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MLS can't afford to have these kind of strikers
If there's one thing Major League Soccer absolutely, positively cannot afford this season, it's a strike by players. So guess what the league is looking at only days before Friday's scheduled season opener between the Galaxy and Chicago Fire at StubHub Center. The collective bargaining agreement between MLS and the players union expired Jan. 31 and both sides have been locked in a staring contest ever since, hoping the other blinks first. Representatives of the union and the league recently met in New York and are scheduled to resume last-ditch talks with federal mediators Sunday in Washington, with free agency and higher pay remaining as the major sticking points. The...
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MLS can't afford to have these kind of strikers
If there's one thing Major League Soccer absolutely, positively cannot afford this season, it's a strike by players.
So guess what the league is looking at only days before Friday's scheduled season opener between the Galaxy and Chicago Fire at StubHub...
'Mockingjay Part 1' sets up 'Hunger Games' finale nicely
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The "Hunger Games" franchise went from "massive worldwide hit" to "critically acclaimed" with its second installment, "Catching...
Did 'Sex Box' turn anybody on?
Did the controversial “Sex Box” turn on viewers? All signs point to a less than satisfying performance.
In WE tv’s latest reality show, the title is the concept. Couples have sex in front of a live audience -- though unseen inside a camera-free,...
Bill Weir checks off his 'Wonder List' for CNN
After Bill Weir arrived at CNN from ABC’s "Nightline" in late 2013, he went right on the air to fill in as a prime-time host interviewing guests in a studio.
Recently looking back on it, he realized his mind was often somewhere else.
“There...
The Mosul Museum video from Islamic State could be a staged drama
The Islamic State wants the global community to know that there's a new sheriff in town. So it wrecked a museum full of precious sculptures and on Thursday posted video of the vandalism on the Internet.
At least, that's what their video wants you to...
Net neutrality: Telecom firms prepare to unleash the lawyers
Here's what went down on Friday's Consumer Confidential segment on KTLA-TV:
Net neutrality. Now that the Federal Communications Commission has approved new rules for online content and privacy, phone and cable companies have wasted no time releasing...
Leonard Nimoy, who played the iconic “Star Trek” character Mr. Spock, died Friday in Bel-Air. The 83-year-old actor had end-stage […]
'Maps to the Stars' a nightmarish tour of Hollywood narcissism
In its own disturbing, slithery way, the train-wreck watchable melodrama "Maps to the Stars" is as much a horror show as any that the film's director, David Cronenberg, has helmed over his long and provocative career.
This is due, in no small...
''71' delivers 100% tension amid 'the Troubles' in Ireland
An incendiary film that takes off like a house afire, "'71" is a tense thriller from Britain that so adroitly joins physical intensity, emotional authenticity and political acuity that you may find yourself forgetting to take a breath.
...
'Sex Box' reality show sparks controversy
The new reality show "Sex Box" is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: Each episode features three different couples who have sex in a camera-free, soundproof cube on a stage in front of a live audience. Afterward, they discuss the...
Hollywood's creative class cheers FCC passage of net neutrality rules
The Federal Communications Commission's landmark vote on open Internet rules is being cheered by some in Hollywood who see the Internet as the new frontier for creativity and free expression.
The FCC voted, 3 to 2, on Thursday to adopt tough net...
'CBS Evening News' anchor Scott Pelley is all about the journalism
If you look closely at the desk where Scott Pelley anchors the "CBS Evening News," you can spot about a dozen small, framed photographs standing off to his right.
They depict the 13 journalists who have died in the line of duty for CBS News,...
How Leonard Nimoy was cast as Mr. Spock on 'Star Trek'
His role as Mr. Spock made a lasting impact on pop culture, but Leonard Nimoy barely noticed when he first heard about the role back in 1966.
"I really didn't give it a lot of thought," Nimoy recalled of the time his agent first called about...
Leonard Nimoy: On TV he was much more than Mr. Spock
Depending on when you encountered him, Leonard Nimoy was always something different. In the '60s, he was a bit player on TV. In the '80s, he was a successful film director. And in the '90s and beyond he was a respected photographer and artist.
But...
FCC tightens Internet oversight with new net neutrality rules
Federal regulators dramatically expanded government oversight of the Internet, installing the once-arcane concept of net neutrality as a guiding doctrine for broadband networks that have become essential to everyday life.
To ensure the uninhibited flow...
Critic's Pick: A new-music cornucopia
When California State University, Fullerton, composer Pamela Madsen began a festival devoted to contemporary female composers 14 years ago, she wasn’t exactly a voice in the wilderness.
There were successful female composers. Southern California had a...
Datebook: J.M.W. Turner's late work, African portraiture, lowbrow pin-ups
The painted dramas of Mr. Turner. A play about Tokyo Rose. And the architectural images of an award-winning photographer. Plus: an influential African portraitist, two exhibitions about Afrofuturism and a show inspired by objects at an estate sale. Here’s...
FCC approves tough net neutrality rules amid sharp partisan debate
In a landmark decision for the future of the Internet, the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday approved tough net neutrality regulations to oversee online traffic.
The new rules prohibit Internet service providers from discriminating against...
Oscars 2015: Lady Gaga provides show's biggest Twitter, Facebook moment
And the Oscar goes to ... social media! (Kind of.)
The 87th Academy Awards generated about 5.9 million tweets, a significant drop from the whopping 11.1 million Oscar-related tweets from last year's show. However, more social-media buzz...
KTTV-KCOP general manager Kevin Hale to retire
Kevin Hale announced his retirement as longtime vice president and general manager at Fox-owned KTTV and KCOP.
Hale had an 18-year run with Fox Television stations. He took over KTTV (Fox, Channel 11) and KCOP (MyNetworkTV, Channel 13) in 2004. He...
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