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ESA-PEKKA IN EXCELSIS If anyone needed further confirmation of the strengths of Esa-Pekka Salonen, and his success in sharing those str
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Shirley Chisholm, who died with her usual sense of occasion this January 1, not long after her 80th birthday, had a mouth on
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Photo by Craig SchwartzGeared for a youth audience, Charlayne Woodard’s entrancing, sometimes pedantic, new play, Flight (at Culver City’s Kirk Douglas T
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The morning after George W. Bush's re-election, I became a secessionist. It's a matter of instantaneous revelation, like looking at the face of God. All of a
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QUESTION: My grandmother’s birthday is coming up, and
I’m thinking of taking her someplace nice for brunch — you know, eggs Benedict,
mimosas, stuf
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FIRST FLIGHTS
At the Philharmonic, last week and this, the light of reason shines
bright. No brutality sullies the sonority. Trombones, tubas and triangles are
furlo
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1.Operation Hero Miles.When our troops in Iraq come home
on special leave, the military services pay only for the flight back to one
permanent-duty station. So while
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5. Created In Darkness By Troubled Americans: The Best of
McSweeney’s Humor Category, edited by Dave Eggers, Kevin Shay,
Lee Epstein, John Warner and Suzanne K
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1. Breathe. If you are unlucky, you will inhale some spores
of Coddidioides immitis. It is endemic in our soil. An ordinary case
of resulting Valley Fever is not muc
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Swinging from the Chandeliers
Designer Jared Gold is back, and he is going to dress you, light
up your life and maybe even sleep with you, in a manner of speaking. A
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I can’t remember the last time I so thoroughly enjoyed
reading a series of articles in the L.A. Times as this week’s Pulitzer-class
five-parter on the ho
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THE MUSICAL BOX
at the Henry Fonda Theater, December 3
The lamb lay down on Hollywood Boulevard as a sellout crowd, mostly white guys in
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