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The drinks are flowing again at King Eddy Saloon
The Enabler has fretted about the fate of the legendary Skid Row dive bar the King Eddy Saloon since it was bought by new owners and closed for renovations in December. King Eddy, which first opened in 1933, has a history of attracting literary types,...
Tags: Bars and Clubs, Dining and Drinking, Foods and Beverages, Lifestyle and Leisure, Pancakes
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Movie review: 'Beautiful Creatures' has brains and bewitching cast too
Maybe there really are supernatural forces at work in this world. How else to explain "Beautiful Creatures"? The movie is an intriguing, intelligent enigma — three words not typically associated with teen romances. A couple of unknown...
Tags: Beautiful Creatures (movie), Emma Thompson, Jane Campion, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Authors
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90-year-old great-grandmother waxes poetic on Bukowski
When Marjory Gilbert read a Times On Location story about the movie "Bukowski," produced and directed by James Franco, it brought back vivid memories of her long-ago encounter with the late poet. Gilbert was working as a clerk in the history department at...
Tags: Poetry, James Franco
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Decision on Los Angeles' first poet laureate nears
Dana Gioia spent many years doing battle in that viper's nest of bureaucrats and elected officials called Washington D.C. This fall the former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and L.A. native found himself back home. In a series of...
Tags: Poetry, Jack Kerouac, Elections, Culture, World War II (1939-1945)
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Southern California Close-Ups: Pasadena and environs
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFirst published on Nov. 27, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. It's 1922, and nothing much is up in Pasadena. Not among the orange groves, not along the leafy streets. Just as the little old ladies like it. But wait. Down in the Arroyo Seco, a...Tags: Frank Lloyd Wright, Chinese Restaurants, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Museums, University of California, Los Angeles
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Remembering Bukowski with Harry Dean Stanton on Saturday
Jacket CopyCharles Bukowski's work will be celebrated in downtown LA Saturday with readings by Harry Dean Stanton, Rebecca De Mornay, Dan Fante, Jack Grapes and more.... -
Patt Morrison Asks: Two from the 'typosphere'
There'll be a pair of Pasadena institutions along Colorado Boulevard for New Year's -- the Rose Parade, and a company marking 100 years in business. Anderson Business Technology, nee Anderson Typewriter Co., has bucked two trends: It's been a one-family...Tags: Theodore Roosevelt, Economy, Business and Finance, Technology, Betty Grable, Leroy Anderson
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L.A. literary salon remembers noir at Musso & Frank
Jacket CopyThe restaurant Musso & Frank is where some of L.A.'s greatest writers drank; now it celebrates that legacy with a quarterly literary salon, complete with steak and cocktails.... -
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: Josef Albers, Customs and Tradition, Standards, Museums, Joseph Cornell
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Visiting out West? Here's a SoCal traveler's cheat sheet
Los Angeles Times staff writerFor most of the last 20 years, it’s been my job to leave Los Angeles and bring home tips on travel elsewhere. But let’s face it: Elsewhere can get expensive. And there’s a lot of elsewhere here already. So a year ago, I turned my...Tags: Museums, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, Human Interest, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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James Franco signs publishing deal with Amazon
Tribune NewspapersJames Franco, the actor-writer-producer-graduate student, has signed a publishing deal with Amazon's fledgling publishing house, the Observer reports. It will be Franco's first novel, tentatively titled "Actors Anonymous," and said to be loosely based on...Tags: Colleges and Universities, University of Houston, Yale University, Awards and Prizes, Education
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Scott Wannberg dies at 58; poet and Dutton's book buyer
Scott Wannberg, a gentle behemoth of the Los Angeles poetry scene and a mainstay of the old Dutton's bookstore in Brentwood, where for nearly 25 years he molded the reading habits of a wide assortment of customers and petted every dog that crossed the...Tags: Ed Harris, Diseases and Illnesses, Poetry, Viggo Mortensen, Chick Hearn
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