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A magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported at 2:34 a.m. Tuesday 11 miles from Hollister, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake occurred 12 miles from Soledad, 15 miles from Salinas, 18 miles from Prunedale and 22 miles from Greenfield. In the past 10 days, there has been one earthquake of magnitude 3.0 or […]

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Tuesday, Oct. 29, and I’m writing from Santa Rosa. Newsletter Get our Essential California newsletter Sometime a few hours before dawn yesterday morning, I was driving back toward the Kincade fire while on the phone with my sister, who’d been scrambled awake by the howl […]

Leave it to even-keeled John Legend to remedy the “rapey” controversy that last year ensnared the classic Christmas tune “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” The EGOT winner behind “All of Me” and “Glory” has rewritten and rerecorded the iconic song for his 2020 holiday album, with a new emphasis on consent. The rewrite even boasts the […]

Most orchestra-going Angelenos can be expected to know Zubin Mehta, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Gustavo Dudamel. They are the three living Los Angeles Philharmonic music directors, encompassing 57 years of the orchestra’s history. They also happen to be three of the biggest names in the business and celebrities in town. Many of us grew up with […]

SERIES The Voice Taylor Swift continues as a mega-mentor on the second night of the knockout rounds. 8 p.m. NBC The Flash In a Halloween episode Barry (Grant Gustin) tries to get Cisco (Carlos Valdes) prepared for the upcoming Crisis. Meanwhile, Ramsey Rosso (guest star Sendhil Ramamurthy) uses his new abilities to skirt death but […]

Alphabet Inc.’s quarterly earnings were dented by heavy investment in Google’s cloud-computing business, which is key to future growth but still runs a distant third in the market behind Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. Net income was $7.1 billion, or $10.12 a share, down from $9.2 billion, or $13.06 a share, in the same period […]