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'Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963' by Kevin Starr
With the publication of "Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963," Kevin Starr -- now university professor and professor of history at USC and state librarian of California emeritus -- has completed his transformation from the state'...Tags: Demographics, University of California, Los Angeles, Wallace Stegner, University of Southern California, Dexter Gordon
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'Black Is the New White' by Paul Mooney
Paul Mooney recalls the day he became Richard Pryor's shadow partner. It was 1968, and the two young comics were sitting in a Hollywood greasy spoon, with Pryor nursing another hangover, so Mooney lightened the mood with an off-the-cuff, X-rated one-liner...Tags: Racism, Richard Pryor, Entertainment, Bill Cosby, National or Ethnic Minorities
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Art that makes a public spectacle of itself
A giant bulb atop the Standard Hotel in West Hollywood that goes on and off for no apparent reason. A letter denying a Mexican citizen a visa, plastered across the façade of the Geffen Contemporary. A billboard on Fairfax advertising a used 1994...Tags: Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Education, Jenny Holzer, Rome (Italy), Arts and Culture
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Tenant-owner discord where the 'Latin Lover' is mythologized
There's always been a bit of mythology behind the gates of the place they call Villa Valentino.
The 18 cozy apartments tucked between the Hollywood Bowl and Hollywood Boulevard are said to have been where silent screen star Rudolph Valentino sneaked away...Tags: Monuments and Heritage Sites, Companies and Corporations, Public Officials, Arts and Culture, Rudolph Valentino
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Seymour Fromer dies at 87; founder of Jewish museums
Seymour Fromer, who built one of the country's largest collections of Judaica with little money but enormous drive to preserve the history of Jews, especially those who helped settle the American West, has died. He was 87.
Fromer died Oct. 25 at his...Tags: Auction Service, Entertainment, Darius Milhaud, Family, Culture
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Teachers learn a lesson in the cultures of food
Learning to make stuffed grape leaves is a lesson that reaches far beyond cooking, to world trade, expository writing, even marriage and family traditions. In fact, the requirements of that last part hit home with some of the schoolteachers trying their...Tags: Agricultural Research and Technology, Education, University of California, Los Angeles, Schools, Science
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Tuesday is International Museum Day
Culture MonsterMany art museums around the world will be celebrating International Museum Day on Tuesday by waiving or reducing their admission fees or offering special programs. The event was created in 1977 by the International Council of Museums, an organization of..... -
Critic's Notebook: 'The Art of the Steal: The Untold Story of the Barnes Foundation'
Culture MonsterâThe Art of the Steal: The Untold Story of the Barnes Foundationâ is a riveting â and tragic â documentary film chronicling the gratuitous ruin of a school outside Philadelphia that houses an incomparable art collection. It's a classic story...... -
UCLA Marks 1969 Black Panther Killings
The Daily MirrorDevon McReynolds, who interned with the Daily Mirror last year, sends an update about plans to unveil a plaque at 11 a.m. on Tuesday at UCLAâs Campbell Hall in memory of Black Panther members John Huggins and Alprentice Carter, who were killed there... -
Memorials of 1969 campus killings unveiled and debated at UCLA
L.A. NOWWhile studying 1960s U.S. history, a UCLA class was stunned to learn recently that a violent incident in the black power movement had occurred on the Westwood campus and that there was no physical reminder of it. So they and...... -
Arts budget proposals: Slightly up for L.A. County, way down for L.A. City
Culture MonsterHere's the quick lowdown on the outlook for government arts funding in Los Angeles: It depends. If you're talking about L.A. County, the prospects are pretty good, given the circumstances. The 2010-11 budget proposed this week by William T Fujioka,...... -
Domesticated Chinese pigs' ancestory goes back at least 8,000 years
L.A. UnleashedToday's pigs in China have a pedigree dating back at least 8,000 years to some of the first domesticated swine, scientists say. The finding provides a more detailed picture about the history of animal husbandry and shows that pigs may......
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