Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement California theme parks and sports stadiums will be allowed to welcome back visitors as early as April 1 under new guidance the state unveiled Friday. While the changes don’t mean business as usual for the venues, they do reflect the state’s growing sentiment that, with coronavirus case rates on the decline and the COVID-19 continuing to ramp up, it is now possible to resume some activities — particularly those that can be held outdoors with additional safety modifications.“With the increased distribution of the vaccine, with the...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement California theme parks and sports stadiums will be allowed to welcome back visitors as early as April 1 under new guidance the state unveiled Friday. While the changes don’t mean business as usual for the venues, they do reflect the state’s growing sentiment that, with coronavirus case rates on the decline and the COVID-19 continuing to ramp up, it is now possible to resume some activities — particularly those that can be held outdoors with additional safety modifications.“With the increased distribution of the vaccine, with the...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Hoping to make flying safer, Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday will begin testing thermal cameras to identify passengers with high body temperatures as a way of slowing the spread of the coronavirus.The three cameras will scan streams of passengers arriving at and departing from the Tom Bradley International Terminal in hopes of spotting passengers with a temperature of 100.4 degrees or higher — a common symptom in the COVID-19 pandemic that has pushed air travel demand down to the .“Our ability to spot folks exhibiting...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Hoping to make flying safer, Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday will begin testing thermal cameras to identify passengers with high body temperatures as a way of slowing the spread of the coronavirus.The three cameras will scan streams of passengers arriving at and departing from the Tom Bradley International Terminal in hopes of spotting passengers with a temperature of 100.4 degrees or higher — a common symptom in the COVID-19 pandemic that has pushed air travel demand down to the .“Our ability to spot folks exhibiting...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Disneyland and California’s other major theme parks are reopening this spring, thanks to a drop in new coronavirus cases and the rollout of vaccines in the state. The theme park experience at Disneyland, Universal Studios Hollywood, Six Flags Magic Mountain and Knott’s Berry Farm won’t be exactly the same as before the COVID-19 pandemic.For the record:Hugging costumed characters? Banned. Standing in a crowd to watch a parade or fireworks show? Nope. Eating calorie-laden snacks while waiting to jump on a stomach-churning ride? Forget...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Disneyland and California’s other major theme parks are reopening this spring, thanks to a drop in new coronavirus cases and the rollout of vaccines in the state. The theme park experience at Disneyland, Universal Studios Hollywood, Six Flags Magic Mountain and Knott’s Berry Farm won’t be exactly the same as before the COVID-19 pandemic.For the record:Hugging costumed characters? Banned. Standing in a crowd to watch a parade or fireworks show? Nope. Eating calorie-laden snacks while waiting to jump on a stomach-churning ride? Forget...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The Standard hotel on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood is scheduled to close Friday, 22 years after opening with the financial support of such stars as Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz and Benicio del Toro.The location was the first that hotelier Andre Balazs opened in the Standard chain of boutique hotels. The brand, with its irreverent upside-down logo, cultivated a casual, cool, celebrity-studded ambience. The chain grew to six locations in the Los Angeles area, New York, Miami and London, and it operates under parent company...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The Standard hotel on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood is scheduled to close Friday, 22 years after opening with the financial support of such stars as Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz and Benicio del Toro.The location was the first that hotelier Andre Balazs opened in the Standard chain of boutique hotels. The brand, with its irreverent upside-down logo, cultivated a casual, cool, celebrity-studded ambience. The chain grew to six locations in the Los Angeles area, New York, Miami and London, and it operates under parent company...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement For Donald Trump, the cost of an incendiary presidential career started adding up on Day One: Macy’s department stores stopped selling his menswear collection after he during his first campaign event. A few months later, after Trump called for a “” of Muslims entering the United States, he lost another partner, a Dubai company that had a license to sell Trump furniture in the Middle East, Africa and India.Since then, his outrageous comments and controversial presidential actions have lost his business empire a slate of lucrative...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement For Donald Trump, the cost of an incendiary presidential career started adding up on Day One: Macy’s department stores stopped selling his menswear collection after he during his first campaign event. A few months later, after Trump called for a “” of Muslims entering the United States, he lost another partner, a Dubai company that had a license to sell Trump furniture in the Middle East, Africa and India.Since then, his outrageous comments and controversial presidential actions have lost his business empire a slate of lucrative...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Before boarding a flight from Orlando to Los Angeles, Isaias Hernandez filled out a health checklist provided by United Airlines, asserting that he had not been diagnosed with COVID-19 and had not shown any of the disease’s symptoms in the previous two weeks.But during the flight, the 69-year-old Angeleno collapsed. Three passengers gave him CPR for nearly an hour in the aisle of the plane, and the flight was diverted to Louisiana, where Hernandez was pronounced dead. The coroner’s report listed the cause as “acute respiratory...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Before boarding a flight from Orlando to Los Angeles, Isaias Hernandez filled out a health checklist provided by United Airlines, asserting that he had not been diagnosed with COVID-19 and had not shown any of the disease’s symptoms in the previous two weeks.But during the flight, the 69-year-old Angeleno collapsed. Three passengers gave him CPR for nearly an hour in the aisle of the plane, and the flight was diverted to Louisiana, where Hernandez was pronounced dead. The coroner’s report listed the cause as “acute respiratory...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement HUGO MARTIN TIMES STAFF WRITER Clad in matching black T-shirts and armed with flashlights and handcuffs, four members of a gay street patrol marched through shadowy alleys and parking lots on a recent chilly night, on the lookout for gay-bashers.They patrolled past gay bars and restaurants along West Hollywood’s Santa Monica Boulevard in a formation taught to them by the Guardian Angels, a national anti-crime patrol group. A short, stocky man with tattoos on his forearms and earrings in both ears barked out instructions as the others...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement HUGO MARTIN TIMES STAFF WRITER Clad in matching black T-shirts and armed with flashlights and handcuffs, four members of a gay street patrol marched through shadowy alleys and parking lots on a recent chilly night, on the lookout for gay-bashers.They patrolled past gay bars and restaurants along West Hollywood’s Santa Monica Boulevard in a formation taught to them by the Guardian Angels, a national anti-crime patrol group. A short, stocky man with tattoos on his forearms and earrings in both ears barked out instructions as the others...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement In years past, a Lakers NBA championship run meant rabid fans arriving before and after games to crowd the lobby bar of the Hotel Figueroa, the 94-year-old inn a few blocks from the Lakers’ home court, Staples Center.The Lakers faithful would also gather around the poolside restaurant and two-story bar, ordering drinks and food and watching the games on flat-screen TVs.“It’s been a lot quieter this year given the pandemic,” Connie Wang, managing director of the Hotel Figueroa, said of the NBA season. She declined to disclose the...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement In years past, a Lakers NBA championship run meant rabid fans arriving before and after games to crowd the lobby bar of the Hotel Figueroa, the 94-year-old inn a few blocks from the Lakers’ home court, Staples Center.The Lakers faithful would also gather around the poolside restaurant and two-story bar, ordering drinks and food and watching the games on flat-screen TVs.“It’s been a lot quieter this year given the pandemic,” Connie Wang, managing director of the Hotel Figueroa, said of the NBA season. She declined to disclose the...WW…