想法、阴暗想法，以及杀人与自杀的意念”。

说这个系统辜负了她，就意味着相信确实存在一个能够帮助像克兰西这样的女性的系统。没有任何一个单一的医疗提供者负责她的护理。她的丈夫作证说，他从未听说过产后精神病——这是一种罕见但严重的心理健康紧急情况。

我对克兰西深感同情，她在跳出二楼窗户之前还割破了自己的手腕和脖子。克兰西现在胸骨以下全部瘫痪，在近五周的审判中一直坐在轮椅上。我必须克制自己，不去想象孩子们在被她杀害时感受到了什么。

控方主张克兰西的行为是有意且经过预谋的，她分得清是非对错，并故意将丈夫送出家门，以便实施她的计划。

“她把他们丢弃在地下室的地板上，像坏掉的玩具一样，因为她不想再玩这个游戏了，”普利茅斯县检察官詹妮弗·斯普拉格告诉陪审团，“你们在道德层面上可以肯定，她是有罪的。”

克兰西的辩护律师凯文·雷丁顿则主张，由于精神失常，她不应被判定有罪——她当时正处于严重的产后精神病发作中，药物过量，并听到有声音告诉她去杀掉孩子和她自己。

“她曾是一个非常优秀的母亲，”雷丁顿告诉陪审团。

评议于周四开始，并持续到周五。如果克兰西被判定犯有一级谋杀罪，她将面临终身监禁。如果陪审团认定她因精神失常而无罪，她将被无限期送入精神病院。他们也可以宣布她无罪。

我对克兰西及其毫无还手之力的孩子们产生如此深切共鸣的一个原因是，多年前我的女儿刚出生时，我也经历过一段令人痛苦的产后时期。

毫无征兆地，我产生了一个古怪的想法：我可能会不小心把我的宝宝放进烤箱，像烤乳猪一样把她烤了。我无法将这个画面从脑海中驱除。

我当时被吓坏了，立即打电话给丈夫，请他从公司回家陪我。那个时刻过去了，但我依然对能够产生这样的想法而感到震惊。

有一件事是肯定的——我从未向我的医生提及过我的经历，直到很久以后才和朋友谈起。现在即便只是想到这件事都让我不寒而栗，更不用说在这里承认它了。

最近我与我那极具同情心的女儿讨论了这件事。她现在 33 岁，是一名精神科执业护士，也是我那个 18 个月大孙女的痴情母亲。

正如我女儿所解释的，我的经历很普遍。我希望自己在成为新手妈妈时就能知道这一点。

事实上，绝大多数女性在产后期间都会对婴儿的安全产生侵入性想法。其中一些突然出现的想法是“自我失调的”（ego-dystonic），也就是说，你会觉得这些想法令人恐惧且厌恶，并对自己产生这样的想法感到震惊。对我来说确实如此。

克兰西孩子们的遇害，让许多同情克兰西产后状态恶化的女性产生了深切共鸣。为了表示支持，数百人穿着粉色 T 恤聚集在审判期间的法院外。

他们的标语写着：“她需要帮助”，“他们辜负了她”，以及“愿林赛安息”。

第二组规模较小的女性穿着白色衬衫来到法院，为克兰西的孩子们哀悼。新闻报道将她们描述为“反抗议者”，她们携带的标语要求为科拉、道森和卡兰寻求“正义”。

“我认为两件事可以同时成立，”其中一名穿白衣的女性告诉波士顿当地的一家电视台，“我认为你可以来到这里，就体制在各个层面辜负了这个家庭这一事实发声，同时也可以来到这里，表示我想代表孩子们。”

还有另外两件事也可以同时成立：你可以是一个极好的母亲，而产后精神病可以将你变成一个杀手。

林赛·克兰西， 一名曾任产科 护士的人员， 曾就严重的 产后精神 问题 寻求帮助。 没有人 察觉到她 即将崩溃。

声音 维罗妮克·德·鲁吉 特约撰稿人

债务激增，左右两派相互指责

缺乏资金支持的社会保障和医疗保险承诺，意味着更多的支出和未来的通货膨胀

美国国债刚刚突破 $40-trillion threshold，在不到十年的时间里翻了一番。华盛顿的政客们用他们最喜欢的财政游戏来应对：指责对方。民主党人称共和党的减税是罪魁祸首；共和党人则称民主党的支出是根本原因。但两党都负有责任，且都在用选择性隐瞒的谎言掩盖真相。如果我们任由他们如此，他们将继续共同地将我们推向同一堵墙。

参议员帕蒂·默里（Patty Murray，华盛顿州民主党人）最近称，共和党的减税是过去 25 年里债务增长的“最大单一驱动因素”。该数据采用了一个不切实际的 2001 baseline，该基准预测会有无止境的盈余，仿佛 1990 年代后期的收入 windfall 将永远持续下去。布鲁金斯学会的杰西卡·里德尔（Jessica Riedl）通过将 2000 年的实际预算与 2026 年进行对比，做出了一个更诚实的比较。减税使收入减少了约 $2% of gross domestic product。而支出则增长了 $5.7% , 几乎是前者的三倍。

减税可以是件好事，尤其是当其结构旨在引导我们走向一个更好的整体税制时。但减税并非没有代价，且通常无法实现自给自足，这在很大程度上是因为减税伴随着大量给予特殊利益集团的非生产性补贴。

然而事实是，尽管 2001, 以来实施了各项减税，如今的收入占 GDP. 的份额仍处于其长期平均水平附近。随着支出攀升近六个百分点，我们很清楚问题出在哪里。

本月早些时候，华盛顿特区一块显示不断攀升的国债金额的广告牌。 ANNA MONEYMAKER Getty Images

国会预算办公室预测，联邦支出将进一步上升，从今年的 GDP 23.3% 增加到 2036. 的 24.4%。对于关注此问题的人来说，驱动因素并不令人意外：权利金计划（entitlement programs）和利息支出。包括国防在内的自由裁量支出相对于 GDP 将有所缩减。收入则维持在平均水平附近。

但尽管共和党人指责民主党扩大支出，他们自己也欣然参与其中。正如大卫·斯托克曼（David Stockman）在其 1986 年的书籍《政治的胜利》（The Triumph of Politics）中所记录的，里根革命未能真正改革福利和权利金支出，因为共和党人在之前的几十年里也积极参与了这些支出的扩张。

近期，那些花费多年抱怨奥巴马医改的共和党人未能将其废除，更不用说改革其财务状况了。如今，你听不到共和党人对改革社会保障和医疗保险发表任何意见，尽管他们在减税的同时对医疗补助（Medicaid）和补充营养计划（SNAP）做了一些表面上的调整。

这并非新鲜事。大约 26 年前，社会保障受托人就已经预测信托基金将在 2037, 耗尽，之后工资税将仅能覆盖 $72% of benefits。如今，受托人预计老年基金将在 2032, 左右耗尽，此后仅能覆盖约 $77% of benefits。而我们一直知道原因：寿命延长、出生率下降、每位退休人员对应的劳动者减少。在不采取毁灭性税收的情况下维持这些福利，注定意味着大量的债务。

据估计，医疗保险的医院保险基金将在同一时间左右耗尽。但正如胡佛研究所的汤姆·丘奇（Tom Church）所指出的，医疗保险真正的财政问题在于，我们现在依赖一般收入来覆盖其一半以上的支出。在 2026-2035, 期间，这笔金额约为 $10 trillion，主要来自 B 部分（一项针对门诊和就医的医疗保险计划）。这数额巨大，但同样并非新闻。

这一切多年来一直令我感到沮丧。我们这些就债务发出警告的人被斥为原始人。当利率较低时，债务成本很低。我们被告知，如果增长率高于借贷利率，我们几乎可以免费地进行债务展期。而现实是，即使面对爆炸式增长的债务，低利率也并不便宜，而且利率永远保持低位的可能性微其微。

低利率拥趸们从未理解的一点，以及这十年的通货膨胀本应让每个人明白的一点是：政府债务是对未来实现盈余的承诺。市场对此不抱更低期望，因此，债务的实际价值取决于投资者是否相信这一承诺。

当华盛顿在没有任何偿还计划的情况下，将大约 $5 trillion 的疫情资金投入经济时，投资者重新评估了这一承诺，价格水平随之调整。2021 和 2022 年的通货膨胀并非一场不幸的风暴。

它是市场对政府承担其财政无法支撑的债务所做出的反应。随后利率上升，而我们至今仍生活在这一影响之中。

这就是华盛顿在自满情绪中未将其计入价格的风险。一个未经改革的福利国家所带来的危险，不仅仅是利息支出挤占预算的其他部分，而是在于债券持有者将不再相信未来会出现盈余，而调整将再次通过价格水平来实现。未获得资金支持的社会保障和医疗保险承诺，实际上是对更多债务和未来通货膨胀的长期承诺。

因此，问题在于，那些声称对跨越这一阈值感到担忧的政治家们，是否会挺身而出，扭转向我们袭来的赤字浪潮。

维罗妮克·德·鲁吉（VERONIQUE DE RUGY）是乔治梅森大学 Mercatus 中心的高级研究员。本文与 Creators Syndicate 合作完成。

律师利用圣母玛利亚形象向移民进行诉求

LUCILA Perez（右上）和 Francisca Ramirez Cruz（左上）是自称曾与律师 Alexandra Lozano 合作的人员。其他人要求匿名。 摄影：JASON ARMOND 洛杉矶时报

[律师，接A1页] 几个月前，华盛顿州律师协会对 Lozano 采取了纪律处分行动。该协会在涉嫌违规行为的声明中称， 雇佣非法律专业人员向潜在客户提供包含虚假信息的预设销售话术，并在明知客户不符合条件的情况下，以人道主义理由为其申请美国签证。

在回应中， 否认任何违规行为，但同意永久辞去在华盛顿州以及所有其他她拥有执业权的州和司法管辖区的律师职务。这包括加利福尼亚州， 在商业市（Commerce）设有办公室。

及其律师均未回应《时报》的置评请求。

仅就规模而言， 的执业规模就极为突出。根据华盛顿州律师协会的数据，截至今年春季，在提交给美国公民及移民服务局（USCIS）的 53,923 份待处理签证申请中，均有 的签名。该协会表示，客户通常被收取 $10,000 至 $15,000 的固定费用。

案发生之际，全美范围内的移民诈骗激增。倡导者表示，在特朗普政府加强移民打击的背景下，不法律师利用那些渴望留在美国的人的绝望心理牟利。

移民官员指出，《反暴力侵害妇女法》（VAWA）下提交的签证申请大幅增加，这是可能存在欺诈的迹象。根据 USCIS 的数据，从 2020 年到 2024 年，基于 VAWA 的申请增加了 360%。USCIS 去年发布了一份备忘录，收紧了该签证类别的指导方针。

“这些人中的许多人把他们攒下的每一分钱都花在了 身上，”总部位于洛杉矶的洛约拉移民正义诊所（Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic）的律师 M. Lucero Ortiz 表示，“他们已经没有钱去聘请私人律师了。”

该诊所与位于博伊尔高地（Boyle Heights）的非营利组织 Dolores Mission 的 Proyecto Pastoral 共同确认，南加州至少有 62 名移民曾是 的客户。

根据代表前客户向西雅图美国地方法院提起的一项民事诉讼，她的律所（名为 La Luz del Camino Legal，此前名为 Alexandra Immigration Law）截至 2024 年雇佣了 750 名员工，并在 13 个州设有办公室。

“这……可能是我们在移民法历史上见过的最大规模的移民灾难，”在联邦法院起诉 的律师之一 Vicente Barraza 表示。

这项待决的民事诉讼称， 及其合伙人利用“墨西哥文化和宗教意象”向移民承诺“奇迹”。诉讼称， 虚假地声称客户符合签证条件，理由是他们是家庭暴力受害者或性贩卖受害者，且这种情况通常在客户不知情的情况下发生。该诉讼就法律执业过失、违反信托责任和敲诈勒索等指控寻求未明金额的损害赔偿。

Barraza 表示，如果签证申请被认定为欺诈， 的客户将面临被驱逐出境的风险。

“这是一个真正的悲剧，”Barraza 说，“那些她宣誓要以职业道德为其服务的人，现在正被列入遣返程序，而且损失了大量金钱。”

的律师对该诉讼提交了回应，称法律费用是这场争端的焦点，且“原告将该争议重新定性为一场规模庞大的敲诈勒索企业”。

代表洛扎诺的律师安杰洛·卡尔福（Angelo Calfo）在给美联社的一份声明中表示，客户在签署前应审阅其申请，并将其中的任何虚假陈述归咎于客户。他未回应《时报》的置评请求。

他的声明中写道：“亚历山德拉的执业原则始终是为她的客户而战，积极寻求所有可行的合法选项，并支持他们在这个国家建立生活的努力。”

奇迹律师

洛萨诺将自己塑造为一名“奇迹律师”。在她大多数的社交媒体帖子中，她都站在圣母玛利亚的画像前，触达了数千名渴望获得移民救济的绝望移民。她的名片背面印着《主祷文》。她承诺即使是最不可能的案件也能快速见效。

这种宗教手段吸引了像贝拉斯克斯这样虔诚的天主教徒。贝拉斯quez 是一名来自墨西哥的移民，在美期间三十年没有合法身份，她在家里理发，在生意冷淡时帮人打扫房屋。她说，由于移民身份问题，寻找稳定工作非常困难，但她仍然在近三年的时间里，每月向该律所汇款至少 $350。她说，她为洛萨诺的服务总共支付了大约 $15,000，其中包括 $1,500 的预付款和其他费用。

洛萨诺告诉贝拉斯克斯，她可以通过她的公民儿子申请签证，在 2022 年她提交申请时，其子 26 岁。

贝拉斯克斯表示，她当时没有完全理解的是，该申请是通过《反妇女暴力法》提交的，而其核心在于一项关于儿童遭受虐待的虚假陈述。贝拉斯克斯说，洛萨诺的办公室并未向她解释该签证类别。

“她没有权利告诉我我符合这类申请的条件，”贝拉斯克斯说。

贝拉斯克斯表示，洛萨诺确实成功地为她办理了工作许可和社会安全卡。总部位于密歇根州的移民律师罗伯特·阿尔瓦雷斯表示，这并不罕见，因为在提交人道主义签证申请时，这些文件通常会基于紧急情况予以批准。

即便如此，她的人道主义签证申请仍处于待处理状态，贝拉斯克斯说，律师告诉她该申请被拒绝的可能性很大。

贝拉斯克斯说，在过去四年里，她向洛萨诺的办公室推荐了至少 27 名亲友，其中包括她的表妹露西拉·佩雷斯。

佩雷斯表示，她在 2024 年 7 月与洛萨诺律所的一名工作人员进行了电话面试，对方向她保证她符合所谓的 T 签证条件。她说，她很快与该律所签署了合同，对方报价略低于 $12,000。佩雷斯说，直到后来她才得知 T 签证是面向人口贩卖受害者的，而她的情况并不符合申请条件。

这位现年 45 岁的墨西哥原住民在洛杉矶南部街头售卖西班牙油条（churros）和甜甜圈，以维持两个年幼孩子的住所。在两年的时间里，她每月向洛萨诺汇款，希望工作许可和社会安全卡也能在等待她的途中。

然而，她通过邮件收到的唯一东西是一份美国公民及移民服务局（USCIS）在洛杉矶的预约通知，时间定在 9 月初。佩雷斯说，几位律师已经警告她，她在该听证会上可能会被拘留并遣返。

这两位表亲正在寻求法律援助，但她们说，咨询过的律师收费至少 $7,500，她们负担不起。

“我想有人能帮帮我，给我哪怕一点点宽慰，”佩雷斯说。“我只想听到我能挺过这一关，我会没事的。因为事实是，我完全不知道该怎么办。”

奥尔蒂斯在谈到洛约拉诊所时表示，近几个月移民案件也使法院系统不堪重负，导致大多数非营利和公益法律服务机构已满员。

“最令人不安的部分是，他们现在可能处于一种复杂的移民处境中，需要一名会向他们收费的专家律师，”奥尔蒂斯说。“很难找到一名公益或低收费律师来接手这样复杂的案件。”

一次改变人生的实地考察

洛萨诺曾表示，青少年时期一次前往危地马拉的学校实地考察，促使她成为一名移民律师。

她在接受 CALO News 采访时表示：“在经历了中美洲的那次体验后，我想为人权而战。”

在那次采访中，她提到自己并非拉丁裔，而是在与丈夫结婚后采用了洛萨诺这个姓氏。在公开文件中，她的身份被标注为亚历山德拉·洛萨诺（Alexandra Lozano）和亚历山德拉·洛萨诺·肯尼迪（Alexandra Lozano Kennedy）。

根据华盛顿州律师协会的数据，她于 2008 年获得西雅图大学的法学学位。她在 2018 年出版的著作《成为你律所的 CEO：掌控局面、实现盈利并夺回生活》（Be the CEO of Your Law Firm: Gain Control, Turn a Profit, and Reclaim Your Life）中写道，她的第一批工作是在传统的律师事务所，她将这些地方描述为“有毒、残酷且缺乏支持”。

她在书中写道，她在 2012 年创办了自己的律所，但由于未能将盈利视为首要任务，导致赚钱困难。不久之后，她和家人搬到了墨西哥，在那里她远程经营了一家小型事务所几年。

洛萨诺表示，在一次飓风袭击墨西哥后，她于 2014 年搬回美国。她写道，当时她怀孕七个月，需要更稳定的收入，因此将重心转向了她的业务。

根据洛萨诺的文字记录，到 2017 年，该律所已成为一家年营收达七位数的企业，这在一定程度上得益于她将其打造为品牌的决定。她的律所标志采用了玛雅历法，因为在她心目中的理想客户群看来，这是一个“醒目且令人难忘”的符号。该标志的颜色与墨西哥国旗相似。

根据亚马逊网站上随书附带的传记，她在 2016 年获得了美国移民律师协会的指导奖，其母校也因她在移民权益倡导方面的贡献授予她杰出校友奖。

洛萨诺在全国各地旅行，分享她的成功秘诀，并创立了 AMIGA Lawyers，这是一个为在商业世界寻求指导的女律师而设立的协会。

祈求原谅

洛约拉移民司法诊所的律师奥尔蒂斯表示，洛萨诺提交的签证申请现在可能会受到美国公民及移民服务局（USCIS）的审查。

“她会对每一个走进她办公室的人说他们符合某种资格，但实际上很多人并不符合，”奥尔蒂斯说。

奥尔蒂斯表示，洛萨诺的所有客户都应向 USCIS 提交《信息自由法》请求，以获取其移民档案，并咨询信誉良好的律师以决定如何处理其案件。USCIS 官员未回应置评请求。

根据律师巴拉萨的说法，已有 5,700 多人注册加入在西雅图针对洛萨诺发起的民事诉讼。他说，来自加利福尼亚州的人员已有 623 人注册，其中包括 233 人来自洛杉矶大都会区，不过目前尚未有人被正式列入诉讼。

维拉斯奎兹表示，她希望加入这场诉讼。

六月，她站在圣母玛利亚的神龛前。她盯着洛萨诺的周边商品，这些东西自 2022 年起就放在雕像脚下。

多年来，维拉斯奎兹保留这些商品，是为了提醒自己，在遇到这位“奇迹律师”之前，她经历了数十年的挣扎。而现在，她的表亲可能面临被驱逐出境，她担心自己将是下一个。

她抓起铅笔、马克杯和日程本，将其扔进垃圾桶。

“我不得不祈求圣母玛利亚原谅我，因为这个女人利用了她，”维拉斯奎兹说。“我也祈求她原谅洛萨诺，因为她利用圣母来接触我们——诱骗我们将所有的钱都给她。”

新望远镜将探寻宇宙的命运

[望远镜，接A1页] 罗马号上的日冕仪仪器——甚至不仅仅是整个罗马号。”

《巴尔的摩太阳报》

在科学家需要海量信息来回答最紧迫问题的领域，“罗马号为我们提供了这种令人惊叹的、前所未有的前沿数据——而且数量巨大，”喷气推进实验室（JPL）研究科学家迪达·马科维奇（Dida Markovic）说道。马科维奇是负责分析海量数据团队的副首席研究员——在罗马号为期五年的任务期间，这些数据足以填满约 40,000 台笔记本电脑的存储空间。

寻找“地球双胞胎”

自 20 世纪 90 年代以来，科学家已经记录了 6,300 多个围绕太阳以外恒星运行的世界。罗马号的目标是再寻找 100,000 个这样的系外行星。

绝大多数被发现的系外行星并非通过拍摄行星照片找到的，而是通过间接感知——例如其轨道如何导致恒星摆动，在经过恒星前方时如何使其变暗，或者其引力如何扭曲背景中另一颗恒星的光线。

美国国家航空航天局（NASA）的南希·格雷斯·罗马空间望远镜（Nancy Grace Roman Telescope）定于周日发射。上图为戈达德太空中心。

这些方法非常擅长寻找巨大的行星以及与宿主恒星距离极近的行星——换句话说，这些行星与地球完全不同。

罗马号不仅将使用这些方法，还将尝试直接观测某些行星，测量从行星大气层传来的光线。

问题在于，类地行星可能比其宿主恒星暗 10 亿倍以上。这比试图在有人对着你闪远光灯时寻找旁边的一只萤火虫还要困难。

詹姆斯·韦伯空间望远镜可以看到比其恒星暗约 100,000 倍的行星。它通过使用名为“日冕仪”的掩模遮挡宿主恒星，从而更好地观察行星（就像用手遮住刺眼的前灯一样）。

由于寻找“地球双胞胎”所需的能力与当前望远镜所能实现的之间存在如此巨大的差距，罗马号日冕仪仪器科学家贝利（Bailey）表示：“无论你的工程团队多么聪明，你都不可能在一代望远镜中实现这一点。因此，罗马号日冕仪登场了。”

罗马号能以极高的精度将星光聚焦成一个易于遮盖的针尖点。3,200 多个活塞以近原子级的精度扭曲两面柔性镜，以抵消瑕疵的影响。

一旦聚焦，罗马号将耐心等待。由于行星如此昏暗，望远镜可能每分钟只能接收到一个光粒子。（即使你观察夜空中最暗的恒星，你的眼球每秒也能接收到来自该恒星的数百个光子粒子。）

如果罗马号取得成功，将使科学家向寻找地球双胞胎的“宜居世界天文台”（Habitable Worlds Observatory）更近一步——或许也向寻找我们的宇宙邻居更近一步。

一场永不停歇的宇宙拉锯战

几十年来，科学家们一直努力试图理解主宰我们宇宙的这场无形的拉锯战。

所谓的“暗物质”在星系周围聚集，并以长长的触手状分布在整个空间中。尽管光线可以穿过它，使其不可见，但它产生巨大的引力，试图让宇宙向内坍缩。

与此同时，“暗能量”似乎渗透在空间的每一平方英寸中，向外推挤并加速宇宙的膨胀。

在这场宇宙之战中，暗能量似乎占据上风——在数万亿年的时间里扩张我们的宇宙，直到一切变得稀薄并平滑地趋向于虚无。

为了衡量暗能量的强度，科学家们观察宇宙膨胀的速度并进行反推。为了定位暗物质，科学家们则测量其引力如何使星系发出的光线发生弯曲。

天体物理学家关于暗物质的本质有几种理论。一些人认为它是未知的沉重且移动缓慢的粒子；另一些人认为这些未知粒子更轻、速度更快；还有人认为它是潜伏在整个空间中的古老黑洞。

虽然所有这些理论都能成功描述科学家可以测量的大尺度聚集，但它们在暗物质如何在小尺度上聚集的问题上存在分歧。Roman 将帮助科学家首次测量这种小尺度的聚集。

为此，Markovic 的团队将观察暗物质如何弯曲数亿个星系的光线，从而创建其结构的地图。

至于暗能量，科学家长期以来一直假设其强度是恒定的。但近期更精确的暗能量强度测量结果暗示，它实际上可能正在减弱。

Roman 广泛的巡天调查将帮助科学家更清晰地观察暗能量的演变，有望确定它是否恒定。

如果暗能量确实在变弱，这可能会让暗物质在拉锯战中占据优势，并导致宇宙向内坍缩（在遥远的未来）。这还可能对爱因斯坦的广义相对论产生深远影响，而该理论在他发表后的一个多世纪里已被一次又一次地证明是正确的。

“相对论看起来非常稳固。我们还没有看到任何偏差，”周界理论物理研究所（Perimeter Institute）宇宙学与科学传播霍金讲席教授凯蒂·麦克（Katie Mack）表示。“所以，如果它被打破了，那将是一件大得多，且更令人困惑和复杂的问题。”

加利福尼亚州

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这只秧鸡于 8月13日 在欧文牧场水区（Irvine Ranch Water District）的圣华金沼泽（San Joaquin Marsh）被发现。

稀有鸟类吸引大量人群聚集于此欧文沼泽

一只幼年紫秧鸡让南加州的观鸟者们兴奋不已

在过去的两周里，一只大脚的小鸟将欧文一个 320 英亩的沼泽地变成了南加州最热门的观鸟目的地之一。

数百名观鸟者涌向欧文牧场水区的圣华金沼泽，希望能瞥见一只幼年紫秧鸡。这是在橙县首次有记录的该稀有鸟类目击事件，也是自 1961 年以来在加利福尼亚州的第八次目击。

此次目击仍需获得加州鸟类记录委员会（California Bird Records Committee）的认可，该委员会负责审查并确认稀有鸟类的目击记录。

这种沼泽秧鸡的学名为 Porphyrio martinica，主要分布在墨西哥湾沿岸、加勒比海以及南美洲部分地区。然而 [见 Gallinule, B5]

作者：Ruben Vives

网络更新促使更多观鸟者前往该沼泽。

一名警方发言人表示，范奈斯区域监狱（Van Nuys Regional Jail）的警员在 58 岁的何塞·卡洛斯·奥约斯-穆诺兹（Jose Carlos Hoyos-Munoz）不配合并向他们吐口水后，对其使用了武力。

声音 STEVE LOPEZ 专栏作家

洛杉矶警察局（LAPD）公布的视频显示，在7月15日凌晨，由于Hoyos-Munoz在牢房内行为异常，警员多次对其采取围捕行动。

沿海地区的胜利：纽森放弃可耻的策略

他在被按倒并戴上手铐时被击打多次。

作者：LIBOR JANY 在过去的许多年里，我曾多次用同样的话来结束一篇关于加利福尼亚州最伟大自然

在离开牢房后，警员—— [见视频，B2]

资产的专栏。海岸线从未被拯救，它正处于被拯救的过程中。

今天，我将以这个想法开始。

洛杉矶警察局发言人表示，在Hoyos-Munoz向警员吐口水后，警员在他的头上套了一个头罩，在他双手反绑俯卧时，头罩一直留在原处。

这些话并非出自我口。已故的彼得·道格拉斯（Peter Douglas），前加利福尼亚州海岸委员会执行主任，在多年前说过这句话。他当时指出，需要持续的

洛杉矶警察局官员周五公布了监控录像，画面显示一群警员将一名男子压在身下并对其殴打，随后该男子在圣费尔南多谷的一处监狱牢房内死亡。这是近期发生的两起类似事件之一，促使洛杉矶市长凯伦·巴斯（Karen Bass）要求对警察杀死精神状态不佳者的事件进行独立审查。

警觉才能抵御那些试图削弱他协助在《海岸法案》中确立的保护措施的反复尝试。

政治人物在大麻案中被判刑

囚犯在监狱遭殴打视频公布

在过去的几天里，试图削弱保护措施的人是州长加文·纽森（Gavin Newsom），他推动的一项法案本将以一种有利于其长期竞选捐赠者的方式，撕毁《海岸法》（Coastal Act）的一页内容。

确实令人厌恶，但如果你考虑有一天竞选总统，为什么不孤注一掷呢？

[见 Lopez, B5]

州长已撤回一项威胁到《海岸法》的法案。 JUSTIN SULLIVAN Getty Images

埋在院子里的现金让调查人员察觉到了一场大规模的腐败计划。

作者：RICHARD WINTON

十年前，当合法大麻的“绿色浪潮”席卷加利福尼亚州时，一名当地官员试图将自己塑造为这个新行业的把关人。

检察官指控，时任鲍德温公园（Baldwin Park）市议会议员的里卡多·帕切科（Ricardo Pacheco）开始与其他民选官员及新进的大麻销售商会面，提供服务以简化监管挑战并促进投资。

在接下来的几年里，帕切科在圣盖博谷（San Gabriel Valley）四处进行利益交易，同时为特工佩戴隐蔽监听设备，揭露了一场导致当地政府六名参与者及一名大麻经营者被起诉并定罪的计划。

上周，随着帕切科和该计划的另一名成员被判刑，这起腐败丑闻达到了一个里程碑。

2018, 联邦调查局（FBI）在一家咖啡馆的视频录制诱捕行动中抓获了帕切科，他为了在警察合同投票中投赞成票而接受贿赂——$20,000 现金，以及另外 $17,000 用于其教会和政治活动的捐款。随后，该局将其转化为线人。

当局认定帕切科在索贿，并在案件初期的搜查中挖掘出埋在他后院的 $62,000，这标志着一场蔓延至多个社区的广泛腐败丑闻的开始。帕切科佩戴监听设备，导致涉及 20 多名参与者的六项起诉。

在他帮助牵连的六个人中，包括前鲍德温公园市检察官加尔万（Galvan）、一名商业市经理、一名圣贝纳迪诺县（San Bernardino County）规划专员以及一名大麻分销商，所有这些人均已被起诉并认罪。

tion，以及 2017. 的制造和分销。检察官在法庭文件中指控，帕切科几乎立即开始向寻求在该市获得大麻开发协议及相关许可证的企业索贿。

帕切科因贿赂被判处最高 18 个月监禁。前康普顿（Compton）市议会议员艾萨克·加尔万（Isaac Galvan）因代表帕切科促成贿赂被判处 18 个月监禁。作为认罪协议的一部分，帕切科同意没收近 $219,755 的非法所得，加尔万同意支付 $323,557。

当局表示，针对当地城市大麻业务的相关调查仍在继续。

法院记录显示，违规行为始于鲍德温公园开始允许大麻培-

“帕切科先生承担责任，并对背叛公众信任深表歉意，”他的律师格伦·乔纳斯（Glen Jonas）表示。“他将以谦卑的态度服刑，同时继续向他的家人和社区弥补过错，正如他在过去八年里一直坚持的那样。”

检察官表示，该计划涉及不同城市的多种官员，帮助公司获取大麻许可证。

帕切科通过收取现金以换取政治回报的角色，是通过调查中被捕的其他被告的认罪协议拼凑出来的。

该计划涉及 sev-[见 Marijuana, B2]

斯图迪欧城火灾成为竞选中的又一冲突点

作者：萨尔瓦多·埃尔南德斯（SALVADOR HERNANDEZ）

洛杉矶一处废弃房产发生的火灾引发了市长凯伦·巴斯（Karen Bass）与市议员尼蒂亚·拉曼（Nithya Raman）之间的又一次冲突。这两位市长竞选对手互相指责对方未能采取行动，解决一个邻居们称已荒废多年的问题地块。

邻居克林特·莱兹沃思（Clint Ledsworth）表示，自从该房产被废弃以来，斯图迪欧城巴布考克大道（Babcock Avenue）4000街区一直深受无家可归者营地、垃圾堆、害虫以及车辆被盗之苦。他说，尽管向洛杉矶市政府部门和警方进行了数十次电话举报和投诉，但均未得到解决——官员们告诉他，他们无法进入私人财产内部。

这种情况在周五早晨发生了变化，此前巴斯和拉曼就本周早些时候在该房产发生的火灾产生了分歧。莱兹沃思说，他在一阵忙碌的活动中醒来。环卫工人正在清理该区域，砍伐树木，并安装新的围栏和锁，以防止非法闯入。

“我很高兴这件事得到了处理，但遗憾的是，竟然得等到起火才让他们出面，”莱兹沃思说。

在周三火灾发生一天后，拉曼发表声明称，她的办公室在10个月前就向市长办公室标记了该房产，但未采取任何行动。巴斯的竞选团队则以一段剪辑后的新闻片段作为回应，视频显示代表该地区的拉曼在周五面对斯图迪欧城社区居民愤怒质问时的样子。

“尼蒂亚·拉曼想要领导整个城市，但就职6年，她甚至无法清理自己选区内的一个地块，”竞选团队在Instagram视频的配文中写道。

在KTLA电视台播出了关于该地块和火灾的报道后，巴斯在周四致电该电台，称拉曼本可以直接打电话给她，以解决该房产的问题。但拉曼在周五的新闻发布会上反击道——她不应该为了解决城市中的每一个问题都给市长打电话。

“我不能就我们正在处理的200多个具有此类风险的问题一个个给她打电话，”拉曼说。“她想让我每个营地都给她打电话吗？她想让我每个火灾风险都给她打电话吗？还是说我们应该拥有一个功能正常的城市，让各部门能够真正解决问题，让我利用她的办公室发给我的政策来确定消除干扰的优先地点？”

这次政治冲突发生在周三消防员被召集前往该房产之后，莱兹沃思称他当时看到火焰高达20英尺。

KTLA获取的视频 [见火灾，B7]

家属因狱中致命药物过量获赔数百万美元

理查德·马图斯二世（RICHARD MATUS JR.）在2022年等待审判期间因芬太尼过量而死亡，留下了两个孩子。 Christian Contreras Law PLC

陪审团裁定，里弗赛德县（Riverside County）承担部分责任。该年狱中共有19人死亡。

作者：克拉拉·哈特（CLARA HARTER）

在女儿开始八年级的前一天晚上，理查德·马图斯二世在里弗赛德县监狱通过电话与13岁的女儿交谈，并承诺在她的第一天课后再次通话。但她再也没有听到他的声音。

On Aug. 11, 2022，马图斯在科伊斯·M·伯德拘留中心（Cois M. Byrd Detention Center）的牢房中因芬太尼过量死亡，当时他正在等待审判。该年里弗赛德县监狱系统共发生19起死亡事件，创下历史最高纪录。

其家属指控，当马图斯的室友最初报告医疗紧急情况时，一名里弗赛德县警长代表未能采取适当行动。他们于2023年对该县及警长部门提起了一项过失致死诉讼。

周三，一个联邦陪审团裁定，该县对马图斯的死亡承担部分责任，并负责向其儿子、女儿和母亲支付约$5.400 万的赔偿金。

授予该家庭的总金额为$13.500 万，但他们只能收到其中的约40%，因为陪审团裁定该县对马图斯的死亡承担40%的责任，而他本人承担60%的责任。

“这场审判经过激烈争论，里弗赛德县在整个审判过程中否认承担任何责任，”家属律师克里斯蒂安·孔特雷拉斯（Christian Contreras）表示。“本案的关键在于那些戴着镣铐、穿着橙色囚服作证的囚犯证人的证词。”

2023年，加利福尼亚州司法部对里弗赛德县警长部门导致羁押死亡人数激增的行为启动了民权调查。警长部门和该县还面临着大量来自亲人死于监狱系统家庭的诉讼，其中包括由孔特雷拉斯律师事务所代理的约15起案件。

从2023年2月到4月，里弗赛德县又有29名囚犯死亡。6月，一份里弗赛德县民事大陪审团报告呼吁成立一个监狱系统的平民监督委员会，以应对公众对羁押死亡事件的持续担忧。

根据法庭文件，马图斯的死亡发生在2022年芬太尼流行的高峰期，当时里弗赛德县监狱经历了近100起囚犯药物过量事件，其中7起导致死亡。其家属指控，尽管警长部门深知监狱系统中存在该药物及其危险性，但在马图斯药物过量时未能迅速采取行动。

“本案的核心在于未能及时提供医疗护理，”孔特雷拉斯说。“如果（警长部门）能及时提供医疗护理，马图斯先生今天还会和我们在一起。”

Around 10 p.m. on Aug. 10, 2022，马图斯饮用了名为“Pruno”的监狱自制酒精饮料，而这种饮料“恰好掺入了芬太尼”，孔特雷拉斯表示。当天晚上晚些时候，他的室友看到他捂着胸口，看起来身体不适。晚上11:17，室友按下对讲机按钮，提醒监狱人员马图斯出现了医疗问题。

“那名代表接起电话说：‘别烦我’，然后（挂断了）电话，”孔特雷拉斯说。室友“试图再次按下对讲机寻求帮助，但电话一直响个不停。”

法庭文件显示，虽然对讲机按钮旨在用于紧急情况，但囚犯们将其用于“几乎任何理由来吸引警长代表的注意”。

尽管被告和原告在法庭上就室友最初的求救电话是否被忽略存在分歧，但双方均承认，警长代表在晚上11:28响应了一次牢房内的“人员倒地”呼叫。

医疗干预虽然及时介入，但已无法挽回药物过量造成的后果。根据法庭文件，马图斯于 12:15 凌晨被宣布死亡。

孔特雷拉斯表示，他的两个孩子——现年 17, 岁的吉亚和现年 14, 岁的理查德三世——在法庭上作证，讲述了失去父亲给他们的生活带来的影响。吉亚分享了她因父亲再也无法陪她走过婚礼红毯而感到多么悲伤，而理查德则谈到他至今每天依然想念父亲。

在判决公布后读给法庭的一封信中，吉亚告诉陪审员，她深深感激他们帮助她的家人实现了正义。

“致对方当事人：我衷心希望有一天你们所有人都能承认自己的责任，”她写道，“作为成年男子，我希望你们能有勇气为自己的行为负责，并理解这对他人造成的影响。”

两名人员在大规模大麻腐败计划中被判刑

来自鲍德温公园（Baldwin Park）的里卡多·帕切科（RICARDO PACHECO）上周在该计划中被判刑。 罗伯特·高蒂埃（ROBERT GAUTHIER） 洛杉矶时报

[大麻，见 B1]

几名公职人员扮演着特定的角色：加尔万（Galvan）将担任大麻公司的“顾问”，并负责与帕切科建立联系。

根据认罪协议，当时担任圣贝纳迪诺县（San Bernardino County）规划委员且拥有自己营销公司的加布里埃尔·查韦斯（Gabriel Chavez），将从大麻企业接收款项并分给帕切科一部分。

检察官表示，当时担任鲍德温公园市检察官的罗伯特·曼努埃尔·纳西奥纳莱斯·塔福亚（Robert Manuel Nacionales Tafoya）起草了将资金从查韦斯公司转移至帕切科的法律文件，并与帕切科合作交付许可证。

起诉书显示，数万美元通过这些互动在流动。

根据认罪协议，帕切科的多年好友查韦斯从两家大麻公司获得了 $170,000 的合同款，随后在帕切科于 2017 和 2018 年投票批准这些公司的许可证后，以现金形式向其支付了 $93,000。

检察官指控，为了增加查韦斯在该计划中角色的报酬，他甚至获得了一份由该计划参与者之一签署的、来自亨廷顿公园（Huntington Park）市政厅的 $14,500 无需招标合同。

今年 4 月，查韦斯在承认贿赂罪并与当局合作后，开始了为期六个月的受监督居家拘留和三年的缓刑。

检察官表示，当 DW&F International Corp. 想要在鲍德温公园经营时，加尔万向该公司提供咨询服务，并促成了来自公司所有者、现年 52, 且来自阿卡迪亚（Arcadia）的白宜昌（Yichang Bai）提供的 $70,000 贿赂款。

当局指控，由塔福亚负责伪造文件，将其中部分资金转移给帕切科。根据认罪协议，塔福亚安排其兄弟协助将一家大麻公司支付的五张空白贿赂支票兑现，并将其中一张 $10,000 的支票转交给营销人员查韦斯。

去年 12 月，加尔万承认支付贿赂，并对一项涉及接收联邦资金计划的贿赂罪和一项逃税罪认罪。白宜昌对共谋罪认罪。今年 7 月，他被判处 20 个月监禁、两年监督释放，并被罚款 $3,000.

塔福亚于 2022. 辞去鲍德温公园市检察官一职。一年后，他承认联邦贿赂和逃税指控。塔福亚曾担任该地区多个市镇和小型机构的律师，目前尚未被判刑，且正在与检察官合作。他的认罪书包括一项承认，他逃缴了数十万美元的税款，并利用部分收益在墨西哥购买了一栋房屋。这似乎还牵涉到另一位前鲍德温公园市议会议员，但尚未有人被捕。

检察官表示，在另一项计划中，前商业市经理埃德加·帕斯夸尔·西斯内罗斯（Edgar Pascual Cisneros）向帕切科提供了 $45,000 的贿赂，以确保另一家大麻公司的许可证，并被承诺作为交易的一部分获得 $235,000。2023, 11 月，他悄然辞去在商业市的职务，并承认联邦贿赂罪。去年，他被判处两年缓刑。

根据塔福亚的认罪协议，一名尚未公开身份的前鲍德温公园政治人物涉嫌要求通过稻草捐赠者将 $30,000 的现金款项转移到其州级竞选账户中。

认罪书中称，该候选人涉嫌希望通过这些小额捐款来“向其他捐赠者证明其在社区中拥有广泛的支持”。

法院记录中未点名该官员。《时报》在 2024 报道称，一份认罪协议表明该人物符合州参议员苏珊·鲁比奥（Susan Rubio）的特征。去年，她的办公室告诉 CalMatters，她“目前未参与”这项联邦调查。

鲁比奥的一位发言人表示，她已被告知自己并非调查目标，并且她“自愿抽出数小时时间”协助调查人员。

在被要求解释为何律师会牵连她时，一名发言人表示：“塔福亚先生显然是为了减轻自己的刑期而对众多个人提出了指控。”

洛杉矶警察局公布警员在囚犯死于牢房前对其殴打的视频

洛杉矶警察局 在7月15日圣费尔南多谷监狱发生的一起事件中，洛杉矶警察局（LAPD）警员将何塞·卡洛斯·奥约斯-穆诺兹（Jose Carlos Hoyos-Munoz）围在中间。

[视频，来自 B1] [视频，来自 BI]发言人表示，警员在短时间后返回，发现奥约斯-穆诺兹已失去意识且停止呼吸。他在现场被宣布死亡。

在警方公布这段殴打视频以及一起发生在哈佛高地（Harvard Heights）的独立致命枪击事件后不久，市长发表声明称这些视频“极其难以观看”。

“数十年来，对社区心理和行为健康服务的投资不足，导致太多洛杉矶人无法获得及时且适当的护理，增加了处于危机中的人们与执法部门接触的可能性，”巴斯（Bass）说道。“洛杉矶警察局的警员加入警队并不是为了成为心理健康危机的第一响应者，也没有接受过相应的专业培训。”

她表示，奥约斯-穆诺兹和亚历杭德罗·路易斯·加西亚（Alejandro Luis Garcia）——这名男子在7月29日的警方枪击事件中丧生——的“悲剧性死亡”凸显了“当处于行为健康危机中的人没有得到所需护理时，可能会发生什么”。

“当一次接触导致死亡或严重受伤时，我们必须严格审查我们的政策、培训、战术、监督和问责制度是否充分，”巴斯说道。

她表示，她正在发布一项行政命令，授权对“涉及警员的死亡和严重伤害事件”进行“独立评估”，特别是涉及处于危机中的人员的事件。

此次审查将旨在识别“系统性漏洞，加强政策和培训，并提高公众和警员的安全”，以及研究警员在发生此类关键事件后能获得什么样的心理健康支持。

警方表示，导致奥约斯-穆诺兹被监禁的最后一次报警电话发生在两天前的7月13日上午，当时德文希尔分局（Devonshire Division）的警员被叫到他位于查茨沃思（Chatsworth）德尔科大道（Delco Avenue）9700街区的家中。警员到达后认定，奥约斯-穆诺兹涉嫌用刀刺伤其母亲和另一名亲属，导致其受轻伤。

当他拒绝离开家时，特警（SWAT）向住宅内发射了催泪瓦斯弹，随后冲入屋内将其逮捕。他被发现跪在钢琴前敲击琴键，显然处于极度痛苦之中。

在被送往医院治疗催泪瓦斯暴露症状后，他被释放并被收押进谷区监狱。执法记录仪视频显示，奥约斯-穆诺兹在被带入设施时显得很平静。

但洛杉矶警察局发言人迈克尔·布兰德（Michael Bland）上尉表示，在被安置进牢房后，拘留警员进入牢房为确保奥约斯-穆诺兹自身安全而对其戴上手铐。警员多次使用武力，包括用膝盖撞击，将挣扎的奥约斯-穆诺兹从牢房中拖出，随后又将其带回。

当奥约斯-穆诺兹站在牢房的马桶上时，警员再次进入并将其俯卧在床铺上。一名警员站岗，另外五名警员将奥约斯-穆诺兹压在身下，其中一名警员将膝盖压在男子的肩胛骨上。

视频显示，在警员离开牢房时，奥约斯-穆诺兹似乎没有动静，但警方表示，检查他的拘留警员发现，在接下来的20分钟里，他“似乎在呼吸且有生命迹象”。

直到后来，他们才发现他失去意识且停止呼吸。

布兰德表示，三名监狱看守受了轻伤并被抓伤。

法医尚未公布奥约斯-穆诺兹的死亡原因或死亡方式，并写道目前暂缓做出决定。

除了洛杉矶警察局的内部调查外，该事件还将由州拘留死亡审查（ICDR）部门进行调查。

另一段同样由警方于周五发布的视频，记录了导致 33 岁的亚历杭德罗·加西亚（Alejandro Garcia）被枪击身亡前的惊险时刻。

布兰德表示，在一名 911 报案人报告称加西亚拿着一根棒球棍在街上行走并砸碎汽车窗户后，警方派遣了警员。当加西亚在 10 号高速公路立交桥下的诺曼底大道（Normandie Avenue）车流中行走时，出警人员追上了他。

警员命令他放下球棍，但目前尚不清楚他是否听到了指令，因为他继续行走。当他靠近警车时，加西亚用双手抓住了球棍，随后警方开火。

这段视频似乎与洛杉矶警察局（LAPD）在加西亚被枪击后发布的新闻稿相矛盾，该新闻稿称他在被击中时正在挥舞球棍。

洛杉矶警察局未透露开火警员的身份。

城市与州

一名消防员在周五的大瑟尔（Big Sur）普拉斯基特火灾向 1 号公路蔓延时，转移一只受伤的动物。

加州试图资助陷入困境的新闻编辑室，面临关键考验

作者：SUHAUNA HUSSAIN

加州立法者一项旨在资助该州陷入困境的新闻机构的新计划可能会在未来几天取得进展，但前景仍不确定。

第 2222 号议案（Assembly Bill 2222）将根据加州当地新闻机构雇用的记者人数，为其创建可退税的税收抵免，这在实践中将为参与的新闻编辑室提供直接的现金注入。

该议案由议员克里斯托弗·M·沃德（Christopher M. Ward，圣迭戈民主党人）于今年早些时候提出，是为新闻业提供生命线的最新尝试。在加州乃至全球范围内，关于政府支持新闻业的讨论很多。但这可能是迄今为止规模最大的救济计划，州税务局估计，该计划每年将为新闻编辑室提供超过 4000万美元（4000万美元）的资金。该议案已在众议院通过，还需要获得参议院批准才能提交给州长签署。

出版商、记者及其工会长期以来一直认为，在线搜索和社交媒体平台通过吞噬广告收入，同时发布无需付费的内容，损害了新闻业。

加州立法者之前的尝试集中在强迫谷歌（Google）、Meta 及其他平台支付其应承担的份额，但这项提案为资助该计划提供了一个独特的解决方案。

沃德将该议案描述为在加州维持一支强大新闻队伍的重要步骤，他表示，在数字化虚假信息的时代，这一点比以往任何时候都更重要。

沃德表示，该议案将“加强民主”并让新闻编辑室“维持运转”。他引用了特朗普总统本人对新闻界的攻击。他说：“我们想，‘加州还能做些什么来帮助支持他们？’”

沃德表示，特朗普试图剥夺公共广播和电视站联邦资金的努力，以及商业新闻编辑室利润大幅下滑的趋势，意味着新闻编辑室已严重缩减运营规模。尤其是农村地区，已经完全失去了新闻来源，许多机构被迫关闭。

皮尤研究中心（Pew Research Center）在 2023. 表示，自 2000, 以来，当地报纸的广告金额下降了 82% —— 降幅达 400 亿美元。而根据西北大学麦迪尔新闻学院（Northwestern University's Medill journalism school）发布的关于当地新闻现状的年度报告，美国几乎 40% 的所有当地报纸已经消失。

由数据公司 Muck Rack 和非营利组织 Rebuild Local News（一个主张政府帮助新闻部门并赞助 AB 2222, 的组织）去年发布的一份报告估计，自 2002 年以来，美国每 100,000 人中当地记者的数量下降了 75%。

该法律如果获得批准，其运作方式是为每位记者分配 $20,000 的“岗位保留抵免”，最高涵盖五个岗位，此后每增加一名记者则抵免 $15,000。兼职岗位将获得一半的抵免额。此外，每雇佣一名新员工还将叠加 $15,000 的额外抵免，以激励扩大记者人数。

为了支付这些抵免资金，该议案将修改加州的税法，以与特朗普“宏伟美丽”（Big Beautiful）税收法案中一个鲜为人知的部分保持一致，该法案通过取消对年薪超过 100万美元（100万美元）的高管薪资扣除，扩大了对部分公司的征税。

州政府考虑将其税法与联邦结构保持一致，以便于报税并降低管理成本，这是一种常见做法。但加州尚未寻求采用这一联邦税收变更，而此举将增加该州的税收收入。

作为一项税收措施，AB 2222 需要立法机构三分之二的绝对多数批准。在选举年，且立法者批准议案的截止日期即将于周一到来（这标志着今年立法会议的结束），这绝非易事。

加州纳税人协会以及代表商业利益的团体（如加州商会）反对该法案，因为他们认为该法案提高了雇主的税收，而这些雇主已经面临数十亿美元的新税负担。他们主张，更高的成本将转嫁给消费者，并且他们还质疑在不经过预算程序的情况下，将新的资金来源注入一个分众行业。

“通过对一个无关的纳税人群体增税来为特定行业的税收抵免提供资金，是一种不健全的预算方式，”纳税人协会在反对信中写道。

来自圣迭戈的共和党议员卡尔·德马约（Carl DeMaio）在讨论该法案时表达了反对意见，批评向那些进行政治背书的媒体提供资金的想法。德马约未就其目前对该提案的立场回应置评请求。

该法案的支持者希望它能在本届立法会议中艰难通过，并呈交给州长签署。

然而，他们不确定纽森是否会签署。过去，纽森一直不愿在日历年上半年的财政讨论结束之后，再批准那些对州预算进行微调的法律。

州长财务办公室发布的一份分析报告反对该法案，理由是该法案未对税收抵免设置上限，从而造成了“州政府无限的财政责任”，并认为该法案主要是在补贴现有活动，而非鼓励创造新就业机会。

州特许经营税委员会（负责征收个人和企业所得税的机构）的一项分析发现，该资金流将在 2026-27 年度为州通用基金带来 2900万美元 的新收入，次年将带来 $5800 万。

与此同时，预计当地新闻机构的税收抵免金额在第一年为 1900万美元，第二年为 4300万美元。在扣除税收抵免及行政成本后，预算在这些年份仍将净增加 1000万美元 和 1500万美元。

“这完全是自给自足的，”该法案的坚定支持者、前州参议员史蒂文·格莱泽（Steven Glazer）表示。格莱泽在担任参议员期间曾推动过类似的立法，但该立法最终在与科技巨头的交易中被搁置。

近年来，加州立法者还权衡了针对好莱坞就业岗位的税收抵免。今年 6 月，立法者批准大幅扩大每年分配给州电影和电视税收抵免计划的资金，将该上限从 3.3亿美元 提高到 7.5亿美元。立法机构还在考虑一项法案，拟为后期制作工作提供每年约 1亿美元 的资金。

这项新闻编辑室法案在设计上特意保持尽可能的中立——无论媒介是纸质报纸、数字新闻网站、族裔媒体还是电视广播商，无论新闻编辑室的商业模式是营利性、非营利性还是公共补贴。法案发起方“重建当地新闻”（Rebuild Local News）的政策总监马特·皮尔斯（Matt Pearce）表示，其目的是防止政府产生强大的影响力，或能够在这个行业中挑选赢家和输家。该组织此前曾在伊利诺伊州成功推动了类似的立法。

“当地新闻世界的几乎所有范围都以某种形式得到了代表。规模大的、小的，以及独立的，”皮尔斯说。

皮尔斯曾任《时报》记者，并曾担任代表《时报》记者的工会——西部媒体工会（Media Guild of the West）的主席。

该法案还得到了加州新闻出版商协会的支持，《洛杉矶时报》也是该协会的成员。

联邦大楼内一名律师自杀身亡

作者：特里·卡斯特尔曼 (TERRY CASTLEMAN)

圣迭戈县法医办公室在一份声明中表示，本月初在圣迭戈一座联邦大楼内被发现遗体的前美国代理助理检察官死于自杀。

48岁的安德鲁·海登 (Andrew Haden) 在被报告失踪后不久，于8月19日在爱德华·J·施瓦茨 (Edward J. Schwartz) 联邦大楼的一间办公室中被发现死亡。

法医确认死因为吊死，死亡方式为自杀。

海登是一位资深检察官，在职业生涯中担任过多个领导职务，包括南区首席助理检察长，该职位是该区的二把手。他还曾担任暴力犯罪与人口贩卖部门以及刑事部门的主管。

海登在圣迭戈长大，毕业于大学城高中 (University City High)，随后获得斯坦福大学政治学学士学位。

之后，他在海军服役五年，并完成了两次海外部署，以支持持久自由行动、伊拉克自由行动以及利比里亚联合特遣部队。

离开军队后，他就读于圣迭戈大学法学院，并担任加利福尼亚州南区美国地方法院法官托马斯·J·惠兰 (Thomas J. Whelan) 的法律助手。

海登在法律职业生涯中获得了多项荣誉，包括2020年由美国检察官执行办公室颁发的“管理或监督角色卓越表现主任奖”，以及2024年由联邦律师协会圣迭戈分会颁发的“彼得·J·马扎杰出联邦律师奖”。

截至周六，为海登的妻子和两个孩子发起的募捐活动已筹集了近 $250,000。

该网站写道：“安德鲁不仅仅是一位丈夫、父亲和朋友。他是我们社区真正的支柱——一个在他人需要时出现、慷慨地贡献时间和精力，并给那些有幸认识他的人留下深远影响的人。”

《时报》工作人员克拉拉·哈特 (Clara Harter)、理查德·温顿 (Richard Winton) 和海莉·布兰森-波茨 (Hailey Branson-Potts) 对本报道亦有贡献。

大瑟尔火灾导致1号公路关闭，新火势向海岸线蔓延

普拉斯基特火灾在廷伯火灾起火点沿岸下游方向被点燃，且规模持续扩大。

作者：Iris Kwok

在消防员已在艰难控制大瑟尔廷伯火灾之际，该地区的第二场山火在周五至周六期间迅速扩大——火焰正向1号公路方向蔓延。

根据加利福尼亚州林业和消防保护局的数据，普拉斯基特火灾于周二在距离廷伯火灾起火点沿岸约30英里的偏远地区被点燃，其过火面积从周四的约140英亩激增至周六早晨的大约5,924英亩。

随着普拉斯基特火灾的持续扩大，该地区发布了更多的疏散令及警告。最近，洛斯帕德雷斯国家森林发布了一项于周五晚间生效的命令，对蒙特雷护林区实施紧急关闭。

“普拉斯基特火灾（周五）的扩大部分是由于火灾区域出现的红旗天气条件所致，”加州消防局（Cal Fire）批次长乔什·西尔维拉（Josh Silveira）在一条短信中写道。

他表示，因此加州消防局在相关区域上空派遣“情报”侦察机的行动遇到了困难。

该部门在周五下午的一次更新中表示，火势正接近普拉斯基特岭路（Plaskett Ridge Road）南侧的1号公路；更新中包含的几张照片显示，火焰已出现在这条关键景观公路附近。

该部门还发出警告称，“火势行为正开始增强”。

西尔维拉表示，截至周五晚上，火势仍向1号公路方向推进。到周六早晨，该部门在一次更新中称，火势的一个区域——就在普拉斯基特岭路南侧——已到达1号公路边缘，但尚未进入公路。目前尚不清楚火势距离道路的具体距离。

加州公路巡警此前关闭了火灾区域内1号公路一段40英里的路段，周五表示已调整关闭范围。目前，该公路从北部的利特尔瑟尔河（Little Sur River，里程标志56）至南部的戈尔达（Gorda，里程标志10.1）之间关闭。

西尔维拉表示，大瑟尔的微气候使灭火工作变得复杂：夜间相对湿度下降，导致火势迅速扩大。

约481名人员被指派参与普拉斯基特火灾的扑救，1,600人被指派参与廷伯火灾的扑救。

自8月8日以来一直燃烧的廷伯火灾在周五略有扩大。目前已过火面积约24,408英亩，控制率为23%。

美国林务局发言人李·拜尔（Lee Beyer）周四表示，由于森林的地形和偏远程度，该地区持续三到八周的火灾是“相当典型”的。

男子在曾因酒驾被拘留的监狱附近几步之遥处被发现死亡

据称。

他在圣巴巴拉县被逮捕并获释后失踪了一周。

作者：特里·卡斯尔曼 (TERRY CASTLEMAN)

一名因涉嫌酒后驾驶在圣巴巴拉县被捕并被拘留一夜的 Kern 县居民，于周四在监狱大楼相邻的山坡上被发现死亡，此时距离他获释已过去一周。

圣巴巴拉县警长办公室在的一份声明中表示，来自沙夫特 (Shafter) 的 53 岁男子大卫·米雷莱斯 (David Mireles) 于 8 月 19 日因酒驾被捕，并于次日获释。

声明称：“在米雷莱斯获释五个多小时后，加州公路巡警通知警长办公室，沙夫特市报告米雷莱斯失踪。”

警长办公室表示：“在收到该信息后，警长代表对监狱财产及其周边区域进行了广泛搜索，包括附近的商家以及已知是刚获释人员经常出没的地点。”

在这次搜索中没有发现米雷莱斯，但一周后，一名在县政府财产区域工作的管理人员在距离监狱几百英尺的地方发现了他的尸体。在米雷莱斯被报告失踪的那一周，圣巴巴拉的温度在 79 到 81 度之间。

声明称：“要看到发现米雷莱斯尸体的位置，一个人需要离开走道，进入几英尺深的灌木丛，然后向下看向植被中。”

调查人员认为，米雷莱斯的尸体大约从他出狱时起就一直位于该位置。警长办公室表示，他们将继续调查，目前尚未确定死亡原因。

这起事件几乎与五个月前发生在阿祖萨 (Azusa) 的一起案件如出一辙。当时一名男子因酒驾被捕，在从阿祖萨警察设施获释后，爬进了一辆停在建筑外的警车内，三天后被发现死亡。

根据洛杉矶县法医的认定，37 岁的埃里克·瓦伦西亚 (Eric Valencia) 的死因是极端高温。

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贝蒂·莱奥娜·安德森 (Betty Leona ANDERSON) 1927 - 2026

贝蒂于1927年12月15日出生在南圣弗朗西斯科，父母是弗雷德里克·路易斯·伯姆 (Frederick Louis Boehme) 和艾格尼丝·维奥拉·伯姆 (Agnes Viola Boehme，原姓 Pfaffenbach)。贝蒂在加利福尼亚州的瓦列霍长大，她的父亲路 (Lou) 是消防局长，母亲艾格尼丝在马雷岛工作。路于1941年11月死于肺炎，贝蒂和她的姐姐乔伊 (Joy) 由艾格尼丝抚养长大。幸运的是，艾格尼丝在莫斯 (Moss) 家族经营的“微笑萨姆药店” (Smiling Sam's Drugstore) 找到了会计工作，并设法将贝蒂和乔伊送入了斯坦福大学。贝蒂和乔伊在学业休息期间在药店工作。贝蒂热爱舞蹈和垒球。最重要的是，她热爱斯坦福大学，在她漫长的一生中，无论该校橄榄球队的表现如何，她始终是一位积极且慷慨的校友。

贝蒂在斯坦福大学毕业并获得了教师资格证。在斯坦福期间，她遇到了她一生的挚爱罗伊 (Roy)，两人于1948年在斯坦福教堂结婚。罗伊在洛克希德公司 (Lockheed) 拥有长期且辉煌的职业生涯，于2003年去世，享年82岁。他与贝蒂曾不懈地致力于改善加利福尼亚州洛杉矶市和斯坦福大学。贝蒂在之后继续前行。

而她确实做到了。除了支持斯坦福大学，贝蒂还坚持为洛杉矶市和加利福尼亚州服务。作为公共教育的终身支持者，贝蒂曾担任“学校志愿者之友” (Friends of The School Volunteers) 的董事会主席，该组织服务于洛杉矶统一学区。她曾任加州科学中心董事会成员。她热爱约塞米蒂，并向该公园慷慨捐款。她是蓝带 (Blue Ribbon) 的成员，这是一个支持洛杉矶音乐中心的高端女性慈善组织。她还慷慨地支持了许多其他机构，包括洛杉矶儿童医院。

在服务他人之余，贝蒂和罗伊都热爱太浩湖北岸的钦夸平 (Chinquapin)，并且是茂宜岛纳皮利凯 (Napili Kai) 的常客及部分所有者。她是一位热衷于高尔夫和网球的运动员。她热爱旅行，访问了世界各地的许多地方。她总是准备好迎接冒险。

一项涉及全家人的冒险是她在婴儿被安置到领养家庭之前为他们提供寄养。每个人都得到了婴儿护理方面的良好训练，而第八个孩子成为了我们的弟弟，至今仍深受爱戴。

贝蒂的遗属包括她的子女：来自加利福尼亚州萨特克里克 (Sutter Creek) 的罗斯·安德森 (Ross Anderson) 及其结婚48年的妻子莎莉 (Shari)；来自俄勒冈州本德 (Bend) 的凯琳·安德森 (Karyn Anderson)；来自加利福尼亚州海豹滩 (Seal Beach) 的黛博拉·怀特 (Debra White)；以及来自田纳西州亨德森 (Henderson) 的詹姆斯·安德森 (James Anderson)。此外，她留下了5个可爱的孙子及其优秀的妻子，以及14个出色的曾孙辈（很快将增加到15个）。同时，必须向玛·卢尔德 (Lita) 卡斯蒂略 (Ma Lourdes (Lita) Castillo) 表示赞赏与感激，她是贝蒂多年来充满爱心且卓越的护理员。我们所有人都将深深地思念贝蒂。正如她的一位朋友曾指出的那样：“她曾是一股强大的力量。”

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H. 肯尼斯·诺里安 (H. Kenneth Norian) 1933年4月15日 - 2026年8月25日

H. 肯尼斯·诺里安于1933年出生于新泽西州，在比弗利山庄的家中安详离世。肯出生于西兰·诺里安 (Siran Norian) 和哈里·诺里安 (Harry Norian) 夫妇之手，他的父母是来自土耳其安塔布 (Aintab) 的亚美尼亚移民。肯在四个兄弟中排行第三，成长于一个关系紧密的家庭，而家庭始终是他生命中至关重要的一部分。

肯就读于新泽西州英格尔伍德的德怀特·莫罗高中 (Dwight Morrow High School)，在那里他展现出天生的领导才能，并担任了学生会主席。

随后他进入耶鲁大学就读，在那里他最显著的成就是担任《耶鲁日报》(Yale Daily News) 的商务经理，这一角色既体现了他的领导能力，也反映了他对商业和传播的浓厚兴趣。

在耶鲁大学毕业后，肯在美军炮兵部队担任中尉。完成兵役后，肯与兄弟合作成立了一家房地产开发公司，在新泽西州北部建造定制住宅。

1963年，肯与辛西娅·迪克拉尼安 (Cynthia Dickranian) 结婚，两人是在新泽西州的一次聚会上相识的。两年后，这对夫妇向西搬迁至加利福尼亚州，在那里，肯深入参与到商业、公民、法律以及亚美尼亚裔美国人社区中。

在十九年的时间里，肯担任比弗利山庄 Premier Market 的总裁。在他的领导下，他扩展了公司的家庭配送服务和葡萄酒业务，其前瞻性领先于时代数十年。

肯曾担任比弗利山庄商会财务主管，并且是比弗利山庄教育基金会的创始董事。在十一年的时间里，他通过加州州律师协会法院 (California State Bar Court) 担任行政上诉法官，该法院负责处理在加州最高法院管辖下的律师纪律问题。他继续以志愿者外行仲裁员的身份服务于法律界，帮助加州州律师协会解决律师与客户之间的费用纠纷。

亚美尼亚血统始终是肯一生身份认同的基石。自美国亚美尼亚议会 (Armenian Assembly of America) 成立以来，他一直担任其信托研究员。他也是北美亚美尼亚教会西部教区 (Armenian Church of North America, Western Diocese) 的忠实捐助者，并且是国际扶轮社 (Rotary International) 拥有四十年资历的保罗·哈里斯会友 (Paul Harris Fellow)。肯强烈支持州长乔治·德克梅金 (George Deukmejian) 的竞选活动。他的公民参与反映了他的信念：公民身份并非被动的，而是一种需要积极实践的生活方式。肯始终致力于为后代保护并加强亚美尼亚裔美国人社区。

尽管肯在职业成就、公共服务、兴趣爱好和终身追求方面取得了诸多成果，但他最大的骄傲是他的家庭。他与辛迪建立了一段跨越六十多年的婚姻和家庭。他们是四个孩子的自豪父母：托马斯·阿彻 (Thomas Archer)；蒂莫西·卡彻 (Timothy Katcher) 及其妻子 PJ；约翰·马修 (John Mathew) 及其妻子 Gia；以及他们的女儿凯瑟琳·卡伦 (Cathleen Caroun)。他们还拥有八个孙辈和一个曾孙辈，为他们的生活带来了巨大的快乐与自豪。

人们将记住肯，不仅是因为他的成就，更是因为他对待生活的方式。他是一位热爱阅读的人，一名音乐爱好者，并且对新技术持有纯粹的好奇心。他的慷慨、职业道德、幽默感以及对生活的热情，将在他的后代中延续。

追思仪式将于9月3日（星期四）上午11点在圣詹姆斯亚美尼亚使徒教会 (St. James Armenian Apostolic Church) 举行。家属恳请以捐款代替花圈，捐款可定向至美国亚美尼亚议会 (The Armenian Assembly of America)、西部教区营地捐赠基金 (The Western Diocese Camp Endowment Fund) 或洛杉矶圣詹姆斯亚美尼亚使徒教会纪念基金 (The St. James Armenian Apostolic Church of Los Angeles Memorial Fund)。

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拉尔夫·贝比·奥尔曼（Ralph Babe Allman, Jr）博士 1934年12月22日 - 2026年8月18日

拉尔夫·贝比·奥尔曼（Ralph Babe Allman Jr.）博士是一位深受爱戴的丈夫、父亲、祖父、曾祖父，同时也是一名正畸医生、教师、特洛伊人（Trojan）以及挚友。他于2026年8月18日在位于帕洛斯弗迪斯牧场（Rancho Palos Verdes）的家中安详离世，家人及其忠诚的爱犬艾比（Abby）陪伴在侧。

拉尔夫于1934年出生于海伦（“奥吉”）和贝比·奥尔曼（Babe Allman Sr.）之手，在帕洛斯弗迪斯长大，并毕业于雷东多联合高中（Redondo Union High School）。正是在那里，他在同一个公交车站遇到了他一生的挚爱西格丽德（Sigrid）。在西格丽德离世前，他们共同度过了63年美好的时光。

拉尔夫将一生奉献给了正畸学、教育和帮助他人。在获得南加州大学（USC）微生物学、牙医学和正畸学学位后，他建立了一家成功的正畸诊所，为南湾（South Bay）的家庭服务了50多年。他还曾在南加州大学奥斯特罗牙科学院（USC Ostrow School of Dentistry）任教60多年，并以帮助几代学生学习和成长而感到无比自豪。

拉尔夫一生都是一名真正的特洛伊人。南加州大学是他世界的重心，他为该大学、其牙科学院及其体育项目投入了无数时间。他曾担任多个领导职务，尤其对他长期参与南加州大学奥斯特罗牙科学院的工作感到自豪。

然而，家庭始终是拉尔夫生活的核心。他和西格丽德热爱旅行，曾游历所有七大洲，并前往全国各地观看南加州大学的比赛。他们最伟大的冒险之一些是家庭冒险，包括2023年一次有19名家庭成员参加的邮轮之旅。

拉尔夫在从事项目工作时最快乐。他热爱修理、建造、改进以及钻研事物的工作原理。他从自己的父亲那里习得了这些技能，并自豪地传给了孩子们。他的家人不仅会记得他建造的物品，还会记得他在过程中分享的时间、耐心、幽默和教诲。

拉尔夫的父母、弟弟罗伯特（Robert）以及挚爱的妻子西格丽德先于他离世。他的三个孩子斯科特（Scott，妻子金妮 Ginny）、布莱恩（Bryan，妻子黛比 Debbi）和劳拉（Laura，丈夫马克 Marc）；八个孙辈；以及十一个曾孙辈在世，他们都给了他无尽的微笑理由——当然，还有炫耀的资本。

家人对拉尔夫优秀的护理人员以及托伦斯纪念临终关怀团队（Torrance Memorial Hospice team）所提供的充满爱心的照顾深表感激。

拉尔夫的生命庆祝仪式将于2026年9月18日举行。家人建议以捐款代替鲜花，以纪念拉尔夫，捐款可定向至托伦斯纪念医疗中心（Torrance Memorial Medical Center）或南加州大学奥斯特罗牙科学院。

拉尔夫度过了非凡的一生，但在家人心中，他只是爸爸、爷爷和曾爷爷。他将被深深怀念，永远被爱。

肯尼斯·健次·片山 (Kenneth Kenji KATAYAMA)

1953年9月14日 - 2026年7月31日

美国陆军退伍军人。 出生于加利福尼亚州洛杉矶，父母为詹姆斯·信夫（James Noboru）和 Marion Miwa Katayama。

他的兄弟詹姆斯·片山（James Katayama）和姐妹麦克辛·森崎（Maxine Morisaki）在世。弟弟马克·秋生·片山（Mark Akio Katayama）先于他离世。

肯是一个温柔的灵魂，内心只看到人们善良的一面。他热爱动物，尤其是狗，甚至包括猫。人们将记得他的善良，并将永远怀念他。

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儒勒·M·安森 (Jules M. Arnson) 1939年8月 - 2025年4月

儒勒·安森（85岁）在寓所去世。儒勒是一位拥有极具感染力笑声的传奇讲述者，他热爱洛杉矶这座城市。从好莱坞的黄金时代到道奇队，从 In-and-Out、Philippe's、The Dresden、Johnny's Pastrami 到 Tommies，儒勒热爱与那些推动行业运转的人们为伍。在职业世界摔角运动的早期，他担任经理，将对讲故事的热爱与连接人脉的兴趣相结合，同时将这些技能转化为他在汽车行业 50 多年的事业；在那里，他结识、款待并成为了芭芭拉·斯坦威克、霍华德·休斯和埃尔维斯·普雷斯利等明星的知己。儒勒的遗属包括他的子女希瑟和安德鲁、他们的母亲安妮特、孙辈德文和奥丁、儿媳 Aki、女婿 Chris 以及挚友尼尔。爸爸，我全心全意地爱你。

大卫·Y·汉德尔曼 (David Y Handelman) 2, 1938年7月 - 20, 2026年8月

大卫·Y·汉德尔曼是一位成就卓越的娱乐业高管，于8月20日因中风并发症去世。他于1959年毕业于宾夕法尼亚大学，随后于1962.年获得哈佛法学院的法学博士（J.D.）学位。他曾在美国证券交易委员会工作，随后担任 Laird, Inc.（一家精品经纪和机构研究公司）的总法律顾问。作为一名民权运动的坚定支持者，他于1965年前往密西西比州杰克逊市协助黑人选民登记。1974,年，他迁至洛杉矶，担任二十世纪福克斯公司的执行副总裁兼总法律顾问。随后，他在 Troy & Gould 律师事务所从事娱乐法业务，之后经营一家成功的私人执业所，专注于数字媒体、广播、娱乐和知识产权。他一直工作到中风发作，而那一天恰好在他88岁生日的前一天。大卫曾担任 KCRW、洛杉矶警察局纪念基金会（该基金会为在执行公务中牺牲或受伤的警员家属提供关键支持）以及南加州大都会水务局的董事会成员。他是一位博览群书且热爱英国文化的学者，拥有永不满足的好奇心，并完全精通快速变化的数字娱乐世界的运作机制。大卫与相伴66年的爱妻珍妮特在纽约市建立了第二处住所，在那里，他是心爱孙女们眼中一位尽职的祖父。除了珍妮特，他的遗属还包括子女乔安娜（丈夫彼得）和彼得，以及孙女 Siri（丈夫杰西）和艾米莉。

大卫·J·斯沃茨 (David J Swartz) 15, 1947年8月 - 13, 2026年4月

戴夫是伦纳德和菲利斯·斯沃茨夫妇 3 个孩子中的长子。

他生活积极，与亲友共同创造了许多美好的回忆。

我们将记得他善良、充满爱心、个性豪爽，眼中闪烁着顽皮的光芒。

戴夫的遗属包括他的伴侣琳达、子女詹妮弗和杰夫，以及他的孙女诺艾尔。

往昔之年

英国海外航空（BOAC）开通了首条跨大西洋喷气式客机客运服务，航线为纽约至伦敦。

盖尔·休斯·莱曼 (Gale Hughes Layman)

盖尔于1931年3月10日出生在加利福尼亚州圣莫尼卡，父母是哈尔·达勒姆·休斯和盖尔·安托瓦内特·墨菲·休斯。

盖尔在洛杉矶西区的切维奥特希尔斯社区长大。她于1949年毕业于汉密尔顿高中，并于1952年以优等成绩毕业于加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）。

盖尔在加利福尼亚州日落海滩（圣迭戈）的一次公寓派对上，在钢琴旁唱歌时结识了威尔·莱曼。八周后，两人结婚。盖尔和威尔在拉霍亚开始了军属夫妇的生活。不久后，威尔乘坐“拳击手”号航空母舰在西太平洋巡航七个月，期间盖尔留在加利福尼亚州教授小学。

盖尔是一位热衷于桥牌的玩家，一位出色的女主人，也是一名艺术家：她为每位家庭成员绣制圣诞袜，每年制作丝网印刷圣诞卡，设计并创作了大量的金饰（当时黄金价格仅为35美元 / 盎司），并且在家居装饰方面具有极佳的眼光。

在与威尔长达71年的婚姻生活中，盖尔成为了分布在加利福尼亚州的四代人的领袖。他们育有三个孩子：安妮·盖尔·莱曼·哈顿（丈夫格雷格）、蒂娜·琳恩·亚当斯（丈夫汤姆）和约翰·休斯·莱曼（妻子特里）。此外，盖尔的后代还包括五个孙辈：霍莉、威廉、科尔、韦德和凯瑟琳·盖尔，以及三个曾孙辈：佩内洛普·盖尔、威尔伯和威尔斯。

盖尔于2026年7月24日在家人的陪伴下安详离世。

凯瑟琳·麦休修女 (Sister Kathleen McHUGH, RSHM) 1933年6月5日 - 2026年8月20日

无追思礼。

凯瑟琳·麦休修女，现年93岁，在圣心会（Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary）服务75年，于2026年8月20日在加利福尼亚州橙市的雷吉娜养老院去世。凯瑟琳于1933年6月5日出生在爱尔兰戈尔韦，父母是玛丽和托马斯·麦休。凯瑟琳在洛杉矶的玛丽蒙特学院获得学士学位，并在纯洁之心学院和圣克拉拉大学获得高级学位。

凯瑟琳于1949年在纽约塔里敦进入圣心会见习期，随后在布鲁克林教授小学。1951年，她被派往加利福尼亚州执行任务，最初在帕洛斯弗迪斯的玛丽蒙特初级学校任教。凯瑟琳曾在帕洛斯弗迪斯的玛丽蒙特初级学校、工作室城的科瓦利斯高中、圣何塞的巴特勒母亲高中以及洛杉矶的玛丽蒙特高中担任高中教育工作者、管理人员和辅导员。随后，她在圣何塞和圣迭戈从事社会工作者和成瘾辅导员的公共服务工作。

凯瑟琳的父母和兄弟姐妹先于她离世，她的侄子、侄女以及圣心会的姐妹们在世。

葬礼将于2026年9月8日（星期二）上午10:30在橙市南巴塔维亚街840号的橙市圣约瑟夫修女礼拜堂举行。墓地仪式将于2026年9月9日（星期三）上午11:00在卡尔弗城的西斯劳森大道5835号圣十字公墓举行。请以捐款代替鲜花，捐款可寄至：Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, 441 N Garfield Ave, Montebello, CA 90640。

杰里·米勒 (Jerry Miller) 1937年11月14日 - 2026年8月18日

杰里·米勒，88岁，于2026年8月18日在家中安详离世。他出生于芝加哥，在洛杉矶长大，1953年在费尔法克斯高中结识了弗雷达·马戈利斯。两人交往五年，开启了一段如童话般的浪漫爱情，并在随后的68年婚姻中延续。

杰里在比弗利山庄执业律师53年，以正直、工作细致以及对客户和朋友的奉献而闻名。他曾担任临时法官，指导南加州大学（USC）法学院的学生，并且一直是特洛伊社区的一员并深感自豪。他还曾在空军国民警卫队乐队担任空军士兵和喇叭手。

他热爱琐碎知识、历史、体育和家庭度假，并且坚持纯素食50年。

杰里的遗属包括他的妻子弗雷达；子女凯莉和格雷格；孙辈布里特妮（丈夫特雷）和娜塔莉；以及曾孙艾登、阿扎里亚和安雅。

露丝·凯瑟琳·特纳 (Ruth Katherine Turner)

1928年10月12日 – 2026年7月20日

居住在加利福尼亚州帕萨迪纳的露丝·凯瑟琳·特纳于2026年7月20日安详离世，享年97岁。她出生于加拿大安大略省的基奇纳。其家人于1960年移居加利福尼亚州，并于1963年在帕萨迪纳定居。她留下了六个孩子、十个孙辈和五个曾孙辈。

其生命庆典将于2026年9月5日（星期六）上午11:00在帕萨迪纳长老会教堂举行。

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1944年9月23日 2026年8月19日

詹姆斯·雷蒙德·尼尔森 (James Raymond Nielsen)

詹姆斯·雷蒙德·尼尔森（Jim）在加利福尼亚州格伦代尔的家中安详离世，享年81岁，其妻子安妮（Anne）在侧。吉姆是詹姆斯和多萝西·尼尔森之子，在加利福尼亚州洛杉矶出生并长大。他于1962年毕业于圣母高中，随后进入加州州立大学北岭分校就读，但其学业因在美军服役3年而中断。在服役期间，吉姆毕业于加利福尼亚州蒙特雷的国防语言学院，精通土耳其语，之后在土耳其伊兹密尔的北约总部担任翻译。回到平民生活后，吉姆毕业于加州州立大学洛杉矶分校，获得犯罪学学位。

他并未从事专业相关职业，而是担任了42年的商业银行家。吉姆在房地产贷款领域深耕超过35年。他在美国银行工作了14年，但对他而言，在巴黎银行（Banque Paribas）、Key Bank 以及他工作的最后一家机构——城市国家银行（City National Bank）的任务最具成就感且最具挑战性。他于2011年退休，之后的时间用于为自己和安妮规划旅行，并不断尝试精进他的高尔夫球技。

吉姆是一位热衷于高尔夫球的球员，尽管有时会感到有些沮丧。他是威尔希尔乡村俱乐部的成员，共38年，并在董事会担任财务主管和副主席共6年；他在全球范围内打过超过260个不同的球场，两组装裱好的球标收藏足以证明这一点。

吉姆留下了他深爱的妻子安妮（Bagley）、姐妹帕特里夏·基特利卡（Patricia Kytlica）和凯瑟琳·尼尔森（Katherine Nielsen）、侄子拉迪奥·基特利卡（Ladio Kytlica）以及许多其他侄子、侄女、曾侄子、曾侄女和一名玄孙女。安妮是他一生的挚爱，在吉姆的姐姐凯西（Kathy）介绍两人相识后，他们结婚近39年。除了共同打高尔夫球，他们还热爱旅行，尤其是欧洲邮轮之旅，他们曾前往70个国家，吉姆在旅途中收集了大量纪念品，而这让安妮一直感到无奈。

生命庆典将于稍后日期在威尔希尔乡村俱乐部举行。请以向加利福尼亚州舍曼奥克斯的圣母高中、圣裘德儿童研究医院或您选择的慈善机构捐款代替赠送鲜花。

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柯蒂斯·李·富尔顿 April 29, 1955 - July 11, 2026

柯蒂斯于 July 11, 2026, 在内华达州卡森城安详离世。他于 April 29, 1955, 出生在俄勒冈州波特兰，父母为已故的罗伊·富尔顿和戴安娜·富尔顿。

柯蒂斯在加利福尼亚州奥林达长大，并在俄勒冈州立大学接受高等教育，获得了酒店与餐饮管理学位。毕业后，他在凯悦酒店开启了管理职业生涯。多年来，柯蒂斯尝试过多种职业，包括经营自己的出租车公司以及在特斯拉超级工厂工作。

他深爱自然，在山中生活让他感到快乐。漫步森林，呼吸松树的清新气息，带给他平静和深切的自由感。野生自然之美在他的一生中引起了深刻的共鸣。

所有认识他的人都将深切怀念柯蒂斯。他的兄弟布拉德利以及姐妹洛林和马戈在世。

简短的葬礼仪式将于 Saturday 26 September 2026, 10:00 在华盛顿州大库利峡谷的春峡谷公墓举行。

愿他的回忆能给所有哀悼他离世的人带来慰藉。

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一项位于圣莫尼卡的开发项目将从该拟议法案中获益。 JASON ARMOND 洛杉矶时报

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周五深夜，随着立法会议进入尾声，时钟滴答作响，海岸保护倡导者们屏息以待。但在告诉大家结果之前，我想先回顾一下。

我上周刚从东海岸旅行回来，在那里，我拍了一些禁止我进入康涅狄格州和纽约州某些海滩的告示牌照片。他们常用的一种阴险手段是：除非你能出示居住证明，否则禁止在海滩停车场停车。

如果你不是当地居民，那就走吧。即便停车场几乎空无一人，他们也会把你赶走，随后你会发现，在便捷或安全的步行距离内没有其他可以停车的地方。这是一种实质上将海滩私有化的万无一失的方法。

因此，我回到家后急于提醒每个人，我们在加利福尼亚拥有一些特别的东西，而且我们都应该在庆祝《海岸法》（Coastal Act）50周年的蛋糕上点燃蜡烛。

该法案是确立关于公众进入、保护和开发的指导方针的框架。它的诞生是因为半个多世纪前，当海岸线似乎变得过于私有化和工业化时，一场公民起义促成了我们今天所享有的保护措施。

现在回到纽森州长身上。

我刚收拾好度假行李，一群消息人士和新闻报道就引起了我的注意，CalMatters 的报道及其标题简洁地总结了情况：

“纽森为竞选捐赠者的圣莫尼卡项目推动环境豁免。”

据 CalMatters 报道，该项目“属于杰夫·沃斯（Jeff Worthe）。根据州竞选资金记录，他与妻子克里斯汀·沃斯（Kristin Worthe）在 2018 年至 2022 年间向纽森的竞选活动和就职基金捐赠了超过 $274,000。”

加州海岸保护网络（California Coastal Protection Network）的苏珊·乔丹（Susan Jordan）对此感到震惊。

“你不会指望一名州长做出如此阴险的事情，而现在这件事公开了，他竟然毫无愧色，”她告诉我。“而且他将成为第一个在《海岸法》中开辟豁免口的人，而这部法律在过去 50 年里顶住了所有其他攻击。”

州长先生，时机抓得真好。我上个月刚写到特朗普总统如何发起他自己的尝试，试图破坏海岸委员会（Coastal Commission）以及加利福尼亚在海岸保护和开发事务上长期建立的权威。

人们希望看到加州州长能够顶天立地，而不是像特朗普的球童一样，向那些承担海岸管理职责的人脸上撒沙子。

听着，并非每个人都热爱《海岸法》或海岸委员会，许多人认为后者阻碍发展且行动迟缓。有时，在合理的开发与海岸保护之间寻找正确的平衡确实很复杂。

但本质上，加利福尼亚的核心理念是：海岸线不属于任何人，而是属于每个人。

在圣莫尼卡项目的案例中，乔丹提出了正确的问题。

“为什么要豁免？”

难道重新设计的方案有什么如此令人厌恶之处，以至于将其推向终点的唯一方法就是给予特权？

“如果你想在海岸地带建设，就必须遵守《海岸法》，”乔丹告诉我。“这就是我们制定《海岸法》的原因，我认为它不应该被这个开发商或州长所腐蚀。”

最近，当一名记者要求纽森解释他的意图时，他这样回答：

“我不会对任何待决的法案发表评论。”

为什么不呢？如果你打算撕毁海岸开发的规则手册，即便你已经准备离职，公众难道不应该得到一个解释吗？

Worthe项目将位于圣莫尼卡海滩上方。在之前的规划版本中，该项目包括一家豪华酒店、公寓以及一座弗兰克·盖里博物馆。在经历了长时间的争执，并最终就低成本住房条款达成协议后，海岸委员会在几年前批准了该项目。但在获得绿灯后，Worthe撤回了计划，导致其许可证过期。

但随后纽森出手相救，推出了一项预算法案附带条款（trailer bill）。消息人士告诉我，截至周四，其助手们仍在推动该条款。该条款将允许在同一地点提交一个未具名的项目，且如果圣莫尼卡未能在2028年前完成其自身的当地海岸计划（LCP），该项目此次将无需经过正常的监管审查。

由于要满足该截止日期可能存在困难，纽森的法案实际上提供了一种逃避《海岸法》所要求的严苛审查的方法。

为了应对纽森与参议院及议会领导人周五的会面，议员里克·查韦斯·兹布尔（Rick Chavez Zbur，民主党-洛杉矶）号召立法者们恳请州长放弃此举。

兹布尔一直在致力于起草自己的海岸开发与公共准入法案，并协助制定圣莫尼卡的LCP。他是十多名立法者之一，共同签署了一封措辞激烈的信函，并于周五发送给纽森、参议院临时议长莫妮克·利蒙（Monique Limón）以及议会议长罗伯特·里瓦斯（Robert Rivas）。

信中写道：“我们感到非常沮丧，因为我们必须再次投入时间和精力，致力于击败这项有害的提案，因为它创造了《海岸法》中前所未有的豁免条款。”

这封信显然产生了影响。周五深夜，当立法程序最终敲定之时，纽森的豁免条款已被撤回。

这是海岸线的胜利。

兹布尔在周六上午告诉我，目前尚不清楚州长周五与两位立法领导人会面时具体是如何处理此事的，但他对三人决定放弃此事表示感谢。

“这与项目本身无关，”兹布尔说，“而是在于这将创下怎样的先例——即允许某些人介入并将特定项目从《海岸法》中豁免。这将是一个可怕的先例。”

尽管存在这种威胁以及近期特朗普的强势干预，但这一切中仍有一线希望。

“只要有人想为了自身利益将海岸线货币化，就需要有人站出来说‘不’，”环境律师兼Earth Advocacy创始人金·德尔菲诺（Kim Delfino）表示。

而人们确实站了出来。

上周，数十个组织签署了一封致州长的信，反对任何“旨在为《海岸法》创造危险豁免权的最后一刻立法”。其中包括Heal the Bay、Amigos de Bolsa Chica、L.A. Waterkeeper、Azul、冲浪者基金会（Surfrider Foundation）和橙县海岸守护者（Orange County Coastkeeper）。

我想到了几种结束这篇专栏的方式，但冒着重复自己的风险，我认为最好的方式还是依赖这个提醒：

海岸线从未被真正拯救，它始终处于被拯救的过程中。

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一只稀有鸟类吸引鸟类爱好者前往欧文 marsh

这只秧鸡（GALLINULE）正在欧文 marsh 寻找食物。该物种主要分布在墨西哥湾沿岸和加勒比地区。 摄影：RAUL ROA 洛杉矶时报

关于这位“大脚访客”的消息在鸟类爱好者中迅速传开，于是“鸟类狗仔队”（birdarazzi）纷纷出动。

[秧鸡，接B1页] 根据研究与保护机构康奈尔鸟类学实验室（Cornell Lab of Ornithology）的数据，它已知会向更远的地方迁徙，最远曾在冰岛被发现。

根据州政府记录，去年，一只成年紫秧鸡在北面约 600 英里外的亨博尔特县阿卡塔 和野生动物保护区被发现，这是迄今为止最北端的目击记录。

这并非首次有鸟类目击事件在南加州引发狂热。三年多前，一只北极鸮在圣诞节前后抵达，令赛普拉斯的居民着迷了一个月。

成年紫秧鸡拥有亮紫色和绿色的身体，在红黄相间的喙上方有一块像盾牌一样的淡蓝色标记。幼鸟为淡褐色，翅膀和背部带有古铜色和绿色的色调。

这种以植被和昆虫为食的鸟类拥有长而亮黄色的腿和脚趾，用以优雅地在湿地中穿行。

欧文牧场水区（Irvine Ranch Water District）的自然资源经理伊恩·斯威夫特（Ian Swift）表示，这只秧鸡大约在两周前被一名观鸟者发现，随后该观鸟者将其发布在了一个观鸟者的公共论坛上。

“所以从那里开始，就像社交媒体上的许多事情一样，消息迅速传开了，”斯威夫特笑着说。

他表示，人们在论坛上发布关于这只鸟的更新和照片，这吸引了更多的人访问该 。

“这里的圣华金 （San Joaquin ）在平时，你知道的，工作日大部分时间都相当安静，”斯威夫特说。“而现在，自从这只鸟被发现以来，这里简直来了数百人。”

他说，这只秧鸡出人意料的到访吸引了如此多好奇的观鸟者，以至于溢出停车场有时会被填满。

84 岁的乔尔·温特劳布（Joel Weintraub）表示，发现这只鸟的功劳属于 访客查尔斯·贝克（Charles Baker），他在 8 月 13 日发现了它，并在免费在线数据库 EBird 上发布了一张照片。他表示，一名名为“Sharilyn”的用户随后将这只鸟鉴定为紫秧鸡。

不久之后，消息在鸟类爱好者中传开，于是“鸟类狗仔队”纷纷出动。

“前几天，大约有一百多人出现了，”温特劳布说。

他等到 8 月 16 日才前往 寻找这只鸟。他拍摄了照片，并在 YouTube 上上传了此次访问的视频。温特劳布很高兴在 看到一个多样化的观鸟群体。

“我环顾四周，看到了一些老手，”他说。“但也有很多 20 多岁和 30 多岁的年轻人，一个新一代的观鸟者。”

其中就包括 25 岁的巴兹尔·刘（Basil Liu），他在三年前开始接触观鸟。

刘从小阅读《国家地理》并观看《动物星球》频道，在下载了观鸟应用 Merlin Bird ID 后开始观鸟。

“它能让你追踪你看到的鸟类，科学家会使用这些数据，”他说。“所以这超级酷，因为你可以出去观鸟，记录下你看到的所有东西，它会告诉你其中是否有不常见的品种。”

刘订阅了一个邮件列表，该列表会向订阅者发送关于南加州稀有鸟类目击事件的提醒。8 月 13 日，当他收到电子邮件通知时，他正和室友在一起。

“我以前和父母住在湖林市（Lake Forest），所以圣华金 非常近，但我最近搬到了圣费尔南多谷，”刘说。“所以我收到那封邮件时心想：‘不，我以前离得那么近，但现在这么远。’”

上周，他去探望父母，并前往 寻找这只鸟。

“我非常有信心，因为这只鸟已经连续出现一周多了，所以我一大早就起床赶过去，非常幸运地发现它就在那儿，”刘说道。“于是我就在那儿坐了大约两个小时，一直在拍照。”

这只年轻的紫色秧鸡为何来到该州仍有争议，但它选择南加州最大的沿海湿地之一并不令人意外。

根据水务局网站的说法，该湿地建于 1990 年代，旨在自然净化来自圣迭戈溪的干季城市径流，并解决曾出现在纽波特湾上游的藻类暴发问题。

“拥有这片美丽湿地的次要好处就是这里绝佳的野生动物资源，”斯威夫特说。“多年来，在湿地中已观测到 300 多种鸟类。”

他表示，该湿地还作为一个公共绿地，包含约 12 英里的步行道。

“你可以看到各种各样的自然景观，你知道，不只是鸟类，还有植物和其他野生动物。尽管我们被包裹在城市化中心且紧邻机场，但当你走在步道上时，听不到飞机的声音，也听不到汽车驶过的声音。”

“有一只——就一只——紫色秧鸡非常喜欢这个地方，”他笑着补充道。

水务局官员表示，截至周三晚上，这只沼泽秧鸡仍留在湿地中。圣华金湿地从黎明开放至日落。禁止携带犬类进入。欲获取最新动态，请访问橙县观鸟论坛。

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Ingram Micro Inc. 现于加利福尼亚州欧文市（Irvine, CA）招聘服务架构师 II（Services Architects II）。负责 SMB 迁移工厂（SMB Migration Factory）的售前及项目监督，包括项目交付与售前工作：范围界定、定价、制定工作说明书以及与 AWS 的对接。负责设计并实施符合客户需求和业务目标的服务交付方案与策略。根据公司政策，可能允许远程办公 / 居家办公。要求拥有计算机科学、电子工程或相关领域的学士学位，且在所提供岗位或 IT 项目经理相关职业中拥有 5 年经验。$134,534 to $206,200 / yr。联系方式：请通过职位名称搜索并在线申请：https: / www.ingrammicro.com / enus / careers / work-for-us

网飞（Netflix, Inc.）现面向加利福尼亚州洛杉矶市（Los Angeles, CA）的以下职位接收简历：

解决方案软件工程师（参考号 9362427）：负责针对网飞工作室（Netflix Studio）生态系统内运营需求的目标软件解决方案的端到端设计、开发、实施、维护和支持。允许远程办公。非远程办公期间，必须前往工作地点报到。该职位的薪资范围为每年 $250,000 – $413,000。

财务与战略（F&S）经理，内容方向（参考号 9986688）：分析竞争对手的节目投资和业务表现，为网飞的内容战略制定建议。允许远程办公。非远程办公期间，必须前往工作地点报到。该职位的薪资范围为每年 $230,000 – $370,000。

请将简历发送至：USresumes@netflix.com。必须包含参考号。请勿致电。机会均等（EOE）。www.netflix.com/

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Amgen Inc.；供应链经理 I - R-248072；加利福尼亚州千橡市（Thousand Oaks, CA）；管理长期情景与规划周期的协调，并就业务关键的生命周期管理和产品策略实施做出决策。可远程办公。该职位要求最多 10% 的时间用于前往国内外的各类不可预见地点出差。有意者请将简历发送至 Taylor Acquisition@amgen.com。Music@.org / R-248072。该职位在美国的年薪为 $151,216.00 per year。此外，该职位提供股票、退休金、医疗、人寿和伤残保险，并有资格获得年度奖金或销售岗位的其他激励薪酬。更多详情请访问 https: / careers..com / life-at- / benefits / 。

Pathway Vet Alliance, LLC（以 Thrive Pet Healthcare 名义经营）现为加利福尼亚州伍德兰希尔斯（Woodland Hills, CA）分店招聘兽医以治疗宠物。要求：兽医学博士（DVM）学位或同等外国学位 + 具备申请州兽医执照的资格。年薪 $150,000 to $300,000. 申请请发送至：Jennifer. Andersen@thrivepet.com 并注明 011P。

Arc Boat Company 现于加利福尼亚州托伦斯（Torrance, CA）招聘软件工程师：设计、构建、测试并部署面向客户的应用，包括船载信息娱乐系统、移动应用和网站。允许部分远程办公。薪资：$189,051 to $217,408. 请将附带推荐人的简历发送至：Req.# L25-164387 at: resumes@arcboats.com。

软件质量保证（QA）工程师（加利福尼亚州门罗维亚，Monrovia, CA）- DigitBridge, Inc.：开发并执行自动化 / 手动测试计划，记录软件缺陷，并在整个软件开发生命周期（SDLC）中支持软件质量。要求：计算机科学 / 软件工程或相关专业学士学位。年薪：$70,325 / yr。简历邮寄至：417 E Huntington Dr, Ste 100, Monrovia, CA 91016。

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Amazon.com Services LLC 正在圣安娜（CA）招聘以下岗位（有多个职位空缺）。请在 https: / www.amazon.jobs / en / 申请，并注明职位 ID AMZ26712.4：

运营工程师 II (职位 ID: AMZ26712.4)。识别、设计、开发、实施并执行新的及现有的流程、政策、目标和解决方案，以确保与履约解决方案相关的最佳客户体验。推动开发工作并管理项目 / 计划完成的优先级，包括运营解决方案。履行岗位职责可能需要高达 75% 的国内出差。该职位在圣安娜（CA）的薪资范围为 \$90792 - \$114900（年薪）；然而，提供的基本工资可能会根据与工作相关的知识、技能和经验而有所不同。除全面的医疗、财务和 / 或其他福利外，作为薪酬方案的一部分，可能会根据所提供的职位提供签约奖金和受限股票单位。此信息由《加利福尼亚州同工同酬法》提供。基本工资信息基于市场所在地。申请人应通过亚马逊内部或外部招聘网站申请。

Gilbane Building Company。项目工程师。洛杉矶（CA）。年薪 \$134430。负责开发现场规划、预算、成本管理和现场物流。协调指定施工现场分包商的活动。要求持有 OSHA 30小时证书。要求前往洛杉矶大都会区（LA MSA）内不可预见的客户现场。将简历发送至 TalentAcquisition@Gilbaneco.com。必须注明 #66。

ServiceTitan, Inc 正在格伦代尔（CA）招聘一名资深软件工程师，负责主导所属小组的短期和长期技术愿景。薪资：\$210,000-\$265,000 / 年。可远程办公。将简历发送至：resumes@servicetitan.com

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DH Dental Employment Services, LLC 招聘高级数据架构师，地点：加利福尼亚州布雷亚（Brea, CA）：理解数据流过程的端到端生态系统。允许 100% 在美国境内任何地方远程办公。年薪 \$183,851 - \$242,100。实际薪酬方案将综合考虑每位候选人的各项独特因素。简历发送至 recruitment-us@envistaco.com。必须注明职位代码 CA0105SG。

泰国主厨：全职。具有 2 年副主厨或相关经验。简历邮寄至：President, Thaveekhun Inc. 1638 Saw-telle Bl., L.A., CA 90025。

NBBJ LP 招聘设计师，在执业建筑师的监督下，负责医疗设施建筑项目的设计和 / 或技术要素开发。全职，地点：加利福尼亚州洛杉矶。在前往洛杉矶办公室的正常通勤距离内，每周最多 1 天的远程办公可能是可接受的。基本薪资范围为每年 \$80,080 至 \$90,000。申请方式：通过电子邮件 Humanresources@nbbj.com 联系 NBBJ LP，并注明职位编号 #LOS717。

Data Trace Information Services, LLC 招聘数据科学家 II，地点：加利福尼亚州圣安娜（Santa Ana, CA），负责处理极大数据集以进行探索性分析、构建相关变量并进行样本设计。可居家办公。年薪 \$77,584 - \$117,000。简历发送至：clcarter@firstam.com。

业务发展与规划总监：要求 BBA 或相关学位。薪资：每年 \$120,000。简历邮寄至：ACL America, Inc 14425 Clark Ave, City of Industry, CA 91745。

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高级设计工程师 – Visionary Solutions, Inc.；加利福尼亚州圣巴巴拉（Santa Barbara, CA）。设计并开发视频编码器和解码器设备的电路图，实现模拟到数字信号的转换以及通过互联网协议电视（IPTV）平台的实时广播。必须拥有电信网络、电信工程或相关专业的硕士学位，外加 3 年相关经验。每周 5 天 / 40 小时；年薪 \$138,528。申请请将简历发送给 Jordan Christoff，邮箱：jchristoff@visionary-av.com。

财务咨询通用高级经理，PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP，加利福尼亚州洛杉矶。为客户提供与财务管理和战略相关的建议。要求：会计、金融、分析或相关领域的学士学位或同等外国学位，外加 6 年相关工作经验，其中至少 5 年必须是学士学位后的渐进相关工作经验；或者会计、金融、分析或相关领域的硕士学位或同等外国学位，外加 4 年相关工作经验。允许 50% 远程办公。必须能够通勤至指定的当地办公室。要求最多 60% 的国内和 / 或国际出差。有多个职位空缺。薪资范围：每年 \$205,000 - \$258,000。请将简历发送至 US_PwC_Career_Recruitment @pwc.com 申请，并在邮件主题中注明职位代码 CA4959。

Chugh, LLP 在加利福尼亚州塞里托斯（Cerritos, CA）招聘法律顾问，负责开展法律研究；起草 / 审核简报、请愿书、动议及法律文件；准备 / 提交基于雇佣的非移民签证（NIV）请愿书及申请；汇总支持证据；协调外国文件、翻译及学历等值评估；维护案件档案及案件管理系统；与客户、律师及政府机构沟通；提供移民法相关建议；监督 / 培训初级员工；解决法律 / 程序问题。要求拥有法律硕士学位。薪资：根据各项因素而定，每年 $73,029.00–$80,000。福利在入职时讨论。职位编号 #P-693596-LLP (693596)。请将简历及本广告副本发送至 Aira.Asencion@chugh.com。

库存控制专员：Durrani Investments Corp（以 california chemical 名义经营）在加利福尼亚州奇诺（Chino CA）有一个库存控制专员全职空缺，工作时间为周一至周五。职责包括：订购、接收、存储、跟踪并记录产品、供应品、原材料、成品及设备；管理并制定协议，向管理层报告任何偏差；提交报告。要求拥有副学士学位。请将简历邮寄至 HR 5177 Chino Ave Chino CA 91710。

高级 SAP BW 开发人员 @ Red Bull North America, Inc.（加利福尼亚州圣莫尼卡，Santa Monica, CA）全职。需了解红牛（Red Bull）的系统及业务运营。该职位要求拥有计算机科学、信息系统或相关专业的学士学位或同等外国学历，且在所提供职位、顾问、实施专员或相关岗位拥有 10 年 SAP BW 经验。若无学士学位，雇主将接受在所提供职位、顾问、实施专员或相关岗位增加 2 年的 经验。必须在以下每项技能中拥有 1 年经验：, HANA, BW4HANA, SAC, BI 或 Modeling Tools；使用 Analytics Cloud 上的 Data Intelligence 的报告和分析解决方案；ABAP（数据源增强、例程、变量退出、调试）；SQL 和 AMDP；CDS 视图；以及详细设计文档的制作。薪资率：每年 $144,414-$168,000。申请请将简历发送至 Red Bull North America, Inc. 人事部：talentacquisition.rbna@redbull.com。请注明 SV-CA 9975963. 机会均等雇主（EOE）。

工程类：HIL 测试系统经理 —— 由福特汽车公司（Ford Motor Company，加利福尼亚州长滩 Long Beach, California）提供职位。注：这是一个混合办公职位，员工将同时在居家和上述工作地点办公。因此，员工必须居住在距离工作地点在合理通勤距离内。领导、指导并培养一支 HIL 测试工程师团队，提升技术专业知识、协作能力并致力于质量。需要高达 5% 的国内出差。每年 $196,582.56 - $233,390.04。机会均等雇主（EOE）。在线申请：careers.ford.com

安进公司（Amgen Inc.）；高级财务经理 - R-248049 (248049); 加利福尼亚州千橡市（Thousand Oaks, CA）：提供关键的财务专业知识和分析，以帮助推动和提高业务绩效。可远程办公。有意者请将简历发送至 Talent-Acquisition@amgen.com。必须注明职位编号 # R-248049 (248049.)。该职位在美国的年薪范围为每年 $134,259.00-$164,480.00。此外，该职位提供股票、退休金、医疗、人寿和伤残保险，以及年度奖金资格，或针对销售岗位的其他激励薪酬。更多详情请访问 https: / careers.amgen.com / life-at-amgen / benefits / 。

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Specs Inc.（加利福尼亚州圣莫尼卡）招聘设计工程师 *允许混合办公 *Specs 采取“默认协作”方式，并期望成员至少 80% 的时间（平均每周 4 天）在圣莫尼卡办公室工作。负责构思并设计以摄像头为中心的全新移动交互体验。基本年薪：\$209,000 - \$313,000。有资格获得受限股票单位（RSU）形式的股权。我们的福利：https: / careers.snap.com / benefits。请通过此网站链接申请：https: / tinyurl.com / 5n89vzr6。机会均等雇主（EOE）。

网络工程师（加利福尼亚州洛杉矶）分析、监控并维护美国 POP 设施，包括 HVAC、交流 UPS、直流电源厂及火灾预动作系统。根据公司程序响应网络故障和警报。协调传输和 IP 网络响应。要求：计算机科学、工程、电信、电气工程或相关领域硕士学位 + 2 年计算机或电信网络环境经验。具备 LAN / WAN / 100 / 10 的实际操作经验。

字节跳动（ByteDance Inc），创作者合作伙伴经理（多个职位），加利福尼亚州卡尔弗城。制定垂直内容和影响力人物筛选策略。年薪：\$102600 - \$143640。请在 joinbytedance.com / 申请并查看提供的福利，搜索职位 ID A132751A。申请困难请发送邮件至 Ipresumes@bytedance.com。

高级投资助理，洛杉矶办公室。年薪 \$57,866。请将简历邮寄至 R. Hermens, Valiant Capital Management LP, 394 Pacific Ave, 4th FL, San Francisco, CA 94111

D Element Group LLC / 产品与销售工程师。提供技术咨询与解决方案；与其他部门沟通；通过与同事和客户合作增强适应能力；要求：电子或相关领域硕士学位；经验：电子或相关领域 6 个月经验；年薪 102,300；请将简历邮寄至 D Element Group LLC, 21558 Ferrero Parkway, Walnut, CA 91789

进出口协调员；要求：物流、工商管理、国际关系或相关专业学士学位。年薪 \$62,254。简历发送至：RP Logistics USA Inc., 3575 Koger Bl., STE 200, Duluth, GA 30096 [工作地点：加利福尼亚州卡森]

一家位于加利福尼亚州核桃市（Walnut）的杂货配送服务公司招聘高级持续改进工程师，以提高流程和生产效率。必须拥有工业工程或相关专业学士学位，且在所提供职位或相关领域拥有 2 年递进经验。2 年相关经验必须包括对基础精益和六西格玛方法论、统计过程控制（SPC）、过程失效模式与影响分析（PFMEA）以及设施和布局优化知识的掌握。年薪范围：\$70,500 \~ \$105,575。请将简历发送至 askrecruiting@misfitsmarket.com。

ICU Medical, Inc.（加利福尼亚州圣克莱门特）招聘设计质量高级工程师：有效利用质量工具和流程以确保产品质量。允许混合居家办公。*每年要求 < 5-10% 的国内及国际出差。年薪 \$140,774 - \$161,000。请将简历发送至：

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AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC（亚马逊公司旗下公司）- 加利福尼亚州霍桑。高级财务经理：管理财务分析师及 / 或财务经理团队，以支持多个业务领域。薪资范围：每年 $157,582 至 $207,000。职位编号：AMZ9083310。有多个职位空缺。提供公司标准福利。在线申请：www.amazon.jobs - 通过职位编号搜索。机会均等（EOE）。

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Medtronic MiniMed Inc. - 加利福尼亚州北岭 - 高级软件支持工程师 - 负责密集胰岛素管理产品的软件测试、验证和故障排除。允许每周最多 2 天远程办公。薪资：$132,912.00 - $137,912.00。申请方式：将简历发送至 https: / www.minimed.com / en-us / careers。需求编号 R-801528 (801528)。

Amazon.com Services LLC 在加利福尼亚州卡尔弗城招聘以下人员（有多个职位空缺）。申请地址：https: / www.amazons营业收入 / effencing 职位 ID：AMZ138222.5 (5.)。执行助理 II（职位 ID：AMZ138222.5 (5)）。为内部高管创建机密演示文稿和信函，并负责外部沟通。了解团队及整体业务；担任多位高管及其扩展团队的战略合作伙伴。该职位在加利福尼亚州卡尔弗城的薪资范围为每年 $97469 - $129800；然而，提供的基本工资可能根据与工作相关的知识、技能和经验而有所不同。除了全套医疗、财务及 / 或其他福利外，还可能根据所提供职位的薪酬方案提供签约奖金和受限股票单位。此信息由加利福尼亚州平等薪酬法提供。基本工资信息基于市场所在地。申请人应通过亚马逊内部或外部招聘网站申请。

时装设计师（加利福尼亚州洛杉矶）根据趋势设计时尚服装。时尚相关专业学士学位。每年 $43,950。简历发送至：Thankyouhaveaniceday Inc. 810 E Pico Blvd #B21, Los Angeles, CA 90021 (810, 90021)

财务与投资分析师 TCW LLC 现有一个 可持续投资分析师副总裁（VP）的职位机会。根据研究结果向其他研究团队、投资组合经理和交易员提供投资建议。每年 $180,000.00 至 $210,000.00。职位地点位于加利福尼亚州洛杉矶。混合办公职位，要求在办公室工作，并在不在办公室的日子里能够远程办公。将简历及参考号 #10056900 (10056900) 发送至 Recruitment@tcw.com。必须具有无需赞助即可在美国合法工作的授权。机会均等（EOE）。

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Jiu-zheng Ergonomics US Inc. 招聘平面设计师，平面设计学士学位，薪资每年 $48,880。简历发送至人力资源部：2301 E 7th St, #A225, Los Angeles, CA 90023 (2301, 90023)

经理：全职；简历发送至：Dr. Man's QH Dental Office Inc. 6805 Quail Hill Pkwy Irvine CA 92603 (6805, 92603)

ZipRecruiter, Inc. 在加利福尼亚州圣莫尼卡招聘首席产品经理，负责领导并与工程、营销和数据团队协作执行增长计划。要求：商业 24 (24)' 或相关领域硕士学位或同等外国学位，且具有 2 年产品负责人、产品经理或相关职位的学后经验。经验必须包括在数据密集型和个性化营销技术（MarTech）环境中领导 AI / ML 驱动的产品计划；设计并运行严格的实验框架（包括 A / B 测试）；应用 UI / UX 工作流以优化转化率和用户体验；以及利用数据可视化和跟踪工具 Tableau 和 JIRA 来传达洞察并推动执行。该职位总部位于加利福尼亚州圣莫尼卡，允许从美国各地的 var 远程办公，处理不可预见的项目。薪资每年 $180 ($180)K 至 $230 ($230)K。发送简历至：apolv@ziziprecruiter.com

TT Commerce & Global Services LLC，特别项目经理（多个职位），加利福尼亚州卡尔弗城。执行战略项目以开发并优化类目团队的类目策略，推动长期商品交易总额（GMV）增长、盈利能力及运营效率。薪资：每年 $102600 - $143640。请在 lifeattiktok.com 申请并查看提供的福利，搜索职位 ID A245026A。如申请遇到困难，请发送电子邮件至 Ipsumesmttc@tiktok.com。

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高级助理，Dashpass 战略合作伙伴关系 - 整合营销，DoorDash, Inc.，加利福尼亚州洛杉矶。在包括付费媒体、CRM、商品营销及合作伙伴渠道在内的核心渠道中，执行日常增长优化并管理合作伙伴营销工作。要求：拥有工商管理、营销传播、商业分析或相关研究领域的硕士学位（或同等学历），以及 3 年营销传播、品牌增长或相关职业经验。允许远程办公。薪资范围：每年 $93,080 - $139,100。申请请将简历发送至 work withus@doordash.com 并注明职位代码 DSPIM-S-102-LA。

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运营分析师。Dan DMC LLC。加利福尼亚州圣莫尼卡。薪资：$85,384 至 $90,000。简历发送至：michael@danmodern.com

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ServiceTitan, Inc 正在加利福尼亚州格伦代尔（Glendale, CA）招聘高级产品经理，负责掌控产品路线图，并做出具有防御性且基于数据的战略优先级决策，以优化客户影响和业务结果。提供薪资：每年 $144,600-$221,400。可远程办公。请将简历发送至：

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项目管理专家——要求硕士或同等学历及 1 年经验，包括 Active Directory, OIM, SOX, SAML, OAuth2.0, Open ID, Oracle, OAM, Azure IAM, AWS, Docker, WebLogic, JIRA, ServiceNow, Freshdesk, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, REST, SOAP, LDAP 及 XML。年薪 $143,458。需出差 / 搬迁。请将简历发送至：Savi-ynt, Inc. 1301 E El Segundo Blvd, Ste D, El Segundo, CA 90245

质量经理（Arktura LLC, 加利福尼亚州卡森 Carson, CA）负责质量部门的日常战术领导工作。要求工程、质量控制或相关领域学士学位，以及金属制造行业 5 年质量控制管理经验。年薪 $156,437。提供公司标准福利。请将简历发送至 talentacquisition@armstrong.com 并注明职位编号 #QMCA1

MH Sub I LLC（以 Internet Brands, Inc. 名义经营）有以下多个职位空缺：软件开发人员 / 工程师。设计、开发并维护支持关键业务平台的 Web 软件应用。Ref#9761668——年薪 $106,787.00 至 $106,787.01。高级软件开发人员。使用 C#, .NET, JavaScript, SQL 等技术开发、测试和维护后端应用。Ref#9700617——年薪 $134,202.00 至 $140,749.18。上述职位均可在加利福尼亚州埃尔塞贡多（El Segundo, CA）的公司总部工作。也可居住在美国境内任何地方并居家远程办公。请将附带 Ref# 的简历发送至 HR.Recruiting@

E2 Consulting Engineers, Inc. 在加利福尼亚州洛杉矶（Los Angeles, CA）招聘调度员。开发、监控并更新综合项目计划和进度表，以确保项目高效执行。可远程办公。请将简历发送至 hr@e2.com。职位编号 #21934.19.7。年薪 $166462。

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Tinder LLC 正在加利福尼亚州西好莱坞（West Hollywood, CA）招聘机器学习基础设施高级软件工程师，负责设计、构建和维护可扩展的机器学习基础设施，以支持处理具有数千亿个数据点的大规模数据集的 ML 模型的实验、训练、部署和监控。可能允许远程办公。非远程办公时必须前往 8800 Sunset Blvd. West Hollywood, CA 90069. 报到。团队会议和现场培训需进行最多 10% 的国内出差。薪资：每年 $190K - $246K。请将简历发送至：Lauren.Lozano@match.com。主题行必须注明广告代码 SLLL。

AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC（亚马逊公司）- 加利福尼亚州卡尔弗城（Culver City, California）。商业智能工程师 II：通过管理指标报告并进行数学和统计建模以产生业务预测，为高级管理层提供支持。薪资范围：每年 $148,251 至 $160,000。职位编号：AMZ9890743。多个职位空缺。提供公司标准福利。在线申请：www.amazon.jobs - 通过职位编号搜索。机会均等（EOE）。

IMDB.COM, INC.（亚马逊公司）- 加利福尼亚州圣莫尼卡（Santa Monica, California）。软件开发工程师 II：设计、开发、实现、测试并记录嵌入式或分布式软件应用、工具、系统和服务。薪资范围：每年 $143,700 至 $194,400。职位编号：AMZ10243908。多个职位空缺。提供公司标准福利。在线申请：www.amazon.jobs - 通过职位编号搜索。机会均等（EOE）。

兽医（加利福尼亚州诺沃克 Norwalk, CA），诊断、治疗或研究动物疾病和损伤。开展研发、检查牲畜或照顾宠物及伴侣动物。每周 40 小时，要求兽医学博士学位及加利福尼亚州兽医执照。简历发送至 J&J VETCO, INC Attn: Emily LEE, 13220 San Antonio Dr, Norwalk, CA 90650。

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布罗德艺术项目将聚焦南洛杉矶

布罗德博物馆（THE BROAD）与艺术家劳伦·哈尔西（Lauren Halsey）联手，为南洛杉矶的学生提供免费的艺术项目。 BEN GIBBS courtesy the Broad

作者：DEBORAH VANKIN

对于布罗德博物馆来说，现在是返校季。

布罗德博物馆周六宣布，将启动一项新的教育计划。“我们的街区，我们的故事”（Our Block, Our Stories）将让学生与当代艺术家结对，共同探讨这些艺术家如何从其当地社区、邻里和个人经历中获得灵感。

该项目面向 3 through 12 年级的学生，包括场外活动和前往博物馆的实地考察。布罗德博物馆将承担学生前往博物馆的交通费用。

首个项目将聚焦南洛杉矶的学生，并重点推介洛杉矶艺术家劳伦·哈尔西。学生将参观哈尔西位于南洛杉矶的雕塑花园——“姐妹梦想家，劳伦·哈尔西对南中洛杉矶繁荣与挥霍的建筑颂歌”（sister dreamer, lauren halsey's architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles），以探讨邻里、记忆与归属感的主题。哈尔西的作品于3月首次亮相，由洛杉矶游牧分部（Los Angeles Nomadic Division）呈献，并由LAND联合创始人克里斯汀·Y·金（Christine Y. Kim）策划。

随后，学生将在同一天前往布罗德博物馆参加导览、讨论和写作练习。他们将被鼓励将个人经历与博物馆馆藏作品联系起来，同时思考如何通过艺术创造性地表达来自各自社区的个人生活故事。布罗德博物馆临时学校项目经理艾普里尔·德·莱昂（April De Leon）负责监督该项目。

“这样我们就能引导数百名年轻人[来到博物馆]，激励他们发挥创造力——并以一种能够帮助其社区、回馈其社区、改变其社区及其城市的方式进行，”布罗德博物馆观众参与总监埃德·帕图托（Ed Patuto）表示。“我们还将研究其他艺术家——如马克·布拉德福德（Mark Bradford）、约翰·艾恩（John Ahearn）和里戈贝尔托·托雷斯（Rigoberto Torres）——如何处理他们的邻里关系，以及如何从邻里环境中的机遇中寻找灵感。”

博物馆将为教育工作者提供现场工作单和关于艺术家的背景资料，以及其他英文和西班牙文的访前和访后资源。

前往博物馆的实地考察将于 Sept. 18 开始，不过布罗德博物馆目前仍在招募参与该项目的学校。该项目将优先考虑南洛杉矶及其周边的学校和青少年组织。哈尔西项目将持续至 Dec. 11。

帕图托表示，哈尔西是启动该项目的完美人选。她的作品不仅被布罗德博物馆收藏，而且“她是一位深受其社区影响的艺术家，并且像马克·布拉德福德一样，实际上是在她的社区中为她的社区建设某些东西，”他说。“而这需要全市艺术机构的支持。”

哈尔西在一次采访中表示，大约 16 年前她最初构思这座雕塑公园时的想法，是创造一个在美学和概念上都能代表并向该社区致敬的空间。

“英雄、诗意、物质文化、日常生活，”她说。“而且，这是一个为该社区以及整个洛杉矶提供免费服务的雕塑公园。”

布罗德博物馆表示，将在未来几年继续开发“学习模块”。

下一个模块将与即将于11月开幕的展览“神话是否已被打破”（Has the myth been shattered）同步推出。帕图托表示，这次由詹·瓦内加斯·罗查（Jen Vanegas Rocha）策划的展览涵盖了布罗德馆藏中跨越六十年的作品，探讨了神话“以及社交媒体、大众媒体如何将发生在我们身上的事情神话化的方式”。

哈尔西表示，像“我们的街区，我们的故事”这样面向青少年的免费文化项目具有颠覆性意义，并补充说，她在初中时期前往洛杉矶县立艺术博物馆（LACMA）的实地考察帮助她建立了创作信心，并巩固了她作为艺术家的身份。

她希望布罗德博物馆（the Broad）的新教育计划能为其他年轻艺术家带来同样的影响。

“它能建立起对自身社区的自豪感，肯定个人的经历，拓展年幼孩子对自己未来可能成为什么的认知，并激发想象力，”她说道。“我在南中区（South Central）长大时没有这种接触艺术的机会。所以，布罗德博物馆能够介入并与我合作，将这些绝佳的免费项目带到这个社区，这真的太酷了。”

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为正义而跳跃

一名加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）教授的3岁孩子在抗议计划关闭早期教育中心的活动中玩耍。

水族馆接收至少500只动物

作者：SUMMER LIN

位于长滩的太平洋水族馆（Aquarium of the Pacific）今年夏天正在照料额外500只从野生动物贩子手中解救出来的动物。

目前尚不清楚这些被贩运的动物何时能加入到大约12,000只公开展出的海龟、青蛙、章鱼、企鹅、鲨鱼及其他海洋生物之列。

这些动物包括海洋鱼类、无脊椎动物和鲨鱼，于6月19日抵达水族馆，但水族馆直到周四才公布这一消息。工作人员彻夜工作，以稳定这些生物的状态并使其适应水族馆的系统。

“野生动物贩运破坏了国家和全球的生态系统，并使动物走向灭绝，”太平洋水族馆总裁兼首席执行官杰夫·弗洛肯（Jeff Flocken）在新闻稿中表示。“我们很自豪能响应号召帮助被贩运的野生动物，并致力于为所有我们能够帮助的动物提供即时护理和避难所。”

根据新闻稿，动物园和水族馆协会野生动物没收网络（Assn. of Zoos and Aquariums Wildlife Confiscations Network）收到通知，一辆厢式货车内装载了2,000多只动物，包括鱼类、爬行动物、无脊椎动物和两栖动物。太平洋水族馆对此做出响应并接收了这些动物。

被解救的动物中包括近威胁物种棕带竹鲨、公子小丑鱼以及濒危物种邦盖 cardinalfish（Banggai cardinalfish）。

“我们在隔离区对所有抵达水族馆的动物进行密切监测，以便提供即时护理并防止任何潜在疾病的传播，尤其是在这种紧急情况下，”鱼类和无脊椎动物助理策展人艾丽莎·蒂尔曼（Alyssa Tillman）在新闻稿中说道。

根据新闻稿，动物通常无法回归自然，因为执法部门无法确定它们的来源，且在接受人类照顾后，它们可能无法在野外生存。被贩运的动物通常在非人道的条件下被捕获和运输，部分动物在旅途中死亡。

太平洋水族馆是南加州野生动物没收网络的一部分，该网络致力于照料被没收和贩运的野生动物。该水族馆已帮助过3,300多只被贩运的动物，包括珊瑚、爬行动物、鱼类和美西螈。今年早些时候，水族馆启用了一个新的康复区，其中包括一个容量约为4,000加仑的水池。

如果您怀疑有人从事野生动物贩运，请拨打 (844) 397-8477 联系美国鱼类及野生动物管理局（U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service）。

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显示火势正在焚烧一座临时搭建的结构和过度生长的植被。

在 KTLA 的报道之后，巴斯（Bass）告诉该电视台，市部门周四正采取行动清理该物业并解决居民的担忧。

“我看到了这个报道，立即给我们的市部门打电话，想弄清楚这里发生了什么，”巴斯告诉 KTLA。周四，她抵达现场并告诉该电视台，临时链条围栏正在安装中，而更永久性的围栏将于周五安装。

代表该地区的拉曼（Raman）在周四的一份声明中表示，她的办公室多年来一直与洛杉矶建筑与安全局（L.A. Department of Building and Safety）联系，试图确保该物业的安全并进行清理，但未获成功。

“巴布考克大道的居民多年来一直住在这样一个被遗弃且不安全的私有物业旁边，这绝对是不可原谅的，”拉曼在声明中说。“我们打过电话，发过电子邮件，还上报过。我们尝试了所有途径来敲响警钟，但没有任何行动。”

由拉曼办公室提供的电子邮件显示，居民的投诉可追溯到数年前，涉及垃圾、积水、蚊虫和废弃物问题。邮件显示，拉曼办公室的工作人员联系了市建筑与安全局，检查员回复称他们将亲自视察该地块。

邻居们表示，问题依然存在。

拉曼表示，她的办公室在 11 月也直接向市长办公室标记了该物业，但当时没有采取任何行动。

“我们很高兴市长终于响应了呼吁，”拉曼在声明中说。“在火灾让危险变得无法忽视之前，这个物业就应该被主动地确保安全并予以整治。”

《时报》审阅的电子邮件显示，拉曼办公室的工作人员在 11 月将巴布考克物业列为其选区内需要关注的五个滋扰物业中紧急程度第二高的地块。

邮件还显示，拉曼办公室是应巴斯基础设施团队的要求而编制的这份名单。

“这一请求是全市范围内评估和优先处理滋扰物业更广泛努力的一部分，”市公共工程副手迪昂·巴里恩托斯（Deion Barrientos）的电子邮件请求中这样写道。

巴斯的一位发言人表示，此类请求已发送至所有议员办公室，目前全市已有 25 处以上的物业问题得到了解决。

巴斯在与 KTLA 的通话中确认，拉曼的办公室确实标记了该物业。

“她说他们正通过法律程序处理，”巴斯告诉该电视台。

在周五给《时报》的一份声明中，巴斯表示，该物业的问题在引起她注意后已得到处理。

“居民们的沮丧是有道理的，”她说。“他们不应该住在危险的物业旁边。当情况的严重性直接引起我的注意时，我在同一天就采取了行动。”

但拉曼批评了巴斯的言论，称该物业本应更早得到处理。

“不应该有任何居民需要他们的议员亲自打电话给市长来解决公共安全隐患，”她在新闻发布会上说。“一个功能正常的城市不应该是这样运作的。”

到周五下午，莱兹沃思（Ledsworth）表示，这个被长期忽视的物业突然变得热闹起来。

“市里派了一大群工人，他们把那里全部清理干净了，”莱兹沃思说。“终于有行动了。”

天气

南加州今日天气

气温下降：本周一系列低压区将横跨本州，导致气温大幅下降。来自海洋的气流将使低云重新回到洛杉矶盆地。沿海及近海地区空气依然较为潮湿。本周中期，本州中北部地区可能会有阵雨，本周末南部地区可能会有阵雨。

5日预报

最高 / 最低气温为整个区域的平均预报值。

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冲浪与海洋

从康塞普申角（POINT CONCEPTION）到墨西哥 内海：风向西至西北，风速 10-25 节。海浪 3-6 英尺。涌浪方向西至西北，高度 3-5 英尺，周期 8 秒；方向西，高度 2-3 英尺，周期 15 秒。

冲浪区：今日所有区域海滩强离岸流风险较高。浪高可能达到 3 至 6 英尺。

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UV 指数

敏感人群晒伤所需时间（分钟） 拉斯维加斯 25，凤凰城 25 洛杉矶 25，旧金山 30

日月

加利福尼亚州城市*

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2 3

年鉴

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<><>24小时总量（截至下午2点）< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>本季总量（自10月1日起）< / ><>18.87< / ><>15.62< / ><>20.39< / >< / ><><>上季总量（10月1日起至今日）< / ><>7.96< / ><>3.93< / ><>6.50< / >< / ><><>本季常态（10月1日起至今日）< / ><>14.15< / ><>11.75< / ><>16.01< / >< / ><><>湿度（最高 / 最低）< / ><>81 / 52< / ><>84 / 36< / ><>93 / 66< / >< / table>

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截至下午 2 点，美国本土 48 州的周六极端气温 最高温 113 度，加州尼德尔斯 最低温 33 度，俄勒冈州莱克维尤

今日北美概况

大盆地地区风暴频发：周日，新英格兰北部可能会出现雷阵雨，并导致强降水引发的洪涝和冰雹。与此同时，达科他州地区存在阵风强劲的暴风雨风险，并伴有冰雹和强降水引发的洪涝。大平原的中部和南部地区将维持干燥且炎热的天气。

阵雨< / td><>雷阵雨< / ><>雨< / ><>小雪< / ><>雪< / ><>冰< / >< / tr> <>< / ><>< / >< / tr>< / table>

温度 -0 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100+

图中显示了当日的降水区域和最高气温。

美国城市

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婴儿在120年后获得墓碑

JASON ARMOND 洛杉矶时报

2020年，洛杉矶英格尔伍德公园公墓（Inglewood Park Cemetery）的荣誉卫队成员。

作者：KAREN GARCIA

1906年，4个月大的梅蒂·雷克（Maytie Raker）成为第一个被安葬在英格尔伍德公园公墓的人。

当时她被安葬时没有墓碑，但本月，相关负责人通过在她的埋葬地设立一块永久性标记，以此纪念梅蒂。

据 PBS SoCal 报道，1905年，由一群当地商人组成的英格尔伍德公园公墓协会购买了一块320英亩的土地，目标是创建世界上最大且最精美的公墓。

一年后，即1906年7月20日，金·D·雷克（King D. Raker）和杰西·雷克（Jessie Raker）的女儿梅蒂成为了第一位被安葬的人，但目前尚不清楚她的家人为何在超过一个世纪的时间里没有为该地点设立标记。

梅蒂的妹妹哈蒂（Hattie）在次年被安葬在她身边——该孩子在婴儿期夭折。

《时报》就此事联系了英格尔伍德公园公墓寻求评论，但在发布前未收到回复。

8月13日，公墓负责人与英格尔伍德市议会议员聚集在雷克姐妹的埋葬地，共同纪念新安置的标记，这也是长女雷克姐妹首次拥有标记。

标记上刻有蝴蝶，坟墓旁摆放着成对的蝴蝶形状花艺，以及由白色和紫色玫瑰、雏菊和康乃馨组成的混合花束。

“这表明了在英格尔伍德公园公墓或任何公墓进行纪念活动为何如此重要，”该公墓运营与建设副总裁凯文·布朗（Kevin Brown）在 Instagram 的一篇帖子中表示。

诺玛·里瓦斯（Norma Rivas）是英格尔伍德公园公墓的家庭服务首席礼宾员兼谱系学专家，她表示：“即便我从未有机会见过雷克姐妹，但在过去的几年里，她们对我来说就像家人一样。”

里瓦斯补充道：“我的目标是确保她们的名字在英格尔伍德公园公墓永远不会被遗忘，并且她们的故事在未来的世代中继续被铭记。”

酒庄员工被指引发纳帕县火灾

作者：Iris Kwok

一名在加利福尼亚州一家知名酒庄担任园丁的男子被指控引发了一场山火，导致纳帕县造成数百万美元的损失以及数千万美元的农业损失。

根据加利福尼亚州林业和消防保护局的数据，这场被称为“皮克特火灾”（Pickett fire）的大火于去年8月在卡利斯托加（Calistoga）附近开始，在17天内烧毁了6,800英亩土地。

纳帕县地方检察官办公室在的一份声明中表示，来自纳帕的45,岁男子胡安·路易斯·古铁雷斯·马菲尔（Juan Luis Gutierrez Marfil）于周四被指控一项鲁莽引发建筑或森林火灾的重罪。

起诉文件显示，马菲尔向加州消防局（Cal Fire）执法人员承认“将热灰丢入焚烧堆”，据称这最终引发了大火。

据检察官称，提审听证会定于9,月9日举行。

Hundred Acre Wines的发言人萨姆·辛格（Sam Singer）表示，火灾发生时，马菲尔是以合同园丁的身份工作。辛格说，他是从Kelly Fleming Wines接聘过来的工人，在Hundred Acre于2024,年收购该葡萄园物业之前，该物业位于皮克特路（Pickett Road）2339号，原由Kelly Fleming Wines所有。

根据加州消防局的数据，火灾始于皮克特路2300街区，摧毁了五座建筑。起诉文件显示，其中四座为附属建筑，一座为住宅建筑。

纳帕县农业专员办公室在周四的一份声明中表示，初步报告显示，农业生产者因皮克特火灾遭受的农业损失约为6500万美元。

大部分损失发生在酿酒葡萄上，但也有报告称部分蜂巢受损。

据《新闻民主报》（Press Democrat）报道，本月早些时候，三名酿酒师对Hundred Acre Wines的所有者杰森·伍德布里奇（Jayson Woodbridge）及其公司提起诉讼，指控山火产生的烟雾毁掉了他们的收成。

Hundred Acre否认了这些指控，并表示计划在法庭上进行“有力辩护”。

法庭宽恕导致青少年在公交站死亡的男子

作者：雅各布·西斯内罗斯 (Jacob Sisneros)

一名来自康普顿的21岁男子上周获释，此前他因造成一起车祸导致一名15岁男孩在东长滩等公交车时死亡而被监禁六个月。

在旁听席上，卡洛斯·拉米雷斯 (Carlos Ramirez) 的母亲莫妮卡·冈萨雷斯 (Monica Gonzalez) 目睹法官判处驾驶员雅各布·布斯蒂略斯 (Jacob Bustillos) 在完成刚刚结束的短期监禁外，还需接受三年的缓刑。随后，在长滩法庭外，冈萨雷斯与布斯蒂略斯的母亲在泪水中拥抱。

在冈萨雷斯告诉布斯蒂略斯她原谅了他的车祸后，布斯蒂略斯的母亲说：“我不知道你是怎么做到的。”

冈萨雷斯回答道：“作为一名母亲，这就是我们必须做的。”

检察官表示，2025年6月11日，布斯蒂略斯在限速40英里的区域以57英里的时速行驶，在卡森街 (Carson Street) 和帕洛佛德大道 (Palo Verde Avenue) 闯红灯，并与另一辆车相撞。

撞击导致布斯蒂略斯的车辆旋转着冲进一个公交车站，当时卡洛斯在送完一名朋友回家后正在那里等车。

在他路边的纪念地，迅速堆满了指责布斯蒂略斯造成车祸并提醒其他驾驶员减速的标牌。

车祸发生后，布斯蒂略斯被指控一项重大过失车辆过失致死罪。如果被定罪，他将面临最高六年的监禁，但他最终接受了一项认罪协议：服刑六个月，缓刑三年，完成一项鲁莽驾驶干预计划，并完成一项为期两天的项目，其中包括参观医院和停尸房。

超速一直是长滩近期频发致命车祸的主要原因。本案中的两个家庭都希望其他驾驶员能从布斯蒂略斯的错误中吸取教训。

“我希望你每次开车时都能想到这件事，”卡洛斯的叔叔海梅·维拉纽埃瓦 (Jaime Villanueva) 在判决正式下达前向法庭发表声明时对雅各布·布斯蒂略斯说道。

维拉纽埃瓦告诉法庭，他以前只要看到灯变黄就会“猛踩油门”，但在夺走他侄子生命的这次车祸后，他改变了驾驶习惯。

冈萨雷斯仍沉浸在失去长子的痛苦中，他的两个年仅9岁和8岁的弟妹也是如此。一年多以后，她仍然避开任何经过卡洛斯死亡路口的路线。

但冈萨雷斯表示，她选择原谅布斯蒂略斯，因为她一直将他视为“一个孩子”，并且能看出他对自己行为感到心碎。

她没有选择愤怒，而是沉浸在信仰中选择宽恕。

“这是一个很难接受的事实，但我必须这样做，”冈萨雷斯说。她说，卡洛斯也会这样做。

她回忆起他是一个积极进取的莱克伍德高中 (Lakewood High School) 学生，热爱动漫和演唱弗兰克·辛纳屈 (Frank Sinatra) 的歌曲，并计划在高中毕业后参军。

据其母亲瓦妮莎 (Vanessa) 称，听到更多关于卡洛斯的无私事迹也影响了布斯蒂略斯。

她说，在车祸之前，他正在学习成为一名教师。但在入狱期间，他请求母亲给他寄一份军队能力测试卷，但后来才意识到由于重罪定罪，他不具备报考资格。

西斯内罗斯为《洛杉矶本地人》(The LA Local) 撰稿。

2026年8月30日，星期日 :: LATIMES.COM / SPORTS

第14号 南加州大学 (USC) 42，圣何塞州立大学 (SAN JOSÉ STATE) 26

孩子们都很好

南加州大学四分卫杰登·迈亚瓦 (Jayden Maiava) 完成了29次传球中的25次，传球码数286码，获得两次达阵，并凭借跑球获得另一次得分。 罗纳尔多·博拉尼奥斯 (RONALDO BOLAÑOS) 洛杉矶时报

机敏的新生助力迈亚瓦率领的进攻线，特洛伊人在揭幕战中大获全胜

作者：RYAN KARTJE

周六中午时分，四名大一的接球手步入纪念体育场，分别站在南加州大学（USC）那位年长得多的四分卫两侧。这四个人——特伦特·莫斯利、凯登·迪克森-怀亚特、特隆·贝克和马克·鲍曼——此前从未参加过一场大学橄榄球比赛。但在排名第14位的USC及其教练林肯·赖利（Lincoln Riley）这个至关重要的赛季的第一周、第一场比赛的第一回合中，他们的出现具有不小的意义。

仅从数字来看，本赛季USC的表现必然取决于这些新生成长速度有多快。而在周六以 42-26 击败圣何塞州立大学的赛季揭幕战之后，这听起来似乎也没那么糟糕。

“当然称不上完美，”赖利说，“但确实相当不错。”

当然，第一印象只能说明一部分问题。由于不再担心红衫球员（redshirts）的问题，赖利曾承诺将尽可能多地让 [见USC, D5]

观点

MIRJAM SWANSON 专栏作家

赖利对防守线的最新重启表明其仍有大量工作要做

如果你不吃肉，怎么能吃到布丁？如果你没有冠军级别的防守，怎么能竞争冠军？

抱歉各位，但规则就是规则。

USC 只是在不断尝试弯曲这些规则。尝试打破它们。仿佛普适定律不适用于特洛伊人。

在林肯·赖利执掌这里的四个赛季中，他每次都派出令人印象深刻的进攻线和不尽如人意的防守线，而且——不出所料——每次的结果都一样：未能进入大学橄榄球季后赛（College Football Playoff）。

在赖利的任期内，他的球队场均推进码数高于全美任何其他球队。

但这并没有起到太大作用，因为 [见Swanson, D5]

观点 BILL PLASCHKE 专栏作家

道奇队在本赛季剩余时间里只需要大谷翔平专注于击球

对于一名如此不可思议的球员来说，道奇队现在必须完成一项不可能的任务。

在投球方面，他们必须制止大谷翔平。

尽管本赛季遭受了膝盖伤病和肱二头肌酸痛，大谷翔平正尝试在两个多月后首次重返投手丘。

停止。立刻停止。

道奇队绝不应该让大谷翔平回到投手丘上。他出现在那里的必要性并不比基克·赫尔南德斯（Kiké Hernandez）更高。

这件事没有讨论余地——道奇队不应计划将大谷翔平强行塞回先发轮换阵容。

道奇队应该感谢他的热情，为他在前 14 次先发中取得的 1.79 防御率（ERA）鼓掌，承诺在下赛季归还他的松香袋，并要求他专注于挥棒。

尽管球迷希望随时随地看到大谷翔平的全能表现，但接下来的几个月不是为了庆祝某种新鲜感，而是为了赢得冠军。大谷翔平实现这一目标的最佳方式就是避免在投手丘上再次受伤，并将全部精力投入到击球中。

最近，他的击球状态需要尽可能多的帮助。在周六底特律的失利之后，大谷翔平已经连续九场比赛没有击出本垒打或获得打点，这令人震惊。在这段时间里，他拥有超过

[见Plaschke, D6]

道奇队在紧绷的局势中生存与失利

GREGORY SHAMUS Getty Images

凯文·麦格尼格尔（KEVIN McGonigle）与老虎队队友马克斯·克拉克（Max Clark）庆祝他的绝杀安打。

这是他们在五场比赛中第四次以一分之差落败。斯内尔没有得到任何得分支持。

底特律 2 道奇 1

作者：麦迪·李（MADDIE LEE）

底特律 —— 周六，道奇队再次上演了同样的老戏码。他们拥有出色的先发投手表现，但进攻端却毫无起色，导致比赛陷入胶着。

这一次，尽管左投手布莱克·斯内尔（Blake Snell）在五局比赛中仅丢一分，道奇队仍以 2-1 告负。

道奇队最近五场比赛全部由一分之差决定胜负。其中他们输掉了除一场以外的所有比赛。

“这是一种损耗，一种连锁反应，”经理戴夫·罗伯茨（Dave Roberts）说道，“这更多体现在投球方面，你会觉得只要丢一分我们就会输。而这并不是[见道奇队，D6]”

WNBA

在洛杉矶 88-82 击败神秘人队的比赛中，这位前锋兼后卫在第四节砍下了她 15 分中的 12 分。D3

伯雷尔状态火热率领火花队获胜

网球

美网赛场局势大开

顶尖选手的挣扎和持续的伤病使得在重大赛事开始之际，很难预测谁是热门。D3

高中橄榄球

圣玛格丽塔击败百年纪念

排名第 4 的老鹰队延续了此前对阵排名第 1 的哈士奇队时的势头，以 21-20 取得胜利。D8

认领您在我们未来中的份额。

职业赛日程表

< / td><>SUN 30< / ><>MON 31< / ><>TUE 1< / ><>WED 2< / ><>THU 3< / >< / tr><><> < / ><>at Detroit 10:30 a.m. SNLA< / ><>< / ><>ST. LOUIS 7 SNLA < / >< / ><><> < / >< rowspan="2">PHILA. 1 ABTV< / >< rowspan="2">N.Y. YANKEES 6:30 KCOP, ABTV< / >< ="2">N.Y. YANKEES 6:30 ABTV< / >< ="2">< / >< / ><><>ANGELS< / >< / ><><> < / >< ="2" colspan="5">OPENER: SEPT. 10 VS. SAN FRANCISCO, 5:30 P.M., NETFLIX*< / >< / ><><>RAMS< / >< / ><><> < / >< ="2" colspan="5">OPENER: SEPT. 13 VS. ARIZONA, 1:25 P.M., CBS< / >< / ><><>CHARGERS< / >< / ><><> < / >< ="2" colspan="5">NEXT: SATURDAY VS. NEW ENGLAND, 6:30 P.M., APPLE TV< / >< / ><><>GALAXY< / >< / ><><> < / >< ="2" colspan="5">NEXT: SATURDAY AT SALT LAKE, 6:30 P.M., APPLE TV< / >< / ><><>LAFC< / >< / ><><> < / >< ="2">< / >< ="2">at Boston 5 NWSL+, CBSSN< / >< ="2"> < / >< / ><><>ANGEL CITY< / >< / ><><> < / ><>at Seattle 2 SpecSN< / ><>< / >< / table>

*at Melbourne, Australia Shade denotes home games. Times Pacific.

今日播出节目

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Toluca vs. Juárez< / td> TUDN< / >< / tr> <>6 p.m.< / ><>Argentina, Independiente vs. Racing Club< / ><>FoxD< / >< / ><><>7 p.m.< / ><>Mexico, men, Monterrey . Atlético San Luis< / ><>TUDN< / >< / ><><>7 p.m.< / ><>MLS Next, LAFC 2 . San Jose II< / ><>KCOP< / >< / ><>< colspan="3">垒球：ATHLETES UNLIMITED< / >< / ><><>5 p.m.< / ><>全明星杯，Kilfoyl队 . Klingler队< / ><>MLB< / >< / ><>< colspan="3">网球< / >< / ><><>9 a.m.< / ><>美国网球公开赛，第一轮< / ><>ABC, ESPN+< / >< / ><><>Noon< / ><>美国网球公开赛，第一轮< / ><>ESPN2, ESPN+< / >< / ><><>1:30 p.m.< / ><>美国网球公开赛，第一轮< / ><>, +< / >< / ><><>4 p.m.< / ><>美国网球公开赛，第一轮< / ><>, +, ESPND< / >< / table>

诺瓦克·德约科维奇将于周日在公开赛的夜场时段开始比赛，于 4 点在 . 对阵马里亚诺·纳沃内。 CALEB BOWLIN Getty Images

体育今日动态

拉弗勒表示，尽管面临指控，包装工队仍计划留用雅各布斯

PETE CROW-ARMSTRONG（左）在小熊队的一场三次本垒打比赛后受到庆祝。 MELISSA TAMEZ 美联社

电讯报道

绿湾包装工队主教练马特·拉弗勒表示，球队没有计划解雇跑卫乔什·雅各布斯。雅各布斯目前面临两项轻罪指控，起因是警方描述的一场与其女友的肢体冲突。

“我完全预计他将继续作为我们球队的一员，”拉弗勒在周五晚上包装工队以 42-38 击败亚利桑那红雀队，结束季前赛赛程后表示。

威斯康星州布朗县地区检察官办公室于周四对雅各布斯提起殴打和故意损坏财产的轻罪指控。这些指控源于三个月前发生的一起事件。

当被问及雅各布斯是否能参加包装工队 9 月 13 日在明尼苏达的赛季揭幕战时，拉弗勒回答道：“我真的无法对此发表评论，因为我不知道。”

雅各布斯于 5 月 26 日被捕，此前警方接到报案前往其家中调查一起骚乱事件，他于次日获释。

纽约喷气机队的新秀跑卫奇普·特雷亚努姆在周五晚上对阵纽约巨人队的上半场最后一次进攻被擒抱后，因颈部受伤被送往医院。喷气机队表示，作为一名非选秀新秀，特雷亚努姆意识清醒，且四肢均能活动。……为了进一步改善其防守线情况，巨人队通过与巴尔的摩乌鸦队的交易获得了 CJ Okoye。主教练约翰·哈博确认，巨人队向巴尔的摩队发送了一个 2028 年第七轮选秀权。……杰克逊维尔美洲豹队从迈阿密获得了四分卫奎因·尤尔斯，以换取 2028 年选秀中的一个第六轮选择权。

等等。

波加查在环西赛中因车祸退赛

五届环法冠军、夺冠大热门塔代伊·波加查在周六的第八赛段发生车祸后，退出了西班牙环西赛。

这位斯洛文尼亚选手此前在比赛中拥有巨大领先优势，但在距离终点约 33 公里处卷入一场车祸。他试图重新骑上自行车，但无法继续比赛，随后走向救护车。赛事组织者确认他已退出比赛。恩里克·马斯从波加查手中接过了领骑衫，成为自 2018 年的赫苏斯·埃拉达以来首位领跑该赛事的西班牙车手。

波士顿红袜队在激活救援投手加雷特·惠特洛克后，找回了牛棚的关键成员，后者此前在 10 天伤病名单中短暂停留。……皮特·克劳-阿姆斯特朗通过击出三次本垒打并打入六分，进一步增强了他的 MVP 竞争力，帮助芝加哥小熊队以 17-5 击败了由萨尔·斯图尔特领衔的辛辛那提红人队。……多伦多蓝鸟队在周六对阵西雅图水手队的比赛前，将前球员、教练兼播报员巴克·马丁内斯列入其新的卓越名人堂。77 岁的马丁内斯在 2 月宣布退休，不再担任蓝鸟队播报员，他自 1987 年起播报了超过 4,000 场比赛。

一级方程式赛车车队周六表示，卫冕世界冠军兰多·诺里斯已将其与迈凯伦的合同延长至至少 2030 年底。……瑞安·赛格在经历了 424 次起跑后，于周五晚上在代托纳国际赛车场通过加时赛险胜奥斯汀·希尔，赢得了他的首场 O'Reilly Auto Parts 赛事。他的职业生涯曾五次获得亚军。……由于上周末车祸的“持续影响”，赖利·赫伯斯特没有参加周六晚上的杯赛常规赛决赛。

杰米尔·马蒂纳三振 12 名击球手并击出一支打入一分的二垒安打，库拉索以 4-0 击败日本，第六次晋级少棒世界系列赛冠军赛。……在美国决赛中，首位参加美国冠军赛的女孩卡辛·迈耶击出一支打入一分的单打，帮助内华达州亨德森市以 12-2 击败俄亥俄州。

迈克尔·布洛克在密歇根州格兰布兰克举行的冠军盟友挑战赛中，以 65 杆（低于标准杆 7 杆）取得了两个杆的领先优势。……挪威的维克多·霍夫兰在亚特兰大巡回赛冠军赛的第三轮中，凭借连续两个小鸟球，以低于标准杆 15 杆完赛，领先瑞安·杰拉德一杆。斯科蒂·舍夫勒以低于标准杆 12 杆，与另外三人并列第三。……中国的殷若宁在 TPC 波士顿举行的 FM 冠军赛三轮比赛后，在第 18 洞打出一个小鸟球，取得一杆领先。

读者来信

为桑德海默的 50 年职业生涯喝彩

非常感谢你们刊登关于埃里克·桑德海默的文章。作为一名两年前搬到达拉斯的南加州长期居民，我仍然订阅《时报》在线版以关注公羊队、湖人队、天使队和道奇队。但我也关注高中体育，很高兴看到埃里克因报道高中体育 50 年而获得他应得的认可。祝贺你，埃里克！

直到被路易斯安那州立大学（LSU）招募。

鲍勃·林 达拉斯

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《时报》体育版再次中了大奖，比尔·普拉斯基关于埃里克·桑德海默的专栏，以及桑德海默本人关于报道高中体育 50 年以来 50 个最深刻回忆的专栏相得益彰。对我来说，体育的一个重要部分是赛事结束后依然延续很久的回忆，而这两位优秀作者的这两篇专栏真正地唤起了这一点。

比尔·弗朗西斯 帕萨迪纳

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多年来，我有幸在多场比赛中与桑德海默先生相识并交谈。他是高中体育知识的百科全书，他关于如何让这一级别的竞争朝着正确方向发展的见解是无与伦比的。多年来我经常在想，为什么他没有担任专员一职，但那样的话我就没法读他的专栏了。

马克·凯瑟曼 圣莫尼卡

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感谢埃里克在过去的 50 年里无处不在。你的故事极好地提醒了人们，体育能教会高中生关于生活的什么道理。

杰夫·珀金斯 (JEFF PERKINS) 亨廷顿比奇

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在报道高中体育方面，这种奉献精神和专业精神令人钦佩。比尔·普拉斯基 (Bill Plaschke) 做得非常出色，向埃里克多年来讲述那些吸引我们兴趣的故事所做的一切致敬。埃里克从未回避就高中体育的现状及其改进方式表达自己的观点。我一直对此深表尊重。做得好，埃里克！

祝贺埃里克·桑海默 (Eric Sondheimer) 执业 50 周年

罗布·维戈德 (Rob Wigod) 海豹滩

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在桑海默职业生涯大约一半之前，我作为一名第一年执教的中学篮球教练，带着一个“你可能想讲述的故事”联系了埃里克。那是关于一名法定盲人球员，他凭借实力在一些视力正常的球员中赢得了位置并入选球队，还在比赛中得分。埃里克来到了我们的体育馆，采访了球员们关于他是一位多么出色的队友，并写了一篇极佳的故事。

26 年后，我仍在执教，那依然是我职业生涯中最美好的回忆之一。“GOAT”（史上最伟大）这个词如今被太轻易地使用了。但在这里，他是无可争议的。

理查德·布里萨彻 (RICHARD BRISACHER) 马尔维斯塔

利益冲突

关于“在签下俄罗斯球员后，乌克兰球员离开路易斯安那州立大学 (LSU) 女篮”一事。LSU 教练金·马尔基 (Kim Mulkey) 对此的态度令人厌恶。她声称，仅仅因为“两国之间的冲突”，她不能“放弃”一名天才球员。好吧，这位意识模糊的女士，这场冲突也包括美国，因为我们正确地在由侵略国俄罗斯发起的战争中支持乌克兰，这意味着我国向乌克兰提供了对抗共同敌人的弹药和资金支持。

一名青少年被归类为代表俄罗斯和好战的普京政权可能很不幸，但这就是现实，而且她一直在为一支俄罗斯球队效力。

如果马尔基和 LSU 体育部门在道德上如此匮乏，以至于认为天赋比原则更重要，那么他们应该感到羞愧。不仅是羞愧，而且完全不适合在州立大学担任此类职务。我希望凯特·科瓦尔 (Kate Koval) 能为她的篮球天赋和学业找到一个更好的机构。

T.R. 詹斯 (T.R. JAHNS) 海梅特

这位 DJ 能行

我真心希望闪电队能给 DJ 威亚加莱莱 ( Uiagalelei) 一个机会，担任贾斯汀·赫伯特 (Justin Herbert) 的替补。特雷·兰斯 (Trey Lance) 在担任替补的所有时间里毫无表现。 已经充分证明，在紧急需要时，他能够有效地推进球权。主教练吉姆·哈博 (Jim Harbaugh) 和进攻协调员迈克·麦克丹尼尔 (Mike McDaniel)，请给 一个机会。

费利佩·瓦雷拉 (FELIPE VARELA) 惠蒂尔

衷心的旅程

我刚刚读完关于弗雷迪·弗里曼 (Freddie Freeman) 和杰森·海沃德 (Jason Heyward) 的那篇非凡的文章。这是一个关于两名杰出棒球运动员的精彩故事。当文中提到弗雷迪意识到他的朋友深知其中的种族主义时，我为他们两人流泪了。谢谢你们分享这个故事。

爱丽丝·金 (ALICE KING) 萨克拉门托

痛恨的对手

很高兴听到圣迭戈教徒队的新老板是一位长期的洋基队球迷，因此痛恨道奇队。当道奇队在今年的季后赛中再次碾压他的教徒队时，他将毫不费力地继续痛恨道奇队——如果他的教徒队运气足够好，能够晋级的话。

帕特里克·达夫 (PATRICK DUFF) 犹他州，斯普林代尔

变革时刻

来自 3A 级俄克拉荷马城队的詹姆斯·蒂布斯三世 (James Tibbs III) 和扎克·埃哈德 (Zach Ehrhard)。两人都充满渴望，并在小联盟投球手面前大显身手。他们绝对不会比我们目前看到的那些表现不佳的球星们毫无灵感的击球表现更糟。把他们升上来，给这个阵容注入一些活力，让孩子们去打球。

马蒂·兹韦本 (MARTY ZWEBEN) 帕洛斯弗德斯庄园

管理层应提拔外野潜力股

道奇队看起来完全无精打采，等待像特奥斯卡·赫尔南德斯 (Teoscar Hernández) 和凯尔·塔克 (Kyle Tucker) 这样陷入低谷的老将清醒过来是一个失败的策略。在冲刺阶段，进攻端迫切需要注入能量。

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道奇队需要把他们的牛棚改名为“爆棚”（blowpen），因为最近出现了太多次救援失败。

道格·维克瑟（Doug Vikser） 曼哈顿海滩

期待最糟的情况

期待最糟的情况 公羊队交易获得 图图·阿特韦尔（Tutu Atwell） 意味着只有一种可能： 普卡·纳库亚（Puka Nacua） 即将被禁赛。唯一的问题是 禁赛多少场？ 弗雷德·沃林（FRED WALLIN） 西湖村

时间不多了

南加州大学（USC）今年橄榄球赛季的格言是“时机已到”。

“我现在知道我们要走向哪个方向了，”特洛伊人队教练林肯·赖利（Lincoln Riley）最近表示。这一认知出现在他那份天文数字般的高薪合同进入第五年（最后一年），且在一座全新的$200-million橄榄球综合体中工作之际。赖利今年夏天还表示，他现在更有“能力”获胜。真的吗？

赖利花了四年时间才建立起这一切。如果赖利不能至少带领南加州大学首次进入大学橄榄球季后赛（College Football Playoff），那么他的时间就到了。

韦恩·村松（WAYNE MURAMATSU） 塞里托斯

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岩村由纪（YUKI IWAMURA）美联社

施韦辛格迅速成为布朗队防守端的关键人物

这位曾是加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）的自由球员，在进入克利夫兰的第二年已很好地融入球队。

作者：罗布·马迪（Rob Maaddi）

卡森·施韦辛格（Carson Schwesinger）在加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）期间是自由球员，在选秀第一轮被跳过，但去年在克利夫兰布朗队赢得了美联社（Associated Press）NFL年度最佳防守新秀奖。

他已经开始被拿来与名人堂成员卢克·库奇利（Luke Kuechly）相比较。

“每当你被拿来与你一直仰慕并模仿其比赛风格的人相提并论时，这显然是一种荣誉，”施韦辛格在美联社的“关于足球”（On Football）播客中说道。“我才只打了一个赛季，所以可能得稍微冷静一点，直到我做得更多，才能达到他比赛时的水平。我认为他最擅长的地方——我的意思是基本上所有方面，但他以准备充分而闻名，我认为这是线卫位置的一个重要部分，也是我在踏入球场时真正想要尝试效仿的部分。”

在去年的NFL选秀中，布朗队在第二轮首轮选择施韦辛格之前，已有15名防守球员被选中。

在防守协调员吉姆·施瓦茨（Jim Schwartz）的体系下，他迅速成为了布朗队的先发球员，在16场比赛中完成了156次擒抱、$2^{1 / 2}$次擒杀和2次拦截。迈克·鲁滕伯格（Mike Rutenberg）接替了施瓦茨，后者在未能获得由托德·蒙肯（Todd Monken）担任的主教练职位后离开了球队。

“无论是否有变动，每年总会有调整，”施韦辛格说。“显然，就我们的防守风格而言，我们仍然保持着非常相似的风格，前线将继续进攻，你只需要在某些地方做微小的调整，以真正构建出配合最默契的最佳冲球覆盖方案。”

布朗队在六月份将两届美联社年度最佳防守球员迈尔斯·加雷特（Myles Garrett）交易到了公羊队，因此他们在防守端有一个巨大的空缺需要填补。

“显然，你无法取代那种水准的球员，但就整个防守端而言，教练组以及我们这里的每一位球员都真正能够团结在一起，”施韦辛格说。“我们非常相信我们在这里拥有的一切以及我们的进展，每天的目标就是走出去，成为NFL中最强的防守球队，我为这个单位每天为了变得更好而努力进攻的方式感到非常自豪。”

克利夫兰队上赛季拥有联盟第四强的防守，但最终战绩仅为5胜12负，这主要是因为在四分卫谢德尔·桑德斯（Shedeur Sanders）、乔·弗拉科（Joe Flacco）和迪伦·加布里埃尔（Dillon Gabriel）的带领下，进攻端表现挣扎。桑德斯在七次首发中取得了3胜4负的战绩，但在今年夏天的训练营首发之争中输给了德尚·沃森（Deshaun Watson）。

“我们名单上的所有四分卫都能运行那个进攻体系并知道该怎么做，”施韦辛格说。“作为一名防守球员，这就是你所能要求的一切，就是走出去在进攻端掌控局面，对吧？我认为所有这些人都能做到。而在防守端，我们的整个心态是，如果对方不得分，他们无论如何也赢不了。所以，无论谁在场上，我们都完全信任他们。”

“我们知道，到最后，我们只需要走出去，在防守端做好我们的工作，进攻端会处理好他们那部分。”

马迪为美联社撰稿。

前加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）明星球员卡森·施韦辛格是上赛季美联社NFL年度最佳防守新秀。

卡洛斯·阿尔卡拉斯（CARLOS ALCARAZ）自四月以来一直受到右手腕伤势的影响，但他表示已准备好参加公开赛。

美网伤病与低迷交织，无绝对热门

阿里娜·萨巴伦卡目前排名第一，但由于近期的低迷，这一地位正面临威胁。

作者：布莱恩·马奥尼（BRIAN MAHONEY）

纽约 —— 卡洛斯·阿尔卡拉斯和扬尼克·辛纳让去年的美网感觉就像是在等待必然结果的两周消磨时间。

他们在法网和温网决赛中相遇，将自己与男子网球界的其他所有人区分开来。他们将连续达成三项大满贯决赛会师似乎已成定局，而事实也确实如此。

随着排名第一的辛纳缺阵，阿尔卡拉斯在缺席四个月后才刚刚回归卫冕，而诺瓦克·德约科维奇或许终于显露出了年龄的痕迹，美网再次让人感觉到，嗯，机会均等（open）。

但千万不要将这意味着比赛变得更容易。

“情况是一样的，”美国选手弗朗西斯·蒂亚福表示，“无论你怎么看待，依然得击败七个人。”

萨巴伦卡的夏季低迷

女子组也有自己的疑问。两届美网卫冕冠军阿里娜·萨巴伦卡在温网第四轮出局，且在此之后参加的两项硬地赛事中均告负，这使她对世界第一排名的掌控陷入危机。

多位女选手都有机会冲击榜首，而年度最后一项大满贯赛事的冠军奖杯同样触手可及。排名第三的杰西卡·佩古拉表示：“现在并没有一两个超级强势的球员，让你觉得必须得让他们输球你才有机会。”

“在我看来，某种程度上可能更开放，因为，我不知道，机会更多了，”佩古拉补充道。她在2024年决赛和去年的半决赛中均输给了萨巴伦卡。

比赛将于周日开始，佩古拉将参加亚瑟·阿什球场的揭幕战，德约科维奇将领衔夜场比赛，随后是46岁的维纳斯·威廉姆斯对阵同为美国选手的索菲亚·肯宁。

伤病为他人开启机会之门

阿尔卡拉斯多出了一天准备时间。他自4月起因右腕伤势而缺阵，并于上周决定准备回归这座他曾两次赢得七个大满贯冠军之中的赛事。

最近的一次是在澳大利亚公开赛，但他在赛后不久便退赛。亚历山大·兹维列夫赢得了法网，获得了他的首个大满贯冠军，随后在温网决赛中输给了辛纳；而当辛纳判定自那次胜利以来一直困扰他的膝伤尚未完全痊愈时，兹维列夫成为了法拉盛草地（Flushing Meadows）的1号种子。

“现在已经持续几个月了，情况都差不多：充满了不确定性，一些顶尖球员要么受伤，要么没有参赛。这次也差不多，所以我们看到很多不同的球员在挺身而出，很多不同的机会正等待着被抓住，”来自澳大利亚的6号种子亚历克斯·德米纳尔说道。

2021年美网冠军丹尼尔·梅德韦杰夫指出了像兹维列夫和阿瑟·菲尔斯这样的球员——菲尔斯在来到纽约之前击败了蒂亚福赢得了辛辛那提公开赛冠军——这些球员知道现在有一个他们不想浪费的机会。

“对他们来说，他们可能在考虑这件事，不是以一种糟糕的方式，而是觉得，如果没有扬尼克，而且卡洛斯可能还没有恢复到100%的状态，我们就有更好的机会，”7号种子梅德韦杰夫说道。

德约科维奇在辛辛那提赛的第一场比赛中出局，随后提到了一种在高温环境下困扰他的未指明健康问题。这可能会让这位39岁、拥有24次大满贯单打冠军头衔的球员在纽约难以再次进行一次漫长的冲刺。美国男选手们仍试图结束自2003年美网安迪·罗迪克以来的大满贯冠军荒。本·谢尔顿在蒙特利尔获胜，随后蒂亚福在辛辛那提获得亚军，而泰勒·弗里茨在2024年的纽约决赛中输给了辛纳。

“我想说这是一个黄金机会，”ESPN评论员帕特里克·麦克恩罗表示。“显然，如果阿尔卡拉斯回归并经过几场比赛后状态良好，他将迅速成为热门。我的意思是，他现在就是热门，但很快会变成一个更强大的热门。毫无疑问，在他自春季以来未参赛且辛纳缺席的情况下，这是一个巨大的机会。”

在澳大利亚公开赛决赛中击败萨巴伦卡的叶伦娜·赖巴金娜、佩古拉以及4号种子可可·高夫都在追求世界第一的排名。根据其他比赛结果，萨巴伦卡即使成为自2012-14年小威廉姆斯以来首位连续三次赢得美网冠军的球员，也可能会失去这个排名。

“我会尽我最大的努力，看看这次比赛结束时会发生什么，”萨巴伦卡说道。

她可能处于弱势，但阿尔卡拉斯或许更加如此。去年，似乎只有一个男人能击败他。而这一次，名单可能会很长。

“他是我们要关注的人，但很多球员相信他们不仅能击败他，还能赢得整个赛事，”蒂亚福说道。“这将是一届令人兴奋的美网。”

马霍尼为美联社（Associated Press）撰稿。

WNBA 积分榜（截至周五）

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周五晚间赛报 火花 88，神秘人 82

华盛顿 (82)—Iriafen 5-9 1-2 12, Onyenwere 0-3 6-6 6, Austin 8-13 3-5 19, Amoore 3-8 0-0 9, Citron 9-18 0-1 22, Dugalic 0-0 0-0 0, Laney-Hamilton 3-4 0-0 6, Betts 2-4 2-3 6, Florez 1-1 0-0 2, McMahon 0-2 0-0 0, Prosper 0-1 0-0 0. 总计 31-63 12-17 82.

火花 (88)—Burrell 6-12 1-2 15, Ogwumike 11-16 0-1 24, Hamby 4-6 1-4 9, Atkins 2-5 0-0 4, Wheeler 3-7 0-0 8, Brink 5-9 2-2 13, Akoa Makani 4-6 1-1 10, Gray 0-1 0-0 0, Morgan 1-2 3-4 5. 总计 36-64 8-14 88. 华盛顿.... 23 28 17 14— 82 火花.... 23 17 25 23— 88

3分球—华盛顿 8-21 (Citron 4-7, Amoore 3-8, Iriafen 1-2, Austin 0-1, McMahon 0-1, Onyenwere 0-2), 火花 8-20 (Ogwumike 2-3, Burrell 2-4, Wheeler 2-5, Akoa Makani 1-1, Brink 1-2, Gray 0-1, Morgan 0-1, Atkins 0-3)。犯规离场—无。篮板—华盛顿 34 (Austin, Iriafen 10), 火花 23 (Brink 5)。助攻—华盛顿 20 (Amoore 5), 火花 28 (Wheeler 8)。总犯规—华盛顿 15, 火花 17。观众人数—12,551 (18,997)

雷·伯雷尔 (RAE BURRELL) 在火花队的这场胜利中，其 15 分中有 12 分是在第四节取得的。 LUKE HALES Getty Images

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伯雷尔第四节手感火热助力火花队获胜

美联社

尼内卡·奥古米克砍下 24 分，雷·伯雷尔在第四节拿到了她 15 分中的 12 分，主场作战的火花队在周五晚上以 88-82 击败了华盛顿神秘人队。

火花队在第四节后期打出一波 13-2 的进攻高潮，从而拉开分差。在比赛还剩 2:54 时，伯雷尔命中一记三分球，随后在火花队的下一次进攻中——紧接在卡梅隆·布林克的一次盖帽之后——完成了一次快攻上篮，为这波进攻高潮画上句号，并将比分扩大为 85-78。

布林克替补出场，为火花队（14-25）贡献了 13 分和两次盖帽。莫尼克·阿科阿·马卡尼得到 10 分。

华盛顿队（24-16）在周四以 80-73 击败菲尼克斯队后，迎来了本赛季首次连续两晚比赛。神秘人队出现了 17 次失误，导致火花队借此地拿到了 31 分。

索尼娅·西特龙为华盛顿队命中四记三分球并砍下 22 分，此前该队在客场已取得三连胜。沙基拉·奥斯汀得到 19 分和 10 个篮板，前南加州大学（USC）球星基基·伊里亚芬贡献了 12 分和 10 个篮板，完成了本赛季的第 20 次两双。

乔治亚·阿穆尔在周四砍下职业生涯最高的 25 分后，本场比赛 8 投 3 中，得到 9 分。

半场结束时，神秘人队以 51-40 领先，随后火花队掌控了局面。

面对宿敌，棕熊队迎来绝佳机会

去年秋天，贾维安·托马斯（JAIVIAN THOMAS）在接过尼科·伊亚马莱瓦（Nico Iamaleava）的交接球。对他而言，在加州大学伯克利分校（Cal）的这场比赛就像是一次回家。 摄影：吉娜·费拉齐（GINA FERAZZI），洛杉矶时报

踢球手马廷·巴加尼（Mateen Bhaghani，94号）也期待着面对他曾经效力的加州大学伯克利分校队。

在两队上次交手时效力于加州大学伯克利分校的三名UCLA球员，已准备好在揭幕战中进行次回合较量。

作者：康纳·杜林格（Connor Dullinger）

“冠军联盟”（The Conference of Champions）曾令大学橄榄球界为之倾倒。

这是一个植根于深厚地域联系、历史宿敌关系以及一个世纪共同传统的联盟。

自从2024年解散以来，旧的Pac-12联盟已成为遥远的回忆。但当UCLA和加州大学伯克利分校本周六在伯克利的加州纪念体育场开启赛季时，球迷们将能重温“Pac-12深夜赛”（Pac-12 After Dark）时代的氛围。

这场比赛将是两位新任教练之间的较量：前詹姆斯·麦迪逊大学教练鲍勃·切斯尼（Bob Chesney）率领UCLA，对阵前俄勒冈大学防守协调员兼加州大学伯克利分校校友托什·卢波伊（Tosh Lupoi）。这将是这两所姐妹学校自2023年以来首次交锋；巧合的是，那场比赛正是旧Pac-12联盟最后一个常规赛日。

虽然在三年前那场33-7的败仗之后，UCLA的阵容中仅剩下13名球员，但三名曾在对方获胜阵营中的前“金熊”球员——跑卫贾维安·托马斯、外接手迈基·马修斯（Mikey Matthews）和踢球手马廷·巴加尼——现在都身披UCLA球衣。

UCLA的名单中还包括另外两名原金熊队成员——大四外线拦截手瑞安·麦卡洛（Ryan McCulloch）和五年级防守线球员泰森·福特（Tyson Ford），以及拦截手教练维克·索奥托（Vic So'oto）和球员人事总监尼克·索奥托（Nic So'oto），两人去年均在伯克利任职。

特别是对于托马斯来说，周六不仅意味着回到母校，对于这位奥克兰本地人来说，更是一次回家。

“我要回家了，离伯克利只有大约15分钟路程。那是我的大学职业生涯开始的地方，”托马斯说。“我想在比赛中留下印记，一旦我知道我们要对阵他们，我就在日历上把它标出来了。我对这场比赛感到兴奋，我想去那里赢得胜利，为这一年地开个好头。”

托马斯曾就读于

赛季揭幕战

UCLA 对阵 加州大学伯克利分校 周六，晚上7:30 电视转播：ESPN

距离纪念体育场不到五英里的麦克莱蒙兹高中（McClymonds High），他说看台上将“挤满”家人。

虽然回到加州大学伯克利分校对圣迭戈本地人巴加尼来说并非回家，但这场比赛对他同样重要。

“能回到开启我职业生涯的学校比赛，简直像梦想成真一样，”巴加尼说。“我会像对待任何其他比赛一样进入状态，但对我来说这是一场意义重大的比赛，我绝对希望发挥出我的水平。”

尽管巴加尼试图淡化赛季揭幕战的个人意义，但他承认自己一直在为回归而倒计时。

这包括与托马斯和马修斯讨论他们的兴奋之情。

“我几乎每天都会去找他们，说‘嘿，还有两周，三周’，这样他们就知道这对我们所有人都很重要。在当今的大学橄榄球时代，在这类比赛中投入极大的自豪感至关重要，”巴加尼说。

巴加尼并非唯一相信应振兴UCLA与加州大学伯克利分校之间历史宿敌关系的人。在一个联盟日益缺乏地域联系的时代，旧宿敌之间年度对决的轰动感和兴奋感正在下降。

但加州大学伯克利分校的总经理罗恩·里维拉（Ron Rivera）希望重启“金熊碗”（Bear Bowl）——而且不仅仅是为了这个赛季。

“仅仅是能再次对阵加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA），这对两所大学来说都意义重大。他们是我们天然的竞争对手，我们将重新点燃这种竞争，并希望能够像对待斯坦福大学那样将其延续下去，”里维拉告诉记者。“这是人们想要看到的自然而然的事情。对于很多来到这里比赛的洛杉矶孩子来说，能与那些球员交手是一件大事。”

两所学校决定恢复这场宿敌之战已经取得了成效。由于预计门票将售罄，卢波伊和加州大学伯克利分校（Cal）周三决定移除纪念体育场南端看台上的遮盖布，届时观众人数可能会创下十多年来的最高纪录。

虽然敌对的观众氛围通常是主场优势，但马修斯明白前方面临的挑战，但他很高兴能回到这里，在加州大学伯克利分校的忠实拥趸面前比赛。

“我们绝对必须快速进入状态。那边的人会非常多，所以我们得让他们知道，我们在节奏和一切方面都能掌控，”马修斯说。“但能回去看看一切会很酷，我喜欢那里的环境和氛围，因为那里的球迷也非常棒。”

尽管第 1 周潜在的最大规模比赛之一引发了兴奋和期待，但并非所有人都将其视为特殊。

福特就表示，他将这场揭幕战视为赛程表上的任何一场普通比赛。

“这是最令人兴奋的比赛，因为它是下一场比赛，”福德说。“在那之后，接下来的那场将是最令人兴奋的。我已经准备好出发了，无论对手是谁，其实并不重要。”

巴加尼在看待这场对决时则不那么含蓄。

“我带着极大的自豪感穿着蓝金相间的球衣，而且我深信 UCLA 是全国最好的公立大学，”巴加尼说。“我非常看重这场比赛，我们队上的每个人也会如此，作为赛季揭幕战，两所学校都迎来了全新的主教练。”

“这将是一场激烈的对攻战，而我们将赢得胜利。”

大学 橄榄球报告

北卡罗来纳大学在爱尔兰击败德克萨斯基督教大学

美联社

新任四分卫比利·爱德华兹二世（Billy Edwards Jr.）传球码数达 232 码，埃伦·伯雷尔（Aeron Burrell）踢进两个射门，北卡罗来纳大学在都柏林一个阴雨绵绵的周六，在爱尔兰航空经典赛（Aer Lingus Classic）中以 15-10 战胜德克萨斯基督教大学（TCU），开启了主教练比尔·贝利切克（Bill Belichick）的第二个赛季。

TCU 在前两次进攻中取得 10-3 的领先之后便再未得分。在最后两次进攻中，长角蛙队（Horned Frogs）在北卡罗来纳大学阵地深处尝试第四档短距离进攻时被拦截。

现年 74 岁的贝利切克曾作为 NFL 主教练赢得六次超级碗冠军，去年他在执教北卡罗来纳大学的大学首秀赛季中战绩为 4-8。那个赛季的开局是在劳动节黄金时段的一场主场比赛中以 48-14 输给了 TCU。

“我只是为球员们感到高兴。他们非常努力，”贝利切克说。“用积极的结果来证明这些努力，会进一步强化这种动力。我认为他们一直相信我们所做的事情，而这次胜利让每个人更有信心，我们必须继续前进。”

北卡罗来纳大学上赛季在面对“四大强校”（Power Four）对手时从未在半场结束时领先，但在本赛季首场重大大学橄榄球赛的上半场还剩 1:49 时，凭借一次安全得分（safety）以 12-10 领先。在开球球飞过头顶后，TCU 弃踢手约翰·霍耶特·钱斯（John Hoyet Chance）将球踢出了端区底线。

在 TCU 新四分卫杰登·克雷格（Jaden Craig）在 10 码线处尝试第四档两码进攻向左滚动传球未果后，北卡罗来纳大学耗尽了最后 4:05 的时间。

比利·爱德华兹二世（9）在北卡罗来纳大学 15-10 战胜 TCU 的比赛中传球。 彼得·莫里森 美联社

此前，北卡罗来纳大学在一次 13 次进攻的推进中，伯雷尔的一次射门未中。在此之前，他们的防线在 5 码线处的第四档 1 码进攻中拦截了杰里米·佩恩（Jeremy Payne），后者全场冲球码数为 142 码。

来自威斯康星大学的转校生爱德华兹在 28 次传球中完成了 16 次。乔丹·希普（Jordan Shipp）接球 5 次，获得 71 码；杰伦·麦吉尔（Jaylen McGill）在第一节第四档七码进攻成功后，通过一次 9 码冲球为北卡罗来纳大学拿到了全场唯一的达阵。

在过去三个赛季中创下传球纪录的哈佛大学球员克雷格，在 32 次传球中完成了 20 次，获得 175 码。

他失去了顶尖的回归接球手乔丹·德怀尔（Jordan Dwyer），后者因脚部伤势未能参加比赛。德怀尔此前被列为赛前决定名单，并随 TCU 参加了其首次国际比赛。

在新进攻协调员鲍比·佩特里诺（Bobby Petrino）的带领下，北卡罗来纳大学在第一节获得了 10 分和 141 码的总码数。

北卡罗来纳大学去年曾有一次在第一节获得 10 分，但码数从未如此之高。他们最终的总码数为 322 码。

TCU 在过去 10 次赛季揭幕战中每场至少得分 30 分，这是目前足球碗分区（FBS）中最长的活跃纪录。长角蛙队全场有 10 次犯规，损失 95 码，其中包括在北卡罗来纳大学距离结束还剩 30 秒且处于第四档 1 码进攻时，防守方越位。

惊艳首秀

在斯科特体育场举行的两支大西洋沿岸联盟球队赛季揭幕战中，转会而来的四分卫博·普里布拉在为弗吉尼亚大学的首秀中表现出色，骑士队以 34-8 大胜客队北卡罗来纳州立大学。

普里布拉的职业生涯始于宾夕法尼亚州立大学，上赛季在密苏里大学效力。他在本场比赛中传球获得 155 码并完成两次达阵，冲球获得 110 码，成为自 2022 年布伦南·阿姆斯特朗以来，首位单场冲球达到 100 码的弗吉尼亚大学四分卫。

凭借均衡的进攻和令人窒息的防守，骑士队在半场结束前就取得了 17-0 的领先优势。

北卡罗来纳州立大学的 CJ·贝利在 23 次传球中完成了 12 次，获得 84 码，并有一次被拦截以及一次红区掉球。

等等。

奥斯汀·莫德热夫斯基在首场大学比赛中传出六次达阵，创下南达科他州纪录；周六在两队的揭幕战中，郊狼队以 59-20 轻松击败中康涅狄格大学。……马克斯·利平斯基在比赛结束时踢进一个 45 码射门，这是他本场比赛的第五个射门，为威廉玛丽学院在最后一分钟内连续得分 13 分画上句号，该队在周五晚上的赛季及爱国者联盟揭幕战中以 35-32 击败了东道主维拉诺瓦大学。……

转会四分卫汤米·卡斯特利亚诺斯在赛季揭幕战前一周正式被列入德克萨斯理工大学的球员名单……警方和学校官员表示，威廉杰威尔学院的大三跑卫迈卡·乔·巴内特在与福特刘易斯学院的揭幕战中，在边线经历医疗紧急情况（且就在完成一次达阵后不久）不幸去世，该校为一家位于密苏里州的 II 级分区学校。利伯蒂警方发表声明称，比赛现场的紧急救援人员在开球约 20 分钟后对一名球员进行了救治。利伯蒂警方表示，该球员被救护车送往医院，并在那里被宣布死亡。学校确认其身份为巴内特。目前未公布其他细节。

Pac-12 旨在通过灵活赛程挤进季后赛

作者：约翰·马歇尔 (John Marshall)

重生后的 Pac-12 将尝试通过灵活赛程挤进大学橄榄球季后赛 (College Football Playoff)。

-12 不再是拥有自动晋级资格的“五强” (Power Five) 联盟，它将在常规赛的最后一周采用一种不寻常的“灵活” (flex) 赛程，以增加其进入季后赛的机会。在争夺利润丰厚的季后赛席位的过程中，这无疑是最具野心的举措之一。

“我们可以通过某种方式操纵赛程，使其对我们的球队最有利，无论是为了获得碗赛资格还是 CFP 晋级资格，”-12 专员特蕾莎·古尔德 (Teresa Gould) 表示。“这是一个天才的想法，我很高兴我们的体育总监、教练和其他人员都同意推进这项计划。”

在经历了一场大规模出走，导致这个拥有百年历史的联盟前景堪忧，仅剩俄勒冈州立大学和华盛顿州立大学在坚持之后，-12 被迫进行重组。

该联盟通过增加六支新的橄榄球队——博伊西、科罗拉多、圣迭戈、犹他、德克萨斯和弗雷斯诺——实现了重建，同时冈萨加大学加入了篮球赛。-12 还达成了新的媒体版权协议，以确保其所有比赛都能在线性电视上播出。

寻找一条通往季后赛的路径成了该联盟的一大障碍。之前的 -12 是一个“五强”联盟，晋级季后赛的路径更为清晰。而新面貌的联盟现在属于“六强组” (Group of Six)，该组仅有一个保证的季后赛名额，将授予六个联盟中排名最高的球队。12 支球队的季后赛其余名额将由履历最出色的球队填补。

对于一个只有八支球队的联盟来说，-12 面临着赛程安排上的运营挑战，其学校可能需要寻找 5 场非联盟赛——在当前的橄榄球碗赛分区 (Football Bowl Subdivision) 环境下，这并非易事。

-12 找到了一个解决方案，不仅能减轻寻找额外一场联盟赛的需求，还能增强其季后赛希望。

通过灵活赛程，该联盟将能够从赛季早期的比赛中创造至少一场高关注度的重赛，作为 12 月 4 日在最高种子队主场举行之 -12 冠军赛的序曲。

“我们渴望看到结果，并在赛季结束时看看这是否带来了回报。如果奏效，作为联盟，我们将有更好的机会让其中一支球队进入 CFP 季后赛，”俄勒冈州体育总监凯文·格里芬 (Kevin Griffin) 表示。“这就是我们的目标，确保我们利用所有可用机会进入其中。”

由于联盟希望每支球队都有 4 场主场联盟赛，科罗拉多、犹他、弗雷斯诺和华盛顿将主办这些灵活赛。这些比赛将不计入联盟排名，对阵情况将在赛前 6 天确定。

“就对阵质量和比赛质量而言，这对我们的电视合作伙伴更有利，”古尔德说。“就赛程强度和 CFP 定位以及灵活赛程的运作方式而言，在竞争方面也更有利。我们可以通过某种方式操纵赛程，使其对我们的球队最有利。”

安妮·彼得森 (Annie Peterson) 为本报道做出了贡献。马歇尔和彼得森为美联社 (Associated Press) 撰稿。

摄影：罗纳尔多·博拉尼奥斯 (RONALDO BOLAÑOS)，洛杉矶时报 前圣玛格丽塔高中名将特伦特·莫斯利 (TRENT MOSLEY) (4) 在周六的胜利中与队友韦蒙德·乔丹 (Waymond Jordan) 一起庆祝他的首次大学触球得分。

新生迎新赛开局良好

USC的科里·西姆斯（Corey Simms）在圣何塞州立大学的杰登·罗伯逊（Jayden Robertson）的防守下奋力向前推进。

[来自D1的USC]

尽可能多地使用年轻球员。他坚持采用较为保守的战术剧本，倾向于地面推进，并主要依赖短距离传球。尽管如此，在这次平淡的处女秀中，USC的总码数仍超过了500码，明星四分卫杰登·迈亚瓦（Jayden Maiava）在29次传球中完成了25次，获得286码和两次达阵，并凭借跑球获得一次达阵。

然而，比赛中也出现了许多迹象，表明这些孩子将没问题。

最令人难忘的表现来自莫斯利（Mosley），他在大学生涯的首次弃踢回攻中起跑，在球场上像乒乓球一样灵活穿梭，直到获得41码才被放倒。

对于这位前圣玛格丽塔高中（Santa Margarita High）的佼佼者来说，这仅仅是个开始。在第二节，莫斯利在中间接球并突破了三次擒抱，获得33码。在第三节，他在红区内突然爆发，接住了一个14码的达阵球。他最终以7次接球、118码和一次达阵收场，成为自2018年普渡大学的隆代尔·摩尔（Rondale Moore）以来，首位在处女秀中达到这些指标的“四大联盟”（Power Four）新生接球手。

“那孩子跑起来感觉不一样，”跑卫金·米勒（King Miller）说，“我的意思是，他很特别。”

特洛伊人队（Trojans）2026届的其他成员也表现出色。防守端锋卢克·瓦夫尔（Luke Wafle）在边缘突破时有时显得不可阻挡。迪克森-怀亚特（Dixon-Wyatt）在开球线上甩掉了防守球员，接住了一个红区斜传并得分。而未来的四分卫乔纳斯·威廉姆斯（Jonas Williams）则领导了一次流畅的第四节得分进攻。

“他们来到这里并全力以赴，”赖利（Riley）说，“他们都影响了比赛。”

但可以说，对USC最令人鼓舞的结果出现在防守端。至少在一个半场里，加里·帕特森（Gary Patterson）率领的防守组在他担任特洛伊人队防守协调员的处女秀中表现强劲。

直到第三节中期，USC才让勇士队（Spartans）得分，当时勇士队在落后四个达阵的情况下选择踢球得分，仅仅是为了在计分板上抹掉那个零。圣何塞州立大学在第四节又增加了三个达阵，尽管那时USC的主力球员早已被替换。

防守组在上半场将圣何塞州立大学限制在102码。地面防守也仅丢了93码。

但当防守在后期松懈时，帕特森防守组的表现出现了严重下滑。

“当你开始得分很多并开始掉以轻心时，情况就会变得糟糕，”防守截锋吉德·阿巴西里（Jide Abasiri）说。

由于USC大部分由二线和三线球员顶替，圣何塞州立大学在下半场的每次进攻平均获得8.4码。这让赖利——以及任何人——对防守替补球员的感觉都不太好。

“我们需要这支名单的深度，”赖利说，“显然我们在第四节对此提出了挑战，而且显然没有做出我们想要的反应。”

USC在开局阶段表现最佳，即使其大批新生需要时间来寻找状态。特洛伊人队在比赛开始时立即发起了一次由13次进攻组成的达阵推进。当迈亚瓦有条不紊地带领USC在球场上推进，并凭借一次1码的持球跑球获得早期得分时，球迷们仍在陆续入场，手持新奇的啤酒剑，顶着90华氏度的高温。

一次在球门线上的四档拦截让圣何塞州立大学从USC的连续得分中得到了短暂喘息。但五星级冲传手瓦夫尔几乎再次增加得分，他在第三档进攻中溜过了勇士队的右截锋，击溃了勇士队的跑卫，距离完成一次安全得分（safety）仅差一瞬间。

USC仍然将极佳的球场位置转化为得分。虽然韦蒙德·乔丹（Waymond Jordan）和米勒在地面进攻中造成了大部分破坏，合计获得111码，但红衫新生赖利·沃姆利（Riley Wormley）成为了首位得分的USC跑卫。他是周六出场的五名跑卫之一。

米勒以63码领跑。他在半场结束前完成了他的达阵，特洛伊人队带着28-0的领先优势进入更衣室。

圣何塞州立大学在随后的比赛中表现得与南加州大学（USC）更为接近，实际上在下半场以 26-14 领先于特洛伊人队。

这场收尾让帕特森在担任南加州大学防守协调员的首场比赛后感到有些沮丧。但就第一印象而言，赖利表示，同样有许多值得高兴的地方。

“我接受事实，对吧？”赖利说。“你不能掩盖第四节表现不够好的事实。但我也不会假装我们没有在前三节主导比赛。”

南加州大学 42, 圣何塞州立大学 26< / td>< / tr><><>圣何塞州立大学< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>23–26< / >< / ><><>南加州大学< / ><>7< / ><>21< / ><>7< / ><>7–42< / >< / ><>< colspan="5">第一节< / >< / ><>< ="5">南加州大学—Maiaya 1 码冲球 (Chittenden 踢球得分), 8:55。< / >< / ><>< ="5">第二节< / >< / ><>< ="5">南加州大学—Wormley 5 码冲球 (Chittenden 踢球得分), 14:20。< / >< / ><>< ="5">南加州大学—Dixon-Wyatt 接 Maiaya 传球 9 码得分 (Chittenden 踢球得分), 2:46。< / >< / ><>< ="5">南加州大学—KLMiller 4 码冲球 (Chittenden 踢球得分), .30。< / >< / ><>< ="5">第三节< / >< / ><>< ="5">圣何塞州立大学—射门 Sinatra 22 码, 7:15。< / >< / ><>< ="5">南加州大学—Mosley 接 Maiaya 传球 14 码得分 (Chittenden 踢球得分), 2:28。< / >< / ><>< ="5">第四节< / >< / ><>< ="5">圣何塞州立大学—McClure 接 Luk.Weaver 传球 28 码得分 (Kopa-Kaawalaoule 接 Luk.Weaver 传球), 14:56。< / >< / ><>< ="5">南加州大学—Alston 1 码冲球 (Chittenden 踢球得分), 9:42。< / >< / ><>< ="5">圣何塞州立大学—JAnderson 接 . 传球 3 码得分 (Sinatra 踢球得分), 5:11。< / >< / ><>< ="5">圣何塞州立大学—. 7 码冲球 (Hoch 接 . 传球), 1:45。< / >< / table>

<><>球队< / ><>SJSU< / ><>USC< / >< / ><><>第一次进攻< / ><>19< / ><>28< / >< / ><><>总净码数< / ><>336< / ><>505< / >< / ><><>冲球-码数< / ><>24-102< / ><>40-164< / >< / ><><>传球< / ><>234< / ><>341< / >< / ><><>弃踢回攻< / ><>0-0< / ><>2-56< / >< / ><><>开球回攻< / ><>1-27< / ><>3-69< / >< / ><><>拦截回攻< / ><>1-6< / ><>0-0< / >< / ><><>完成-尝试-拦截< / ><>21-32-0< / ><>30-36-1< / >< / ><><>被擒杀-损失码数< / ><>1-1< / ><>2-19< / >< / ><><>弃踢< / ><>4-43.5< / ><>1-45.0< / >< / ><><>掉球-丢失< / ><>0-0< / >< / ><><>犯规-码数< / ><>1-15< / ><>5-34< / >< / ><><>持球时间< / ><>22:45< / ><>37:15< / >< / ><>< ="3">个人领先者< / >< / table>

冲球：圣何塞州立大学， 8-42, Bates 11-37, Teu 2-25, Carlson 3-（负 2）。南加州大学，Ki.Miller 15-63, Jordan 8-48, Alston 7-30, Redeaux 2-26, Wormley 1-5, Jona.Williams 3-3, （球队）1-（负 2）, Maiava 3-（负 9）。

传球：圣何塞州立大学， 21-32-0-234。南加州大学，Maiava 25-29-0-286, Jona.Williams 5-7-1-55。

接球：圣何塞州立大学，Clark 6-74, McClure 6-68, Ivey 2-34, Hoch 2-24, Bates 2-9, Anderson 2-7, McKenzie 1-18。南加州大学，Mosley 7-118, Baker 4-45, Simms 4-42, Dixon-Wyatt 4-36, Z.Williams 3-31, Bowman 3-15, Tabaracci 2-15, Tupou 1-25, Feaster 1-8, Wormley 1-6。

射门未进—无。

赖利最新的防守重启仍有待改进

罗纳尔多·博拉尼奥斯 (RONALDO BOLAÑOS) 洛杉矶时报 卢克·韦弗 (LUKE WEAVER) 领衔的圣何塞州立大学在第四节以 23-7 领先于南加州大学 (USC)。

[Swanson, from D1] 在这段时间内，南加州大学防守排名最高的是去年，当时特洛伊人队场均失 23 分——在全国排名第 51 位。在阿拉莫碗赛中输给德克萨斯基督教大学后，他们的战绩为 9-4。

现在我们将见证在 Season 5, 赖利麾下的特洛伊人队是否拥有一支能与进攻端相匹配的防守线。

以及在本赛季，随着加里·帕特森 (Gary Patterson) 出任赖利任期内的第三任南加州大学防守协调员，情况是否会有所不同。

在周六以 42-26 战胜圣何塞州立大学的赛季揭幕战之前，人们确实这么说，但这场比赛显然没有让任何人信服。

不，南加州大学战胜了一支正在整合 48 名新球员的勇士队，这并不能给我们提供任何决定性的结论。

但随着帕特森第一次出现在南加州大学的边线，身着教练组统一的黑色服装，一边打着手势一边出汗，这确实释放了一些令人担忧的信号。

在 90 华氏度以上的高温下，那套装扮令人质疑。而他的防守在某些时刻同样令人质疑。

在其他时刻，则有理由保持乐观：特洛伊人队在上半场实现了零封。其中一个回合中，大一防守端锋卢克·瓦夫尔 (Luke Wafle) 像热刀切黄油一样冲过了两名勇士队的阻截手。线卫教练迈克·埃克勒 (Mike Ekeler) 的队员们在冲击，而且冲击力极强。

大三防守截锋吉德·阿巴西里 (Jide Abasiri) 完成了 4 次擒抱，其中 2 次造成对方失码——其中一次正是赖利一直梦想在防守端看到的表现：在南加州大学 7 码线上的第四档一码进攻中，阿巴西里迅速闪过两名阻截手，将跑卫贾巴里·史密斯 (Jabari Smith) 截获。

“在红区（red zone）的第四档拦截，是我们花费大量时间讨论的内容，”赖利说。“红区防守以及它如何产生影响。如果你观察过去几年的全美顶尖球队，通常顶尖的红区防守与之相匹配；也就是说，是同一批球队。”

但除此之外，特洛伊人队的表现并不像那些“顶尖球队”。

他们习惯性地在领先时松懈，体力耗尽，在终点线前步履蹒跚，在第四节被对方以 23-7 领先，看起来完全不像一支有严肃季后赛计划的球队。

他们显得阵容单薄。而且，在很大程度上，就像一支典型的赖利时代特洛伊人队。

第二阵容的后防线引发了人们的担忧。特洛伊人的安全卫多次被突破，包括勇士队四分卫卢克·韦弗的一次 28 码传球，球传给了杰里·麦克卢尔 (Jerry McClure)，越过了大一球员马登·里奥丹 (Madden Riordan)，这使得在第四节还剩 14:56 时，比分为 35-9。

也许是因为消磨精力的酷热，但南加州大学的防守并没有像面对圣何塞州立大学这样一个完全处于劣势的对手时应有的那样具有压制力和窒息感。

勇士队最终完成了 336 码的总码数。韦弗看起来越来越游刃有余，他拥有比面对一支需要遏制俄勒冈大学、华盛顿大学、俄亥俄州立大学和印第安纳大学等顶尖球队的防守线时应有的更多操作时间。

勇士队的新首发球员 32 次传球 21 次成功，获得 234 码——其中 74 码发生在第四节。

“花了一点时间才进入状态，但我对我们球队的韧性感到非常自豪，”韦弗说。

勇士队应该感到自豪，而特洛伊人队应该感到羞愧。

“第四节的表现没有达到我们的标准，”赖利说。“显然，我们起用了许多不同的球员，很多人得到了机会，而其中几个人没有发挥出我们预期的水平。我们将有许多需要学习和成长的地方。

“我们在第四节对此提出了挑战，但显然没有做出我们想要的反应。”

这为帕特森留下了充足的教学机会，他在 2021 年结束了长达二十年的德克萨斯基督教大学任期后，休息了三年。

这位名人堂教练接替了 D'Anton Lynn，后者在经历了两个平庸的赛季后，回到了他的母校宾夕法尼亚州立大学。Lynn 之前取代了 Alex Grinch，后者在执教第二个赛季结束前被解雇，他领导的防线漏洞百出且表现糟糕，在 2022 年和 '23 年分别位列全美防守最宽松（失分最高）的第 94 位和第 121 位。

Patterson 带来了他的 4-2-5 防守体系。以及他的活力、经验和过往战绩——他执教的长角蛙队曾五次获得全美第 10 位的防守排名。

现在，如果南加州大学（USC）在 Riley 的带领下还希望进入季后赛，其防守端至少需要跻身全国顶尖行列。

它需要回答这样一个问题：如果一支球队无法打出互补足球（complementary football），它怎么能指望获得赞誉？

它不可能。

ERIK S. LESSER 美联社 大谷翔平（SHOHEI OHTANI）在场外练习投球，他表示在最近的一次牛棚训练后，感觉没有达到 $100%。

大谷必须专注于打击

[Plaschke，见D1版] 三振数是安打数的两倍（13-5）。

在这个最后一个月里，他需要集中精力调整好挥棒动作，而不要担心牛棚训练、开局投手、接力投球，或者任何为了让他重返投手丘而采取的众多复杂手段。

底线是，道奇队在打击顺序顶端对他需求的程度，高于在钻石球场中心对他需求的程度；目前，他不应该分身两处。

最底线的事实是，人们感觉到道奇队也同意这一点。

大谷在周五的一次牛棚训练中投了大约 20 球，显然没有达到 $100$ 的状态，这引起了道奇队管理层的警觉。

在猜测大谷不听使唤的左膝可能无法让他到 10 月份时恢复到 100% 状态的同时，经理戴夫·罗伯茨在周六公开质疑，投球复出是否值得付出这样的努力。

“显然，就我们目前的投球情况来看，先发投手无疑是一项优势，而他在进攻端的价值至关重要，因此我们不能以任何方式损害这一点，”罗伯茨在底特律告诉记者们。“所以，如果投球可能会削弱这一点，那么就得不偿失。对我来说，这就是我的想法。我非常、非常坚定地要确保我们不损害打击能力。”

你听到了吗？得不偿失？没错。

大谷，你在听吗？他一直是最完美的团队球员，所以如果道奇队请求他停止投球，他会同意的，对吧？对吧？

在赛季剩余时间内让大谷远离投手丘确实是一个激进的观点——拜托，你花 $700$ 亿美元雇这家伙是为了让他既能打击又能投球！——但这是一个基于常识的观点。

Point One：道奇队在 2024 年在大谷纯粹负责打击的情况下赢得了世界大赛，所以这是可行的。

Point Two：在上次季后赛中，即便他在对阵密尔沃基酿酒人的国家联盟冠军赛中打出了三支本垒打、10 次三振的惊艳表现，大谷在季后赛的防御率（ERA）仍为 4.43。

参加季后赛已经很困难了。在季后赛中同时兼顾投球和打击几乎是不可能的。那场神奇的击败酿酒人的比赛是他唯一闪光的时刻。

Point Three：他们最近专门签下塔里克·斯库巴尔，就是为了减少对大谷的需求，而且现在他们拥有一个没有大谷也几乎不可战胜的轮换阵容。

随着布莱克·斯内尔和泰勒·格拉斯诺从伤病中强力回归，他们拥有四名能够轻松主导系列赛的先发投手。

看看最近由山本由伸、斯库巴尔、斯内尔和泰勒·格拉斯诺先发的六场比赛。

他们仅有两次失分达到或超过三分。仅有一次投球时间不足六局。他们的防御率（ERA）为 2.45。

Point Four：陷入困境的道奇队进攻端迫切需要大谷在顶端发挥作用。如果他不能完成关键击球，谁能完成？进入最后一个月，候选人寥寥无几。

不是状态下滑的穆基·贝茨。不是心态失衡的凯尔·塔克。不是年事渐长的特奥斯卡·赫尔南德斯。也许是弗雷迪·弗里曼，但他自 7 月 4 日以来就没打过本垒打。也许是马克斯·曼西，如果对方愿意投球给他的话。

威尔·史密斯将在长期缺阵后于本周回归，这会有所帮助，但还不够。

如果发生任何事情导致打击手大谷被排除在比赛之外，道奇队就彻底完了，就这么简单。而如果他投球，很多事情都可能发生在他身上。

膝盖。手肘。或者任何自 7 月 3 日以来让他远离投手丘的问题。如果他投球，很多事情可能会出错，而任何投球伤病都可能

产生双重打击，导致他作为打击手也被排除在比赛之外。

“我认为对我来说，作为一名进攻球员达到 100% 是非常重要的，”罗伯茨说。“而作为一名投手，考虑到我们投手组和球队的实力，我认为那没有那么重要。我认为重要的是我们不能在任何方面损害他的健康。但对我来说，他出现在击球区本身就至关重要。”

是的，大谷想投球。是的，道奇队承诺过他可以投球。

但那是发生在伤病、球员引进和状态低迷之前。

现在一切都不同了。局面已经改变。

道奇队不再那么急需他的手臂，以至于愿意为此冒失去他击球能力的风险。

在8月底仅投了20次牛棚球？显然到10月他无法达到100%的状态，所以应该让他停止投球，专注于挥棒。

大谷翔平今年32岁，即将结束他的第九个赛季。他不再是个孩子了。

他也不再是无懈可击的。

让他连续第二个10月同时兼顾投球和击球确实会是一个伟大的故事。

但让他用球棒带领道奇队实现三连冠，则会是一个更精彩的故事。

道奇队再次以一分之差落败

保罗·桑恰（PAUL SANCYA）美联社 老虎队的马克斯·克拉克（MAX CLARK）在汤米·埃德曼（Tommy Edman）的触球拦截下安全抵达二垒。

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应该是这样，尤其是拥有这样的进攻火力。我们在关键时刻使用了我们的杠杆[救援投手]，很多球员都参与其中。所以，是的，这就是代价。

“但进攻端知道这一点。他们并非对此视而不见。但这并不能转化为安打和得分。”

这是斯内尔（Snell）在5月接受肘部关节镜手术后的第四场比赛。在他本赛季的每次先发中，他都将对手限制在1分或0分。周六是他本月复出以来首次投球不足六局。

他将老虎队限制在3次安打，并有3次保送。在斯内尔于第三局短暂离开比赛之前，这6名上垒者中有4人已经上垒。

斯内尔在前两局表现轻松，唯一的小瑕疵是一个飞向右外野浅区的德州联盟球（Texas leaguer），除此之外开局近乎完美。

然而，第三局开始出现混乱。斯内尔先是保送了通常挥棒激进的哈维尔·巴埃兹（Javier Báez），开启了这一局。老虎队新秀马克斯·克拉克执行了一次牺牲触击，但道奇队三垒手马克斯·蒙西（Max Muncy）在尝试传向一垒时失去了对球的控制，导致克拉克上垒，而巴埃兹推进至二垒。

面对格莱伯·托雷斯（Gleyber Torres），斯内尔的一记变速球太靠近本垒板，导致对方击出了一记地界二垒安打。球在右外野围栏黄色线上的高弹跳救回了一分，将克拉克送回三垒，但老虎队以1-0领先。

斯内尔向李昊煜（Hao-Yu Lee）投了两球，随后在与主审裁判克里斯·古乔尼（Chris Guccione）交谈后，走下球场并消失在休息区通道中。

斯内尔后来解释说，他的左脚大脚趾上有一个水泡，赛前他用绷带将其覆盖。但到了第三局，水泡移到了脚底。

“所以每当我发力蹬地时，我就会打滑，”斯内尔说。“我想如果我继续这样，我会击中某个人的，因为我完全不知道球会飞向哪里。”

他得到了古乔尼的许可，离开球场去拆除绷带。

“现在我的脚更疼了，但，是的，这确实有帮助，”斯内尔说。

在诱导李昊煜击出高飞球出局并再次保送一名球员后，斯内尔连续完成了五次三振。

“我对自己在有人上垒时的竞争状态感到满意，”斯内尔在感叹过于被动的处理方式增加了投球数后说道。“我对自己在每次对决中继续学习和发展——关于我应该做什么、我不喜欢什么、我喜欢什么——感到满意。总的来说，我没有屈服，并在需要的时候投出了关键球。”

然而，道奇队的进攻端未能给他提供得分支持。在前五局中，面对老虎队先发投手凯德尔·蒙特罗（Keider Montero），他们仅勉强制造了两次上垒机会。

“我只是在尝试寻找解决方案，”罗伯茨（Roberts）在谈到进攻时说。“我们都很沮丧。我们知道我们应该表现得更好。但再次强调，现在更多的是，我们要怎么做？这就是我目前的想法。我知道，在球员们已经付出努力的情况下责备他们并不是答案。然后你必须弄清楚，这是一个流程问题？是一个处理方式问题？还是一个专注度问题？这些是我试图在集体和个人层面弄清楚的事情。”

在第六局，他们终于连续击出安打并获得一分。亚历克·托马斯（Alek Thomas）以一个飞向左外野并在墙上弹跳的二垒安打开局。大谷翔平在一次一垒近在咫尺的接球中被判定出局，将托马斯推进至三垒。随后弗雷迪·弗里曼（Freddie Freeman）击出一记打向右外野的打点单打。

道奇队随后在一次出局的情况下填满了垒包。但遵循一个令人担忧的模式，他们未能利用这次机会挤出更多得分。

道奇队在本月满垒时的打击率为.211，进入周六比赛，这一数据使其在全大联盟中处于后三分之一水平。当汤米·埃德曼在第六局击出双杀结束该局时，这是他们本月第三次在满垒情况下未能得分。

在第九局，道奇队距离反超仅差几英尺。在两人出局且一名跑者在第一垒的情况下，老虎队派出了前道奇队成员、终结者肯利·詹森（Kenley Jansen）来面对特奥斯卡·埃尔南德斯（Teoscar Hernández）。

埃尔南德斯的球数落后至 0-2，随后他将一颗切球击向左中外野深处。但巴埃兹（Báez）在距离墙壁仅几步之遥的地方完成了一次肩后接球。

“我击球质量不错，虽然不是最好，但刚好飞向了球场最远的地方，”埃尔南德斯说道。“这就是……我们目前的运气。但这是比赛的一部分。”

道奇队左投手杰克·德雷尔（Jack Dreyer）在下半局登场，在满垒的情况下，他被麦格尼格尔（McGonigle）击出了一支再见安打，后者的击球弹过了左中外野的围墙。

大谷翔平仍“未达100%”状态，周日将不会投球

作者：麦迪·李（MADDIE LEE）

底特律 —— 在道奇队周六以 2-1 告负后，主教练戴夫·罗伯茨透露，大谷翔平的状态并非“100%”，且不会像球队此前希望的那样在周日对阵底特律老虎队的比赛中先发投球。

“翔（Sho）的恢复情况不理想，手臂和膝盖都有问题，”罗伯茨说。“如果任何一名投手感觉如此，我们都不会让他上场。”

道奇队目前还没有大谷恢复双修（投打兼顾）职责的目标日期，因此罗伯茨表示，他并不一定将此视为一次“挫折”。

“状态一直没达到 100%,” 罗伯茨说。“所以你只能希望每天能好一点，离目标近一点。一旦我们必须做出决定，比如[周日]，那么状态就是没达到。”

大谷自 7 月 3, 以来一直没有投球，一直在处理左膝持续的炎症和酸痛，而投球主要加剧了这一情况。但罗伯茨在与训练团队沟通后表示，让他感到困扰的不止是膝盖。大谷今年早些时候出现的肱二头肌酸痛也是担忧的一部分。大谷通过球队代表拒绝发表评论。

大谷在周五进行了 20 球的牛棚练习——比他惯常的两次先发之间的训练量要短——希望能能在周日投第 1 局。

“膝盖、身体，以及投球状态，都不是 $100$ ,”罗伯茨说。“具体是多少百分比，我不知道答案。”

由于大谷在周日将担任指定击球手，原定无论如何都要在周日投球的右投手泰勒·格拉斯诺将先发。罗伯茨表示，道奇队尚未决定是暂时停止大谷的投球训练，还是仅仅推迟他的强度递增计划。

“让我们先回到洛杉矶，弄清楚他的身体状况，然后再决定，”罗伯茨说。“……我认为设定一个目标或日期对任何人都没有好处。”

罗伯茨表示，目前没有计划让大谷在击球方面休息以治疗伤病。

“如果我听到任何关于这影响到他挥棒的消息，比如他的肱二头肌或膝盖在[击球时]让他感到困扰，我绝对愿意给他一天休息时间，”罗伯茨说。“但我还没听到相反的情况。”

道奇队在规划下一步行动时还必须考虑大局。大谷回归投手丘的时间越晚，他在季后赛前用来积累经验的先发场次就越少。

“我不会打赌大谷不行，”罗伯茨在周六赛前表示。“但我仍然认为，对于任何人来说，在赛季结束前投满 5 局都是很激进的。”

现在看来，这似乎更加不可能了。

大谷的问题尚未解决，这引发了一个疑问：在一年如此之晚的时间点恢复双修职责是否合理。

罗伯茨表示，问题更多在于大谷何时能回归投手丘。

“我不认为所有问题能在赛季结束前全部恢复到 100%,” 罗伯茨说。“但有很多投手在状态不是 100% 的情况下依然能发挥作用。所以再次强调，这并不是一门精确的科学。”

如果情况确实如此，担忧则分为两方面：大谷的健康状况将如何影响他在投手丘和击球区两端的表现。

“就我们目前的投球情况来看，先发投球无疑是一项优势，而他在进攻端的价值至关重要，因此我们不能以任何方式损害这一点，”罗伯茨说。“所以，如果投球可能会削弱进攻表现，那么这就得不偿失。因此，对我来说，我非常坚定地要确保不损害击球表现。”

自 8, 8 日（他恢复接球训练之日）以来，大谷在周六之前的打击率仅为 .218。但罗伯茨反驳了将大谷进攻下滑与投球训练挂钩的倾向。

“投球方面的训练量还不足以构成一个整体，”罗伯茨说。“坦白说，我认为是[在击球区]的选球不够好。”

大谷的反馈将继续在道奇队的决策中发挥重要作用。

“作为一名竞争者，他希望两者兼顾，我对此表示尊重，”罗伯茨说道。“但我所说的任何话都不会改变他作为‘二刀流’球员的身份。

“但我认为在目前这个时刻，他仍然觉得机会尚在，我也不是在说没有机会。但我确实认为，归根结底，他非常清楚我们的阵容、优势、劣势，以及他对球队的价值，无论这意味着什么。”

索萨代打满贯炮击败天使队

美联社

代打埃德蒙多·索萨（Edmundo Sosa）在第九局两出局的情况下击出了职业生涯首支满贯本垒打，费城费城人队周五晚上强势反击，以 5-3 击败了主场作战的天使队。

就在韦德·梅克勒（Wade Meckler）在右外野看台深处抢救回球，化解了布赖森·斯托特（Bryson Stott）一支三分本垒打仅两个打者之后，索萨便击中了这一球。

在 J.T. 雷尔穆托（J.T. Realmuto）保送使垒上满员并迫使状态不稳的终结者本·乔伊斯（Ben Joyce，0-2）下场后，索萨将萨米·佩拉尔塔（Sammy Peralta）的一记低沉变速球击飞 404 英尺至中外野，远超迈克·特劳特（Mike Trout）的接球范围。

亚历克斯·麦克法兰（Alex McFarlane，4-1）为费城人队投了第八局。乔纳森·鲍兰（Jonathan Bowlan）代替终结者乔安·杜兰（Jhoan Duran）投了第九局，他在让两名天使队球员上垒后，通过三振亚当·弗雷泽（Adam Frazier）完成了他的第二次救援成功。

布赖斯·哈珀（Bryce Harper）在费城人队第四局的一次触击安打将他的连续上垒纪录延长至职业生涯最高的 30 场。费城人队在这次九场西海岸之旅中的战绩改善为 2-2。此外，费城人队目前距离国家联盟外卡榜首的芝加哥队仅差一场球。

里德·德特默斯（Reid Detmers）在六局坚韧的投球中仅失一分并被击出 8 次安打，但美联最差的天使队因牛棚再次崩溃，遭遇五连败。

在亚历克·博姆（Alec Bohm）和贾斯汀·克劳福德（Justin Crawford）在面对乔伊斯时在没有安打的情况下上垒后，梅克勒凭借对斯托特下坠式飞球的精彩奔跑接球，一度似乎为天使队挽救了比赛——他将身体撑在短距离看台腰高的围墙上，将手套伸进观众席中。

然而，索萨随后击球，成为了费城人队自 2009 年以来首次在第九局两出局的情况下击出反超比分的满贯本垒打。

马克·J·特里尔（MARK J. TERRILL）美联社 埃德蒙多·索萨在第九局击出代打满贯炮后受到队友们的祝贺。

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斯库巴尔重返底特律：欢呼与泪水

截至周五的排名 国家联盟

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美国联盟 塔里克·斯库巴尔将此归功于他对当前任务的专注。“我很好地将棒球仅视为棒球，”他在洛杉矶 2-1 获胜后表示。

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在离开球场时，他用拳头击打了一下手套的掌心。

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今日赛程 道奇 at 底特律 10:40 a.m. 天使 vs. 费城 1:07 p.m. 迈阿密 at 华盛顿 9:15 a.m. 波士顿 at 纽约 (AL) 10:35 a.m. 科罗拉多 at 亚特兰大 10:35 a.m. 西雅图 at 多伦多 10:37 a.m. 圣迭戈 at 坦帕湾 10:40 a.m. 堪萨斯城 at 克利夫兰 10:40 a.m. 芝加哥 (AL) at 明尼苏达 11:10 a.m. 德克萨斯 at 密尔沃基 11:10 a.m. 匹兹堡 at 圣路易斯 11:15 a.m. 休斯顿 at 纽约 (NL) 12:10 p.m. 巴尔的摩 at 西萨克拉门托 1:05 p.m. 辛辛那提 at 芝加哥 (NL) 4:20 p.m.

作者：MADDIE LEE

底特律 —— 当塔里克·斯库巴尔 (Tarik Skubal) 从牛棚穿过球场时，他不得不伸长脖子，才能看到身后大屏幕上播放的致敬视频的一部分。

当他走到道奇队休息区时，观众起立为他鼓掌。斯库巴尔控制着自己的表情，用搭在脖子上的毛巾擦了擦脸。

“确实流泪了，”斯库巴尔在周五道奇队 2-1 击败底特律老虎队后说道。“幸运的是，在情绪失控之前，我赶到了球员通道。但是是的，这很难受。这里是我整个职业生涯以来一直熟悉的地方，从 2018 年起就是如此。”

不到四周前，他与自己唯一认识的组织告别 —— 老虎队在 2018 年从西雅图大学选中了他。现在，他回到了这个他称之为家六年的球场。

身着客场灰色球衣的斯库巴尔证明了为什么他被广泛认为是交易截止日最顶尖的可用球员，他在六局比赛中将老虎队的得分限制在 1 分，被击球数仅为 4 次。道奇队的进攻端虽然继续陷入苦战，但勉强足够让他们从在亚特兰大的三连败中反弹 —— 这已经是本月他们第 14 次在分差仅为 1 分的比赛中决出胜负。

“我认为他接受了这一切，”道奇队一垒手弗雷迪·弗里曼 (Freddie Freeman) 表示。“他为这个组织倾尽所有，多次获得赛扬奖，他把一切都留给了他们。我认为这就是为什么他得到了这么多欢呼。我敢肯定在比赛过程中，他们对他不断刷出的三振并不太满意，但很难去嘘一个每隔五天就为你倾尽全力的男人。”

斯库巴尔在登上投手丘时，迎接他的除了欢呼还有一些嘘声（以及“Scuuub”的喊声）。尽管这次交易不在斯库巴尔的控制范围内，但一部分老虎队的球迷 —— 包括本记者的机场接送司机 —— 对斯库巴尔从未就合同延期与

底特律。

老虎队最后一次公开讨论的续约报价是在2024年底提供的四年7500万美元——与他预计在今年休赛期自由市场中能获得的合同相比，这个数字显得相形见绌。

“因为我的姓是Skub，你分不清那些声音是嘘声还是在为你欢呼，”斯库巴尔说道。“所以我打算认为他们是在为我欢呼。”

即便并非每一种情况都是如此，球员与底特律之间的相互情谊在周五成为了焦点，尽管斯库巴尔在比赛中压制了老虎队的进攻，并在此过程中完成了七次三振。

“我说过我不会[情绪化]，但我后来发现我其实并不那么了解自己，”斯库巴尔在谈到那段致敬视频时说。“时机让我有点措手不及。但我想无论在什么时候，那种情绪都会是一样的。”

他很快控制住了自己的情绪。在一次因PitchCom（投捕沟通系统）故障导致的延迟后，斯库巴尔的一记正中球被底特律队的格莱伯·托雷斯击出领先二垒安打。但随后，这位左投手连续让接下来的12名击球手出局。

斯库巴尔在第三局完成了三名击球手全部三振，他让马克斯·克拉克在一次变速球中挥空，让哈维尔·巴埃兹追逐了一记高位快球，并让托雷斯眼睁睁看着一记变速球擦过好球区的底边。

“从一开始，他的快球控制就为他的很多球种奠定了基础，”捕手亨特·费杜恰说。“对右打者建立内角压制，对左打者投出内切的伸卡球，这在很大程度上打开了局面。所以这就是进入比赛前的计划；他执行得天衣无缝。”

这一连胜在爱德华多·瓦伦西亚击出的一记沿左外野线飞行的二垒安打中宣告结束，瓦伦西亚在第五局首位击球时将一记内角滑球击出。随后在两出局的情况下，克拉克在面对一记外角快球时保持重心，将其击向反方向，完成了一次三垒安打，为本场比赛打入了第一分。

斯库巴尔诱使巴埃兹击出中外野飞球出局从而脱离困境，

道奇队在第六局一出局时错失了扳平比分的机会，当时凯尔·塔克在试图利用基克·赫尔南德斯的代打单打得分时，在回本垒时被出局。但他们在该局挽回了局面，特奥斯卡·赫尔南德斯获得一次保送，而同样担任代打的米格尔·罗哈斯击出一记穿过内野的强力单打，将比分扳平。

在斯库巴尔在第六局应对了一些强力击球后，道奇队在第七局两出局时填满了垒包，但未能得分。

“有时这对进攻方来说甚至会更令人沮丧，”弗里曼说。“我们一直在获得机会，但最终我们必须将其转化为得分。过去几天我们没能做到这一点，但这里的每个人都很乐观，如果我们能继续创造这些机会，在某个时间点，凭借我们的实力，我们一定会击出那些安打的。”

“但我们拥有一组能让我们留在比赛中的投手群，在过去的，我想是三、四、五周里，他们一直让我们保持竞争力。作为进攻方，我们必须进入状态。我们知道现在是关键时刻，希望我们在进入季后赛前能打出火热状态。”

斯库巴尔在投球数仅为83球后结束了当晚的比赛。由于斯库巴尔此前连续两场比赛投球数达到100球，主教练戴夫·罗伯茨不想让他过度疲劳。

“他想继续留在场上，我很喜欢这一点，我也尊重这一点，”罗伯茨说。“他觉得他还能投，但我有我的考虑。”

道奇队最终在第八局取得领先，通过特奥斯卡·赫尔南德斯和弗里曼的单打，以及本·罗特维特的牺牲触击制造了一分。

道奇队的牛棚表现稳健，终结者坦纳·斯科特拿到了他的第20次救援成功。

赛后，为这场胜利奠定基调的斯库巴尔回到了球场，与他的前队友们叙旧。

“我很好地将棒球与个人情感分开，努力竞争并给我们的球队争取获胜的机会，”斯库巴尔说。“但显然，这个地方很特别。”

DODGERS 2, DETROIT 1

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<><>道奇队< / ><>000< / ><>001< / ><>010-2< / ><>9< / ><>0< / >< / ><><>底特律队< / ><>000< / ><>010< / ><>000-1< / ><>5< / ><>1< / >< / table>

a-第6局替补托马斯击出单打。b-第6局替补费杜恰击出单打。c-第7局替补瓦伦西亚被三振。d-第8局替补巴埃兹击出单打。e-第9局替补基思击出地滚球出局。

保送—道奇队 9：大谷，弗里曼 1, 贝茨 1, 蒙西 1, 塔克 2, E.埃尔南德斯 1, T.埃尔南德斯 1, 费杜恰 1, 底特律队 2: 李 1, 克拉克 1 三振—道奇队 9：大谷，弗里曼 2, 贝茨 2, 蒙西 1, 埃德曼 1, T.埃尔南德斯 1. 底特律队 12: 托雷斯 1, 李 1, 麦戈尼格尔 1, 丁格勒 1, 瓦伦西亚 1, 基思 1, 马尔盖里 2, 托克尔森 2, 克拉克 1, 巴埃兹 1. 失误—麦戈尼格尔 (14). 留垒—道奇队 15, 底特律队 5, 二垒安打—托雷斯 (11), 瓦伦西亚 (7). 三垒安打—克拉克 (3). 打点—罗哈斯 (19), 弗里曼 (62), 克拉克 13. 盗垒—塔克 (9). 救援投手—罗特韦特. 得点圈留垒—道奇队 7 (T.埃尔南德斯, 埃德曼, 大谷, E.埃尔南德斯 2, 蒙西 2); 底特律队 3 (巴埃兹, 麦戈尼格尔, 丁格勒), 得点圈得分率—道奇队 12次中4次; 底特律队 9次中1次. 推进跑者—大谷, 托雷斯. 双杀出局—托马斯, 大谷, 托雷斯. 双杀—道奇队 1 (埃德曼, 贝茨, 弗里曼); 底特律队 2 (托雷斯,

接手跑者得分—维西亚 2-0, 索默斯 3-0, 瓦格斯派克 3-0. 故意保送—由斯图尔特保送 (李). 触身球—霍尔顿 (埃德曼). 捕手传球失误—霍尔顿. 裁判—内斯特·塞哈, 克里斯·古乔尼, 斯科特·巴里, 查理·拉莫斯. 比赛时间—2:43. 售票数—41,012 (41,083).

堪萨斯城 3, 克利夫兰 0

堪萨斯城< / td><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / ><>克利夫兰< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / >< / tr><><>Jensen c< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>.223< / ><>Kwan cf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.273< / >< / ><><>Witt ss< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.288< / ><>Deauter dh< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.289< / >< / ><><>Caglianone rf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.283< / ><>Ramirez 3b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.240< / >< / ><><>Perez dh< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>.221< / ><>Adell rf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.238< / >< / ><><>Pasquantino 1b< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.246< / ><>Lowe 1b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.261< / >< / ><><>Loftin 2b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.234< / ><>Bazzana 2b< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.241< / >< / ><><>Collins lf< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.232< / ><>Bailey c< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.199< / >< / ><><>1-Tolbert lf< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.300< / ><>a-Genao< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.284< / >< / ><><>Rojas 3b< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.229< / ><>Halpin cf< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.221< / >< / ><><>Isbel cf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.235< / ><>Rocchio ss< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.249< / >< / ><><>Totals< / ><>34< / ><>3< / ><>9< / ><>3< / ><>< / ><>Totals< / ><>33< / ><>0< / ><>6< / ><>0< / ><>< / >< / ><><>堪萨斯城< / ><>< / ><>000< / ><>010< / ><>002< / ><>−3< / ><>9< / ><>0< / >< / ><><>克利夫兰< / ><>< / ><>000< / ><>−0< / ><>6< / ><>1< / >< / table>

a-在第9局代替Blairley击球被接杀。I-在第9局为Collins跑垒。 保送—堪萨斯城 2：Pasquantino 1, Collins 1. 三振—堪萨斯城 9：Jensen 2, Witt 1, Caglianone 1, Perez 1, Loftin 1, Rojas 1, Isbel 2. 克利夫兰 12：Kwan 1, DeLauter 2, Ramirez 1, Adell 2, Lowe 3, Bazzana 2, Rocchio 1 E—Bibee (2). 留在垒上的跑者（LOB）—堪萨斯城 8, 克利夫兰 7. 二垒安打—Rojas (4), Witt (28), Collins (22). 全垒打—Jensen (19), 对阵Yoho. 打点—Perez (60), Jensen 2 (61). 盗垒—Rojas. 留在得分位置的跑者—堪萨斯城 5 (Loftin 2, Jensen, Isbel 2)；克利夫兰 3 (DeLauter, Genao 2). 得分位置跑者安打（RISP）—堪萨斯城 1 for 11; 克利夫兰 0 for 4. 推进跑者—Caglianone, Perez.

a-在第9局对阵Yastzeminski被三振。b-在第8局代替Tovar击球。 保送—科罗拉多：3 Rumfield 2, Veen 1. 亚特兰大 1; Acuña 1 三振—科罗拉多：5 Carrigo 1, Goodman 1, Moniak 1, Norby 1, Tovar 1. 亚特兰大 6; Baldwin 1, Albies 1, Olson 1, Yastrzemski 1, Thomas 1, Murphy 1. 留在垒上的跑者（LOB）—科罗拉多 10, 亚特兰大 9 2B—Moniak (16), Harris (31), Murphy (3), Acuña (13). 全垒打—Harris (22), 对阵Sugano. 打点—McCarthy (69), Goodman (73), Rumfield (61), Castro (55), Harris 3, Myers (3), Murphy (3), Baldwin (67), Dubón (64). 牺牲飞球—McCarthy, Castro. 盗垒—Harris. 留在得分位置的跑者—科罗拉多 5 (Norby, Castro, Moniak, Carrigo, Tovar)；亚特兰大 3 (Murphy, Albies, RISP—科罗拉多 1 for 11; 亚特兰大 4 for 9. 推进跑者—Risfield, D—GDP—Norby, Rumfield. 双杀—亚特兰大 2 (Kim, Houston, Okinom, Olson).

科罗拉多< / td><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / tr><><>Sugano, L, 12-8.< / ><>4< / ><>10< / ><>6< / ><>1< / ><>4< / ><>91< / ><>5.23< / >< / ><><>Manfredi< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>24< / ><>1.50< / >< / ><><>Mejia< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>11< / ><>5.56< / >< / ><><>Bernardino< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>14< / ><>2.67< / >< / ><><>亚特兰大< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Holmes, W, 9-5.< / ><>5< / ><>8< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>84< / ><>3.71< / >< / ><><>Dodd, H, 13.< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>11< / ><>2.09< / >< / ><><>Kerr, H, 1.< / ><>1< / ><>1 < / ><>17< / ><>2.70< / >< / ><><>Mederos, H, 1.< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>18< / ><>3.16< / >< / ><><>Iglesias, S, 29-32.< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>16< / ><>2.88< / >< / table>

继承跑者得分—Manfredi 1-0。触身球—Sugano (Kim), Kerr (McCarthy)。裁判—Tom Hanahan, Ron Kulpa, David Rackley, Manny Gonzalez。比赛用时—2:50。售票数—38,006 (41,149)。

<><>科罗拉多< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / ><>亚特兰大< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / >< / ><><>McCarthy lf-cf< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>1.291< / ><>Baldwin dh< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>1.276< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Carrig c-s-s< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>0.263< / ><>Albies 2b< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0.255< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Goodman c< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>1.256< / ><>Olson 1b< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0.258< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Rumfield 1b< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>1.290< / ><>Acuña rf< / ><>3< / ><>0.235< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Castro 3b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>1.262< / ><>Harris cf< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>0.294< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Moniak dh< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>0.256< / ><>Dubón 3b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>1.270< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Norby 2b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>0.220< / ><>Yastrzemski lf< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0.229< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Veen rf-lf< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>0.250< / ><>a-Thomas lf< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>0.229< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Tovar ss< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0.211< / ><>Murphy c< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>1.212< / ><>< / >< / ><><>b-Johnston rf< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>0.284< / ><>Kim ss< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>0.084< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Totals< / ><>35< / ><>4< / ><>12< / ><>4< / ><>Totals< / ><>36< / ><>6< / ><>14< / ><>6< / ><>< / >< / table>

费城 5，天使 3

<><>费城< / ><>000< / ><>010< / ><>004 - 5< / ><>11< / ><>1< / >< / ><><>天使< / ><>300< / ><>000< / ><>000 - 3< / ><>3< / ><>0< / >< / table>

继承跑者得分—Saucedo 1-0, Peralta 3-3。触身球—Joyce (Bohm), Bowlan (Grissom)。胜投—Painter(2), Joyce。裁判—Shane Livensparger, Dan Merzel, Dan Bellino, Mark Ripperger。比赛用时—2:56。售票数—34,951 (45,517)。

费城< / td><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / ><>天使< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / >< / tr><><>Schwarber dh< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.245< / ><>Neto ss< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.236< / >< / ><><>Turner ss< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.241< / ><>Trout cf< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.241< / >< / ><><>Harper rf< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.266< / ><>Meckler lf-rf< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>.288< / >< / ><><>Arraez 2b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.320< / ><>Grissom 1b< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.246< / >< / ><><>Bohm 1b< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.245< / ><>Ballesteros dh< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.207< / >< / ><><>De La Cruz lf< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.357< / ><>Moore 2b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.171< / >< / ><><>a-Crawford cf< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.266< / ><>Lowe rf< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.213< / >< / ><><>Stott 3b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.261< / ><>b-Siri lf< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.241< / >< / ><><>Realmuto c< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.223< / ><>Guzman 3b< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.221< / >< / ><><>Hill cf-lf< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>.241< / ><>e-Frazier< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.250< / >< / ><><>c-Marsh lf< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.272< / ><>Heineman c< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.171< / >< / ><><>d-Sosa lf< / ><>1< / ><>4< / ><>.235< / ><>Totals< / ><>29< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Totals< / ><>35< / ><>5< / ><>11< / ><>5< / ><>< / >< / table>

休斯顿 3, 纽约大都会 1

<><>Notas< / ><>01.12.1< / >< colspan="2">Notas< / >< colspan="2">01.13.1< / >< / ><><>科罗拉多< / ><>000< / ><>030< / ><>100-4< / ><>12< / ><>0< / >< / ><><>亚特兰大< / ><>031< / ><>020< / ><>00x-6< / ><>14< / ><>0< / >< / table>

<><>费城< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Painter....6< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>6< / ><>94< / ><>9.59< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Alvarado....1< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>19< / ><>5.81< / ><>< / >< / ><><>McFarlane, W, 4-1...1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>21< / ><>1.08< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Bowlan, S, 2-5...1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>25< / ><>2.77< / ><>< / >< / ><><>天使< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Detmers....6< / ><>8< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>86< / ><>3.54< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Fermin, H, 7...1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>15< / ><>3.33< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Watson, H, 4... $\frac{3}{2}$ < / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>17< / ><>4.38< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Saucedo, H, 5... $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>0< / ><>6< / ><>4.26< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Joyce, L, 0-2, H, 2... $\frac{3}{2}$ < / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>26< / ><>3.24< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Peralta, BS, 0-1... $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>15< / ><>6.10< / ><>< / >< / table>

堪萨斯城< / td><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / tr><><>Wacha, W, 8-8< / ><>8< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>10< / ><>103< / ><>3.32< / >< / ><><>Cruz, S, 6-7< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>22< / ><>4.35< / >< / ><><>克利夫兰< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Bibee, L, 5-14< / ><>6< / ><>7< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>5< / ><>93< / ><>3.88< / >< / ><><>Herrin< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>9< / ><>3.21< / >< / ><><>Yoho< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>25< / ><>4.60< / >< / table>

HBP—Bibee (Pasquantino), Cruz (Bazzana)。U— Dexter Kelley, Quinn Wolcott, Paul Clemons, Adrian Johnson。T-2:21。售票数—31,941 (34,788)。 a-第7局由 De La Cruz 接替地滚球出局。b-第7局由 Lowe 接替飞球出局。c-第8局由 Hill 接替代打。d-第9局由 Marsh 接替击出本垒打。e-第9局由 Guzman 接替三振出局。

<><>休斯顿< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / ><>纽约< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / >< / ><><>Pella ss< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.242< / ><>Ewing cf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.238< / >< / ><><>Alvarez dh< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.262< / ><>Lindor ss< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.237< / >< / ><><>Paredes 3b< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.260< / ><>Bichette 3b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.262< / >< / ><><>Altuve 2b< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.246< / ><>Benge rf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>.279< / >< / ><><>Allen 2b< / ><>0< / ><>.264< / ><>Robert lf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.229< / >< / ><><>Varsho cf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>.234< / ><>Young 1b< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.265< / >< / ><><>Walker 1b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.231< / ><>Semien 2b< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.216< / >< / ><><>Díaz c< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>.261< / ><>Baty dh< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.219< / >< / ><><>Trammell rf< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.207< / ><>Torrens c< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.241< / >< / ><><>a-Smith rf< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.213< / ><>Totals< / ><>31< / ><>1< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Velázquez lf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.188< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Totals< / ><>30< / ><>3< / ><>4< / ><>3< / ><>< / >< / table>

保送—费城 3: Schwarber 1, Crawford 1, Realmuto 1。天使 4: Neto 2, Meckler 1, Ballesteros 1。三振—费城 5: Turner 1, Harper 2, Stott 1, Marsh 1。天使 9: Neto 1, Trout 2, Moore 2, Siri 1, Guzman 2, Frazier 1。失误—Arraez (7)。留垒—费城 7, 天使 5。本垒打—Sosa (6), 对阵 Peralta。打点—Hill (26), Sosa 4 (39), Meckler (21)。盗垒—Grissom。得分圈留垒—费城 1 (Harper); 天使 2 (Frazier, Lowe)。得分圈击球—费城 8次中3次; 天使 5次中1次。推进跑者—Stott。双杀—Arraez。双杀出局—Bohm, Grissom。双杀—费城 1 (Arraez, Bohm); 天使 2 (Moore, Grissom; Note)。

亚特兰大 6, 科罗拉多 4

<><>休斯顿< / ><>000< / ><>003< / ><>000 - 3< / ><>4< / ><>0< / >< / ><><>纽约< / ><>000< / ><>100< / ><>000 - 1< / ><>5< / ><>0< / >< / table>

保送—休斯顿 6: 佩尼亚 1, Y.阿尔瓦雷斯 2, 帕雷德斯 2, 阿尔图夫 1. 纽约 1: 塞米恩 1. 三振—休斯顿 8: 佩尼亚 1, 瓦肖 1, 沃克 2, 史密斯 1, 维拉斯奎兹 3. 纽约 14: 尤因 2, 林多尔 3, 比舍特 1, 本格 2, 罗伯特 2, 杨 1, 贝蒂 2, 托伦斯 1. 残垒—休斯顿 6, 纽约 4. 二垒安打—本格 (18). 打点—瓦肖 2 (35), 迪亚兹 (33), 本格 (54). 盗垒—佩尼亚 (9). 得分圈残垒—休斯顿 3 (瓦肖, 史密斯, 帕雷德斯); 纽约 2 (贝蒂, 杨). 得分圈击球表现—休斯顿 2 for 7; 纽约 0 for 4. 推进跑者—罗伯特. 击球跑者双杀—帕雷德斯, 尤因. 双杀—休斯顿 1 (佩尼亚, 沃克); 纽约 1 (比舍特, 塞米恩, 杨). 接手跑者得分—阿布雷尤 1-0, 拉文德 3-3. 暴投—阿布雷尤. 主审—雅各布·梅茨, 卡洛斯·托雷斯, 内特·汤姆林森, 马克·韦格纳. 比赛用时—2:43. 售票数—28,848 (42,136).

纽约洋基 1, 波士顿 0

波士顿< / td><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / ><>纽约< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / >< / tr><><>索加德 ss-2b< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>.257< / ><>戈德施密特 1b< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>.247< / >< / ><><>拉法埃拉 cf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.287< / ><>赖斯 dh< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.255< / >< / ><><>阿布雷尤 rf< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.255< / ><>贝林格 lf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.254< / >< / ><><>孔特拉雷斯 1b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.278< / ><>拉莫斯 rf< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.239< / >< / ><><>鲁特施曼 c< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.233< / ><>d-S.琼斯 rf< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.228< / >< / ><><>德宾 3b< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.255< / ><>格里舍姆 cf< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.216< / >< / ><><>加斯珀 dh< / ><>0< / ><>.275< / ><>隆巴德 ss< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.257< / >< / ><><>a-琼斯 dh< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.213< / ><>奇索姆 2b< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.226< / >< / ><><>杜兰 lf< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.209< / ><>卡巴列罗 3b< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.232< / >< / ><><>b-怀特 lf< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.238< / ><>威尔斯 c< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.178< / >< / ><><>赛格勒 2b< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.250< / ><>总计< / ><>27< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>< / >< / ><><>c-莫纳斯特里奥 ss< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.253< / ><>< / >< / ><><>总计< / ><>30< / ><>0< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>< / >< / table>

在第 6 局中保送赛格勒。在第 6 局中，d-在拉莫斯面前被三振。 保送—波士顿 6: 德宾 2, 加斯珀 2, J 琼斯 1, 赛格勒 1. 纽约 4: 拉莫斯 2, 格里舍姆 1, 隆巴德 1. 三振—波士顿 9: 索加德 2, 拉法埃拉 2, 孔特拉雷斯 2, 鲁特施曼 2, 杜兰 1. 纽约 11: 戈德施密特 1, 赖斯 2, 拉莫斯 1, S 琼斯 1, 格里舍姆 1, 奇索姆 2, 威尔斯 3. 失误—威尔斯 (6). 残垒—波士顿 10, 纽约 6. 二垒安打—阿布雷尤 2 (30), 赖斯 (22). 全垒打—戈德施密特 (17), 由桑多伐投球. 打点—戈德施密特 (45). 得分圈残垒—波士顿 4 (莫纳斯特里奥 2, 孔特拉雷斯, 赛格勒); 纽约 3 (奇索姆 2, 拉莫斯). 得分圈击球表现—波士顿 1 for 7; 纽约 0 for 4. 双杀—阿布雷尤. 双杀—纽约 2 (奇索姆, 格里舍姆 戈德施密特, 格里舍姆 Pallasign Welle Pallasign).

Grisham, Goldschmidt, Grisham; Bellinger, Wells, Bellinger)。< / td>< / tr><><>波士顿< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP ERA< / >< / ><><>Sandoval, L, 1-3< / ><> $5\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>4< / ><>7< / ><>96 4.20< / >< / ><><>Weissert< / ><> $\frac{3}{8}$ < / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>5 3.88< / >< / ><><>Guerrero< / ><>.1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>6 2.65< / >< / ><><>Olds< / ><>.1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>11 0.00< / >< / table>

继承跑者得分——Weissert 3-0, Headrick 1-0。裁判——Edwin Moscoso, Hunter Wendelstedt, Vic Carapazza, Nic Lentz。比赛时间——2:47。售票数——43,476 (47,309)。

辛辛那提 10, 芝加哥小熊 8

<><>辛辛那提< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / ><>芝加哥< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / >< / ><><>Myers cf< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>.254< / ><>Cow Armstrong cf< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.277< / >< / ><><>De La Cruz ss< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>.268< / ><>Suzuki rf< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>.274< / >< / ><><>Stewart 1b< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>.263< / ><>Busch 1b< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>.244< / >< / ><><>Stephenson dh< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>.248< / ><>Bregman 3b< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>.252< / >< / ><><>Suárez 3b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.205< / ><>Happ lf< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.219< / >< / ><><>Bleday lf-rf< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.219< / ><>Hoerner ss< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.261< / >< / ><><>McLain 2b< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.191< / ><>Ramirez 2b< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>.285< / >< / ><><>Trevino c< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>.237< / ><>Conforto dh< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.229< / >< / ><><>Rodriguez rf< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>.245< / ><>a-Shaw dh< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.252< / >< / ><><>Klebsi lf< / ><>1< / ><>.161< / ><>Kelly c< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.257< / >< / ><><>Totals< / ><>41< / ><>10< / ><>13< / ><>10< / ><>< / ><>40< / ><>8< / ><>13< / ><>8< / ><>< / >< / table>

<><>辛辛那提< / ><>000< / ><>115< / ><>201 – 10< / ><>13< / ><>0< / >< / ><><>芝加哥< / ><>102< / ><>000< / ><>140 – 8< / ><>13< / ><>2< / >< / table>

保送——辛辛那提 4; Myers 1, Stewart 7, Suárez 1, Rodríguez 1. 芝加哥 2; Busch 1, Kelly 1. 三振——辛辛那提 10: De La Cruz 1, Stewart 1, Stephenson 2, Suárez 3, Bleday 1, McLain 1, Trevino 1. 芝加哥 7: Crow-Armstrong 1, Suzuki 1, Bregman 1, Happ 3. Conforto 1. 失误——Peterson ( ), Bregman (5). 留垒——辛辛那提 9, 芝加哥 7. 二垒安打——Suzuki 2 (28), Bregman (25), Shaw (7). 全垒打——Stewart (29), off Peterson; Trevino (5), off Thornton; Stephenson (13), Thornton; Friedl (4), Palencia; Busch (17), Lowder; Ramirez (4), Antone. 保送上垒——Rodriguez (6), Stewart 2 (102), Trevino (15), Stephenson 3 (47). De La Cruz 2 (60), Friedl (12), Bregman (70), Busch 2 (68), Suzuki 2 (77), Ramirez 3 (24). 盗垒——Hoerner (22). 得分圈留垒——辛辛那提 4 (Suárez 3, Stewart); 芝加哥 5 (Bregman 2, Busch, Kelly, Happ). 得分圈击球——辛辛那提 4 for 31; 芝加哥 5 for 13. 跑者移动

圣路易斯 4, 匹兹堡 1

胜方—Revio, Crow-Armstrong 辛辛那提< / td>< / tr><><>< / ><>局数(IP)< / ><>安打(H)< / ><>得分(R)< / ><>失分(ER)< / ><>保送(BB)< / ><>三振(SO)< / ><>投球数(NP)< / ><>防御率(ERA)< / >< / ><><>Lower, W, 6-8....< / ><>.5< / ><>6< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>5< / ><>96< / ><>5.14< / >< / ><><>Mey....< / ><> $1\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>29< / ><>3.68< / >< / ><><>Burke....< / ><> $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>10< / ><>2.67< / >< / ><><>Antone....< / ><>.0< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>13< / ><>3.92< / >< / ><><>Moll, H, 7....< / ><>.1< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>18< / ><>4.64< / >< / ><><>Pagán, S,

18-21....< / ><>.1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>7< / ><>3.90< / >< / ><><>芝加哥< / ><>局数(IP)< / ><>安打(H)< / ><>得分(R)< / ><>失分(ER)< / ><>保送(BB)< / ><>三振(SO)< / ><>投球数(NP)< / ><>防御率(ERA)< / >< / ><><>Peterson....< / ><>.5< / ><>6< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>6< / ><>88< / ><>5.11< / >< / ><><>Thornton, L, 5-5, BS, 3-5,...< / ><> $1\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>4< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>29< / ><>3.32< / >< / ><><>Ovale....< / ><> $2\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>47< / ><>4.55< / >< / ><><>Palencia....< / ><>.1< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>15< / ><>4.19< / >< / ><>< colspan="9">Antone 在第 8 局对 3 名击球手进行投球< / >< / table>

Antonic pitched to 3 batecs in the Sun [...OMITTED...] 继承跑者得分—Burke 2-0。触身球—Civale (McLain)。胜投—Mey, Peterson。裁判—Bill Miller, Chad Whitson, Brian Walsh, Chad Fairchild。用时—3:07。售票数—39,036 (41,363)。

<><>匹兹堡< / ><>打数(AB)< / ><>得分(R)< / ><>安打(H)< / ><>打点(BI)< / ><>打击率(Avg.)< / ><>圣路易斯< / ><>打数(AB)< / ><>得分(R)< / ><>安打(H)< / ><>打点(BI)< / ><>打击率(Avg.)< / >< / ><><>Triolo ss< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>.246< / ><>Wetherholt ss< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.244< / >< / ><><>c-Gonzalez ss< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.211< / ><>Herrera dh< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.243< / >< / ><><>Valdez rf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.244< / ><>Burleson 1b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.290< / >< / ><><>Reynolds dh< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.261< / ><>Walker rf< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.290< / >< / ><><>Cruz cf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.261< / ><>Fermin

2b-lf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.243< / >< / ><><>Gonzales 2b-3b< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.305< / ><>Church cf< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>.241< / >< / ><><>Flores 1b-c< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.233< / ><>Báez lf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.163< / >< / ><><>Mangulf lf< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.285< / ><>Urias 2b< / ><>0< / ><>.159< / >< / ><><>Yorke 3b< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.214< / ><>Gorman 3b< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.193< / >< / ><><>a-Lowe 2b< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.248< / ><>Crooks c< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>.174< / >< / ><><>Davis

c< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.166< / ><>总计< / ><>33< / ><>4< / ><>8< / ><>3< / ><>< / >< / ><><>b-Howitz 1b< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.253< / ><>< / >< / ><><>总计< / ><>31< / ><>1< / ><>6< / ><>1< / ><>< / >< / table>

[...OMITTED...]

a-在第7局被Yorke三振出局。b-在第7局被Davis击球出局。c-在第8局被Triolo击球出局。

保送—匹兹堡 2；Reynolds 1, Gonzales 1。圣路易斯 1：Gorman 1。三振—匹兹堡 11：Valdez 2, Reynolds 1, Cruz 2, Flores 2, Mangum 1, Yorke 1, Lowe 1, Davis 1。圣路易斯 8：Wetherholt 2, Burleson 1, Walker 1, Fermín 1, Báez 1, Gorman 1, Crooks 1。失误—Cruz (3), Triolo (10), Gonzalez (3)。留在垒上的跑者—匹兹堡 6, 圣路易斯 7。二垒安打—Gorman (5), Báez (2)。全垒打—Crooks (5)，由Jones投球。打点—Triolo (25), Crooks 2 (14), Church (46)。牺牲飞球—Church。留在得分位置的跑者—匹兹堡 3 (Gonzales, Valdez 2)；圣路易斯 3 (Church, Wetherholt 2)。得分位置跑者安打—匹兹堡 4分之1；圣路易斯 6分之1。跑者因失误推进：。。失误：。保送—亚利桑那 2：Carroll, 1. Pedomo, 1. 旧金山 4：Gilbert, 1. Cavanaugh 1, Lee, 1H11 三振—亚利桑那 9：, 1. Carroll, 1. Moreno, 2. Arenado, 1. Tawa, 1H11 McCann, 1. Lawfar, 1. 旧

金山 11：Cox 1, Gilbert, 1. Devers, 2. Eridged 2, Knizner, 1. Cavanaugh, 1. Whitcomb, 1. Koss, 1. Basabe, 1失误—Santana (1), Perdomo, 7 (Koss)。三垒安打—亚利桑那 5, 旧金山 6。二垒安打— (11), Arenado (21), McCann (6), Eldridge (17)。全垒打— (5)，由Tidwell投球；Carroll (19)，由Tidwell投球；Tawa (9)，由Tidwell投球；Eldridge (15)，由Drake投球；Koss (1)，由Drake投球。打点— (22), Carroll (3) (61), Tawa (3) (35), Vargas 2 (65), McCann (22), Eldridge 2 (38), Hill 2 (6), Koss 2 (4)。盗垒—Lee (11), Perdomo (19), Barrosa (3)。牺牲飞球—Carroll, Hill。留在得分位置的跑者—亚利桑那 1 (Moreno)；旧金山 2 (Knizner, Lee)。得分位置跑者安打—亚利桑那 4 (Moreno)。

坦帕湾 9, 圣迭戈 4

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<><>圣迭戈< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / ><>坦帕湾< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / >< / ><><>Tatis lf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.285< / ><>Diaz dh< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>.302< / >< / ><><>Bowen rf< / ><>0< / ><>.165< / ><>Aranda 1b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.279< / >< / ><><>Rengifo lf-3b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.242< / ><>Caminero 3b< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>.280< / >< / ><><>Machado 3b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.212< / ><>Hicks c< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.284< / >< / ><><>Harris

lf< / ><>0< / ><>.245< / ><>a-Vilade< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.263< / >< / ><><>France 1b< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.285< / ><>Piper c< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.222< / >< / ><><>Merrill cf< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>.241< / ><>Simpson lf< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.309< / >< / ><><>Bogaerts ss< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.217< / ><>Deluca rf< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>.271< / >< / ><><>Hays dh< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.225< / ><>Muslims cf< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>.206< / >< / ><><>Maurim c< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>.200< / ><>Mateo

2b< / td><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>.233< / >< / tr><><>Cronenworth 2b< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.226< / ><>Walls ss< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>.217< / >< / ><><>Totals< / ><>32< / ><>4< / ><>< / ><>Totals< / ><>36< / ><>9< / ><>11< / ><>8< / ><>< / >< / ><><>San Diego< / ><>< / ><>000< / ><>022< / ><>000< / ><>-4< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Tampa Bay< / ><>< / ><>001< / ><>511< / ><>10x< / ><>-9< / ><>11< / ><>1< / ><>< / >< / table>

亚利桑那 10, 旧金山 6 四球保送—圣迭戈 3: France, 1 Merrill, 1 Cronenworth 1. 坦帕湾 2: Aranda 1, DeLuca 1. 三振—圣迭戈 5: Machado 2, France 2, Cronenworth 1. 坦帕湾 6: Diaz 2, Aranda 1, Piper 1, DeLuca 1, Walls 1. 失误—Mize (), Mateo (3). 残垒—圣迭戈 4, 坦帕湾 7. 二垒安打—Simpson (14). 全垒打—Merrill (22), 面对 McClananah, Diaz (20), 面对 Mize; Mullins (14), 面对 W.Peralta. 打点—Fermin (17), Cronenworth (25), Merrill (269), Diaz (274), Mullins (242), Mateo (15), Walls (32), DeLuca (39), Caminero (85). 盗垒—Simpson 2 (37), Walls (20). 牺牲击球—Mateo. 得点圈残垒—圣迭戈 2 (Hays, Rengifo); 坦帕湾 2 (Vilade, Mullins). 得点圈击球—圣迭戈 0 for 5; 坦帕湾 4 for 8. 推进跑者—Bogaerts, 接手跑者得分—W.Peralta 2-0, Kelly 2-0. 触身球—Mize (Caminero). 野手失策—Mize. 裁判— Andy Fletcher, Cory Blaser, Jansen Visconti, Tyler Jones. 用时—2:33. 售票—16,470 (25,025).

<><>San Diego< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Mize, L, 5-8< / ><>5< / ><>6< / ><>7< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>77< / ><>3.45< / >< / ><><>Morgan< / ><> $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>21< / ><>4.76< / >< / ><><>W.Peralta< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>16< / ><>3.46< / >< / ><><>Canning< / ><> $1\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>27< / ><>6.08< / >< / ><><>Tampa Bay< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>McClanahan, W, 10-6< / ><> $5\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>3< / ><>4< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>4< / ><>80< / ><>3.19< / >< / ><><>Rodriguez, H, 2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>19< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>Kelly, H, 28< / ><> $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>0< / ><>5< / ><>2.03< / >< / ><><>Matz< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>22< / ><>5.99< / >< / table>

<><>Arizona< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / ><>San Francisco< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / >< / ><><>Nootbaar lf< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>.228< / ><>Cox cf< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.268< / >< / ><><>c-Barrosa cf< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.195< / ><>a-Gilbert cf< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.242< / >< / ><><>Carroll rf< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>.248< / ><>Devers 1b< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.248< / >< / ><><>Moremo dh< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>.299< / ><>Eldridge dh< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>.254< / >< / ><><>Perdomo ss< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.254< / ><>Knizner< / >< / table>

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2< / td><>0< / ><>0< / ><>.200< / >< / tr> <>Arenado 3b< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.240< / ><>b-Cavanaugh c< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.237< / >< / ><><>Tawa 1b< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>.246< / ><>Lee rf< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.289< / >< / ><><>McCann c< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>.296< / ><>Whitcomb 3b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.122< / >< / ><><>Vargas 2b< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>.254< / ><>Hill lf< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>.286< / >< / ><><>Lawlar cf-lf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.273< / ><>Koss ss< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>.211< / >< / ><><>< / ><>39< / ><>10< / ><>12< / ><>10< / ><>< / ><>d-Furman 2b< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.071< / >< / ><><>< / ><>< / ><>Basabe 2b-ss< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.212< / >< / ><><>< / ><>< / ><>Totals< / ><>32< / ><>6< / ><>5< / ><>6< / ><>< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="9">up-Fermin, Church. GIDP.-Flores. DP.-St. Louis 1 (Gorman, Fermin, Burleson).< / >< / ><><>Pittsburgh< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Jones, L, 2-6< / ><> $\frac{4}{3}$ < / ><>7< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>6< / ><>86< / ><>4.83< / >< / ><><>Sisk< / ><> $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>14< / ><>2.57< / >< / ><><>Soto< / ><>.1< / ><>0< / ><>6< / ><>3.26< / >< / ><><>Ramírez< / ><>.1< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>15< / ><>3.11< / >< / ><><>St. Louis< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Mathews, W, 1-2< / ><> $5\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>7< / ><>102< / ><>5.03< / >< / ><><>Fernandez, H, 2< / ><>.2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>26< / ><>3.72< / >< / ><><>Ferguson, H, 5< / ><> $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>5.18< / >< / ><><>Stanek, S, 2-6< / ><>.1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>12< / ><>4.42< / >< / table>

保送—西雅图 4：Arozarena 2, Raleigh 1, Ward 1, 多伦多 2; Lukes 1, Valenzuela 1。三振—西雅图 9：Canzone 1, Naylor 1, Raleigh 2, Young 1, Ward 1, Crawford 3。多伦多 3：Bateman 1, Giménez 1, Clement 1。失误—Rodden (3), Crawford (10)。留在垒上的跑者 (LOB)—西雅图 7, 多伦多 6。二垒安打 (2B)—Young (16), Guerrero (21), Springer (17)。全垒打 (HR)—Canzone (20), 对阵 Cease；Lukes (10), 对阵 Hancock；Springer (14), 对阵 Hancock；Okamoto (27), 对阵 Domínguez。打点 (RBIs)—Canzone (59), Guerrero (47), Okamoto 3 (77), Giménez (50), Lukes (32), Springer (44), Straw (22)。盗垒 (SB)—Bateman (2), Arozarena (20)。盗垒失败 (CS)—Arozarena (8)。牺牲接杀 (SF)—Okamoto。留在得分位置的跑者—西雅图 4 (Crawford 2, Naylor 2)；多伦多 3 (Clement 2, Okamoto)。得分位置跑者得点率 (RISP)—西雅图 0 for 6; 多伦多 4 for 11. 跑者推进

<>< colspan="9">up—Róndínguez, Lukes. GIDP—Lukes. DP—Seattle 1 (Rönden, Naylor).< / >< / ><><>Seattle< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Hancock, L, 7-8....< / ><>5< / ><>8< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>67< / ><>3.57< / >< / ><><>Dominguez....< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>24< / ><>4.62< / >< / ><><>Rucker....< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>45< / ><>6.47< / >< / ><><>Toronto< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Cease, W。

9-5....< / td> 6< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>8< / ><>92< / ><>2.33< / >< / tr> <>Fluharty....< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>12< / ><>3.46< / >< / ><><>Sewald....< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>21< / ><>5.44< / >< / ><><>Van Eyk....< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>13< / ><>4.05< / >< / table>

继承跑垒得分——Sisk 2-0, Fernandez 1-0, Ferguson 1-0。触身球—Mathews (Mangum), Ramírez (Fermín)。三振— Nick Mahrley, Marvin Hudson, Willie Traynor, Tripp Gibson。用时—2:33。售票数—22,964 (44,494)。

多伦多 8, 西雅图 1

<><>西雅图< / ><>打数< / ><>得分< / ><>安打< / ><>打点< / ><>打击率< / ><>多伦多< / ><>打数< / ><>得分< / ><>安打< / ><>打点< / ><>打击率< / >< / ><><>Arozarena 左外野< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.273< / ><>Batenan 中外野< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.329< / >< / ><><>Canzone 指定击球< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>.259< / ><>Lakes 右外野< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>.265< / >< / ><><>Rodriguez 中外野< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.247< / ><>Guerrero 一垒< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>.260< / >< / ><><>Naylor 一垒< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.269< / ><>Springer 指定击球< / ><>4< / ><>3< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>.251< / >< / ><><>Raleigh 捕手< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.165< / ><>Sánchez 左外野< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.265< / >< / ><><>Young 二垒< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.248< / ><>Straw 左外野< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>.222< / >< / ><><>Ward 右外野< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.230< / ><>Okamoto 三垒< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>.229< / >< / ><><>Crawford 三垒< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.209< / ><>Giménez 游击< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>.241< / >< / ><><>Rodden 游击< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.171< / ><>Clement 二垒< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.279< / >< / ><><>总计< / ><>31< / ><>1< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>< / ><>Valenzuela 捕手< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.224< / >< / ><><>< / ><>< / ><>总计< / ><>34< / ><>8< / ><>11< / ><>8< / ><>< / >< / table>

触身球—Hancock (Sánchez)。三振— Adam Hamari, Clint Vondrak, Steven Jaschinski, John Tumpane。用时—2:33。售票数—41,910 (39,150)。

<>< colspan="9">旧金山 6 分，占总数的 10%< / >< / ><><>< / ><>局数< / ><>得分< / ><>失分< / ><>保送< / ><>三振< / ><>投球数< / ><>防御率< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Drake< / ><>.4< / ><>4< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>4< / ><>57< / ><>6.53< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Carrillo, W, 3-1< / ><>.1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>26< / ><>0.55< / >< / ><><>Lobásiga< / ><>.1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>10< / ><>2.48< / >< / ><><>García< / ><>.1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>24< / ><>2.31< / >< / ><><>Santana< / ><>.1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>24< / ><>5.59< / >< / ><><>Morillo< / ><>.1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>21< / ><>2.19< / >< / ><><>San

Francisco< / td> IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / tr> <>Tidwell, L 0-1< / ><>.5< / ><>7< / ><>6< / ><>1< / ><>4< / ><>100< / ><>4.54< / >< / ><><>Bivens< / ><>.2< / ><>5< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>50< / ><>14.40< / >< / ><><>Sanmartin< / ><>.1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>15< / ><>5.02< / >< / ><><>Roxby< / ><>.1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>17< / ><>0.00< / >< / table>

<><>西雅图< / ><>100< / ><>000< / ><>000 - 1< / ><>5< / ><>2< / >< / ><><>多伦多< / ><>300< / ><>021< / ><>20x - 8< / ><>11< / ><>0< / >< / table>

HBP—Drake (Devers), Garcia (Gilbert)。U— Alan Porter, Jim Wolf, Roberto Ortiz, Alex MacKay。T—3:06。售票数—27,153 (41,915)。

密尔沃基 6, 德克萨斯 1

<><>德克萨斯< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / ><>密尔沃基< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / >< / ><><>Pederson dh< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.235< / ><>Turang 2b< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.257< / >< / ><><>c-Cíaz< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.222< / ><>Chourio lf< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>.282< / >< / ><><>Seager ss< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.221< / ><>Bauer's 1b< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.275< / >< / ><><>Langford lf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.259< / ><>Contreras c< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>.268< / >< / ><><>Nimmo rf< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.258< / ><>Yelich dh< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>.239< / >< / ><><>Duran 3b-cf< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.272< / ><>Ortiz ss< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.250< / >< / ><><>Carter cf< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.197< / ><>Mitchell cf< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.262< / >< / ><><>b-Foscue 2b< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.257< / ><>a-Vaughn< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.309< / >< / ><><>Burger 1b< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.236< / ><>Lara cf< / ><>0< / ><>.267< / >< / ><><>Freeman 2b-3b< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.265< / ><>Frelick rf< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.243< / >< / ><><>Jansen c< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>.173< / ><>Hamilton 3b< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>.245< / >< / ><><>Totals< / ><>29< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>< / ><>Totals< / ><>36< / ><>6< / ><>14< / ><>6< / ><>< / >< / table>

<><>德克萨斯< / ><>001< / ><>000< / ><>000 - 1< / ><>2< / ><>1< / >< / ><><>密尔沃基< / ><>200< / ><>001< / ><>12x - 6< / ><>14< / ><>0< / >< / table>

保送—德克萨斯 1: Freeman 1. 密尔沃基 4: Bauers 3, Frelick 1. 三振—德克萨斯 12: Pederson 2, Díaz 1, Seager 1, Langford 2, Nimmo 2, Duran 2, Burger 2. 密尔沃基 2: Turang 1, Ortiz 1. 失误—Bradford (1). 留垒—德克萨斯 2, 密尔沃基 11. 二垒安打—Yelich (21), Frelick (16). 全垒打—Jansen (5), 对阵 Henderson. 打点—Jansen (16), Contreras 3 (69), Yelich (47), Hamilton (24), Chourio (55). 盗垒—Bauers (10). 牺牲飞球—Contreras. 得点圈留垒—德克萨斯 1 (Jansen); 密尔沃基 5 (Yelich, Turang 2, Vaughn, Ortiz). 得点圈击球—德克萨斯 0 for 1; 密尔沃基 4 for 15. 推进跑者—Chourio, Contreras, Hamilton. GIDP, Yelich, DB—德克萨斯 1 (Freeman, Sector, Burger).

DBP—Telflon。DP—德克萨斯 1 (Trefclain, Scager, Burger)。< / td>< / tr><><>德克萨斯< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Bradford, L, 0-3< / ><>5 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>9< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>100< / ><>3.42< / >< / ><><>Alexander< / ><> $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>0< / ><>7< / ><>3.45< / >< / ><><>Silseth< / ><> $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>22< / ><>2.96< / >< / ><><>Macko< / ><>1 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>25< / ><>5.40< / >< / ><><>密尔沃基< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Henderson, W, 9-2< / ><>7< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>7< / ><>91< / ><>2.48< / >< / ><><>Ashby, H, 13< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>24< / ><>3.24< / >< / ><><>Hall< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>13< / ><>2.20< / >< / table>

继承跑者得分—Alexander 2-0, Macko 2-0。裁判—Ben May, Chris Conroy, Brennan Miller, Austin Jones。比赛用时—2:42。售票数—41,620 (41,700)。

华盛顿 9，迈阿密 2

<><>迈阿密< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / ><>华盛顿< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / >< / ><><>Hemández lf< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>< / ><>1 .235< / ><>Abrams ss< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.272< / >< / ><><>Ramírez dh< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>< / ><>0 .228< / ><>Ortiz 1b< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>< / ><>.024< / >< / ><><>Lopez ss< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>< / ><>0 .307< / ><>Crews rf< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>< / ><>.220< / >< / ><><>Sanoja rf-3b< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>< / ><>0 .280< / ><>Lile lf< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>< / ><>.251< / >< / ><><>Edwards 2b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>< / ><>1 .285< / ><>House 3b< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>< / ><>3 .233< / >< / ><><>Stowers 1b< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>< / ><>0 .242< / ><>Vivas 2b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>< / ><>0 .235< / >< / ><><>Caisisse rf< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>< / ><>0 .224< / ><>Ford c< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>< / ><>.197< / >< / ><><>Jiménez 3b-1b< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>< / ><>0 .203< / ><>Chaparro dh< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>< / ><>0 .246< / >< / ><><>E.Ruiz cf< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>< / ><>0 .236< / ><>Young cf< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>< / ><>0 .247< / >< / ><><>Maack c< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>< / ><>0 .230< / ><>Totals< / ><>31< / ><>9< / ><>7< / ><>< / ><>7< / >< / ><><>Navaraveto c< / ><>0< / ><>< / ><>0 .118< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Totals< / ><>30< / ><>2< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>< / >< / table>

<><>迈阿密< / ><>010< / ><>000< / ><>010-2< / ><>5< / ><>1< / >< / ><><>华盛顿< / ><>005< / ><>000< / ><>40x-9< / ><>7< / ><>0< / >< / table>

保送—迈阿密 5: Hernández 1, Ramírez 1, Sanoja 1, Jiménez 1, E.Ruiz 1. 华盛顿 5: Abrams 1, Lile 1, Chaparro 2, Young 1. 三振—迈阿密 4: Lopez 1, Caissie 1, Jiménez 1, E.Ruiz 1. 华盛顿 8: Abrams 1, Ortiz 2, Crews 1, Lile 1, House 2, Chaparro 1. E-Mack (7). 残垒—迈阿密 6, 华盛顿 3. 二垒安打—Sanoja (28), Ortiz (3), Crews (14). 三垒安打—Lile (6). 全垒打—Hernández (21), off Kranick (House), 10 off Pérez (Ford; 3 off Montevrede. 打点—Edwards (51), Hernández (56), House 3 (36), Ford (8), Crews 2 (33), Lile (75). 盗垒—Edwards (20). 得点圈留有跑者—迈阿密 2 (Mack, Sanoja); 华盛顿 2 (House, Lile). 得点圈打击—迈阿密 1 for 6; 华盛顿 3 for 8. 跑者推进—Stowers. 地滚球出局—Edwards, Sanoja. 双杀—华盛顿 2 (Vivas, Abrams, Ortiz; Abrams, Vivas, Ortiz).

迈阿密< / td><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / tr><><>Pérez, L, 7-10< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>5< / ><>4< / ><>5< / ><>74< / ><>3.44< / >< / ><><>Zuber< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>12< / ><>3.68< / >< / ><><>Monteverde< / ><>4< / ><>5< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>65< / ><>9.00< / >< / ><><>华盛顿< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Kent, W, 1-2< / ><>7< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>4< / ><>3< / ><>106< / ><>5.59< / >< / ><><>Kranick< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>24< / ><>5.94< / >< / table>

WP-Pérez, Monteverde. U-Laz Diaz, Edwin Jimenez, Erich Bacchus, Chris Segal. T-2:35. Tickets sold-18,047 (41,376).

巴尔的摩 4, 奥克兰运动者 3

<><>巴尔的摩< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / ><>运动者< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / >< / ><><>Alexander ss< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.310< / ><>Boite cf< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.269< / >< / ><><>Alonso dh< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.272< / ><>McNeil 2b-1b< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.265< / >< / ><><>2-Henderson dh< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.219< / ><>Gelof 3b-lf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>.258< / >< / ><><>Holliday 2b< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>.230< / ><>Butler rf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>.228< / >< / ><><>Mayo 1b< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>.216< / ><>White 1b< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.270< / >< / ><><>Encar.-Strand 3b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>.272< / ><>b-Walton 2b< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.278< / >< / ><><>Taveras rf< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.223< / ><>Muncy dh< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.221< / >< / ><><>Kamlin cf< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.161< / ><>Portes lf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.256< / >< / ><><>a-Cowser cf< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.227< / ><>1-Stefanic 3b< / ><>0< / ><>.429< / >< / ><><>Beavers lf< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>.249< / ><>Heim c< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>.210< / >< / ><><>Narváez c< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.165< / ><>Williams ss< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.261< / >< / ><><>Totals< / ><>35< / ><>4< / ><>6< / ><>3< / ><>< / ><>Totals< / ><>37< / ><>3< / ><>9< / ><>3< / ><>< / >< / table>

<><>巴尔的摩< / ><>020< / ><>000< / ><>2< / ><>-< / ><>4< / ><>6< / ><>0< / >< / ><><>运动者< / ><>000< / ><>110< / ><>1< / ><>-< / ><>3< / ><>9< / ><>1< / >< / table>

a-在第6局为Franklin跑了两基。b-在第8局为White击出飞球出局。1-在第9局为Cortes跑了一基。2-在第10局为Alonso跑了两基。

Cortes在第10局周一的Sun 2中。 walks—巴尔的摩 6：Alonso 1, Encarnacion-Strand 1, Taveras 1, Cowser 1, Beavers 1, Narvaez 1。奥克兰 1：Butler 1。三振—巴尔的摩 12：Alonso 1, Holliday 3, Mayo 2, Encarnacion-Strand 2, Taveras 2, Franklin 1, Narvaez 1。奥克兰 7：Boite 2, Butler 1, White 1, Cortes 1, Heim 1, Williams 1。E-Lopez (3)。LOB—巴尔的摩 9, 奥克兰 8。2B—Cowser (6)。HR—Heim (12)，由Young投球。RBIs—Beavers (32), Mayo (52), Encarnacion-Strand (28), Heim (41), Butler (42), Gelof (38)。SB—Mayo (3), Gelof (10)。CS—Cowser (4)。S—Gelof。得点圈跑者—巴尔的摩 4 (Taveras 2, Narvaez 2)；奥克兰 3 (White, Walton, Heim)。RISP—巴尔的摩 4 for 11：奥克兰 2 for 8。

巴尔的摩< / td><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / tr><><>Young....7< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>4< / ><>< / ><>91< / ><>3.38< / >< / ><><>Garcia, BS, 6-12....%< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>< / ><>11< / ><>3.28< / >< / ><><>Cano....%< / ><>0< / ><>< / ><>3< / ><>3.19< / >< / ><><>Kittredge, W, 3-3....1< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>< / ><>14< / ><>3.27< / >< / ><><>Hoppe, S, 1-1....1< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>< / ><>14< / ><>4.46< / >< / table>

<><>奥克兰< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Lopez....5< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>6< / ><>100< / ><>4.82< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Blewett....2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>26< / ><>2.21< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Medina....1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>18< / ><>3.58< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Harris....1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>13< / ><>3.55< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Basso, L, 0-1....1< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>16< / ><>4.67< / ><>< / >< / table>

继承跑者得分—Cano 1-0。IBB—由Blewett投给(Beavers)，由Basso投给(Alonso)。HBP—Lopez (Mayo), Garcia (Bolte)。WP—Blewett。U—Emil Jimenez, Gabe Morales, Doug Eddings, Mike Muchlinski。T—2:56。售票数—7,228 (14,014)。

芝加哥白袜 7, 明尼苏达 4

<><>芝加哥< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / ><>明尼苏达< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / >< / ><><>Antonacci lf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.268< / ><>Keaschall rf< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.271< / >< / ><><>Doyle cf< / ><>0< / ><>.221< / ><>Lee 3b< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>.248< / >< / ><><>Murakami 1b< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.222< / ><>Jeffers c< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>.270< / >< / ><><>Vargas 3b< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.251< / ><>Clemens 2b< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>.240< / >< / ><><>Benintendi dh< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>.246< / ><>Bell

dh< / td> 4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.253< / >< / tr> <>a-Grichuk dh< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.276< / ><>Lewis 1b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>.234< / >< / ><><>B.Mintgomery rf< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.232< / ><>Lamach lf< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.267< / >< / ><><>C.Mintgomery ss< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>.214< / ><>Culpepper ss< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.333< / >< / ><><>Meidroth 2b< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.273< / ><>Jenkins cf< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>.333< / >< / ><><>Peters cf-lf< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.282< / ><>Totals< / ><>36< / ><>4< / ><>12< / ><>4< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Romo

c< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.141< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Totals< / ><>36< / ><>7< / ><>10< / ><>5< / ><>< / >< / table>

<><>芝加哥< / ><>401< / ><>100< / ><>010 -7< / ><>10< / ><>0< / >< / ><><>明尼苏达< / ><>310< / ><>000< / ><>000 -4< / ><>12< / ><>0< / >< / table>

在第9局被Benilimetal三振出局。四球——芝加哥 5：Antonacci 1, Murakami 1, Vargas 1, B.Mongoney 1, Romo 1。明尼苏达 2：Culpeper 1, Jenkins 1。三振——芝加哥 7：Murakami 2, Grichuk 1, C.Mongoney 2, Peters 1, Romo 7。明尼苏达 7：Lee 1, Jeffers 2, Bell 1, Lewis 2, Jenkins 1。留垒——芝加哥 7, 明尼苏达 8. 二垒安打——Murakami (14), Benintendi (20), Meidroth (26), Lamach (20)。全垒打——C.Mongoney (28)，面对Kremer (Lee 22)，面对Castillo；Clemens (22)，面对Castillo。打点——Benintendi 2 (67), C.Mongoney 3 (76), Lev 3 (73), Clemens (67)。盗垒——Lewis (14), Antonacci (17)。得点圈留垒——芝加哥 3 (Vargas, Meidroth 2)；明尼苏达 4 (Jeffers 3, Lamach)。得点圈打击——芝加哥 3 for 10；明尼苏达 1 for 11. 推进跑者——Antonacci, Peters, Jenkins, Culpepper, Keaschall。击球员双杀——Antonacci, Lamach, Bell。双杀——芝加哥 3 (C.Romakami, C.Mongoney; Murakami; Romo, Murakami; Meidroth, C.Mongoney; Murakami);

明尼苏达 1 (Clemens,

<><>芝加哥< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Castillo....< / ><>4< / ><>8< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>75< / ><>5.31< / >< / ><><>Smith....< / ><> $1\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>33< / ><>0.82< / >< / ><><>Taylor, W, 7-2....< / ><> $2\frac{2}{2}$ < / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>27< / ><>2.03< / >< / ><><>Hudson, S, 6-9....< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>16< / ><>3.21< / >< / ><><>明尼苏达< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Kremer, L, 2-5....< / ><>4< / ><>7< / ><>6< / ><>5< / ><>3< / ><>90< / ><>5.60< / >< / ><><>T.Rogers....< / ><>

$1\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>38< / ><>4.74< / >< / ><><>Adams....< / ><> $2\frac{2}{2}$ < / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>26< / ><>5.68< / >< / ><><>Funderburk....< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>18< / ><>3.77< / >< / table>

继承跑者得分——Taylor 2-0, T.Rogers 1-0, Adams 2-0。触身球_Castillo (Keaschall)。暴投——Smith, Kremer, Adams。捕手漏接——Jeffers (2)。裁判——Mike Estabrook, Lance Barrett, Malachi Moore, Alfonso Marquez。用时——3:02。售票数——28,140 (38,544)。

高中

分析

圣玛格丽塔依然是标杆

在南区第一分区决赛的重赛中，老鹰队险胜百年纪念队

卡隆·威廉姆斯 (21) 与圣玛格丽塔队的队友们庆祝一次拦截得分。 CRAIG WESTON 为本报拍摄

作者：ERIC SONDHEIMER

如果有人想知道南加州“重量级”橄榄球赛是什么样子，那么周五晚上圣玛格丽塔队在客场以 21-20. 击败科罗纳百年纪念队（Corona Centennial）的比赛，向球迷们展示了这两支强队所具备的一切。

“赛场上展现了伟大的竞技水平，”圣玛格丽塔队教练卡森·帕尔默在赛后告诉他的球员们。

从角卫卡隆·威廉姆斯在第三节最后一次进攻中完成拦截得分，到身高 5 英尺 4 英寸的跑卫亚德里安·彼得罗通过 23 次冲球艰难地推进 108 码以耗尽比赛时间，老鹰队 (2-0) 证明了自己在去年击败百年纪念队夺得南区第一分区冠军后，并非昙花一现。

“即使找不到缺口，我也会创造一个，”彼得罗说道。

与在玫瑰碗球场那场 42-7 的惨败不同，百年纪念队在落后 14-0, 的情况下发起了反击。布雷林·德雷克在比赛还剩 7:33 时完成了一次 11 码的达阵冲球，使哈士奇队将比分追至 21-20。但圣玛格丽塔队的杰克·马丁挡住了对方的附加分尝试，而哈士奇队 (1-1) 再也没有机会在对方防线面前得分。圣玛格丽塔队的防线拥有顶尖的锋线球员、年轻且出色的线卫以及防守后卫，他们与全美最优秀的接球手之一昆廷·黑尔展开了激烈的肉搏战。

由于伤病，百年纪念队的进攻线缺少两名潜在的先发球员，这使其处于严重劣势。随后，哈士奇队在第三节又失去了一名锋线球员。四分卫贾登·杰斐逊从一开始就处于被追杀的状态，但这位高年级球员利用本能和智慧寻找成功的方法。他传球 192 码，其中一次 7 码传球给黑尔达阵，一次 24 码传球给肯尼·莱盖特达阵。杰斐逊通过从中路冲球获得 11 码和 15 码的推进，以此应对对方的冲传。黑尔接球 7 次，推进 105 码。

出于某种未知的原因，高二学生威廉姆斯职业生涯 6 次拦截中有 5 次是对阵百年纪念队。他说这次拦截得分并不意外。

“我预见到了，”他说，“我看到了四分卫的眼神。”

“防守令人窒息，”帕尔默在赛后谈话中这样告诉他的球员，而事实确实如此。

由于能够给杰斐逊施压，圣玛格丽塔队的防守在前半场占据了主导。直到半场结束前百年纪念队的最后一次进攻（当时落后 14-0），杰斐逊才终于开始与黑尔建立联系。杰斐逊将球传给黑尔完成达阵，他向左滚动并用后脚支撑传球，在端区深处找到了黑尔。

圣玛格丽塔队的冠军防线在 11 名先发球员中失去了 9 人（因毕业），本赛季本应需要时间来磨合，但老鹰队身披 99 号球衣的金斯顿·吉默森在前半场就完成了两次擒杀。他身高 6 英尺 2, 270 磅，仅是一名高一学生，且擅长强力压制持球者。

“等他到了高四，他会成为全美最佳球员，”威廉姆斯说。

此外，身高 6-5, 225 磅的高一锋线球员卡莱布·赫恩登以及从 JSerra 转会而来的线卫克鲁兹·努涅斯也做出了贡献。还有高一线卫艾丹·斯廷，他在下半场的关键时刻完成了两次巨大的擒抱。

彼得罗和贾永·史密斯的短距离达阵冲球贡献了圣玛格丽塔队在前半场的所有达阵。百年纪念队在第一次进攻中掉球，为彼得罗的 2 码达阵冲球创造了机会。

上一次百年纪念队教练马特·洛根与圣玛格丽塔队在同一赛场时，他在玫瑰碗球场上的脸色通红。他将球队的糟糕表现归咎于自己。“那天晚上我们没有准备好打球，”他说。

这一次，在防守端的帮助下，哈士基队能够紧咬比分，他们三次将圣玛格丽塔队的四分卫弗莱奇·帕尔默（Fletch Palmer）击倒。即将前往加州大学伯克利分校（Cal-bound）的迈尔斯·希尔默（Miles Schirmer）在防守线上表现出色。

“防守端打得极其出色，”洛根说道，“我们在进攻端没有达成共识。但孩子们没有动摇，一直在战斗。”

梅拉利欧精准传球助力老鹰队获胜

作者：凯文·巴克斯特

周五，大二四分卫杰里米·梅拉利欧（Jeremy Mellalieu）传球距离达222码并完成四次达阵，带领至今未尝败绩的查米内德队（Chaminade）在一场充满违例的比赛中，以35-10击败了东道主瓦伦西亚队（Valencia）。

排名第13的老鹰队（3-0）在第一节末段率先得分，当时梅拉利欧在平地通过一次短传找到了布莱恩·格兰杰-纳西斯（Bryan Granger-Narcisse），随后格兰杰-纳西斯凭借个人能力，在一次63码的冲刺中突破擒抱并躲过防守队员，直入达阵区。

在瓦伦西亚队错过一次第一节末尾的短距离射门尝试后，梅拉利欧与安德鲁·科德罗（Andrew Cordero）完成了两次达阵传球中的第一次，这次传球覆盖了77码，在第二节开始仅13秒后便将领先优势扩大至两倍。

瓦伦西亚队的大二四分卫埃文·麦考利斯特（Evan McCallister）当晚完成了15次传球，传球距离264码。在第二节中期，凯森·巴达维（Caysen Badawi）将一次短传转化为一次61码的得分进攻，发生在半场结束前9分32秒，从而将分差缩小了一半。但这也是维京人队（1-1）能追至的最接近比分。

体重300磅的大四截锋金斯顿·威廉姆斯（Kingston Williams）在查米内德队的比赛中同样表现出色，他完成了两次关键的擒杀，同时在进攻端兼任全卫，在第二节通过一次1码冲刺完成达阵，并在下半场强行推进5码，获得了一次关键的一档进攻权。

在第二节初期，由于一名查米内德队的球员在高温高湿的环境下出现身体不适，比赛被延迟了大约20分钟。

该球员在场边接受了急救人员的治疗，随后被救护车送往当地医院。查米内德队的一名教练表示，这是出于预防性原因。

周五高中美式足球赛比分

城市分区 非联赛 Arleta 42, Bernstein 6 Bell 26, Marquez 12 Belmont 19, Locke 6 Carson 31, Dorsey 8 Cleveland 53, Grant 0 Chatsworth 12, Franklin 0 洛杉矶威尔逊 (Los Angeles Wilson) 36, Contreras 15 好莱坞 (Hollywood) 18, Canoga Park 14 Jefferson 43, Van Nuys 3 洛杉矶马歇尔 (Los Angeles Marshall) 53, Fairfax 0 Legacy 32, Lincoln 0 Maywood CES 27, Fremont 22 Panorama 48, Manual Arts 0 Santee 35, Diego Rivera 0 South East 34, Gardena 21 Sun Valley Poly 18, San Fernando 0 Venice 35, Granada Hills 0 Washington Prep 24, Roybal 0 Wilmington Banning 44, Huntington Park 0

南部分区 非联赛 Alta Loma 21, St. Francis 7 安纳海姆 (Anaheim) 35, Savanna 20 Anaheim Canyon 19, Rancho Verde 0 Apple Valley 34, Highland 14 Arcadia 30, San Gabriel 6 Artesia 28, Hacienda Heights Wilson 12 Baldwin Park 45, Rowland 8 Banning 42, Redlands 26 Bell Gardens 14, Bishop Montgomery 13 Bishop Amat 22, Oak Hills 4 Bishop Diego 42, West Ranch 13 Bonita 48, Diamond Ranch 0 Calabasas 27, Rio Mesa 13 Cantwell-Sacred Heart 38, Montebello 31 Canyon Country Canyon 25, Glendale 24 Capistrano Valley 33, Downey 23 Carter 28, Don Lugo 13 Castaic 48, Little Rock 0 Cathedral 43, St. Monica 34 Cathedral City 22, San Bernardino 20 Chaminade 35, Valencia 10 Chaparral 31, San Juan Hills 19 Charter Oak 27, Upland 10 Claremont 35, Diamond Bar 21 Compton Centennial 38, Beverly Hills 27 Corona del Mar 37, Santa Barbara 7 Corona Santiago 30, Temescal Canyon 14 Costa Mesa 41, Estancia 7 Crean Lutheran 31, Mira Costa 10

Crescenta Valley 31, Knight 0 Crespi 38, Golden Valley 7 Cypress 24, Brea Olinda 12 Damien 27, Vista Murrieta 21 Dana Hills 62, Tesoro 7 Del Sol 22, San Marcos 21 Desert Hot Springs 20, Xavier Prep 6 Desert Mirage 24, San Jacinto Valley Academy 6 Dominguez 60, Hawthorne 0 El Dorado 35, Fullerton 17 El Modena 20, Segerstrom 6 El Monte 37, Ganesha 3 El Rancho 25, Santa Fe 0 Esperanza 9, Fountain Valley 3 Firebaugh 21, California Military 20 Gahr 7, Cerritos 3 Garden Grove Pacifica 48, Garden Grove 0 Garey 14, Azusa 7 Glenn 31, Century 6 Grace 45, Santa Paula 30 Hart 21, Newbury Park 10 Hoover 35, Bassett 26 Irvine 8, Portola 0 Irvine University 43, Bolsa Grande 19 JSierra 63, Long Beach Wilson 0 Kaiser 29, Heritage 28 La Cañada 28, Santa Monica 20 Laguna Hills 24, Aliso Niguel 10 Lakewood 12, Paramount 7 La Mirada 38, Norwalk 0 La Serna 56, Schurr 7 Lakeside 35, Loara 0 Loyola 28, Millikan 7 Magnolia 20, Compton Early College 7 Mary Star of the Sea 34, Cerritos Valley Christian 0 Mission Viejo 77, St. Paul 12 Montclair 17, Burbank Burnoughs 0 Moorpark 40, Camarillo 6 Mountain View 28, Workman 6 Murrieta Mesa 35, Etiwanda 25 Lancaster 44, Newport Harbor 35 Norco Sen 56, Colom 7 Northwood 23, El Segundo 14 La Habra 35, Northview 14 Oak Park 28, Fillmore 6 Ocean View 43, Peninsula 20 Ontario 62, La Sierra 24 Orange 28, Laguna Beach 21 Pacific 42, Rubidoux 12 Palmdale 42, Leuzinger 7 Ramona 41, Arlington 7 Rancho Alamitos 35, Godinez 14 Rancho Cucamonga 44, Oaks Christian 14 Rancho Mirage 28, Coachella Valley 6 Redondo Union 35, Torrance 14 Rio Hondo Prep 7, Troy 0

里弗赛德圣母院 24, 布卢明顿 6 里弗赛德理工 25, 里弗赛德北 7 皇家 16, 卡平特里亚 9 圣哈辛托 20, 里弗赛德金 10 圣马力诺 27, 拉萨尔 19 圣安娜谷 38, 卡特拉 28 圣玛格丽塔 21, 科罗纳百年 20 塞拉诺 14, 巴斯托 7 塞尔维特 42, 穆里埃塔谷 10 谢尔曼奥克斯圣母院 48, 比晓普·亚莱曼尼 20 西尔弗拉多 28, 尤卡伊帕 21 索诺拉 45, 罗斯米德 3 南埃尔蒙特 32, 鞍背 8 南山 21, 阿贾拉 17 圣波纳文图拉 34, 圣庇护X-圣马蒂亚斯学院 21 圣热内维耶芙 40, 羚羊谷 26 峰会 6, 东谷罗斯福 0 塔奎茨 14, 赫米特 13 特梅库拉谷 31, 埃尔西诺 10 千橡树 27, 韦纽梅 20 特拉布科山 28, 贝尔弗劳尔 24 塔斯汀 35, 麓山 0 文图拉 61, 奥克斯纳德 7 观点 47, 海峡群岛 7 西科维纳 35, 奇诺 21 西湖 38, 阿古拉 7 威斯敏斯特 21, 布埃纳公园 7 威斯敏斯特拉金塔 40, 先锋 20 惠蒂尔基督教会 32, 纽维尤桥 22 约巴林达 30, 长滩理工 13

跨区赛 安扎汉密尔顿 41, 维多利亚基督学院 0 贝克斯菲尔德 40, 帕拉克利特 14 博斯科理工 16, 兰乔多明格斯 6 布伦特伍德 16, 洛杉矶大学 8 卡洪 35, 贝克斯菲尔德独立 14 中央 33, 棕榈沙漠 30 普莱森特希尔学院公园 28, 贝克曼 21 博伊西（爱达荷州）毕晓普凯利 20, 阿奎纳斯 13 拉斯维加斯百年 74, 伯班克 41 银谷 38, 加州城 13 奇诺山 23, 奥申赛德埃尔卡米诺 10 克伦肖 47, 长滩乔丹 13 东区 16, 罗萨蒙德 12 弗雷斯诺布拉德 42, 梅费尔 0 哈佛-西湖 29, 帕利塞德 23, OT霍金斯 20, 圣言 10 传承基督教会 35, 埃尔卡米诺雷亚尔

卡尔弗城 46, 金/德鲁 26 洛斯阿尔托斯 49, 南门 20 加迪纳塞拉 49, 洛杉矶汉密尔顿 32 格拉纳达山肯尼迪 44, 帕萨迪纳 0 圣克拉拉 34, 洛杉矶乔丹 0 劳恩代尔 69, 洛杉矶罗斯福 0 林伍德 30, 戴马利 0 拉斯维加斯东马特学院 26, 维克多谷 7 门罗维亚 42, 鹰岩 7 亨德森（内华达州）派恩克雷斯特学院 斯隆峡谷 35, 缪尔 20 大橡树 27, 北县圣马科斯 21 诺多夫 59, 伍德兰希尔斯塔夫特 14 北托伦斯 32, 纳博恩 14 橙县路德教会 38, 圣迭戈大教堂天主教 24 奥克斯纳德帕西菲卡 52, 圣迭戈林肯 27 凤凰城巅峰 32, 爱迪生 28 圣约翰博斯科 45, 费城罗马天主教 25 波莫纳 56, 西亚当斯 0 圣马科斯传教山 35, 石英山 0 萨莱森 36, 梅萨（亚利桑那州）西伍德 29 圣佩德罗 42, 西托伦斯 28 索格斯 37, 希尔马 0 阴影山 26, 帕洛韦德谷 6 西米谷 35, 拉斯维加斯阴影岭 7 圣伯纳德 32, 威斯特切斯特 0 西班牙福克（犹他州）枫叶山 36, 南帕萨迪纳 14 三城基督教会 26, 特梅库拉预科 20 乡村基督教会 34, 北好莱坞 8 沃伦 6, 斯克里普斯牧场 6 奥斯汀（德克萨斯州）西湖 33, 英格尔伍德 26 西谷 52, 亨德森（内华达州）体育领导力与管理 12

8人制 南部赛区 非联赛赛 企业家 26, 千橡树希尔克雷斯特基督教会 14 兰开斯特浸信会 38, 沙漠 12, 猛犸 45, 弗林特里奇预科 25

跨区赛 弗雷泽山 36, 马里科帕 34, 国王基督教会 39, 海岸联盟 10, 拉古纳布兰卡 36, 奥库特学院 8

《时报》高中美式足球排名

本周南加州前25名高中美式足球队的表现（失利场次已标阴影）：

排名< / td><>学校< / ><>结果< / ><>下一场比赛< / >< / tr><><>1< / ><>CORONA CENTENNIAL (1-1)< / ><>负于 Santa Margarita, 21-20< / ><>9月11日客场对阵 Mater Dei< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>ST. JOHN BOSCO (1-1)< / ><>击败 Philadelphia Roman Catholic, 45-25< / ><>本周五客场对阵 Pittsburg< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>SIERRA CANYON (2-0)< / ><>击败 Hollywood (Fla.) Chaminade, 24-7< / ><>9月10日对阵 Honolulu St. Louis< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>SANTA MARGARITA (2-0)< / ><>击败 Corona Centennial, 21-20< / ><>本周五对阵 Palmdale Highland< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>ORANGE LUTHERAN (1-1)< / ><>击败 San Diego Cathedral, 38-24< / ><>本周五对阵 Chandler (Ariz.) Basha< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>MISSION VIEJO (2-0)< / ><>击败 St. Paul, 77-12< / ><>本周五客场对阵 Folsom< / >< / ><><>7< / ><>MATER DEI (1-0)< / ><>周六晚间在 Orem (Utah) 比赛< / ><>9月11日对阵 Corona Centennial< / >< / ><><>8< / ><>SAN CLEMENTE (2-0)< / ><>未参赛< / ><>本周五客场对阵 Chaparral< / >< / ><><>9< / ><>RANCHO CUCAMONGA (2-0)< / ><>击败 Oaks Christian, 44-14< / ><>本周四客场对阵 Oak Hills< / >< / ><><>10< / ><>CHAPARRAL (1-1)< / ><>击败 San Juan Hills, 31-19< / ><>本周五对阵 San Clemente< / >< / ><><>11< / ><>HUNTINGTON BEACH EDISON (1-1)< / ><>负于 Phoenix Pinnacle, 32-28< / ><>本周四对阵 Corona del Mar< / >< / ><><>12< / ><>CREAN LUTHERAN (2-0)< / ><>击败 Mira Costa, 31-10< / ><>本周五对阵 JSerra< / >< / ><><>13< / ><>CHAMINADE (3-0)< / ><>击败 Valencia, 35-10< / ><>9月11日客场对阵 Beaumont< / >< / ><><>14< / ><>PALOS VERDES (2-0)< / ><>击败 Orlando (Fla.) Bishop Moore, 21-18< / ><>本周四客场对阵 Carson< / >< / ><><>15< / ><>CARSON (2-0)< / ><>击败 Dorsey, 31-8< / ><>本周四对阵 Palos Verdes< / >< / ><><>16< / ><>SERVITE (1-1)< / ><>击败 Murrieta Valley, 42-10< / ><>本周五对阵 Peoria (Ariz.) Centennial< / >< / ><><>17< / ><>JSERRA (1-1)< / ><>击败 Long Beach Wilson, 63-0< / ><>本周五客场对阵 Crean Lutheran< / >< / ><><>18< / ><>DAMIEN (2-0)< / ><>击败 Vista Murrieta, 27-21< / ><>本周五客场对阵 Las Vegas Faith Lutheran< / >< / ><><>19< / ><>OXNARD PACIFICA (2-0)< / ><>击败 San Diego Lincoln, 52-28< / ><>本周五客场对阵 Hart< / >< / ><><>20< / ><>GARDENA SERRA (1-1)< / ><>击败 L.A. Hamilton, 49-12< / ><>本周五客场对阵 Los Alamitos< / >< / ><><>21< / ><>BISHOP AMAT (2-0)< / ><>击败 Oak Hills, 22-3< / ><>本周四对阵 Valencia< / >< / ><><>22< / ><>CORONA DEL MAR (2-0)< / ><>击败 Santa Barbara, 37-7< / ><>本周四客场对阵 Huntington Beach Edison< / >< / ><><>23< / ><>YORBA LINDA (2-0)< / ><>击败 Long Beach Poly, 30-12< / ><>本周五对阵 El Dorado< / >< / ><><>24< / ><>WESTLAKE (2-0)< / ><>击败 Agoura, 38-10< / ><>本周四对阵 Chatsworth< / >< / ><><>25< / ><>ST. BONAVENTURE (2-0)< / ><>击败 St. Pius X-St. Matthias, 34-21< / ><>本周五对阵 Trabuco Hills< / >< / table>

高中顶尖球员

回顾本周南加州各高中美式足球赛中的顶尖球员表现。

冲球

■ AJ McBean，加迪纳塞拉高中 (Gardena Serra)：在战胜洛杉矶汉密尔顿高中 (L.A. Hamilton) 的比赛中，8次冲球推进135码，并获得三次达阵。 ■ Noel Washington，谢尔曼奥克斯圣母高中 (Sherman Oaks Notre Dame)：在战胜主教亚莱曼尼高中 (Bishop Alemany) 的比赛中，冲球推进158码并获得两次达阵。

■ Adrian Petero，圣玛格丽塔高中 (Santa Margarita)：在战胜科罗纳百年纪念高中 (Corona Centennial) 的比赛中，冲球推进108码并获得一次达阵。

- Dallas Miller，亨廷顿比奇高中 (Huntington Beach)：在战胜洛斯阿拉米托斯高中 (Los Alamitos) 的比赛中，冲球推进127码并获得两次达阵。 - Jordan Medrano，贝尔高中 (Bell)：在爆冷战胜马奎兹高中 (Marquez) 的比赛中，冲球获得三次达阵，并完成两位数的擒抱。 - Matt Fine，洛约拉高中 (Loyola)：在战胜长滩米利坎高中 (Long Beach Millikan) 的比赛中，9次冲球推进101码并获得三次达阵。 - Maliq Allen，圣约翰博斯科高中 (St. John Bosco)：在战胜费城罗马天主教高中 (Philadelphia Roman Catholic) 的比赛中，冲球推进130码并获得三次达阵，且接球获得一次达阵。

杰斐逊高中 (Jefferson)：在战胜范奈斯高中 (Van Nuys) 的比赛中，连续第二周冲球推进超过200码。

传球

■ Taylor Lee，奥克斯纳德帕西菲卡高中 (Oxnard Pacifica)：在战胜圣迭戈林肯高中 (San Diego Lincoln) 的比赛中，传球推进365码并获得五次达阵。

■ Ezrah Brown，橙县路德高中 (Orange Lutheran)：在战胜圣迭戈大教堂高中 (San Diego Cathedral) 的比赛中，19次传球完成18次，推进253码。

■ Julian Medina，诺科高中 (Norco)：在战胜殖民地高中 (Colony) 的比赛中，22次传球完成20次，推进299码并获得三次达阵。

■ Donovan Shirley，萨莱森高中 (Salesian)：在战胜亚利桑那州梅萨西区高中 (Mesa (Ariz.) Westwood) 的比赛中，传球推进371码并获得三次达阵。 ■ Jaxson Algaze，埃尔托罗高中 (El Toro)：这名高二学生在战胜玛丽娜高中 (Marina) 的比赛中，传球推进338码并获得五次达阵。

■ Star Thomas，橙县高中 (Orange)：在战胜拉古纳海滩高中 (Laguna Beach) 的比赛中，传球推进280码并获得三次达阵。 ■ Lequand Jackson，鲍德温公园高中 (Baldwin Park)：在战胜罗兰高中 (Rowland) 的比赛中，传球推进263码并获得五次得分，且冲球推进115码。 ■ Jeremy Mellalieu，夏米纳德高中 (Chaminade)：在战胜瓦伦西亚高中 (Valencia) 的比赛中，12次传球完成10次，推进216码并获得四次达阵。 ■ Hudson Shaddow，埃尔多拉多高中 (El Dorado)：在战胜富勒顿高中 (Fullerton) 的比赛中，传球推进191码并获得四次达阵。

■ Ford Green，西湖高中 (Westlake)：在战胜阿古拉高中 (Agoura) 的比赛中，18次传球完成14次，推进257码并获得四次达阵。

■ Chase Curren，克雷斯皮高中 (Crespi)：在战胜黄金谷高中 (Golden Valley) 的比赛中，传球推进291码并获得四次达阵。

■ Dawson Armstrong，穆尔帕克高中 (Moorpark)：在战胜卡马里洛高中 (Camarillo) 的比赛中，传球推进337码并获得三次得分。

接球

■ Bryce Thacker，埃尔托罗高中 (El Toro)：在对阵玛丽娜高中 (Marina) 的比赛中，接球11次，推进130码并获得四次得分。

达阵，包括一次99码的接球和一次抄截后达阵，在战胜菲尔莫尔高中 (Fillmore) 的比赛中。

■ Quentin Hale，科罗纳百年纪念高中 (Corona Centennial)：在输给圣玛格丽塔高中 (Santa Margarita) 的比赛中，接球7次，推进108码并获得一次达阵。

■ Nate Davis，特拉布科希尔斯高中 (Trabuco Hills)：在逆转战胜贝尔弗劳尔高中 (Bellflower) 的比赛中，接球8次，推进140码。

■ Blake Rogers，拉哈布拉高中 (La Habra)：在战胜北景高中 (Northview) 的比赛中，接球5次，推进147码并获得三次达阵。

■ KJ Woodbury，橙县高中 (Orange)：在战胜拉古纳海滩高中 (Laguna Beach) 的比赛中，接球7次，推进169码并获得一次达阵。

拉古纳海滩高中 (Laguna Beach)：在输给橙县高中 (Orange) 的比赛中，接球13次，推进121码并获得三次达阵。

■ Davis Benson，穆尔帕克高中 (Moorpark)：在战胜卡马里洛高中 (Camarillo) 的比赛中，接球6次，推进133码并获得两次得分。

防守

■ Jalen Flowers，帕洛斯韦德斯高中 (Palos Verdes)：在战胜佛罗里达州奥兰多主教摩尔高中 (Orlando (Fla.) Bishop Moore) 的比赛中，完成两次抄截。

■ Dylin Bruce，亨廷顿比奇高中 (Huntington Beach)：在战胜洛斯阿拉米托斯高中 (Los Alamitos) 的比赛中，将一次抄截回传76码完成达阵。

■ Kingston Jimmerson，圣玛格丽塔高中 (Santa Margarita)：这名高二学生在输给科罗纳百年纪念高中 (Corona Centennial) 的比赛中，完成两次擒杀。

■ Roshaun Brown，杰斐逊高中 (Jefferson)：这名高二学生在战胜范奈斯高中 (Van Nuys) 的比赛中，将一次抄截回传95码完成达阵。 ■ Kadin Saalih，哈特高中 (Hart)：在战胜纽伯里公园高中 (Newbury Park) 的比赛中，完成三次擒杀。

特殊球队

■ 肖恩·拜恩斯 (Sean Byrnes)，维拉公园高中：在战胜西部高中的一场比赛中封堵了两次弃踢。

■ 杰克·马丁 (Jake Martin)，圣玛格丽塔高中：在以一分之差战胜科罗纳百年纪念高中的一场比赛中，封堵了一次附加分尝试。

■ 卡斯拉·马加米 (Kasra Maghami)，哈佛-西湖高中：在战胜帕利塞德高中的一场比赛中，分别在 25、32 和 36 码处踢进射门。

■ 查理·萨拉斯 (Charlie Szaras)，谢尔曼奥克斯圣母高中：在对阵主教亚莱马尼高中的比赛中，踢进 28 和 32 码的射门，且 9 次触球回球全部成功。

■ 迪伦·富尔默 (Dylan Fullmer)，哈佛-西湖高中：在对阵帕利塞德高中的比赛中，通过一次 87 码的开球回攻得分，完成了一次 55 码的开球回攻，并跑球得分。

— 埃里克·桑德海默 (Eric SONDHEIMER)

格林的表现足以支撑西湖高中获胜

“……展示了我们如何能够主导比赛，”格林说道。

作者：乔尔·比尔斯 (Joel Beers)

阿古拉高中和西湖高中的距离大约五英里，但在周五晚上，两校之间似乎存在着巨大的差距，主场作战的西湖高中在的一场非联赛比赛中以 38-7 碾压了充电者队。

这种差距大部分源于二年级四分卫福特·格林 (Ford Green) 的右臂，他将充电者队的防线剖析得体无完肤，18 次传球完成 14 次，传球码数 257 码，并贡献了四个达阵。对于格林和勇士队 (2-0) 来说，这场胜利消除了对上周赛季揭幕战的任何疑虑——那是对阵纽伯里公园的一场 32-26 的三次加时惊险战。虽然格林上周传出两个达阵并跑出制胜分，但他同时也出现了两次拦截，空中传球码数仅为 139 码。

在对阵阿古拉 (1-1) 的比赛中，格林前 10 次传球全部完成，并在上半场结束时取得了三个达阵和 219 码。他在第三节又增加了一个达阵。西湖高中在第四节由跑卫纳齐尔·埃桑博尔 (Nazir Esanbor) 完成一次 1 码冲球得分，以及加布里埃尔·戈罗扬 (Gabriel Goroyan) 的一次 35 码射门，完成了最终得分。

“上周展示了我们团结一致时如何作为一支球队战斗，但今晚……”

尽管拥有查尔斯·戴维斯 (Charles Davis) 和德马雷·德泽恩 (Demare Dezeurn) 两名顶尖接球手（两人均已承诺前往加州大学就读），但格林在周五将机会均匀分配，向六名勇士队队员完成了传球。

其中包括在勇士队第一次进攻时传给戴维斯的 14 码精准传球，以及在第一节后期传给德鲁·甘博亚 (Drew Gamboa) 的 57 码达阵传球。格林还在第二节完成了一次 58 码的达阵传球给埃里克·格林 (Erik Green)，并在第四节初传给德泽恩一次 29 码传球。

在称赞四分卫的沉着、精准、稳定性以及球感的同时，西湖高中教练里克·克劳森 (Rick Clausen) 还特别表扬了进攻线。

“显然，第一场比赛不是我们想要的，但他们本周练习得非常刻苦，专注于需要改进的地方，没有担心外界的干扰，”他说。

福特·格林赞扬了接球组的深度。

“我信任我的每一个接球手，相信他们能完成任务，而他们确实做到了，”他说。“我们像兄弟一样，像家人一样，球权是分散的。即使某个人表现得非常好，我知道每一个人都会准备好。”

娱乐

作为喜剧场景不断增长，我们将关注一些非主流演出、值得关注的漫画以及小丑表演的兴起。

非比寻常的舞台

准备好在一些意想不到的地方大笑一场吧，从酒吧到脱衣舞俱乐部，以及各种秘密场所。

在洛杉矶寻找优秀的喜剧表演有点像一场寻宝游戏。过程中充满了障碍、陷阱和交通拥堵，但最终你可能会挖掘到金矿。

虽然洛杉矶有很多成熟的俱乐部，可以轻松地在那里找到城中最知名、最幽默的演员，但在这些之外还有很多精彩内容。无论是每周一次的阵容秀、一个夜晚的即兴短剧、一场扭曲的游戏节目，还是仅仅是观看肢体喜剧演员搞怪的机会，这里有 15 个我们心目中不走寻常路的推荐之选。

请将本指南视为开启你个人喜剧探险之旅的起点。还有更多值得探索的内容，但我们已经完成了初步的搜索工作，以便你能朝着正确的方向出发。

THE CANTINA KING HARBOR 喜剧俱乐部 位于 RIVIERA 墨西哥餐厅 窗外就是码头，这让喜剧的氛围变得有些不同，而这正是“King Harbor 的 The Cantina 喜剧俱乐部”脱颖而出的原因。在雷东多海滩（Redondo Beach）的 Riviera 墨西哥餐厅内，你可以欣赏到顶级的单口喜剧，而无需面对好莱坞惯有的疯狂。在充满活力的洛杉矶喜剧演员肖恩·利里（Sean Leary）的主持下，“The Cantina”通过轮换的阵容，邀请了一些在洛杉矶巡演圈中最幽默的喜剧演员，让笑声不断。再加上绝佳的边境美食、饮品以及金港码头（King Harbor Marina）的绝美景色，这绝对是城中最棒的夜晚活动之一。—— 阿里·勒曼（Ali Lerman） ● 207 N. Harbor Drive, Redondo Beach. 每月一次；下次演出时间为 8 p.m. Sept. 18 和 Oct. 16。

CHATTERBOX 的 CHATTERBOX 喜剧之夜 观众走进一家酒吧。迪斯科球照亮房间，播放着 21 世纪初的嘻哈音乐。位于科维纳（Covina）的 Chatterbox 酒吧所营造的审美，具备了醉酒起哄者梦寐以求的所有元素。领衔主演通常是在大城市巡演的知名演员，而阵容的其余部分则包括该俱乐部的开放麦佼佼者。在担任奥斯卡主持人之前，柯南·奥布莱恩（Conan O'Brien）曾在这里表演过一段。这就是这家自称“洛杉矶以外最好的洛杉矶喜剧秀”的破旧酒吧所带来的不可预测性。—— 安东尼·索洛扎诺（Anthony Solorzano）

● 943 N. Citrus Ave., Covina. 8 p.m. Sundays.

LARGO AT THE CORONET 的 克里斯·弗莱明与朋友们 如果你对单口喜剧的抱怨是由于一个人长时间站在原地说话而显得太单调，那么“克里斯·弗莱明与朋友们”就是你的解决方案。这位充满活力的喜剧演员带来了你所能听到的最精细的意识流喜剧。弗莱明标志性的肢体语言——他掌控舞台的能力极少有其他喜剧演员能及——让这场演出显得原创、刺激，且近乎于在墙壁间跳跃。他在这里测试新素材，但其概念已经足够成熟，足以拍成特辑。再加上由替代派资深喜剧演员到新秀组成的轮换陪演阵容，“克里斯·弗莱明与朋友们”成为了这座城市中最能保证欢乐的演出之一。—— 莱拉·乔丹（Leila Jordan） ● 366 N. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles. 每月一次；下次演出时间为 8 p.m. Sept. 15。

KARLA GACHET 为本报拍摄

艾哈迈德·巴鲁查（AHMED Bharoocha）在 Lyric Hyperion 舞台上，这里的“开放麦喜剧之夜”非常受欢迎。

特雷·帕顿（TRAE PATTON） 拍于 Peacock 上图为克里斯·弗莱明（CHRIS Fleming），他在 Largo at the Coronet 主持一场邀请多位喜剧同行参加的演出。

PLAN B 的 HAHAS & TATAS

Groundlings剧院的《完全不同的深夜秀》

当你观看《完全不同的深夜秀》（The Completely Different Late Show）时，请抛弃你对即兴表演的所有预期。相似之处在于：导演从观众那里获取建议，演员听到建议后立即塑造角色，随后引发笑声。不同之处在于：三位音乐家为每个场景提供音乐提示。结果是：《完全不同的深夜秀》创造出的场景就像情景喜剧的一部分，表演者之间有着流畅的化学反应。—— A.S. ● 洛杉矶 Melrose 大道 7307 号。周五和周六晚上 9:30。

AMZIAH KING 的对手 R 4:00 PM

饼干女王 G 4:15 PM

如果你理想的夜晚包括大笑、冷饮和一点视觉享受，那么位于西洛杉矶 Plan B 男士俱乐部的“HaHas & Tatas”正在召唤你。由一直幽默的 Rosie Tran 主持，“HaHas & Tatas”带来了强大的喜剧演员阵容，为观众提供

白痴 R 1:00 3:10 5:15 7:25

美国医生 12:50 3:05 7:30 晚年名声 10:20 4:30

DREW STERES

不要在秘密地点告诉喜剧 如果你听说附近有“Don't Tell Comedy”快闪演出，你可能实际上想告诉所有人。你必须等到演出当天的早晨才能知道秘密地点，但一旦知道了，就一切豁免！“Don't Tell Comedy”起初是一个巧妙的概念，现已发展成为一种全国性现象，在超过 250 个城市举办演出，让粉丝能够接触到一些喜剧界的顶尖人物。在支持现场喜剧的同时，“Don't Tell”还掌控着 YouTube 上一些最优秀的喜剧片段，让你能甜蜜地窥见其过去的一些演员阵容。在你看到它的精彩之处后，你会想要盯着它的网站等待门票投放，并参加一场离你最近的演出，无论那是在哪里。—— A.L. ● 每周多场演出。

迷雾营地的青少年性与死亡 R 4:20 PM

晚年名声 1:15 7:15

10:00 1:20 4:20 7:30

美国医生 1:00 3:10 5:20 7:30

如何在战争期间离婚 1:15 4:15 7:15 行进乐队 1:20 4:20 7:20

迷雾营地的青少年性与死亡 R 10:00 4:00

我想要你的性 R 5:20 PM

最后的电影秀 10:30 AM

武士与囚犯 NR 10:00 AM 10公斤 1:00 7:20

9月4日在 Laemmle Monica 和 Glendale 开映

TONY R 1:30 4:30 7:30

JUSTIN Alexio 在萨尔瓦多餐厅 Jaraguá 的“Pupusas and Punchlines”活动中尝试他的表演。

Rob Flo

邀请 R 1:20 7:20

ANDREW Stier（中）创作了在 Beaches Tropicana 上演的“针对直男主持人的酷儿吐槽会”。

噩梦中的梦 1:00 4:00 7:00 如何在战争期间离婚 1:10 7:10

MISS ARLENE

一次性的人类 1:10 3:15 5:20 7:30

10公斤 1:00 7:00

叛变 R 10:00 AM

蜘蛛侠：崭新之日 PG-13 10:00 12:50 4:10 7:30

汪汪队：恐龙电影 PG 10:20 1:00 3:10 橡树街的终结 PG-13 5:20 7:40 TONY R 10:00 1:20 4:20 7:20

喜剧不足

BARGAIN IN ( ) CC 闭路字幕 NSP 非标准定价

MISS REPRESENTATION: RISE UP 1:00 3:05 5:05 7:10

COYOTE VS ACME PG 10:00 1:10 4:00 7:00 THE DOG STARS R 10:00 1:00 4:00 7:00 INSIDIOUS: OUT OF THE FURTHER PG-13 10:10 1:10 4:10 7:10 你在回家路上的车里还在嗡嗡议论。 — Nate Jackson ● 1630 Colorado Blvd., 洛杉矶。周三晚上 8 p.m.

TONY R 1:20 4:20 7:20

THE DOG STARS R 1:20 4:10 7:10

32 FRAMES: A 9 / 11 MYSTERY 1:00 4:00 7:10

COYOTE VS ACME PG 1:00 4:00 7:00

TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA R 1:10 4:10 7:10

从初次尝试单口喜剧技巧的艺术家，到寻找空间开发新素材的资深当地喜剧演员。但让这场“开放麦喜剧之夜”更上一层楼的是那个小房间里散发出的鼓励氛围。无论是来观看初次表演者的朋友，还是将观众群变成每周聚集地的常驻喜剧演员 —— Lyric Hyperion 的“开放麦喜剧之夜”是这座城市中测试技巧和挖掘新才华的最佳空间之一。一名驻场摄像师为那些希望将精彩表演转化为现成病毒式传播短片的人出售每场表演的照片和剪辑视频。 — L.J.

HOW TO DIVORCE DURING THE WAR 1:30 4:30 7:30

THE MARCHING BAND 1:10 4:20 7:30

AMERICAN DOCTOR 1:00 3:15 5:30 7:45 除了该俱乐部的常规成人娱乐之外，这里还有另一个值得光顾的理由。食物、饮料、笑声，甚至可能还有一点恶作剧？对于一个周四晚上，你还能要求什么更多呢？ — A.L. ● Il637 W. Pico Blvd., 洛杉矶。每月第一个周四晚上 8 p.m.

LATE FAME 4:10 PM

FABLE 俱乐部的微剂量 (MICRODOSE AT THE FABLE)

TONY R 1:15 4:15 7:15

邀请函 R 1:20 7:00

仅限 8 / 30 / 2026

当粉丝们陆续进入 Fable 俱乐部的棕色皮革卡座，观看他们最喜爱的洛杉矶喜剧演员以及几位惊喜嘉宾共同演绎下一场精彩的单口喜剧时，你可以听到一种非常独特的兴奋之声。“微剂量 (Microdose)”的主持人丹尼·莱辛格 (Danny Ledsinger) 拥有极具感染力的能量，他习惯在读到下一位即将登台的喜剧演员简介时，引导全场拍手两次并发出像里克·弗莱尔 (Ric Flair) 那样的“Whew!”声，以此带动气氛。很难想象还有比这更具支持性的环境，能欣赏到由洛杉矶资深单口喜剧演员迈克·布里登斯廷 (Mike Bridenstine) 策划的演出。他挑选的阵容全是顶尖高手，他们通常在喜剧之店 (Comedy Store) 担任主秀，或在电视节目中主演，亦或是正努力成为洛杉矶下一个大红的喜剧演员。但更重要的是，他邀请的喜剧演员愿意尝试任何方法来博得笑声，尤其是那些他们渴望测试的新素材。这里的氛围与好莱坞那种激烈的竞争截然相反。人们像这里的啤酒一样放松，演出则带来了恰到好处的多样性和技巧，这将使

RESERVE VENICE 的 “喜剧不足” (NOT ENOUGH COMEDY) “喜剧不足” 提供了如此之多的喜剧， 事实上，它提供的是全方位服务。 你有绝佳的场地？ 他们的团队会前往你那里。 但在洛杉矶， 你无需走远， 只需前往威尼斯 (Venice)， 他们在那里的一处活动空间 每月提供笑料。 由菲尔·科恩 (Phil Coan) 主持， 过去的观众曾看到过 查德·克罗格 (Chad Kroeger)、 马蒂·奇姆博尔 (Matty Chymbor)、 奥黛丽·斯图尔特 (Audrey Stewart)、 贾马里奥·麦克莱恩 (Jamario McClain) 和威利·西蒙 (Willie Simon)。 每场演出都由熟悉的名字 和仍在洛杉矶单口喜剧圈 崭露头角的演员共同组成。 随着在威尼斯的影响力日益增长， “喜剧不足”绝对是一个 值得关注的精彩节目。— A.L. ● 1041 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice。每月一次； 下一场在 6:30 p.m. Sept. 19。

开放麦之夜就像是在钢丝上行走：既要创造一个让初出茅庐的表演者能舒适地测试技巧的空间，又要让他们获得真实的反馈。Lyric Hyperion 周一的“开放麦喜剧之夜”兼顾了这两者。表演费用为 $4，时长 4 分钟，每晚通过抽签选出 20 人。表演者可能来自 Silver Lake ● 2106 Hyperion Ave., Los Angeles。9 p.m. Mondays。

很多喜剧演出喜欢谈论阵容的多样性，但你很少能看到一名腹语师、一群画成 20 世纪 20 年代卡通形象的哑剧演员，以及一个“少年版”亚当·桑德勒 (Adam Sandler) 在任何一个周日晚上接连登台。 “另一场秀 (The Other Show)”有一种特质，让人觉得它拥有恰到好处的疯狂幽默，可以用来结束这一周。该节目由喜剧演员利齐·罗斯 (Lizzie Rose) 制作，其精髓在于不与你在 Improv 剧场可能看到的其他节目同流合污。它相当于食堂里那些不合群孩子的桌子。但这正是它成功的原因。它给了某些传统单口喜剧演员变得古怪的许可，也给了古怪的表演者寻找同类的机会。值得留到最后观看不可预测但通常很有趣的亚当·巴恩哈特 (Adam Barnhardt)——该节目的共同创作者，一名常驻的德州酷儿——看他如何胡言乱语地陷入某种含糊不清、心不在焉的荒诞之中。他那些“只有在洛杉矶才会发生”的故事总是能大获成功。— N.J. ● 8162 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles。7 pm. Sept. 27。

LYRIC HYPERION 开放麦喜剧之夜

JARAGUÁ 的普普萨与笑料 (PUPUSAS AND PUNCHLINES AT JARAGUÁ)

好莱坞即兴剧场（HOLLYWOOD IMPROV）的另一场演出（THE LAB）

在洛杉矶的 Jaraguá 餐厅里，观众们一边品尝着一两块普普萨（pupusas），一边等待着喜剧表演。房间里充满了干扰项，但喜剧演员们并不在意——这种温馨的氛围将使这里从晚餐时间无缝切换到欢笑之夜。“普普萨与笑料”（Pupusas and Punchlines）为拉丁裔表演者以及其他代表性不足群体的喜剧演员提供了一个空间，让他们可以就美国的移民经历和美国梦的荒诞之处开玩笑。这场每周一次的演出是对洛杉矶竞争激烈的喜剧环境的一种回应，因为主流喜剧往往会边缘化黑人和棕色人种群体。“普普萨与笑料”及其主办餐厅 Jaraguá 将在美味的普普萨陪伴下表演这一艰巨挑战，转化为了一种社区共同体验。— A.S. ● 4493 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles. 每周多场演出。

团队协作是 Groundlings 的关键，在这里，“完全不同的深夜秀”（The Completely Different Late Show）颠覆了即兴表演。

“站起来小丑”（STAND Up and Clown）在 Elysian 探讨小丑艺术，主持人为上图中的 Chad Damiani。 JANEVA ZENTZ 在 Chatterbox 进行表演，这是科维纳（Covina）的一家在周日举办喜剧演出的酒吧。 DAVID BUTOW 为《时报》拍摄

BEACHES TROPICANA 的“直男主持酷儿吐槽会” 这场喜剧秀邀请酷儿喜剧演员在单口喜剧表演之间吐槽直男喜剧演员，挑战内容从重现《激烈竞争》（Heated Rivalry）到穿着古怪的季节性服装不等。这是一个非常“基”的时光，它挑战酷儿喜剧演员在吐槽（一种由直男主导的喜剧风格）方面测试自己的技巧，并欢迎直男喜剧演员进入一个超出其主要受众群体的艺术家和观众社区。在 11 月庆祝一周年之后，“直男主持酷儿吐槽会”成功聚集了一批实力派喜剧演员，包括 Jenny Yang、Brendan Scannell、Liz Blanc、Guy Branum 和 Paige Gallagher 等人。Andrew Stier 创办此次活动是为了在作为一名试图在当地喜剧界站稳脚跟的男同性恋喜剧演员时建立社区。随着演出的进行，他意识到“直男主持酷儿吐槽会”已成为 LGBTQ+ 喜剧演员在一次次吐槽中实现艺术成长并积累观众的机会。— Steven Vargas • 8928 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood. 每月一次。

VINYL ROOM 的“在你离开之后” 想象一下在一家标志性音乐场馆的秘密酒吧里举办的 Def Comedy Jam——这就是“在你离开之后”（Right After You Left），由资深喜剧预订人 Chris Burns, Sarah Mello 和 Sean Dickens 举办的一场夏季新活动。开车前往 Palladium 的人们可能会注意到，除了为了观看热门音乐演出而绕街而行的长队外，在 Vinyl Room 的侧门也排起了队，这座新音乐厅的休息室于 3 月开业。这就是这场喜剧之夜举办的地方。

GINA FERAZZI 洛杉矶时报

发光的吧台装饰得像 DJ 的住所，摆满了经典唱片架、大功率收录机、豪华沙发、高端美食和手工鸡尾酒。感觉就像在一位有品位的朋友客厅里看喜剧表演。曾登上该舞台的喜剧演员包括 Donnell Rawlings, Iliza Shlesinger, Morgan Jay, Josh Johnson 和 Kam Patterson。与大多数很快就把你赶出去的俱乐部演出不同，主办方鼓励人们留下来，感觉就像是一场值得逗留的派对。虽然该演出是季节性的，将持续到 Sept. 22, 但主办方计划在 12 月回归。— N.J. 6215 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles. 8 p.m. Tuesdays.

站起来小丑表演 (STAND UP AND CLOWN) 地点：Elysian 剧院

在脱口秀和即兴表演填满演出场馆数十年之后，小丑表演这种小众的肢体喜剧表演风格正悄然进入主流。“站起来小丑表演”既是观众的入门课程，也是部分表演者接触小丑艺术的启蒙课。该节目由小丑大师查德·达米亚尼（Chad Damiani，有些人可能知道他是《激烈竞争》突破性之星康纳·斯托里（Connor Storrie）的小丑老师）主持。节目重点展示了 9 位喜剧演员通过一系列游戏、挑战以及各种古怪角色的干扰，在充分利用 Elysian 主舞台的同时，接受小丑表演的速成培训。凭借由小丑学生和专业人士组成的群演阵容，“站起来小丑表演”既是对小丑艺术性的证明，也是一次绝无仅有的沉浸式喜剧体验。看着当地喜剧演员学习成为小丑所经历的艰辛与磨难，将使你对这一艺术形式产生更深的敬意，并可能激发你内心的小丑之魂。— L.J. ● 洛杉矶里弗赛德大道 1944 号。下次演出日期：周一晚上 9:30；10 月 30 日晚上 10:30。

错误！一场搞砸了的游戏节目 (WRONG! A F—UP GAME SHOW) 地点：Elysian 剧院

没有什么比一个人旧时的推文更可怕的了。这种窥探会让任何喜剧演员感到尴尬。 “错误！一场搞砸了的游戏节目”利用这种焦虑来制造娱乐。该节目被定义为“50% 的喜剧秀，50% 的游戏秀，以及 100% 的搞砸”，它挖掘过去，在欢迎俏皮玩笑的同时，倾向于挖掘喜剧演员最阴暗的幽默。在每位喜剧演员表演完最粗俗的幽默后，节目随后转入讨论环节，评委们尝试猜测制作人从互联网深处挖掘出的一条旧社交媒体帖子中缺失的词语。这种冲突创造了一个环境，让喜剧演员能够与彼此以及观众进行即兴发挥。— A.S. ● 洛杉矶里弗赛德大道 J944 号。每月一次；下次演出日期为 9 月 24 日和 10 月 22 日。

好莱坞 2028

15 位进入俱乐部预订者视线的洛杉矶喜剧演员

作者：内特·杰克逊 (NATE JACKSON)

评估一名喜剧演员的职业轨迹，不仅仅是看他在少数观众面前大获成功，或者轻率地刷刷他的 TikTok 短视频。就像喜剧这门艺术本身一样，关键在于识别他们在连续数周、数月、数年地登台磨练技艺时，进入房间所带来的能量。要挑选出哪些新秀真正准备好在单口喜剧界留下印记，是一门技术——无论他们是在观众寥寥、只有几个醉汉的冷清之夜表演，还是在欢呼雷动的剧院观众面前谢幕。为了帮你找出洛杉矶有哪些值得关注的喜剧演员，我们咨询了这座城市一些最资深的预订者（从大型喜剧俱乐部到另类演出），请他们为我们列出这 15 位值得关注的新锐喜剧演员。其中有些人你可能会在门口看到他们在值班，而不仅仅是在舞台上。

IG: @comedianrong Ron G 是世界上最伟大的表演者之一。如果你看过他主持“Chocolate Sundaes”，你就明白我的意思。他能让一个来自康普顿的 22 岁黑人小伙嗨起来，也能让一个 80 岁的奶奶在舞台上跳 Twerk。但最重要的是，他确保每一个离开演出的观众都能获得一次积极且难忘的体验。— L.C.

IG: @scubastevefurey 曾是 [Comedy] Store 的门口值班员，现在是拿薪水的常驻演员。 极其出色的编剧。表现非常稳定。非常成熟。极其幽默。 在由凯文·哈特 (Kevin Hart) 创建并主持的奈飞 (Netflix) 单口喜剧比赛“Funny AF”中走得很远，现在拥有了一些实至名归的粉丝和追随者。— Roze Lleshi，Comedy Store 预订者

IG: @williesimoncomedy 曾是门口值班员，现在是 Store 的另一位拿薪水的常驻演员。 来自夏威夷。他迅速通过了我们俱乐部的门口值班计划，并在几年前被晋升为常驻演员。我认为他是个天才。非常幽默，搞怪但不俗气。他还拥有出色的写作能力。他是有趣的在线素描喜剧团体“Almost Friday”的一员，并且与 Steve Furey 共同主持播客。— R.L.

IG: @taylorbos 非常幽默，具有原创性且极具冲击力。他在舞台上的表现无懈可击。他曾是 Store 的门口值班员，最近成为了拿薪水的常驻演员。他在“Kill Tony”第 746 集中大受欢迎。他是一位出色的视觉艺术家，以创作已故的米齐·肖尔 (Mitzi Shore) 的画像而闻名，该画作就挂在“Joe Rogan Experience”播客工作室里。— R.L.

IG: @maddimays Maddi 是一个完全受观众喜爱的演员，在台上毫无畏惧——她坦诚面对自己的真实生活，将自己的背景融入其中，且每次表现都极其出色。自从她从休斯顿来到洛杉矶起，我就一直在预订她的演出，看着她迅速成长为一颗明星的感觉太棒了。在成为喜剧演员之前，她曾担任电视服装设计师 / 插画师（参与作品包括《Dollface》、HBO 的《Pause With Sam Jay》）。她曾参加过“Netflix Is A Joke”节和纽约喜剧节，在全国各地演出，并为马龙·韦恩斯 (Marlon Wayans)、拉尔夫·巴博萨 (Ralph Barbosa)、卡姆·帕特森 (Kam Patterson) 以及已故的伟大演员肯·弗洛雷斯 (Ken Flores) 开场。她的素描喜剧和单口喜剧在网上的播放量达数百万次。她是“The FatFish Podcast”中深受粉丝喜爱的常驻客座主持人。

— Nichelle Murdock，Comedy Store “Crack ’Em Up Thursdays”预订者

IG: @campyjacky2 杰克逊在某个周日于喜剧之店（Comedy Store）赢得了“当晚最佳表演”，这让他获得了次晚“大杂烩”（Potluck）开放麦的保证席位，随后他被雇佣为检票员。在那之后的不到两年里，他成为了该俱乐部的付费常驻演员。今年我选他为 2026 年“就此大笑”（Just For Laughs）的新面孔，这使得每一家主要经纪公司和管理公司都想与他合作。他在舞台上的表现以一种最完美的方式地呈现出一种“威胁感”，简直是在挑战观众让他去被喜爱。他的外形带有 70 年代摇滚明星的元素，但他在舞台上的节奏则像一名爵士音乐家，永远不知道下一个音符会是什么。—— J.S.

IG: @tacarracomey 塔卡拉·威廉姆斯（Tacarra Williams）是目前最真正讨人喜欢的喜剧演员之一。每个女人都想和她一起闲逛、吃早午餐，每个男人都想和她约会。即使是年轻一代的女孩也热爱她对青春期女儿那些令人捧腹的模仿。她在笑话中让她的家人变得栩栩如生，并提醒我们所有人，我们在面对孩子、约会和日常挣扎时，过着同样的生活。—— 兰妮·克鲁克斯（Lani Crooks），好莱坞笑工厂（Hollywood Laugh Factory）“巧克力圣代喜剧秀”（Chocolate Sundaes Comedy Show）的预订人

IG: @joemarrese

IG: @joemarrese 他是 The Store 的门卫队长，最近成为了拿薪水的常驻演员。他非常独特，喜剧风格十分有趣。来自芝加哥。我非常痴迷于他在网上发布的视频系列“Joe Eats”。我总是确保观看他的演出。他是那种在表演结束时，每个人都会对他留下深刻印象的演员。— R.L.

IG: @rayjlau

当我于 2024 年 5 月开始为 Ice House 预订演员时，Ray 还没有自己的主场俱乐部，所以我开始尽可能多地预订他的演出。随着他开始积累名气，我很喜欢看到那些大牌领衔演员在观看他表演后，意识到他们必须接棒一个绝对的“杀手级”演员。Ray 正朝着成为大型剧院级演员的目标迈进。我刚刚为他预订了迄今为止最大的一场演出，即 9 月在多伦多举行的 Just For Laughs 节，他在不到一天的时间里就售罄了拥有 900 个座位的 Bluma Appel 剧院。他的粉丝群增长迅速，因为他探讨的是人们能产生共鸣的日常琐事、挫折和互动。这种与观众建立联系的能力，促使演出名单上的其他所有人都要提高自己的水平。— Josh Sandoval，Ice House 及 Just For Laughs “新面孔”展演的预订人

IG:@dvontrecoleman 出色的冷面喜剧风格和执行力，尽管入行仅三年，但表现得像一个经验丰富的天才。Dvontre 也是 The Store 的一名门卫。他最近刚出演了网飞（Netflix）的《Funny AF》，并为 Santino 和 Nick Kroll 开场。他还参加了 Just For Laughs 2025 的“新面孔”展演，并在包括 Moontower、SF Sketchfest 和 Flyover 喜剧节在内的北美各大节庆中演出。在洛杉矶之外，他在纽约市和旧金山也引起了关注。— R.L.

KAT BIRD

TG: @maceyisaacs 梅西（Macey）来自德克萨斯州奥斯汀，2010年来到马里布上大学。大学毕业后，她投身于单口喜剧。她是一位毫不费力地展现冷幽默、直言不讳的喜剧演员，拥有极强的能力来扭转我们看待世界的方式。她曾参加过凯文·哈特（Kevin Hart）在网飞（Netflix）上的《Funny AF》节目，并被选中为切尔西·汉德勒（Chelsea Handler）开场。她的主场俱乐部是圣莫尼卡的 Crow，她在那里主持并主演了四年的“拍照日”（Picture Day）演出，并经常担任主持人及领衔主演。她能让极其离经叛道的议题显得完全具有普适性。她关于流产等情感沉重话题的笑话听起来就像你的故事，但你永远无法预料到她笑话结尾的转折。梅西既是喜剧演员心目中的喜剧演员，也是观众的宠儿。—— 尼科尔·布莱恩（Nicole Blaine），Crow 俱乐部所有者 / 预订员

IG: @angiestro Store 俱乐部的迎宾女孩，同时也是一名出色的编剧。年纪很轻，入行仅几年，但始终幽默且不断创作新笑话。在每周二于 Belly Room 举行的“吐槽大战”（Roast Battle）比赛中，她在舞台上表现惊人，在那场比赛中，喜剧演员们在残酷而幽默的一对一侮辱大战中展开对决。她曾为大卫·斯佩德（David Spade）、伊莉莎·施莱辛格（Iliza Shlesinger）以及《Bad Friends》播客开场。她的单口喜剧还曾在 Netflix is a Joke Radio 和直播活动平台 Veeps 上播出。—— R.L.

IG: @ainsley.xo 安斯利（Ainsley）将最黑暗的个人经历（比如每天服用过多药物和被诊断出多种疾病，包括对香蕉过敏）转化为最完美且出人意料地能引起共鸣的笑话。她对大多数喜剧演员甚至不敢触及的主题提供了新鲜的见解。安斯利以“节庆宠儿”著称。2024年，她在 Crow 举办的 Bergamot 喜剧节上作为一名出色的喜剧演员崭露头角，该节庆以发掘新秀而闻名。她继续在 Crow、Comedy Store 和 Improv 磨练技艺。今年夏天，她赢得了 Just For Laughs “新面孔”的 coveted 席位。本月初，她在《吉米·法伦今夜秀》（The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon）中完成了她的深夜电视节目首秀。—— N.B.

IG: @katbirdcomedy 前 Store 俱乐部迎宾女孩，洛杉矶本地人。尽管从事单口喜剧仅三年，但她已经成了一台“笑话写作机器”。她演出的氛围总是积极乐观，但在笑话中又交织着一些出人意料的阴暗面。她在鲍比·李（Bobby Lee）的播客《TigerBelly》中大受欢迎。目前，凯特（Kat）在独立领衔演出，同时也为李、安德鲁·桑蒂诺（Andrew Santino）、马克·马龙（Marc Maron）和伊莉莎·施莱辛格（Iliza Shlesinger）开场。她的“Don't Tell Comedy”专场于今年早些时候推出。—— R.L.

IG: @curtiscookcomedy 柯蒂斯（Curtis）拥有高大、响亮且令人放松的现场存在感。这也使他成为了传递一些相当颠覆性想法的“特洛伊木马”。他的写作极具创意和原创性，近乎诗意。如果你将他放在任何演出阵容的任何位置，他很可能会贡献当晚最精彩的表演。他不仅在舞台上幽默，还是一位获得 WGA 奖项提名的编剧，曾为近期重启的《Crank Yankers》、Hulu 上广受好评的《This Fool》以及 TBS 上获得 GLAAD 提名的剧集《美国老爸》（American Dad）撰稿。—— 迈克·布里登斯廷（Mike Bridenstine），“Microdose Comedy”预订员

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CARLIN STIEHL 为《时报》拍摄

释放小丑表演的混乱

斯汤普顿（Stamptown）团长扎克·祖克庆祝他的“艺术堆”及其在网飞（Netflix）的时刻 作者：内特·杰克逊（NATE JACKSON）

扎克·祖克（ZACH ZUCKER）坐在回声公园（Echo Park）的爱丽舍剧院（Elysian Theater）内，多年来他一直在这里领导“斯汤普顿”剧团。

塔克（Tucker）从洛杉矶蒙塔尔班剧院（Montalbán Theatre）的房梁上降落，像神风特攻队一样撞击着他的高光时刻。他的两侧是喷泉烟花，一名留着金色鲯鳅发型、穿着霓虹色氨纶裤的肌肉吉他手正随着伦尼·克拉维茨（Lenny Kravitz）翻唱的《美国女人》（American Woman）疯狂弹奏。塔克作为演出《斯汤普顿》的团长，以WWE摔角手般夸张的热情登场，瞬间点燃了舞台。

但这场演出真正的开始，是在技术故障导致局面崩溃之时。一切都坏了，枪声响起，一名幻术师脱光了衣服，全裸地跳入观众群中——这一切都发生在开场前五分钟内。

这是一个由受过古典训练的表演者（包括小丑）创造的混乱喜剧世界，他们研究过肢体幽默的艺术，并撕毁了所有规则手册。10多年来，由塔克（喜剧演员扎克·祖克的另一个人格）领导的斯汤普顿剧团在舞台上打造了一个精神病院——从回声公园的爱丽舍剧院到苏格兰的爱丁堡艺穗节。

该剧的喜剧效果建立在失败、中断以及永远无法真正进入“剧本”的基础上。上周，这种疯狂从舞台跃向屏幕，斯汤普顿在网飞（Netflix）首播了其首个特别节目。

“这对很多人来说是第一次接触这种形式，”祖克说道。他坐在空荡荡的爱丽舍剧院的一把红色天鹅绒椅子上，露出了顽皮的微笑，他的团队在这里表演《斯汤普顿》已有多年。“在我的演出中，我见过一个男人把自己的阴茎点燃45次。我忘了在喜剧领域，大多数人习惯的是看到一个人拿着一个麦克风静静地站着说话。”

该特别节目由瑞秋·李·戈登伯格（Rachel Lee Goldenberg）执导，由节目共同创作者迪兰·伍德利（Dylan Woodley）剪辑，拍摄于5月“网飞是个笑话”（Netflix Is a Joke）节期间的三场演出，通过剪辑将片段拼接在一起。它捕捉到了小丑表演的混乱，并融合了对传统喜剧的理智嘲讽以及大量充满趣味的危险。祖克表示，其结果并非一件艺术品，而是一“堆艺术”。

“我们的信条是：尽管困难重重，这场演出依然奏效。”

“我们的优势在于这是一种‘必须亲眼看到才能相信’的表演。但如果非要我将其精简，这就是一场现代版的杂耍综艺秀，涵盖了任何且所有形式的另类表演……我们的信条是：尽管困难重重，这场演出依然奏效，”祖克（Zucker）说道。

在最近的一个下午，身材瘦长、留着胡须的祖克穿着一件T恤，戴着棒球帽和小圆环耳环，与他那个穿着破旧西装、每个口袋都塞满恶作剧道具的喜剧分身几乎没有相似之处。

在现实生活中，这位纽约原住民曾是一名棒球和篮球明星运动员，后来走上了一条截然不同的道路，成为一名“双性恋巡演小丑”。在高三那年，祖克报名参加了一门他认为会很简单的表演课，随后便痴迷于即兴表演和喜剧。他的老师建议他去关注著名的即兴表演剧团“第二城市”（Second City）。于是他飞往芝加哥，观看了由蒂姆·罗宾逊（Tim Robinson）、萨姆·理查森（Sam Richardson）、蒂莫西·爱德华·梅森（Timothy Edward Mason）等人出演的剧目《剧透警告：所有人都会死》（Spoiler Alert: Everybody Dies）。“它改变了我的人生，”他说。

在东海岸参加了喜剧课程并进行街头表演后，祖克迅速转向剧院工作，最终在18岁时搬到洛杉矶追求喜剧事业，并在“正直公民旅团”（Upright Citizens Brigade, UCB）实习。他通过刷厕所来换取免费的即兴表演课程。正是在UCB，他第一次遇到了著名的小丑教师菲利普·高利耶（Philippe Gaulier），后者的学生包括萨莎·拜伦·科恩（Sacha Baron Cohen）、瑞秋·薇兹（Rachel Weisz）和杰弗里·鲁什（Geoffrey Rush）。这位戴着红框眼镜、头发卷曲且狡黠的法国人教会了祖克关于小丑表演的一切知识。

“菲利普是我迄今为止最大的影响者，”祖克说。“没有一天我不想到他，或者没有一天我不积极地实践他作为一个人和一名艺术家教会我的所有课程。”

其中一条课程成为了《Stamp-town》的信条：“如果你玩得开心，也许我们会喜欢你。如果你玩得不开心，我们肯定讨厌你。”

—— 扎克·祖克（ZACH ZUCKER），喜剧演员及《Stamp-town》创作者

受其智慧启发，祖克前往法国学习了两年的高利耶。在那里，他遇到了未来的《-town》合作者乔尼·伍利（Jonny Woolley），这位加拿大表演者成为了节目的音响技术员，通过在演出的每一个动作中加入点缀的音效，增加了听觉上的混乱感。

“接触小丑表演有很多不同的方式，但最终，对我们来说，这更多的是一种创作艺术的哲学方法，而不是一套严格的规则或风格。它就是让自己成为一个可爱的白痴，”伍利说。

“-town”这个名字是为了向他们学习艺术形式的地方致敬：法国的埃斯坦普镇（Estampes，大致翻译为“ / 印章”）。他们曾在那里跟随高利耶学习，高利耶在特辑拍摄前于今年去世。

尽管他以古怪的幽默感著称，但祖克的大脑像一个永不停歇的节拍器一样运转。在采访过程中，他不停地打着响指，描述每场演出的喜剧时机，其律动感就像舞台上的爵士乐队。

“有时我需要同时平衡几种不同的节奏。我可以在专注于当下最有效的方式的同时，依然让其他事情运转起来，”他说。“庆幸的是，我们并不总是试图传递某种信息。有时，这仅仅是为了不惜一切代价地娱乐观众。”

在《-town》之前，祖克与挪威朋友兼同行小丑维戈·文（Viggo Venn）以“扎克与维戈”（Zach & Viggo）的名义进行表演。这是祖克2017年在墨尔本与朋友共同创办的名为《午夜疯狂》（Midnight Madness）的原始综艺秀中的一个侧翼节目，该节目最终演变成了《-town》。

Zucker 与 Venn、Woolley 以及 Woodley 合作，设计了这场演出，旨在邀请来自世界各地轮换出场的小丑和喜剧表演者。在当地的小丑社区中，洛杉矶的成员包括：扮演清洁工的“小丑巨头”查德·达米亚尼（Chad Damiani）带来的闹剧表演；喜剧演员娜塔莉·帕拉米德斯（Natalie Palamides）饰演由“Garfunkel and Oates”组合的里基·林德霍姆（Riki Lindhome）所生下的“喜剧星二代胎儿”；以及考特尼·保罗索（Courtney Pauroso）饰演的女性机器人诱惑者 Vanessa 5000 那狂乱且机械的扭动。

“‘Stamptown’是非凡的；它是经过精心计算的胡闹，”演员尼尔·帕特里克·哈里斯（Neil Patrick Harris）在给《时报》的一份声明中表示。他是 Zucker 的长期好友兼支持者，并出演了这部网飞（Netflix）特辑。“每场表演都是独一无二的——脱口秀演员与马戏团艺人碰撞，即兴表演者交换才艺和体液，甚至连舞台工作人员的极度混乱和重复笑料，都像一场荒诞的狂热之梦……简直是天才般的荒谬。”

成为“Stamptown”宇宙一部分的国际表演者涵盖了从杂耍艺人、钢鼓演奏者到杂技演员和钢琴家的各个领域。跨性别喜剧演员乔丹·格雷（Jordan Gray）在钢琴前时，极其大胆地展露一切，包括她的灵魂。表演中的肢体语言超越了地域性的梗和笑点——有些笑点可能在一个国家能引起笑声，但在另一个国家则不然。Venn 表示，很明显，人们在核心层面上倾向于拥有相同的幽默感。

“令我们着迷的是，在澳大利亚、法国、英国和美国，如果某种失败是深植于人性之中的，人们真的会对同样的事情发笑，”Venn 说道。“这就是这场演出的美妙之处。”

一套错综复杂且时机掌控精妙的音效，在无意中成为了这场演出的心跳。由于 Woolley 现在全职住在伦敦，美国演出的职责最近移交给了同为“Stamptown”表演者的杰里米·埃尔德（Jeremy Elder），他负责了网飞特辑录制期间的音效。他说，即使是在为网飞拍摄时，当他们抛弃当晚的既定计划时，演出效果才是最好的。

“我认为，一旦我们脱离剧本，观众就能感受到这一点。在最终成品中，我们规划了很多，但一旦你与人们身处同一空间，顺应观众的感受就是一种非常‘小丑式’的情绪，”埃尔德说道。

尽管传统的脱口秀是网飞喜剧节目的核心，但在“Stamptown”中，这种形式大多成为被嘲讽的对象，以展示其与小丑肢体喜剧相比是多么局限。Zucker 表示，唯一需要注意的一点是——小丑是你所能成为的喜剧演员中最令人尴尬的一种品牌。

“这并不酷，你做这个不是为了显得酷，”他笑着说。“核心在于，在生命中所有的爱、幻想和愉悦之中，你必须一次又一次地踩进一桶屎里，并从中享受其中。‘我为了你们这样让自己丢脸，是不是太棒了？’然后你接纳它。”

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疯狂的威利·E. 再次回归，继续追逐

《郊狼 vs. ACME》曾注定要成为一项税务抵免的牺牲品而被华纳兄弟搁置。以下是威尔·福特和导演戴夫·格林如何将其从悬崖边缘救回的故事。作者：卡洛斯·阿吉拉尔

在伯班克的华纳兄弟片场，他们参加了一场“葬礼放映会”，第一次观看这部他们参与创作、但据推测公众永远无法看到的电影。¶ “在那六天里，我的大脑试图理清头绪，我觉得：那这部电影一定不怎么好，”福特带着怀疑的表情解释道。在一个炎热的七月下午，这位前《周六夜现场》（SNL）明星靠在办公椅上，回想起那次剧变时显得陷入了沉思。

他们的处理方法取决于倾向于弗雷泽那种冷面幽默的基调，并更严肃地对待这个概念。

2023年11月初，就在华纳兄弟探索公司宣布决定取消《郊狼 vs. ACME》，并选择对这部真人动画混合电影进行$30 million税务抵免的前一天晚上，演员威尔·福特收到了关于该项目的令人兴奋的消息。¶ “我接到制片人的电话，说他们准备给我们放映电影了，他们非常兴奋，而且测试结果非常好，”56岁的福特在最近一次于世纪之城进行的采访中回忆道。“结果就在第二天，我们接到了电影被搁置的电话。” ¶ 在这次对集体士气的沉重打击六天后，演员和工作人员参加了一场“葬礼放映会”。

这部充满笑料的喜剧充满了《乐一通》（Looney Tunes）惯有的古怪风格，但同时也包含着——或许在预料之外的——大量的凄美感。

即便在华纳兄弟对这部电影说出了看似决定性的“这就是全部，各位”（That’s all folks）之后，导演戴夫·格林依然相信这部作品的质量最终会拯救它。

但在放映会上他会发现，华纳兄弟的高管们错了。“我们进去看了电影，它简直太棒了。”

“‘也许这些家伙只是有点失去理智了，’”福特站在决策者的角度说道。“他们离得太近了。他们在这个项目上投入了太长时间，以至于爱上了这个其实并没有他们想象中那么好的东西。”

福特继续说道：“所有这些困惑和挫败感变成了巨大的愤怒。在接下来的几个月里，我经历了许多心理挣扎。然后最终我觉得：沉溺于这些情绪对我来说是不健康的。我必须放下它。”

福特在片中饰演凯文·艾弗里，一名住在阿尔伯克基、情绪低落的伤事律师，他勉强接受了一位新客户——坚韧不拔的威利·E. 郊狼，在针对ACME公司的诉讼中为其辩护。这个居住在沙漠中、不说话的卡通角色正起诉该公司，理由是该公司产品在他追逐潜在晚餐——路跑者（Roadrunner）的过程中给他造成的所有伤害。

幸好，在华纳兄弟允许创作者将电影在市场上推销之后，公众的抗议和一家敢打敢拼的独立发行商将《郊狼 vs. ACME》从被遗忘的深渊中救了出来。

去年，Ketchup Entertainment以估计$50 million的价格从华纳兄弟手中买下了这部电影（据报道该片制作成本为7000万美元），《郊狼 vs. ACME》终于在刚刚过去的周末在全国电影院上映。

由著名木偶师大卫·巴克莱（他曾在《绝地归来》中操纵贾巴 the Hutt）操纵。在拍摄开始前，格林的团队已经制定了详细计划，规定所有动画角色在每个场景中的动作以及他们将与哪些物体互动。

“心中始终有一丝希望，我想我们从未放弃过，”43岁的格林轻声说道，他坐在福特身边。“我告诉我们团队的一件事是……”

“我当时已经认命了，觉得这部电影可能需要30年才能走出仓库，”编剧萨米·伯奇在视频通话中说道。“我很高兴Ketchup救了它，现在它将永远存在，没有人能阻止它。”

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格林表示，像《裁决》（The Verdict）、《黑水》（Dark Waters）、《内部人士》（The Insider）、《少数几个好男人》（A Few Good Men）和《艾琳·布罗科维奇》（Erin Brockovich）这样激烈的法庭剧都成为了该项目的“养分”。“这些电影讲述的都是小人物面对某种不公正并寻求正义的故事。这正是这部电影以及歪歪（Wile E.）之战的核心所在。”

“像威尔这样的人愿意出演这部电影需要很大的信任，因为他必须相信这个‘魔术’最终会奏效，相信这些角色最终会出现在屏幕上并成为他的对手戏演员，”格林说。他将拍摄《郊狼》（Coyote）的过程描述为“拍一张需要两三年才能显影的宝丽来照片”。

冈恩与克里斯·德法里亚（Chris DeFaria）共同担任制片人，他的创作源于对这些角色、尤其是那位不知疲倦的主角由衷的喜爱。“我一直很喜欢歪歪——他一直是我最喜欢的乐业卡通（Looney Tunes）角色，”他说。“所以尽管像大多数人一样，我在他们的冒险故事中支持路跑者（Roadrunner），但我依然对他充满同情。”

2020年，在格林确定执导后，该项目进行了重启，其中包括引入编剧萨米·伯奇（Samy Burch），她此前撰写的《五月十二月》（May December）剧本使其成为了未来的奥斯卡提名者。

剧组当时的想法是，“‘永远’真的是很长一段时间。”我一直觉得，在时间的宏大光谱中，这部电影最终总会被人们看到。

他说，华纳兄弟（Warner Bros.）并未对其操纵行为提供太多解释。“那是一次非常简短的谈话，”他回忆道，“他们只是说他们的战略改变了。”

“我是通过《纽约客》的一篇短篇故事接触到这个项目的，早在90年代末我刚来到洛杉矶时就产生了拍摄兴趣，”冈恩在给《时报》的电子邮件中写道。“与大多数‘故事原案’的署名不同，我没有写剧本。我只是为这部电影写了故事，将其设定为关于歪歪和一名人身伤害律师的搭档喜剧，并试图在其中注入一些温情与幽默。”

不过，那些电影里没有乐业卡通。

“从某种意义上说，这几乎是不可能的，”格林说。“尽管我们从未知道观众是否能看到它，或者何时能看到，但感觉真正的胜利在于能够按照我们最初想要的方式把这部电影拍出来。”

《郊狼对抗 Acme 公司》（Coyote vs. Acme）的标题和核心前提源自伊恩·弗雷泽（Ian Frazier）1990年发表在《纽约客》杂志上的一篇幽默文章（该文以极具说服力的法律术语撰写，格式如同真实的庭审开庭陈词），这部作品在好莱坞流传了数十年。在某个时间点，《银河护卫队》的导演詹姆斯·冈恩（James Gunn）和编剧杰里米·斯莱特（Jeremy Slater）主导了该项目。

虽然之前出现过一些会说话的歪歪郊狼版本，但格林和伯奇在早期就达成一致，他们的版本将仅使用标牌进行交流。

在《郊狼对抗 Acme 公司》的前景不明期间，格林回忆说，他对自己和合作者能够拍摄这样一部独树一帜的电影感到心存感激：一部由乐业卡通角色主演的法庭剧兼动画喜剧。

“萨米和我总是笑着说，‘如果你把雷格霍恩公鸡（Fog-horn Leghorn）放进《裁决》的那个场景里，绝对会非常搞笑，’”格林说。

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除了那些震撼人心的审判电影，罗伯特·泽米基斯（Robert Zemeckis）1988年的《谁陷害了罗杰兔》（Who Framed Roger Rabbit）这部经典的真人动画混合电影也提供了巨大的灵感。该片直接戏仿了1974年的《唐人街》（Chinatown），是一部技术奇迹，尤其在当时，它完全致力于展现手绘主角的古怪风格。

“这是一部由卡通角色主演的黑色电影，它具有这种色调上的碰撞，”格林在谈到泽梅基斯的这部里程碑之作时说道，这部电影以某种方式将‘敲头’式的疯狂与妖娆的致命女郎结合在一起。“一方面，它非常阴暗；另一方面，它又非常傻，甚至很愚蠢。这种混搭对我来说非常有意思。当你的喜剧是以阴暗和高风险为基础时，它会让喜剧变得更有趣。”

“我们觉得这个角色的说话版本很奇怪且令人不安，而且那个声音从未完全符合我对威利·E.声音的想象，”格林说。“对我们而言，这个角色最令人难忘的版本就像是一个默片演员。”

“威利·E.很容易让人产生共情，”伯奇补充道。“他内心充满了渴望和欲望。我看了查理·卓别林的几部电影以及其他角色不说话的电影，并尝试在剧本中保持他的存在感。”

庞大的威利·E.郊狼动画档案可以追溯到1949年由传奇动画师查克·琼斯执导的短片《快与毛》（Fast and Furry-ous），这对于他们理解《乐一通》世界的喜剧节奏，以及理解这个郊狼作为角色的特质至关重要。虽然有些人可能认为威利·E.只是一个试图杀死并吃掉路跑者（Roadrunner）的反派，但格林认为他是一个永恒的乐观主义者。

“每次失败，他都会重新站起来再次尝试，”格林说。“这其中绝对有某种深刻且鼓舞人心的地方。我们越是研究这个角色，就越能理解他的深度。”

在片场，威利·E.通过一个由……操作的等身傀儡与福特共享空间

尽管有着不懈的驱动力，但《郊狼对阵 Acme》（Coyote vs. Acme）中的动画角色威利·E.在与福特饰演的凯文建立友谊的过程中经历了蜕变，他们共同对抗一个看似不可逾越的对手——由 Acme 首席执行官 Foghorn Leghorn（由埃里克·鲍扎配音）及其阴险的律师 Buddy Crane（约翰·塞纳饰）代表。

到审判结束时，你可能没预料到这部电影会如此感人。“你会对这个整部电影都没说话、且试图杀死那只鸟的角色产生这种情感——我对此感到非常惊讶，”福特说。“我的妻子都哭了。”

伊恩·斯帕尼尔 为《时报》报道

导演戴夫·格林（左）与演员威尔·福特表示，即使在电影似乎注定失败的时候，“始终有一线希望”。

考虑到《郊狼对阵 Acme》为了最终进入影院所克服的重重困难，人们不可避免地会看到银幕内容与电影制作人与华纳兄弟之间发生的事情之间的平行之处。（据报道，该制片厂拒绝了其他几家有兴趣购买该片的公司的报价。）

Ketchup Entertainment

“这是一个关于对抗体制、挑战巨型公司的弱者故事，”格林说。“我们不可能这样写剧本。我们无法预料到这一切。”

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福特补充道，“在谈论角色所经历的旅程时，你禁不住会提到‘大卫挑战歌利亚’，而你也可以用同样的话来描述这部电影所经历的旅程。”

另外两部华纳兄弟的电影《史库比！节日闹剧》（Scoob! Holiday Haunt）和《蝙蝠女》（Bat-girl）在几乎完成时被注销，但到目前为止，还没有人来拯救它们。

“我们成了随机的牺牲品，”伯奇说。“我们完全没有预料到。这才是真正能让人们产生共情并联想到威利·E.的地方。我们真的觉得自己在按照计划行事，然后突然有东西从天而降。”

《乐一通》系列太受喜爱了，不能被锁起来。它们能延续数十年，是因为其犀利的讽刺和巧妙的喜剧（无论是肢体喜剧还是其他形式）依然能引起共鸣。伯奇回忆起年轻观众在试映时的反应，其中一些人从未看过原版动画。

“他们会问孩子们，‘你们知道兔八哥或者《乐一通》（Looney Tunes）吗？’有时孩子们会说不知道，但这并不会影响他们对这部电影的喜爱程度，或者他们对郊狼和路跑者的感觉，”伯奇说道。“希望这能成为一些孩子接触这些角色的切入点，然后他们可以去补上过去100年的内容。”

格林认为，所有参与《郊狼》（Coyote）制作的人员都超出了预期，这不仅是因为他们信任剧本和他的愿景，更是出于对《乐一通》的热爱。

律师 （下方为拉娜·康多和威尔·福特）在混合电影《郊狼对阵 Acme》（Coyote vs. Acme）中接手了威利·E. 起诉某公司的案件。

“人们觉得，为了这些角色，他们有责任交出一份满意的答卷，”他说。“他们确实是具有传承意义的角色。”

但在与这些永恒的卡通明星合作时，并非一切都那么天真烂漫且充满欢笑。格林说，其中一个角色往往会抢走风头。

“兔八哥非常棘手，因为他必须永远是对的，而且是个骗子，”格林说。“他拥有电影明星的气场。在一部我们首要尝试讲述威利·E. 郊狼故事的电影中，只要提到兔八哥或他在场景中出现，他就会产生一种令人震撼的力量。”

“他是个大麻烦，”格林严肃地补充道，随后露出一丝极其细微的微笑。

所有者可能会更迭，但那只狡猾的兔子会一直存在。

畅销书

小说 在榜周数 1. 《吹笛人》（Whistler），安·帕切特 著 (Harper: $30) 一名女性在一次创伤性事件将两人分开数十年后，在大都会艺术博物馆与前继父重新建立联系。

2. 《灾难俱乐部》（The Calamity Club），凯瑟琳·斯托基特 著 (Spiegel & Grau: $35) 16 1933年的密西西比州，一群女性朋友形成了坚韧的纽带。

3. 《往昔》（Yesteryear），卡罗·克莱尔·伯克 著 (Knopf: $30) 20 一名“传统妻子”网红突然在残酷的1855年世界中醒来。

4. 《我们从未说出的话》（The Things We Never Say），伊丽莎白·斯特劳特 著 (Random House: $29) 16 一场改变生活的事件迫使一名高中教师面对隐藏的真相。

5. 《酷机器》（Cool Machine），科尔森·怀特海德 著 (Doubleday: $30) 这位普利策奖得主的哈莱姆三部曲以最后一次抢劫案收尾，生动地展现了1980年代的纽约。

6. 《通信员》（The Correspondent），弗吉尼亚·埃文斯 著 (Crown: $28) 一名终身写信的人在反思痛苦的过去。

7. 《埃特纳》（Etna），保罗·尹 著 (Scribner: $28) 在一场毁灭性的战争之后，一只军犬踏上了回家的旅程。

8. 《洗发水效应》（The Shampoo Effect），珍妮·杰克逊 著 (Pamela Dorman: $30) 5 一个关于中年之始以及一群老友终于成熟的故事。

9. 《约翰之约翰》（John of John），道格拉斯·斯图尔特 著 (Grove Press: $28) 一名年轻人回到他位于赫布里底群岛的家乡，发现那里几乎没有什么变化。

10. 《赎金》（Ransom），丹尼尔·席尔瓦 著 (Harper: $32) 一名艺术修复师兼间谍在寻找一名英国亿万富翁失踪的妻子。

非虚构类

1. 《陌生人》(Strangers)，作者：贝尔·伯登 (Dial Press: $30) 一名女性探讨了她的婚姻、婚姻的终结以及她以为自己了解的那个男人。

2. 《成功的谎言》(The Success Lie)，作者：钱特尔·普雷斯顿 (Resolve Editions: $28) 这位增长战略专家解释了女性如何构建一个真正符合她们对成功定义的生活和事业。

3. 《土地及其 1 个人》(The Land and Its 1 People)，作者：大卫·塞达里斯 (Little, Brown & Co.: $30) 一组关于成为一名旅行者、一名兄弟、一名终身好友意味着什么的随笔集。

4. 《政权更迭》(Regime Change)，作者：9 玛吉·哈伯曼和乔纳森·斯旺 (Simon & Schuster: $34) 这两位记者记录了唐纳德·特朗普第二个总统任期内动荡的第一年。

5. 《伦敦陨落》(London Falling)，作者：帕特里克·拉登·基夫 (Doubleday: $35) 在儿子突然去世后，一个家庭揭开了他 19 岁儿子在伦敦犯罪地下世界的秘密生活。

6. 《这就是我》(This Is Me)，作者：海登·帕内蒂尔 (Grand Central Publishing: $30) 这位《英雄》和《纳什维尔》的明星在去世前几个月出版的回忆录中讲述了她的故事。

7. 《不酷的人》(The Uncool)，作者：15 卡梅隆·克罗 (Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster: $35) 这位电影制作人讲述了他青少年时期担任音乐记者的狂野经历。

8. 《如何统治世界 11》(How to Rule the World 11) 作者：西奥·贝克 (Penguin Press: $32) 这位调查记者详细描述了斯坦福大学与硅谷之间充满问题的关系。

9. 《小青蛙生活指南》(The Little Frog's Guide to Life)，作者：梅贝尔·伊奎 (Summersdale: $12) 一本旨在帮助你以自爱和善良度过每一天的指南。

10. 《创意行为》(The Creative Act)，作者：154 里克·鲁宾 (Penguin Press: $32) 这位传奇音乐制作人探讨如何成为一个有创意的人。

更多平装书畅销书名单请访问 latimes.com / bestsellers。 来自 CALIBA 的南加州畅销书名单。

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勘误

在 8 月 23 日版中一篇关于读者最喜爱的读书会选书的文章中提到了作者 Raymond Bradbury。他的名字应为 Ray Bradbury。

照片来自 Birdman Photos / Saturday Morning Cartoons United Inc.

全为了对动画的热爱

非营利组织 SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS UNITED 依靠该艺术形式的粉丝，来帮助这个衰落行业中需要帮助的人

作者：玛拉·埃金 (MARAH EAKIN)

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在动画行业谋生正变得越来越困难，尤其是在洛杉矶。

多年来，动画工作不断外移，行业巨头削减岗位，而人工智能（AI）也成为了日益增长的威胁。

在阴霾之中，当地一个非营利组织正致力于通过庆祝标志性的卡通作品来支持当今的动画师，并提醒人们动画所带来的快乐。

通过放映会、快闪活动和专题讨论，Saturday Morning Cartoons United 通过 AnimAID 和 Legends Animated 等组织筹集资金，以支持动画行业中需要帮助的人员，并通过 Silver Lake Shorts 分发资助金来支持新兴艺术家。该组织还与其他慈善机构合作，例如 Birthday Party Project，该项目为经历无家可归困境的家庭提供物资，以便他们能为孩子举办生日派对。

曾在动画营销领域工作多年的卡罗·布尔曼 (Caro Buermann) 在伊顿火灾和帕利塞德火灾之后发起了该组织，当时情况很明显，数十名动画师要么失去了家园，要么被迫搬离。

“Saturday Morning Cartoons United 纯粹源于对这个社区的热爱，因为人们现在正处于困境，所以希望能够团结起来，”布尔曼在提到行业内失业问题时说道。“我并不在动画行业变动的最前线，但每天都有相关头条新闻……现在发生的事情太疯狂了，但我们正在尽我们所能。”

在 8 月初该组织举办的最近一次活动中——为深受喜爱的卡通名伶贝蒂·波普 (Betty Boop) 庆祝 96 岁生日——1,400 名卡通爱好者填满了格伦代尔的亚历克斯剧院 (Alex Theatre)，观看修复后的电影大银幕波普动画片，期间还穿插了鲍勃·贝克木偶剧院 (Bob Baker Marionette Theater) 和独立摇滚乐队 Dressy Bessy 的表演。喜剧演员、演员兼配音艺术家凯特·米库奇 (Kate Micucci) 担任主持人，而 1991 年至 2022 年期间为波普配音的桑迪·福克斯 (Sandy Fox) 则与一名穿着贝蒂·波普吉祥物服装的人员交替登台。

“现在的动画界，无论是艺术家、配音演员还是所有表演者，都需要社区的支持，”Miss Mae Marlowe 说道。她是一位受波普启发而创作的变装皇后兼动画师，在演出前戴着精心打理的黑色假发，穿着观众鞋与粉丝合影。她参加这次活动是因为热爱贝蒂·波普，也是因为动画行业面临的沉重负担。“庆祝动画非常重要，所以目前任何能让我们聚在一起的理由似乎都非常有意义。”

在 Saturday Morning Cartoons United 的首批活动之一——2025 年 12 月举办的《皮威的游乐场》(Pee-wee’s Playhouse) 圣诞特辑放映会——筹集了近 $50,000, 后，布尔曼意识到

贝蒂·波普配音演员桑迪·福克斯（上图）与一名粉丝合影。Saturday Morning Cartoons United 创始人卡罗·布尔曼（中）。独立摇滚乐队 Dressy Bessy 在生日派对上表演。

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观众的需求以及进一步行动的必要性都切实存在。此后，她在活动中推出了《爱心熊》(Care Bears)、《精灵森林》(FernGully) 和《粉红豹》(Pink Panther)，并计划今年至少再举办 3 场活动：10 月 3 日在 Dynasty Typewriter 放映《真实鬼玩》(The Real Ghostbusters) 动画片，10 月 17 日在 Los Feliz 3 举办《嘿，阿诺德！》(Hey Arnold!) 重聚活动，以及 11 月 7 日在亚历克斯剧院举办一场大规模的《飞天小女警》(Powerpuff Girls) 致敬活动。

“我们尝试要么大干一场，要么就回家，”布尔曼说道，不过她也提到自己是该慈善机构唯一的全职员工。该组织在扣除费用后，从活动中获得的每一美元净收益都将捐给其支持的慈善机构。“我们试图为这个社区筹集尽可能多的资金，并确保我们的活动面向所有人，”她说道，并指出那些热爱相关动画作品的粉丝和配音演员都会出席，有时还会带着孩子和宠物狗。

布尔曼表示，她尝试策划每一次活动，使其不仅是一场放映，更像是一次体验或庆典。现场设有拍照机会和周边商品销售，且通常会提供价格较高、可与卡通创作者或配音演员见面的机会。

“人们总是问：‘既然在沙发上就能看到所有内容，为什么还要出门？’我能理解，因为出门需要付出努力，”布尔曼说。“但当这种努力能直接让我们的社区成员受益时，它就显得尤为重要。”

布尔曼为每次活动放映的动画片和短片办理授权，这既是为了符合规定，也是为了赢得业界的尊重并寻求资金支持。不过，这是一个充满挑战的过程，具体取决于制片厂，以及该作品的版权在动画首播后是否发生了变更。

“有些制片厂根本不重视这些东西，”布尔曼在谈到这些活动时说。“‘草莓女孩’（Strawberry Shortcake）就是一个完美的例子。我们非常期待能与他们合作，但由于那些动画片太旧了，他们没有合适分辨率的版本。我们也尝试在活动中播放 80 年代和 90 年代的旧玩具和谷物广告，但这很难，因为这些广告在制作时就没打算在这么大的屏幕上放映，或者它们根本没有原始格式的存档。即便有，也很难查清楚谁或哪个机构拥有这些版权。”

对于像《木偶宝贝》（Muppet Babies）这样“周六早晨动画联合会”（Saturday Morning Cartoons United）一直试图举办活动的节目，其内容本身也可能带来额外挑战。“单单是那部剧的片头就引用了《星球大战》和《夺宝奇兵》，所以在电影院放映可能会非常复杂，”她解释道。

但布尔曼表示，当成年观众能与童年热爱的人动画产生共鸣，或者当一个家庭能以一种前所未有的方式在银幕前共同享受一场演出时，这种感觉会极其特别。例如在 Boop 的活动中，不仅有孩子第一次接触这部动画片，布尔曼还听到几位家长说，通过 Dressy Bessy 的表演，这是他们孩子参加的第一次音乐会。

对于贝蒂·波普（Betty Boop）的共同创作者马克斯·弗莱舍（Max Fleischer）的孙女、以及“绝美弗莱舍动画修复”（Fabulous Fleischer Cartoons Restored）的创作者简·弗莱舍·里德（Jane Fleischer Reid）来说，与布尔曼合作举办 Boop 的生日派对是“令人愉悦”且深受启发的。

“看到我祖父的作品被新观众喜爱，我感到很温暖，”弗莱舍·里德说。“对我以及许多人来说，动画不仅仅是有趣、傻气的东西。它是艺术。当我成年后开始审视我祖父的作品，并意识到那些动画片中融入了多少艺术考量时，我感到非常震撼。艺术以不同的方式触动每个人，而这正是我们现在迫切需要的。”

Dressy Bessy 的主唱塔米·埃洛姆（Tammy Ealom）说，她小时候会在车里和祖母一起唱贝蒂·波普的歌，她的祖母和 Boop 一样，倾向于穿那种看起来小了一号的高跟鞋。

“我记得年轻时去购物中心，必须把所有印有贝蒂·波普形象的超大号卫衣全部买下来，但现在我也把她看作一种优雅的女性主义者，”埃洛姆说。“她允许你做你自己，但如果你触碰了她的底线，她会给你一记高跟鞋。她就像一个强悍、干脆的女人，不害怕做自己，也不为此道歉，我对此深有共鸣。”

激励新一代的动画师和讲述者同样驱动着布尔曼。《乐一通》（Looney Tunes）启发了《摩登原始人》（The Flintstones），后者又启发了《辛普森一家》（The Simpsons），进而启发了《瑞克和莫蒂》（Rick and Morty），以此类推。

“虽然不该透露女士的年龄，但贝蒂·波普已经 96 岁了，我们现在依然在谈论她，”布尔曼说。“那么，这些角色究竟有什么特质能经受住时间的考验？我认为是因为动画片和角色能够跨越世代产生情感共鸣，这就是为什么我认为，那些现在受到他们启发而创作的人，将决定娱乐业的未来。”

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根据罗伊·崔的建议，如何在洛杉矶度过最完美的星期日

他理想的一天包括与爱犬共处的时间、逛逛农贸市场，以及美食、美食、更多美食，包括龙虾面、辣豆腐和电影院爆米花

作者：DINAH ENG

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餐车运动的创始人之一罗伊·崔（Roy Choi）表示，他的 Kogi BBQ 业务只能在洛杉矶启动，因为这座城市没有饮食界限，街头文化能将人们聚集在一起。¶ 崔出生于首尔，在移民家庭中长大，居住地从韩国城搬到了西洛杉矶。崔说：“尤其是对于亚洲移民家庭，大家一起生活，共用双拼房，共用房屋，经历所有这些阶段，直到你拥有自己的公寓，租自己的房子，最后，希望能够达到买房的阶段。”他补充道，“我的家人花了大约 13, 14 年才达到那个阶段，但他们最终实现了。”¶ 2008年11月，崔与合伙人马克·曼古埃拉（Mark Manguera）和卡罗琳·申-曼古埃拉（Caroline Shin-Manguera）推出了第一辆售卖韩式烧烤塔可的 Kogi 餐车，并利用 Twitter 宣布他们的出没地点。该业务随后扩大，包括多辆餐车、一项餐饮服务、一家名为 Alibi Room 的酒吧，以及他最新的餐厅——位于拉斯维加斯 Park MGM 的 Best Friend!。¶ 现居住在韩国城的崔表示，他将韩餐与墨西哥菜相结合，是对他成长过程中所接触的街头文化的致敬。如今，这位厨师心中完美的星期日是美食家的梦想——开车前往城市的不同区域，品尝洛杉矶各地的美食，并在整天的时间里享受独处。

本次采访经编辑以缩短篇幅并提高清晰度。

6:30 A.M. 起床并 遛狗 我有两只狗，所以我带它们出去解决内急。然后得遛一会儿。得给它们亲亲抱抱，这就是我的锻炼方式。有些人去健身房或做瑜伽，而我则和我的狗玩。

8 A.M.

逛逛 好莱坞 农贸市场 农贸市场是我日程上的第一项。我尽量在星期日去好莱坞农贸市场，那就是我的早餐。你知道的，全是免费试吃。我不吃传统的每日三餐。我像泰国人那样，一天吃八顿饭，整天都在吃零食。在农贸市场，早餐可能是三个橙子、两个苹果、一篮草莓、半个甜瓜和两个桃子。之后，我会赶往洛斯费利斯（Los Feliz），去 Maru Coffee 点一杯 Cortado 或浓缩咖啡，因为它附带一小杯气泡水，再加上一个牛角面包。整个环境非常宁静，很有禅意。然后我会买一杯抹茶拿铁带走。

10 A.M. 拜访 SMORGASBURG 的摊贩 从那里，我会前往 Smorgasburg L.A.，这是城里最大的露天美食市场。我的朋友扎克·布鲁克斯（Zach Brooks）在星期日负责运营。我喜欢看所有的摊贩，因为我是一名街头美食厨师。我喜欢结识那些摆摊的年轻创业者。他们充满了快乐和活力。这激励了我，就像一个我每周日都会去汲水的天然泉眼。在那里我可以获得精神上的振奋。我会光顾几个摊位，可能会买一份沙瓦玛（shawarma）和一份龙虾面。

中午

前往博伊尔高地 (BOYLE HEIGHTS) 接下来，我会去东洛杉矶的博伊尔高地。这取决于我想吃什么，但通常我会去 Burritos La Palma（一个摊位）和 Mariscos Jalisco（一辆餐车）。它们之间只隔了一个半街区，所以我会从 La Palma 买一个炒豆泥奶酪卷饼。它们虽然叫卷饼 (burritos)，但其实是卷起来的塔可 (rolled tacos)。然后在 Mariscos，我会买他们的虾肉塔可，那不是软塔可，而是炸塔可。这就是我的周日早午餐。

1 P.M.

前往托伦斯 (TORRANCE) 然后我喜欢向南开。我这辈子一直去那边的很多地方。我会在加迪纳 (Gardena) 和托伦斯闲逛，吃荞麦面、乌冬面和天妇罗。我以前经常在卡森 (Carson) 到处转，吃夏威夷美食。所以我会前往旧托伦斯，在 Kagura 吃炸猪排，然后去 Tendon Tempura Carlos Jr. 吃荞麦面或天妇罗盖饭，一次搞定两家。我会连续去这两家，因为它们就在同一条街上。之后，我会停下来在 Del Amo 时尚中心逛逛，就为了走走路消消食。

2:30 P.M. 向南继续前往圣佩德罗 (SAN PEDRO) 我会开车去圣佩德罗，去韩国友谊钟 (Korean Bell of Friendship) 那里放松一会儿。我喜欢开车经过两座大桥 [文森特·托马斯桥和长滩国际门户桥]，从圣佩德罗开往长滩。这就像我的爱好一样，因为在洛杉矶，没有太多机会能开车经过这种规模的大桥。

4 P.M.

向西开车去买杏仁奶茶 之后，我会迅速向西行驶，前往 Sawtelle 街上的 Volcano Tea House 买杏仁奶茶。奶茶的味道、Sawtelle 街上的氛围、街道以及 Volcano Tea House 的集点卡让那里变得很特别。每买 10 杯就送 1 杯！

或者我也可能会在圣莫尼卡的 Main Squeeze 快速买一杯草莓或花生酱奶昔，然后去看日落。

韩国城 (KOREATOWN) 然后我会迅速回到韩国城吃晚餐。我喜欢 Surawon Tofu House 的嫩豆腐汤 (sun-dubu-jjigae)，也就是辣豆腐炖汤。

或者我会去明洞饺子 (Myung Dong Kyoja)，也就是 MDK，吃鸡肉刀切面 (chicken kalguksu)，尽情地吸溜面条。

亚洲餐厅不提供甜点，所以我会去 Anko 吃刨冰。

9 P.M.

看场电影 我喜欢 Regal Sherman Oaks Galleria 电影院。我会买一份中间和顶部都加了黄油的爆米花，以及一杯蓝莓樱桃味的 Icee 冰沙。然后，电影结束后，得吃冰淇淋，对吧？所以如果还没关门，我可能会去 Studio City 的 Van Leeuwen Ice Cream。深夜，比起球状冰淇淋，我更喜欢吃软冰淇淋。白天我则喜欢吃球状冰淇淋。

放空并刷手机 (DOOMSCROLL) 我可能在接下来的 3 小时内都不会睡觉，所以我就那样放空。如果我在看电视，我会补完《安多》(Andor) 第二季。但我可能会在手机上不停地刷那些令人焦虑的消息 (doomscrolling)。所以如果你想给我发私信，请在午夜到凌晨 3 a.m. 之间发。对我来说，一个美好的周日就是拥有“自我时间”，与宇宙及他人保持联系，但同时拥有一个可以自由穿梭的小小气泡。

植物

他们打造了一个由本土植物组成的繁茂庭院

当这对住在德尔雷（Del Rey）的夫妇结婚时，他们请求婚礼宾客为“查帕拉尔城堡”（Chateau Chaparral）赠送植物

摄影：DANIA MAXWELL 为《时报》拍摄 作者：PEDRO MOURA

当菲比·诺瓦克（Phoebe Novack）和布莱恩·阿格雷（Brian Aggrey）在 2023 年结婚时，他们没有选择传统的家居奢侈品礼品清单，也没有选择现代的蜜月基金。相反，他们请求赠送植物——而且是几十种、上百株。他们邀请亲友资助那些自 2021 年买下德尔雷的房子以来就准备种植的本土多年生植物。由于在购买和修缮房屋时花光了积蓄，他们需要这笔资金注入来购置植被。他们还认为，这种礼品清单可以成为激发人们对植物兴趣的一种可爱方式。事实证明，这个直觉是正确的。“人们记得，”诺瓦克说，“他们过来时会说：‘我看那棵橡树长势不错。’”庭院的布置在 2022 年分批开始，并在 2023 年初正式全面展开。三年后，诺瓦克和阿格雷的花园已成为一首充满香气、令人心旷神怡的赞歌，向南加州沿海查帕拉尔（chaparral）植物群落致敬。这里种有许多曼萨尼塔（manzanitas）和一棵巨大的海岸活橡树（Quercus agrifolia）。这里有一片由二十几种本土野花组成的季节性草甸，而全年可见的沙星花（Corethrogyne filaginifolia）则占据了前院的大部分空间。但出人意料且无可否认的中心之作，是他们后院那片极其繁茂、耐旱的本土草坪，吸引着人们和宠物在此放松身心。

菲比·诺瓦克与布莱恩·阿格雷

他们的庭院包括红荞麦（从上起）、郊狼薄荷以及由爱达荷羊茅（Idahoensis fescue）、莫拉特羊茅（Molate fescue）和西部莫克卢姆羊茅（Western Mokelumne fescue）组成的羊茅混种草坪。

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在过去的两个春天里，西奥多·佩恩基金会（Theodore Payne Foundation）的年度本土花园之旅都将诺瓦克和阿格雷将其命名为“查帕拉尔城堡”的家列为重点。参观者们从南加州的各地赶来，亲眼目睹这片草坪。

“人们非常喜欢这个，”诺瓦克上个月站在花园里说道，“我想说这是人们最喜欢的第一名。”

这片草坪每周灌溉两次，由三种当地本土羊茅混种而成：爱达荷羊茅（Festuca idahoensis）、莫拉特羊茅（Festuca rubra）和西部莫克卢姆羊茅（Festuca occidentalis）。总部位于卡马里洛（Camarillo）的 Soils Solutions 公司为这种被该公司称为“流动加州本土草甸美学”的混合草坪提供制作。它以草皮的形式出售，面向景观专业人士和房主。

诺瓦克和阿格雷两人均为 35 岁，他们在景观设计师卡洛斯·迪亚兹（Carlos Díaz）和米格尔·加西亚（Miguel Garcia）的帮助下，于 2023 年 2 月铺设了草皮。他们收到了来自 Soils Solutions 的严格指示，要求在六个月内避免践踏新草坪。

这意味着 2023 年 8 月在他们家中举行的婚礼庆祝活动，是人们第一次踏上这片羊茅草坪。这成了正式介绍他们新花园的一种相当特别的方式。

在获得“查帕拉尔城堡”（Chateau Chaparral）这个绰号之前，这处房产大部分是混凝土、入侵性草类和多肉植物。他们邀请邻居们把多肉植物挖走带回家。他们雇佣了一支队伍

菲比·诺瓦克（PHOEBE NOVACK）和布莱恩·阿格雷（BRIAN AGGREY）

用风镐凿掉大部分混凝土，并用来自 C&M Topsoil 的黑色火山岩碎石取而代之。他们还致力于用本土植物替换入侵性草类，所有植物均采购自太阳谷的西奥多·佩恩基金会（Theodore Payne Foundation）。这些改变共同带来了比他们想象中更巨大的转变。

“当我们搬进来时，到处都是混凝土，环境非常嘈杂，因为声音会在墙壁和地面上反弹，而且我们的车库经常被淹，”诺瓦克说。“当我们将其改为透水材料后，它吸收了声音，让一切变得安静了很多，也凉快了很多。”

他们表示，拆除并重新布置前后院的总费用为 $20,000，不包括房屋和结构的升级。他们通过本土植物婚礼礼品登记单回收了超过一半的费用，共 $11,000。

诺瓦克在附近长大，在那里，尽管种植的是像剑兰这样的非本土植物，但园艺一直是她童年生活的重要组成部分。在她和阿格雷上一处租住的房子里，她曾在狭小的院子里尝试种植植物。她还开始在 TreePeople 担任志愿者，并参加西奥多·佩恩基金会的课程，包括由园艺总监蒂姆·贝克（Tim Becker）教授的三部分花园设计课程。创建“查帕拉尔城堡”的灵感便源于此。

上个月，当他们享受花园时，阿格雷提醒诺瓦克，当她最初提出本土植物这个想法时，他并不是特别热情。他更熟悉洛杉矶的非本土经典植物，如三角梅和棕榈树。

“当你开始谈论这件事时，”阿格雷告诉诺瓦克，“我的反应是，‘这些是什么植物？我不确定是否相信这一切。’”

他说话时，她点了点头。不仅仅是他这么想。

“人们真的非常反对，”诺瓦克说。“他们说，‘这不会很容易的。它们都会死掉。’”

确实有一些植物枯死了。他们并不害怕承认这一点。有时，他们甚至不得不向赞助购买植物的朋友们告知这个令人不快消息。

“有时候，人们会问我们，‘哦，我的杏色锦葵 [Sphaeralcea ambigua] 长得怎么样了？’”诺瓦克说。“我们不得不回答，‘它们全死了！’”

但更多植物生长茂盛。在开始种植之前，诺瓦克对前后院及侧院共 3,022 平方英尺的花园进行了仔细测量。她计算了他们安装的每株植物成熟后的尺寸。

即便如此，有些植物已经长过了计算的尺寸。在前院，一株美丽的郊狼灌木（Baccharis pilularis）占据了大部分视觉空间。他们计划很快对其进行修剪。

“确实有一些植物长得比预期的要大，”诺瓦克说。

后院设有本土草坪和许多当地备受喜爱的本土植物，包括六种曼萨尼塔（Arc-

布莱恩·阿格雷和菲比·诺瓦克改造了他们的后院（上图），并用优雅克拉基亚（Clarkia unguiculata）等植物升级了前院（顶部）。他们在 2021 年购买了这栋房子，将原本带有草坪和混凝土的传统后院（左下和右下）变成了本土植物避风港。

tostaphylos）、多种猴面花（Diplacus aurantiacus, Diplacus Jelly Bean Gold'）以及一株充满活力的卡塔利娜醋栗（Ribes viburnifolium）。但前院是更具影响力的地方，因为邻居们越来越多地停下来询问。

在他们的林荫道上，诺瓦克和阿格雷还播撒了大约二十多种本土野花的种子。每当春季花期结束，阿格雷都会细心地收集彩地毯花（clarkias）、吉利亚花（gilias）和拟扇花（phacelias）的种子荚，对种子进行处理并包装好，以便在下一个春天到来前赠送给他人。

“这是我最喜欢送给人们的礼物，”阿格雷说，“这是我花园的一部分。”

这对夫妇分别爱上了花园的不同部分。诺瓦克着迷于植物散发的香气，以及这些植物吸引到花园里来的鸟类和昆虫。而阿格雷则珍视曼萨尼塔（manzanitas）。他们起初种了三棵，在经过阿格雷所描述的一场“喧闹的争取运动”后，又种了三棵。

“我希望有一天它们能长成巨大的、古老的扭曲树干，”他说。

在推广本土植物的过程中，诺瓦克和阿格雷已经让许多家人和朋友加入了这一行列。但仍有一个关键的坚守者：诺瓦克的母亲，一位传统派的园艺爱好者。

在思考下一次尝试的同时，他们对自己的空间还有更多计划。

他们设想在前后院建造的生物滞留槽（bioswales）中增加能够耐浸水的植物。他们计划在后院蓄水池上方的内置容器中种植植物。而且，他们还没有放弃为杏色锦葵（apricot mallow）寻找一个能茁壮成长之地的希望。

耗水的草坪是洛杉矶过去的象征。在本系列报道中，我们重点关注那些为了未来而打造的、采用替代性低耗水景观的庭院。

主厨基思·科宾（Keith Corbin）在西亚当斯区的 Alta Adams 餐厅（左图）。菜单包括：黑眼豆沙拉（下图）；烤卷心菜；以及搭配莫莱酱（mole sauce）的油封鸭腿。

摄影：CHIARA ALEXA 为《时报》拍摄

评论：餐厅评论家 JENN HARRIS

Alta Adams 的新火花

主厨基思·科宾（Keith Corbin）通过洛杉矶人的视角重新审视其带有南方特色的烹饪风格

一名主厨在一家拥有深厚品牌认同感的餐厅经营近十年后，该如何为其注入新的生命力？基思·科宾从一碗黑眼豆开始尝试。2018年，科宾与前合伙人丹尼尔·帕特森（Daniel Patterson）共同开设 Alta Adams 时，两人将这家位于西亚当斯（West Adams）的餐厅定位为“加州灵魂料理”。当时的菜单是对科宾在沃茨（Watts）成长经历的浓缩，也是对黑人饮食文化的颂扬，其中包含对牛尾盖饭的灵感改编、全市最顶尖的炸鸡之一，以及用醋和烟熏油代替传统烟熏猪蹄来增强风味的羽衣甘蓝。今年早些时候，科宾将 Alta Adams 关闭三个月以进行调整，期间他前往墨西哥和欧洲旅行并烹饪，还参加了由帕德玛·拉克希米（Padma Lakshmi）主持的烹饪竞赛节目《美国烹饪杯》（America's Culinary Cup）。他在五月重新开业，推出的菜单更深地倾向于一种我认为可以定义为“洛杉矶风格”的烹饪。南方灵魂料理的倾向并未消失；相反，它像每道菜深受欢迎的前传一样，被无缝地交织在一起。

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Alta Adams

洛杉矶西亚当斯大道 5359 号，(323) 571-4999，altaadams.com 价格：生食与前菜 \$13-\$48，沙拉与蔬菜 \$22-\$36，火烤类 \$24-\$54，主菜 \$38-\$75，甜点 \$22-\$26。详情：周二至周日晚 5 点至 10 点营业。提供代客泊车和路边停车。推荐菜品：黑眼豆沙拉；Suya 调味骨髓；火烤卷心菜；油封鸭腿；木炭烤半只鸡；香蕉船。饮品：全吧服务，以及一份包含少量起泡酒、白葡萄酒、桃红葡萄酒、橙酒（skin contact）和红葡萄酒品种的精选酒单。

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要理解 Corbin 的演变，请点一份黑眼豆。在餐厅里花费数年将这些豆子转化为金黄色的油炸饼后，Corbin 现在将其呈现为一份沙拉。豆子被炖至软糯浓郁，拌入在碗中跳跃的青柠汁。弗雷斯诺辣椒（Fresno chiles）带来活泼的辣味，而香菜则模拟了新鲜萨尔萨酱（salsa）那明亮的草本气息。碎切的酥脆烟熏火腿块就像猪肉味的小面包丁，让你像挖掘宝藏一样将其挑出。

无论桌上摆了什么其他菜肴，你的勺子最终都会回到黑眼豆上。

“黑眼豆对我来说很重要，因为这道菜代表了生存，”Corbin 说道。他指的是这种食材的历史——在殖民时期，它是被奴役非洲人的主要营养来源；在内战期间，它是南方士兵和平民的口粮。“但它也可以被提升，并与所有这些其他饮食和食材并驾齐驱。”

对于一家在过去八年里为了寻找稳固根基而多次变换形态的餐厅，以及一位在烹饪中始终贯穿着自身坚韧故事的主厨来说，“生存”是一个恰如其分的主题。Corbin 的烹饪生涯始于出狱两年后，且没有经过正式培训。他在 Locol 获得了一份厨师工作，那是 Patterson 和 Roy Choi 在瓦茨（Watts）开设的一家专注于社区的餐厅。他与 Patterson 随后共同创办了 Alta Adams，尽管 Patterson 在 2025 年退出了合伙关系，但两人仍共同经营 Alta Community 非营利组织。

Alta Adams 2.0 依然感觉是一个植根于社区的地方。每晚到访的客群是这座城市中最多样化的群体之一，这反映了 Corbin 持续致力于在洛杉矶的不同文化与美食之间建立新联系，并为自己在传统灵魂食物（soul food）的限制之外创造一个新身份的使命。

这在一定程度上推动了他对 mole demi-glace（mole 浓缩肉汁）的创作，这是一种灵感的融合，通过鸭肉和烟熏鸡汤，并由 mole 的基础成分强化而成。这些汤汁经过多日的工序，与南瓜子、

ALTA Adams 重新开业，以全新的视角呈现 Keith Corbin 的洛杉矶风格烹饪，并融入了来自世界各地的灵感与影响。

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葡萄干、番茄、胡萝卜、洋葱、辣椒、八角和肉桂共同熬制成充满鲜味（umami）的浓缩汁，最后加入墨西哥巧克力、黑蒜、糖蜜和醋。最终得到的酱汁光亮得足以在深黑色的深处看到自己的倒影，精致而强力，带有独特的深沉大地风味冲击力。你将油封鸭腿在酱汁中蘸取，与盘中堆满的酥脆土豆交替品尝。

科宾在他的新口味名录中将卷心菜作为基调，将其投入火中直到外层焦黑且卷曲。他用哈里萨辣酱（harissa）和味噌的混合物给叶片上色，将北非辣椒酱的温暖与日本发酵调料的咸鲜完美结合。卷心菜块放置在轻盈的芝麻酱（tahini）和拉布尼酸奶（labneh）之上，最后撒上一层碎花生。

虽然我仍在为科宾那道极出色的炸鸡消失而感到怅然，但我已经在新的烤鸡中找到了慰藉，这道菜采用了塔吉锅香料和主厨招牌的牛胸肉干揉搓料腌制。鸡肉入口带着胡椒的清脆感，带有柑橘味和树脂香，背景中还潜藏着一丝葫芦巴（fenugreek）的味道。但其焦香味和甜美的焦糖化边缘则呈现出南方烧烤的特征。

在制作烤骨髓配面饼时，科宾挖掘了西非胡椒汤的风味特征。骨头覆盖着一层沙质的培根酱，带有苏亚（suya）香料的辛辣，并由西非黑胡椒增强风味。最后，菜品点缀以富含非洲棕榈油的西非肉豆蔻油醋汁。

酒吧总监麦德琳·麦奎兰（Madeline Mc-Quillan）负责新的饮品计划，重点推介来自墨西哥、西非和亚洲的烈酒与食材。饮品偏甜，例如“甜玉米”（Sweet Corn），由 Baby Jane 传家宝玉米波本威士忌和玉米糖浆调制而成。还有“桃子与豌豆”（Peaches and Pea），这款饮品在甜腻的边缘徘徊，加入了大量的桃子油糖（oleosaccharum）。

如果你更倾向于将糖分高峰留到晚餐结束，那么不妨奢侈地尝试一下 $26 的香蕉船。这是对科宾小时候经常光顾的社区冰淇淋车的致敬。他亲自制作香蕉和巧克力冰淇淋，将其舀在盘中，配以焦糖化香蕉、波本味噌焦糖和脆皮山核桃糖碎片。我不知道科宾当年在冰淇淋车上吃的是什么，但一定比我那辆车上的任何东西都要好吃。

在最新的迭代中，Alta Adams 不仅仅是在生存，而是正进入它的全盛时期。在科宾的新方向引导下，这家餐厅就像是一封写给这座给予他成长机会的城市的情书。

照片由 STEPHANIE BREIJO 拍摄，洛杉矶时报

学会这项基础技巧，从此告别难吃的沙拉

一旦你理解了基础油醋汁中油脂与酸度的平衡，你就能随心所欲地调制任何你喜欢的酱汁。作者：科迪·里斯 (CODY REISS)

很多沙拉都很糟糕。无论你是在吃来自心仪超市的预包装考伯沙拉 (Cobb salad)，还是在快餐店吃传送带式的羽衣甘蓝凯撒沙拉，亦或是在朋友的晚餐派对上吃绿叶沙拉（抱歉，朋友）——想要遇到一份真正出色且美味的沙拉，简直罕见得令人抓狂。当普通人吃到一份糟糕的沙拉时——无论它是味道平淡、酱汁过多或不足，还是仅仅缺乏活力、张力或深度——他们可能会迅速得出结论：我不喜欢沙拉。或者：沙拉这东西，普遍都很糟糕。

但事实并非如此。沙拉可以极其令人兴奋且营养丰富。问题很少出在生菜上，可能也不在配料上。不，问题出在酱汁上。幸运的是，每款优秀的沙拉酱汁核心都遵循一个基本原则。掌握它，你可能永远不必再制作（或食用）难吃的沙拉。

这个原则就是：

平衡。

基础油醋汁是酸度与油脂之间的一场平衡游戏。盐和其他调味料也起作用，但酸度和油脂是你的基石。醋加多了，酱汁就会向一个方向失衡；油加多了，则会向另一个方向失衡。

如果你只在绿叶沙拉上淋醋，味道会像触电一样强烈，但过于刺鼻。只用橄榄油，味道浓郁但平淡。只加盐，有味道但不完整。只加大蒜——呃，太糟糕了。

然而，将它们按照你喜欢的比例结合起来，你最终会得到一种明亮、浓郁且美味的味道。

油脂：在这种情况下是橄榄油。油脂起到了润滑和增强风味的作用。它赋予酱汁厚度，并与醋形成咸鲜的平衡。

酸度：这里使用的是红葡萄酒醋。酸度提供了一种酸爽、如触电般的明亮度。它让酱汁尝起来具有“生命力”，让食用过程变得令人兴奋。

盐：让生菜的味道更纯正，让酱汁尝起来“好”，像调大音量旋钮一样，增强其他食材复杂风味的呈现。

其他成分：在基础油醋汁中，这通常是第戎芥末酱、大蒜和黑胡椒。这三者都增添了各自辛辣、咸鲜的刺激感。大蒜（或任何其他葱属植物）在醋中浸渍，以缓和其固有的生辣“冲劲”，而芥末酱则充当乳化剂，帮助将互不相容的油和醋结合在一起。

寻找你的平衡点 那么，我们从哪里开始？

我建议从经典的比例开始：一份酸度（醋）搭配三份油脂（橄榄油）。

从这里开始，你的任务就是混合、品尝、思考并调整，增加醋或油，直到达到你心中理想的平衡。

当我在 Chez Panisse 学习调制酱汁时，一位同事教了我一个诀窍：当她品尝油醋汁时，如果能感觉到喉咙有轻微的灼热感，她就知道味道到位了。

尝试留意这些感官体验——它们是你直观理解平衡过程中的有用标记。如果你的嘴巴因为酸而收缩，说明酱汁太酸了；如果完全没有灼热感，则可能是油脂过多。

品尝，思考，调整。

然后，将一片叶子浸入其中，不断调整酱汁，直到你喜欢它的味道。

当味道正确时，我的喉咙会有那种微妙的灼热感，带着一丝芥末的辛辣，大蒜的余香萦绕，且盐分带来的调味足以让我觉得：“真好吃。”

我认为最常见的酱汁错误是酸度或盐分不足。

这种酱汁还有一个更简单的版本，就是那个古老的“淋点橄榄油，挤点柠檬汁，在绿叶菜或蔬菜上撒点盐”的技巧，这让人想起在地中海沿岸惬意的幻想午餐。

这完全可行，而且仅用橄榄油、柠檬和盐来调味是一项非常值得培养的技能——但请记住，如果没有像芥末酱这样的乳化剂，你很快会发现叶子上覆盖着一层油slick，而碗底则积了一层浅浅的柠檬汁。

意式培根、番茄与腌椒油醋汁

25 分钟。可制成 2 杯。

几年前的一个炎热八月，当时我住在纽约市，我把在联合广场农夫市场买的农产品塞满了背包，其中包括一大塑料袋成熟的夏季番茄。骑车过桥回到布鲁克林后，我发现我的那袋番茄已经变成了多汁的传家宝番茄泥。我放弃了原先做 BLT 三明治的计划，决定把这些损坏的番茄做成意面沙拉的酱汁。

我使用了手头现有的食材——一些腌辣椒的汁液、一块菲达奶酪、一些大蒜、干葱以及花园里采摘的几种香草——结果做出的酱汁令人惊喜。它明亮、咸鲜、充满夏日气息，浓郁且甜咸适口，吃起来简直是一种享受。这是我第一次在没有食谱的情况下制作酱汁，这也让我思考油醋汁究竟是什么。

油醋汁是脂肪、酸度、盐分和额外调味品之间的一种平衡艺术，而酱汁的基础在于脂肪与酸度之间的关系。在我最近的烹饪时事通讯中，我建议将 1 份醋与 3 份橄榄油的比例作为基础油醋汁的一个良好起点。下面的食谱是一个很好的例子，展示了当你替换不同食材时，这个比例是如何变化的。在这里，番茄提供了足够的浓稠度，而意式培根提供了足够的丰富感，因此实际比例更接近于 3 份醋（在这种情况下是腌椒汁和醋）对 2 份橄榄油。如果需要素食版本，可以考虑用冲洗干净并切碎的刺山柑（capers）代替意式培根，并增加少量橄榄油。

食材在变，但平衡点保持不变。你的酱汁应该足够明亮，让你在喉咙后方感到一丝微刺感，含有丰富的脂肪，并用盐调味至美味。我鼓励你将此食谱作为指南，通过视觉和味觉来练习制作酱汁。你越依赖感官，你的烹饪就会变得越直觉化。这款油醋汁非常适合搭配意面沙拉，淋在番茄片上，而且搭配 BLT 三明治可能也会很棒。记得保留熬出的意式培根油脂以备后用！我在制作这个食谱时正好在烤鸡，所以我把土豆和洋葱在油脂中拌匀，放在鸡肉下方一起烘烤。

每当我有损坏的番茄时，我最终都会做这样一种酱汁，而且直到今天，我似乎每次从市场回家时，总能带回至少一个这样的番茄。

4 盎司 意式培根，切丁

1 个 干葱

1 瓣 大蒜

$^{1} / _{3}$ 杯 腌辣椒 (pepperoncini)

$^{1} / _{4}$ 杯 腌辣椒汁

$^{1} / _{4}$ 杯 红葡萄酒醋

$^{1} / _{3}$ 杯 欧芹叶

1 个 成熟的夏季番茄，横向切半

$^{1} / _{3}$ 杯 橄榄油

$^{1} / _{4}$ 茶匙 粗盐 (kosher salt)

1 将意式培根放入冷锅中，用中低火加热。烹饪至大部分油脂析出，且意式培根呈金棕色且酥脆，大约需要 20 分钟。

2 与此同时，将干葱切末，用 Microplane 擦碎大蒜，将腌辣椒切碎，将这三种食材全部放入罐中。向罐中加入腌椒汁和醋，搅拌使蔬菜均匀裹上液体，在意式培根烹饪完成期间让其浸渍。将欧芹切碎，并将番茄擦入碗中，注意手指安全，最后只留下皮，皮可以丢弃。

3 使用叉子或漏勺将意式培根从锅中取出，将其与欧芹、擦碎的番茄、橄榄油和盐一起加入罐中。

4 用盖子盖住罐子，用力摇匀。品尝油醋汁并考虑其平衡感。盐分足够吗？你能感觉到酸度带来的喉咙轻微灼烧感吗？橄榄油是否浓郁？品尝并调整，直到所有这些问题的答案都是“是”。

5 将你要拌的食材蘸一点油醋汁，尝一口。味道依然不错吗？如果不是，请根据需要进行调整，使整体口感保持明亮、浓郁、入味且平衡。如果味道合适，就可以开始拌了。

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用 16 套成人版“开心餐”犒劳自己

洛杉矶各地的餐厅和酒吧正通过折扣汉堡与鸡尾酒组合，吸引顾客在客流淡季和非高峰时段光顾

作者：DANIELLE DORSEY

“开心餐”最吸引人的部分就是随餐附赠的玩具。但既然你已经成年，或许在寻找另一种形式的犒劳。为了在非高峰时段和通常冷清的夜晚填满座位，洛杉矶的餐厅和酒吧正用折扣汉堡组合诱惑顾客，将玩具替换成了鸡尾酒。这是对儿童开心餐的成人化演绎。这些优惠方案也回应了用餐者日益关注的外食价格问题——由于最低工资上涨、租金增加和食品成本上涨等因素，近几年的用餐成本有所上升。而且因为是在洛杉矶，你可以期待这款经典慰藉美食的全球化诠释，包括一款灵感来自墨西哥城的汉堡（hamburguesa），它将周一的行业之夜变成了全市瞩目的目的地；一家源自纽约的韩国餐厅提供搭配韩式辣酱蛋黄酱的牛小排汉堡；还有一款带有法式色彩、搭配干邑酱并可选奶酪火锅的演绎。犒劳——或者说饮品——涵盖了从经典马提尼、店酒到玛格丽塔、冰啤酒和马格利（makgeolli）的各种选择。这些优惠通常与欢乐时光（happy hour）重叠，请务必留意每项优惠的具体日期和时间。¶ 以下是 16 套汉堡与饮品组合，供那些内心深处的孩子需要一份成人开心餐的时刻选择。

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在 Grove 购物结束或电影开场前，可以尝试这项每天下午 4:30 到 5:30 的优惠。在吧台就座，从“汉堡时间”的半价产品中任选其一，包括：搭配瑞士奶酪和店烘凯撒面包的牛排馆汉堡（$13 instead of $26）；搭配腌萝卜和柚子胡椒蛋黄酱的黄鳍金枪鱼汉堡（$14.50 instead of $29）；以及与隔壁外卖窗口销售的同款双层芝士汉堡（$9 instead of $18）。

所有汉堡均附带一份分量充足的细薯条。你可以搭配一杯 $10, 的脏马提尼，或者以同样的价格享用一杯斟满的葡萄酒。请注意，American Beauty 在威尼斯（Venice）还有另一家分店，但此优惠仅限 店。

● 189 The Drive, Los Angeles, (323) 955-0650, americanbeauty.la / the-

BAR SINIZKI

这家位于 Atwater Village 的小酒馆通过午餐和晚餐供应的波兰饺子（pierogis）、捷克式炸瑞士奶酪和巴尔干沙拉，唤起人们对东欧的回忆。工作日下午 3 点到 5 点之间光顾，即可享受 Bar Sinizki 价值 $25. 的汉堡与鸡尾酒搭配。这款小酒馆汉堡采用厚牛肉饼，顶部覆盖新派美式奶酪和焦糖洋葱，使用 Bub & Grandma's 土豆面包，侧边附带一根酸黄瓜和天然切薯条。你可以从偏向经典的酒单中选择任何一款鸡尾酒，例如包含朗姆酒、皮斯科（pisco）、马拉斯奇诺利口酒、葡萄柚利口酒和葡萄柚汁的“秘鲁海明威”。

• 3147 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, (323) 284-8419, sinizki.com

BELLE'S DELICATESSEN AND BAR

这家从贝果快闪店转型为正式熟食店和鸡尾酒吧的店铺，凭借每周一次的汉堡之夜，成为了周一晚上的热门目的地。一个汉堡、自选粗薯或细薯以及一杯酸黄瓜马提尼共 $25 ——如果不选马提尼，价格可降至 $15. 。该优惠时间为下午 5 点到晚上 9:30，此外在下午 5 点到 6 点还有额外的欢乐时光优惠，例如顶部覆盖熏牛肉、美式奶酪、烤洋葱和俄式酱料的粗切薯条（$12），以及包含龙舌兰、青柠、椰奶和芒果的提基风 Coco Cabana 鸡尾酒（同价 $12）。传闻说，如果你礼貌地请求，吧台会将酸黄瓜马提尼更换为“湿”马提尼。

- 5022 York Blvd., Los Angeles, bellesbagels.com

BUVETTE

这家位于谢尔曼奥克斯（Sherman Oaks）的温馨葡萄酒吧，其菜单通常仅限于冷盘肉类、烤三明治、沙拉和蘸酱，但在周二会扩展为一份“成人快乐餐”，包含一个经典芝士汉堡、薯条以及一份马提尼或一杯葡萄酒，售价 $25。该优惠一直持续到打烊，且座位有限——建议在晚餐高峰时段之外前往，以减少等待时间。 • 15005 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks, buvettela.com, @buvettela

COUCOU

在 Bar Coucou 开始你的一周，只需 $38 即可选择一款马提尼（脏马提尼、维斯帕、宇宙或浓缩咖啡马提尼）以及一份美式汉堡（burger Americaine）。这款汉堡由和牛肉饼、焦糖洋葱、红椒和一团苦苣叠在一起，放在涂有干邑“全能”酱的烤布里欧修面包上，并用小黄瓜点缀。再加上自制奶酪火锅，味道将更上一层楼。这项周一优惠在该美法式小酒馆的所有分店均可享受，包括位于威尼斯（Venice）和西好莱坞的分店。 ● 1131 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, (424) 237-2024, coucou.la, @bar.coucou

DADA

这份成人快乐餐是少数几个与周末时间重叠的优惠之一。周四至周六下午 5 点到 7 点，这家隐藏在日落大道（Sunset Boulevard）后面的餐厅提供汉堡和薯条，并可选择葡萄酒、Calidad 啤酒或无酒精啤酒，售价 $24。店内招牌汉堡采用厚切和牛或蔬菜肉饼，搭配陈年切达干酪和焦糖洋葱，使用 Bub & Grandma's 面包。请务必从后巷进入，而非市场侧，因为市场侧有单独的菜单。

• 1606 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, dadaechopark.com, @dadaechopark

EVERSON ROYCE BAR

在运营十多年后，Everson Royce 已成为艺术区（Arts District）的地标性酒吧之一，以其宽敞的后院露台、趣味十足的鸡尾酒以及升级版的经典酒吧食物菜单而闻名，其中包括深受大众喜爱的汉堡，由肩胛肉饼、切达干酪和第戎蛋黄酱搭配鸡蛋布里欧修面包组成。欢乐时光在周二至周日下午 4 点到 6 点进行，汉堡和薯条套餐售价 $14，折扣鸡尾酒如由龙舌兰、蜂蜜、柠檬和辛辣浸制液调制而成的“蜂刺”（Bee Sting）售价 $11。为了获得更大幅度的优惠，可以尝试纳乔或配以甜辣蘸酱的炸花椰菜，售价 $8。 • 1936 E. 7th St., Los Angeles, (213) 335-6166, erbla.com, @eversonroycebar

FRANKLIN LOUNGE

这家隐藏式酒吧位于好莱坞富兰克林酒店（Hollywood Franklin Hotel）停车场的入口旁，原名为 Lily's Bar，在今年初夏更名为 Franklin Lounge。酒吧经理 Cass Calwaystein 掌舵全新的鸡尾酒单，其中包含对经典饮品的趣味改编，例如加入椰奶的巴西国酒（caipirinha），以及如 Garden Variety（使用黄瓜和灯笼椒浸渍伏特加）等轮换马提尼。烹饪总监 Jesse Furman 为该酒吧设计了唯一的正餐：一个厚肉饼汉堡，覆盖着融化的陈年切达干酪，搭配 Clark Street 面包。该汉堡单点价格为 $18，或者您可以加购一杯马提尼，总价为 $28。一份配薯条需额外支付 $6。最棒的部分是？该优惠随时可以点单。在周三，马提尼欢乐时光将延长至整晚，经典款售价 $12，轮换特调如 Cafe de Canela（伏特加、浓缩咖啡、Mr. Black's、Licor 43、肉桂糖浆）售价 $14。 ● 6 / 41 Franklin Ave., Los Angeles, @franklinlounge

HOJOKBAN

这家创立于纽约的韩国餐厅在周一至周四下午 5 点到 7 点提供几组欢乐时光套餐，包括松露土豆煎饼配一杯马格利（makgeolli，米酒），以及炸鸡配一瓶韩国啤酒，售价 $15。但如果您渴望汉堡，可以点一个由牛小排肉饼、整颗烤洋葱和韩式辣酱蛋黄酱组成，并配以黄瓜和墨西哥辣椒腌菜的汉堡，售价 $16 —— 如果想要整块汉堡淋上浓郁的莫奈奶酪酱（Mornay cheese sauce），需额外支付 $8。如果您选择汉堡，可以将其与一杯马格利或起泡酒搭配，售价 $10。 - 734 E. 3rd St., Los Angeles, (213) 785-3400, hojokban.com / los-angeles / home, @hojokban

JOEY

这家新美式餐厅连锁店在洛杉矶市中心、曼哈顿海滩和伍德兰希尔斯（Woodland Hills）设有分店，每天下午 3 点到 6 点设有欢乐时光，提供几种“成人零食包”，包括鸡柳配气泡酒 $20，寿司圆锥配 Spritz 鸡尾酒 $22.50，烤玉米牛油果酱配经典玛格丽特 $21，或芝士汉堡配葡萄酒或啤酒 $28.50。您在抵达时将获赠一杯起泡酒，但请注意，欢乐时光优惠仅适用于坐在吧台、休息区或露台的顾客。 ● 6344 Topanga Canyon Blvd., Woodland Hills, (818) 340-5639, @joeyrestaurants

LAWRY'S THE PRIME RIB

这家位于比弗利山庄的牛排馆是久负盛名的特殊场合目的地。为了将这种魔力带入您的工作周，请在周一至周五下午 4:30 到 6:30 期间光临吧台，享用欢乐时光迷你餐。该套餐售价 $29，包括一杯“肉与土豆”马提尼（内含一颗填入顶级肋眼牛排的橄榄），以及一个比滑块汉堡（slider）更小的迷你汉堡，和一块顶部覆盖着法式酸奶油（crème fraîche）和鱼子酱的酥脆土豆块。欢乐时光菜单上值得关注的还有顶级肋眼牛排炸猪排三明治（$34）以及虾仁、玉米和墨西哥辣椒炸饼（$16）。新增加的每日店内现磨汉堡在吧台或餐厅均有供应，售价 $29，但请务必尽早下单 —— 每晚仅制作 20 个。 ● 100 La Cienega Blvd., Beverly Hills, (310) 652-2827, lawrysonline.com

LOVE HOUR

这家备受欢迎的韩国城 smashburger 汉堡吧在装修关闭后近期重新开业，配备了新的露台和扩充的菜单，使其成为强有力的晚餐竞争者，亮点包括白鱼塞维切（ceviche）和淋上黑胡椒酱（au poivre sauce）的牛排薯条。欢乐时光每天持续至晚上 7 点，双层 smashburger 售价 $10 —— 加薯条需额外支付 $5 —— 以及 Negroni 和 Old Fashioned 等经典鸡尾酒，外加葡萄酒，全部折扣后每款 $10。您也可以选择鸡块配啤酒套餐，售价 $9.50。 - 532 S. Western Ave., Los Angeles, love-hour.com, @lovehourlosangeles

LOWBOY

这家位于日落大道（Sunset Boulevard）的汉堡与鸡尾酒吧是前往或离开附近道奇体育场（Dodger Stadium）观看比赛时的热门停靠点，并提供了本名单中最实惠的成人版“开心餐”。在周一至周五下午 4 点到 6 点的欢乐时光期间，你可以用 \$16 订购一份招牌 smashburger（压制汉堡）、小份薯条和任意一款生啤。这款汉堡与 In-n-Out 销售的汉堡相似，配有煎洋葱、店内特制千岛酱、美式奶酪和红椒酱，并放在烤过的 Martin's 土豆面包中。如果你想尝试类似“动物薯条”（animal fries）的食物，可以订购 gator fries (\$13)，上面覆盖着融化的美式奶酪、自制酸黄瓜、店内特制千岛酱和洋葱。 ● 1540 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, (213) 266-8161, lowboybar.com, @lowboy_echopark

MÍRATE

Mirate 的酒吧以其收藏的墨西哥产烈酒而闻名，并且是餐饮从业人员在周一（此时许多当地餐厅休息）的热门聚集地。执行主厨 Alan Sanz 在推出 Gran Fiesta 时就考虑到了业内人士的需求，这是一个周一从 5 点到 7 点的欢乐时光，玛格丽塔（margaritas）和 boilermakers（啤酒加烈酒组合）折扣后为 \$12，葡萄酒半价，且购买任何食物均可免费获赠一份 Mal Bien 梅斯卡尔酒（mezcal）。Sanz 还增加了一款 \$12 的非菜单汉堡，灵感来自墨西哥城街头摊贩销售的深夜汉堡（hamburguesas）。这款汉堡配料丰富，有腌墨西哥辣椒（jalapeños）、辣酱、奇波雷培根酱（chipotle bacon jam）和融化的普罗沃洛内奶酪（provolone cheese）。周一的优惠活动立即走红，顾客在餐厅开门前就开始排队以抢购。

• 1712 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, (323) 649-7937, mirate.la, @mirate.losangeles

OLD MAN BAR

这家附属于 Hatchet Hall 的威士忌酒吧仅在周日和周一晚上 6 点到 10 点提供食物。你可以订购在隔壁厨房准备的店内汉堡，其特点是两个厚实的肉饼、辣椒酱、“高级”酱汁、骨髓和甜洋葱，放在烤芝麻面包中，单点价格为 \$20。但若想享受真正的盛宴，可以订购 Burger Bang! Bang!，包含汉堡、薯条、一杯 Coors Banquet 啤酒和一份 Buffalo Trace 威士忌，价格为 \$33。每晚提供的汉堡数量有限——请尽早到达以抢购。

• 12517 Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, hatchethallla.com / old-man-bar

SELVA

这家由 Carlos Jurado 开设的现代哥伦比亚餐厅在周三全晚以及周四至周日下午 4 点到 6 点提供酒吧欢乐时光，包含一系列食物和饮品特惠，其中包括一款“凌乱”的店内汉堡，配有安格斯牛肉饼、自制炸芥末、白切达奶酪、焦糖洋葱、培根酱、大蕉泥、aji 蛋黄酱和腌辣椒，使用 Gusto Bread 面包，并搭配一份 boilermaker（由你选择的啤酒和一份烈酒组成），仅需 \$19。 ● 4137 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach, (562) 343-5630, selvalbc.com, @selva.lbc

咖啡灌肠再次流行

在洛杉矶最迷信的养生圈里，如今似乎没有什么禁忌。从死藤壶仪式、邮购的氯胺酮含片，到超说明书用途的肽注射、静脉滴注和长寿疗法，在这个城市里，人们信奉的改善外貌和体感的方法似乎无穷无尽。咖啡灌肠——主要用于治疗消化问题，但也针对一系列其他情绪和生理状况——就在这份所谓的“奇迹菜单”上，而且其普遍程度远超我在撰写本文之前的认知。

“噢，我有个朋友就在做这个，” “噢，我表亲对此深信不疑，” 一旦我开始寻找采访对象，我就开始听到人们这样说。

Reddit 上有数百篇关于咖啡灌肠的轶事——既有热情的支持，也有谨慎的警告。咖啡灌肠通常由个人独立完成，有时在替代健康从业者的协助下，将咖啡液体装入袋中，将导管插入直肠，并让液体缓慢被吸收。“警惕咖啡灌肠，” 这是一个帖子的主题行，发帖女性在十年间定期进行此操作，并报告称在尝试停止时感到精疲力竭、意识模糊和强烈的渴望。她写道：“任何形式的咖啡因都只能（暂时地）掩盖并缓解那些更重大且未解决的问题。”

照片插图由 JIM COOKE 为洛杉矶时报绘制；照片经由 Getty Images 提供

对此，另一位用户——一名患有 4 期卵巢癌的患者——跳出来为这一做法辩护。他们写道：“无论我们是否同意，让我们尊重彼此正在做的事情。我正在将常规[治疗]与替代疗法结合使用（我认为两者都有其位置）。自从确诊以来，我从未感觉如此良好。我觉得身体轻盈，从未感到焦虑，而化疗曾让我便秘到想哭。”

在过去的二十年里，受肠脑轴研究的推动，人们对消化健康的兴趣呈指数级增长。根据 Grand View Research 的一份报告，全球肠道健康市场在 2025 年的估值为 $60.31 亿，预计到 2033 年将达到 $114.83 亿。越来越多的人在悄悄地（且通常是虔诚地）进行咖啡灌肠，正是这一大趋势的一部分。该趋势还包括禁食、排毒、结肠灌洗、益生菌、食物过敏和粪便检测，以及许多其他旨在解决从排便不规律或不适到能量水平和情绪等所有问题的产品和服务。但咖啡灌肠到底是怎么回事？它们真的对你有好处吗？我们采访了广泛的人群，他们持有同样广泛的不同观点。

一天灌肠五次？ 那位应对 4 期癌症的亲灌肠 Reddit 用户发帖称，他们每天进行三次咖啡灌肠。他们是通过 Gerson 了解到这一做法的。Gerson 是一家成立于 1978 年的机构，旨在推广由德裔美国医生马克斯·格森（Dr. Max Gerson）在 20 世纪 30 年代最初为结核病开发，随后用于治疗癌症、偏头痛和其他慢性疾病的治疗方案。如果你访问 Gerson 研究所的网站，其商店中列出了咖啡灌肠的用品——有机治疗混合咖啡（$9.75）和带有导管的完整灌肠桶套装（$19）。该机构在蒂华纳、布达佩斯和中国香格里拉设有诊所。

格森研究所（Gerson Institute）执行主任尼科尔·费雷尔-克莱门特（Nicole Ferrer-Clement）表示，该治疗方案被称为“格森疗法”，由四个部分组成，其中每天进行五次咖啡灌肠是第一部分，也是该方案的核心组成部分。其他部分包括素食且无脂肪的饮食、三种果汁（胡萝卜汁、胡萝卜苹果汁和绿汁）以及营养补充剂。她表示，咖啡灌肠背后的原理是咖啡中的化合物（可可碱、可可碱类似物 / 茶碱、咖啡因）能刺激肝脏产生更多胆汁，从而帮助通过消化道将毒素排出体外。费雷尔-克莱门特说，这对于癌症患者至关重要，因为他们在处理治疗过程中释放的毒素时，肝功能可能已经受损。尽管许多人为了整体健康、养生或缓解便秘而向格森研究所咨询咖啡灌肠，但她说这通常不是他们推荐的做法。该疗法在主流肿瘤学家中仍存在争议，部分原因是缺乏评估其疗效的严谨临床研究。

“如果有人愿意出资，我们非常乐意且开放地对[咖啡灌肠]进行研究，”费雷尔-克莱门特说道，她估计该研究所多年来已治疗了数千名患者。

除了使用咖啡灌肠治疗癌症外，大多数网络用户报告称他们是为了缓解便秘而采用此法。许多轶事来自那些尝试过传统医学治疗消化问题，但在绝望之下决定在其他地方寻找解决方案的人。其他人，如居住在巴厘岛的 33 岁南非男子切瓦尼·戴维兹（Chevanni Davids），则利用它来维持整体的健康感。戴维兹在南非长大，在当地农村地区，祖母给孩子做灌肠在文化上是很常见的——他每月进行两次咖啡灌肠。他是由一位被他描述为巴西祖母或长辈的人介绍接触到咖啡灌肠实践的。他对此深信不疑，称这让他的排便规律，且情绪状态保持平衡。然而，戴维兹警告不要过于频繁地进行。“成瘾是一个问题，”他说，“因为感觉真的太舒服了。一旦你做过一次，你就会说，‘我明天还要做。’”

医生的看法

医生的看法 不出所料，鉴于大多数人是在感受到西方医学失效后才发现咖啡灌肠的，主流胃肠病学并不支持这种做法。“咖啡灌肠基于一个错误的观念，即你正在清洗结肠中的毒素，但你的结肠并不是像肝脏那样清除毒素的器官，”在长滩从事私人执业 40 多年的胃肠病专家巴里·扎莫斯特（Barry Zamost）医生说道。“这完全违背了任何医生在 100 年间所学的所有逻辑和生理学知识。”

扎莫斯特记得几十年前第一次听说咖啡灌肠，当时以出演《草原上的小房子》和《波拿萨》而闻名的演员迈克尔·兰登（Michael Landon）在 1991 年被诊断出患有胰腺癌后，决定拒绝化疗而选择替代疗法。扎莫斯特说，在他四十年的私人执业生涯中，他经常看到因便秘而感到沮丧并尝试替代方法的患者，但口服疗法（如泻药、补充剂和处方药）仍然是最安全有效的治疗方法。

一项针对九名自行进行咖啡灌肠者的病例报告审查也得出结论，没有足够的证据证明这种做法对结肠有帮助，而且它可能会造成伤害。扎莫斯特表示，他认为人们不太可能通过咖啡灌肠给自己造成严重的伤害，尽管这种情况确实发生过。他还表示，在极少数情况下，对于严重便秘的患者，使用灌肠（而非咖啡灌肠）可以提供暂时性的缓解。但总的来说，他认为使用咖啡没有任何益处。至于为什么人们报告说非常喜欢这种方法？他说，这很容易解释。“每个人在排便后都会感觉舒服一些。所以，如果你给自己做一次灌肠，让你真正感觉到排空了，你会觉得很舒服。但这并不意味着你的健康状况得到了改善。”

核心结论

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与我最爱的流行歌星在时髦的健身房一起挥汗如雨

BODY DADA 的时髦把杆操课程融合了前卫艺术精神、极具冲击力的播放列表，偶尔还能偶遇名人。

作者：DEBORAH VANKIN

规则？被高估了！作为一名资深的艺术作家，我一直被达达主义（Dadaism）所吸引，这场前卫艺术运动拒绝传统，且不惧于打破所有规则。（一个“现成品”小便池雕塑？为什么不行呢！）因此，现在作为一名健康作家，我对 Body Dada 产生兴趣也就顺理成章了，这是一家在海兰公园（Highland Park）和银湖（Silver Lake）设有分店的把杆健身工作室。这个名字仅仅是一个朗朗上口的巧合吗？还是说这种锻炼方式试图用新规则来重新定义低冲击运动？“我们试图通过音乐和环境，将经典的把杆操转变为更具现代感的形式，”店主金·汤普森（Kim Thompson）说道，“达达主义的朋克摇滚精神让我产生了共鸣——通过打破某种事物的壁垒，以寻找其真正的本质。这就是我们在课程中尝试做的事情。”

在最近的一个工作日早晨，Body Dada 的招牌课程——恰如其分地命名为“Body Dada the Class”——几乎满员，大约有 10 名参与者。其中一位恰好是我目前最喜欢的流行歌星（！），而我在开车前往工作室时，听的正是她的专辑。在她身边的是另一位来自脱衣舞艺术（burlesque）世界的名人。

这门课程承诺提供基于经典的全身把杆操锻炼，通常包括温和的热身和等长（静态）支撑，并结合针对性的微小动作来增强肌肉、提高灵活性并磨练平衡感与协调性。我原以为那会是一个除了镜子和芭蕾把杆之外空无一物的简朴空间。然而，一踏入工作室，那种达达主义色彩——一种现代重塑的意味——便显而易见。闪烁的银色箔帘挂在前窗上，相邻的锻炼室配备了镜墙和把杆，沐浴在柔和的泡泡糖粉色灯光中。这是一个舒缓且放松的空间，预示着即将到来的乐趣。

音乐占据了很大比重。我们的教练卡米拉·阿拉纳（Camila Arana）播放了当代流行乐、电子舞曲（EDM）、80年代经典曲目和另类摇滚的混合曲目，课程以一种类似有氧舞蹈的热身开始，以促进血液循环。坦白说，在某个时刻，当我现实地站在我最喜欢的当代音乐艺术家之一身边，伴随着我最喜欢的 80 年代艺术家之一（黛比·哈利 Debbie Harry）的一首我最喜欢的歌曲（《Heart of Glass》）进行锻炼时，感觉大脑简直要融化了。不过，我扯远了。

课程中的大多数动作都与音乐同步——虽然这种锻炼是低冲击的，但也有高强度时刻。我们进行了有节奏的骨盆后倾和低蹲（low pliés），其中包含了一系列微动作，包括脉冲式收缩、旋转和深层大腿训练。不过不要被吓到：动作很简单，节奏很稳。

但这并不意味着轻松。我开车回家时，双腿感到灼热（是以一种积极的方式）。更不用说某位流行歌星的歌词在我脑海中不断循环。

氛围：Body Dada 感觉既时髦又具有社区感，且带有一丝古灵精怪。我被告知，银湖分店（海兰公园也有一家）在名人中尤其受欢迎。但汤普森表示，大多数会员只是寻找一种安全、低冲击的增强力量和拉伸方式的普通人，“这比瑜伽或普拉提更活泼”。尽管如此，这次锻炼——事实上是整个 Body Dada 的体验——感觉很随和且不张扬。阿拉纳的指导很容易跟上，并为每个序列提供修改方案。参与者的技能水平各异（有几个人看起来甚至是把杆操初学者），给人一种包容感。

“这是一种非常基于社区的氛围，”阿拉纳在课后告诉我，“而且这种锻炼——因为动作幅度很小且是低冲击的，所以对每个人来说都非常有效且安全。”

强度：这套 50 分钟的锻炼方案覆盖了身体每个区域的每组肌肉。汤普森认为，这就是为什么忙碌的

课程参与者在时尚的 Body Dada 芭蕾把杆工作室挥汗如雨，该工作室在银湖（Silver Lake）和海兰公园（Highland Park）设有格调高雅的分店。“这里有一种非常基于社区的氛围，”上方照片中那位热情友好的教练卡米拉·阿拉纳（Camila Arana）说道。

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名人们会被它吸引——因为它高效。我们在垫上练习和把杆练习之间交替，使用轻量哑铃、运动拉伸带和健身球。诚然，动作经过深思熟虑且精准，芭蕾把杆在需要时提供姿势支撑。但阿拉纳增强了动作幅度，提高了序列中的难度。而且“脉冲式”动作绝非儿戏——其中一项练习让我的小腿不停地颤抖。除了把杆练习，我们还进行了平板支撑系列、轻量俯卧撑和手臂训练，以及在垫子上的臀部和核心训练。做好出汗的准备。

关键因素：尽管使用了芭蕾把杆并专注于汤普森所称的“音乐驱动体验”，但参加这类（或任何）把杆课程并不需要舞蹈背景。然而：由于 Body Dada 是由汤普森创立的——她是一名毕业于加州艺术学院（Cal Arts）并在洛杉矶当代舞团（L.A. Contemporary Dance Company）表演过六年的舞者——因此音乐在所有 Body Dada 锻炼中都至关重要。播放列表随教练的不同而变化，但动作始终由节拍驱动。参与者对该工作室的 Body Party 课程赞不绝口，那是一门 80 年代风格的有氧舞蹈课。此外还有专注于力量构建的 Ballet Dada，以及节奏较慢、旨在拉伸酸痛紧绷肌肉的 Stretch and Chill 课程等。

“房间里的能量如此活跃，”汤普森在谈到 Body Dada 课程时说。“我们是在同情心而非惩罚的基础上进行锻炼。这是一种快乐至上的心态。”

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家的感觉

我的新邻居兼好友成了我的婆婆或岳母

直到离开伍德兰山（Woodland Hills），我才第一次对自己的与众不同感到如此局促不安。在洛杉矶长大直到12岁，

由于母亲是日本人，父亲是犹太人，这给我留下了许多关于身份认同的疑问。但我从未觉得自己完全格格不入。在学校里，我被各种族的孩子包围，从黑人、白人到波斯人和越南人。但后来，当我搬家——先是去法国，然后是亚利桑那州，接着在大学期间去了密歇根州和纽约——我从未感觉到有一种“家”的感觉。在没有单一宗教或文化依托的情况下，我继续感到自己像个无根之人。

毕业后，我很感激能回到加利福尼亚州。在疫情后搬入的新公寓楼里，有一天，我注意到一位优雅、娇小的亚裔女性正走向我隔壁的房门。我猜测她五十多岁。

“你一定是新搬来的邻居，”她说，“我是苏西（Susie）。”

作者：安娜·拉斯金德 (ANNA RASKIND)

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尽管当时赴约快迟到了，但我仍被她的外向和纽约口音所吸引。在此之前，我不记得见过任何一位在美长大的 50 岁以上亚裔。我认识的这个年龄段的人，比如我母亲的日本朋友们，都是在原籍国出生的。

“你徒步吗？”她问，“楼里有几个人经常一起去。你有机会应该加入我们。”

虽然我不是个徒步爱好者，但我觉得可以结交一群新朋友。除了我当时交往的那个男人，我的社交圈里大部分人都已经在疫情期间离开了加利福尼亚。所以，新朋友比我大 40 岁又怎样？尽管看起来很年轻，但事实证明苏西已经快 70 岁了。

当我们交换电话号码商量计划时，她问起我的姓氏。

“哦，拉斯金德。随我父亲，东欧犹太裔，”我说道。

“我的丈夫也是犹太人，”她微笑着说。

我注意到了她使用了“曾是”这个词，但决定不点破。

在太平洋沿岸的小径上，当我穿着新徒步靴在山脚下气喘吁吁、因恐惧而发抖时，苏西已经登顶，在上方为我加油。如果不是因为太担心会滚进大海，我一定会觉得这件事很可笑——一个在法律定义上属于老年人的女性，竟然在帮助一个 20 多岁的人。

我们很快成了好朋友，几乎每个周末都一起徒步。她向我分享了更多她那不可思议的人生故事：在 20 世纪 80 年代，她是投资银行和风险投资领域最早的女性之一，更不用说亚裔美国女性了。有趣的是，她还在亚利桑那州生活了很多年，并在那里抚养儿子，她的儿子和我一样，既是亚裔又是犹太裔。最后，她透露了更多关于丈夫的情况：在她的儿子洛基 13 岁时，丈夫突然去世，让她成为了单亲母亲。

“一个人慢慢变老，会感到孤独吗？”我问。

“不会，”她带着平静的神情说，“我和罗伯特在一起过了 25 年。这足够支撑我一生。”

她回忆起罗伯特多么幽默，在他们的第一次约会中，他让她笑得从椅子上掉了下来。他不知怎么地与她的中国家庭完美融合，大家一起吃土豆饼（latkes），对话中混合着意第绪语和上海话。

当苏西邀请我参加她的亲戚聚会时，我想：“这就是我失散多年的家人吗？”除了住在纽约的儿子，她的几乎所有亲属都在西海岸，于是我见到了她的兄弟姐妹、侄子和外甥，他们都和她一样善良且社交能力强。我很快与苏西世界里的每个人都建立了联系，以至于当我的父母从新泽西州来访时，他们也加入了我们的散步行列。

很久以来，我第一次感到一种名为“正常”的感觉。我们维持这种生活方式好几个月，直到有一天，我感到心中一阵不安，意识到我需要做出一个剧烈的改变。

我终于意识到，我和那个交往了几年的男人之间没有结果。

我去了苏西家，在她餐厅的桌边痛哭。

“我还能找到完美的另一半吗？”我问，“那种一切都能自然契合的人？”

她笑了。“能的，”她说，“我和我丈夫在一起时就是那样。”

作为一个新恢复单身的人，我发誓一定要找到那样一个人。

我需要改变一下生活节奏，于是接下来的几个月我在新泽西州度过，以便陪伴父母。我想念苏西，但想到至少她的儿子就在附近，这让我感到欣慰。

我开始进一步了解他。他只比我大五岁。我得知他也曾苦苦挣扎于身份认同问题。更令人惊讶的是，他刚从洛杉矶搬到布鲁克林，在洛杉矶的过去11年里，他的足迹遍布从西好莱坞到洛杉矶市中心的各个角落。

“在那儿，我找到了自我，”他说。

我还意识到他非常幽默。我告诉他我觉得他母亲很酷。“我们说的是同一个人吗？”他开玩笑地说道。他也很善良，比如会习惯性地为我撑门。苏西把他培养得很好。

当我回到东海岸时，我们处于同一个时区，每晚会FaceTime通话八个小时，一直聊到眼睛快睁不开为止。而且我意识到，他长得很帅。

我们当时都是单身。于是他约我约会。

我犹豫了几天。我对他的了解远不如对他母亲那样深。而且，如果两人不合适，我与她的关系会变成怎样？

“这就是那个我命中注定要遇见、能让一切都水到渠成的人吗？”我自问。

我答应了共进晚餐。

两年后，他向我求婚；几个月前，我们在帕萨迪纳举行了婚礼。

仪式前，苏西希望能有一个迹象表明罗伯特在注视着这一切。不可思议的是，在新郎与母亲共舞时，灯光闪烁了一下。

我知道，为了庆祝，除了这座塑造了我们、接纳了我们并帮助我们接纳彼此的城市，没有其他地方更合适。当我看向人群时，我看到了从小一起玩耍的表亲和最好的朋友，他们全部从伯班克、千橡市和圣克拉里塔开车赶来。在我们的华人、日本人和犹太人家庭面前，端上配有辣椒脆的土豆饼（latkes）并跳起霍拉舞（hora）——面对这些我已经非常熟悉的姻亲——我终于感到完全的正常，且宾至如归。

作者是一位作家，就职于科技行业。她正在撰写一本关于多元文化的随笔集。她原籍洛杉矶，现居纽约。

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处女座（8月23日-9月22日）：在厨房桌上修改的计划和不完美的条件下，你能做些什么？赢得战斗。在借来的空间、有限的资金和疲惫的双手中，你能做些什么？创造世界。

天秤座（9月23日-10月23日）：当你不知道下一步该做什么时，你继续让自己变得有用，创造便利，缓解痛苦并解决问题。

天蝎座（10月24日-11月21日）：事实是可以计数的。而真相往往需要被识别。今天，请透过数据去看它所指向的意义。

射手座（11月22日-12月21日）：你如此频繁地重复某些想法，以至于它们开始听起来像事实。今天，其中一个引起了你的注意。它值得质疑。

摩羯座（12月22日-1月19日）：尽管懒惰吧；这是明智的。某些类型的工作只会产生更多的工作。休息以其自身的方式具有生产力。

水瓶座（1月20日-2月18日）：你将找回列清单的乐趣——给自己一个机会，去完成划掉项目并看到进度具体化这一极具满足感的行为。

双鱼座（2月19日-3月20日）：一阵忙碌被分成了两大类：你能控制的事情和不能控制的事情。第一类的事情如此之多，以至于第二类几乎不值得再多想。

今日生日（8月30日）：在你的这个“足够之年”里，你意识到你拥有的所需之物总是充足的。它们轻易地来到你身边，而你也同样慷慨地分享，被卷入一股互惠、平衡且丰盈的潮流中。更多亮点：你将以时尚的方式出行。你将把学到的新东西应用于成功、获利且几乎立竿见影的结果中。遥远的联系变得亲近且甜蜜圆满。白羊座和天蝎座非常崇拜你。幸运数字：2, 40, 17, 30 和 8。

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编辑：PATTI VAROL

作者：Zhouqin Burnikel

横向

1 点心车的吸引力 6 空间球？ 10 《芝麻街》基础知识 14 拉链的替代品 19 具有凹陷菌盖的蘑菇 20 纳斯卡线条的所在地 21 科切拉美学 22 对穆斯林而言适合食用 23 从不放弃的奖金？ 26 — 酸 27 剧本的一部分 28 纠结于，搭配 "on" 29 某些合同谈判代表 30 育婴室的新成员 33 赢得……的心 35 航班信息板统计数据 37 快速会议？ 38 演员 Simu 39 大手笔消费？ 42 躺椅部件 44 Ibiza, por ejemplo 45 像生啤一样 47 完全兴奋 48 UFO 工程师 50 蓝顶早餐连锁店 53 反抗的象征 56 滴答走时 58 外出时可能会发出嗡嗡声的设备？ 61 厨房遮盖物 63 仅仅稍微 65 盘式高尔夫障碍物 66 蓝图细节 上周答案：

上周答案："GENERATION X"

纵向

咨询埃里克

亲爱的埃里克：我目前就读大学二年级，一直由自己出资支付学费。但我仍然在为未来的职业选择而苦恼。

迷茫的学生

我刚满 20 岁，感觉自己正落后于所有同龄人，而且在浪费钱。每个人似乎都已经知道自己想要什么样的生活和职业，而我仍然停滞不前。关于如何处理这种情况，您有什么建议吗？

亲爱的学生：首先，我想告诉你，你所做的事情既值得赞赏又充满挑战。独立支付学费绝非易事，所以请为此给自己一些肯定。

1 电小提琴接口 2 橙色寿司配料 3 冰球名将鲍比 4 像一场糟糕的分手 5 爵士——吉尼斯 6 部分测试中减轻焦虑的特性 7 在某种程度上是复核 8 曾被称为 corselet-gorge 的服装 9 由冰晶引起的光学效应 10 盗窃中的帮手 11 丢失羊的小女孩 12 道德纯洁 13 纯素牛奶选项 14 深地毯 15 揭露一切 16 裙装形状 17 裤子 18 笨拙地涉水

接下来，感到困惑或缺乏方向是很正常的，尤其是在大学生涯的这个阶段。校园里有很多资源可以帮助你了解自己和自己的兴趣，从职业中心到实习安置，再到课程顾问和导师制度。请以开放的心态利用这些资源。这种方式的益处之一是

67 带头 68 演员谢里丹 70 祈福的原因 72 \~ 下方的键 74 法律补遗？ 75 思考类文章？ 77 《这就是我们》导演肯 79 贸易展 81 宠坏的 83 精心刺绣的谎言？ 86 “每只一美元”的美味 88 《热带惊雷》演员尼克 89 黏稠的块状物 90 袜尖 91 食堂供应的食物 94 斯瓦希里语中的“狮子” 96 华盛顿精神队球员摩根 99 常用的煎锅海 mollusks 101 月球探险的绿灯？ 105 巴吞鲁日学校 106 嘻哈组合 Salt-N— 109 大量且大量 110 刻薄 111 粗略审视 112 虚拟人格 114 非光泽唇膏选项 116 极乐之境 118 星巴克尺寸 119 准备野餐午餐的人？ 124 渐渐熄灭 125 冰沙甜点 126 歌手 India.— 127 氛围 128 巨大的火球 129 融合在一起 130 有条件地给予 131 金丝雀饲料

停滞不前并不总是让人舒服，但这并不总是需要惊慌的原因。另一种思考方式是，你正在花必要的时间去观察、学习、计划和重新整顿。

如果你继续觉得不合适，请与你的顾问或值得信赖的学术导师讨论休学一年或转学到不同类型的学校。

24 之字形或之字形 25 类似于三文鱼的颜色 29 组织 30 令人打哈欠的 31 尽可能轻 32 车身修理店的特惠？ 34 任天堂虚拟人格 36 一点水分 39 知识上的死板者 40 世俗的 41 大平原的人民 43 随意定居在别处 46 辣椒爱好者的聚会？ 49 绿茶（Nokcha 或 sencha） 51 — fade：两侧剃光的发型 52 划船工具 54 嘈杂的候鸟 55 弯曲的

此外，请记住，比较并不总是真相。你的同龄人可能对想要去的地方有更清晰的想法，但他们也可能会改变主意，或者经历与你相同的怀疑。问问自己，某个同龄人追求的目标是否也是你为自己设定的目标。如果是，那么就采纳它们并将其适应到你的生活中。但如果不是，那么请停止将这些目标的客观存在作为折磨自己的方式。

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扑克 乔纳森·利特尔 (JONATHAN LITTLE)

我最近在一场买入金为 $3,500 的扑克锦标赛中目睹了一手牌，它说明了许多玩家常犯的一个明显错误。当时盲注为 200 / 400，一名风格松散且激进的玩家在 40,000 的有效筹码中加注到 800，小盲注跟注，而我们的“英雄”（Hero）在大盲位用 9♥ 8♠ 跟注，这完全没问题。

翻牌为 10♦ 7♥ 2♥，给英雄带来了两端顺子听牌以及一个较弱的后门同花听牌。小盲注和英雄都过牌给初始加注者，后者在 2,400 的底池中下注 1,200。小盲注弃牌。

此时，英雄可以选择加注或跟注。由于底池赔率极佳，跟注是可以接受的，但这并不是一个有吸引力的打法，因为转牌可能会被全部过牌，然后到了河牌，英雄将处于不利位置，面对一个如果构建得当就能轻松防御河牌下注的范围。加注通常是最佳打法，因为这能给英雄带来更好的赢底池机会，且在没中牌继续诈唬时也更有利。

英雄加注到 3,600，对手跟注，转牌是 3♠。

虽然对于英雄继续诈唬来说，这是牌组中最糟糕的牌之一，但考虑到他在摊牌价值方面持有范围中最差的手牌之一，且仍具有相当数量的权益，他可能仍应再次下注。

英雄在 9,600 的底池中下注 6,800，对手跟注，河牌是 Q♥。

此时，英雄可以轻松地进行一次诈唬，并使用较大的下注尺寸。

请注意，红心 Q 阻挡了对手范围中可能存在的许多同花组合（A♥ Q♥, K♥ Q♥, Q♥ J♥, Q♥ 10♥, Q♥ 9），使得他实际持有同花的可能性降低。英雄的 9♥ 也阻挡了一些同花（A♥ 9♥, K♥ 9♥, J♥ 9♥, 10♥ 9♥, 9♥ 8♥），这使得对手更有可能持有某种在面对大额下注时应当弃牌的边际成手牌。

英雄没有用最好的诈唬手牌之一进行显而易见的诈唬，而是犯了过牌的错误。

对手随后过牌，用 A♣ 7♠ 赢得了底池，而这正是那些在面对实质性河牌下注时几乎肯定会弃牌的手牌之一。虽然有些人可能会试图为英雄的过牌辩护，称对手可能是一个无论牌面如何都不会弃牌的“跟注站”，但如果真是那样，英雄一开始就不应该在翻牌圈进行过牌-加注。

这是一个必须在三条街全部诈唬的场景。如果做不到这一点，英雄在长期内将很难在扑克中获胜。

利特尔是一名职业扑克玩家，在现场锦标赛中的总盈利超过 $9.300 万。

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A firetruck passes the Plaskett fire as it burns toward Highway 1 in Big Sur. While firefighters struggle to contain the Timber fire nearby, the Plaskett blaze exploded Friday and Saturday. CALIFORNIA, B3

They have a lot to say about AI

Hollywood's voice actors worry that it's taking their jobs, and they're fighting back.

By Nilesh Christopher

Hollywood's voice actors — one of the first groups to wrestle with artificial intelligence replacement — are battling one another over how to deal with AI.

Big, established names are using it to make more money. Non-stars say the number of jobs has plummeted and that they are being tricked into training their replacements.

Unions want further restrictions on the technology. Some actors are resisting the urge to create cheap clones to do work, but many nonunion freelancers say they have no choice.

"I'm so afraid," said Stacy Rivera, 34, a Los Angeles-based voice actor who does work for commercials, Netflix and others and is resisting the temptation to let her voice be used for AI. "I don't know if what I'm doing now is going to be an option in the next five years."

Still, AI voices are imperceptibly taking over screens and speakers.

A clone of Michael Caine's voice narrates the 13-hour audiobook of the "Odyssey." The British actor has licensed his voice to ElevenLabs, an AI voice company in New York. Matthew McConaughey uses its technology to create a Spanish-language version of his newsletter.

ElevenLabs' voice marketplace features clones of dozens of personalities — including actress Judy Garland, physicist Richard Feynman and popular characters such as Mr. Potato Head for creators to legally license and get compensated for their use.

Well-known actors are getting millions of dollars to allow their voices to be cloned to become a voice assistant, said David Lawrence XVII, a veteran actor who is part of the SAG-AFTRA audiobook steering committee that approves [See Voice, A11]

Rare cancer stalks children in O.C. suburb

Six cases of Ewing sarcoma strike Ladera Ranch

By Clara Harter

Seventeen-year-old Brody Matteson went through hell in the last year of his life. Feeding tubes, blood transfusions, ambulance rides, intense nausea and bone-deep pain.

He fought with astonishing courage, drawing on years of grit honed on the football field, but the disease continued to consume him.

Brody died in March after a 20-month battle with Ewing sarcoma — a bone cancer so rare only around 200 children and teens are diagnosed with it across the United States a year, according to the American Cancer Society.

After his diagnosis and death, Brody's parents received messages from other families in Ladera Ranch whose children had suffered from the same uncommon disease.

Alarm bells started ringing. Members of the Orange County community tallied at least six cases of Ewing sarcoma diagnosed among children and young adults between 2013 and 2024.

"There definitely is cause for concern for members of this community," said Dr. Janet Yoon, a pediatric hematologist-oncologist at City of Hope who specializes in [See Cancer, A8]

BONNIE Regan received this necklace when her son, Ryan, was born. Ryan died last year. "He was our only child, so he was the center of our universe."
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Lawyer of ‘miracles’ drew in immigrants

JASON ARMOND Los Angeles Times
SYLVIA VELAZQUEZ says Alexandra Lozano "seemed like a good person who could help me."

By Itzel Luna

Sylvia Velazquez's shrine to the Virgin Mary in her South Los Angeles home was once adorned with a mug, pencils and an agenda from Alexandra Lozano's law firm — an image of Lozano's long, blond hair, her signature red lipstick and her wide smile stamped on the branded merchandise.

The 57-year-old Mexican immigrant often prayed to the holy figure, asking her to protect Lozano, a famed immigration lawyer whom she had paid \$15,000 to help her get a U.S. visa.

"When I signed my contract with Lozano, I got home and I cried to my virgencita," said Velazquez, who works as a hairdresser out of her home. "This woman seemed like a good person who could help me."

It all felt like divine inter- vention, she said, until a few

[See Lawyer, A16]

Newsom revises fire liability plan

The governor overhauls legislation that would have sent most costs of utility-sparked blazes to insurers. BUSINESS, A10

LAPD releases video of beating

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Politicians in pot scandal sentenced

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Deal is reached on regulation of data centers

California lawmakers compromise over legislation addressing facilities' energy use.

BY DAKOTA SMITH AND BLANCA BEGERT

SACRAMENTO — After weeks of intense negotiation, state lawmakers on Friday reached a compromise on legislation to regulate energy use by California's growing data center industry, action triggered by community anger over the facilities and fears of high utility bills in some communities.

The goal, according to legislators and advocates, is to protect consumers from growing electricity costs driven upward by the sprawling facilities and to track the centers' immense energy and water consumption.

Business groups representing tech companies argued that some of the proposed restrictions and requirements, along with California's high energy costs and lack of available land, would make it difficult for data centers to open in the state.

Municipalities risk missing out on tax revenues and jobs from the centers if the industry goes elsewhere, they said.

Two bills to regulate the controversial industry consumed the state Legislature in the final weeks of the 2026 session, drawing in Gov. Gavin Newsom and industry organizations and lobbyists representing some of the world's most influential companies, including Google, Meta, Amazon and artificial intelligence firms such as Anthropic and OpenAI.

Proposed legislation by Sen. Steve Padilla (D-Chula Vista) and Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur (D-Los Angeles), finalized Friday, would establish special rules for data centers' elec-

[See Data centers, A7]

Josh Kushner's road to ownership of the L.A. Lakers

largely shunned.

BY LAURENCE DARMIENTO

When news broke that Mark Walter's insurance businesses were under federal investigation and that the Lakers and Dodgers owner might be in financial trouble, Josh Kushner sensed a business opportunity.

The New York venture capitalist called former Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger — his partner in a bid for a new Las Vegas NBA franchise — wondering if they might instead snap up Los Angeles' marquee basketball team.

The two quickly agreed, Kushner contacted Walter and within 72 hours the deal was done to avoid a bidding war. And with that, the younger brother of Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, was thrust into a media spotlight he has

But while Kushner may be relatively unknown compared with his politically active brother, he has rapidly and quietly risen to the upper echelons of business, with an estimated net worth of \$16.7 billion.

His Thrive Capital, which he founded in 2010 while attending Harvard Business School, has more than \$65 billion under management. Its investments include some of the world's top young companies, including OpenAI, SpaceX and rapidly expanding Southern California defense contractor Anduril.

Kushner declined to be interviewed.

People who work with the investor credit his business acumen, low-key demeanor and daunting work ethic, qualities that have attracted partners, founders and mentors alike — including [See Kushner, A12]

A giant leap in NASA's search for 'Earth twins'

Roman telescope will use JPL tech to shed light on the mysteries of the universe.

By Noah Haggerty

NASA is set to launch its latest multibillion-dollar telescope Sunday morning, as scientists gather at Florida's Space Coast and await liftoff with bated breath.

After riding atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope promises to vastly expand our knowledge of planets beyond the solar system and advance the search for elusive “Earth twins.” The observatory will also help scientists better understand the cosmic tug-of-war between invisible “dark matter” and “dark energy” — a contest whose outcome could either expand or collapse the universe.

Massive teams of engineers and scientists — including personnel from Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory — have worked for more than a decade to develop the \$4.3-billion telescope. As a member of NASA's class of "flagship" astrophysics missions, its acclaimed colleagues include the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes.

Roman, named after the woman at NASA who championed the Hubble telescope, will run explorational laps around the 36-year-old observatory. It will view the heavens in the same crisp detail as Hubble, but can survey an area of sky in one year that would take Hubble 1,000 years.

“This truly takes a village,” said Vanessa Bailey, JPL instrument scientist for the coronagraph sensor that will aid in the search for other worlds. “I grew up in rural South Dakota, and the closest town to me had about 2,000 people. There have been more than 2,000 people who have contributed in some way just to the

[See Telescope, A16]

PERSPECTIVES

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T oday we discuss political forecasting, death and taxes.

Goodness! We're just 65 days from election day.

Time flies when you're watching American democracy teeter.

Still think Republicans will lose the House?

Your friendly political columnist makes no predictions. It's hard to know the future, seeing as how it hasn't happened yet. But our best guide — historical trends — suggest Democrats are exceedingly likely to seize control on Nov. 3.

They need only flip three seats and, going back well over half a century, the average midterm gain for a party out of the White House is more than two dozen. Even with the advantage the GOP engineered through aggressive gerrymandering, the dead weight of a deeply unpopular president threatens to drag down a number of Republicans in competitive and some otherwise-not-so-competitive races.

Right now, the biggest question seems to be whether November brings a blue wave, a big blue wave or merely a ripple.

What about the fight for control of the Senate?

That's where things have gotten interesting.

Democrats still need almost every key race to break their way," Jessica Taylor, who tracks Senate races for the Cook Report, wrote in a recent analysis. But, she went on, "in a wave election akin to 2006" — when Democrats gained six Senate seats — "even states that President Donald Trump won by double digits could move within Democrats' reach."

That's exactly what's happened as inflation festers, the war with Iran drags on and Trump's political standing steadily deteriorates.

Carolina, where former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper is running against former national GOP Chairman Michael Whatley, a Cooper victory seems much more likely than not. A win there would give Democrats one of the four seats they need to flip.

Then there's a handful of red-state seats that Republicans are fighting to hang on to, in Alaska, Iowa, Ohio and Texas.

Do tell.

In Alaska, former Rep. Mary Portola managed to win nearly 50% of the vote in the Aug. 18 primary, which is noteworthy given she ran on the same ballot as the GOP incumbent, Dan Sullivan, who finished second. (Another Dan Sullivan also appeared on the ballot; under Alaska's top-four system, both Sullivans will advance to a November runoff, along with Portola. (The fourth slot is pending.)

In Ohio, former Sen. Sherrod Brown, who was elected three times before losing his 2024 reelection bid amid a Trump landslide, faces Republican Jon Husted, who was appointed to fill the seat vacated when JD Vance became vice president. Husted has

proved a less-than sure-footed candidate while Brown is waging a strong comeback campaign.

In Iowa, Rep. Ashley Hinson (a USC grad and former KABC-TV intern!) is running against state Rep. Josh Turek in a state that's been hammered by Trump's tariffs and the surging price of gas — especially the diesel fuel that sustains Iowa's all-important agricultural economy. Turek could also benefit from the strong campaign being waged by gubernatorial front-runner Rob Sand, who tops the Democratic ticket.

Then there's Texas.

The land of dashed Democratic dreams!

Obviously, you know your political history.

Democrats haven't won a statewide contest in Texas since 1994, despite no end of hype and hope. This time, they're pinning their dreams on state Rep. James Talarico, a seminarian and viral sensation. What's making the race highly competitive, however, is the singularly defective GOP nominee, Ken Paxton, whose splotchy resume includes indictment, impeachment and alleged adultery. On top of all that, he's been a pretty lousy fundraiser and has yet to bind the wounds left by a savage GOP primary.

So everything is coming up Democratic roses?

Not necessarily. Two states they're counting on to flip the Senate, Maine and Michigan, have grown problematic.

Maine once looked to be the best Democratic pickup opportunity. Incumbent Susan Collins is the lone Republican running in a state Kamala Harris carried in 2024. Then came Graham Platner, along with his inflammatory social media postings, Nazi tattoo and allegations of sexual assault. He stepped aside in July and was replaced by Troy Jackson, a former logger and state Senate president, who has considerable ground to make up after his late start.

Collins, who's been re-elected four times, has a history of winning tough races. The Platner debacle certainly hasn't helped Jackson or Democrats.

Meanwhile, in Michigan, the progressive Abdul El-Sayed inched past a more centrist alternative to win the Democratic nomination. The question is whether he's too far left (and, frankly, whether there's too much latent anti-Muslim sentiment) for El-Sayed to prevail in that purple state. The Republican nominee, former Rep. Mike Rogers, ran two years ago and lost by less than half a percentage point.

Good to know. But a lot can happen in the next 65 days. Exactly.

That's why we stick to columnizing. If you want predictions, ask a mystic or consult your Magic 8 Ball.

Oh?

At the start of this election cycle, it looked as if winning control was all but out of Democratic reach.

There are 35 contests on the ballot in November. Of those, nearly two dozen are effectively over before they've even started, given the advantage one party holds over the other. Of the remainder, most are being held in states Trump won in 2024, which makes them, broadly speaking, much friendlier terrain for Republicans.

Democrats need to flip four Senate seats and until fairly recently that inhospitable political map made it seem like a nearly insurmountable challenge.

And now?

Now smart handicappers, like the folks at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, say control of the Senate is a toss-up.

“Republicans still retain a structural advantage given the partisan challenges of the map, and

Democratic jubilee!

Not so fast. A toss-up means it's just as likely Republicans will retain their Senate majority.

Understood. So break it down.

Let's start with those things Democrats have going for them, with the usual caveats ...

... There are no certainties but death and taxes. Got it. Go on.

At one time, Georgia looked to be a toss-up as Democrat Jon Ossoff sought reelection in one of those battleground states Trump carried. But Ossoff has raised a boatload of money and drawn a less-than-world-beating opponent in Republican Rep. Mike Collins. Lately, the buzz around Ossoff has been focused more on a potential 2028 run for president than his November reelection.

Meantime, in North

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Plan to cut water worries cities, farmers

A PERSON stands at an overlook near the Wahweap Marina near Page, Ariz.
JOHN LOCHER Associated Press

Areas that depend on the Colorado River face uncertainty and fear shortages.

BY WUFEI YU AND DORANY PINEDA

PHOENIX — On the outskirts of Phoenix, a small town with a huge reliance on the Colorado River has capped growth, revived old wells and struck water deals.

But Cave Creek Mayor Robert Morris can't shake the real possibility that it's not enough to keep the desert community of about 5,000 people afloat well into the future. And a recent federal plan to address a deepening crisis in the river basin won't help.

Cave Creek gets nearly all of its water from the river, which serves 40 million people across the U.S. West and has been dwindling because of climate change, demand and overuse. The town already was forced to make cuts this year and it stands to lose more under a new federal plan.

Morris likened the situation to planning for a meteor strike. "You can see it coming, but you can't get out of the way and you don't know what the damage is going to be," he said.

The uncertainty stretches across seven U.S. states, tribal nations and Mexico. Farmers are deciding which crops are worth the investment. Phoenix could lose some municipal and industrial water for the first time and turn to backup supplies. And residents could face even more costly water.

Nevada raised the stakes last week by suing the Interior Department and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, saying basic needs in the Las Vegas region will go unmet if the area has to absorb planned reductions of up to 70% of its Colorado River water in the next decade.

The bureau said Thurs-day it does not comment on litigation.

"The uncertainty is going to continue to build in the wrong direction," said Tom

Buschatzke, director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources.

Western reservoirs see record lows

In the U.S. West, water is stored primarily in reservoirs, aquifers and snowpacks. But a record snow drought means there's far less water to recharge those sources.

The two largest reservoirs in the country serve as barometers of health for the Colorado River system: Lake Mead and Lake Powell. Both hit record lows this month.

Eight other reservoirs operated by the Bureau of Reclamation recently recorded the lowest levels in at least the last 30 years. Among them is Elephant Butte Lake in New Mexico that's critical for supplying water for crops in southern New Mexico, Texas and Mexico. The Green Mountain Reservoir serves the western part of Colorado, and the Guernsey Reservoir in Wyoming funnels water to farmers in the eastern part of the state and western Nebraska.

Under the Bureau of Reclamation's plan, California, Nevada and Arizona will collectively reduce water use by 1.25 million acre-feet — enough to fill over 600,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools — annually in the next two years, with the possibility of larger cuts depending on conditions. Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico are not required to make cuts for now but could voluntarily reduce water.

While El Niño could bring intense moisture to the northern Rockies and the Southwest in the coming months, it won't erase decades of drought.

“Drought is a slow-moving phenomena and it can take some time to come into it and also come out of it,” said David Mocko, senior research scientist who authored a recent U.S. Drought Monitor map.

Farmers are reluctant to plant

John Boelts grows vegetables, melons, durum wheat and other crops in Yuma, Ariz. — a region that produces about 90% of leafy greens eaten in North America during the winter.

Farmers there have high-priority rights and may avoid cuts to their Colorado River supply over the next two years but, Boelts said, the reprieve isn't enough to make longer-term plans. That makes farmers reluctant to plant new acreage.

Citrus, date and other orchard crops that thrive in the region take years to become commercially productive, he said.

"There's no food that we grow in a hurry," said Boelts, the Arizona Farm Bureau president. "Beef takes years to produce. The lettuce you eat today? A farmer was working on how they would grow that crop six-plus months ago."

Ray Martinez grows alfalfa on a reservation that's home to the Colorado River Indian Tribes. The tribe holds some of the river's oldest rights, and while its Arizona allocation is huge, an old irrigation system and the lack of infrastructure have kept much of the water out of reach.

Martinez and the water department are concerned about having enough water to finish this growing season. He has left some fields unplanted for years to help prop up Lake Mead. If the reservoir keeps dropping, he said, surface water coming to him and neighboring farms will be further limited.

“Unfortunately, Mother Nature has its own way of doing things, and we have no control of that,” he added.

Yu and Pineda write for the Associated Press. Pineda reported from Los Angeles.

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Ontario premier has outsized answer for Trump

ONTARIO PREMIER Doug Ford unveils a giant sign for Lake Ontario at Fifty Point Conservation Area.

Doug Ford responds to ‘Lake America’ decree with a giant ‘Lake Ontario’ sign.

By Rob Gillies

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford answered President Trump's "Lake America" decree Saturday with a billboard-sized message on the Canadian shoreline — "Lake Ontario. Now and Always" — as Canadian leaders met the move with ridicule rather than outrage.

Wearing a Team Canada soccer jersey, Ford unveiled the sign near Grimsby, Canada, and posed for photographs. The 24-by-12-foot sign stands on 6-foot legs, putting its top about 18 feet above the ground — roughly two stories high. The message is repeated in French.

The display followed Trump's executive order directing U.S. federal agencies to call Lake Ontario "Lake America." After months of tariffs, threats to make Canada the 51st U.S. state and attacks on its leaders, the reaction in Canada has mixed defiance with mockery.

Ford said Trump was trying to rename the lake because Ontario and Canada were “standing up for ourselves” and argued the name would outlast the president.

“Long after President Trump is gone, it will still be called Lake Ontario,” Ford said in a video posted on social media.

Canadians mock Trump

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew compared Trump to an aging rock band trying to revive an old hit.

“You know when a rock band is really over the hill and you see them like in a casino playing some song from like 50 years ago. I think that's the part of Donald Trump's presidency we're at now. Like he thought they had a real hit, a real golden oldie, with the Gulf of Mexico,” Kinew said, referring to Trump's executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. “And he's trying to bring back that, and he's trying to play the hits for his base. But I think everybody here thinks it's a little sad and it's not his best work."

The mockery was not limited to politicians. Canadian historian Robert Bothwell was even more scathing.

"The greatest country on earth takes this moron seriously?" Bothwell said.

But Bothwell said the dispute was more serious than the jokes, arguing Trump's broader aim was "to subordinate Canada and at best make it a colony, at worst absorb it into the United States."

Nelson Wiseman, professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, said Trump “would like Canada to act like a vassal state, but it refuses to do so. That irritates him.”

Trading barbs over collapsed talks

The dispute comes as relations between the long-time allies worsen over trade. Negotiations collapsed last week, both governments accused the other of making late demands, and Canada announced retaliatory tariffs set to take effect next month.

Trump's order also came amid an escalating war of words with Ford. In an interview with the Associated Press, Ford said Ronald Reagan would be “throwing up” over Trump's tariff policies and “disgusted with President Trump.”

Trump fired back by dismissing Ford's comments as "bluster," calling him Prime Minister Mark Carney's "flunky" and mocking him as the "less charismatic, intelligent, and overall unimpressive brother" of the late Toronto Mayor Rob Ford.

Trump continued promoting the new name Saturday, reposting a meme showing Canada geese with Trump-like blond hair firing rifles as they “protected” Lake America.

Trump has repeatedly used maps to make political points. A “Gulf of America” map was displayed for a time in the Oval Office, and Trump has posted images depicting Canada as part of the U.S. or as the 51st state.

A name with Indigenous origins

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Huron Indigenous people's word "oni- atarí:io," which means "lake of shining waters." The Canadian province of Ontario, founded in 1867, took its name from the lake.

Wendat Nation Grand Chief Pierre Picard, whose people historically lived from the St. Lawrence Valley to the Great Lakes and whose language gave Lake Ontario its name, called Trump's move an attempt to erase Indigenous history.

"I want to tell him that it is unacceptable for us, as a nation, to have a president who can eradicate our history, our culture and our identity," Picard said.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney rejected the move, noting the lake's Indigenous roots and that the name predates both Canadian Confederation and the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Trump cannot require Canada to adopt the new name.

Kurds in Syria watch warily as their forces fold into the military

BADERKHAN AHMAD Associated Press
A BOY in Qamishli, Syria, passes murals of Kurds battling Islamic State fighters.

By Hogir al Abdo

QAMISHLI, Syria

QAMISHLI, Syria — Kurds in Syria's northeast regarded with mixed emotions the announcement that the Kurdish-led force that once controlled the area has been dissolved, while international players with a stake in Syria welcomed the step.

Mazloum Abdi, commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, on Tuesday announced the official dissolution of the group, which for years controlled a de facto autonomous zone that at one point encompassed about 25% of Syria.

The group lost much of the land it had held in a government offensive in January. Its fighters are now being integrated into the official state military and the civilian institutions it controlled are being handed over to the state.

The transition has unfolded more smoothly than many expected, and interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa has promised to strengthen the rights of Kurds, who were long marginalized under the rule of the Assad dynasty before he took power.

Many Kurds initially regarded Al-Sharaa's government with suspicion. Some of the insurgent groups that took part in the offensive that ousted former Syrian

President Bashar Assad had also clashed with the SDF in the past.

Giving the new system a chance

But Mohammed al Mohammed, a civil society activist in Qamishli, said he has faith in Abdi, who led a yearslong battle against Islamic State militants.

"Our trust is that the general [Abdi] and his team will be able to work for the interest of the Kurdish people and be able to secure our rights," he said. "Our rights are basic rights — being able to speak in our own language, to live on our land, to be able to manage our land ourselves, and not to be assaulted as Kurds, as it happened during Assad's regime."

Eva Sheikh Mousa, from the town of Amuda, west of Qamishli, said the SDF as an organization is not important to her as long as Kurdish rights are respected.

“Whoever secures the rights of the Kurds, the right of speaking our own language, working freely in our farms, along with political rights and if we can be active players in the new Syria, that's what the Kurds are looking for," she said. "It's not that SDF is gone and so the Kurds are gone too."

Some were more wary of the changes taking place. Jwan Mohammed was displaced from the town of Afrin in a 2018 offensive by Turkish forces and allied Syrian opposition fighters. Kurdish civilians as well as SDF fighters were pushed out of areas seized in the offensive, although some of the displaced have now begun to return.

Mohammed said he agrees with integration with the national military but is unhappy to see the SDF end as an organization.

The SDF “made great sacrifices and they fought against the Islamic State,” he said. “Now, they say the name of SDF doesn’t exist anymore. It is too much and it is hard.”

Residents of the formerly SDF-controlled area have also been hard hit by price increases since the central government took control and removed fuel subsidies. Protests have broken out in recent months over rising prices and deteriorating living conditions.

International praise for the disbanding

But the integration of the northeast has given a major boost to Al-Sharaa's government, which has struggled to unify the country as it begins to recover from a nearly 14-year civil war.

The announcement of the SDF's disbandment was praised by international players.

French President Emmanuel Macron in a statement Wednesday congratulated Syria on the “decisive step taken yesterday in the process of the peaceful integration of the Syrian Democratic Forces into the Syrian

World's unofficial youngest king, crowned at 3 in Uganda, dies at 34

By Rodney Muhumuza

KAMPALA, Uganda — Oyo Nyimba, a tribal monarch in Uganda who ascended his ancient throne as an infant and fascinated world leaders as a boy king, has died. He was 34.

The death of the king of Tooro was announced early Friday by Prime Minister Calvin Rwomiire Akiiki.

"The continuity of the Crown is assured," the Tooro premier's statement said. "His Majesty leaves behind a Prince as his heir, whose identity will be formally revealed at the appropriate time, in accordance with the traditions and customs of Tooro Kingdom."

The death has shocked many Ugandans who didn't know the king was being treated for an unknown illness abroad, and tributes were issued Friday.

Tooro authorities had assured Ugandans that Oyo remained alive but in critical condition, forcing many Ugandans to suddenly come to terms with his death at a relatively young age.

“This is very difficult to comprehend,” Deputy Parliament Speaker Thomas Tayebwa said.

King Oyo, as he was best known, was coronated in 1995 at the age of 3 after his father's death. He was a curious child in colorful robes and an object of adoration for his hundreds of thousands of subjects. At his coronation, he went through a series of tribal rituals and emerged as King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV.

Oyo held the unofficial title of the world's youngest king, a mesmerizing figure even for world leaders introduced to him at national events. He led his people via regents appointed by the kingdom until he came of age at 18.

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was one of those who befriended the Tooro royal family as if they were part of his extended family. Gadhafi made multiple trips to Uganda and supported Oyo and the queen mother for years before Gadhafi's death in October 2011.

TOORO King Oyo, then 18, assumed his full duties in 2010 in Fort Portal, Uganda.

As he grew older, Oyo was known as a quiet man who protected his privacy. Still unmarried at his death, he was widely seen as Uganda's most eligible bachelor. In September, the parliamentary speaker pledged to pay the bride price whenever Oyo decided to get married, to which the king in his throne smiled.

MARC HOFER Associated Press

Tooro is one of the ancient kingdoms of Uganda.

Banned after independence from British colonial rule by a republican president who said he wanted to unify the country, traditional kingdoms were restored in 1993.

They have no political authority but wield authority as guardians of tribal culture.

The seat of Oyo's kingdom is a remote city in west-

King is mourned as Norway enters new royal era

MOURNERS stand in the rain Friday to watch as King Harald V's remains arrive at the Royal Palace in Oslo.
HEIKO JUNGE Associated Press

City halls, churches open on a Saturday to help honor Harald, 89, succeeded by his son.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

OSLO — Tens of thousands of mourners paid their respects to Norway's King Harald V on Saturday, placing flowers and condolence cards outside the royal palace in Oslo a day after the monarch died at 89.

A sea of colorful flowers covered Slottsplassen, the square in front of the palace, as a steady stream of Norwegians filed past. A palace gardener removed some bouquets on the south side of the palace to keep pathways clear, Norwegian broadcaster NRK reported. Palace workers also collected cards soaked after a nightly downpour and dried them to preserve the mourners' messages for posterity, NRK reported.

Across the country, churches and city halls opened specially on Saturday so people could light candles and write down their thoughts about the deceased king in condolence books.

The coffin arrived at the royal palace Friday evening from the National Hospital in Oslo where Harald died.

"It's special, intimate and lovely. I'm placing my right hand on my chest in gratitude to him and the royal family," Roni Ervik, 46, told NRK as he paid his respects. He said he was also paying tribute to the late king on behalf of his family, who are from western Norway.

Harald V died Friday morning and his 53-year-old son, Crown Prince Haakon, became King Haakon VIII.

Haakon adopted the motto “All for Norway,” which dates back to his great-grandfather. His wife became Queen Mette-Marit, while his oldest child, Ingrid

Alexandra, became crown princess and heir to the throne.

Haakon is well acquainted with his royal obligations. As his father aged and his health declined in recent years, he stepped in as the country's regent on several occasions.

On Saturday afternoon, the new king and Crown Princess Ingrid Alexandra welcomed Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store and the presiding bishop of the Lutheran Church of Norway to the palace where King Harald's coffin was lying in state, the royal palace said in a statement.

Haakon was to address the people of Norway in his first speech as king on Saturday night in which he is expected to eulogize his father.

On Sunday, the Church of Norway is holding memorial services across the country, with the royal family expected to attend the service at Asker Church southwest of Oslo, the palace said.

His tasks in the near future will include shoring up support for the monarchy following controversies over his wife's past contacts with deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his stepson's rape conviction.

A date for the funeral has not been set, but the country is officially in a state of mourning and some people decided to postpone celebrations such as weddings and baptisms until after the mourning period has passed, NRK reported.

Norway's monarchy has old roots, tracing its origins to King Harald Fairhair in the ninth century. When Norway regained its independence from Sweden in 1905, three-quarters of voters in a national plebiscite approved restoring the monarchy. Today, the role is largely symbolic as power lies with an elected parliament, but the country's royal family retains a role in promoting the wealthy nation around the world.

Scientists investigate whether herpes caused sardine die-off

BY MICHELLE GUMEDE

JOHANNESBURG — Scientists in South Africa are investigating why masses of sardines have washed up dead or dying along parts of the country's western and southern coast — and whether a herpes virus detected in the fish is responsible.

The mass mortality of sardines this month has so far stumped the country's Department of Forestry,

Fisheries and the Environment, though scientists have come to at least one conclusion: It is the first time the virus in question — pilchard herpesvirus, or PHV — has been identified in sardines off South Africa.

PHV, which was linked to two mass sardine mortality events in Australia in the 1990s, can cause inflammation and thickening of sardines' gills, which interferes with their oxygen uptake, according to the South African environment department.

Sardines and pilchards are the same type of fish, with sardines being the younger, smaller ones.

PHV is a fish virus and poses no known risk to human health, the department said, and its detection does not mean that healthy sardines caught commercially or canned sardine products are unsafe to eat.

Dozens of sardines taken from affected areas, some dead and some alive, are being examined by scientists at the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity and a local university.

In some initial results, dead fish collected from the mass mortality events showed consistently high levels of PHV, the department said in a statement, while live fish that were examined had varied levels of the virus.

Scientists have also considered whether harmful algae found in the ocean or unusually cold sea temperatures or low oxygen conditions might be responsible for the sardine deaths, but “the evidence increasingly points to PHV as the leading explanation,” the environment department said.

Dalene Vosloo, a biological sciences lecturer at South Africa's University of KwaZulu-Natal who is not involved in the investigation, said the herpes virus may not tell the whole story and "it remains possible that multiple factors contributed to the mortality event."

Changes in water quality or temperature can make fish more vulnerable to dis- ease, she said.

While the investigation continues, the sardine deaths have caused other complications. The Koeberg Nuclear Power Station north of Cape Town on South Africa's west coast had to cut power by $50\%$ at one of its two units after dead sardines clogged a sea-water intake, the company that runs the station said.

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4 plead guilty to ambulance arson

Jewish community's vehicles were destroyed in London earlier this year.

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LONDON — Four men pleaded guilty Friday to destroying four Jewish community ambulances in an arson attack in north London earlier this year that many said was a direct result of the start of the Iran war.

Sentencing will take place in the spring of 2027 at the conclusion of a separate trial involving another man charged in connection with the ambulance attack, Justice Bobbie Cheema-Grubb said at London's Central Criminal Court.

Hamza Iqbal, 20; Rehan Khan, 19; Judex Atshatshi and Saif Ali, both 18, faced a charge of destroying or damaging property and of being reckless as to whether life would be endangered.

The four ambulances torched in the early hours of March 23 were owned by Hatzola, a Jewish volunteered charity operating in the Golders Green area of north London.

The ambulances each cost around \$340,000.

The attack was one of several incidents deemed to have been antisemitic that took place in the weeks after the U.S. and Israel first launched attacks on Iran on Feb. 28.

Three of the defendants were said to have set fire to the fully stocked vehicles, while a fourth waited in a car. The resulting blaze caused gas canisters inside the ambulances to explode, and nearby apartments and a synagogue were also damaged by the fire.

Prosecutor Leo Seelig suggested the incident had a

Dutch institute warns of potentially lethal Trump-shaped ecstasy pills

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THE HAGUE — A Dutch drug addiction and mental health institute warned users on Friday about potentially lethal ecstasy pills shaped to look like the head of U.S. President Trump.

The respected Trimbos Institute said that several of the pills have been handed in recently at a network of centers that test drugs for users before they take them.

“Absolutely do not use these pills,” the institute warned.

It released a photo of the pills that have a depiction of Trump's head on one side and on the other side "NL" and "Trump" stamped into the surface on either side of a vertical line. One of the pills has a green face and another is yellow.

The institute warned in a “Red Alert” published on its website and social media that they contain a high concentration of a chemical called PMMA, or para-methoxymethamphetamine, that is similar to MDMA, the active ingredient in ecstasy pills.

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Few details given on Trump's Venezuela oil deal

BY COLLIN BINKLEY AND JUAN PABLO ARRÁEZ

A MONUMENT to the Oil Worker at a square in Cabimas, Venezuela, in February. Some Venezuelans consider the oil deal a betrayal.

WASHINGTON — Besides a social media post from President Trump, the White House has said little about what he is calling "THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY" in Venezuela.

Trump said the agreement announced Friday night would give the United States a stake in Venezuela's vast oil reserves, a step toward his goal of extracting energy from the country after American forces captured then-President Nicolás Maduro in a middle-of-the-night raid in January and brought him to New York to face federal drug trafficking charges.

Venezuela's acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, described the deal as a step toward economic recovery that will modernize the country's oil industry.

But the answers to questions such as how soon the reserves could be drilled and who will pay to make it happen were not immediately clear. No text of any agreement has been released.

A look at what is known and unknown:

What are the terms?

The U.S. government and an unnamed private operator in Venezuela formed a new private company that was given the rights to vast, untapped oil fields for 100 years.

A statement from Rodríguez said the deal involves the development of 17 fields with a proven potential of 65 billion barrels. It said the agreement could draw \$100 billion in investment into Venezuela's oil industry and yield more than \$209 billion in taxes for Caracas.

Trump said the agreement was negotiated by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Rodríguez.

The deal gives the United States 55% effective output of the new private company, including an ownership stake and rights to buy oil at cost. American purchases of the oil will go toward the U.S. strategic oil reserves along with the military, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The company would be the second largest corporate holder of proven reserves after Saudi Aramco, according to the official.

Will gas prices go down?

Probably not any time soon.

Trump says the deal will help lower gas prices for Americans. That is an important objective for the Republican president as the Iran war slows the shipping of Persian Gulf oil and keeps prices elevated months before November elections in the United States.

But experts have repeatedly warned that Venezuela's dilapidated oil infrastructure will take years and billions of dollars to repair.

A substantial boost in production is not expected to happen quickly.

The deal could be “helpful in the long run, but it’s not going to do anything to change the price of gasoline at the retail station for Labor Day weekend,” said Amy Myers Jaffe, director of the Energy, Climate Justice and Sustainability Lab at New York University.

Neither side made clear who would pay for infrastructure investments and at what cost.

The average price of gas in the U.S. stood at about \$4.08 a gallon on Saturday, according to AAA. The average price was \$3.20 at the same time last year.

How will Venezuelans react?

Some in Venezuela consider it a betrayal of what their government has stated repeatedly for decades: Venezuelan resources are for Venezuela and that leaders would not allow the

U.S. government to lay a hand on those resources.

At a market in eastern Caracas on Saturday, Douglas Borjas said he was upset about the announcement.

“I think they’re doing it to cling to power,” he said of Venezuela’s leaders. “It’s like, ‘I’m giving you a vast amount of petroleum as long as you leave me alone here in power.’”

He added: “The Venezuelan people deserve better. Venezuela has resources that can be exploited, but for the benefit of the people, not for the benefit of the corrupt elite.”

Harvard University professor Ricardo Hausmann, a former Venezuelan planning minister, called it a “shameful deal.”

“Venezuelans will not respect this illegitimate deal and no major US oil company will take it seriously because they know it will not last,” Hausmann said on social media, adding that Rodríguez “has no legiti-

macy or constitutional power to commit Venezuela to any such deal."

What questions remain?

Many important details remain unclear, including the identity of the private operator, who will cover necessary investments and how America's stake in the company breaks down.

The U.S. will get $55\%$ of the company's effective output, but it was not clear what portion of that comes from the ownership stake and how much comes from the right to buy oil at cost.

It also is unclear how the industry will react. Persuading big American oil companies to return to the region could prove a challenge given the political uncertainty and damaged infrastructure.

Chevron, the only U.S. oil company actively producing in Venezuela, declined to comment.

Separately from Trump's announcement, Chevron

already had been in talks to expand investment in the country.

David Oxley, chief climate and commodities economist at Capital Economics, said that on its face the deal could double U.S. oil reserves and reduce dependence on crude oil from Canada and Mexico. But Oxley, writing in a commentary, cautioned that there are logistical hurdles and he said the value of Venezuela's reserves may have been exaggerated under former President Hugo Chavez.

Even with legal and security guarantees, it is not clear that U.S. oil companies “would be eager to invest,” he wrote.

Binkley and Arráez write for the Associated Press. Arráez reported from Caracas, Venezuela. AP writer Moriah Balingit and AP economics writer Paul Wiseman in Washington contributed to this report.

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Landmark New Orleans hospital to get overhaul

PATRICK Norton and Jeff Benjamin of Tulane University in a hall of the Charity Hospital building. The school is spearheading the \$500-million renovation.
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Charity has been closed since 2005, when Hurricane Katrina hit the city.

By Jack Brook

NEW ORLEANS — In the chaos of Hurricane Katrina, Charity Hospital in New Orleans became a scene of heartbreak and heroism, with doctors scrambling to keep patients alive without power or functioning medical equipment while floodwaters trapped them inside its darkened halls for days on end.

The massive hospital, a New Orleans landmark that long cared for the city's most vulnerable residents, was shuttered after the last patients and staff were rescued in 2005. Now, as Louisiana marks the storm's 21st anniversary Saturday, the long-vacant storm-damaged building is on the brink of new life.

Building will house medical research

Tulane University announced this summer that it is spearheading a \$500-million effort to convert Charity Hospital into a pioneering medical research facility, transforming the 1930s-era

Art Deco building into a downtown hub of biomedical innovation. Construction is expected to start this fall.

Local leaders have embraced the project in a city where some hospitals have haunted New Orleans since Katrina. Dozens of patients died at the former Memorial hospital, now known as the Ochsner Baptist Medical Center, after floodwaters trapped them inside in sweltering conditions without power.

Demolition crews this month began tearing down another complex, the Lindy Boggs Medical Center, which had sat blighted and vacant for more than 20 years after Katrina.

One of the deadliest and most destructive hurricanes in U.S. history, Katrina killed nearly 1,400 people across five states and racked up an estimated \$200 billion in damage, flattening homes along the nearby Gulf Coast and swamping entire neighborhoods with ruinous floods.

Tulane leaders say reviving the iconic landmark marks a major stride in putting behind the hurricane's dark days.

Charity Hospital “reflected the sort of commitment of New Orleans to the healthcare of the community,” Tulane President

Michael Fitts said. "Now it's being brought back in a way that makes the same commitment to the community."

Previous efforts have all fizzled

For generations, the Charity Hospital system served as New Orleans' safety net, treating all patients regardless of whether they had health insurance. The million-square-foot main building has remained empty since Katrina. In the intervening decades, various redevelopment gambits have fizzled.

The hospital was run by Louisiana State University, which determined that Katrina left the building too damaged to reopen — an assessment that was disputed by some hospital staff and community members. Instead, LSU used federal disaster relief funding to open a new hospital.

After Katrina made landfall in Louisiana, the failure of New Orleans' federal levee system inundated about 80% of the city.

Doctor recalls

canoeing to hospital

Dr. Lee Hamm, dean of the Tulane University School of Medicine, recalled canoeing through the submerged city to check on the welfare of patients and healthcare staff.

“Everyone was exhibiting a lot of courage at the moment,” Hamm said. “People were going about doing what they needed to do.”

The new medical research hub is scheduled to be completed in 2029.

Plans include providing space for medical and public health programs as part of what Fitts called “the largest, most significant initiative in the history of Tulane.” The new accommodations will also include labs for hundreds of researchers, space for biomedical startups, and classrooms.

Hamm said he hopes the hub will spur medical advancements that benefit the entire Gulf South.

Anticipating a bright, new future for the Charity Hospital building, New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno called the redevelopment “a welcome step forward and an opportunity to put this historic property back to productive use.”

Brook writes for the Associated Press.

No further accountability steps in Flint crisis

MICHIGAN Atty. Gen. Dana Nessel says it is frustrating that “justice has evaded the people of Flint.”

Michigan's attorney general says report on lead-contaminated water is final action.

BY JACQUELINE GANUN AND DAVID COLLINS

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Atty. Gen. Dana Nessel said a report released Tuesday on the lead-water crisis in the city is the final step her office can take toward accountability, years after a state Supreme Court ruling shut down criminal cases against a former governor and eight other people.

Flint residents suffered through years of health concerns after lead from old pipes leached into the city's drinking water once officials began drawing water from the Flint River to save money in 2014. Most of the 101-page report provides a history of the crisis, local and state officials' slow response and the attempt to bring 42 felony and misdemeanor charges against nine people, including former Republican Gov. Rick Snyder.

Nessel, a Democrat in her final term, said the report is meant to be a thorough public account of the criminal investigation, and she regretted that the details were never presented in court to juries.

"I hope this offering revealing the inner workings of our dedicated investigators and prosecutors who helmed this years-long effort and the facts and evidence which guided them may tell one part of the story of the Flint water crisis, and put the truth in the hands of the people of Flint who deserve it the most," Nessel said.

After taking office in 2019, Nessel fired a special prosecutor who had brought criminal charges and assembled a new team of attorneys to determine whether crimes were committed. That team ultimately brought charges against Snyder and other key officials, presenting their evidence to a judge who acted as a one-person grand jury.

The state Supreme Court threw out those charges in 2022, saying the judge had no power to issue indictments under the grand jury law.

Nessel was not involved in the criminal cases, deciding instead to focus on settling lawsuits against the state and wall herself off from the criminal investigation. But on Tuesday she de-

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fended prosecutors' decision to seek the charges directly from a judge, calling it "the smartest possible move" at the time. She also questioned the political implications of the ruling, noting two of the justices who joined the 6-0 decision were appointed by Snyder. A third member of the court he also appointed recused herself from the case.

"I think it's impossible to separate those things," Nessel said.

She said it was frustrating that “justice has evaded the people of Flint” and they will not get their day in criminal court to see officials be held accountable for the water crisis.

The Associated Press sent an email Tuesday seeking comment from Snyder.

Prosecutors said in 2023 that a report would come out the following year summarizing their investigation.

Nessel said it took more time to redact information from grand jury proceedings that must remain secret and summarize millions of other documents.

Cash-strapped Flint was under state financial control when it stopped getting its water from Detroit and began drawing it from the Flint River while waiting to connect to a new regional system. The move was made to save money. But chemicals used to treat the river water caused lead to leach from old pipes.

As state health officials said the water was safe, doctors started reporting high levels of lead in the blood of Flint children.

Snyder acknowledged the lead problem in September 2015, leading the state to provide water filters and testing of water in Flint schools. In early 2016, he declared a state of emergency in Flint. Congress eventually approved a bill authorizing water projects nationwide. About \$170 million went to Flint to address the lead in the drinking water.

In 2020, a judge approved a \$626-million settlement for Flint residents and others who were exposed to lead-contaminated water. The Flint water crisis prompted communities across the state and in other states to seek solutions to how drinking water was delivered to homes and businesses.

GaNun and Collins write for the Associated Press. Collins reported from Hartford, Conn. AP writer Corey Williams in Detroit contributed to this report.

Man convicted in contract killing of his wife's ex

By Ed White

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A man accused of arranging the fatal shooting of a Microsoft design manager on a Florida road was convicted Wednesday in a murder-for-hire scheme that followed years of a stormy child custody arrangement between the victim and his wealthy ex-wife.

Jared Bridegan was shot in 2022 after he got out of his SUV to remove a tire from a road in Jacksonville Beach. The attack stumped police for months as they struggled to understand why someone with no apparent enemies would be killed while his daughter sat in her car seat.

Prosecutors believe he was killed because of ongoing strife with his former wife, Shanna Gardner, over the parenting of their twins.

Mario Fernandez Saldana, 38, was convicted of first-degree murder and solicitation of murder and faces an automatic sentence of life in prison. He's married to Gardner, 39, whose trial is set to start in September.

“They wanted a majority of the decision making. They wanted more custody, even 60-40,” Assistant State Atty. Christina Stifler said during closing arguments Tuesday in Duval County court.

"It doesn't matter if they were completely right about the situation or completely wrong. What matters is how they fixed it," Stifler said. "They fixed it by executing a man when they had other alternatives available to them. That's why we're here."

Prosecutors said Fernandez Saldana hired Henry Tenon to carry out the fatal ambush. He had no personal connection to Bridegan but was a former tenant at Fernandez Saldana's rental property in Jacksonville. The prosecutor described him as "basically homeless, squatting on people's couches with overdrawn bank accounts."

Jurors saw three checks totaling \$10,000 written to Tenon after the homicide, marked as payments by Fernandez Saldana for handyman work and a business idea — “good luck!!”

Tenon's DNA was identified on the rim of the tire that was intentionally placed in the road, police said. He initially pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against Fernandez Saldana but backed out and will stand trial in 2027.

Defense attorney Jesse Dreicer told jurors that Fernandez Saldana had no motive to have Bridegan killed. Fernandez Saldana and Gardner are estranged, and Gardner moved to Washington state after the killing. She was arrested in 2023.

“He certainly gained no benefit from the death of Jared Bridegan,” Dreicer said, noting there was no testimony that Fernandez Saldana told anyone that Bridegan “deserves to die.”

Gardner is the daughter of the co-founder of Stampin' Up!, an arts-and-crafts company based in Utah.

Bridegan was shot twice when he stopped his Volkswagen Atlas to move the tire out of the way. He had just returned two children to Gardner's home after a meal with the twins. At the time of his death, he was married to Kirsten Bridegan and they had two children.

Kirsten Bridegan told the jury that the post-divorce relationship between her husband and Gardner was “pretty terrible,” adding there was “absolutely no trust.” She said it interfered with the kids’ medical appointments and even routine meetings at school.

Bridegan was chief technology officer at Utah-based Clean Simple Eats before working at Microsoft for less than a year before his death, his wife said.

White writes for the Associated Press.

ICE arrests far-right British provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos

BY SAFIYAH RIDDLE

U.S. immigration officials arrested British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos on Thursday in New Orleans, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Immigration officials announced on Friday that Yiannopoulos was arrested at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport and accused him of overstaying after entering the United States legally in May 2019 through New York City. An immigration judge issued a final order of removal on July 22 after Yiannopoulos failed to show up for his immigration hearing, a Homeland Security spokesperson wrote in an email.

"He chose to overstay his welcome in violation of our nation's laws," a spokesperson for Homeland Security wrote in an emailed statement.

ICE's online detainee locator didn't say where Yiannopoulos was being held but directed family and legal representatives to the agency's office in Alexandria, La., a deportation hub for international flights.

Representatives of Yiannopoulos did not respond to a request for comment. It was unclear whether he had legal representation.

The British national has most recently worked for the rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, who is scheduled to perform in New Orleans on Friday evening.

Yiannopoulos is a well-known champion of conservative causes and has frequently taken provocative public positions criticizing feminism, Islam and immigrants. He has been especially supportive of President Trump's immigration crackdown.

“Zero immigration for the next 20 years. No ifs, no buts,” Yiannopoulos wrote on the social platform X last year.

Yiannopoulos rose to fame in the early 2010s as an incendiary writer for the conservative website Breitbart News. He resigned from the company in 2017 after a video of him endorsing pedophilia resurfaced online. He later apologized for the remarks and said he himself was a victim of sexual assault as a minor.

Yiannopoulos' arrest Friday comes amid a nationwide uptick in detentions as part of Trump's immigration crackdown.

Far-right conservative activist Laura Loomer swiftly took to social media to applaud Yiannopoulos' arrest after years of public feuding between the two personalities.

“I was the first person to report on the fact that Milo was in the US illegally where he incited violence against President Trump and worked for Marjorie Traitor Greene,” Loomer wrote on X.

Controversy around Yiannopoulos ballooned in 2017 during what he called his “Troll Academy Tour” of college campuses nationwide. Fights broke out when some students protested Yiannopoulos’ appearances and accused him of hate speech, while others celebrated him as a champion of free speech. Around that time, Buzzfeed reported on Yiannopoulos’ cozy relationships with self-proclaimed white nationalists.

Yiannopoulos continued to work in the orbit of conservative activism. In 2022, he was an intern for former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, according to the Washington Post. He ran the short-lived 2024 presidential campaign for Ye. Most recently, Yiannopolous has worked as a spokesperson for Ye, who has been beset by controversy of his own following antisemitic comments that the rapper has since apologized for.

Riddle writes for the Associated Press.

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YIANNOPOULOS, shown in 2021, was arrested Thursday in Louisiana by federal immigration agents.

Lawmakers reach deal for data center regulation

Photographs by MYUNG J. CHUN Los Angeles Times
Photographs by MYUNG J. CHUN Los Angeles Times A DRONE view of a 49.5-megawatt data center under construction in Vernon, Calif., in July. A surge in demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure is fueling a boom in data centers around the country and globe.

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The legislation requires the California Public Utilities Commission to create special rates and updated rules for data centers' use of electricity, including the costs for new power for infrastructure upgrades.

The debate in Sacramento around the data centers centered on how much they should pay for power and infrastructure, and whether that should be mandated by the state Legislature or the California Public Utilities Commission, which regulates investor-owned utilities and is controlled by a board appointed by the governor.

Unlike some other states, California hasn't seen an overwhelming wave of new large-scale data centers, nor have state leaders sought moratoriums such as the ones enacted by governors in Texas and New York.

Nevertheless, advocates focused on reforming the state's utilities sought this year to seize the moment to enact tough regulations, including forcing data centers to pay for transmission upgrades and wildfire mitigation efforts.

Utility reform advocates and environmental leaders offered mixed reactions on Saturday.

Matthew Freedman, a senior staff attorney for The Utility Reform Network (TURN), praised the final language in the two bills, saying the legislation would prevent data center costs from “being foisted on other customers” while helping California meet its clean energy goals.

Monica Embrey, the founder of Affordable Energy Campaign, called the last-minute amendments “concerning.”

In particular, she pointed to a lack of clean energy requirements for data centers who use their own energy, and a provision that allows a utility to enter into its own agreement with a data center for energy in the interim period before the state finalizes its regulations.

A representative for the Data Center Coalition, whose members include Google and Microsoft, didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

Data centers have existed for decades but are rapidly expanding because of the rise of artificial intelligence, or AI.

The centers help power everything from streaming services to videoconferencing calls.

Data centers in California are typically smaller than the mammoth, 500+ megawatt AI facilities making headlines in other parts of the country.

Electricity costs and state regulations on gas-powered generators limit the vast majority of them to under 100 megawatts.

But as proposals increase in number, opposition has been fierce and growing.

A Public Policy Institute of California poll from July showed that 73% of residents oppose the construction of data centers in their communities.

Opposition centers on water use, air and noise pollution, and the potential for data centers to raise utility bills as they add strain to the grid, requiring costly upgrades and new electricity supply.

The California Energy Commission expects data center electricity use, currently 2% of the state's demand, to double in the next 10 years.

Monterey Park became the first city in the country in June to permanently ban data centers by a popular vote, and at least four other San Gabriel Valley cities have enacted moratoriums.

Southeast of L.A., Imperial County, Desert Hot Springs and Palm Springs also voted on moratoriums, while Coachella permanently banned the facilities.

In the Central Valley, Tulare County adopted a moratorium this month as residents voiced opposition to proposals to develop tiny data centers on local fairgrounds in the region.

And in San José, the state's hot spot of data center development, residents flooded a recent public hearing to call for a moratorium while the city updates its data center standards.

Newsom last year vetoed legislation by Assemblymember Diane Papan (D-San Mateo) that would have required data centers to disclose and certify their water consumption.

The governor said he was reluctant to impose “rigid”

reporting requirements on the development of “this critically important digital infrastructure.”

Separate bills that would require the centers to disclose their energy and water use were recently approved by state lawmakers.

Like other state legislators, Papan said she wants to work with the centers, not ban them.

“I constantly say, ‘Help us help you.’ We will all get this right if we can just be transparent and methodical,” said Papan, whose district includes Silicon Valley.

Padilla's district includes Imperial Valley, where a developer's plans for a data center on 75 acres is sparking fierce backlash.

Advocates and lawmakers fought over two approaches on the issue of regulating data centers' energy use.

A wider coalition of environmental groups supported the bill from Padilla, SB 886, sponsored by TURN, that would have required data centers to pay up front for broader power grid updates required to meet their demand. That approach made it into the final package.

TURN pointed to a recent transmission plan from California's grid operator projecting that increased power demands from data centers in PG&E's service territory, where the majority of current and proposed data centers are concentrated, would create up to \$1.8 billion in upgrade costs for the power grid, including transmission lines.

PG&E favored a less stringent approach. In an email last week, a PG&E spokesperson argued SB 886 would “risk higher costs for customers and delay critical infrastructure needed to serve the state’s growing energy demand.”

The Data Center Coalition had opposed both bills for “singling out” one type of power user.

The high cost of land and power, as well as lack of available land, are just some of the reasons that California hasn't seen a flood of data centers, said Khara Boender, a director of government affairs at the Data Center Coalition.

She said dozens of states offer some type of exemption for data centers, but California does not.

Additional regulation in the Golden State, she said last week, “would be another signal that the state is a more challenging place for data center development.”

FBI lifts prostitute ban for job seekers

BY ERIC TUCKER

WASHINGTON — The FBI is dropping a categorical hiring ban on applicants who have had sexual encounters with prostitutes and will instead consider in a more holistic manner at least some candidates who have engaged in the practice in the past, according to people familiar with the matter.

The move away from an automatic disqualification falls along a continuum of evolving recruitment standards within federal law enforcement and at the buttoned-up bureau, which several years ago relaxed its approach to candidates' past marijuana use and has drawn more recent concern by current and former agents about a perceived loosening of recruitment requirements as it seeks to replenish its ranks.

The bureau still intends to dismiss applicants who are revealed during the vetting process to have engaged in prostitution within the last 10 years, three or more times overall or while in a position of trust, according to guidance issued this last spring and described by a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to discuss internal decision-making and spoke on condition of anonymity. For others, it will allow for consideration of the context of the conduct rather than treat it as grounds for an automatic rejection from the FBI's hiring process.

The practical impact is not immediately clear since many who have engaged in prostitution may still be either immediately disqualified or weeded out upon further scrutiny from FBI polygraphers and security officials.

The FBI said the change was meant to account for the fact that some otherwise suitable candidates, including service members, may have engaged in the practice in places where it is legal and to accommodate applicants who themselves may have been victims of sexual abuse.

“It is false to suggest criminal behavior like this is no longer disqualifying at the FBI. Any applicant who has engaged in criminal sexual acts like those referenced would of course not be eligible for employment, and it is ridiculous to suggest otherwise,” the FBI said in a statement that described the background check process as “wide-ranging and extensive.”

"The FBI has and always will maintain some of the highest suitability standards for its applicants and employees in the US Government," the statement added.

Recruitment rules loosening overall

Even so, the shift is being made at a time when current and former officials worry that the FBI, and the Justice Department more generally, have eased recruitment requirements while facing a mass personnel exodus brought on by retirements, voluntary resignations and firings. The bureau, for instance, has taken steps to make it easier for its own professional staff to become agents and has offered truncated training academies for applicants from other federal law enforcement agencies.

"If they're moving the bar for sexual encounters to include prostitution, what is that saying about the applicant pool? They're trying to bring in more people, which to me indicates that the applicant pool is extremely shallow right now," said Daniel Brunner, a retired FBI agent who spent more than 20 years in the bureau.

In 2015, then-Atty. Gen. Eric Holder issued a memo reiterating that all Justice Department employees were prohibited from soliciting or accepting prostitution, including in places where it was legal. But both before and since that directive, the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies have confronted periodic episodes in which agents serving abroad have been accused of sexual encounters with prostitutes.

As recently as last year, for instance, the Justice Department inspector general substantiated allegations that a supervisory special agent solicited and used prostitutes on multiple occasions while overseas and used a bureau-issued cellphone for the transactions.

Chris Piehota, a retired top FBI executive, said he would be more troubled if the bureau were to loosen its standards for current employees who require periodic renewals of their security clearances. But he said he could understand the FBI leaning “toward leniency” for actions as a teenager or college student.

“I don’t think you get a better or worse candidate from something you did in your college years,” Piehota said. “That’s why they have the screening process, that’s why they have the vetting process. And the people who do the recruiting and hiring, they look at all those things.”

Background checks and polygraph tests

Applicants to the FBI undergo a multi-step application and vetting process that includes, among other things, a background check, a detailed questionnaire, credit checks, interviews with neighbors and colleagues and a polygraph test.

The comprehensive regimen is meant to uncover any prior criminal conduct in an applicant's past as well as embarrassing personal information that could make an employee vulnerable to blackmail.

Felony convictions, domestic violence convictions, failure of a urinalysis and the bureau's drug policies are among factors treated as automatic disqualifiers. Though the new guidance will allow for a broader and more contextual evaluation of applicants who disclose past experience with prostitution during their polygraph admission, such an admission was typically regarded as a "death knell" for potential employees at agencies including the FBI, CIA and NSA, said Daniel Meyer, a Washington lawyer who specializes in the background check and security clearance process.

"When young people come to me and they say, where should I look for a job, I say if you've got anything in the past about hookers or drugs, stay away from those three," Meyer said. "If you're coming right off the street, and you've got extensive drug issues or prostitution issues, those three agencies — those are a death knell on the application."

Tucker writes for the Associated Press.

Trump can't deport students critical of Israel, judge says

The importance of the 1st Amendment was cited in the ruling.

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SAN JOSÉ — Citing the importance of the 1st Amendment, a federal judge in California says the U.S. government is unconstitutionally silencing critics of Israel's war in Gaza and others as part of the Trump administration 's quest to deport noncitizens who it says disrupted college campuses while expressing their views.

Judge Noël Wise, in a ruling Friday, delivered a victory for the student newspaper at Stanford University, which has said some international students were afraid to speak out because of the deportation threat.

The decision largely piggybacks on findings from nearly a year ago by a U.S. district judge in Boston, who ruled that the Trump administration violated the Constitution when it targeted people who are not citizens for deportation solely for supporting Palestinians and criticizing Israel.

Wise wrote that the freedoms of speech and the press are “foundational to America’s enduring democracy.” The judge cited free-speech and vagueness flaws that violate the 1st Amendment and 5th Amendment as she struck down portions of the provisions that the federal government follows regarding deportations.

Wise cited retaliation in March 2025 by U.S. immigration authorities against people who engaged in speech supporting the Palestinians and against Israel's actions — which a growing number of experts, including those commissioned by a U.N. body, have said amount to genocide. The judge also cited retaliation against people who were critical of Charlie Kirk after the Turning Point USA co-founder was killed last September.

“Tomorrow, or perhaps even today, targets may include anyone in the United States who exercises their freedom of speech to simply express opinions the government does not like,” the judge in San José said.

“This downward spiral is antithetical to our Constitution that recognizes our right to speak freely,” she added. “Here you can simultaneously hate the content of a person’s speech and love the country that cherishes the freedom to allow it. Zealous protection of our Constitutional right to free speech is a provocative demonstration of our country’s powerful lack of fear.”

The Justice Department did not respond Saturday to a message seeking comment on the decision.

Conor Fitzpatrick, an attorney with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, which brought the lawsuit, praised the ruling.

“In America, free speech doesn’t just belong to the people who say things the government agrees with,” Fitzpatrick said in a release.

Grieving parents seek answers in Ladera Ranch

THE GAZEBO at Ladera Ranch's Town Green park. Residents expressed concerns about pesticide exposure.

Photographs by KAYLA BARTKOWSKI Los Angeles Times

[Cancer, from A1] Ewing sarcoma.

Yoon said the numbers reported by the community strike her as unusual and merit further investigation, but noted that it would be “incredibly challenging” to prove any causal link among the cases.

There are no known environmental causes of Ewing sarcoma. Research into risk factors for developing the disease is limited, in part because the cancer is so rare.

The California Cancer Registry is reviewing data for Ladera Ranch, where around 26,000 people live, in response to residents' concerns. Their analysis, estimated to be complete this fall, will assess whether there is a regional cluster of Ewing sarcoma or other cancers.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention define a cancer cluster as a higher-than-expected number of cases of the same cancer in a specific area over a defined period of time. But there's no fixed formula for what counts as unusually high.

If a cluster is determined to exist in Ladera Ranch, epidemiologists Logan Spector and Joseph Wiemels warn that there may be no discernible cause.

“Coincidence can, in fact, be the reason for an apparent cluster,” they wrote in an op-ed in the Orange County Register. “In a country the size of the United States it is likely that cases will randomly occur closely in time and space somewhere over the course of a few decades.”

'There's something wrong here'

Lessons on probability do little to ease the frustration of parents who have lost their children.

"There's something wrong here," said Ladera Ranch resident Bonnie Regan, whose son Ryan died from Ewing sarcoma in October 2025. "I had never even heard of this kind of cancer before."

Ewing sarcoma is an aggressive cancer that grows in bones or soft tissues and predominantly affects children and young adults ages 10 to 20.

It typically presents as a persistent pain so intense it can wake a patient up from a sound sleep. Caught early in an isolated part of the body, it has a survival rate of roughly 70%, but if it starts to metastasize, that drops to around 30%, Yoon said.

Ryan was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma in 2017 at age 29, later than typical for the disease. He fought the cancer for eight years, until it spread to his lungs, shoulder, brain, spine, lymph node, adrenal gland and stomach.

“He was our only child, so he was the center of our universe,” said Bonnie.

Dustin Matteson said that not a day, or even an hour, passes where he doesn't miss his son Brody.

"He was the glue that held our family together," he said. "I'd come down the stairs in the morning, and like a football player, he would flex at me and say, 'Are you gonna be great today, Dustin Matteson?'

Despite the fact that there are no proven causes of Ewing sarcoma, Matteson and other residents are determined to search for answers.

“It feels like where we live, and with the high number of cases, it’s a place where you should be able to find out what caused it,” he said.

A coalition of residents has formed a group called Ladera Health Watch to gather health data, review local environmental and pesticide records, and push for official investigations into the Ewing sarcoma cases. They are also concerned about anecdotal reports of breast and brain cancer, high rates of allergies and chronically ill children.

DeAnn Kling is one of three people on her street who have been diagnosed with breast cancer. She also knows the pain of losing a child. Her 16-year-old daughter, Johnna Haymes, died in 2020 from a sudden blood clot in her lung.

"There is something going on [due to] pesticides, water, the house or the ground," said Kling. "There's got to be."

Residents initially focused their efforts on limiting pesticide use to reduce chemical exposure and, they hope, community illness.

Both Ladera Ranch Maintenance Corp., the community homeowners association, and the Capistrano Unified School District recently agreed to temporarily pause the use of products for managing weeds and regulating plant growth.

Residents involved in Ladera Health Watch are also concerned about whether old oil and gas wells underneath Ladera Ranch and the nearby Prima Deshecha Landfill could be possible sources of environmental contamination.

'This well is not to be built over'

Ladera Ranch is a 4,000-acre master-planned community nestled between Mission Viejo and San Juan Capistrano that began construction in 1998 and was substantially completed in 2006. Billed as a place where families can “plant roots and grow wings,” the neighborhood features minty green lawns, picket fences, pocket parks and gazebos reminiscent of the manicured charm of Stars Hollow.

Underneath the picturesque community sit two abandoned oil wells located at approximately 15 Citrus Lane and 41 Agapanthus St. Neither well had a history of producing oil or gas and were both “re-abandoned”

— meaning closed for a second time to ensure seals meet current safety standards — by DMB Development in the early 2000s when the company was building Ladera Ranch.

Members of Ladera Health Watch have looked at the oil well files and are concerned that the Citrus Lane well may not have been resealed to today's standards. They have asked the California Geologic Energy Management Division (CalGEM), which oversees idle and abandoned wells in the state, to reevaluate the well's integrity and determine if further investigation is warranted.

‘There is something going on [due to] pesticides, water, the house or the ground. There’s got to be.’

— DEANN KLING, Ladera Ranch resident

DeANN KLING is one of three people on her street diagnosed with breast cancer.
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DMB Development did not respond to multiple requests for comment on the re-abandonment of the well.

Active and abandoned oil and gas wells can spread carcinogens such as benzene, volatile organic compounds and radioactive material into surrounding soil, water and air. Proximity to wells has been linked with elevated rates of childhood leukemia and lymphoma.

However, a study published in January found no statistically significant correlation between proximity to active and abandoned oil and gas development and the risk of childhood Ewing sarcoma in California.

Some residents are concerned by a note in the re-abandonment files for the Citrus Lane well that reads, "This well is not to be built over without further consideration," but provides no explanation as to why the warning is necessary. The note appears twice in handwriting and is typed again on the final report of well abandonment.

Jill Johnston, an associate professor of environmental health at UC Irvine, said she had never encountered such a note in her research on Southern California's oil wells.

“Either there’s something physical going on that makes it unstable to build on top of, or there’s potential exposure to chemicals,” she said. “That’s what I would assume would drive that comment.”

Kenneth Henderson, the acting state oil and gas supervisor at the time, who signed off on the final report, said in a phone interview that he did not recall why the note was included but that he supposed that “the well plugging may not have been up to the current standards.”

A spokesperson for the Department of Conservation, which oversees CalGEM, said the comment appeared to be a note from the state engineer who drafted the final report and was probably included due to a “clerical error.”

However, the handwritten note specifically states "put on final letter." The spokesperson did not comment on those instructions.

The spokesperson also noted that CalGEM typically recommends that structures not be placed over sealed wells and that construction not impede access to wells.

Nonetheless, it is common for homes to be built on top of or adjacent to wells.

There are around 240,000 active, idle and abandoned oil wells across California, including more than 22,000 wells in L.A. County and several thousand in Orange County, according to Cal-GEM data.

“While CalGEM recognizes that wells plugged and sealed to current requirements are less likely to experience leakage, there is no guarantee,” the spokesperson said.

'We're right in the path of that'

Dustin Matteson, Brody's father, believes that emissions from the nearby Prima Deshecha Landfill could be connected to his son's sickness.

"The prevailing winds across that landfill come right through Ladera Ranch from the south and southwest," he said. "We're right in the path of that."

No study has found an environmental cause for Ewing sarcoma. One of the only studies that has found an association between environmental toxins and Ewing sarcoma cases looked at airborne chemical emissions from industrial sites across the U.S.

Researchers found that high levels of pollutants — including xylene, ethylbenzene, toluene, naphthalene, nickel compounds, and benzo[g,h,i]perylene — were associated with increased diagnosis rates of Ewing sarcoma at the county level.

“While causality cannot be inferred, these findings support further investigation of environmental risk factors in Ewing sarcoma, particularly in high-emission geographic clusters,” the study, led by UCLA researchers, concluded.

Matteson has read the study closely and said he finds it “very alarming” that the Prima Deshecha Landfill, located within five miles of Ladera Ranch, emits some of the same pollutants that researchers flagged.

The study found that counties with high levels of ethylbenzene reported about 13.56 Ewing sarcoma cases per million people compared to 9.33 per million in low-exposure counties. Counties with high levels of toulene reported 12.88 cases per million versus 7.35 in low-exposure counties.

The study defined high-exposure counties as having median annual emissions of 51 pounds of ethylbenzene and 44 pounds of toulene.

In 2024, the South Coast Air Quality Management District reported that the Prima Deshecha Landfill emitted around 2,681 pounds of ethylbenzene annually and 55 pounds of toluene.

'Really close to home'

Government agencies are awaiting results of the California Cancer Registry analysis before deciding to move forward with any further investigations.

Members of Ladera Health Watch, however, are plowing ahead with research of their own.

They are working with a team at Cal State Fullerton to perform water and soil testing in Ladera. They have also developed a proposed pest management policy to move Ladera toward an organic-first, least-toxic landscape program. And they are working with legislators to advocate for greater state attention to pesticide use and public health, more funding for research into possible causes of Ewing sarcoma and increased transparency around community-level cancer data.

For local attorney Jaclyn French, being part of the health watch has become a second job. She has spent hundreds of hours submitting public records requests, poring over pesticide reports late at night and serving as a liaison between elected officials and concerned residents.

Her next-door neighbor was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma while he was in middle school in 2023, and since Brody's death she hasn't been able to stop thinking about the disease.

“Having a 10-year-old son who is in the age range of these kids who are being diagnosed makes it feel really close to home,” she said.

Though she's fearful, she is not ready to leave the community she calls home, nor abandon the group's quest for answers.

"Our community is so small and tight-knit," she said, "we have a personal feeling of responsibility for our neighbors."

Park service backs Trump arch, despite effects on historical sites

BY MATTHEW DALY

WASHINGTON — A new National Park Service report backs President Trump's proposed arch, despite what it says are adverse effects to the sight line between a host of landmarks in Washington, including the Washington Monument and Lincoln and Jefferson memorials.

The report released Friday says the 250-foot-tall arch is likely to disrupt the historically significant layout of dozens of sites near its planned location adjacent to Memorial Bridge.

Many of Washington's monuments, buildings and sites have been carefully planned over decades to reflect significant moments in the nation's history and to evoke symbolism through sight lines that connect them to other sites. The arch will disturb the sight line between more landmarks than anticipated, the report said.

But the Park Service report says “the same characteristics that make Memorial Circle sensitive from a preservation perspective are also the characteristics that make it the historically appropriate location for the undertaking.”

The project's effects cannot be “fully avoided without either relocating the Arch away from the historically identified site or eliminating the principal commemorative feature, both of which would fail to meet the undertaking’s purpose and need,” the report said.

“For this reason, alternative locations outside Memorial Circle are not reasonable avoidance alternatives,” the report said.

The 133-page report by the Park Service supports Trump's plans for the arch and could play an important role in bolstering the administration's case in its fight against a legal challenge filed by three veterans and a group of historians.

The proposed towering arch, which last month received initial approval from a key federal commission, would impact the “integrity” of dozens of historic properties because it would change “character-defining visual and spatial relationships” between them.

One of the most obvious elements the report cited is that the arch would break alignment between the Lincoln Memorial, Memorial Bridge and Arlington House that was formerly Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's home. That alignment was “intended to physically and symbolically unite North and South through a coordinated monumental composition extending across the Potomac River,” the report said.

The Lincoln Memorial Arlington House connection was one of dozens of historic sites and structures listed as being affected directly by the proposed structure. It added that the National Mall, the U.S. Capitol, Washington Monument, Jefferson Memorial, Georgetown Historic District, Old Naval Observatory, Key Bridge, National Cathedral and other sites also would be affected.

Nicolas Sansone, an attorney with Public Citizen Litigation Group representing the plaintiffs, said the report again “confirms what we’ve been saying all along: the project will have an enormous impact and transform that National Mall.”

The report underscores the legal challengers' claim that a project of this size and importance “is a decision for Congress to make” and should not be rushed through by executive decree, Sansone said.

Daly writes for the Associated Press.

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Newsom drops most of plan on wildfire liability

Legislation would have shifted most of the cost of utility-sparked blazes to property insurers

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In a late-night deal with lawmakers, Gov. Gavin Newsom agreed to drop his push for legislation that would have shifted more of the cost of utility-sparked wildfires to property insurers, sharply raising premiums across the state.

After weeks of closed-door negotiations with lawmakers and protests by wildfire survivors, the governor also backed away from a proposal that reduced amounts fire victims could receive and transferred more of the damage costs to local governments.

Wildfire victims and other critics had called the plan a corporate bailout.

According to a 96-page bill, published at 7:26 a.m. Saturday, Newsom and lawmakers agreed on some measures aimed at reducing the costs of future utility-sparked wildfires.

The bill would limit certain fees of attorneys representing insurance companies, while also stopping hedge funds and private equity firms from profiting on wildfire claims.

Last year, hedge funds were offering to buy claims that insurers had against Southern California Edison for the Eaton fire, leading to calls for reform.

The bill would also create a state program to get payments more quickly to wildfire victims.

"This is all real progress for future fire survivors," Newsom said in a statement.

“Nonetheless, this system needs full structural reform — not a partial one,” he added. “I urge the Legislature to build on this progress next year and finish the work we started to secure the Wildfire Fund’s long-term durability, stabilize electricity rates, and ensure fire victims are never again turned into unsecured creditors in a bankruptcy proceeding.”

The complex legislation — added by gutting and amending a bill known as Senate Bill 492 — was introduced less than three days before the legislative session was to end Monday.

The session must now be extended until Tuesday because of a 2016 voter-approved proposition that requires bills or amendments to be in print at least 72 hours before the state Senate or Assembly can vote on them.

Eaton wildfire survivors and other groups had been calling on Newsom for weeks to unveil the legislation so that they could see the de-

tails.

More than 50 Eaton fire survivors showed up Mon-day night to protest in front of the governor's mansion in Sacramento, where New-som was holding an event for legislators.

“Who should pay?” they chanted. “Shareholders should pay!”

On Saturday, wildfire victims praised lawmakers who had stood up to the governor's push for legislation benefiting the utilities.

“Survivors from across California came to Sacramento and asked our elected representatives to stand with the people whose homes, communities and lives have been devastated," Joy Chen, executive director of Every Fire Survivor's Network, said. "They listened. And in the face of extraordinary pressure from some of the most powerful interests in our state, they centered on survivors and California families."

Edison and the state's two other big for-profit utilities had been lobbying Newsom and lawmakers to further shield them and their shareholders from wildfire liabilities ever since last year's Eaton fire caused some investors to flee and the price of their stock to tumble.

Government fire investigators said the fire, which killed 19 people and destroyed thousands of homes, was caused by electrical arcing on Edison's out-of-service transmission line in Eaton Canyon. Edison kept the line in place despite not using it since 1971.

More than 11,000 households have filed suit against the utility, claiming it acted negligently, which the company denies.

Utilities asked Newsom to strengthen a framework that he and lawmakers created in 2019 to protect utilities from bankruptcy after their equipment ignites a catastrophic fire. The law created a \$21-billion wildfire fund, which is now reimbursing Edison for the settlements it is making to victims who agree not to sue.

Last year, also in legislation revealed in the session's last days, Newsom created a second fund of \$18 billion to pay for future fires.

According to a confidential document Newsom's staff sent to lawmakers, the governor also wanted to cap the amount the fund would reimburse a utility for wildfire damages at \$6 billion and require electric customers to pay for costs above that amount. That would have limited utilities' liability for the fire but increased

electric bills.

That measure was not in the legislation published Saturday morning.

Newsom said in his statement Saturday that the bill would strengthen accountability for utilities that spark fires by stopping executives from receiving bonuses after a blaze. The fine print states that the company must have a plan that prevents top executives from receiving “short-term” bonuses after a fire that results in damage to 500 or more structures.

The governor had touted in 2019 that his legislation had tied utility executive pay to the company's safety performance. But the language allowed the companies to decide how to do that.

Despite the deadly Eaton fire, bonuses awarded to Pedro Pizarro, the CEO of Edison International, and other executives soared last year. Pizarro received \$16.6 million in cash, stock and other compensation in 2025, up 20% from 2024.

The new legislation applies only to Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric and San Diego Gas & Electric. Those three for-profit utilities have caused at least seven of California's 20 most destructive fires, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

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How to navigate late withdrawals of inherited IRA

Dear Liz: I inherited my father's IRA through a trust in 2010. Unbeknownst to me at the time, I've now found out I should have taken that money out over the following years, but I didn't.

I turned 73 in May of this year, and I'd like advice on what I should do with that account.

Answer: Get thee to a tax pro. You've got some distributions to make, taxes to pay and penalties to mitigate.

Today's rules for inherited IRAs require most non-spouse beneficiaries to empty the accounts within 10 years, thanks to the SECURE Act of 2019.

Before that, most beneficiaries could spread required minimum distributions over their own lifetimes.

Depending on the type of trust, you might have been required to take RMDs at the same pace your father was taking them. But either way, distributions were supposed to be made.

You (or better yet, your tax pro) will need to reconstruct the distributions that should have been taken since 2010, says Mark Luscombe, principal analyst for Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting.

Those distributions should be made as soon as possible, and then you (or better yet, your tax pro) can ask for relief from the possible 25% excise tax penalty that would otherwise be owed on the distributions you missed.

Your tax pro will need a copy of the trust, your dad's date of death and the IRA's Dec. 31 balances for every year since then.

Dear Liz: The letter writer who asked about Roth conversions should also consider that they or their spouse will eventually be a widow(er) and will be subject to the income tax "widow's penalty."

Roth conversions now protect the survivor against some of that tax bite.

Answer: The widow's penalty refers to the higher financial burden many survivors face after losing a spouse as they change from "married filing jointly" status to "single" status.

While their incomes may drop, their taxes and other costs may rise.

Having at least some money in a tax-free account can help with this as well as a number of other situations in retirement, which is why it's important to fund a Roth account during your working years if you can.

The main downside to Roth contributions is that you don't get an upfront tax break for making them.

Conversions, though, are more complicated.

They trigger a tax bill and can have ripple effects, such as reducing eligibility for tax credits, financial aid or health insurance subsidies.

Late-in-life conversions can increase Medicare premiums and cause more of your Social Security checks to be taxable. That's why conversions should only be considered after careful consultation with tax pros.

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Airline meal caterer for LAX under scrutiny

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Dozens of dishes growing green mold. Live maggots and flies. Cockroaches creeping near trashcans.

Photos and video showing these nausea-inducing contaminants were sent earlier this month to a state watchdog agency on behalf of workers at an Inglewood facility where in-flight meals are cooked and packaged for several major airlines flying out of Los Angeles International Airport.

The complaint to the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or Cal/OSHA, alleges that the airline catering company, Flying Food Group, exposed workers to health hazards and unsanitary conditions inside facilities responsible for preparing thousands of airline meals at one of the nation's busiest airports.

The union, Unite Here Local II, which represents hotel and airport workers, says it's just the latest example of workers operating under unsafe conditions at the facility, which services international airlines including Lufthansa, Air France, Singapore Airlines, Qantas, Virgin Atlantic and Air New Zealand.

The company, for its part, in a statement argued the union had put forth a “false and misleading” narrative amid years-long, “protracted and contentious negotiations,” and that the photos submitted to the state “do not accurately depict conditions” at the facility.

Flying Food Group vehemently denied the substance of the complaint, writing in its statement that “images were staged, manipulated, taken out of context, or otherwise presented in a manner that distorts their meaning.”

“We stand firmly behind our food safety and sanitation standards and will cooperate fully with any regulatory review,” the company said.

In the complaint involving the moldy food filed on Aug. 5, the employee, who identified herself at Thursday's Los Angeles World Airports board meeting as Sonia Cerón, said she was told in late June to clean dishes in a cart that had been left unopened for a prolonged period.

In the cart, she “found dozens of dishes covered in decomposing, mold-covered food,” the complaint said. “Many of the dishes contained what appeared to be live maggots and flies, producing an overwhelming stench."

Cerón suggested the dishes be tossed out, according to the complaint, but a supervisor told her they were needed for an upcoming flight. While handling the moldy dishes, she experienced “stomach pain, a headache and a strange sensation in her nose, which she believed was caused by inhaling the fuzzy mold,” the union’s complaint said.

The company did not provide protective equipment or a mask to reduce airborne risks, the complaint alleged.

Cerón has worked as a dishwasher at the company for about eight years.

Flying Food Group is a Chicago-based corporation that produces custom meals and snacks for airlines at major airports across the country — including in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City and D.C. metro areas — and operates 19 catering facilities across the United States, with one of its largest facilities in Inglewood.

In recent years, Unite Here Local 11 has filed numerous complaints over the Inglewood facility, claiming various wage and health issues, illustrating a bitter battle over movement at the bargaining table.

When reached for comment about Flying Food Group's multiple labor complaints and violations sustained by state safety regulators, a LAWA spokesperson said in an email that Cal/OSHA would be responsible for adjudicating any health and safety violations and that LAX service providers are required to follow the law.

Flying Food Group workers have been unionized since 2016. Its most recent bargaining contract, covering some 700 workers, expired in 2022, and union leadership and company have been unable to reach an agreement on a new contract since then.

Union missives to city officials urging investigations of the company in the past had little success until earlier this year, when a small fire at the facility in January followed by worker testimony at city council meetings prompted scrutiny from the airport's governing body, which launched a review of the company in February.

Elisa Valencia recalled that she had been gathering food scales, measuring cups and trays at the start of her shift when three cooks sprinted past her, shouting. She ran after them toward an exit she had never noticed before, but not before peering into the kitchen, where she saw flames curling up the wall by the stove, video footage of the fire reviewed by The Times shows.

Araceli Berzanes, a worker at the facility, said in an interview that she and her co-worker were assembling sandwiches in the facility's cold storage room when the fire alarm went off. They tried to slide open the door they had entered from, she said, but it was held shut by a chain on the outside.

Cal/OSHA in May issued a \$18,000 fine to the company for failing to maintain a door to the cold storage room that could be opened from the inside or signage warning against locking the door without first ensuring no one was inside.

Flying Food Group spokesperson Angela Carrion said the company had filed an appeal.

Flying Food Group and others licensed to operate at LAX are bound by the airport board's "contractor responsibility program" that seeks to ensure public funds are awarded only to capable and legally compliant contractors, and requires a pledge to uphold wage, safety and other labor laws.

The Los Angeles World Airports, the city body governing LAX and Van Nuys Airport, in a Feb. 17 letter notifying Flying Food Group that it would be reviewing allegations, reminded the company of its obligation to promptly report when any other government agency launches an investigation into its practices and said that allegations over the years “potentially call into question FFG’s trustworthiness, quality, fitness and capacity.”

The five-year licenses of Flying Food Group and scores of other airport vendors came up for renewal at the end of June, during a chaotic time for the airport authority.

LAWA has been scrutinized this year over its hefty \$600,000 contract with a communications consultant who served as an unofficial advisor to Mayor Karen Bass even as he began working for Lineage Logistics, whose cold food stage facility in Boyle Heights burned in June.

Meanwhile, an exclusive terminal for the rich and famous flying in and out of L.A. is embroiled in a messy business dispute, and the long-awaited electric “people mover” train expected to ease traffic at the airport ahead of the 2028 Olympics remains mired in technical hiccups, legal issues and financial uncertainty.

LAWA opted to extend Flying Food Group along with most other vendors for six months — a much shorter time period than is typical for operating licenses — but in its posted list did not mark Flying Food Group's status as at risk or give any notice of ongoing investigation or noncompliance.

Airport officials did not respond to multiple requests for comment about the status of its Flying Food Group investigation.

AI voices take over screens and speakers

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Lawrence said actors need to push back for proper compensation and protections to avoid being replaced. He increasingly has to decline gigs when employers don't respect those rights.

“I am a champion for the human voice, despite the reality of where we are,” Lawrence said. “I’ve always said, ‘Well, what are you offering? What are my guardrails?’ And they’re like, ‘Guardrails? That’s funny.’”

Despite pushback, authorized clones are becoming accepted in Hollywood as A-list actors and their estates license their voices for use in films and online platforms. Morgan Freeman, who once took legal action against unauthorized cloning, is open to companies cloning his voice.

But a fissure remains between those actors who remain morally opposed to cloning, and those who embrace this new reality.

One of the largest online voice acting communities on Reddit, r/VoiceActing, is full of angst and anger, but few solutions.

"On principle I would never do it for any amount," wrote one voice actor in the forum.

“We hate the loss of livelihood. We hate the art form being taken away from us,” the moderator of the Reddit forum told The Times.

Nick Meyer, a 26-year-old voice actor based in Los Angeles, previously told The Times he turned down a \$100,000 offer last year to record his voice to train AI-replication models, viewing it as an existential risk. “I am not going to sacrifice my morality for a paycheck, no matter how big,” Meyer said last year.

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PERSONAL FINANCE business, there are signs of an implosion in jobs. The small gigs to voice things such as Instagram content, YouTube explainers, online classes and budget audiobooks are increasingly being absorbed by AI voices.

Hollywood fought hard for protections from AI in the prolonged writers' and actors' strikes of 2023. SAG-AFTRA, the union representing about 160,000 actors and other performers, has been demanding informed consent, fair compensation, more control and transparency over the use of digital replicas.

The latest agreement, signed in June, introduced limits on studios' use of digital replicas. The contract requires studios to notify actors before using their voices to create a replica. Even after a project is complete, actors must sign off and be paid the equivalent of an in-person performance if their replica is used.

Additionally, studios need to pay residuals to digital replicas used in reruns, and replicas cannot be used during a strike.

STACY RIVERA, an L.A. voice actor, is among those who are wary of allowing their voices to be used for AI.

The National Assn. of Voice Actors, a nonprofit lobby group founded in 2022 that represents 30,000 professional voice actors globally, points out that 80% of the voice acting work on the market is considered freelance and is not covered by union rules.

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The trade group has been warning freelancers that signing away rights to their voices could be career-ending. After learning that many early-career voice actors are being taken advantage of, they released a NAVA AI rider contract, a free addendum that actors can add to their contract to protect their likeness and identity in the absence of federal law.

"I don't think that the people that are new to the industry are being given enough information to make a rational decision about whether or not to license their voices," said Lawrence, the voice actor. "I think an awful lot of these talents are being taken advantage of."

SAG-AFTRA has put its weight behind lobbying for a federal policy called the No Fakes Act, which would create a national policy giving every person the right to their own voice and likeness and making all unauthorized use illegal.

Still, the debate is raging with voice actors on the front lines. They want to protect their livelihoods and need to make money, so many are making moves the union would discourage.

Jessica Hepburn, 44, started narrating audiobooks in 2019 from her \$250 home studio setup in Fort Wayne, Ind. She made good money doing audio commercials, corporate e-learning videos, and YouTube explainers.

"A lot of what I was doing was for the smaller people, the smaller businesses, the startups and commercials," she said. "They're looking for someone who's inexpensive but quality."

Unfortunately, that's a sweet spot for AI voices. Hepburn's income started to collapse in 2023.

"My income got cut in half," she said, to less than \$40,000 this year. "I'm getting desperate."

Now she is dabbling in voice-overs in a corner of the entertainment business with less competition from AI: erotica.

Most of the AI voice-generating software hasn't mastered high-level emotions and screaming, she said.

“I don’t think AI could ever get into erotica with what’s required,” she said.

Established actors are also selling their voices for pennies on the dollar.

Alicia McCalla, 56, a fiction writer who has been doing voice work for five years out of her home in Atlanta, decided to ignore union suggestions and clone her voice. She uploaded six hours of her voice samples to Eleven-Labs to create a clone that is nearly indistinguishable from her voice.

After she put a “warm and pleasant” voice on the market, the money started coming in.

"With this digital narration, I didn't have to do anything. I could go to sleep and make money," McCalla said.

Although McCalla is happy with her decision, she has been surprised at where her voice has popped up, hearing it in commercials and a Michael Jackson documentary.

“That’s the problem with cloning,” she said. “When you license your voice — you have no idea what the projects are.”

More than 10,000 creators earn passive income from listing their clones on ElevenLabs' voice library. The company said it has paid out \$22 million, doubling its payout since November, saying creators have full control over their voices and can update their licensing terms, restrict use cases, or remove their voice from the market-

place.

Still, stories of artists finding unauthorized clones have become all too common. NAVA lists more than 100 actors who spotted their voice clones online.

There are dozens of lawsuits against AI companies alleging unauthorized training of software models. This month, a class-action lawsuit was filed in Chicago against nine technology companies including Meta, ElevenLabs, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft. Plaintiffs claim that these companies collected voice and audio files without consent.

Rivera, the voice actor in L.A., feels stuck in the middle. She has worked on the Mexican and the Brazilian audio for Netflix's reality show "Love is Blind," sometimes recording sessions from her three-bedroom home, which has a soundproofed recording booth padded with acoustic foam.

She wants to stick to union jobs, but they have been scarce. Last year she landed one; this year, three.

When she had a chance to secure a big payday — a five-figure payout from a major tech firm that is not bound by SAG-AFTRA rules — for training AI, she refused.

"I immediately said, 'Hell no,' " Rivera said. "It's scary how predatory it's become, and it's becoming a new normal."

Why Treasury's bond buybacks have a limited effect

BY CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AND STAN CHOE

Interest rates have stayed high despite efforts by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to put a lid on longer-term borrowing costs, a sign Wall Street investors remain worried about burgeoning government debt, heavy borrowing by tech firms, and the Federal Reserve's commitment to fighting inflation.

Earlier this month, Bessent surprised financial markets by announcing that Treasury would double the size of a bond buyback program starting next month to \$4 billion per operation from \$2 billion. The buybacks are intended to reduce the supply of 10-year to 30-year bonds and boost their prices. Yields on bonds fall when their prices rise.

Bessent told CNBC that the bond repurchase program could be larger than \$4 billion.

“We have a big toolkit, so we’ll see,” Bessent said. “We believe that the yields don’t reflect the underlying fundamentals.”

Rising bond yields push up borrowing costs for consumers and businesses, and the Trump administration has set reducing interest rates as a top goal. Home purchases have slumped as mortgage rates have moved higher this year

President Trump has often demanded that the Federal Reserve lower rates, but the ongoing increases are driven primarily by financial markets.

Expert: Deficit falls to Congress, mostly

Bessent also said the Trump administration would announce a new effort to reduce the government's budget deficit, possibly by Monday.

He argued that the deficit will peak this year, in part because it has been driven higher by tariff refunds, a

temporary factor.

While the deficit has been huge for years, overall debt topped \$40 trillion on Wednesday, a staggering record that arrived just months after the national debt first blew past the \$39-trillion mark in April. And the Congressional Budget Office estimated last week that the annual gap between government revenue and spending would top \$2 trillion this year, a remarkable number outside of recessions.

But Gennadiy Goldberg, head of U.S. rates strategy at TD Securities, said reducing the deficit is mostly up to Congress, rather than the Treasury Department.

“What we are seeing is the market is still a little bit skeptical that Treasury can and will be able to backstop some of these moves,” Goldberg said.

Another factor pushing yields higher is how much debt Big Tech companies are raising to build AI data centers. Their deluge of bond offerings is giving bond investors more to choose from, which lowers prices for bonds and pushes up their yields.

Investors skeptical of Fed on inflation

Inflation also remains a threat because oil prices keep climbing on uncertainty about when the war with Iran will let tankers freely exit the Persian Gulf again.

The Fed typically combats inflation by raising its benchmark interest rate to slow borrowing and spending and cool the economy. Yet new Fed chair Kevin Warsh hasn't signaled whether the Fed will take such a step.

At his most recent news conference in late July, he sowed confusion about whether he sees higher rates as the right approach.

He also suggested the Fed could soon switch the gauge it uses to monitor inflation, which it seeks to keep at 2%. Inflation has topped that level for more than five years, and was $3.7\%$ in June, according to the Fed's preferred measure.

Mark Cabana, head of U.S. rates strategy at Bank of America Securities, said that a key reason for higher borrowing costs “is just elevated uncertainty about how the Fed is going to contain inflation” and what it will do “in case things don’t go to plan.”

Yet Warsh has under- scored he doesn't want to provide such signals be- cause he wants financial markets to set interest rates based on economic condi- tions, not on what it expects the Fed to do. Bessent's intervention appears to be at cross-purposes with that goal, since markets are now considering what next steps Treasury might take to contain rates.

"Now the ball is in the Fed's court and the ball is really in Kevin Warsh's hands," Cabana said. "And the market is questioning, will Warsh respond? Will he articulate a better plan?"

Warsh was appointed by Trump after his predecessor, Jerome Powell, finished his term in May. Trump relentlessly attacked Powell for not cutting rates, raising concerns that Warsh is inclined to reduce rates to placate Trump.

Shorter-term bond yields dipped after the Fed's July 28-29 rates meeting, while longer-term yields rose. It was an unusual reaction to a Fed meeting, according to strategists at BNP Paribas, and could suggest investors believe the Fed wants to keep its benchmark rate lower rather than higher.

Treasury buybacks are relatively small

While Bessent is talking about billions of dollars in bond buybacks, the Treasury market is so large that even purchases at that scale may not have much impact. Analysts at Macquarie, an investment bank, estimate that the U.S. government will need to issue nearly \$550 billion in bonds this quarter to finance its operations.

History also shows that government interventions in the bond market have limited effect.

“While such measures can reduce volatility and provide temporary relief, they have not permanently lowered borrowing costs when fiscal, inflation, or supply dynamics remained unfavorable," according to strategists at UBS Wealth Management, pointing to prior examples from Japan and the United Kingdom.

Rugaber and Choe write for the Associated Press.

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“I was immediately impressed with Josh’s curiosity, which seems limitless, and that’s something that draws me to people in general ... particularly in people who want to get ahead in the business world,” Iger said in an interview.

But Kushner's rise has been far from smooth.

He's had to fend off insults he's a "nepo baby" and deal with fallout from a scandal surrounding his wealthy developer father, who was sentenced to two years in federal custody for tax evasion and other charges.

A Democratic donor but a registered independent, Kushner also has had to walk a tightrope to avoid entanglement with the Trump administration, for whom his brother is now attempting to broker an Iran peace deal. It's a challenge complicated by his vocal Democratic wife, supermodel and entrepreneur Karlie Kloss.

Nitin Nohria, the former dean of Harvard's business school and now executive chairman of Thrive, recalls Kushner approaching him after Trump's first election in 2016.

"He said, ‘Nitin, what should I do?’ I said, ‘Just stay focused on the business. Say nothing, do nothing. Become as invisible as you can, because you have a great business to run, and this will just be a distraction ... once you enter this distraction, it is going to be so big, it’s going to swallow you.’"

'General manager'

At 41, Kushner retains a bushy head of hair and boy-ish demeanor. His life has been intertwined with money, business, politics and privilege — for better or worse.

When he was a seventh-grader in 1997, President Clinton visited the campus of Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy, a Modern Orthodox K-8 school he attended in his hometown of Livingston, N.J. It was named for his grandfather after a donation by his father.

The 12-year-old student council member spoke about how the shofar, the ram's horn blown during High Holy Days, awakens Jews to reflect on and reaffirm their beliefs. He told a Jewish paper that Clinton was “such a nice guy” who is “trying to get peace in a very bad time in the Middle East.”

Four years later, Kushner, who now stands 6 feet 3, made the basketball team at Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School, which was named after his grandmother.

"He would get ribbing from kids on the other teams. They would say, ‘Oh, the GM, Kushner, general manager,’" recalls Cory

Sandusky, the team's assistant coach. "He was unflappable. It would fire him up. He would smile at it, and say, 'OK, let's go!'"

Sandusky said that Kushner was prepared for the ribbing.

His father, Charles, had expanded the New Jersey real estate development business his grandfather, a Polish Holocaust survivor, had begun after starting out as a construction laborer.

Kushner Cos. built and acquired apartments in multiple states, while Charles became a philanthropist and major Democratic Party donor. He was even appointed to the board of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, responsible for rebuilding the World Trade Center site after 9/11.

On Thanksgiving, his father would bring him along as he checked out potential real estate purchases.

"The idea was when everyone is relaxing, you should be working," Kushner told Forbes in 2012. "The ball doesn't come to you."

Zuckerberg effect

Kushner's hard work got him into Harvard, but just as he entered in 2004, Mark Zuckerberg famously decided to drop out to build what would become Facebook.

Dorm room startups became a thing, and Kushner wasn't immune.

In his junior year, with two Harvard Business School students, he co-founded a Brazilian social network called Vostu, which found success pivoting to game development.

In 2011, he told Bloomberg TV $50\%$ of Brazil's internet users were registered.

Vostu eventually petered out, but it was a good learning experience for the budding entrepreneur and investor.

After graduating from college in 2008, Kushner followed many of his peers to Wall Street.

He spent a year at Goldman Sachs as the financial crisis hit but decided it wasn't for him.

The next year, he enrolled in Harvard Business School, where he developed the idea for Thrive.

Through a literal accident, he also decided he wanted to start a health insurer taking advantage of advances in tech.

It would focus on the best entrepreneurs in various stages and industries and often hold companies longer than is typical — and sometimes cofounding them.

Cutler's mother had just died, and he wasn't interested in talking business. Kushner showed up — the venture capitalist described him as handsome but also “geeky” — and was ready to listen.

Kushner got his big break in 2010 while still studying for his MBA.

He was searching for funding for Thrive when he scored a meeting with venture capitalist Joel Cutler, co-founder of General Catalyst.

After breaking his ankle in a pickup basketball game in 2010, he got the insurance bill.

"He's probably one of the few men that have the sensitivity to be able to sit for hours and talk about personal stuff," Cutler recalled of the meeting in his Harvard Square offices.

“I had absolutely no idea what it meant,” Kushner recounted in a 2023 podcast on the Colossus media website. “I said to myself, ‘How is it that the internet and software and data and design are transforming every [other] single industry around us?’”

also introduced him to the chief of Princeton's endowment, who invested \$10 million in Thrive's first institutional fund.

Kushner had experienced his own hell after his father pleaded guilty to tax evasion and illegal campaign contributions resulting in a sentence of two years in prison in 2005.

“I said, ‘If you’re bold enough to do two things and you think you can get those two done ... maybe you’re one of those people who could try three and see how it goes,’” said Nohria, who kept in touch with Kushner.

"I'm a venture capitalist. My job is to find young people who I think will do extraordinary things in the world that others can't," said the now-retired Cutler, who is a close friend of Kushner's.

Insurance company

Kushner wanted to withdraw from graduate school, feeling he couldn't give his classes enough attention while pursuing his startups, but was persuaded to stay.

The scandal surrounding the prosecution was heightened by his father's attempt to stop his relatives from cooperating with authorities. He pleaded guilty in the case to retaliating against a witness after hiring a prostitute to have sex with his sister's husband and having a tape of it sent to his sister.

One of his early successes at Thrive came in 2012 when Kushner launched a health insurer called Oscar that sold coverage directly to individuals in the marketplaces established by the Affordable Care Act. Mario Schlosser, one of his Vostu co-founders, was put in charge.

It advertised heavily, offered online chats with doctors, some free in-person doctor visits and clear pricing for procedures. Amid skepticism that the venture would last, Oscar faced losses for years but eventually rebounded.

Kushner also made headlines after Thrive beat out rivals to make a \$11.5-million investment in Instagram — in a funding round that prompted Zuckerberg to acquire the photo-sharing website 72 hours later for \$1 billion. That immediately doubled the value of Thrive's investment.

“By the time I was in high school, my father had accomplished a tremendous amount,” Josh Kushner told Colossus. “He was deeply impactful in both the business and philanthropic worlds. And then overnight our family were outcasts.”

Kushner had decided he wanted to build a different kind of venture capital firm.

The Instagram play presaged a series of lucrative investments involving brand-name startups: Spotify, payments processor Stripe, online glasses retailer Warby Parker, Gillette disruptor Harry's, Twitch and Reddit.

“It’s a very audacious thing to try to create a new national health insurer,” said Katherine Hempstead, a healthcare analyst with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

That more than doubled its stock, pushing its market cap above \$9 billion, adding to the bottom line of Thrive and Kushner, who is vice chairman and has personal holdings. Meanwhile, more than two dozen other startups tied to Obamacare — which has been subject to budget cuts by the Trump administration — have failed.

But then came the deal put together by FIFA President Gianni Infantino to create an entity to handle the world soccer organization's commercial enterprises, including ticket sales, broadcast and sponsorship rights.

Trump pardoned the elder Kushner in 2020 and named him U.S. ambassador to France in 2024.

Oscar, the insurer, announced gains in enrollment and profit.

A minority stake in the San Francisco Giants was announced as its first deal.

To be sure, Thrive has invested in its share of flops over the years, including the massively hyped Fab e-commerce platform, and Juicero, which sold an overly complicated high-tech countertop juice press.

More recently, Westminster Management, the property management arm of Kushner Cos., paid \$3.25 million in civil penalties and restitution in 2022 to settle a lawsuit by the state of Maryland. The suit alleged that thousands of rental tenants were charged illegal fees, while the properties were not maintained.

Thrive Eternal was to be the lead investor in a \$4.2-billion capital raise, but there was an immediate global backlash over concerns that the world's most popular sport was being overly commercialized.

Still, in the firm's first formal investor letter this month, Kushner boasted that its second through its 10th funds rank in the top quartile in a key financial performance metric, with several in the top $5\%$ .

Nohria was in the meetings at Thrive after FIFA pulled the plug. He said Kushner handled it in an exemplary manner.

The company did not admit wrongdoing. Kushner Cos. said in an email that Josh Kushner has never had involvement with the family firm.

As Cutler bonded with Kushner, he seeded Thrive's initial \$5-million fund with a \$1-million investment. He

In 2023, Thrive invested \$130 million in OpenAI, when the startup was valued at \$29 billion. It has invested more than \$2 billion in total and today the AI leader is worth roughly \$850 billion. Kushner also helped Sam Altman to retain his CEO position after he was pushed out by the board in 2023.

"When we had egg on our face on the FIFA deal, he stood up in front of the whole firm and said, 'I misjudged this situation. Shame on me. We could have done better,' recalls the former Harvard dean. "When your leader does that, then you know that this is a firm that he has your back."

“I do not think a more fearsomely effective, hard-charging, loyal, smart, and pure-hearted VC [venture capitalist] exists than Josh,” Altman said in a statement to The Times. “He and Thrive are ride or die with us.”

Kushner also started Thrive Holdings, a vehicle to buy and retain companies that will benefit from the application of AI into their operations. OpenAI has an ownership stake. Thrive Holdings announced this month it had raised \$2 billion from investors, including SoftBank, at a \$12-billion valuation.

Not long afterward, Kushner made the most high-profile move of his career, teaming up with Iger to buy a majority stake in the Lakers for a \$12.5-billion valuation — the most ever paid for a sports franchise.

Highs and lows

This year has been one of extraordinary highs and lows for Kushner.

In April, Kushner formed Thrive Eternal, a vehicle to buy unique businesses and hold on to them indefinitely.

Kushner and Iger viewed the Lakers as a rare opportunity to buy an ultra-premium asset and hold it for the long term.

The pair were brought together by their wives, who shared a common background in modeling.

Iger is married to broadcast journalist Willow Bay, a former model who is dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

Kushner and Iger had lunch in 2019, with the two hitting it off — so much so Iger invested in Thrive and took an advisory role in 2022, before having to step back when he returned to Disney in November of that year.

"[He] was humble, meaning it quickly kind of suggested he knew what he didn't know and what he needed to know," Iger told The Times. "He came prepared, so it wasn't a waste of my time. He had a lot of specific, very specific questions."

Iger would not discuss plans for the Lakers or how they financed the deal. He is expected to run the day-to-day operations, while Kushner will focus on Thrive.

A survival story

Amid the din of his frenetic business career, there's a constant in Kushner's life that he cites for keeping him grounded.

He celebrates the Sabbath every week, shutting off his cellphone and focusing on his wife and three young children. He called it the “greatest thing we could ever imagine” in the podcast.

But there is something else tied to his Jewish heritage that keeps things in perspective — the struggles his grandmother went through escaping liquidation at the hand of the Nazis in her Polish hometown.

In 1943, she, the remaining members of her family and some 250 other prisoners dug a 600-foot underground tunnel using spoons to escape the Jewish ghetto, as he recounted in another Colossus podcast.

She lived with partisans in the nearby forest for months, spent years with her husband in an Italian refugee camp and arrived in the United States in 1949 to start life over again.

"I'm very proud of what I've done ... but nothing I ever do will equate to what she has accomplished," he said.

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No rising star today could stay neutral like Dolly Parton

The public has come to expect celebrities to take a stand on political divisions, and those who refuse are punished

DOLLY PARTON died Tuesday at 80, and for a moment, America did something it almost never does. It agreed on ever does. It agreed on someone. Democrats and Republicans, the churched and the unchurched, posted the same grief for a devoutly, openly Christian woman claimed just as hard by people who can't stand each other. It looked like proof that faith still could belong to everyone. It was actually a eulogy for the era when that was possible.

Parton got away with it because she came up in a country that no longer exists. If someone — anyone — tried to build that same career today, it couldn't happen.

I am a faith elder at Christ Citadel International Church in Los Angeles, a Black woman who has spent her life inside American Christianity. My own tradition never has had the luxury of staying out of politics: The Black church built the civil rights movement because neutrality wasn't an option, and Black Protestants remain one of the most reliably courted, and reliably written off, blocs in American politics. Watching a white Southern Christian stay undeclared for 60 years, and get loved by everyone for it, is what makes her death read as more than one singer's loss to me. It exposes how much room this country still had left for a faith like hers, that stayed out of politics and wasn't punished for doing so.

That faith was never the soft, unobjectionable kind. It was the challenging kind that takes the commandments of love seriously — that calls believers to follow Jesus' path of compassion. She was raised Pentecostal in the Smoky Mountains, the fourth of 12 children, the granddaughter of a preacher. She called the church of her childhood hellfire and brimstone and said she found God on her own, as a girl, in an abandoned church house near her family's home, a wrecked building where people went to drink, with Bible verses still on the walls.

That's a very Christian story, a very Protestant and American one. And yet there is less and less tolerance here for that kind of authentic faith. And it's largely politicians who punish it.

In his second term, President Trump has relentlessly tested the limits of Dolly's style of faith, at home and abroad. In Nigeria, he threatened military action over the killing of Christians, warning he'd go "guns a-blazing" against Islamic terrorists in what he called that "now-disgraced country." In South Africa, he built a fast-tracked refugee pipeline for white Afrikaners who claimed they faced racism.

That test has a legal front at home too. In July 2025, the IRS told a federal court that churches can endorse candidates from the pulpit without losing tax-exempt status, the latest breach of the wall the Johnson Amendment has held since 1954.

Parton built her identity by staying out of that fight. She lived her faith publicly in other ways, such as through the creation of the Imagination Library, quiet disaster-relief giving, a radical and simple theology of “just love everybody," and the plainspoken grief after her husband Carl Dean's 2025 death that she never turned into a cause. Her theology lived in what she did, not what she argued for. She twice turned down the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Asked directly about the 2016 election, she said simply that she tries not to get political.

THE LATE Dolly Parton lived her faith through charity such as the Imagination Library.

That falls squarely in a noble tradition of faith as service rather than allegiance. And yet if said today by a rising public figure, that same sentence would read as a dodge, and she'd be pressured, from both sides, to prove her loyalty before either would let her keep her audience.

That pressure is easy to prove. A 2022 Pew survey found 77% of Americans, including 62% of white evangelicals and 63% of Black Protestants, say churches shouldn't endorse candidates. Clergy do it anyway, more openly each year: ProPublica and the Texas Tribune found at least 20 such violations in a single two-year window, more than the IRS had investigated in the prior decade. People don't like it, but they expect it — so much so that now each faith tradition and public figure is obliged to take a stand on one side or another of certain red lines — abortion, gay rights, immigration. In this climate, no Parton-like figure could get a career off the ground.

That mantle of neutrality and pursuit of common good is shifting from individuals to institutions. No single person can hold the neutral ground Parton held for 30 years, so that work increasingly is falling to organizations built to do it collectively and structured to refuse to take sides on political controversies.

The United Religions Initiative is one model, a grassroots interfaith network with more than 1,100 local groups in over 100 countries, doing this work daily by design, not by luck. The Muslim World League is another. Nine months after Trump called Nigeria a “disgraced country” over its treatment of Christians, the league under Secretary General Mohammed Al-Issa convened dozens of Christian and Muslim leaders in Nigeria this month to adopt the joint Ajuba declaration on religious cooperation, a shared commitment to stop letting religion be turned into the same loyalty test Trump has started running.

That's the shape of what's replacing figures like Parton — not a successor, but a system. Individuals get pressured into declaring. Institutions, if they're built right, don't.

None of this canonizes Parton. Challenging as it surely was to maintain, her public neutrality also did allow her to dodge some hard questions. What's most remarkable is the climate that made her neutrality possible: a country still willing to let a Christian be devout and undeclared at once, and let her fans decide for themselves what that meant.

If nothing changes, the next Dolly Parton won't get 30 years to build a following before the public demands she pick a side on some litmus-test issue of the day. She'll get a single news cycle, and she'll lose half the country as a result of however she handles the test. The solution for that intolerant culture doesn't start in Washington. It starts with congregations that keep pulpits as pulpits, with grassroots networks doing the work that requires remaining above the political fray, and with the rest of us refusing to read a public figure's silence as something she's hiding.

In Dolly Parton's decades of fame, we saw what it looks like when someone is allowed to be both devout and undeclared. We should notice it already was becoming impossible, long before she was gone.

NATHALIE BEASNAEL, a doctor of divinity, is a faith elder at Christ Citadel International Church in Los Angeles and founder of Health4Peace. She serves as diplomatic envoy to the U.S. for the Republic of Chad.

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NEW TARIFFS affect all sorts of Canadian exports, from hockey sticks to honey.

Trump pushed Canada too far

Re “A long list of Canadian goods subject to 50% U.S. tariffs,” Aug. 25

T HE Los Angeles Times' reporting on the breakdown of trade talks between the U.S. and Canada made no mention of the other terms presented by the U.S. negotiators apparently at the last minute, at least partially causing Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to break off the talks. Tariff rates were only part of the problem.

According to Carney, those other terms included demands that Canada restrict future trade deals with other countries and weaken its support for French language and culture. Carney said the American attitude was to regard Canada as “a subsidiary of the United States.” That killed the talks.

So, now we enter a trade war with our longstanding ally, trading partner and closest neighbor. This after losing a trade war with China and a military war with Iran. Are there any intelligent people left in Washington?

Re “New tariffs threaten close Canada-U.S. alliance,” Aug. 23

I was angry to read about Trump and his campaign to impose new tariffs on goods from Canada. Tariffs are taxes that we, the American consumers, pay for imported items.

While not wishing to pay extra for goods I may be purchasing from Canada, I am equally mad and sad

PETER LANGENBERG South Pasadena

about the way Trump treats our ally and neighbor, Canada.

The United States has had a long, peaceful friendship with Canada. Now Trump's actions are alienating us from yet another nation, our next-door neighbor. The worldwide status of the United States continues to decline as we bully other nations.

CAROL KARAS Camarillo

Trump has reached back to the Great Depression, invoking section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to threaten Canada with 50% tariffs.

It was in my eighth-grade history class when we learned that the Smoot-Hawley tariffs of 1930 were a blunder and that “protectionism” was a losing proposition, a dirty word.

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Those who refuse to learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to re-

LETTERS

peat them. JOHNNY THOMPSON San Diego

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Re “Canada planning tariffs as high as 50% against U.S.,” Aug. 26

Let me see if I understand this. Trump got mad at Canada because it wouldn't do what he told it to do. So, to punish Canada, Trump imposed tariffs on Canadian goods. Those tariffs will ultimately be paid by American taxpayers, meaning they are essentially a tax on Americans.

Now, in retaliation, the Canadian finance minister (whose last name is, aptly, Champagne) will raise tariffs on American goods. Those tariffs will ultimately be paid by Canadian consumers. It is hard to see any winners here, but it is clear who the losers are.

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Bob Wicks Brea

I'm ordering my Canadian flag and T-shirt today.

Come on, Europe. Come on, Mexico, China, Japan and any other country that has been brutalized by our schoolyard bully of a president. Get behind Canada and show Trump that enough is enough.

CAROLE LUTNESS Valencia

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As Mahatma Gandhi is attributed as saying, an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. Let's call the whole thing off.

THOMAS D. PENFIELD Cardiff-by-the-Sea

This article reports that the Iran war “could push up to 23.4 million more children into poverty by the end of the year.” It makes clear that the ever-widening ripples of damage and tragedy of President Trump’s war on Iran continue to grow more globally vast and heartbreaking.

The poor always suffer the most

It's always the poorest who bear the most damage when things go south, when soaring fuel prices strain economies and individual families. Children in poorer countries who might have found the sanctuary of learning and one assured meal a day are taken from school to support families that cannot buy food, whose fathers can no longer buy fuel to run boats, to fish for a living.

Re “Iran war takes toll on children’s education,” Aug. 25

Children pulled from school, forced to work, are always more vulnerable to exploitation — to having their development stunted, their health diminished.

Certainly, Trump was cautioned for all of the obvious reasons why it was a mistake of great proportions to attack Iran. The repercussions of decisions based on his own arrogance, disassociated from facts, will never touch him, his family or most any of us who are doing moderately well. Always the poor who suffer most.

JANA K. SHAKER Pebble Beach

Veterans face a tough transition

Re “To keep veterans out of jail, help before they are veterans,” Aug. 25

Following the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. elected to attack Afghanistan. I remember at that time, a local radio station interviewed an L.A. County Sheriff's Department spokesperson in front of the Twin Towers Correctional Facility. I'll never forget what that

spokesperson told the local reporter: Now that this war has started, in the future, L.A. County jails will include large numbers of veterans returning from the war, just as it always has been.

As a Marine veteran, I can attest to how there is a lack of support in transitioning from military to civilian life.

The violence that you are instructed to perform on orders and the violence that you witness, or become directly involved in, does not leave you when you take the uniform off. Many thanks to guest contributor David "Mac" MacEwen for his work supporting veterans.

SALVADOR JIMENEZ Los Angeles

Market is part of city's history

Re “Demolition of a stadium will close a chapter in Long Beach lore,” Aug. 23

This article left out one important event held at Veterans Memorial Stadium: the Long Beach Antique Market. Every month, there are 800 dealers and thousands of buyers who go to that show to find treasures.

Since its inception in 1982, there have been 14 shows per year. That show goes on rain or shine, sizzling heat in summer or cold and damp in winter. It may not be a sporting event, but it does draw tens of thousands of flea market fans each year.

I think it deserves to be mentioned as part of Long Beach history.

GC BERNSTEIN Los Angeles

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Terrifying thoughts a new mom can face

A DEMONSTRATOR live-streams as she joins a group in support of Lindsay Clancy outside Plymouth Superior Court.
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I HAVE THE OPPOSITE of a morbid fascination with stories about mothers who kill their children. I also am deeply discomfited by stories about women who leave their children, “Kramer vs. Kramer” style, to go off and find themselves.

The mother-child bond is so deep, and so sacred, that it's inconceivable to me that a mother would abandon her children, let alone take their lives. And yet, of course, it has happened before.

I have tried hard not to pay attention to the story of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mom who killed her three children in January 2023. Cora was 5, Dawson was 3 and Callan was 8 months old when Clancy strangled them with exercise bands in the basement of their two-story Duxbury home.

This week, my curiosity overcame my revulsion. I watched parts of Clancy's livestreamed murder trial.

I don't pretend to understand what, exactly, drove the former labor and delivery nurse to kill her children, but I do understand the way that post-partum hormones, anxiety and sleeplessness can upend even a sane woman's mental health.

In the months leading up to her catastrophic act, according to trial testimony and a lawsuit she filed against her providers, Clancy was prescribed 13 psychotropic medications by multiple professionals, and was even briefly hospitalized.

She called a suicide hotline twice, and because she did not have a specific plan to kill herself, her attorney said, the hotline told her to contact her medical provider. Clancy told family, friends and neighbors about what her attorney described in court as “intrusive thoughts, dark thoughts, homicidal and suicidal ideation.”

To say the system failed her is to believe there actually is a system in place to help a woman like Clancy. No single provider was in charge of her care. Her husband testified that he had never heard of post-partum psychosis, a rare but severe mental health emergency.

I have immense empathy for Clancy, who also slashed at her wrist and neck before jumping out of a second-story window. Clancy is now paralyzed from the sternum down, and attended her nearly five-week trial in a wheelchair. I have to stop myself from imagining what the children felt as she killed them.

The prosecution contended that Clancy acted intentionally and with premeditation, that she knew right from wrong and deliberately sent her husband out of the house so she could carry out her plan.

“She left them discarded on the basement floor, like broken toys, because she was done playing the game,” Plymouth County prosecutor Jennifer Sprague told the jury. “You know, to a moral certainty, she is guilty.”

Clancy's defense attorney Kevin Reddington argued that she is not guilty by reason of insanity

— that she was in the throes of severe postpartum psychosis, was overmedicated and heard voices telling her to kill children and herself.

“She was a darn good mother,” Reddington told the jury.

Deliberations began Thursday, and continued Friday. If Clancy is convicted of first-degree murder, she will face life in prison. If the jury finds her not guilty by reason of insanity, she will be committed indefinitely to a psychiatric hospital. They could also acquit her.

One reason I feel so deeply for Clancy and her defenseless children is that I had a distressing postpartum experience years ago when my daughter was a newborn.

Out of the blue, I had the bizarre thought that I might accidentally pop my baby in the oven and roast her like a suckling pig. I could not chase the image from my head.

I was so freaked out that I immediately called my husband and asked him to come home from work to keep me company. The moment passed, but I have remained shaken that I would ever be capable of such a thought.

One thing is certain — I never told my doctor about my experience, and didn't even talk about it with friends until much later. It makes me shudder to even think about it now, let alone admit it here.

I recently discussed it with my extremely compassionate daughter, who is now 33, a psychiatric nurse practitioner, and the besotted mother of my 18-month-old granddaughter.

As my daughter explained, my experience is common. I wish I had known that when I was a new mom.

In fact, the vast majority of women have intrusive thoughts about their baby's safety in the post-partum period. Some of these sudden thoughts are “ego-dystonic,” that is, you find them horrifying and repulsive and are shocked to have them. That was certainly the case for me.

The killing of the Clancy children struck a deep chord for many women sympathetic to Clancy's post-partum deterioration. To show support, hundreds gathered outside the courthouse during the trial, clad in pink T-shirts.

“She Needed Help,” said their signs. “They failed her.” And, “Peace for Lindsay.”

A second, smaller group of women, in white shirts, came to the courthouse to grieve the Clancy children. They were described in news reports as “counterprotesters” and carried signs that demanded “justice” for Cora, Dawson and Callan.

“I think two things can be true,” one of the women in white told a local Boston TV station. “I think you can be here speaking for the fact that the system failed this entire family at every level, and also be here to say I want to represent the children.”

Two other things can be true: You can be a darn good mother and post-partum psychosis can turn you into a killer.

Lindsay Clancy, a former labor nurse, sought help for severe post-partum psychiatric issues. No one saw she was about to break.

Voices VERONIQUE DE RUGY CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The left and right are both pointing fingers as the debt explodes

Unfunded Social Security and Medicare promises are a commitment to more spending and future inflation

THE U.S. NATIONAL debt just crossed the \$40-trillion threshold, doubling in less than a decade. Washington politi-

cians have responded with their favorite fiscal game: blaming the other party. Democrats say Republican tax cuts are the culprit. Republicans say Democratic spending is the root cause. But both parties are responsible, with both hiding behind a lie of omission. And if we let them, they'll keep driving us into the same wall together.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) recently called Republican tax cuts "the single biggest driver" of the debt across the last 25 years. The number uses an unrealistic 2001 baseline that projected endless surpluses, as if the late-1990s revenue windfall would last forever. The Brookings Institution's Jessica Riedl makes a more honest comparison by lining up the actual budget in 2000 against 2026. Tax cuts have reduced revenue by roughly $2\%$ of gross domestic product. Spending rose by $5.7\%$ , nearly three times as much.

Tax cuts can be great, especially when structured to move us toward a better overall tax code. But they are not free and often do not pay for themselves, largely because they come with lots of non-productive handouts to special interests.

Yet the fact of the matter is that despite every tax cut since 2001, revenue today sits near its long-run average as a share of the GDP. With spending climbing nearly six points, we know exactly where the problem lies.

A BILLBOARD displaying the escalating national debt earlier this month in Washington, D.C.
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The Congressional Budget Office projects federal spending to rise further, from 23.3% of GDP this year to 24.4% in 2036. For those paying attention, the drivers won't come as a surprise: entitlement programs and interest payments. Discretionary spending, defense included, is poised to shrink relative to GDP. Revenue holds near its average.

But while Republicans blame Democrats for expanding spending, they have joyfully participated. As David Stockman documented in his 1986 book, “The Triumph of Politics,” the Reagan Revolution failed to truly reform welfare and entitlement spending because Republicans were active in their expansion in the decades before.

More recently, Republicans who spent years complaining about Obamacare have failed to abolish it, let alone reform its finances. Today, you don't hear a peep out of Republicans about reforming Social Security and Medicare, though they have made some cosmetic adjustments to Medicaid and SNAP as they were cutting taxes.

This is not new. About 26 years ago, Social Security's trustees were already projecting the trust funds to run dry in 2037, after which payroll taxes would cover only $72\%$ of benefits. Today, the trustees expect the old-age fund to be depleted by around 2032, covering about $77\%$ of benefits thereafter. And we have always known why: longer lives, lower birth rates, fewer workers per retiree. Maintaining these benefits without crushing taxes was always going to mean a lot of debt.

Medicare's Hospital Insurance fund is estimated to run dry around the same time. But as the Hoover Institution's Tom Church notes, Medicare's real fiscal problem is that we now rely on general revenue to cover more than half of its outlays. This amounts to roughly \$10 trillion over 2026-2035, mostly from Part B (a medical insurance program for outpatient and doctors visits). That's huge, but it's not news, either.

All of this has frustrated me for years. Those of us warning about debt have been dismissed as primitives. When interest rates were low, debt was cheap. We were assured that if growth beat the borrowing rate, we could roll it over almost for free. The reality is that even low rates on explosive debt aren't cheap, and there was little chance that rates would stay low forever.

Here's what the low-rate crowd never understood, and what this decade's inflation should have taught everyone: Government debt is a promise to run future surpluses. The market expects no less, and thus, the debt's real value depends on whether investors believe that promise.

When Washington dropped roughly \$5 trillion in pandemic dollars into the economy with no plan to pay for any of it, investors reappraised this promise and the price level adjusted. The inflation of 2021 and 2022 was not an unlucky storm.

It was the market's response to a government taking on debt it didn't have fiscal backing for. Higher interest rates followed, and we are still living with them.

That's the risk Washington is not pricing into its complacency. The danger of an unreformed entitlement state is about more than interest payments crowding out the rest of the budget. It's that bondholders will stop believing future surpluses will materialize, and the adjustment comes through the price level again. Unfunded Social Security and Medicare promises are, in effect, a standing commitment to more debt and future inflation.

So, the question is whether the politicians who claim to be alarmed by the crossing of this threshold will stand up and turn the tide of red ink heading our way.

VERONIQUE DE RUGY is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. This article was produced in collaboration with Creators Syndicate.

Lawyer used Virgin Mary to appeal to immigrants

LUCILA Perez, top right, and Francisca Ramirez Cruz, above left, are among the people who say they worked with attorney Alexandra Lozano. The others sought to remain anonymous.
Photographs by JASON ARMOND Los Angeles Times

[Lawyer, from A1] months ago when the Washington State Bar Assn. brought a disciplinary action against Lozano. The bar's statement of alleged misconduct said Lozano employed non-legal staff to deliver scripted sales pitches with false information to prospective clients, and sought U.S. visas for clients on humanitarian grounds, knowing that they weren't eligible.

In her response, Lozano denied any misconduct but agreed to resign permanently from the practice of law in Washington and all other states and jurisdictions in which she had the right to practice. That includes California, where Lozano had an office in Commerce.

Neither Lozano nor her lawyers responded to requests for comment from The Times.

Lozano's practice stood out for its sheer size alone. As of this spring, Lozano's signature was on 53,923 visa petitions pending before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, according to the Washington State Bar Assn., which said clients were typically charged a flat fee of \$10,000 to \$15,000.

The Lozano case comes as immigration scams have surged nationwide, with advocates saying unscrupulous lawyers take advantage of people desperate to stay in the U.S. amid an immigration crackdown by the Trump administration.

Immigration officials point to a sharp increase in visas submitted under the Violence Against Women Act as a sign of possible fraud. Claims under VAWA rose by 360% from 2020 to 2024, according to USCIS, which released a memo last year narrowing guidelines for the visa category.

“Many of these folks spent every single dollar that they had saved with Lozano,” said M. Lucero Ortiz, an attorney with the Los Angeles-based Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic. “They don’t have any more money for private attorneys.”

The clinic, along with Proyecto Pastoral at Dolores Mission, a Boyle Heights-based nonprofit, have identified at least 62 immigrants in Southern California who were Lozano clients.

Her firm, known as La Luz del Camino Legal and before that as Alexandra Lozano Immigration Law, employed 750 employees as of 2024 and had offices in 13 states, according to a civil suit filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle on behalf of former clients.

“It ... is probably the biggest immigration catastrophe that we’ve seen in the history of immigration law,” said Vicente Barraza, one of the attorneys who is suing Lozano in federal court.

The pending civil suit claims that Lozano and her associates promised “miracles” to immigrants using “Mexican cultural and religious imagery.” Lozano falsely claimed that clients were eligible for visas on grounds that they were victims of domestic abuse or victims of sex trafficking, the suit said, often without the clients’ knowledge. The suit seeks unspecified damages for claims including legal malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty and racketeering.

Barraza said Lozano's clients are at risk of being deported if their visa applications were fraudulent.

"It's a real tragedy," Barraza said. "The people that she had sworn to serve ethically are now being placed in removal proceedings, and they've lost tons of money."

Attorneys for Lozano filed a response to the suit, saying legal fees are at the heart of the skirmish, and that “plaintiffs have recast that dispute as a sprawling racketeering enterprise.”

Angelo Calfo, an attorney representing Lozano, said in a statement to the Associated Press that clients were expected to review their applications before signing and blamed them for any false statements. He didn't respond to requests for comment from The Times.

“Alexandra’s practice has always been to fight for her clients, zealously pursue every lawful option available to them, and support their efforts to build lives in this country,” his statement said.

A lawyer of miracles

Lozano pitched herself as a lawyer of miracles. She stood in front of paintings of the Virgin Mary in most of her social media posts, reaching thousands of immigrants desperate for immigration relief. The Lord's Prayer was printed on the back of her business cards. She promised speedy results, even in the most impossible cases.

The religious approach appealed to devout Catholics such as Velazquez, an immigrant from Mexico who spent three decades without status in the country, cutting hair from her home and cleaning houses when business was slow. Her immigration status made finding steady work a struggle, she said, and yet she managed to wire at least \$350 every month for almost three years to the firm. She said she paid a total of roughly \$15,000 for Lozano's services, including a \$1,500 retainer and other fees.

Lozano told Velazquez she qualified for a visa through her citizen son, who was 26 at the time of her application in 2022.

Velazquez said that what she didn't fully understand was that the application — which was being submitted through the Violence Against Women Act — hinged on a false claim of abuse from a child. Lozano's office didn't explain the visa category, Velazquez said.

“She had no right to tell me I qualified for such a thing,” Velazquez said.

Velazquez said that Lozano did succeed in getting her a work permit and a Social Security card. That's not unusual, according to Michigan-based immigration lawyer Robert Alvarez, who said those documents are typically granted on an emergency basis when applications for humanitarian visas are filed.

Even so, her application for a humanitarian visa is still pending, and Velazquez said lawyers have told her the odds are that it will be rejected.

Velazquez said she recommended at least 27 friends and family members to Lozano's office over the last four years, including a cousin, Lucila Perez.

Perez said she had a phone interview with someone at Lozano's law firm in July 2024, who assured her she'd qualify for a so-called T visa. She said she quickly signed a contract with the firm, which quoted her just under \$12,000. Only later, Perez said, did she learn that a T visa was for victims of human trafficking and that her circumstances wouldn't qualify her for it.

The Mexico native, now 45, sold churros and doughnuts in the streets of South Los Angeles to keep a roof over her two youngest children. She wired money to

Lozano in monthly payments over two years, hoping a work permit and Social Security card would be waiting for her too.

Instead, all that arrived in the mail was a notice for a USCIS appointment in Los Angeles scheduled for early September. Perez said several lawyers have warned her she might be detained for deportation at that hearing.

The two cousins are seeking legal help, but they say the lawyers they have consulted charge at least \$7,500, which they can't afford.

"I want someone to help me. To give me at least an ounce of relief," Perez said. "All I want is to hear that I'm going to make it out of this. That I'm going to be OK. Because the truth is I have no idea what to do."

Immigration cases have also flooded the court system in recent months, leaving most nonprofit and pro bono law firms at capacity, Ortiz said of the Loyola clinic.

"The most unsettling part of it is that now they may be in a complex immigration position, where they need an expert attorney who's going to charge them money," Ortiz said. "It's very difficult to get a pro bono or a low bono attorney to take on a complex case like that."

A life-changing field trip

Lozano has said it was a school field trip to Guatemala as a teenager that led her to become an immigration lawyer.

“I wanted to fight for human rights after that experience in Central America,” she told CALO News.

In that interview, she said she wasn't Latina herself but took the surname Lozano when she married her husband. In public documents, she is identified as both Alexandra Lozano and Alexandra Lozano Kennedy.

She received her law degree from Seattle University in 2008, according to the Washington State Bar Assn. Her first jobs were at traditional law firms she described as "toxic, cutthroat, and unsupportive," she wrote in her 2018 book, "Be the CEO of Your Law Firm: Gain Control, Turn a Profit, and Reclaim Your Life."

She started her own firm in 2012 but struggled to make money because she failed to make profit a priority, she wrote in the book. Soon after, she and her family moved to Mexico, where she ran a small practice remotely for a couple of years.

In 2014, Lozano said she moved back to the U.S. after a hurricane hit Mexico. She was seven months pregnant at the time and needed more stable income, so she shifted focus to her business, she wrote.

By 2017, the law firm was a seven-figure business, according to Lozano's written account, fueled in part by her decision to market it as a brand. Her firm's logo utilized the Mayan calendar because it was a "noticeable and memorable" symbol to her ideal clientele. The logo's colors resembled the Mexican flag.

She received a mentorship award from the American Immigration Lawyers Assn. in 2016 and her alma mater gave her the distinguished alumna award for her immigration advocacy, according to the biography accompanying her book on the Amazon website.

Lozano traveled the country sharing her formula for success, and started AMIGA Lawyers, an association for female attorneys seeking guidance in the business world.

Asking for forgiveness

The visa applications submitted by Lozano will now probably come under review by USCIS, said Ortiz, the attorney with the Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic.

“She would tell every single person that walked through her door that they qualified for something, when a lot of people don’t,” Ortiz said.

Ortiz said all clients of Lozano should submit a Freedom of Information Act request with USCIS to gain access to their immigration file and consult a reputable lawyer to decide how to proceed with their case. USCIS officials didn't respond to a request for comment.

More than 5,700 people have registered to join the civil suit filed in Seattle against Lozano, according to attorney Barraza. Six hundred twenty-three people from California have registered, he said, including 233 from the L.A. metropolitan area, although none have yet been added.

Velazquez said she hopes to join the lawsuit.

In June, she stood in front of her shrine to the Virgin Mary. She stared at Lozano's merchandise, which had sat at the feet of her statue since 2022.

For years, Velazquez kept the merchandise as a reminder of the decades of struggle she faced before crossing paths with the lawyer of miracles. Now, her cousin was probably facing deportation, and she feared she'd be next.

She grabbed the pencil, the mug and the agenda, and tossed it in the trash.

"I've had to ask the Virgin Mary for forgiveness, because this woman just used her," Velazquez said. "I asked her to forgive Lozano too, because she used her to get to us — to trick us into giving her all of our money."

New telescope will seek fate of the universe

[Telescope, from A1] coronograph instrument on Roman — not even Roman as a whole.”

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In a field where scientists need reams of information to answer their most burning questions, “Roman gives us this amazing, unprecedented, cutting-edge data — and a huge amount of it,” said Dida Markovic, a JPL research scientist. Markovic is a deputy principal investigator for one of the teams tasked with analyzing the barrage of data — enough to fill up the storage on about 40,000 laptops over Roman’s five-year mission.

The search for 'Earth twins'

Since the 1990s, scientists have cataloged more than 6,300 worlds orbiting stars other than our sun. Roman aims to find 100,000 more of these exoplanets.

The vast majority of discovered exoplanets were found not by taking a picture of a planet, but by sensing it indirectly — how its orbit causes its star to wobble, how it dims the star when passing in front or how its gravity warps the light of a different star in the back-

ground.

NASA'S Nancy Grace Roman Telescope is set to launch Sunday. Above, at the Goddard Space Center.

These methods are quite good at finding gigantic planets and planets that orbit incredibly close to their host stars — in other words, planets nothing like Earth.

Roman will not only use these methods, but also try to observe some planets directly, measuring light that traveled all the way from the planet's atmosphere.

The trouble is, Earth-like planets can be more than a billion times dimmer than their host star. That's harder than trying to spot a firefly right next to someone flashing their high-beams at you.

The James Webb Space Telescope can see planets about 100,000 times dimmer than their star. It does this by covering the host star from its view with masks, called coronagraphs, to better see the planet (like covering up the blinding headlights with your hand).

With such a large gap between what's needed to find an "Earth twin" and what current telescopes can achieve, "no matter how bright your engineering team is, you're not going to do that in one generation of telescopes," said Bailey, the Roman coronagraph instrument scientist. "So, enter the Roman coronagraph."

Roman can focus starlight into an easy-to-cover pinprick with tremendous precision. More than 3,200 pistons distort two flexible mirrors with near atomic-scale precision to account for blemishes.

Once in focus, Roman will patiently wait. With planets this dim, the telescope may receive just a single particle of light once every minute. (Even when you look at the faintest stars in the night sky, your eyeballs are receiving a few hundred photon particles from the star every second.)

If Roman succeeds, it will put scientists one step closer to a Habitable Worlds Observatory that searches for Earth twins — and perhaps one step closer to finding our cosmic neighbors.

An unrelenting cosmic tug-of-war

For decades, scientists have struggled to understand the invisible game of tug-of-war that dominates our universe.

So-called "dark matter" clumps around galaxies and snakes throughout space in long tendrils. Even though light can pass through it, making it invisible, it exerts a massive gravitational force that works to collapse the universe in on itself.

Meanwhile, “dark energy” seems to permeate every square inch of space, pushing outward and accelerating the universe’s expansion.

In this cosmic battle, dark energy appears to be winning — expanding our universe over trillions of years until everything thins and smooths out into almost nothingness.

To measure the strength of dark energy, scientists look at how fast the universe is expanding and work backward. To locate dark matter, scientists measure how its gravity bends the light from galaxies.

Astrophysicists have several theories for what dark matter is. Some say it's unknown heavy and slow-moving particles. Others think the unknown particles are lighter and faster. Others say it's ancient black holes lurking throughout space.

While all these theories successfully describe the large-scale clumping scientists can measure, they disagree on how dark matter should clump on smaller scales. Roman will help scientists measure that small clumping for the first time.

To do it, Markovic's team will look at how dark matter bends the light of hundreds of millions of galaxies to create maps of its structure.

As for dark energy, scientists have long assumed its strength to be constant. But recent, more precise measurements of dark energy's strength hint that it might actually be decreasing.

Roman's expansive surveys will help scientists look at dark energy's evolution with even more clarity, hopefully settling whether or not it's constant.

If in fact dark energy is growing weaker, it could allow dark matter to take the edge in the tug-of-war and send the universe crashing in on itself (way, way in the future). It could also have profound consequences for Einstein's theory of general relativity, which has been proven correct time and time again in the century-plus since he published it.

“Relativity seems pretty solid. We haven’t seen any deviations from that,” said Katie Mack, Hawking chair in cosmology and science communication at the Perimeter Institute. “So if that’s being broken, then that’s a much bigger deal and a much more confusing and complicated problem.”

CALIFORNIA

SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 2026 :: LATIMES.COM/CALIFORNIA

THE GALLINULE was spotted Aug. 13 at the Irvine Ranch Water District's San Joaquin Marsh.

Rare bird draws flocks to this Irvine marsh

A juvenile purple gallinule has SoCal birders atwitter

For the last two weeks, a little bird with big feet has turned a 320-acre marsh in Irvine into one of the hottest birding destinations in Southern California.

Hundreds of birdwatchers have flocked to the Irvine Ranch Water District's San Joaquin Marsh, hoping to catch a glimpse of a juvenile purple gallinule. It's the first documented sighting of the rare bird in Orange County and the eighth in California since 1961.

The sighting still needs to be accepted by the California Bird Records Committee, which reviews and confirms rare bird sightings.

The swamp hen, known by its scientific name, Porphyrio martinica, is found mostly along the Gulf of Mexico and in the Caribbean as well as parts of South America. However [See Gallinule, B5]

By Ruben Vives

ONLINE updates drove more birdwatchers to visit the marsh.

A police spokesperson said officers at Van Nuys Regional Jail used force on Jose Carlos Hoyos-Munoz, 58, after he was uncooperative and spit on them.

Voices STEVE LOPEZ COLUMNIST

The footage released by the LAPD showed officers converge on Hoyos-Munoz several times after he behaved erratically in his cell in the early-morning hours of July 15.

In a victory for coast, Newsom backs off from shameful gambit

He was struck several times while pinned down and in handcuffs.

By LIBOR JANY everal times over the last many years, I've ended a column about California's greatest natural

After leaving the cell, offi- [See Video, B2]

Asset with the same words. The coast is never saved, it's being saved.

Today I'm beginning with that thought.

The officers placed a hood over Hoyos-Munoz's head after he spit on them, the LAPD spokesperson said, and he was left with the covering on while he lay prone with his hands behind his back.

The words are not mine. The late Peter Douglas, former executive director of the California Coastal Commission, uttered them many years ago. He was pointing out that it would take constant

LAPD officials on Friday released security camera footage showing a group of officers piling on top of a man and beating him before he died in a San Fernando Valley jail cell, one of two recent incidents that prompted Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to call for an independent review of police killings of people in mental distress.

vigilance to fend off repeated attempts to chip away at the protections he helped enshrine in the Coastal Act.

Politicians are sentenced in marijuana case

Video of inmate jail beating is released

Over the last few days, the person doing the chipping was Gov. Gavin New- som, who pushed a bill that would have shredded a page of the Coastal Act in a way that would have benefited a long- time campaign donor.

Odiou, yes, but if you're thinking of running for president one day, why not go for broke?

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THE GOVERNOR has dropped a bill that was threatening the Coastal Act.
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Cash buried in a yard tipped investigators off to a massive corruption scheme.

BY RICHARD WINTON

When the “green wash” of legalized marijuana was sweeping across California a decade ago, one local official tried to style himself as a gatekeeper for the new industry.

Ricardo Pacheco, a Baldwin Park City Council member at the time, began meeting with other elected officials and new marijuana sellers, offering his services to smooth the regulatory challenges and foster investment, prosecutors alleged.

Over the next few years, Pacheco wheeled and dealed his way through the San Gabriel Valley while wearing a concealed wire for agents, uncovering a scheme that would lead to charges and convictions for a half-dozen players in local government and a marijuana operator.

Last week, the corruption scandal hit a milestone when Pacheco and another member of the scheme were sentenced.

In 2018, the FBI captured Pacheco in a video-recorded sting at a coffee shop, accepting bribes — \$20,000 in cash as well as an additional \$17,000 in contributions to his church and political activities — to vote for a police contract. The bureau then turned him into an informant.

Authorities determined Pacheco was soliciting bribes and dug up \$62,000 buried in his backyard in a search early in the case, marking the beginning of a sprawling corruption scandal that has spread through several communities. Pacheco wore a wire, resulting in six indictments involving more than 20 participants.

Among the six people he helped implicate were Galvan, a former Baldwin Park city attorney, a Commerce city manager, a San Bernardino County planning commissioner and a marijuana distributor, all of whom have been charged and pleaded guilty.

tion, manufacturing and distribution in 2017. Almost immediately, Pacheco began soliciting bribes from businesses seeking marijuana development agreements and related permits in the city, prosecutors alleged in court documents.

Pacheco got up to 18 months in prison for bribery. Isaac Galvan, a former Compton City Council member, got 18 months for facilitating bribes on Pacheco's behalf. Pacheco agreed to forfeit almost \$219,755 in illegal proceeds as part of his plea agreement, and Galvan agreed to pay \$323,557.

Authorities said investigations related to the pot business in local cities are continuing.

Court records show the wrongdoing began when Baldwin Park started permitting cannabis cultiva-

“Mr. Pacheco accepts responsibility and is profoundly sorry for betraying the public trust,” his attorney, Glen Jonas, said. “He will serve his term with humility while continuing to make amends to his family, the community, as he has done consistently for the past eight years.”

Prosecutors say the scheme involved a variety of officials in different cities helping firms get cannabis permits.

Pacheco's role in collecting cash in exchange for political favors was pieced together through the plea agreements of other defendants caught in the probe.

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Studio City blaze becomes another flash point in race

BY SALVADOR HERNANDEZ

A fire on an abandoned Los Angeles property sparked another clash between Mayor Karen Bass and Councilmember Nithya Raman, with the mayoral rivals blaming each other for not stepping up and tackling a problem lot neighbors say has languished for years.

Homeless encampments, piles of trash, vermin, and car break-ins have bedeviled the 4000 block of Babcock Avenue in Studio City since the property was abandoned, said neighbor Clint Ledsworth. Dozens of calls and complaints were made to L.A. city departments and police, he said, but went unaddressed — with officials telling him they couldn't go inside the private property.

That had changed by Friday morning, after Bass and Raman clashed over a fire that broke out at the property earlier in the week. Ledsworth said he woke up to a flurry of activity. Sanitation workers were cleaning the area, cutting down trees, and erecting a new fence and lock to keep out trespassers.

"I'm glad it's taken care of, but it's too bad that it took a fire to finally get them out here," Ledworth said.

A day after the fire broke out Wednesday, Raman put out a statement saying her office had flagged the property to the mayor's office 10 moths ago, but nothing was done. Bass' campaign responded with edited news clips of Raman, who represents the area, taking angry questions from residents in the Studio City neighborhood Friday.

“Nithya Raman wants to lead the whole city, 6 years in office she can’t even get a single lot cleaned up in her own district,” the campaign wrote in a caption along with the video on Instagram.

After KTLA broadcast a segment on the lot and the fire, Bass called into the station Thursday and said Raman could have called her personally to address problems with the property. But Raman, during her news conference Friday, shot back — saying she shouldn't have to call the mayor to address every issue in the city.

“I cannot call her about the 200-plus issues that we’re dealing with that are at this level of risk,” Raman said. “Does she want me to call her about every encampment? Does she want me to call her about every single fire risk? Or do we actually deal with a functional city where departments can actually solve issues and where I use the policies that her office has sent me to identify the priority locations for nuisance abatement?”

The political flareup came after firefighters were called to the property Wednesday, where Ledsworth said he saw flames as high as 20 feet.

Video obtained by KTLA [See Fire, B7]

Family awarded millions for fatal overdose in jail

RICHARD MATUS JR. died of a fentanyl overdose while awaiting trial in 2022, leaving behind two children.
Christian Contreras Law PLC

Riverside County is partially responsible, jury finds. His was one of 19 deaths that year.

BY CLARA HARTER

Richard Matus Jr. spoke to his 13-year-old daughter over the phone from a Riverside County jail the night before she started eighth grade and promised they'd talk after her first day. But she never heard his voice again.

On Aug. 11, 2022, Matus died from a fentanyl overdose in his cell at the Cois M. Byrd Detention Center, where he was awaiting trial. His was one of a record-breaking 19 deaths in the Riverside County jail system that year.

His family alleges that a Riverside County sheriff's deputy failed to take appropriate action when Matus' cellmate initially reported the medical emergency. They filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the county and the Sheriff's Department in 2023.

On Wednesday, a federal jury found that the county bears partial responsibility for Matus' death and is responsible for paying his son, daughter and mother roughly \$5.4 million in damages.

The total award to the family was \$13.5 million, but they will only receive about 40% of that, because the jury ruled that the county was 40% responsible for Matus' death and he was 60% responsible.

"The trial was hard-fought, and the county of Riverside denied any responsibility throughout the entire trial," said the family's attorney, Christian Contreras. "The case hinged on the testimony of inmate witnesses who testified in shackles and orange jumpsuits."

In 2023, the California Department of Justice launched a civil rights probe into the practices of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department that led to the spike in in-custody deaths. The Sheriff's Department and county have also faced a flurry of litigation from families whose loved ones died in the jail system, including about 15 cases represented by Contreras' firm.

From February 2023 through April, there were an additional 29 inmate deaths in Riverside County, and in June a Riverside County civil grand jury report called for a civilian oversight board of the jail system in response to persistent concerns regarding in-custody deaths.

Matus' death took place at the height of the fentanyl epidemic in 2022, when Riverside County jails experienced close to 100 inmate drug overdoses, seven of which resulted in death, according to court documents. Despite being well aware of the presence and danger of the drug within the jail system, the Sheriff's Department failed to act urgently when Matus was overdosing, his family alleged.

"This case was about a failure to timely provide medical care," said Contreras. "If [the Sheriff's Department] would have provided timely medical care, Mr. Matus would be alive with us today."

Around 10 p.m. on Aug. 10, 2022, Matus consumed a homemade prison alcohol called Pruno that “happened to be laced with fentanyl,” Contreras said. Later that evening, his cellmate saw him holding his chest and appearing unwell, and at 11:17 p.m. the cellmate pressed the intercom button to alert prison personnel that Matus was suffering from a medical problem.

"The deputy picked it up and said, ‘Stop bugging,’ and [ended] the call," Contreras said. The cellmate "tried to press intercom again to summon help, and it just kept ringing and ringing."

Though the intercom button is intended for use in emergencies, inmates were using it “for pretty much any reason to get the deputies’ attention,” according to court documents.

Although the defendants and plaintiffs disagreed in court over whether the cellmate's initial calls for help were ignored, both parties agreed that deputies did respond to a “man down” call in the cell at 11:28 p.m.

Medical intervention was provided, but it was too late to reverse the overdose, and Matus was pronounced dead at 12:15 a.m., according to court documents.

His two children, Gia, who is now 17, and Richard III, who is now 14, testified in court about the impact losing their father had on their lives, Contreras said. Gia shared how sad she was that her father would never be able to walk her down the aisle, while Richard talked about how he still missed his dad every day.

In a letter read to the court after the verdict was announced, Gia told the jurors she deeply appreciated the justice they helped her family achieve.

“To the opposing party: I sincerely hope that one day you all will acknowledge your accountability,” she wrote. “As the grown men that you all are, I hope you find the courage to take responsibility for your actions and understand the impact caused on others.”

Two sentenced in massive marijuana corruption scheme

RICARDO PACHECO of Baldwin Park was sentenced last week in the scheme.
ROBERT GAUTHIER Los Angeles Times

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eral public officials with specific roles to play: Galvan would be a “consultant” to the marijuana firms and make the connection with Pacheco.

Gabriel Chavez, at the time a San Bernardino County planning commissioner with his own marketing firm, would receive payment from the marijuana businesses and give Pacheco a cut, according to the plea agreement.

Robert Manuel Nacionales Tafoya, at the time the Baldwin Park city attorney, drafted up the legal documents that funneled the money from Chavez's firm to Pacheco and worked with Pacheco to deliver the permits, prosecutors say.

Tens of thousands of dollars were flowing through these interactions, the indictments show.

Chavez, a longtime friend of Pacheco's, collected \$170,000 from two marijuana firms for contracts and then paid him \$93,000 in cash as Pacheco voted in 2017 and 2018 for the firms' permits, according to plea agreements.

To bolster Chavez's compensation for his role in the scheme, he even got a no-bid \$14,500 contract from Huntington Park City Hall signed by one of those in on the scheme, prosecutors alleged.

In April, Chavez began a six-month monitored home detention and three years of probation after pleading guilty to bribery and cooperating with authorities.

When DW&F International Corp. wanted to operate in Baldwin Park, Galvan offered his consulting services to the firm and facilitated \$70,000 in bribes from company owner Yichang Bai, 52, of Arcadia, prosecutors said.

It was up to Tafoya to cook up the documents that funneled some of that money to Pacheco, authorities alleged. Tafoya arranged for five blank checks paid as bribes by a marijuana firm to be cashed with the help of his brother and passed one \$10,000 check on to marketer Chavez, according to the plea agreement.

Last December, Galvan admitted paying the bribe and pleaded guilty to one count of bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds and one count of evasion of tax assessment. Bai pleaded guilty to conspiracy. In July, he was sentenced to

20 months in prison and two years of supervised release and fined \$3,000.

Tafoya resigned as Baldwin Park city attorney in 2022. A year later, he pleaded guilty to federal bribery and tax evasion charges. Tafoya, who served as an attorney for several municipalities and small authorities across the region, has yet to be sentenced and is cooperating with prosecutors. His plea includes an admission that he avoided paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes and used some of his gains to buy a home in Mexico. It also appears to implicate another past Baldwin Park City council member, but no arrests have been made.

In another scheme, former Commerce City Manager Edgar Pascual Cisneros provided \$45,000 in bribes to Pacheco to secure a permit for another marijuana company and was promised \$235,000 as part of the deal, prosecutors said. In November 2023, he quietly resigned from his role in Commerce and pleaded guilty to federal bribery. Last year, he received two years of probation.

According to Tafoya's plea agreement, a onetime Baldwin Park politician who has yet to be identified allegedly requested \$30,000 in cash payments to be funneled into their state campaign account through straw donors.

The candidate allegedly wanted these small donations to “demonstrate to other donors his/her broad support in the community,” the plea says.

The official is not named in court records. The Times reported in 2024 that a plea agreement suggested the person fit the profile of state Sen. Susan Rubio. Last year, her office told CalMatters she was “not currently involved” in the federal probe.

A spokesperson for Rubio said she has been informed she is not the target of an investigation and she “volunteered hours of her time” helping investigators.

Asked to explain why the lawyer would implicate her, a spokesperson said, “Mr. Tafoya has apparently made allegations against numerous individuals in order to reduce his sentence.”

LAPD releases video of officers beating inmate before death in cell

Los Angeles Police Department
LAPD officers converge on Jose Carlos Hoyos-Munoz during a July 15 incident at a San Fernando Valley jail.

[Video, from B1] [Video, from BI]cers returned a short time later to find Hoyos-Munoz unconscious and not breathing, the spokesman said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Shortly after police released the footage of the beating and a separate fatal shooting in Harvard Heights, the mayor issued a statement calling the videos “incredibly difficult to watch.”

“Decades of disinvestment in community-based mental and behavioral health services have left too many Angelenos without access to timely and appropriate care, increasing the likelihood that people in crisis will come into contact with law enforcement,” Bass said. “LAPD officers do not enter the force to become first responders to mental health crises and are not equipped with the proper training to do so.”

She said that the “tragic deaths” of Hoyos-Munoz and Alejandro Luis Garcia — the man who was killed in a police shooting on July 29 — underscored “what can happen when someone in a behavioral health crisis does not get the care they need."

"When an encounter results in death or serious injury, we must rigorously examine whether our policies, training, tactics, supervision, and accountability systems are sufficient," Bass said.

She said she was issuing an executive order authorizing “an independent evaluation of officer-involved deaths and severe injuries,” particularly those involving people in crisis.

The review will seek to identify “systemic gaps, strengthen policies and training, and enhance public and officer safety,” as well as study what mental health support officers receive after such critical incidents.

The call that ended led to Hoyos-Munoz's jailing occurred two days before on the morning of July 13, when Devonshire Division officers were called to his family's home in the 9700 block of Delco Avenue in Chatsworth, police said. When officers arrived, they determined that Hoyos-Munoz had allegedly stabbed his mother and another relative, resulting in minor injuries.

When he refused to leave the home, SWAT officers fired tear gas canisters into the residence and later stormed inside to arrest him. He was found kneeling in front of a piano and striking the keys, in apparent distress.

After being taken to the hospital to be treated for exposure to tear gas, he was released and booked into the Valley jail. Body-worn camera video showed Hoyos-Munoz as he was being led into the facility; he appeared calm.

But after being placed in a cell, LAPD spokesperson Capt. Michael Bland said detention officers entered the cell to handcuff Hoyos-Munoz for his own safety. Officers used force several times, including knee strikes, as they dragged a struggling Hoyos-Munoz from his cell and then brought him back in.

When Hoyos-Munoz stood atop the toilet in his cell, officers went back in and placed him on a bunk in a prone position. As one officer stood guard, five others pinned Hoyos-Munoz down, with one officer placing his knee on the man's shoulder blades.

Video showed Hoyos-Munoz appearing motionless as the officers left the cell, but police said that detention officers who checked on him found that he “appeared to be breathing and exhibited signs of life” for the next 20 minutes.

Only later did they find him unconscious and not breathing.

Three of the jail guards sustained minor injuries and scratches, Bland said.

The Medical Examiner hasn't yet released a cause or manner of death for Hoyos-Munoz, writing that it was deferring its decision for now.

In addition to the LAPD's internal inquiry, the incident will be investigated by the state's In-Custody Death Review (ICDR) Division.

Another video, also released by the Police Department on Friday, captured the frantic moments leading up to the shooting death of 33-year-old Alejandro Garcia.

Bland said officers were dispatched after a 911 caller reported that Garcia had been walking down the street with a baseball bat, smashing car windows. Responding officers caught up to Garcia as he was walking through traffic on Normandie Avenue underneath the 10 Freeway overpass.

Officers ordered him to drop the bat, although it's unclear whether he heard them and he kept walking. As he approached the police squad, Garcia grabbed the bat with both hands and police opened fire.

The footage seems to contradict an LAPD news release issued after Garcia's shooting, which said that he was swinging the bat when he was shot.

The LAPD did not identify the officer or officers who opened fire.

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ETHAN SWOPE Associated Press
A FIREFIGHTER moves an injured animal as the Plaskett fire burns toward Highway 1 on Friday in Big Sur.

California's attempt to help fund struggling newsrooms faces key test

By SUHAUNA HUSSAIN

A new plan by California lawmakers to help fund the state's struggling journalism organizations could advance in the coming days but faces an uncertain future.

Assembly Bill 2222 would create refundable tax credits for California local news organizations based on the number of journalists they employ, which in practice would provide direct cash infusions to participating newsrooms.

The bill, introduced by Assemblymember Christopher M. Ward (D-San Diego) earlier this year, is the latest effort to provide a lifeline for the news industry. There has been much talk both in California and globally about government support for journalism. But this is potentially the largest relief plan to date, with the state tax board estimating it would make more than \$40 million available to newsrooms annually. The bill passed the Assembly and needs approval from the Senate to reach the governor's desk.

Publishers, journalists and their unions have long argued that online search and social media platforms are harming the journalism business by eating up advertising revenue while publishing content they don't pay for.

Previous attempts by California lawmakers focused on forcing Google, Meta and other platforms to pay their share, but this proposal has a unique solution to funding the program.

Ward described the bill as an important step in keeping a strong press corps in California, which he said is more important than ever in an era of digital misinformation.

Ward said the bill would “strengthen democracy” and “keep the lights on” in newsrooms. He cited President Trump’s own attacks on the press. “We thought, ‘What more can California do to help support them?’” he said.

Trump's efforts to strip public radio and television stations of federal funds and the steep downward profit- losing trend for commercial newsrooms has meant, Ward said, that newsrooms have severely scaled back operations. Rural areas in particular have altogether lost their news sources, with many forced to shut down.

The amount of advertising to local newspapers declined by 82% — a \$40-billion drop — since 2000, Pew Research Center said in 2023. And almost 40% of all local U.S. newspapers have vanished, according to an annual report on the state of local news put out by Northwestern University's Medill journalism school.

A report last year by data firm Muck Rack and Rebuild Local News, a nonprofit advocating for government help for the journalism sector that is sponsoring AB 2222, estimates there has been a 75% decline in the number of local journalists per 100,000 of population in the U.S. since 2002.

The law, if approved, would work by assigning a “job retention credit” of \$20,000 per journalist for up to five positions, and after that \$15,000 for every additional journalist. Part-time positions would be awarded half-credits. It also stacks an additional \$15,000 credit for each new hire, to incentivize expanding journalist headcounts.

To pay for the credits, the bill would amend California's tax code to align with a little-discussed component of Trump's "Big Beautiful" tax bill that expanded taxes on some companies by eliminating a deduction for executive salaries of over \$1 million annually.

It is common practice for the state to consider aligning its tax code with the federal structure to make filing taxes easier and administering them more cheaply. But California has not yet sought to adopt this federal tax change, a move that would increase tax revenues to the state.

As a tax measure, AB 2222 requires approval from a supermajority two-thirds of the Legislature, no easy task in an election year and with a fast-approaching deadline for lawmakers to approve bills Monday, which marks the end of this year's legislative session.

The California Taxpayers Assn. and groups representing business interests such as the California Chamber of Commerce oppose the bill because it raises taxes on employers that they argue already face billions of dollars in new taxes. They contend that the higher costs will be passed along to consumers, and they also take issue with funneling a new funding source to a niche industry without going through the budget process.

“Financing an industry-specific tax credit with a tax increase on an unrelated group of taxpayers is an unsound way to budget,” the taxpayers association wrote in its letter of opposition.

Republican lawmaker Carl DeMaio of San Diego has vocalized his opposition in discussions of the bill, criticizing the idea of providing funding to outlets that make political endorsements. DeMaio did not provide a response to a request for comment about his current position on the proposal.

The bill's backers are hopeful it will wriggle through this legislative session and land on the governor's desk.

Yet they are not sure whether Newsom will sign it. In the past, Newsom has been reluctant to green-light laws that tinker with the state budget after those fiscal discussions conclude in the first half of the calendar year.

The governor's finance office issued an analysis opposing the bill for not including a cap on the tax credits, thus creating “unlimited fiscal liability to the state,” and argued the bill mainly subsidizes existing activity rather than encouraging the creation of new jobs.

An analysis by the state's Franchise Tax Board — the agency that levies personal and corporate income taxes — found that the funding stream would bring \$29 million in new revenue to the state's general fund in the 2026-27 year and \$58 million the following year.

Meanwhile, the estimated amount of the tax credit for local news organizations would be \$19 million the first year and \$43 million the second year. After accounting for the tax credits as well as the administrative costs, the budget would still see a net increase of \$10 million and \$15 million in those years.

"It's fully paid for," said former state senator Steven Glazer, who is a passionate proponent of the bill. Glazer during his Senate term pushed similar legislation that was ultimately shelved in a deal with tech giants.

In recent years California lawmakers have also weighed tax credits for Hollywood jobs. In June, lawmakers approved a major expansion of the funding allocated each year to the state's film and television tax credit program, moving to raise that cap to \$750 million from \$330 million. The legislature is also considering a bill that would provide some \$100 million in annual funding to post-production work.

The newsroom bill is designed specifically so as to be as neutral as possible on the medium — whether print newspapers, digital news sites, ethnic media or television broadcasters — as well as the business model of the newsroom — whether for-profit, nonprofit or publicly subsidized. The point is to prevent the government from having strong influence or being able to pick winners and losers in the industry, said Matt Pearce, a director of policy for bill sponsor Rebuild Local News, which successfully backed similar legislation in Illinois.

“You have practically the whole range of the local news world represented in some form. Big, little, independent,” Pearce said.

Pearce formerly worked as a reporter at The Times, and served as president of Media Guild of the West, the union that represents Times journalists.

The bill is also supported by the California News Publishers Assn., of which the Los Angeles Times is a member.

Attorney in federal building died by suicide

BY TERRY CASTLEMAN

The former acting assistant U.S. attorney whose body was found earlier this month in a San Diego federal building died by suicide, the San Diego County medical examiner's office said in a statement.

Andrew Haden, 48, was found dead in an office in the Edward J. Schwartz federal building Aug. 19 shortly after being reported missing.

The medical examiner confirmed that the cause of death was hanging and the manner of death was suicide.

Haden was a veteran prosecutor who held several leadership roles during his career, including that of first assistant attorney general for the Southern District, which is the second-in-command role. He also served as chief of the Violent Crimes & Human Trafficking Section and of the Criminal Division.

Haden was raised in San Diego and graduated from University City High before obtaining his bachelor's degree in political science from Stanford University.

He then served five years in the Navy and completed two overseas deployments in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Joint Task Force Liberia.

After leaving the military, he went to law school at the University of San Diego and served as a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Thomas J. Whelan in the Southern District of California.

Haden received multiple accolades during his legal career, including the Director's Award for Superior Performance in a Managerial or Supervisory Role from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys in 2020 and the Peter J. Mazza Outstanding Federal Lawyer Award from the San Diego chapter of the Federal Bar Assn. in 2024.

A fundraiser for Haden's wife and two children had raised nearly \$250,000 as of Saturday.

“Andrew was so much more than a husband, father, and friend,” the site read. “He was a true pillar of our community — someone who showed up for others, gave generously of his time and energy, and made a lasting impact on the people fortunate enough to know him.”

Times staff writers Clara Harter, Richard Winton and Hailey Branson-Potts contributed to this report.

Big Sur fires shut Highway 1 as new blaze races to coast

Plaskett fire ignites down the coast from Timber fire's origin and continues to grow.

By Iris Kwok

With firefighters already struggling to contain the Timber fire in Big Sur, a second wildfire in the region grew rapidly Friday and into Saturday — sending flames in the direction of Highway 1.

The Plaskett fire, which ignited Tuesday in a remote area about 30 miles down the coast from where the Timber fire started, exploded from about 140 acres Thursday to roughly 5,924 acres by Saturday morning, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

As the Plaskett fire continues to grow, more evacuation orders and warnings were issued across the region. Most recently, the Los Padres National Forest issued an order, effective Friday night, establishing an emergency closure for the Monterey Ranger District.

"The Plaskett grew [Friday] in part [due] to the red flag weather conditions we experienced in the fire area," Cal Fire Battalion Chief Josh Silveira wrote in a text message.

As a result, he said, Cal Fire had difficulties flying an “intel” plane over the area.

The fire was approaching Highway 1 just south of Plaskett Ridge Road, the department said in a Friday afternoon update that included several photos where flames could be seen near the pivotal scenic highway.

It also warned, “fire behavior is beginning to increase.”

Silveira said the fire was still headed toward Highway 1 as of Friday evening. By Saturday morning, the department said in an update, one section of the fire — just south of Plaskett Ridge Road — made it to the edge of Highway 1, but not onto it. It was not immediately clear how close it was to the road.

California Highway Patrol, which previously closed a 40-mile stretch of Highway 1 in the area of the fires, said Friday it had adjusted the bounds of the closure. The highway is now closed from Little Sur River (mile marker 56) in the north to Gorda (mile marker 10.1) in the south.

Big Sur's micro-climate makes firefighting complicated: The relative humidity drops at night, making fires grow rapidly, Silveira has said.

About 481 personnel have been assigned to the Plaskett fire, and 1,600 have been assigned to the Timber fire.

The Timber fire, which has been burning since Aug. 8, grew slightly Friday. It has burned about 24,408 acres so far, with 23% containment.

Lee Beyer, a spokesperson for the U.S. Forest Service, said on Thursday that fires lasting from three to eight weeks are “pretty typical” for the region, due to the terrain and remoteness of the forest.

Man found dead just steps from jail where he was held for DUI

said.

He had been missing for a week after his arrest and release in Santa Barbara County.

BY TERRY CASTLEMAN

A Kern County resident who was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence in Santa Barbara County and spent the night in jail was found dead on a hillside adjacent to the jail building Thursday, a week after he had been released.

David Mireles, 53, of Shafter had been arrested on Aug. 19 for DUI and was released the following day, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.

“More than five hours after Mireles was released, the California Highway Patrol notified the Sheriff's Office that Mireles had been reported missing from Shafter,” the statement read.

“Upon receiving that information, Sheriff's deputies conducted an extensive search of the jail property and surrounding area, including nearby businesses and locations known to be frequented by individuals recently released from custody,” the sheriff's office

Mireles was not found during that search, but his body was discovered a week later by a custodian working on the county property within a few hundred feet of the jail. The temperatures in Santa Barbara during the week Mireles was reported missing ranged from 79 to 81 degrees.

"To see the location where Mireles was found, a person would need to leave the walkway, enter the brush several feet and look down into the vegetation," the statement read.

Investigators believe Mireles' body had been at the location since approximately the time that he was released from jail. The sheriff's office continues to investigate and a cause of death has not yet been determined, they said.

The incident nearly mirrors a case in Azusa five months ago when a man released from an Azusa police facility after an arrest for driving under the influence climbed into a police patrol car outside of the building and was found dead three days later.

The cause of death for Eric Valencia, 37, was determined to be extreme heat, according to the Los Angeles County medical examiner.

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Betty Leona ANDERSON 1927 - 2026

Betty was born on December 15, 1927 in South San Francisco to Frederick Louis Boehme and Agnes Viola Boehme (nee: Pfaffenbach). Betty grew up in Vallejo, California where her dad Lou was Fire Chief and her mom Agnes worked at Mare Island. Lou died in November 1941 of pneumonia leaving Betty and her sister Joy to be raised by Agnes. Fortunately, Agnes found work as a bookkeeper for Smiling Sam's Drugstore, owned by the Moss family, and managed to send Betty and Joy to Stanford University. Betty and Joy worked at the drugstore while on break from their studies. Betty loved dancing and softball. Above all, she loved Stanford, and was an active, generous alumnus throughout her long life, regardless of their success on the football field.

Betty graduated Stanford with a teaching credential. While at Stanford, she met the love of her life, Roy, and they married at the Stanford Chapel in 1948. Roy passed away in 2003 at the age of 82 after a long and brilliant career with Lockheed. He and Betty worked tirelessly for the betterment of the City of Los Angeles, California and Stanford. Betty carried on.

And carry on she did. In addition to supporting Stanford, Betty persevered in her service for the City of Los Angeles and California A lifelong supporter of public education, Betty served as Chairman of the Board for Friends of The School Volunteers, an organization serving the Los Angeles Unified School District. She served on the Board of the California Science Center. She loved Yosemite, and contributed generously to the park. She was a member of the Blue Ribbon, a premier women's philanthropic supporter of the of the Music Center of Los Angeles. She generously supported many other institutions including Children's Hospital of Los Angeles,

When not serving others, both Betty and Roy loved Chinquapin on the north shore of Lake Tahoe and were regular visitors and part owners of Napili Kai on the island of Maui. She was an enthusiastic golfer and tennis player. She loved to travel and visited many places around the world. She was always up for an adventure.

An adventure that involved the whole family was her fostering of infants prior to their being placed in adoptive homes. Everyone got a good grounding in infant care and the eighth became our baby brother, loved to this day.

Betty is survived by her children Ross Anderson and his wife of 48 years, Shari, of Sutter Creek, California,, Karyn Anderson of Bend, Oregon, Debra White of Seal Beach, California and James Anderson of Henderson, Tennessee. In addition, she leaves 5 loving grandsons and their incredible wives, and 14 wonderful great-grandchildren (Soon to be 15) Appreciation and gratitude must also be extended to Ma Lourdes (Lita) Castillo, Betty's loving, remarkable caregiver of many years. Betty will be deeply missed by us all. As a friend of hers once pointed out: "She was a force."

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H. Kenneth Norian April 15, 1933 - August 25, 2026

H. Kenneth Norian was born in 1933 in New Jersey and passed away peacefully at home in Beverly Hills. Born to Siran and Harry Norian, Armenian immigrants whose families came from Aintab, Turkey, Ken was the third of four brothers, and grew up in a close-knit family that remained an important part of his life.

Ken attended Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood, New Jersey, where he distinguished himself as a natural leader, serving as Student Body President.

He went on to Yale University, where his most significant achievement was serving as Business Manager of the Yale Daily News, a role that reflected both his leadership abilities and his keen interest in business and communications.

Following Yale, Ken served as a First Lieutenant in the United States Army Artillery. After completing his military service, Ken partnered with his brother to establish a real estate development company, where they built custom homes in northern New Jersey.

In 1963, Ken married Cynthia Dickranian, whom he had met at a party in New Jersey. Two years later, the couple moved west to California, where Ken became deeply involved in the business, civic, legal, and Armenian-American communities.

For nineteen years, Ken served as President of Premier Market of Beverly Hills. Under his leadership, he expanded the company's home-delivery service and wine business in ways that were decades ahead of their time.

Ken served as Treasurer of the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce and was a Founding Director of the Beverly Hills Education Foundation. For eleven years, he served as an Administrative Appellate Law Judge through the California State Bar Court, which handles attorney discipline matters under the jurisdiction of the California Supreme Court. He continued his service to the legal community as a volunteer lay arbitrator, helping resolve attorney-client fee disputes for the State Bar of California.

Ken's Armenian heritage remained a lifelong, foundational part of his identity. He served as a Fellow Trustee of the Armenian Assembly of America since its inception. He was also a devoted benefactor of the Armenian Church of North America, Western Diocese, and a forty-year Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International. Ken strongly supported the election campaigns of Governor George Deukmejian. His civic involvement reflected his belief that citizenship was not passive, but something to be actively lived. Ken remained deeply committed to preserving and strengthening the Armenian-American community for future generations.

For all of Ken's professional accomplishments, public service, interests, and lifelong pursuits, his greatest source of pride was his family. He and Cindy built a marriage and family that spanned more than six decades. They were the proud parents of four children: Thomas Archer; Timothy Katcher and his wife, PJ; John Mathew and his wife, Gia; and their daughter, Cathleen Caroun. They were also blessed with eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild, who brought immense joy and pride to their lives.

Ken will be remembered not only for what he accomplished, but for the way he approached life. He was an avid reader, a music lover, and had a genuine curiosity about new technology. His generosity, work ethic, humor, and enthusiasm for life will live on in the generations that follow him.

A memorial service will be held on Thursday, September 3rd at St. James Armenian Apostolic Church at 11am. In lieu of flowers, the family kindly requests donations be made to The Armenian Assembly of America, The Western Diocese Camp Endowment Fund, or The St. James Armenian Apostolic Church of Los Angeles Memorial Fund.

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Dr. Ralph Babe Allman, Jr December 22, 1934 - August 18, 2026

Dr. Ralph Babe Allman Jr., beloved husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, orthodontist, teacher, Trojan, and friend, passed away peacefully on August 18, 2026, at his home in Rancho Palos Verdes, surrounded by family and his faithful dog, Abby.

Born in 1934 to Helen ("Auggie") and Babe Allman Sr., Ralph grew up in Palos Verdes and graduated from Redondo Union High School. It was there that he met the love of his life, Sigrid, at the same bus stop. They went on to share 63 wonderful years together before her passing.

Ralph dedicated his life to orthodontics, education, and helping others. After graduating from USC with degrees in microbiology, dentistry, and orthodontics, he built a successful orthodontic practice that served South Bay families for more than 50 years. He also taught at the USC Ostrow School of Dentistry for more than 60 years, where he took great pride in helping generations of students learn and grow.

Ralph was a true Trojan for life. USC was a major part of his world, and he devoted countless hours to the university, its dental school, and its athletic programs. He served in numerous leadership roles and was especially proud of his longtime involvement with the USC Ostrow School of Dentistry.

Family, however, was always at the heart of Ralph's life. He and Sigrid loved to travel, visiting all seven continents and attending USC games across the country. Some of their greatest adventures were family adventures, including a 2023 cruise with 19 members of the family.

Ralph was happiest when he was working on a project. He loved fixing, building, improving, and figuring out how things worked. He learned those skills from his own father and proudly passed them on to his children. His family will remember not only the things he built, but the time, patience, humor, and lessons he shared along the way.

Ralph was preceded in death by his parents, his younger brother Robert, and his beloved wife, Sigrid. He is survived by his three children, Scott (Ginny), Bryan (Debbi), and Laura (Marc); eight grandchildren; and eleven great-grandchildren, all of whom gave him endless reasons to smile—and, of course, brag.

The family is deeply grateful to Ralph's wonderful caregivers and the Torrance Memorial Hospice team for the loving care they provided.

A celebration of Ralph's life will be held September 18, 2026. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations in Ralph's memory to Torrance Memorial Medical Center or the USC Ostrow School of Dentistry.

Ralph lived a remarkable life, but to his family, he was simply Dad, Grandpa, and Great-Grandpa. He will be deeply missed and forever loved.

Kenneth Kenji KATAYAMA

September 14, 1953 - July 31, 2026

US Army veteran. Born to James Noboru and

Marion Miwa Katayama in Los Angeles, CA.

He is survived by siblings James Katayama and Maxine Morisaki. Predeceased by brother, Mark Akio Katayama.

Ken was a gentle soul with a heart that only saw the good in people. He loved animals, especially dogs, and even cats. He will be remembered for his goodness and missed always.

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Jules M. Arnson August 1939 - April 2025

Jules Arnson (85) passed at his home. Jules, an epic storyteller with a fantastic laugh, loved the City of Los Angeles. From Hollywood's Golden Age to The Dodgers, to In-and-Out, Philippe's, The Dresden, Johnny's Pastrami, and Tommies, Jules loved being in the company of the people who made industries run. A manager in the early years of professional world wrestling, he combined his love for story-telling with his interest in connecting people, while simultaneously parlaying these skills into his 50+ years in the car business; where he met, entertained, and became the confidant of stars like Barbara Stanwyck, Howard Hughes, and Elvis Presley. Jules is survived by his children, Heather and Andrew, their mother Annette, grandchildren Devan and Odin, d-i-l Aki, s-i-l Chris, and best friend Neal. I love you Daddy with all of my heart.

David Y Handelman July 2, 1938 - August 20, 2026

David Y. Handelman, a highly accomplished entertainment industry executive, passed away on August 20 from complications following a stroke. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1959 before earning a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1962. He worked for the Securities and Exchange Commission and then became General Counsel for Laird, Inc., a boutique brokerage and institutional research firm. A passionate supporter of civil rights, he travelled to Jackson, Mississippi in 1965 to register Black voters. In 1974, he relocated to Los Angeles to become Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Twentieth Century Fox. He then practiced entertainment law with Troy & Gould, and later operated a successful private practice specializing in digital media, broadcasting, entertainment, and intellectual property. He worked until his stroke the day before his 88th birthday. David was on the board of directors of KCRW, the Los Angeles Police Department Memorial Foundation -- which provides critical support to families of officers killed or injured in the line of duty -- and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. A voracious reader and avid Anglophile, he had an insatiable curiosity and was completely fluent in the workings of the fast-changing digital entertainment world. David and his loving wife of 66 years, Janet, established a second residence in New York City, where he was a devoted grandfather to his cherished granddaughters. In addition to Janet, he is survived by his children, Joanna (Peter) and Peter; and his granddaughters, Siri (Jesse) and Emily.

David J Swartz August 15, 1947 - April 13, 2026

Dave was the eldest of 3 children born to Leonard and Phyllis Swartz.

He lived an active life and made many wonderful memories with his friends and family.

We shall remember him as kind, loving, larger than life, with a mischievous twinkle in his eyes.

Dave is survived by his partner Linda; children Jennifer and Jeff; and his granddaughter Noelle.

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Gale Hughes Layman

Gale was born on March 10, 1931, in Santa Monica, California to Hal Durham Hughes and Gale Antoinette Murphy Hughes.

Gale grew up in the West LA community of Cheviot Hills. She graduated from Hamilton High School in 1949, and from UCLA, with Honors, in 1952.

Gale met Will Layman while singing around a piano at an apartment party in Sunset Beach (San Diego), California. Eight weeks later, they were married. Gale and Will started life as married-military in La Jolla. Shortly after, Gale stayed in California to teach grade school while Will cruised the Western Pacific aboard the USS Boxer for seven months.

Gale was an avid Bridge player, a wonderful hostess, and an artist: Christmas stockings needlepointed for every family member, yearly silkscreened Christmas cards, copious amounts of gold jewelry designed and created (when gold was only \$35/oz.), and a delightful eye for home decor.

During her 71 year marriage to Will, Gale became the leader of four generations spread across California. They have three children: Anne Gale Layman Hatton (Greg), Tina Lynne Adams (Tom), and John Hughes Layman (Teri). In addition, Gale's descendants include five grandchildren: Holly, William, Cole, Wade, and Katherine Gale, and three great grandchildren: Penelope Gale, Wilbur and Wells.

Gale passed away peacefully on July 24, 2026, surrounded by her family.

Sister Kathleen McHUGH, RSHM June 5, 1933 - August 20, 2026

No memorial service.

Sr. Kathleen McHugh, age 93, a Religious of the

Sacred Heart of Mary for 75 years, died on August 20, 2026, at Regina Residence in Orange, California. Kathleen was born in Galway, Ireland on June 5, 1933 to Mary and Thomas McHugh. Kathleen completed her Bachelor's degree at Marymount College, Los Angeles, and advanced degrees at Immaculate Heart College and the University of Santa Clara.

Kathleen entered the RSHM Novitiate in Tarrytown, New York in 1949, and then taught elementary school in Brooklyn. In 1951, she was missioned to California where she first taught at Marymount Junior School, Palos Verdes. Kathleen served as a high school educator, administrator, and counselor at Marymount Junior School, Palos Verdes; Corvallis HS, Studio City; Mother Butler HS, San Jose; and Marymount HS, LA. She then became engaged in public service as a social worker and addiction counselor in San Jose and San Diego.

Kathleen is predeceased by her parents and siblings and survived by nieces and nephews and her RSHM Sisters.

Services will be held at the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange Chapel on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, at 10:30 AM, 840 S Batavia St, Orange. Graveside Services will take place at Holy Cross Cemetery, 5835 W Slauson Ave, Culver City, on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, at 11:00 AM. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, 441 N Garfield Ave, Montebello, CA 90640.

Jerry Miller November 14, 1937 - August 18, 2026

Jerry Miller, 88, passed away peacefully at home on August 18, 2026. Born in Chicago and raised in Los Angeles, he met Freyda Margolis at Fairfax High School in 1953. They dated for five years, beginning a storybook romance that continued in marriage for 68 years.

Jerry practiced law in Beverly Hills for 53 years and was known for his integrity, meticulous work, and dedication to his clients and friends. He served as a Judge Pro Tem, mentored USC Law students, and remained a proud member of the Trojan community. He also served in the Air National Guard Band as an Airman and trumpet player.

He loved trivia, history, sports, family vacations, and was a vegan for 50 years.

Jerry is survived by his wife, Freyda; children Carrie and Gregg; grandchildren Brittney (Trey) and Natalie; and great-grandchildren Ayden, Azariah, and Anya.

Ruth Katherine Turner

October 12, 1928 – July 20, 2026

Ruth Katherine Turner, 97, of Pasadena, California, passed away peacefully on July 20, 2026. Born in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. They moved their family to California in 1960 and made Pasadena their home in 1963. She is survived by her six children, ten grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.

A celebration of her life will be held at Pasadena Presbyterian Church on Saturday, September 5th 2026 at 11:00am.

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James Raymond Nielsen

James Raymond Nielsen (Jim) passed away peacefully at home in Glendale, CA, at the age of 81, with his wife, Anne, by his side. Jim, the son of James and Dorothy Nielsen, was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. He graduated from Notre Dame High School in 1962 and started college at Cal State Northridge University, but his academic studies were interrupted by 3 years in the US Army. While in the service, Jim graduated from the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA becoming fluent in Turkish, after which he served as an interpreter at NATO Headquarters in Izmir, Turkey. Upon his return to civilian life, Jim graduated from Cal State University Los Angeles with a degree in Criminology.

He didn't pursue a career in his major, instead spending 42 years as a commercial banker. Jim specialized in real estate lending for over 35 years. He spent 14 years with Bank of America, but his most rewarding and challenging assignments were with Banque Paribas, Key Bank and the last institution he worked for, City National Bank. He retired in 2011 and spent his time planning trips for himself and Anne and continually trying to master his golf game.

Jim was an avid, albeit a somewhat frustrated, golfer. He was a member of Wilshire Country Club for 38 years, serving as Treasurer and Vice President on the Board of Directors for 6 years, and played over 260 different courses throughout the world with two framed collections of ball markers to prove it.

Jim is survived by his beloved wife, Anne (Bagley), sisters Patricia Kytlica and Katherine Nielsen, his nephew, Ladio Kytlica and many other nieces, nephews, great-nieces and nephews and one great-great-niece. Anne was the love of his life and after being introduced to each other by Jim's sister, Kathy, they were married for almost 39 years. In addition to playing golf together, they enjoyed traveling, especially cruising through Europe, and traveled to 70 countries where Jim acquired a vast collection of mementos to Anne's continued dismay.

There will be a Celebration of Life at Wilshire Country Club at a later date. In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation to Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, CA, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, or a charity of your choosing.

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Curtis Lee Fulton April 29, 1955 - July 11, 2026

Curtis passed away peacefully on July 11, 2026, in Carson City, NV. He was born on April 29, 1955, in Portland, OR, to the late Roy and Diana Fulton.

Curtis grew up in Orinda, CA, and pursued higher education at Oregon State University, where he earned a degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management. After graduation, he began his career with Hyatt Hotels in management. Over the years, Curtis embraced a variety of occupations, including running his own taxi company and working at the Tesla Gigafactory.

He had a deep appreciation for nature and found joy living in the mountains. Walking through the forest and breathing in the fresh scent of pine trees brought him peace and a profound sense of freedom. The beauty of wild places resonated deeply with him throughout his life.

Curtis will be greatly missed by those who knew him. He is survived by his brother Bradley and his sisters Lorraine and Margo.

A short funeral service will be held at Spring Canyon Cemetery in Grand Coulee, Washington on Saturday 26 September 2026, 10:00.

May his memory bring comfort to all who mourn his passing.

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Newsom was pushing an exemption for a donor

A SANTA MONICA development would have benefited from the proposed bill.
JASON ARMOND Los Angeles Times

[Lopez, from B1]

Coastal protection advocates held their breath late into the night Friday as the clock ticked at the end of the legislative session. But before I let you know how it played out, I'm going to back up a bit.

I'd just returned last week from a trip back east, where I'd taken photos of signs blocking my access to some beaches in Connecticut and New York. A typical underhanded tactic they use is to prohibit parking in beach lots unless you show proof of residence.

If you're not a resident, goodbye. The parking lot could be nearly empty and they'll send you away, and then you'll discover there is nowhere else to park within easy or safe walking distance. It's a surefire way to essentially privatize beaches.

So I came home eager to remind everyone that we have something special in California, and that we should all be lighting candles on the cake celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Coastal Act.

That's the framework that established guidelines regarding public access, conservation and development. And it came about because more than half a century ago, when it appeared that the coast was becoming too privatized and industrialized, a citizen uprising led to the protections we enjoy today.

Now back to Gov. New- som.

I'd barely unpacked my vacation bags when a gaggle of sources and news reports grabbed my attention, and the CalMatters story and headline neatly summed things up:

“Newsom pushes environmental carve-out for campaign donor's Santa Monica project.”

The project, CalMatters reported, "belongs to Jeff

Worthe, who, along with his wife, Kristin Worthe, has donated more than \$274,000 to Newsom's campaigns and inaugural fund between 2018 and 2022, according to state campaign finance records."

Susan Jordan, of the California Coastal Protection Network, was aghast.

“You don’t expect to have a governor do something so underhanded as this, and now that it’s out in the open, there’s no shame about it,” she told me. “And he would be the first person to carve out an exemption in the Coastal Act that has survived all these other attacks over the last 50 years.”

Nice timing, Mr. Governor. I'd just written last month about how President Trump has launched his own attempt to torpedo the Coastal Commission and

California's long-established authority on matters of coastal conservation and development.

You'd like to see the California governor stand tall rather than come off like Trump's caddy, kicking sand in the faces of those who have taken up stewardship of the coast.

Look, not everyone loves the Coastal Act or the Coastal Commission, which is seen by many as obstructionist and slow-footed. Sometimes, finding the right balance between sensible development and coastal conservation can be complicated.

But in essence, California is about the idea that the coast is not owned by anyone, it's owned by everyone.

In the case of the Santa

Monica project, Jordan asked the right question.

"Why the exemption?"

Is there something so odious about a reworked design that the only way to hustle it across the finish line is to give it a free pass?

"If you want to build in the coastal zone, you need to go through the Coastal Act," Jordan told me. "That's why we have the Coastal Act, and I don't think it should be corrupted by this developer or by the governor."

Newsom, when asked recently by a reporter to explain what he was up to, had this to say:

"I'm not going to comment about any pending bills."

Why not? If you're going to tear up the rule book on coastal development,

doesn't the public deserve an explanation, even if you've already got one foot out the door?

The Worthe project would sit just up from the beach in Santa Monica, and, in previous incarnations, it has included a luxury hotel, apartments and a Frank Gehry museum. The Coastal Commission signed off on it a few years ago after extended tussles and finally an agreement regarding low-cost housing provisions. After getting the green light, Worthe pulled back, and his permit expired.

But then Newsom came to the rescue with a trailer bill that aides were still pushing as of Thursday, sources tell me. It would have allowed for an unnamed project in that same location to be put forward again, this time without normal regulatory review in the event that Santa Monica failed to complete its own local coastal plan (LCP) by 2028.

And since it could be difficult to meet that deadline, Newsom's bill essentially provided a way to escape the kind of critical review demanded by the Coastal Act.

In anticipation of a Friday meeting between Newsom and the leaders of the Senate and Assembly, Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur (D-Los Angeles) rallied legislators to implore the governor to back off.

Zbur, who had been working on his own coastal development and public access bill and helping assemble Santa Monica's LCP, was one of a dozen legislators who signed a salty missive that was sent Friday to Newsom, Senate President Pro Tem Monique Limón and Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas.

"We are frustrated that, once again, we must devote time and energy to working to defeat this harmful proposal that creates unprecedented exemptions from the Coastal Act," the letter said.

It must have made an impact. Late Friday night, when the last whistle blew at the sausage factory, the Newsom exemption had been pulled back.

Victory for the coast.

Zbur told me Saturday morning that it was not clear how the matter had played out when the governor met with the two legislative leaders Friday, but Zbur was grateful to all three of them for letting the matter drop.

“This wasn’t about the project,” Zbur said. “It was about the precedent that would have been set on having people come in and exempting a certain project from the Coastal Act. It would have been a terrible precedent.”

Despite this threat and the recent big-footing by Trump, there's a silver lining in all of this.

"As long as there are people who want to monetize the coast for their own benefit, you're going to need people to rise up and say no," said Kim Delfino, an environmental attorney and founder of Earth Advocacy.

And people did rise up.

Last week, dozens of organizations signed a letter to the governor opposing any “last-minute legislation to create dangerous exemptions to the Coastal Act.” Among them were Heal the Bay, Amigos de Bolsa Chica, L.A. Waterkeeper, Azul, the Surfrider Foundation and Orange County Coastkeeper.

I can think of several ways to end this column, but at the risk of repeating myself, I don't think I can do better than to lean on this reminder:

The coast is never saved, it's always being saved.

steve.lopez@latimes.com

A rare bird draws avian aficionados to an Irvine marsh

THE GALLINULE searches for food at the Irvine marsh. The species is found mostly along the Gulf of Mexico and in the Caribbean.
Photographs by RAUL ROA Los Angeles Times

WORD of the big-footed visitor spread fast among avian enthusiasts, and out came the “birdarazzi.”

[Gallinule, from B1] er, it's known to wander farther abroad and has been spotted as far away as Iceland, according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, a research and conservation institute.

Last year, an adult purple gallinule was spotted some 600 miles north at the Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary in Humboldt County, making it the northernmost sighting to date, according to state records.

This is not the first bird sighting to spark a frenzy in Southern California. More than three years ago, an Arctic owl captivated residents in Cypress for a month after arriving around Christmas.

An adult purple gallinule has a bright purple-and-green body with a pale blue marking that resembles a shield above its red-and-yellow bill. Juveniles are pale brown with tints of bronze and green on the wings and back.

The bird, which feeds on vegetation and insects, has long, bright yellow legs and toes that it uses to gracefully make its way through the wetland.

Ian Swift, natural resources manager at the Irvine Ranch Water District, said the gallinule was spotted about two weeks ago by a birder who then posted it on a public forum for bird-watchers.

“So from there, like many things on social media, it spread like wildfire,” Swift said, chuckling.

He said people posted updates and photos about the bird on the forum, which drove more people to visit the marsh.

"The San Joaquin Marsh here is, you know, for the most part pretty quiet during the week," Swift said. "And now, there's literally hundreds of people here since the bird was sighted."

The gallinule's unexpected visit has drawn so many curious birdwatchers that the overflow parking lot has filled up at times, he said.

Joel Weintraub, 84, said credit for the discovery of the bird goes to marsh visitor Charles Baker, who spotted it Aug. 13 and posted a photo on EBird, a free online database. He said a user by the name “Sharilyn” then identified the bird as a purple gallinule.

Soon after, word spread among bird enthusiasts and out came the “birdarazzi.”

"The first couple of days, over a hundred or so showed up," Weintraub said.

He waited until Aug. 16 to visit the marsh and look for the bird. He took photos and made a video of his visit on

YouTube. Weintraub was happy to see a diverse group of birders at the marsh.

“I looked around and saw some old-timers,” he said. “But there were a lot of young people in their 20s and 30s, a new generation of birders.”

Among them is Basil Liu, 25, who got into birding three years ago.

Liu, who grew up reading National Geographic and watching Animal Planet, got into bird-watching after downloading Merlin Bird ID, a birding app.

"It lets you track the birds you see and scientists use the data," he said. "So it was super cool because you could go out birding, keep a list of everything you saw and it would tell you if something was uncommon."

Liu signed up to a mailing list that alerts subscribers about rare bird sightings in Southern California. He was home with his roommates when he saw the email notification come through Aug. 13.

"I used to live with my parents in Lake Forest, so San Joaquin Marsh was not far at all, but I recently moved to the San Fernando Valley," Liu said. "So I got that email and was like: 'No, I used to be so close, but now I'm so far.'

Last week he visited his parents and went to the marsh to look for the bird.

“I was very hopeful because it had been consistently seen for over a week, so I got up early in the morning, went over and I was very lucky that it was just hanging out,” Liu said. “So I ended up sitting there for like two hours just taking pictures.”

What brought the young purple gallinule to the state is up for debate, but it was no surprise it chose one of the largest coastal wetlands in Southern California.

The marsh was built in the 1990s to naturally clean dry-weather urban runoff from San Diego Creek and address the algae blooms that once existed in Upper

Newport Bay, according to the water district's website.

"The secondary benefit of having this beautiful marsh is this fantastic wildlife," Swift said. "There's over 300 species of birds that have been seen in the marsh over the years."

He said the marsh also serves as a public green space that includes about 12 miles of walking trails.

"You see all kinds of nature, you know, not just birds, but plants and other wildlife. Even though we're tucked in the middle of urbanization and by an airport, you can't hear the planes when you're down in the trails, you can't hear the cars driving by.

"One out of one purple gallinule loves this place," he added, chuckling.

Water district officials said the swamp hen still was at the marsh as of Wednesday night. The San Joaquin Marsh is open from dawn to sunset. No dogs are allowed. For updates, visit the Orange County Birding forum.

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Senior Manager, Finance Consulting Generalist, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Los Angeles, CA. Provide clients advice related to financial management and strategy. Req. Bach's deg or frgn equiv. Accntng, Fin, Anlytcs, or a rel fld, + 6 yrs of rel wrk exp, of which at least 5 yrs mst be pst-bach's, prgrssle rel wrk exp.; OR a Mastr's deg or frgn equiv. in Accntng, Fin, Anlytcs, or a rel fld, + 4 yrs of rel wrk exp. 50% telecommuting permitted. Must be able to commute to the designated local office. Domestic and/or international travel up to 60% is required. Mult. Pos. aval. Sal. range: \$205,000-\$258,000/yr. Please apply by sending your resume to US_PwC_Career_Recruitment @pwc.com, specifying Job Code CA4959 in the subject line.

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Amgen Inc.; Sr. Finance Manager - R-248049; Thousand Oaks, CA: Provide key financial expertise and analysis to help drive and improve business performance. May Telecommute. Interested candidates email resume to Talent-Acquisition@amgen.com. Must reference Job # R-248049. The annual salary range for this position in the U.S. is \$134,259.00-\$164,480.00 per year. Also, this position offers stock, retirement, medical, life and disability insurance and eligibility for an annual bonus or for sales roles, other incentive compensation. For more details visit https://careers.amgen.com/life-at-amgen/benefits/.

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D Element Group LLC/ Product & Sales Engineer. Prov technical consultation & resolution; Comm. w/ other depts; Adaptability enhanced through wrking w/ colleagues & customers; Reqs: Master deg in Elec. or rel. field; Exp: 6 mos exp in Elec. or rel. field; salary at 102,300/yr; Mail résumé to D Element Group LLC, 21558 Ferrero Parkway, Walnut, CA 91789

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Broad arts project to focus on South L.A.

THE BROAD and artist Lauren Halsey are joining forces to offer South L.A. students free art programming.
BEN GIBBS Courtesy the Broad

BY DEBORAH VANKIN

It's back-to-school time for the Broad.

The Broad museum is launching a new educational initiative, it announced on Saturday. “Our Block, Our Stories” will pair students with contemporary artists to explore how those artists have been inspired by their local neighborhoods, communities and personal experiences.

The program, open to grades 3 through 12, includes off-site activities and field trips to the museum. The Broad is paying for students' transport to the museum.

The inaugural project will focus on South Los Angeles students and spotlight L.A. artist Lauren Halsey. Students will visit Halsey's South L.A. sculpture garden, "sister dreamer, lauren halsey's architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles," to explore themes of neighborhood, memory and belonging. Halsey's work, which debuted in March, was presented by Los Angeles Nomadic Division and curated by LAND co-founder Christine Y. Kim.

Students will then, on the same day, travel to the Broad for guided tours, discussions and writing prompts. They'll be encouraged to connect their personal experiences to works in the museum's collection while also considering how they might creatively express their own life stories, from their individual communities, through art. April De Leon, Broad interim school program manager, is overseeing the program.

"It's so we can bring hundreds of young people [to the museum] so they can be inspired to be creative — and in a way that helps their community, gives back to their community, transforms their community and their city," said Ed Patuto, Broad director for audience engagement. "We'll look at how other artists, too — like Mark Bradford, John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres — deal with their neighborhoods and opportunities in their neighborhoods for inspiration."

The museum will provide educators with on-site worksheets and background materials on the artists, along with other pre-visit and post-visit resources in English and Spanish.

Field trips to the museum begin Sept. 18, though the Broad is still enrolling schools in the program. It's giving priority to schools and youth organizations in and around South L.A. The Halsey program runs through Dec. 11.

Patuto said that Halsey was the perfect artist to launch the program. Not only is her work represented in the Broad's collection, but "she's an artist who's influenced by her community and, like a Mark Bradford, is actually building something in her community, for her community," he said. "And that needs to be supported by arts institutions around the city."

The idea behind the sculpture park, when Halsey first conceived it about 16 years ago, she said in an interview, was a space that represents and pays homage to the neighborhood, both aesthetically and

conceptually.

"The heroes, the poetics, the material culture, the everyday," she said. "But also, that it's a sculpture park that serves — and for free — the neighborhood and L.A. at large."

The Broad says it will continue to develop “learning modules” over the next several years.

The next one will launch in conjunction with the upcoming exhibition, “Has the myth been shattered,” opening in November. The show of Broad collection works spanning six decades, as curated by Jen Vanegas Rocha, addresses myths “and the way social media, mass media, can kind of mythologize things that happened to us,” Patuto said.

Free, youth-oriented cultural programming such as "Our Block, Our Stories" is a game-changer, Halsey said, adding that field trips she took to LACMA in middle school helped give her confidence to create and solidify her identity as an artist.

She hopes the Broad's new educational initiative does the same for other young artists.

"It builds pride in one's own neighborhood and validates experiences and expands on the possibility of what you can be as a young child and sparks your imagination," she said. "I didn't have that growing up in South Central, this access to art. So it's really cool that the Broad came in and is partnering with me to bring this amazing, free programming to the neighborhood."

GARY CORONADO For The Times

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Aquarium takes in at least 500 animals

BY SUMMER LIN

The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach is caring this summer for an additional 500 animals rescued from wildlife traffickers.

It's not clear when the trafficked animals might join the roughly 12,000 turtles, frogs, octopuses, penguins, sharks and other sea creatures on public display.

The animals, including marine fish, invertebrates and sharks, arrived at the aquarium on June 19, but the aquarium didn't announce the news until Thursday. Staff worked overnight to stabilize the creatures and acclimate them to aquarium systems.

“Wildlife trafficking disrupts national and global ecosystems and puts animals on the path to extinction,” Jeff Flocken, president and chief executive of the Aquarium of the Pacific, said in a news release. “We are proud to answer the call to help trafficked wildlife and are committed to providing immediate care and a sanctuary for all of those that we can help.”

The Assn. of Zoos and Aquariums Wildlife Confiscations Network was notified about a box truck filled with more than 2,000 animals, including fish, reptiles, invertebrates and amphibians, according to the release. The Aquarium of the Pacific responded and took in the animals.

Some of the animals rescued include brownbanded bamboo sharks, a near-threatened species; ocellaris clownfish; and Banggai cardinalfish, an endangered species.

“We monitor all animals arriving to the Aquarium very closely in quarantine areas where we can provide them immediate care and prevent any potential spread of diseases, especially in an urgent situation like this,” Alyssa Tillman, assistant curator of fish and invertebrates, said in the release.

Animals are usually unable to go back to nature because law enforcement can't figure out where they came from and they may not be able to survive in the wild after living under human care, according to the release. Animals that have been trafficked are usually captured and transported in inhumane conditions, and some die during the journey.

The Aquarium of the Pacific is part of the Southern California Wildlife Confiscations Network, which helps care for confiscated and trafficked wildlife. The aquarium has helped more than 3,300 trafficked animals, including corals, reptiles, fish and axolotls. Earlier this year, the aquarium opened up a new rehabilitation area, which includes a roughly 4,000-gallon pool.

Contact the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service if you suspect someone is trafficking wildlife by contacting (844) 397-8477.

Fire at nuisance site is latest flash point in mayoral race

STUDIO CITY residents say the Babcock Avenue site had drawn encampments.
KTLA

[Fire, from B1]

showed the fire burning a makeshift structure and overgrown vegetation.

After KTLA's segment, Bass told the station city departments were taking action Thursday to clear the property and address residents' concerns.

"I saw the story and immediately called our city departments to find out what was going on here," Bass told KTLA. On Thursday, she was at the site and told the station temporary chain link fencing was being put up, with a more permanent fence being installed Friday.

Raman, who represents the area, said in a statement Thursday that her office had reached out to the L.A. Department of Building and Safety for years to secure and clean up the property, without success.

"It is absolutely inexcusable that residents on Babcock Avenue have been living next to this abandoned, unsecured private property for years," Raman said in the statement. "We have called, we have emailed, we have escalated. We have used every avenue to sound the alarm and nothing was done."

Emails provided by Raman's office show complaints from residents going back years, raising issues with trash, standing rainwater, mosquitoes and trash. Staffers for Raman's office reached out to the city's Department of Building and Safety, the emails show, and inspectors replied they would look over the lot in person.

Neighbors said the problems continued.

Raman said her office also flagged the property directly to the mayor's office in November, but no action was taken then.

“We are glad the Mayor is finally answering the call,” Raman said in the statement. “This property should have been proactively secured and abated long before a fire made the danger impossible to ignore."

Emails reviewed by The Times show that staffers for Raman's office in November identified the Babcock property as the second-most urgent of five nuisance properties in need of attention in her district.

The emails also show that Raman's office compiled the list at the request of Bass' infrastructure team.

“This request is part of a broader effort to help us assess and prioritize nuisance properties citywide,” read the email request from the mayor’s Public Works Deputy Deion Barrientos.

A spokesperson for Bass said such requests were made to all council offices, and issues have since been resolved at more than 25 properties citywide.

Bass confirmed in the call to KTLA that Raman's office had flagged the property.

“She said that they were handling it through the legal process,” Bass told the news

station.

In a statement to The Times Friday, Bass said the problems at the property were addressed when they were brought to her attention.

“Residents are right to be frustrated,” she said. “They should not have to live next to a dangerous property. When the severity of the situation was brought directly to my attention, I took action the same day.”

But Raman criticized Bass' comments, saying the property should have been addressed sooner.

“No resident should need their councilmember to personally call the mayor to get a public safety hazard addressed,” she said at the news conference. “That’s not how a functional city should operate.”

By Friday afternoon, Ledsworth said the long-ignored property was suddenly abuzz.

"The city sent a bunch of workers and they cleared it all out," Ledsworth said. "Finally something is getting done."

THE WEATHER

Today in Southern California

Not as hot: A series of low-pressure areas will cross the state this week, resulting in a much cooler temperature regime. The onshore flow will bring low clouds back into the Los Angeles Basin. The air will still be quite muggy along and near the coast. There could be showers in the central and northern part of the state midweek and in the southern part of the state late this week.

5-day forecasts

High/low temperatures are average forecasts for entire zone.

	L.A. Basin		Valleys		Beaches		Mountains		Deserts
Today	89|68		92|66		81|68		77|45		106|78
	Sunny and warm		Sunny, seasonable		Lots of sun; humid		Lots of sun		Sunshine and warm
Monday	Some sun	86/65	Lots of sun	89/63	Some sun	77/65	Sunny	76/44	Mostly sunny	103/76
Tuesday	Partly sunny	84/66	Sunny	87/66	Partly sunny	78/67	Sunny	73/45	Some sun	100/80
Wednesday	Partly sunny	85/66	Partly sunny	90/65	Partly sunny	80/66	Partly sunny	72/46	Partly sunny	103/79
Thursday	Sunny	87/69	Sunny; warm	91/66	Mostly sunny	79/66	Lots of sun	75/48	Some sun	102/79

Surf and sea

POINT CONCEPTION TO MEXICO Inner waters: Wind west to north-west at 10-25 knots. Seas 3-6 feet. Swell west to northwest 3-5 feet at 8 seconds and west 2-3 feet at 15 seconds.

Surf zone: The risk of strong rip currents is high for all area beaches today. Surf will likely reach 3 to 6 feet.

County	Height	Period	Direction	Temp
Santa Barbara	3-5'	11 sec	SW	72
Ventura	3-6'	9 sec	SW	73
Los Angeles	3-6'	9 sec	SW	75
Orange	3-6'	15 sec	SSW	76
San Diego	3-6'	9 sec	WSW	77

L.A. Outer Harbor, in feet.
Today	11:13a	5.3 Hi	4:56a	0.5 Lo
	11:18p	4.8 Hi	5:19p	1.0 Lo
Mon.	11:41a	5.5 Hi	5:20a	0.9 Lo
	---- Hi		6:09p	1.0 Lo

UV index

Minutes to burn for sensitive people Las Vegas, 25 Phoenix, 25 Los Angeles, 25 San Francisco, 30

Sun and moon

California cities*

City	Sat.*			Today		Mon.
	Hi	Lo	Prcp.	Hi	Lo	Hi	Lo
Anaheim	95	70	--	90	68	89	64
Avalon/Catalina	87	70	--	80	59	75	61
Bakersfield	93	68	--	93	67	94	61
Barstow	106	77	--	101	70	99	67
Big Bear Lake	80	51	--	77	45	76	44
Bishop	92	50	--	91	55	91	48
Burbank	97	71	--	91	66	86	62
Camarillo	84	65	--	82	61	78	57
Chatsworth	96	70	--	92	66	88	64
Chino	102	68	--	98	64	94	61
Compton	93	71	--	89	69	85	66
Dana Point	84	71	--	79	69	78	68
Death Valley	112	90	--	112	89	110	83
Del Mar	83	73	Tr	80	70	79	68
Escondido	101	67	--	90	64	88	61
Eureka	66	52	--	65	54	64	54
Fallbrook	95	67	--	87	64	86	60
Fresno	97	64	--	93	63	93	58
Fullerton	95	72	--	88	68	86	66
Hemet	100	67	--	96	61	91	56
Hesperia	94	67	--	92	63	89	59
Huntington Beach	85	71	--	82	69	81	67
Idyllwild	87	66	--	82	62	80	61
Irvine	92	70	--	87	69	85	65

Almanac

Temperature	Los Angeles	Fullerton	Ventura*
High/low	96/74	94/75	78/66
Normal high/low	85/65	87/66	76/58
High/low a year ago	93/65	95/67	79/63
Record high/date	102/1884	102/1998	86/2009
Record low/date	51/1901	60/2010	50/1957

City	Sat.*			Today			Mon.
	Hi	Lo	Prcp.	Hi	Lo	Hi	Lo
L.A. D'ntown/USC	94	71	--	89	68	86	65
L.A. Int'l. Airport	85	70	--	82	68	79	66
Laguna Beach	81	71	--	80	69	77	68
Lancaster	94	71	--	94	64	89	60
Long Beach	91	71	--	85	70	83	66
Mammoth Lakes	69	40	--	75	46	73	42
Mission Viejo	95	68	--	88	66	85	64
Monrovia	98	70	--	93	67	90	66
Monterey	66	56	--	65	57	67	58
Mt. Wilson	81	62	--	67	58	65	55
Needles	115	88	--	108	84	104	81
Newport Beach	84	72	--	82	70	80	68
Northridge	99	70	--	93	66	88	64
Oakland	69	58	--	71	58	69	60
Oceanside	93	70	--	85	65	84	60
Ojai	94	62	--	90	57	82	53
Ontario	101	72	--	97	67	92	63
Palm Springs	112	85	--	106	78	103	76
Pasadena	97	70	--	90	67	88	64
Paso Robles	94	51	--	88	49	79	49
Redding	94	59	--	94	58	90	57
Riverside	101	68	--	97	62	95	59
Sacramento	87	55	--	89	56	81	56
San Bernardino	103	73	--	98	67	93	63

24-hour total (as of 2 p.m.)	0.00	0.00	0.00
Season total (since Oct. 1)	18.87	15.62	20.39
Last season (Oct. 1 to date)	7.96	3.93	6.50
Season norm (Oct. 1 to date)	14.15	11.75	16.01
Humidity (high/low)	81/52	84/36	93/66

City	Sat.*			Today			Mon.
	Hi	Lo	Prcp.	Hi	Lo	Hi	Lo
San Diego	87	73	--	81	71	80	68
San Francisco	70	57	--	71	58	68	60
San Gabriel	98	70	--	92	68	89	64
San Jose	80	57	--	77	57	75	60
San Luis Obispo	71	54	--	73	56	71	55
Santa Ana	87	72	--	84	70	81	67
Santa Barbara	85	63	--	78	59	74	56
Santa Clarita	100	66	--	94	62	91	56
Santa Monica Pier	85	70	--	81	68	77	65
Santa Paula	88	64	--	87	58	83	54
Santa Rosa	83	49	--	85	51	72	55
Simi Valley	93	65	--	90	61	84	56
Tahoe Valley	72	36	--	74	39	74	45
Temecula	100	65	--	92	60	90	57
Thousand Oaks	90	66	--	87	61	82	57
Torrance	88	71	--	84	69	81	67
UCLA	88	70	--	84	68	81	63
Van Nuys	99	70	--	92	65	88	61
Ventura	76	64	--	76	61	72	60
Whittier Hills	95	71	--	91	69	88	67
Woodland Hills	100	70	--	92	67	88	62
Wrightwood	82	65	--	81	61	78	58
Yorba Linda	98	68	--	91	67	90	63
Yosemite Valley	84	54	--	87	56	83	54

SATURDAY'S EXTREMES AS OF 2 P.M. FOR THE 48 CONTIGUOUS STATES High 113 in Needles, Calif. Low 33 in Lakeview, Ore.

Today in North America

Stormy in the Great Basin: Thunderstorms can produce flooding downpours and hail in northern New England on Sunday. Meanwhile, there is risk for gusty storms with hail and flooding downpours in the Dakotas. The central and southern part of the Plains will be dry and hot.

Showers	T-storms	Rain	Flurries	Snow	Ice

Temps -0 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100+

Shown are areas of precipitation and high temperatures for the day.

U.S. cities

City	Saturday*			Today
	Hi	Lo	Prcp.	Hi	Lo	Sky
Albany	77	51	--	79	62	Pc
Albuquerque	95	70	.04	93	67	Cy
Anchorage	64	50	.05	59	45	Su
Aspen	79	53	.04	75	49	Ts
Atlanta	89	74	Tr	89	73	Ts
Austin	98	70	--	100	75	Su
Baltimore	82	66	--	88	71	Pc
Boise	84	68	--	76	52	Su
Boston	74	64	--	85	67	Pc
Buffalo	78	53	Tr	73	65	Sh
Burlington, Vt.	77	50	--	76	59	Ts
Charleston, S.C.	83	74	.37	86	75	Ts
Charlotte	88	68	Tr	87	71	Ts
Chicago	80	65	.06	86	73	Pc
Cincinnati	86	64	--	90	69	Su
Cleveland	81	55	--	82	70	Pc
Columbia, S.C.	87	74	.11	87	73	Ts
Columbus	83	63	--	89	70	Pc
Dallas/FLWorth	104	78	--	101	80	Su
Denver	91	63	--	88	63	Ts
Detroit	82	59	--	83	70	Ts
El Paso	100	76	Tr	100	75	Su
Eugene	74	48	Tr	78	49	Su
Fort Myers	93	75	1.66	92	76	Ts
Hartford	78	56	--	82	63	Cy
Honolulu	89	76	.01	89	77	R
Houston	97	75	.04	98	76	Ts
Indianapolis	83	61	--	90	70	Su
Jacksonville, Fla.	89	73	1.97	87	74	Ts
Kansas City	92	67	--	98	78	Pc
Knoxville	90	67	.09	90	70	Ts
Las Vegas	105	88	Tr	100	80	Su
Louisville	88	65	--	93	73	Su
Medford	81	55	--	87	50	Su
Memphis	93	68	--	97	78	Su
Miami	85	77	.64	91	80	Ts
Milwaukee	79	64	.10	84	72	Ts
Minneapolis	81	67	.26	88	72	Ts
Nashville	93	67	--	95	72	Su
New Orleans	94	77	Tr	89	78	Ts
New York	76	64	--	81	69	Pc
Norfolk	81	72	--	86	74	Pc
Oklahoma City	103	69	--	102	73	Su
Omaha	94	70	Tr	97	76	Ts
Orlando	91	75	.08	91	76	Ts
Philadelphia	82	65	--	87	73	Pc
Phoenix	111	94	.10	104	79	Ts
Pittsburgh	81	53	--	84	70	Pc
Portland, Ore.	74	57	.04	73	55	Pc
Providence	78	63	--	82	66	Pc
Raleigh/Durham	84	72	.32	87	71	Ts
Reno	85	57	--	84	56	Su
Richmond	85	70	.04	89	71	Pc
St. Louis	88	65	--	94	75	Su
Salt Lake City	76	64	.34	79	63	Ts

City	Saturday*			Today
	Hi	Lo	Prcp.	Hi	Lo	Sky
Seattle	68	55	.56	68	54	Pc
Tampa	92	78	.53	92	77	Ts
Tucson	104	82	.12	95	75	Ts
Tulsa	102	74	--	103	79	Su
Washington, D.C.	84	69	--	90	75	Pc
Wichita	103	67	--	104	76	W
World
Acapulco	93	77	.09	92	78	Ts
Amsterdam	72	63	1.06	71	61	Sh
Athens	91	77	--	88	73	Su
Bangkok	90	81	.14	92	81	R
Barcelona	84	67	--	86	70	Su
Berlin	81	64	--	80	61	Pc
Cabo San Lucas	97	82	.09	93	80	Ts
Cairo	98	78	--	94	75	Hz
Dubai	109	90	--	109	90	Hz
Dublin	63	59	.36	67	53	Sh
Havana	93	73	.15	93	75	R
Ho Chi Minh City	91	79	.29	91	78	R
Hong Kong	92	82	1.19	88	79	R
Istanbul	81	68	.01	85	70	Su
Jerusalem	86	70	--	82	70	Su
Johannesburg	68	46	--	73	48	Cy
Kuala Lumpur	95	78	.11	92	77	Ts
Lima	76	67	--	77	69	Pc
London	70	63	.26	72	58	Sh
Madrid	86	55	--	91	61	Su
Mecca	106	84	--	112	92	Hz
Mexico City	72	58	.21	76	57	R
Montreal	75	55	--	73	55	Ts
Moscow	70	50	--	72	57	R
Mumbai	88	81	.01	88	80	R
New Delhi	95	82	--	96	81	Pc
Paris	72	61	.24	73	61	Cy
Prague	73	59	--	78	59	Pc
Rome	93	79	--	92	70	Su
Seoul	88	75	.02	84	73	R
Singapore	91	81	--	90	81	Ts
Taipei City	91	79	.33	95	80	R
Tokyo	77	76	.36	81	76	Cy
Vancouver	68	57	.08	65	55	Cy
Vienna	79	66	.01	87	61	Su

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Baby gets headstone after 120 years

JASON ARMOND Los Angeles Times

HONOR GUARD members at Inglewood Park Cemetery in Los Angeles in 2020.

BY KAREN GARCIA

In 1906, 4-month-old Maytie Raker was the first person to be buried at the Inglewood Park Cemetery.

At the time she was laid to rest without a grave marker, but this month officials memorialized Maytie by commissioning a permanent marker at her burial site.

In 1905, the Inglewood Park Cemetery Assn., made up of a group of local businessmen, purchased a 320-acre parcel of land with the goal of creating the largest and finest cemetery in the world, PBS SoCal reported.

A year later, on July 20, 1906, Maytie, the daughter of King D. and Jessie Raker, became the first person to be interred, but it's unclear why her family left the site unmarked for more than a century.

Maytie's sister Hattie was buried next to her the following year — the child died in infancy.

The Times reached out to the Inglewood Park Cemetery for comment but did not receive a response before publication.

On Aug. 13, cemetery officials along with members of the Inglewood City Council gathered at the Raker sisters' burial site to commemorate the newly placed markers, the first for the eldest Raker sister.

The markers were en- graved with butterflies, with pairs of butterfly-shaped flower arrangements next to the graves along with bouquets containing a mix of white and purple roses, daisies and carnations.

“It shows why it’s so important to have memorialization here at Inglewood Park Cemetery, or at any cemetery,” said Kevin Brown, vice president of operations and construction at the cemetery, in a post on Instagram.

though I never had the opportunity to meet the Raker sisters, over the past couple of years, they have become like family to me."

Norma Rivas, the family service lead concierge and genealogy specialist with Inglewood Park, said, "Even

"My goal is to ensure that their names are never forgotten here at Inglewood Park Cemetery and that their story continues to be remembered for generations to come," Rivas added.

Winery worker accused of starting Napa County fire

By Iris Kwok

A man who worked as a gardener at a prestigious California winery is accused of igniting a wildfire that caused millions of dollars' worth of damage and tens of millions' worth of agricultural losses in Napa County.

The blaze, dubbed the Pickett fire, started near Calistoga last August and burned 6,800 acres over the course of 17 days, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

Juan Luis Gutierrez Marfil, 45, of Napa, was charged Thursday with one felony count of recklessly causing a fire of a structure or forest, the Napa County district attorney's office said in a statement.

According to charging documents, Marfil admitted to Cal Fire law enforcement “the disposing of hot ashes into a burn pile,” which allegedly ultimately sparked the blaze.

An arraignment hearing is scheduled for Sept. 9, according to prosecutors.

Sam Singer, a spokesperson for Hundred Acre Wines, said Marfil was working as a contracted gardener when the fire broke out. He was carried over as a worker from Kelly Fleming Wines, which owned the vineyard property at 2339 Pickett Road before Hundred Acre acquired it in 2024, Singer said.

The fire started in the 2300 block of Pickett Road and destroyed five structures, according to Cal Fire. Four were outbuildings and one was a residential structure, according to the charging documents.

In a statement Thursday, the Napa County agricultural commissioner's office said preliminary reports showed agricultural producers saw roughly \$65 million in agricultural losses from the Pickett fire.

Most of the damage was to wine grapes, but some damage to beehives was also reported.

Three winemakers earlier this month filed suit against the owner of Hundred Acre Wines, Jayson Woodbridge, and his company alleging that smoke from the wildfire ruined their harvests, the Press Democrat reported.

Hundred Acre denied the claims and said it plans to “vigorously defend” itself in court.

Forgiveness in court for man who caused death of teenager at bus stop

By Jacob Sisneros

A 21-year-old Compton man was released last week after serving six months in jail for causing a crash that killed a 15-year-old boy named as he waited for a bus in East Long Beach.

From the audience, Carlos Ramirez's mother, Monica Gonzalez, watched as a judge sentenced driver Jacob Bustillos to three years of probation in addition to the brief jail term he'd just completed. Then, outside the Long Beach courtroom, Gonzalez and Bustillos' mother shared a tearful hug.

"I don't know how you're doing it," Bustillos' mother said after Gonzalez told Bustillos she forgave him for the crash.

Gonzalez replied, “As a mom, that’s what we have to do.”

Prosecutors say Bustillos was driving 57 mph in a 40-mph zone when he ran a red light at Carson Street and Palo Verde Avenue and collided with another car on June 11, 2025.

The impact sent Bustillos' car spinning into a bus stop, where Carlos was waiting after walking a friend home.

Signs quickly piled up at his roadside memorial blaming Bustillos for the crash and telling other drivers to slow down.

After the crash, Bustillos was charged with one count of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence. He faced up to six years in prison if convicted, but he instead accepted a plea deal to serve six months in jail, go on probation for three years, complete a reckless driving intervention program and complete a two-day program that included a visit to a hospital and a morgue.

Speeding has been a major contributing factor in Long Beach's recent rash of fatal crashes. Both families in this case hope other drivers can learn from Bustillos' mistake.

“I want you to think about this every time you get behind the wheel,” Carlos’ uncle, Jaime Villanueva, told Jacob Bustillos during a statement to the court before the sentence was officially handed down.

Villanueva told the court-room he used to “gun it” whenever he saw a light turn yellow, but after the crash that took his nephew’s life, he’s changed his driving habits.

Gonzalez is still reeling from the loss of her oldest son, as are his two siblings, ages 9 and 8. More than a year later, she still avoids any route that takes her by the intersection where Carlos died.

But she's chosen to forgive Bustillos, Gonzalez said, because she kept thinking of him as "a kid" and could tell that he was devastated by his actions.

Instead of anger, she's leaned heavily on her faith to choose forgiveness.

“It’s a hard pill to swallow, but I have to do it,” Gonzalez said. Carlos would have done the same, she said.

She remembered him as a driven Lakewood High

School student who loved anime and singing Frank Sinatra, and who planned to join the military after graduating from high school.

Hearing more about Carlos' selflessness has rubbed off on Bustillos, according to his mom, Vanessa.

Before the crash, he was studying to become a teacher, she said. But while in prison, he asked his mother to send him the military aptitude test, only to later realize he was ineligible because of the felony conviction.

Sisneros writes for The LA Local.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 2026 :: LATIMES.COM/SPORTS

NO. 14 USC 42, SAN JOSÉ STATE 26

THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT

USC quarterback Jayden Maiava completed 25 of 29 passes for 286 yards and two touchdowns and ran for another score.
RONALDO BOLAÑOS Los Angeles Times

Savvy freshmen lift Maiava-led offense as Trojans roll in opener

BY RYAN KARTJE

A quartet of freshman pass-catchers trotted onto the Coliseum field around noon Saturday, taking their places to either flank of USC's far-older quarterback. None of the four — Trent Mosley, Kayden Dixon-Wyatt Tron Baker and Mark Bowman — had played in a college football game. But the significance of their presence, on the first play of the first week of an especially critical campaign for No. 14 USC and its coach, Lincoln Riley, was no small thing.

This USC season, if only by sheer numbers, is sure to be defined by how fast its freshmen can grow up, which, after Saturday's season-opening, 42-26 win over San José State, might not sound so bad after all.

"It certainly wasn't flawless," Riley said, "but it was pretty damn good."

First impressions, of course, can say only so much. With redshirts no longer a concern, Riley had promised to acclimate as many [See USC, D5]

Voices

MIRJAM SWANSON COLUMNIST

Riley's latest reboot of defense shows it has lots of work to do

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat? How can you compete for championships if you don't have a championship defense?

Sorry folks, but rules are rules.

USC just keeps trying to bend them. Trying to break them. As if universal laws don't apply to the Trojans.

In each of Lincoln Riley's four seasons at the helm here, he's trotted out impressive offenses and unimpressive defenses and — surprise, surprise — gotten the same result each time: something short of the College Football Playoff.

Riley's teams have averaged more yards per play in his tenure than any other team in the nation.

But it hasn't mattered much, because [See Swanson, D5]

Voices BILL PLASCHKE COLUMNIST

Dodgers just need Ohtani to hit away rest of this season

For a player who has been so improbable, the Dodgers must now do the impossible.

When it comes to pitching, they must shut Shohei Ohtani down.

Despite suffering a knee ailment and biceps soreness this season, Ohtani slowly is trying to take the mound for the first time in more than two months.

Stop. Just stop.

The Dodgers have no business sticking Ohtani back on the mound. He belongs out there no more than Kiké Hernandez does.

There's no two ways about it — the Dodgers should not plan on jamming Ohtani back into the starting rotation.

The Dodgers should thank him for his passion, applaud him for his 1.79 ERA in his first 14 starts, promise to return his resin bag next season, and ask him to go to work on that bat.

As much as the fans want to see all Ohtani, all of the time, the next couple of months are not about celebrating a novelty, they're about winning a championship, and Ohtani can best get that done by avoiding another injury to himself on the mound and directing all of his efforts at the plate.

Recently, his hitting needs all the help it can get. After Saturday's loss in Detroit, it had been a startling nine games since Ohtani homered or collected an RBI. During that span he had more than

[See Plaschke, D6]

Dodgers living, and losing, on edge

GREGORY SHAMUS Getty Images

KEVIN McGonigle celebrates his walk-off hit with Tigers teammate Max Clark.

They drop a one-run decision for the fourth time in five games. No run support for Snell.

DETROIT 2 DODGERS 1

BY MADDIE LEE

DETROIT — The same old story played out for the Dodgers on Saturday. They got a strong outing from their starting pitcher and an uninspiring performance from their offense, resulting in a close game.

This time the Dodgers lost 2-1, despite left-hander Blake Snell's five innings of one-run baseball.

The Dodgers' last five games have been decided by one run. They've lost all but one of them.

"It is a toll, it is a ripple effect," manager Dave Roberts said. "And it's more on the pitching, where you feel like you can't give up a run or we lose. And that's not the [See Dodgers, D6]

WNBA

The forward-guard scores 12 of her 15 points in the fourth quarter of L.A.'s 88-82 win over Mystics. D3

Burrell's hot hand leads Sparks

TENNIS

U.S. Open's field wide open

Struggles by top players and lingering injuries make it difficult to predict favorites as major begins. D3

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

Santa Margarita tops Centennial

The No. 4 Eagles pick up where they left off against the No. 1 Huskies as they pull out a 21-20 victory. D8

Claim your share of our future.

PRO CALENDAR

	SUN30	MON31	TUE1	WED2	THU3
	at Detroit10:30 a.m.SNLA		ST. LOUIS7SNLA	ST. LOUIS7SNLA	ST. LOUIS7SNLA
	PHILA.1ABTV	N.Y.YANKEES6:30KCOP, ABTV	N.Y.YANKEES6:30ABTV	N.Y.YANKEES6:30ABTV
ANGELS
	OPENER: SEPT. 10 VS. SAN FRANCISCO, 5:30 P.M., NETFLIX*
RAMS
	OPENER: SEPT. 13 VS. ARIZONA, 1:25 P.M., CBS
CHARGERS
	NEXT: SATURDAY VS. NEW ENGLAND, 6:30 P.M., APPLE TV
GALAXY
	NEXT: SATURDAY AT SALT LAKE, 6:30 P.M., APPLE TV
LAFC
		at Boston5NWSL+,CBSSN
ANGEL CITY
	at Seattle2SpecSN

*at Melbourne, Australia
Shade denotes home games. Times Pacific.

TODAY ON THE AIR

TIME	EVENT	TV; RADIO
AUTO RACING
8 a.m.	Indy NXT, Milwaukee Mile	FS1
10 a.m.	IndyCar, Milwaukee Mile 250	Fox
BASEBALL
9 a.m.	Miami at Washington	NBCSN, Peacock
10:30 a.m.	Dodgers at Detroit	SNLA; 570, 1020
10:30 a.m.	Boston at New York Yankees	ESPN Unlimited
10:30 a.m.	San Diego at Tampa Bay	MLB
Noon	Houston at New York Mets	NBC, Peacock, Universo
1 p.m.	Philadelphia at Angels	ABTV; 830
4 p.m.	Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs	NBC, Peacock
BASKETBALL: WNBA
Noon	Minnesota at Atlanta	NBA
2 p.m.	Sparks at Seattle	SpecSN
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
9 a.m.	West Alabama vs. Tuskegee	ESPN2
COLLEGE SOCCER: WOMEN
8 a.m.	Colorado at Michigan State	Big Ten
1 p.m.	UCLA at Santa Clara	ESPN+
2 p.m.	Saint Mary's at USC	Big Ten+
COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL: WOMEN
9 a.m.	Wisconsin vs. Pittsburgh	ESPN
10 a.m.	Creighton at USC	Big Ten
11:30 a.m.	Kansas vs. Stanford	ESPN
12:30 p.m.	Texas vs. Nebraska	Fox
3 p.m.	Nevada Las Vegas vs. Texas Christian	FS1
GOLF
9 a.m.	PGA, Tour Championship, final round	Golf
10:30 a.m.	PGA, Tour Championship, final round	CBS, Paramount+
10:30 a.m.	LPGA Tour, FM Championship, final round	Golf
HORSE RACING
10 a.m.	Saratoga Live	FS1
LITTLE LEAGUE: BASEBALL WORLD SERIES
7 a.m.	Third-place game, Japan vs. Ohio	ESPN
Noon	Championship, Curacao vs. Nevada	ABC
PICKLEBALL
9 a.m.	MLP Finals, New York	CBS
11 a.m.	MLP Finals, New York	Tennis
PRO FOOTBALL: CFL
4 p.m.	BC at Ottawa	CBSSN
SOCCER
8 a.m.	Spain, Real Madrid vs. Malaga	ESPN+, ESPND
8:15 a.m.	France, Rennes vs. Le Mans	belN
8:30 a.m.	England, Manchester United vs. Ipswich Town	USA, Telemundo
9:30 a.m.	NWSL, Washington vs. Bay FC	ESPN2
9:30 a.m.	Italy, Napoli vs. Como	CBSSN, Paramount+
11:45 a.m.	France, Monaco vs. Olympique Marseille	belN
11:45 a.m.	Italy, Lazio vs. Genoa	CBSSN, Paramount+
11:45 a.m.	Italy, Cagliari vs. Inter Milan	Paramount+, Telemundo
4 p.m.	Mexico, women, Guadalajara vs. Pumas UNAM	FoxD
5 p.m.	Mexico, men, Toluca vs. Juárez	TUDN
6 p.m.	Argentina, Independiente vs. Racing Club	FoxD
7 p.m.	Mexico, men, Monterrey vs. Atlético San Luis	TUDN
7 p.m.	MLS Next, LAFC 2 vs. San Jose II	KCOP
SOFTBALL: ATHLETES UNLIMITED
5 p.m.	All-Star Cup, Team Kilfoyl vs. Team Klingler	MLB
TENNIS
9 a.m.	U.S. Open, first round	ABC, ESPN+
Noon	U.S. Open, first round	ESPN2, ESPN+
1:30 p.m.	U.S. Open, first round	ESPN, ESPN+
4 p.m.	U.S. Open, first round	ESPN, ESPN+, ESPND

NOVAK DJOKOVIC begins the Open's night session on Sunday, facing Mariano Navone at 4 on ESPN.
CALEB BOWLIN Getty Images

THE DAY IN SPORTS

LaFleur says Packers planning to keep Jacobs despite charges

PETE CROW-ARMSTRONG, left, is feted after the Cub's three-homer game.
MELISSA TAMEZ Associated Press

WIRE REPORTS

Green Bay Packers coach Matt LaFleur says there are no plans for the team to release running back Josh Jacobs, who faces two misdemeanor charges stemming from what police have described as a physical confrontation with his girlfriend.

"I fully anticipate him being a member of our team," LaFleur said Friday night after the Packers closed their preseason schedule with a 42-38 victory over the Arizona Cardinals.

The Brown County (Wis.) district attorney's office filed misdemeanor charges of battery and criminal damage to property against Jacobs on Thursday. The charges arose from an incident that took place three months ago.

When he was asked about Jacobs' potential availability for the Packers' Sept. 13 season opener at Minnesota, LaFleur replied that "I can't really comment on that because I don't know."

Jacobs was arrested May 26 after police were called to his home to investigate a disturbance, and he was released from jail the next day.

New York Jets rookie running back Chip Trayanum was taken to a hospital with a neck injury after being tackled on the final play of the first half against the New York Giants on Friday night. The Jets said Trayanum, an undrafted rookie, was awake, alert and had movement in all of his extremities. ... Taking another step to improve their defensive-line situation, the Giants acquired CJ Okoye in a trade with the Baltimore Ravens. Coach John Harbaugh confirmed the Giants sent a 2028 seventh-round pick to Baltimore. ... The Jacksonville Jaguars acquired quarterback Quinn Ewers from Miami in exchange for a sixth-round selection in the 2028 draft.

ETC.

Pogacar crashes out of the Vuelta

Five-time Tour de France champion and overwhelming favorite Tadej Pogacar pulled out of the Spanish Vuelta after crashing during the eighth stage of the race on Saturday.

The Slovenian held a big lead in the race but got caught in a crash about 33 kilometers from the finish. He tried to get back on his bike but could not carry on and walked to an ambulance. Race organizers confirmed he pulled out of the race. Enric Mas took the race leader's jersey from Pogacar, becoming the first Spanish rider to lead the race since Jesus Herrada in 2018.

The Boston Red Sox got a key piece of their bullpen back when they activated reliever Garrett Whitlock following a short stay on the 10-day injured list. ... Pete Crow-Armstrong added to his MVP credentials as he homered three times and drove in six runs, helping the Chicago Cubs beat Sal Stewart and the Cincinnati Reds 17-5. ... The Toronto Blue Jays added former player, manager and broadcaster Buck Martinez to their new Hall of Excellence before Saturday's game against the Seattle Mariners. Martinez, 77, announced in February that he was retiring as a Blue Jays broadcaster after calling more than 4,000 games dating to 1987.

Defending world champion Lando Norris has extended his contract with McLaren until at least the end of 2030, the Formula 1 team said Saturday. ... Ryan Seig won his first O'Reilly Auto Parts race after 424 starts, edging Austin Hill in overtime on Friday night at Daytona International Speedway. He had five runner-up finishes in his career. ... Riley Herbst did not compete in the Cup Series regular-season finale on Saturday night because of "lingering effects" from a crash last weekend.

Jaymiëll Martina struck out 12 batters and hit an RBI double, and Curaçao defeated Japan 4-0 to advance to the Little League Baseball World Series Championship for the sixth time.... In the U.S. final, Carsynn Meyer, the first girl to play in the U.S. championship, had an RBI single to help Henderson, Nev. beat Ohio 12-2.

Michael Block shot a seven-under 65 to take a two-shot lead at the Champions' Ally Challenge in Grand Blanc, Mich.... Norway's Viktor Hovland finished the third round with back-to-back birdies to finish 15 under and take a one-shot lead over Ryan Gerard at the Tour Championship in Atlanta. Scottie Scheffler is in a four-way logjam for third place at 12 under. ... Ruoning Yin of China birdied the 18th hole to take a one-shot lead after three rounds of the FM Championship at TPC Boston.

LETTERS

Cheers to 50 years of Sondheimer

Thanks so much for running the article on Eric Sondheimer. As a longtime SoCal resident who moved to Dallas two years ago, I still subscribe to The Times online to follow the Rams, Lakers, Angels and Dodgers. But I also follow high school sports and am glad to see Eric get the recognition he deserves for covering high school sports for 50 years. Congrats, Eric!

until recruited by LSU.

Bob Ring Dallas

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The Times sports section once again hit the jackpot with Bill Plaschke's column on Eric Sondheimer coupled with Sondheimer's own column on his 50 top memories of his 50 years of reporting high school sports. To me, an important part about sports is the memories that continue for so long after the events, and these two columns by two terrific writers truly brought that home.

BILL FRANCIS Pasadena

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I have had the privilege over the years of having met and talked with Mr. Sondheimer at various games. He is an encyclopedia of knowledge on high school sports, and his ideas about keeping this level of competition moving in the right direction is unmatched. Why he does not have the role of commissioner is something I have often thought about over the years, but then I would miss reading his columns.

MARK KAISERMAN Santa Monica

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Thank you, Eric, for being here, there and everywhere over the last 50 years. Your stories are a great reminder of what sports teaches high school students about life.

JEFF PERKINS Huntington Beach

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of dedication and professionalism covering high school sports. Bill Plaschke did an excellent job paying tribute to Eric for all that he has done in telling stories that captured our interest for these many years. Eric has never shied away from expressing his opinions on the state of high school sports and how they can be improved. I always respected him for doing so. Well done, Eric!

Congratulations to Eric Sondheimer on his 50 years

Rob Wigod Seal Beach

:

About half of Sondheimer's career ago, I reached out to Eric as a first-year middle school basketball coach with "a story you might want to tell." It was about a legally blind player who made our team, legitimately earning his spot over some sighted players and also scoring in a game. Eric came to our gym, interviewed players about what an incredible teammate he was and wrote a fantastic story.

Twenty-six years later, I'm still coaching, and that remains one of the great memories of my career. The term GOAT gets thrown around too easily these days. Not here. He's undisputed.

RICHARD BRISACHER Mar Vista

Conflict of interest

Re: “Ukrainian player leaves LSU women’s basketball after they sign Russian player.” LSU coach Kim Mulkey’s attitude about this is disgusting. She claims that she simply can’t “pass up” a talented player just because of a “conflict between two countries.” Well, Ms. Oblivious, that conflict includes the U.S. since we rightly support Ukraine in a war started by the aggressor nation, Russia, and that’s meant munitions and financial support to Ukraine by our country against a common enemy.

It might be unfortunate that a teenager is categorized as representing Russia and the war-mongering Putin regime, but that's a reality, and she has been playing for a Russian team

If Mulkey and the LSU athletics department are so morally void that they consider talent more important than principles, shame on them. Not just shame but gross unfitness for serving in a role at a state university. I hope Kate Koval finds a better institution for her basketball talent and studies.

T.R. JAHNS Hemet

This DJ can play

I truly hope the Chargers give DJ Uiagalelei a chance to back up Justin Herbert. Trey Lance has shown nothing with all his time as the backup. DJ has more than shown he could move the ball effectively if needed in a pinch. Coach Jim Harbaugh and offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel, give DJ a chance.

FELIPE VARELA Whittier

Heartfelt journey

I just finished reading the remarkable article about Freddie Freeman and Jason Heyward. It is a wonderful story of two remarkable baseball players. When it told of Freddie's realization of the racism his friend knew too well, I cried — for both of them. Thank you for this.

ALICE KING Sacramento

Hated rival

Glad to hear the new San Diego Padres owner is a longtime Yankees fan, therefore hating the Dodgers. He'll have no trouble continuing to hate the Dodgers as they roll over his Padres once again in the postseason this year, should his Padres luck out and even qualify.

Time for change

James Tibbs III and Zach Ehrhard from triple-A Oklahoma City. Both are hungry and tearing up minor-league pitching. They certainly cannot do any worse than the uninspired at-bats we are currently witnessing from underperforming stars. Bring them up, inject some fire into this lineup, and let the kids play.

MARTY ZWEBEN Palos Verdes Estates

PATRICK DUFF Springdale, Utah

Management should promote outfield prospects

The Dodgers look completely listless, and waiting for slumping veterans like Teoscar Hernández and Kyle Tucker to snap out of it is a losing strategy. The offense desperately needs an infusion of energy down the stretch.

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The Dodgers need to change the name of their bullpen to “blowpen” because of all the blown saves recently.

Doug Vikser Manhattan Beach

Expecting the worst

Expecting the worst The Rams trading for Tutu Atwell means only one thing, Puka Nacua is about to be suspended. Only ques- tion is how many games? FRED WALLIN Westlake Village

Time is running out

USC's football season mantra this year is "The Time is Now."

"I know what direction we're heading now," Trojans coach Lincoln Riley recently said. This realization comes entering his final fifth year of an astronomical contract and working in a new \$200-million football complex. Riley also said this summer that he is now more "well-equipped" to win. Really?

All of this has taken four years for Riley to establish. The time is now up for Riley if he does not at least lead USC to a College Football Playoff appearance for the first time.

WAYNE MURAMATSU Cerritos

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Email: sports@la-times.com

YUKI IWAMURA Associated Press

Schwesinger's an instant hit for Browns' defense

Once a walk-on at UCLA, second-year linebacker has fit in well with Cleveland.

By Rob Maaddi

Carson Schwesinger walked on at UCLA, was passed up in the first round of the draft and ended up winning the Associated Press NFL defensive rookie of the year award with the Cleveland Browns last year.

He's already being compared to Hall of Famer Luke Kuechly.

“Every time you get referenced in the same breath as somebody you’ve looked up to and model your game after, it is obviously an honor,” Schwesinger said on AP’s “On Football” podcast. “I have only played one season, so we may have to chill out on that a little until I do a whole lot more to get to the level that he was at when he was playing. And I think just what he was so good at — I mean basically everything, but he’s known for his preparation, and so I think that’s a big part of the linebacker position and that’s a really big part of what I want to be able to try and emulate when I go out onto the field.”

Fifteen defensive players were selected before the Browns chose Schwesinger with the first pick of the second round in last year's NFL draft.

He became an instant starter for the Browns and had 156 tackles, $2^{1/2}$ sacks and two interceptions in 16 games playing in defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz's system. Mike Rutenberg has replaced Schwartz, who left after he didn't get the head coach job that went to Todd Monken.

"There's always going to be adjustments year to year, even regardless of if there's changes or not," Schwe-singer said. "Obviously with our style of defense, we still have a very similar style, and that front's going to go attack, and you just have small changes here or there to really try and put the best rushing coverage together that work the best together."

The Browns traded two-time AP defensive player of the year Myles Garrett to the Rams in June so they have a big void to fill on a defense.

“You can’t, obviously, replace a player of that caliber, but just this defense as a whole, the staff, every single player we have on there has really been able just to come together,” Schwesinger said. “We really believe in what we have here and what we’ve got going, and the goal every day is to go out there and be the best defense in the NFL, and I’m really proud with how this unit goes and attacks every day to get better.”

Cleveland had the league's fourth-best defense last season but still finished 5-12 mainly because the offense struggled behind quarterbacks Shedeur Sanders, Joe Flacco and Dillon Gabriel. Sanders went 3-4 in seven starts but lost to Deshaun Watson in the competition for the starting job in training camp this summer.

"All the quarterbacks on our roster can run that offense and know what to do," Schwesinger said. "As a defensive player, that's all you can ask for, is go out there and run the show on offense, right? And I think all those guys are capable of it. And defensively, our whole mindset is, if they don't score, they don't win anyway. So, we've got our whole faith in whoever is out there.

“We know that at the end of the day, we’re just gonna go out and do our jobs on the defense side of the ball and the offense will handle theirs.”

Maaddi writes for the Associated Press.

SUE OGROCKI Associated Press
FORMER UCLA standout Carson Schwesinger was the AP NFL defensive rookie of the year last season.

CARLOS ALCARAZ has been slowed by a right wrist injury since April, but says he's ready to go in the Open.

There are no clear-cut favorites in Open amid injuries, struggles

ARYNA SABALENKA is No. 1, but that's in jeopardy thanks to recent struggles.

BY BRIAN MAHONEY

NEW YORK — Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner made last year's U.S. Open feel like two weeks of killing time until the inevitable.

They had separated themselves from everyone else in men's tennis while meeting in the French Open and Wimbledon finals. It seemed a foregone conclusion they would make it three in a row, which is exactly what happened.

With the No. 1-ranked Sinner sidelined, Alcaraz only returning now to defend his title after missing four months, and Novak Djokovic perhaps finally showing his age, the U.S. Open once again feels, well, open.

Just don't confuse that with meaning easier.

“It’s the same conversation,” American Frances Tiafoe said. “Still got to beat seven guys however way you slice it.”

Sabalenka's summer swoon

The women's side has its own questions, with two-time defending U.S. Open champion Aryna Sabalenka losing in the fourth round at Wimbledon and both hard-court tournaments she played since, putting her hold on the No. 1 ranking in jeopardy.

The top spot could be in reach for multiple women and so is the trophy at the final major tournament of the year, with No. 3 Jessica Pegula saying “there’s not one or two super dominant players where you feel like they have to lose in order for you to have a chance.”

“It seems to me like maybe more open in a way, just because, I don’t know, there’s more chances,” added Pegula, who lost to Sabalenka in the 2024 final and last year’s semifinals.

Play begins Sunday, with Pegula in Arthur Ashe Stadium's opening match and Djokovic leading off the night session before Venus

Williams, at 46, faces fellow American Sofia Kenin.

Injuries open doors for others

Alcaraz gets one more day to prepare. He has been sidelined since April by a right wrist injury, deciding last week he was ready to return at the tournament where he has won two of his seven Grand Slam titles.

The most recent was at the Australian Open, but he went out not long after. Alexander Zverev won the French Open for his first major title, lost to Sinner in the Wimbledon final, then became the No. 1 seed in Flushing Meadows when Sinner determined the knee injury that has kept him out since that victory wasn't fully healed.

"It's been a couple of months now where it's been pretty similar: a lot of uncertainty, some of the top players, they're kind of injured or they're not playing. This is a little bit of the same, so we have seen lot of different players stepping up and a lot of different opportunities being up for grabs," said Alex de Minaur, the No. 6 seed from Australia.

Daniil Medvedev, the 2021

U.S. Open champion, pointed at players such as Zverev and Arthur Fils, who beat Tiafoe for the Cincinnati Open title before coming to New York, as players who know there's an opportunity they don't want to waste.

"For them, they're probably thinking about it, not in a bad way, but they're like, we have a better chance without Jannik and maybe Carlos not 100% yet," the No. 7-seeded Medvedev said.

Djokovic exited the Cincinnati tournament in his first match and afterward mentioned an unspecified health problem that bothers him in the heat. That could make it difficult for the 24-time Grand Slam singles champion to make another lengthy run in New York at 39. American men still are trying to end a Grand Slam drought that dates to Andy Roddick at the 2003 U.S. Open. Ben Shelton won in Montreal before Tiafoe's runner-up finish in Cincinnati, and Taylor Fritz lost to Sinner in the 2024 final in New York.

"I would say this is a golden opportunity," ESPN commentator Patrick McEnroe said. "Obviously if Alcaraz comes back and gets through a few matches, looks good, he'll quickly become the favorite. I mean, he's the favorite right now, but he'd quickly become a bigger favorite. There's no doubt the fact he hasn't played since the spring, with Sinner out, this is a monster opportunity."

Elena Rybakina, who beat Sabalenka in the Australian Open final, Pegula and No. 4 Coco Gauff are all in pursuit of the No. 1 ranking. Sabalenka could, depending on other results, lose it even if she becomes the first player to win three straight U.S. Open titles since Serena Williams from 2012-14.

"I'll try to do my very best, and we'll see what happens with the end of this tournament," Sabalenka said.

She may be vulnerable, but Alcaraz perhaps even more so. Last year, it seemed only one man could beat him. This time, the list could be lengthy.

“He’s a guy we’re going to look at, but a lot of guys believe they can not only get him but win the event,” Tiafoe said. “It’s going to be an exciting U.S. Open.”

Mahoney writes for the Associated Press.

WNBA STANDINGS Through Friday

WESTERN CONFERENCE
Team	W	L	Pct.	G
x-Minnesota	31	8	.795	—
x-Golden State	28	11	.718	3
x-Las Vegas	27	13	.675	$4\frac{1}{2}$
x-Dallas	23	16	.590	8
Portland	16	23	.410	15
SPARKS	14	25	.359	17
Phoenix	13	26	.333	18
Seattle	8	31	.205	23

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Team	W	L	Pct.	G	B
x-Indiana	26	14	.650		—
x-Atlanta	25	14	.641		$\frac{1}{2}$
x-Washington	24	16	.600		2
x-New York	23	16	.590		$2\frac{1}{2}$
Chicago	15	24	.385		$10\frac{1}{2}$
Toronto	11	28	.282		$14\frac{1}{2}$
Connecticut	10	29	.256		$15\frac{1}{2}$
x-clinched playoff spot

FRIDAY'S LATE BOX SPARKS 88. MYSTICS 82

WASHINGTON (82)—Iriafen 5-9 1-2 12, Onyenwere 0-3 6-6 6, Austin 8-13 3-5 19, Amoore 3-8 0-0 9, Citron 9-18 0-1 22, Dugalic 0-0 0-0 0, Laney-Hamilton 3-4 0-0 6, Betts 2-4 2-3 6, Florez 1-1 0-0 2, McMahon 0-2 0-0 0, Prosper 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 31-63 12-17 82.

SPARKS (88)—Burrell 6-12 1-2 15, Ogwumike 11-16 0-1 24, Hamby 4-6 1-4 9, Atkins 2-5 0-0 4, Wheeler 3-7 0-0 8, Brink 5-9 2-2 13, Akoa Makani 4-6 1-1 10, Gray 0-1 0-0 0, Morgan 1-2 3-4 5. Totals 36-64 8-14 88. WASHINGTON.... 23 28 17 14— 82 SPARKS.... 23 17 25 23— 88

3-Point Goals—Washington 8-21 (Citron 4-7, Amoore 3-8, Iriafen 1-2, Austin 0-1, McMahon 0-1, Onyenwere 0-2), SPARKS 8-20 (Ogwumike 2-3, Burrell 2-4, Wheeler 2-5, Akoa Makani 1-1, Brink 1-2, Gray 0-1, Morgan 0-1, Atkins 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Washington 34 (Austin, Iriafen 10), SPARKS 23 (Brink 5). Assists—Washington 20 (Amoore 5), SPARKS 28 (Wheeler 8). Total Fouls—Washington 15, SPARKS 17. A—12,551 (18,997)

RAE BURRELL had 12 of her 15 points in the fourth quarter in the Sparks' win.
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Burrell's hot hand in fourth quarter helps lift Sparks

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Nneka Ogwumike had 24 points, Rae Burrell scored 12 of her 15 points in the fourth quarter, and the host Sparks beat the Washington Mystics 88-82 on Friday night.

The Sparks went on a 13-2 run late in the fourth quarter to pull away. Burrell made a three with 2:54 left and added a transition layup on the Sparks' next possession — following a blocked shot by Cameron Brink — to cap the run and go ahead 85-78.

Brink finished with 13 points and two blocks off the bench for the Sparks (14-25). Monique Akoa Makani had 10 points.

Washington (24-16) was playing on consecutive nights for the first time this season after beating Phoenix 80-73 on Thursday. The Mystics turned the ball over 17 times, leading to 31 points for the Sparks.

Sonia Citron made four three-pointers and scored 22 points for Washington, which had won three straight on the road. Shakira Austin had 19 points and 10 rebounds, and former USC standout Kiki Iriafen contributed 12 points and 10 rebounds for her 20th double-double this season.

Georgia Amoore, coming off a career-high 25 points on Thursday, finished with nine points on three-of-eight shooting.

The Mystics led 51-40 at halftime before the Sparks took command.

Golden opportunity to get old rivalry Bruin

JAIVIAN THOMAS, taking a handoff from Nico Iamaleava last fall, considers the game at Cal a homecoming.
Photographs by GINA FERAZZI Los Angeles Times

KICKER Mateen Bhaghani (94) also looks forward to facing his former Cal team.

UCLA trio that was on Cal the last time teams played is ready for rematch in opener.

By Connor Dullinger

"The Conference of Champions" captivated the college football world.

A conference anchored in deep regional ties, historic rivalries and a century of shared traditions.

Since its breakup in 2024, the old Pac-12 has become a distant memory. But fans will get a throwback to the "Pac-12 After Dark" era when UCLA and California open the season Saturday at California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley.

The battle between two new coaches, with former James Madison coach Bob Chesney leading UCLA against former Oregon defensive coordinator and Cal alum Tosh Lupoi, will mark the first time the sister schools have faced off since 2023; that matchup, coincidentally, was the old Pac-12's final regular-season game.

While just 13 Bruins remain on the roster since their 33-7 loss three seasons ago, a trio of former Golden Bears who were on the winning side — running back Jaivian Thomas, wide receiver Mikey Matthews and kicker Mateen Bhaghani — now wear UCLA jerseys.

The Bruins' roster features two other former Bears — senior outside linebacker Ryan McCulloch and fifth-year defensive lineman Tyson Ford — along with linebackers coach Vic So'oto and director of player personnel Nic So'oto, both of whom spent last year at Berkeley.

For Thomas, in particular, Saturday represents not only a return to his former school, but also a homecoming for the Oakland native.

"I'm going back home, about 15 minutes away from Berkeley. It's where I started my college career," Thomas said. "I want to stamp that game, and once I found out we played them, it was marked on my calendar. I'm excited for that game, and I want to go down there and get this win, start off the year right."

Thomas, who attended

SEASON OPENER

UCLA at California Saturday, 7:30 p.m. TV: ESPN

McClymonds High less than five miles from Memorial Stadium, said the stands will be “stacked full” of family members.

And while the return to Cal will not be a homecoming for Bhaghani, a San Diego native, the game is important to him too.

"It's almost a dream come true to go play at the school that my career started at," Bhaghani said. "I'm going to enter the game as any other, but it's a significant game for me, and I definitely want to perform to my level."

As much as Bhaghani wants to downplay the personal significance of the season opener, he acknowledged he has been counting down the minutes to his return.

And that includes talking with Thomas and Matthews about their excitement.

"I'll go up to them almost every day and be like, 'Hey, two weeks, three weeks,' so they know it's important for all of us, and with this day and age in college football, it's important to put a lot of pride into those types of games," Bhaghani said.

Bhaghani is not alone in his belief in revitalizing the historic rivalry between UCLA and Cal. In an era when conferences increasingly lack regional ties, the fanfare and excitement of annual battles between old rivals is on the decline.

But Cal general manager Ron Rivera wants to bring back the Bear Bowl — and not just for this season.

"Just the fact that we are playing UCLA again, that's huge for both universities. They're one of our natural rivals and we are going to rekindle that and hopefully we can keep that going, kind of like what we do with Stanford," Rivera told reporters. "It's one of those natural things you want to see. It's a big deal for a lot of the L.A. kids that come up here and play, that they're playing against those guys."

Both schools' decision to renew the rivalry already has paid off, with Lupoi and Cal deciding Wednesday to remove the tarps off the seats in the south end zone of Memorial Stadium as a sold-out crowd is expected, potentially the largest crowd in more than a decade.

While adversarial crowds often are a home-field advantage, Matthews understands the challenge that lies ahead but is excited to be back and playing in front of the Cal faithful.

"We definitely have to come out fast. It's going to be pretty packed over there, so we just got to let them know that we're going to be on that timing and everything over there," Matthews said. "But it's going to be cool going back to see everything, and I like that environment and atmosphere over there because they have great fans over there as well."

Despite the excitement and anticipation surrounding potentially one of the biggest games of Week 1, not everyone is treating it as such.

Ford, for one, said he's looking at the opener like any other game on the schedule.

"It's the most exciting game because it's the next game," Ford said. "After that, the next game will be the most exciting. I'm just ready to go, whoever we play, it doesn't really matter."

Bhaghani is less reserved in his view of the matchup.

"I wear the blue and gold with a lot of pride and I really do believe UCLA is the best public university in the country," Bhaghani said. "I really do put a lot on that game, and everybody on our team will, as a season opener, two schools with brand new head coaches.

"It's going to be a shoot-out, and we'll come out on top."

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Tar Heels topple TCU in Ireland

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New quarterback Billy Edwards Jr. threw for 232 yards, Aeron Burrell kicked two field goals, and North Carolina opened coach Bill Belichick's second season with a 15-10 win over Texas Christian on a rainy Saturday in Dublin for the Aer Lingus Classic.

TCU didn't score again after going up 10-3 on its first two drives. The Horned Frogs were stopped on fourth-and-short plays deep in Tar Heels territory on their last two drives.

The 74-year-old Belichick, who won six Super Bowls as an NFL head coach, was 4-8 in his college debut with the Tar Heels last year. That season began with a 48-14 home loss to TCU in prime time on Labor Day.

"I'm just happy for the players. They've worked really hard," Belichick said. "To have positive results back up that hard work reinforces it. I think they've been believing in what we're doing, but I think this just gives everybody a little bit more belief, and we've just got to keep building."

North Carolina last season never had a halftime lead against a Power Four opponent, but went ahead 12-10 on a safety with 1:49 left in the first half of the first major college football game this season. TCU punter John Hoyet Chance kicked the ball out of the back of the end zone after the snap sailed well over his head.

The Tar Heels ran out the final 4:05 after new TCU quarterback Jaden Craig threw an incompletion when rolling left on fourth and two from the 10.

BILLY EDWARDS JR. (9) passes during North Carolina's 15-10 win over TCU.
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That followed a missed field goal by Burrell on a 13-play drive by the Tar Heels after their defense stuffed Jeremy Payne, who finished with 142 yards rushing, on fourth and one from the five.

Edwards, a transfer from Wisconsin, completed 16 of 28 passes. Jordan Shipp had five catches for 71 yards, and Jaylen McGill had the Tar Heels' only touchdown, on a nine-yard run in the first quarter after they converted on fourth and seven.

Craig, who set passing records at Harvard the last three seasons, was 20 for 32 for 175 yards.

He was missing top returning receiver Jordan Dwyer, who missed the game because of a lingering foot issue. Dwyer had been listed as a game-time decision. He traveled with TCU for its first international game.

North Carolina had 10 points and 141 total yards in the first quarter under new offensive coordinator Bobby Petrino.

The Tar Heels scored 10 points in the first quarter once last year, but never had more yards. They finished with 322 total yards.

TCU had scored at least 30 points in its last 10 season openers, which was the longest active Football Bowl Subdivision streak. The Horned Frogs had 10 penalties for 95 yards, including the defense jumping offside when North Carolina had fourth and one with 30 seconds left.

Dazzling debut

Transfer quarterback Beau Pribula was impressive in his Virginia debut as the Cavaliers drilled visiting North Carolina State 34-8 in the season opener for both Atlantic Coast Conference squads at Scott Stadium.

Pribula, who started his career at Penn State and played last season at Missouri, threw for 155 yards and two touchdowns and ran for 110 yards, becoming the first Virginia quarterback to run for 100 yards in a game since Brennan Armstrong in 2022.

Behind a balanced offense and stifling defense, the Cavaliers jumped out to a 17-0 lead before halftime.

N.C. State's CJ Bailey completed 12 of 23 passes for 84 yards with an interception and a red-zone fumble.

Etc.

Austyn Modrzewski set a South Dakota record with six touchdown passes in his first college game, and the Coyotes rolled past Central Connecticut 59-20 on Saturday in the opener for both teams. ... Max Lipinski kicked a 45-yard field goal, his fifth of the game, as time expired to cap a run of 13 William & Mary points in the final minute, and the Tribe beat host Villanova 35-32 on Friday night in a season and Patriot League opener. ...

Transfer quarterback Tommy Castellanos was officially added to Texas Tech's roster a week before the season opener.... William Jewell College junior running back Micah Jo Barnett died after experiencing a medical emergency on the sideline — and shortly after scoring a touchdown — during the Missouri-based Division II school's opener against Fort Lewis College, police and school officials said. Police in Liberty issued a statement that said emergency officials at the game attended to a player about 20 minutes after kickoff. Liberty police said the player was transported by ambulance to a hospital and was pronounced dead there. He was identified by the school as Barnett. No other details were released.

Pac-12 aims to flex its way into playoff

By John Marshall

The reincarnated Pac-12 will try to flex its way into the College Football Playoff.

No longer an automatic-bid Power Five conference, the Pac-12 will use an unusual “flex” schedule during the final week of the regular season to enhance its postseason chances. It is by far one of the most ambitious moves in the chase to make the highly lucrative playoff.

"We can kind of manipulate the schedule in a way that it's the most advantageous to our teams, whether it's for bowl access, CFP access," Pac-12 Commissioner Teresa Gould said. "It was a genius idea, and I'm thrilled that our ADs, our coaches and others were on board with moving forward with this."

The Pac-12 was forced to reinvent itself after a mass exodus put the century-old conference's future in doubt, leaving Oregon State and Washington State as the last teams standing.

The conference rebuilt itself by adding six new teams for football — Boise State, Colorado State, San Diego State, Utah State, Texas State and Fresno State — with Gonzaga joining in basketball. The Pac-12 also worked out new media rights deals so all of its games would be shown on linear TV.

Finding a path to the playoff turned into a big hurdle for the conference. The previous iteration of the Pac-12 was as a Power Five conference, providing a clearer path to the playoff. The new-look league is now part of the Group of Six, which has one guaranteed playoff spot going to the highest-ranked team from the six conferences. The rest of the 12-team playoff is filled out by the teams with the best résumés.

The Pac-12 faced operational scheduling challenges with an eight-team league, its schools potentially needing to find five nonconference games — not an easy task in the current Football Bowl Subdivision climate.

The Pac-12 found a solution that not only would alleviate the need to find one extra conference game, but also strengthen its playoff hopes.

With its flex schedule, the conference will be able to create at least one high-profile rematch from earlier in the season as a prelude to the Pac-12 championship game Dec. 4 at the home stadium of the highest-seeded team.

“We're eager to see what happens and we'll see at the end of the season if it paid dividends. If it works, it gives us as a conference a better chance of having one of our teams in the CFP playoff,” Oregon State athletic director Kevin Griffin said. “And that's what the goal is, is to make sure we're giving ourselves all the opportunities available to get in there.”

Because the conference wants every team to have four home league games, Colorado State, Utah State, Fresno State and Washington State will host the flex games. The games won't count in conference standings, and matchups will be determined six days in advance.

“It’s better for our TV partners in terms of the quality of the matchups, the quality of the games,” Gould said. “It’s better competitively in terms of strength of schedule and CFP positioning and the way that the flex is going to work. We can kind of manipulate the schedule in a way that it’s the most advantageous to our teams.”

Annie Peterson contributed to this report. Marshall and Peterson write for the Associated Press.

Photographs by RONALDO BOLAÑOS Los Angeles Times
TRENT MOSLEY (4), the former Santa Margarita High standout, celebrates his first collegiate touchdown with teammate Waymond Jordan in Saturday's victory.

Freshman orientation begins well

USC'S Corey Simms dives for yards as San José State's Jayden Robertson defends.

[USC from D1]

young players as possible. He stuck to a mostly conservative play script, leaning on the run and relying primarily on short passes through the air. Still, USC tallied more than 500 total yards in an otherwise ho-hum debut, with star quarterback Jayden Maiava completing 25 of 29 passes for 286 yards and two touchdowns plus running for one.

However, there were also plenty of glimpses that suggest the kids will be all right.

The most memorable came from Mosley, who took off with his first collegiate punt return and ping- ponged his way down the field, refusing to go down until he gained 41 yards.

It was just the start for the former Santa Margarita High standout. In the second quarter, Mosley caught a pass over the middle and broke three tackles for 33 yards. In the third, he burst open in the red zone and reeled in a 14-yard touchdown. He finished with seven catches for 118 yards and a touchdown, becoming the first Power Four freshman receiver to meet those marks in a debut since Purdue's Rondale Moore in 2018.

“That kid moves differently,” running back King Miller said. “I mean, he’s special.”

There were standout moments for other members of the Trojans' 2026 class too. Defensive end Luke Wafle looked unblockable at times off the edge. Dixon-Wyatt dusted his defender off the line to catch a red-zone slant for a score. And quarter-back-of-the-future Jonas Williams led a seamless fourth-quarter scoring drive.

“They came out here and let it rip,” Riley said. “They all affected the game.”

But arguably the most encouraging results for USC came on the defensive end, where, for one half at least, Gary Patterson's unit stood strong in his debut as Trojans defensive coordinator.

USC didn't give up a Spartans score until midway through the third quarter, when they opted for a field goal, down four touchdowns, just to wipe the zero off the scoreboard. San José State added three fourth-quarter touchdowns, albeit long after USC's starters had been replaced.

The defense held San José State to 102 yards in the first half. It also gave up just 93 yards on the ground.

But when it let up late, the performance of Patterson's defense took a serious downturn.

"When you start scoring a bunch of points and start laying up a little bit, that's when things can go south," defensive tackle Jide Abasiri said.

With mostly second- and third-stringers in for USC, San José State averaged 8.4 yards per play in the second half. Which didn't leave Riley — or anyone — feeling great about the backups on defense.

“We're going to need the depth of this roster,” Riley said, “and we obviously challenged that in the fourth quarter, and obviously didn't respond the way we wanted.”

USC was at its best early, even with its fleet of freshmen needing time to find their footing. The Trojans immediately ripped off a 13-play touchdown drive to start the game. Fans were still filing in, braving 90-degree heat with novelty beer swords in hand, as Maiava moved USC methodically down the field, punching in a one-yard keeper for an early score.

A fourth-down stop at the goal line gave San José State a brief respite from USC piling on points. But Wafle, the five-star pass rusher, nearly added to the scoreboard anyway when he slipped past the Spartans' right tackle on third down, blew up the Spartans running back and came up a split second short of a safety.

USC still turned the sterling field position into points. While Waymond Jordan and Miller did most of the damage on the ground, combining for 111 yards, red-shirt freshman Riley Wormley was the first USC running back to score. He was one of five to play Saturday.

Miller led with 63 yards. And he added his touchdown just before the half as the Trojans took a 28-0 lead into the locker room.

San José State played USC a lot closer after that, actually outscoring the Trojans 26-14 in the second half.

The finish was enough to leave Patterson feeling a bit frustrated after his first game as USC's defensive coordinator. But as far as first impressions go, Riley said, there was a lot to be happy about too.

"I take it for what it is, right?" Riley said. "You don't hide behind the fact that the fourth quarter wasn't good enough. But I'm also not going to pretend we didn't dominate that game through three quarters."

USC 42, SAN JOSE STATE 26
SAN JOSÉ ST.	0	0	3	23–26
USC	7	21	7	7–42
First Quarter
USC—Maiaya 1 run (Chittenden kick), 8:55.
Second Quarter
USC—Wormley 5 run (Chittenden kick), 14:20.
USC—Dixon-Wyatt 9 pass from Maiaya (Chittenden kick), 2:46.
USC—KLMiller 4 run (Chittenden kick), .30.
Third Quarter
JSU—FG Sinatra 22, 7:15.
USC—Mosley 14 pass from Maiaya (Chittenden kick), 2:28.
Fourth Quarter
JSU—McClure 28 pass from Luk.Weaver (Kopa-Kaawalaoule pass from Luk.Weaver), 14:56.
USC—Alston 1 run (Chittenden kick), 9:42.
JSU—JAnderson 3 pass from Luk.Weaver (Sinatra kick), 5:11.
JSU—Luk.Weaver 7 run (Hoch pass from Luk.Weaver), 1:45.

TEAM	SJSU	USC
First downs	19	28
Total Net Yards	336	505
Rushes-yards	24-102	40-164
Passing	234	341
Punt Returns	0-0	2-56
Kickoff Returns	1-27	3-69
Interceptions Ret.	1-6	0-0
Comp-Att-Int.	21-32-0	30-36-1
Sacked-Yards Lost	1-1	2-19
Punts	4-43.5	1-45.0
Fumbles-Lost	0-0	0-0
Penalties-Yards	1-15	5-34
Time of Possession	22:45	37:15
Individual Leaders

RUSHING: San Jose St., Weaver 8-42, Bates 11-37, Teu 2-25, Carlson 3-(minus 2). USC, Ki.Miller 15-63, Jordan 8-48, Alston 7-30, Redeaux 2-26, Wormley 1-5, Jona.Williams 3-3, (Team) 1-(minus 2), Maiava 3-(minus 9).

PASSING: San Jose St., Weaver 21-32-0-234. USC, Maiava 25-29-0-286, Jona.Williams 5-7-1-55.

RECEIVING: San Jose St., Clark 6-74, McClure 6-68, Ivey 2-34, Hoch 2-24, Bates 2-9, Anderson 2-7, McKenzie 1-18. USC, Mosley 7-118, Baker 4-45, Simms 4-42, Dixon-Wyatt 4-36, Z.Williams 3-31, Bowman 3-15, Tabaracci 2-15, Tupou 1-25, Feaster 1-8, Wormley 1-6.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.

Riley's latest reboot of defense has work to do

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LUKE WEAVER and San José State outscored USC 23-7 in the fourth quarter.

[Swanson, from D1] the best that a USC team has ranked defensively in that span was last year, when the Trojans gave up 23 points per game — 51st in the nation. That left them 9-4 after losing to Texas Christian in the Alamo Bowl.

Now we'll find out whether in Season 5, Riley's Trojans have a defense on par with the offense.

Whether this season, with Gary Patterson serving as USC's third defensive coordinator in Riley's tenure, will be different.

They said so leading up to Saturday's season-opening 42-26 victory over San José State, but the game certainly didn't sell anyone on it.

No, USC's win over a Spartans team that's incorporating 48 new players isn't going to definitively tell us anything.

But with Patterson on the USC sideline for the first time, gesticulating and sweating in the coaches' all-black attire, it did drop some concerning clues.

In 90-plus-degree heat, that 'fit was questionable. So too was his defense, at times.

In other moments, reasons for optimism: The Trojans pitched a first-half from it because we're going to need the depth.

shutout. There was the play in which freshman defensive end Luke Wafle ran through two Spartans blockers like a hot knife through butter. Linebackers coach Mike Ekeler's guys hit and hit hard.

Junior defensive tackle Jide Abasiri had four tackles, two for loss — including one that's the kind of play Riley has been dreaming of seeing from his defense: On fourth and one at USC's seven-yard line, Abasiri zipped past a pair of blockers and swallowed up running back Jabari Smith.

"The fourth-down stop in the red zone, that's something that we have spent a lot of time talking about," Riley said. "Red-zone defense and how that equates. If you look at the top teams in the country over the last several years, typically the top red-zone defenses equal out with that; like, it's the same teams."

But the Trojans otherwise did not perform like one of those “top teams.”

They took their proverbial foot off the gas, ran out of gas, sputtered to the finish line, got outscored 23-7 in the fourth quarter and looked like anything but a team with serious playoff plans.

They looked thin. And, mostly, like a typical Riley-era Trojans team.

The second-string secondary triggered second thoughts. Trojan safeties were beaten multiple times, including on a 28-yard pass from Spartans quarterback Luke Weaver to Jerry McClure over freshman Madden Riordan, which made it 35-9 with 14:56 to play in the fourth quarter.

And maybe it was the focus-sapping heat, but USC's defense wasn't as stifling, not as suffocating it should have been against an opponent as hopelessly overmatched as San José State.

The Spartans finished with 336 total yards. Weaver looked increasingly comfortable, with more time to operate than he should've had against a defense that's going to be needed to keep top teams like Oregon, Washington, Ohio State and Indiana in check.

The Spartans' new starter went 21 for 32 for 234 yards — including 74 yards in the fourth quarter.

"It took a little bit to settle in, but I'm really proud of just the resolve of our team," Weaver said.

The Spartans should be proud, and the Trojans should be ashamed.

"The fourth quarter was not up to our standards," Riley said. "Obviously, we played a bunch of different guys, a lot of guys got opportunities and we had several that did not play the way that we anticipated. There'll be a lot to learn and grow

"We challenged that in the fourth quarter and obviously didn't respond the way we wanted."

It leaves teaching moments aplenty for Patterson, who took three years off after his two-decade Texas Christian tenure ended in 2021.

The Hall of Fame coach is taking over for D'Anton Lynn, who bolted for his alma mater Penn State after two meh seasons. Lynn replaced Alex Grinch, who was fired before finishing his second season leading a defense that was porous and poor, ranking as the 94th and 121st most generous defense in the nation in 2022 and '23, respectively.

Patterson brought his 4-2-5 defensive scheme. And his energy and experience, as well as his track record — five times his Horned Frogs had the nation's No. 10-ranked defense.

Now if USC has any hope of making the playoff under Riley, it needs its defense to at least be among the best in the country.

It needs to answer the question: How can a team expect to be complimented if it can't play complementary football?

It can't.

ERIK S. LESSER Associated Press
SHOHEI OHTANI, working on pitches in the outfield, said he didn't feel $100\%$ after his latest bullpen session.

Ohtani must stick to just hitting

[Plaschke, from D1] twice as many strikeouts as hits (13-5).

In this final month he needs to concentrate on getting his swing right and not worry about bullpens or openers or piggy-backs or any of the numerous machinations involved in getting him back on the mound.

Bottom line, the Dodgers need him more at the top of the order than in the middle of the diamond, and for now, he shouldn't be in two places at once.

Bottom, bottom line, there is a sense that the Dodgers agree.

Ohtani threw about 20 pitches in a bullpen session Friday and apparently wasn't $100\%$ , and that set off alarm bells with the Dodgers' bosses.

While guessing that Ohtani's balky left knee would not allow him to be 100% by October, manager Dave Roberts openly wondered Saturday whether a pitching comeback is worth the effort.

“Obviously, where we’re at right now with the pitching, the starting pitching certainly being a strength, his value offensively is hugely important, and so we can’t compromise that in any fashion,” Roberts told reporters in Detroit. “So, if throwing potentially cuts into that, that’s not worth the squeeze. So that’s something for me. Very, very bullish on making sure we don't compromise the hitting."

Did you hear that? Not worth the squeeze? Exactly.

Are you listening, Ohtani? He's always been the ultimate team player, so if the Dodgers asked his permission to shut him down, he would agree, right? Right?

Keeping Ohtani off the mound for the rest of the season is a radical view, certainly — c'mon, you're paying the dude \$700 million to hit and pitch! — but it's a view backed by common sense.

Point One: The Dodgers won a World Series in 2024 with Ohtani strictly hitting, so it can be done.

Point Two: Last postseason, even with his three-homer, 10-strikeout gem in the National League Championship Series against the Milwaukee Brewers, Ohtani had a playoff ERA of 4.43.

Playing in the postseason is hard. Pitching and hitting in the postseason is nearly impossible. That magical Brewers clincher was his only shining moment.

Point Three: They recently acquired Tarik Skubal specifically to reduce the need for Ohtani, and they now have a nearly unbeatable rotation without Ohtani.

With Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow having returned strong from injuries, they have four starters who easily can dominate a series.

Check out a recent six-game span of games started by Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Skubal, Snell and Tyler Glasnow.

They gave up as many as three runs only twice. They pitched less than six innings only once. Their ERA was 2.45

Point Four: The struggling Dodgers offense desperately needs Ohtani to get right at the top. Who is going to get the big hit if he doesn't? Entering the last month, the candidates are few.

Not a slowing Mookie Betts. Not psyched-out Kyle Tucker. Not aging Teoscar Hernández. Maybe Freddie Freeman, but he hasn't hit a home run since July 4. And maybe Max Muncy, if they pitch to him.

Will Smith will be returning this week after a prolonged absence, and that will help, but not enough.

If anything happens to sideline Ohtani the hitter, the Dodgers are sunk, period. And if he pitches, lots could happen to him.

The knee. The elbow. Whatever it was that has kept him off the mound since July 3. So much can go wrong if he's pitching, and any pitching injury could

have the double whammy of sidelining him as a hitter.

"I think $100\%$ for me as far as an offensive player, that's very important," Roberts said. "As a pitcher, for me, given the strength of our staff, our team, I don't think that's as important. I think it's important for us not to compromise his health in any capacity. But for me, it's just his presence in the batter's box is hugely important to him."

Yes, Ohtani wants to pitch. Yes, the Dodgers promised him he could pitch.

But that was before the injuries and the acquisitions and the slump.

Everything is different now. The landscape has changed.

The Dodgers no longer need the arm so badly that they can risk the bat.

Barely 20 bullpen pitches at the end of August? He's clearly not going to be $100\%$ by October, so shut him down and let him swing.

Shohei Ohtani is 32 and finishing his ninth season. He's not a kid anymore.

He's not infallible anymore.

Having him pitch and hit for a second consecutive October indeed would be a great story.

But having him use his bat to lead the Dodgers to a three-peat would be a better one.

Another one-run loss for Dodgers

PAUL SANCYA Associated Press
MAX CLARK of the Tigers is safe at second under the tag of Tommy Edman.

[Dodgers, from D1]

way it should be, certainly with this offense. We're using our leverage [relievers], a lot of guys, in big spots. So yeah, that's the toll.

“But the offense knows that. They’re not blind to it. But that just doesn’t translate to hits and runs.”

It was Snell's fourth game back from arthroscopic elbow surgery in May. He's limited opponents to one run or none in every start. Saturday marked the first time he threw fewer than six innings since being activated this month.

He limited the Tigers to three hits and issued three walks. Four of those six baserunners reached before Snell briefly left the game in the third inning.

Snell had cruised through the first two innings, a Texas leaguer into shallow right field the only blemish on an otherwise perfect beginning.

The third inning, however, started to go haywire. Snell walked Javier Báez, traditionally a free swinger, to open the inning. Tigers rookie Max Clark laid down a sacrifice bunt, but Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy lost control of the ball as he tried to throw to first, enabling Clark to reach base as Báez advanced to second.

Against Gleyber Torres, Snell left a changeup too far over the plate for a ground-rule double. The high hop over the yellow line on the right-field fence saved a run, sending Clark back to third, but the Tigers pulled ahead 1-0.

Snell threw two pitches to Hao-Yu Lee and then, after a conversation with plate umpire Chris Guccione, headed off the field and disappeared down the dugout tunnel.

Snell later explained that he had a blister on the big toe of his left foot, which he covered with a bandage before the game. But by the third inning, it had moved under his foot.

“So anytime I was pushing, I was slipping,” Snell said. “And I thought if I kept doing that, I’m gonna hit somebody because I had no clue where the ball was going.”

He got permission from Guccione to leave the field to remove the bandage.

"My foot hurts more now, but, yeah, it definitely helped," Snell said.

After inducing Lee to pop out and then issuing a walk, Snell struck out five straight.

“Happy with the way I competed with runners on base,” Snell said after lamenting that a more passive approach inflated his pitch count. “Happy with the way I continue to just learn and develop throughout the at-bats on what I should do, what I don’t like, what I like. Overall didn’t give in and made pitches when I needed to.”

The Dodgers' offense, however, failed to give him run support. Through five innings, they mustered only two baserunners against Tigers starter Keider Montero.

"I'm just trying to figure out solutions," Roberts said of the offense. "We're all frustrated. We know we should be better. But again, now it's more of, what are we gonna do about it? So that's kind of where my head is at. I do know, coming down on guys when guys are putting in the effort isn't the answer. And then you've got to figure out, is it a process thing? Is it an approach thing? Is it a focus thing? Those are things I'm trying to figure out collectively, individually."

In the sixth, they finally strung multiple hits together and got a run out of it. Alek Thomas led off with a double to left that rico-cheted off the wall on a hop. Shohei Ohtani grounded out on a close play at first, moving Thomas to third. Then Freddie Freeman lined an RBI single to right.

The Dodgers went on to load the bases with one out. But, following a concerning pattern, they failed to squeeze any more runs out of the opportunity.

The Dodgers entered Saturday batting .211 with the bases loaded this month, putting them in the bottom third in the majors. When Tommy Edman grounded into a double play to end the sixth inning, it was their third with the bases loaded this month.

In the ninth, the Dodgers were a few feet from pulling ahead. With two outs and a runner on first, the Tigers brought in closer Kenley Jansen, the former Dodger, to face Teoscar Hernández.

Hernández fell behind in the count 0-and-2 and then sent a cutter for a ride to deep left-center. But Báez made an over-the-shoulder catch a few steps from the wall.

“‘I hit it good, not the best, but it happened to go to the farthest part of the ballpark,’ Hernández said. “That’s the … luck that we have right now. But it’s part of the game.”

Dodgers left-hander Jack Dreyer took the mound for the bottom half and, with the bases loaded, gave up a walk-off single to McGonigle, whose drive bounced over the wall in left-center.

Ohtani still ‘not 100%’ and won’t pitch on Sunday

BY MADDIE LEE

DETROIT — Shohei Ohtani is not “100%” and will not start Sunday against the Detroit Tigers as the team had hoped, manager Dave Roberts revealed after the Dodgers’ 2-1 loss Saturday,

“Sho hasn’t come out of it well, the arm, the knee,” Roberts said. “And so if any pitcher was feeling like this, we wouldn’t run him out there.”

The Dodgers do not have a target date for Ohtani's return to two-way duties, so Roberts said he wouldn't necessarily consider this a "setback."

"It hasn't been 100%," Roberts said. "And so you're hoping that each day gets a little bit better and closer. Once we have to make a decision, which would be [Sunday], it just is not there."

Ohtani hasn't pitched since July 3, managing lingering inflammation and soreness in his left knee, primarily aggravated by pitching. But it's not just his knee that's ailing him, Roberts said after talking to the training staff. Ohtani's sore biceps earlier in the year is part of the concern as well. Ohtani declined to comment through a team representative.

Ohtani threw a 20-pitch bullpen — shorter than his customary between-starts session — on Friday in hopes of being able to pitch the first inning Sunday.

"The knee, the body, just throwing, pitching, not $100\%$ ," Roberts said. "What percent it is, I don't know the answer."

With Ohtani serving as the designated hitter Sunday, right-hander Tyler Glasnow, who was scheduled to pitch Sunday either way, will start. Roberts said the Dodgers had not yet decided whether to shut down Ohtani from pitching for the time being or just delay his buildup.

“Let's get back to L.A., let's figure out where his body is at, and then go from there,” Roberts said. “... I just don't think that putting a target or a date is of benefit to anyone.”

There is no plan to give Ohtani a break from hitting to address his ailments, Roberts said.

"If I heard at all that that was affecting his swing, his biceps or knee was bothering him [while hitting], I would absolutely be open to giving him a day off," Roberts said. "But I haven't heard otherwise."

The Dodgers also have to consider the big picture while plotting out the next steps. The longer it takes for Ohtani to return to the mound, the fewer starts he'll have to build upon before the postseason.

“I wouldn’t bet against Shohei,” Roberts said before the game Saturday. “But I still think that five innings to the end of the season is aggressive for anyone.”

It appears even more unlikely now.

That Ohtani's issues have not been resolved raises the question of whether it makes sense for him to resume two-way duties this late in the year.

Roberts said the question is more when Ohtani will return to the mound.

"I just don't see everything getting to $100\%$ by the end of the season," Roberts said. "But there's a lot of pitchers that are not $100\%$ and still viable. So again, it's just not an exact science."

If that holds true, the concern is twofold: how Ohtani's health could affect his performance both on the mound and at the plate.

“Where we’re at right now with the pitching, the starting pitching certainly being a strength, his value offensively is hugely important, and so we can’t compromise that in any fashion,” Roberts said. “So, if throwing potentially cuts into that, that’s not worth the squeeze. So that’s something, for me, I’m very bullish on making sure we don’t compromise the hitting.”

Ohtani entered Saturday with a .218 batting average since Aug. 8, the date when he resumed playing catch. But Roberts pushed back on the impulse to draw a line between Ohtani's offensive dip and his work on the pitching side.

"It just hasn't been a whole body of work on the throwing side," Roberts said. "Honestly, for me, I think the pitch selection [at the plate] hasn't been good."

Ohtani's feedback will continue to play a large role in the Dodgers' decision-making.

"As the competitor, he wants to do both, and I respect it," Roberts said. "But nothing I'm saying changes his identity as a two-way player.

“But I think in the moment, he still feels that there’s still an opportunity, and I’m not trying to say there isn’t. But I do think that at the end of the day, he’s very aware of our roster, strengths, weaknesses, and his value to the ballclub, and whatever that means.”

Sosa's pinch-hit slam foils Angels

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Pinch-hitter Edmundo Sosa hit his first career grand slam with two outs in the ninth, and the Philadelphia Phillies roared back for a 5-3 victory over the host Angels on Friday night.

Sosa connected just two batters after Wade Meckler reached deep into the right field stands to rob Bryson Stott of a three-run homer.

After J.T. Realmuto drew a walk that loaded the bases and chased shaky closer Ben Joyce (0-2), Sosa crushed a low changeup from Sammy Peralta 404 feet to center, far beyond Mike Trout's reach.

Alex McFarlane (4-1) pitched the eighth for the Phillies. Jonathan Bowlan got the ninth instead of closer Jhoan Duran, and he put two Angels on base before he struck out Adam Frazier to finish his second save.

Bryce Harper extended his on-base streak to a career-high 30 games with a bunt single in the fourth for Philadelphia, which improved to 2-2 on its nine-game West Coast trip. The Phillies also moved a game behind Chicago for the top National League wild card.

Reid Detmers yielded one run and eight hits over six resilient innings, but the AL-worst Angels lost their fifth straight with yet another bullpen implosion.

After Alec Bohm and Justin Crawford reached base without a hit off Joyce, Meckler appeared to save the game for the Angels with his spectacular running catch on Stott's sinking fly, putting his body onto the waist-high wall of the short porch and sticking his glove in among the fans.

Instead, Sosa connected for the Phillies' first go-ahead grand slam with two outs in the ninth since 2009.

MARK J. TERRILL Associated Press
EDMUNDO SOSA is congratulated by teammates after hitting a pinch-hit grand slam in the ninth.

Dodgers	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Skubal....	6	4	1	1	0	7	83	3.00
Phillips, W, 2-2....	1	0	0	0	0	3	10	4.08
Stewart, H, 7....	$\frac{3}{8}$	1	0	0	2	0	12	1.89
Vesia, H, 18....	$\frac{1}{6}$	0	0	0	0	0	1	3.09
Scott, S, 20-22....	1	0	0	0	0	2	13	2.45

New York	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Scott, L, 4-4....	$5\frac{1}{2}$	1	3	3	5	2	96	3.80
Lavender, BS, 0-1....	$^{3/8}$	2	0	0	0	1	11	0.00
Pintaro....	1	1	0	0	1	1	21	3.68
Núñez....	1	0	0	0	0	2	10	5.79
Senga....	1	0	0	0	0	2	9	7.64

Houston	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Brown, W, 4-3......6 $\frac{1}{2}$	5	1	1	1	10		102	3.33
Abreu, H, 11......1 $\frac{1}{2}$	0	0	0	0	2		17	4.06
Hader, S, 20-20......1	0	0	0	0	2		18	0.76
New York	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA

Olds......1	0	0	0	0	2	11	0.00
New York	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Schlittler, W, 12-6....5 $\frac{1}{2}$	2	0	0	5	8	102	2.09
Headrick, H, 22.... $\frac{1}{2}$	1	0	0	1	1	21	1.86
Blackburn, H, 9....1 $\frac{1}{2}$	2	0	0	0	0	19	1.67
Bednar, S, 31-34....1	0	0	0	0	0	12	2.31

Boston	000	000	000 - 0	5	0
New York	001	000	00x - 1	3	1
a-walked for Gasper in the 6th. b-singled for Duran in the 6th. c-lined out for Seigler in the 6th. d-struck out for Ramos in the 8th.

Cheers, tears in Skubal's return to Detroit

STANDINGS Through Friday
NATIONAL LEAGUE

West	W	L	Pct.	GB	L10
DODGERS	81	54	.600	-	7-3
San Diego	72	63	.533	9	5-5
Arizona	72	64	.529	$9\frac{1}{2}$	6-4
San Francisco	55	80	.407	26	4-6
Colorado	52	83	.385	29	2-8
Central	W	L	Pct.	GB	L10
Milwaukee	84	51	.622	-	7-3
Chicago	76	59	.563	8	4-6
St. Louis	68	68	.500	$16\frac{1}{2}$	4-6
Pittsburgh	65	71	.478	$19\frac{1}{2}$	4-6
Cincinnati	64	71	.474	20	4-6
East	W	L	Pct.	GB	L10
Atlanta	80	55	.593	-	6-4
Philadelphia	75	60	.556	5	8-2
Miami	68	67	.504	12	4-6
Washington	64	73	.467	17	4-6
New York	60	75	.444	20	4-6

AMERICAN LEAGUE
TARIK SKUBAL credited his focus on the task at hand. "I did a good job of keeping baseball baseball," he said after L.A.'s 2-1 win.

West	W	L	Pct.	GB	L10
Houston	68	67	.504	-	5-5
Texas	66	69	.489	2	5-5
Seattle	64	71	.474	4	5-5
Athletics	53	82	.393	15	4-6
ANGELS	52	83	.385	16	3-7
Central	W	L	Pct.	GB	L10
Chicago	71	63	.530	-	6-4
Cleveland	68	67	.504	$3\frac{1}{2}$	8-2
Minnesota	64	71	.474	$7\frac{1}{2}$	4-6
Detroit	62	72	.463	9	2-8
Kansas City	61	75	.449	11	9-1
East	W	L	Pct.	GB	L10
Tampa Bay	80	54	.597	-	5-5
New York	76	58	.567	4	7-3
Boston	73	61	.545	7	7-3
Baltimore	66	69	.489	$14\frac{1}{2}$	5-5
Toronto	66	70	.485	15	5-5

punched the palm of his glove on his way off the field.

GREGORY SHAMUS Getty Images

Today's games Dodgers at Detroit 10:40 a.m. Angels vs. Philadelphia 1:07 p.m. Miami at Washington 9:15 a.m. Boston at New York (AL) 10:35 a.m. Colorado at Atlanta 10:35 a.m. Seattle at Toronto 10:37 a.m. San Diego at Tampa Bay 10:40 a.m. Kansas City at Cleveland 10:40 a.m. Chicago (AL) at Minnesota 11:10 a.m. Texas at Milwaukee 11:10 a.m. Pittsburgh at St. Louis 11:15 a.m. Houston at New York (NL) 12:10 p.m. Baltimore at West Sacramento 1:05 p.m. Cincinnati at Chicago (NL) 4:20 p.m.

BY MADDIE LEE

DETROIT — As Tarik Skubal crossed the field from the bullpen, he had to crane his neck to catch part of the tribute video playing on the massive screen behind him.

By the time he reached the Dodgers dugout, the crowd rose to give him an ovation. Skubal controlled his expression and wiped his face with the towel draped over his neck.

“There were definitely tears,” Skubal said after the Dodgers’ 2-1 win over the Detroit Tigers on Friday. “Luckily enough, I was able to make it to the tunnel before more happened. But yeah, it’s tough. This is a place I’ve known my entire career, since 2018.”

Less than four weeks ago, he said goodbye to the only organization he'd known — the Tigers drafted him in 2018 out of Seattle University. Now, he was back in the ballpark he'd called home for six years.

Clad in road grays, Skubal showed why he was widely considered the best player available at the trade deadline, holding the Tigers to one run and four hits over six innings. The Dodgers' offense continued to scuffle but did just enough to bounce back from a three-game sweep in Atlanta — the 14th time this month they played a game decided by a single run.

"I think he embraced it," Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman said. "He left everything he had for this organization, multiple Cy Youngs, he left it all for them. I think that's why he got so many cheers. I'm sure during the game they weren't too thrilled with all the strikeouts he was racking up, but it's hard to boo a man who gave you everything he had every five days."

Skubal's reception included some boos (and "Scuuub"s) as he took the mound. Even though the trade was out of Skubal's control, a faction of the Tigers fan base — including this reporter's rideshare driver from the airport — was upset Skubal never reached an agreement for a contract extension with

Detroit.

The Tigers' last publicly discussed extension offer was four years and \$75 million at the end of 2024 — which drastically pales in comparison to the contract he's expected to garner in free agency this offseason.

"With the last name Skub, you don't know if they are boos or if they're cheering for you," Skubal said. "So I'm going to assume they were cheering for me."

Even if that wasn't true in every case, the mutual affection between the player and Detroit took center stage Friday, even as Skubal tamed the Tigers' offense, recording seven strikeouts in the process.

"I said I wasn't going to be [emotional], but I've come to figure out I don't really know myself that well," Skubal said of the video tribute. "The timing kind of threw me for a loop a little bit. But I think the emotions would've been the same regardless of the time."

He quickly reined in his emotions. After a delay for a PitchCom malfunction, Skubal gave up a leadoff double to Detroit's Gleyber Torres on a fastball down the middle. But then the left-hander retired the next 12 batters.

Skubal struck out the side in the third inning, getting Max Clark to swing through a changeup, Javier Báez to chase a high fastball and Torres to watch an off-speed pitch clip the bottom of the zone.

“From the get-go, his fastball command set up a lot of his pitches,” catcher Hunter Feduccia said. “Establishing inside to righties and running the sinker in to lefties kind of opens up a lot. So that was kind of the game plan coming in; he executed it to a T.”

That streak ended with a double up the left-field line from Eduardo Valencia, who turned on an inside slider to lead off the fifth. Then with two outs, Clark stayed back on an outside fastball and sent it the other way for a triple that drove in the game's first run.

Skubal, who induced Báez to fly out to center to escape the inning,

The Dodgers missed a chance to tie with one out in the sixth, when Kyle Tucker was thrown out at home trying to score on a pinch-hit single by Kiké Hernández. But they salvaged the inning when Teoscar Hernández drew a walk and Miguel Rojas, also pinch-hitting, smoked a single through the infield to tie the score.

After Skubal navigated some hard contact in the sixth, the Dodgers loaded the bases with two outs in the seventh but failed to score.

“Sometimes it could be even more frustrating for an offense,” Freeman said. “We keep getting those opportunities, but ultimately we’ve got to cash those in. We haven’t done that in the last few days, but we’re all optimistic around here if we can keep creating these opportunities, at some point, as good as we are, we’ll get those hits.

“But we have a pitching group that keeps us in games, and they’ve been keeping us in it the last, I would say three, four, five weeks. As an offense, we’ve got to get it going. We know it’s crunch time and hopefully we can get hot here going into the playoffs.”

Skubal's night was over after only 83 pitches. With Skubal coming off back-to-back 100-pitch starts, manager Dave Roberts didn't want to push him.

"He wanted to stay in, and I love that, I respect that," Roberts said. "He felt he had some more in there, but I had my thoughts."

The Dodgers finally took the lead in the eighth, manufacturing a run with singles from Teoscar Hernández and Freeman around a sacrifice bunt from Ben Rortvedt.

The Dodgers' bullpen held steady, with closer Tanner Scott earning his 20th save.

After the game, Skubal, who set the tone for the victory, returned to the field to catch up with his former teammates.

“I did a good job of keeping baseball baseball, and trying to compete and give our team a chance to win,” Skubal said. “But obviously this place is special.”

DODGERS 2, DETROIT 1

Dodgers	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	Detroit	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Ohtani dh	4	0	0		0 .283	Torres 2b	4	0	2		0 .261
Freeman 1b	4	0	2		1 .302	Lee 3b	3	0	0		0 .268
Betts ss	4	0	1		0 .239	McGonigle ss	4	0	0		0 .276
Muncy 3b	4	0	0		0 .251	Dingler c	4	0	0		0 .252
Edman 2b	4	0	1		0 .267	Valencia dh	2	1	1		0 .333
Tucker rf	3	0	1		0 .229	c-Keith dh	1	0	0		0 .263
Thomas cf	2	0	0		0 .180	e-Julks	1	0	0		0 .286
a-E.Hemández cf	2	1	1		0 .231	Malgeri rf	4	0	0		0 .229
A-Hemández lf	4	1	0		0 .248	Torkekendi 1b	3	0	0		0 .221
Call lf	0	0	0		0 .255	Clark cf	2	0	1		1 .244
Feduccia c	1	0	0		0 .243	Báez lf	2	0	0		0 .258
b-Rojas	1	0	1		0 .278	d-Callahan lf	1	0	1		0 .292
Rortvedt c	0	0	0		0 .174	Totals	31	1	5		1
Totals	33	2	9	2

Dodgers	000	001	010-2	9	0
Detroit	000	010	000-1	5	1

a-singled for Thomas in the 6th. b-singled for Feduccia in the 6th. c-struck out for Valencia in the 7th. d-singled for Báez in the 8th. e-grounded out for Keith in the 9th.

Walks—Dodgers 9: Ohtani, Freeman 1, Betts 1, Muncy 1, Tucker 2, E.Hernández 1, T.Hernández 1, Feduccia 1, Detroit 2: Lee 1, Clark 1 Strikeouts—Dodgers 9: Ohtani, Freeman 2, Betts 2, Muncy 1, Edman 1, T.Hernández 1. Detroit 12: Torres 1, Lee 1, McGonigle 1, Dingler 1, Valencia 1, Keith 1, Malgeri 2, Torkelson 2, Clark 1, Báez 1. E—McGonigle (14). LOB—Dodgers 15, Detroit 5, 2B—Torres (11), Valencia (7). 3B—Clark (3). RBIs—Rojas (19), Freeman (62), Clark 13. SB—Tucker (9). S—Rorvedt. Runners left in scoring position—Dodgers 7 (T.Hernández, Edman, Ohtani, E.Hernández 2, Muncy 2); Detroit 3 (Báez, McGonigle, Dingler), RISP—Dodgers 4 for 12; Detroit 1 for 9. Runners moved up—Ohtani, Torres. GIDP—Thomas, Ohtani, Torres. DP—Dodgers 1 (Edman, Betts, Freeman); Detroit 2 (Torres,

Inherited runners-scored—Vesia 2-0, Sommers 3-0, Waguespack 3-0. IBB—off Stewart (Lee). HBP—Holton (Edman). WP—Holton. U—Nestor Ceja, Chris Guccione, Scott Barry, Charlie Ramos. T—2:43. Tickets sold—41,012 (41,083).

KANSAS CITY 3, CLEVELAND 0

Kansas City	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	Cleveland	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Jensen c	5	1	1	2	.223	Kwan cf	4	0	0	0	.273
Witt ss	5	1	1	0	.288	Deauter dh	4	0	1	0	.289
Caglianone rf	4	0	2	0	.283	Ramirez 3b	4	0	0	0	.240
Perez dh	4	0	1	1	.221	Adell rf	4	0	1	0	.238
Pasquantino 1b	2	0	1	0	.246	Lowe 1b	4	0	0	0	.261
Loftin 2b	4	0	0	0	.234	Bazzana 2b	3	0	0	0	.241
Collins lf	3	0	2	0	.232	Bailey c	3	0	2	0	.199
1-Tolbert lf	0	1	0	0	.300	a-Genao	1	0	0	0	.284
Rojas 3b	3	0	1	0	.229	Halpin cf	3	0	1	0	.221
Isbel cf	4	0	0	0	.235	Rocchio ss	3	0	1	0	.249
Totals	34	3	9	3		Totals	33	0	6	0
Kansas City						000	010	002	−3	9	0
Cleveland						000	000	000	−0	6	1

a-grounded out for Blairley in the 9th. I-ran for Collins in the 9th. Walks—Kansas City 2: Pasquantino 1, Collins 1. Strikeouts—Kansas City 9: Jensen 2, Witt 1, Caglianone 1, Perez 1, Loftin 1, Rojas 1, Isbel 2. Cleveland 12: Kwan 1, DeLauter 2, Ramirez 1, Adell 2, Lowe 3, Bazzana 2, Rocchio 1 E—Bibee (2). LOB—Kansas City 8, Cleveland 7. 2B—Rojas (4), Witt (28), Collins (22). HR—Jensen (19), off Yoho. RBIs—Perez (60), Jensen 2 (61). S—Rojas. Runners left in scoring position—Kansas City 5 (Loftin 2, Jensen, Isbel 2); Cleveland 3 (DeLauter, Genao 2). RISP—Kansas City 1 for 11; Cleveland 0 for 4. Runners moved up—Caglianone, Perez.

a-struck out for Yastzeminski in the 9th. b-filled out for Tovar in the 8th. Walks—Colorado: 3 Rumfield 2, Veen 1. Atlanta 1; Acuña 1 Strikeouts—Colorado: 5 Carrigo 1, Goodman 1, Moniak 1, Norby 1, Tovar 1. Atlanta 6; Baldwin 1, Albies 1, Olson 1, Yastrzemski 1, Thomas 1, Murphy 1. LOB—Colorado 10, Atlanta 9 2B—Moniak (16), Harris (31), Murphy (3), Acuña (13). HR—Harris (22), off Sugano. RBIs—McCarthy (69), Goodman (73), Rumfield (61), Castro (55), Harris 3, Myers (3), Murphy (3), Baldwin (67), Dubón (64). SF—McCarthy, Castro. S—Harris. Runners left in scoring position—Colorado 5 (Norby, Castro, Moniak, Carrigo, Tovar); Atlanta 3 (Murphy, Albies, RISP—Colorado 1 for 11; Atlanta 4 for 9. Runners moved up—Risfield, D—GDP—Norby, Rumfield. DP—Atlanta 2 (Kim, Houston, Okinom, Olson).

Colorado	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Sugano, L, 12-8.	4	10	6	6	1	4	91	5.23
Manfredi	2	3	0	0	0	1	24	1.50
Mejia	1	1	0	0	0	0	11	5.56
Bernardino	1	0	0	0	0	1	14	2.67
Atlanta	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Holmes, W, 9-5.	5	8	3	3	1	3	84	3.71
Dodd, H, 13.	1	1	0	0	0	1	11	2.09
Kerr, H, 1.	1	1	1	1	1	1	17	2.70
Mederos, H, 1.	1	1	0	0	1	0	18	3.16
Iglesias, S, 29-32.	1	1	0	0	0	0	16	2.88

Inherited runners-scored—Manfredi 1-0. HBP—Sugano (Kim), Kerr (McCarthy). U—Tom Hanahan, Ron Kulpa, David Rackley, Manny Gonzalez. T—2:50. Tickets sold—38,006 (41,149).

Colorado	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	Atlanta	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
McCarthy lf-cf	3	1	1	1.291	Baldwin dh	5	0	2	1.276
Carrig c-s-s	5	1	1	0.263	Albies 2b	5	0	1	0.255
Goodman c	5	0	3	1.256	Olson 1b	5	0	1	0.258
Rumfield 1b	3	0	1	1.290	Acuña rf	3	3	3	0.235
Castro 3b	4	0	1	1.262	Harris cf	3	2	3	0.294
Moniak dh	4	0	2	0.256	Dubón 3b	4	0	2	1.270
Norby 2b	4	0	0	0.220	Yastrzemski lf	2	0	1	0.229
Veen rf-lf	3	1	2	0.250	a-Thomas lf	2	0	0	0.229
Tovar ss	3	1	1	0.211	Murphy c	4	1	2	1.212
b-Johnston rf	1	0	0	0.284	Kim ss	3	0	0	0.084
Totals	35	4	12	4	Totals	36	6	14	6

PHILADELPHIA 5, ANGELS 3

Philadelphia	000	010	004 - 5	11	1
Angels	300	000	000 - 3	3	0

Inherited runners-scored—Saucedo 1-0, Peralta 3-3. HBP—Joyce (Bohm), Bowlan (Grissom). WP—Painter(2), Joyce. U—Shane Livensparger, Dan Merzel, Dan Bellino, Mark Ripperger. T—2:56. Tickets sold—34,951 (45,517).

Philadelphia	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	Angels	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Schwarber dh	4	0	2	0	.245	Neto ss	2	1	0	0	.236
Turner ss	5	0	2	0	.241	Trout cf	4	1	1	0	.241
Harper rf	5	0	1	0	.266	Meckler lf-rf	3	1	1	1	.288
Arraez 2b	4	0	2	0	.320	Grissom 1b	2	0	0	0	.246
Bohm 1b	3	2	1	0	.245	Ballesteros dh	3	0	0	0	.207
De La Cruz lf	2	0	1	0	.357	Moore 2b	4	0	1	0	.171
a-Crawford cf	1	1	0	0	.266	Lowe rf	2	0	0	0	.213
Stott 3b	4	0	0	0	.261	b-Siri lf	2	0	0	0	.241
Realmuto c	3	1	0	0	.223	Guzman 3b	3	0	0	0	.221
Hill cf-lf	2	0	1	1	.241	e-Frazier	1	0	0	0	.250
c-Marsh lf	1	0	0	0	.272	Heineman c	3	0	0	0	.171
d-Sosa lf	1	1	1	4	.235	Totals	29	3	3	1
Totals	35	5	11	5

HOUSTON 3, N.Y. METS 1

Notas	01.12.1	Notas		01.13.1
Colorado	000	030	100-4	12	0
Atlanta	031	020	00x-6	14	0

Philadelphia	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Painter....6	2	3	3	3	6	94	9.59
Alvarado....1	1	0	0	0	0	19	5.81
McFarlane, W, 4-1...1	0	0	0	1	1	21	1.08
Bowlan, S, 2-5...1	0	0	0	0	2	25	2.77
Angels	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Detmers....6	8	1	1	0	2	86	3.54
Fermin, H, 7...1	0	0	0	0	1	15	3.33
Watson, H, 4... $\frac{3}{2}$	0	0	0	1	2	17	4.38
Saucedo, H, 5... $\frac{1}{2}$	0	0	0	0	0	6	4.26
Joyce, L, 0-2, H, 2... $\frac{3}{2}$	0	3	3	2	0	26	3.24
Peralta, BS, 0-1... $\frac{1}{2}$	3	1	1	0	0	15	6.10

Kansas City	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Wacha, W, 8-8	8	4	0	0	0	10	103	3.32
Cruz, S, 6-7	1	2	0	0	0	2	22	4.35
Cleveland	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Bibee, L, 5-14	6	7	1	1	2	5	93	3.88
Herrin	1	0	0	0	0	1	9	3.21
Yoho	2	2	2	2	0	3	25	4.60

HBP—Bibee (Pasquantino), Cruz (Bazzana). U— Dexter Kelley, Quinn Wolcott, Paul Clemons, Adrian Johnson. T-2:21. Tickets sold—31,941 (34,788).
a-grounded out for De La Cruz in the 7th. b-flied out for Lowe in the 7th. c-pinch hit for Hill in the 8th. d-homered for Marsh in the 9th. e-struck out for Guzman in the 9th.

Houston	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	New York	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Pella ss	3	0	1	0	.242	Ewing cf	4	0	0	0	.238
Alvarez dh	2	1	0	0	.262	Lindor ss	4	1	1	0	.237
Paredes 3b	2	1	0	0	.260	Bichette 3b	4	0	0	0	.262
Altuve 2b	3	1	1	0	.246	Benge rf	4	0	1	1	.279
Allen 2b	0	0	0	0	.264	Robert lf	4	0	0	0	.229
Varsho cf	4	0	1	2	.234	Young 1b	3	0	0	0	.265
Walker 1b	4	0	0	0	.231	Semien 2b	2	0	2	0	.216
Díaz c	4	0	1	1	.261	Baty dh	3	0	0	0	.219
Trammell rf	2	0	0	0	.207	Torrens c	3	0	1	0	.241
a-Smith rf	2	0	0	0	.213	Totals	31	1	5	1
Velázquez lf	4	0	0	0	.188
Totals	30	3	4	3

Walks—Philadelphia 3: Schwarber 1, Crawford 1, Realmuto 1. Angels 4: Neto 2, Meckler 1, Ballesteros 1. Strikeouts—Philadelphia 5: Turner 1, Harper 2, Stott 1, Marsh 1. Angels 9: Neto 1, Trout 2, Moore 2, Siri 1, Guzman 2, Frazier 1. E—Arraez (7). LOB—Philadelphia 7, Angels 5. HR—Sosa (6), off Peralta. RBIs—Hill (26), Sosa 4 (39), Meckler (21). S—Grissom. Runners left in scoring position—Philadelphia 1 (Harper); Angels 2 (Frazier, Lowe). RISP—Philadelphia 3 for 8; Angels 1 for 5. Runners moved up—Stott. DP—Arraez. GIDP—Bohm, Grissom. DP—Philadelphia 1 (Arraez, Bohm); Angels 2 (Moore, Grissom; Note).

ATLANTA 6, COLORADO 4

Houston	000	003	000 - 3	4	0
New York	000	100	000 - 1	5	0

Walks—Houston 6: Peña 1, Y.Alvarez 2, Paredes 2, Altuve 1. New York 1: Semien 1. Strikeouts—Houston 8: Peña 1, Varsho 1, Walker 2, Smith 1, Velázquez 3. New York 14: Ewing 2, Lindor 3, Bichette 1, Benge 2, Robert 2, Young 1, Baty 2, Torrens 1. LOB—Houston 6, New York 4. 2B—Benge (18). RBIs—Varsho 2 (35), Diaz (33), Benge (54). SB—Peña (9). Runners left in scoring position—Houston 3 (Varsho, Smith, Paredes); New York 2 (Baty, Young). RISP—Houston 2 for 7; New York 0 for 4. Runners moved up—Robert. GIDP—Paredes, Ewing. DP—Houston 1 (Peña, Walker); New York 1 (Bichette, Semien, Young).
Inherited runners-scored—Abreu 1-0, Lavender 3-3. WP—Abreu. U—Jacob Metz, Carlos Torres, Nate Tomlinson, Mark Wegner. T—2:43. Tickets sold—28,848 (42,136).

N.Y. YANKEES 1, BOSTON 0

Boston	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	New York	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Sogard ss-2b	5	0	0	0	.257	Goldschmidt 1b	4	1	1	1	.247
Rafaela cf	4	0	2	0	.287	Rice dh	4	0	2	0	.255
Abreu rf	3	0	2	0	.255	Bellinger lf	4	0	0	0	.254
Contreras 1b	4	0	0	0	.278	Ramos rf	1	0	0	0	.239
Rutschman c	4	0	0	0	.233	d-S.Jones rf	1	0	0	0	.228
Durbin 3b	2	0	0	0	.255	Grisham cf	2	0	0	0	.216
Gasper dh	0	0	0	0	.275	Lombard ss	2	0	0	0	.257
a-Jones dh	1	0	0	0	.213	Chisholm 2b	3	0	0	0	.226
Duran lf	2	0	0	0	.209	Caballero 3b	3	0	0	0	.232
b-White lf	2	0	1	0	.238	Wells c	3	0	0	0	.178
Seigler 2b	1	0	0	0	.250	Totals	27	1	3	1
c-Monasterio ss	2	0	0	0	.253
Total	30	0	5	0

for Seigler in the 6th. d-struck out for Ramos in the 6th. Walks—Boston 6: Durbin 2, Gasper 2, J Jones 1, Seigler 1. New York 4: Ramos 2, Grisham 1, Lombard 1. Strikeouts—Boston 9: Sogard 2, Rafaela 2, Contreras 2, Rutschman 2, Duran 1. New York 11: Goldschmidt 1, Rice 2, Ramos 1, S Jones 1, Grisham 1, Chisholm 2, Wells 3. E—Wells (6). LOB—Boston 10, New York 6. 2B—Abreu 2 (30), Rice (22). HR—Goldschmidt (17), off Sandoval. RBIs—Goldschmidt (45). Runners left in scoring position—Boston 4 (Monasterio 2, Contreras, Seigler); New York 3 (Chisholm 2, Ramos). RISP—Boston 1 for 7; New York 0 for 4. DP—Abreu. DP—New York 2 (Chisholm, Grisham Goldschmidt, Grisham Pallasign Welle Pallasign).

Grisham, Goldschmidt, Grisham; Bellinger, Wells, Bellinger).
Boston	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP ERA
Sandoval, L, 1-3	$5\frac{1}{2}$	3	1	1	4	7	96 4.20
Weissert	$\frac{3}{8}$	0	0	0	0	1	5 3.88
Guerrero	.1	0	0	0	0	1	6 2.65
Olds	.1	0	0	0	0	2	11 0.00

Inherited runners-scored—Weissert 3-0, Headrick 1-0. U—Edwin Moscoso, Hunter Wendelstedt, Vic Carapazza, Nic Lentz. T—2:47. Tickets sold—43,476 (47,309).

CINCINNATI 10, CHICAGO CUBS 8

Cincinnati	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	Chicago	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Myers cf	5	0	0	0	.254	Cow Armstrong cf	5	0	2	0	.277
De La Cruz ss	5	1	3	2	.268	Suzuki rf	5	2	3	2	.274
Stewart 1b	4	2	2	2	.263	Busch 1b	4	1	1	2	.244
Stephenson dh	5	1	2	3	.248	Bregman 3b	5	0	1	1	.252
Suárez 3b	4	0	0	0	.205	Happ lf	5	1	1	0	.219
Bleday lf-rf	5	1	1	0	.219	Hoerner ss	5	1	3	0	.261
McLain 2b	4	1	0	0	.191	Ramirez 2b	4	1	3	3	.285
Trevino c	5	1	2	1	.237	Conforto dh	3	0	0	0	.229
Rodriguez rf	3	2	2	1	.245	a-Shaw dh	1	1	1	0	.252
Klebsi lf	1	1	1	1	.161	Kelly c	3	0	0	0	.257
Totals	41	10	13	10			40	8	13	8

Cincinnati	000	115	201 – 10	13	0
Chicago	102	000	140 – 8	13	2

Walks—Cincinnati 4; Myers 1, Stewart 7, Suárez 1, Rodríguez 1. Chicago 2; Busch 1, Kelly 1. Strikeouts—Cincinnati 10: De La Cruz 1, Stewart 1, Stephenson 2, Suárez 3, Bleday 1, McLain 1, Trevino 1. Chicago 7: Crow-Armstrong 1, Suzuki 1, Bregman 1, Happ 3. Conforto 1. E-Peterson ( ), Bregman (5). LOB—Cincinnati 9, Chicago 7. 2B—Suzuki 2 (28), Bregman (25), Shaw (7). HR—Stewart (29), off Peterson; Trevino (5), off Thornton; Stephenson (13), off Thornton; Friedl (4), off Palencia; Busch (17), off Lowder; Ramirez (4), off Antone. BBIs—Rodriguez (6), Stewart 2 (102), Trevino (15), Stephenson 3 (47). De La Cruz 2 (60), Friedl (12), Bregman (70), Busch 2 (68), Suzuki 2 (77), Ramirez 3 (24). SB—Hoerner (22). Runners left in scoring position—Cincinnati 4 (Suárez 3, Stewart); Chicago 5 (Bregman 2, Busch, Kelly, Happ). RISP—Cincinnati 4 for 31; Chicago 5 for 13. Runners moved

ST. LOUIS 4, PITTSBURGH 1

Up—Revio, Crow-Armstrong Cincinnati
	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Lower, W, 6-8....	.5	6	3	3	0	5	96	5.14
Mey....	$1\frac{1}{2}$	2	1	1	1	0	29	3.68
Burke....	$\frac{1}{2}$	0	0	0	1	1	10	2.67
Antone....	.0	3	3	3	0	0	13	3.92
Moll, H, 7....	.1	2	1	1	0	0	18	4.64
Pagán, S, 18-21....	.1	0	0	0	0	1	7	3.90
Chicago	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Peterson....	.5	6	2	2	3	6	88	5.11
Thornton, L, 5-5, BS, 3-5,...	$1\frac{1}{2}$	4	5	5	1	0	29	3.32
Ovale....	$2\frac{1}{2}$	2	2	0	0	2	47	4.55
Palencia....	.1	1	1	1	0	2	15	4.19
Antone pitched to 3 batters in the 8th

Antonic pitched to 3 batecs in the Sun Inherited runners-scored—Burke 2-0. HBP—Civale (McLain). WP—Mey, Peterson. U—Bill Miller, Chad Whitson, Brian Walsh, Chad Fairchild. T—3:07. Tickets sold—39,036 (41,363).

Pittsburgh	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	St. Louis	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Triolo ss	3	0	2	1	.246	Wetherholt ss	4	0	0	0	.244
c-Gonzalez ss	1	0	0	0	.211	Herrera dh	4	0	0	0	.243
Valdez rf	4	0	0	0	.244	Burleson 1b	4	0	0	0	.290
Reynolds dh	3	0	0	0	.261	Walker rf	4	2	3	0	.290
Cruz cf	4	0	2	0	.261	Fermin 2b-lf	4	0	2	0	.243
Gonzales 2b-3b	3	0	1	0	.305	Church cf	3	0	0	1	.241
Flores 1b-c	4	0	0	0	.233	Báez lf	4	0	1	0	.163
Mangulf lf	1	3	0	0	.285	Urias 2b	0	0	0	0	.159
Yorke 3b	2	0	1	0	.214	Gorman 3b	3	1	1	0	.193
a-Lowe 2b	1	0	0	0	.248	Crooks c	3	1	1	2	.174
Davis c	2	0	0	0	.166	Totals	33	4	8	3
b-Howitz 1b	1	0	0	0	.253
Totals	31	1	6	1

a-struck out for Yorke in the 7th. b-lined out for Davis in the 7th. c-lined out for Triolo in the 8th.

Walks—Pittsburgh 2; Reynolds 1, Gonzales 1. St. Louis 1: Gorman 1. Strikeouts—Pittsburgh 11: Valdez 2, Reynolds 1, Cruz 2, Flores 2, Mangum 1, Yorke 1, Lowe 1, Davis 1. St. Louis 8: Wetherholt 2, Burleson 1, Walker 1, Fermín 1, Báez 1, Gorman 1, Crooks 1. E—Cruz (3), Triolo (10), Gonzalez (3). LOB—Pittsburgh 6, St. Louis 7. 2B—Gorman (5), Báez (2). HR—Crooks (5), off Jones. RBIs—Triolo (25), Crooks 2 (14), Church (46). SF—Church. Runners left in scoring position—Pittsburgh 3 (Gonzales, Valdez 2); St. Louis 3 (Church, Wetherholt 2). RISP—Pittsburgh 1 for 4; St. Louis 1 for 6. Runners moved error: No footback in the South. No footback, a Ross in the North. Error: No footback in the South. Walks—Arizona 2: Carroll, 1. Pedomo, 1. San Francisco 4: Gilbert, 1. Cavanaugh 1, Lee, 1H11 Strikeouts—Arizona 9: No footbar, 1. Carroll, 1. Moreno, 2. Arenado, 1. Tawa, 1H11 McCann, 1. Lawfar, 1. San Francisco 11: Cox 1, Gilbert, 1. Devers, 2. Eridged 2, Knizner, 1. Cavanaugh, 1. Whitcomb, 1. Koss, 1. Basabe, 1E—Santana (1), Perdomo, 7 (Koss). 3B—Arizona 5, San Francisco 6. 2B—No footbar (11), Arenado (21), McCann (6), Eldridge (17). HR—No footbar (5), off Tidwell; Carroll (19), off Tidwell; Tawa (9), off Tidwell; Eldridge (15), off Drake; Koss (1), off Drake. RBIs—No footbar (22), Carroll (3) (61), Tawa (3) (35), Vargas 2 (65), McCann (22), Eldridge 2 (38), Hill 2 (6), Koss 2 (4). SB—Lee (11), Perdomo (19), Barrosa (3). SF—Carroll, Hill. Runners left in scoring position—Arizona 1 (Moreno); San Francisco 2 (Knizner, Lee). RISP—Arizona 4 (Moreno).

TAMPA BAY 9, SAN DIEGO 4

Arizona	105	003	100 – 10	12	2
San Francisco	111	200	010 – 6	5	1

San Diego	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	Tampa Bay	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Tatis lf	4	0	1	0	.285	Diaz dh	5	1	2	2	.302
Bowen rf	0	0	0	0	.165	Aranda 1b	4	0	1	0	.279
Rengifo lf-3b	4	0	0	0	.242	Caminero 3b	4	1	1	1	.280
Machado 3b	4	0	0	0	.212	Hicks c	3	0	0	0	.284
Harris lf	0	0	0	0	.245	a-Vilade	1	0	0	0	.263
France 1b	3	1	0	0	.285	Piper c	1	0	0	0	.222
Merrill cf	3	2	2	2	.241	Simpson lf	4	2	2	0	.309
Bogaerts ss	4	1	1	0	.217	Deluca rf	3	1	1	1	.271
Hays dh	4	0	0	0	.225	Muslims cf	4	1	2	1	.206
Maurim c	4	0	0	1	.200	Mateo 2b	3	0	1	1	.233
Cronenworth 2b	2	0	0	0	.226	Walls ss	4	2	2	1	.217
Totals	32	4	4	4		Totals	36	9	11	8
San Diego					000	022	000	-4	4	1
Tampa Bay					001	511	10x	-9	11	1

ARIZONA 10, SAN FRANCISCO 6
Walks—San Diego 3: France, 1 Merrill, 1 Cronenworth 1. Tampa Bay 2: Aranda 1, DeLuca 1. Strikeouts—San Diego 5: Machado 2, France 2, Cronenworth 1. Tampa Bay 6: Diaz 2, Aranda 1, Piper 1, DeLuca 1, Walls 1. E—Mize (), Mateo (3). LOB—San Diego 4, Tampa Bay 7. 2B—Simpson (14). HR—Merrill (22), off McClananah, Diaz (20), off Mize; Mullins (14), off W.Peralta. RBIs—Fermin (17), Cronenworth (25), Merrill (269), Diaz (274), Mullins (242), Mateo (15), Walls (32), DeLuca (39), Caminero (85). SB—Simpson 2 (37), Walls (20). SF—Mateo. Runners left in scoring position—San Diego 2 (Hays, Rengifo); Tampa Bay 2 (Vilade, Mullins). RISP—San Diego 0 for 5; Tampa Bay 4 for 8. Runners moved up—Bogaerts,
Inherited runners-scored—W.Peralta 2-0, Kelly 2-0. HBP—Mize (Caminero). WP—Mize. U— Andy Fletcher, Cory Blaser, Jansen Visconti, Tyler Jones. T—2:33. Tickets sold—16,470 (25,025).

San Diego	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Mize, L, 5-8	5	6	7	2	1	1	77	3.45
Morgan	$\frac{1}{2}$	2	1	1	1	1	21	4.76
W.Peralta	1	1	1	1	0	1	16	3.46
Canning	$1\frac{1}{2}$	2	0	0	0	3	27	6.08
Tampa Bay	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
McClanahan, W, 10-6	$5\frac{1}{2}$	3	4	3	2	4	80	3.19
Rodriguez, H, 2	1	1	0	0	1	0	19	0.00
Kelly, H, 28	$\frac{1}{2}$	0	0	0	0	0	5	2.03
Matz	2	0	0	0	0	1	22	5.99

Arizona	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	San Francisco	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Nootbaar lf	4	2	3	1	.228	Cox cf	2	0	0	0	.268
c-Barrosa cf	1	0	0	0	.195	a-Gilbert cf	1	0	0	0	.242
Carroll rf	3	1	1	3	.248	Devers 1b	4	1	1	0	.248
Moremo dh	5	0	0	0	.299	Eldridge dh	5	1	2	2	.254
Perdomo ss	4	2	1	0	.254	Knizner c	2	0	0	0	.200
Arenado 3b	5	1	2	0	.240	b-Cavanaugh c	1	0	0	0	.237
Tawa 1b	5	2	2	3	.246	Lee rf	3	2	1	0	.289
McCann c	4	1	2	1	.296	Whitcomb 3b	4	0	0	0	.122
Vargas 2b	4	1	1	2	.254	Hill lf	2	1	0	2	.286
Lawlar cf-lf	4	0	0	0	.273	Koss ss	3	1	1	2	.211
	39	10	12	10		d-Furman 2b	1	0	0	0	.071
						Basabe 2b-ss	4	0	0	0	.212
						Totals	32	6	5	6

up-Fermin, Church. GIDP.-Flores. DP.-St. Louis 1 (Gorman, Fermin, Burleson).
Pittsburgh	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Jones, L, 2-6	$\frac{4}{3}$	7	3	3	1	6	86	4.83
Sisk	$\frac{1}{2}$	0	0	0	0	1	14	2.57
Soto	.1	0	0	0	0	0	6	3.26
Ramírez	.1	1	1	0	0	1	15	3.11
St. Louis	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Mathews, W, 1-2	$5\frac{1}{2}$	5	1	1	1	7	102	5.03
Fernandez, H, 2	.2	0	0	0	1	2	26	3.72
Ferguson, H, 5	$\frac{1}{2}$	1	0	0	0	0	2	5.18
Stanek, S, 2-6	.1	0	0	0	0	2	12	4.42

Walks—Seattle 4: Arozarena 2, Raleigh 1, Ward 1, Toronto 2; Lukes 1, Valenzuela 1. Strikeouts—Seattle 9: Canzone 1, Naylor 1, Raleigh 2, Young 1, Ward 1, Crawford 3. Toronto 3: Bateman 1, Giménez 1, Clement 1. E-Rodden (3), Crawford (10). LOB—Seattle 7, Toronto 6. 2B—Young (16), Guerrero (21), Springer (17). HR—Canzone (20), off Cease; Lukes (10), off Hancock; Springer (14), off Hancock; Okamoto (27), off Domínguez. RBIs—Canzone (59), Guerrero (47), Okamoto 3 (77), Giménez (50), Lukes (32), Springer (44), Straw (22). SB—Bateman (2), Arozarena (20). CS—Arozarena (8). SF—Okamoto. Runners left in scoring position—Seattle 4 (Crawford 2, Naylor 2); Toronto 3 (Clement 2, Okamoto). RISP—Seattle 0 for 6; Toronto 4 for 11. Runners moved

up—Róndínguez, Lukes. GIDP—Lukes. DP—Seattle 1 (Rönden, Naylor).
Seattle	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Hancock, L, 7-8....	5	8	5	5	0	1	67	3.57
Dominguez....	1	1	1	1	1	0	24	4.62
Rucker....	2	2	2	2	1	2	45	6.47
Toronto	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Cease, W, 9-5....	6	4	1	1	1	8	92	2.33
Fluharty....	1	0	0	0	1	1	12	3.46
Sewald....	1	1	0	0	1	0	21	5.44
Van Eyk....	1	0	0	0	1	0	13	4.05

Inherited runners-scored—Sisk 2-0, Fernandez 1-0, Ferguson 1-0. HBP—Mathews (Mangum), Ramírez (Fermín). U— Nick Mahrley, Marvin Hudson, Willie Traynor, Tripp Gibson. T—2:33. Tickets sold—22,964 (44,494).

TORONTO 8, SEATTLE 1

Seattle	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	Toronto	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Arozarena lf	2	0	1	0	.273	Batenan cf	5	1	2	0	.329
Canzone dh	4	1	2	1	.259	Lakes rf	4	2	1	1	.265
Rodriguez cf	4	0	1	0	.247	Guerrero 1b	4	1	1	1	.260
Naylor 1b	4	0	0	0	.269	Springer dh	4	3	4	1	.251
Raleigh c	3	0	0	0	.165	Sánchez lf	2	0	0	0	.265
Young 2b	4	0	1	0	.248	Straw lf	1	0	1	1	.222
Ward rf	3	0	0	0	.230	Okamoto 3b	3	1	1	3	.229
Crawford 3b	4	0	0	0	.209	Giménez ss	4	0	1	1	.241
Rodden ss	3	0	0	0	.171	Clement 2b	4	0	0	0	.279
Totals	31	1	5	1		Valenzuela c	3	0	0	0	.224
						Totals	34	8	11	8

HBP—Hancock (Sánchez). U— Adam Hamari, Clint Vondrak, Steven Jaschinski, John Tumpane. T—2:33. Tickets sold—41,910 (39,150).

San Francisco 6 for a 10% of total
	Amp	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Drake	.4	4	5	1	4	57	6.53
Carrillo, W, 3-1	.1	0	0	0	2	1	26	0.55
Lobásiga	.1	0	0	0	0	1	10	2.48
García	.1	0	0	0	0	2	24	2.31
Santana	.1	0	1	0	1	1	24	5.59
Morillo	.1	0	0	0	0	2	21	2.19
San Francisco	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Tidwell, L 0-1	.5	7	6	6	1	4	100	4.54
Bivens	.2	5	4	4	1	3	50	14.40
Sanmartin	.1	0	0	0	0	1	15	5.02
Roxby	.1	0	0	0	0	1	17	0.00

Seattle	100	000	000 - 1	5	2
Toronto	300	021	20x - 8	11	0

HBP—Drake (Devers), Garcia (Gilbert). U— Alan Porter, Jim Wolf, Roberto Ortiz, Alex MacKay. T—3:06. Tickets sold—27,153 (41,915).

MILWAUKEE 6, TEXAS 1

Texas	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	Milwaukee	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Pederson dh	3	0	0	0	.235	Turang 2b	5	1	1	0	.257
c-Cíaz	1	0	0	0	.222	Chourio lf	5	0	1	1	.282
Seager ss	4	0	0	0	.221	Bauer's 1b	2	2	2	0	.275
Langford lf	4	0	0	0	.259	Contreras c	4	0	2	3	.268
Nimmo rf	3	0	0	0	.258	Yelich dh	5	0	3	1	.239
Duran 3b-cf	3	0	0	0	.272	Ortiz ss	4	0	1	0	.250
Carter cf	2	0	0	0	.197	Mitchell cf	3	1	0	0	.262
b-Foscue 2b	1	0	1	0	.257	a-Vaughn	1	0	0	0	.309
Burger 1b	3	0	0	0	.236	Lara cf	0	0	0	0	.267
Freeman 2b-3b	2	0	0	0	.265	Frelick rf	3	1	2	0	.243
Jansen c	3	1	1	1	.173	Hamilton 3b	4	1	2	1	.245
Totals	29	1	2	1		Totals	36	6	14	6

Texas	001	000	000 - 1	2	1
Milwaukee	200	001	12x - 6	14	0

Walks—Texas 1: Freeman 1. Milwaukee 4: Bauers 3, Frelick 1. Strikeouts—Texas 12: Pederson 2, Díaz 1, Seager 1, Langford 2, Nimmo 2, Duran 2, Burger 2. Milwaukee 2: Turang 1, Ortiz 1. E—Bradford (1). LOB—Texas 2, Milwaukee 11. 2B—Yelich (21), Frelick (16). HR—Jansen (5), off Henderson. RBIs—Jansen (16), Contreras 3 (69), Yelich (47), Hamilton (24), Chourio (55). SB—Bauers (10). SF—Contreras. Runners left in scoring position—Texas 1 (Jansen); Milwaukee 5 (Yelich, Turang 2, Vaughn, Ortiz). RISP—Texas 0 for 1; Milwaukee 4 for 15. Runners moved up—Chourio, Contreras, Hamilton. GIDP, Yelich, DB—Texas 1 (Freeman, Sector, Burger).

DBP—Telflon. DP—Texas 1 (Trefclain, Scager, Burger).
Texas	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Bradford, L, 0-3	5 $\frac{1}{2}$	9	3	3	2	0	100	3.42
Alexander	$\frac{1}{2}$	0	0	0	0	0	7	3.45
Silseth	$\frac{1}{2}$	2	1	1	1	1	22	2.96
Macko	1 $\frac{1}{2}$	3	2	2	1	1	25	5.40
Milwaukee	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Henderson, W, 9-2	7	1	1	1	0	7	91	2.48
Ashby, H, 13	1	1	0	0	1	2	24	3.24
Hall	1	0	0	0	0	3	13	2.20

Inherited runners-scored—Alexander 2-0, Macko 2-0. U— Ben May, Chris Conroy, Brennan Miller, Austin Jones. T—2:42. Tickets sold—41,620 (41,700).

WASHINGTON 9, MIAMI 2

Miami	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	Washington	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Hemández lf	3	1	1		1 .235	Abrams ss	3	1	0	0	.272
Ramírez dh	3	0	0		0 .228	Ortiz 1b	4	1	2		.024
Lopez ss	4	0	1		0 .307	Crews rf	4	1	1		.220
Sanoja rf-3b	3	1	1		0 .280	Lile lf	3	1	1		.251
Edwards 2b	4	0	1		1 .285	House 3b	4	1	1		3 .233
Stowers 1b	3	0	1		0 .242	Vivas 2b	4	0	1		0 .235
Caisisse rf	1	0	0		0 .224	Ford c	4	1	1		.197
Jiménez 3b-1b	3	0	0		0 .203	Chaparro dh	2	2	0		0 .246
E.Ruiz cf	3	0	0		0 .236	Young cf	3	1	0		0 .247
Maack c	3	0	0		0 .230	Totals	31	9	7		7
Navaraveto c	0	0	0		0 .118
Totals	30	2	5	2

Miami	010	000	010-2	5	1
Washington	005	000	40x-9	7	0

Walks—Miami 5: Hernández 1, Ramírez 1, Sanoja 1, Jiménez 1, E.Ruiz 1. Washington 5: Abrams 1, Lile 1, Chaparro 2, Young 1. Strikeouts—Miami 4: Lopez 1, Caissie 1, Jiménez 1, E.Ruiz 1. Washington 8: Abrams 1, Ortiz 2, Crews 1, Lile 1, House 2, Chaparro 1. E-Mack (7). LOB—Miami 6, Washington 3. 2B—Sanoja (28), Ortiz (3), Crews (14). 3B—Lile (6). HR—Hernández (21), off Kranick (House), 10 off Pérez (Ford; 3 off Montevrede. RBIs—Edwards (51), Hernández (56), House 3 (36), Ford (8), Crews 2 (33), Lile (75). SB—Edwards (20). Runners left in scoring position—Miami 2 (Mack, Sanoja); Washington 2 (House, Lile). RISP—Miami 1 for 6; Washington 3 for 8. Runners moved up—Stowers. GDP—Edwards, Sanoja. DP—Washington 2 (Vivas, Abrams, Ortiz; Abrams, Vivas, Ortiz).

Miami	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Pérez, L, 7-10	3	2	5	5	4	5	74	3.44
Zuber	1	0	0	0	0	1	12	3.68
Monteverde	4	5	4	4	1	2	65	9.00
Washington	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Kent, W, 1-2	7	3	1	1	4	3	106	5.59
Kranick	2	2	1	1	1	1	24	5.94

WP-Pérez, Monteverde. U-Laz Diaz, Edwin Jimenez, Erich Bacchus, Chris Segal. T-2:35. Tickets sold-18,047 (41,376).

BALTIMORE 4, ATHLETICS 3

Baltimore	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	Athletics	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Alexander ss	5	0	1	0	.310	Boite cf	4	1	0	0	.269
Alonso dh	4	0	0	0	.272	McNeil 2b-1b	5	0	1	0	.265
2-Henderson dh	0	1	0	0	.219	Gelof 3b-lf	4	0	2	1	.258
Holliday 2b	5	0	0	0	.230	Butler rf	4	0	1	1	.228
Mayo 1b	4	1	2	1	.216	White 1b	3	0	1	0	.270
Encar.-Strand 3b	4	0	1	1	.272	b-Walton 2b	1	0	0	0	.278
Taveras rf	4	1	0	0	.223	Muncy dh	4	0	2	0	.221
Kamlin cf	2	0	0	0	.161	Portes lf	4	0	1	0	.256
a-Cowser cf	1	0	1	0	.227	1-Stefanic 3b	0	0	0	0	.429
Beavers lf	3	0	1	1	.249	Heim c	4	1	1	1	.210
Narváez c	3	0	1	0	.165	Williams ss	4	1	0	0	.261
Totals	35	4	6	3		Totals	37	3	9	3

Baltimore	020	000	000	2	-	4	6	0
Athletics	000	000	110	1	-	3	9	1

a-doubled for Franklin in the 6th. b-flied out for White in the 8th. 1-ran for Cortes in the 9th. 2-ran for Alonso in the 10th.

Cortes in the Sun 2 for Monday in the 10th. Walks—Baltimore 6: Alonso 1, Encarnacion-Strand 1, Taveras 1, Cowser 1, Beavers 1, Narvaez 1. Athletics 1: Butler 1. Strikeouts—Baltimore 12: Alonso 1, Holliday 3, Mayo 2, Encarnacion-Strand 2, Taveras 2, Franklin 1, Narvaez 1. Athletics 7: Boite 2, Butler 1, White 1, Cortes 1, Heim 1, Williams 1. E-Lopez (3). LOB—Baltimore 9, Athletics 8. 2B—Cowser (6). HR—Heim (12), off Young. RBIs—Beavers (32), Mayo (52), Encarnacion-Strand (28), Heim (41), Butler (42), Gelof (38). SB—Mayo (3), Gelof (10). CS—Cowser (4). S—Gelof. Runners left in scoring position—Baltimore 4 (Taveras 2, Narvaez 2); Athletics 3 (White, Walton, Heim). RISP—Baltimore 4 for 11: Athletics 2 for 8.

Baltimore	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Young....7	5	1	1	1	4		91	3.38
Garcia, BS, 6-12....%	2	1	1	0	0		11	3.28
Cano....%	0	0	0	0	0		3	3.19
Kittredge, W, 3-3....1	1	0	0	0	2		14	3.27
Hoppe, S, 1-1....1	1	1	0	0	1		14	4.46

Athletics	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Lopez....5	3	2	1	3	6	100	4.82
Blewett....2	1	0	0	1	1	26	2.21
Medina....1	0	0	0	0	2	18	3.58
Harris....1	0	0	0	1	1	13	3.55
Basso, L, 0-1....1	2	2	1	1	2	16	4.67

Inherited runners-scored—Cano 1-0. IBB—off Blewett (Beavers), off Basso (Alonso). HBP—Lopez (Mayo), Garcia (Bolte). WP—Blewett. U—Emil Jimenez, Gabe Morales, Doug Eddings, Mike Muchlinski. T—2:56. Tickets sold—7,228 (14,014).

CHICAGO WHITE SOX 7, MINNESOTA 4

Chicago	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	Minnesota	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Antonacci lf	4	0	0	0	.268	Keaschall rf	4	1	2	0	.271
Doyle cf	0	0	0	0	.221	Lee 3b	5	1	2	3	.248
Murakami 1b	4	1	2	0	.222	Jeffers c	5	0	0	0	.270
Vargas 3b	4	1	1	0	.251	Clemens 2b	4	1	2	1	.240
Benintendi dh	4	1	2	2	.246	Bell dh	4	0	1	0	.253
a-Grichuk dh	1	0	0	0	.276	Lewis 1b	4	0	0	1	.234
B.Mintgomery rf	4	1	1	0	.232	Lamach lf	4	1	2	0	.267
C.Mintgomery ss	4	1	2	1	.214	Culpepper ss	3	0	1	0	.333
Meidroth 2b	4	1	1	0	.273	Jenkins cf	3	0	1	1	.333
Peters cf-lf	4	1	1	0	.282	Totals	36	4	12	4
Romo c	3	0	0	0	.141
Totals	36	7	10	5

Chicago	401	100	010 -7	10	0
Minnesota	310	000	000 -4	12	0

a-struck out for Benilimetal in the 9th. Walks—Chicago 5: Antonacci 1, Murakami 1, Vargas 1, B.Mongoney 1, Romo 1. Minnesota 2: Culpeper 1, Jenkins 1. Strikeouts—Chicago 7: Murakami 2, Grichuk 1, C.Mongoney 2, Peters 1, Romo 7. Minnesota 7: Lee 1, Jeffers 2, Bell 1, Lewis 2, Jenkins 1. LOB—Chicago 7, Minnesota 8. 2B—Murakami (14), Benintendi (20), Meidroth (26), Lamach (20). HR-C.Mongoney (28), off Kremer (Lee 22), off Castillo; Clemens (22), off Castillo. RBIs—Benintendi 2 (67), C.Mongoney 3 (76), Lev 3 (73), Clemens (67). SB—Lewis (14), Antonacci (17). Runners left in scoring position—Chicago 3 (Vargas, Meidroth 2); Minnesota 4 (Jeffers 3, Lamach). RISP—Chicago 3 for 10; Minnesota 1 for 11. Runners moved up—Antonacci, Peters, Jenkins, Culpepper, Keaschall. GIDP—Antonacci, Lamach, Bell. DP—Chicago 3 (C.Romakami, C.Mongoney; Murakami; Romo, Murakami; Meidroth, C.Mongoney; Murakami); Minnesota 1 (Clemens,

Chicago	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Castillo....	4	8	4	4	1	1	75	5.31
Smith....	$1\frac{1}{2}$	$1\frac{1}{2}$	0	0	1	2	33	0.82
Taylor, W, 7-2....	$2\frac{2}{2}$	1	0	0	0	3	27	2.03
Hudson, S, 6-9....	1	2	0	0	0	1	16	3.21
Minnesota	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Kremer, L, 2-5....	4	7	6	5	3	3	90	5.60
T.Rogers....	$1\frac{1}{2}$	1	0	0	2	1	38	4.74
Adams....	$2\frac{2}{2}$	1	1	1	0	2	26	5.68
Funderburk....	1	1	0	0	0	1	18	3.77

Inherited runners-scored—Taylor 2-0, T.Rogers 1-0, Adams 2-0. HBP_Castillo (Keaschall). WP—Smith, Kremer, Adams. PB—Jeffers (2). U—Mike Estabrook, Lance Barrett, Malachi Moore, Alfonso Marquez. T—3:02. Tickets sold—28,140 (38,544).

HIGH SCHOOLS

ANALYSIS

Santa Margarita still is standard

Eagles edge Centennial in rematch of Southern Section Division 1 final

CARON WILLIAMS (21) celebrates a pick-six with Santa Margarita teammates.
CRAIG WESTON For The Times

BY ERIC SONDHEIMER

If anyone wants to know what “big boy” football in Southern California looks like, Santa Margarita’s 21-20 road win over Corona Centennial on Friday night gave fans everything they expected from two powerhouse programs.

"There was greatness on that field," Santa Margarita coach Carson Palmer told his players afterward.

From cornerback Caron Williams producing a pick-six on the final play of the third quarter to 5-foot-4 running back Adrian Petero rushing for 108 hard-earned yards in 23 carries to run out the clock, the Eagles (2-0) are proving they are no one-hit wonder after winning last year's Southern Section Division 1 championship over Centennial.

“Even if I can’t find a hole, I’ll make one,” Petero said.

Unlike that 42-7 loss at the Rose Bowl, Centennial rallied from a 14-0 deficit. An 11-yard touchdown run by Braylin Drake with 7:33 left put the Huskies within 21-20. But Santa Margarita's Jake Martin deflected the extra-point attempt, and the Huskies (1-1) never got another opportunity to score against a defense with top linemen, young and sensational linebackers and defensive backs who engaged in hand-to-hand combat with one of the best receivers in the nation in Quentin Hale.

Centennial was at a severe disadvantage by not having two potential starters on its offensive line because of injuries. Then the Huskies lost a third lineman in the third quarter. Quarterback Jaden Jefferson was running for his life from the outset, but the senior used his instincts and intelligence to find ways to succeed. He passed for 192 yards with touchdowns of seven yards to Hale and 24 yards to Kennie Leggett. Jefferson adjusted to the pass rush by scrambling up the middle for gains of 11 and 15 yards. Hale caught seven passes for 105 yards.

For some unknown reason, Williams, a junior, has five of his six career interceptions against Centennial. He said the pick-six was no surprise.

“I saw it coming,” he said. “I saw the quarterback’s eyes.”

“Defense suffocating,” is what Palmer told his players in his postgame talk, and he was right.

Santa Margarita's defense controlled much of the first half because of its ability to put pressure on Jefferson. It wasn't until Centennial's final possession of the half, trailing 14-0, that Jefferson finally started to connect with Hale. Jefferson got the ball to Hale for a touchdown, rolling left and throwing off his back foot to find Hale in the back of the end zone.

Santa Margarita's championship defense lost nine of 11 starters to graduation and was supposed to need time this season to develop, but the guy who wears No. 99 for the Eagles, Kingston Jimmerson, had two sacks in the first half. He's 6 feet 2, 270 pounds, only a sophomore and likes to manhandle ballcarriers.

"When he's a senior, he's going to be an All-American," Williams said.

Also contributing was 6-5, 225-pound freshman lineman Kaleb Herndon and linebacker Cruz Nunez, a transfer from JSerra. Then there's freshman linebacker Aydan Steen, who contributed two huge tackles in critical situations in the second half.

Short touchdown runs by Petero and Jaion Smith accounted for Santa Margarita's first-half touchdowns. Centennial fumbled on its first possession to set up Petero's two-yard touchdown run.

The last time Centennial coach Matt Logan was on the same field with Santa Margarita, his face with bright red at the Rose Bowl. He blamed himself for his team's poor performance. "We weren't prepared to play football that night," he said.

This time, the Huskies were able to stay close with the help of a defense that sacked Santa Margarita quarterback Fletch Palmer three times. Cal-bound Miles Schirmer was effective on the defensive line.

"The defense played phenomenal," Logan said. "We were not on the same page on offense. The kids didn't waver and kept fighting."

Mellalieu on target in Eagles' triumph

By Kevin Baxter

Sophomore quarterback Jeremy Mellalieu threw for 222 yards and four touchdowns Friday to lead unbeaten Chaminade to a 35-10 victory over host Valencia in a penalty-marred game.

The 13th-ranked Eagles (3-0) opened the scoring late in the first quarter when Mellalieu found Bryan Granger-Narcisse with a short pass in the flat and Granger-Narcisse did the rest, breaking tackles and dodging defenders on a 63-yard jaunt to the end zone.

After Valencia missed a short field-goal attempt to close the first quarter, Mellalieu and Andrew Cordero connected on the first of two touchdown passes, this one covering 77 yards, to double the lead 13 seconds into the second quarter.

Valencia sophomore quarterback Evan McCallister, who completed 15 passes for 264 yards on the night, cut the deficit in half midway through the second quarter when Caysen Badawi turned a short pass into a 61-yard scoring play 9:32 before half-time. But that was as close as the Vikings (1-1) would get.

Kingston Williams, a senior tackle listed at 300 pounds, also had a big game for Chaminade with two key sacks while moonlighting as a fullback on offense, scoring a second-quarter touchdown on a one-yard run and bulling his way five yards to pick up an important first down in the second half.

The game was delayed approximately 20 minutes early in the second period quarter after a Chaminade player became stricken by the hot and humid conditions.

He was treated by paramedics on the sideline before being transported by ambulance to a local hospital for what a Chaminade coach said were precautionary reasons.

FRIDAY'S HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL SCORES

CITY SECTION Nonleague Arleta 42, Bernstein 6 Bell 26, Marquez 12 Belmont 19, Locke 6 Carson 31, Dorsey 8 Cleveland 53, Grant 0 Chatsworth 12, Franklin 0 Los Angeles Wilson 36, Contreras 15 Hollywood 18, Canoga Park 14 Jefferson 43, Van Nuys 3 Los Angeles Marshall 53, Fairfax 0 Legacy 32, Lincoln 0 Maywood CES 27, Fremont 22 Panorama 48, Manual Arts 0 Santee 35, Diego Rivera 0 South East 34, Gardena 21 Sun Valley Poly 18, San Fernando 0 Venice 35, Granada Hills 0 Washington Prep 24, Roybal 0 Wilmington Banning 44, Huntington Park 0

SOUTHERN SECTION Nonleague Alta Loma 21, St, Francis 7 Anaheim 35, Savanna 20 Anaheim Canyon 19, Rancho Verde 0 Apple Valley 34, Highland 14 Arcadia 30, San Gabriel 6 Artesia 28, Hacienda Heights Wilson 12 Baldwin Park 45, Rowland 8 Banning 42, Redlands 26 Bell Gardens 14, Bishop Montgomery 13 Bishop Amat 22, Oak Hills 4 Bishop Diego 42, West Ranch 13 Bonita 48, Diamond Ranch 0 Calabasas 27, Rio Mesa 13 Cantwell-Sacred Heart 38, Montebello 31 Canyon Country Canyon 25, Glendale 24 Capistrano Valley 33, Downey 23 Carter 28, Don Lugo 13 Castaic 48, Little Rock 0 Cathedral 43, St. Monica 34 Cathedral City 22, San Bernardino 20 Chaminade 35, Valencia 10 Chaparral 31, San Juan Hills 19 Charter Oak 27, Upland 10 Claremont 35, Diamond Bar 21 Compton Centennial 38, Beverly Hills 27 Corona del Mar 37, Santa Barbara 7 Corona Santiago 30, Temescal Canyon 14 Costa Mesa 41, Estancia 7 Crean Lutheran 31, Mira Costa 10

Crescenta Valley 31, Knight 0 Crespi 38, Golden Valley 7 Cypress 24, Brea Olinda 12 Damien 27, Vista Murrieta 21 Dana Hills 62, Tesoro 7 Del Sol 22, San Marcos 21 Desert Hot Springs 20, Xavier Prep 6 Desert Mirage 24, San Jacinto Valley Academy 6 Dominguez 60, Hawthorne 0 El Dorado 35, Fullerton 17 El Modena 20, Segerstrom 6 El Monte 37, Ganesha 3 El Rancho 25, Santa Fe 0 Esperanza 9, Fountain Valley 3 Firebaugh 21, California Military 20 Gahr 7, Cerritos 3 Garden Grove Pacifica 48, Garden Grove 0 Garey 14, Azusa 7 Glenn 31, Century 6 Grace 45, Santa Paula 30 Hart 21, Newbury Park 10 Hoover 35, Bassett 26 Irvine 8, Portola 0 Irvine University 43, Bolsa Grande 19 JSierra 63, Long Beach Wilson 0 Kaiser 29, Heritage 28 La Cañada 28, Santa Monica 20 Laguna Hills 24, Aliso Niguel 10 Lakewood 12, Paramount 7 La Mirada 38, Norwalk 0 La Serna 56, Schurr 7 Lakeside 35, Loara 0 Loyola 28, Millikan 7 Magnolia 20, Compton Early College 7 Mary Star of the Sea 34, Cerritos Valley Christian 0 Mission Viejo 77, St. Paul 12 Montclair 17, Burbank Burnoughs 0 Moorpark 40, Camarillo 6 Mountain View 28, Workman 6 Murrieta Mesa 35, Etiwanda 25 Lancaster 44, Newport Harbor 35 Norco Sen 56, Colom 7 Northwood 23, El Segundo 14 La Habra 35, Northview 14 Oak Park 28, Fillmore 6 Ocean View 43, Peninsula 20 Ontario 62, La Sierra 24 Orange 28, Laguna Beach 21 Pacific 42, Rubidoux 12 Palmdale 42, Leuzinger 7 Ramona 41, Arlington 7 Rancho Alamitos 35, Godinez 14 Rancho Cucamonga 44, Oaks Christian 14 Rancho Mirage 28, Coachella Valley 6 Redondo Union 35, Torrance 14 Rio Hondo Prep 7, Troy O

Riverside Notre Dame 24, Bloomington 6 Riverside Poly 25, Riverside North 7 Royal 16, Carpinteria 9 San Jacinto 20, Riverside King 10 San Marino 27, La Salle 19 Santa Ana Valley 38, Katella 28 Santa Margarita 21, Corona Centennial 20 Serrano 14, Barstow 7 Servite 42, Murrieta Valley 10 Sherman Oaks Notre Dame 48, Bishop Alemany 20 Silverado 28, Yucaipa 21 Sonora 45, Rosemead 3 South El Monte 32, Saddleback 8 South Hills 21, Ajala 17 St. Bonaventure 34, St. Pius X-St. Matthias Academy 21 St. Genevieve 40, Antelope Valley 26 Summit 6, Eastvale Roosevelt 0 Tahquitz 14, Hemet 13 Temecula Valley 31, Elsinore 10 Thousand Oaks 27, Hueneme 20 Trabuco Hills 28, Bellflower 24 Tustin 35, Foothill 0 Ventura 61, Oxnard 7 Viewpoint 47, Channel Islands 7 West Covina 35, Chino 21 Westlake 38, Agoura 7 Westminster 21, Buena Park 7 Westminster La Quinta 40, Pioneer 20 Whittier Christian 32, Nuview Bridge 22 Yorba Linda 30, Long Beach Poly 13 INTERSECTIONAL Anza Hamilton 41, Victorian Christian Academy 0 Bakersfield 40, Paraclete 14 Bosco Tech 16, Rancho Dominguez 6 Brentwood 16, Los Angeles University 8 Cajon 35, Bakersfield Independence 14 Central 33, Palm Desert 30 Pleasant Hill College Park 28, Beckman 21 Boise (Idaho) Bishop Kelly 20, Aquinas 13 Las Vegas Centennial 74, Burbank 41 Silver Valley 38, California City 13 Chino Hills 23, Oceanside El Camino 10 Crenshaw 47, Long Beach Jordan 13 Eastside 16, Rosamond 12 Fresno Bullard 42, Mayfair 0 Harvard-Westlake 29, Palisades 23, OT Hawkins 20, Verbum Dei 10 Heritage Christian 35, El Camino Real

Culver City 46, King/Drew 26
Los Altos 49, South Gate 20
Gardena Serra 49, Los Angeles Hamilton 32
Granada Hills Kennedy 44, Pasadena 0
Santa Clara 34, Los Angeles Jordan 0
Lawndale 69, Los Angeles Roosevelt 0
Lynwood 30, Dymally 0
Mater Academy East Las Vegas 26, Victor Valley 7
Monrovia 42, Eagle Rock 7
Henderson (Nev.) Pinecrest Academy
Sloane Canyon 35, Muir 20
Great Oak 27, North County San Marcos 21
Nordhoff 59, Woodland Hills Taft 14
North Torrance 32, Narbonne 14
Orange Lutheran 38, San Diego Cathedral Catholic 24
Oxnard Pacifica 52, San Diego Lincoln 27
Phoenix Pinnacle 32, Edison 28
St. John Bosco 45, Philadelphia Roman Catholic 25
Pomona 56, West Adams 0
San Marcos Mission Hills 35, Quartz Hill 0
Salesian 36, Mesa (Ariz.) Westwood 29
San Pedro 42, West Torrance 28
Saugus 37, Sylmar 0
Shadow Hills 26, Palo Verde Valley 6
Simi Valley 35, Las Vegas Shadow Ridge 7
St. Bernard 32, Westchester 0
Spanish Fork (Utah) Maple Mountain 36, South Pasadena 14
Tri-City Christian 26, Temecula Prep 20
Village Christian 34, North Hollywood 8
Warren 6, Scripps Ranch 6
Austin (Texas) Westlake 33, Inglewood 26
West Valley 52, Henderson (Nev.) Sports Leadership & Management 12
8-MAN
SOUTHERN SECTION
Nonleague
Entrepreneur 26, Thousand Oaks Hillcrest Christian 14
Lancaster Baptist 38, Desert 12 Mammoth 45, Flintridge Prep 25
INTERSECTIONAL
Frazier Mountain 36, Maricopa 34 Kings Christian 39, Coast Union 10 Laguna Blanca 36, Orcutt Academy 8

THE TIMES' PREP FOOTBALL RANKINGS

How the top 25 high school football teams in the Southland fared this week (losses are shaded):

Rk.	School	Result	Next game
1	CORONA CENTENNIAL (1-1)	lost to Santa Margarita, 21-20	at Mater Dei, Sept. 11
2	ST. JOHN BOSCO (1-1)	def. Philadelphia Roman Catholic, 45-25	at Pittsburg, Friday
3	SIERRA CANYON (2-0)	def. Hollywood (Fla.) Chaminade, 24-7	vs. Honolulu St. Louis, Sept. 10
4	SANTA MARGARITA (2-0)	def. Corona Centennial, 21-20	vs. Palmdale Highland, Friday
5	ORANGE LUTHERAN (1-1)	def. San Diego Cathedral, 38-24	vs. Chandler (Ariz.) Basha, Friday
6	MISSION VIEJO (2-0)	def. St. Paul, 77-12	at Folsom, Friday
7	MATER DEI (1-0)	at Orem (Utah), Saturday, late	vs. Corona Centennial, Sept. 11
8	SAN CLEMENTE (2-0)	did not play	at Chaparral, Friday
9	RANCHO CUCAMONGA (2-0)	def. Oaks Christian, 44-14	at Oak Hills, Thursday
10	CHAPARRAL (1-1)	def. San Juan Hills, 31-19	vs. San Clemente, Friday
11	HUNTINGTON BEACH EDISON (1-1)	lost to Phoenix Pinnacle, 32-28	vs. Corona del Mar, Thursday
12	CREAN LUTHERAN (2-0)	def. Mira Costa, 31-10	vs. JSerra, Friday
13	CHAMINADE (3-0)	def. Valencia, 35-10	at Beaumont, Sept. 11
14	PALOS VERDES (2-0)	def. Orlando (Fla.) Bishop Moore, 21-18	at Carson, Thursday
15	CARSON (2-0)	def. Dorsey, 31-8	vs. Palos Verdes, Thursday
16	SERVITE (1-1)	def. Murrieta Valley, 42-10	vs. Peoria (Ariz.) Centennial, Friday
17	JSERRA (1-1)	def. Long Beach Wilson, 63-0	at Crean Lutheran, Friday
18	DAMIEN (2-0)	def. Vista Murrieta, 27-21	at Las Vegas Faith Lutheran, Friday
19	OXNARD PACIFICA (2-0)	def. San Diego Lincoln, 52-28	at Hart, Friday
20	GARDENA SERRA (1-1)	def. L.A. Hamilton, 49-12	at Los Alamitos, Friday
21	BISHOP AMAT (2-0)	def. Oak Hills, 22-3	vs. Valencia, Thursday
22	CORONA DEL MAR (2-0)	def. Santa Barbara, 37-7	at Huntington Beach Edison, Thursday
23	YORBA LINDA (2-0)	def. Long Beach Poly, 30-12	vs. El Dorado, Friday
24	WESTLAKE (2-0)	def. Agoura, 38-10	vs. Chatsworth, Thursday
25	ST. BONAVENTURE (2-0)	def. St. Pius X-St. Matthias, 34-21	vs. Trabuco Hills, Friday

Top prep performers

A look at the top performers from high school football games across the Southland this week.

RUSHING

■AJ McBean, Gardena Serra: Rushed for 135 yards in eight carries and had three touchdowns in a win over L.A. Hamilton.
■Noel Washington, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame: Rushed for 158 yards and two touchdowns in a win over Bishop Alemany.

■ Adrian Petero, Santa Margarita: Rushed for 108 yards and one touchdown in a win over Corona Centennial.

- Dallas Miller, Huntington Beach: Rushed for 127 yards and two touchdowns in a win over Los Alamitos. - Jordan Medrano, Bell: Rushed for three touchdowns and had double-digit tackles in an upset win over Marquez. - Matt Fine, Loyola: Rushed for 101 yards in nine carries and scored three touchdowns in a win over Long Beach Millikan. - Maliq Allen, St. John Bosco: Rushed for 130 yards and three touchdowns and caught a touchdown pass in a win over Philadelphia Roman Catholic.

Jefferson: Ran for more than 200 yards for the second consecutive week in a win over Van Nuys.

PASSING

■ Taylor Lee, Oxnard Pacifica: Passed for 365 yards and five touchdowns in a win over San Diego Lincoln.

■ Ezrah Brown, Orange Lutheran: Completed 18 of 19 passes for 253 yards in a win over San Diego Cathedral.

■ Julian Medina, Norco: Completed 20 of 22 passes for 299 yards and three touchdowns in a win over Colony.

■ Donovan Shirley, Salesian: Passed for 371 yards and three

touchdowns in a win over Mesa (Ariz.) Westwood. ■ Jaxson Algaze, El Toro: The sophomore passed for 338 yards and five touchdowns in a win over Marina.

■ Star Thomas, Orange: Passed for 280 yards and three touchdowns in a win over Laguna Beach.
■ Lequand Jackson, Baldwin Park: Passed for 263 yards and five scores and ran for 115 yards in a win over Rowland.
■ Jeremy Mellalieu, Chaminade: Completed 10 of 12 passes for 216 yards and four touchdowns in a win over Valencia.
■ Hudson Shaddow, El Dorado: Passed for 191 yards and four touchdowns in a win over Fullerton.

■ Ford Green, Westlake: Completed 14 of 18 passes for 257 yards and four touchdowns in a win over Agoura.

■ Chase Curren, Crespi: Passed for 291 yards and four touchdowns in a win over Golden Valley.

■ Dawson Armstrong, Moorpark: Passed for 337 yards and three scores in a win over Camarillo.

RECEIVING

■ Bryce Thacker, El Toro: Caught 11 passes for 130 yards and four scores against Marina.

touchdowns, including a 99-yard reception and a pick-six, in a win over Fillmore.

■ Quentin Hale, Corona Centennial: Caught seven passes for 108 yards and one touchdown in a loss to Santa Margarita.

■ Nate Davis, Trabuco Hills: Caught eight passes for 140 yards in a

comeback win over Bellflower.

■ Blake Rogers, La Habra: Made five catches for 147 yards and three

touchdowns in a win over Northview.

■ KJ Woodbury, Orange: Had seven receptions for 169 yards and one

touchdown in a win over Laguna Beach.

Laguna Beach: Caught 13 passes for 121 yards and three touchdowns in a loss to Orange.

■ Davis Benson, Moorpark: Had six catches for 133 yards and two scores in a win over Camarillo.

DEFENSE

■ Jalen Flowers, Palos Verdes: Made two

interceptions in a win over Orlando (Fla.) Bishop Moore.

■ Dylin Bruce, Huntington Beach: Returned an interception 76 yards for a touchdown in a win over Los Alamitos.

■ Kingston Jimmerson, Santa Margarita: The sophomore had two sacks in a loss to Corona Centennial.

■ Roshaun Brown, Jefferson: The sophomore returned an interception 95 yards for a touchdown in a win over Van Nuys. ■ Kadin Saalih, Hart: Had three sacks in a win over Newbury Park.

SPECIAL TEAMS

■ Sean Byrnes, Villa Park: Blocked two punts in a win over Western.

■ Jake Martin, Santa Margarita: Blocked an extra-point attempt in a one-point win over Corona Centennial.

■ Kasra Maghami, Harvard-Westlake: Made field goals from 25, 32 and 36 yards in a win over Palisades.

■ Charlie Szaras, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame: Made field goals of 28 and 32 yards and was nine for nine on touchbacks against Bishop Alemany. ■ Dylan Fullmer

Harvard-Westlake: Scored on an 87-yard kickoff return, had a 55-yard kickoff return and ran for a score against Palisades.

— Eric SONDHEIMER

Green's performance enough for Westlake

showed how we can domi- nate," Green said.

By Joel Beers

About five miles separate Agoura and Westlake high schools, but there seemed to be a great deal more distance between them Friday night, as host Westlake throttled the Chargers 38-7 in a nonleague game.

Most of that gap came via the right arm of sophomore quarterback Ford Green, who dissected the Chargers, completing 14 of 18 passes for 257 yards and four touchdowns. For Green and the Warriors (2-0), the victory eliminated any lingering doubts about their season opener last week, a 32-26 triple-overtime thriller against Newbury Park. Though Green threw two touchdowns last week and ran for the winning score, he also threw two interceptions and tallied only 139 yards through the air.

Against Agoura (1-1), Green completed his first 10 passes and finished the first half with three touchdowns and 219 yards. He added a fourth touchdown in the third quarter. Westlake finished the scoring in the fourth on a one-yard plunge by running back Nazir Esanbor and a 35-yard field goal by Gabriel Goroyan.

“Last week showed how we fight as a team when we come together, but tonight

Though graced with two top-flight receivers in Charles Davis and Demare Dezeurn, both of whom have committed to play at California, Green spread the wealth Friday, completing passes to six Warriors.

Those included a 14-yard strike to Davis on the Warriors' first possession and a 57-yard touchdown pass to Drew Gamboa later in the first quarter. Green also completed a 58-yard, second-quarter touchdown pass to Erik Green and a 29-yard pass to Dezeurn early in the fourth.

While praising his quarterback's composure, accuracy, consistency and feel, Westlake coach Rick Clausen also singled out the offensive line.

“Obviously Game 1 wasn’t what we were looking for, but they practiced really hard this week and focused on what they needed to work on and didn’t worry about the exterior stuff,” he said.

Ford Green praised the depth of his receiving corps.

“I trust every single one of my receivers that they can get the job done and they did,” he said. “And we’re a brotherhood, a family, and the ball gets spread out. Even if one guy is doing really well, I know every one of them will be ready.”

ENTERTAINMENT

As the comedy scene keeps growing, a look at shows off the beaten path, comics to watch and the rise of clowning.

NOT THE USUAL STAGE

GET READY FOR SOME LAUGHS AT UNEXPECTED PLACES, FROM BARS TO A STRIP CLUB AND SECRET LOCALES

EARCHING FOR great comedy in L.A. is kind of like a treasure hunt. It's full of obstacles, booby traps and traffic, but in the end you just may strike gold.

While L.A. has plenty of established clubs that are easy targets to find the biggest, funniest names in town, there's so much going on beyond all that. Whether it's a weekly lineup show, a night of improv sketches, a twisted game show or just a chance to watch physical comedians clown around, here are 15 of our off-the-beaten-path favorites.

Take this guide as a place to start your own comedy expedition. There's much more to explore, but we've handled the preliminary search work so you can get started in the right direction.

THE CANTINA COMEDY CLUB AT KING HARBOR AT RIVIERA MEXICAN CANTINA Comedy hits a little differently with a marina just outside the window, and that's what makes "The Cantina Comedy Club at King Harbor" stand out. Inside Riviera Mexican Cantina in Redondo Beach catch top-notch stand-up without dealing with the usual Hollywood madness. Hosted by high-energy L.A. comedian Sean Leary, "the Cantina" keeps the laughs coming with rotating lineups packed with some of the funniest comics working the Los Angeles circuit. Add in incredible south-of-the-border cuisine, drinks and stunning views of King Harbor Marina, and you've got one of the best nights out in town. — Ali Lerman ● 207 N. Harbor Drive, Redondo Beach. Monthly; next ones are at 8 p.m. Sept. 18 and Oct. 16.

CHATTERBOX COMEDY NIGHT AT CHATTERBOX The audience walks into a bar. A disco ball illuminates the room as early 2000s hip-hop plays. The aesthetics set by Chatterbox, a bar in Covina, have all the elements of a drunk-heckler's dream. Headliners are known acts usually touring big cities, while the rest of the lineup includes the club's open mic standouts. Right before his Oscars

hosting gig, Conan O'Brien dropped in for a set. That's the kind of unpredictability you get from this dive bar that calls itself "the best comedy show in L.A. that's not in L.A." — Anthony Solorzano

● 943 N. Citrus Ave., Covina. 8 p.m. Sundays.

CHRIS FLEMING AND FRIENDS AT THE LARGO AT THE CORONET If your complaint about stand-up is that it's too much of one person standing in place while talking, then "Chris Fleming and Friends" is the solution to your problem. The high-energy comedian delivers the most fine-tuned stream of consciousness comedy you'll ever hear. Fleming's trademark physicality — he owns the stage like few other comedians can — makes the show original, exciting and borderline bouncing off the walls. He tests out new material, but the concept is already refined enough to be a taped special. Add in a revolving cast of accompanying comedians ranging from alternative established comics to up-and-coming performers and "Chris Fleming and Friends" becomes one of the most guaranteed good-time shows in the city. — Leila Jordan ● 366 N. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles. Monthly; next one is at 8 p.m. Sept. 15.

KARLA GACHET For The Times

AHMED Bharoocha onstage at the Lyric Hyperion, where “Open Mic Comedy Night” is a popular draw.

TRAE PATTON Peacock
CHRIS Fleming, above, hosts a show at Largo at the Coronet that features various fellow comedians.

HAHAS & TATAS AT PLAN B

THE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT LATE SHOW AT GROUNDLINGS THEATRE

Throw your improv expectations out the window when you go to “The Completely Different Late Show.” What’s similar: The director takes suggestions from the audience, the cast hears them, characters are immediately developed and laughs ensue. What’s different: A trio of musicians provide musical cues for each scene. The result: “The Completely Different Late Show” creates scenes that play as if they were a part of a sitcom, with flowing chemistry between the performers. — A.S. ● 7307 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles. 9:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.

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If your ideal night out includes big laughs, cold drinks and a little eye candy, then “HaHas & Tatas” at Plan B Gentlemen’s Club in West Los Angeles is calling your name. Hosted by the always hilarious Rosie Tran, “HaHas & Tatas” brings a stacked lineup of comics, giving audiences

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DON'T TELL COMEDY AT SECRET SPOTS If you hear there's a "Don't Tell Comedy" pop-up near you, you might actually want to tell everyone. You'll have to wait until the morning of the show to find out the secret location, but once you do, all bets are off! What started as a clever concept, "Don't Tell Comedy" has grown into a nationwide phenomenon with shows in more than 250 cities, giving fans access to some of the greatest names in comedy. And while supporting live comedy is key, "Don't Tell" also has a lock on some of the best comedy clips on YouTube, giving you a sweet peek into some of its past rosters. After you see what it has going on, you'll want to stalk its website for ticket drops and get in on a show near you, wherever that may be. — A.L. ● Multiple shows weekly.

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JUSTIN Alexio tries his act out at “Pupusas and Punchlines” at the Salvadoran restaurant Jaraguá.

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ANDREW Stier, center, created “Queer Roast for the Straight Hosts,” staged at Beaches Tropicana.

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artists testing their stand-up skills for the first time to established local comedians looking for a space to develop new material. But what takes this “Open Mic Comedy Night” to the next level is the atmosphere of encouragement that radiates in that small room. Whether it’s friends showing up to see first-timers perform or mainstay comics that turn the crowd into a weekly hang-out destination — the Lyric Hyperion’s “Open Mic Comedy Night” is one of the best spaces in the city to test your skills and discover new talent. A resident videographer sells photos and edited videos of each set for those looking to turn a strong performance into a ready-made viral clip. — L.J.

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You can hear a very specific sound of excitement as fans filter into the Fable's brown leather booths to watch their favorite L.A. comedians and a few surprise guests help them get high on the next great stand-up. The infectious energy of "Microdose" host Danny Ledsinger gets the room going with a tradition of eliciting two claps and a Ric Flair-like "Whew!" for every credit he reads about the next comic coming to the stage. It's hard to imagine a more supportive environment to see comedy put on by longtime L.A. stand-up Mike Bridenstine, who curates a lineup of killers who are usually headlining the Comedy Store, starring on TV shows or hustling to become the next big comedian out of L.A. But more important, he books comics that are willing to try anything to get a laugh, especially new material that they've been dying to test. The vibe here is the polar opposite of the hungry Hollywood race. People are as chill as the beer and the show brings the right amount of diversity and skill that will leave

NOT ENOUGH COMEDY AT RESERVE VENICE "Not Enough Comedy" provides so much comedy that in fact, it's full serv- ice. Have an awesome room? Its team will travel to you. But here in L.A., you don't have to go any farther than Venice, where they're providing the laughs monthly at an events space. Hosted by Phil Coan, past audiences have seen Chad Kroeger, Matty Chymbor, Audrey Stewart, Jamario Mc- Clain and Willie Simon. Each show features a mix of familiar names and comics still making their way up the L.A. stand-up scene. With a growing presence in Venice, "Not Enough Comedy" is definitely a great show to keep your eye on. — A.L. ● 1041 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice. Monthly; next one is at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 19.

An open mic night is a tightrope walk between creating a space where a fledgling performer can feel comfortable testing their skills while also getting genuine feedback. The Lyric Hyperion's Monday "Open Mic Comedy Night" is the best of both worlds. Sets are \$4 for four minutes, with 20 people chosen each night via a lottery. Performers can vary from Silver Lake ● 2106 Hyperion Ave., Los Angeles. 9 p.m. Mondays.

Plenty of comedy shows like to talk about having diverse lineups, but it's not often you see a ventriloquist, a troupe of mimes painted to look like cartoons from the '20s and a junior version of Adam Sandler take the stage back to back on any given Sunday night. There's something about "The Other Show" that feels like the right amount of unhinged humor to wrap up the week. Produced by comedian Lizzie Rose, the show's essence is to not fit in with the rest of the programming you're likely to see at the Improv. It's the comedy show equivalent of the misfit kids' table in the cafeteria. But that's also why it works. It gives some traditional stand-ups license to get weird, and the weirdo acts a chance to find their people. It's worth staying until the end to watch the unpredictable, but typically funny, Adam Barnhardt, the show's co-creator and resident queer Texan, ramble his way into some slurring, scatterbrained absurdity. His only-in-L.A. stories always crush. — N.J. ● 8162 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles. 7 pm. Sept. 27.

OPEN MIC COMEDY NIGHT AT LYRIC HYPERION

PUPUSAS AND PUNCHLINES AT JARAGUÁ

THE OTHER SHOW AT HOLLYWOOD IMPROV (THE LAB)

Inside L.A. restaurant Jaraguá, an audience awaits the comedic performances with one or two pupusas. The room is filled with distractions, but comedians are not fazed — it is a welcoming atmosphere that will switch from dinnertime to a night of laughter. “Pupusas and Punchlines” offers a place where Latinx performers, along with comics that belong to other underrepresented groups, can joke about the immigrant experience in the U.S. and the absurdities of the American dream. The weekly show was an answer to the competitive comedy scene in L.A. that oftentimes marginalizes the Black and brown community in mainstream comedy. “Pupusas and Punchlines,” along with its host restaurant, Jaraguá, have turned the uphill battle of performing amid delicious pupusas into a communal experience. — A.S. ● 4493 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles. Multiple shows per week.

TEAMWORK is key at the Groundlings, where “The Completely Different Late Show” upends improv.

“STAND Up and Clown” takes on the art of clowning at the Elysian with host Chad Damiani, above.
JANEVA ZENTZ does a set at Chatterbox, a bar in Covina that hosts comedy shows on Sundays.
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QUEER ROAST FOR THE STRAIGHT HOST AT BEACHES TROPICANA This comedy show invites queer comics to roast straight comics in between stand-up sets and dares ranging from re-creating “Heated Rivalry” to dressing up (or down) in outlandish seasonal outfits. It’s a very gay time that challenges queer comics to test their skills in roasting (a straight-dominated style of comedy) and welcomes straight comics into a community of artists and audiences outside of their primary demographic. After celebrating its first anniversary in November, “Queer Roast for the Straight Hosts” has successfully brought together a powerhouse of comedians, including Jenny Yang, Brendan Scannell, Liz Blanc, Guy Branum and Paige Gallagher, among others. Andrew Stier created the event to build community as a gay comedian trying to find his footing in the local comedy scene. As the show progressed, he recognized that “Queer Roast for the Straight Hosts” had become an opportunity for LGBTQ+ comedians to grow artistically and build their audience one roast at a time. — Steven Vargas • 8928 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood. Monthly.

RIGHT AFTER YOU LEFT AT VINYL ROOM Imagine Def Comedy Jam hosted inside a speakeasy of an iconic music venue — that's "Right After You Left," a new summertime event thrown by seasoned comedy bookers Chris Burns, Sarah Mello and Sean Dickens. Folks driving to the Palladium may have noticed that in addition to the line around the block to see a popular music act, there's also one at the side door of the Vinyl Room, the new music hall's lounge that opened its doors in March. That's where this comedy night takes place. The

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glowing bar is decorated like a DJ lives there with shelves of classic records, ghetto blasters, plush couches, upscale food and craft cocktails. It feels like seeing a comedy show in the living room of a friend with taste. Comics who've come to the stage include Donnell Rawlings, Iliza Shlesinger, Morgan Jay, Josh Johnson and Kam Patterson. Unlike most club shows that are quick to kick you out, the promoters encourage people to hang out for what feels like an after-party worth sticking around for. Though the show is seasonal and runs until Sept. 22, the promoters plan to come back in December. — N.J. 6215 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles. 8 p.m. Tuesdays.

STAND UP AND CLOWN AT THE ELYSIAN After decades of standup and improv shows filling venues, clown is the niche physical comedy performance style creeping into the mainstream. “Stand Up and Clown” acts as an intro course to both the audience and some of the show’s performers to the art of clowning. Hosted by clown boss Chad Damiani (who some might know as the clown teacher for “Heated Rivalry” breakout star

Connor Storrie), the show spotlights nine comics getting a crash course in clown through a series of games, challenges and interruptions by various eccentric characters that make full use of the Elysian's main stage. Featuring an ensemble cast of clown students and professionals, "Stand Up and Clown" is both a testament to the artistry of clown and an immersive comedy experience unlike any other. Watching local comics learn the trials and tribulations of what it means to clown will leave you with a greater respect for the art form, and may just unlock the clown within. — L.J. ● 1944 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles. Next dates: 9:30 p.m. Monday; 10:30 p.m. Oct. 30.

WRONG! A F—UP GAME SHOW AT THE ELYSIAN There's nothing more terrifying than a person's old tweets. That kind of snooping would make any comic cringe. "Wrong! A F—Up Game Show" exploits that anxiety for entertainment. Tagged as a "50% comedy show, 50% game show, and 100% f—up," it draws on the past to lean into a comic's darkest humor while welcoming playful banter. After each comic performs their crudest humor, the show then turns into a discussion where panelists try to guess the missing words of an old social media post the producers dug up from the pits of the internet. That kind of friction creates an environment where comics can ad-lib with each other and the audience. —A.S. ● J944 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles. Monthly; next ones are Sept. 24 and Oct. 22.

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15 L.A. COMICS ON CLUB BOOKERS' RADAR

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HARTING THE TRAJECTORY of a comedy career is about more than just seeing a comic crush in front of a few crowds or glibly scrolling through their TikTok clips. Like the career of comedy itself, it's all about identifying the energy they bring into the room when they

hit the stage night over night for weeks, months, years while they hone their craft. There's a skill to picking out which up-and-coming talent is really poised to make a mark on the stand-up world, whether they're performing on a dead night for a handful of drunks or taking a bow in front of a roaring theater crowd. To help you figure out which comics in L.A. you'll want to keep an eye on, we've tapped the expertise of some of the city's most seasoned bookers from major comedy clubs to alt shows to bring us this list of 15 up-and-coming comics to watch. Some of whom you may see working the door, not just the stage.

IG: @comedianrong Ron G is one of the greatest entertainers in the world. If you've seen him host “Chocolate Sundaes,” you know exactly what I mean. He can get a 22-year-old Black dude from Compton to rock out, and he can get an 80-year-old grandma to twerk on stage. But most importantly, he makes sure that every single person leaving the show has a positive, memorable experience. — L.C.

IG: @scubastevefurey Ex-door guy at the [Comedy] Store and now a paid regular. Incredible writer. Very consistent. Very polished. Hilarious. Got very far on Netflix's "Funny AF" a stand-up comedy competition created and hosted by Kevin Hart, and has now got some well-deserved fans and followers. — Roze Lleshi, booker for the Comedy Store

IG: @williesimoncomedy Ex-door guy and now another paid regular at the Store. Originally from Hawaii. He flew through the door program we have at the club and got passed as a regular a few years ago. I'd consider him a prodigy. So funny, goofy but no corn. He also has great writing skills. Part of a fun online sketch group "Almost Friday" and also doing a pod with Steve Furey. — R.L.

IG: @taylorbos So funny, original and hard-hitting. He rings every bell when he's on stage. He was a door guy at the Store who recently became a paid regular. He was a hit on "Kill Tony" Episode No. 746. An incredible visual artist, he's known for his painting of the late Mitzi Shore that sits in the "Joe Rogan Experience" podcast studio. — R.L.

IG: @maddimays Maddi is a complete crowd favorite who's fearless up there — she owns her truth, weaves in her background and delivers every time. I've booked her since she first landed in L.A. from Houston and watching her explode into a star has been incredible. Before becoming a comic, she worked as a TV costume designer/illustrator ("Dollface," HBO's "Pause With Sam Jay"). She's featured at Netflix Is A Joke Festival and New York Comedy Festival and performs all over the country and opened for Marlon Wayans, Ralph Barbosa, Kam Patterson and the late, great Ken Flores. With millions of online views across sketches and stand-up. Fan-favorite recurring guest host on "The FatFish Podcast."

— Nichelle Murdock, booker for “Crack ’Em Up Thursdays” at the Comedy Store

IG: @campyjacky2 Jackson won “Set of the Night” on a Sunday at the Comedy Store, giving him a guaranteed spot on the “Potluck” open mic the next night, which led to him being hired as a door guy. And in less than two years after that, he became a paid regular at the club. I selected him as a 2026 Just For Laughs new face this year, which yielded every major agency and management company wanting to work with him. He’s a menace on stage in the best way possible, almost defying an audience to like him. There’s a ’70s rock star element to his appearance, but his rhythm on stage is that of a jazz musician never knowing what note is coming next. — J.S.

IG: @tacarracomey Tacarra Williams is one of the most genuinely likable comedians out right now. Every woman wants to hang out and have brunch with her, and every man wants to date her. Even the younger generation of girls love her hilarious impressions of her teenage daughter. She makes her family come alive in her jokes and reminds us all that we're living the same life dealing with kids, dating and everyday struggles. — Lani Crooks, booker of "Chocolate Sundaes Comedy Show" at Hollywood Laugh Factory

IG: @joemarrese

IG: @joemarrese The captain of the door guys at the Store who recently became a paid regular. He's so unique and has such a fun style of comedy. From Chicago. Obsessed with his video clip series "Joe Eats" online. I always make sure to watch his sets. He's one of those guys that everyone will have an impression of by the end of his performance. — R.L.

IG: @rayjlau

When I started booking the Ice House in May 2024, Ray didn't have a home club, so I started booking him as much as possible. As he started building his name, I loved seeing big headliners watch him and realize they had to follow an absolute crusher. Ray is on his way to becoming a big theater act. I just booked his biggest show yet for Just For Laughs Toronto in September, where he sold out Bluma Appel Theatre, a 900-seat venue, in less than a day. His fan base is building quickly because he takes on relatable everyday occurrences, frustrations and interactions. That ability to connect with an audience makes everyone else on a lineup step up their game. — Josh Sandoval, booker at the Ice House and Just For Laughs' New Faces showcase

IG:@dvontrecoleman Great deadpan style and execution, comes across like a very seasoned prodigy even though he's only three years in. Dvontre is also a door guy at the Store. He was just recently on Netflix's "Funny AF" and opens for Santino and Nick Kroll. He was also on New Faces' Just For Laughs 2025 and has performed at festivals across North America, including Moontower, SF Sketchfest and the Flyover Comedy Festival. Outside of L.A., he's garnered attention in New York City, San Francisco. — R.L.

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TG: @maceyisaacs Originally from Austin, Texas, Macey came to Malibu for college in 2010. After college, she jumped into stand-up comedy. She's an effortlessly dry, say-it- like-it-is comic with an impec- cable ability to twist the way we see the world. She was on Net- flix's "Funny AF" with Kevin Hart and was plucked to open for Chelsea Handler. Her home club is the Crow in Santa Moni- ca, where she ran her "Picture Day" show for four years and regularly hosts and headlines. She makes deeply unhinged topics feel completely universal. Her jokes about emotionally tough topics like miscarriage feel like your story, yet you never see the twist at the end of her joke coming. Macey is both a comic's comic and an audi- ence favorite. — Nicole Blaine, owner/booker at the Crow

IG: @angiestro Door girl at the Store who is an incredible writer. Very young and only a few years in, but consistently funny and writing new jokes. Destroys on stage during our weekly “Roast Battle” competition on Tuesdays in the Belly Room where comedians face off in a brutally funny one-on-one insult slug fest. She’s opened for David Spade, Iliza Shlesinger and the “Bad Friends” podcast. Her stand-up has also been featured on Netflix is a Joke Radio and livestreaming event platform Veeps. — R.L.

IG: @ainsley.xo Ainsley turns the darkest personal experiences (like having too many daily meds and diagnoses, including being allergic to bananas) into the most perfect and surprisingly relatable jokes. She offers fresh takes on subjects most comics won't even dare to tackle. Ainsley has a reputation for being a festival darling. She hit the comedy festival scene in 2024 as a standout comic at the Bergamot Comedy Fest at the Crow, which is known for discovering up-and-coming talent. She's continued to develop her chops at the Crow, the Comedy Store and the Improv. She earned a coveted spot as a new face for Just For Laughs this summer. Earlier this month, she made her late-night TV debut on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon." — N.B.

IG: @katbirdcomedy Former door girl at the Store and an L.A. native. She is a joke-writing machine already even though she's only been doing stand-up for three years. The energy at her shows is always upbeat and positive with some surprise darkness woven into her jokes. She's a hit on Bobby Lee's podcast "TigerBelly." Right now Kat is headlining on her own and also opens for Lee, Andrew Santino, Marc Maron and Iliza Shlesinger. Her "Don't Tell Comedy" special came out earlier this year. — R.L.

IG: @curtiscookcomedy Curtis is a big, loud, disarming presence. Which also makes him a Trojan horse for some pretty subversive ideas. His writing is so creative and original that it borders on poetic. And if you put him anywhere on any lineup, he's probably going to have the best set of the night. And he's not just funny on stage; he's also a WGA Award-nominated writer who has written for the recent reboot of "Crank Yankers," the critically acclaimed "This Fool" on Hulu and the GLAAD-nominated series "American Dad" on TBS. — Mike Bridenstine, booker of "Microdose Comedy"

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ZACH ZUCKER sits inside the Elysian Theater in Echo Park, where he has led the troupe of "Stamptown" for years.

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Theatre like a kamikaze crash-landing into his big moment. He's flanked by fountain fireworks while a buff guitarist with a blond mullet and neon spandex pants wails on guitar to the tune of Lenny Kravitz's cover of "American Woman." With the garish gusto of a WWE wrestler, Tucker's entrance as the ringleader of the show "Stamptown" electrifies the stage.

But the show truly starts when it falls apart with technical mishaps. Everything breaks, guns go off, an illusionist loses his clothes and jumps

fully nude into the crowd — all within the first five minutes.

It's a chaotic comedy world created by classically trained performers, including clowns, who've studied the art of physical humor and shredded the rule book. For more than 10 years, the Stamptown troupe led by Tucker, the alter ego of comedian Zach Zucker, has created an insane asylum on stage — from Elysian Theater in Echo Park to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland.

The show's comedy thrives on failure, interruption and never actually getting to the “script.” Last week, the madness leaped from the stage to the screen as Stamptown premiered its first Netflix special.

"This is a lot of people's first time being exposed to this," Zucker said, cracking a mischievous smile while sitting in a red velvet chair inside the empty Elysian Theater where his crew has performed "Stamptown" for years. "I have seen a man light his penis on fire 45 times in my show. I forget that when it comes to comedy, most people are used to seeing a person with one microphone stand still and talk."

Filmed over the course of three performances during the Netflix Is a Joke Festival in May, the spliced-together “Stamp-town” special directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg and edited by show co-creator Dylan Woodley captures the chaos of clowning mixed with a cerebral roast of traditional comedy and plenty of playful danger. The result isn’t a piece of art but rather “a pile of art,” Zucker said.

'Our ethos is: Against all odds, this show works.'

"Our strength is being a ‘you gotta see it to believe it’ type of performance, but if I really had to boil it down, it’s a modern-day vaudevillian variety show that features any and all alternative performances ... our ethos is: Against all odds, this show works," Zucker said.

On a recent afternoon, the lanky, mustachioed Zucker, wearing a T-shirt, ball cap and small hoop earrings, bears little resemblance to his comic alter ego who sports a tattered suit with gag props stuffed in every pocket.

In real life, the New York native is a former baseball and basketball star athlete who went down an extremely different path to become “a bisexual traveling clown.” After enrolling in what he assumed would be an easy acting class during his senior year of high school, Zucker became obsessed with improv and comedy. His teacher advised him to check out the renowned improv troupe Second City. So he flew to Chicago to see the show “Spoiler Alert: Everybody Dies” featuring Tim Robinson, Sam Richardson, Timothy Edward Mason and others. “It changed my life,” he said.

After taking up comedy classes and street performances on the East Coast, Zucker quickly transitioned to working in theater and eventually moved to L.A. at 18 to pursue comedy, interning at Upright Citizens Brigade. He scrubbed toilets in exchange for free improv classes. It was at UCB where he first crossed paths with celebrated clown teacher Philippe Gaulier, whose former students include Sacha Baron Cohen, Rachel Weisz and Geoffrey Rush. The wily, frizzy-haired Frenchman with red-framed spectacles taught Zucker everything he knows about clowning.

“Philippe is by far my greatest influence,” Zucker said. “There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think about him or that I’m not actively implementing all the lessons he taught me as a man and as an artist.”

One of those lessons became the ethos of "Stamptown": "If you're having fun, maybe we like you. If you're not having fun, for sure we hate you."

— ZACH ZUCKER, comedian and creator of ‘Stamptown’

Inspired by his wisdom, Zucker moved to France for two years to study with Gaulier. It was there that he met his future “Stamptown” collaborator Jonny Woolley, a Canadian performer who became the show’s sound tech, adding to the menagerie of aural mayhem through sound effects that punctuate the show’s every move.

"There's a lot of different ways of approaching clowning, but ultimately, for us, it's more of a philosophical approach to making art than it is like a rigorous set of rules or styles. It's just being a lovable idiot," Woolley said.

The name “Stamp-town” is a tribute to the place where they learned their art form: the town of Estampes (which loosely translates to “Stamp”) in France where they studied with Gaulier, who died this year before the special was filmed.

Though he's know for his offbeat humor, Zucker's brain is firing on a perpetual metronome. He's snapping his fingers incessantly during our interview while describing the comedic timing of each show, which grooves like a jazz band on stage.

“Sometimes there’s a few different rhythms that I’m balancing at once. I can really zone in on what is the most fruitful at the moment while still keeping these other balls in the air," he said. "Thankfully we're not always pushing a message. Sometimes it is just about entertaining the crowd at all costs."

Before “Stamptown,” Zucker was performing with Norwegian friend and fellow clown Viggo Venn as “Zach & Viggo,” a side act in the original variety show Zucker started with his friends in 2017 in Melbourne called “Midnight Madness” that eventually turned into “Stamptown.”

Working with Venn, Woolley and Woodley, Zucker devised the show to feature a rotating cast of clowns and comedic performers from around the world, including L.A. Staples in the local clown community include the slapstick of clown kingpin Chad Damiani playing a janitor, comedic actor Natalie Palamides as a comedy nepo fetus birthed by Riki Lindhome of "Garfunkel and Oates" and the riotously robotic gyrations of Courtney Pauroso as fembot temptress Vanessa 5000.

“‘Stamptown’ is extraordinary; it’s finely calculated nonsense,” said actor Neil Patrick Harris, a longtime friend and supporter of Zucker who appears on the Netflix special, in a statement to The Times. “Each performance is unique — stand-ups colliding with circus artists, and improvisers swapping talents and fluids, even the stagehands’ utter chaos and running gags, a ridiculous fever dream … it’s absurdly genius.”

The international performers who have become part of the "Stamptown" universe run the gamut from jugglers to steel drum players to acrobats to pianists. Trans comedian Jordan Gray is extremely unafraid to bare it all, including her soul, when behind the piano. The physicality of the performances goes beyond regional references and punchlines that might get some laughs in one country but not in others. Venn says it's clear that at their core people tend to share the same sense of humor.

"It was fascinating to us to see that in Australia and France and England and the U.S., they really laugh at the same things if it's like a deeply human kind of failure," Venn said. "That's the beauty of this show."

A tangled web of masterfully timed sound effects has unintentionally become the heartbeat of the show. With Woolley now living full-time in London, the duties for the U.S. shows were recently passed down to fellow "Stamptown" performer Jeremy Elder, who did the sounds for the Netflix special tapings. He says the show is at its best when they throw out the game plan for the night, even while filming for Netflix.

"I think it's as soon as we went off script, the audience could feel that. In the final product, we planned so much, but once you're in the room with people it's a very clown-like sentiment to just roll with what the audience is feeling," Elder said.

Though traditional stand-up is Netflix's bread and butter for comedy programming, this form is mostly a target for mockery in "Stamptown" to show how limiting it is compared with the physical comedy of clowning. The one caveat, Zucker says — a clown is by far the most embarrassing brand of comedian you can be.

"It's not cool, you don't do this to be cool," he said, laughing. "The whole point is that with all the love and fantasy and pleasure of your life, you have to step in a bucket of s—over and over and over and enjoy it. 'Isn't it awesome how I humiliate myself for you?' And you embrace it."

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ONCE DESTINED FOR A TAX-WRITE-OFF GRAVE, ‘COYOTE VS. ACME’ WAS SHELVED BY WARNER BROS. HERE’S HOW WILL FORTE AND DIRECTOR DAVE GREEN SAVED IT FROM FALLING OFF A CLIFF. BY CARLOS AGUILAR

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screening" on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank to watch the film they'd worked on for the first time, one that, presumably, the public would never get to see. ¶ "In those six days, my brain was trying to make sense of it, and I felt like: It must not be very good then," Forte explains with a doubtful expression. Reclining on an office chair on a hot July afternoon, the former "SNL" star appears pensive thinking back on that upheaval.

Their approach hinged on leaning into Frazier's deadpan tone and taking the concept more seriously.

ARLY IN NOVEMBER 2023, the night before Warner Bros. Discovery announced its decision to scrap “Coyote vs. Acme,” opting instead to take a \$30-million tax write-off on the hybrid live-action-animation film, actor Will Forte received enthusiastic news about the project. ¶ “I got a call from the producers saying they were ready to show us the movie, and they were so excited, and it was testing really well,” Forte, 56, recalls during a recent interview in Century City. “It was the very next day that we got the call that it was getting shelved.” ¶ Six days after that devastating blow to their collective morale, the cast and crew attended a “funeral

The gag-filled comedy overflows with wackiness, as is customary for Looney Tunes, but also, and perhaps less expectedly, poignancy galore.

Even after Warner Bros. uttered a seemingly decisive “That’s all folks” in regard to the movie, director Dave Green believed the production’s quality would ultimately save it.

But, as he would learn at the screening, the execs at WB were wrong. "We went in and watched the movie and it was fantastic."

“‘Maybe these guys just lost their heads a little bit,’” Forte says, speaking from the perspective of the deciders. “They were too close to it. They had been working on it so long that they fell in love with this thing that just is not as good as they thought.’”

Forte continues, “All this confusion and frustration turned to a lot of anger. I worked through a lot of stuff over the course of a couple months. And then eventually it was just like: It’s not healthy for me to feel these feelings. I just gotta let it go.”

Forte plays Kevin Avery, a down-cast injury lawyer living in Albuquerque who begrudgingly accepts a new client, the tenacious Wile E. Coyote, in a trial against the Acme Corp. The desert-dwelling, nonverbal cartoon character is suing the company for all the injuries its products have caused him in his pursuit of his would-be dinner, the Roadrunner.

Thankfully, public outcry and a scrappy indie distributor saved "Coyote vs. Acme" from oblivion after Warner Bros. allowed its makers to shop the movie around.

Last year, Ketchup Entertainment bought the picture from Warner Bros. for an estimated \$50 million (the movie reportedly cost \$70 million to produce), and “Coyote vs. Acme” finally came to theaters nationwide over the weekend.

by acclaimed puppeteer David Barclay (who also manipulated Jabba the Hutt in “Return of the Jedi”). Before shooting started, Green’s team had a full plan for what all of the animated characters would be doing and which objects they would interact with in every scene.

"There was always a flicker of hope, and I don't think we ever gave up on that," says a soft-spoken Green, 43, sitting next to Forte. "Something I told people on our

"I had resigned myself at the time that this movie might take 30 years to get out of the vault," screenwriter Samy Burch says on a video call. "I'm really happy that Ketchup saved it and now it's going to be out there forever and no one can stop it."

Searing courtroom dramas like "The Verdict," "Dark Waters," "The Insider," "A Few Good Men" and "Erin Brockovich" all went into "the sauce" of the project, Green says. "These are all movies that are about the little guy facing some element of unfairness and wanting justice. That's really at the core of this movie and Wile E.'s fight."

"It took a lot of trust for someone like Will to be in this movie because he had to believe that this magic trick would eventually work and that these characters would eventually show up on screen and be his scene partners," Green says. He describes the process of making "Coyote" as "taking a Polaroid that takes two or three years to develop."

Gunn, who shares a producer credit with Chris DeFaria, operated from sincere adoration for the characters, in particular the tireless protagonist. “I’ve always liked Wile E. — he has always been my favorite Looney Tunes character,” he says. “So even though, like most people, I rooted for Roadrunner in their adventures, I still had a lot of empathy for him.”

In 2020, with Green attached to direct, the project underwent a reset, which included bringing in screenwriter Samy Burch, a future Oscar nominee for her already penned “May December” script.

crew was, ‘Forever is a really long time.’ I always felt like at some point the movie had to eventually be seen on the grand spectrum of time.”

Warner Bros., he says, didn't provide much of an explanation for its machinations. "It was a very brief conversation," he recalls. "They just said that their strategy had changed."

"I was brought to the project through the New Yorker short story and first had interest in making it back in the late '90s when I first came to L.A," Gunn tells The Times via email. "Unlike most 'story by' credits, I didn't write a screenplay. I simply wrote the story for the film that would be a buddy comedy about Wile E. and a personal injury lawyer and tried to bring some heart as well as humor into it."

Those other movies don't have Looney Tunes, though.

“That in its own way is kind of an impossibility,” Green says. “Even though we never knew if audiences would see it or when they would see it, it felt like the win was getting to make this movie in the way we wanted to make it in the first place.”

Taking its title and core premise from Ian Frazier's 1990 humor piece published in the New Yorker magazine (written in persuasive legalese and formatted like the actual opening statement of a trial), "Coyote vs. Acme" had been floating around Hollywood for decades. At some point, "Guardians of the Galaxy" filmmaker James Gunn and screenwriter Jeremy Slater spearheaded it.

While some iterations of a speaking Wile E. Coyote have existed, Green and Burch agreed early on that their version would communicate only using signs.

During the time when the future of “Coyote vs. Acme” was uncertain, Green recalls feeling grateful for the mere fact that he and his collaborators were allowed to make such a singular film: a courtroom drama and animated comedy starring Looney Tunes characters.

“Samy and I were always laughing, like, ‘If you just put Fog-horn Leghorn into this one scene from ‘The Verdict,’ it would be hilarious,’ ” Green says.

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On top of those hard-hitting trial movies, Robert Zemeckis' 1988 "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," the classic live-action-animation hybrid film, served as a substantial source of inspiration. A direct parody of 1974's "Chinatown," it's a technical marvel, especially for its time, one that fully commits to the zaniness of its hand-drawn protagonist.

"It's a film noir that is also star-ring cartoon characters, and it's got this collision of tones," Green says of Zemeckis' landmark, a movie that somehow bridges bonk-on-the-head mania with a voluptuous femme fatale. "On the one hand it's very dark. On the other hand, it's very silly and stupid even. That mash-up is really entertaining to me. When your comedy is grounded by darkness and stakes, it just makes the comedy funnier."

"We felt the speaking version of the character was weird and disturbing and the voice never completely even matched what I thought Wile E. would sound like," Green says. "To us, the most memorable version of the character was the one that was like a silent film actor."

"Wile E. is easy to feel for," Burch adds. "There's a lot of want and desire in him. I looked at some Charlie Chaplin films and other films where one character doesn't speak and tried to keep him very present on the page."

The vast archive of Wile E. Coyote cartoons, dating back to the 1949 short “Fast and Furry-ous” directed by the legendary animator Chuck Jones, was also fundamental to their understanding of the comedic timing of the Looney Tunes world — and to who this coyote is as a character. Though some might think of Wile E. as a villain just trying to kill and eat the Roadrunner, Green considers him an eternal optimist.

“Every time he fails, he just picks himself up and tries again,” Green says. “There’s something definitely deep and inspiring about that. And the more we started to study the character, the more we understood his depth.”

On set, Wile E. shared space with Forte via a life-size puppet operated

His relentless drive notwithstanding, the animated Wile E. in "Coyote vs. Acme" undergoes a transformative evolution through his friendship with Forte's Kevin, as they band against a seemingly insurmountable adversary, represented by Acme's CEO Foghorn Leghorn (voiced by Eric Bauza) and his menacing lawyer, Buddy Crane (John Cena).

By the end of the trial, you may not expect how moving the picture is. "You're feeling this emotion for this character who hasn't talked the entire movie and who's trying to kill this bird — I was very surprised," Forte says. "My wife was crying."

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"THERE was always a flicker of hope," even when the film seemed doomed, says director Dave Green, left, with actor Will Forte.

Considering the tribulations “Coyote vs. Acme” has overcome to finally reach theaters, it’s impossible not to see the parallels between what’s on screen and what transpired between the filmmakers and Warner Bros. (The studio reportedly rejected several offers from other companies interested in buying the film.)

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“It’s an underdog story about fighting the system and going up against a giant corporation,” says Green. “We could not have written it that way. We couldn’t have anticipated any of this.”

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Forte adds, “You can’t help but talk about David versus Goliath when talking about the journey that the characters take, and then you can just say the exact same thing about the journey the movie’s taking.”

Two other Warner Bros. movies, "Scoob! Holiday Haunt" and "Bat-girl," were written off when almost completed, but as of now, no one has come to their rescue.

“We were a random sacrifice,” says Burch. “We didn’t see it coming at all. That was the real relatable thing to Wile E. We really felt like we were following the plan and then something came out of the sky.”

The Looney Tunes are just too beloved to be locked away. They've endured for decades because their sharp sarcasm and clever comedy, whether physical or otherwise, still lands. Burch recalls test-screening reactions from young viewers, some of whom had never seen the original cartoons.

“They would ask the kids, ‘Do you know Bugs Bunny or the Looney Tunes?’ And sometimes the kids would say no, and that wouldn’t affect how they liked this movie or how they felt for Coyote and Roadrunner,” says Burch. “Hopefully this will be an entry point to some kids and then they can go back and catch up on the last 100 years.”

Green believes everyone who worked on “Coyote” surpassed expectations, not only because they trusted the screenplay and his vision, but out of their love for the Looney Tunes.

LAWYERS (Lana Condor and Will Forte, below) take on Wile E.'s suit against a corporation in the hybrid film "Coyote vs. Acme."

"People were feeling like they owed it to these characters to deliver for them," he says. "They really are legacy characters."

But not everything is whimsy and laughs when working with timeless cartoon stars. One of them, Green says, tends to steal the spotlight.

“Bugs is very difficult because he always has to be right and he is a trickster,” Green says. “He has movie star energy and, in a movie where we’re really trying to make a story about Wile E. Coyote first and foremost, anytime Bugs is mentioned or is in a scene, he has this electrifying force.”

"He's a major problem," Green adds solemnly, before cracking the slightest smile.

Owners may come and go, but that wascally wabbit stays.

BESTSELLERS

Fiction weeks on list 1. Whistler by Ann Patchett (Harper: \$30) A woman reconnects with her former stepfather at the Metropolitan Museum of Art decades after a traumatic event separated them.

2. The Calamity Club by 16 Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau: \$35) In 1933 Mississippi, a group of female friends forms a defiant bond.

3. Yesteryear by Caro 20 Claire Burke (Knopf: \$30) A "tradwife" influencer suddenly wakes up in the brutal world of 1855.

4. The Things We Never 16 Say by Elizabeth Strout (Random House: \$29) A life-altering event forces a high school teacher to confront hidden truths.

5. Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday: \$30) The Pulitzer Prize winner's Harlem trilogy concludes with one last heist that brings to life New York in the 1980s.

6. The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (Crown: \$28) A lifelong letter writer reckons with a painful past.

7. Etna by Paul Yoon (Scribner: \$28) After a devastating war, a military dog embarks on a journey home.

8. The Shampoo Effect 5 by Jenny Jackson (Pamela Dorman: \$30) A story of the dawn of midlife and a group of old friends finally growing up.

9. John of John by Douglas Stuart (Grove Press: \$28) A young man returns to his Hebridean island home to find little has changed.

10. Ransom by Daniel Silva (Harper: \$32) An art restorer and spy searches for the missing wife of a British billionaire.

Nonfiction

1. Strangers by Belle Burden (Dial Press: \$30) A woman explores her marriage, its end and the man she thought she knew.

2. The Success Lie by Chantell Preston (Resolve Editions: \$28) The growth strategist explains how women can build a life and career that actually fit their definition of success.

3. The Land and Its 1 People by David Sedaris (Little, Brown & Co.: \$30) A collection of essays on what it means to be a traveler, a brother, a lifelong friend.

4. Regime Change by 9 Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan (Simon & Schuster: \$34) The journalists chronicle the tumultuous first year of Donald Trump's second presidency.

5. London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe (Doubleday: \$35) A family uncovers their 19-year-old son's secret life in the London criminal underground after his sudden death.

6. This Is Me by Hayden Panettiere (Grand Central Publishing: \$30) The "Heroes" and "Nashville" star tells her story in a memoir released a few months before her death.

7. The Uncool by 15 Cameron Crowe (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster: \$35) The filmmaker recounts his wild experiences as a teenage music journalist.

8. How to Rule the World 11 by Theo Baker (Penguin Press: \$32) The investigative reporter details Stanford's troubled ties to Silicon Valley.

9. The Little Frog's Guide to Life by Maybell Eequay (Summersdale: \$12) A guide to help you move through your days with self-love and kindness.

10. The Creative Act by 154 Rick Rubin (Penguin Press: \$32) The legendary music producer on how to be a creative person.

Paperback bestsellers lists and more at latimes.com/bestsellers. Southern California bestsellers from CALIBA

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FOR THE RECORD

An article on readers' favorite book club picks in the Aug. 23 edition referred to author Raymond Bradbury. His name is Ray Bradbury.

Photographs from Birdman Photos / Saturday Morning Cartoons United Inc.

Doing it all for the love of animation

NONPROFIT SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS UNITED RELIES ON FANS OF THE ART FORM TO HELP THOSE IN NEED IN AN AILING INDUSTRY

BY MARAH EAKIN

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T'S GETTING tougher and tougher to make a living in animation, especially in Los Angeles.

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For years, animation work has moved over-

seas, major players have slashed jobs and AI has been a growing threat.

Amid the gloom, one local nonprofit group is working to celebrate iconic cartoons to support the animators of today — and remind people of the joy of animation.

With screenings, pop-ups and panels, Saturday Morning Cartoons United raises money to support those in need in the animation industry through groups like AnimAID and Legends Animated and emerging artists through grants it distributes via Silver Lake Shorts. It also works with other charities, like the Birthday Party Project, which helps families experiencing homelessness with supplies to give their children birthday parties.

Caro Buermann, who's worked in animation marketing for years, launched the group in the wake of the Eaton and Palisades fires, when it became clear that dozens of animators had either lost their homes or been displaced.

“Saturday Morning Cartoons United just came out of the love for this community that’s wanting to come together right now because people are having a hard time,” Buermann says, citing unemployment within the industry. “I’m not on the front lines of what’s going on in animation, but every day there’s a headline. … It’s crazy what’s going on right now, but we’re doing what we can.”

At the group's most recent event in early August — a 96th birthday party for the beloved cartoon diva Betty Boop — 1,400 toon lovers filled Glendale's Alex Theatre to watch restored big-screen Boop cartoons played amid performances from the Bob Baker Marionette Theater and the indie rock act Dressy Bessy. Comic, actor and voice artist Kate Micucci acted as MC while Sandy Fox — the voice of Boop from 1991 to 2022 — popped on and off stage alongside someone in a mascot-like Betty Boop costume.

"We need community in animation right now for artists, for voice actors and for all performers," said Miss Mae Marlowe, a Boop-inspired drag queen and animator who posed for photos with fans before the show in a coiffed black wig and spectator pumps. She attended the event because she loves Betty Boop, but also because of the burdens the animation industry faces. "It's important to celebrate animation and so any excuse we have seems pretty relevant at the moment."

After one of the first Saturday Morning Cartoons United events — a December 2025 presentation of the “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” Christmas special — raised almost \$50,000, Buermann knew

BETTY Boop voice actor Sandy Fox, top, with a fan. Saturday Morning Cartoons United founder Caro Buermann, center. Indie rock act Dressy Bessy performs at the birthday bash.

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that both the audience and the need were there to do more. She's since featured Care Bears, "FernGully" and the Pink Panther at events, and has plans for at least three more this year: a screening of "The Real Ghostbusters" cartoon at Dynasty Typewriter on Oct. 3, a "Hey Arnold!" reunion at the Los Feliz 3 on Oct. 17 and a large-scale Powerpuff Girls tribute on Nov. 7 at the Alex Theatre.

“We’re trying to go big or go home,” Buermann says, though she notes she’s also the charity’s only full-time staffer. Every dollar the group nets from events after expenses goes to the charities it supports. “We’re trying to raise as much as we can for the community and to make sure that our events are for everybody," she said, noting that fans of featured animated works and voice actors show up, sometimes with their kids and dogs.

Buermann says she tries to curate each event so that it's as much an experience or a celebration as it is a screening. There are photo ops and merch on-site, and often meet-and-greets with a cartoon's creators or voice actors at a higher price point.

"The question is always, 'When you have access to everything from your couch, why go anywhere?' and I get it. It takes effort," Buermann says. "But making that effort especially matters when it's directly benefiting people in our community."

Buermann licenses cartoons and shorts shown at each event, to check the boxes but also to gain industry respect and help with financial support. It's a challenging process, though, depending on the studio and if ownership of the property has changed hands since the cartoon first aired.

"Some of the studios just don't value these things," Buermann says of the events. "Strawberry Shortcake is a perfect example. We were really excited to do something with them, but they just didn't have the cartoons in the right resolution because they were so old. We've also tried to show old '80s and '90s toy and cereal commercials at our events and that's hard because they were never intended to be shown at that scale or they just don't exist in their original formats. And even if they do, it can be hard to find out who or what owns the rights to them."

With something like “Muppet Babies,” around which Saturday Morning Cartoons United has been trying to do an event, there can also be additional challenges based on the show’s content. “Just the opening of that show alone has references to both ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark,’ so screening it in a theater can be very complicated,” she explains.

But when an adult audience can connect with animation they loved as a kid or when a family can come and enjoy a show together on a big screen, in a way they never have before, Buermann says it can feel extremely special. At the Boop event, for instance, not only were there kids experiencing the cartoon for the first time, but Buermann also heard from several parents that, with the Dressy Bessy performance, it was their kids' first concert.

For Jane Fleischer Reid, granddaughter of Betty Boop co-creator Max Fleischer and creator of Fabulous Fleischer Cartoons Restored, working with Buermann on Boop's birthday party was “delightful” and edifying.

"It's heartwarming to me to see my grandfather's work enjoyed by new audiences," says Fleischer Reid. "For me and for many people, animation isn't just fun, silly stuff. It's art. As an adult, when I started looking at my grandfather's work and understanding how much artistic consideration went into those cartoons, it was kind of mind-blowing. Art speaks to every individual in a different way, and that's something we desperately need right now."

Tammy Ealom, who fronts Dressy Bessy, says when she was a kid, she'd sing Betty Boop songs in the car with her grandmother, who, like Boop, tended to wear high heels that looked like they were a size too small.

"I remember going to the mall and having to buy every single oversized sweatshirt with Betty Boop's image when I was younger, but I also see her now as a sort of gracious feminist," Ealom says. "She'll let you be you, but if you cross a line with her, you're going to get a heel up your ass. She's like this tough, no-nonsense woman who's not afraid to be herself and to not apologize for it and I can relate to that."

Motivating a new generation of animators and storytellers also fuels Buermann. “Looney Tunes” inspired “The Flintstones,” which in turn inspired “The Simpsons,” which inspired “Rick and Morty,” and so on.

"Not to share a lady's age, but Betty Boop's 96 and we're still talking about her," Buermann says. "So what is it about these characters that stand the test of time? I think it's because cartoons and characters can emotionally resonate through generations, and that's why I think that the creators that they inspire now are going to be responsible for the future of entertainment."

Los Angeles Times WEEKEND

SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 2026

Adults need happy meals too

Illustrations by LINDSEY MADE THIS; photograph by JESSE GRANT Getty Images for Disney

SUNDAY FUNDAY

HOW TO HAVE THE BEST SUNDAY IN L.A., ACCORDING TO ROY CHOI

HIS PERFECT DAY WOULD INCLUDE TIME WITH HIS DOGS, A TRIP TO THE FARMERS MARKET AND FOOD, FOOD AND MORE FOOD INCLUDING LOBSTER NOODLES, SPICY TOFU AND MOVIE THEATER POPCORN

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HEF ROY CHOI, one of the founders of the food-truck movement, says his Kogi BBQ business could only have started in Los Angeles, a city where food boundaries don't exist and street culture brings people together. ¶ Choi, who was born in Seoul, grew up in an immigrant family that bounced from Koreatown to West Los Angeles. "Especially with Asian immigrant families, you live together, you share duplexes, you share houses, and you go through all those iterations until you get your own apartment, you rent your own house, and you finally, hopefully, get to a point where you buy your own house," Choi says. "It took my family about 13, 14 years to get to that stage, but they figured it out." ¶ It was November 2008 when Choi, with partners

Mark Manguera and Caroline Shin-Manguera, rolled out the first Kogi truck with Korean BBQ tacos, using Twitter to announce where they'd be. The business grew to include several trucks, a catering operation, a bar, the Alibi Room, and his latest restaurant, Best Friend! at the Park MGM Las Vegas. ¶ Choi, who lives in Koreatown, says his blend of Korean and Mexican cuisine is an homage to the street culture he grew up in. Today, the chef's perfect Sunday is a foodie's dream — sampling food from around L.A. by driving to different parts of the city, and savoring his alone time the entire day.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

6:30 A.M.
WAKE UP AND
WALK THE DOGS
I have two dogs, so I take them out to do their business. Then you got to walk them a little bit. You got to give them coochie-coos, and that's my workout. Some people go to the gym or do yoga. I play with my dogs.

8 A.M.

CHECK OUT THE HOLLYWOOD FARMERS MARKET The Farmers Market is the first thing on my agenda. I try to do the Hollywood Farmers Market on Sunday, and that's my breakfast. All the free samples, you know? I don't eat the traditional three squares a day. I'm like the Thai, who eat eight meals a day, snacking throughout the day. At the farmers market, breakfast is maybe three oranges, two apples, a basket of strawberries, half a melon and two

peaches. After that, I'll shoot over to Los Feliz and go to Maru Coffee and get either a cortado or the espresso, because it comes with a little sparkling water, and a croissant. The whole set is really serene and Zen-like. Then I'll get a matcha latte to go.

10 A.M. VISIT WITH THE VENDORS AT SMORGASBURG From there, I'll hit Smorgasburg L.A., the largest open-air food market in town. My friend Zach Brooks runs it on Sundays. I love seeing all the vendors because I'm a street-food cook. I love meeting young entrepreneurs with their booths. They're just full of joy and energy. It inspires me, so it's like a natural spring well of water that I go to every Sunday. That's where I get my spiritual pick-me-up. There, I'll hit up a couple of vendors and maybe get a shawarma and lobster noodles.

NOON

HEAD OVER TO BOYLE HEIGHTS Next, I'll go to East L.A., Boyle Heights. It depends on what I'm craving, but usually I'll end up at Burritos La Palma, which is a stand, and Mariscos Jalisco, which is a truck. They're a block and a half away from each other, so I'll get a refried beans-and-cheese burrito from La Palma. They're called burritos, but they're rolled tacos. Then at Mariscos, I'll get their shrimp tacos, which is not a soft taco. It's a fried taco. That's like my Sunday brunch.

1 P.M.

TO TORRANCE Then I love to drive south. I've been places there my whole life. I'd roam Gardena and Torrance, eating soba, udon and tempura. I used to mob all throughout Carson, eating Hawaiian food. So I'll head for Old Torrance and do another double-header with Kagura for katsu, and I'll hit Tendon Tempura Carlos Jr. for soba or tendon. I'll do that back-to-back because they're right down the street from each other. From there, I'll stop and roam around a bit at Del Amo Fashion Center, just to walk it off.

2:30 P.M. MOVE FARTHER SOUTH TO SAN PEDRO I'll drive to San Pedro, hit the Korean Bell of Friendship and just chill for awhile. I love to drive across the two bridges [Vincent Thomas as Bridge and Long Beach International Gateway] from San Pedro to Long Beach. That's like my hobby because there are not many chances in L.A. that you get to drive across bridges of that magnitude.

4 P.M.

DRIVE WEST FOR ALMOND MILK TEA After that, I'll shoot over to the west, get to Volcano Tea House on Sawtelle for some almond milk tea. The flavor of the milk tea, the atmosphere on Sawtelle, the street, and the punch card at Volcano Tea House makes it special there. Every 10th drink is free!

Or I might grab a quick strawberry or peanut butter smoothie from Main Squeeze in Santa Monica, then go see the sunset.

KOREATOWN Then I'll shoot back up to Koreatown and get dinner. I like the sun-dubu-jjigae, spicy tofu stew at Surawon Tofu House.

Or I'll go to Myung Dong Kyoja, a.k.a. MDK, for the chicken kalguksu to get my slurp on.

Asian restaurants don't serve dessert, so I'll go to Anko for some shaved ice.

9 P.M.

TAKE IN A MOVIE I like the Regal Sherman Oaks Galleria theater. I'll get a pop- corn with butter in the middle and the top, and a blueberry and cherry Icee. Then, after the movie, you need ice cream, right? So I'll probably hit the Van Leeuwen Ice Cream in Studio City if it's still open. Late night, I like to eat soft serve versus scooped ice cream. I like scooped ice cream dur- ing the day.

ZONE OUT AND DOOMSCROLL I probably won't go to bed for another three hours, so I'll just be zoning out. If I'm watch- ing TV, I'd be catching up on "Andor" Season 2. But I'd probably be doomscrolling on the phone. So if you want to DM me, DM me between midnight and 3 a.m. To me, a beautiful Sunday is having "me time," being connected to the universe and others, but having your own little bubble to maneuver through it.

PLANTS

THEY CREATED A LUSH YARD OF NATIVE PLANTS

WHEN THIS DEL REY COUPLE MARRIED, THEY ASKED THEIR WEDDING GUESTS FOR PLANTS FOR CHATEAU CHAPARRAL

Photographs by DANIA MAXWELL For The Times
BY PEDRO MOURA

HEN PHOEBENOVACK AND Brian Aggrey married in 2023, they eschewed a traditional registry for household luxuries or a modern honeymoon fund. Instead, they requested plants — dozens and dozens of them. They invited their friends and family to sponsor the native perennials they had been preparing to plant since they bought their Del Rey home in 2021. Because they drained their savings buying and fixing up the house, they needed the cash infusions to fund the flora. They also thought the registry could be a cute way to spark interest in the plants. That hunch has proved correct. “People remember,” Novack said. “They’ll come over and they’ll be like, ‘I see the oak tree’s doing well.’ Garden installation began in pieces in 2022 and in earnest in early 2023. Three years on, Novack and Aggrey’s garden has become an aromatic, restful ode to Southern California’s coastal chaparral plant community. There are many manzanitas and one sizable coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia). There is a seasonal meadow of two dozen native wildflowers, and a year-round spectacle of sandaster (Corethrogyne filaginifolia) commandeers much of the front yard. But the unexpected, undeniable centerpiece is their backyard’s strikingly lush, drought-tolerant native lawn that invites people and pets alike to unwind.

PHOEBE NOVACK and BRIAN AGGREY

THEIR yard includes red buckwheat, from top, coyote mint and a fescue blend of Idahoensis fescue, Molate fescue and Western Mokelumne fescue.

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In each of the last two springs, the Theodore Payne Foundation's annual native garden tour has featured the home Novack and Aggrey have christened Chateau Chaparral. Tour guests have come from all over Southern California to see the lawn for themselves.

“People love this,” Novack said as she stood in the garden last month. “I would say this is the No. 1 thing that people like the best.”

The lawn, which they irrigate twice weekly, is a blend of three locally native fescues: Idahoensis fescue (Festuca idahoensis), Molate fescue (Festuca rubra), and Western Mokelumne fescue (Festuca occidentalis). Soils Solutions, based in Camarillo, creates the mix for what the company calls “a flowing native California meadow aesthetic.” It’s sold as a sod available to landscape professionals and homeowners.

Novack and Aggrey, who are both 35, installed the sod in February 2023 with the help of landscapers Carlos Díaz and Miguel Garcia. They were under strict instructions from Soils Solutions to avoid trampling the new lawn for six months.

That meant an August 2023 wedding celebration held at their home was the first time anyone stepped foot on the fescue. It was quite a way to formally introduce their new garden.

Before it earned the moniker Chateau Chaparral, the property featured mostly concrete, invasive grasses and succulents. They invited the neighbors to dig up the succulents and take them home. They hired a crew

PHOEBE NOVACK and BRIAN AGGREY

to jackhammer away much of the concrete and replace it with crushed black lava rock from C&M Topsoil. And they set out to replace the invasive grasses with natives, all procured from the Theodore Payne Foundation in Sun Valley. Together, the changes yielded a larger transformation than they imagined.

"When we moved in and everything was concrete, it was really loud because the sound would bounce off the wall and the floor, and our garage would flood all the time," Novack said. "When we changed it to permeable material, it absorbed the sound and made everything a lot quieter and a lot cooler too."

They said the total cost to tear out and redo their front and back yards was \$20,000, excluding house and structure upgrades. They recouped just over half of the cost, \$11,000, from their native plant wedding registry.

Novack grew up nearby, where gardening, albeit with nonnative plants like gladiolus, had been an essential part of her childhood. At her and Aggrey's last rental home, she had experimented with growing plants in their tiny yard. She also began volunteering with TreePeople and attending classes at the Theodore Payne Foundation, including a three-part garden design course taught by director of horticulture Tim Becker. Her inspiration to create Chateau Chaparral started there.

As they enjoyed their garden last month, Aggrey reminded Novack that he wasn't particularly enthused about the whole native plants idea when she first broached it. He was more familiar with nonnative L.A. classics like bougainvillea and palm trees.

"When you started talking about it," Aggrey told Novack, "I was like, 'What are these plants? I don't know if I believe any of this.'

She nodded as he spoke. It wasn't just him.

"People were really against it," Novack said. "They were like, 'It's not gonna be easy. It's all gonna die.'"

Some plants have perished. They're not afraid to admit that. On occasion, they've even had to share that unwelcome news with friends who sponsored plant purchases.

“Sometimes, people will ask us, ‘Oh, how are my apricot mallows [Sphaeralcea ambigua] doing?’ ” Novack said. “We’ve gotta be like, ‘They all died!’ ”

But many more have thrived. Before planting began, Novack took careful measurements across the 3,022 square feet of garden, spanning the front and side yards and backyard. She calculated for the mature size of each plant they installed.

Even so, some have already outgrown those computations. In the front yard, one beautiful Coyote bush (Baccharis pilularis) has seized much of the visual space. They plan to prune it soon.

"There's definitely ones where they're growing bigger than expected," Novack said.

The backyard features the native lawn and many local native favorites, including six species of manzanita (Arc-

BRIAN Aggrey and Phoebe Novack have transformed their backyard, above, as well as upgraded their front yard with plants such as Elegant clarkia (Clarkia unguiculata), top. They bought their home in 2021 and turned the conventional backyard with grass and concrete, below left and right, into a native plant sanctuary.

tostaphylos), multiple monkeyflowers (Diplacus aurantiacus, Diplacus Jelly Bean Gold'), and a vibrant Catalina currant (Ribes viburnifolium). But the front yard is the more influential space, as neighbors increasingly stop by with queries.

In their parkway, too, Novack and Aggrey have sprinkled seeds from about two dozen native wildflowers. Once their spring blooms are complete, Aggrey meticulously collects the seed pods from the clarkias, gilias and phacelias, processes the seeds and packages them for gifting before the subsequent spring.

"It's my favorite present to give people," Aggrey said. "This is a piece of my garden here."

The couple have fallen in love with different parts of their garden. Novack is all about the smells and the birds and insects the plants have recruited to visit the garden. Aggrey cherishes the manzanitas. They planted three at first and then three more after what Aggrey described as a clamorous campaign.

"I'm hoping that one day they grow into giant old twisted trunks," he said.

On their native-plant journey, Novack and Aggrey have converted many of their family and friends to the movement. One key holdout still remains: Novack's mother, the old-school gardener.

While they figure out their next attempt, they have more plans for their space.

They envision adding plants that can handle a soaking to the bioswales they built in both the front and back. They plan to put plants into the built-in containers above their backyard cisterns. And they haven't given up hope on finding a place for an apricot mallow to thrive.

Water-hungry lawns are symbols of Los Angeles' past. In this series, we spotlight yards with alternative, low-water landscaping built for the future.

CHEF Keith Corbin at Alta Adams in West Adams, left. On the menu: black-eyed peas salad, below; roasted cabbage; and duck leg confit with mole sauce.

Photographs by CHIARA ALEXA For The Times

Review JENN HARRIS RESTAURANT CRITIC

A new spark at Alta Adams

CHEF KEITH CORBIN RECALIBRATES HIS SOUTHERN-INFLECTED COOKING THROUGH AN ANGELENO LENS

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OW DOES A CHEF breathe new life into a restaurant with a deeply established identity after nearly a decade? Keith Corbin started with a bowl of black-eyed peas. When Corbin opened Alta Adams with former partner Daniel Patterson in 2018, the two billed the West Adams restaurant as California soul cooking. The menu was a distillation of Corbin's Watts upbringing and a celebration of Black foodways, with inspired riffs on oxtails over rice, some of the best fried chicken in the city, and collard greens supercharged with vinegar and smoked oil in place of the more traditional ham hocks. Earlier this year, Corbin closed Alta Adams for three months to recalibrate, spending that time traveling and cooking through Mexico and Europe, and competing on the Padma Lakshmi-hosted cooking competition "America's Culinary Cup." He reopened in May with a menu that leans deeper into something I'd pinpoint as Angeleno cooking. The Southern soul food bent hasn't disappeared; instead, it's seamlessly intertwined like a much loved prequel to each dish on the menu.

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Alta Adams

5359 West Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, (323) 571-4999, altaadams.com Prices: Raw and starters \$13-\$48, salad and vegetables \$22-\$36, from the fire \$24-\$54, entrees \$38-\$75, desserts \$22-\$26. Details: Open for dinner 5 to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Valet and street parking. Recommended dishes: Black-eyed pea salad; Suya-spiced bone marrow; fire-roasted cabbage; confit duck leg; wood-grilled half chicken; banana split. To drink: Full bar and a short list of wines that incorporates a few sparkling, white, rose and skin contact and red varietals.

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To understand Corbin's evolution, order the black-eyed peas. After spending years transforming the peas into golden fritters at the restaurant, Corbin now presents them as a salad. The beans are braised until tender and creamy, tossed in lime juice that zips around the bowl. Fresno chiles are perky with heat, while cilantro mimics the bright herbaceousness of a fresh salsa. Bits of crisp shredded ham hock act as porky croutons you fish out like buried treasure.

Whatever else lands on the table, your spoon will find its way back to the black-eyed peas.

“Black-eyed peas are important for me, because it’s a dish that represents survival,” says Corbin, referencing the ingredient’s history as a primary source of nutrition for enslaved Africans during the colonial period, and for soldiers and civilians in the South during the Civil War. “But it’s something that can be elevated and stand amongst all these other diets and ingredients.”

Survival is a fitting theme for a restaurant that has shape-shifted numerous times over the past eight years in search of solid ground, and for a chef whose own story of perseverance is ever present in his cooking. Corbin's culinary career began two years after a prison release, and with no formal training. He secured a job cooking at Locol, Patterson and Roy Choi's community-focused restaurant in Watts. He and Patterson went on to open Alta Adams, and though Patterson stepped away from the partnership in 2025, the two still run the Alta Community nonprofit together.

Alta Adams 2.0 still feels like a place grounded in its community. The nightly crowd is one of the most diverse in the city, mirroring Corbin's ongoing mission to establish new connections between the cultures and cuisines of Los Angeles, and to create a new identity for himself outside of the constraints of traditional soul food.

This is partly what propels his mole demi-glace, a convergence of inspirations realized in a duck and smoked chicken stock sharpened by the foundational components of mole. The stocks are combined into an umami-blasted reduction over a multi-day process with pepitas,

ALTA Adams reopened with a fresh take on Keith Corbin's Angeleno cooking, with inspiration and influences from all over the world.

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raisins, tomatoes, carrots, onions, chiles, star anise and cinnamon, then finished with Mexican chocolate, black garlic, molasses and vinegar. The resulting sauce is glossy enough to spy your reflection in its jet black depths, refined yet powerful with its distinct wallop of deep, earthy flavors. You drag the duck leg confit through the sauce, interchanging bites with the crispy potatoes that crowd the plate.

Corbin uses cabbage as an anchor in his new and expanding Rolodex of flavors, thrusting it into the fire until the outer layers are blackened and frizzled. He paints the leaves with a mixture of harissa and miso, marrying the warmth of the North African chile paste beautifully with the salinity of the fermented Japanese condiment. The cabbage wedge sits over a fluffy whip of tahini and labneh, all served beneath a crush of peanuts.

While I'm still reeling from the disappearance of Corbin's excellent fried chicken, I've found solace in the new grilled chicken, marinated in a tagine spice and the chef's signature brisket rub. The chicken hits with a peppery snap, citrusy and resinous with a trace of fenugreek lurking in the background. But the char and sweet, caramelized edges register as Southern barbecue.

Corbin mined the flavor profile of West African pepper soup for his roasted bone marrow with flatbread. The bones are covered in a sandy bacon jam hot with suya spice heightened with West African black pepper. They're finished with a West African nutmeg vinaigrette lush with African palm oil.

Bar director Madeline Mc-Quillan oversees the new beverage program, highlighting spirits and ingredients from Mexico, West Africa and Asia. Libations lean sweet, with drinks like the Sweet Corn, made with Baby Jane heirloom corn bourbon and corn syrup. And the Peaches and Pea, a drink that teeters on the edge of cloying, heavy-handed with peach oleosaccharum.

If you prefer to reserve your sugar spike for the end of dinner, splurge on the \$26 banana split. It's an homage to the neighborhood ice cream trucks Corbin frequented as a kid. He prepares his own banana and chocolate ice creams, scooped onto a plate with brûléed bananas, bourbon miso caramel and crunchy shards of pecan brittle. I don't know what Corbin was eating on his ice cream truck, but it must have been better than anything on mine.

In its latest iteration, Alta Adams isn't just surviving, it's hitting its stride. And with Corbin's new direction, the restaurant feels like a love letter to the city that gave him the opportunity to thrive.

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LEARN THIS BASIC SKILL AND NEVER MAKE A BAD SALAD AGAIN

ONCE YOU UNDERSTAND THE BALANCE BETWEEN FAT AND ACIDITY IN A BASIC VINAIGRETTE, YOU CAN MAKE ANY DRESSING YOU LIKE. BY CODY REISS

LOT OF SALADS SUCK. Whether you're eating a prepackaged Cobb from your favorite grocery store, a conveyor-belt kale Caesar from a fast-casual joint, or a green salad at a friend's dinner party (sorry, friend) — it is maddeningly rare to encounter a truly great, delicious salad. When the average person eats a bad salad — whether it's dull, under- or over-dressed, or just lacking life, tension or depth — they might be quick to think: I don't like salads. Or: Salads, in general, suck.

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But that's not true. Salads can be incredibly exciting and nourishing. The problem is rarely the lettuce, and it's probably not the mix-ins. No. It is the dressing. Luckily, there is one fundamental principle at the core of every good salad dressing. Master it, and you might never have to make (or eat) a bad salad ever again.

That principle is:

Balance.

A basic vinaigrette is a balancing act between acidity and fat. Salt and other flavorings also play their part, but acidity and fat are your foundation. Add too much vinegar and the dressing goes out of balance one way. Add too much oil and it goes out of balance the other way.

If you put only vinegar on salad greens, they would taste electric, but intense. Only olive oil, rich but flat. Only salt, tasty but incomplete. Only garlic — blegh.

Combine them all in your preferred proportions, however, and you end up with something bright, rich and delicious.

Fat: In this case, olive oil. The fat is a lubricator and an enricher. It gives the dressing body and a savory counterbalance to the vinegar.

Acidity: Here, red wine vinegar. The acidity provides a sour, electric brightness. It makes the dressing taste “alive” and exciting to eat.

Salt: Makes the lettuces taste more like themselves and the dressing taste “good,” turning up the volume knob on the complex flavors of the rest of the ingredients.

Other stuff: In a basic vinaigrette, this is often Dijon mustard, garlic and black pepper. All three add their own pungent, savory piquancy. The garlic (or any other allium) is macerated in the vinegar to mellow some of its inherent raw “bite,” while the mustard acts as an emulsifier, helping hold the opposing forces of oil and vinegar together.

Finding your balance So where do we begin?

I'd recommend starting with a classic ratio of one part acidity (vinegar) to three parts fat (olive oil).

From there, your job is to mix, taste, think and adjust, adding more vinegar or oil until you reach your own ideal balance.

When I was learning to balance dressings at Chez Panisse, a fellow cook taught me a trick: When she tasted her vinaigrette, she knew it was in a good place if she could feel a slight burn in

her throat.

Try to clue into these sensory experiences — they're helpful markers on your journey to understand balance intuitively. If your mouth puckers, the dressing is too sour, and if there's no burn at all, there's probably too much fat.

Taste, think, adjust.

Then, dunk a leaf into it and keep adjusting the dressing until you like the way it tastes.

When it's right, I'll get that subtle burn in my throat, a hint of the mustard's pungency, a lingering perfume of the garlic and enough seasoning from the salt to think: "yum."

I'd say the most common dressing mistakes are not having enough acidity or salt.

An even more basic version of this dressing is the old “drizzle some olive oil, squeeze some lemon, and sprinkle some salt over your greens or vegetables” trick that calls to mind breezy fantasy lunches on the Mediterranean Sea.

That totally works, and seasoning things simply with olive oil, lemon and salt is a very worthy skill to nurture — just know that, without an emulsifier like mustard, you might quickly end up with oil-slicked leaves and a shallow pool of lemon at the bottom of your bowl.

A basic vinaigrette recipe As you hone your dressing making and acidity balancing skills, I'd like to give you a generalized vinaigrette recipe to help you conceptualize the ratio.

The ratio is just a starting point. It can change depending on your taste and preferred ingredients. Some vinegars are more acidic than others, and sometimes you might want to make a slightly brighter vinaigrette, perhaps to avoid overdressing delicate greens like arugula.

Use this recipe as a guide:

$\frac{1}{4}$ cup acidic liquid (lemon or lime juice and wine vinegars are great)

1 small allium (perhaps a shallot, minced, or a half clove of garlic, finely grated on a Microplane)

Small quantity of potential extra flavorings: Dijon mustard, chopped soft herbs (parsley, basil, dill, etc.), citrus zest, spices (black pepper, ground cumin or fennel), heat (chile flakes, hot sauce). Salt

$^{3/4}$ cup of fat (nice olive oil, a blend of olive oil and neutral oil or sesame oil)

1 Prepare your dressing in a jar with a lid, so that you can easily shake the dressing to emulsify. Add the juice or vinegar, your allium, a small spoonful of mustard (if using) and a healthy pinch of salt to the jar. Shake, and set aside for 10 to 20 minutes while you prepare your salad.

2 Add in three times as much fat as the acid you started with. Shake thoroughly, and give it a taste.

3 Consider your salt. If it doesn't make you want to dip a piece of lettuce into it, add small pinches of salt, shake, and taste until it does. If you add too much salt, and the dressing tastes salty, add more acid and oil to dilute the salinity while still keeping the acidity in balance.

4 Add any additional flavorings you like.

5 Shake the dressing, and taste again. Is the salt and acidity level still good? If not, adjust. Shake the dressing, then dip a leaf of lettuce or vegetable into it and give it a taste. Still tasty? If not, continue adjusting until it is. Then: You're ready to make your salad.

Once you understand the balance at work in this general recipe, you've unlocked so much more than a basic vinaigrette. As you get more comfortable, I encourage you to ditch the measuring spoons and try to make your dressings by sight and taste. The more you rely on your senses, the more intuitive your cooking becomes.

You can create endless variations, building dressings around what's at the market and what you have on hand.

Olive oil can become a mixture of grapeseed and sesame oil. Red vinegar can become rice wine vinegar. Salt can become soy sauce. Shallots can replace garlic. And all sorts of additional flavorings — like fresh herbs, citrus zest, spices or ginger — can take the dressing in completely different directions.

The ingredients and amounts can change, but the final balance stays the same.

This article originally appeared in The Times' Cooking newsletter. To subscribe, visit latimes.com/newsletters.

Pancetta, Tomato and Pickled Pepper Vinaigrette

25 minutes. Makes 2 cups.

One hot August day several years ago when I was living in New York City, I stuffed my backpack full of produce I'd bought at the Union Square Farmers Market, including a big plastic bag of ripe summer tomatoes. After biking over the bridge back to Brooklyn, I discovered my bag of tomatoes had turned into a juicy heirloom mush. I scrapped my previous BLT plans and decided I would turn my busted tomatoes into a dressing for pasta salad.

I used what I had on hand — the liquid from some peppers I'd pickled, a chunk of feta, some garlic and shallot and a few herbs from the garden — and the resulting dressing was a revelation. It was bright, salty, summery, rich, sweet, savory and just a delight to eat. This was the first dressing I'd made without a recipe, and it made me reflect on what a vinaigrette actually is.

A vinaigrette is a balancing act between fat, acidity, salt and additional flavorings, with the foundation of the dressing being the relationship between fat and acidity. In my recent cooking newsletter, I suggest a ratio of one part vinegar to three parts olive oil as a good starting point for a basic vinaigrette. The below recipe is a great example of how that ratio changes as you substitute different ingredients. Here, the tomato brings enough body and the pancetta enough richness that the actual ratio is closer to three parts vinegar (in this case, pickled pepper liquid and vinegar) to two parts olive oil. For a vegetarian version, consider substituting pancetta for rinsed and chopped capers along with a bit more olive oil.

The ingredients change, but the balance stays the same. Your dressing should be bright enough to feel a tingle in the back of your throat, rich with fat and seasoned with salt until delicious. I encourage you to use this recipe as a guide and to practice making your dressings by sight and taste. The more you rely on your senses, the more intuitive your cooking becomes. This vinaigrette is great on pasta salad, dribbled over sliced tomatoes, and would probably be awesome on a BLT. Save the rendered pancetta fat for future use! I was cooking a chicken when I made this recipe, so I tossed my potatoes and onions in the fat and placed them below my chicken before roasting.

I end up making a dressing like this whenever I have damaged tomatoes and, to this day, I still can't seem to get home from the market without at least one.

4 ounces pancetta, diced

1 shallot

1 garlic

$^{1}/_{3}$ cup pepperoncini

$^{1}/_{4}$ cup pepperoncini pickling liquid

$^{1}/_{4}$ cup red wine vinegar

$^{1}/_{3}$ cup parsley leaves

1 ripe summer tomato, cut in half horizontally

$^{1}/_{3}$ cup olive oil

$^{1}/_{4}$ teaspoon kosher salt

1 Put the pancetta in a cold skillet, and set over medium-low heat. Cook until much of the fat has rendered and the pancetta is golden brown and crispy, about 20 minutes.

2 Meanwhile, mince the shallot, grate the garlic with a Microplane, finely chop the pickled peppers and place all three into a jar. Add the pickled pepper liquid and vinegar to the jar, swirl to coat the vegetables and allow to macerate while the pancetta finishes cooking. Finely chop your parsley, and grate your tomatoes into a bowl, being careful of your fingers and leaving behind just the skin, which you can discard.

3 Using a fork or a slotted spoon, remove the pancetta from the pan and add it to the jar along with the parsley, grated tomato, olive oil and salt.

4 Cover the jar with a lid and shake well to combine. Taste the vinaigrette and consider the balance. Is there enough salt? Can you feel a slight burn in your throat from the acidity? Is it rich with olive oil? Taste and adjust until the answer to all of these questions is yes.

5 Dip a piece of whatever you are going to dress into the vinaigrette, and take a bite. Still tasty? If not, adjust as needed to keep the whole bite bright, rich, seasoned and balanced. If so, you're ready to dress.

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Treat yourself with 16 adult happy meals

RESTAURANTS AND BARS ACROSS LOS ANGELES ARE TEMPTING GUESTS TO COME OUT ON SLOW DAYS AND OFF HOURS WITH DISCOUNTED BURGER AND COCKTAIL COMBOS

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BY DANIELLE DORSEY

HE BEST PART OF A Happy Meal is the toy that comes with your food. But now that you're all grown up, you might be looking for a different type of treat. In an effort to fill seats during off hours and typically slow nights, L.A.'s restaurants and bars are tempting patrons with discounted burger combos that replace toys with cocktails. It's an adult take on a kid's Happy Meal. These deals also address a growing concern among restaurant-goers regarding the price of dining out, a cost that has risen in recent years due to factors such as increased minimum wage, rising rents and inflated food costs. And because it's L.A., you can expect global interpretations of the classic comfort dish, including a Mexico City-inspired hamburguesa that's turned a Monday industry night into a citywide destination, a New York-founded Korean restaurant serving a short-rib burger with gochujang aioli and a French-hued take with cognac sauce and optional fondue. Treats

— er, drinks — run the gamut from classic martinis and house wine to margaritas, ice-cold beer and makgeolli. Often overlapping with happy hour, be sure to take note of the specific days and hours each deal is offered. ¶ Here are 16 burger-and-drink combos for those times your inner kid needs an adult happy meal.

AMERICAN BEAUTY — THE GROVE

Cap off a shopping trip or pre-game a movie at the Grove with this daily deal from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Sidle up to the bar and take your pick from one of the half-off Burger Hour offerings, including a steakhouse burger (\$13 instead of \$26) on a house-baked kaiser bun with Swiss cheese, an ahi tuna burger (\$14.50 instead of \$29) with pickled daikon and yuzu kosho aioli and the same double cheeseburger (\$9 instead of \$18) that's sold at the walk-up win-

dow next door.

All burgers come with a generous portion of shoestring fries. Pair that with a dirty martini for \$10, or enjoy a glass of wine filled to the brim for the same price. Note that American Beauty has another location in Venice, but this deal is exclusive to the Grove.

● 189 The Grove Drive, Los Angeles, (323) 955-0650, americanbeauty.la/the-grove

BAR SINIZKI

This Atwater Village bistro evokes Eastern Europe with pierogis, Czech-style fried Swiss cheese and Balkan salads served for lunch and dinner. Stop by weekdays between 3 and 5 p.m. to take advantage of Bar Sinizki's burger-and-cock-tail pairing for \$25. The bistro burger features a thick beef patty topped with New School American cheese and caramelized onions on a Bub & Grandma's potato bun, with a pickle spear and natural-cut fries served on the side. You can choose any cocktail from the classic-leaning list, like the Hemingway in Peru with rum, pisco, maraschino liqueur, grapefruit liqueur and grapefruit juice.

• 3147 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, (323) 284-8419, sinizki.com

BELLE'S DELICATESSEN AND BAR

The bagel pop-up turned full-blown delicatessen and cocktail bar has become a Monday-night destination thanks to its weekly burger night. A burger, your choice of thick or thin French

fries and a pickle martini is \$25 — skip the martini to reduce the price to \$15. The deal runs from 5 to 9:30 p.m., with additional happy hour deals from 5 to 6 p.m., like thick-cut fries topped with pastrami, American cheese, grilled onions and Russian dressing for \$12 and a tiki-inspired Coco Cabana cocktail with tequila, lime, coconut cream and mango for the same price. Rumor has it that if you ask nicely, the bar will substitute a pickle martini for a wet one.

- 5022 York Blvd., Los Angeles, bellesbagels.com

BUVETTE

The menu at this cozy Sherman Oaks wine bar is typically limited to charcuterie, toasties, salads and dips, but on Tuesdays it expands to include an adult happy meal with a classic cheeseburger, fries and choice of martini or a glass of wine for \$25. The discount runs until close and seating is limited — try visiting outside of the dinner rush to minimize your wait. • 15005 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks, buvettela.com, @buvettela

COUCOU

Kick off your week at Bar Coucou, where \$38 gets you a choice of martini (dirty, vesper, cosmo or espresso) and the burger Americaine that's stacked with a Wagyu patty, caramelized onions, red pepper and a tangle of frisée on a toasted brioche bun slicked with cognac "everything" sauce and speared with cornichons. Add house-made fondue to take it over the top. The Monday deal is available at all locations of the American-French bistro, including outposts in Venice and West Hollywood. ● 1131 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, (424) 237-2024, coucou.la, @bar.coucou

DADA

This adult happy meal is one of the few that overlaps with the weekend. On Thursday through Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m., the hidden restaurant tucked behind Sunset Boulevard offers a burger and fries with your choice of wine, Calidad cerveza or nonalcoholic beer for \$24. The house burger features a thick Wagyu or veggie patty, aged cheddar and caramelized onions on a Bub & Grandma's bun. Make sure to enter via the back alley and not the market side, which has a separate menu.

• 1606 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, dadaechopark.com, @dadaechopark

EVERSON ROYCE BAR

After more than a decade in operation, Everson Royce is one of the Arts District's landmark bars, known for its spacious back patio, playful cocktails and an elevated menu of classic bar foods, including a crowd-favorite burger with a chuck patty, cheddar and Di-jonnaise on an egg brioche bun. Happy hour runs Tuesday through Sunday from 4 to 6 p.m., with a burger and fries combo for \$14 and discounted cocktails like the Bee Sting with tequila, honey, lemon and a spicy tincture for \$11. For even

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greater savings, try the nachos or fried cauliflower with a sweet chili dipping sauce for \$8. • 1936 E. 7th St., Los Angeles, (213) 335-6166, erbla.com, @eversonroycebar

FRANKLIN LOUNGE

Tucked off the parking lot entrance to the Hollywood Franklin Hotel, the hidden speakeasy formerly known as Lily's Bar rebranded as Franklin Lounge earlier this summer, with bar manager Cass Calwaystein helming a new cocktail menu that features playful riffs on classic drinks, like a caipirinha with coconut cream and rotating martinis such as the Garden Variety with cucumber- and bell pepper-infused vodka. Culinary director Jesse Furman conceived the bar's lone main course: a thick-patty burger draped with melted aged cheddar on a Clark Street bun. The burger is available a la carte for \$18, or you can add a martini for \$28 total. A side of fries is an additional \$6. The best part? The deal can be ordered any time. On Wednesdays, martini hour extends all night long, with a classic version offered for \$12 and rotating specials like the Cafe de Canela (vodka, espresso, Mr. Black's, Licor 43, cinnamon syrup) for \$14. ● 6/41 Franklin Ave., Los Angeles, @franklinlounge

HOJOKBAN

The New York-founded Korean restaurant has a handful of happy hour pairings available Monday through Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m., including truffle potato jeon with a glass of

makgeolli (rice wine) and fried chicken with a bottle of Korean beer for \$15. But if you're craving a burger, you can get one with a short rib patty, whole-grilled onions and gochujang aioli served alongside cucumber and jalapeño pickles for \$16 — order the entire thing drenched in a messy Mornay cheese sauce for \$8 more. If you go the burger route, you can pair it with a glass of makgeolli or sparkling wine for \$10.

- 734 E. 3rd St., Los Angeles, (213) 785-3400, hojokban.com/los-angeles/home, @hojokban

JOEY

The New American restaurant chain with locations in downtown L.A., Manhattan Beach and Woodland Hills has a daily happy hour from 3 to 6 p.m. that involves several “adult snack packs,” including chicken tenders and bubbles for \$20, a sushi cone and a spritz for \$22.50, roasted corn guacamole and a classic margarita for \$21 or a cheeseburger with wine or beer for \$28.50. You’ll be welcomed with a glass of sparkling wine upon arrival, just note that happy hour deals are only available to patrons sitting at the bar, lounge or patio. ● 6344 Topanga Canyon Blvd., Woodland Hills, (818) 340-5639, @joeyrestaurants

LAWRY'S THE PRIME RIB

The Beverly Hills steakhouse is a time-honored special occasion destination. To bring some of that magic into your work-week, stop by for the happy

hour mini meal available at the bar Monday through Friday from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. The meal is \$29 and includes a Meat and Potatoes martini (with a prime-rib-stuffed olive) along with a mini — smaller than a slider — burger and a crispy potato bite topped with crème fraîche and caviar. Also of note on the happy hour menu is the prime rib katsu sandwich (\$34) and shrimp, corn and jalapeño fritters (\$16). The newly added burger that's ground in-house daily is available in the bar or the dining room for \$29, but be sure to place your order early — just 20 are made each night. ● 100 La Cienega Blvd., Beverly Hills, (310) 652-2827, lawrysonline.com

LOVE HOUR

This popular Koreatown smashburger bar closed for a renovation and recently re-opened with a new patio and expanded menu that makes it a strong dinner contender, with highlights such as white fish ceviche and steak fries smothered in au poivre sauce. Happy hour runs daily until 7 p.m., with a double smashburger for \$10 — add fries for \$5 more — and classic cocktails like a negroni and an old fashioned, plus wine, all discounted to \$10 each. You can also opt for a chicken nuggets and beer pairing for \$9.50.

- 532 S. Western Ave., Los Angeles, love-hour.com, @lovehourlosangeles

LOWBOY

This burger and cocktail bar on Sunset Boulevard is a popular stop before or after a game at nearby Dodger Stadium, and offers the most affordable adult happy meal on this list. During happy hour Monday through Friday from 4 to 6 p.m., you can order a signature smashburger with small fries and any draft beer for \$16. The burger resembles the one sold at In-n-Out with griddled onions, a house Thousand Island sauce, American cheese and red pepper jam on a toasted Martin's potato bun. For something resembling animal fries, order the gator fries (\$13) that are topped with melted American cheese, house-made pickles, house Thousand Island and onions. ● 1540 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, (213) 266-8161, lowboybar.com, @lowboy_echopark

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The bar at Mirate is renowned for its collection of Mexico-made spirits and a popular stop for hospitality workers on Mondays, when many local restaurants are closed. Executive chef Alan Sanz had the industry in mind when he launched Gran Fiesta, a Monday happy hour from 5 to 7 p.m. with margaritas and boilermakers discounted to \$12, half-priced wine and a free pour of Mal Bien mezcal with any food purchase. Sanz also added an off-menu burger for \$12, inspired by the late-night hamburguesas sold by street vendors in Mexico City. The burger comes overflowing with pickled jalapeños, spicy sauce, chipotle bacon jam and melted provolone cheese. The Monday deal took off immediately, with patrons lining up before the

restaurant opens to take advantage.

• 1712 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, (323) 649-7937, mirate.la, @mirate.losangeles

OLD MAN BAR

The whiskey bar attached to Hatchet Hall only serves food on Sunday and Monday from 6 to 10 p.m. You can order the house burger that's prepared in the kitchen next door and features two hefty patties, chili jam, "fancy" sauce, bone marrow and sweet onion on a toasted sesame bun, a la carte for \$20. But for a real treat, order the Burger Bang! Bang! that includes the burger, fries, a Coors Banquet and a shot of Buffalo Trace whiskey for \$33. A limited number of burgers is available each night — arrive early to claim yours.

• 12517 Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, hatchethallla.com/ old-man-bar

SELVA

The modern Colombian restaurant from Carlos Jurado offers happy hour at the bar all night Wednesday and Thursday through Sunday from 4 to 6 p.m., with an assortment of food and drink specials, including the messy house burger with an angus beef patty, fried house-made mustard, white cheddar, caramelized onion, bacon jam, plantain puree, aji mayo and pickled chiles on a Gusto Bread bun that's paired with a boilermaker — your choice of beer and a shot — for just \$19. ● 4137 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach, (562) 343-5630, selvalbc.com, @selva.lbc

COFFEE ENEMAS ARE TRENDY AGAIN

T SEEMS like nothing is off limits these days in L.A.'s most woo-woo wellness scenes. From ayahuasca circles and

mail-order ketamine lozenges to off-label peptide injections, IV drips and longevity treatments, there's a seemingly infinite number of ways to look and feel better that people will swear by in this town. Coffee enemas — mostly for digestive issues, but also for a host of other emotional and physiological conditions — is on that alleged miracle menu, and far more common than I even realized before I started writing this article.

“Oh, I have a friend who does that,” “Oh, my cousin swears by it,” I began hearing from people as soon as I started looking for interviewees.

Reddit contains hundreds of anecdotes — both enthusiastic and cautionary — about coffee enemas, which involve a person, often on their own, but sometimes with the assistance of an alternative health practitioner, filling a bag with coffee fluid, inserting a tube into their rectum, and slowly allowing the liquid to be absorbed. “Beware of coffee enemas,” reads the subject line of a post from a woman who did them regularly for a decade and reports feelings of exhaustion, spaciness and cravings when she tries to stop. “Caffeine in any form only (temporarily) masks and provides salve toward bigger, unaddressed issue(s),” she writes.

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In response, another user — a person with Stage 4 ovarian cancer — jumps in to defend the practice. “Let’s respect what we are all doing, whether we agree or not,” they write. “I am doing conventional [treatment] in conjunction with alternative (I believe there is a place for both). I haven’t felt this good since my diagnosis. I feel light, have never felt jittery and chemotherapy had me so constipated I would cry.”

Over the last couple of decades, the interest in digestive health has grown exponentially, prompted by research on the gut-brain connection. According to a report by Grand View Research, the global gut health market was valued at \$60.31 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach \$114.83 billion by 2033. The growing number of people who are quietly (and often devoutly) doing coffee enemas is a part of this larger trend, which also includes fasting, cleanses, colonics, probiotics, food allergy and stool tests, and a number of other products and services intended to address everything from irregular or uncomfortable bowel movements to energy levels and mood. But what's the deal with coffee enemas? And are they actually good for you? We talked to a wide range of people with an equally wide range of opinions.

Five enemas a day? The pro-enema Reddit user coping with Stage 4 cancer posted that they do three coffee enemas daily. They discovered the practice through Gerson, an institute founded in 1978 to promote a treatment plan initially developed for tuberculosis, and later for cancer, migraines and other chronic conditions, by German American physician Dr. Max Gerson in the 1930s. If you visit the Gerson Institute website, the supplies for a coffee enema — organic therapy blend coffee (\$9.75) and the complete enema bucket kit with catheter (\$19) — are listed in its store. It has clinics in Tijuana, Budapest and Shangri-La, China.

Nicole Ferrer-Clement, executive director of the Gerson Institute, says the treatment plan, referred to as the Gerson therapy, has four parts, with five coffee enemas per day being the first part and an essential component of the protocol. The other parts include a vegetarian, fat-free diet, three juices (carrot, carrot and apple, and a green juice) and supplements. The idea behind the coffee enemas, she says, is that compounds (theobromine, theophylline, caffeine) in coffee stimulate the liver to produce more bile, which helps carry toxins out of the body through the digestive tract. Ferrer-Clement says this is important for cancer patients, whose livers may already be compromised while processing toxins released during treatment. Even though many people reach out to Gerson about coffee enemas for general health and wellness and constipation, she says that's not generally something they recommend. The therapy remains controversial among mainstream oncologists, in part because there are few rigorous clinical studies evaluating its efficacy.

"We want research on [coffee enemas], we're happy and open to do that, if someone is going to fund it," Ferrer-Clement says, estimating the institute has treated thousands of patients over the years.

In addition to using coffee enemas to treat cancer, the majority of users online report turning to them for constipation. Many anecdotes are from people who tried more conventional medicine for digestive issues and, from a place of desperation, decided to look elsewhere for solutions. Others, like Chevanni Davids, a 33-year-old South African man living in Bali, use them to maintain a general sense of well-being. Davids — who grew up in South Africa, where culturally it's common for grandmothers to administer enemas to children in rural areas — does a coffee enema twice per month. He was introduced to the practice of enemas with coffee by someone he describes as a Brazilian grandmother or elder. He swears by the practice, saying it's kept his bowel movements regular and his emotional state at an equilibrium. Davids warns against doing them too frequently, however. "The addiction is a thing," he says, "because it feels so, so good. After you do it

once, you're going to say, 'I'm going to do that tomorrow.'

A doctor's take

A doctor's take Unsurprisingly, given that most people tend to find coffee enemas after reports of being failed by Western medicine, mainstream gastroenterology is not on board with this practice. "Coffee enemas are based on the ill-conceived idea that you're washing toxins out of your colon, but your colon is not an organ that clears toxins like the liver," says Dr. Barry Zamost, a gastroenterologist who was in private practice in Long Beach for more than 40 years. "This just flies in the face of all logic and physiology that any doctor has learned for 100 years."

Zamost remembers first hearing of coffee enemas decades ago when Michael Landon, an actor best known for his roles on “Little House on the Prairie” and “Bonanza,” decided to reject chemotherapy in favor of alternative treatments following a pancreatic cancer diagnosis in 1991. Over his four decades in private practice, Zamost says he frequently saw patients with constipation who were frustrated and trying alternate methods, but that oral therapies such as laxatives, supplements and prescription medications remain the most safe and effective treatments.

A review of case reports from nine people who self-administered coffee enemas also concluded that there's insufficient evidence to prove that the practice is helpful, and that it could be harmful, to the colon. Zamost says he thinks it's unlikely for someone to cause themselves serious harm by doing coffee enemas, although it's happened. He also says that in rare cases that enemas — not with coffee — are appropriate for patients who are severely constipated to provide temporary relief. But, generally, he doesn't see any benefit to using coffee. As for why people report loving them? That's easy enough to explain, he says. "Everybody feels better after a bowel movement. So if you gave yourself an enema that really made you feel like you were emptied, you'll feel good. It doesn't mean your health is better."

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Coffee enemas are likely not harmful when done in moderation, but we don't have much more than anecdotal evidence at this point to indicate that they're helpful either.

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SWEATING NEXT TO MY FAVORITE POP STAR AT A STYLISH WORKOUT

BODY DADA'S HIP BARRE CLASSES FEATURE AN AVANT-GARDE ART ETHOS, KILLER PLAYLISTS AND AN OCCASIONAL CELEB SIGHTING

BY DEBORAH VANKIN

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ULES? OVERRATED! As a longtime art writer, I was always drawn to Dadaism, the avant garde art movement that rejected conventions and wasn't afraid to break all the rules. (A "ready-made" urinal sculpture? Why not!) So it makes sense that now, as a wellness writer, I became intrigued by Body Dada, a barre fitness studio with locations in Highland Park and Silver Lake. Was the name just a catchy coincidence? Or was the workout attempting to reinvent the low-impact exercise with new rules? "We're trying to shift the classical barre workout to be more contemporary through the music and the environment," owner Kim Thompson says. "The punk rock ethos of Dadaism really resonates with me — breaking down the barriers of something in order to find the real essence of it. That's what we're trying to do in class."

On a recent weekday morning, Body Dada's signature class — aptly named "Body Dada the Class" — was mostly full, with about 10 participants. One of them happened to be my favorite pop star at the moment (!), whose very album I was listening to as I pulled up to the studio. Next to her: another celebrity from the world of burlesque.

The class promised a classically based, full-body barre workout, which typically includes a gentle warm-up and isometric (static) holds in combination with targeted, small movements to strengthen muscles, increase flexibility and hone balance and coordination. I was expecting a spare space with nothing more than a mirror and ballet barre. Immediately upon stepping into the studio, however, the Dadaism of it all — a hint of contemporary reinvention — was apparent. Shimmering silver foil curtains hung from the front windows and the adjacent workout room, equipped with a mirrored wall and barres, was bathed in soft bubble-gum-pink light. It was a soothing and relaxed space that suggested fun on the horizon.

Music factored in heavily. Our instructor, Camila Arana, played a mix of contemporary pop, EDM, '80s classics and alternative rock and the class began with an aerobic dance-like warm up, to get our blood flowing. At one point, admittedly, it was a bit of a mind-melt working out to one of my favorite songs ("Heart of Glass") by one of my favorite '80s artists (Debbie Harry) next to one of my favorite contemporary music artists, IRL. But I digress.

Most of the moves throughout the class were timed to the music — the workout may be low impact, but it has moments of high intensity. We did rhythmic pelvic tucks and low pliés, within which we performed a range of micro-movements including pulses, rotations and deep thigh work. Don't be intimidated, however: the moves are simple and the pace is steady.

Which is not to say easy. I drove home with my legs burning (in a good way). Not to mention a certain pop star's lyrics on repeat in my head.

Vibe: Body Dada feels hip but neighborhood, with a whimsical edge. The Silver Lake location (there's also one in Highland Park), I'm told, has become particularly popular among celebrities. But most of its members are just everyday folks looking for a safe, low-impact way to strengthen and stretch "that's livelier than yoga or Pilates," Thompson says. Still, the workout — the whole Body Dada experience, in fact — felt chill and unassuming. Arana was easy to follow, offering modifications to each sequence. The participants were a diverse mix of different skill levels (a few even seemed to be barre beginners), lending a feeling of inclusiveness.

"It's a very community-based atmosphere," Arana told me afterward. "And the workout — because the movements stay so small and because it's low impact, it really is good and safe for everyone."

Effort: The 50-minute work-out hits every muscle group in every region of the body. Which is why, Thompson posits, busy

CLASS participants break a sweat at the trendy Body Dada barre studio, which has stylish locations in Silver Lake and Highland Park. "It's a very community-based atmosphere," says the welcoming instructor Camila Arana, above.

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celebrities are drawn to it — it's efficient. We alternated between mat and barre work, using light weights and an exercise strap and ball. Sure, the movements were thoughtful and precise, with the ballet barre providing postural support when needed. But Arana amplified the moves, increasing the difficulty within sequences. And pulsing is no joke — one exercise left my calves shaking. In addition to the barre work, we did a plank series, light push-ups and arm work, as well as glutes and core work on the mat. Expect to sweat.

X-Factor: Despite the ballet bar and focus on a “music-driven experience,” as Thompson calls it, no dance background is necessary for this (or any) barre class. However: Because Body Dada was founded by Thompson, a dancer who graduated from Cal Arts and performed with the L.A. Contemporary Dance Company for six years, music is particularly integral to all the Body Dada workouts. The playlist changes instructor to instructor, but the moves are always beat-driven. Participants rave about the studio’s Body Party class, an ‘80s-style, aerobics dance class. There’s also Ballet Dada, which focuses on strength building, and the slower-paced Stretch and Chill class, to lengthen sore, tight muscles, among other classes.

"The energy in the room, it's so alive," Thompson says of Body Dada the Class. "We exercise from a place of compassion, not punishment. It's a joy-first mindset."

- 5709 N. Figueroa St., Highland Park and 3037 Sunset Blvd., Silver Lake. \$35 for a single class. bodydada.com

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A sense of home

MY NEW NEIGHBOR AND FRIEND BECAME MY MOTHER-IN-LAW

I NEVER FELT so self-conscious about being different until we left Woodland Hills. Growing up in L.A. until I was 12.

with a Japanese mom and Jewish dad, left me with many identity questions. But I never felt completely out of place. I was surrounded by kids of all ethnicities at school, from Black to white to Persian to Vietnamese. But later, when I moved — first to France, then Arizona, then Michigan and New York by college — I never felt like I had a sense of home. I continued to feel unrooted without a singular religion or culture.

After school, I was grateful to be back in California. One day in my new apartment building post-COVID, I noticed a glamorous, petite Asian woman heading to the door next to mine. I guessed she was in her 50s.

"You must be the new neighbor," she said. "I'm Susie."

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Although running late to an appointment, I was intrigued by her outgoingness and New York accent. Prior to that, I couldn't recall meeting an Asian person over the age of 50 who had been raised in the U.S. Everyone I knew in that category, like my mom's fellow Japanese friends, had been born in their home countries.

"Do you hike?" she asked. "A few of us in the building go together. You should join us sometime."

While I wasn't an avid hiker, I figured I could use a new crowd to hang with. Aside from the guy I was dating, much of my social circle had left California during the pandemic. So what if my new friends were 40 years older than me? Despite her younger appearance, it turned out Susie was almost 70.

As we exchanged numbers to make plans, she asked about my last name.

"Oh, Raskind. From my father's side, Eastern European Jewish," I said.

"My husband was Jewish," she said, smiling.

I noted her use of the word "was" but decided not to say anything.

On the trail by the Pacific, as I panted and shook with fear in my new hiking boots at the bottom of the mountain, Susie was already on top, cheering me from above. If I wasn't so scared of tumbling into the ocean, I would have laughed at the fact that a woman who was technically a senior citizen was the one assisting a 20-something.

Fast friends, we'd hike nearly every weekend together. She shared more of her incredible story: She'd been one of the first women, let alone Chinese American women, in the fields of investment banking and venture capital in the 1980s. Interestingly, she had also spent many years in Arizona, where she had raised her son, who, like me, is Asian and Jewish. Finally she revealed more about her husband: He had died suddenly when Rocky, her son, was 13, leaving her a single parent.

“Does it ever feel lonely, growing older by yourself?” I asked.

“No,” she said, with a look of serenity. “I had 25 years with Robert. It was enough to last a lifetime.”

She recalled how Robert was so funny that he made her fall off her chair laughing on their first date. He somehow blended perfectly with her Chinese family, all eating latkes together and mixing Yiddish and Shang-hainese words.

"Is this my long-lost family?" I thought, as Susie invited me to gatherings with her relatives. With the exception of her son, who lived in New York, nearly all her kin was on the West Coast, so I met her siblings, nieces and nephews, who were all just as kind and social as she was. I soon became so connected to everyone in Susie's world that when my parents came to visit from New Jersey, even they joined us for our walks.

For the first time in a long time, I felt normal. We continued our routine for several months until one day, I felt a pit in my stomach and realized I needed to make a drastic change.

It had finally clicked for me that things would not work out with the guy I'd been dating for a few years.

I went to Susie's house and cried at her dining room table.

"Will I ever find the perfect match?" I asked. "Where everything just falls into place?"

She smiled. "Yes," she said. "It was like that with my husband."

I vowed, as a newly single woman, that I would find someone like that.

I needed a change of pace, so I spent the next few months in New Jersey to be close to my folks. I missed seeing Susie, but it was nice to know at least her son was close by.

I got to know him better. He was only five years older than me. I learned he had grappled with identity questions too. Even more strikingly, he had just moved to Brooklyn from L.A., where he had spent the last 11 years living everywhere from West Hollywood to down- town Los Angeles.

"That's where I found myself," he said.

I also realized how funny he was. I told him how cool I thought his mom was. "Are we talking about the same person?" he said jokingly. He was kind, too, doing things like holding the door for me automatically. Susie had raised him well.

When I was back East, we'd be in the same time zone and FaceTime eight hours a night, talking until we could barely keep our eyes open. And he was cute, I realized.

We were both single. So he asked me on a date.

I hesitated for a few days. I didn't know him nearly as well as I knew his mom. Plus, if it didn't work out, what would happen to my relationship with her?

“Was this the guy I was supposed to meet, where everything falls into place?” I wondered.

I said yes to dinner.

Two years later, he proposed, and a few months ago, we wed in Pasadena.

Before the ceremony, Susie asked for a sign that Robert would be watching. Inexplicably, the lights flickered during the groom-mother dance.

I knew that to celebrate, we couldn't do it anywhere other than the city that had made us, accepted us and helped us accept each other. When I looked into the crowd, I saw my cousins and best friend I'd played with as a child, all of whom had driven in from Burbank, Thousand Oaks and Santa Clarita. In front of our Chinese, Japanese and Jewish families, serving latkes with chili crisp and doing the hora — with the in-laws I already knew so well — I finally felt completely normal and at home.

The author is a writer and works in tech. She is working on a book of essays about multiculturalism. She is originally from Los Angeles and now lives in New York.

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HOROSCOPE HOLIDAY MATHIS

Aries (March 21-April 19): Someone saying “yes” is not the achievement itself. The achievement takes shape through all the practical steps that follow.

Taurus (April 20-May 20): Yesterday's agreement was made in calm weather. Today's tension is the test.

Gemini (May 21-June 21): You'll make your point and make someone laugh, too, not because your point is a joke but because people are open to you.

Cancer (June 22-July 22): Discipline becomes important when the glow of inspiration fades and everything starts feeling like work.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): Some people are unaware of what is being offered unless it is first withheld. The best way to make them truly feel welcome is to make them earn their place.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): What can you do with plans revised at the kitchen table, and imperfect conditions? Win the battle. What can you do with borrowed space, limited funds and tired hands? Build the world.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): When you don't know what to do next, you keep making yourself useful, creating convenience, relieving pain and solving problems.

Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): Facts can be counted. Truth often has to be recognized. Today, look beyond the data to the meaning it points toward.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You repeat certain thoughts so often they begin to sound like facts. Today, one of them catches your attention. It's worth questioning.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Go on and be lazy; it's wise. Some kinds of work just make more work. Rest is productive in its own way.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You'll get back to the joy of making lists — giving yourself the opportunity for the immensely satisfying act of crossing out items and seeing progress take physical shape.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): A flurry of activity sorts itself into two main categories: things you can control and things you can't. There's so much in the first category that the second hardly deserves another thought.

Today's birthday (Aug. 30): In this, your Year of Enough-ness, you realize you always have plenty of what you need. It comes easily to you, and you share it just as freely, caught up in a current that's reciprocal, balanced and abundant. More highlights: You'll get around in style. You'll apply new things you learn to successful, lucrative and almost immediate results. Distant connections become close and sweetly fulfilling. Aries and Scorpio adore you. Lucky numbers: 2, 40, 17, 30 and 8.

Mathis writes her column for Creators Syndicate Inc. The horoscope should be read for entertainment.

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EDITED BY PATTI VAROL

By Zhouqin Burnikel

ACROSS

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Last week's solution: "GENERATION X"

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ASKING ERIC

Dear Eric: I am currently in my second year of college, which I have been self-financing. I am still struggling with what to do for a future career.

STUCK STUDENT

I just turned 20 and I feel like I am falling behind all of my peers while wasting my money. Everyone already seems to know what they want from their lives and careers, but I'm still stuck. Do you have any advice on how to go about this?

Dear Student: First, I want to acknowledge that what you're doing is both commendable and difficult. Paying your way through school is no small task so give yourself credit for that.

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Next, it's normal to feel confusion or a lack of direction, especially at this point in your college career. There are resources on campus that can help you learn about yourself and your interests, from a career center to internship placements to class advisors and mentorships. Take advantage of those with an open mind. One of the benefits of this

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75 Think piece?
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88 "Tropic Thunder" actor Nick
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Being stuck doesn't always feel comfortable, but it's not always a cause for alarm. Another way of thinking about it is that you're taking the time you need to observe, learn, plan and regroup.

If you continue to feel that the fit isn't right, talk to your advisor or a trusted academic mentor about taking a year off or transferring to a different kind of school.

24 Zigs or zags
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29 Org.
30 Yawn-inducing
31 Light as can be
32 Special offers at a body shop?
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Also, remember that comparison is not always the truth. Your peers may have clearer ideas about where they want to go but also might change their minds or experience the same doubts that you have. Ask yourself if the goals that a particular peer is pursuing are goals you want for yourself. If so, then adopt them and adapt them to your life. But, if not, then stop using the existence of those goals as a way of torturing yourself.

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58 [Not my error]
59 None of the above
60 Smiles brightly
61 Square up
62 Pascal of "The Last of Us"
64 Folk instrument
69 Gracefully refined
71 Clearasil rival
73 Gotham City hero
76 Power source for a warp drive in "Star Trek"
78 Offline, online
80 "Away from work" letters
82 Casting need
84 Promotional sample
85 Lyft alternative
87 "You got that right!"
90 Take for a spin, perhaps
92 Come up short

Email questions to eric@askingeric.com.

time is that it gives you space to experiment and discover.

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95 Hog with tusks
97 Strike down, biblically
98 Corundum, for one
100 Hackathon participant
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107 Special occasion
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111 Lauder of cosmetics
113 Lends a hand
115 Pranked with Charmin
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119 "That's the guy!"
120 Minecraft block
121 Lowest sudoku number
122 Casting need
123 Soon-to-be alums

POKER JONATHAN LITTLE

I recently witnessed a hand in a \$3,500 buy-in poker tournament that illustrates a clear mistake that many players make. With blinds at 200/400, a loose, aggressive player raised to 800 out of his 40,000 effective stack, the small blind called, and our Hero called in the big blind with the 9♥ 8♠, which is perfectly fine.

The flop came 10♦ 7♥ 2♥, giving Hero an open-ended straight draw with a weak backdoor flush draw. The small blind and Hero checked to the initial raiser who bet 1,200 into the 2,400 pot. The small blind folded.

At this point, Hero can either raise or call. Calling is acceptable due to the excellent pot odds, but it is not an attractive play because the turn will check through and then on the river, Hero will be out of position against a range that if structured properly can easily defend against a river bet. Raising is usually the best play because it gives Hero a much better chance of winning the pot, as well as when he misses and continues bluffing.

Hero raised to 3,600, the opponent called, and the turn was the 3♠.

Although this is one of the worst cards in the deck for Hero to continue bluffing, he should probably still fire again, given he has one of the worst hands in his range in terms of showdown value that still has a decent amount of equity.

Hero bet 6,800 into the 9,600 pot, his opponent called, and the river was the Q♥.

At this point, Hero has an easy bluff, using a fairly large bet size.

Notice the Queen of Hearts blocks many of the flushes that could have been in the opponent's range (A♥ Q♥, K♥ Q♥, Q♥ J♥, Q♥ 10♥, Q♥ 9), making it less likely he actually has a flush. Hero's 9♥ also blocks some of the flushes (A♥ 9♥, K♥ 9♥, J♥ 9♥, 10♥ 9♥, 9♥ 8♥), making it even more likely the opponent has a marginal made hand that should fold to a sizable bet.

Instead of making the obvious bluff with one of the best bluffing hands, Hero made the blunder of checking.

The opponent checked behind, winning the pot with the A♣ 7♠, one of the hands that would almost certainly fold to a substantial river bet. While some people may attempt to justify Hero's check by saying the opponent may be a calling station who was never folding no matter how the board ran out, if that were the case, Hero should not have check-raised the flop in the first place.

This is a mandatory spot to bluff on all three streets. Failing to do so will make it difficult for Hero to win at poker in the long run.

Little is a professional poker player with over \$9.3 million in live tournament earnings.

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		4			6
			3
				1	5
2
		2
6		1	4

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