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Time Out
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
The 2026 L.A. Marathon date is changing to avoid a clash with the Oscars schedule
Call it a traffic jam of iconic proportions: the 2026 L.A. Marathon and the Academy Awards were both scheduled to take place on March 15—until the city's top talent stepped in. Mayor Karen Bass announced on Thursday that the marathon will be rescheduled to avoid a Hollywood-style pileup. The conflict sparked logistical headaches as both events depend on access to central arteries like Hollywood Boulevard, which is not exactly built to handle both a 26.2-mile race and a red-carpet rollout in the same breath. The Academy had announced that the 98th Oscars—set to be hosted again by Conan O'Brien—would take place on March 15 at the Dolby Theatre, a key spot along the 2025 marathon route. Turns out, marathon organizers were blindsided by the news. 'We were surprised by the Academy's announcement, as there was no prior communication with us,' an L.A. marathon spokesperson wrote in a statement to NBC4, on April 2, noting that the event's traditional date—the third Sunday in March—had been publicly announced well in advance. In stepped Mayor Bass, who brokered a compromise between Murphy Reinschreiber of the McCourt Foundation (which owns the marathon) and Bill Kramer, CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The result? The Oscars will remain on March 15, while the marathon will shift to another March date, which is still to be confirmed. The deal also secures the marathon's future: going forward, it will always land on the third Sunday in March. The Academy and marathon organizers also agreed to a new partnership aimed at cross-promoting the events for the good of the L.A. community. So don't lace up just yet—at least not until the final date drops.
Yahoo
28-03-2025
- Yahoo
Marathon buddies, prayer buddies, clean-water buddies: Newton and Vaughn have been through a lot together
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Thousands of people will be at the Bakersfield Marathon this weekend. Two of the attendees, Richard Newton and Al Vaughn — one participating, the other sitting things out — have a special story based on a special bond. They're prayer buddies, running buddies, and water quality buddies – priorities that for them, go hand in hand. Newton and Vaughn have known each other for 30 years from their affiliation with Olive Knolls Church in northwest Bakersfield and their association with Team World Vision, a faith based international charity that digs wells and builds water conveyance infrastructure for impoverished villages around the world. Team members find sponsors for their participation in marathons across the country. Newton power-walked in the L.A. Marathon earlier in March, raising money for Team World Vision. Although the Bakersfield Marathon is not an official World Vision event, they and other team members will be there in uniform, raising money for the cause. And what a cause. Olive Knolls Pastor Kevin Hardey visited Kenya earlier in 2025 to see the work his church's giving through World Vision had accomplished. 'They don't just do water,' said Newton, who is the Olive Knolls facility manager. 'They build wells and all that, yes they do, but they also provide schools, churches and animals. You can buy an animal for them – goats and chickens, so they have milk and eggs…they won't have sick children because of water anymore.' Newton believes in his efforts' healing power. When his friend Al was down and almost out four years ago with Covid-19, Newton had a chat with God. 'In my heart he was telling me that he wanted me to do 10 days of half marathons to honor Al and to glorify him,' Newton said, gesturing skyward. Bakersfield police search for 15-year-old last seen on Efada Drive He told the church's office manager about what God had told him. 'And she said, OK, you start tomorrow,' Newton said. 'And I just went, 'Wow, OK.' One day it was pouring rain so I went on our gym floor and went 13 miles. In a circle on the gym floor. And everybody's like, 'What are you doing?'' On the 10th day, he and a teammate circled Al's hospital the equivalent of 13 miles, which initially had the security guard concerned. But it worked. 'And then shortly after that he started to come to,' Newton said of his friend Vaughn. 'Yeah, I came around,' Vaughn said. Vaughn is a longtime marathoner who, at 79, with a heart condition, might have run his last marathon, but he is contemplating running in the Bakersfield 6k race next year. In a sense, Newton was just repaying a favor Vaughn had done for him the previous year. 'I prayed for Richard when he had cancer, you bet,' Vaughn said. 'And we both had our down times. But the Lord keeps us faithful and gets us through it.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Los Angeles Times
21-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times News Quiz this week: Ohtani's big swing back home, a new hotel ban
Welcome to the Los Angeles Times News Quiz. Your quizmaster Adam Tschorn here, back with another 10 handcrafted, California-leaning, multiple-choice questions riffing off the stories published in The Times (in print or online) over the previous seven days. This week those topics include a legally questionable hotel ban that's suddenly popular around California, the winner of this year's L.A. Marathon (and what makes him different from every other winner in the last three decades), the Broadway musical President Trump isn't a fan of, the perennially popular sitcom set at the Dunder Mifflin paper company, the new Corita Art Center in downtown L.A.'s Arts District and Conan O'Brien's just-announced post-Oscars hosting gig. If you've kept up on the news of the week, you should be able to answer these questions as easily as Ohtani hit that homer. Are you ready to have some fun? I am. Let's get started.
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Letters to the Editor: Los Angeles Marathon is not worth crippling the Westside with unbearable traffic
To the editor: As I sit here in Rancho Park, trapped in my house by traffic eight hours after the Los Angeles Marathon, I would sincerely like to know which bureaucrat at City Hall thinks it's a good idea to split West L.A. — and other areas — in two for nearly a day. A Westside where traffic is borderline or beyond unbearable for 10 to 12 hours per day. A Westside where, for the past two months, we have added innumerable cars due to Pacific Coast Highway closures. A Westside that is, as I write this, completely gridlocked, meaning if there were an emergency people could die before help arrives. L.A. does not need a marathon to be a great city. But if it must be run, let it end in all parts of the city, not just on the Westside or in Santa Monica. End it on the Eastside, in South L.A., in the downtown area, in one of the valleys, or even in one of the fire-damaged areas as a tribute to their resilience. Only affect the Westside (and the other areas) once every five years or so. Brent Byrd, Rancho Park .. To the editor: The Los Angeles Marathon has come and gone with too little discussion of the extended traffic disaster that it creates annually. There are several major issues with the route and operation of the marathon that should be addressed. One important problem is how long streets (especially the cross streets) remain closed; they reopen at something close to a brisk-walking rate. After four or five hours, the walkers can wait for the crossing signals. Second, there is no real on-the-ground publicity about the route. Residents must seek out information on street closures and opening times. Third, the cost to the city. The celebration parade following the Dodgers' World Series victory last year got a lot of attention due to the cost to the city for traffic control, but the team paid about $1.7 million for the event. How much does the marathon pay the city for traffic control and disruption for an event that lasts longer, covers a larger area and attracts far fewer people? Keith Price, Los Angeles .. To the editor: Oh, there it is, finally, on B3 of Monday's California section ("An American wins the L.A. Marathon for the first time in 31 years," March 16). Was coverage of the L.A. Marathon, with thousands running through the city the L.A. Times represents, not a big enough story to give better coverage? I wonder if it would have been covered at all had an American not won the competition for the first time in 31 years. Bill Glazier, Fullerton This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Times
18-03-2025
- General
- Los Angeles Times
Letters to the Editor: Los Angeles Marathon is not worth crippling the Westside with unbearable traffic
To the editor: As I sit here in Rancho Park, trapped in my house by traffic eight hours after the Los Angeles Marathon, I would sincerely like to know which bureaucrat at City Hall thinks it's a good idea to split West L.A. — and other areas — in two for nearly a day. A Westside where traffic is borderline or beyond unbearable for 10 to 12 hours per day. A Westside where, for the past two months, we have added innumerable cars due to Pacific Coast Highway closures. A Westside that is, as I write this, completely gridlocked, meaning if there were an emergency people could die before help arrives. L.A. does not need a marathon to be a great city. But if it must be run, let it end in all parts of the city, not just on the Westside or in Santa Monica. End it on the Eastside, in South L.A., in the downtown area, in one of the valleys, or even in one of the fire-damaged areas as a tribute to their resilience. Only affect the Westside (and the other areas) once every five years or so. Brent Byrd, Rancho Park .. To the editor: The Los Angeles Marathon has come and gone with too little discussion of the extended traffic disaster that it creates annually. There are several major issues with the route and operation of the marathon that should be addressed. One important problem is how long streets (especially the cross streets) remain closed; they reopen at something close to a brisk-walking rate. After four or five hours, the walkers can wait for the crossing signals. Second, there is no real on-the-ground publicity about the route. Residents must seek out information on street closures and opening times. Third, the cost to the city. The celebration parade following the Dodgers' World Series victory last year got a lot of attention due to the cost to the city for traffic control, but the team paid about $1.7 million for the event. How much does the marathon pay the city for traffic control and disruption for an event that lasts longer, covers a larger area and attracts far fewer people? Keith Price, Los Angeles .. To the editor: Oh, there it is, finally, on B3 of Monday's California section ('An American wins the L.A. Marathon for the first time in 31 years,' March 16). Was coverage of the L.A. Marathon, with thousands running through the city the L.A. Times represents, not a big enough story to give better coverage? I wonder if it would have been covered at all had an American not won the competition for the first time in 31 years. Bill Glazier, Fullerton
