John Scott

For months, a mysterious vandal has been slapping hundreds of "Who Is John Scott?" stickers on buses around Los Angeles. Authorities expected the vandalism to be the work of teenage "slap taggers," who hit buses, street signs and light poles with stickers advertising shoes, skateboards, music bands and sometime their own hand-drawn monikers. But the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's anti-graffiti detail got a surprise when it finally tracked down the man allegedly behind "Who Is John Scott?"

Saturday is California Cup Day at Santa Anita, where there will be six stakes on a 10-race card featuring California-bred horses. The improving John Scott, a 5-year-old gelded son of Bertrando, heads the field in the $175,000 California Cup Classic at 1 1/16 miles. Rousing Sermon, the eighth-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby, and the always energetic Holladay Road figure to offer competition to John Scott. There were so many fillies and mares entered in the California Distaff that it will be split into two divisions of 11 horses each, racing at 6 1/2 furlongs on the turf.

A 74-year-old man dubbed the oldest vandalism suspect ever arrested by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department — after authorities said he put "slap tags" in Metropolitan Transportation Authority buses — pleaded no contest Thursday to misdemeanor vandalism. John Scott appeared in a downtown courtroom wearing a nylon Nike sweat suit and black loafers and carrying a vinyl Samsonite briefcase bearing his trademark orange and black bumper sticker that asks "Who is John Scott?"

A 74-year-old man dubbed the oldest vandalism suspect ever arrested by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department — after authorities said he put "slap tags" in Metropolitan Transportation Authority buses — pleaded no contest Thursday to misdemeanor vandalism. John Scott appeared in a downtown courtroom wearing a nylon Nike sweat suit and black loafers and carrying a vinyl Samsonite briefcase bearing his trademark orange and black bumper sticker that asks "Who is John Scott?"

Saturday is California Cup Day at Santa Anita, where there will be six stakes on a 10-race card featuring California-bred horses. The improving John Scott, a 5-year-old gelded son of Bertrando, heads the field in the $175,000 California Cup Classic at 1 1/16 miles. Rousing Sermon, the eighth-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby, and the always energetic Holladay Road figure to offer competition to John Scott. There were so many fillies and mares entered in the California Distaff that it will be split into two divisions of 11 horses each, racing at 6 1/2 furlongs on the turf.

Heart of Glass "I used to peek through the alley fence in my Dallas neighborhood and watch these guys blowing glass," says artist Alison Berger, who was a teenager at the time. "I was fascinated. They took me in and showed me how." Berger likens the process to "jumping off a diving board, catching a ball and throwing it to someone before you hit the water. There is an incredible precision, timing and choreography involved in glassmaking."

Slappy White, the comedian and dancer who became a fixture with his self-deprecating storytelling on Las Vegas, Atlantic City and other nightclub stages, as well as on television and film, has died. He was 74. White, who lived for many years in Los Angeles, died Tuesday night of a heart attack in Brigantine, N.J., an island community north of Atlantic City where he was spending his retirement years. "We look like two cups of coffee.

John David Scott, 47, an oboist and conductor in New York City and Bogota, Colombia, and a music director of musical theater productions on the West Coast. A native of Mt. Kisco, N.Y., Scott studied music at the State University of New York. From the age of 16 he was playing oboe with such organizations as the New York City Ballet Orchestra, the American Symphony and the St. Luke's Ensemble.

John T. Scott, a New Orleans artist best known for large-scale abstract sculptures, has died. He was 67. Scott, a longtime art professor at Xavier University in New Orleans who received the prestigious John D. MacArthur Fellowship -- commonly called the "genius grant" -- in 1992, died Sept. 1 at Methodist Hospital in Houston after a long fight against pulmonary fibrosis. The New Orleans Museum of Art held a retrospective of Scott's work in 2005, shortly before Hurricane Katrina hit the city.

The ski patrol had been at work since first light, inspecting Mammoth Mountain's reopened runs after a week of heavy snow and blustery winds. By midmorning Thursday, seven of them had set to work digging out a nearly buried fence erected to keep skiers away from one of the mountain's dangerous volcanic vents. Suddenly, the snow beneath them gave way. Two of the ski patrollers dropped into a 21-foot maw filled with deadly carbon dioxide fumes and landed on the ground, trapped in a deep hollow.

For months, a mysterious vandal has been slapping hundreds of "Who Is John Scott?" stickers on buses around Los Angeles. Authorities expected the vandalism to be the work of teenage "slap taggers," who hit buses, street signs and light poles with stickers advertising shoes, skateboards, music bands and sometime their own hand-drawn monikers. But the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's anti-graffiti detail got a surprise when it finally tracked down the man allegedly behind "Who Is John Scott?"

John T. Scott, a New Orleans artist best known for large-scale abstract sculptures, has died. He was 67. Scott, a longtime art professor at Xavier University in New Orleans who received the prestigious John D. MacArthur Fellowship -- commonly called the "genius grant" -- in 1992, died Sept. 1 at Methodist Hospital in Houston after a long fight against pulmonary fibrosis. The New Orleans Museum of Art held a retrospective of Scott's work in 2005, shortly before Hurricane Katrina hit the city.

The last time friends saw retired UC Davis sociology professor John Finley Scott was nearly four months ago when the 72-year-old bicycle pioneer and resident contrarian tooled away from a local bistro on his beloved two-wheeler. Scott fired off a few e-mails over the next few days but then went silent. After friends reported him missing, Yolo County sheriff's deputies went to his rural ranch home, where they found blood in the bedroom and foyer but no sign of a body.

Heart of Glass "I used to peek through the alley fence in my Dallas neighborhood and watch these guys blowing glass," says artist Alison Berger, who was a teenager at the time. "I was fascinated. They took me in and showed me how." Berger likens the process to "jumping off a diving board, catching a ball and throwing it to someone before you hit the water. There is an incredible precision, timing and choreography involved in glassmaking."

John David Scott, 47, an oboist and conductor in New York City and Bogota, Colombia, and a music director of musical theater productions on the West Coast. A native of Mt. Kisco, N.Y., Scott studied music at the State University of New York. From the age of 16 he was playing oboe with such organizations as the New York City Ballet Orchestra, the American Symphony and the St. Luke's Ensemble.

The last time friends saw retired UC Davis sociology professor John Finley Scott was nearly four months ago when the 72-year-old bicycle pioneer and resident contrarian tooled away from a local bistro on his beloved two-wheeler. Scott fired off a few e-mails over the next few days but then went silent. After friends reported him missing, Yolo County sheriff's deputies went to his rural ranch home, where they found blood in the bedroom and foyer but no sign of a body.

The National Board of Review recently bestowed screenplay awards upon the writers of "The Descendants" and "50/50," perhaps giving their scribes a leg up in the Oscar race. Yet, in 2008, when those films were just ideas on a page, they had already been recognized for their potential to be great movies by the very people in Hollywood who read scripts for a living. Both projects landed on the "Black List" - an annual compendium of the most-liked screenplays that have yet to be turned into movies.