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The Southland is in for another wet weekend, with widespread precipitation expected across Southern California throughout the day Saturday followed by scattered rain on Sunday.
Details: The National Weather Service estimates that most parts of Southern California will see between one and three inches of rain in total, with up to six inches possible in the mountains and foothills.
Dig deeper: Keep reading for our continous coverage this weekend.
Most of Southern California could see about half an inch of additional rain today and tonight, though the worst of this weekend's unseasonal rainstorm is behind us.
This storm has been less severe than recent rain events like this winter's atmospheric rivers, landslides and rapid onset flooding are possible throughout the region.
The area will likely be back to normal springtime weather by Tuesday, with sunny skies and highs in the 70s. But if you thought this was definitely the last storm of the season, think again: The NWS says one or two storms are possible this coming weekend.
The NWS estimates that most parts of Southern California will see rainfall totals between 1 and 3 inches throughout the weekend, with up to 6 inches total possible in the mountains and foothills.
Here are the projected rainfall totals for this weekend:
Snowfall is also expected in the mountains, with as much as 48 inches possible in Mt. San Antonio and Snow Valley. Big Bear Lake could see a fresh coat of up to 30 inches, and Idyllwild is forecasted to get one to two inches.
Mt. Wilson will likely see a combination of rain and snow during the day, followed by a chance of showers at night. A winter storm warning has taken effect in the San Gabriel Mountains until 11 p.m. Sunday.
Highway 1 is open from north of the Dolan Creek Bridge to south of the Rocky Creek Bridge. This slip-out has closed the highway between Palo Colorado to just south of the Rocky Creek Bridge. The one southbound lane has been impacted and may impact the one northbound lane. https://t.co/iXsJBnuuFJ
— Caltrans District 5 (@CaltransD5) March 31, 2024
It's possible that surface streets will see some level of flooding, especially as the rain picks up in intensity. Caltrans has also advised that drivers should avoid unnecessary mountain travel owing to snow in the mountains, especially along construction zones on State Route 33.
*Storm Watch- State Route 33- Los Padres Forest*
— Caltrans District 7 (@CaltransDist7) March 29, 2024
Up to 6" of snow expected in the mountains this weekend. SR-33 has six construction zones with one-lane alternating traffic control between PM 14.35 & two miles north of the summit. Avoid unnecessary mountain travel. pic.twitter.com/9OY6qPbI4N
See latest road conditions in Southern California
The worst of the rain already passed through early Saturday morning, but Sunday will bring light to moderate rain across the region.
Strong cold front will bring heavy rain to SW Calif tonight-early Sat. AM. 20% chance of tstms with front will bring potential for strong-locally severe wind gusts to 60 mph, small hail, and heavy downpours. Remote risk of waterspouts/brief tornado. #LARain #LAWeather pic.twitter.com/ZMF6EBnTFp
— NWS Los Angeles (@NWSLosAngeles) March 29, 2024
Residents in mountain, canyon and coastal areas should prepare for debris flows and flooding over the next week.
Those in landslide prone areas like the Palos Verdes Peninsula should be on the lookout for indications of land movement, including the formation of new cracks, the fracturing of underground utilities, doors and windows falling out of plumb and sounds of creaks and groans coming from the ground.
Sandbags are available at all Los Angeles Fire Department locations. Sand is also available at select other locations, and updates on availability can be checked here.
Los Angeles County Fire Department locations also have sandbags and sand.
Sand and sandbags are available at these locations in Orange County.
Here’s an excerpt from our guide to understanding flood warnings, if any are issued:
Read more: Flash Flood Warnings? Watches? Here’s What You Need To Know
Advice on driving in the rain:
Read more: What You Should Do If You End Up Driving In A Flooded Area
Dial 911 if it's an emergency.
However, if you need to report a flooded road or a downed tree, you can call the following non-emergency numbers:
If you're in L.A. County and need sand bags you can find some at local fire houses.
This is a developing story. We fact check everything and rely only on information from credible sources (think fire, police, government officials and reporters on the ground). Sometimes, however, we make mistakes and/or initial reports turn out to be wrong. In all cases, we strive to bring you the most accurate information in real time and will update this story as new information becomes available.
Makenna Sievertson contributed reporting.
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The Trump administration wants to shift more money to homeless shelters that require sobriety, a change that would disrupt California’s “housing-first” policies.
The backstory: It tried last year to move federal homelessness funds away from permanent housing and into temporary housing that requires sobriety. That move, which goes against the existing “housing first” policy favoring a no-strings-attached approach to housing, was blocked by a federal judge.
More details: The Trump administration’s callous decision to take a second bite at dismantling one of our nation’s most important homelessness prevention programs after a federal court already blocked the administration’s first attempt shows a complete disregard for the people who depend on this funding to keep a roof over their heads,” Santa Clara County Counsel Tony LoPresti said in a news release.
Read on... for more on the push to shift homelessness funding.
The Trump administration is renewing its push to change the way it funds homeless shelters and housing in California and other states, and several agencies say it could disrupt their services.
It tried last year to move federal homelessness funds away from permanent housing and into temporary housing that requires sobriety. That move, which goes against the existing “housing first” policy favoring a no-strings-attached approach to housing, was blocked by a federal judge.
Now, the Trump administration is trying again. Once again, it’s facing pushback.
This week, a group that includes the National Alliance to End Homelessness and Santa Clara County filed a challenge in Rhode Island’s federal court to the Trump administration’s latest funding guidelines.
The Trump administration’s callous decision to take a second bite at dismantling one of our nation’s most important homelessness prevention programs after a federal court already blocked the administration’s first attempt shows a complete disregard for the people who depend on this funding to keep a roof over their heads,” Santa Clara County Counsel Tony LoPresti said in a news release.
More than $4 billion in federal funding is at stake. The National Alliance to End Homelessness estimates the proposed changes could cost California nearly $238 million for permanent housing, and threaten to put nearly 15,000 Californians back on the street.
“The ‘housing first’ experiment failed Americans by warehousing the vulnerable without results. This ideology promised to end homelessness. Instead, billions of taxpayer dollars were spent while homelessness increased to record levels,” HUD Secretary Scott Turner said in a news release earlier this month.
This article was originally published on CalMatters and was republished under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license.
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More than a month after the abrupt cancellation of this year’s Long Beach Pride Festival, the nonprofit behind the enduring celebration remains in a financial bind. It has so far been unable to repay its vendors, ticketholders and sponsors as it awaits a decision on whether its insurer will cover its losses.
Why it matters: That decision, according to Long Beach Pride president Tonya Martin, will factor heavily into whether they take more drastic action to cover the debt, such as selling or leasing out their headquarters.
The backstory: The festival was canceled last month after the city of Long Beach issued a cease-and-desist letter less than an hour before its opening event, saying Pride lacked the necessary permits to start.
Read on... for more on the organization and festival.
More than a month after the abrupt cancellation of this year’s Long Beach Pride Festival, the nonprofit behind the enduring celebration remains in a financial bind. It has so far been unable to repay its vendors, ticketholders and sponsors as it awaits a decision on whether its insurer will cover its losses.
That decision, according to Long Beach Pride President Tonya Martin, will factor heavily into whether they take more drastic action to cover the debt, such as selling or leasing out their headquarters.
“We do want to keep the building,” Martin said. “But if we have to sell it, we have to sell it, because right now all we can think about is how we’re going to pay back all the vendors and the rest of the ticketholders.”
According to the organization’s treasurer, Wayne Manous, Long Beach Pride filed a claim with its carrier, the Nonprofits Insurance Alliance of California, a few days after the festival was canceled on May 15. They expect a determination in the next week, Martin said.
“Once we receive the determination and award, we can begin refunding payments to our festival vendors which encompasses Information Booths, Seller Booths, Food Booths, Food Trucks, and others awaiting a refund,” Manous wrote in a June 10 email to vendors seeking refunds.
In an emailed statement Tuesday, the organization declined to offer the total amount it owes or elaborate more on its insurance claim, saying it will wait until “those processes are fully resolved.”
The festival was canceled last month after the city of Long Beach issued a cease-and-desist letter less than an hour before its opening event, saying Pride lacked the necessary permits to start.
Many vendors and ticketholders — some who flew in or drove from other parts of the country — say they were in transit or had already arrived at the festival grounds when they were given notice of the cancellation, either from the city or from friends on social media.
Erica Loring, who owns Shecanter, an online retailer of feminist and queer products, said she was driving up from San Diego the morning of the event when a friend texted her the news.
“I was very confused,” Loring said. “I had to try and figure out what the heck that meant, what it means for vendors, if we’ve gotten any emails to notify us. ‘Do we still go up there?’”
Kaitlyn Nguyen with Heritage 1857, a Vietnamese-style coffee brand, said she received notice not from Pride but from the city’s Health Department, telling her she no longer had permission to sell her goods there.
By that point, she said, her festival crew had already driven into town from Texas and set up a tent and driven an hour outside of town. When she tried to call Long Beach Pride’s general line to get more information, it was disconnected.
Nguyen said she spent around $2,500 on gas, fees, product, permitting and everything else she needed to participate. Now she’s uncertain how much, if any, she will recover. “With the communication that it is at right now, it’s just hard to tell, but I do hope that we get that amount back,” she said.
In the days following the festival’s cancellation, the city and Pride traded blame, offering dueling timelines over what caused it. Long Beach Pride argued it submitted documents and worked with the city in good faith through the final hours and was taken off guard by the city’s order to clear out.
Martin said she was stunned when officers delivered the cease-and-desist to the festival grounds. “You have two days to get everything off the site, or you’ll be arrested,” she recalled being told. “I was in shock, just floored. I was just weak at the knees.”
The city fired back in a 23-page memo, saying the nonprofit repeatedly failed to provide permitting materials and structural plans for stages, electrical systems and security. As the situation worsened, city officials offered to move guests into the Terrace Theater and open Bixby Park for a smaller event on Sunday, without alcohol sales or fenced festival grounds.
Pride declined both options, later saying the theater was too costly — more than $100,000, they said — while Bixby Park did not allow enough time to satisfy performers’ contractual requirements.
City spokesperson Laath Martin said Tuesday that Long Beach’s business licensing team has been offering refunds to vendors for city fees. But in the month since the event, vendors say they’ve heard little to no word from Pride itself on when or if they will be repaid for other expenses and fees.
Even before this year’s shock cancellation, the festival, established in 1983, had been struggling.
According to tax filings, Pride lost more than $1.8 million between 2022 and 2024 — $819,066 in 2022, $716,729 in 2023 and $306,000 in 2024. The organization has not turned a profit since 2019.
When Martin took over as president in 2023, she said she unknowingly inherited an organization already carrying $2.6 million in outstanding debt. A year after Martin took the helm, the nonprofit relinquished control of its long-running Pride parade. The city took over planning and funding for the signature event while Pride attempted to keep running the corresponding festival.
The festival’s budget this year was $500,000, and Pride had raised less than $100,000 of it by the time the event was canceled, with only 331 tickets sold as of late April, according to Q Voice News. Pride declined to confirm the number of tickets sold or provide any detailed financial information to the Long Beach Post.
Corporate sponsorships, once a reliable source of major revenue, had largely evaporated, Martin said, naming Walmart and Coca-Cola as examples of large companies that have quietly pulled back as the Trump administration has coerced firms to forgo LGBTQ+ and diversity initiatives.
“They don’t want to upset the president,” Martin said. “Nobody will come out and say it, which I wish they would.”
Normally, Martin said, Pride hires an outside operator to put on the festival, which can run upwards of $400,000. But under financial pressure, she and the board voted to avoid the expense and handle the festival setup themselves. As Martin has repeatedly emphasized since the cancellation, they are all part-time volunteers.
This year’s event was shaping up to be small, according to Loring; only 13 retail or merchandise vendors were listed to participate. “Smaller than a tiny farmer’s market,” Loring said. Another 10 or so food vendors were signed up, Nguyen said, about half of what she’d expect at a festival this size.
“I was like, OK, was the application process a deterrent, or have bridges already been burned, and these businesses have learned not to come to Long Beach due to prior experience?” Nguyen said.
In a letter over the weekend, Pride said it wants to bring the festival back in 2027 under new leadership, with lessons learned and, it hopes, a more stable financial footing.
The board also said that Martin would step down from the presidency in August, a transition the organization said had been planned before the cancellation. Martin confirmed her exit on Monday, saying she will step away from the role and intends to help whoever succeeds her get up to speed. She said she also plans to hold a debrief with Mayor Rex Richardson to discuss what went wrong.
The organization is also working with the city to hold a free Teen Pride event in September.
“I don’t think Pride will ever go away, no matter what they do, even if we change the whole scope of the event itself,” Martin said. “It will never go away. It’ll always be there.”
But Loring, who made her vendor debut in Long Beach, said she would not return if the event is run by the same people.
She was shocked when Pride asked in a June 10 email if vendors and ticketholders would consider donating back a portion of their refunds to the organization. “The audacity for that was on another level,” Loring said.
“It seems as though the entire Pride organization needs an overhaul,” she said. “It needs a fresh set of eyes, a fresh set of experience in order for the community to move forward faithfully.”
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Two icons of Los Angeles are coming together in Alhambra for a food pop-up this weekend — each has carved a unique place in Asian America.
Why now: On one end you have Kogi, bringing its Korean-Mexican fusion kimchi taco and blackjack quesadilla — and its food truck — to the collab. On the other is Sam Woo, old-school purveyor of Cantonese taste lending its char siu and roast duck from its OG location on Valley between 5th and 6th.
Why it matters: Together, they represent two generations of immigrant entrepreneurship that reshaped how L.A. eats.
Read on ... for details and the stories of immigrant entrepreneurship the two restaurants embody ...
Two icons of Los Angeles are coming together in Alhambra for a food pop-up this weekend — each has carved a unique place in Asian America.
On one end you have Kogi, bringing its Korean-Mexican fusion kimchi taco and blackjack quesadilla — and its food truck — to the collab. On the other is Sam Woo, old-school purveyor of Cantonese taste lending its char siu and roast duck from its OG location on Valley between 5th and 6th.
Together, they represent two generations of immigrant entrepreneurship that reshaped how L.A. eats.
Kogi x Sam Woo
Where: Sam Woo BBQ, 514 Valley Blvd., Alhambra
When: Saturday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. | Sunday, 4-8 p.m.
“The best way to do it would be to come together like Voltron, but be ourselves separately,” said Roy Choi, chef and founder of Kogi BBQ. “So don't do anything to your roast duck. Don't do anything to your char siu. Don't do anything to our blackjack quesadilla. Don't do anything to our taco.”
The mash-up features two items – roast duck kimchi taco, and char siu blackjack quesadilla. The best-of-both-worlds concept extends to where the food will be served.
“ My whole vision was for Kogi truck to be parked in front,” said Karen Cheung, daughter of Sam Woo’s original owner.
Restaurants come and go, but Sam Woo has remained the byword for Cantonese barbeque in Los Angeles and beyond for more than four decades.
On Christmas Day 1979, new immigrant Peter Cheung opened a stand serving take-out roast duck, char siu and the likes in Chinatown, bringing the family craft from Hong Kong to L.A.
“At the time, it was just my dad, my brother, and me,” Cheung, 67, said in Cantonese. “We hired a cashier and a meat cutter, that was about it.”
Cheung also brought over the Chinese name from the family business back home. It means “three harmonies” – among earth, heaven, and man. The English name Sam Woo was chosen because it sounded like the Cantonese words.
In the late 1970s, his clientele was mainly Chinese and Vietnamese immigrants in the then-bustling enclave, with a small handful of customers coming in from Monterey Park.
Back then, he said, “All the restaurants were concentrated in Chinatown.”
As the Chinese-speaking diaspora expanded to the San Gabriel Valley, so too did Sam Woo. Cheung opened a Monterey Park location in 1981 (now closed) and the Alhambra outpost on Valley Boulevard in 1983.
Today, Cheung and his family own and operate four locations across the L.A. region — the oldest in Alhambra.
That little storefront served a loyal legion of eaters, including my family, who moved to Alhambra in the early 1990s — and a kid named Roy Choi.
Choi was hanging out in Alhambra and nearby 626 cities during high school and into college, at all-night Asian cafes and their parking lots where a subculture centered around modified Japanese cars took root.
“It was the cafes and the barbecue spots back in Alhambra that were early on in having a kind of a meeting ground for young Asian youth,” Choi said. “It might have been the birth of the AZN movement, you know what I'm saying?”
One place he always ate at was Sam Woo.
“One of the top five things to eat for me is roast duck or roast pork over rice with the sauce that drips down into it,” he said. “That's where I started really eating barbecue — and this is before I was a chef.”
Forty-three years since it opened, the hole-in-the-wall in Alhambra has not been changed — inside or out. Karen remembers hanging out at the shop with her sisters growing up, filling small containers of sauces while their parents ran the operation.
“ When you walk into Alhambra, you feel like you are going back in time,” Karen said. “That's what people remember Sam Woo as, like the Mahjong clock, or the vintage menu that you do not ever see anymore. That's people's memories.”
Choi wrote about eating at Sam Woo among other culinary adventures in L.A. earlier this year for the Financial Times.
Karen, one of Peter’s four children, read the story – and fired off a DM.
“I was like, ‘We're so honored. Out of all the restaurants you could talk about, you mentioned Sam Woo,” Karen said. “‘Let's do a collab.’”
Six months of planning later, with hundreds of pounds of char siu ready to be cooked, the crossover is happening.
“The inspiration is how delicious their food is [and] the longevity of their restaurant,” Choi said, whose Kogi has redefined fusion cooking and the food truck experience for 19 years and counting.
“We wanna bring something really special to Alhambra," he said. "Just a moment that you could say, ‘I was there.’”
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Fans will now have to join a waitlist for tickets to the largest music festival to hit the Great Park in Irvine after presale windows opened at 10 a.m. on Wednesday. The Daisy Chain Fields music festival, founded by Olivia Rodrigo, will feature Chappell Roan, Stevie Nicks and more.
What you need to know: It will be held on Aug. 29 and is expected to draw 45,000 guests. Tickets range from $255 to $1,255. Organizers said that the waitlist is now open and that fans will have a chance for tickets if they're made available.
thank you for showing up ✿ every ticket sold supports non-profit organizations supporting women and girls, making this event’s impact reach far beyond the festival!
— Daisy Chain Fields (@daisychainfield) June 24, 2026
tickets to Daisy Chain Fields are officially on a waitlist. didn't get yours? join the waitlist for a chance to… pic.twitter.com/s27vomi33t
Getting there: Parking passes will cost $95. Shuttles to the festival will also be available from UC Irvine and the Honda Center for $50 per person. Those tickets must be purchased in advance because seats are limited.
Who is playing? An all-woman setlist includes Bikini Kill, Die Spitz, Doechii, Eli, Garbage, KATSEYE, Mitski, Not For Radio, Quiet Light, Rachel Chinourir, Santigold, and The Breeders, all across two stages. Special guests include Karen O, Sarah McLachlan and Stevie Nicks.
What else is there? All proceeds from the festival will go to 10 nonprofit partners, including the Black Mamas Matter Alliance, the Center for Reproductive Rights, the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health and Planned Parenthood.
Officials say: Irvine Mayor Larry Agran said in a statement, “This summer has been nothing short of exceptional, with the U.S. Men’s National Team making the Great Park its home base while competing in the 2026 World Cup, and now Daisy Chain Fields bringing a modern-day celebration of women in music, creativity, and community to Irvine.”
