LOS ANGELES — Tensions began to increase around the Huntington Beach Pier on Sunday afternoon as people protesting a scheduled white supremacy rally clashed with Donald Trump supporters and individuals touting white supremacist beliefs. Several hundred people gathered in the plaza area at the base of the pier beginning Sunday […]
Huntington DMV moving Monday to new site in Dix Hills
The state Department of Motor Vehicles is relocating a local office to Dix Hills from Huntington Village starting Monday, the agency wrote in a news release Friday. The office is moving from 813 New York Ave. to 1815 East Jericho Tpke., next to Retro Fitness, the release said. The release […]
Hammer Museum, Huntington Library and a COVID waiting game
The late French-Moroccan artist Nicola L’s 1969 sculptural installation “La Chambre en Fourrure” (The Fur Room), slathered in royal purple faux-fur and studded with pockets, has been re-created inside the Hammer Museum for this year’s “Made in L.A.” biennial. Before COVID-19, viewers were meant to slide their faces and arms […]
‘Made in L.A.’ at Hammer Museum, Huntington Library: A review
As I drove over to the UCLA Hammer Museum in Westwood to see the latest iteration of its biennial exhibition, the radio news broadcast a litany of awfulness. Coronavirus infections across the country had broken a record, with nearly 120,000 new cases in one day. The president of the United […]