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L.A. police chief, district attorney say homicide exhibit not intended to upset victims' families
L.A. NOWHoping to put rest the controversy over a homicide exhibit, L.A. Police Chief Charlie Beck and L.A. County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley said Thursday the display was not intended to upset victims' families. Beck apologized Tuesday to the family of...... -
Revisiting the flickering poetry of Bruce Conner
In a two-night event at separate venues, the UCLA Film & Television Archive, REDCAT and the Los Angeles Filmforum present two programs of the film work of artist Bruce Conner, who passed away in 2008 at 74. This is an increasingly rare opportunity to...Tags: Movies, Bruce Conner, Popular Music (genre), Andy Warhol, Dennis Hopper
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'Family of Secrets' by Russ Baker
The tendency Richard Hofstadter so aptly labeled "the paranoid style" in American politics operates independent of ideology. "American politics has often been an arena for angry minds," the great historian wrote in a 1964 issue of Harper's magazine. He...Tags: Dallas, World War I (1914-1918), Lee Harvey Oswald, History, Richard Hofstadter
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Lenny, the indispensable
Los Angeles Times Music Critic"He drank a lot," Ned Rorem says of Leonard Bernstein in a new 11-part radio documentary that has begun airing weekly around the country and starts tonight at 7 on KMZT-FM. "I remember he even drank for breakfast. That impressed me." Bernstein's drinking...Tags: Concerts, BBC, Carnegie Hall, DVDs and Movies, Theater
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JFK and Vietnam
The assassination of John F. Kennedy 45 years ago today brought an abrupt end to what his admirers called Camelot, a presidential era of glamour, intelligence, wit and possibility. But the murder had an even more profound consequence: Nov. 22, 1963, was...Tags: Barack Obama, Defense, Armed Forces, White House, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)
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The Guide: Words & Ideas
Words & Ideas
TODAY
Greg Hise Aloud at Central Library presents "Ground Truth: How We Talk About Los Angeles and Why This Matters," a conversation between the urban historian and D.J. Waldie, author of "Holy Land." www.aloudla.org. Richard J. Riordan...Tags: Toni Morrison, Matt Groening, The Soloist (movie), Family, Literature
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Las Vegas embraces its mobster past
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLas Vegas, a city forged on gambling, booze and flesh, has been strangely reluctant -- and perhaps a little nervous -- to make money off its mob roots. Until now. On a recent drizzly night, a small, white Vegas Mob Tour bus rumbled past aging strip...Tags: Tour Operations Industry, DVDs and Movies, Disasters and Accidents, Justice System, Robert Allen
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Taliban blamed for attack on Bhutto
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAs slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was laid to rest Friday in her ancestral village, the government of President Pervez Musharraf blamed her assassination on a Taliban commander and said other politicians also were under threat. The government...Tags: Civil Unrest, Islamabad (Pakistan), Justice System, Assault, Terrorism
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Sidney Laverents dies at 100; amateur filmmaker celebrated for his humor, technical skill
Sidney N. Laverents, an award-winning amateur filmmaker whose technically impressive and infectiously humorous 1970 musical short film "Multiple SIDosis" earned a spot in the National Film Registry, has died. He was 100. Laverents, a Depression-era...Tags: U.S. Army, Bars and Clubs, Apocalypse Now (movie), Obituaries, World War II (1939-1945)
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Review: 'Milk'
Movie CriticIt was partly an accident of history that made Harvey Milk the first openly gay man elected to major public office in this country, so it's fitting that yet another accident of history has made "Milk," the earnest biopic about the man, more involving than...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Minority Groups, Gus van Sant, Dianne Feinstein, Bars and Clubs
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In Aachen, the legacy of Charlemagne
Special to The TimesThe driving rain didn't deter us or change our plans as we headed into town with our German friends Lutz and Marga. We settled into a small hotel in the heart of the old town, then, umbrellas aloft, went in search of Charlemagne's trail. It didn't take...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Tour Operations Industry, Germany, Europe, History
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Rose Kennedy, 104, Dies; Matriarch of a Dynasty
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterRose Fitzgerald Kennedy, whose 10 decades of life encompassed extraordinary triumphs and epic tragedies, died Sunday at the age of 104. Mrs. Kennedy died from complications of pneumonia at 5:30 p.m. at the family compound in Hyannis Port, Mass., said...Tags: Haile Selassie, Values, Family, Elections, Local Elections
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