Angels
Albie Pearson, who was once known as the “Littlest Angel” standing at just five feet, five inches tall, was beloved as an Angel.
Feb. 27, 2023
California
Books on Tape founder Duvall Hecht dies; won gold medal in Olympics
Feb. 18, 2022
Awards
Veteran television executive Albie Hecht has been tapped to be the new executive vice president and general manager of the cable channel HLN.
Sept. 18, 2013
Obituaries
Alby Kass, a victim of a coronavirus-related infection, was lead singer of a Yiddish folk group, Jubilee Klezmer Ensemble, and a theater performer.
April 23, 2020
Television
In the finale of Apple TV+’s “The Big Cigar,” Huey P. Newton, played by André Holland, tells how the Black Panther co-founder understood the “revolutionary power of media.”
June 14, 2024
High School Sports
I don’t think the smile has left the face of Santa Monica Coach James Hecht ever since his players delivered a Southern Section 1A championship last season.
Oct. 31, 2013
Entertainment & Arts
In ‘1,001 Afternoons in Chicago,’ the dazzling early journalism of screenwriter Ben Hecht is on display.
Dec. 13, 2009
Welcome to Hecht’s Windy City
Climate & Environment
Despite considerably back-to-back rainy winters in California, new research finds the region has seen much wetter years in the last 3,000 years. Experts worry that variability, coupled with climate change, could leave the state unprepared.
April 25, 2024
Robert Hecht Jr. died just weeks after his criminal trial in Rome, on charge of trafficking in looted antiquities, ended without a conviction. One of his chief clients had been the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Feb. 9, 2012