Golden Girls: The Chapin Sisters match their stage outfits, a mix of new and collected vintage, by color. Here they are in their shiny phase. (Photos by Garik Gyurj
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Hollywood Boulevard is strangely empty and quiet on a recent Saturday afternoon when I stop at Famina!! — the Japanese “super convenience” store &
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“Woo! I am fired up!” Barack Obama hollered to open his big rally on Tuesday at a Little League baseball diamond in Baldwin Hills. For about s
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One American who is not going to be impressedby George W. Bush’s arguments this week for escalating the war in Iraq is Harriet Elaine Johnson — or Momma J, as sh
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A black Lincoln Navigator sits abandoned in a dead-end alley off Atlantic Avenue in South Gate, its owner miles away, though not willingly. Across the alley, police
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MacArthur Park, the city’s immigrant crossroads, is heaven on earth for the Spanish-speaking evangelical street preacher. On Sunday afternoons, the people of the n
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don’t like yoga. I tried it once, so I know. I just can’t relax in a roomful of strangers while staring at someone’s sweaty crotch in front of me, knowing
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From the outside, the Echo Park shop looks closed. Red security gates cover most of the windows, and, inside, the space doesn’t look any more open. Sparsely stocke
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His death grabbed the attention of the national media, which noted his leadership of the 2000 janitor’s strike. His funeral drew 3,000 people to the Cathedral of t
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This prime-time season, the uglies have it.
No one could ever have predicted that a Japanese geek (Masi Oka, a Brown University grad in math and computer sciences wh
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DAN SHARP AND DAN HOLZMAN are cruising down Washington Boulevard in Sharp’s used 1989 Honda Accord. The two are on a mission to buy a beer-making kit from Culver C
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I’M NOT VERY POPULAR ON SPRING STREET nowadays. (Then again, I wasn’t much liked when I worked there either.) An editor at the Los Angeles Times just accused me
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