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Cannes 2013: Coen brothers, Alexander Payne bound for film festival
The Cannes Film Festival is making a statement at this year's gathering: We still really like Americans. The main competition will feature four directors from the U.S. -- Alexander Payne (“Nebraska”) Joel and Ethan Coen (“Inside Llewyn...
Tags: Emmanuelle Seigner, Sundance Film Festival, Steven Spielberg, Bruce Dern, Alec Baldwin
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Forecast for Mideast: Hazy, with chance of democracy
The great Yogi Berra is said to have observed, "Predictions are difficult, particularly about the future" (or something very close to that). When UCLA history professor James Gelvin quoted Berra to that effect on Saturday, it served as a capstone to a...
Tags: Arts and Culture
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Thousands turn out for L.A. Times Festival of Books
Charles McKay makes a detailed spreadsheet of the authors he wants to hear during the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, typing in his first and second choices and getting tickets ahead of time. Jerry Oborn, from San Diego, said she goes about it...
Tags: Authors, Literature, Arts and Culture, Fiction
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L.A. Times Festival of Books goes beyond words
Charles McKay makes a detailed spreadsheet of the authors he wants to hear during the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, typing in his first and second choices and getting tickets ahead of time. Jerry Oborn, from San Diego, said she goes about it...
Tags: Authors, Music Industry, Literature, Arts and Culture, Fiction
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Coachella 2013: Tegan and Sara, Earl Sweatshirt keep crowds up late
It took a quick refrain from Tegan and Sara’s late night set Friday to fully capture what a lot of the audience was likely feeling under the dark Indio sky. “If I spend the night then I lose my mind,” the Canadian twin sisters sang...
Tags: OFWGKTA (music group), Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture, Music, Hive (music group)
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HARD Summer 2013: Knife Party, Dog Blood and Bassnectar headline
If you liked the Sahara tent at Coachella, you're going to love the lineup at this year's HARD Summer. Several of the fest's major dance headliners, including neo-dubsteppers Knife Party, the Skrillex/Boys Noize project Dog Blood and the hirsute low-end...
Tags: Electric Daisy Carnival, Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events, Empire of the Sun (movie), Music
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Police tighten security at weekend events
This weekend was always going to be a hectic one for police in Los Angeles and Long Beach. With hundreds of thousands of people descending on the cities for three major sporting and cultural events, authorities began preparations for security months ago....
Tags: Auto Racing, FBI, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Business, Los Angeles Police Department
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Crime fiction authors discuss pushing the genre's boundaries
In "The Simple Art of Murder," Raymond Chandler wrote that the world inhabited by good crime fiction "is not a fragrant world, but it is the world you live in, and certain writers with tough minds and a cool spirit of detachment can make very...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Genres, Authors, Arts and Culture, Human Interest
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L.A. Times Festival of Books one of several major weekend events
Comedian Carol Burnett and author Joyce Carol Oates will be among the dozens of participants in the 18th annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books to be held this weekend on the USC campus. The popular two-day event gets underway at 10 a.m. Saturday...Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Authors, Los Angeles Police Department, Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events
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Philippe Petit's passion for rope, knots and teaching folks to tie
“Man on Wire” star Philippe Petit was welcomed by a packed auditorium for his discussion about his new book “Why Knot?” on Sunday at the L.A. Times Festival of Books. Each member of the standing-room-only crowd was handed a piece...
Tags: Arts and Culture
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Coachella 2013: Metric, Passion Pit and inspiring crowds to think
For those who weren’t at the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music arts Festival, the stakes were raised courtesy of the fest’s online stream on YouTube. It was during one of the backstage interviews where Metric lead singer Emily Haines...
Tags: Passion Pit (music group), Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture, Music, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
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Talking to Molly Ringwald about book tours and L.A. writers [video]
At the L.A. Times Festival of Books, Molly Ringwald sat down with L.A. Times staff writer Carolyn Kellogg to discuss her book of short stories, “When It Happens to You,” surprising tour encounters and the new book she’s starting....
Tags: Authors, Arts and Culture, Carolyn Kellogg
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