Sparks Fly: Ron and Russell Mael, beach boys of lotusland, get ‘MAD!’ on their latest album

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(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Ron and Russell Mael are that rarest of all breeds, the Los Angeles native. The brothers came of age in the 1960s on L.A.’s Westside — decades before it was “310” or west of the 405 Freeway — because the north/south artery hadn’t yet been built. A sporty upbringing of beach volleyball, AM radio tuned to 93 KHJ, and Palisades High School football (for Russell) belie the intellectual cool-cult status the band has held for decades. A status, that in the last few years, after making eclectic, uncompromising and witty albums since 1971, is morphing into something approaching mainstream recognition.

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Escaping the Eaton Fire and the ‘Beyond Surreal’ Aftermath, According to a Woman Who Made It Out (Exclusive)

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Katherine Turman first person account from Pasadena

A selfie by Katherine Turman in front of her Pasadena/Altadena home on Jan. 9, 2025 . Photo: Katherine Turman

Amid the devastating Los Angeles wildfires, there have been many harrowing stories of residents in the impacted areas evacuating to safety with nothing more than a few belongings and questions of whether their homes would be still standing when they return.

One of those evacuees is journalist and author Katherine Turman, who only relocated back to her native California less than a year ago.

In this first-person account, told to PEOPLE’s David Chiu, Turman recalls spending time in the Pacific Palisades as a youth, the tense moments surrounding her evacuation during the Eaton fire and the scenes in her neighborhood upon her return days later.

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Rick Springfield and Richard Marx Muse on Hit Songs, Martinis, Their Meet-Cute and Psychedelics

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Rick Springfield, left, and Richard Marx at Springfield's house in Malibu on Oct. 3. (Paul Yem / For The Times)

Rick Springfield, left, and Richard Marx at Springfield’s house in Malibu on Oct. 3. (Paul Yem / For The Times)

You may not be able to judge a man by his album cover(s), but you can deduce much by his choice in vehicles. Richard Marx and Rick Springfield are living proof. In the driveway of a lushly landscaped home just off the Malibu coast sits a luxury British automobile, rounded, elegant; a smooth-sailing land yacht. Next to it, a sporty, sleek, slightly dangerous 1963 Corvette Sting Ray, and parked on the street, a ‘55 Holden Ute.

Marx is the Bentley guy, Springfield the ‘Vette and utilitarian Australian truck. Friends since the late ’80s, they call each other Dickie (Springfield) and Richie (Marx) and might be the best-looking vaudeville team in history, their humor flow as engaging as their carefully crafted songs and easy charisma.

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