My move from Sacramento to Los Angeles began with acceptance. My rent was going to go up — and it was going to go up a lot.

For close to four years, I’ve been writing for The Times about California’s housing affordability problems. I’ve worked in the paper’s bureau in Sacramento, focusing on government’s response to rising home prices, rents and homelessness. I’ve chased lawmakers in a six-block radius around the state Capitol, and kept a close eye on the eye-popping stats about the cost of living.

But I’ve never lived it. Until now.

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In October, I accepted a new assignment to write about housing affordability from a community rather than a government perspective — a change that required moving to Los Angeles.

Even though I understood what it meant to move to one of the most expensive regions in the country, I hadn’t yet felt what it was like to navigate a maze of rent control laws, choose between extra space or extra miles for a commute, or decide which landlord to trust in a market with just about everything in their favor.

Thousands of people do this every year, many of them with a lot fewer advantages than I’ve had. To be sure, while journalism isn’t a lucrative profession, I could be certain that I was not going to join the 1.7 million renter households in California that spend half their income on housing. Or the many people I’ve interviewed who have taken shelter in unsafe warehouses or been pushed to the brink after seeing their rents double or even triple overnight. There’s tremendous security and privilege in that.

But unless I decided to live more than an hour from my office at The Times’ headquarters in El Segundo or squeeze into a couple hundred square feet — a frequent calculation for those moving to L.A. — I also knew much more of my pay was going to get sucked away every month. It left me with an anxiousness that I’ve heard many Californians explain, but had yet to confront myself.

That realization manifested itself as a sinking stomachache while talking with my L.A. friends about how much I should budget for a one-bedroom apartment.

“I’m thinking I could try to find something for around $2,000,” I said over beers and pizza one night.

“Huh?” they responded. “You’re probably going to spend closer to $2,500.” That’s more than double what I was paying.

In recent years, more people have made the opposite move, going from Los Angeles to Sacramento. From 2010 to 2016, 64,000 Angeleno households headed to the state capital region, a figure nearly 50% higher than those who went from Sacramento to Los Angeles, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data by UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation. About half of those fleeing L.A. earned less than $50,000 a year, a sign those families are looking for more affordable living.

And yet an influx of residents, predominantly from the more expensive Bay Area, is making it more expensive to live in Sacramento, too. In 2017, rents in the city grew 7.5%, the fastest of 40 top U.S. cities, according to real estate firm Apartment List.

That year, my rent went up $100 a month — or 9.7% — to $1,145 for my one-bedroom in an older, 20-unit complex in Sacramento’s gentrified Midtown neighborhood. The increase was so much at one time that it would likely now be prohibited under the state’s new cap on large rent hikes. When I saw the notice on my door, I grabbed it and almost comically balled it up in my fist in indignation. But acceptance won the day back then, too. I knew I’d never find anything I’d wanted at a lower price that was similarly a 15-minute, tree-lined walk to work.

I started my Los Angeles apartment search six weeks before my Oct. 1 move with a basic outline. I wanted what I imagine many people in L.A. want: a one-bedroom that was a moderate drive from work, had some places to eat and shop nearby and wasn’t too far from downtown. I quickly focused on Culver City and the neighboring Palms neighborhood in L.A. — two hot Westside communities for young professionals.

I typed Culver City into an apartment listing website and found just four one-bedrooms for less than the $2,500 a month my friends told me I was going to have to pay. So Palms it was. I decided to bury my anxiousness about my soon-to-balloon rent in a spreadsheet.

My spreadsheet had seven columns to track the cost and size and some of my preferences for potential apartments, such as miles from work and minutes on foot to the Expo Line. I also included a box for rent control. Because Palms is in the city of Los Angeles, rent increases in older buildings are limited to about 3% or 4% every year, I learned. After writing many horror stories about exorbitant rent hikes, I wanted to know if my apartment would come with the security of these limits.

I set aside a Friday and Saturday to look at a dozen listings. On the second day I’d be joined by my longtime partner who is planning to move in when she can transfer to an office in Los Angeles.

I knew I wasn’t going to find a place as walkable as my neighborhood in Sacramento, but the alienation set in immediately. My first appointment was at a large complex closed off from the road with apartments hidden in warrens of hallways. The wide streets, little shade and long yellow lights made traveling on foot feel hostile. Even the apartment I saw a block from the Expo line had no easy way to access it, probably because the stop sits next to the 10 Freeway.

I also was surprised when I went into the apartments. The places I visited cost far more than what I was paying in Sacramento — between $1,850 and $2,450 a month — but nearly all of them were worse. The newer apartments were tiny and the older ones were dingy.

These are the hard lessons of moving to Los Angeles from a less expensive place. I shudder to think what the experience would feel like in the Bay Area, where the median one-bedroom listing in San Francisco is $3,650, nearly 50% higher than L.A. It’s no wonder that so many young adults feel that they have no choice but to leave California to afford a better quality of life.

There was one moment of levity in my search: I noticed every apartment I saw had wood laminate floors, with colors ranging from the lightness of faux ash to the richness of faux mahogany. It was as if someone sent out a memo to Westside landlords about what millennials like. As an old millennial, I will admit that I liked them.

Still, nothing was clicking. One place had a cool layout that neatly divided the apartment into two levels, but it didn’t have a dishwasher. Another had a pool, but the building manager, a kind older woman who had been living in one of the rent-controlled units for years, told me the best way to keep the apartment warm when it got chilly was to bake cookies in the oven.

By late Saturday afternoon, we had one apartment left to visit. As soon as we walked in, it felt like home. It’s on a busy street but not a boulevard. The walk to the Expo Line is 10 minutes and it’s less than nine miles north of the office. It’s 900 square feet, huge for a one-bedroom, with a walk-in closet. There’s even a gas fireplace I had no idea I wanted until I saw it. My partner loved the place.

The cost, $2,270 a month, was on the high side of what I had seen, but it wasn’t the most expensive one on my list. And the complex was built in 1989, meaning that it was too new to be rent controlled. I would have to abandon that protection.

A couple hours after seeing the place, I sat on a hotel bed in El Segundo, and the anxiousness I had felt about the move turned to dread. In an extremely rookie move, I had forgotten my checkbook in Sacramento and realized I had to wait to put down a deposit. I worried that if I didn’t act fast enough, I was going to lose the apartment.

Then I started to come to grips with what I was actually doing: My rent was going to double.

It worked out. I moved in the last weekend of September. My daily commute is just 20 minutes. I ate the best Indian food I’ve ever had three blocks from my place on Venice Boulevard. When my second rent payment left my checking account, my heart quickened and I felt awash in worry. But soon I realized — and again had to accept — that, in California, this is the cost of living and the cost of what I wanted.

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Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Monday, Nov. 4, and here’s a quick look at the week ahead:

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On Tuesday, Californians in many parts of the state will be heading to the polls for various local elections. Here’s one race to watch:

San Francisco’s first district attorney race without an incumbent in more than a century has attracted big money and plenty of national media attention. Four accomplished candidates were closing in on the finish line when departing D.A. George Gascón abruptly announced he was resigning. Mayor London Breed then appointed Suzy Loftus — one of the four candidates — to serve as interim district attorney, significantly upping the political drama quotient. Loftus, a former Police Commission president, has the support of the San Francisco political establishment. But the four-way race still “appears to be wide open,” according to the Chronicle.

Loftus’ most high-profile opponent, public defender Chesa Boudin, has garnered endorsements from big names on the left such as Bernie Sanders and is running on a reform-minded platform in line with a wave of progressive prosecutors who’ve scored recent election victories around the country. Boudin is also deeply familiar with the personal costs of incarceration: He spent his childhood visiting his imprisoned 1970s-era radical parents behind bars. The other two contenders are Deputy Atty. Gen. Leif Dautch and Deputy Alameda Dist. Atty. Nancy Tung.

[See also: “Only in San Francisco? Child of Weather Underground parents bids for top prosecutor job” in the Los Angeles Times]

Wednesday marks the first day of the American Film Market, where thousands of buyers and sellers will converge in Santa Monica for what’s billed as the world’s largest motion picture business event.

On Sunday, the People’s Choice Awards will honor accomplishments in TV, film, music and pop culture.

And now, here’s what’s happening across California:

TOP STORIES

Finally, there was some relief this weekend, as dangerous fire weather conditions stopped in Los Angeles and Ventura counties. There continues to be no rain on the horizon through mid-November, but also, no return of dangerous Santa Ana winds for at least four to five days. At the moment, forecast models suggest some return of Santa Ana winds by Friday or Saturday, but “not nearly as strong as what we saw in the last few days.” Los Angeles Times

President Trump lashed out at California on Twitter (again) and blamed state leaders. He tweeted Sunday that Gov. Gavin Newsom and U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) had failed to properly manage the state’s forests, causing a string of recent blazes. The missives drew a combination of incredulity and anger from many Californians, in part because the vast majority of the acres consumed by fire since early October were grasslands and chaparral, far from the forest. Los Angeles Times

As the massive Kincade fire in Sonoma nears full containment, here are some major takeaways and stories to watch:

• The Kincade fire was different — no one died. Here’s why, and what lessons were learned from the past. San Francisco Chronicle
• California’s wine country has become fire country, leaving devastation and fear. Los Angeles Times
• A Cesar Chavez-inspired public affairs radio station kept farmworkers informed as the Kincade fire raged on last week. Los Angeles Times

Airbnb says it will now ban “party houses” from its platform in response to a deadly shooting at an Orinda Halloween party held at one of its rentals that left five people dead. Los Angeles Times

L.A. STORIES

Inside a wealthy L.A. man’s effort to help pilots fight wildfires from a remote mountain base: A former executive and L.A. County have transformed this picturesque property in the Santa Monica Mountains into a base for helicopters to refill their water tanks. Los Angeles Times

My colleague Liam Dillon has covered California’s housing crisis for years. But he’d never lived it — until a change in assignment required him to move from Sacramento and embark on an apartment search in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Times

A celebrity sommelier was accused of sexual assault. He had worked at influential Los Angeles restaurants like Bestia, Animal and Eggslut. New York Times

The Donut Man is coming to Grand Central Market. The beloved Glendora store will bring its delectable, fruit-filled doughnuts to downtown Los Angeles. Los Angeles Times

L.A. voided millions of old tickets and warrants. Here’s why it won’t actually help homeless people. Los Angeles Times

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POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

A husband-and-wife team in the state Legislature? If Republican Megan Dahle wins a special election Tuesday to represent the sprawling Northern California 1st Assembly District, she’ll join her husband, state Sen. Brian Dahle, at the Capitol. (The seat Megan Dahle is vying for in the conservative district was actually vacated by her husband when he was elected to the state Senate, hence the special election.) Capitol Weekly

California is about to have the most women in its Legislature in state history. That record will be broken regardless of who wins in Tuesday’s North State special election, as Megan Dahle’s opponent to represent the 1st Assembly District is also a woman — Democrat Elizabeth Betancourt. No matter who wins, the election will help the state break its previous record with 38 women seated in the legislature. USA Today

Residents in several San Gabriel Valley cities will also head to the polls Tuesday. Here are some of the local issues on their ballots. Pasadena Star-News

Should Fresno City Council get a say in the next police chief? This proposal would make it so. Fresno Bee

CRIME AND COURTS

Two murder suspects escaped from the Monterey County Jail in Salinas early Sunday. Salinas Californian

HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Hail dusted parts of Orange and Los Angeles counties on Saturday. It’s a bit unusual for Southern California to see hail in early November, a forecaster said, unless the right conditions are present. Pasadena Star-News

A magnitude 4.2 earthquake hit Sonoma County north of Healdsburg on Sunday. It was the second quake in that part of Sonoma County over the weekend. No damages have been reported. San Francisco Chronicle

CALIFORNIA CULTURE

Thousand Oaks Acorn reporter Dawn Megli reflects on how the Borderline massacre and last year’s fires changed Thousand Oaks — and her as a reporter. Los Angeles Times

Here’s the Sacramento site that could house 700 people in tents, cabins and tiny homes. A vacant lot in the Noralto section of north Sacramento has been identified for the campus. Sacramento Bee

Redding’s Christmas tree is finally coming home — and staying downtown. Redding Record-Searchlight

Stars and fans of the late Puerto Rican astrologer and television personality Walter Mercado took to Twitter on Sunday morning to mourn the LGBTQ and Latino icon. Los Angeles Times

CALIFORNIA ALMANAC

Los Angeles: sunny, 79. San Diego: sunny, 73. San Francisco: sunny, 67. San Jose: sunny, 77. Sacramento: sunny, 77. More weather is here.

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AND FINALLY

This week’s birthdays for those who made a mark in California:

Rapper Sean Combs (Nov. 4, 1969), retired basketball player Bill Walton (Nov. 5, 1952), actress Sally Field (Nov. 6, 1946), L.A. County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas (Nov. 6, 1954), former California First Lady Maria Shriver (Nov. 6, 1955), Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang (Nov. 6, 1968) and singer Joni Mitchell (Nov. 7, 1943).

If you have a memory or story about the Golden State, share it with us. (Please keep your story to 100 words.)

Please let us know what we can do to make this newsletter more useful to you. Send comments, complaints, ideas and unrelated book recommendations to Julia Wick. Follow her on Twitter @Sherlyholmes.

This image features the intersection of 1st Street and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. In the background is the historic Los Angeles Times building, opened in 1935. At right is the 10-story Mirror Building, opened in 1948.

A branch of Citizens National Bank occupies the opposite corner. Next door is the Redwood Restaurant. In 1973, the William Pereira-designed Times-Mirror headquarters replaced those buildings.

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Turns out, this unpublished image may have been taken for a business story. The Nov. 2, 1963, Los Angeles Times business section reported the merger of Crocker Bank and Citizens National Bank.

Current development plans call for the removal of the former Times-Mirror headquarters building. It is to be replaced by two apartment buildings.

‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ suffers franchise fatigue while ‘Harriet’ opens solid. ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ and ‘Arctic Dogs’ both fail to crack $5 million.

While Paramount’s “Terminator: Dark Fate” won the box office, opening in first place with $29 million, the result is well below analyst projections of $35 million to $40 million, according to estimates from measurement firm Comscore. The previous series installment, “Terminator: Genisys,” also opened poorly with $27 million in 2015, and on an extended Fourth of July weekend.

The overall box office took another hit, down 20.9% from the same weekend a year ago when “Bohemian Rhapsody” opened with $51 million. The year-to-date is now down 5.2% from 2018.

The $185-million “Dark Fate” is the sixth entry in the “Terminator” franchise and the third attempt to revive the series in a decade. Although the sequel generated buzz at Comic-Con for being the first entry since 1991’s “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” to reunite series creator James Cameron and stars Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger, moviegoers failed to turn up for it.

“The box office fate of many long-running franchises has been mixed,” said Paul Dergarabedian, a senior media analyst at Comscore. “Some rely heavily on their box office outside of North America to recoup their often sizable production costs. ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ has been embraced by the fans and has enjoyed solid reviews so it could enjoy long-term playability in the coming weeks.”

He added: “The current marketplace is extremely crowded and competitive, and ‘Joker’ has become such an unbelievable long-running juggernaut that it has essentially cut into almost every other new film’s audience and has dominated the fall movie season in a way that could not have been predicted just a couple of months ago.”

“Dark Fate” was also reportedly plagued with production issues, including a bloated budget, script problems, creative battles between Cameron and director Tim Miller (“Deadpool”) and a set that went dark for days.

“Dark Fate” earned so-so reviews with a B-plus CinemaScore and a 69% “fresh” score on review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes.

In second place, Warner Bros.’ “Joker” continued its autumn success, adding $13.9 million in its fifth weekend for a cumulative $299.6 million. Globally, the film stands at an impressive $934 million.

At No. 3, Disney’s “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” added $12.2 million in its third weekend for a cumulative $84.3 million.

In fourth place, Focus Features’ Harriet Tubman biopic “Harriet” opened with $12 million, slightly above analyst projections of $10 million.

Directed by Kasi Lemmons (“Eve’s Bayou”), the film stars Cynthia Erivo as the titular freedom fighter. It was well-received with an A-plus CinemaScore and a 73% “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Rounding out the top five, United Artists Releasing’s “The Addams Family” added $8.5 million in its fourth weekend for a cumulative $85.3 million.

In sixth place, Sony’s “Zombieland 2: Double Tap” added $7.3 million in its third weekend for a cumulative $59.3 million.

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At No. 7, STX Entertainment’s “Countdown” added $5.9 million in its second weekend (a 34% drop) for a cumulative $17.8 million.

In eighth place, Sony’s “Black and Blue” added $4.1 million in its second weekend (a 52% drop) for a cumulative $15.4 million.

At No. 9, Warner Bros. opened the crime drama “Motherless Brooklyn” with $3.7 million, well below analyst projections of $10 million.

Edward Norton serves as writer, director, producer and star of the $26-million movie, an adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s novel about a ‘50s-era private investigator with Tourette syndrome who is on the hunt to solve his mentor’s murder.

The film, which earned a 62% “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes, also features Bruce Willis, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alec Baldwin and Willem Dafoe.

Rounding out the top 10, Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures’ animated “Arctic Dogs” opened with $3.1 million, well below analyst projections of $10 million.

The $50-million movie features Jeremy Renner as the voice of Swifty the Arctic fox, a mailroom delivery service worker. John Cleese, Anjelica Huston, James Franco, Heidi Klum and Alec Baldwin also lend their voices to the film, which earned a dismal B-minus CinemaScore and did not screen for critics.

Also new this week, Netflix released the Martin Scorsese crime drama “The Irishman” in eight locations in New York and Los Angeles. Netflix does not report its box office grosses.

Starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci, the 3.5-hour mob drama cost $160 million to $200 million to produce. It boasts a 97% “fresh” score on Rotten Tomatoes and will debut on the streaming service Nov. 27.

Limited releases continued to do well, including Neon’s “Parasite,” which added $2.6 million in its fifth weekend for a per-screen average of $5,705 and a cumulative $7.5 million.

Fox Searchlight’s “Jojo Rabbit” added $2.4 million across 256 locations (up from 55) in its third weekend for a cumulative $4.3 million.

A24’s “The Lighthouse” added $2 million in its third weekend for a cumulative $7 million.

101 Films’ “The Current War: Director’s Cut” added 60 locations and $1.2 million in its second weekend for a cumulative $5 million.

Sony Pictures Classics expanded “Frankie” into 11 screens (up from four) to $26,259 for a per-screen average of $2,387 and a cumulative $52,360.

Utopia released Errol Morris’ documentary on Stephen K. Bannon, “American Dharma,” exclusively at Film Forum in New York. It earned $7,522 and opens Friday in Los Angeles.

This week, Warner Bros. opens the Stephen King adaptation “Doctor Sleep,” Universal releases the romantic comedy “Last Christmas,” Lionsgate reveals the action drama “Midway” and Paramount debuts the family comedy “Playing With Fire.” In limited release, Amazon opens the Shia LaBeouf drama “Honey Boy.”

Fans and celebrities took to Twitter to mourn the loss of LGBTQ and Latino icon Walter Mercado, who died Saturday.

Stars and fans of the late Puerto Rican astrologer and television personality Walter Mercado took to Twitter on Sunday morning to mourn the LGBTQ and Latino icon.

Mercado, who never publicly stated his sexuality, was an icon in the gay community for never conforming to traditional gender roles and challenging Latin America’s conservative television culture.

In an emotional thread, comedian Gabe Gonzalez shared his personal connection to the astrologer, who died Saturday of kidney failure.

“He was weird and beautiful and eccentric and dressed in extravagant capes I’d try to imitate using my grandmother’s sheets,” said Gonzalez in a tweet. “He defined everything I’d been taught about how I ‘should’ act as a Puerto Rican man.”

“He never identified as queer, but it felt like he refused to be constrained by gender norms and antiquated ideas of masculinity,” he continued. “When an interviewer once asked his age, Walter Mercado responded ‘Soy ageless.’ Ageless never dies, bebé.”

“Orange Is the New Black” actress Dascha Polanco also tweeted about the fallen star, lamenting the fact that she’d never had a chance to meet him.

The Kid Mero, one half of the comedy duo Desus & Mero, also shared the news on social media, saying he watched Mercado “my entire life.”

In their remembrances, several fans shared Mercado’s signature catchphrase “Above all, lots and lots of love.”

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The full sustaining power of composer Andrew Norman’s mind-bending, enchanting orchestral piece “Sustain” first became evident about 9:30 p.m. Oct. 4, 2018. That would be about 20 minutes, just over halfway, into its Los Angeles Philharmonic world premiere at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

At that point, a hooked listener had no choice but to go along for the marvelous ride as the score chaotically burst its seams, releasing sonic shards into the environment that would fall back to Earth as audible cosmic dust.

This was one of the first of dozens of commissions for the L.A. Phil centennial season, and it instantly became the talk of the new music community and beyond. Lo-fi recordings of Gustavo Dudamel’s spectacular performance, taken from a KUSC-FM (91.5) broadcast, were circulating. Not all of us came to the concert hall intending to have our hair stand on end, so there were walkouts, and I got an angry letter or two about the piece. But by and large, the sense was that the popular L.A. composer, still in his 30s, had come up with a masterpiece.

On Saturday afternoon, Dudamel repeated “Sustain” at Disney, this time as a prelude to Bruckner’s mighty Fourth Symphony, a program he will take on an L.A. Phil tour to Mexico City and London later this month (but not inexplicably to New York, where the orchestra will play only the Bruckner). In the meantime, Deutsche Grammophon has released an L.A. Phil recording in superb sound. Still, “Sustain” had not been played since the first performances, and its sustainability as a masterpiece needed confirmation.

When it comes to our very humanity, sustainability itself should to be the biggest concern of our time. We no longer have trust in what, if anything, can or will last. In an interview about music years ago, the Dalai Lama foretold our way of dealing with the future as needing to get over attachment, music in particular, since it is so addictive. Attachment to anything, he insisted, even his to Buddhism, holds us back.

The best thing about “Sustain,” other than its sheer beauty, is that it is by its very nature unattachable. The piece has a very specific structure, although you are not likely to follow it unless you know exactly what to listen for, which then defeats the point. The score operates in cycles that are signaled by an angelic run up the scale on two pianos tuned a quarter-tone apart.

Waves of string constellations rise and fall, interrupted by suppurating winds and consoled by brass chords. Everything is staggered. On paper, this is a riot of intersecting patterns that look like ant colonies on the move or seeds scattering in the wind. There is a motoric section in which the orchestra blows a ferocious wind before returning to mellower otherworldliness. The cycle lasts some 17 minutes before being repeated in a much abbreviated form and sped up several times. By then, you realize you have no way of knowing where you are going or why.

Progress proves unsustainable. Players are eventually left on their own in semi-improvisation, with a rudimentary percussion section attempting to maintain a beat. Two large pieces of suspended plywood are scraped. The pianos ring out irregular, exquisitely broken, off-tuned chords. We’re lost in a new world.

“You will have no idea where the pianists are by this point,” the composer writes in a note to the conductor near the end of the score. “It is up to you to sculpt the moment as you see fit.” Once more the opening signal, ringing as the strings air bow, instructed musicians to “make no sound ‘on’ your highest string.”

In his program note, Norman says “Sustain” is about his and our relation to the Earth. He credits sadness and loss in the music to this critical moment in history when we are not doing enough to sustain our planet. “Sustain” was played Saturday as L.A. and its environs burned. Loss was palpable.

Dudamel sped everything up ever so slightly from a year ago, adding a new sense of urgency. The L.A. Phil played with a remarkable confidence. Music, just vibrations in the air that don’t last, can’t save the world. But it can, and “Sustain” does, give us resolve.

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Superficially, Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony suits “Sustain.” Bruckner is a composer for whom sound is a drug. Like Norman, he separates structure from form, from what we actually perceive. Counterpoint is design. You give yourself to string tremolos and to brass outbursts. Repetition solidifies. What Bruckner here hoped to sustain was his own sanity through spirituality, and for him, a massive orchestra is needed to get divine attention.

The Fourth is a staple of the L.A. Phil, which has recorded the symphony four times. Unlike the unstable “Sustain,” the Fourth is meant to leave you not just satisfied but also satiated. Sustaining tradition in an effusive yet propulsive performance under Dudamel, the symphony did just that once more.

Two hours later, at the Shatto Recreation Center on the outskirts of Koreatown, the L.A. Phil made yet another gesture at orchestral sustainability with a performance by the YOLA CDMX Tour Orchestra. The 96-member ensemble — students and alumni ages 10 to 21 from the various Youth Orchestra Los Angeles centers — will travel with the L.A. Phil to Mexico City, where it will perform with 100 Mexican student musicians under Dudamel.

This warmup concert was conducted by a new Dudamel fellow, Enluis Montes Olivar, a 22-year-old Venezuelan. He was a firebrand on the podium who whipped the kids up into a spirited and contagious, yet impressively disciplined, frenzy in short pieces, including Arturo Marquez’s “Danzón No. 2.”

A dozen years old, and growing by leaps and bounds, YOLA has become an example of the arts as an essential agent of sustainability for the future of L.A. Now we need to put out the fires and clean up the air so that the young musicians can properly breathe new life into our environment. Might not this also be a good moment for Norman, who is about to become a father, to write YOLA players a piece? They’re ready.

SERIES

The Neighborhood As Calvin and Tina (Cedric the Entertainer, Tichina Arnold) near a milestone anniversary, Dave and Gemma (Max Greenfield and Beth Behrs) want to help them have the wedding they missed out on the first time around in this new episode. 8 p.m. CBS

The Voice Taylor Swift continues her role as mentor to all of the teams on the third night of the knockout rounds in this new episode. 8 p.m. NBC

9-1-1. A murder weapon resurfaces from a case in the early ’90s that Athena (Angela Bassett) was close to. Flashbacks show how she joined the LAPD and became the officer she is today. Peter Krause also stars. 8 p.m. Fox

Bob Hearts Abishola Bob (Billy Gardell) hires Abishola (Folake Olowofoyeku) to take care of Dottie (Christine Ebersole) in his home while she recovers in this new episode of the romantic comedy. 8:30 p.m. CBS

All Rise Mark and Emily (Wilson Bethel, Jessica Camacho) go head to head in court for the first time in this new episode of the legal drama. Simone Missick stars. 9 p.m. CBS

Prodigal Son Bright’s (Tom Payne) hunger to find answers leads him to a junkyard, where he narrowly escapes a hail of gunfire. Later, he and the police discover multiple human remains on the scene, spanning decades. Halston Sage and Michael Sheen also star. 9 p.m. Fox

Holiday Baking Championship In the season premiere of this unscripted competition, host Jesse Palmer asks the 10 bakers to introduce themselves with edible placecards. In a second new episode, each baker takes on a judge’s favorite holiday desserts, then creates holiday centerpiece cakes. 9 and 10 p.m. Food Network

His Dark Materials Philip Pullman’s epic fantasy comes to the small screen as a series set in a world wherein every human being has an animal daemon, a manifestation of their soul. Dafne Keen stars as an orphan who has grown up at Jordan College. Ruth Williams, James McAvoy and Lin-Manuel Miranda also star. 9 p.m. HBO

Rock the Block The designers tackle their great rooms and outdoor living spaces in the two new episodes. 9 and 10 p.m. HGTV

The Good Doctor Sean’s (Freddie Highmore) first solo surgery puts his residency in jeopardy in this new episode of the medical drama. 10 p.m. ABC

Independent Lens In the new documentary “Decade of Fire,” filmmakers Vivian Vazquez Irizarry, Gretchen Hildebran and Julia Steele Allen look back at New York City in the 1970s, when virtually the entire borough of the Bronx burned down, reducing much of the community to rubble. 10 p.m. KOCE and 11 p.m. KPBS

Catherine the Great Catherine and Potemkin (Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke) experience challenges in their relationship, as Potemkin’s push for expansion puts him at odds with Panin (Rory Kinnear) in part three of this four-part miniseries. 10 p.m. HBO

MOVIES

Saving Private Ryan Steven Spielberg won the best director Oscar for this 1998 World War II drama, whose opening portrayal of the Normandy invasion is one of the most powerful war sequences in movie history. Tom Hanks stars as the captain in charge of a platoon assigned to go behind enemy lines and retrieve a private (Matt Damon) whose three brothers have all been killed. Jeremy Davies, Edward Burns and Tom Sizemore also star. 9 p.m. Sundance

TALK SHOWS

CBS This Morning (N) 7 a.m. KCBS

Today (N) 7 a.m. KNBC

KTLA Morning News (N) 7 a.m. KTLA

Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC

Good Day L.A. Marla Tellez; cast members of “The Morning Show.” (N) 7 a.m. KTTV

Live With Kelly and Ryan Matt Czuchry (“The Resident”); Renée Elise Goldsberry (“Waves”); Loud Luxury and Bryce Vine. (N) 9 a.m. KABC

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The View (N) 10 a.m. KABC

Rachael Ray Michael Kelly (“Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan”). (N) 10 a.m. KTTV

The Wendy Williams Show (N) 11 a.m. KTTV

The Talk Patrick Wilson. (N) 1 p.m. KCBS

The Dr. Oz Show Dog’s latest medical results onstage; Robert Blake’s daughter speaks out. (N) 1 p.m. KTTV

The Kelly Clarkson Show Eric McCormack; Liza Koshy; Mike Posner’s Walk Across America. (N) 2 p.m. KNBC

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The Ellen DeGeneres Show Maya Rudolph (“Bless the Harts”); Dr. Ruth (“Ask Dr. Ruth”); NFL star Jon Dorenbos. (N) 3 p.m. KNBC

The Real Dr. Mehmet Oz (“The Dr. Oz Show”); guest co-host Eva Marcille. (N) 3 p.m. KTTV

The Doctors A mother discusses raising a nonverbal autistic son; another shares her experience with MERT. (N) 3 p.m. KCOP

To the Contrary With Bonnie Erbé (N) 6 p.m. KVCR

Amanpour and Company (N) 11 p.m. KCET; midnight KVCR; 1 a.m. KLCS

The Daily Show With Trevor Noah (N) 11 p.m. Comedy Central

Conan Matt Damon. (N) 11 p.m. TBS

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Chris Evans; Naomi Scott; EarthGang performs. (N) 11:34 p.m. KNBC

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Country singer Tim McGraw; Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio). (N) 11:35 p.m. KCBS

Jimmy Kimmel Live! 11:35 p.m. KABC

The Late Late Show With James Corden Jessica Biel; Natasha Lyonne; Chris Garcia. (N) 12:37 a.m. KCBS

Late Night With Seth Meyers Gloria Steinem; Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter; Brendan Buckley. (N) 12:37 a.m. KNBC

Nightline (N) 12:37 a.m. KABC

A Little Late With Lilly Singh Lake Bell; Jason Clarke. (N) 1:38 a.m. KNBC

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NFL Football The Dallas Cowboys visit the New York Giants, 5 p.m. ESPN

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LAX has been forced to add non-custom buses to its LAX-it fleet because of the demand for shuttles to the lot just east of Terminal 1, which debuted Tuesday. As the airport becomes busier as the weekend draws to a close, LAX officials plan to add as many as 44 buses to pick up arriving passengers who need an Uber, Lyft or a taxi ride and take them to the new waiting area. Ride-hails and taxis have been banned from curbside pickups to ease traffic in the airport’s central horseshoe.

“On Sunday, we will have between 42 and 44 buses in circulation,” airport spokeswoman Becca Doten said in an email Friday. “[Twenty-nine] of these current buses are the LAX-it shuttles. The others are airfield buses and circulator buses that have been reassigned … as we wait on delivery of additional LAX-it shuttle buses.”

Passengers may walk or take the free shuttle to the lot. Most of the green LAX-it buses (pronounced “L.A. exit”) are equipped with a luggage rack opposite the double doors in the middle of the bus. But passenger Robert Grenader arrived at LAX and found one without bag space. “After a two-week trip, I was forced to position my 45-[pound] suitcase right next to my seat, which effectively blocked the aisle.”

As of late Friday, only one bus didn’t have a luggage rack, and it will be taken out of the rotation by next week. Three smaller white shuttles have luggage space in the rear, rather than the middle.

Shuttles run every three to five minutes, using a dedicated traffic lane closest to the lower-level terminals. The inner lane used to be the place where drivers picked up friends and family. Now arriving passengers can only be picked up on the outside median in signed areas in front of terminals

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LAX’s traffic-easing plan got off to a rocky start Tuesday when passengers waited as long as an hour for their Uber or Lyft ride. The airport apologized and blamed part of the problem on confusion by ride-hail drivers about where they were supposed to go. Arriving passengers can access the LAX-it lot east of Terminal 1 on foot or by taking the shuttle.

Nearly eight months after storms tore it apart, California 243, the most direct route to the popular hiking trails of Idyllwild, reopened Friday.

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The alpine community of Idyllwild, about 105 miles southeast of Los Angeles, was partly cut off because of the damage.

The California Department of Transformation, along with Ames Construction company, led the reconstruction effort to remove debris, replace culverts and rebuild sturdier embankments to mitigate any future debris falls on the highway, said Shane Massoud, public information officer at Caltrans.

The reopening was initially scheduled for next year, but favorable weather conditions helped accelerate the process, Massoud said.

Sitting at least 5,200 feet above Palm Springs in the San Jacinto Mountains, the scenic getaway spot is about two hours from both Los Angeles and San Diego. Those traveling to Idyllwild can monitor the traffic and lane closures along the route in real time using Caltrans alerts.

I enjoyed the “On the Spot” article about carrying CBD oil on airplanes in the Oct. 27 Travel section (“You Love Your New CBD Oil. But TSA Officers May Not,” by Catharine Hamm).

I never thought about the different ways it is looked at in various states.

I’m sure it will help many people think twice before they go on an airplane now.

Joel Lupkin
Calabasas

What a pleasant surprise

I was forced to go through the Real ID process because my license was set to expire. I avoided the whole thing as long as possible, of course, but since I have to fly for work, I went to the Department of Motor Vehicles website and began the process.

I eventually managed an appointment at the Glendale office, even though I live in Hollywood. It was the only location available.

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I gathered all the documents, thought about packing a lunch and set off to waste my entire day.

I arrived at the DMV office to find a line well out the door and into the parking lot. I asked if they all had appointments and someone told me there was another line inside for appointments.

There was nobody in that line.

To make a long story short, it took me 30 minutes to complete the process, including an eye exam (not everyone has to).

Having lived in California for the last 50 years, I expected the “traditional” California DMV nightmare.

It turned out to be a quick and really efficient process if you are willing to do some homework first.

P. Olsman
Hollywood