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Coronavirus forces Met Gala postponement, L.A. Fashion Week cancellations

Vegan Fashion Week will livestream its runway behind closed doors. "The public event might be canceled, but the message cannot be," says founder.




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Go natural, try a new style or panic? How black women in the coronavirus era deal with their hair

Some women are giving their hair a break, while others are learning the basics.




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TV mentor Tim Gunn is freaked out too: 'Every night at 7 o'clock I burst into tears'

L.A. Times TV editor Matt Brennan interviews 'Making the Cut' and 'Project Runway' star Tim Gunn about his mentorship style.




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TV mentor Tim Gunn is freaked out too: 'Every night at 7 o'clock I burst into tears'

L.A. Times TV editor Matt Brennan interviews 'Making the Cut' and 'Project Runway' star Tim Gunn about his mentorship style.




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CSU chancellor and 2 campus presidents delay retirement amid coronavirus disruptions

CSU Chancellor Timothy P. White and the presidents of the Northridge and East Bay campuses say they will stay on through fall 2020.




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UC to ease admission requirements: No SAT, no letter grades due to coronavirus

The coronavirus crisis prompts the University of California and California State University to temporarily suspend some admission requirements.




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More senior disappointment as coronavirus cancels high school graduation day

With schools closed because of the coronavirus, state schools Supt. Tony Thurmond told students and parents not to expect graduation ceremonies, even though the graduation itself should happen on schedule.




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Cal State to suspend SAT, ACT test requirement during coronavirus crisis

Cal State will not require SAT or ACT test scores for admissions for 2021-2022 applicants, following a similar decision by UC, other colleges.




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UC experts offer new ammunition against the SAT and ACT as an admissions requirement

Three University of California admissions experts slammed a faculty recommendation to keep the SAT and ACT for at least five years, giving ammunition to critics of the controversial exams who want to drop their requirement for admissions.




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Struggling to pay your student loan debt amid coronavirus? You can now delay 3 payments.

Here's how college students can take advantage of three months of loan relief.




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Clarence Thomas speaks and other notable events from the Supreme Court 'tele-arguments'

The court should livestream arguments even after the coronavirus crisis ends.




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Column: Trump's latest 'very good people' are 2nd Amendment thugs

Only in the U.S., and no other civilized democracy, does a supposed right to take up arms against a duly elected government garner respect.




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Editorial: Betsy DeVos hits the reset button on campus sexual harassment rules

In a rare bit of reasonable regulatory activity by the Trump administration, new rules governing sexual assault accusations at colleges strike the right balance -- for the most part.




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Commentary: MOCA should not be furloughing staff during the coronavirus crisis. Here's why

The $2.2 trillion CARES Act was designed for small businesses like MOCA. Using relief funds would help to keep the staff at full employment.




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Adlon, Menzel and Porter: 'Saturday Night Seder' is the weekend quarantine must-watch

Pamela Adlon, Idina Menzel, Billy Porter, Mayim Bialik, Rachel Brosnahan, Andy Cohen, Darren Criss and Judith Light take part in "Saturday Night Seder."




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Review: Beethoven's Fifth is the music of our moment. How Teodor Currentzis makes it so

The last thing we need is another Beethoven's Fifth Symphony — unless Teodor Currentzis is conducting. His new recording brings much-needed catharsis.




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Commentary: LACMA has begun demolition. Where are the gallery plans?

Legacy buildings of Los Angeles County Museum of Art are being torn apart for a new Peter Zumthor design. The planned gallery interiors remain a mystery.




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Slavery documents from Southern saltmakers bring light to dark history

The Huntington Library's acquisition of slavery and abolition papers provides a missing puzzle piece to one community's questions about its past.




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Commentary: Past pandemics changed the design of cities. Six ways COVID-19 could do the same

Hospitals built in two weeks. Freeways with few cars. Which innovations and changes could, or should, stick with us in a post-coronavirus world?




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Commentary: Glenn Gould's decades-old radio documentaries still resonate. Podcasters, take note

Glenn Gould's "Solitude Trilogy" uses dialogue as though it were musical counterpoint and explores a kind of isolation familiar in our coronavirus era.




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Commentary: Napoleon has it all over Trump when it comes to spinning plague propaganda

Painter Antoine-Jean Gros made the French general into a military hero, turning troublesome truth into feel-good fiction.




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Chicano Park 50 years later: Coronavirus delays celebration but historic moment still matters

Chicano Park in San Diego's Barrio Logan, known for its murals, began with student-led occupation. Right-wing extremists object but the site is historic.




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Chicano Park 50 years later: Coronavirus delays celebration but historic moment still matters

Chicano Park in San Diego's Barrio Logan, known for its murals, began with student-led occupation




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Brigade urges government to stop neglecting fire safety at Grenfell report committee

The London Fire Commissioner will today call for the Government to take stronger action and undertake urgent research on ‘buildings that fail’ on fire safety which leaves ‘stay put’ advice no longer viable.




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Statement on the publication of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 report

London Fire Brigade's response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 report




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Response to statement from Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government

London Fire Brigade welcomes the announcement on building safety made by the Secretary of State.




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Brigade response to Government announcement on further steps to reform the building safety system

A Government announcement on further steps to reform the building safety system has been welcomed by London Fire Brigade, but senior firefighters also have concerns it has not gone far enough




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Brigade delivers protective equipment for health and social care workers

Firefighters are helping in the fight against Covid-19 by delivering over two million pieces of vital personal protective equipment (PPE) to frontline health and social care workers.




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You can skip mortgage payments for 6 months. But many fear what comes after that

Millions of homeowners have signed up for mortgage forbearance programs. But there is confusion and concern over how they will pay back what they owe.




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How budget cuts and restrictive policies hobbled the unemployment insurance system

Problems from the surge of jobless claims reflect years of cutbacks and greater restrictions on eligibility.




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Coronavirus energizes the labor movement. Can it last?

The COVID-19 pandemic is unleashing a wave of labor unrest harnessing front-line workers' fear and anger across California and the nation.




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Column: How Cedars-Sinai got sucked into the battle over Trump's claim of a COVID-19 treatment

Cedars-Sinai is embroiled in a political battle over Trump's remarks on a potential virus treatment.




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Gig workers are now eligible for special unemployment benefits. But many won't get them

A catch in the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program could disqualify many workers.




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Surviving the Shutdown: Alta Adams reopens, with fried chicken to order and a sliding payment scale

The West Adams restaurant Alta Adams reopens with a sliding price scale so people in need can dine for free.




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Tasting-menu gem Auburn closes for good, the latest restaurant casualty of the coronavirus shutdown

Chef Eric Bost's Melrose Avenue restaurant opened just 13 months ago.




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Union calls Powell's Books announcement of staff rehires 'misleading'

A union statement is "disappointed" with how Powell's Books has been informing the public about staffing after laying off most of its employees.




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Review: How L.A.'s '60s movements fought for justice — and sometimes even achieved it

In "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties," Mike Davis and Jon Wiener track the uprisings, outrages and elections that shaped the city.




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Helpless women? Not these slave owners

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, winner of the Times Book Prize in history, spent a decade on "They Were Her Property," about women slave owners.




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Letters to the Editor: I had to make many, many calls about my unemployment benefits. This is a crisis

Countless people have applied for unemployment benefits they cannot get. This can create a crisis worse than the coronavirus outbreak.




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Letters to the Editor: Coronavirus kills the delusion that government should be like a business

Trump justifies his actions on coronavirus by saying he's a businessman who doesn't like having a lot of employees. But government is not a business.




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Letters to the Editor: Treat clean energy like fossil fuel by giving it plenty of government money

Clean energy wants a level playing field with fossil fuels and nuclear power. It needs government funding for that to happen.




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Letters to the Editor: Churches don't have a 1st Amendment right to ruin public health

Some of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks have been linked to religious services, and the public's health trumps every other right.




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Letters to the Editor: Unodocumented workers pay taxes. They deserve more than one-time coronavirus aid

A program for one-time assistance to undocumented workers affected by the pandemic is a start, but California must do much more.




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Letters to the Editor: Dealing with coronavirus was Trump's job, even during impeachment

Even when he was being impeached, Trump still had a job to do. Nothing justifies his failure to take early action against the coronavirus.




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Letters to the Editor: Coronavirus isn't making cancer less deadly. Patients need treatment now

If you're a cancer patient, you should not avoid treatment because of the pandemic. Surgery and follow-up care cannot wait.




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Letters to the Editor: Rationing COVID-19 treatment to the elderly and disabled is illegal and immoral

The author of the Americans With Disabilities Act warns that coronavirus treatment that takes disability and age into account is immoral and illegal.




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Letters to the Editor: Joe Biden's supporters need to explain their treatment of Brett Kavanaugh

You can't explain away your support for Joe Biden despite a sexual assault allegation without talking about Brett Kavanaugh.




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Letters to the Editor: Michigan's 2nd Amendment thugs aren't what the framers had in mind

The language of the 2nd Amendment suggests that the Constitution's framers did not want to empower rifle-wielding protesters to invade statehouses.




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Opinion: Who really has 'Trump Derangement Syndrome'? Not his critics, readers say

Letter writers who criticize the president are brushing off accusations from Trump's defenders that they suffer from some kind of insanity.




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At the Massachusetts home that inspired 'Little Women,' admission is up threefold

The success of Greta Gerwig's "Little Women" has been a boon for Orchard House, where Louisa May Alcott lived.