Month: January 2023

9 delicious new sandwiches to eat in L.A.

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[ad_1] Sandwiches are like one of the year’s best picture Oscar contenders: Everything, everywhere, all at once. Within a recent 24-hour span, I admired the contrast of soft-scrambled eggs and spicy-sweet fried chicken on a brunch sandwich at Distrito Catorce, where Jonathan Perez has a residency for his Macheen pop-up, and debated on a rainy night whether I liked the chicken parm or meatball parm more at the new Ggiata location in West Hollywood. I thought then that it made sense to push myself into looking for more newish sandwiches, from freshly minted operations to the latest creations from places that have been settling in for a year or two. What did I find? A reminder that the universal medium of sandwiches helped the food industry refocus and reinvent itself in the pandemic afterquakes. And that, as always, sandwiches are windows into the nostalgic past (New Jersey and New York deli inspiration emerged as a recurring theme) and foundations for original creative expression. These are nine new favorites, alphabetized by restaurant rather than ranked. [ad_2] …

‘If you eat a butterfly, you become a butterfly’: Hearing reveals details of Mexican Mafia killing

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[ad_1] They looked just like any other couple getting on in age, walking along a suburban street in the last hours of daylight. They had met in the fourth grade. He went to prison; she got on with her life. Over the years, she heard rumors that he’d become affiliated with the Mexican Mafia. When he got out of prison for the last time, 50 years after they first met, she asked if he’d left all that behind. She wanted to believe him when he said yes. But the past caught up to Donald Ramon Ortiz that afternoon. It came disguised as a detective, holding a gun in a gloved hand. The last moments of Ortiz’s life were recounted at a hearing over the last two weeks in the case that San Bernardino County prosecutors have brought against his accused killer. At the end of it, a judge ruled that he’d seen enough evidence to hold the defendant to answer on all charges and allegations. Over two days of testimony, prosecutors made the case that …

How to drive safely during rain and flooding

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[ad_1] Angelenos love their cars. But driving them in the rain is not something we’ve had a lot of practice with in the last few years. Right now, California is getting slammed by rain, high winds and flooding. Years of drought have left parts of the state uniquely prone to rain damage. At least 16 people have died as a result of recent storms and floods. “These floods are deadly and have now turned to be more deadly than even the wildfires here in the state of California,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a news conference over the weekend. In San Luis Obispo County on Monday morning, a woman tried to cross a flooded roadway in her car. Both she and her 5-year-old son jumped out of the car when it started to get swept away. Nearby property owners were able to rescue the mother. Rising water levels forced authorities to call off the search for the boy. In Santa Barbara County on Monday, where mass evacuations have been ordered in some areas, multiple people …

Westminster Accounts: How to explore the database for yourself | Politics News

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[ad_1] The Westminster Accounts interactive database lets you search for information about the earnings and donations declared by any MP, political party, an all-party parliamentary group, or donor since the last election. Sky News and Tortoise Media have programmatically collected and analysed thousands of public records to create this extensive record of financial interests in Westminster from December 2019 onwards. Search for your MP using the Westminster Accounts tool It means that for the first time, you can easily see the total sums of donations and earnings for individual MPs – something which was previously very difficult to collate and compare due to the way the registers are published. So how can you explore the database for yourself? Find an MP When you open the Westminster Accounts interactive database, you are presented with a search box. Here you can search for any MP or find your own by entering your postcode. Alternatively, you could select the random MP suggested above the text entry box. Earnings and donations outlined Once you have made your selection, you …