Movies
“Steaming” (at the Westside Pavilion) has a double meaning: the anger a group of London women feel toward men--and toward life in general, and the steambaths they take to work it off.
Sept. 26, 1986
Pat O’Neill’s unique and audacious “Water and Power” is almost certainly the first experimental feature to receive a regular run in a local theater since Bunuel’s “L’Age d’Or.”
May 10, 1991
Travel & Experiences
If you’re a traveler who relies often on the kindness of concierges, it may be time to do a little more looking out for yourself.
Feb. 12, 1995
Food
The new Spago restaurant in Beverly Hills was nominated in three categories for the restaurant awards given by the James Beard Society.
April 1, 1998
Film director Leslie Arliss, whose period melodramas established the careers of such British stars as James Mason, Stewart Granger and Margaret Lockwood, has died, his family reported over the weekend.
Jan. 5, 1988
Need an emergency massage? Desperate to locate ox gallstones? The consummate hotel concierge will grant that wish without batting an eye.
Dec. 9, 1999
“Heart of Dixie” (citywide) has nailed down its time and place right to the last detail, as anyone who was attending a college in 1957 within shouting distance of the Mason-Dixon Line can attest.
Sept. 18, 1989
Spago’s Wolfgang Puck tied for chef of the year in the restaurant awards announced by the James Beard Foundation and, for the second year in a row, Times Food columnist Russ Parsons received top honors in the journalism category.
May 6, 1998
Entertainment & Arts
Richard Dawson got cancer diagnosis only three weeks before death
June 4, 2012
Vincent Price, who turned 79 a few weeks ago and who made his first film 52 years ago, in 1938, has been a high priest of haughty horror, a viceroy of villainy, a mogul of Mephistophelean menace, and he admits cheerfully that villains are fun to play.
July 12, 1990