Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bipartisan bill Friday making it a crime to farm octopuses for human consumption in California. The new law makes it illegal to raise and breed octopuses in state waters or in aquaculture tanks based on land within the state. It also prevents business owners and operators from knowingly participating in the sale of an octopus — regardless of its provenance — that has bee

NEW YORK — The night before I’m scheduled to speak with Winona Ryder in a restaurant on Central Park South, she did some arts and crafts. In red thread, she embroidered the name “Gena” over the left breast pocket of her gothic black suit with a high collar designed by Elena Dawson, who also made a jacket she wears in “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” (in theaters Sept. 6). Ryder sewed the name as a tribut

Representatives of Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani on Wednesday accused his interpreter of engaging in a “massive theft” of the ballplayer’s funds to place bets with an allegedly illegal bookmaker who is the target of a federal investigation. Lawyers for Ohtani made that claim after The Times learned that Ohtani’s name had surfaced in the investigation of Mathew Bowyer, an Orange County resident.

‘Oppenheimer’ doesn’t show us Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That’s an act of rigor, not erasure (Los Angeles Times photo illustration; photos by Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures, AP Photo, Getty Images) The key word in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” is “compartmentalization.” It’s a security strategy, introduced and repeatedly enforced by Col. Leslie R. Groves (Matt Damon) in his capacity as dir

After a milestone night for Asian and Asian American inclusion at the 95th Academy Awards, one community is still feeling the sting of being left out. Sunday’s performance of the viral heel-tapping hit “Naatu Naatu,” which became the first tune from an Indian film to win the Oscar for original song, was meant to be a celebration of Telugu-language blockbuster “RRR’s” unlikely road to the Oscars. I