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Updating historical San Gabriel pageant will take some doing
Camila Lopez still recalls the oily smell of the greasepaint she carried to school when she played an Indian girl in the "Mission Play" in San Gabriel six decades ago. The paint was red.
"Red, really red. We had to look like redskins," Lopez, 73, said....Tags: Netherlands, Civil Rights, U.S. Supreme Court, Justice and Rights, Racism
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In a sick and exhausted city, upheaval couldn't be stopped
I've been waiting 20 years to write these words in these pages.
On a spring day in 1992, with sweet-smelling ash tickling my nose, I saw a man rolling a stolen car tire down Pico Boulevard in broad daylight.
I saw a boy loot candy from a grocery store,...Tags: Car Tires, Coca-Cola Co., Immigration
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Festival of Books: Biographers create a vivid portrait of the 20th century
Jacket CopyFor those who didn't go to hear Rodney King's conversation with Patt Morrison (and wait some time for King to show), the best bet for the same 12:30 p.m. time slot Saturday was an L.A. TImes Festival of Books panel...... -
Theater review: 'Magic Bullet Theory' at Sacred Fools Theatre
Culture MonsterDavid C. Nichols reviews Terry Tocantins and Alex Zola's "The Magic Bullet Theory," a darkly satirical reassessment of the Kennedy assassination. A theater review for the Los Angeles Times.... -
Let's bring back the idea of a free UC education
The son of a railroad worker, Earl Warren came from a family keeping a desperate finger hold on a working-class existence at the turn of the last century. Yet when he left high school in Bakersfield in 1908, there was no question where he was headed: to...
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Oscars 2012: Despite Halle and Denzel, gold mostly eludes nonwhites
24 FramesA new UCLA study, "Not Quite a Breakthrough:The Oscars and Actors of Color, 2002-2012," shows barriers to Oscars for non-white actors.... -
Newt Gingrich throws the book at federal judges
Opinion L.A.Is it possible that Newt Gingrich could win the Republican nomination without being able to win "Jeopardy!"? "I’ll take Checks and Balances for a thousand, Alex." This branch of government trumps all the others. "Alex, what is, 'Any branch I’... -
Kids gardening, Japanese design and other talks for the week ahead
L.A. at HomeHome and garden events are listed below. Suggest your own via reader comments. No store promotions and no frivolous links, please. Jan. 23: Noted photographer Catherine Opie, whose work looks at architectural spaces and the politics of identity,... -
School official forced Lake Elsinore girl to eat out of trash can
L.A. NOWA campus supervisor forced an 8-year-old Lake Elsinore girl to eat her lunch out of a trash can, the girl's mother told the North County Times. The supervisor at Earl Warren Elementary School retrieved an uneaten sandwich, wrapped in plastic,...... -
Ira Michael Heyman dies at 81; led UC Berkeley, Smithsonian
Ira Michael Heyman, a champion of affirmative action who led UC Berkeley as its chancellor during the 1980s and later became the first non-scientist to lead the Smithsonian Institution, has died. He was 81.
Heyman died at his Berkeley home Saturday after...Tags: University of California, Berkeley, Teaching and Learning, Yale University, Students, Korean War (1950-1953)
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Noir on the water
Jacket Copy.Photos of the gambling palaces that floated off the coast of Santa Monica and San Pedro during the 1930s.... -
Patt Morrison Asks: Spirit guide Kenny Kingston
Everybody knows that newlyweds William and Kate are in town this weekend. But Kenny Kingston says he knows how that royal marriage will work out. The self-styled Psychic to the Stars who has hosted lucrative infomercials, TV shows and hotlines says he...Tags: Politics, James Dean, Harry S. Truman, Mae West, Science and Technology
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