Howdy, I’m your host, Houston Mitchell. Let’s get right to the news.

LAKERS

Onward the Lakers marched Friday night, rolling to their 10th consecutive victory by stomping the Washington Wizards 125-103 at Staples Center.

Other than Kyle Kuzma slipping on the court toward the end of the third quarter and limping around before coming back to play some in the fourth, the Lakers had no scares in improving to an NBA-best 17-2.

Their best start in franchise history was 19-2 during the 1985-86 season, and the 2008-09 Lakers team started 17-2.

The Lakers pushed their record to 14-1 in November, their highest single-month win total since March 2000 (15-1).

“We made sure our guys respected this opponent,” Lakers coach Frank Vogel said. “They did respect this opponent. They played them with great intensity and focus and we were able to get a W.”

The Lakers got to rest Anthony Davis and LeBron James a lot after both had played heavy minutes during the just-completed four-game trip.

Davis played only 27 minutes, none in the fourth quarter, and still had 26 points and 13 rebounds.

James played just 24 minutes against the Wizards, none in the fourth, and also had a double-double with 23 points and 11 assists.

Photo gallery: Lakers vs. Wizards

CLIPPERS

Returning to San Antonio for the second time since forcing his way out in 2018, Kawhi Leonard was jeered each time he touched the ball and never could quiet the crowd, needing 23 shots to score 19 points in a 107-97 Spurs victory.

“I didn’t make nothing of it,” Leonard said. “Felt like a normal away game.”

In so many respects, this was anything but normal compared with what the Clippers had come to expect from themselves during their seven-game winning streak.

Forward Paul George, an effortless scoring machine since debuting two weeks ago, made two of 11 field goals for five points. After scoring a layup in the game’s first minute, he missed his next nine shots over his next 29 minutes before adding a three-pointer late. His teammates couldn’t compensate, shooting 39% and attempting only 13 free throws.

“I didn’t really find a good rhythm,” George said. “Still just trying to figure out playing out there with my guys.”

Perhaps most surprisingly, after three fourth-quarter comebacks in the last eight days, the Clippers (14-6) could not summon another one against a San Antonio (7-13) team owning the NBA’s second-worst fourth-quarter net rating.

“They just got into us, took us off rhythm,” Clippers coach Doc Rivers said. “Unless we were just going to win in a defensive battle, I didn’t see [a comeback] coming.”

KINGS

Martin Jones made 33 saves and Noah Gregor scored his first career NHL goal in the Sharks’ 4-1 victory over the Kings on Friday.

Logan Couture, Patrick Marleau and Marc-Edouard Vlasic also scored for San Jose.

The Kings trailed 2-0 after the first period.

“The big message was the first 10 minutes of the game was going to be huge, but we came out on the wrong side of that,” defenseman Joakim Ryan said.

DUCKS

Connor Hellebuyck made 24 saves for his second shutout of the season, Neal Pionk had a power-play goal, and the Jets continued their torrid November with a 3-0 victory over the Ducks on Friday at Honda Center.

The Jets have won three straight and are 10-2-1 this month with one game to play.

USC BASKETBALL

Markus Howard scored 51 points as Marquette beat USC, 101-79 and advanced to play No. 5 Maryland in the championship game of the Orlando Invitational.

Isaiah Mobley had 15 points and nine rebounds for USC (6-2).

“We didn’t play well,” USC coach Andy Enfield said. “We really had trouble stopping Howard and what he did to our defense. But it’s one game, it’s one loss, so we have to bounce back mentally and physically.”

UCLA FOOTBALL

Chip Kelly doesn’t care what you think about his program, the one that has only seven wins during his two-year watch and couldn’t even fill seats when the school was giving tickets away for free.

“Perception isn’t what we’re worried about,” Kelly said. “We’re worried about the reality.”

The reality is that the Bruins, at 4-7 overall and 4-4 in Pac-12 Conference play, are guaranteed their fourth straight losing season, the program’s first such streak since the 1920s when the school was called the Southern Branch. Kelly’s seven wins in two years equal the number of total losses he had in four years as Oregon’s head coach.

The Bruins are left with Saturday’s season finale against California at the Rose Bowl as a last chance to leave a good impression for a disappointed fan base before yet another long offseason.

“The reason why we come out here and play is for the UCLA community,” long snapper Johnny Den Bleyker said, “so to go out there and win, go 5-7, have them feel a little bit more comfortable going into next year, I think that’s very important.”

UCLA FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

All times Pacific. Radio: AM 1150

at Cincinnati 24, UCLA 14

San Diego State 23, at UCLA 14

Oklahoma 48, at UCLA 14

UCLA 67, at Washington State 63

at Arizona 20, UCLA 17

Oregon State 48, at UCLA 31

UCLA 34, at Stanford 16

at UCLA 42, Arizona State 32

at UCLA 31, Colorado 14

at Utah 49, UCLA 3

at USC 52, UCLA 35

Today vs. California, 7:30 p.m., FS1

CHARGERS

A Chargers season that has been more pessimistic than forecast can be adequately captured in one negative stat: minus-nine.

This team has turned the ball over 20 times en route to going 4-7 while generating only 11 takeaways, the fifth-fewest total in the NFL.

“You’re not going to win a lot of games in this league at minus-nine turnover ratio,” coach Anthony Lynn said. “Bottom line is we’re not taking it away enough and we’re turning it over too much.

“I love the effort and the energy the guys play with. But we’re killing ourselves.”

Quarterback Philip Rivers is responsible for 16 of those turnovers, seven of which have been interceptions in just the past two games.

Austin Ekeler has lost two fumbles and Melvin Gordon one, those miscues made worse in that each came at the opposition’s goal line. Three of Rivers’ interceptions have happened in the red zone.

“I think it’s guys trying to make plays,” Lynn said. “I mean, it’s not intentional. If I thought it was intentional, that would be a problem.”

Read more

Helene Elliott: Easton Stick prepares a forward path amid Chargers’ murky future at quarterback

RAMS

On the field, no receiver is immune from cornerback Jalen Ramsey’s verbal gamesmanship and sparring.

Larry Fitzgerald, a future Hall of Famer, will no doubt hear from Ramsey on Sunday when the Rams play a road game against the Arizona Cardinals.

But on Friday, Ramsey was noticeably respectful of Fitzgerald, a 16-year pro.

“He’s a legend,” Ramsey said.

Fitzgerald, an 11-time Pro Bowl selection, has 1,358 receptions and 16,872 yards receiving, second only to Hall of Famer Jerry Rice in both categories. Fitzgerald has 119 touchdown catches, which rank sixth all time.

This season, the 36-year old Fitzgerald remains a focal point. He has a team-best 55 catches for 593 yards and three touchdowns.

“Just looking forward to being out on the same field as him and go out and compete,” Ramsey said.

TODAY’S LOCAL MAJOR SPORTS SCHEDULE

All times Pacific

California at UCLA, 7:30 p.m., FS1, AM 1150

Winnipeg at Kings, 7 p.m., FSW

BORN ON THIS DATE

1931: Football coach Bill Walsh (d. 2007)

1950: Basketball player Paul Westphal

1962: Football/baseball player Bo Jackson

1969: Football player Larry Brown

1970: Volleyball player Natalie Williams

1971: Baseball player Ivan Rodriguez

1974: Football player Marcellus Wiley

1986: Basketball player Jordan Farmar

DIED ON THIS DATE

2003: Swimmer Gertrude Ederle, 98

AND FINALLY

With Vin Scully and Ronald Reagan in the booth, Bo Jackson hits a mammoth All-Star game home run. Watch it here.

That concludes the newsletter for today. If you have any feedback, ideas for improvement or things you’d like to see, please email me at [email protected]. If you want to subscribe, click here.

Click Here: cheap true religion jeans

San Diego — 

Amid heavy rain, Border Patrol agents and firefighters rescued 20 people on Thanksgiving night who attempted to cross from Mexico into the San Diego region through a flooded network of drainage pipes.

Authorities also found one person dead along the mouth of the Tijuana River in Imperial Beach.

“The lifesaving efforts of these agents, who bravely risk their own lives to save others, makes me proud,” Douglas Harrison, chief patrol agent for the Border Patrol‘s San Diego sector, said in a statement. “Inclement weather conditions and perilous drainage pipe water flows significantly increase the odds of a grim outcome.”

A border agent on patrol caught three people attempting to illegally cross into the United States through a culvert about two miles west of the San Ysidro Port of Entry about 11 p.m. Thursday, according to officials.

The agent quickly learned that there were others lost in a maze of drainage pipes fast filling up because of rain, officials said. San Diego firefighters and lifeguards were dispatched to help with the rescue.

Hearing calls for help deep in the pipes, agents and the emergency rescue team located a woman and pulled her to safety, officials said. She told authorities that there were more people trapped.

Eventually, authorities opened a manhole to find 13 more border crossers, seven of whom were transported to a hospital, officials said. At least one person sustained life-threatening injuries.

Around 1 a.m. on Friday, agents heard another woman yelling for help in the same area, officials said. She was apprehended and transported to a hospital. Shortly after, two other people were found near the end of the culvert.

Of the 20 people rescued by authorities, 19 were from Mexico and one was from Guatemala.

Around 2:40 a.m., an agent found a person lying dead on the beach along the Tijuana Sloughs. The agent called the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department, which took custody of the body. It’s unknown if the death is related to the other incident.

Smith writes for the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Just over a year after a mass shooting left 12 dead at Borderline Bar and Grill, the bar’s owners announced that they plan on reopening the Thousand Oaks establishment.

Owners Brian Hynes and Troy Hale made the announcement in a video posted Thursday on social media, adding that they have decided to open a new venue in Agoura Hills as they work on construction at the original location. They have not given any specific dates for the openings.

“It’s going to take a little while,” Hynes said. “We will work toward it the best we can.”

The new spot, called BL Dancehall & Saloon, will feature a custom dance floor, a game room and a stage for live performances.

“We’re just really excited to bring this back to you guys and have something we can actually call home now,” Hale said.

Borderline Bar and Grill was hosting line-dancing lessons for college students as young as 18 on Nov. 7, 2018, when a gunman opened fire. Crowds of young people, including parties for two women celebrating their 21st birthdays, were drinking and dancing when the crack of gunfire echoed through the room.

Several of those killed that night worked at the bar. Ventura County Sheriff’s Sgt. Ron Helus was also killed when he stormed the bar trying to stop the shooter, who took his own life.

A barn-like bar with live music and dancing, the Borderline is popular with college students and country music fans in Ventura County. The bar’s patrons also frequent the Stagecoach Festival in Indio, and some at the bar were also survivors of the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas that left 59 dead. The bar has been closed since the shooting.

The new dance hall will serve food and drinks from the Borderline menu. The owners said that in the meantime, they will continue country nights at venues in Agoura Hills and Santa Clarita.

“We’re here for you like you’ve been here for us,” Hynes said.

Click Here: cheap INTERNATIONAL jersey

1/32

Derek Graham rides a sled with hid daughter, Paige, 6, and son, Henry, 7, rear, of Bakersfield as they play in the snow after a winter storm in Lebec. The family had planned to go to Mexico but the snow and road closures changed their plans.  

(Patrick T. Fallon/For The Times)

2/32

Antonio Solorzano, center, builds a snowman with Scarlette Solorzano, 7, left, Nancy Solorzano and Priscilla, 3, center right, and Humberto Solorzano, right, of Ventura county while they play in the snow after a winter storm in Lebec. 

(Patrick T. Fallon/For The Times)

3/32

Ally catches a snowball in her mouth while playing with Ana Barillas and Denise Aparicio of Bakersfield in the snow after a winter storm in Lebec. 

(Patrick T. Fallon/For The Times)

4/32

It’s a winter wonderland in Big Bear, that is if you can get there. The resorts of Snow Summit and Bear Mountain are report upwards of 4 feet of fresh snow. 

(Big Bear Mountain Resort)

5/32

A snowboarder makes fresh tracks on a trail at Snow Summit in Big Bear, where the resort is reporting up to 48-inches of fresh snow from the latest storm. 

(Big Bear Mountain Resort)

6/32

A snowcat is buried under a thick blanket of fresh powder in Big Bear. The resorts of Snow Summit and Bear Mountain are report upwards of 4 feet of fresh snow. 

(Big Bear Mountain Resort)

7/32

Skiers and snowboarders make their way to the lifts at Mountain High resort in Wrightwood hoping to make fresh tracks Friday morning. The resort is reporting 36-inches of fresh snow from the latest storm. 

(Mountain High)

8/32

A snowboarder makes fresh tracks on a trail at Mountain High, where the resort is reporting 36-inches of fresh snow from the latest storm. 

(Mountain High)

9/32

PYRAMID LAKE CA NOVEMBER 29, 2019 — A blanket of snow covers the mountains surrounding Pyramid Lake near Castaic. 

(Patrick Fallon /For The Times)

10/32

A view of the Los Angeles skyline as seen from the Palos Verde Peninsula on Friday morning. 

(Patrick Fallon / For The Times)

11/32

Vehicles turn around at Mt. Wilson Road and Angeles Crest Highway due to heavy snow in the Angeles National Forest. 

(Raul Roa / TCN)

12/32

A dog frolics in the snow where a roadside turnout became a temporary playground in the Angeles National Forest on Thanksgiving Day. 

(Raul Roa / TCN)

13/32

Snow blankets trees next to Angeles Crest Highway in the Angeles National Forest on Thanksgiving Day. 

(Raul Roa / TCN)

14/32

A surfer exits the ocean near the Redondo Beach Pier under dark skies on Thanksgiving.  

(Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)

15/32

The umbrellas were out on the Redondo Beach Pier, where rain fell throughout the day on Thanksgiving.  

(Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)

16/32

Lucas Pearson does a backflip under the rain near the Redondo Beach Pier on Thanksgiving.  

(Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)

17/32

Storm clouds serve as a backdrop to the downtown Los Angeles skyline as seen from above the 110 Freeway on Thanksgiving Day. 

(Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

18/32

Snow surrounds Interstate 5 through the Tejon Pass. 

(Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

19/32

Johnny Frincke of Carlsbad snowboards in Wrightwood. 

(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

20/32

Yahaira Perez, 11, of Temecula sleds down a hill in Wrightwood. 

(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

21/32

Storm clouds drift over downtown Los Angeles after dumping record rainfall across Southern California. 

(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

22/32

Epifania Conde near a mural at West 48th Street and South Broadway in Los Angeles.  

(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

23/32

Morning rain in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday. 

(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

24/32

Julio Bravo sells umbrellas on Wednesday morning in downtown Los Angeles. 

(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

25/32

Snow falls along Interstate 5 through the Tejon Pass between Gorman and Frazier Park. 

(Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

26/32

Vatsika Viswanathan, 8, grabs snow from the hood of a car in Gorman.  

(Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

27/32

Yahaira Perez, 11, of Temecula makes a snow angel in Wrightwood. 

(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

28/32

A couple walk amid falling snow in Wrightwood. 

(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

29/32

Clouds linger over downtown L.A. as a storm rolls through the Los Angeles Basin. 

(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

30/32

Seagulls fly overhead while members of the Xu family, visiting from Atlanta, enjoy lunch on the beach in Santa Monica.  

(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

31/32

Motor traffic crawls along Linclon Boulevard as a plane lands at LAX under stormy skies. 

(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

32/32

The lights of businesses along Sepulveda Boulevard in Westchester are reflected in a rain puddle. 

(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Southern California residents on Friday continued to dig out from a storm that swept through the region on Thanksgiving day, bringing record rainfall to parts of the Los Angeles area and dumping snow on the mountains and high deserts.

“This is pretty unreal, especially for Southern California,” said Justin Kanton, spokesman for Big Bear Mountain Resort. About 48 inches of snow had fallen there by Friday morning, which was Bear Mountain’s opening day.

“I’d like to take credit and say that we planned it this way, but of course Mother Nature really holds all the strings when it comes to delivering the goods with snowfall,” Kanton said.

Across the region in Palmdale, which saw 4 to 5 inches of snow, the digging out process was made more difficult by the fact that the city’s public works crews don’t have many snowplows, Mayor Steve Hofbauer said.

“This amount of accumulation is not routine for us,” he said. “But we’ve got a lot of other road maintenance equipment that can be pressed into use, so pretty much anything with a shovel on it kind of became the defacto snow plows, and the guys did a great job.”

The storm “hit so hard, so heavy and so fast” on Thursday that an ambulance transporting a patient became stuck on the uphill road leading to Palmdale Regional Medical Center, he said. Public works crews had to plow a path to bring in a second ambulance, transfer the patient, clear a route to the hospital and then go back and dig out the first ambulance, he said.

By late Friday morning, the roads were clear and people were out enjoying the rare snowfall, with deputies and firefighters pausing their patrols to have snowball fights with children, Hofbauer said.

“I’ve never seen so many snowmen in my life. It’s the invasion of the snowmen,” he said, describing hills blanketed with snow while clouds floated above a dramatic San Gabriel mountains and Sierra Nevada backdrop. “It’s like a postcard right now — it’s just gorgeous.”

The precipitation was less welcome in some areas. Along skid row, the storm forced the Los Angeles Mission to move its annual Thanksgiving celebration inside and prompted staffers to make available extra showers, clothing and hot meals.

The shelter is prone to localized flooding because it sits at the intersection of multiple underground drainage pipes, which can become become clogged during rainstorms and cause material from the sewers to back up into the streets, Mission president Herb Smith said. In addition, he said, the shelter tends to see an uptick in people suffering from cold- and flu-type illnesses when the weather turns cold and wet.

“It definitely is challenging whenever we have rain,” he said.

The Union Rescue Mission received permission from the mayor’s office to use a new microfiber “sprung structure” as a warming area for 120 women for the first time on Wednesday. The heated waterproof tent will eventually serve as an overnight shelter, once it’s approved by the city, said Rev. Andy Bales, the mission’s chief executive.

“We are always over capacity, but when the storms hit, not only have we been over capacity, but we’ve been beyond,” he said. He estimated that the downtown shelter housed more than 1,250 men, women and children over the past few days, as people looked to escape the rain and cold.

“Rain in 50 degrees in Los Angeles can kill you,” he said. “Rain in 40 degrees virtually guarantees death by hypothermia.”

More rain and snow are on the way.

A storm is forecast to sweep in from the west in the next several days, supercharged by an atmospheric river of subtropical moisture — long plumes of water vapor that can pour over from the Pacific Ocean through California. As a result, there’s going to be a lot of precipitation associated with the system, but it’s still too early to pinpoint exactly where the blast of rain and snow will be funneled.

“It’s kind of like a fire hose, which is hard to control. Right now, we’re confident that there’s going to be rain, and a lot of it, on Saturday afternoon through Sunday. Where the heaviest precipitation is going to be is still uncertain,” said Carolina Walbrun, meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Monterey office.

NORTHERN AND CENTRAL CALIFORNIA

The storm is expected to move into Northern and Central California on Saturday and persist through the busy Sunday travel day as Thanksgiving travelers return home. It could then reach Southern California by Tuesday and Wednesday.

A high wind watch has been issued for many parts of coastal Northern California, and a flash flood warning has been issued for the Kincade burn area in Sonoma County.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

The atmospheric river could bring scattered showers to the Los Angeles area by Sunday, followed by a good soaking of rain on Tuesday and Wednesday, said Tom Fisher meteorologist with the weather service’s Oxnard office.

The region has already been hit by two storms this week. Thursday’s rain set a record for the day at Long Beach Airport, which saw 2.17 inches of rain. Anaheim, Newport Beach and Riverside also set records for the day.

Click Here: Germany Football Shop

A new storm fed by the first atmospheric river of the season is expected bring rain to Northern and Central California beginning Saturday, and cause significant travel delays and hazards for Thanksgiving travelers returning home on Sunday, the National Weather Service said.

Based on predictions of its water vapor transport capacity, this atmospheric river is classified as moderate to strong.

Rain from the system is expected to move south into the L.A. region on Tuesday and Wednesday as the atmospheric river weakens, said Lisa Phillips, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard.

After light rain in the late morning to around noon Saturday, rain will intensify in Northern California, with coastal mountain ranges around Big Sur and Santa Cruz forecast to be the wettest, receiving from 6 to 10 inches of precipitation. A flash flood watch is in effect for the area of the Kincade fire in Sonoma County, and high-wind warnings are in effect for the coasts of Sonoma, Marin, San Mateo and Monterey counties.

Driving this storm will be an upper-level low-pressure system dropping south from the Gulf of Alaska and setting up off the Pacific Northwest. Its circulation will pull in a plume of extremely moist air originating near the Hawaiian Islands, creating an atmospheric river.

As a result of its origin, this system will be warmer, causing snow levels to start out low — about 3,000 to 4,000 feet on Saturday on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada — then rise to 6,000 feet late Saturday and early Sunday. Snow levels will continue to rise to near or above pass levels Sunday night and Monday.

This atmospheric river thus qualifies as what is popularly known as a Pineapple Express. “All Pineapple Expresses are atmospheric rivers, but not all atmospheric rivers are Pineapple Expresses,” said Drew Peterson, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Monterey.

Atmospheric rivers are a concentrated stream of water vapor in the middle and lower levels of the atmosphere. They’re like a continuous conga line of moisture streaming across the ocean without interruption until they encounter an obstacle such as the coast ranges in California. These obstacles force the atmospheric river to start shedding its burden of moisture.

Some atmospheric rivers are weak and produce beneficial rain, and some are larger and more powerful, causing extreme rainfall, floods and mudslides.

On average, 30% to 50% of the West Coast’s annual precipitation comes from a few atmospheric rivers each year.

Atmospheric rivers are roughly 250 to 375 miles wide, and a strong one can transport as much as 7.5 times to 15 times the average amount of water that flows through the mouth of the Mississippi River.

When this atmospheric stream, bloated with moisture as it is, meets the coastal mountains, it is forced up and over the higher terrain. This is called orographic lift. The moist air plume cools as it gains altitude, and the moisture condenses, falling as rain.

Mountain slopes facing the ocean and into the rolling atmospheric river of moisture will receive the heaviest rain, while some areas such as San Jose and parts of the Salinas Valley will be in the rain shadow of these mountains and will receive less rain as a result.

The atmospheric river will continue on across the Central Valley and climb the western slope of the Sierra Nevada. These peaks are so high and give the atmospheric river such a workout that almost all the rest of the moisture is wrung out of it, leaving the mountains smothered in a blanket of snow and the Great Basin beyond parched in a gigantic rain shadow.

A look at the map shows that California’s deserts are a product of mountain ranges, including the Transverse Ranges in the south, that starve inland areas of a moist flow off the ocean.

The mountains serve as the state’s water bank under good conditions, and the snow gradually melts through the warm months, replenishing streams and reservoirs.

Unsettled weather will continue in Northern California for the remainder of next week as the atmospheric river weakens. Showers will linger until midweek and rain will spread south to the Los Angeles region. Yet another storm is on the horizon then, promising more rounds of wet, windy weather in the Bay Area late next week.

Click Here: Germany Football Shop

A member of a Los Angeles police gang unit was wounded Saturday night when his patrol team stopped a suspect in Boyle Heights.

Officers in the Hollenbeck division were on patrol when they approached a suspect at about 7:10 p.m. near Malabar and North Fickett streets. The man pulled out a weapon and fired on the officers, injuring one of them, police said.

The wounded officer, who was shot in the arm, was taken to a hospital. The suspect, who was not injured, was arrested and a gun was recovered at the scene, according to police.

No further details were available.

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — 

It is 1956. A queue of Mexican immigrants stands at a processing station in Texas, about to be admitted to the United States as part of the bracero guest worker program. They are naked, clothes in hand, waiting for a masked attendant to douse them with DDT, an insecticide whose use would be banned in the U.S. just 16 years later.

It was this scene of casual brutality that photographer Leonard Nadel captured on film in his documentary series devoted to migrant labor (and its many abuses) in the 1950s. In the caption he submitted with the picture, he notes that the men were treated by border authorities in “much the same manner and feeling used in handling livestock.”

The DDT shower was less a ritual of disease protection than a tool of humiliation.

Nadel’s indelible image serves as moving inspiration for a large-scale painting by Los Angeles artist Rafa Esparza that greets visitors to his solo installation at MASS MoCA, the contemporary art center in North Adams, Mass.

A thick slab of adobe serves as Esparza’s canvas. His image puts a tight focus on the workers. Their strong bodies, their bowed heads, brown skin blending into brown adobe as a white cloud of poison envelopes their faces.

Esparza’s installation, “staring at the sun,” on display through the end of the year, is one of two exhibitions at MASS MoCA that contend, in different ways, with the border and the ways in which it marks division but also generates resilience and symbioses.

One floor up and a building over is a survey of work by Tijuana artist Marcos Ramirez, who goes by the name “ERRE,” a show whose most visible component is a 120-foot corrugated metal sculpture titled “Of Fence,” from 2017, which evokes the rusty red look of the U.S.-Mexico border wall.

At one point, “Them and Us / Ellos y Nosotros,” as the show is titled, forces viewers to choose a path through the gallery — under signs titled “Us” and “Them.”

The two artists’ work could not be more different.

Esparza’s temple-like installation — in which he displays paintings on adobe in a gallery whose floor has also been covered in mud brick — is, to some degree, a meditation on material. Its brownness. Its earthiness. Its ephemerality. A material he uses as canvas to render portraits, not just of migrant workers but of friends and of family.

“Portraiture creates a legacy,” says the exhibition’s curator, Marco Antonio Flores. “The interesting thing is that for him to create portraits out of material that breaks and cracks, you think, what does that tell us about portraiture?”

ERRE’s show, which features an array of new and existing pieces, many produced throughout the artist’s career, reveals an artist deeply engaged in politics and policy — not to mention a mordant wit.

In a video titled “The Body of the Crime (The Black Suburban),” made in 2008, ERRE plays the victim of a cartel hit. He also plays policeman and forensic investigator. If he represents a society racked by violence at every level, he also represents that same society’s complicity. It’s a piece made more poignant by President Trump’s announcement this week that he wanted to designate the cartels terrorist groups.

Nearby sits a 2019 installation, “Orange Country,” which consists of orange prison jumpsuits in four sizes, including an infant’s onesie — an allusion to the continued detention of families and children at the U.S.-Mexico border. They serve as a stark, criminal justice counterpoint to Chris Burden’s oversized “L.A.P.D. Uniform” installation, in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

“ERRE is the perfect example of someone who lives with the border as a daily thing,” says MASS MoCA senior curator Susan Cross, “and not as a political abstraction.”

What unites Esparza and ERRE’s work is how they tackle the idea of the border as not simply a wall but as a punitive tool — the policies and procedures that are used to demonize and dehumanize. A DDT bath. A child in a cage.

As historian Greg Grandin notes in his recent book, “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America,” “The point isn’t to actually build ‘the wall’ but to constantly announce the building of the wall.”

On a more inspiring note, both exhibitions reveal the ways in which culture can circumvent any border put in its way.

One of Esparza’s paintings shows a figure pulling back a fence. Are they tearing it down or climbing over? It’s hard to say.

And his portraits of fellow artists — such as performance artist Sebastián Hernández and singer San Cha, both from L.A. — dwell not in victimhood but in graceful empowerment.

“These people are alive today,” says Flores, “and they are creating this artistic aesthetic legacy.”

One of ERRE’s best-known works is a two-headed wooden horse that rose to a height of 30 feet, which he installed at the Tijuana-San Ysidro border crossing in 1997.

“Toy-an Horse” had two legs planted in Mexico and two in the U.S., with one head facing north and the other to the south. It may have faced in different directions but its body was one. A political line may divide but the cultural body remains whole.

In the gallery, the piece is represented by a photomural showing the installation from the ’90s. But ERRE re-created the heads in wood, charred them and laid them on a bed of coal, in a yin-yang arrangement, in the middle of the gallery.

Together in life. Together in death. Like adobe, it will all one day crumble to dust.

• Where: MASS MoCA, 1040 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, Mass.

• When: Through December

• massmoca.org

• Where: MASS MoCA, 1040 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, Mass.

• When: On view to summer 2021

• massmoca.org

SERIES

California Cooking With Jessica Holmes This new episode visits Osteria Bigoli for rigatoni carbonara and warm spinach bread. Then, Holmes makes lamb sloppy joes and shops at Seed Bakery for fresh baked bread. 8 p.m. The CW

Crikey! It’s the Irwins Robert feeds 44 hungry alligators, all at the same time. Also, Terri helps examine Kaitlyn the tiger and makes a thrilling discovery in this new episode. 8 p.m. Animal Planet

Planet Earth: Blue Planet II Hosts Steve Backshall, Chris Packham and Liz Bonnin try to predict what the future holds for all living things in the season finale of this nature documentary series. 9 p.m. BBC America

Amanda to the Rescue Host Amanda Giese faces one of her most challenging rescues when a puppy arrives with serious neurological issues in this new episode.10 p.m. Animal Planet

Christmas Cookie Challenge Cookie makers are challenged to create cookies perfect for a Christmas in the tropics in this new episode. 10 p.m. Food Network

SPECIALS

Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire & Legend of the Lost Tribe Ben Stiller, Hugh Grant, Britney Spears, James Belushi, Brad Garrett, Leah Remini, Jerry Stiller, James Woods, Dan Dierdorf and Dick Enberg lend their voices to the off-kilter animated story of the quest of Rudolph’s son to take his father’s place on Santa’s sleigh team. In the follow-up, Robbie opposes Blitzen’s plan for a theme park called Reindeer World. 8 p.m. CBS

The Story of Santa Claus After a toy maker and his wife are evicted from their shop by landlords, they head to an orphanage to deliver their only remaining bag of toys. When they get lost in a storm, they wind up at the North Pole, where they meet a group of elves. Ed Asner and Betty White provide voices in this encore animated special. 9 p.m. CBS

MOVIES

It’s a Wonderful Life Small-town guy George Bailey (James Stewart) defers one big dream after another to stay home, marry a local girl (Donna Reed) and run the family business. Facing financial ruin, he’s pulled from suicidal despair by angel Clarence (Henry Travers), who shows him how terrible the world would have been if he’d never been born. Lionel Barrymore also stars in director Frank Capra’s 1946 holiday classic. 8 p.m. NBC

Christmas in Rome An American tour guide (Lacey Chabert) who lives in the Eternal City leads her tourists off the beaten path once too often and loses her job just before Christmas. Luckily, she runs into a New York executive (Sam Page) who must convince the owner (Franco Nero) of a local company that he knows and understands the “real” Italy in this 2019 holiday romance. 8 p.m. Hallmark Channel

Shazam! Director David F. Sandberg delivered this charming and funny 2019 adaptation of a DC Comics property, about young Billy Batson (Asher Angel), who gains the power to turn into an adult superhero (played by Zachary Levi). Mark Strong, Jack Dylan Grazer, Djimon Hounsou and Meagan Good also star. 8 p.m. HBO

Merry Liddle Christmas Kelly Rowland drew from her own recent Christmas catastrophe for this 2019 romantic comedy, in which the former Destiny’s Child member stars as a successful tech entrepreneur whose messy family descends for the holidays on her pristine new dream home. Thomas Cadrot also stars. 8 p.m. Lifetime

WEEKEND TALK

SATURDAY

Tamron Hall 9 p.m. KABC

SUNDAY

CBS News Sunday Morning A woman who used the 262 cemetery plots she inherited to help others in need; Alec Cabacungan, the face of the Shriners Hospitals for Children’s TV ads; singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette on the new Broadway show based on her breakout album “Jagged Little Pill”; a family that makes their living as catalog models; Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce discuss their new film “The Two Popes”; the Global Positioning Satellite network; the controversy over the use of the term “OK Boomer.” (N) 6 a.m. KCBS

Good Morning America (N) 6 a.m. KABC

State of the Union With Jake Tapper Impeachment, 2020 election, news of the day: Presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.); impeachment, news of the day: Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose). (N) 6 and 9 a.m. CNN

Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.); Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.); Sandy Lerner, Ayrshire Farm (Re-Air). (N) 7 a.m. KTTV; 11 a.m., 4 and 11 p.m. Fox News Channel

Fareed Zakaria GPS Impeachment throughout history: Doris Kearns Goodwin, Rick Perlstein, David Rubenstein; what we can learn from schools in Asia; avoiding catastrophes. (N) 7 and 10 a.m. CNN

Face the Nation Presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.); Thanksgiving book panel: Authors Michael Duffy, Ruth Marcus, Jon Meacham, Susan Page, David Rubenstein. (N) 7:30 a.m. KCBS

Meet the Press (N) 8 a.m. KNBC; 3 p.m. MSNBC

This Week With George Stephanopoulos Impeachment inquiry: Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.); impeachment inquiry: Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Elk Grove); panel on Trump’s actions in military war crimes cases. (N) 8 a.m. KABC

Reliable Sources with Brian Stelter Fighting conspiracy theories, defending real reporting; Bloomberg News’ coverage of founder Michael Bloomberg’s presidential bid; impeachment hearings; commonalities in the investigations into President Trump; Trump allies using religious language to describe him and his opponents. (N) 8 a.m. CNN

MediaBuzz (N) 8 a.m. and midnight Fox News Channel

60 Minutes YouTube chief executive Susan Wojcicki discusses the video-sharing site’s policies; homelessness in Seattle; medieval churches carved out of rock at a mysterious holy site in Ethiopia. (N) 7 p.m. KCBS

SPORTS

College football Georgia visits Georgia Tech, 9 a.m. ABC; Ohio State visits Michigan, 9 a.m. Fox; Clemson visits South Carolina, 9 a.m. ESPN; Indiana visits Purdue, 9 a.m. ESPN2; Northwestern visits Illinois, 9 a.m. FS1; Wake Forest visits Syracuse, 9:30 a.m. FS Prime; Alabama visits Auburn, 12:30 p.m. CBS; Wisconsin visits Minnesota, 12:30 p.m. ABC; Baylor visits Kansas, 12:30 p.m. ESPN; Miami visits Duke, 12:30 p.m. ESPN2; Maryland visits Michigan State, 12:30 p.m. FS1; Southern Mississippi visits Florida Atlantic, 12:30 p.m. NFL; Notre Dame visits Stanford, 1 p.m. Fox; Southern versus Grambling State, 2 p.m. NBCSP; Texas A&M visits LSU, 4 p.m. ESPN; Navy visits Houston, 4 p.m. ESPN2; Iowa State visits Kansas State, 4 p.m. FS1; Colorado visits Utah, 4:30 p.m. ABC; Oklahoma visits Oklahoma State, 5 p.m. Fox; Arizona visits Arizona State, 7 p.m. ESPN; Fresno State visits San Jose State, 7:30 p.m. ESPN2; California visits UCLA, 7:30 p.m. FS1

College basketball Lipscomb visits Xavier, 9 a.m. Fox Sports Net; Boston College visits Richmond, 11:30 a.m. NBCSP

Hockey The Winnipeg Jets visit the Kings, 7 p.m. Fox Sports Net

For more sports on TV, see the Sports section.

Julie Hagerty’s movie career has included memorable moments in cockpits (“Airplane!”) and Las Vegas casinos (“Lost in America”) but she admits she was terribly frightened by a scene in her new film, “Marriage Story,” that takes place in an ordinary living room.

Of course, the scene involves singing the Stephen Sondheim song “You Could Drive a Person Crazy” from “Company” with Scarlett Johansson and Merritt Wever, who play her daughters in the acclaimed Noah Baumbach film.

“It was fun, and it was hard,” Hagerty recalled in a recent interview. “Merritt and I were practicing and practicing. Then Scarlett came in and did it in five minutes. I don’t sing. I don’t dance. But you just want to do it for Noah, who is a genius. He’s brilliant.”

Baumbach had no idea she was nervous doing the scene. “She later revealed that she was terrified about it,” he said. But, as always, Hagerty pulled it off with grace and wit.

The actress brings needed levity to “A Marriage Story,” Baumbach’s intense chronicle of the painful disintegration of a marriage between an actress (Johansson) and a director (Adam Driver). Hagerty shines as Sandra, Johansson’s loving and girlish actress mother who is divorced from her gay husband. (The movie is currently in theaters and will be on Netflix on Dec. 6.)

The actress is now 64, though she doesn’t look much older than she did when she and Robert Hays starred in 1980’s “Airplane!” or when she and Albert Brooks got “Lost in America” in 1985. Over a meatball lunch at a tony Beverly Hills hotel, Hagerty is warm and engaging and shares her insights about how she viewed Sandra.

“She’s a wonderful mother who loves her grandson and her other grandchildren and loves her daughters,” said Hagerty. “She’s not controlling but she wants everything to be OK — how she sees it to be OK. She hasn’t grown up to understand that everybody has to find their own way.”

Baumbach said he’s been following Hagerty’s career for decades. “I loved her in ‘Airplane!’ I loved her in ‘Lost in America.’ ‘Noises Off.’ She’s great,” he said. “More recently I have seen her in a couple of Wally Shawn plays, ‘Grasses of a Thousand Colors’ and his adaptation of ‘The Master Builder.’ She was just so wonderful. It was a different quality [from her usual roles].”

Baumbach noted that Hagerty was a fun collaborator on “Marriage Story.” “She’s totally there and ready to play. She brings something that only she can do. We rehearsed a lot. She’s there, she’s prepared and at the same time up for anything, and with the best spirit about it.”

Besides Baumbach, Hagerty was effusive about her costars. “They are these young talents,” she said, delicately diving into her meatballs. “They are as sweet as they are gifted and talented. Scarlett would get us — if we were working late — soup and grilled cheese.”

Wallace Shawn, who plays an actor in Driver’s company in “Marriage Story,” has known Hagerty since the early 1990s, when they did Tom Noonan’s off-Broadway play “Wifey” and in the 1995 film version (retitled “The Wife”).

“I can’t really describe her process,” said Shawn. “She seems to be one of the most completely spontaneous actors I’ve ever met. It seems that she’s like a very young person with an incredible imagination, so that she could imagine herself into any situation the way a 10-year-old might. Everything about Julie is very paradoxical because she seems like a very naive person who might not be able to drive a car, fix a car if it breaks down. But she knows how it all works.”

Hagerty seems as an actor to be “absolutely innocent,” said Shawn, “but on the other hand, I’ve seen her act on Broadway. I know that she has an incredible, what you would call, ability to control what she does to make the audience laugh, to do whatever the director wants her to do. When you act with her, it feels as if it’s never happened before. “

Hagerty also can be seen on Disney+ in the holiday film “Noelle” as Mrs. Claus.

‘She does a lot of different things — makes sure all the elves are in order,” Hagerty explained about the role. “It’s amazing to be an adult and say, ‘I’m playing Mrs. Claus in a Disney movie.’”

Many people still remember Hagerty best as the sweetly ditzy flight attendant in the blockbuster hit comedy “Airplane!” Though the spoof was wild and crazy, codirectors Jerry and David Zucker and Jim Abrahams ran a pretty tight set.

“Howard Koch Sr. was the producer and the one who believed in the boys,” she recalled. “He was on set every day. It was a very low-budget film. You had to do it quickly. The only cut-up was Leslie Nielsen,” who played the doctor aboard the flight; he brought his whoopie cushion to the set every day.

Hagerty, who is married to composer and theatrical producer Richard Kagan, says she is “having my childhood in reverse.” She loves horses but couldn’t have a horse as a child growing up in Cincinnati. She now has three rescue horses.

Adjusting to fame didn’t come easily to Hagerty. After “Airplane!” came out, she became a fan favorite.

“Somebody asked me for my autograph and that had never happened before,” she noted. “So, I got nervous and I’m dyslexic, so I signed it, ‘West bishes, Julie Hagerty.’ The guy gave it back to me and said, ‘You spelled it wrong.’ That was my introduction to signing an autograph.”

Click Here: Spain Football Shop

You won’t find one of artist Nayland Blake’s sassy rabbits, which have been a common feature of the artist’s work, in the vast collection of Altadena’s cheerful Bunny Museum. In drawings, sculptures and videos, Blake’s rabbits tend to exude a mordant humor of layered depth.

The playful title of a welcome retrospective at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, suggests how.

With a nod toward bodily orifices, “No Wrong Holes: Thirty Years of Nayland Blake” is at once sexually suggestive and sorrowful. It affirms the profound influence and satisfactions of human desire. Simultaneously, it acknowledges the deep pit of unavoidable loneliness that accompanies it — a hole in the heart.

In China, babies born during the Year of the Rabbit are said to be sensitive to beauty. In the West, given the regeneration associated with the Easter bunny and the erotic power dynamics of the Playboy logo, the bunny has long been a — you should pardon the expression — fertile symbol.

“Starting Over,” Blake’s 23-minute video projection in the final room, sweeps up all these elements (and more) into one. Dressed in a heavy, absurdly oversize bunny suit weighing 146 pounds, the artist climbs on a stage wearing tap shoes, commencing to dance until collapsing, exhausted. The volume of the tapping feet is turned way up, crashing like nonstop thunder.

The video is elegiac, the absurd suit’s heaviness equaling that of a romantic partner at the time. The rabbit frames a personal story that incorporates the physical intimacy of sexual coupling and the emotional intimacy of “starting over,” which any partnership entails. Blake carries the relationship’s weight.

Projected on the usual white gallery wall, the costume, pedestal-stage and backdrop are likewise white. With purity and innocence as context, a sweet romanticism sneaks into the raucous, noisy display of tap-dancing as fast as one can.

The video is also a wry, even poignant take on any artist’s role in offering public enactments of private truths. Blake is out there, exposed, for everyone to see — good, bad or indifferent. It’s grueling, certainly; but this self-critical work is also generous: Performance art takes its toll on everyone concerned, the artist as well as an audience standing in a room watching and waiting.

Blake is a skilled draftsman, as five selections in graphite and colored pencil from the series “After the Turner Diaries” attest. Rabbits dig in the dirt, are pulled from a magician’s hat, boil in oil.

They’re drawn in a range of styles that include vernacular formats of graffiti and cartooning. Evoked is Brer Rabbit, a character descended from African folklore and concocted at the dawn of the Jim Crow era by Joel Chandler Harris. The rabbit is a Southern trickster who survives by his shrewdness and brain power rather than muscle.

Blake’s series, begun in 1996, dates from the shocking aftermath of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Like most domestic terrorism, the attack was performed by a white supremacist. This one was enamored of “The Turner Diaries,” the infamously racist and anti-Semitic novel.

Blake, the son of an African American father and an Irish American mother, is light-skinned; the African American heritage is easily missed. Like Conceptual artist Adrian Piper, whose work has also dealt with racial passing, Blake’s conflicted life experience has informed the art in distinctive ways.

In the dominant society, which includes the art world, the New York-based artist is socially an outsider who seems to be an insider. Blake’s affinity for same-sex love, however, puts them back on the outside — Blake uses non-binary gender pronouns — especially during the 1980s, when they first emerged as an artist. The bunny is a symbol for the stereotypes of black and gay cultures as naturally oversexed.

The rabbit imagery also draws on the influential work of other artists. One is the social sculpture of German artist Joseph Beuys, who tried to explain the mysteries of painting to a dead hare gently cradled in his arms in a famous 1965 performance piece. Mike Kelley’s assemblages of used stuffed-animals are another, including fuzzy bunnies that radiate complexities of childhood longing and trauma.

The exhibition, organized by ICA LA curator Jamillah James, opens with a selection of “restraint” sculptures that Blake made in the late 1980s and early 1990s, pre-rabbit. (The artist graduated from CalArts in 1984, later moving to San Francisco for a decade before settling in New York.) Works like “Lap Dog,” a pair of dressy black shoes linked by golden chains, use the visual language of the sexual subcultures of bondage-and-discipline and sadomasochism to complicate assumptions about a spectrum of social relations.

The chains easily evoke slavery and criminality, the joined shoes tripping up the possibility of easy escape. BDSM, however, rejects coercion in favor of psychological discovery through willing participation. Both interpretations, the political and the sexual, raise an eyebrow at the ordinary rituals of conventional society, which the spiffily shined dress shoes and polished golden ornaments suggest.

How to get along in corporate culture? Lap dog is one answer.

Blake has a way with creating slippery tectonics through carefully orchestrated means. Nothing stays in its prescribed lane. The “Lap Dog” shoes, in a witty installation move, stand on the floor tucked into a gallery’s corner, as if the sculpture has been left behind by a naughty boy who seems to have slipped away.

“Work Station #5” pushes the motif to hair-rising limits.

A tall, sleek, metal-and-glass table, like something from a science lab or hospital operating room, is festooned with eight meat cleavers suspended on elegant chains, four dangling from either side. A coil of black rubber hose and two black leather shin and calf guards are laid out on top, while a plastic water bottle is affixed to one end.

As you peruse the display, everything from healing to torture floats through your mind. Both prospects are tethered to conflicting notions of the risks of experimentation.

Power dynamics are the sculpture’s disconcerting subject, and the formidable forces at work include the power of aesthetics. Those are not always clear-cut.

The sculpture is emphatically Modernist in design. It’s like something conceived in a utopian spirit by the avant-garde artists of the 1920s Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany, then appropriated for cruelty by Third Reich thugs and finally reissued into the upscale domestic consumer market by the minimalist manufacturers at Design Within Reach.

It’s worth noting that “Work Station #5” dates from 1989. That’s the year that artist Robert Mapplethorpe died from AIDS, one among 100,000 cases recorded by the time the derelict U.S. Congress finally created the National Commission on AIDS, after nearly a decade of deadly dithering. Blake’s wheeled sculpture is an emergency crash cart. Sex, medicine, prejudice, clinical cruelty and more are smashed together.

Perhaps the most touching work is an assemblage featuring Madame, the wisecracking puppet created by comedian Wayland Flowers, felled by AIDS a year before Mapplethorpe. Glamorous Madame, like Mae West and Sophie Tucker before her, was a vaudevillian mistress of the often-ribald double-entendre. She spoke her mind.

Madame could say what Flowers couldn’t, even though he was standing right next to her manipulating her puppet-limbs and moving his lips, a young gay man projecting through an old heterosexual lady. Blake’s sculpture, wryly titled “Magic,” displays the now-silent surrogate inside a coffin-like carrying case — sort of like the closing bracket for Judy Garland, born in a trunk at the Princess Theater in Pocatello, Idaho. Laid out before Madame is a big, mournful mound of dried roses, Flowers in absentia.

That’s the kind of multifarious, heterogeneous quality that characterizes Blake’s best work, where puppets and bunnies are rife. One way to overcome alienation and isolation is to recognize that identity might be singular, unique to every individual — but that doesn’t mean it is fixed, static or even benign.

What it feels like to live in your body making choices is the frequent nexus between a viewer and Blake’s art. Nowhere is the experience more disturbing than in watching “Negative Bunny,” a 30-minute video that features a fluffy stuffed animal.

By turns cheerful, desperate and portentous, the rabbit looks straight into the camera and begs for sex, insisting all the while that it has been tested and can guarantee being free of HIV. At once cuddly and bullying, ridiculous and dark, frightening and fun, this inanimate toy is a bunny who is negative in more ways than one.