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Julia Child's family outraged over Thermador ads featuring chef
L.A. NOWIn her four decades as America’s cooking teacher, Julia Child had a hard and fast rule about commercial endorsements: She didn’t do them. It didn’t matter whether it was the butter that made her beurre blanc sauce sing, the pot in... -
California Science Center set for Endeavour exhibit opening today
L.A. NOWSpace shuttle Endeavour will once again be on public display Tuesday as the California Science Center opens its doors to the pavilion that will showcase its new crown jewel.... -
Joni Gordon dies at 75; Newspace gallery owner nurtured L.A. art
Joni Gordon, an art world novice who bought a failing Melrose Avenue gallery, Newspace, 37 years ago and turned it into an incubator for Los Angeles' contemporary art scene, has died. She was 75. Gordon died Sept. 11 in Bend, Ore., 10 days after a...
Tags: Artists, Sculpture, Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, Robert Redford
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Bill Moggridge dies at 69; developer of laptop design
Bill Moggridge, a British-born industrial designer and educator who set the standard for laptop design three decades ago when he developed a clamshell case with a hinged lid that folded over the keyboard, died of cancer Saturday in San Francisco. He was...
Tags: Cancer, NASA
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Ruggiero Ricci dies at 94; violin virtuoso began as child prodigy
Violinist Ruggiero Ricci held the audience spellbound when he debuted at the Hollywood Bowl in 1932, a "wunderkind" of classical music with marvelous showmanship and beautiful tone. He was all of 13. What he accomplished in the ensuing decades is perhaps...
Tags: The Washington Post, World War II (1939-1945), U.S. Army, Woodrow Wilson, Music
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Russell Shank dies at 86; former head librarian at UCLA
Russell Shank, the chief librarian at UCLA from 1977 to 1989 who was known as a staunch supporter of 1st Amendment rights in all libraries and an early proponent of technology as a way to enhance library services, has died. He was 86.
Shank, a...Tags: Multiple Sclerosis, Research, Science and Technology, University of California, Los Angeles, Human Interest
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James Whitmore dies at 87; veteran award-winning actor brought American icons to life
James Whitmore, the veteran Tony- and Emmy-winning actor who brought American icons Will Rogers, Harry Truman and Theodore Roosevelt to life in one-man shows, died Friday. He was 87. Whitmore died of lung cancer at his home in Malibu, said his son,...
Tags: Movies, Audra Lindley, Entertainment Events, Radio Industry, Arable Farming
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Law in Jim Thorpe dispute aims to prevent Native American plunder
It was a sweat lodge ceremony in Texas where Jim Thorpe reached out to his grandson through a medicine man. The shaman told John Thorpe his grandfather's spirit was content in the Pennsylvania town where his body has lain for six decades. "Grandpa...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Justice System, Tour Operations Industry, National Government
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'New Frontier' exhibit at Gilcrease Museum captures local culture
Tulsa WorldWhen the Palazzo Pitti museum in Florence, Italy, decided to celebrate its native son, navigator and explorer Amerigo Vespucci, it came to Tulsa's Gilcrease Museum. Gilcrease worked with the Italian museum to create an exhibit titled "La Nuova Frontiera...Tags: Artists, India, Arts, Italy, Indigenous People
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Johnson Boat Works site yields bits of White Bear Lake's past
Star TribuneEven as the future is starting to take shape on the site of the old Johnson Boat Works on the west shore of White Bear Lake, a small group of volunteers digging through dirt and rubble under a glaring sun Thursday were toiling to form a picture of its...Tags: Star Sailing, Dwayne Johnson, Machine Manufacturing, Lifestyle and Leisure, Archaeology
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Smithsonian planning exhibit on art of yoga, turns to crowd funding to support project
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Smithsonian Institution is announcing plans for what curators believe is the first exhibition about the visual history of yoga. When it opens in October, "Yoga: The Art of Transformation" will feature temple structures,...Tags: Arts, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Museums, Arts and Culture
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Woody Guthrie's great American voice gets a new home in Tulsa
TULSA, Okla. - The woman in the wheelchair and headphones is watching pictures go by and hearing a narrator speak about a place and a moment long ago. On the screen a typewritten love letter appears and the words scroll down and you can imagine the woman...Tags: Artists, Arts, Science and Technology, Woodrow Wilson, Museums
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