Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck joined top cops from around the nation in Washington, D.C. Wednesday to decry Arizona's controversial immigratio
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A tisket, a tasket, what's in that basket? Obleas, glorias, chiclosos, alegrias, pepitorias, ates, cajeta, piloncillo, tamarindo, canela and much, much more. Ev
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At 24, All-American swimmer Mike Nyeholt was enjoying the benefits of his chosen sport: It had earned him a USC scholarship, enabled him to travel the world for comp
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Tucked away amid the chaparral landscape of Claremont, down a gravel road among the cactus, pines and pepper trees, are the home and studio of James Hueter, one of S
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Whenever Lynda Kay Parker dons a Glenn Palmer suit and picks up a Gretsch guitar, she is country & western incarnate, especially with the blood of ancestors Bon
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Brendan Lott is an artist. I met him when he was studying film at San Francisco Art Institute, where we were both undergrads at the turn of the millennium; he went o
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If NASA's Dr. Andrew E. Johnson ever gets to walk on Mars, he'll have no problem finding the right shoes. Johnson has a footwear collection that has earned h
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Back in 1972, the Rolling Stones brand stood for heroin, bisexuality, hanging out with the homeless in L.A.'s Skid Row (read all about it in Michael Simmons'
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Best headline ever: “Man Killed Driving Backward to Retrieve Hat.” That poor fellow didn't live (or die) in California, but if he did, his story migh
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The author discusses his book, Tom and Jack: The Intertwined Lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock, with museum curator Austen Bailly.
Mon., May 17, 5 p.m.
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It seems as if Lebanon and Israel have moved the battlefield to the kitchen. This past Saturday Lebanon set the world record for the largest bowl of hummus in the v
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The Road A-Head
With so much of our L.A. identity wrapped around transportation – in particular the automobile – it's hardly surprising that
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