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'Masterpieces of San Diego Painting'
Times Art CriticOCEANSIDE, Calif. -- The exhibition celebrating a building expansion at Oceanside Museum of Art is titled "Masterpieces of San Diego Painting: Fifty Works From Fifty Years, 1900-1950." If that doesn't stop you dead in your tracks, nothing will....Tags: Arts, Death, Arts and Culture, World War II (1939-1945), Genres
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Desert shares its atomic secrets
Times Staff WriterThere's a traffic jam out here in the middle of nowhere, a long line of cars stretching up a two-lane desert road and on over the crest of a low hill. At the head of the line, several uniformed men with guns guard a closed arm gate, and they have us...Tags: Defense, Mountains, Air and Space Accidents, Los Angeles International Airport, Vehicles
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Quick Takes
KCET pulls series over FCC worries
Officials at KCET-TV pulled its planned broadcast of "Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?," which was to begin airing Sunday, after concerns arose at the public-TV station this week about possible fines from...Tags: Poetry, Death, Politics, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Gaming
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Wyoming's Museum of Wildlife Art seeks more humans
Special to The Los Angeles TimesJackson Hole, Wyo. The National Museum of Wildlife Art -- a low-slung, reddish flagstone building hugging a hillside along the highway north of this ski town -- was designed to fit in with its surroundings. The 51,000-square-foot museum succeeded...Tags: Arts, Nature, Gardens and Parks, Painting, Sculpture
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With new space, Seattle Art Museum expands its vision
Times Staff WriterSEATTLE — When the Seattle Art Museum turns 75 next year, it intends to be not only the most important general art museum in the Pacific Northwest but to be nationally prominent too. It might just get its wish. On Saturday, a newly expanded...Tags: Arts, Libraries, Death, Marsden Hartley, Arshile Gorky
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Phoenix, Arizona's offerings for Super Bowl-goers
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterPhoenix Centuries ago, native people known as the Hohokam built an agricultural civilization on a stretch of desert known today as Arizona's Valley of the Sun. Some archaeologists believe the brutally arid climate forced the people to scatter in search...Tags: Stevie Wonder, Walt Disney, U.S. Airways, Education, Sports
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A view of Weston country in Carmel
Times Staff WriterCarmel There's looking at a seascape. And there's really looking at a seascape, so engrossed in the beach and the rocks and the light and the textures that you find yourself in the back of a sea cave gazing through a camera lens, nobody else on the beach...Tags: Death, Photography, Landforms, Edward Weston, Caves and Caverns
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Not-so-fossilized Phoenix
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCenturies ago, native people known as the Hohokam built an agricultural civilization on a stretch of desert known today as Arizona's Valley of the Sun. Some archaeologists believe the brutally arid climate forced the people to scatter in search of...Tags: Stevie Wonder, Walt Disney, U.S. Airways, Education, Sports
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Air France tests Berlitz language lessons on long flights
En route, learn a little lingo How cool would it be to get off a plane and wow the locals by speaking a little Japanese, Dutch or Tamil? This month, Air France rolls out a test program that allows passengers on some long-haul flights to take 30-minute...Tags: Hotels and Accommodations, Stuart Davis, France, Lotteries, Neiman Marcus
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Farmhouse modern in Studio City
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBefore construction had wrapped on Vanessa Choy and Andrew Wong's house in Studio City, the rumors had started swirling. The couple were building a halfway house for addicts, passersby speculated. The home was some sort of mean joke on the neighborhood,...Tags: Halloween, Architecture, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Metal and Mineral, Hong Kong
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Beach-side bohemia near San Diego
Times Staff WriterI first visited the tiny community of Leucadia in northern San Diego County four years ago on a bicycle trip. It was a town in a time warp, circa 1967. Its downtown, if you could call it that, consisted of a few stores and cafes along one side of Highway...Tags: Salads, Arts, Surfing, Frida Kahlo, Death
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Getting a line on the San Andreas
Times Staff WriterStrolling the San Andreas fault is about as down-to-earth as you can get. And entirely otherworldly. In the Mecca Hills, the fault zone is a putty-colored no man's land of pinnacles and ravines, strewn with a rainbow of rocks washed down from surrounding...Tags: Hotels and Accommodations, Golf, Alcoholic Beverages, Tour Operations Industry, Sports
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