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Rock 'n' Reubens in the Kibitz Room at Canter's
Los Angeles TimesRock 'n' roll is to the Kibitz Room at Canter's what onions are to chopped liver. The two have been closely aligned since the little bar opened just off the beloved Fairfax Avenue deli's annex dining room in 1961. Only now, instead of a bunch of hippies...Tags: Frank Zappa, Juliette Lewis, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Arts, Swiss Cheese
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Majoring in chic at L.A.'s fashion schools
Los Angeles TimesIn a bustling part of downtown L.A., a high-rise is teeming with stylish young women in short skirts and full makeup wheeling small suitcases in and out of elevators on their way to class. They're students at the Fashion Institute of Design &...Tags: MaxMara, Companies and Corporations, Project Runway (tv program), Students, Arts
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'Posing Beauty in African American Culture' show at USC
Los Angeles TimesA fashion show in Harlem in 1963, a portrait of a contemplative Michael Jackson in 1981 and a picture of friends celebrating their prom night in 2006 are among images on view in the exhibition "Posing Beauty in African American Culture" at USC's Fisher...Tags: Beauty Contests, Entertainment, Social Issues, Arts, Otis Redding
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Disneyland princesses moving into new Fantasy Faire village in 2013
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBreaking a wicked stepmother's curse, Disneyland's fairytale princesses will be whisked away from their crowded one-room temporary home in 2013 and magically transported to a spacious new storybook village more befitting of their royal lineage. Blame...Tags: Tangled (movie), Gardens and Parks, Pocahontas, Amusement and Theme Parks, Benny Goodman
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The typewriter lives on in India
It's a stultifying afternoon outside the Delhi District Court as Arun Yadav slides a sheet of paper into his decades-old Remington and revs up his daily 30-word-a-minute tap dance.
Nearby, hundreds of other workers clatter away on manual typewriters amid...Tags: New Delhi (India), Indira Gandhi, India, Prices, Crime, Law and Justice
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Judy Morr: A quiet force behind Segerstrom Center for the Arts' dance program
The arts world craves star power. Locally, we're covered. Opera? No problem — Plácido. Classical music? Dudamel. Dance? There's ... well, anyone there? Anyone at all?
This s explains why perhaps the most important dance figure of the past quarter...Tags: Entertainment, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancing, Arts, Dance
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Southern California Close-Ups: From West Hollywood to Wilshire
Set an out-of-towner loose to roam the Los Angeles area between West Hollywood and Koreatown and what can you expect? A food-truck overdose, perhaps. Or the bold suggestion that we extend our subway system westward. (Hey, we're working on it.) Or maybe...Tags: Automotive Equipment, Manufacturing and Engineering, Frank Zappa, Judaism, New Year's Day
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San Francisco literary festival Litquake just keeps growing
You can't throw a New Yorker magazine in San Francisco without hitting a writer. This fog-bound city might be more famous for steep hills and sourdough, but step inside one of its many independent bookstores and coffeehouses and you'll find more...Tags: Entertainment, Festive Events, L.A. Confidential (movie), Arts, Chelsea Handler
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James Franco grabs another role with MOCA show on 'Rebel Without a Cause'
James Franco is an actor-turned-artist-turned-author-turned-actor-playing-an-artist-named-Franco in the soap opera "General Hospital" — who has made a movie, "Francophrenia," that documents the experience. He's about as "meta" as it gets. Now...
Tags: Fine Artists, Movies, Entertainment, James Franco, Natalie Wood
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Los Angeles: What to see, where to eat and stay
WHERE TO STAY
Farmer's Daughter, 115 S. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles 90036; (800) 334-1658 or (323) 937-3930, http://www.farmersdaughterhotel.com. 66 rooms. Doubles, $189-$269, more for the three suites. Adjoins Tart restaurant.
London West Hollywood...Tags: Judaism, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), MAK Center, Arts, Dining and Drinking
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New York City's spots for book lovers
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterOn the third floor of a big, gray building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, silver-haired docent Julie Chelminski recently stepped up to the middle of a hushed room and faced 15 spellbound tourists. "On the walls of this room there were 9,000 drawers,"...Tags: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ceremonies, Arts, Edward Clark, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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New York Public Library gives up some of its secrets
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn my family, we've never recognized a distinction between happiness and the handling of books. Books in libraries, books in shops. Books that take you places, and books you can steal from — like Norman Maclean's memoir, "A River Runs Through It,"...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Lewis Allen, Jack Kerouac, Islam, Judaism
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