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Kenneth Price dies at 77; artist transformed traditional ceramics
Kenneth Price, a prolific Los Angeles artist whose work with glazed and painted clay transformed traditional ceramics while also expanding orthodox definitions of American and European sculpture, died early Friday at his home and studio in Taos, N.M. He...Tags: Science and Technology, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arts, Colleges and Universities, Material Science
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Michael Jackson's legacy set in concrete at Grauman's
Pop & HissMichael Jackson immortalized at Grauman's with over the top celebration featuring his children, family, and fans... -
Ray C. Anderson dies at 77; carpet tile mogul
In the summer of 1994, carpet-tile mogul Ray C. Anderson made a sobering discovery: Although his billion-dollar business was the biggest of its kind in the world, everything about it was wrong.
That realization came after reading "The Ecology of...Tags: Ecosystems, West Point, Science and Technology, Energy Resources, Companies and Corporations
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Republican candidates spent money to make money
The huge infrastructure that President Obama is putting together for his reelection effort was already visible in the first few months of spending by his campaign, which doled out $10.5 million for a massive bricks-and-mortar operation based in Chicago....Tags: Primaries, Hotels and Accommodations, Newt Gingrich, Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney
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A luminescent Beatrice Wood at Santa Monica Museum of Art
Before she died in 1998 at the age of 105, artist Beatrice Wood liked to say that she owed her longevity to "chocolate and young men."
A Santa Monica Museum of Art retrospective of her work does include a campy ceramic sculpture she made on that theme,...Tags: Arts and Culture, Museums, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Metal and Mineral, World War I (1914-1918)
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A Chez Panisse birthday remembrance
Special to the Los Angeles TimesIt was an obscure, dingy, two-story apartment building, converted from an old house, in an ignored part of Berkeley. Not expensive to buy. It had good bones. I tore it down to the studs and started to rebuild. I was pretty much on my own, since Alice...Tags: Entertainment, Metal and Mineral, Dining and Drinking, Movies, Restaurants
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Is Homeland Security spending paying off?
On the edge of the Nebraska sand hills is Lake McConaughy, a 22-mile-long reservoir that in summer becomes a magnet for Winnebagos, fishermen and kite sailors. But officials here in Keith County, population 8,370, imagined this scene: an Al Qaeda...Tags: Entertainment, National Security, Air and Space Accidents, Al-Qaeda, Transportation Accidents
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A little bit of the East Coast on the West Coast
It sits just a short hop from the Pacific Ocean but it was a coastline some 3,000 miles away that inspired this airy beach-style house in Pacific Palisades.
Trimmed in white and clad in bluish-gray shingles, the gabled two-story home is a contemporary...Tags: Walnuts, Metal and Mineral, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Lisa Ling house: Modern lines, family circles
L.A. at HomeLisa Ling house: With guidance from Marco DiMaccio of Punchouse Ecodesign Group, Lisa Ling and Paul Song have built a Santa Monica house that not only expresses their love of modern architecture but also serves as a concrete, wood and glass prism of their... -
Datebook: Events, exhibits, classes for the week ahead
L.A. at HomeHome and garden events are listed below. Suggest your own via reader comments. No store promotions and no frivolous links, please. Due to windstorm damage, it is advisable to call ahead and make sure venues are open. Dec. 6: Marla...... -
For Pipes Canyon remodelers, a high desert holiday
L.A. at HomePaul Goff and Tony Angelotti had never heard of Pipes Canyon, a butte-studded piece of high desert northwest of Joshua Tree National Park. But now, a dozen years after their introduction to the place, the Santa Monica residents have a...... -
Freeway explosion: Tanker truck fire so hot it exploded concrete
L.A. NOWTanker fire on 60 Freeway so hot it exploded concrete...
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