Indie film icon Jim Jarmusch has made wry, observational movies about hipster losers (his 1984 breakout “Stranger Than Paradise”), escaped convicts (“Down by Law”), cowboy existentialists (“Dead Man”), existential hit men (“Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai”) and a devoted vampire couple (“Only Lovers Left Alive”). However, the king of low-key cool had never […]

The first thing you ought to know about getting to the 2017 Rose Parade and Rose Bowl Game is that they are both being held Monday, the day after New Year’s Day. That’s because the Tournament of Roses made a deal with local churches never to hold the parade or game on a Sunday. So, […]

DIAMOND BAR >> A Baldwin Park man died early Friday after his car was rear-ended by a pickup truck on the 60 Freeway in Diamond Bar, authorities said. The fatal crash was first reported at 5:48 in the carpool lane of the westbound 60 Freeway, just west of Grand Avenue, California Highway Patrol Officer Rodrigo […]

COLTON >> Police are searching for the man who smashed a motorist’s car window and robbed the victim at gunpoint Friday morning, officials said. The victim was in his car in the 1200 block of Highland Avenue around 6:30 a.m. when a man in his 20s smashed the victim’s window and took several items from […]

RIVERSIDE >> For the second time in six days, a woman reported Thursday that a man crashed into her vehicle on the 215 Freeway in Riverside, then attempted to sexually assault her when she pulled over. Neither woman was sexually assaulted. But both were robbed, Riverside police say. Police can’t say for sure whether the […]

Paterson, New Jersey, has gifted America with the poets Allen Ginsberg and William Carlos Williams (and such other notables as Lou Costello and Fetty Wap). Now there is a movie called “Paterson” about a bus driver in Paterson who’s named, yes, Paterson. It is the loveliest American film of the year. Jim Jarmusch’s latest feature […]

ANAHEIM >> Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Los Angeles chapter of the Council of American-Islamic Relations, which is based in Anaheim, has apologized for a tweet he sent out on Christmas Day expressing disappointment that a plane crash involving a Russian military jet on its way to Syria didn’t claim more lives. “I’m sad […]

SOCHI, Russia — The Kremlin on Monday played down the possibility that a terror attack might have downed a Syria-bound Russian plane, killing all 92 people on board, as the nation observed a day of mourning for the victims, including most members of a world famous military choir. The Tu-154 owned by the Russian Defense […]

BAKER >> A 70-year-old Chino man has been identified as the person killed in a crash in Baker Wednesday, coroner’s officials said. Richard Newcomer was a passenger in a 2010 Dodge Grand Caravan traveling north on the 15 Freeway when the driver drifted into the slower lane colliding into the back of a slower-moving tractor […]