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Disney hopes Cars Land makes California Adventure a golden state
For more than a decade, Disney California Adventure Park has been putt-putting along in the slow lane, trailing its neighbor Disneyland in the race for big attendance numbers.
A new 12-acre expansion called Cars Land, set to be unveiled June 15, is the...Tags: Services and Shopping, Tourism and Leisure, The Walt Disney Co., Science and Technology, Transformers (movie)
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Around Town: 'Paper Moon' shines on downtown festival
24 FramesThe Los Angeles Conservancy's Last Remaining Seats festival that showcases the historic movie palaces on Broadway in downtown L.A. returns this Wednesday with Peter Bogdanovich's 1973 comedy "Paper Moon."... -
Did a baseball team win the first U.S. pro soccer league title?
BASEBALL/SOCCER URBAN LEGEND: The first American professional soccer league championship was won by a moonlighting baseball team. While individual players had been paid for games going as far back as 1892, it was not until the early 20th Century that...
Tags: Baseball, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Football, Major League Baseball, New York Yankees
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Shaq to meet with Orlando Magic about general manager job, report says
Shaquille O'Neal, a four-time member of NBA championship teams, may be adding another job to his basketball resume. O'Neal will meet with Orlando Magic officials next week to talk about becoming the team's new general manager, according to ESPN. It's...
Tags: National Basketball Association, Orlando Magic, Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers, Barry University
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Caught in the cycle of poverty
After months searching for work and feeling increasingly discouraged, Natalie Cole caught a break — an offer of a part-time position at a Little Caesars Pizza shop in Compton. The manager scheduled her orientation and told her she had to pass a food...Tags: Rentals, Services and Shopping, Entertainment Events, Head Start, Holidays
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Did a Gatorade shower kill George Allen?
FOOTBALL URBAN LEGEND: Did a Gatorade shower lead to the death of a Hall of Fame football coach? After leading the New York Giants to a victory in Super Bowl XLVI earlier this year, head coach Tom Coughlin earned himself his second post-Super Bowl...
Tags: Cardiac Arrhythmia, Pneumonia, Viral Diseases and Infections, Gale Sayers, Super Bowl
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Was Houston QB Jacky Lee leased to another pro football team?
FOOTBALL URBAN LEGEND: A professional football team once leased a quarterback to another team. Strange trades have long been a part of professional sports history. Heck, just recently in Sports Legends Revealed I've featured a quarterback that the New...
Tags: Hockey (music group), Football, Folklore and Mythology, Sports, George Blanda
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Review: Gustavo Dudamel, L.A. Philharmonic feast on Mozart
Gustavo Dudamel’s hugely ambitious finishing kick to his 2011-12 Los Angeles Philharmonic season began Thursday night — but not quite as originally planned. The program was supposed to have been something quite different — a unified...Tags: Burt Bacharach, Culture, Lady Gaga, Entertainment, Arvo Part
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The Sunday Conversation: Erin Brockovich lets it flow
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich is one of the main talking heads of Oscar-winning director Jessica Yu's "Last Call at the Oasis,"a new documentary sounding the alarm about an impending global water shortage from the producers of "An Inconvenient...
Tags: Science, Movies, Cancer, Science and Technology, Last Call at the Oasis (movie)
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Eyeglasses a new fashion essential?
Los Angeles TimesJudging from the plethora of eye-catching eyewear that's been getting face time over the last few years — be it on the European ready-to-wear runways or in the adjoining office cubicle — it's clear that glasses have gone from nerd necessity to...Tags: Luxottica Group SpA, Celebrities, Entertainment Events, John Bartlett, Salt
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Hollywood bets heavily on razzle-dazzle action and effects
As Hollywood's major movie studios try to trim costs every way they can — including layoffs, mergers and slashed expense accounts and producer deals — there's one budget item that heads ever upward: the movies themselves.
This year's summer...Tags: Sony Corp., Will Smith, Budgets and Budgeting, John Carter (movie), Labor Markets
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Did the Yankees leave Mickey Mantle unprotected in the 1968 expansion draft?
BASEBALL URBAN LEGEND: The Yankees left Mickey Mantle unprotected in the 1968 expansion draft. Major League Baseball (MLB) has held six expansion drafts in its history (1960, 1961, 1968, 1976, 1992 and 1997) , where incoming expansion teams can draft...
Tags: Baseball, Carl Yastrzemski, Vinny Castilla, Major League Baseball, Bobby Abreu
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