faced with the difficulty of acquiring property in the big cities are increasingly opting to live in municipalities far from the cities the price of houses and flats are much cheaper Andalusia is one of the most affordable options is the cheapest municipality in Andalusia to buy a property With an average price of 644 euros per square metre the town in Jaen is below other nearby provinces and marks the difference with respect to other more expensive locations this municipality has experienced a boom in property purchases thanks to its affordability This has attracted both families and investors in search of opportunities Jaén also has six other municipalities that are among the ten cheapest in the entire autonomous community with an average price of 666 euros per square metre This makes it possible to find four-bedroom flats in La Carolina for as little as 40,000 euros There are also properties for sale for as little as 15,000 euros although it should be noted that some of these require major renovations The municipality of Jienesen is located in a strategic location with good road connections to the provincial capital and other nearby municipalities which facilitates the mobility of those who need to travel for work purposes the locality benefits from a strong presence of sectors such as the agri-food industry and the motor industry with important companies that generate local employment and contribute to the economy of the area the proximity to the Despeñaperros Natural Park has given a boost to rural tourism opening up new job opportunities in the tourism and services sector Comentar es una ventaja exclusiva para registrados Louisiana Tech will enter the 2025 football season with a new offensive and defensive coordinator after CBS Sports national college football insider Matt Zenitz reported Friday afternoon that LA Tech DC Jeremiah Johnson will take the DC position at Coastal Carolina Tech sources confirmed the news to the Leader following Zenitz's report It's a blow to a Bulldog program that once again finished with a losing record (5-8) in 2024 but was able to turn itself into one of the best defenses in the country thanks to the efforts of Johnson and his staff LA Tech finished the season 44th in total rushing defense (135 ypg) 26th in scoring defense (21 ppg) and 12th nationally in total defense (308.4 ypg) According to a source close to the situation Tech had a multi-year contract extension in front of Johnson to review since before the Independence Bowl that would have been a 'substainal raise and investment in what the defense accomplished this season.' Johnson's impact will be hard to replicate one-for-one after he took a Bulldog defense that gave up 33.4 ppg (114th nationally) and 418 ypg (107th) into a top 25 unit in one season 1 explaining the decision to retain Sonny Cumbie for a fourth season "Our Bulldogs made progress during the season our defense ranks in the top 3 in the conference in every major defensive statistical category and top 15 nationally in total defense eight games were determined by a single score and we saw a group of student-athletes who never quit and showed us the meaning of grit the Bulldogs will search for someone to pick up where Johnson left off Click here to read Ruston Leader 125 overall with South Carolina edge Kyle Kennard posted 11.5 sacks last year as the SEC Defensive Player of the Year and was a frequent on the “best remaining players” lists going into Day 3 NFL.com’s Lace Zierlein wrote the following:  “Edge defender with reams of 2024 production to sift through Kennard keeps his long frame clean with well-timed punches and has plus range as a playmaker He can be slippery when he finds edges in either phase He is frequently knocked off-balance at contact points He will create pressure with his get-off and length alone but needs less predictable rush patterns and more hand skill to beat NFL tackles where he can avoid early contact and create rush momentum but the tape creates enough concerns to lower the floor for his projection.” RELATED: Chargers make it clear that former top pick is now fighting for his job RELATED: Will Chargers' second-round pick of Tre Harris ruin reunion with Keenan Allen? considering they need rotational pass-rushing help right away and possible long-term starters for the future Tuli Tuipulotu is a guy slated for a huge bump in playing time after the loss of Joey Bosa in free agency but the Chargers need depth in the rotation and long-term options if and when Khalil Mack retires after 2025 The Chargers had previously drafted running back Omarion Hampton in Round 1 added wideout Tre Harris in the second round and then flipped to defense with defensive tackle Jamaree Caldwell in Round 3 Kennard hits another massive need at a good value Kirby Lee-Imagn Images— Enjoy free coverage of the Chargers from Los Angeles Chargers on SI — 7 Best available players for the Los Angeles Chargers on Day 3 Chargers GM Joe Hortiz draft day steal shows fans why they should 'trust the process' Chargers land a steal according to early draft grade for Jamaree Caldwell CHRIS ROLING The content on this site is for entertainment and educational purposes only Betting and gambling content is intended for individuals 21+ and is based on individual commentators' opinions and not that of Sports Illustrated or its affiliates All picks and predictions are suggestions only and not a guarantee of success or profit If you or someone you know has a gambling problem crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER By Nandita Bose, Steve Holland and Andy Sullivan / Reuters National newsPolitics President Donald Trump speaks to the media flanked by Tennessee Gov as they arrive to assess recovery efforts and tour areas devastated by Hurricane Helene at Asheville Regional Airport in Asheville ASHEVILLE >> President Donald Trump visited disaster-hit western North Carolina today and was traveling later to Los Angeles promising help while stoking partisan tensions with Democratic rivals over recovery efforts Trump’s first trip since reclaiming the presidency on Monday could provide an opportunity to assure residents that the federal government will help those whose lives have been upended by hurricanes he sharply attacked the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s handling of the after-effects of September’s Hurricane Helene FEMA was run by then-President Joe Biden’s administration for the last four years the Republican Trump promised to speedily help North Carolina “get the help you need” to rebuild He said he would prefer the states be given federal money to handle disasters themselves rather than rely on FEMA to do the job He said he would sign an executive order aimed at what he said would address problems inherent to FEMA “I think we’re going to recommend that FEMA go away,” he said Trump complained that Biden did not do enough to help western North Carolina recover from the hurricane an accusation the Biden administration rejected as misinformation Trump also sharply criticized Democratic officials’ response to wildfires in Los Angeles that have caused widespread destruction this month His Republican colleagues in Congress have threatened to withhold disaster aid for the region Trump was due to visit Los Angeles later in the day while three massive blazes still threaten the region In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday Trump also threatened to withhold aid and repeated a false claim that California Governor Gavin Newsom and other officials have refused to provide water from the northern part of the state to fight the fires “I don’t think we should give California anything until they let the water flow down,” Trump said prioritized the preservation of endangered fish over public safety Newsom has said there is no connection between the fish and the fire The governor told reporters on Thursday that he planned to be on hand at Los Angeles International Airport to greet Trump “I look forward to being there on the tarmac to thank the president and welcome him,” Newsom said Trump has accused Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass – who was out of the country when the fires broke out – of “gross incompetence,” pointing to what he called a lack of preparation and ineffective or harmful water management policies This is all his fault!!!,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform denigrating the governor by misspelling his name Water shortages caused some hydrants to run dry in affluent Pacific Palisades one of the reservoirs that could have supplied more water to the area was empty for a year Officials have promised an investigation into why it was dry Mayor Bass and fire officials have said the hydrants were not designed to deal with such a massive disaster and stressed the unprecedented nature of the fires Trump has focused some of his criticism on California’s complicated policies for sharing the plentiful water supply found in the northern part of the state with the parched south The diversion results in the discharge of some water into the ocean something Trump has depicted as a callous waste Newsom has dismissed those attacks as groundless in part designed to protect agricultural interests have played little or no part in the difficulties encountered in fighting the fires they have killed 28 people and damaged or destroyed nearly 16,000 structures Much of Southern California remains under a red-flag warning for extreme fire risk due to strong READ MONOGRAPH Ius+Aequitas Trial Lawyers announces the promotion of Carolina González de la Fuente as partner 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South Carolina La Nopalera was selected as the Best Mexican restaurant in South Carolina in a recent online article by online magazine South Carolina is a melting pot of international cuisine We have a massive treasure trove of talented chefs to thank for making South Carolina such a great place to venture beyond our own kitchen for a meal According to a list compiled by 5 Reasons To Visit of the Best Mexican Restaurants in each state the best Mexican restaurant in all of South Carolina is La Nopalera offers an authentic taste of Mexican cuisine that is both vibrant and flavorful,” the article said “The restaurant is renowned for its fresh ingredients and traditional recipes providing a culinary experience that transports diners straight to Mexico Signature dishes are complemented by a warm making it a perfect spot for families and friends.” “For those seeking a memorable dining experience in the Lowcountry As you may know, La Nopalera has two locations around Beaufort One on Ribaut Road and another on Sams Point Road on Lady’s Island Opening its doors back in 1998 by Javier Valencia and Abraham Cruz the restaurants’ day-to-day operations are currently managed by the Cruz Family while the brand itself is operated by the Valencia Family along with other locations in both Georgia & Florida The Lady’s Island La Nopalera location opened in 2017 and is now the only larger Mexican restaurant on the island Locals are quite fond of the combination dinners offered for their simplicity and quickness The restaurant prides itself on making its rice and want to congratulate it’s staff on getting some of the recognition they deserve Here’s a link to the full article. Life without electricity is wearing on Ecuadorians punishing their already frail economy and raising questions about the political future Daily blackouts stretch for 10 hours at a time and they could get worse in the coming months as a dry spell further tests the country’s reliance on hydropower and building managers ask residents to refrain from washing and drying clothes while backup generators are working The central bank’s estimate of 0.9% gross domestic product growth for the year is almost certainly out of reach adding to the pressure on President Daniel Noboa The 36-year-old wasn’t even born when some of the decisions were made that crippled Ecuador’s electricity supply but resolving the crisis will be key for his reelection chances in February “The dramatic moment the country is going through confronts us with deciding what model of state we want to live in,” said Maria Paz Jervis president of Ecuador’s umbrella business association CEE noting in a phone interview that the current one hasn’t been able to provide access to basic services Ecuador’s bonds due in 2035 have dropped almost 2 cents on the dollar this week a reflection of investor anxiety that the crisis could provide momentum for a leftist presidential candidate with less fiscal discipline Though Ecuador has abundant energy resources – from tropical sunshine to fast-flowing rivers cascading down steep Andean slopes as well as bigger oil reserves than Mexico – it’s suffering from chronic underinvestment and a string of poor policy choices A new constitution in 2008 put electricity under government control blocking most private investment in the industry Ecuador wagered heavily on hydroelectric power relying on it to generate more than 70% of its electricity Noboa named a new energy minister this week his fourth since taking office last November and tasked her with reducing the country’s dependence on rainfall by shifting to other forms of renewable energy He’s also asked congress for a 10-fold increase in the cap on private investment in the electricity sector – currently at a maximum of 10 megawatts – and on Thursday removed duties on imports of generators only about 30% of homes have generators available to keep lights on during the blackouts something Noboa’s government has never had He was elected last November to an abbreviated term after a political crisis led to his predecessor’s early departure Much of his presidency has been consumed with an internal war against drug gangs gunmen attacked a convoy of armored central bank vehicles on the highway between Cuenca and Guayaquil Her agency issued a statement saying there would be no power cuts Thursday afternoon during Ecuador’s World Cup qualifying match against Paraguay The twin impacts of the blackouts and drought are rippling through the economy Ranchers and dairy farmers are struggling to feed their cattle whose family owns a dairy farm in Pintag near Quito depending on the region and individual producer’s ability to prepare for the seasonal drought Problems down the production line include how to cool and pasteurize milk “We’re milking with a gasoline-powered motor and seeing how to buy enough gas at stations that have capped sales at five gallons each,” he added Nervous consumers are postponing purchases of refrigerators Sales are down 50% at domestic appliance maker Indurama “It’s terrible for the bottom line” even though the company has managed to shift to its own power generation the CEE estimated that the power outages would cost Ecuadorians $175 per capita but that may well have to be revised higher exports and imports are all being affected “We will surely revise downwards” an estimate for an 0.3% annual drop in GDP no infrastructure for liquefied natural gas and Colombia unable to export power to Ecuador to safeguard its own supply the Noboa administration has resorted to hiring a Turkish barge for emergency power generation and the lone barge lacks enough capacity to close the gap Ecuador needs to invest about $3 billion in electricity through 2026 to meet needs and reasonably get ahead of growing demand partner at Guayaquil boutique investment bank Ahead That’s tough for a country that secured a $4 billion lending deal with the International Monetary Fund in May to shore up its finances like the way the team played today,” he said in an interview Thursday “Ecuador instead needs to discuss the crisis in technical and financial terms and to stop playing politics.” The question is whether Noboa can persuade voters to give him more time to solve the problem long-term head of political risk consultancy Profitas in Quito investors shouldn’t count Noboa out in the volatile world of Ecuadorian politics and his approval ratings remained solid even after raising taxes and cutting gasoline subsidies according to political scientist Santiago Basabe at Flacso And Noboa can also hope that voters have short memories “By the time the campaign gets into full swing in January Give 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See Terms of Use for more information LAS VEGAS – Saturday's UFC return to Las Vegas will be one fight short of what was expected at the start of the week Thanks to a weight cut that went awry and a reportedly potential massive miss on the scale, Luana Carolina (11-4 MMA, 6-3 UFC) is out of her women's flyweight fight against Montana De La Rosa (13-9-1 MMA, 6-5-1 UFC). The bout was set to open UFC Fight Night 253 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas Two people with knowledge of the situation informed MMA Junkie of the cancellation but asked to remain anonymous because the promotion has yet to make an official announcement. Ag. Fight first reported the news Photos: UFC Fight Night 253 weigh-ins, faceoffs She got to the UFC through DWCS as a bantamweight in 2018 but debuted in the promotion at flyweight in May 2019 She missed weight in 2021 for a split decision win over Poliana Botelho she missed by two pounds for a win over Julija Stoliarenko This cancellation gives her three weight issues in less than four years Carolina was set to come into the fight with De La Rosa on a three-fight winning streak Along with a third-round TKO win over Stoliarenko she had decisions over Ivana Petrovic and Lucie Pudilova De La Rosa was ready to return for the first time since a June 2024 split decision win over Andrea Lee which snapped a three-fight skid against Maycee Barber recent title challenger Tatiana Suarez and JJ Aldrich She weighed in Friday to make her half of the fight official for contractual purposes but now will wait to see when she can go after her first winning streak since 2019 The UFC Fight Night 253 lineup now includes: MAIN CARD (ESPN+ For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie's event hub for UFC Fight Night 253. there is a great farmer’s market on Galavis where you can buy fresh fruit On weekend mornings, the cafes and restaurants near Avenida de los Shyris are full of joggers stopping for brunch after running in the nearby Parque La Carolina. The neighborhood is characterized by tall, modern apartment buildings, and has an array of international restaurants. Try Dutch-owned Jürgen Café for breakfast and brunch the Spanish-owned tapas restaurant La Tasca de Carlos and the French bakery La Petite Patisserie La Mariscal is Quito’s most popular neighborhood with backpackers thanks to its abundance of hostels and vibrant bar scene a quiet spot by day and a buzzing social hub by night The neighborhood does have some lesser-known backstreets too with excellent examples of historic Quiteño architecture in which a few boutique hotels have cropped up in recent years La Ronda is a small neighborhood within the historic center of Quito but experienced a major transformation under Spanish colonial rule winding main street is pedestrian-only and lined with restaurants It tends to be fairly quiet in the morning but gradually the atmosphere warms up through the day you’ll hear salsa music pouring out of La Ronda’s taverns and you can watch street performers carrying out all kinds of weird and wonderful routines and retains much of the flavour of old Quito Sign up to our newsletter to save up to $800 on our unique trips See privacy policy Some consider Cumbayá a town in its own right but technically it’s a neighborhood of Quito If you leave the city center via the Guayasamin tunnel and a small plaza with a historic church and several superb restaurants It also has a reputation as being a particularly wealthy neighborhood and has a much more residential feel about it than those in the inner city Angela Drake is the founder of Not Your Average American where she shares unique stories and photography about her travels in South America For every destination marked off her bucket list Angela has a BA in English Literature from UC Berkeley See & Do The 10 Best Things to See and Do in Montañita See & Do The Best Amazon Locations for Seeing Wildlife See & Do 10 Unmissable Things to Do in and Around Loja See & Do The Top Things to See and Do in Guayaquil Guides & Tips The Ultimate Guide to Papallacta's Hot Springs See & Do The Best Places to Visit in Ecuador See & Do Must-Visit Attractions in Guayaquil See & Do 15 Stunning Natural Wonders in South America That Will Take Your Breath Away See & Do The 11 Most Beautiful Towns in the Ecuadorian Andes See & Do Top Attractions in the Heart of Quito’s Historic District Architecture The 14 Most Beautiful Historic Churches in Quito See & Do 5 Of The Best Inca Ruins In Ecuador US: +1 (678) 967 4965 | UK: +44 (0)1630 35000 tripssupport@theculturetrip.com © Copyright 2025 The Culture Trip Ltd Faced with the challenge of acquiring property in big cities many people are increasingly opting to live in more secluded and smaller municipalities where the prices of houses and flats are much lower Andalucía is one of the most affordable options La Carolina - a town in the province of Jaén - is the cheapest municipality in Andalucía for buying a property La Carolina ranks lower in terms of average prices compared to municipalities in other nearby provinces La Carolina has experienced a boom in property purchases in recent years attracting both families and investors in search of opportunities Jaén also has six other municipalities that are among the ten cheapest in the entire region one can find a four-bedroom flat for as little as 40,000 euros although it should be noted that some of them require major renovations with good road connections to the provincial capital and other nearby municipalities which facilitates mobility for those who need to travel for work purposes La Carolina benefits from a strong presence of sectors such as the agri-food industry and the motor industry the proximity to the Despeñaperros natural park has boosted rural tourism opening new job opportunities in the tourism and services sectors The former socialist mayor of La Carolina continues to make headlines | EDATV NEWS The other invoices that corner the former socialist mayor of La CarolinaSupposedly these are other invoices that join the one indicated in the alleged pool table case.06/02/2025 06:30:00h by Gonzalo Pinilla The former socialist mayor of La Carolina continues to make headlines EDATV has traveled to Jaén to speak with the mayor The popular party member has reported a case that supposedly corners the former mayor from the PSOE It was a scandal involving alleged false billing that has implicated the former socialist mayor and several of her closest collaborators it all began when the grandparents at the local pensioners' home informed the current mayor about a pool table A table that the former mayor had promised them but never arrived at its destination despite being paid for The complaint filed with the Court of First Instance and Instruction number two of La Carolina revealed something unheard of that the invoice for the pool table supposedly acquired by the town hall lacked a CIF A table that the former mayor had promised them but that never reached its destination despite having been paid for | Europa PressUpon contacting the business indicated on the invoice assuring that they hadn't provided any service or received any payment for a pool table The investigation discovered that the invoice was fake which triggered a series of accusations against the former mayor and her closest circle That's why Reche's trusted person was pointed out for allegedly committing several crimes two: forgery of a public document and embezzlement of public funds these are several invoices from hotels and a company of apartments near Fitur supposedly linked to the successive trips this team had made to the tourism fair taking this into account and what was mentioned about the pool table case "we would be talking about an alleged modus operandi," the mayor explained to this outlet "We do the work of gathering this information and passing it on to the justice system," the mayor explained "It must be the police who decide whether these are criminal acts or not." We do the work of gathering this information and passing it on to the justice system | Europa PressIn addition to this the popular party member also points out other alleged invoices referring to the international fair in Berlin These are supposed invoices written in Spanish they should be written in the native language of the place: in German but always respecting the presumption of innocence "It's my responsibility as mayor to look after the interests of the citizens," he explained Declared “Cultural Heritage of Humanity” in 1978 by the United Nations Organization for Culture located at an average altitude of 2850 meters above sea level and with the official name of “San Francisco de Quito” the city of Quito is presented as the capital of both the Republic of Ecuador and the Province of Pichincha and is preparing to celebrate its 490th anniversary of foundation 1534 by the Spanish soldier and conqueror Sebastián de Benalcázar and it was established with approximately two hundred inhabitants on the eastern slopes of the Pichincha volcano being currently the second most populated city in Ecuador with 1'763.275 inhabitants although its composition goes beyond its urban parishes bringing together nearby cities and parishes forming the Metropolitan District of Quito with a conurbation that makes up a population of 2'679.722 inhabitants the city is filled with activities such as parades is an opportunity to enjoy Quito traditions while celebrating the history and development of the city an international independent music festival supported by the Municipality of Quito and the Prefecture of Pichincha and which this year will feature the presentation of 36 musical bands of rock which will delight the public between December 5 2024 and will be held in Bicentennial Park The City of the Middle of the World is a popular tourist destination in Quito where the monument to the Middle of the World stands created with contributions from the Ecuadorian artist with wide international recognition as well as gourmet restaurants considered among the best in Latin America are just details that exalt the capital of Ecuadorians where people can enjoy everything that the city offers to locals and strangers https://visitquito.echttps://www.quito-turismo.gob.ec/https://www.facebook.com/MinisterioTurismoEcuador/?locale=es_LAhttps://www.instagram.com/ministerioturismoec/?hl=eshttps://mitaddelmundo.gob.ec/ email and website in this browser for the next time you comment This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Aurora Israel News in Spanish Minute by minute on all the events in Israel © Copyright 2024 Aurora Israel. All Rights Reserved. | Site Developed by Codetribe Israel | Contact Us As South Carolinians prepare to usher in summer they’ll also likely see La Niña forming in the Pacific Ocean after 2023’s El Niño it can often mean South Carolina is at risk of a drier winter and potentially stronger hurricanes La Niña is part of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle, which occurs when sea surface temperatures in parts of the Pacific Ocean are warmer or cooler than normal. It’s a climate pattern that occurs every two to seven years and can affect weather across the globe According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, El Niño is expected to wrap up this month Experts expect La Niña to develop between June and September following a short neutral cycle La Niña events have historically increased drought and hurricanes in South Carolina state climatologist Hope Mizzell said it can be harder to predict La Niña's impact on the Upstate “I do think it's important to emphasize that the signal is less for the Upstate than it is for the Midlands and the coast,” she said Fishermen from Peru initially observed warmer-than-usual water temperatures off the coast of South America the warm water would build around Christmas prompting them to name it El Niño or “little boy.” La Niña, meaning “little girl,” is the cooling phase of ENSO. Intensified trade winds causing a cooling effect on the ocean’s surface Those cooler temperatures typically shift the winds over the United States Cooler Pacific temperatures impact the jet stream eastward-flowing winds about 30,000 feet in the air Warm air from the south meets cold air from the north South Carolina sits between the subtropical jet stream and the mid-Atlantic jet stream The jet stream helps move moisture across the country said University of South Carolina Geography Professor Greg Carbone you need a moisture source and you need something to lift it,” Carbone said Lifting is the process that creates clouds and precipitation the subtropical jet stream tends to be less prominent so less moisture makes its way to South Carolina “When that weakens during the La Niña year but you also diminish the number of storms coming through that will lift that moisture,” Carbone said Shifts in the jet stream impact regions of the U.S. in different ways. While the North is often stormier and colder, the southern part of the country tends to see fewer storms and less rainfall. In the Southeast temperatures can also be warmer than usual Mizzell and other scientists will watch for lower precipitation as this year’s La Niña forms However, lower precipitation doesn’t automatically mean South Carolina will be in a drought La Niña tends to have the greatest impact during the winter months with very little to none during the summer Conditions this summer will help scientists and climatologists predict whether La Niña could help cause a drought During the winter, lower temperatures mean slower evaporation so there’s less demand for water resources one month of below-average rainfall could lead to a drought but below-average rainfall in December might not be as impactful “We may be more concerned about drought if we have a very dry summer and then all of a sudden we're going into a La Niña winter But we’re not going to know that for many months.” While La Niña might not be the sole cause of a drought From 2010-2013, the Southern United States faced severe drought caused by a strong La Niña in the summer of 2010 a really cold Pacific often will lead to North American drought and drier conditions,” Carbone said The time of year La Niña forms is also important “If we see it forming before and it's in place and strengthening by the time we get to next fall and winter then that’s when we would expect the impact But say it doesn't develop until late October November – it may have less impact on our winter,” Mizzell said The timing of a La Niña can also impact hurricane season Hurricane season in the Atlantic lasts from June 1 to November 30 A La Niña that strengthens earlier could mean less frequent and intense storms Another effect of the weakened subtropical jet stream is weakened vertical wind shear. Wind shear is a change in the speed or direction of wind, which helps keep hurricanes from growing larger. As warm water evaporates and rises into the atmosphere multi-level clouds often associated with storms it can blow parts of the clouds apart and keep hurricanes from growing taller Carbone compared the concept of hurricane growth to a professional athlete He said it’s like making $60 million each year but being very frugal with spending causes that wealth to continue to build It’s gaining enormous amounts of energy with this warm water at the surface through evaporation and it's losing really low amounts of energy at top The taller they can grow without interruption it's kind of blowing the tops of those cumulonimbus clouds and scaling them making them not vertical anymore,” Carbone said La Niña’s impact is tied to the timingIf the La Niña is strong and in place during hurricane season, weaker wind shear could mean more intense hurricanes and storms. During the previous La Niña, the U.S. saw a record-breaking hurricane season, with 30 named storms and 11 that made landfall which made its first landfall near the Isle of Palms in South Carolina in late May Warmer-than-normal Atlantic temperatures also contribute to a more active hurricane season. This May, temperatures in the Atlantic near Charleston are about one degree warmer than they are on average While scientists can look back on previous La Niña events for guidance the impact depends on when this year’s La Niña is formed and strongest it’s even harder to predict the outcome in this region based on our research here in South Carolina there is higher confidence in the impacts of El Niño and La Niña more so in the Midlands and the coast,” she said Predictions for the upcoming La Niña are on the NOAA Climate Prediction Center website AccuWeather predicted an "explosive" hurricane season that would affect the coast of North Carolina. Now, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says that La Niña Reporting from USA TODAY said that forecasters from the NOAA gave up to an 85% chance that the climate pattern will form by fall NOAA meteorologist Nat Johnson told USA TODAY that the organization was "very confident" that La Niña will form by fall La Niña will last through next winter and impact United States weather through the coldest months NOAA has stated that there is up to a 69% chance that La Niña will develop by the summer months meaning that La Niña could worsen the Atlantic hurricane season all of which featured near or above the historical average of 14 named storms The 2020 season is tied with the 2005 season for the highest number of named storms More: AccuWeather predicts 'explosive' 2024 hurricane season; North Carolina coast at risk The so-called "explosive" storm season beginning June 1 and extending through November received the following predictions from AccuWeather: More: Tornado Alley may be expanding; Here's why Southern states are at risk The NOAA explains that El Niño and La Niña are opposing climate patterns that break normal conditions of water and weather in the Pacific ocean The patterns have global impacts on weather brings stronger trade winds to the Pacific Cold waters in the Pacific push the jet stream northward tending to lead to drought in the Southern U.S and heavy rains and flooding in the Pacific Northwest and Canada La Niña can also result in a more severe hurricane season which is what experts are concerned about in 2024 Trade winds weaken and warm water is pushed back east El Niño can also affect weather significantly Warmer waters cause the Pacific jet stream to move south and Canada to become dryer and warmer than usual these periods are wetter than usual and have increased flooding More: Cicadas 2024: Will a cold snap delay the emergence of cicadas? When will they emerge? El Niño and La Niña last nine to 12 months The events occur every two to seven years on average El Niño typically appears more often than La Niña More: Explore Worldwide names Great Smoky Mountains as 2024’s top trending park; Here's why Iris Seaton is the trending news reporter for the Asheville Citizen Times A persistent Pacific pattern is back again putting us in line for a rare triple-dip La Niña this winter But with each of the past two winters playing out very differently in North Carolina In our eleventh annual winter outlook, we’ll examine the current ENSO conditions, the rarity of a third consecutive La Niña, how our weather might look this winter, and how recent snow events have shaped up across the state Since it first emerged during the late summer of 2020, the La Niña pattern has been remarkably stable. Sea surface temperatures across the equatorial Pacific have been at least a half-degree Celsius below normal for 24 of the past 26 months, as assessed by the Oceanic Nino Index when ENSO conditions often slacken or transition between phases there was little doubt about the ongoing La Niña as sea surface temperatures remained at least 0.8°C below normal It’s easy to spot the current La Niña pattern on maps of sea surface temperature anomalies as a wedge of cooler water extending westward from the coast of South America All of that tells us La Niña is mature and well-established heading into the winter which increases the confidence that it will influence our weather for at least part of the season that means warmer and drier conditions across much of the Southeast US as the jet streams weaken and retreat to the north our recent history tells us that’s not the case every year While our current La Niña pattern began with the 2020-21 winter, you’d never know it by our weather in North Carolina. That winter ranked as our 12th-wettest on record and it was characterized by an active storm track from the Gulf of Mexico over the Carolinas – a pattern more typical of an El Niño event Last winter brought more typical La Niña impacts ranked as our 10th-warmest and 45th-driest since 1895 the large-scale pattern shifted in January with cooler and wetter weather in North Carolina Each of those was a moderate La Niña, with a wintertime Oceanic Nino Index of 1.0°C below normal. The Climate Prediction Center’s consolidated forecast is predicting an identical one-degree anomaly this winter with a return to ENSO-neutral conditions likely by the spring That would also fit with ENSO’s typical evolution which often sees the peak strength during the October through December time frame NOAA’s Emily Becker rightfully notes that “La Niña and temperature is very likely to continue through the winter regardless exactly when the minimum Niño-3.4 anomaly occurs.” But if the recent trends continue it could at least make this La Niña wind up as the weakest of our recent triplet While it’s not uncommon for La Niñas to double dip in back-to-back years it is rare to see them for three consecutive winters it has only happened two other times: from 1974 to 1976 With such a small sample size, it’s tough to tell if the third La Niñas in line tend to share any common characteristics. However, some evidence does suggest that when La Niña hangs around for more than one year, its impacts tend to be more pronounced, especially to our wintertime precipitation That was especially true during the last triple dip La Niña. Drought gripped North Carolina beginning late in 1998 and it persisted through the summer of 2002 in the hardest-hit areas including the western Piedmont The cumulative impact of those three La Niñas along with several locally uneventful hurricane seasons Hickory was 61.65 inches – or more than a year’s worth of rainfall – below its normal precipitation we haven’t seen such deficits build up during the current long-lived La Niña Wilmington is about 16 inches below normal and much of the Piedmont is near or slightly above normal But that doesn’t mean drought is not a concern at the moment. Particularly after our dry October, much of the state has slipped into abnormally dry or drought conditions, and even after Nicole seasonal rainfall deficits remain in some areas That means drought and its evolution will continue to be a storyline in the months ahead Given our history with La Niña events, it’s reasonable to expect warmer and drier conditions overall this winter. NOAA’s winter outlook accordingly shows increased chances for above-normal temperatures and below-normal precipitation across much of North Carolina snow has fallen as early as November 21 (in 2008) and as late as March 21 (in 2018) 10 of the 21 days with measurable snowfall in the past eight La Niña winters have happened in January That makes it a key month to watch this winter as well both for snow chances and potential drought recovery Despite being drier than normal overall, drought conditions faded last winter from more than half of the state classified in Severe Drought (D2) in early December to just 9% of the state in Moderate Drought (D1) at the end of February We owed that improvement to reduced evaporation and cool-season water demand and a timely moisture recharge from our slow-soaking precipitation events in January A less favorable scenario would be an unflinching La Niña pattern like in 2010-11, which saw three consecutive dry months across the state and overall drought degradation including unseasonably early fire activity during a stretch of windy days in mid-February Even if it’s not accompanied by worsening drought or wildfires, those early warm-ups are always something to watch for. In each of the past 11 La Niña winters, February has been warmer than the 20th-century average, including the record-breaking warmth in February 2018 that included 80-degree temperatures by mid-month At this time last year, parts of the southern Piedmont had gone almost four years without seeing even an inch of snow on the ground. We chronicled those “snow droughts” in a blog post last November Just two months later, our almost-weekly January snow events had a little something for almost everyone in the state it has now been less than a year since the last one-inch snow event in most areas except for the far southern and central coast Heavier snow amounts were harder to come by last winter but much of the Mountains and the far northeastern corner of the state picked up more than six inches during one of our winter storms In Elizabeth City, it was only the second six-inch snowstorm in the past 20 years, joining a 7-inch accumulation in late January 2014 For most of the state, it has still been several decades since the last 12-inch snow event. Much of eastern North Carolina last saw a foot on the ground in the 1980s, and parts of the Triad including downtown Greensboro have to go back even further, to early March 1969 Some western sites did see such heavy totals during the mid-January storm earlier this year. Brevard had a two-day total of 12 inches on January 16-17, which was the first foot of snow there since December 9-10, 2018 Snow is never a guarantee in North Carolina Given a pattern change and enough cool air and offshore moisture converging at just the right times climate-office@ncsu.edu Find Us On Social Media We have the address for the funeral home & the family on file If you're not happy with your card we'll send a replacement or refund your money The family of Carolina De La Rosa Martinez created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories © 2025 Mission Park Funeral Chapels & Cemeteries Made with love by funeralOne La Carolina Park (Parque La Carolina) is one of the most prized gems of Quito. This remarkable urban space boasts a wonderfully diverse collection of activities spread out over its 165 acres Among the park's attractions are the gorgeous botanical gardens even a defunct 1940s Douglas DC-6 Ecuadorian Air Force plane turned into a printmaking museum (What city park would be complete without one?) Although it receives upwards of 50,000 visitors a weekend as there are plenty of activities to keep visitors occupied If you have a lazy afternoon to spend in Ecuador's capital there's something bound to pique your curiosity at this wonderful urban park.  Entrance to the botanical garden is a very reasonable $3.50 for non-Ecuadorians the park is free and open to all visitors from 5 a.m An unexpected public exhibit showcases the diversity of Dutch street posts These gardens whisk you away to Japan and Morocco—without leaving Bordeaux A fascinating museum near the birthplace of the greatest track and field athlete of all time A hidden oasis just north of Chicago's Chinatown this swing is big enough for the whole family—and then some A blast from the past in central San Diego This bullfighting museum is part of a bullfighting coliseum (plaza de toros) built in the 18th century SAN ANTONIO - Authorities are searching for a missing 16-year-old girl leaving her place of employment on the 120 block of US Highway 87 West was last seen wearing a black hoodie and blue and white plaid sweatpants Perez reportedly left in an unknown vehicle and is believed to be in the company of a 17-year-old male Anyone with information regarding their whereabouts is urged to contact the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office at (210) 335-6000 or the BCSO Missing Persons Unit via email at missingpersons@bexar.org Read more of our new series on American mythology, Rewriting the West Afavorite pastime on Los Angeles social media is to describe “the most LA thing ever.” Crystals and gluten-free soy sauce invariably turn up the most LA thing ever is the Shell station at the intersection of N and the attached convenience store is decorated solely with images of shoplifters But of interest to me are the canopies that shelter the gas pumps flying eaves typical of sweeping Chinese rooflines (a style that dates back to the Han Dynasty) and shingled with Spanish tile the most LA thing ever might be a sunny landscape redolent of orange blossoms California is considered in relation to the East set against a backdrop of the rest of the United States This is California as a product of westward expansion of Hollywood filmmakers who landed amid orange groves to make movies and avoid New Jersey patent laws These images dominate the popular imagination because of the way that US history is often told The story travels from East to West—beginning at the moment of European arrival in Virginia followed by the inevitable westward-ho journey California is West—the last stop for Manifest Destiny before skidding into the Pacific Ocean it was North and it was East: the uppermost periphery of the Mexican Empire and the arrival point for Chinese immigrants making the perilous journey from Guangdong It was part of different maps that co-exist one on top of the other: layers of visions and lesser-known narratives deeper story of Los Angeles is contained in an unremarkable map that hangs on the first floor of the Chinese American Museum The map is neither a historical relic nor particularly aesthetically pleasing containing no fine engravings of fantastical sea creatures black-and-white reproduction of an early 1900s plan that charts the blocks around LA’s historic core Anchoring the upper left hand corner is the Plaza de Los Angeles and rallies in support of labor movements and Mexican revolutionaries. Extending from the plaza is a rambling geometry of urban blocks Laid over it is a clear plastic sheet that shows an outline of the neighborhood’s grid as it stands today The map tells the story of a city evolving over the course of more than a century from sleepy agricultural outpost to railway destination to car capital now bears the blocks-long footprint of Union Station Los Ángeles—tell the story of Spain establishing a colonial outpost on the fringes of its Mexican Viceroyalty: El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de Los Ángeles founded in 1781 on the banks of the Río de Porciúncula (now the Los Angeles River) The plaza and its nearby streets take their form from the urbanism of colonial Latin America—a central plaza surrounded by a city’s most important civic buildings—a design brought north by pobladores from Sinaloa The map also tells the story of Los Angeles as a haven for the Chinese—of immigrants from Guangdong on the South China Sea who fled a region racked by war in the mid-nineteenth century for the land they dubbed Gum Saan inspired by the tales of the California Gold Rush It is this piece of Los Angeles that served as the city’s original Chinatown As long as Los Angeles has been part of the United States the year that California joined the union and the area had its first US census the city’s population was a booming 1,600 souls; its most prominent businesses were gambling houses and saloons At least two Chinese Angelenos appeared on that first census: Ah Luce and Ah Fou house servants working for a ship’s captain By the late nineteenth and early twentieth century the downtown area had transformed into LA’s first Chinatown this presence is manifested in the names of the businesses that once lined the streets around the plaza: Hing Chong Co. Union Station sits atop the old Chinese Quarters—a.k.a “New” Chinatown now lies a few blocks away The map at the Chinese American Museum marks a Los Angeles of yesteryear It also marks the Los Angeles of the present: two migrations These were supplemented in subsequent decades by new waves of people: Japanese and Salvadoran California has been a “majority-minority” state According to an analysis published in 2016 the average Californian is a 35-year-old Latina who lives in LA’s Koreatown When Anthony Bourdain toured Los Angeles for his television series “Parts Unknown,” he chose to cruise Koreatown with Roy Choi a purveyor of that uniquely hybrid cuisine: the Korean taco Choi takes him to the city’s Eastside to hang with Chicano photographer Estevan Oriol and see low-riders The Los Angeles that has been here all along the Greco-Egyptian geographer from classic antiquity defined cartography as “a graphic representation of the whole known part of the world along with the things occurring in it.” The description is straightforward even obvious: maps are representations of what exists on the Earth But cartography is neither that clinical nor that impartial “To avoid hiding critical information in a fog of detail incomplete view of reality,” wrote Mark Monmonier in his 1991 book How to Lie With Maps “There’s no escape from the cartographic paradox: to present a useful and truthful picture political and geographic biases of the mapper and emphasize the primacy of some regions over others In order to account for the curvature of the earth Gerardus Mercator distorted the areas closest to the poles when crafting his famous projection in 1569 is to see a world in which Europe and North America look bigger than they really are It is a map created out of a colonial mentality that went on to feed and legitimize that mindset—and still does devised at the time of the 16th century Spanish conquest rendered the world in abstraction (they weren’t attempting to depict exact dimensions or scale) but instead linked the land to a lineage of rulers Other maps are about establishing a dominion: the 1507 plan created by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller which employed the name “America” for the first time featured an American continent that lay largely empty implying that this was land for the taking Never mind that millions of  indigenous people—entire empires—covered the continent at the time Just as cartographic emptiness invited settlement it also created a space into which others could project their illusions cartographers depicted California as an island that was separated from the American mainland by a body of water they dubbed the Vermillion Sea Early Spanish explorers had mistaken the Baja Peninsula for an island and California took its identity from this mistake The name California refers to an island mentioned in the 16th century chivalric novel Las Sergas de Esplandián by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo The book describes an “island named California,” located to the right hand of the Indies without a man to live among them.” For centuries California has had projected upon it the fantasies of men who hail from elsewhere California had made it onto the cartographic mainland—as part of Alta California the vast northern Mexican territory that included what is today Arizona To see California on a map as part of Mexico is to see a California as North It is a California that is linked to Mexico via topography—the arid valleys and craggy mountains of the Basin and Range Province which extends from the Golden State into Nevada and the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua It is also to see a California that is connected to Mexico City via political boundary Los Angeles lies roughly 800 miles closer to the Mexican capital than it does to Washington printed by the influential  Henry Schenck Tanner—a cartographer whose work helped paint a picture of the lands that would soon become the American West—features a beguiling amount of terra incognita and a short text that reads: “These mountains are supposed to extend much farther to the North than here shown but there are no data by which to trace them with accuracy.” five years after the foundation of Los Angeles sketched out the earliest known map of the city It is more geometric abstraction than scale map he marked only two natural features: an irrigation ditch and the river a handful of squares represent the pueblo; to the east other squares serve as inventories of the settlers’ agricultural fields Left entirely unmapped: the area’s indigenous communities were living in the Los Angeles basin—some scholars estimate—when Argüello arrived in Southern California to seize territory in the name of the King The Tongva’s most prominent village was Yaanga and it was situated to the south of the colonial pueblo (Its exact coordinates are a subject of debate.) What can be confirmed is that Yaanga’s most prominent feature was a 200-foot sycamore tree known in Spanish as El Aliso which functioned as a sacred meeting site for local indigenous leaders the Spanish built their colony on the backs of the indigenous people The Tongva served as field hands and construction workers their village had begun to look like a “refugee camp.” By 1845 its last vestiges were moved across the river to present-day Boyle Heights whatever remained of Yaanga and its residents was inhaled by the growing city and its existence went unmarked by known Mexican or US cartographers But the Spanish sure knew about it: they built their own pueblo right alongside it does feature in late nineteenth-century photographs where it can be seen towering over squat adobe homes and the tree was gone—chopped up for firewood and sold off but various estimates put it within view of the Déjà Vu Showgirls strip club on Commercial Street underneath an on-ramp to the southbound 101 In the wake of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) California was transformed from a northern Mexican outpost into the US West It was not done by the simple redrawing of maps but by the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 they delivered droves of prospectors from all over the United States Railway brochures from the era played to the fantasy of the West as land of milk and honey and “popular summer resorts.” Early twentieth-century Los Angeles city booster Charles Lummis did his part to welcome the flood of English-speakers by concocting a rhyme to help the new arrivals correctly pronounce the name of the city: “The Lady would remind you please / Her name is not Lost Angie Lees.” California’s reorientation from Northern settlement was soon reflected in the redrawing of maps shows a United States that includes the Mexican territories that were annexed after the war A pink line marks the new international border California is now listed—in English—as “Upper or New California.” With the arrival of the Easterners came the first detailed map of Los Angeles produced by surveyor Edward Otho Cresap Ord a US Army lieutenant who had served in the Mexican-American War The purpose was to create an accounting of the city for the state’s new federal government in Washington The “Plan de la ciudad de Los Angeles” was completed in 1849 at a time when LA consisted of a single adobe church shaded courtyard a respite from the roar of buses on nearby Alameda Street.) contained plenty of empty space—incorporating dozens of empty lots that presumably awaited the arrival of settlers from the East And he recorded the street names in both Spanish and English: Calle de la Eternidad is also listed as Eternity Street (later While the Ord map may have been intended to claim Los Angeles for the US it nonetheless reveals the city’s inherent Mexican anatomy The city was laid out at a 45-degree angle from the cardinal points the royal Spanish edicts that governed the design and administration of all colonial settlements The configuration purportedly allowed for the best access to light and protection from wind which was thought to blow from the four cardinal points Waldie describes it as a plan that “came from God.” As scores of Anglo settlers landed in Los Angeles in the 1880s they began to mold the city grid to their own views of urbanism These were inspired by Jeffersonian ideals from the East Coast that suggest cities take their form from the cardinal points and therefore be laid out on a north-south axis Open any contemporary map of LA and you can see the exact spot where the Mexican gives way to the American: Hoover Street in which angled Mexican streets bend to accommodate the US grid Waldie described that point as “crossing from one imperial imagination to another.” A shift in power in place and identity—all marked by a single line and the families to whom designated agricultural lands belonged (Many of these names now remain in Los Angeles memory as city streets: Sepulveda The city block that it occupies made it into the map an urban feature that may have seemed inconsequential to a surveyor from the East Coast marginalized a crucial feature of Los Angeles the bare plaza—a photo from 1862 shows a rough square crisscrossed by footpaths—had been of critical importance It anchored social and civic life in the city: a site of weddings and inaugurations the place where United States military commanders parked their troops when they invaded during the Mexican-American War—complete with brass band playing “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” the plaza represents an important facet of the mestizo an urban space that mixes elements of the indigenous and the European But plazas among Mesoamerican cultures were power centers—larger often surrounded by a settlement’s most important buildings In his engaging 2008 book The Los Angeles Plaza William David Estrada notes that the vibrant plazas that developed in Latin America were as much a product of the Indian world—the world of the Maya and Aztec before the conquest—as they were European.” in the sense of belonging to the continent Of the 44 pobladores who arrived from Sinaloa and who founded the City of Los Angeles in 1781 The plaza was their shared space—a space that reflected the city’s location the Plaza de Los Angeles is lined with stately trees and punctuated by a bright bandstand part of the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument that includes nearby Olvera Street a passageway stuffed with vendors dispensing ceramics and hot churros dipped in sugar and cinnamon The plaza is no longer the center of civic life in Los Angeles musicians entertain Latino families who attend religious services in the area then descend on the square to eat and dance LA is often cast as a Westside yoga girl who’s into colonics and kale But Los Angeles is more likely to be a little Mexican girl grooving to a cover of “Juana La Cubana” in the plaza—a space her ancestors helped devise As important as the plaza has been to Mexican life That takes me back to the simple map that hangs at the Chinese American Museum Shown on the map is a short lane that once ran parallel to Los Angeles Street Sometime during the era of Mexican independence one of the alcaldes (mayors) of the era baptized the street after the mixed-race families who lived there Calle de Los Negros was Anglicized to “Negro Alley”—never mind that most the people who lived there by the end of the nineteenth century were Chinese was the site of a notorious riot known as the Chinese Massacre of 1871 The ruckus started when a white man was accidentally killed in crossfire between two Chinese groups a mob of 500 people “of all nationalities”—including police officers and a reporter—began a brutal assault on any and all Chinese people living in Negro Alley An estimated 17 people died; seven men were ultimately convicted for manslaughter It was an episode of vicious anti-Asian sentiment that drew international headlines It also drew attention to a street whose name was born of racism—racism that carried into Los Angeles map-making Calle de los Negros was frequently referred to in English as “Nigger Alley.” And in some early twentieth century maps it is that appalling pejorative that appears as official map nomenclature including on the historic sheet at the Chinese American Museum all that remains of Calle de los Negros are the maps The lane was later renamed Los Angeles Street it was razed and replaced with a freeway on-ramp and a parking lot Sometimes ugly histories are also erased from the faces of cities and their maps much of old Chinatown was bulldozed to make way for Union Station The community was relocated a few blocks to the north to a complex of fanciful buildings that bear the flourishes of Chinese temple architecture The new Chinatown is less residential and more commercial cluttered with restaurants and tourist markets and a photogenic statue of Bruce Lee (not to mention a singular Asian-Mexican gas station) Subsequent generations of Chinese immigrants have chosen not to live in this area they have moved to communities such as Alhambra and Monterey Park But one vestige of the old Chinatown still survives: the Garnier Building Romanesque Revival structure completed in 1890 once served as an important hub for Chinese life in Los Angeles It was here that residents could visit the herb shop and support organizations that fought for citizenship rights (The Chinese Exclusion Act prevented Chinese Americans from applying for citizenship until 1943.) The Garnier is now the home to the Chinese American Museum which helps preserve the community’s history A small courtyard marks the entrance to the museum It is a touch of Asia in a structure that lies between tilted streets with Spanish names To look at Los Angeles as West is to see a charming The Los Angeles of the West is a Los Angeles molded to Anglo preconception It is a Los Angeles of railroads and Hollywood The Los Angeles of the North and the East has been here for centuries It has given Los Angeles its name and its grid It has shaped the city’s architecture and supplied its most distinctive flavors It is Chicano teens drinking Taiwanese bubble tea on an avenue called Cesar Chavez It is Latino families flocking to a 1960s American diner that’s been converted into a pan-Asian noodle joint It is Asian low-riders and Salvadoran sushi chefs This piece, part of our Rewriting the West series is made possible by a generous grant from the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University More than 80% of our finances come from readers like you And we’re constantly working to produce a magazine that deserves you—a magazine that is a platform for ideas fostering justice If you value Guernica’s role in this era of obfuscation, please donate Help us stay in the fight by giving here The Escapees of Bishkek Of Monsters & Women The Sell Indulge the Other Guernica is a non-profit magazine dedicated to global art and politics, published online since 2004. 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This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again. art and design columnist for the Los Angeles Times and this will be my last Essential Arts newsletter: I found myself at the Skirball Cultural Center having dinner on dishware made by artist Adam Silverman — ceramic plates and cups fabricated from clay consists of 224 earthenware pieces — plates cups and ceremonial pots — that are similar to each other in composition but also each unique The handmade pieces bear quirks of form and shape and distinct striations of the combined clays The Skirball recently acquired the work and Silverman is currently an artist-in-residence hosting gatherings that will put his dishware to use while bringing different strands of Angelenos together whose work has examined the way that identity shapes approaches to food as well as food in connection to both secular and divine traditions he helped organize a meal inspired by the food traditions of longtime employees at the Skirball: This included a Belizean/Honduran fish serre (a fish stew cooked in coconut milk) and a small tostada topped with vegetables and a bright slice of hard-boiled egg that could be adapted to what was available in the fridge on a given night He said the point of the dinner was to use the dishware to create community Running into my colleagues in the field at events such as this always feels like a mini-reunion our diffuse little band coming together for ephemeral moments before everyone scurries back to their computers My dinner at the Skirball was one of the last I had in my role as a Times journalist I accepted a buyout from the company; Friday was my last day publicists and institutional leaders who collectively welcomed me to their studios tolerating my incessant follow-up emails and even chewing me out at a fancy museum dinner Boris Kachka and Maane Khatchatourian — who regularly saved me from myself who graciously answered many penetrating questions like “What do you call the glow-y thing around a saint?” (Answer: an aureole.) I take this transition as a welcome opportunity I’ve been craving some focused time for a book I intend to write about the time I spent in Chile following the fall of the Pinochet dictatorship a period of intense cultural transformation 19-year-old me in a newly democratic country — it was wild.) Essential Arts will continue in the hands of my venerable colleagues who are up on all the essential arts in L.A Adam Silverman’s “Common Ground” is on view at the Skirball Cultural Center through Jan. 5; skirball.org The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego has put its downtown San Diego buildings on the market — a pair of galleries adjacent to and across from the Santa Fe Depot “The sale of the downtown facility will dramatically alter perceptions of the museum’s long-standing binational mandate aimed at artists and audiences in the border area of San Diego and Tijuana,” writes Knight “Closure also raises difficult questions about the fate of several works of art in the permanent collection Sculptures and installations by Robert Irwin Maya Lin and three other artists were commissioned expressly for the site.” Meanwhile in L.A.: Knight reviews “Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s-1970s,” currently on view at the Hammer Museum. Organized by New York’s Guggenheim Museum and Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, it is the first show of its kind in North America “A common though mistaken assumption is that varieties of Conceptual art erupted in New York and eventually spread out to cover the art globe,” writes Knight of the exhibition “‘Only the Young’ does an admirable job of presenting the Korean dialect of Conceptual art’s emergent international language.” Lee Kun-Yong, “Corporal Term,” 1971/2023. (Joshua White) Times design writer Lisa Boone profiles glass artist Cedric Mitchell, whose bold, colorful style is informed by graffiti, fashion and Italian design (think: totemic pieces with a Memphis vibe) The scarcity of Black artists in the field has made him determined to take aesthetic risks “I wanted to break all the design rules similar to Ettore Sottsass,” he tells Boone Matt Stromberg reports on the reopening of the expanded Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University expanded the museum from 7,500 to 22,000 square feet and includes a mosaic by Millard Sheets that was relocated from Santa Monica by Brian Worley Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the L.A. Phil in 2022. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) Swed was recently in Detroit to catch a performance of John Cage’s “Europeras 3 & 4,” staged by Detroit Opera at the Gem Theatre with “The Comet/Poppea,” which combines Monteverdi’s 1643 “The Coronation of Poppea” with a newly commissioned opera by George Lewis “For ‘Europera 4,’ Sharon impressively enticed two stars mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and bass-baritone Davóne Tines,” writes Swed The Pasadena Playhouse is presenting the world premiere of Gloria Calderón Kellett’s “One of the Good Ones,” a “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” story that examines the way a Latine family grapples with identity and race when daughter Yoli (played by Isabella Gomez) invites her new boyfriend to dinner The dynamics of the play “will be familiar to anyone who’s owned a television set in the last 75 years,” writes Times theater critic Charles McNulty “What distinguishes Calderón Kellett is the way she reanimates conventional comic material with Latine flavor.” Plus, The Times’ Ashley Lee interviews Calderón Kellett, who is also a groundbreaking Hollywood showrunner. (She was behind the Rita Moreno-starring reboot of “One Day at a Time” as well as “With Love.”) As she tells Lee of the situation depicted in her play: “Though everyone [onstage] is both right and wrong and though they might not get any definitive answers by the end of the conversation Consider subscribing to the Los Angeles Times Your support helps us deliver the news that matters most. Become a subscriber. Puppetry is experiencing a surge of interest among a new wave of practitioners in Los Angeles My colleague Deborah Netburn recently joined a monthly meetup of the L.A McNulty, who once wrote for and served as an editor at the Village Voice, writes about a new book chronicling the history of the legendary alt-weekly: “The Freaks Came Out to Write” by Tricia Romano “Romano re-creates through a crisscrossing of interviews the titanic struggles that ensued between the Voice’s largely white male-dominated news side and the more multicultural roster of arts critics who were forever migrating from the back pages to the coveted cover,” he writes “Arts and culture were considered news-making at the Voice which had the temerity to put on its cover a story I wrote on Lee Breuer’s deconstruction of Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’ with little people.” who had planned to write a biography of Candy but never completed the project Today is the Annual Free-for-All, which means SoCal museums are waiving admission. Can’t make it out on Saturday? The Times’ Sonaiya Kelley rounds up all the free museum days in L.A Kara Felt has been appointed curator of photography at the San Diego Museum of Art Phung Huynh, Young Joon Kwak and Na Mira have been named recipients of Artadia’s 2024 Los Angeles awards Choreographer Pam Tanowitz will receive the 2024 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award The Avery Fisher Artist Program has announced five 2024 grant recipients violinists Njioma Chinyere Grevious and Julian Rhee pianist Clayton Stephenson and the Sandbox Percussion ensemble Yong Soon Min, an L.A.-based Korean American artist whose work explored identity, has died at the age of 70 Aribert Reimann, a German opera composer who created radical pieces inspired by literature, is dead at 88 Adios, muchachxs. Carolina A. Miranda is a former Los Angeles Times columnist who focused on art and design, with regular forays into other areas of culture, including performance, books and digital life. 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Subscribe for unlimited accessSite Map La Niña is expected to lead to another dry winter in South Carolina for the third consecutive year For only the third time since record-keeping began in the late 1800s, a "triple dip" La Niña event is expected according to the latest outlook issued by the Climate Prediction Center This occurs when La Niña continues for three consecutive years and has significant implications for weather patterns across the United States and in the Palmetto State La Niña develops as cold water in the equatorial East Pacific is brought to the surface This results in a jet stream that is more likely to remain north of the Southeast Wildfire season in the Palmetto State typically lasts from January through mid-April temperatures begin to climb during the spring season but relative humidity values remain quite low This combination helps to ignite dry shrubbery and can quickly lead to problems with growing wildfire numbers Seasonal outlooks provide an idea for how precipitation trends could evolve with time but are not meant to forecast for specific rainfall totals « Back in 1974) studied architecture at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen and the School of Architecture of Barcelona ​​obtaining his degree as an architect in 1998 He is the founder of the BIG architecture studio - (Bjarke Ingels Group) after co-founding PLOT Architects in 2001 with his former partner Julien de Smedt whom he met while working at the prestigious OMA studio in Rotterdam.Bjarke has designed and completed award-winning buildings worldwide his studio is based with venues in Copenhagen and New York and the innovative Danish Maritime Museum in Elsinore.With the PLOT study he won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2004 and with BIG he has received numerous awards such as the ULI Award for Excellence in 2009 Other prizes are the Culture Prize of the Crown Prince of Denmark in 2011; Along with his architectural practice Columbia University and Rice University and is an honorary professor at the Royal Academy of Arts School of Architecture in Copenhagen.In 2018 Bjarke received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Dannebrog granted by Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II He is a frequent public speaker and continues to give lectures at places such as TED 10 Downing Street or the World Economic Forum Bjarke was appointed Chief Architectural Advisor by WeWork to advise and develop the design vision and language of the company for buildings campuses and neighborhoods around the world Archive HOUSING Maria Vela assembles a cardboard box as her and her family get ready to move out of their home of 30 years in East LA María Vela was saying goodbye to the narrow one-bedroom apartment in East L.A that has been the backdrop of her family’s lives for the last 30 years Vela looked at her wedding photo hanging in their living room.The couple hosted their wedding reception out on the driveway They raised four children in the duplex near the end of a cul-de-sac in their historically Latino neighborhood Their kids enjoyed a quintessential East L.A upbringing until one-by-one they left for college Now the family is being evicted by Christmas so their landlords “It feels like someone is taking a part of my story,” Vela said.  Evictions are on the rise nationwide and in California While most Los Angeles-area evictions happen because tenants struggle to pay rent even tenants who manage to remain current with rent are at risk of eviction These “just cause” or “no fault” evictions happen because landlords want to move into their tenants’ units renovate a unit or leave the rental market.  No-fault evictions are contributing to the displacement of families from their longtime communities along with other factors such as rising rents “Homeowner move-ins have been bringing about this exodus of Angelenos leaving their communities because they can no longer afford rent,” said Cinthia Gonzalez an organizer at Eastside Leadership for Equitable and Accountable Development Strategies (LEADS) After state pandemic-era tenant protections expired, average monthly eviction filings surpassed pre-pandemic levels in a dozen of California’s most populous counties according to court records obtained by CalMatters Counties that extended local eviction moratoria saw delayed which saw a 17% increase in eviction filings the first eight months of 2023 Even though there have been state and local efforts to strengthen protections against evictions for “just cause,” those protections didn’t help Vela’s family stay in their longtime home A man who identified himself as one of Vela’s landlords told CalMatters he didn’t want to comment on the matter Vela has lived in the same home since she immigrated to the U.S She met her husband at a party while he was visiting Mexico Within months they wed and went together to East L.A. where he was already living with his three brothers When the brothers came across the duplex unit in the early 1990s it was dilapidated and littered with trash in a neighborhood with active gangs The brothers asked the landlord if they could fix it up in exchange for being able to live there The landlord agreed and charged them $300 monthly.  Over the years various landlords neglected the property holes where mice have crept in are covered by unsecured wood But they were able to remain there long enough to give Vela’s children the stability and joyful upbringing they needed to succeed graduated from Brown University and landed a job at an environmental justice nonprofit in San Francisco graduated from UC Berkeley and is pursuing a master’s degree in history wants to follow in her siblings’ footsteps and become valedictorian or salutatorian at Esteban Torres High School Carolina remembers whispering with her siblings as they lay on bunk beds or on the floor They slept in the living room and another living space in the apartment and had little privacy Their father taught them to ride bikes and he’d watch them ride in circles on the dead end street He hosted carne asada barbecues with family Block parties with live bands and traditional Mexican food and sweets brought neighbors together “It was really nice to just have that literally right in front of my house and to be a part of community in a way that is something so special to East L.A.,” Carolina said.  an attorney with the Western Center on Law and Poverty likened the family’s displacement to other times in history when Latinos were moved from their neighborhoods including the years before Dodger Stadium opened in 1962.  As we put more value on homes and people owning property we tend to displace the communities that have been there forever.”  Rosales is among the attorneys who worked on a tenant protection law recently passed by Gov Gavin Newsom to close loopholes to “just cause” eviction protections The law requires owners who move out tenants and then move themselves or family members  in to reside there for at least a year And it will require landlords to pay one month’s rent in relocation assistance.  Tenant advocates pushed for the law because they believe landlords were taking advantage of the rules Landlords sometimes use owner move-ins as a pretense when actually they want to put their units back on the market at a higher rent.  “It’s important to balance the interests and needs of both (landlords and tenants) while recognizing that housing is a basic need and as a society we must prioritize keeping people housed,” said Sen the Los Angeles Democrat who authored the law consumer protections are necessary in order to ensure that bad actors out to increase their own profits are not able to take advantage of or abuse the consumer.”  Los Angeles County and city have even stronger just cause protections but local advocates say even those rules have weak spots.  County landlords or their family members who move into tenants’ units have to live there for three years the previous tenants have a right to move back in under their original lease terms and rent.  But the law seems to place the burden of keeping track of the landlords on tenants deputy director of the Housing Rights Center in L.A. said he hasn’t heard of a case of a tenant successfully reclaiming their unit because of landlord violations it’s hard to keep up with that particular tenant,” Beltran said “They probably moved on to a different place situated themselves and to a certain extent Vela sat at her kitchen table with her hands on her temples a folder filled with papers spread in front of her “All of this is so frustrating,” she said with a sigh.   On the table was a scanned copy of the most recent $1,000 rent payment she sent various phone numbers from housing leads scribbled on a notepad and her official 60-day eviction notice issued October 23.  “You are hereby notified that effective sixty days from the date of service on you of this notice the tenancy by which you hold possession of the premises is terminated for No Fault Just Cause…” the letter reads.  She spoke in a whisper and raised the volume of her television so her landlords couldn’t hear her talk about the eviction They live next door and the walls are thin Vela always knew eviction was a possibility The duplex had been bought and sold multiple times in the last several decades and each new owner had been willing to keep them as tenants Eastside LEADS helped Vela delay her eviction by a year and a half after finding flaws in the landlords’ eviction process the landlords offered less than the required amount for relocation assistance.  But after the organization sent a letter to the landlords they corrected their mistakes and agreed to pay the $12,688 in relocation assistance the county requires in this case Vela has found searching for housing difficult She and her husband aren’t fluent in English they are undocumented and they’ve purchased most of their belongings in cash which means they don’t have much credit history.  Also the going rents in that neighborhood are sometimes double what they’re paying now which would be impossible for them to afford on her husband’s meatpacking salary Vela brought her daughter Fabiola to translate The landlord interrogated Fabiola: Did the family have visitors often Vela left feeling dejected and worried about Fabiola.  Carolina has been trying to help from the Bay Area she finds housing leads and makes phone calls on behalf of her parents She adds herself and her boyfriend as co-signers hoping that’ll increase her parents’ chances.   “I’ve submitted applications for them to move into places and then burst into tears afterward,” Carolina said “I want them to get into these places so bad but because I’m not there I can’t facilitate further I do what I can and so does my older sister feels guilty she hasn’t been able to help as much as she’d like “[I was] really angry with myself and with the timing,” Diana said adding that if the landlords had waited five more years start working and pool her money with her siblings to buy their parents a house Recently she created a GoFundMe page hoping friends and community members will help defray the cost of storage units and moving trucks.  Vela said she is coming to grips with the fact that their only option may be to leave East L.A. Vela thought about moving in with her sister in San Bernardino County temporarily while her husband stays in his brother’s El Sereno apartment The lack of affordable housing for very poor residents is a major factor in the state’s rising homelessness problem.  director of UC San Francisco’s Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative said even if this family isn’t immediately homeless after vacating their home they could be at risk for homelessness in the future.  Kushel’s research on homelessness in California revealed 49% of those without a home had been “non-leaseholders,” usually people staying with friends or family until it isn’t possible anymore Those living arrangements often are precarious and lead families on a path toward homelessness She listed other challenges contributing to people’s vulnerability to homelessness: high deposit fees the impact of moving on peoples’ jobs and personal stability.  A recent law passed to limit what California landlords can charge for security deposits won’t be in effect until next summer,  too late for Vela.  Evictions and potential homelessness impact entire families risking people’s ability to graduate from college or high school and to build wealth in the future.  “Housing is really at the root of thriving,” Kushel said.  The solution is to build more affordable housing far faster than Los Angeles is currently doing a real estate professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management Most investment in housing creation is driven by profit and built by the private sector.  Not everyone purchases property to make a profit “It’s a very complicated and nuanced story and doesn’t lend itself to easy culprits and easy answers,” he said.  Vela’s family recognizes their landlords probably just want more space for their family She said the landlords are two siblings who live with their elderly mother.The family has conflicting feelings about the landlords and their family’s situation.   “It’s complicated for us because they do have a case and we don’t anymore,” Diana said But at the same time you knew we were here.”  Vela’s husband said he’s grateful for the time they were allowed to stay.  “It just so happened that someone bought the house and now we have to leave But without resentment or anger,” Jesús Correa Cabrera said “We’ll close the door behind us and say ‘thank you very much.’ And life goes on.”  Within days the family slowly disassembled their East L.A home packing belongings they’ve accumulated over several decades into black trash bags and cardboard boxes.  Carolina and young Jesús’s high school class photos they summoned a sense of hope for the future kind of stressed for my family,” Fabiola said as she sorted a drawer of colored pencils and pens “But at the same time I feel like we’re going to get out of this and maybe start a new time of our lives The day before the family was preparing to move out they heard they were approved for an apartment in El Monte and too expensive for them to afford comfortably But the family said they have no other choice PLEASE LOG IN FOR PREMIUM CONTENT. Our website requires visitors to log in to view the best local news. Not yet a subscriber? Subscribe today! Print South Carolina held the first official Democratic presidential primary Saturday Biden’s victory in the Palmetto State was a foregone conclusion and his campaign invested significant time there leading up to the primary He and First Lady Jill Biden landed at LAX around 3:30 p.m Maxine Waters before the president choppered to the Santa Monica Airport and his wife left separately for an event and there were no fundraisers known to be taking place Biden had a Saturday afternoon campaign meeting at a historic Bel-Air estate owned by director George Lucas Jill Biden spoke late Saturday night at a gala at Paramount Studios in Hollywood in support of a nonprofit that asks retailers to commit 15% of their shelf space to Black-owned brands The Biden campaign did not respond to a request for comment. Politics How wealthy Hollywood attorney Kevin Morris joined forces with Hunter Biden to help the president’s son face his legal and personal problems Republicans predictably grumbled about Biden’s decision not to visit South Carolina on Saturday which they claimed was a slight by the incumbent “It just goes to show you how much he cares about actually coming and how serious he’s taking it,” said Abby Zilch spokeswoman for the South Carolina Republican Party “He and Kamala have spent the last three months coming down to South Carolina telling South Carolina Democratic voters how much they’re grateful for their party here and how much South Carolina means to them Yet he was all the way across the country on the day of the Democrats’ first primary.” Shortly after Air Force One landed at the Los Angeles International Airport news broke that Biden had easily won the South Carolina primary The state saved his 2020 presidential campaign after he was trounced in Iowa and New Hampshire and finished a distant second in Nevada. An endorsement from Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) and the enthusiastic support of Black voters in the state gave Biden an overwhelming victory and provided momentum heading into the Super Tuesday primaries which were critical to him becoming the Democratic nominee making South Carolina the first state to hold a primary recognized by the party The move was ostensibly meant to give a greater voice to diverse voters in the early stages of the race compared with caucuses and a primary in overwhelmingly white Iowa and New Hampshire; it was largely viewed as a gift to South Carolina for saving Biden’s 2020 campaign The president, Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democrats, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, have spent considerable time in South Carolina promoting the Biden campaign. On Friday, Harris spoke to supporters at South Carolina State University, a historically Black college. After a drumline performed, Harris was introduced by the reigning Miss South Carolina State and touted the administration’s efforts to cancel student loan debt, cap insulin costs and boost the economy. “President Biden and I are guided by a fundamental belief: We work for you, the American people. And every day, we fight for you,” she said. “Sadly, however, that is not true for everyone. Case in point: Donald Trump. Former President Trump has made clear time and time again: His fight is not for the people. He fights for himself.” Scott Huffmon, a political science professor at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C., noted the frequency of visits by the Democrats and their surrogates, including Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, who visited his home county on Friday. “This is repayment for what South Carolina did for Joe Biden, but on a larger scale, South Carolina is so stunningly important to the national Democratic presidential process that keeping this relationship tight and warm is incredibly important,” Huffmon said. He added that he doesn’t think most Palmetto State Democrats would have a problem with Biden spending primary night in Los Angeles, given South Carolina’s rightward tilt in the general election. Trump easily carried the state in the 2020 presidential election. The last time a Democrat won there in the general election was 1976, and the candidate was a fellow Southerner, Jimmy Carter. “He’s paid his fealty. He’s done his bows and curtsies, and now realism sets in. He’s not going to win South Carolina in November,” Huffmon said. “So the repayment of the debt has happened. Now reality sets in.” Indeed, on Sunday, Biden headed to campaign events in Nevada, which is holding its Democratic primary Tuesday and is pivotal to his reelection bid in November. Seema Mehta is a veteran political writer who covers national and state politics, including the 2026 gubernatorial race. Since starting at Los Angeles Times in 1998, she has covered multiple presidential, state and local races. In 2019, she completed a Knight-Wallace fellowship at the University of Michigan. By 2023-02-08T09:19:00+00:00 Alex De La Iglesia and Carolina Bang’s Pokeepsie Films has earned a reputation as one of Spain’s most unique – and busy - fiction producers So busy is the company that it has just hired Adrián De Belva as general manager to strengthen its management team business & legal affairs for Spain and Portugal Focused on youth-skewing films and TV series Pokeepsie is now working on the second series of De La Iglesia and Jorge Guerricaechevarría’s mystery horror hit 30 Coins for HBO Max Other projects for streamers are also in the works including Pollos Sin Cabeza (Headless Chickens) which will be featured in the Berlinale Series Market Domingo González’s upcoming film Culpa Mía for Amazon Prime and the De La Iglesia-directed Mandrake a fantasy action adventure set in seventeenth century Spain Together with Sony Pictures International Productions Pokeepsie is behind Jaume Balagueró’s supernatural urban horror Venus which launched theatrically in Spain on December 2 and on Amazon Prime Video last week the Madrid-based company also released De la Iglesia’s road movie comedy Four’s a Crowd (El Cuarto Pasajero) Ignacio Tatay’s suspense thriller The Chalk Line (Jaula) premiered in theatres in September and dropped on Netflix in October reaching number two in the global non-English rankings while Eduardo Casanova’s La Pietà world premiered in July in Karlovy Vary’s Proxima section Pokeepsie partnered with global production and distribution giant Banijay’s Spanish division De La Iglesia and Bang both see the partnership as a crucial next stage for the company He envisages joining forces with Banijay companies in London or Latin America to make projects we want to grow and to make feature films and TV series that are bigger than the regular ones we can get in Spain It’s a point echoed by Bang: “Now we’re part of Banijay we have this support to get bigger and to have more projects.” In a competitive scripted market where many production companies struggle to stand out genre specialist Pokeepsie certainly does so And I love to make comedies,” says De La Igelesia “I love to mix those things in some of the projects I make.” He says he tries not to focus on what audiences want but what he wants to make: “If you try to accommodate your idea to the market De La Iglesia won a Venice Festival best director Silver Lion in 2010 for Balada Triste De Trompeta (The Last Circus) and a Goya as best director for 1995’s The Day Of The Beast and has reached a wider audience through the success of 30 Coins Bang’s acting credits include Balada Triste for which she was nominated for a Goya Award as well as De La Iglesia’s as Brujas de Zugarramurdi (Witching & Bitching) She began her career as a producer in 2014 Bang says that the fact that she was an actress and is now a producer and that de la Iglesia is both a director and producer informs the way Pokeepsie is run “We are a particular kind of production company – we value very much talent The company’s deal with superindie group Banijay comes as international interest in the Spanish content market hots up Major US streaming platforms have been attracted to the country for its competitive tax incentives which vary between 30% and 50% and wide range of locations – and as a content provider for the vast Spanish-speaking market Streaming giant Netflix chose Spain as the base for its first European production hub When Warner Bros Discovery announced last July it would no longer produce originals in many European territories Spain was one of the few countries it chose to remain active in the Spanish government has earmarked €1.6bn to boost film and TV production by 30% by 2025 De La Iglesia says the international industry is “now discovering the things we are doing” in Spain: “We have always had a big problem with distribution We didn’t know how to distribute our material De La Iglesia also enjoys what he describes as the freedom of working on series like 30 Coins compared to the challenges of working on film “It is a shame but it is true: there is so much pressure from distributors when you are making a film Screen reveals a snapshot of the latest high-end TV and film productions shooting in the UK for the big studios and streamers Oscar winner proposing federal tax incentives Monday’s statement to reporters follows Truth Social The updating list includes titles’ sales agents and key deals The Barcelona producer’s credits include Carlos Marqués-Marcet’s They Will Be Dust Warner Bros./Legendary video game smash passed $720m at the global box office through April 20 Screen International is the essential resource for the international film industry access to the Screen International archive and supplements including Stars of Tomorrow and World of Locations Site powered by Webvision Cloud brother of former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez is accused of training a paramilitary group on the Uribe family ranch Edited by Michael EvansResearch assistance by Hannah Lildharrie For more information, contact:202-994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu In Colombian Death Ranch Case, Some Fear Prosecution Will Be BuriedBy Nicholas CaseyJuly 8 Tres testigos vinculan a la familia Uribe con paramilitaresPor Nicholas Casey8 de julio de 2018​ Washington D.C., July 9, 2018 – A ranch owned by former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe Vélez and other members of his family was the operational base of a deadly paramilitary group according to the testimony of people who worked for the Uribe family in the 1990s The new evidence, which was reviewed by the National Security Archive, is the subject of an investigation published today in The New York Times featuring commentary from Michael Evans director of the Archive’s Colombia documentation project In a series of declarations during the past year three former employees of “La Carolina” ranch in Yarumal and especially the former president’s brother had a close and friendly relationship with the presumed leader of the “Doce Apóstoles” (Twelve Apostles) a death squad that prosecutors say targeted petty criminals drug addicts and the presumed supporters of insurgent groups like the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN) There has long been a perception in Colombia that Álvaro Uribe’s policies first as governor of Antioquia and later as president helped to foster the growth of illegal paramilitaries which are responsible for most of the human rights abuses committed in recent decades Uribe was one of the most prominent proponents of state-sponsored civil militia groups known as “Convivir,” some of which were fronts for the United Self-defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) But these new declarations are part of a growing body of evidence suggesting that the Uribe family was directly involved in training and directing the operations of the outlaw groups an attorney and human rights defender working with victims in those cases prosecutors announced they would open another investigation of Uribe for witness tampering in relation to charges that he aided in the formation of the paramilitary Metro Bloc from his Guacharacas estate in San Roque Santiago was arrested in February 2016 and is currently awaiting trial on charges of murder and conspiracy The newly-available testimony about the Uribe ranch stems from the related investigation of Jorge Alberto Osorio Rojas, currently a fugitive who prosecutors say was a top leader of the Twelve Apostles The witnesses were located and questioned by investigators after Santiago Uribe provided the court with a list of former employees of the ranch where the family bred and raised fighting bulls The evidence includes recorded statements and a written summary of previous witness declarations produced by the Colombian Judicial Police Colombian authorities wanted to know what workers from La Carolina knew about Osorio Rojas and his alleged criminal activities and whether they could help identify and locate another supposed member of the Twelve Apostles who used the alias “El Paisa.” Investigators also asked the witnesses about Fernando and Aide Botero owners of the nearby ranch known as La Isla One former ranch hand said that Santiago was “very intimate” and “very friendly” with the presumed paramilitary chief who was also known as “Rodrigo” and “El Mono.” Asked who gave orders to Osorio Rojas He said that Osorio Rojas would come and go with Santiago Uribe and that he worked closely with El Paisa and another presumed paramilitaries known as “Pelusa.” The former ranch hand said he referred to Osorio Rojas and Pelusa as “paracos,” a slang term for paramilitaries “Because they were cleaning up around here.” A former cattle handler on the ranch said that Osorio Rojas and other presumed paramilitaries including Pelusa and another known as “Carlos,” would arrive at the ranch ahead of Santiago’s visits and accompany him around the property Pelusa and another paramilitary known as “Sabino” detained and mistreated people who passed by the ranch at night The cattle tender said that Pelusa—who used to run a cocaine processing facility that was later dismantled by police—would arrive in the morning with bound hostages in his car who were later assassinated Pelusa and the others who accompanied Santiago during his visits to the ranch were “cleansing” the area of bad actors A former domestic worker at the ranch said that Santiago came to the property almost every weekend and that former president Álvaro Uribe—who at the time was a senator and later governor from the department of Antioquia—also visited frequently were kidnapped and murdered one night at La Carolina And while the ongoing criminal investigations of the Uribe brothers and paramilitaries like Osorio Rojas have raised hopes that such cases may eventually be solved some are concerned that Colombia’s president-elect will try to derail ongoing investigations of his political mentor In a plan similar to one Uribe proposed last year Duque has said that he wants to restructure the country’s high courts is leading the investigation into the former president’s paramilitary ties “There seems little doubt that Uribe’s desire is to weaken or scuttle the rather serious investigations being brought against him and his family,” said Michael Evans who heads the National Security Archive’s Colombian documentation project “Narcopols”: Medellín Cartel Financed Senate Campaign of Former President Álvaro Uribe, Colombian Senators Told U.S. EmbassyMay 25 U.S. Intelligence Listed Colombian President Uribe Among "Important Colombian Narco-Traffickers" in 1991August 2 Colombian Paramilitaries and the United States: "Unraveling the Pepes Tangled Web"February 17 Gelman LibraryThe George Washington University2130 H Street Phone: 202/994-7000Fax: 202/994-7005Contact by email     ​ support our work - donate The National Security Archive is committed to digital accessibility. If you experience a barrier that affects your ability to access content on this page, let us know via our Contact form Contents of this website (c) The National Security Archive, 1985-2025For educational or noncommercial use, contact the Archive using the form above for permission where old-world charm meets bohemian flairEcuador’s lively capital rewards travellers who venture beyond the grand plazas and imposing churches of its UNESCO-awarded core Jervis Café is one of many coffee shops set in La Floresta a bohemian neighbourhood in central Quito.Photograph by Ben PipeBySarah GillespieMarch 31 2023•10 min readEcuador’s Andean capital sits over 9,000ft above sea level but it’s not just the altitude that takes your breath away The city appears to be poured into a dramatic valley encircled by snow-cloaked volcanoes of which Quiteños speak as one would of neighbours or old friends: Cotopaxi Catholic and Jesuit churches pepper the magnificent Old Town of Quito which was among the first cites to be declared an UNESCO World Heritage Site and is the oldest of all the South American capitals founded by conquistador Francisco Pizarro in 1534 Adding to the historic ambience are pastel-hued Spanish-era townhouses; fuchsia geraniums trail from their balconies architectural styles get looser and the neighbourhoods cooler local Quiteños and gringos (foreigners) cut loose at packed clubs; in La Carolina is La Floresta: a graffiti-scrawled artists’ refuge this bohemian ‘hood is home to open-air bars and cafes as well as high-end Ecuadorian and international restaurants soup and meat with rice and beans — were the only option around be sure to try Ecuadorian coffee and chocolate: despite their quality these products often don’t make it overseas without being blended with lesser goods it’s said you require more calories at altitude this neo-gothic cathedral proved so lavish and costly it became a trigger point in Ecuador’s 1895 Liberal Revolution and stained-glass windows displaying some of Ecuador’s 1,710 endemic orchid species Tackle the climb up the towers for one of the best views in town Iglesia de la Compañía: It took the Jesuits 160 years to finish this Historic Centre church in 1765 — possibly because they were busy coating every surface in gold leaf The result is a dazzling fusion of baroque and rococo styles Look out for the impressive trompe-l’œil staircase and columns Street art: Most of Quito’s murals are in La Floresta where artists grapple with themes of identity and politics one of the most memorable is on Avenida 24 de Mayo between the Old Town and San Sebastián neighbourhoods the government commissioned Spanish enfant terrible Okuda San Miguel to paint a mural marking 200 years of Ecuadorian independence This he did — adding a giant Japanese Pikachu character in the centre Museo Nacional: One of the country’s largest collections of Ecuadorian art includes more than 1,000 ceramic pieces dating as far back as 11,000 BC as well as a mesmerising collection of pre-Columbian masks in the Sala de Oro (Gold Room) A wander through the Colonial Art gallery is essential to understand the complex power dynamics of that period; harrowing contemporary works by Oswaldo Guayasamín offer a modern perspective ​Geraniums spill from balconies in the Old Town's La Ronda street the Pink City.Photograph by Karol Kozlowski AWL ImagesLike a localFestive decorations: Catch a taxi or local bus to the suburb of Calderón These colourful piped dough designs festoon Ecuadorian high days but can be purchased here year-round in local stores Ochoymedio: A La Floresta institution since 2001 Quito’s only independent cinema hosts regular film festivals and international screenings If there aren’t any English-language showings it’s still worth settling down with a coffee or glass of wine in the movie-themed Rio Intag cafe Promenade in the plaza: Join colourfully attired Quiteños as they take some air and watch street performers in Plaza de la Independencia indigenous women’s dress comprises a skirt shawl and hat — but subtle differences indicate which community they belong to You can pick up indigenous textiles and jewellery at the Mercado Artesanal La Mariscal Panama hats: Although the name suggests otherwise, Panama hats are actually made in Ecuador’s Manabí province. True Panamas can take months to weave and cost thousands of dollars, so markets in Latin America can be flooded with cheap fakes. You’ll find affordable yet genuine articles at Sombreros López which has sold all manner of smart headgear since 1920 Chocolate: República del Cacao in the Old Town sells single-origin chocolate from small Ecuadorian farms Pull up a wicker chair in the cafe and feast on red velvet sponges and mirror-like ganache as well as hot chocolate served in cacao-pod-shaped cups Crafts: Handicrafts from all over Ecuador are sold at the Mercado Artesanal La Mariscal the northern neighbourhood beloved by backpackers Browse the 200 stalls that sell everything from panpipes and jewellery to alpaca-wool blankets and tapestries made by Indigenous Salasaca people this bolthole in Mariscal Sucre is geared towards longer stays There’s a coworking space for nomadic types plus a busy calendar of social events such as yoga classes karaoke nights and all-you-can-drink happy hours Tours include guided hikes to the Pichincha and Cotopaxi volcanoes Swissôtel: The hotel chain’s Quito outpost in La Floresta has all the luxurious facilities you’d expect yet the dark-wood interiors look more boutique than branded As well as high-end Ecuadorian and Japanese restaurants the hotel provides one of the best breakfast buffets in Quito: churros ILLA Experience Hotel: Sandwiched between Old Town museums this design-forward property takes the promise in its name seriously You might find yourself churning strawberry sorbet in a bronze pail or painting a watercolour of the Quito skyline all under the supervision of artisans who are experts in ancestral techniques Indigenous textiles and jewellery can be found at Mercado Artesanal La Mariscal located in Quito's northern neighbourhood of La Mariscal.Photograph by Ben PipeSouvenirs are displayed at Peguche Handicrafts a craft store located in Quito's Old Town.Photograph by Karol Kozlowski AWL ImagesEat Parque José Navarro: Head to this market in Avenidas Ladrón de Guevara for street food specialities such as tripa mishqui (pork tripe with potatoes) sweet pristiños pastries and a hearty lamb’s intestine soup known as yaguarlocro Jervis Café: When Jervis opened in La Floresta in 2013 it was one of the first cafes in Quito with outdoor seating Owner Ruben Benavides makes a serious coffee brew using full-bodied Arabica beans grown at altitude in the southern Andean province of Loja Banh Mi: Among the gastronomic gems in Quito’s restaurant scene is this pan-Asian option Try fusion dishes like tuna ceviche with sushi nori and coconut milk or phad krapao which combines wok-charred llama meat with Thai basil Sinners Microcervecería: The quinoa corn and lemon verbena-based beers at this microbrewery have scooped multiple international awards serves up ‘dirty’ nachos and sticky wings in a mural-filled space Casa Gangotena: A former Colonia-era mansion on Plaza San Francisco this palazzo hotel was rebuilt with new columns Cocktails served in the dimly lit bar incorporate Ecuadorian cane liquor Too many automated requests from this network Print After roughly 3,000 miles two international border crossings and a lot of road food consumed by its inhabitants the egg-shaped museum called the NuMu has rolled into Los Angeles Given that this is a city that has turned cruising into a fine art it was only fitting that someone would turn a piece of fine art into an object for cruising the streets of Los Angeles Enter Guatemalan artists Jessica Kairé and Stefan Benchoam, proprietors of the NuMu (short for Nuevo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo) which showcases work by internationally acclaimed contemporary artists is housed in a tiny structure once used as a stand to sell fresh eggs The artists have created a traveling version of their egg which on Sunday evening could be spotted cruising the streets of Los Angeles The project is part of the Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA exhibition “A Universal History of Infamy” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, held in conjunction with the 18th Street Arts Center the NuMu is setting up shop at LACMA near Michael Heizer’s rock sculpture the mini-museum — which accommodates one to four patrons at a time — will put on a pair of exhibitions: one devoted to performance artist Regina José Galindo; the other to experimental Guatemalan composer Joaquín Orellana “We’ve started to work with him to preserve his legacy,” says Benchoam of Orellana The NuMu parked outside of the Ruberta pop-up art space in Glendale on Sunday evening Miranda / Los Angeles Times) I’ve transported tires I’ve never taken anything as peculiar as an egg On Sunday evening, the NuMu and its artists show up in Los Angeles — or rather, Glendale, to be exact — to help mark this week’s launch of PST: LA/LA, the series of exhibitions devoted to U.S. Latino and Latin American art Its first stop: the opening of Ruberta a gallery project managed by a collective of five Latin American art spaces young art crowd mills about sipping beer and mezcal within view of the giant egg Kairé says she’s relieved to finally see the NuMu in Los Angeles “It’s the beginning of a whole new life,” she says looking slightly weary after the eight-hour drive from Tucson “There is excitement about what will happen next.” But even though the NuMu team was tired after its long expedition it nonetheless wanted to take the egg on a nighttime spin around Los Angeles before it was more permanently installed at LACMA I climb into the egg with Benchoam and Kairé as driver Jorge Rugerio takes the wheel of the truck We head north on San Fernando Road toward Burbank the cool night breeze slipping in through the NuMu’s tiny windows (Is it legal to ride inside a giant egg on a flatbed A quick scan of the California Driver Handbook offers no guidance.) As we settle in for the first leg of our L.A the artists — along with their pal Eduardo Mata who has helped coordinate the journey — tell me about the odyssey of moving a very large chicken ovum from Central America to the United States Eduardo Mata travels inside the NuMu as it wanders around L.A Miranda / Los Angeles Times) Naturally The journey required the coordination of various logistics companies an international network of drivers and the cooperation of customs officials in two nations (NuMu traveled on a flatbed; the artists followed behind in an SUV supplied by Hyundai The first and most difficult leg of the trip was getting the egg out of Guatemala City “We built this whole custom platform for the egg,” Kairé says “It had steps and a special platform and you could hitch it right up But then when we tried getting license plates That meant scrambling for a flatbed — and hoping they would make it to Los Angeles on schedule In Mexico City, they had other misadventures. When they arrived to deposit the egg at the Museo Jumex for a show a mix-up among the various logistics firms resulted in one driver refusing to unload the egg until he was paid “The egg got kidnapped in Mexico City!” jokes Benchoam [Do not unload the egg.] But after several hours of calls Things began to look up in the city of Monterrey, where they connected with Jose Jorge Rugerio Gutiérrez, proprietor of Transportes R.G. Express a smiling bear of a man who agreed to personally transport the egg himself Joining him for the ride was his college-age son: Jorge Andres Rugerio “I’ve never taken anything as peculiar as an egg.” “I think of it as el huevo de la suerte,” says Rugerio — the egg of good fortune Perhaps it was Rugerio who brought the good fortune the younger Rugerio says everyone said the pristine white egg resembled a UFO we take the NuMu to Fry’s Electronics in Burbank — known for its facade featuring a massive alien spaceship As dazed shoppers stare in disbelief at the giant egg in the parking lot Driver Jose Jorge Rugerio and his son Jorge Andres Rugerio pose before the NuMu at Fry’s in Burbank Miranda / Los Angeles Times) Stop No 2: Beer breakSince the NuMu is a piece of programmatic architecture (an egg stand shaped like an egg) Kairé was interested in parking the museum in front of something similar “A donut shop shaped like a donut or a Mexican restaurant in a giant sombrero,” she explains Los Angeles, a place that has erected buildings in the shape of dogs, tamales and brown derbies, is famous for its programmatic architecture. (Even if the numbers of these types of structures are dwindling.) So we make for the Idle Hour the bar in the shape of a barrel in North Hollywood The elder Rugerio reiterates his theory that the egg is indeed “el huevo de la suerte.” The NuMu parked outside the Idle Hour bar in North Hollywood Miranda / Los Angeles Times) I ask Benchoam if the lady who once ran the egg stand knows what became of her egg It’s like we pirated her egg and just ran off with it.” Rugerio says there is a lot of symbolism to an egg — noting its connection to Easter We discuss Fabergé eggs and eggs as symbols of fertility and fragility the artists persuade the restaurant’s manager to let them run an extension cord from the restaurant to the NuMu so that they can illuminate the interior A group of pedestrians snaps photos with their cellphones A kind stranger picks up the tab for our beers El huevo de la suerte has earned the artists a free round of Pacificos and a cordial gesture of international relations Rugerio pulls into the lot at a franchise on Glenoaks Boulevard and we once again spill out of the egg “The architect told me never to take it through a drive-through,” Kairé says The domed roof could be ripped open by any low-hanging architecture Rugerio adds: “There were a few places where I was worried it wouldn’t make it under bridges.” The NuMu parked outside a McDonald’s in Glendale Miranda / Los Angeles Times) A man cycling by on a beach cruiser comes to a sudden full-stop Rugerio says that so far Los Angeles has been the best place to drive through the NuMu will travel to LACMA for installation The group poses for a final photo together Three young men inside the McDonald’s peer through the window looking mystified It’s not every day el huevo de la suerte cruises Glendale Omelette you finish: The NuMu team Miranda / Los Angeles Times) ‘A Universal History of Infamy’Where: LACMA Info: lacma.org LACMA launches its first Kickstarter campaign, bringing an egg-shaped art museum to L.A. from Guatemala From Donald Duck to Donald Trump, an unprecedented look at Latin American art holds up a mirror to the U.S. How Mexico's súper rudas 'Radical Women' are rewriting the history of Latin American art Firecrackers, a striptease scandal and more moments of change from the Hammer's 'Radical Women' Television Entertainment & Arts Music Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Ecuador’s capital blends its colonialist history with modern flourishes Quito isn’t likely to be first on a list of must-see destinations for architecture and design in Latin America and Montevideo all offer rich architectural traditions powered by local institutions and designers But a closer look at Quito reveals that Ecuador’s capital has something unique to offer. Originally founded by Spanish colonists in the 16th century, the city has transformed over the last 50 years from one dominated by single-family houses to a more vertical urban landscape powered by a roughly ninefold increase in its population Architecture and design in Quito today blend the city’s colonial history with its modern redevelopment to include everything from grand ornate churches to Brutalist hotels to coworking spaces born out of old jazz clubs We’ve collected from the people who live there the 19 spots in the city most deserving of a visit Disclosure: Curbed participated in a weeklong press trip provided by Uribe & Schwarzkopf and all reporting was done without input or undue influence from the firm Built as part of a push for architectural modernity in the 1960s and ’70s this Brutalist treasure from 1979 is just a short walk from the southern tip of Parque La Carolina and features multiple stories stacked atop a narrow concrete pillar a media organization that hosts educational events and media archives and collaborates with universities and other institutions in Quito and abroad Nestled in Quito’s northern financial district Parque La Carolina offers multiple modes of escape from urban life and a nautical park with a river where ferries run While it’s small relative to other grand parks of the world at just a quarter of a square mile it serves a similar function in Quito to what Central Park does in Manhattan Influenced by Pablo Picasso and the Cubists Oswaldo Guayasamín is among Ecuador’s most renowned artists best known for filtering horrific tragedies of the 20th century through cubist paintings and sculptures the ground floor of which has been preserved much as he left it Below the house is a museum dedicated to his work Teatro Politécnico is the centerpiece of the campus for Ecuador’s public polytechnic school The school was founded in 1869 and is the country’s second oldest public university It operated out of a small building in the La Alameda neighborhood until 1960 when it moved to its current location in La Floresta This urban park sits on the site of a redeveloped bus terminal outside of Quito’s historic Old City and hosts a number of activities and amenities that are free to the public Outside the old bus terminal is a roofed soccer field A post shared by Bárbara Andrade Barioni (@babioni) on Jan 25 Located on the burial ground of soldiers who perished in 1822’s Battle of Pichincha, this cemetery features structures designed by some of Quito’s most iconic architects, including Francisco Durini, Muis Mideros, and Pietro Capurro. First opened in 1872, it also is the site of a convent that serves as a museum dedicated to Father Almeida, subject of a popular local folktale A post shared by Felipe Moreno (@felomoreno8) on Oct 17 Olga Fisch came to Ecuador in 1939 as a Jewish refugee from Hungary and rather than exporting her Bauhaus sensibilities to Quito’s art scene she imported Ecuadorian folk culture and art into her own aesthetic She collected and preserved Quechua artifacts many of which are on display at the flagship store for her rugs and clothing accessories which incorporate ideas and designs originating in Quechua culture A post shared by Lisa (@knitlomat) on May 3 is the work of Ecuadorian architect Ovidio Wappenstein whose family fled to Quito along with other Jewish Czechs during World War II the building can be viewed as a symbol of the boom times that followed the discovery of oil in Ecuador in the late 1960s A post shared by Juan Pablo Castro (@juanpicg) on Oct 21 Another Brutalist work from Ovidio Wappenstein It sits next to Wappenstein’s Edificio COFIEC just north of Parque El Ejido in the central part of Quito Bernardo de Legarda was commissioned by the Church of San Francisco to create an image of the Virgin Mary in 1734 producing a 12-inch-high wood sculpture of a winged Mary that became known as the Virgin of Quito a 656-foot-tall aluminum replica was erected by the city and local religious leaders on El Panecillo A post shared by Chris World-tour Now In (@chris.worldtour) on Aug 19 This boutique hotel is a restored neoclassical mansion that sits in Plaza de San Francisco at the heart of Quito’s Old Town a UNESCO World Heritage site awash with churches and remnants of the capital’s colonial history While the UNESCO designation limits development in the area a station of the city’s new metro will open nearby in 2020 connecting the hotel with the rest of Quito A post shared by Casa Gangotena (@casagangotena) on Jul 15 This boutique hotel in the upscale district of Gonzalez Suarez was designed by architect Charles McKirahan a Florida-based architect who was prolific in the 1950s and ’60s The front of the hotel’s office is covered by an angular modern structure and the hotel itself features a seven-story tower that overlooks the valley to the east where the districts of Guápulo A post shared by Carlitos Jaramillo (@carlitosjaramillo) on May 21 Named after Federico Fellini’s classic film 8½ and lounge has been a cultural staple of the La Floresta arts district since 2001 and the organization behind it has even produced its own films The space features an enclosed greenhouse-like structure in the front and numerous sitting areas inside A post shared by Ana | coffee. travel. stories. (@rhymeswithcoffee) on May 12 one as a coffee factory and another as a jazz club Today it’s a coworking space operated by local business IMPAQTO But the layered space retains numerous remnants of its past including the stage and bar of the jazz club and a bathroom wall featuring pictures of every president in Ecuador’s history The space was redesigned by local architect Daniel Moreno Flores A post shared by IMPAQTO (@impaqtoec) on May 22 This park was originally the Mariscal Sucre International Airport before Quito’s new airport outside of the city opened in 2013 Many of the runways remain in place and have been redeveloped as a running track A convention center was built next to the park in hopes of spurring redevelopment in the area but zoning restrictions that limit building height and density have stood in the way Located in the heart of Quito’s bohemian arts district La Floresta, the Quito Publishing House was designed by architects Jaskran Kalirai, Ana María Durán Calisto, and Esteban Cervantes, who described the building in ArchDaily as mixing modernity and nature A hanging staircase over a garden greets visitors in the lobby Construction on this massive church and monastery began shortly after the Spanish arrived in Quito in 1535 creating the centerpiece of the city’s historic Old Town including the locally beloved original sculpture of the Virgin of Quito There is a courtyard in the middle of the church and the front empties into the Plaza de San Francisco Located in the south-center of Quito’s city center Villa Flora illustrates the way the city has integrated its colonial past with its metropolitan present Architecture scholar Felipe Correa describes it as “a tightly knit urban fragment.” At the center of the district is the circular Parque de los Enamorados who contributed to a number of Brutalist works in Quito in the 1970s features a flat facade that faces the street plus a series of terraces in the back that face the Guápulo valley mimicking the slope of the surrounding land the building features shops and duplex homes the building features shops and duplex homes.