Archive for Thursday, February 14, 2008

• MS slowed in test with cancer drug

• New study affirms diabetes treatment

• Grande dame of U.S. gothic fiction

• Java perks up Koreatown

• California students do well on AP exams

• Healing time’s wound

• Panel votes to cut state spending

• Mayor tours restored waterway

• Raid hauls in tagging suspect

• IRS investigates pastor’s Huckabee endorsement

• Student wounded in Oxnard dies

• In California

• French singer, songwriter forged multifaceted career

• Tacking rightward could sink McCain

• Inventor of twin-rotor helicopter

• Carona seeks dismissal of 4 corruption counts

• Actor Henry Winkler testifies for John Ritter’s widow

• Quake swarm near the border has residents on edge

• Calderon addresses California lawmakers

• Conservator who stole from client gets 1-year jail term

• Man held in 2006 Santa Barbara attack on couple

• Teen injured in fight in Temecula

• Antigang programs assailed

• Lottery results

• War isn’t a distant memory to them

• Actor played the husband on 1970s TV series ‘Rhoda’

• Berkeley reverses policy against Marines

• County may close most of its clinics

• Lynwood pet shop owner pleads no contest to animal cruelty

• Track repairs delay race

• Goodell’s explanation doesn’t sway Specter

• That could mean a big penalty box

• Neck guards are discussed

• Gasol trade has domino effect in the West

• Serious injury for Ronaldo

• This week in golf: Teeing off

• Naming rights is key to USC deal

• Tonight

• RESULTS, SCHEDULE

• Long Beach State beats UC Riverside

• Thursday’s TV highlights

• Clemens doesn’t come off a winner

• Simmons hopes to play against UCLA

• Hendrick team is staying ahead of the game

• Ellis, Davis lead Warriors past Suns

• Mavericks set to make their move

• Clydette Mia looks for second win in 2008

• Text messages from press row …

• RESULTS, SCHEDULE

• AP WOMEN’S TOP 25

• Clemens’ opening statement

• Riviera is No. 1 attraction

• Mickelson is the favorite at Riviera

• An off season is on for Keefe

• Princess Amelie tries turf in follow-up

• Burke unsure about moves

• The Dodgers’ prospects

• STAT OF THE WEEK

• New details emerge from both sides

• NCAA says Sampson broke rules

• Clemens, McNamee face off on the Hill

• Guarding against a letdown

• Clippers left with a bad tip

• Waxman has options but won’t commit on Clemens

• Torre is his own boss

• Fog nearly fells Phil

• Maybe good can come from this

• Swings and misses for Clemens

• A lot of questions and some heated opinions

• Managers staying in cash mode

• Murdoch in talks for Yahoo

• Stocks jump on sales news

• Find help online for website

• No tax return, no rebate check

• NBC’s Silverman sells production company

• Studios plant seeds for film franchises

• Dreaming big for Latino firms

• Romance and work are ‘blend-ins’ here

• Tribune Co. to cut staff by 2%

• HP settles lawsuit in spying scandal

• China scrutinized in blood thinner problems

• Rebate help

• Annuities seller yields to deal

• Coca-Cola earnings jump 79%

• Southern California home sales drop to 20-year low

• Retail sales rise 0.3% in January

• Toy makers team with wrestling groups

• Talks on horizon for actors

• Major health insurers accused of rigging rates

• latimes.com/business

• Street Greek

• Maceo Parker: sax man steers the ship

• Dusty Springfield bio touches a pained truth

• Lively tempo changes

• A landscape that melds organic and synthetic

• The Reel Less Traveled

• Franklin not sharing her throne

• DON’T MISS

• Getty Villa: Luis Alfaro’s ‘Oedipus El Rey’

• David Strathairn

• ‘Stay Forever: The Life and Music of Dusty Springfield’

• Bright red flags, waving fast – heed them

• ‘Our Town’ in San Juan Capistrano

• Jack Smith: Just the artifacts

• Powerhouse Theatre: ‘Robots vs. Fake Robots’

• THE FIVE THIS WEEK: BEST PRESSED

• Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars

• The Short Set: Bare-bones b-day

• Amy Ryan

• The Glutton

• Stagecoach fest corrals the Eagles

• ‘Jericho’ returns to ratings battles

• Now that’s down under

• UNDERRATED OVERRATED

• A ‘time-lapse’ chronicle of a rapidly changing China

• Luckyfish: Food gone mobile

• Aquarium of the Pacific: Nature by Kayak tour

• Lock & Key Party: Open your mind

• A seafood hideaway has Hollywood at the door

• The hair club for Sam

• First Cabin: A taste of the old country

• DON’T MISS

• Antiquarian Book Fair turns back the pages

• Smokin’ Mo’s BBQ: surf and sauce

• The stars of ‘Star Wars’ back in the galaxy we know

• Horoscope: Feb. 14

• Oscar-nominated live-action and animated shorts

• SCENESTEALER

• Lucent L’amour: Lights, fabric, action

• The Enabler: Duke’s Hideaway

• 3-Way Pickling workshop: building the perfect pickle

• Time for candy hearts and daggers

• A strange new world

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• Clean, wholesome, old-fashioned burlesque

• ‘O.C.’s’ Bilson makes the jump

• A Scattered Life

• When film made waves

• A Winkle and a nod to films that go beyond cute

• ‘The Flu Season’: Lovesick

• The Buddhists’ goodwill is there for the tasting

• Untitled Paul Young

• Some ‘Aspects’ are charming

• Calendar’s Calendar

• Kate Somerville

• Romance? Definitely. Success? Maybe.

• Ballet and karate? It’s a kickin’ sweat

• ‘Step Up 2 the Streets’

• DON’T MISS

• Los Angeles, Italia: Buon giorno, Bernardo Bertolucci

• Amaranta Cocina Mexicana: Agave Rose Martini

• Harlem Globetrotters: Big kids

• EIGHT THINGS

• Déjà vu all ogre again

• Jon Ross: Brother’s keeper

• Look ma, no hands (or pianist, either)

• Visible Fictions: ‘Jason and the Argonauts’

• Riverside County Fair: Make a date

• Seductive Crimsin is designed for intimacy

• Screening Room

• Night Lines

• Slowfish: slow and steady

• DJ Craze: Real vinyl-scratching hip-hop

• 60 Seconds With … Rhys Darby

• Hank Jones presents the highest of standards

• Pillow talk with socially conscious undertones

• Rainn Wilson, in the Spirit

• DON’T MISS

• ‘Jumper’ bounces around but never goes forward

• Sympathy, no, true love for the ‘Devil’

• New in Town: Citrus

• Was (Not Was) is, again

• DON’T MISS

• Comedy is her true calling

• St. Vincent: Shred head

• Xiem Gallery: Can you DIG it?

• ‘Sleep’ helps sales to awake

• All the world’s (or at least SoCal’s) a stage

• DON’T MISS

• Love stories buried no longer

• Pyle photo had been previously published

• Bats flew before they had ‘radar,’ fossil shows

• Big rewards from small donors

• Clinton camp remains upbeat

• Craig scolded for ‘improper conduct’

• Acrobats’ plans take tumble

• ‘Forever stamps’ have cachet among frugal

• Clinton intensifies her attacks on new front-runner Obama

• Rabbis ‘dismayed’ by Catholic prayer

• Huckabee has a win in sight

• WASHINGTON

• Obama vows $210 billion for ‘green,’ building jobs

• Senate OKs limits on interrogations

• Rep. Lewis a leader of earmark pack

• Green vs. greener

• Free, fair, or what?

• The valentine of his dreams

• Don’t supersede voters

• Tied to Bush’s waterboard

• Between ‘crazy’ and ‘committed’

• AT LATIMES.COM/OPINION

• Shielded by secrecy

• Picture perfect

• You got roses? Show ‘em the love

• Little leaps of faith on the bunny hill

• A new Horizon

• Modern’s everyman

• Modernism Week

• It’s a first for California

• He designs landscapes too

• The artistry of a Chinese garden shines

• Neutra landmark opens for tours

• Modern marvelous

• Books on Chinese gardens

• A thatched roof? Why?

• Is it desperate housewares?

• A raiding of the pantry

• Militant was an elusive figure

• Alleged separatist gets 30 years in attempted murder

• President orders new Syria sanctions

• Iraqi lawmakers pass 3 key bills

• Interpreter freed; CBS journalist still held

• Kosovo a frustration for Russia

• Hospital chief questioned in Baghdad blasts

• Reformists criticize Iranian council

• Long-sought Hezbollah militant killed by car bomb

• Georgian opposition leader found dead

• Charges of torture feed Sunni anger in Diyala

• BRITAIN

• Israeli checkpoints opposed

• In Spain, a crackdown on Basque separatists