Haute Highlights


RHYE Walt Disney Concert Hall Saturday, April 5, 9:30 p.m. Don’t miss out on the dreamy, soulful sounds of Rhye at the Walt Disney Concert Hall Saturday night. The Los Angeles-based band will be performing songs from their album Woman, which was named one of Pitchfork’s Staff’s Top 50 Albums of 2013. TACO FESTIVAL Grand […]

Captain America shields audiences


Captain America is unique among superheroes in that he’s a square with sharp edges, an overgrown Boy Scout whose unflappable sense of right and wrong allows him to reject mindless jingoism in favor of higher virtues: bravery, compassion and a fierce sense of moral accountability. Co-created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, the character looks […]

Trojans must find success at Dedeaux


There is a long-held formula for success in Major League Baseball, which says that a good team should strive to win two-thirds of their home games and play .500 ball on the road. Over the course of a 162-game MLB season, a team doing just that will win about 95 games — highly respectable, and […]

GOP should acknowledge ACA success


Several days ago, a survey by the Associated Press in Time Magazine found support for President Barack Obama’s signature legislation, the Affordable Care Act, at 26 percent (its lowest in its four-year lifetime). The national media howled, including this excerpt from a Fox News article:   “President Obama is struggling to stop the steady slide […]