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Take a pix-plus-audio tour of the city of Orange, a place apart in the O.C.
Photo: Karen Tapia-Andersen
The Butte County fire takes top priority in California, as the out-of-control fire bears down on the town of Paradise. Here, engineer Dan Barnes (left) talks strategy with fellow firefighter Ryan Hughes, while Anthony LaDuke grabs a quick drink. The Times story is here. Also in the Chico Enterprise-Record, which says the evacuation zone in Paradise has been expanded.
-- Veronique de Turenne
Photo credit: Bill Husa / Chico Enterprise-Record
Though Gertrude Stein's famous quip "There's no there there" was actually spoken about the disappearance of her childhood home in Oakland, it's all too often attributed to the whole of downtown L.A. So we're correcting the clueless on two fronts today -- the literary, and the literal.
There is a there here, and this is part of it. Take our photo and audio tour of the Broadway section of downtown L.A., in our weekly feature, Street Scenes.
--Veronique de Turenne
Photography and audio / Michael Robinson Chavez
A look at life in the lovely coastal portion of Newport Beach.
--Veronique de Turenne
Photo: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times
Head north on PCH, past the the Malibu Pier and Surfrider Beach, past the fancy shops and crowded restaurants, and you'll come to Point Dume, the rugged headland that marks the end of the Santa Monica Bay. While paparazzi brawls raged over the weekend, here at the Point it was all open space, blue sky blending into blue sea, a slight breeze stirring on this still-wild scrap of land.
-- Veronique de Turenne
Photo: Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times
Here's Fernando Diaz Jr. during his arraignment this morning in a San Fernando courtroom. He's charged with attempted murder, among other things, for allegedly shooting his ex-girlfriend and two other people during a church carnival in Granada Hills last month.
--Veronique de Turenne
Photo: Al Seib / Los Angeles Times
The 68-year-old Crest Theatre has been declared a historic landmark by the City of Los Angeles as its owner struggles to keep the Art Moderne-style movie palace afloat.
During World War II the theater screened only newsreels, and after the war it was one of the first Los Angeles venues to show foreign films. The Times' Martha Groves is working on an update to an earlier story on the theater and the challenge to keep it open.
-- Jesus Sanchez
Teachers at John C. Fremont High School in Los Angeles protested against proposed cuts to state spending on education. Many teachers ignored pleas by LA Unified to remain in class this morning.
Photo: Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times
Southern California's studio back lots have been the scene of spectacular blazes -- accidental and intentional -- over the decades. Before Sunday's blaze, Universal Studios' back lot was hit by major fires in 1990 and 1967 (pictured), when a 12-acre blaze consumed the "European," Denver" and "Laramie" street sets.
Perhaps the biggest fire to hit a back lot took place in Culver City in December 1938 when portions of what was then the MGM lot (including the "great wall" set from 1933's "King Kong") were burned down for key scenes in "Gone With the Wind." (photo below) The fire was planned. But no one filled in Culver City residents, who flooded the fire department with calls.
 -- Jesus Sanchez
Photos: Ken Lubas / Los Angeles Times
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The back lot at Universal Studios may be a soggy, smoking ruin, but the red carpet out front? Spotless.
-- Veronique de Turenne
Photo: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times
James Herman took this shot at a North Hollywood carnival a few weeks ago.
Photo: James Herman / Flickr
Cool weather didn't keep the Buckley clan (that's Carter and Owen, both 5, and their mom, Kristi) from hitting the sand in their hometown of Manhattan Beach on Monday. Now we just need the solstice -- and this freakish weather -- to catch up with what the rest of us already know: It's summer!
-- Veronique de Turenne
Photo: Jay Clendenin / Los Angeles Times
No injuries in this fire, which burned through a single-story apartment complex in Anaheim this morning. Two apartments and five vehicles were destroyed. Other apartments sustained smoke and water damage. At least 14 adults and four children were left homeless by the blaze.
-- Veronique de Turenne
Photo: Karen Tapia-Andersen / Los Angeles Times
Mika Ito was on her way to pick up Mother's Day chocolates for her mom and grandmother when she noticed that someone had personalized the parking meter. The colorful wall made for a great backdrop.
-- Jesus Sanchez
Photo: Mika Ito / Flickr
Cathy Wang of Arcadia shows her daughter, Alice, the Moving Wall at Temple City Park. The half-size replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C., honors the more than 58,000 troops killed in that war. The traveling memorial will be on display until 7 p.m. Sunday at the park, 9701 Las Tunas Drive.
--Veronique de Turenne
Photo: Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times
After we ran ran this photo of a gently crumbling building in Huntington Beach, we got a bunch of e-mails asking about its whereabouts. And the answer, according to the photog, is:
"Not sure what the cross street was, but it was off of 6th street and PCH. There is an antique store right next to it. Hope this helps."
--Veronique de Turenne
Photo: Khalid Muhammad (Streetsilence) / Flickr
Yes, there are those who look at these lovely and amazing trees and see nothing but dropped petals and long weeks of sweeping and scraping. And then there's the rest of us, willing to drive miles out of our way to cruise the purple jacaranda canopy.
Where are great jacaranda streets in your neighborhood? (The trees in the photo, about a week short of full, glorious bloom, are on Myrtle Street in Santa Ana.) And does anyone know of a (don't laugh) jacaranda tour?
-- Veronique de Turenne
Photo: Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times
Work gets started in the Theo Lacy Jail in the O.C., where some walls are coming down to give jailers a better view of inmates. It's part of a push by the Sheriff's Department to address problems at the troubled jail, where inmates beat and killed John Derek Chamberlain in 2006.
-- Veronique de Turenne
Photo: Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times
Most Orange Counties photos we run across feature beaches, Disneyland and more beaches. So, this moody photo by Khalid Muhammad of a boarded up building in Huntington Beach stands out. Nearby new construction and demolitions may mean this structure's days are numbered, said Muhammad, who took the photo earlier this month. "I wouldn't be surprised if it's not there anymore."
-- Jesus Sanchez
Photo: Khalid Muhammad (Streetsilence) / Flickr
This 1970s (or is it 1980s) muscle car seemed to be hiding in its lair when Jen Montgomery snapped this shot in Montrose while waiting for a gate to open.
-- Jesus Sanchez
Photo: Jen Montgomery / Flickr
Members of the Exotic Dancers Union No. 1021 march through the streets of San Francisco, joining thousands of union supporters taking part in the May Day rally.
--Veronique de Turenne
Photo: Associated Press
Truck drivers and other workers at the Port of San Francisco spend a day waiting as the International Longshore and Warehouse Union shuts down most activity at the usually busy facility.
-- Veronique de Turenne
Photo: Robert Durell / Los Angeles Times
It's everyone into the pool -- or onto the hose or the water toys -- in San Pedro, as Michael Caro, 7, (those are his feet), sister Ashley, 3, and 4-year-old brother Mitchell (far left, with the tummy) play with their grandmother, Jenny Montoya. Temps in SoCal broke five records on Sunday, with LAX topping out at 95 degrees, and three cities in the OC hitting triple digits. We should see some cooling Tuesday, thank goodness.
As for the Caro kids, in deference to the neighbors, they're not allowed to play with their water toys until 10 a.m., their grandmother said. They hit the H20 on Sunday at 10:05.
--Veronique de Turenne
Photo: Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times
A shot of the pier in La Jolla from reader David Wollum. Here's what he has to say: "The ocean always has a mood... sometimes bright and sunny, sometimes not... but if you look for it, you will find the mood the ocean has on any given day."
Share your pix with us at "Your Scene." We love to see California through your eyes.
--Veronique de Turenne
Photo: David Wollum / Your Scene
Talk about a breakfast dive - a bird at the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Huntington Beach hunts for breakfast as the rising sun today sets a bank of morning clouds aglow.
—Veronique de Turenne
Photo: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times
Yep, that UFO-shaped swirl is, in fact, a cloud. Reader Richard Kaufman, an elementary science teacher in Irvine, shot the photo while on a weekend trip to Palm Springs with his wife. (She spotted the cloud, he snapped the pix.)
Occasionally mistaken for space ships, lenticular clouds actually have a fascinating bit of science behind them, having to do with mountains, moisture content and air flow. They've also got a very cool name: altocumulus standing lenticularis. More great pix of lenticular clouds here.
--Veronique de Turenne
Photo: Richard Kaufman / Your Scene
The event in the distance was Earth Day, but for boarder Osmaan Shamsiddeen, it was all about the fakie kickflip. (Which he landed with great grace.) That's Wilshire Boulevard you're seeing, shut down for the festivities.
-- Veronique de Turenne
Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times
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