Music
Paul Compton, a major Southern California radio disc jockey for 40 years who was best known for his long-running show, “Sinatra, Compton and Strings,” has died.
April 19, 1996
Obituaries
Knuckles was often called the ‘godfather’ of house music, a style of Chicago dance music that revolutionized club culture in the 1970s and ‘80s.
April 1, 2014
Sports
California Jockey Club said it will not pay a dividend for the second half of 1996 because of reduced earnings attributable to increased general and administrative costs and less-than-projected rent from racing facilities at Bay Meadows Racecourse.
Dec. 12, 1996
Their bathroom serves as the vocal booth. A bedroom is used as the recording studio.
Aug. 12, 1988
Entertainment & Arts
Dancers underneath a canopy of green laser beams pulsate to bass-driven, computer-generated sounds.
Jan. 5, 1995
Archives
Miles Siggens has gotten used to offers from style-conscious Londoners wanting to buy the shirt right off his back.
July 12, 1992
Thoroughbred racing’s popularity waned amid bad decisions and competition for gamblers’ dollars. New industry group is betting a marketing blitz can help sport come from behind.
May 2, 1998
Bill Shoemaker, horse racing’s all-time winningest jockey, was left partially paralyzed after his car rolled almost 50 feet down a steep embankment in San Dimas Monday night.
April 10, 1991
Dan Goossen made it over the hill Tuesday from North Hollywood to Hollywood.
Dec. 9, 1998
The times they are a-changin’, indeed.
Aug. 2, 1994