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Saturday, August 16, 2008
Face to face with AIDS’ toll on children
California | Local |
August 16, 2008
It is a chilling statistic: 12 million children in sub-Saharan Africa have been orphaned by AIDS.
But the figure alone cannot begin to convey the toll of a pandemic that continues to punish vast swaths of the continent. Read more
Friday, March 28, 2008
Thrill is gone as Dodgers, Angels tie, 2-2
Sports |
March 28, 2008
It used to be called the Freeway Series and it was as much a part of the Southland sports scene as Rams football and title fights at the Olympic Auditorium. Read more
Friday, December 28, 2007
Officials still puzzled by tiger’s escape from enclosure
California | Local |
December 28, 2007
The director of the San Francisco Zoo said Thursday that he had
overstated the height of the sheer wall in the tiger grotto – and
that the tiger that killed a teenage visitor on Christmas Day may
have been able to escape over the walls. Read more
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Indelible images, mystery subject
California | Local |
December 20, 2007
She came out of nowhere, and in a flash she was gone. Read more
Sunday, November 11, 2007
THE NANCY YEARS
Image |
November 11, 2007
Amention of first lady style typically invokes iconic visions of Jacqueline Kennedy in pearls and a pink pillbox hat. Read more
Picasso wears polyester
Image |
November 11, 2007
Fashion and art have long shared the same orbit, with many
designers inspired by artwork and many artists donning designer creations. Read more
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Gorillas again in our midst
California | Local |
November 8, 2007
Like most 2-year-olds, Glenda runs, claps her hands and rides
piggyback on her mother. Read more
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Keep moving forward
Entertainment |
November 4, 2007
When motion pictures were new, at the turn of the 20th century, a
director at Edison’s studios made a short film showing an artist
working at an easel. Read more
Simply raw admiration
Image |
November 4, 2007
Art openings may be the best venues for playing the peacock. Read more
Saturday, November 3, 2007
An East-West idea exchange
Entertainment |
November 3, 2007
In 1989, the Getty Research Institute got a proposal that seemed
to come out of left field. Read more
Friday, November 2, 2007
EBay is its new setting
Entertainment |
November 2, 2007
For all the talk of the $965 limited-edition tote bag at the Louis
Vuitton boutique in Takashi Murakami’s exhibition at the Museum of
Contemporary Art’s Geffen Contemporary, the hottest item at the gala
opening was not for sale. Read more
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Thinking inside a box
Entertainment |
October 28, 2007
TWO large photographs greet visitors to the Joseph Cornell
retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Read more
SUPERFLAT WORLD
Entertainment |
October 28, 2007
IT’S the tuft of hair on the chin, the relief of a goatee on the
smooth aluminum surface of the face, that gives the character’s
identity away. Read more
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Ancient Rome in Disney central
Entertainment |
October 16, 2007
Walk the district that Anaheim is trying to revitalize as a downtown “urban village” with honest-to-goodness street life and you’ll see the usual suspects: Mickey, Minnie and Goofy, on posters in the windows of a low-slung office building that houses the travel and reservations operation for Disneyland, less than two miles away. Read more
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Making a scene
Entertainment |
October 14, 2007
If you think of the gallery world in Los Angeles as a sort of
inverted galaxy, arrayed not across the sky but over the layout of
the city, its newest and brightest constellation would be floating
around the intersection of La Cienega and Washington boulevards. Read more
Saturday, October 13, 2007
QUICK TAKES - Exhibit showcases looted Courbet
Entertainment |
October 13, 2007
For decades, art lovers believed the painting was lost, maybe even
destroyed, a casualty of Red Army or Nazi looting in Hungary during
World War II. But unlike so many other tales of plundered treasures,
this one has a happy ending. Read more
Monday, October 8, 2007
The wisdom of another culture - Exhibit offers ‘a window for the mainstream public to try to understand traditional Chinese medicine.’
California | Local |
October 8, 2007
To step into the Gin Herb store – or Wing On Tong, as it is known
to its Cantonese-speaking patrons – is to enter both another country
and another century. Read more
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Midcentury mod and all that jazz
Entertainment |
October 7, 2007
MUSIC, architecture and art melded in a picture-perfect Modernist
moment in 1957 every time abstract painter Karl Benjamin went to work. Read more
In the wake of the wall
Entertainment |
October 7, 2007
The two sides of the Berlin Wall segment that stands outside the
Wende Museum in Culver City speak volumes. Read more
Thursday, September 13, 2007
There are robots among us
News |
September 13, 2007
IF, as sci-fi writers have been warning us for decades, robots are plotting to rise up against humans, this week presents them with a prime opportunity. Read more
