I’m sitting in the drawing room of Jacob and Helena Rees-Mogg’s five-story townhouse in Westminster, just around the corner from Westminster Abbey. I’ve come to see Lady Helena Anne Beatrix Wentworth Fitzwilliam de Chair Rees-Mogg – known, at her insistence, to family and friends simply as Helena. Lady Helena Anne Beatrix Wentworth Fitzwilliam de Chair Rees-Mogg and her husband Jacob …
If Los Angeles has a reputation for opera, it is as an outlier, a city freed from encrusted tradition and eager to invent. In a community room at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church in the Sawtelle district, Independent Opera on Friday gave the West Coast premiere of Alexander Dargomyzhsky‘s “The Stone Guest.” Left unfinished at the composer’s death in 1869, it …
Gabriella Tovar and Jesus Mendoza did things any 20-somethings in love might do. During a four-day preliminary hearing, Los Angeles Police Department detectives asserted that Tovar and Mendoza targeted four cannabis dispensaries for robberies — including one they allegedly held up on consecutive days — during a six-week-long string of heists that ended June 11, 2023, when Mendoza crashed his …
