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March 16, 2011
Opinion
In many of his books, Mike Davis seems to foretell the violent forces shaping Los Angeles’ present and future. Where does this prophetic talent come from?
Aug. 21, 2022
Books
D. J. Waldie called one Mike Davis book “a pornography of despair.” Now he places Davis, who died Tuesday, in the pantheon of L.A.’s great interpreters.
Oct. 27, 2022
Sports
Lakers’ LeBron James is recruiting Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis and other NBA stars to play for the U.S. in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Sept. 11, 2023
Entertainment & Arts
If Bob Hope and Gerald Ford are discussing their golf games, Kevin Costner is upset because he can’t find his wife, Bette Midler is performing without her skirt and Luke Perry is on the auction block, this must be the Carousel of Hope Ball.
Oct. 5, 1992
Alan Rudolph’s ‘The Secret Lives of Dentists’ gleams with acute portrayals.
Aug. 1, 2003
Lakers
In a meeting of teams that once seemed destined to meet in the NBA Finals, Anthony Davis scores 37 points for the Lakers in a 116-103 win over the Nets.
Nov. 13, 2022
California
In an early morning raid Friday, FBI agents and Los Angeles police officers arrested a 26-year-old man who had been considered a suspect in the beating of truck driver Reginald O.
June 20, 1992
If the world has come to see Los Angeles as either hell or heaven--as a “Blade Runnerish” swamp of crime, race wars and economic devastation or a dynamic, multicultural cosmopolis--two of the people most responsible are historians Mike Davis and Kevin Starr.
Nov. 19, 1994
Talk about deus ex machina: “Dingo” (1990), which screens tonight at 9:15 as part of the American Cinematheque’s salute to the Grammys, opens with the late Miles Davis descending from a jetliner that has landed in a tiny community in the Australian bush--the date is Jan. 14, 1969.
Feb. 22, 1993