ENTERTAINMENT
September 4, 2011
The Beach Natalie, 10 Torrey Pines Elementary La Jolla Palm trees swaying side to side as the coastal breeze swept by. Feet running along hot dry sand, the tide coming in. Children jumping over tall waves and splashing each other, adults under umbrellas lying on towels, and the sun shining bright yellow. The Four Elements Carlos, 12 Hargitt Middle School Academy Norwalk Water — Flows through river spilling, dropping, flowing — an element that brings life.
SPORTS
June 1, 2011 | Chris Erskine
Welcome to the City of Fallen Angels, Mike Brown. On behalf of the Welcome Wagon of Los Angeles, we'd like to offer up this basket of oranges while urging you never to eat anything you buy from folks standing at a traffic light. Buy it, just don't eat it. Better yet, send it to the Spurs. You have landed in a very special place, a town that really embraces outsiders. John Wooden was from Indiana. Tommy Lasorda, Pennsylvania. Heck, even our teams are from somewhere else. Minnesota.
ENTERTAINMENT
April 24, 2011 | By Charlotte Stoudt, Special to the Los Angeles Times
I'm on the city's surface streets, heading from downtown to Hollywood. Only a few cars share the road. I don't bother to pull onto the 101. Because it's not there. No, this isn't 3 a.m., or the apocalypse. It's L.A. Noire, the latest interactive world from Rockstar Games. In a dark suite at the Roosevelt Hotel, I'm test-driving this single-player detective thriller set in 1947 Los Angeles. Launching May 17, the graphic procedural takes place before Miranda rights and DNA testing.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
July 8, 2010 | By Esmeralda Bermudez, Los Angeles Times
Javier Prado marks his turf with a plastic folding chair. Ramon Alvarez guards a concrete bench. Efren Castellanos, the one they call La Hormiga ("the Ant"), brazenly goes wherever he pleases. He should, he argues. He's been here the longest. "Just let them try and tell me something," he says. "I've earned my spot." The Polaroid photographers of MacArthur Park are old-timers, the last of a dying breed. They've been sparring under the palm trees now for nearly 40 years.
IMAGE
July 19, 2009 | BOOTH MOORE, FASHION CRITIC
Financially speaking, California is circling the drain. But the sun-kissed image of the state isn't losing its currency -- even in France, the capital of chic. This fall, French jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels is launching "California Reverie," a collection of one-of-a-kind pieces inspired by West Coast icons -- both real (sunsets, palm trees, poppies) and Euro-imagined (flamingos, toucans, pineapples).
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
December 12, 2008 | Martha Groves, Groves is a Times staff writer.
The parents had the best of intentions. They planted 80 palm trees to spruce up a forlorn hillside at Malibu High School, between the athletic field and the asphalt parking lot. A number of volunteers spent two days over the Thanksgiving weekend putting in the tropical Queen palms. Now, it looks as if they are going to remove them after a raft of Malibu Park neighbors weighed in with complaints about obscured views and fire danger.