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California theme parks to ring in New Year with fireworks, music
Shortly after Christmas, the same question arises every year: What are we going to do on New Year's Eve? Here’s what some California amusement and theme parks have planned for the last night of 2012: Disneyland in Anaheim will stay open until...
Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Music, LEGO Group, Holidays, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry
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A fatal toll on concertgoers as raves boost cities' income
On the edge of the Mojave, music promoter Pasquale Rotella staged a rave about 11 years ago that ended with a coroner's wagon rolling down desert roads. Five people died of overdoses and drug-related car crashes during or shortly after the Nocturnal...
Tags: Local Government, MetLife Stadium, Disasters and Accidents, Concerts, OxyContin (drug)
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Tinseltown holidays
Los Angeles Times Fashion CriticBring on the feather fascinators, the fur collars and the sparkly shoes. The holidays are the stuff of fashion fantasy, the one time of year when, no matter your age, you can get away with dressing like a disco ball. Whether you take your cues from...Tags: Neiman Marcus, Holidays, Betty Grable, Marc Jacobs, Christian Dior
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Letters: Manuel's heavenly burritos
Re "Creator of 5-pound burrito," Obituary, Feb. 14 I am saddened by the death of Manuel Rojas, operator of a "joint" that exemplified the best of Los Angeles. Multi-generational families, gang types, dating couples and cops mixed easily when charmed...Tags: Foods and Beverages, Japan, Burritos, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Paul Tanner dies at 95; trombonist with Glenn Miller Orchestra
Paul Tanner, a trombonist with the Glenn Miller Orchestra who became a prominent jazz educator at UCLA and created an unusual electronic musical instrument heard on the Beach Boys' classic 1966 hit "Good Vibrations," has died. He was 95. Tanner died...
Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Electronics, U.S. Army, Music, Tex Beneke
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Tee time comes most every day for 'Lucky' Lacaillade
On New Year's Eve, many of us will be putting on our party faces. Eugene "Lucky" Lacaillade will be playing his 360th round of golf this year. On New Year's Day, many of us will be swallowing aspirin and watching football. Lacaillade will be doing...
Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Aspirin (drug), Sports, Football, Golf
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Balthazar Korab dies at 86; architect-photographer with wide-ranging eye
Balthazar Korab, an architect-turned-photographer with a wide-ranging eye whose moody, polished images captured the spirit of midcentury modern architecture and celebrated its masters, including Eero Saarinen and Mies van der Rohe, died Jan. 15 in Royal...
Tags: Architecture, Danube River, Budapest (Hungary), Arts, Parkinson's Disease
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Patti Page dies at 85; singer helped widen country music audience
Patti Page, the Oklahoma-born pop singer whose gossamer voice on "The Tennessee Waltz," "The Doggie in the Window" and other 1950s hits offered a soothing counterpart to the revolutionary new sound of rock 'n' roll, died New Year's Day in Encinitas,...
Tags: Television, Music, Obituaries, Concerts, Carnegie Hall
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Gang targeted 'typical American family' in hate crime, officials say
L.A. NOWLos Angeles County Sheriff's officials say they are continuing to investigate efforts by two Latino gang members to drive a black family from their Compton home. “This a typical American family,” said Sheriff's Capt. Mike Parker of the victims... -
Reckless photography
It's both tragic and troubling that a photographer was hit and killed by an SUV as he crossed Sepulveda Boulevard early Tuesday evening after trying to get shots of Justin Bieber's Ferrari, which had been pulled over by the California Highway Patrol. As...
Tags: Laws, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Photography, Services and Shopping
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Puny Earthlings: Watch this 'minor' solar eruption
The sun celebrated New Year's Eve with an elegant solar eruption that, thanks to NASA, served to remind us just how puny we Earthlings are. The space agency published a photo Friday morning comparing the size of Earth with this "relatively minor"...
Tags: Greenbelt (Prince George's, Maryland), NASA, Space Programs, Science and Technology, Democratic Party
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Congress and the lost art of compromise
Twenty-six years ago, I walked into the U.S. Capitol as a newly elected congressman, representing a district that stretched from Simi Valley to Gorman to Catalina Island. This month, I cast my last vote in Congress, joining 84 other Republicans and 172...
Tags: U.S. Army, U.S. Congress, Democracy, Parties and Movements, Fiscal Cliff
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