#Jason Latimer

[scottwellsmagic]

918: FISM 2025 in Turin, Italy- Day Six Report

Saturday 19 July, 2025

Time Stamps: These will be posted after I have gotten some sleep.

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[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌙 What to Read After Watching Agatha All Along 🌙

❓ Who is your favorite fictional witch?

🦇 Enjoying Agatha All Along on Disney? Check out these books featuring witches, covens, chaotic queers, & everything in between, perfect for fans of Agatha All Along! List below!

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✨ Payback's a Witch - Lana Harper 🌑 How to Get a Girlfriend (When You're a Terrifying Monster) - Marie Cardno 🌒 These Witches Don't Burn - Isabel Sterling 🌓 This Spells Disaster - Tori Martin 🌔 The Scapegracers - H. A. Clarke 🌕 Beetle & the Hollowbones - Aliza Layne 🌕 The Twice-Sold Soul - Katie Hallahan 🌖 In Charm's Way - Lana Harper 🌗 Brewed with Love - Shelly Page 🌘 Carry On - Rainbow Rowell 🌑 So This Is Ever After - F. T. Lukens ✨ Spells to Forget Us - Aislinn Brophy

✨ Basics of Spellcraft - L.C. Mawson 🌑 How To Succeed in Witchcraft - Aislinn Brophy 🌒 Sweet & Bitter Magic - Adrienne Tooley 🌓 The Midnight Girls - Alicia Jasinska 🌔 Labyrinth Lost - Zoraida Córdova 🌕 The Shattered Lands - Brenna Nation 🌕 Otherworldly - F. T. Lukens 🌖 Coven - Jennifer Dugan & Kit Seaton 🌗 The Dark Tide - Alicia Jasinska 🌘 Queen B - Juno Dawson 🌑 Her Majesty's Royal Coven - Juno Dawson ✨ Wild and Wicked Things - Francesca May

✨ Cemetery Boys - Aiden Thomas 🌑 The Last Sun - K. D. Edwards 🌒 The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri 🌓 The Sun and the Star - Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro 🌔 The Witch and His Crow - Ben Alderson 🌕 Lord of Eternal Night - Ben Alderson 🌕 The Crimson Crown - Heather Walter 🌖 Tonight, I Burn - Katharine J. Adams 🌗 Witches of Ash and Ruin - E. Latimer 🌘 The Severed Thread - Leslie Vedder 🌑 Pumpkin Spice & Poltergeist - Ali K. Mulford and K. Elle Morrison ✨ Love and Other Wicked Things -Philline Harms

✨ Off With Their Heads - Zoe Hana Mikuta 🌑 Practical Rules for Cursed Witches - Kayla Cottingham 🌒 Two Broke Witches - Kate Starling 🌓 Bitterthorn - Kat Dunn 🌔 The Honey Witch - Sydney J. Shields 🌕 The Witch and the Vampire - Francesca Flores 🌕 Spell on Wheels - Kate Leth, Megan Levens, Marissa Louise 🌖 The Witchery - S. Isabelle 🌗 The Hummingbird Coven - Augusta Owens 🌘 Children of the Night - Cara Malone 🌑 The Hex Next Door - Lou Wilham ✨ Malice - Heather Walter

✨ Mortal Follies - Alexis Hall 🌑 The Balance of Fates - Raquel Raelynn 🌒 Edie in Between - Laura Sibson 🌓 Doughnuts and Doom - Balazs Lorinczi 🌔 A Spell for Heartsickness - Alistair Reeve 🌕 Evocation - S.T. Gibson 🌕 The Spells We Cast - Jason June 🌖 An Education in Malice - S. T. Gibson 🌗 Rise and Divine - Lana Harper 🌘 Not Good for Maidens - Tori Bovalino 🌑 A Dark and Starless Forest - Sarah Hollowell ✨ Netherford Hall - Natania Barron

✨ The Poisons We Drink - Bethany Baptiste 🌑 This Poison Heart - Kalynn Bayron 🌒 Over My Dead Body - Boo Sweeney 🌓 Girl, Serpent, Thorn - Melissa Bashardoust 🌔 The Bewitching Hour - Ashley Poston 🌕 Pushing Daisy - Isla Winter 🌕 Daughter of the Bone Forest - Jasmine Skye 🌖 Keep Your Witches Close - Colette Rivera 🌗 Mooncakes - Suzanne Walker, Wendy Xu 🌘 Snapdragon - Kat Leyh 🌑 Runaways - Rainbow Rowell & Kris Anka ✨ Witchlings - Claribel A. Ortega

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[djkerr]

Noah Wyle on the LA Times Envelope Drama Roundtable along with Jason Isaacs ("The White Lotus"), Allison Janney ("The Diplomat"), Sterling K. Brown ("Paradise"), Britt Lower ("Severance"), Kaitlin Olson ("High Potential"), and Billy Bob Thornton ("Landman").

(May 23, 2025)

🎥 @latimes YouTube [full interview]

📷 Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times

[alldancersaretalented]

Choreographers and where they danced at

ALDC

Rachel Kreiling (NYCDA Faculty) Gianna Martello (ALDC Faculty)

Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts

Mandy Korpinen (Radix Faculty)

Bolero

Nika Kljun (Jump Faculty)

CC & Company Dance

Kirsten Russell (Jump Faculty)

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio

Ashly Costa (Nuvo Faculty) Jenna Johnson (24Seven Faculty)

Club Dance Studio

Kalani Hilliker Brynn Rumfallo (Club Dance Faculty) Jaycee Wilkins (Club Dance Faculty)

Dance Academy USA

Cindy Salgado (NYCDA Faculty)

Dance Connection 2

Erica Marr (Jump Faculty and Club Faculty)

Dance Connections (Greensboro)

Jared Grimes (NYCDA Faculty)

Danceology

Alexa Huey (Danceology Faculty) Jackie Mougel (Danceology Faculty)

Dance Precisions

Molly Long (Jump Faculty and Project 21) Scott Myrick (Pave Faculty) Lonni Olsen (The Space Faculty) Jessica Riches (the Space Faculty)

Dance Town

Rudy Abreu (Dance Town Faculty) D'Angelo Castro (Dance Town Faculty) Ruby Castro (Dance Town Faculty) Easton Payne (Dance Town Faculty) Camila Schwarz (Jump Faculty)

Dance World Academy

Mristen Gorski (Nuvo Faculty)

Denise Smith Dance Studio

Akira Uchida (Jump Faculty)

Denise Wall's Dance Energy

Travis Wall

DC Dance Factory

Elizabeth Petrin (24Seven Faculty)

Elite Dance By Damian

Chelsea Sebes (Evolve Dance Complex)

Evolve Dance Complex

Lauren Herb (Evolve Dance Complex Faculty)

Focal Point Dance Studios

Angela Cifone

Haja Dance Company

Madi Mac (Evolve Dance Complex Faculty)

Joanne Chapman School of Dance

Shannon Mather (24Seven Faculty and Mather) Blake McGrath (24Seven Faculty)

Just Plain Dancin'

Kenzie Fisher (K2 Studios) Kierra Fisher (K2 Studios)

Kathy Haller School of Dance

Julia Pearson (Danceology Faculty)

Kerry Smith's Academy of Dance Arts

Michael Keefe (Jump Faculty)

Larkin Dance Studio

Eva Igo Madison Jordan (Larkin Faculty) Taylor Sieve (Jump Faculty) Mackenzie Symanietz (Larkin Faculty)

Le Studio

Suzi Taylor (NYCDA Faculty)

Mary Alice's Dance Studio

Ali Dietz (NYCDA Faculty)

Master Ballet Academy

Sophia Lucia

Mather Dance Company

Kenzie Fisher (K2 Studios) Kierra Fisher (K2 Studios) Emily Madden (Mather Faculty) Autumn Miller (The Space Faculty) Lonni Olsen (The Space Faculty) Jessica Riches (The Space Faculty) Lexie Rosenstrauch (Mather Faculty) Nicole Smith (Mather)

Michelle Latimer Dance Academy

Kayla Radomski (Radix Faculty) Dana Wilson (NYCDA Faculty)

New Jersey Tap Ensemble

Jason Janas (Radix Faculty)

OCPAA

Hannahlei Cabanilla (Jump Faculty) Rheana Tumang (Studio X)

Pelagie Green Wren Academy of Dance

Kelby Brown (24Seven Faculty)

Perry Mansfield School of the Performing Arts

Jess Hendricks (24Seven Faculty)

Plumb Performing Arts

Jordan Pelliteri

Project 21

Selena Hamilton Addison Moffett Kelly Sweeney

Royal Dance Works

Jaci Royal (24Seven Faculty and Royal Flux)

School of the Arts

Brooke Pieroti (24Seven Faculty and TDC of SF)

Studio 19 Dance Complex

Courtney Schwartz (Radix Faculty)

Taps & Company

Chloe Arnold (NYCDA Faculty)

The Academy of Dance Arts

Madi Hicks (24Seven Faculty and Moving Forward Dallas)

The Dance Club

Joey Dowling (NYCDA Faculty)

The Dance Company of San Francisco

Chantel Aguirre (Nuvo Faculty)

West Coast School of the Arts

Lex Ishimoto (Jump Faculty) Jazelle Torre (Club and Project 21 Faculty)

Westside Dance Project

Megan Goldstein

Westside Ballet

Kim Craven (NYCDA Faculty)

??

Chaz Buzan (Radix Faculty) Tina Caspary (Radix Faculty) Danny Lawn (24Seven Faculty and Club Faculty) Ashley Moffitt (Club Faculty) Nick Meola (Nuvo Faculty and Danceology Faculty) Nick Young (24Seven Faculty)

feel free to send me a message or anon if there are people missing (which I know there are)!

[rvllybllply2014]

Here’s the list of democrats that need to go during their next race they voted to NOT impeach Trump. Maybe also call their offices and express how disappointed you are in them.

Pete Aguilar (California)

Gabe Amo (Rhode Island)

Jake Auchincloss (Massachusetts)

Wesley Bell (Missouri)

Ami Bera (California)

Don Beyer (Virginia)

Sanford Bishop (Georgia)

Julia Brownley (California)

Nikki Budzinski (Illinois)

Janelle Bynum (Oregon)

Salud Carbajal (California)

Andre Carson (Indiana)

Ed Case (Hawaii)

Sean Casten (Illinois)

Kathy Castor (Florida)

Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (Florida)

Katherine Clark (Massachusetts)

Emanuel Cleaver (Missouri)

Jim Clyburn (South Carolina)

Herb Conaway (New Jersey)

Lou Correa (California)

Jim Costa (California)

Joe Courtney (Connecticut)

Angie Craig (Minnesota)

Jason Crow (Colorado)

Henry Cuellar (Texas)

Sharice Davids (Kansas)

Don Davis (North Carolina)

Madeleine Dean (Pennsylvania)

Rosa DeLauro (Connecticut)

Suzan DelBene (Washington)

Chris Deluzio (Pennsylvania)

Debbie Dingell (Michigan)

Sarah Elfreth (Maryland)

Cleo Fields (Louisiana)

Shomari Figures (Alabama)

Lizzie Fletcher (Texas)

Bill Foster (Illinois)

Lois Frankel (Florida)

Laura Gillen (New York)

Jared Golden (Maine)

Dan Goldman (New York)

Vicente Gonzalez (Texas)

Maggie Goodlander (New Hampshire)

Josh Gottheimer (New Jersey)

Adam Gray (California)

Josh Harder (California)

Jim Himes (Connecticut)

Steven Horsford (Nevada)

Chrissy Houlahan (Pennsylvania)

Steny Hoyer (Maryland)

Val Hoyle (Oregon)

Hakeem Jeffries (New York)

Julie Johnson (Texas)

Marcy Kaptur (Ohio)

Bill Keating (Massachusetts)

Timothy Kennedy (New York)

Ro Khanna (California)

Greg Landsman (Ohio)

Rick Larsen (Washington)

John Larson (Connecticut)

George Latimer (New York)

Susie Lee (Nevada)

Mike Levin (California)

Sam Liccardo (California)

Ted Lieu (California)

Zoe Lofgren (California)

Stephen Lynch (Massachusetts)

Seth Magaziner (Rhode Island)

John Mannion (New York)

Lucy McBath (Georgia)

Sarah McBride (Delaware)

April McClain Delaney (Maryland)

Jennifer McClellan (Virginia)

Betty McCollum (Minnesota)

Kristen McDonald Rivet (Michigan)

Morgan McGarvey (Kentucky)

Gregory Meeks (New York)

Grace Meng (New York)

Kweisi Mfume (Maryland)

Joe Morelle (New York)

Kelly Morrison (Minnesota)

Jared Moskowitz (Florida)

Seth Moulton (Massachusetts)

Frank Mrvan (Indiana)

Richard Neal (Massachusetts)

Joe Neguse (Colorado)

Johnny Olszewski (Maryland)

Frank Pallone (New Jersey)

Jimmy Panetta (California)

Chris Pappas (New Hampshire)

Nancy Pelosi (California)

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Washington)

Scott Peters (California)

Brittany Pettersen (Colorado)

Nellie Pou (New Jersey)

Mike Quigley (Illinois)

Jamie Raskin (Maryland)

Josh Riley (New York)

Deborah Ross (North Carolina)

Pat Ryan (New York)

Andrea Salinas (Oregon)

Mary Gay Scanlon (Pennsylvania)

Brad Schneider (Illinois)

Hillary Scholten (Michigan)

Kim Schrier (Washington)

Bobby Scott (Virginia)

Terri Sewell (Alabama)

Adam Smith (Washington)

Eric Sorensen (Illinois)

Darren Soto (Florida)

Greg Stanton (Arizona)

Haley Stevens (Michigan)

Marilyn Strickland (Washington)

Suhas Subramanyam (Virginia)

Tom Suozzi (New York)

Emilia Sykes (Ohio)

Paul Tonko (New York)

Ritchie Torres (New York)

Lori Trahan (Massachusetts)

Derek Tran (California)

Lauren Underwood (Illinois)

Juan Vargas (California)

Gabe Vasquez (New Mexico)

Marc Veasey (Texas)

Eugene Vindman (Virginia)

Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Florida)

George Whitesides (California)

[cattarattat]

Americans for democracy...

Print out this list, highlight the politicians from your particular state, and VOTE THESE CORRUPT, BILLIONAIRE BOUGHT-AND-PAID-FOR DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS--ALONG WITH 100% OF CORRUPT, BILLIONAIRE BOUGHT-AND-PAID-FOR REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS--OUT-OF-OFFICE within EVERY coming congressional election moving forward. PERIOD.

"Here's the full list of House Democrats who voted to table the impeachment articles.

1. Pete Aguilar (California)

2. Gabe Amo (Rhode Island)

3. Jake Auchincloss (Massachusetts)

4. Wesley Bell (Missouri)

5. Ami Bera (California)

6. Don Beyer (Virginia)

7. Sanford Bishop (Georgia)

8. Julia Brownley (California)

9. Nikki Budzinski (Illinois)

10. Janelle Bynum (Oregon)

11. Salud Carbajal (California)

12. Andre Carson (Indiana)

13. Ed Case (Hawaii)

14. Sean Casten (Illinois)

15. Kathy Castor (Florida)

16. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (Florida)

17. Katherine Clark (Massachusetts)

18. Emanuel Cleaver (Missouri)

19. Jim Clyburn (South Carolina)

20. Herb Conaway (New Jersey)

21. Lou Correa (California)

22. Jim Costa (California)

23. Joe Courtney (Connecticut)

24. Angie Craig (Minnesota)

25. Jason Crow (Colorado)

26. Henry Cuellar (Texas)

27. Sharice Davids (Kansas)

28. Don Davis (North Carolina)

29. Madeleine Dean (Pennsylvania)

30. Rosa DeLauro (Connecticut)

31. Suzan DelBene (Washington)

32. Chris Deluzio (Pennsylvania)

33. Debbie Dingell (Michigan)

34. Sarah Elfreth (Maryland)

35. Cleo Fields (Louisiana)

36. Shomari Figures (Alabama)

37. Lizzie Fletcher (Texas)

38. Bill Foster (Illinois)

39. Lois Frankel (Florida)

40. Laura Gillen (New York)

41. Jared Golden (Maine)

42. Dan Goldman (New York)

43. Vicente Gonzalez (Texas)

44. Maggie Goodlander (New Hampshire)

45. Josh Gottheimer (New Jersey)

46. Adam Gray (California)

47. Josh Harder (California)

48. Jim Himes (Connecticut)

49. Steven Horsford (Nevada)

50. Chrissy Houlahan (Pennsylvania)

51. Steny Hoyer (Maryland)

52. Val Hoyle (Oregon)

53. Hakeem Jeffries (New York)

54. Julie Johnson (Texas)

55. Marcy Kaptur (Ohio)

56. Bill Keating (Massachusetts)

57. Timothy Kennedy (New York)

58. Ro Khanna (California)

59. Greg Landsman (Ohio)

60. Rick Larsen (Washington)

61. John Larson (Connecticut)

62. George Latimer (New York)

63. Susie Lee (Nevada)

64. Mike Levin (California)

65. Sam Liccardo (California)

66. Ted Lieu (California)

67. Zoe Lofgren (California)

68. Stephen Lynch (Massachusetts)

69. Seth Magaziner (Rhode Island)

70. John Mannion (New York)

71. Lucy McBath (Georgia)

72. Sarah McBride (Delaware)

73. April McClain Delaney (Maryland)

74. Jennifer McClellan (Virginia)

75. Betty McCollum (Minnesota)

76. Kristen McDonald Rivet (Michigan)

77. Morgan McGarvey (Kentucky)

78. Gregory Meeks (New York)

79. Grace Meng (New York)

80. Kweisi Mfume (Maryland)

81. Joe Morelle (New York)

82. Kelly Morrison (Minnesota)

83. Jared Moskowitz (Florida)

84. Seth Moulton (Massachusetts)

85. Frank Mrvan (Indiana)

86. Richard Neal (Massachusetts)

87. Joe Neguse (Colorado)

88. Johnny Olszewski (Maryland)

89. Frank Pallone (New Jersey)

90. Jimmy Panetta (California)

91. Chris Pappas (New Hampshire)

92. Nancy Pelosi (California)

93. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Washington)

94. Scott Peters (California)

95. Brittany Pettersen (Colorado)

96. Nellie Pou (New Jersey)

97. Mike Quigley (Illinois)

98. Jamie Raskin (Maryland)

99. Josh Riley (New York)

100. Deborah Ross (North Carolina)

101. Pat Ryan (New York)

102. Andrea Salinas (Oregon)

103. Mary Gay Scanlon (Pennsylvania)

104. Brad Schneider (Illinois)

105. Hillary Scholten (Michigan)

106. Kim Schrier (Washington)

107. Bobby Scott (Virginia)

108. Terri Sewell (Alabama)

109. Adam Smith (Washington)

110. Eric Sorensen (Illinois)

111. Darren Soto (Florida)

112. Greg Stanton (Arizona)

113. Haley Stevens (Michigan)

114. Marilyn Strickland (Washington)

115. Suhas Subramanyam (Virginia)

116. Tom Suozzi (New York)

117. Emilia Sykes (Ohio)

118. Paul Tonko (New York)

119. Ritchie Torres (New York)

120. Lori Trahan (Massachusetts)

121. Derek Tran (California)

122. Lauren Underwood (Illinois)

123. Juan Vargas (California)

124. Gabe Vasquez (New Mexico)

125. Marc Veasey (Texas)

126. Eugene Vindman (Virginia)

127. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Florida)

128. George Whitesides (California)"

[lenbryant]

LONG POST (LATimes)

George Lucas’ spaceship of a museum lands in L.A. with a wonderful surprise

By Sam Lubell

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, rising on what used to be a parking lot in Exposition Park in downtown L.A., is devoted to visual storytelling: the comics of Charles M. Schulz (“Peanuts”) and Alex Raymond (“Flash Gordon”), movie concept art by Neal Adams (“Batman”) and Ralph McQuarrie (“Star Wars”), paintings by Frida Kahlo and Jacob Lawrence, photography by Gordon Parks and Dorothea Lange, illustrations by Norman Rockwell and N.C. Wyeth.

So when George Lucas and wife Mellody Hobson chose Mia Lehrer and her L.A. firm, Studio-MLA, to design the 11 acres of landscape around — and on top of — MAD Architects’ swirling, otherworldly, billion-dollar building, the driving forces behind the Lucas Museum made it clear that the landscape had to tell a story too.

A long stretch of park space extends from the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which sits next to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

“We looked at the landscapes of myths and movies,” said Kush Parekh, a principal at Studio-MLA. “How do you take someone on a journey through space? How does the terrain change the story — and how can it be the story?”

The result — which feels surprisingly grown-in even though the museum won’t open until next year — is a sinuous, eclectic landscape that unfolds in discrete vignettes, all promoting exploration and distinct experience. Each zone contains varied textures, colors, scales and often framed views. A shaded walkway curls along a meandering meadow and lifts you toward a hilly canyon. A footbridge carries you above a developing conifer thicket. A plant-covered trellis, known as “the hanging garden,” provides a more compressed moment of pause. The environment, like a good story, continually shifts tone and tempo.

“It’s episodic,” Parekh said. “Each biome reveals something new, each path hints at what’s ahead without giving it away.”

Lucas Museum leaders and members of the design team stand under the trellis of “the hanging garden.”

Another, more subtle, layer of this narrative is time. Plantings were laid out to bloom in different seasons and in different places. Bright yellow “Safari Goldstrike” leucadendron, edging the meadow and canyon, come alive in late winter and early spring. Tall jacarandas, spied from a foothills overlook, emerge then quickly disappear. “Bee’s Bliss” sage, lying low in the oak woodland, turn lavender blue in the early summer. Something is always emerging, something else fading.

“Every month, every visit, feels different,” Parekh said.

Even the alpine-inspired plantings cladding the museum’s roof — colorful wildflowers, long sweeping grasses and coarse scrubs, all chosen for their hardiness, lightness and shallow roots — follow this rhythm.

The landscape creates the illusion that some plantings run right up to the museum. Here, the black void on the underside of the building is the opening for a giant waterfall that will cascade to a pool below.

The grounds include the terraced seating of an amphitheater.

The plant palette includes low-water selections.

(Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

Amazingly, the rest of the landscape is a kind of green roof as well, sitting atop a 2,400-spot underground parking structure — available to those visiting the Lucas or any of Expo Park’s other institutions. Wedged between the greenery and the parking are thousands of foam blocks, mixed with soil and sculpted to form the landscape while minimizing weight on the building below.

“I wish I had invested in foam before we started this,” joked Angelo Garcia, president of Lucas Real Estate Holdings. “It’s everywhere. These mountains were created with foam.”

“It’s full-scale ecology sitting on top of a structural system,” noted Michael Siegel, senior principal at Stantec, the museum’s architect of record, responsible for its technical oversight and implementation. 

Foam blocks buried in the soil shape the terrain while minimizing weight on the parking structure below.

(Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

As you make your way through the rolling landscape, it becomes clear that it’s also crafted to meld with MAD’s sculptural design — a hovering, eroded form, itself inspired by the clouds, hills and other natural forms of Los Angeles.

“There’s a dialogue,” Garcia said.

Paths bend instead of cut; curving benches — cast in smooth, gently tapering concrete — echo the museum’s fiber-reinforced cement roofline. Bridges arc gently over bioswales and berms. Ramps rise like extensions of the building’s base. Paving stones reflect the color and texture of the museum’s facade.

“It was never landscape next to building,” Lehrer said. “It was building as landscape, and landscape as structure. One continuous form.”

The building’s oculus eventually will have vines hanging from it.

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art rises in Exposition Park, its rooftop clad with solar panels and gardens, the skyline of downtown Los Angeles rising behind it.

A worker on the green rooftop of the museum.

(Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

The topography was designed to minimize environmental impact. Hundreds of plants, mostly native to the region, are drought-tolerant (or at least require little watering). A rain-harvesting system captures water for irrigation. And on the north edge of the museum will be “The Rain,” a waterfall that doubles as a passive cooling system, replacing traditional air-conditioning infrastructure. (Dozens of underground geothermal wells provide additional cooling.)

In this part of South L.A., park space is egregiously scarce, a remnant of redlining and disinvestment. This space — set to be open to the public without a ticket, from dawn to dusk — is a game changer, as is a massive green space on Expo Park’s south side that also replaces a surface parking lot and tops an underground garage. (That latter project has been delayed until after the 2028 Olympics.)

“It’s hotter, it’s denser and it’s long been overlooked. We wanted to change that,” Lehrer said of the area.

Kush Parekh, left, and Mia Lehrer of Studio-MLA.

Treetops rising along the museum’s curvaceous silhouette. 

(Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

For Lehrer, the landscape is a convergence of civic and ecological ideas that she’s developed throughout her career — really ever since a chance encounter with the intricate original drawings for Central Park while she was studying at the Harvard Graduate School of Design spurred her to pivot from planning to landscape architecture. At this point, she’s created arguably more major new public spaces in Los Angeles than any other designer, including two vibrantly didactic landscapes at the adjacent Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, downtown’s 10-acre Vista Hermosa Park and the artfully layered grounds and lake surrounding SoFi Stadium.

“This brings everything together,” she said. “Design, ecology, storytelling, infrastructure, community. It’s the fullest expression of what landscape can be.”

Lehrer credits Lucas with not just permitting her to explore these ideas but encouraging her to push them further. Lucas supported the rare — and costly — installation of mature plantings. Usually the landscape is the last part of a building to emerge.

The progress in the grounds is a bright spot for the museum, which has been grappling with construction delays, the surprise departure of its executive director and, most recently, the layoffs of 15 full-time and seven part-time employees, part of a restructuring that a museum official said was “to ensure we open on time next year.”

George Lucas, center, wife Mellody Hobson and then-Mayor Eric Garcetti as the Lucas Museum began construction in 2019. 

(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

“To have an open-minded client, who gets landscape and also appreciates creativity, it’s rare,” Lehrer said. Lucas, who grew up on a farm in Modesto, has been developing the vineyards, gardens and olive groves of his Skywalker Ranch in Northern California for decades.

“I have always wanted to be surrounded by trees and nature,” Lucas said. “The museum’s backyard is meant to provide a respite in a hectic world.”

[leanstooneside]

Appreciating fine food, fine wine, beautiful art, beautiful bodies, or any of the better things in life

1. Rebecca Gayheart's lower leg (Tufnell Park)

2. Giuliana Rancic's arm (Belsize Park)

3. Josh Holloway's nose (London Bridge)

4. Lucy Hale's back (Wembley Park)

5. Judy Sheindlin's ankle (Hounslow West)

6. Shania Twain's belly (Upney)

7. Akshay Kumar's head (Chalfont & Latimer)

8. Jude Law's waist (Chigwell)

9. Tom Hanks's nose (Tower Hill)

10. Alex Rodriguez's cheek (Brent Cross)

11. Kaley Cuoco's forehead (Bank)

12. Kevin Hart's tongue (Bermondsey)

13. Anna Wintour's foot (Golders Green)

14. Christian Bale's hair (Hillingdon)

15. Ramona Singer's elbow (Warren Street)

16. Cara Delevingne's waist (St. John's Wood)

17. Colin Firth's thigh (West Ham)

18. Chris Pine's forehead (Ravenscourt Park)

19. Sonja Morgan's ear (Ladbroke Grove)

20. Jeff Probst's waist (Hammersmith)

21. Uma Thurman's forehead (Eastcote)

22. Josh Lucas's calf (Oval)

23. Caitlyn Jenner's upper arm (Eastcote)

24. Heidi Klum's elbow (Grange Hill)

25. Teri Hatcher's ear (St. Paul's)

26. Lewis Hamilton's nose (Morden)

27. Joshua Jackson's foot (Wimbledon)

28. Robert Downey Jr.'s eyelash (Woodford)

29. Neymar's buttocks (Wanstead)

30. Jake Pavelka's ear (Elephant & Castle)

31. Jason Bateman's belly (Moor Park)

32. Jessica Chastain's eyelash (Clapham North)

33. Jensen Ackles's head (Gunnersbury)

34. Miranda Lambert's leg (Woodford)

35. Fabrizio Moretti's neck (Alperton)

36. David Katzenberg's foot (Warren Street)

37. Nick Lachey's wrist (Angel)

38. Lady Gaga's knee (Southgate)

39. Cher's thigh (Temple)

40. Liam Neeson's lower leg (Wimbledon)

41. Alex Pettyfer's neck (Gloucester Road)

[scottwellsmagic]

912: Diana Zimmerman - The Enchantress

Diana Zimmerman is an enchanting woman in every sense of the word: personality, charm, abilities, looks, intelligence, skill, and so much more. She has led a life of magic like few other women. And she is being recognized for her achievements by being inducted to the Los Angeles Times Global Magicians Hall of Fame on July 9th, 2025. Married at 19 to Dick Zimmerman, magician and creative genius, she performed around the world on television and stage with her one-woman performance. She traveled with a giant gramophone then later switched to a thumb tie and pick pocketing. She developed and still works with the Magic Castle Junior Program (which just celebrated their 50th year) and is the author of several books of fantasy. But she also authored the definitive collector’s edition of the Siegfried and Roy book.

Diana has so many stories that she shares with us this week including her early days working with her then-husband, Dick Zimmerman, then how Cary Grant encouraged her to form the junior program at the Magic Castle, and many stories about the late Siegfried and Roy. She was a close confidant to the illusionists and shares some “behind the scenes” stories from Little Bavaria to “the Incident” that ended their Las Vegas run.

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[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🐈‍⬛ Queer Witchlit for Spooky Season

✨ Witch please (add these witch reads to your TBR, perfect for spooky season)! Posting this from my first Pride!!

🧹 Spells to Forget Us - Aislinn Brophy 🧹 Reverie - Ryan La Sala 🧹 The Witch Boy - Molly Knox Ostertag 🧹 Carry On - Rainbow Rowell 🧹 Practical Rules for Cursed Witches - Kayla Cottingham 🧹 Spell Bound - F.T. Lukens

✨ This Spells Disaster - Tori Anne Martin ✨ All the Bad Apples - Moïra Fowley-Doyle ✨ Her Majesty's Royal Coven - Juno Dawson ✨ A Marvellous Light - Freya Marske ✨ Runaways - Rainbow Rowell ✨ Mortal Follies - Alexis Hall

🐈‍⬛ Blood Debts - Terry J. Benton-Walker 🐈‍⬛ The Scapegracers - H. A. Clarke 🐈‍⬛ So Witches We Became - Jill Baguchinsky 🐈‍⬛ Three Dark Crowns - Kendare Blake 🐈‍⬛ B*WITCH - Nancy Ohlin and Paige McKenzie 🐈‍⬛ Remedial Magic - Melissa Marr

🧹 Witchlight - Jessi Zabarsky 🧹 The Dark Tide - Alicia Jasinska 🧹 Coven - Jennifer Dugan & Kit Seaton 🧹 Payback's a Witch - Lana Harper 🧹 These Witches Don't Burn - Isabel Sterling 🧹 Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft - Various

✨ Mooncakes - Suzanne Walker & Wendy Xu ✨ Summer of Salt - Katrina Leno ✨ The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea - Maggie Tokuda-Hall ✨ Basil and Oregano - Melissa Capriglione ✨ The Once and Future Witches - Alix E. Harrow ✨ Spell on Wheels - Kate Leth

🐈‍⬛ An Academy for Liars - Alexis Henderson 🐈‍⬛ Over My Dead Body - Sweeney Boo 🐈‍⬛ Wild and Wicked Things - Francesca May 🐈‍⬛ A Sweet Sting of Salt - Rose Sutherland 🐈‍⬛ The Last Sun - K. D. Edwards 🐈‍⬛ The Witches of New York - Ami McKay

🧹 The Midnight Girls - Alicia Jasinska 🧹 The Witchery - S. Isabelle 🧹 The Spells We Cast - Jason June 🧹 Now, Conjurers - Freddie Kölsch 🧹 Cemetery Boys - Aiden Thomas 🧹 That Self-Same Metal - Brittany N. Williams

✨ The Honey Witch - Sydney J. Shields ✨ Wild Beauty - Anna-Marie McLemore ✨ The Invocations - Krystal Sutherland ✨ Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches - Kate Scelsa ✨ Flowerheart - Catherine Bakewell ✨ Snapdragon - Kat Leyh

🐈‍⬛ Labyrinth Lost - Zoraida Córdova 🐈‍⬛ The Witches of Silver Lake - Simon Curtis 🐈‍⬛ Sweet & Bitter Magic - Adrienne Tooley 🐈‍⬛ Witches of Ashes and Ruin - E. Latimer 🐈‍⬛ Edie in Between - Laura Sibson 🐈‍⬛ When We Were Magic - Sarah Gailey

[robhofker]

Camel in Birmingham 2014 - The Great Marsh / Rhayader / Rhayader Goes to Town

Camel in Birmingham 2014 - The Great Marsh / Rhayader / Rhayader Goes to Town Recorded on March 10th, 2014 at the Birmingham Town Hall, a part of the second leg of Camel's "The Revised Snow Goose" Tour. Andrew Latimer - Guitars and Flute Colin Bass - Bass Denis Clement - Drums Ton Scherpenzeel - Keyboards Jason Hart - Keyboards via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI0Fj0GVd70 October 13, 2017 at 08:41AM

[jmtolman]

Impossible Science Deck

This was, no joke, a dream project of mine.

For those of you who don’t know me in real life, I have a collection of designer & specialty card decks. Think Theory 11 or Ellusionist. So when Jason Latimer reached out to me and asked if I was interested in updating his Impossible Science decks, I was like HECK YES I AM!

Due to a tight turnaround time, we were not able to do a full redo. However, I was able to:

Update the logos

Update the text & URLS

Brighten the colors & match them to the new logo

Modified the black cards so they matched the dark blue of the new logo

That last part was not part of the original plan, but I did a rough concept for fun and threw it out there. I’m very glad it made it to the final print!

Please check out Impossible Science, it’s a very cool organization that makes learning science more fun via stage magic. You can also check them out on Youtube here!

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[asianjeremyheere]

bmc opening night cast and creative team posts as on 1:40pm EST!

in order, it's jason sweettooth williams, will roland, jennifer tepper (producer), gerard canonico, max friedman (associate director, i think?) and ashlee latimer (also a producer)

[lyssak09]

Masterlist & Things I write for

AN: I automatically write the reader as female so when you re quest please please tell me what pronouns you want the reader to have. Also if requested I will and can write the reader as part of the LGBTQ+ community

Key: Italics means to be posted/its a draft

Fandoms I can write for:

Supernatural

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Night Court (1986)

Corpse Bride

Beetlejuice (both movies)

Doctor Sleep

Charmed (the original one)

The Labyrinth (David Bowie movie)

Krull (1983)

Secret Obsession (netflix movie)

Day of the Dead: Bloodline

The Walking Dead (seasons 1-7) I get pissed with the show when I get to parts of season 7 so I stop watching and restart from the beginning of the show

Umbrellas Academy

Z Nation

Warehouse 13

Repo! The Genetic Opera

Dead by Daylight

Adventure Time

The Big Bang Theory

Friends

Suicide Squad (both movies)

Futurama

Slashers: Ghostface (preferably Stu), Michael Myers, Thomas Hewitt, Jason, Brahms Hillshire

Star Trek: TNG, Voyager, Lower Decks, TOS, SNW

My Bloody Valentine: Both 1981 and 2009 movies so please be specific with which one you want

Markiplier & Jacksepticeye egos

Masterlist

Supernatural

Yandere Dean hcs

Yandere Shapeshifter hcs

Yandere Sam hcs

Yandere Archangels request

Yandere Castiel hcs

Yandere Lucifer hcs

Yandere Casifer hcs

Yandere Casifer with Trans!reader request

Yandere Archangels soulmates request

Yandere Michael!Dean w/ soulmate fem!Reader ask

Dead by daylight

Platonic Yandere killers reaction to child reader

Yandere Leon with Killer!reader request

Yandere Leon with Killer!reader pt.2 request

Platonic Yandere (HOY) Trapper & Huntress with tween!reader request

Platonic Yandere Huntress & Trapper request 

Yandere Nemesis hcs request

Yandere Killers & Survivors request pt.1

Yandere Killers & Survivors request pt.2

Yandere Doctor hcs request

Plantonic yandere (HOY) Trapper & Huntress pt.2

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Yandere Jake Peralta hcs

Yandere Jake with Lawyer!reader request

Yandere Jake

Yandere Rosa

Yandere Amy

Yandere Charles request

Star Trek

Yandere Q request

Yandere William Riker

Yandere Brad Boimler

Yandere Spock (SNW)

Yandere Data

Yandere Tom Paris

Umbrella Academy

Yandere Five with Soft!reader request

Yandere Five hcs

Yandere Luther hcs

Yandere Diego hcs

The Walking Dead

Yandere Daryl with motherly!reader hcs request

Yandere Daryl motherly!reader hcs pt.2 request

Yandere Daryl

Yandere Daryl VS Rick hcs/sorta request

Yandere Rick VS Governor request

Yandere Rick hcs

Yandere Grown Carl hcs

Yandere Michonne hcs

Yandere Governor request

Tim Burton

Yandere Victor Van Dort hcs (Corpse Bride)

Yandere Emily hcs (Corpse Bride)

Yandere Beetlegleuse hcs (BeetleJuice)

Miscellaneous (Aka writing that doesn’t have their own category yet)

Yandere Brahms Heelshire (The boy)

Yandere Elliot Stabler (L&O SVU)

Yandere Mack Thompson (Z Nation) hcs

Yandere Black Mask/Roman Sionis (DC/BOP)

Yandere Pete Latimer (Warehouse 13) hcs

Yandere Homelander (The Boys) hcs

Yandere Joker (Suicide Squad)  hcs (Fight me on this)

Yandere Piper Hallowell (Charmed) hcs

Yandere Leo (Charmed)  hcs

Yandere Colwyn (Krull) hcs

Yandere Danny Torrance (Doctor Sleep) hcs I love Ewan McGregor 

Yandere Max (Day of the dead: Bloodline) hcs

Yandere Wilford Warfstache hcs

Yandere Antisepticeye hcs

Ocs

Currently redesigning how these guys look like

Tyler from my yandere song fic

Evan ( Yandere Landlord)

Daniel (Yandere Slasher)

Hudson (Yandere Cop/Sheriff)

Luke (Yandere Childhood friend/Bully)

Damien (Yandere Teacher)

Zachary (Yandere zombie apocalypse survivor)

Derek (Yandere Hypnotist/ Therapist)

Ashton (Yandere Neighbor)

Zeke (Yandere robot boss)

William (Yandere Prisoner)

Adrian (Yandere Asylum patient)

Devon (Yandere Priest)

Jason (Yandere Step father)

Max (Yandere step brother)

Anthony (Yandere slasher/homicide survivor)

Ryan (Yandere childhood friend)

Ewan (Yandere military man) 

Unnamed (Yandere boss)

Unnamed (Yandere AI robot house)

[laverdad-sobre-michaeljackson]

Hay un post donde pusiste que un niño anónimamente dijo que fue abusado por Jackson y un enlace a latimes pero en esa noticia dice que hubo 2 el otro fue Francia o aparte del anónimo ,Francia hubo otro mas o Francia era el 2do anonimo?

Hola.

Uno es Jason Francia y el otro es un niño anónimo. Debo aclarar que el artículo de LATimes puede llegarse a malinterpretar con su parafrasis. No fue el niño quien lo reveló, la declaración original deja en claro que las autoridades no pudieron hablar con el niño y los fiscales al parecer estaban hablando de acusaciones hechas por un tercero que fue testigo de algo:

"Durante los últimos meses, los esfuerzos de investigación descubrieron denuncias adicionales de abuso sexual entre el Sr. Jackson y un segundo niño. Los eventos particulares descritos ocurrieron únicamente en el condado de Santa Bárbara. Por lo tanto, cualquier decisión de presentación de esas alegaciones involucraría a Santa Bárbara.

En cuanto a esas alegaciones particulares, el condado de Santa Bárbara se niega a presentarlas en este momento, debido a la incapacidad de las fuerzas del orden para entrevistar a la presunta víctima, porque ese niño está fuera del alcance del proceso judicial y debido a la negación general previa del niño de cualquier fechoría."

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Se teoriza que ese niño podría ser Brett Barnes porque la información coincide con la situación de él en ese momento (las autoridades no pudieron entrevistarlo y estaba fuera del alcance del proceso judicial (estaba en Australia)).

Las autoridades intentaron hablar con él en Australia. Esperaron durante horas para hablar con sus padres y esperaron una respuesta de los padres durante dos días, pero finalmente los padres decidieron que no les permitirían entrevistar a su hijo. Lauren Weis (la fiscal de LA) habló sobre el viaje fallido en el podecast de Telephone stories, y puedes leer su declaración sobre el viaje aquí, así como la declaración de Bill Hodgman sobre el mismo viaje (las declaraciones refutan el testimonio propuesto de la madre de Brett).

[leanstooneside]

SONNETS & SONNETEERS

• Liev Schreiber's fist

• Rosie O'Donnell's eyebrow

• Heather Locklear's lip (Hanger Lane)

• Keanu Reeves's waist

• Demi Moore's finger

• Carrie Underwood's belly

• Courtney Love's buttocks

• Cara Delevingne's tongue

• Chris Klein's wrist

• Abbie Cornish's tongue (Camden Town)

• Scott Porter's ear

• Fabrizio Moretti's eyelash

• Melissa McCarthy's calf

• Kat DeLuna's breast

• Lamar Odom's upper arm (Belsize Park)

• Donald Faison's hand (Latimer Road)

• Lorde's forehead (Arsenal)

• Shakira's bottom

• Zayn Malik's calf

• America Ferrera's belly (Hyde Park Corner)

• Lady Gaga's belly

• Ian Somerhalder's cheek

• Tyra Banks's eyelash

• Lea Michele's fist

• Kat Graham's toe

• Jason Segel's lip

• Josh Bowman's toe (Hampstead)

• Hillary Clinton's lower leg (Temple)

• John Mayer's forearm

• Niall Horan's ear

• Heather Morris's hair

• Melissa Gorga's tongue

• John Travolta's upper arm

• Julianne Moore's bottom (Finsbury Park)

• DJ Cassidy's mouth

• Gisele Bundchen's calf

• Ty Burrell's forehead

• Michelle Obama's lip

• Lily Aldridge's ankle (Piccadilly Circus)

• Diddy's knee (Marylebone)

• Tiesto's head (Canary Wharf)

• Christina Hendricks's upper arm

• Carmen Electra's forehead