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    Feb 12, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  1. Grammy Awards 2012: Gustavo Dudamel, L.A. Philharmonic win

    Culture Monster
    Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic won a Grammy Award for their recording of Brahms' Fourth Symphony....
    2. Jan 30, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Book review: 'Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty' by Phoebe Hoban

    Alice Neel
    Special to the Los Angeles Times
    Alice Neel The Art of Not Sitting Pretty Phoebe Hoban St. Martin's Press: 479 pp., $35 Here comes that old question, the one that pops up when a new biography of a prominent artist or writer is published: Do we judge an artist by the life or the work?...

    Tags: Moss Hart, Biography (genre), Havana (Cuba), Politics, Arianna Huffington

    3. Apr 25, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Everybody’s under one tent as ‘Nightmare Alley’ becomes a musical

    Life is a cabaret, old chum — unless, that is, it's a carnival show.
    Life is a cabaret, old chum — unless, that is, it's a carnival show. So step right up, ladies and gentlemen, and see the slick, charming salesman Stan Carlisle morph into a carny shyster, a gospel preacher, a human monster! Watch him fall in love...

    Tags: Julianne Moore, Herman Melville, The Beach Boys, Sam Shepard, Mary Gordon

    4. Oct 9, 2009 | Los Angeles Times

  4. A peek under the hood as the Times considers Obama's Nobel Prize

    Opinion L.A.
    The Times editorial board meets three times a week to discuss what we're going to say in our editorials, but sometimes news breaks between meetings and we scramble to reach a consensus through e-mail. The announcement that President Obama had won the...
    5. Oct 21, 2009 | Los Angeles Times

  5. Wednesday's TV Highlights: Gustavo Dudamel on 'Great Performances'

    Show Tracker
    Click here to download TV listings for the week of Oct. 18 - 14 in PDF format This week's TV Movies MUSIC MAN: 'Great Performances' features Gustavo Dudamel's debut as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducting Gustav Mahler's......
    6. Oct 25, 2009 | Los Angeles Times

  6. Nobel laureates in literature: the good, the bad and the Nazi

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    When the Nobel Prize in literature was announced this month, the name "Herta Muller" met much American head-scratching. Muller, an ethnically German Romanian who writes of trials of living under a repressive dictatorship, has a strong reputation in Europe...
    7. Oct 27, 2009 | Los Angeles Times

  7. Ghostwritten books of the past, and a poll: Who's being ghosted now?

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    In a twist on Halloween, the online bookseller Abebooks has collected its top 10 ghostwritten books. The best story -- although perhaps the worst-written -- is of actress Hedy Lamarr. Although she was listed as the sole author of her......
    8. Oct 11, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Matthew Shepard's murder, 10 years later

    Last fall, as every fall for 10 years, playwright and director Moisés Kaufman was thinking about the 1998 killing of gay college student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyo. Kaufman's Tectonic Theater Project had gone to Laramie just weeks after Shepard's horrific murder, interviewed townspeople and transformed their interview tapes into the well-received "The Laramie Project," produced first as a play and later an HBO film.
    Last fall, as every fall for 10 years, playwright and director Moisés Kaufman was thinking about the 1998 killing of gay college student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyo. Kaufman's Tectonic Theater Project had gone to Laramie just weeks after Shepard's...

    Tags: Laws, Rufus Wainwright, Matthew Shepard, Crimes, Syracuse

    9. Jan 25, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. "Mary Austin and the American West" by Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson

    Mary Austin and the American West Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson University of California Press: 324 pp., $29.95 Few writers of her period overcame more obstacles than Mary Austin. Stuck in a disappointing marriage, Austin (1868-1934) spent the...

    Tags: Death, Culture, Greenwich Village, Entertainment, Willa Cather

    10. Jul 26, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Daniel Koshland Jr., 87; UC Berkeley molecular biologist

    Times Staff Writer
    Daniel E. Koshland Jr., the UC Berkeley molecular biologist who revised scientists' notions of how enzymes work, remodeled the Berkeley biology department into one of the nation's best and, as editor, refashioned Science into the leading scientific...

    Tags: Defense, Armed Forces, Long Island, Science, Science and Technology

    11. Dec 23, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. It's a campaign, not a crusade

    GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has done it again -- he said "Merry Christmas." On television. In a campaign ad that first aired in Iowa on Dec. 18, he conspicuously declined to say "Happy Holidays," the sappy all-purpose greeting favored by the...

    Tags: Politics, Jesus Christ, Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, Migration

    12. Jul 3, 2005 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. For a pretty penny, San Ysidro's pretty swell

    Times Staff Writer
    The nearly $800 a night it costs to stay in a recently renovated cottage at the San Ysidro Ranch wouldn't raise the pulse of many guests at this Montecito Elysium. For the rest of us, let's be real; $800 is probably three evenings out, two months of...

    Tags: Sandwiches, Ronald Colman, John Steinbeck, Rivers, Bodies of Water

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