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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A CORONER’S REPORT CONCLUDED that the 24-year-old son of renowned defense attorney Robert Shapiro died last month from an accidental overdose of Ecstasy two days a
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I moved to West Hollywood in 1999, after three years of
sharing a Craftsman 12 blocks from the beach in Santa Monica. The change of
scenery was unexciting, but the
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On my left sat my friend Cindy, who warned me before the last presidential debate that she would be shouting at the television; to my right, a few seats away, a 60-
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Photo by Keith Srakocio/AP
Sometime in the pre-dawn dark of February 24, Tommy Chong and his wife, Shelby, were awakened by determined knocking on the door o
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Photos by Debra DiPaolo (top) and Virginia Lee Hunter
TO NICK PACHECO, IT'S REAL SIMPLE: HE PAID HIS dues, and his mentors let him down three years ago w
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The first of a new, biweekly column on science from the author of The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace and Pythagoras’ Trousers: God, Physics and the Gender Wars
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Photo by Sam QuinonesZEUS GARCIA HAS THIS THING ABOUT BASketball. Back in his village in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, he built a dynasty. He and his brothers and cou
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Photo by Virginia Lee Hunter
Something important was missing from the Seattle anti-WTO demonstrations. Oh yes, there were, in some proportion, all the just causes I&
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More than half a century after the blacklist hit Hollywood, shattering many careers and dispersing much filmland talent to unemployment, exile abroad or even jail, a
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Photo by Larry HirshowitzTHERE ARE WORKS FOR THE MUSICAL THEATER THAT begin in theaters, and some that begin in playwrights' laboratories. Others come out of uni
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Photo by Robert Yager
Deputy City Attorney Brooke White began a recently filed court motion with the words “There is something terribly wrong in Oakwood.”
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