There are many factors that led Taylor Jenkins Reid to choose space as the backdrop of her new novel, “Atmosphere,” a thrilling love story set at NASA in the 1980s.
One may very well have been her L.A. commute.
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Specifically, her journey along the Dr. Sally Ride Memorial Highway, a portion of the 101 Freeway in Encino. “I am sure that it worked its way into my subconscious,” Reid says. “It was there waiting for me because I’ve driven by that sign so many times.”
So much of Encino and the Valley inspires Reid, the author of a shining repertoire of bestselling novels including “Daisy Jones & the Six” and “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.” She talks about the hikes, the views and the charming restaurants that have stood for generations. Here’s how she’d spend a perfect day in L.A. with her husband, Alex Jenkins Reid, and their 8-year-old daughter, Lilah.
8 a.m. Wake up and grab a book Everybody in my house is reading in bed. I am reading “Harlem Rhapsody” by Victoria Christopher Murray. I have been late multiple mornings now because of how much I’m enjoying it. It’s like, “Oh, sorry, I was reading.” My kid does the same thing. She and I will both be like, “Wait, it’s already 7:40? You’re supposed to be in school!” But both of us are reading.
9:30 a.m.: A place where everybody knows your name My family and I love to go to this small diner in the Valley called Millie’s. It’s a no-frills place, but the food is so good and my husband’s family has been going there for at least 30 years. The server always remembers my husband’s grandpa and asks how his grandma’s doing and how his mom is doing and his brothers are doing. It has such a lovely small-town feel to it. Also, the tortilla soup is incredibly good. It’s, like, one of my favorite things
10:30 a.m.: Hit the trail After that, I inevitably will try to bribe my daughter into a hike. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. The thing is, she actually does love to hike and just forgets that she does. Where I love to go — and I have not been able to because of the fires — is the Upper Canyonback Trailhead [temporarily closed] in Encino Hills. There are two ways you can go. If you go to the left, there’s a really great view of the city. You can see down to Century City and even downtown on a clear day. And the hills are gorgeous. But if you go to the right, you can see the Encino Reservoir and eventually you get to a decommissioned Nike missile silo. We make a game-time decision.
Noon: A bookstore afternoon Then I have to make good on the way that I bribed my kid and one of her favorite things to do is go to Vroman’s in Pasadena. It has one of the best children’s book sections in Los Angeles — it takes up half of their second floor. She’ll grab a bunch of books, I will have grabbed books from downstairs and we’ll be sitting on a bench reading them. And you know, my husband’s like, “Dude, would you like to leave and actually pay for these?”
2 p.m.: Hop around Old Town Pasadena Not that far from Vroman’s, there’s this intersection that has so many things that all of us like. Motto Tea Cafe serves Japanese soufflé-style pancakes. They’re so fluffy! My daughter normally gets the plain ones with the Nutella cream on top. This place is often quite packed, so we order in advance. Then there’s this ice cream place called Kinrose Creamery that is unbelievable. They indulged me by letting me try basically every flavor. They have a sour cherry with candy floss that is unlike anything I’ve ever had. And there’s a park near there, Central Park, that is really beautiful and has a very expansive playground area. And so my kid will go play for a little while.
3:30 p.m.: Indulge an obsession On the walk back to our car, I will go to Farrow & Ball and just look at paint colors. I’m completely obsessed with paint colors, so I make my family go pretty often. I never have a reason to be there. When the person is like, “How can I help you? Are you looking to paint something?” I’m like, “No, I just want to look at paint colors.” They’ve got great names for all their paint — I could probably name them all for you, literally. The ones I have in my house: Dead Salmon, Skimming Stone, Wimborne White. My daughter and I have become obsessed with a very pretty coral-y orange called Naperon. Both of us are like, “We have to paint something Naperon!”
There’s a woman who is the color curator for Farrow & Ball and her name is Joa Studholme. She’s the only person that is famous to me and my daughter. She makes these videos where she’s talking about why they came up with a paint color and my kid and I will just watch them four different times.
5:30 p.m.: Best pasta ever Every Sunday night, we eat takeout from Lido Pizza. Doesn’t matter the fanciest place I’ve ever been to — this is the best pasta. I love it so much. And there’s something about their salad dressing that is exactly what my taste buds want in a salad dressing. I have gone so far as to order a full jug of it for my house.
It’s such a humble, unassuming place. We’ve been taking my daughter there since she was a baby. When the movie “Booksmart” came out, we were watching it and saw that a whole scene takes place in the Lido parking lot. We eat there every single Sunday night, and at this point, they have to just know the call is coming sometime around 5:30.
7:45 p.m.: The “Goodnight Special” My daughter gets into bed and reads for an hour. During that time, my husband and I will watch an episode of something — lately, we’ve been watching “The Studio.” Then when it’s time to go to bed, she comes out of her bedroom and asks for the “Goodnight Special.” It’s when I hold her for a minute and sing to her. She called it that just one day. She was like, “I need the ‘Goodnight Special.’” I was like, “I think I know what you mean by that.” And then my husband and I will go to bed around 10:30.
Welcome to June. We’re halfway through this tumultuous year and there’s only one thing I can say for certain about 2025: It’s moving fast.
I have lots to share in this newsletter, including a long list of plant-related events and activities, but let’s start with goats, sheep and this question: What’s the best way to clear highly flammable weeds from L.A.’s steep urban slopes?
Clearing those hills with weed whackers to knock down black mustard and oats, two invasive plants that burn easily once they’re dry, is noisy, difficult work, and hiring others to do it is expensive.
It is much easier to instead use goats and sheep to nimbly devour all the offending plants, leaving fresh fertilizer (a.k.a. manure) along the way to enrich the soil and give native plants a running chance to reappear. And it is wonderful to see a fluid herd moving slowly along the hill, with little lambs and kids frisking behind their mothers, making sweet bleating sounds instead of the polluting, teeth-grinding whine of gasoline-powered weed whackers.
Goats and sheep seem unbothered by the steep grade on Kite Hill in Mount Washington as they chow down on invasive oat grass.
(Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times)
A group of Mount Washington small-parcel landowners banded together this spring to create such a pastoral scene, drawing small crowds of delighted neighbors. The goats and sheep got rave reviews, and everyone hopes to see it happen again next year.
Except (you knew this was coming) here’s the problem:
Between transportation and labor costs, the job was a money-losing proposition for the herder, said Brittany “Cole” Bush, owner of Shepherdess Land & Livestock in Ojai and program director of the nonprofit Ojai Valley Fire Safe Council.
Bush agreed to bring 100 of her nearly 600 head of goats and dorper sheep (a.k.a. hair sheep that molt their coats) to Mount Washington as an experiment this spring. Neighbors who own small parcels from a quarter acre to 6 acres banded together to make it happen. Many of those parcels are adjoined, so if enough landowners came together to cover the cost, it seemed like a win-win for everyone.
But there weren’t enough collaborators to make the project pencil out, Bush said, and without a firm partnership, “it’s just not economically viable for small landowners to hire us.” Her company, she said, needs at least $10,000 to clear at least 10 acres before it can cover all its considerable costs.
For example, Bush said she can comfortably fit 100 animals in one of her 24-foot-long double deck trailers, but big rigs like that can’t navigate narrow windy roads, “and the roads around Mount Washington are absolutely bonkers, so we had to use an 18-foot trailer and make three 100-mile round trips to get all the animals we needed up there, about 101 goats and sheep.”
Pliable, solar-powered electric fences have to be erected even on the steepest hills to keep grazers out of yards and both two-legged and four-legged predators away from the herd.
(Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times)
And then it takes a day for a shepherd to set up 1,000 to 2,000 feet of pliable, solar-powered electric fences around the grazing area, something they must do repeatedly as the herd moves to new grazing areas. And the shepherds must be on guard 24 hours a day to protect the herd from predators like coyotes, neighborhood dogs and humans who think they’re tasty, or just think it would be fun to knock down the fence to watch the whole herd wander out onto a street, which happened in Santa Clarita in April.
So if you have a landowner with just a small parcel, say a quarter or half acre, they only want to pay around $500, Bush said, “but $500 doesn’t cover my cost for the day. For small acreage it would need to be closer to $2,000 an acre for it to work.”
The solution, she said, will require more cohesive partnerships between small landowners, nonprofits and public entities such as fire safe councils (there are several around L.A. County), resource conservation districts and even county parks and recreation programs to go after state grant money that, thanks to a new law, can now be used to help pay for prescribed grazing.
There is an L.A.-based company that uses goats to clear small parcels of land, typically an acre or less, but even for Party Goats LA, those costs typically run around $1,200 to $2,000 for a parcel under an acre, said owner Scout Raskin, with the cost largely dependent on how much fencing she has to use to contain the herd.
A billy goat munches on a tall, slender stalk of invasive black mustard at the top of Kite Hill in Mount Washington.
(Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times)
Raskin has been raising and training a small herd of goats and sheep for seven years, renting them out for parties, films and other special events, but when she lost her job as a television animation producer in 2023, she turned her side hustle into a full-time gig by adding brush clearance to their duties.
She had to increase her flock first, to 28 goats and eight sheep, all of whom she bottle fed, trained and named, and get some lessons in rolling out electric fencing on near-vertical slopes. But the phone has been ringing off the hook this year, she said.
It’s a lot of work, Raskin said, “but the benefits of grazing are insane, because the goats eat the seeds, so the vegetation density goes down every year because the seeds don’t germinate … and they’re depositing their nutrient-rich manure into the soil.”
Final bonus point, said parcel owner Michael Tessler, is the camaraderie and happiness that came with the grazers. Tessler, an architect, bought his small, unbuildable parcel on Kite Hill, a few blocks from his home, to encourage the growth of more native walnut trees and other native shrubs on the steep slope. Grazing wasn’t cheaper than hiring a weed-whacking team to do the work, he said, but the benefits are so much greater.
“I’ve met more neighbors in the past two and a half weeks than I have in the last 15 year of living here,” Tessler said. “People tend to be guarded on a day-to-day basis, but they see a sheep and something changes in them.”
Then bring on the sheep, I say, or as Tessler said more beautifully, “Put joy in the world where you can.”
Two other notes:
Project Phoenix, a joint project of UCLA and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, needs your help to understand how wildfire smoke is affecting birds in California, Oregon and Washington.
Program director Olivia Sanderfoot is looking for volunteers — community scientists — to watch birds in the same specific location for 10 minutes once a week, and report what they see. You can observe multiple locations, just make sure you fill out a separate form for each spot, even if one spot is in your front yard and another is in your back. Signing up is easy, and you’ll be automatically enrolled in online training. I’ll be watching from my front yard, where I have lots of native plants, and my back, where most of my veggies are planted.
An early morning fire at Arlington Garden in Pasadena on May 21 destroyed the garden’s storage shed and all the tools, event furniture and other equipment stored inside, as well as the electricity that powered its extensive drip irrigation system. The fire is still under investigation, but South Pasadena Fire Investigator John Papadakis said arson wasn’t the cause.
In the meantime, the garden is closed until the area can be cleared, said Executive Director A.J. Jewell. The board has started a $40,000 fundraiser to help replace the shed and other items destroyed in the fire.
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Through Dec. 31 Free soil testing for lead for certain properties downwind of the Eaton fire burn area, provided by the County of Los Angeles Public Health Department. Enter your address on the website to see if your property qualifies. Test results take about a week and measure lead levels in the soil only. Instructions for collecting soil samples are on the website. publichealth.lacounty.gov
June 1 San Gabriel Valley Chrysanthemum Society Chrysanthemum & Plant Sales, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Los Angeles County Arboretum’s Ayres Hall in Arcadia. Admission to the sale is free with $15 ticket to the garden ($11 seniors 62+ and students with ID, $5 children ages 5-12, members and children 4 and younger enter free). arboretum.org
June 6 Propagating California Native Plants From Cuttings, a hands-on class taught by Theodore Payne Foundation Horticulture Director Tim Becker, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the foundation in Sun Valley. Participants will leave with a flat of 50 starts. All materials provided. Tickets are $92.55 ($81.88 members). eventbrite.com
June 7 Monrovia Community Garden Volunteer Day, 9 a.m. to noon in Monrovia. Volunteers will help with a variety of activities, including weeding and garden maintenance. Participation is free but registration is required. portal.caclimateactioncorps.org
Compost Workshop at Apricot Lane Farms, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the farm in Moorpark. A hands-on workshop about how the farm creates compost and uses it to enrich its soil. Tickets are $80.52. eventbrite.com
June 8 California Botanic Garden’s Introduction to the Sunflower family (Asteraceae), an introductory hands-on class taught by Samantha Ingram, the garden’s botany program graduate student, 1 to 4 p.m. at the garden in Claremont. Register online, $55 ($45 members). calbg.org
Community Habitat Restoration work around the Audubon Center, 8:15 to 10:45 a.m. at Ernest E. Debs Regional Park in Montecito Heights. Volunteers will help remove invasive species and water new native plantings. Participation is free but you must register online. act.audubon.org
June 13 Comprehensive Irrigation for California Native Plants, a hands-on class taught by Theodore Payne Foundation Horticulture Director Tim Becker, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the foundation in Sun Valley. Learn how, when and why to irrigate California native plants in a landscape. Tickets are $71.21 ($60.54 members). eventbrite.com
June 14 Planting for Pollinators at San Clemente State Beach, 9 a.m. to noon in San Clemente, one of many activities planned statewide in honor of California State Parks Week June 11-15. The goal of the San Clemente State Parks event is to create a community garden, path and educational area and to enhance habitat for the overwintering Western monarch. The beach is one of only 50 designated coastal overwintering sites for the endangered butterfly. Participants will help with planting, weeding and watering while learning how to identify pollinators and the native plants they need to survive. Activities also include crafts, storytelling and an art installation giving participants a chance to paint a pre-drawn mural. All ages welcome, ADA accessible. Participation is free but registration is required. castateparksweek.org
Southern California Carnivorous Plant Enthusiasts Carnivorous Plant Show & Sale, 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Sherman Library & Gardens in Corona del Mar. The show includes a talk and Q&A about carnivorous plants at 11:30 a.m. and a guided tour of the garden’s carnivorous bog at 1:30 p.m. led by Horticulture Director Kyle Cheesborough. Free with $5 admission to the garden (members and children 3 and younger enter free.) Military ID holders also enter free with up to five family members through Labor Day (Sept. 1) as well as on Veterans Day (Nov. 11). thesherman.org
Black Thumb Farm Native Plant Stewarding and Propagation, 12:30 to 2 p.m. at the farm in Panorama City. Learn how to identify plants, their role in the ecosystem and how to propagate native plants found around the farm. Participation is free, but registration is required. portal.caclimateactioncorps.org
Summer Rose Care Class, a free class about how to care for roses during the summer to prolong your blooms into the fall, 10 to 11 a.m. at Otto & Sons Nursery in Fillmore. ottoandsonsnursery.com
Nature Club for Kids: Butterflies With the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy, a free introduction to the butterflies living on the peninsula, with crafts and a butterfly hike for ages 3 to 10 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the White Point Nature Education Center in San Pedro. pvplc.org
Guided Nature Walk at Alta Vicente Reserve, a moderate to strenuous walk exploring coastal sage scrub habitat with views of Catalina Island and a chance to spot rare birds such as coastal cactus wrens, 9 to 11:30 a.m. in Rancho Palos Verdes. Free, but registration is required. pvplc.org
June 14-15 Los Angeles International Fern Society Annual Fern & Exotic Plant Show & Sale, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on June 14, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on June 15 at the Los Angeles County Arboretum’s Ayres Hall in Arcadia. Admission is free with $15 ticket to the garden ($11 seniors 62+ and students with ID, $5 children ages 5-12, members and children 4 and younger enter free). arboretum.org
June 14 and 28 Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy’s Native Plant Sales 10:30 a.m. to noon both days at the George F. Canyon Nature Preserve in Rancho Palos Verdes on June 14 and the White Point Nature Education Center in San Pedro on June 28. Plants are grown at the conservancy’s nursery. pvplc.org
June 14, 21 and 28th Three-Part California Native Garden Design class taught by landscape designer Mari Taylor of Deerbrush Design, 1 to 5 p.m. each day at the Theodore Payne Foundation classroom in Sun Valley. Learn how to evaluate your existing garden, use or convert irrigation systems and basic design approaches. The introductory, online Right Plant, Right Place class on June 10 from 6 to 8 p.m. ($35, or $25 members) is a prerequisite for this course. Tickets are $348.65 ($295.29 members) or $412.67 for couples ($359.32 members). eventbrite.com
June 20-22 Grow Native Nursery Milkweed Fest & End-Of-Season Plant Sale, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on June 20-21, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on June 22 at the California Botanic Garden. The nursery is celebrating monarch butterflies with the sale of seven different regional species of milkweed, the plant their larva (caterpillars) require to survive, as well as many other California native plants popular with pollinators. This is the last weekend the nursery will be open until the fall. The sale begins June 20. The Milkweed Fest on June 21 will include information about butterfly gardening, the monarch count in Los Angeles and Orange counties and milkweed mapping with vendors from the Xerces Society and Monarch Watch. On June 22, the festival ends with the Butterflies and Brews happy hour from 3:30 to 6 p.m. with drinks, music and socializing. calbg.org
June 21 Fire-Resilient Gardens: A Maintenance Walk and Talk with Theodore Payne Foundation educator Erik Blank, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the foundation in Sun Valley. Learn how to prune and maintain your garden for wildfire safety. Tickets are $39.19 ($28.52 members). eventbrite.com
June 21, 22, 28 or 29 Early Summer Tours of Apricot Lane Farms, the famed organic Moorpark farm behind the documentary film “The Biggest Little Farm,” at 9 to 11 a.m. or 1 to 3 p.m. each day. Participants must be able to walk at least 1.5 miles on a tour that includes several hill climbs. Tickets are $64.69, children 5 and younger enter free with a ticketed adult. eventbrite.com
June 27 Propagating California Native Plants From Seed During the Warm Season, a class taught by horticulturist Ella Andersson, the Theodore Payne Foundation‘s chief botanical technician, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the foundation. Participants will help plant 10 species of warm-season seeds, which they can take home. All materials are included. Tickets are $92.55 ($81.88 members). eventbrite.com
June 28 Los Angeles Chapter of the California Rare Fruit Growers Humongous June Plant Sale, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Sepulveda Garden Center in Encino. The sale includes a variety of rare and unusual plants, including fruit trees, vines, berries, roses, flowers and succulents, and an expert on hand to answer questions about their care. Proceeds from the sale will go to support the chapter’s agricultural education programs. crfg-la.org
Botany of Oaks: A walk and talk native tree workshop with arborist Alison Lancaster, 9:30 a.m. to noon at the Theodore Payne Foundation grounds in Sun Valley. Learn how to recognize the many varieties of oaks during an outdoor walk followed by studying oak leaves under a microscope in a classroom. Tickets are $39.19 ($28.52 for members). eventbrite.com
Queer Ecology Walk and Mixer led by naturalist and educator Jason “Journeyman” Wise, 1 to 4 p.m. at the Theodore Payne Foundation’s gardens in Sun Valley. “Explore California’s native plants and ecosystems through the lens of queer ecology: the study of everything in nature that subverts our Western cultural expectations about how the natural world ‘should’ work,” according to the event description. Complimentary refreshments provided at the end of the walk, participants must be 21 or older. Tickets are $44.52 ($33.85 members). eventbrite.com
Tall, lanky and infinitely gracious, Dan Bifano is known as the gardener to the stars, building huge rose gardens for wealthy, famous SoCal clients like Barbra Streisand and Oprah. His clients can be notoriously picky, but that doesn’t seem to faze Bifano, who keeps his standards simple: perfection.
What Felix Mallard has grown to appreciate about living in L.A. is that there’s a pocket of town to match every vibe — even if that vibe is “Aussie,” which his proudly is, having moved from Melbourne seven years ago.
“There are a lot of places that remind me of home,” says the 27-year-old actor, who plays tough-shelled Marcus in Netflix’s “Ginny & Georgia,” which returns for its third season next week. “The coastal cities and certainly some parts of Silver Lake and Echo Park feel very Melbourne. They feel very hipster. I mean, that word has changed so much — I don’t know if bohemian is the right word either. But there’s a sense of wanting to engage with good food, good coffee and good art. That kind of thing is very important to people from Melbourne.”
In Sunday Funday, L.A. people give us a play-by-play of their ideal Sunday around town. Find ideas and inspiration on where to go, what to eat and how to enjoy life on the weekends.
As he carves his own space in Los Angeles, Mallard has been captivating Gen Z audiences with his nuanced roles, ones that tend to resonate with young men amid all of the distinct pressures they face. Last year, he starred in the romantic drama “Turtles All the Way Down,” the film adaptation of John Green’s young adult novel that explores the complexities of obsessive-compulsive disorder. He’s now set to headline “Nest,” a movie about a young family whose home is invaded by deadly arachnids. (“It’s a quiet meditation on masculinity and being a father, wrapped up in a really fun spider horror movie,” he explains. “A real one-two punch.”)
For Mallard, a perfect Sunday in L.A. involves surfing (a must), playing music loudly (he knows his way around the guitar, bass, piano and drums) and trekking from West L.A. to the Eastside in the name of adventure. Here’s a play by play.
This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
5:30 a.m.: Chase the waves I’d get up early and have a surf. The funny thing with surfing in L.A. is that you have to go where the waves are good. So it could be anywhere — Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Huntington Beach, Malibu or Ventura. You’ve got to check the Surfline app and kind of know the seasons as well, like how winter brings north swells and summer brings south swells. But it’s a guessing game. You kind of throw a dart and follow it, you know? There’s a nice crew of Aussies, Kiwis and Americans. We all try and surf together, which is really sweet.
8 a.m.: Post-surf burritos Now I’ll probably be in a raggedy flannel top and some track pants and some Birkenstocks. Really just kind of half asleep. But it’s mandatory after a surf to get a breakfast burrito. There’s a really, really good place in Hermosa Beach called Brother’s Burritos. They don’t do the typical kind of massive breakfast burrito. Theirs come in two little bite-size burritos, which is perfect for breakfast, you know? And then there’s another place in West L.A. called Sachi.LA that’s just off the Culver loop. It’s a really cool, funky little coffee shop and cafe with a little record store next door — the perfect kind of vibe after having a surf and being in nature all morning. I really try to enjoy the peace that comes after that.
9:30 a.m.: Catch up on shows I’m going home and catching up on the week’s shows. Right now, I’m really deep into “Hacks” — obsessed with it. I feel like I came to it quite late and I’ve had to make up for lost time. And I’m really, really loving “Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney,” and “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver.” I feel like if you’re going to check in with the news these days, it’s got to be in a format that’s digestible. I think John Oliver has a really great way of doing that, presenting the outrage and the absurdity in a fun context.
Noon: Try to find the joy of cooking I’ve always found it such a challenge to see cooking as the expression of love that I know it is — I just haven’t had the inspiration. But Jamie Oliver’s books have really helped me because he explains recipes in a way that teach you the fundamentals. He’s got this cookbook, “One-Pan Wonders,” with an herb-y chicken tray bake that’s really simple. You can put the vegetables at the bottom of the tray — and a lot of rosemary and a lot of lemon — and put the chicken on the bars above the tray, so that when it cooks, the chicken fat drops into the vegetables and creates this really lovely flavor in the veggies. And then you finish it off with some lemon and olive oil. So that’s the one I think I can do. But if anyone has seen that recipe, they’ll know it’s the easiest one in the book, so I’m not trying to brag here.
1 p.m.: Get lost in the music It’s always a struggle to get up off the couch, but once there’s been some food, I’m off to play some music. There was this beautiful, really fun, cheap, grungy rehearsal studio in Culver City called Exposition Studios. It would be, like, $25 or $30 an hour, and you could rent instruments and rent a room and just play as loud and as long as you want. It’s not there anymore, but there are a few other places like that around town. I’ve gone to Pirate Studios in West Adams a couple times, and just anywhere I can play some music, really, really loud.
I’ve got an EP of songs that I’m working my way through. It’s very grungy, very emotion-based. It’s probably quite angsty. There’s a lot of anger in there, and then I think maybe a lot of sadness. It’s touching on a lot of the uglier sides of our psyche that we all have.
4 p.m.: Car entertainment Now we start preparing the journey east. Because it’s L.A., you can’t pretend that you’re not going to spend some part of your day in traffic. So a podcast is a must. I’ll be listening to Louis Theroux. I just love how he asks questions, how he kind of gives a space for his guests to either showcase who they are or maybe unknowingly reveal parts of themselves they may not even intend to. How he holds the space for that is quite impressive, and it’s a good distraction while you’re driving.
5 p.m.: Fuel up with burgers We’re going to Burgerlords. They do a really simple menu. You can get a smashburger, I think a vegan burger, and something else, and they’ve got a really nice selection of craft beers. And it’s kind of like a redone version of a ‘50s diner inside.
7 p.m.: Let loose at a punk show From there, we’ll go to Zebulon. I love it. I don’t see too many venues with an indoor-outdoor kind of space. They have a big garden, so you can go and take a break outside and then come back in and enjoy that change of pace. It’s one of my favorite spots in L.A. to go and watch music, for sure.
The last time I went, we saw the Spits. They’re, you know, really proper punks. And then another time, we saw a band called Spy, and they were supported by Fentanyl, Blood Stained Concrete and Yard, which is a Polish hardcore band. So any time we’re out there, it’s usually for a bit more of a hardcore kind of scene. And they’re the most fun gigs to go to. Everyone’s there to release some tension, some energy. The fans are always super, super, super die-hard fans.
Midnight: Straight to bed
I’ll make the trek home and tuck into bed. That’s usually about midnight. I’d like to say it’s earlier and that I’m, like, healthy, but I’m not.
Note: Finals May 30-31 at 3 p.m. at Birmingham (Divisions III-IV); at 9 a.m. (Division II), 12:15 p.m. (Division I) and 3:30 p.m. (Open Division) at TBD.
Top-seeded Corona won with ace Seth Hernandez on Tuesday but now must get past Big VIII League rival Norco on the road with Ethin Bingaman pitching against freshman standout Jordan Ayala. This is the game the Panthers might be most vulnerable.
St. John Bosco, the Trinity League champion, is playing at Villa Park in a noon matchup. Villa Park defeated Aquinas on Tuesday. Los Alamitos is playing at Santa Margarita in a matchup of teams that didn’t win league titles.
Mira Costa, with a 26-game winning streak, faces Mission League champion Crespi on the road in a 2:15 start at Hartunian Field. The Celts have No. 2 pitcher Tyler Walton ready to go.
The winners advance to Tuesday’s semifinals. …
The City Section Division III baseball championship will take place Friday at Stengel Field, with University playing Jefferson at 3 p.m. Then the Division II final has Port of Los Angeles playing Chavez at 6 p.m. …
Grant Leary of Crespi won the Southern Section individual golf title on Thursday, shooting a 66.
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Terry Crews is a man of many talents. In the 1990s, he played for both the Rams and the Chargers before becoming an actor and starring in projects like “White Chicks,” “Everybody Hates Chris,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and “The Expendables” franchise. Other roles on his resume? Old Spice spokesman, high-end furniture designer, accomplished painter and author of a memoir. Crews was also featured in People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive issue three times.
But the gig that has made him internationally known, he says, is hosting “America’s Got Talent” for the last six years. The show, which is celebrating 20 seasons, returns to NBC on May 27.
In Sunday Funday, L.A. people give us a play-by-play of their ideal Sunday around town. Find ideas and inspiration on where to go, what to eat and how to enjoy life on the weekends.
For Crews, hosting “AGT” is a job that suits him. “I am a honey-baked ham,” he shamelessly admits, flashing his endearing white smile during a Zoom call. “I like the spotlight. I’ve always been a dancer, so it was like this is the vibe. But then I got in there, and I was like, now I see why I love this so much. It’s because every contestant reminds me of me.”
We caught up with Crews to discuss his ideal Sunday in L.A. It involves walking around Old Town Pasadena, catching a movie and spending time with his wife Rebecca King-Crews and their five adult children.
This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
6:30 a.m.: Wake up and hit the gym
I am an early riser no matter what. Even if it’s Sunday, it’s like, my body clock just kind of pops up. Like when I say I sleep in late, that’s 6:30 or 7 a.m. because I like to get up at the crack of dawn. I’m a 4:30 or 5 a.m. guy. Every Sunday, I start with a workout. It’s very light, more of cardio and active recovery, but I never miss it.
9 a.m.: Pick up breakfast from Erewhon
I’ve been intermittent fasting for almost 15 years, so I don’t eat breakfast, but I love breakfast food. So what I do — and this is a real staple — we have an Erewhon that opened near us and it has the most fabulous cooked breakfast. It’s half a store, half a restaurant. Erewhon has the best smoothies, the best pastries. Even though I don’t eat until 2 p.m., I go to Erewhon and get all their breakfast stuff. I’ll get the bacon and eggs, or the breakfast sandwiches [and] breakfast burritos. A lot of the time on Sundays, that’s when all the kids want to stop by, so I’ll bring a bunch of stuff, set it on the stove, and they go in there and I tell them, “Leave me something.”
10 a.m.: Praise break at home
My wife actually started a church. It’s called the L.A. Life Church. It’s like Tiny Desk meets church and she has a thing called Sonic Sundays. It’s online, but we record during the week, and it’s basically a half an hour with a lot of music, and then she does a lesson. We watch it together every Sunday morning when it comes out at 10 a.m. When COVID hit, it kind of changed our churchgoing habits because everybody had to do it at home, and she just decided, “You know what? Let’s just do it!”
11:30 a.m.: Hit up Old Town in Pasadena
Once that’s over, that’s when we go down to Old Town. It’s our favorite place to go. I have an office slash studio that’s right off Colorado Avenue. That’s where all the stores are, and my wife has a store, Rebeccca Crews, which is in Hugus Alley. My daughter works there too. So we’ll walk around Old Town and I’ll stop by Alfred to pick up a coffee. I get a double espresso, straight with nothing in it.
If we decide to stay out, one place we love is Americana in Glendale, which is really close. I love this place called Egg Slut there. Crazy name, but man-oh-man, like I told you, I love breakfast food and they close at 2 p.m. So we have to time it out. We’ll do all that Old Town running around, then we’ll jump down to Glendale and usually I get there by 1:30 p.m. and I’ll be their last customer, and they know me. I have a double bacon, double egg breakfast sandwich. It comes with a little ketchup on it and I get a side salad, which is like arugula and a little Parmesan and maybe a small orange juice.
3:30 p.m.: Pop over to the Americana in Glendale
I love books. I have a library of books that is probably the most valuable thing that I own. I probably have like 10,000 books, so what I love to do is go to Barnes and Noble. You can’t find them anymore. It’s very rare and the Barnes and Noble at Americana is one of my favorite spots, because I’ll get lost. You can spend literally two or three hours there.
5 p.m.: Watch a flick
I’m a big movie guy, so usually on a Sunday, that’s when I do my theater watching. I’ve been getting tickets to throwback movies. Being at home, it’s OK, but I love the smell of popcorn and I love to experience the reactions of other people. When you’re going to see a comedy or something scary or something weird, it’s kind of like you want to feel that energy, so we go to IPIC. I’m a gold member. I’m practically a platinum member because I’m about really nice experiences. If you’re going to do a theater, do it well.
7 p.m.: Enjoy my cheat–day meal
Even though I do intermittent fasting, Sunday is my cheat day. When it’s time for dinner, that’s In-N-Out Burger time. I’ll get a couple double-doubles. You know, I’m simple. Or we’ll find a restaurant that everyone’s been talking about. But a lot of times, they aren’t open on Sunday nights. There are a few like Majordomo that my guy David Chang [owns], but other than that, it’s In-N-Out Burger time.
If there’s a sporting event on a Sunday, I’d go to SoFi to see a football game. I was on the Rams and the Chargers, so the funny thing is, when I get invited to a Chargers game, I act like I’m the biggest Chargers fan in the world, and then when I get invited to the Rams game, I do the same thing. They both ended up in L.A., so they both claim me and I’m like yep [laughs].
8 p.m.: Get ready for bed
I go to bed early and my wife is like, “What are we, in third grade?” [Laughs] That’s why I don’t like to go to the movies too late. I will never, ever go to a movie that starts at 7 p.m. cause you won’t be out of there until like 10 p.m. I’m like nope! I go to bed at the latest 8:30 p.m. and my regime — something I’ve been doing for years and it feels so good — is I close all the curtains, make sure the room is all cool. I try my best to put the phone up. I don’t want that blue light on me. I wash my face, brush my teeth, get in bed and I’ll have the book of the century — whatever I’m reading — right next to the bed and my glasses.
I look forward to this time cause you know where you left off, whether it’s a novel or an autobiography, and you’re like, I wonder what happened there? I always have to make sure I leave at a good spot. I’m the guy who gets sad at the end of a book. The same way people feel about streaming when you’ve gone through all 10 episodes. I’m reading a book called “The Weight of Air” by this guy named David Poses. Oh, my God. He was addicted to heroin for years and was in and out of rehab. It’s fascinating because he’s so transparent and it just inspires me to be that vulnerable.
Nick Garcia, the throws coach at Sherman Oaks Notre Dame, calls shotputter and discus thrower Aja Johnson “the dragon slayer.”
She’s only 5 feet 3 but slays taller girls competing in those events.
Last weekend, she won the Southern Section Division 3 shotput and discus titles. This weekend she will try to qualify for the state championships when competing at the Masters Meet at Moorpark High. She won the state discus title last year. She was state champion in the shotput in 2023.
Aja Johnson of Sherman Oaks Notre Dame.
(Eric Sondheimer / Los Angeles Times)
Under Garcia’s guidance, Johnson uses technique, athleticism, agility and explosiveness to excel in the two events. She has committed to Louisville. Notre Dame athletes have won every Division 3 shotput or discus title since 2021. …
The City Section Division I baseball semifinals will be held Wednesday at Stengel Field in Glendale with a trip to Dodger Stadium on Saturday at stake. Carson will play Taft at 3 p.m., followed by Banning taking on Verdugo Hills at 6 p.m.
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#18 Animo Robinson or #15 Valor Academy at #2 Van Nuys
THURSDAY’S SCHEDULE
(Games at 3 p.m. unless noted)
OPEN DIVISION
QUARTERFINALS
#8 Banning at #1 Granada Hills
#5 El Camino Real at #4 Venice
#6 Birmingham at #3 Carson
#7 Kennedy at #2 San Pedro
Note: Divisions I-IV Quarterfinals Fri., May 23 at 3 p.m. at higher seeds; Semifinals (all divisions) Wed., May 28 at higher seeds; Finals May 30-31 at Birmingham (Divisions II-IV) and TBD (Open-Division II).
You can go ask any college football recruiter whether they’d be more impressed with a high school player who spends the majority of time in offseason seven-on-seven competitions or working on other skills in track and field? They’d always say track.
Darren Haggerty of Viewpoint High is an example of a football player who’s going to benefit from showing what he can do in track and field.
On Saturday, he pulled off career-best performances to win the Division 4 high jump at 6 feet, 6 inches and the long jump at 22-8 at the Southern Section championships at Moorpark High. He helped Viewpoint share the Division 4 title with Gardena Serra.
He was a little shocked afterward, not knowing he had it in him. He was considered Viewpoint’s best football player last fall as a sophomore, leading the team in receiving with 39 receptions for 674 yards and five touchdowns. He also had 37 tackles on defense. …
Quarterback Luke Fahey led Mission Viejo to the championship of the Millikan seven-on-seven tournament, beating San Diego Lincoln in the final. San Juan Hills won the tournament at Dana Hills and Charter Oak took its own tournament title. …
The semifinals are set for City Section Division I baseball on Wednesday at Stengel Field in Glendale. It will be No. 5 Verdugo Hills vs. No. 1 Banning at 6 p.m. and No. 11 Taft vs No. 2 Carson at 3 p.m.
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There’s also the state swimming championships at Clovis West High. …
The City Section will hold a Tuesday semifinal doubleheader in baseball for the Open Division at Cal State Northridge, with El Camino Real playing Birmingham at 3 p.m. and Venice facing Sylmar at 6 p.m.
#20 Bernstein or #13 Bell at #4 Northridge Academy
#19 Mendez or #14 Maywood Academy at #3 SOCES
#11 Fremont at #6 Taft
#10 King/Drew at #7 Triumph Charter
#18 Roybal or #15 Wilson at #2 Narbonne
DIVISION III
#17 Contreras or #16 Sun Valley Magnet at #1 Lincoln
#9 USC-MAE at #8 University
#12 Alliance Bloomfield at #5 North Hollywood
#20 Middle College or #13 Sotomayor at South East
#19 Maywood CES or #14 Maywood CES at #3 Jefferson
#11 Huntington Park at #6 CALS Early College
#10 University Prep Value at #7 Community Charter
#18 Animo Venice or #15 LA Leadership Academy at #2 Rancho Dominguez
DIVISION IV
#17 Stella or #16 Animo Bunche at #1 Westchester
#9 East Valley at #8 Lakeview Charter
#12 Fulton at #5 Washington
#20 Valley Oaks CES or #13 Jordan at #4 Reseda
#19 Crenshaw or #14 Manual Arts at #3 Animo De La Hoya
#11 Vaughn at #6 Monroe
#10 Discovery at #7 LACES
#18 Animo Robinson or #15 Valor Academy at #2 Van Nuys
THURSDAY’S SCHEDULE
OPEN DIVISION
QUARTERFINALS
#8 Banning at #1 Granada Hills
#5 El Camino Real at #4 Venice
#6 Birmingham at #3 Carson
#7 Kennedy at #2 San Pedro
Note: Divisions I-IV Quarterfinals Fri., May 23 at 3 p.m. at higher seeds; Semifinals (all divisions) Wed., May 28 at higher seeds; Finals May 30-31 at Birmingham (Divisions II-IV) and TBD (Open-Division II).
Spiritually, Gabby Windey is all about Sundays in a hardcore, no-exceptions, day-of-rest sort of way. The “Long Winded” podcast host became the breakout star of “The Traitors” this year after winning the reality TV competition with a series of bold outfits and stereotype-smashing strategic moves. Her stream-of-consciousness podcast monologues continue to boost her star, frequently going viral on Instagram and TikTok for their vocal fry realness. Now she’s booked and busy beyond belief, a mixed bag for Windey.
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“You know I’m always begging for a break,” Windey says. “It’s things that I want to be busy with, so I can’t really complain. But yeah, I’m always looking for my next nap.”
That makes Sundays feel like a “special occasion” for her, especially since it’s when she gets slow, quality time with her wife, comedian Robby Hoffman. Together, Windey and Hoffman spend their Sundays in the most relatable way possible: scrolling the internet, watching TV and movies, getting high with friends and snacking.
Sundays are also the ultimate example of Windey’s famous “business hours,” the time after 3 p.m. in which Windey’s confidence plummets and she’d rather “gouge my eyes out with a dull chopstick” than FaceTime for work. Woe to anyone who would bother Windey on a Sunday.
“God forbid, if anyone emails you on a Sunday, block and delete, fire them all,” Windey says. “On Sunday I am closed for business. You will not hear a peep from me.”
This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.
9 a.m.: Get out of bed, get back into bed
We’ll sleep in until, like, hopefully 9 or something. Robby works nights, you know, she’s a stand-up comedian. I’m like blaming [sleeping in] on her, but I can easily get 10 hours of sleep a night. So yeah, we like a lazy morning.
We’ll go get coffee. We’re right next to Lamill now. Then we’ll come back home and do the New York Times crossword, Connections, Wordle in bed.
Normally, when Robby’s had her fair share of like showing me YouTube clips or Reels, then I’ll start to get antsy. I’m like, “Enough of this. Let’s go.”
11 a.m.: Groceries and tamales
We’ll walk to the Silver Lake Farmers Market. Robby does a lot of the grocery shopping, and I’ll just, like, get a tamale. They’re $5, and they’re huge. I like a red sauce and a green sauce, so it’s like beef with the red sauce and chicken with the green sauce, but I also like a dessert tamale, a sweet tamale. I’m half Mexican, and my mom did not cook except for tamales. So it’s a very comforting food.
Robby’s really good at grocery shopping, so I just kind of let her go. But we get fresh berries. We’ll make veggie sandwiches throughout the week, which is like romaine lettuce, mushrooms, tomatoes and cucumber. We’ll get those ingredients and whatever weird food there is, you know, there’s always like some hippie fermented thing that’s supposed to be good for you.
Noon: Back to bed.
I have to take a break.
1 p.m.: Prerolls in the park
For [the weed holiday] 4/20, we met up with friends in Silver Lake Meadow. First I went to Botanica to get some snacks. They have good snacks, so I got this really good carrot hummus. It’s like sweet. I got some good crackers, some goat cheese wrapped in tea leaves. It sounds better than it actually was. And I’m exploring NA [nonalcoholic] options. So I got some Ghia. People die for it. But I’m like, I don’t know. I wasn’t quite sold. It’s not giving me a buzz. Surprisingly — there’s nothing in it! But I still want a buzz of some sort, which in comes the weed. So then we went to the park to just like get high on Edie Parker prerolls, talk s— with some friends for like three hours and eat good snacks. (Note: Windey has a partnership with fashion and cannabis brand Edie Parker).
4:30 p.m.: Catch a movie
Then we’ll go see a movie. We’ll f— with the Americana [at Brand] hard. We love the popcorn, love the ease. We’ll like sneak food in and out, you know, I don’t even think you need to sneak it in anymore. We haven’t gotten caught, but we always have the backstory of like that we’re gluten-free, or that we’re kosher, because Robby grew up Hasidic. So she knows what it’s like to be kosher, and I guess it’d be a good excuse for sneaking in food to the movie theater.
7:30 p.m.: Eat special-occasion sushi
After the movies, we’ll probably go out, like on a date night. I love sushi, obviously, who doesn’t? So we’ll either go to Sugarfish, because it’s like you get the same thing every time. You know, it’s so reliable. Or Kombu Sushi in Silver Lake. They have a great baked crab roll that I literally crave. But I like to save it for a special occasion, for Sunday.
9:30 p.m.: Call it a night
Back home, I’ll maybe do some skincare if I have any energy left, which after this Sunday it sounds like I won’t. Other than that, we might just watch a show, or I’ll do like a face mask. I’ll read on the Kindle — I’m reading “Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents.” I can’t wait to be done with it. I’m like, “OK, I just need to get through this. And then I can start fun reading again.” I didn’t get much of the American lit category in school. So I’m trying to kind of move my way through that. I just read Joan Didion’s “Slouching Towards Bethlehem.” I might go to the other book that people think is her best one next.
DIVISION 1 Pool Play #6 Newport Harbor d. #3 Loyola, 21-25, 25-22, 26-24, 25-23
QUARTERFINALS DIVISION 2 Mater Dei d. Edison, 25-17, 25-22, 23-25, 25-19 St. Francis d. El Segundo, 25-19, 25-17, 23-25, 24-26, 15-11 St. Margaret’s d. Burbank Burroughs, 3-1 Peninsula d. Santa Margarita, 3-2
DIVISION 3 Tesoro d. Los Alamitos, 25-13, 28-26, 20-25, 20-25, 15-8 North Torrance d. San Marino, 25-23, 25-27, 25-21, 20-25, 15-5 Warren d. Santa Monica, 3-1 Orange Lutheran d. Mission Viejo, 25-21, 27-25, 25-23
DIVISION 4 Corona Santiago d. Westlake, 3-2 Santa Barbara d. Sherman Oaks Notre Dame, 3-0 Crean Lutheran d. Dos Pueblos, 3-1 Sage Hill d. Royal, 25-17, 22-25, 25-16, 15-25, 15-10
DIVISION 5 Newbury Park d. Oak Park, 26-24, 25-23, 25-16 Esperanza d. Wiseburn Da Vinci, 3-0 Kennedy d. California, 25-17, 25-15, 25-21 Vista Murrieta d. Rancho Alamitos, 25-17, 25-13, 25-17
DIVISION 6 Quartz Hill d. Rio Hondo Prep, 19-25, 26-28, 25-21, 25-18, 15-13 Village Christian d. Oxford Academy, 28-26, 25-14, 25-22 Laguna Blanca d. OC Pacifica Christian, 3-1 El Toro d. Yucaipa, 18-25, 32-30, 25-16, 25-17
DIVISION 7 Brea Olinda d. Lakewood, 26-24, 25-17, 25-17 San Jacinto d. La Serna, 25-21, 25-20, 17-25, 25-15 San Gabriel Academy d. Jurupa Valley, 3-0 Brentwood d. Hawthorne MSA, 3-1
DIVISION 8 Lancaster Desert Christian d. Carpinteria, 3-1 Katella d. Southlands Christian, 3-2 Wildwood d. Channel Islands, 3-1 Avalon d. Alta Loma, 3-0
DIVISION 9 CAMS d. Heritage, 3-1 San Jacinto Valley d. Firebaugh, 25-19, 22-25, 25-22, 12-25, 15-13 Downey Calvary Chapel d. Whittier Christian, 3-1 Beverly Hills d. Yeshiva, 19-25, 9-25, 25-13, 25-21, 15-11
Note: Open Division pool play (third round), semifinals in Divisions 2-9 May 10; Finals in all divisions May 16 or 17.
BOYS DIVISION 1 Quarterfinals Loyola 15, Corona de Mar 5 Foothill 11, JSerra 4 Mater Dei 13, Westlake 7 St. Francis at Santa Margarita, Wednesday at 7 p.m.
GIRLS DIVISION 2 Quarterfinals El Segundo 17, Village Christian 13 Huntington Beach 8, Palos Verdes 7 San Juan Hills 10, Corona del Mar 8 St. Margaret’s 15, Anaheim Canyon 8
DIVISION 3 Quarterfinals Trabuco Hills 14, Cate 7 Aliso Niguel 15, University 14 Oaks Christian 18, Westridge 11 Dos Pueblos 8, Glendale 7
WEDNESDAY’S SCHEDULE (Games at 5 p.m. unless noted)
BOYS DIVISION 2 Quarterfinals Huntington Beach at Dos Pueblos, 6 p.m. Village Christian at Oaks Christian Aliso Niguel at St. John Bosco Palos Verdes at San Clemente
DIVISION 3 Quarterfinals Linfield Christian vs. West Ranch at Valencia San Juan Hills at Riverside King Grace Brethren at Simi Valley University at Agoura
Pool A #1 Mira Costa d. #8 San Clemente, 25-12, 25-19, 25-13 #4 Corona del Mar d. #5 Beckman, 26-24, 25-17, 25-27, 25-17
Pool B #2 Huntington Beach d. #7 Redondo Union, 25-23, 25-23, 25-19 #6 Newport Harbor at #3 Loyola, Wednesday at 6 p.m.
WEDNESDAY’S SCHEDULE (Matches at 6 p.m. unless noted)
QUARTERFINALS DIVISION 2 Mater Dei at Edison El Segundo at St. Francis Burbank Burroughs at St. Margaret’s Santa Margarita at Peninsula
DIVISION 3 Los Alamitos at Tesoro North Torrance at San Marino Warren at Santa Monica Orange Lutheran at Mission Viejo
DIVISION 4 Westlake at Corona Santiago Sherman Oaks Notre Dame at Santa Barbara Dos Pueblos at Crean Lutheran Sage Hill at Royal
DIVISION 5 Oak Park at Newbury Park Esperanza at Wiseburn Da Vinci Kennedy at California Rancho Alamitos at Vista Murrieta
DIVISION 6 Rio Hondo Prep at Quartz Hill, 7 p.m. Oxford Academy at Village Christian OC Pacifica Christian at Laguna Blanca El Toro at Yucaipa
DIVISION 7 Brea Olinda at Lakewood La Serna at San Jacinto San Gabriel Academy at Jurupa Valley Brentwood vs. Hawthorne MSA at Bud Carson Middle School
DIVISION 8 Carpinteria at Lancaster Desert Christian, 4 p.m. Katella at Southlands Christian Channel Islands vs. Wildwood at Crossroads Alta Loma at Avalon
DIVISION 9 Heritage vs. CAMS at McBride School, Long Beach San Jacinto Valley at Firebaugh Whittier Christian at Downey Calvary Chapel, 5 p.m. Beverly Hills at Yeshiva, 6:30 p.m.
Note: Open Division pool play (third round), semifinals in Divisions 2-9 May 10; Finals in all divisions May 16 or 17.
