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Los Angeles Times
3 days ago
- Politics
- Los Angeles Times
Who's telling the truth? Searching for a shared reality amid L.A. protests
The notion of a shared, definitive reality remained elusive Monday in Los Angeles, as anti-ICE protests roiled the city for a fourth day. Had the city descended into lawless pandemonium, as Fox News proclaimed? Or were there pockets of havoc amid largely peaceful protests — with both concentrated in a relatively narrow geographic area, while workaday business continued as usual on a warm spring weekend across the rest of our sprawling metropolis? After spending the day in and around downtown's Civic Center, where sign-carrying demonstrators overflowed from Gloria Molina Grand Park east to various, newly graffitied federal buildings, I would argue that the latter description hews far closer to the truth. But after more than a decade as a reporter, I would be the first to admit that objectivity is in the eye of the beholder. And even then, it's largely a mirage. A few collected facts A handful of city workers began their morning outside the towering Art Deco edifice of Los Angeles City Hall, assessing the damage from Sunday night's protests. Graffiti, with one ubiquitous expletive preceding the word 'ICE' in about a dozen places, marred the granite exterior, with roughly a dozen broken windows on the south and west sides of the building. Chaos flared in other parts of downtown Los Angeles over the weekend, leaving sidewalks littered with shattered glass, and scattered buildings boarded up in anticipation of more trouble. At least 74 people were arrested across the region on suspicion of vandalism, looting, violence and more across the region, authorities said. The detritus visible Monday morning was ugly, but not dissimilar from what I saw after covering dozens of downtown protests over the years, particularly during the first Trump administration. By noon Monday, thousands of union members, immigrant rights activists and supporters filled the grassy knoll overlooking City Hall at a boisterous —but peaceful — rally demanding the release of SEIU California President David Huerta, who was arrested and injured during Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids last week. At one point, the crowd danced and sang along to 'La Bamba,' with an emcee declaring, 'I want to hear the loudest 'Bamba' ever heard in this damn town,' over a loudspeaker. Huerta was released hours later. 'I think folks are choosing to amplify images of chaos instead of images of love and solidarity and community building,' Assemblymember Isaac Bryan said Monday afternoon, standing with a gaggle of clergy outside the federal court building where Huerta was being arraigned. 'I was out in the streets yesterday, and what I saw was street vendors serving protesters who were dancing, with calls for freedom and to be safe in their own communities.' Further military escalation By late afternoon, the federal government announced that it would be sending 700 Marines to Los Angeles — another staggering and historic escalation, amid a series of staggering and historic escalations. California Gov. Gavin Newsom also said Monday afternoon that the Trump administration would be sending an additional 2,000 National Guard troops to the region, a move that Newsom characterized as 'reckless' and 'pointless.' 'This isn't about public safety. It's about stroking a dangerous President's ego,' Newsom said. The mayor's version of events Addressing the public on Monday evening from the city's emergency operations center, Mayor Karen Bass spoke to the raw panic that the surprise raids were fueling in a region where hundreds of thousands of people live without legal authorization and mixed-status families are common. 'I can't emphasize enough the level of fear and terror that is in Angelenos right now, not knowing if tomorrow or tonight, it might be where they live. It might be their workplace. Should you send your kids to school? Should you go to work?' Bass said, referring to the raids. The mayor also took aim at the dueling visions of reality at play, saying she had read a troubling description of Los Angeles as a place 'invaded and occupied by illegal aliens,' where 'violent insurrectionist mobs were swarming and attacking our federal agents. 'I don't know if anybody has seen that happen, but I've not seen that happen,' Bass declared. 'Obviously there has been violence, and the violence is unacceptable,' the mayor continued. But so were the descriptions of the 'migrant invasion' and 'migrant riots' in the city, she suggested, and the supposition that order would be restored if those same migrants were expelled. 'How is this a description? This is a despicable description of our city,' Bass said. 'Our city needs to come together now and not accept this, and not allow us to be divided.' A poem to start your Tuesday Email us at essentialcalifornia@ and your response might appear in the newsletter this week. Today's great photo is from Friends of Big Bear Valley in Big Bear Lake where Gizmo, the second eaglet of a family of eagles monitored by a 24-hour webcam, flew from its nest this weekend. Julia Wick, staff writerKevinisha Walker, multiplatform editorAndrew Campa, Sunday writerKarim Doumar, head of newsletters How can we make this newsletter more useful? Send comments to essentialcalifornia@ Check our top stories, topics and the latest articles on
Ottawa Citizen
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Ottawa Citizen
What's with the Oilers and this Pink Pony Club song?
Toggle full screen modePrevious Gallery Image Next Gallery ImageToggle gallery captions View All 23 Photos 1 of 23 Article content It's the best-kept secret of the Edmonton Oilers ' playoff run. Article content And it has nothing to do with who's starting in net, or whether Leon Draisaitl will play on the top line next to Connor McDavid. Article content Everyone has become familiar with the Oilers victory song, La Bamba, which has become synonymous with winning at Rogers Place. Article content But if you've been listening at all since the stretch drive prior to the Oilers' latest long playoff run, you would have heard another tune echoing off the walls in the bowels of the arena. Article content Article content Wayne Gretzky might not know if it's a band or a song, but Pink Pony Club, by Chappell Roan, has been adopted by the Oilers as their unofficial celebration song inside the dressing room. Article content Article content Article content Article content 'I mean, it's fun when you hear it because it means you won, right? So, that's kind of where it's at in my head.' Article content The song didn't play for the first time in six games, with the Panthers winning 5-4 in double overtime Friday at Rogers Place to tie the best-of-7 series 1-1, but the Oilers will get another chance to keep on dancin' as the scene shifts to Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, Fla., for Game 3 on Monday (CBC, Sportsnet). Article content Here are some other takeaways from Friday's Game 2:
Vancouver Sun
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Vancouver Sun
What's with the Oilers and this Pink Pony Club song?
It's the best-kept secret of the Edmonton Oilers ' playoff run. And it has nothing to do with who's starting in net, or whether Leon Draisaitl will play on the top line next to Connor McDavid . Everyone has become familiar with the Oilers victory song, La Bamba , which has become synonymous with winning at Rogers Place. But if you've been listening at all since the stretch drive prior to the Oilers' latest long playoff run, you would have heard another tune echoing off the walls in the bowels of the arena. Wayne Gretzky might not know if it's a band or a song, but Pink Pony Club , by Chappell Roan, has been adopted by the Oilers as their unofficial celebration song inside the dressing room. Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Sunrise will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. It's grown to the point where the organist plays a slow (and equally as popular among Oilers faithful) angelic version ahead of opening faceoff. But good luck getting any of the players to let you in on exactly why, what it means or where the new ditty even came from in the first place. 'I'm going to keep that one within the team,' defenceman Evan Bouchard said at the podium prior to the puck dropping on the Stanley Cup Finals earlier this week. Whether it's their musical version of a lucky rabbit's foot, or something that began as nothing more than an inside joke, the Oilers have to be laughing at just how much of a stir the song has created around not only Edmonton, but the rest of the NHL. The mystery has only deepened the longer their playoffs have gone. 'I was injured at the time, so I'm the worst person to ask,' said goalie Stuart Skinner, who sat out 11 of the final 13 regular-season games when the song began catching fire in the room. 'That's when I had that concussion, so I was getting the group text and I was feeling a little left out. I didn't really know what was going on. 'I mean, it's fun when you hear it because it means you won, right? So, that's kind of where it's at in my head.' The song didn't play for the first time in six games, with the Panthers winning 5-4 in double overtime Friday at Rogers Place to tie the best-of-7 series 1-1, but the Oilers will get another chance to keep on dancin' as the scene shifts to Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, Fla., for Game 3 on Monday (CBC, Sportsnet). Here are some other takeaways from Friday's Game 2: • Overheard in the press box after the Panthers took a 1-0 lead early on, as Brad Marchand got away with knocking the stick out of the hands of Oilers defenceman Mattias Ekholm, only to get the puck and fire it past both Ekholm and goalie Stuart Skinner for his first goal of the game: 'That's as Brad Marchand a goal as Brad Marchand will score.' • Does anyone else feel like the powder keg could explode at any point in this series? The fuse was lit with 7:47 to go in the opening period of this one, with Skinner laid out on the ice and team trainer T.D. Forss hustling over to the Oilers crease after Sam Bennett fell — conveniently — into the goalie. It's the kind of thing that gets remembered for later. • Speaking of Bennett, you've got to give credit where credit is due. With his 12th goal of the playoffs, the Panthers forward set a new NHL benchmark, besting Mark Scheifele's 2018 campaign. Bennet is also on a five-game road streak with a goal to set a new franchise record, breaking his own record he set earlier in this postseason. There's not a single bigger reason the Panthers are playing in their third consecutive Cup final. • How good has Leon Draisaitl been all playoffs long? In case you were living under a rock, and that rock didn't happen to be inside Rogers Place the past couple of months, Draisaitl scored his 10th goal of the post-season Friday. And that's significant. The 29-year-old German product became the third player in NHL history to reach double digits in goals in three consecutive playoffs, joining Mike Bossy (four from 1980-1983) and Wayne Gretzky (three from 1983-1985). E-mail: gmoddejonge@ On X: @GerryModdejonge
Calgary Herald
6 days ago
- Sport
- Calgary Herald
What's with the Oilers and this Pink Pony Club song?
Toggle full screen modePrevious Gallery Image Next Gallery ImageToggle gallery captions View All 23 Photos 1 of 23 Article content It's the best-kept secret of the Edmonton Oilers ' playoff run. Article content And it has nothing to do with who's starting in net, or whether Leon Draisaitl will play on the top line next to Connor McDavid. Article content Everyone has become familiar with the Oilers victory song, La Bamba, which has become synonymous with winning at Rogers Place. Article content Article content Article content Article content Article content 'I mean, it's fun when you hear it because it means you won, right? So, that's kind of where it's at in my head.' Article content The song didn't play for the first time in six games, with the Panthers winning 5-4 in double overtime Friday at Rogers Place to tie the best-of-7 series 1-1, but the Oilers will get another chance to keep on dancin' as the scene shifts to Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, Fla., for Game 3 on Monday (CBC, Sportsnet). Article content Here are some other takeaways from Friday's Game 2:
USA Today
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
What is the Oilers' goal song in 2025? Here's the answer.
What is the Oilers' goal song in 2025? Here's the answer. The Edmonton Oilers are in the hunt for a possible first Stanley Cup in decades, and with names like Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl, they score a lot of goals that fans in Alberta can celebrate. If you're not one of those fans and you're watching the Oilers play in 2025, you might be wondering: what's the goal song they play at Rogers Place whenever the team lights the lamp at home? We have answers for you! That song would be Fluxland by XL, one of those fist-pumping house music-esque songs with a very singable lines that fans can shout as they're celebrating the red light going off and their team potting a puck in the net: The song ranked 13th on our list of the best NHL goal songs, given how catchy it is. Now, I'd argue it's not as catchy as La Bamba -- which was played after wins for a while -- or Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club, which has become the Oilers' new postgame anthem this season. But Fluxland is a solid choice for a goal song, and if you're like me, you'll have that tune stuck in your head for a while after the 2025 Stanley Cup Final.
