Whicker: Patrick Cantlay’s putting show takes him from respect to stardom

For Cantlay, pick any one of the putts at the BMW Championship that, if missed, would have left him behind Bryson DeChambeau. Thanks to 24 holes of golf played at Caves Valley near Baltimore but really on Everest, Cantlay is no longer a solid, Top 10-ish player with vague promise. A golf-starved, well-lubricated crowd spent […]

2 new shops coming to Downtown Disney at Disneyland

The stadium-themed Pele Soccer store will sell a selection of soccer apparel, cleats, balls and accessories. Lovepop sells 3-D pop-up greeting cards, paper art and gifts with laser-cut designs. Although we do not pre-screen comments, we reserve the right at all times to remove any information or materials that are unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, […]

Laid-off and ready to give up, Riley Sager rebounded and returns with thriller ‘Survive the Night’

She’s on a late-night drive in a slate gray Pontiac Grand Am driven by Josh Baxter, a man she’d only briefly met at a message board on campus in New Jersey. Author Riley Sager’s latest psychological thriller, “Survive the Night,” published on June 29 by Dutton, tells the story of Charlie, a film studies major […]

‘Palm Springs Noir’ brings together Southern California writers in a dark and dangerous anthology

DeMarco-Barrett is the editor of the upcoming “Palm Springs Noir” anthology, which includes contributions from 14 Southern California authors including Janet Fitch, Alex Espinoza and T. “If you read Chandler, he’s going from high to low,” she says. While the range of noir protagonists has expanded greatly since Chandler’s day, its central tenets remain. “Noir, […]