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Los Angeles issued first occupancy permit in Pacific Palisades since wildfires. It’s been almost a year since the Palisades Fire in California began in January 2025. On Saturday, the developer Thomas James Homes hosted an open-house-style event at the ~4,000-square-foot home it’s completed building at 915 Kagawa St., the first in the Palisades to receive a certificate of occupancy since the tragedy, according to the office of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. While some locals see it as a sign of hope for the community, others dispute the milestone. Thomas James Homes bought the home for $3.4 million two months before the fire, according to the Wall Street Journal, and planned to conduct a complete demolition, but the wildfire destroyed it before that could happen. The developer is not selling the house; instead, it’s being used as a model home for the 100 additional houses it hopes to build in Pacific Palisades next year.
Trump hosted Kennedy Center Honors, a first for a president. President Donald Trump and the first lady attended the Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday, months after removing the organization’s bipartisan leadership. According to the Associated Press, the president said during a dinner for the honorees on Saturday that he would be hosting “at the request of a certain television network.” CBS and Paramount+ will air the ceremony on Dec. 23. Both are owned by Paramount Skydance, which is heavily funded by Larry Ellison, a top Trump ally. While walking the red carpet for the event, Trump told reporters that the Netflix–Warner Bros. Discovery deal has “to go through a process, and we’ll see what happens.” He confirmed that he had met with Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos last week, whom he called “fantastic.” The president said he would be involved in deciding whether to green-light the deal. The 2025 Kennedy Center honorees included Sylvester Stallone, Gloria Gaynor, George Strait, the rock band Kiss, and former Phantom of the Opera star Michael Crawford.
A pipe burst at the Louvre, damaging hundreds of tomes. France’s national museum and art gallery can’t seem to catch a break. The Louvre’s deputy general administrator said that flooding last week led to a pipe bursting in one of the rooms of the Egyptian antiquities department’s library, soaking 300 to 400 books, visual periodicals, archaeology journals, and other works, some of which date back to the 1800s. A complete count of affected items is being conducted, and museum staff are attempting to dry and dehumidify them. A major renovation of the Louvre’s HVAC had been planned beginning in September 2026 including the area of the museum affected by the damaged pipe. Didier Rykner, a French art historian, wrote in La Tribune de l’Art that the antiquities department had repeatedly asked the deputy general administrator for funds “to protect these books from a potential rupture of the pipes running through the false ceilings, whose state of dilapidation is well known.”—HVL
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