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L.A.'s Mid-Wilshire neighborhood could be election bellwether
It's a small swath of Los Angeles, near the city's heart, that hasn't received much attention from the mayoral candidates. But a Times analysis shows that a 2.8-square-mile, Mid-Wilshire neighborhood has had an unmatched record of picking mayors in both...
Tags: Politics, Eric Garcetti, Car Repair and Maintenance Tips, Michael Bloomberg, Magic Johnson
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Ka-ching: Rick Perry's plan for Texa$ universities
There are three things Rick Perry would like to do to the great public universities of Texas, but he can only remember two of them. That’s a joke. You may remember that during a 2012 presidential debate, he started to list three departments of...
Tags: Politics, Lobbying, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, Teachers
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CNN's 'Reliable Sources' host Howard Kurtz is grilled on own show
Instead of probing how other media outlets are doing their jobs, CNN media critic Howard Kurtz spent a big chunk of his Sunday morning show "Reliable Sources" being questioned about his own work. Kurtz took heat last week for a piece he wrote for the...
Tags: National Basketball Association, Sports Illustrated, Jason Collins, CNN (tv network), POLITICO LLC
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With NPR's 'Wait Wait,' eggheads at the multiplex
NEW YORK -- At about 8 p.m. Thursday night, as moviegoers around the country were lining up to see “Iron Man 3,”an assuredly smaller group was gathering at 600 North American theaters for the live-cinema simulcast of the popular NPR game...
Tags: Iron Man 3 (movie), Paula Poundstone, Arts and Culture, BBC, Entertainment Events
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Celebrate Thomas Pynchon's birthday with Pynchon in Public Day
Happy birthday to Thomas Pynchon! The reclusive author of "Gravity's Rainbow," "The Crying of Lot 49," "Mason & Dixon" and more turns 76 today. Unlike the attention-seekers that clog our cultural aqueduct, Pynchon isn't likely to show up on CNN or NPR....
Tags: Arts and Culture, Social Media, David Foster Wallace, Twitter, Inc.
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Peter Sagal's 'Constitution USA' hits the road with humor
NEW YORK — If someone told you of a barnstorming TV host who interviewed people around the country about a given subject, you'd say it sounds like a lot of the road-trip reality series that have proliferated on cable TV. But what if that host...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, PBS (tv network), Paula Poundstone, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Bars and Clubs
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A poem for a planet: Send your haiku to Mars
The MAVEN spacecraft is leaving for Mars in November. Along with scientific gear and advanced communication technologies, it will be bringing along some poetry. It could be yours. NASA launched -- or, rather, opened -- the poetry contest on Wednesday....
Tags: NASA, Poetry, NASA Mars Exploration Program
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In wake of hack, Twitter reportedly testing two-step verification
Twitter is working on a two-step verification security method that could make it more difficult for hackers to take over users' accounts, according to a report. Wired said Wednesday that the San Francisco-based social network is internally testing the...
Tags: Media Industry, Social Media, Email, Twitter, Inc.
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'Pain & Gain' is all brawn, no brains, reviews say
Leave it to Michael Bay to spend $26 million making a low-budget comedy. If that sounds like a robust price tag for "Pain & Gain," his new true-crime-inspired tale about three Miami gym rats who kidnap and extort a wealthy sandwich shop owner, consider...
Tags: Action (Movie Genre), The Boston Globe, Pain & Gain (movie), Anthony Mackie, The Wall Street Journal
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Doctors describe 'death with dignity' program for cancer patients
A majority of Americans support the idea of allowing terminally ill patients to end their lives with the help of their doctors. For instance, 55% of people questioned for the NPR-Truven Health Analytics Health Poll last year said they were in favor of...
Tags: Medical Research, Washington Legislature, General Practitioners, Chemical Industry, Palliative Care
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KCRW gets 'Le Show' off the road as part of new strategy
Harry Shearer is wondering what went wrong. His Sunday morning satire program, "Le Show," is syndicated to about 100 public radio stations nationwide and is also available on shortwave radio, NPR Worldwide and as a podcast on iTunes. Yet the station...
Tags: Harry Shearer, Satellite Technology, The Simpsons (tv program), Arbitron Incorporated, Radio Industry
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Adam Johnson wins the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for 2013
The Pulitzer Prize in fiction, announced Monday, has been awarded to Adam Johnson for his book set in North Korea, "The Orphan Master's Son." The committee described the book as "an exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome...
Tags: Ernest Hemingway, Journalism, Fiction, David Foster Wallace, North Korea
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