SOUTHERN SECTION GIRLS’ TENNIS

OPEN DIVISION

Quarterfinals, Friday, 2 p.m.

#8 West Ranch at #1 Irvine University

#5 Palos Verdes at #4 Westlake

#6 Campbell Hall at #3 Mira Costa

#7 San Marino at #2 Peninsula

DIVISION 1

First round, Wednesday

San Marcos 11, Oak Park 7

San Clemente 16, Orange Lutheran 2

Murrieta Valley 16, El Dorado 2

Yorba Linda 14, Crescenta Valley 4

Huntington Beach 16, Oaks Christian 2

Palm Desert 10, Ayala 8

Troy 14, Santa Margarita 4

Camarillo 13, Chaminade 5

Calabasas 10, Cate 8

King 14, Dana Hills 4

Mater Dei 11, Foothill 7

Beckman 18, Santa Monica 0

Marlborough 15, La Canada 3

Aliso Niguel 12, Great Oak 6

Second round, Friday, 2 p.m.

San Marcos at #1 Corona del Mar

San Clemente at Murrieta Valley

Yorba Linda at Huntington Beach

Palm Desert at Troy

#3 Camarillo at Calabasas

King at Mater Dei

Marlborough at Beckman

Aliso Niguel at #2 Arcadia

DIVISION 2

First round, Wednesday

South Torrance 12, Burbank 6

San Juan Hills 13, Temecula Valley 5

Los Alamitos 12, Sage Hill 6

JSerra 14, South Pasadena 4

Santa Barbara 12, Simi Valley 6

Long Beach Poly 12, Sunny Hills 6

Pasadena Poly 13, Hart 5

Claremont 16, Corona Santiago 2

Woodbridge 17, Placentia Valencia 1

Laguna Beach 12, Long Beach Wilson 6

Valencia 14, Thacher 4

Harvard-Westlake 15, Brentwood 3

Los Osos 15, Glendale 3

Dos Pueblos 11, Foothill Tech 7

Elsinore 12, Redlands 6

Redondo 14, Cypress 4

Second round, Friday, 2 p.m.

#1 South Torrance at San Juan Hills

JSerra at Los Alamitos

Santa Barbara at Long Beach Poly

Pasadena Poly at #4 Claremont

#3 Woodbridge at Laguna Beach

Harvard-Westlake at Valencia

Los Osos at Dos Pueblos

Elsinore at #2 Redondo

DIVISION 3

First round, Wednesday

Portola 16, Garden Grove 2

Bishop Montgomery 11, Ventura 7

Archer 10, Oxford Academy 8

Temescal Canyon 14, Serrano 4

St. Margaret’s 9, La Serna 9 (St. Margaret’s wins on games, 74-65)

Diamond Bar 14, Maranatha 4

Walnut 15, Brea Olinda 3

Alta Loma 13, Keppel 5

Montclair 11, Rancho Mirage 7

Rancho Cucamonga 13, Hemet 5

El Segundo 12, North Torrance 6

Cerritos 11, Garden Grove Pacifica 7

Sherman Oaks Notre Dame 18, Warren 0

Mayfair 10, Mayfield 8

Malibu 12, Santa Fe 6

Riverside Poly 13, El Toro 5

Second round, Friday, 2 p.m.

Bishop Montgomery at #1 Portola

Archer at Temescal Canyon

Diamond Bar at St. Margaret’s

Walnut at #4 Alta Loma

#3 Montclair at Rancho Cucamonga

Cerritos at El Segundo

Mayfair at Sherman Oaks Notre Dame

Malibu at #2 Riverside Poly

DIVISION 4

First round, Wednesday

Westridge 17, Le Lycee 1

San Dimas 11, Costa Mesa 7

Alhambra 12, Oxnard 6

Yucaipa 13, Paloma Valley 5

Whitney 12, Bolsa Grande 6

Flintridge Sacred Heart 9, Torrance 9 (Flintridge Sacred Heart wins on games, 80-78)

Norte Vista 10, Ridgecrest Burroughs 8

Hacienda Heights Wilson 11, Arroyo 7

Webb 11, Laguna Blanca 7

Pasadena Marshall 10, La Mirada 8

Jurupa Valley 14, Rim of the World 4

Fullerton 10, Westminster La Quinta 8

Millikan 16, Magnolia 2

Coachella Valley 10, Beaumont 8

Quartz Hill 11, Rosemead 7

Buckley at #2 Rowland, score not reported

Second round, Friday, 2 p.m.

San Dimas at #1 Westridge

Alhambra at Yucaipa

Whitney at Flintridge Sacred Heart

#4 Hacienda Heights Wilson at Norte Vista

Pasadena Marshall at Webb

Jurupa Valley at Fullerton

Coachella Valley at Millikan

Quartz Hill at #2 Rowland/Buckley winner

DIVISION 5

Wild-card match, late Tuesday

Jurupa Hills 9, Citrus Hill 9 (tied 75-75 on games, Jurupa Hills won tiebreaker 12-6 on Wednesday)

First round, Wednesday

Segerstrom 12, Gahr 6

Edgewood 14, Villanova Prep 4

Immaculate Heart 14, Highland 4

Vista del Lago 12, Lakewood St. Joseph 6

Arroyo Valley 10, Patriot 8

Hueneme 11, Kaiser 7

Channel Islands 12, Duarte 6

Heritage 15, Western Christian 3

Canyon Springs 14, La Puente 4

Oak Hills 12, Victor Valley 6

Rancho Alamitos 15, Yucca Valley 3

Rubidoux 15, Jurupa Hills 3

Summit 15, Knight 3

Cerritos Valley Christian 13, Sierra Vista 5

Nogales 10, Aquinas 8

Western 13, Riverside Notre Dame 5

Second round, Friday, 2 p.m.

Edgewood at #1 Segerstrom

Vista del Lago at Immaculate Heart

Arroyo Valley at Hueneme

#4 Heritage at Channel Islands

#3 Canyon Springs at Oak Hills

Rubidoux at Rancho Alamitos

Summit at Cerritos Valley Christian

#2 Western at Nogales

Notes: Quarterfinals (Div. 1-5), Monday, 2 p.m.; semifinals, Nov. 13, 2 p.m. Championships, Nov. 15 at Claremont Club.

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Howdy, I’m your host, Houston Mitchell. Why is Cinderella lousy at sports? She’s always running away from the ball.

USC

Mike Bohn will be named USC’s new athletic director today, becoming the first to assume the post without any previous ties to the university since Mike McGee, who had been the only outsider ever to lead USC athletics.

USC had zeroed in on Bohn as its choice last week, but his hiring was delayed as the university conducted background checks.

Bohn spent the last five years at Cincinnati in the same position. McGee also came to USC from Cincinnati.

Bohn will be charged with the daunting task of restoring luster to a high-profile department scarred by scandal — and still dealing with questions of its own culpability.

Amid that fallout, Bohn’s hiring, the most significant yet for President Carol L. Folt, sends an unambiguous message from the university’s new leadership.

“There is a moment right now at USC,” Folt told The Times in October. “No one is happy about the things that have happened. If I have any opportunity right now, it’s to take advantage of people’s willingness to say, ‘OK, everything is not perfect.’ ”

As USC attempts to start anew, Bohn, 58, is the fourth athletic director at the school in a decade. Unlike the other three, he arrives at USC with considerable experience in collegiate athletics administration. Before taking the reins at Cincinnati, where he helped usher a middling program overlooked by conference realignment into relevance, Bohn served as athletic director at Colorado, San Diego State and Idaho.

Bohn’s first order as director could ultimately define his tenure.

With USC at 5-4, now trailing Utah by a game in the Pac-12 South Division, a decision on the status of embattled football coach Clay Helton looms large. Outside the program, calls for his immediate ouster reached a fevered pitch in the wake of last Saturday’s 56-24 loss to Oregon and haven’t abated.

Prominent boosters have already made clear their desire for USC and its new athletic director to pursue Urban Meyer, the three-time national title-winning former coach long coveted by disenchanted Trojans fans. But whether Folt and USC’s new leadership would even support that pursuit remains an open question.

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CLIPPERS

The Clippers put up a furious rally, but couldn’t overcome Giannis Antetokounmpo‘s 38 points and 16 rebounds, in a 129-124 loss on Wednesday night.

Antetokounmpo just missed a triple-double with nine assists. He’s posted at least 10 rebounds and five assists in each of the first eight games of the season, the first player since at least 1972-73 to do so.

The Clippers were without Kawhi Leonard, who rested for the first half of a home back-to-back. He’ll play against Portland tonight.

Montrezl Harrell had a career-high 34 points and 13 rebounds in his first start of the season. Lou Williams added 34 points and 11 assists, and Patrick Beverley had 20 points and 10 rebounds.

Down nine, the Clippers rallied to lead Milwaukee before the first quarter’s end — only to trail by 17 eight minutes later. And yet, with 23 seconds remaining in a chaotic fourth quarter, they trailed by only two points and the entirety of Staples Center’s lower bowl seemed to be standing, waiting for the moment that seemed so distant only hours earlier. But it wasn’t to be.

“That was great,” coach Doc Rivers said. “I want to win the game though.”

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UCLA BASKETBALL

In their first game of the season, the Bruins exhibited flashes of new head coach Mick Cronin’s trademark tenacious defense but appeared completely adrift on offense before finally saving their coach from an inglorious introduction to the home fans by making the necessary plays at the end of a 69-65 victory over Long Beach State that was every bit as ugly as the score indicated. (Man, that was a long sentence. Everybody take a breath.)

UCLA finished the game on a 15-7 run that included some feistiness in the closing seconds when guard Chris Smith blocked a shot and forward Jalen Hill forced a jump ball that went back to the Bruins. Cronin said he saw value in winning a game in which his team struggled against an opponent that played five different defenses.

“If you can be in a dogfight and win it,” Cronin said, “you can get a lot more out of it than if you end up blowing somebody out.”

CHARGERS

The Chargers can recall being showered by debris, doused with beer and enveloped by the wafting smell of weed.

Now, they have the opportunity to play one final time in the home of the Oakland Raiders, in a game both teams desperately need — a game matching longtime AFC West rivals.

It’s also a game played at night, giving the fans ample time to elevate their levels of both excitement and blood-alcohol.

“It’ll be awesome,” Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers said. “The aura of what that place has meant over the years will be alive, for sure.”

The Raiders (4-4) will be moving to Las Vegas after the season, meaning the game tonight will be Rivers’ farewell to this place, unless the teams should meet in the playoffs.

It will serve as a fitting bookend for him, his first career start coming here on Sept. 11, 2006.

The Chargers (4-5) won that Monday night 27-0, with Rivers completing eight of 11 pass attempts for 108 yards and a touchdown — one of his least productive outings.

“Only threw it 11 times,” Rivers recalled this week. “I think I can talk [interim offensive coordinator] Shane [Steichen] into more than 11 attempts on Thursday.”

CHARGERS SCHEDULE

All times Pacific. Radio: KFI-AM 640, KFWB-AM 980

at Chargers 30, Indianapolis 24 (OT)

at Detroit 13, Chargers 10

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Houston 27, at Chargers 20

Chargers 30, at Miami 10

Denver 20, at Chargers 13

Pittsburgh 24, at Chargers 17

at Tennessee 23, Chargers 20

Chargers 17, at Chicago 16

at Chargers 26, Green Bay 11

Today at Oakland, 5:15 p.m., Fox, NFL Network

Nov. 18 vs. Kansas City, 5:15 p.m., ESPN (at Mexico City, counts as home game for Chargers)

Dec. 1 at Denver, 1:15 p.m., CBS

Dec. 8 at Jacksonville, 1 p.m., Fox

Dec. 15 vs. Minnesota, 5:15 p.m., NBC

Dec. 22 or 23 vs. Oakland, TBD

Dec. 29 at Kansas City, 10 a.m., CBS

TODAY’S LOCAL MAJOR SPORTS SCHEDULE

All times Pacific

Portland at Clippers, 7:30 p.m., TNT, AM 570

Kings at Ottawa, 4:30 p.m., FSW

BORN ON THIS DATE

1921: Golfer Jack Fleck (d. 2014)

1936: Basketball player/coach Al Attles

1938: Baseball player Jim Kaat

1944: Baseball player Joe Niekro (d. 2006)

1966: Jockey Calvin Borel

1970: NFL player Andre Hastings

DIED ON THIS DATE

1978: Boxer Gene Tunney, 80

2006: Baseball player Johnny Sain, 89

2011: Boxer Joe Frazier, 67

2012: Boxer Carmen Basilio, 85

AND FINALLY

Joe Frazier‘s greatest knockouts. Watch them here.

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HOW THEY MATCH UP

Chargers (4-5) at Oakland (4-4)

When Chargers have the ball

After going four weeks without even a walking game — never mind a running game — the Chargers rediscovered their legs Sunday in a 26-11 victory over the Green Bay Packers. They totaled a season-high 159 yards rushing in 38 carries, with Melvin Gordon (80 yards, two touchdowns) and Austin Ekeler (70 yards) both being productive. The Chargers were able to commit to their ground attack in part because they scored on three of their four first-half possessions and three in a row to start the second half. They went up early on the Packers and never trailed. Oakland, however, is “built to stop the running game,” Chargers coach Anthony Lynn said. “Their front seven is really big, powerful. It’s going to be tough to establish the run on this group.” The Raiders rank seventh in the NFL in rushing defense, yielding 92.5 yards per game. But Oakland has struggled to stop the pass. In fact, no defense in the league is worse, the Raiders at No. 32 with an average of 297.5 yards allowed per game. They have given up 400-plus yards passing twice — to Patrick Mahomes and Aaron Rodgers — and 383 yards Sunday to Matthew Stafford. Philip Rivers has topped 300 yards five times in nine games but not the past two weeks.

When Raiders have the ball

Running back Josh Jacobs is no Marcus Allen. He’s better — at least as a rookie. Jacobs already has topped Allen’s franchise record for rushing yards as a first-year player with 740 in 152 attempts. For the record, Allen appeared in nine games for the Los Angeles Raiders in 1982. Jacobs broke Allen’s old mark last week, in his eighth game. “If he two-steps a defensive back and it doesn’t work? He’s going through your chin, and that’s the end of it,” Chargers defensive lineman Damion Square said. “He boom-boom and coming right at your chin.” The Raiders are sixth in the NFL in rushing; the Chargers are 20th in stopping the run. But the Chargers’ defense is coming off a game in which it dominated Rodgers and Green Bay, thanks in part to the offense’s ability to use much of the clock. Defensive end Joey Bosa is putting together his finest, most complete season to date. He has 51/2 sacks and 17 tackles over the last three games. Oakland quarterback Derek Carr has been sacked once since the end of September. The Raiders have permitted only nine sacks all season, the second-lowest total in the league behind the Pittsburgh Steelers, with eight. Carr has nine touchdowns and one interception over his last five games.

When they kick

Since joining the Raiders in midseason a year ago, Daniel Carlson is 23 of 26 on field-goal attempts and 41 of 41 on extra points. He has found a home after struggling in Minnesota, which drafted Carlson in the fifth round in 2018. The Chargers also discovered their current kicker in the middle of last season. However, Michael Badgley missed the first eight games of 2019 because of a groin injury, returning Sunday with four field goals, and one miss, against the Packers.

Jeff Miller’s prediction

Both teams are coming off dramatic wins — the Chargers whipping Green Bay and the Raiders holding on in the final seconds to beat Detroit. Both also are desperate for wins to remain alive for a playoff berth. This is supposed to be the final time a Chargers team plays in Oakland, with the Raiders set to move to Las Vegas in 2020. And it’s a night game, meaning the Black Hole, despite its name, will be plenty lit.

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RAIDERS 23, CHARGERS 21

A magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported Thursday morning at 4:38 a.m. Pacific time four miles from Ridgecrest, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The earthquake occurred 32 miles from California City, 62 miles from Tehachapi, 64 miles from Barstow and 65 miles from Rosamond.

In the last 10 days, there have been four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater centered nearby.

An average of 234 earthquakes with magnitudes between 3.0 and 4.0 occur per year in California and Nevada, according to a recent three-year data sample.

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The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.0 miles. Did you feel this earthquake? Consider reporting what you felt to the USGS.

Even if you didn’t feel this small earthquake, you never know when the Big One is going to strike. Ready yourself by following our five-step earthquake preparedness guide and building your own emergency kit.

This story was automatically generated by Quakebot, a computer application that monitors the latest earthquakes detected by the USGS. A Times editor reviewed the post before it was published. If you’re interested in learning more about the system, visit our list of frequently asked questions.

As a black woman, I knew that mothering three daughters meant a great deal of my time was going to be devoted to doing hair.

The rituals hadn’t changed much since my sisters and I were young. Our mother would spend hours washing, drying, detangling and straightening our hair with hot combs, oils and pomades.

It was the price that black girls had to pay in a Eurocentric world, where good grooming was synonymous with smooth, straight hair — “good hair” in our black vernacular of the day.

But black folks’ hair tends to grow out, like a halo, instead of down, like a mane. And all the work that goes into taming our kinks can be undone by the mere whisper of rain.

By the time my daughters were old enough to understand the challenge, hot combs had been replaced by relaxers, extensions and braids. And I had become my mother, spending hours weaving their hair into dozens of long sleek plaits.

It wasn’t the “slippery hair” of their white suburban classmates, and the style was sometimes mocked or misunderstood by nonblack friends. But it gave my girls the freedom to play soccer, run track and swim.

Now, almost two decades later, I have a baby granddaughter whose hair is a tall mound of fluffy spirals. They sprout like flowers from a field of stubborn ringlets that I hope one day she will love.

Natural styles — dreadlocks, twists, braids, Afros, Bantu knots — seem to be trending, from the red carpet to Capitol Hill. Even Michelle Obama, always carefully coiffured, is allowing her long thick hair to be its free-flowing self.

Black hair salons have felt the evolution; fewer customers today are asking for the traditional press-and-curl.

“It’s about practicality,” said stylist Kim Dafney, owner of Kim’s Touch of Class Hair Design in Northridge. “People want simplicity, something they can manage all week. … And not just black people. Whites come in for braids, twists and extensions — styles that blacks have worn for years.”

But for black women the choice can have broader dimensions. It’s a return to styles that our ancestors wore, a visible connection to the African diaspora, a way to untangle the complicated relationship many of us have with our hair.

Its texture, its fragility, its temperamental curls and kinks can be a burden one day, and the next a glorious mane. It can limit where we work and how we play. Its grooming rituals can take an entire day.

That sometimes feels like living under a dictatorship. I can’t … because my hair.

In the ‘60s, my generation responded with the Afro, signaling a revolution. But the natural hair movement of today feels more like a revival — a communal embrace of a trait that we’ve been conditioned to revile.

There’s something wrong when Kim Kardashian West gets 2 million likes on Instagram for the same hairstyle that gets black women labeled “ghetto” and locked out of professional jobs. She called it “Bo Derek braids,” but we know those “cornrows” have African roots.

Stories abound of black hair being a trigger for discrimination.

The issue drew national attention last year, when a black high school wrestler in New Jersey was humiliated by a white referee, who forced him to either forfeit his match or have his dreadlocks publicly lopped off. The young man lost his locks and won the match, but his tear-stained face fueled social media outrage.

Yet employers have for years, with the assent of the courts, been demoting, firing or refusing to hire black women who deign not to straighten their hair and choose natural styles instead.

And in predominantly white schools, black girls are being suspended for wearing their hair in Afros or braids, because the styles are deemed “inappropriate” or considered a “distraction” in the classroom.

The cascade of cases prompted state Sen. Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles) to sponsor legislation this year that made California the first state in the nation to outlaw discrimination in workplaces or public schools against black people who wear natural hairstyles. Several other states are in the process of following suit.

Mitchell has worn her hair in tiny dreadlocks, called sister locs, for the past 15 years. “I don’t have time for high-maintenance hair,” she said. “I’ve done it all — pressed, braided, cut it off for short naturals two or three times over the years.”

The new law pushes back against the perception that there is something inherently untidy about black people’s natural hair, something discomforting about its very appearance.

“The language they’re using,” Mitchell said, “is that if I braid my daughter’s hair and send her to school then that’s somehow inappropriate — that she has a responsibility to not be a distraction to others. That is so deeply offensive to me.”

Jasmine Hamilton learned the hard way why the new law is needed, though it came too late to help her.

She wore her hair straight for the interview that landed her first corporate job, with a giant retail chain. But when she came to work one day with her own natural halo of curls, her manager pulled her aside and asked what she’d done to her hair.

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“I tried to make a joke, but he didn’t laugh,” she recalled. “My colleagues were questioning me too.” Her boss began nitpicking her work and she was ultimately let go.

“I was devastated,” she told me from her chair at Kim’s Touch of Class salon, as Dafney expertly flat-ironed her long thick hair. Hamilton works in real estate now and she’s not going to take the chance that her hairstyle might turn people off.

“I’m self conscious about wearing my hair curly because of that ordeal,” she said. “It’s not fair, but your hair affects the way you’re perceived even before you speak.”

In the chair next to her, LaShawnna Courtney, a natural hair stylist, was attending a stream of clients, parting their hair into small neat squares, a first step in the painstaking process of braiding in extensions that protect the natural hair as it grows.

There was the 12-year-old who opted for braids to end the daily battles with her hair. The middle-aged woman whose heat-damaged hair led her to switch from wigs and weaves to braids with gold highlights. And the nurse who needs a break from the ordeal of tending the Afro she’s been growing for years.

Every woman I talked to in the salon used the word “journey” to describe a styling evolution that began with a mind-set change.

It took Linda Jackson two years “to get comfortable with my natural self,” she said. “That’s how long it took for my hair to grow long enough for me to cut the damage off and start fresh.”

Lorraine Phillips, the nurse, began her natural hair journey in 2015, scouring websites and studying YouTube videos to learn how best to manage and style her dense locks.

The learning curve has been steep: “You have to find the right products to nourish the hair, loosen the curls, repair the damage done over the years. It takes a lot of practice. And a lot of patience,” she said.

She’s learning to love her hair, she said. “But I’m not quite there yet.”

And my three daughters have gone through their own hair journeys, from braids to twists, locks, Afros, buns or simply wild, curly and free.

They’ve discovered all their hair can do, made peace with its shortcomings, and realized that “good hair” doesn’t have to be “slippery.”

Police are searching for five men suspected of forcing their way into a home in Sherman Oaks late Wednesday, tying up the residents and ransacking the property.

At least one of the men was armed with a handgun when the group stormed the house in the 4500 block of Tyrone Avenue about 10 p.m., said Los Angeles Police Officer Drake Madison.

After tying up the residents, the robbers rifled through their belongings and took cash and jewelry, police said. It was not immediately clear how many people were home at the time, but one of the victims was able to untie himself and ran to a neighbor’s house for help, Madison said.

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“Suddenly we heard some banging on the door, and it was one of the victims. He was tied up. He had a tie around his wrist and was in his underwear. He was scared, obviously, so we called the police,” neighbor Craig Mayo told reporters at the scene.

Police said the robbers fled in a black Dodge Caravan. A description of them was not immediately available.

A magnitude 3.4 earthquake was reported Thursday at 5:05 a.m. Pacific time in Ventura, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The earthquake occurred two miles from Oxnard and 12 miles from Santa Paula.

In the last 10 days, there has been one earthquake of magnitude 3.0 or greater centered nearby.

An average of 234 earthquakes with magnitudes between 3.0 and 4.0 occur per year in California and Nevada, according to a recent three-year data sample.

The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.0 miles. Did you feel this earthquake? Consider reporting what you felt to the USGS.

Even if you didn’t feel this small earthquake, you never know when the Big One is going to strike. Ready yourself by following our five-step earthquake preparedness guide and building your own emergency kit.

This story was automatically generated by Quakebot, a computer application that monitors the latest earthquakes detected by the USGS. A Times editor reviewed the post before it was published. If you’re interested in learning more about the system, visit our list of frequently asked questions.

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Laura Terruso’s “Good Girls Get High” debuted on the festival circuit in the fall of 2018, but it’s a shame that it’s not hitting theaters until late 2019, because, unfortunately, “Booksmart” scooped it. Written by Terruso and Jennifer Nashorn Blankenship, based on a book by Sarah Miller, one can’t help but note the similarities in the two films, which both involve a couple of goody two-shoes overachievers flirting with debauchery at the end of high school. The “good girls” in question are Sam (Abby Quinn) and Danielle (Stefanie Scott), who find they’ve earned a dreaded “good girl” superlative in the yearbook. So they spark a joint, hit a party, and all hell breaks loose. It’s standard issue “Superbad” stuff, but with a nerdy female twist.

This slight comedy follows a well-known teen party genre formula, with friendly teachers (Danny Pudi), oddball cops (Lauren Lapkus), and parents, absentee (Matt Besser) or helicopter (Anne Ramsey). At the center of the conflict is Sam’s secret that she got into and declined Harvard, a video entreaty to the storied university serving as a framing device.

While the rest of the film feels slightly juvenile, Quinn, who costarred in “Landline,” keeps “Good Girls Get High” afloat, with her wide-eyed combination of pathos and humor that vacillates from deadpan to goofy. You buy into the story because you buy into Sam’s plight, her awkward missteps and glorious triumphs, and Quinn makes that story take flight.

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SERIES

Young Sheldon A church carnival leads Missy (Raegan Revord) to try out for the baseball team. Annie Potts, Iain Armitage, Lance Barber and Zoe Perry also star in this new episode of the spinoff comedy. 8 p.m. CBS

Superstore Amy, Jonah and Glenn (America Ferrera, Ben Feldman and Mark McKinney) hatch a scheme to make Amy look like a tough boss in this new episode of the workplace comedy. 8 p.m. NBC

Supernatural Dean (Jensen Ackles, who also directs this new episode) and his brother, Sam (Jared Padalecki), investigate the mysterious death of one girl and the baffling disappearance of another in this new episode. 8 p.m. CW

Perfect Harmony When Pastor Magnus (John Carroll Lynch) invites the Second First Choir to perform at the Church of Perpetual Praise, Arthur (Bradley Whitford) wants the group to sound better than ever in a new episode of the musical comedy. Anna Camp also stars. 8:30 p.m. NBC

Mom Bonnie (Allison Janney) gets a glimpse of what Adam (William Fichtner) was like before his accident. Anna Faris also stars in this new episode of the comedy. 9 p.m. CBS

The Good Place On the last day of the experiment, Chidi (William Jackson Harper) is faced with one final ethical dilemma. Kristen Bell, Ted Danson, Jameela Jamil and D’Arcy Carden also star in this new episode of the afterlife comedy. 9 p.m. NBC

Carol’s Second Act Carol (Patricia Heaton) is assigned to care for a star college football player (guest star Larry VanBuren Jr.) who has a broken rib in a new episode of the medical comedy. Ashley Tisdale, Jean-Luc Bilodeau also star with guest stars Ben Koldyke and Essence Atkins. 9:30 p.m. CBS

Will & Grace Will (Eric McCormack) concocts a plan to get back at Jack (Sean Hayes) after years of constantly enduring wisecracks about Will’s thinning hairline in the new episode. Megan Mullally and Debra Messing also star with guest star Patton Oswalt. 9:30 p.m. NBC

Evil Kristen, David and Ben (Katja Herbers, Mike Colter and Aasif Mandvi) are asked to assess the veracity of a local prophetess and are shaken when they see one of her visions come to life in this supernatural series. 10 p.m. CBS

Conan Without Borders In a new episode of the travelogue series, Conan O’Brien travels to Ghana with Sam Richardson (“Veep”), whose family hails from the African nation. 10 p.m. TBS

TALK SHOWS

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

Today Dr. Mehmet Oz. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC

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

Good Morning America John Cena; cooking with Melba Wilson, J.R. Rusgrove and Antonia Lofaso. (N) 7 a.m. KABC

Good Day L.A. (N) 7 a.m. KTTV

Live With Kelly and Ryan John Cena (“Playing With Fire”); Elizabeth Banks (“Charlie’s Angels”). (N) 9 a.m. KABC

The View “The View” celebrates 5,000 shows; Donald Trump Jr.; Kimberly Guilfoyle. (N) 10 a.m. KABC

Rachael Ray Zanna Roberts Rassi; Charlie Weber (“How to Get Away With Murder”). (N) 10 a.m. KTTV

The Wendy Williams Show Karamo Brown discusses the book he wrote with his son, Jason “Rachel” Brown. (N) 11 a.m. KTTV

The Talk Annie Potts; Craig T. Nelson. (N) 1 p.m. KCBS

The Dr. Oz Show The mother of suicide victim Conrad Roy; Charles Manson’s youngest follower. (N) 1 p.m. KTTV

The Kelly Clarkson Show Billy Eichner; Henry Winkler; Henry Golding. (N) 2 p.m. KNBC

Dr. Phil An interview with the Ukrainian orphan whose adoptive parents have been accused of abandoning her. (N) 3 p.m. KCBS

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At the beginning of her latest film, Petra Costa reflects on her symbiotic relationship with her country’s political experiment. “Brazilian democracy and I are roughly the same age,” she says, a touch of ruefulness in her voice, “and I thought in our 30s we’d both be on solid ground.”

But in “The Edge of Democracy,” Costa’s lyrical and insightful survey of her homeland’s slide toward far-right populism, those democratic ideals appear to be collapsing.

“I thought it was doing quite well,” said Costa, speaking by phone from São Paulo. She got a jolt in 2016 when she filmed a protest calling to impeach Brazil’s then-president Dilma Rousseff. “I saw a huge crowd of people dressed in the colors of the Brazilian flag, a very nationalist protest … asking for the return of the military, a regime that had killed and tortured hundreds of people, and put thousands in jail, without any explained reason for many of them.”

Rousseff, once a youthful dissident who had fought against that regime, was among those imprisoned and tortured.

“So for me it was terrifying,” said Costa, who was motivated by her fears for a system that was under attack. She kept shooting as the story grew scarier and more complicated, from Rousseff’s impeachment through the 2018 election of conservative extremist candidate Jair Bolsonaro. She also backtracks through contemporary Brazilian history, charting the rise and fall of the labor leader and widely popular leftist president known as Lula, jailed in 2018 amid a corruption scandal that is still being contested.

“Edge of Democracy,” which premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival and launched on Netflix in June, moves between the streets — site of frequent mass demonstrations — and the corridors of power in Brazil’s congress and its extraordinary Palácio da Alvorada, the presidential palace in the capital of Brasília, a stunning ‘50s modernist work designed by Oscar Niemeyer.

“I feel that architecture is part of the problem with Brazilian democracy,” noted Costa, whose camera luxuriates in the palace’s cool interior expanses, which are notably devoid of any human souls. “If our capital was still in Rio, I don’t think things would have progressed the way they did. The fact that the capital is 1,000 kilometers away, people can’t get there. Politicians don’t feel the public pressure and are kind of alienated from society in a very deep way.”

For inspiration, Costa looked to the great Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzman and his landmark three-part documentary “The Battle of Chile,” which chronicled the military overthrow of Salvador Allende and the installation of a dictatorial regime headed by Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

Petra Costa

“The level of class hatred and polarization had been present in Chile then and was repeating itself in the Brazil of now,” Costa said. “What was fascinating in that film to me was how he could bear witness to time and just by doing that, show how the military coup in Chile happened, in a way that was very comprehensive and cinematic at the same time.”

Viewers familiar with Costa’s 2012 documentary “Elena” — a first-person exploration of the mystery and loss of her older actress-sister — know how deftly the filmmaker can weave intimate family narratives into poetic visual memoir. “The Edge of Democracy” benefits from that touch as well, when Costa delves into her parents’ younger lives and the years they spent underground, when it was dangerous to be a radical.

In one powerful scene, Costa introduces her mother to Rousseff, and it’s learned that they both suffered in the same prison. The filmmaker also reveals that she was named in honor of a family friend who lost his life in the struggle.

Cautious to maintain a balance between personal details and the larger national drama, so that “one wouldn’t asphyxiate the other,” Costa eventually found that the intertwining of the two strands was unavoidable. Although her parents broke with its politics, the filmmaker’s family has long been part of Brazil’s oligarchy, bolstered by her grandparents’ construction company.

“There’s a moment in the film, filming in the palace, as I walked out I found plaques where the family company’s name was written. One on the right, one on the left. Even though the right-wing president or the left-wing president had passed through power, the company had stayed.”

In one sense, Costa made her film as a way to process what she calls “a national trauma,” one that has been shared by electorates near and far amid a global rise of nationalism. “You feel a trauma of losing what you thought democracy would be … and that’s as painful as losing a close person,” she said. Yet, in the wake of the documentary’s release, some things have been regained.

Said Costa: “Many people came to me and said, ‘I haven’t talked to my father in years, and after he saw the film, he called me because he finally understood my point of view.’”

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