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Rash guards that do double duty as streetwear
Special to the Los Angeles TimesAction sports and high fashion may not seem like the most likely of companions, but in the past decade designers have done more than dip a toe into surf culture; they have embraced the easygoing, sun-drenched lifestyle common to Southern California and...Tags: Skin Rash, Entertainment, J. Crew, Chanel S.A., Cynthia Rowley
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Justin Bieber looking at a big bill for leaving monkey in Germany
Justin Bieber may have left Mally the monkey behind in Germany, but the bill for Mally's care looks to be following him back to the States. Bieber will owe several thousand euros for food, care and vet visits over the two months since the capuchin...
Tags: Jaden Smith, Arts and Culture, Music Industry, Justin Bieber, Social Media
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CW ventures further into sci-fi / fantasy with new fall shows
NEW YORK — The CW is increasing its stock in fantastical television. The network, often overlooked when measured against its larger broadcast competitors, is building on its efforts to broaden its target 18- to 34-year-old audience. It's adding...
Tags: Entertainment, Genres, Television, America's Next Top Model (tv program), The Vampire Diaries (tv program)
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'The Marriage of Figaro,' right in time with the 21st century
Suffice to say that Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte weren't thinking about Proposition 8 when they composed "The Marriage of Figaro." The 1786 comic opera follows bullying Count Almaviva's efforts to invoke droit du seigneur to sexually conquer...
Tags: Music, Same-Sex Marriage, Paris (France), Entertainment, Pritzker Architecture Prize
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Brazil, Japan, sumo and food, deliciously intertwined
SAO PAULO, Brazil — Fernando Kuroda didn't like eating chankonabe at first, because he was forced to eat so much of the thick stew that he would get sick and could barely walk. "They would just fill me up and fill me up with food, or I wasn't...
Tags: Government, National Government, Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, Limes
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A celebration of all things Turkish
There they'll stand — the Roman amphitheater of Aspendos, the tomb of the Sufi poet Rumi, the ruins of the Assyrian city of Nimrud, the ancient Armenian church of Akdamar and a dozen other wonders, all splendid in the Southern California sun. Of...
Tags: Music, Turkey, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Culture
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Bieber vs. Beethoven; a new twist on battle rap
Comedian Lloyd Ahlquist steps onto the stage, girded for battle. Wearing the uniform of a Soviet officer, with medals dripping from his chest, he channels dictator Joseph Stalin and prepares to deliver a rhyming smackdown on Russia's mad monk, Grigori...
Tags: Music, Maxwell, Entertainment, Battles (music group), Justin Bieber
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2013 TV upfronts: Fox overhauls schedule
NEW YORK -- Coming off a television season that saw its ratings fall by 20%, Fox unveiled a new schedule heavy on big names both in front of and behind the camera in hopes of rejuvenating its prime-time lineup. “We’re making the biggest...
Tags: Television Industry, Entertainment, The New Girl (tv program), The Following (tv program), M. Night Shyamalan
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The war for mobile messaging is on
SAN FRANCISCO — WhatsApp is one of Silicon Valley's most buzzed-about companies, yet it actively avoids the spotlight, operating out of a small office in Mountain View, Calif., with no sign on the building entrance or on the office door. Unlike...
Tags: Apple Inc., Companies and Corporations, Apple iTunes, Travel Alerts, Networking
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Delays, costs build up for 405 Freeway project in L.A.
Linda Rose was commuting home from UCLA through the Sepulveda Pass in December 2011 when she noticed that several panels of a tall retaining wall just west of the 405 Freeway had crumpled. "It was like it was there the day before, and it wasn't there...
Tags: The Getty, California Department of Transportation, Arts and Culture, Highway Transportation, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
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Bob Brozman dies at 59; guitarist and ethnomusicologist
Guitarist and ethnomusicologist Bob Brozman, who progressed from an early fascination with the delta blues of the South to a consuming passion for the traditional music of Hawaii and became a leading authority on the National steel guitar, has died. He...
Tags: Music, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Music Industry, Japan
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Stakes are huge in Malaysian election
NEW DELHI — Malaysia faces its most significant election in decades Sunday, as voters choose between the longtime ruling coalition touting its steady hand and an untested opposition alliance promising economic and political reforms. The stakes are...
Tags: Government, Najib Razak, Southeast Asia, National Government, Civil and Public Service
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