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Review: Crime-solving quartet saves the day in 'Bletchley Circle'
Thanks to Sherlock Holmes and his Doctor Watson, we are used to detectives coming in asymmetrical pairs: Your Batman and Robin (superheroes, you say, but their career began in Detective Comics), your Poirot and Hastings, your Morse and Lewis, your Lewis...
Tags: Grimm (tv program), Rachael Stirling, Anna Maxwell Martin, Arts and Culture, Crime, Law and Justice
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Social network Path brings 'Peanuts' gang to virtual stickers
SAN FRANCISCO -- Good grief, Charlie Brown! The "Peanuts" character and his pals are joining the social network Path. The San Francisco start-up has struck its first brand partnership with the "Peanuts" gang, still one of the most powerful brands in...
Tags: SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, Arts and Culture, Japan, Social Media, Apple iPhone
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'Lone wolf' terrorists get what they want in global spotlight
If late bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev attacked the Boston Marathon with an aim to draw attention to Muslim suffering in Chechnya, his ancestral homeland, he succeeded. Or if, as alleged by some who knew him, he was angered by U.S. military...
Tags: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Jihad, Religious Conflicts, U.S. Military, Islam
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‘Star Wars’ actor Richard LeParmentier, 66, dies
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesRichard LeParmentier, who played Admiral Motti in “Star Wars,” died Tuesday. He was 66. The Pittsburgh-born character actor appeared in ...... -
Richard D. Kelley, longtime L.A. Philharmonic bassist, dies at 76
Richard D. Kelley, a bassist whose tenure with the Los Angeles Philharmonic lasted nearly six decades, died on Tuesday at 76. The musician died at his home in La Puente following a long battle with cancer, according to an orchestra spokeswoman. Kelley...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Music, Music Industry, Entertainment
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Venezuela's Maduro is sworn in as president
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Nicolas Maduro, the handpicked successor of the late President Hugo Chavez, was sworn in to Venezuela's highest office Friday, despite refusal by a newly empowered opposition to accept defeat in a hotly contested election....
Tags: Politics, Ceremonies, Government, Arts and Culture, National Government
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Judy Juanita and her 'Virgin Soul'
In the late 1960s, Judy Juanita was a college undergraduate in the Bay Area and editor of a Black Panther Party newspaper. Now her new novel, "Virgin Soul" (Viking, $26.95), recounts the story of Geniece, an undergraduate who joins the Panthers. But...
Tags: Human Interest, Arts and Culture, Cultural Development, LSD, James Baldwin
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LinkedIn rolls out new, personalized mobile app
LinkedIn wants to give its mobile app a spark, and the social network is doing so by simplifying and customizing it to individually fit each of its users. The business-focused social network rolled out the major app update late Wednesday night. The...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Social Media, Apple iPhone, Sociology
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Movie review: 'In the House' observes and reports with flair
French director François Ozon can usually be counted on for dark irony of the juiciest sort — his 2003 "Swimming Pool" of sexual provocations comes to mind. But the filmmaker has an especially deft touch when a dash of comedy is mixed in. He uses...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Social Sciences, Students, Arts and Culture, Fabrice Luchini
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In Guatemala, a twist as genocide trial nears end
MEXICO CITY — On the first day of trial, a witness named Bernardo Bernal recounted how, as a 9-year-old in the spring of 1983, he hid in a stream and watched Guatemalan soldiers kill his parents and two younger brothers. On the second day of...
Tags: United Nations, Politics, Trials, Hate Crimes, Judges
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Critic's Notebook: Music that's all over the map
A tree grows most surely in Brooklyn. But what's in a ZIP Code? The Los Angeles Philharmonic began its Brooklyn Festival on Tuesday night with a Green Umbrella concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall. The hip New York City borough is not just a...
Tags: The Antlers (music group), Brooklyn (Windham, Connecticut), Sam Adams (music artist), Music Industry, Chairlift (music group)
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Groups vie for a shot at $100,000 grants to improve L.A.
For 15 days the lobbying was fierce by groups hoping to win a piece of the $1 million being given away by an organization looking for ways to make Los Angeles a better place by 2050. Each of the 279 public service groups angling for the 10 $100,000...
Tags: Politics, Government, Arts and Culture, Safety of Citizens, Cultural Development
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