SPORTS
September 19, 2013 | By Eric Sondheimer
I don't know what's more entertaining _ watching the Servite student section have fun or watching the football team. Servite's fans, known as the Asylum during the basketball season, are certainly vocal and dress loudly during football games. With all their Hawaiian shirt attire, the students ought to be able to get an endorsement deal from someone. School spirit is certainly alive and well (see video above). Eric.sondheimer@latimes.com
NATIONAL
May 25, 2013 | By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
Principal Steve Elwood enters the narrow passageway where nobody else at Lee Williams High School dares to go. He leans low to open a half-sized hallway door, leading the way into a musty windowless chamber the size of a small tomb. Light pours into the cramped space, illuminating the dust that rises from the gravel floor like at an exotic archaeological dig. Even though it's mid-May, there's an odd chill to the air. The room isn't used for anything, yet it was somehow included in the building plans for the new school.
ENTERTAINMENT
June 19, 2012 | By Ed Stockly
Click here to download TV listings for the week of June 17 - 23 in PDF format TV listings for the week of June 17 - 23 in PDF format are also available here This week's TV Movies SERIES Inside Men: This four-part series tells the story of employees of a cash security depot who execute a multimillion-pound cash heist. Steven Mackintosh, Ashley Walters and Warren Brown star as the amateur crooks (7 and 10 p.m. BBC America)
ENTERTAINMENT
April 6, 2012 | By Robert Abele, Special to the Los Angeles Times
Writer-director Mario Van Peebles' hectic version of a coming-of-age romp, the L.A.-set "We the Party" depicts a multi-ethnic group of friends and acquaintances at a fictional Baldwin Hills high school, who have sex, grades and an uncertain future on their minds. Van Peebles' son Mandela stars as Hendrix, a smart charmer with an eye for studious babe Cheyenne (Simone Battle) but a disdain for education that worries his hectoring dad (director Van Peebles), a teacher at his school.
NATIONAL
November 25, 2011 | By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times
The Texas A&M Corps of Cadets has a vocabulary all its own, some of which is spelled out in a primer distributed to all freshmen, or "fish. " cackle — eggs dead rabbit — cabbage dope — coffee non-regs — students not in the Corps 2 percenters — A&M students lacking school spirit whip out — to salute and introduce oneself to passing upperclassmen. Required of "fish. " wiggle — Jell-O wildcat — to yell, hands extended overhead.
TRAVEL
September 12, 2010 | By Judy Mandell, Special to the Los Angeles Times
Doug Donnell has traveled with UCLA's alumni tours for more than 15 years. His trips have taken him around Europe "enough times that I don't want to go back," to South Africa, South America, Egypt, Jordan, Fiji, New Zealand, China and Tibet. "When I was 25, I went around the world by myself," says Donnell, a retired Long Beach physician. "It was a life-changing experience but one characterized by a Spartan lifestyle. At age 75, I'm not there anymore. Now I want five-star hotels, my travel arrangements made for me, my baggage handled and the luxury of having a boarding pass put in my hand when I arrive at an airport.