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May 16, 2013 | Staff and Wire reports
Keegan Bradley had no thoughts about a course record, or the possibility of a 59, after consecutive bogeys in the middle of his opening round in the Byron Nelson Championship at Irving, Texas. Until his 136-yard wedge shot on his final hole Thursday. "It was going right at it. [A 59] crossed my mind for a second, and it would be unbelievable if I buried this," Bradley said. "But I had three feet to shoot 60. I was actually very nervous, uncomfortable over it and thank God I made it. " Bradley shot 10-under-par 60, completed by that short birdie at the 428-yard ninth hole, to break the TPC Four Seasons course record and match the best round ever at the Nelson.
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ENTERTAINMENT
April 22, 2013 | By Nardine Saad
Busy Philipps has announced that she's having another girl. The pregnant "Cougar Town" actress is expecting a second child with husband Marc Silverstein, which she originally announced on Twitter in December.  "We've known for a long time now, I just haven't had any reason to say it , but we're having another girl. We're really excited," she told The Huffington Post . PHOTOS: Hollywood baby boom The 33-year-old opened up about her pregnancy at the premiere of "A Case of You" at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York on Sunday.
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NATIONAL
November 23, 2012 | By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times
Moeller doesn't expect the height limits to be repealed "because people around the world would protest, just as they would if someone came up and said, 'I want to build a skyscraper along the Champs-Elysees.'" WASHINGTON - It blocked views. It shut out sunlight. The "great size" of the 12-story Cairo apartment building so angered the people of Washington, D.C., back in the 1890s that Congress eventually enacted a law that dramatically shaped the landscape of the nation's capital.
ENTERTAINMENT
April 18, 2013 | By Gerrick D. Kennedy
Jay-Z might have been instrumental in bringing the Nets to Brooklyn and christening the team's home arena, Barclays Center , but the hip-hop mogul has sold his stake in the NBA team. “It was never about an investment; it was about the NETS and Brooklyn. My job as an owner is over but as a fan it has just begun,” he announced in a letter posted on Life+Times website on Thursday. The rapper was forced to sell his share in the team in order to pursue his recently announced Roc Nation Sports, which snagged New York Yankees star Robinson Cano as its first signee.
NEWS
March 20, 2003
Under Steven Mirkin's idea, my 5-foot girlfriend would be upfront and I would be, at 6 feet 4, in the back of the crowd ("Taking the Short View," March 13). What a great night out! We get to share our experience in the parking lot after the concert. I guess you want the Rose Parade watchers to line up by height so everyone gets a great view of the floats. Please go buy "Short People" by Randy Newman and get over it. Steven David Laguna Niguel I have also been frustrated by the fleshy wall of towering concertgoers that inevitably springs up around the front of the stage and, without fail, stand directly in front of me. However, at 5 feet 11, I have, more often than not, been the target of sighing height-challenged fans straining in vain on tiptoes behind me to get a glimpse of their heroes.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
May 26, 1989 | BOB POOL, Times Staff Writer
Developers of a three-story condominium project under construction in Woodland Hills may have to tear off part of the roof to make the $7.5-million structure comply with zoning laws, Los Angeles officials said Thursday. But whether the building will actually have to be lowered won't be decided before June 6, when city planning commissioners discuss how the height should be measured, officials said. The height of the 24-unit condominium project has been debated since March, when neighboring homeowners complained that the hilltop structure is too tall to meet a 45-foot height restriction imposed on the site 10 years ago by the city.
ENTERTAINMENT
March 27, 2013 | By Nardine Saad
Hayden Panettiere and boxer Wladimir Klitschko are reportedly engaged, but shhh! It's a secret. "Very few people know, and she isn't wearing her ring publicly yet," a source told Us Weekly, which reported the news Wednesday. The mag reported that the couple might wed this summer. The "Nashville" starlet, 23, and Ukrainian heavyweight, 37, have yet to publicly confirm their relationship, let alone their engagement, despite being seen together packing in the PDA. The two were super-cuddly at a Miami Heat game in Florida, where he lives, over the weekend.
ENTERTAINMENT
April 8, 2013 | By Gerrick D. Kennedy
Kendrick Lamar is taking his breakout debut,  “good kid, m.A.A.d city,” on the road with his first world tour. The Compton rapper, currently headlining a spring college trek with Steve Aoki, will take his good kid, m.A.A.d city world tour across the U.S. and Europe this summer. Lamar is taking a break between his tour with Aoki, and his summer jaunt. After he wraps his spring trek May 4, his world tour launches the next day with a slot at the SunFest Music and Arts Festival in West Palm Beach, Fla. He is scheduled to hit a number of festivals,, including Governors Ball, Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza.
ENTERTAINMENT
March 28, 2013 | By Gerrick D. Kennedy
Bruno Mars, Maroon 5, Miguel and Demi Lovato are among the chart-toppers slated to perform at KIIS-FM's Wango Tango concert May 11. The annual day-long fan jam at Carson's Home Depot Center stuffs a who's who of current Top 40 (and a few buzzy emerging acts) onto one stage.   Mars will open the festival, now in its 16 th year, which will be hosted by pop purveyor Ryan Seacrest. The multi-hyphenate personality is expected to be joined by guest host Britney Spears. Spears is well-versed with the teen-attracting show, having performed at it twice.
ENTERTAINMENT
April 8, 2013 | By Nardine Saad
Halle Berry is touting her new pregnancy and motherhood as she prepares to launch a philanthropic campaign with designer Michael Kors. The duo has paired up to launch Watch Hunger Stop, which will provide meals to children in Africa, Syria and maybe Central America. They plan to raise money via the sale of Kors' ubiquitous $295 Runway watch, according to the Associated Press. For each watch sold, 100 meals will be provided to children as part of the U.N. World Food Programme.
ENTERTAINMENT
April 17, 2013 | By Gerrick D. Kennedy
This year alone, Beyoncé sang for the president, headlined the Super Bowl, scored her 17 th Grammy, debuted a highly rated HBO documentary and was named half of pop music's first billionaire couple (with hubby Jay-Z). So what does such an accomplished woman wear to launch her latest world tour? The answer, in a gold-plated nutshell, is whatever she wants. And she did. Beyoncé kicked off “The Mrs. Carter Show" tour Monday in Serbia, and the pop diva donned some daring attire.
ENTERTAINMENT
April 14, 2013 | By Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times
Comedian Kurt Braunohler has promised, within a matter of minutes, to rearrange the downtown Los Angeles sky. It's 2:23 p.m. and half a dozen people on a recent Saturday crane their necks and squint into the sun as they wait outside a Hill Street high-rise to be let up to the roof. "Don't bother, man, it's at capacity in there," says a petite woman, her face obscured by enormous Jackie O sunglasses and a painter's cap. herapist, has a weekly average of about 1.2 million viewers.
NEWS
April 13, 2013 | By Kate Linthicum
The Los Angeles mayor's race invaded Boyle Heights on Saturday, with Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti both campaigning in the neighborhood for coveted Eastside votes. In a parking lot outside a Shakey's Pizza Parlor on bustling Cesar Chavez Avenue, Garcetti invoked his family's immigrant roots and pledged to give Boyle Heights the attention it deserves if he is elected on May 21. “I'm running for mayor to bring opportunity everywhere,” he told a crowd of supporters as they prepared to walk precincts.
ENTERTAINMENT
April 11, 2013 | By Yvonne Villarreal
It may not be a good day for Jamie Foxx's movie "Django Unchained" in China . But, hey, at least the actor is getting some love from Syfy. The network announced Thursday that the actor will be executive-producing, writing and directing a five-episode horror anthology for them. The untitled series, produced through the actor's Foxxhole Productions, will roll out this year as part of Syfy's 31 Days of Halloween this October. The episodes will consist of morality tales, according to the release, in the vein of "Tales from the Crypt" and "The Twilight Zone.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 11, 2013 | By Cindy Chang, Los Angeles Times
Following a flurry of complaints, Los Angeles County inspectors have cited 16 "maternity hotel" owners for illegally operating boardinghouses in residential zones. The facilities, all in Rowland Heights or Hacienda Heights, will ultimately be shut down, county officials said. No major health or safety issues were found at the hotels, where women from Asia stay to give birth to U.S. citizen babies. Some were cited for building and fire code violations, according to a report released Thursday.
ENTERTAINMENT
April 8, 2013 | By Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times Music Critic
For the brief moment that she stood atop the eight-story building at UCLA on Friday evening in the soft light of the setting sun, she looked as though she belonged there. This was, after all, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center, and the woman might have been, say, an Antony Gormley artwork. She surely seemed a sculpture as she began to tip over. But once at a 90-degree angle to the ground, she walked, casually and with slow ease, down the side of the building as if this were a perfectly normal thing to do. For spectators watching from below, things became confused.
OPINION
September 27, 1998
The 1990s: height of political hypocrisy. DESIREE M. HOBSON-GARCIA San Pedro
ENTERTAINMENT
November 23, 2012 | By Yvonne Villarreal
By now, "iCarly" fans are aware of the looming reality: The Nickelodeon teen sitcom will be wrapping its run after five seasons. The series, from Dan Schneider ("Drake & Josh," "Victorious"), broke new ground with the way it entwined the Internet and technology into its story about three friends who start up a Web show, speaking to a generation glued to their cellphones and laptops. It was a scheme that would prove beneficial. Early in its run, "iCarly" would outpace fictional teen queen "Hannah Montana" in the race for young viewers.
ENTERTAINMENT
April 8, 2013 | By Gerrick D. Kennedy
Kendrick Lamar is taking his breakout debut,  “good kid, m.A.A.d city,” on the road with his first world tour. The Compton rapper, currently headlining a spring college trek with Steve Aoki, will take his good kid, m.A.A.d city world tour across the U.S. and Europe this summer. Lamar is taking a break between his tour with Aoki, and his summer jaunt. After he wraps his spring trek May 4, his world tour launches the next day with a slot at the SunFest Music and Arts Festival in West Palm Beach, Fla. He is scheduled to hit a number of festivals,, including Governors Ball, Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza.
ENTERTAINMENT
April 8, 2013 | By Nardine Saad
Halle Berry is touting her new pregnancy and motherhood as she prepares to launch a philanthropic campaign with designer Michael Kors. The duo has paired up to launch Watch Hunger Stop, which will provide meals to children in Africa, Syria and maybe Central America. They plan to raise money via the sale of Kors' ubiquitous $295 Runway watch, according to the Associated Press. For each watch sold, 100 meals will be provided to children as part of the U.N. World Food Programme.
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