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'Poe: A Life Cut Short,' by Peter Ackroyd
Poe
A Life Cut Short
Peter Ackroyd
Nan. A Talese/Doubleday:
210 pp., $21.95
Peter Ackroyd is never less than instructive and, much of the time, incisive. This is a man of letters from, as it were, A to Z. Ackroyd is the accomplished author of more...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Robert Frost, Colleges and Universities, Biography (genre), Literature
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Echo Park's Mohawk General Store sells arty essentials
If you live in Echo Park, your new neighborhood general store stocks "provisions" such as a Jielde pink fluorescent desk lamp ($430) and Krista jewelry made from recycled fur ($150 to $300) rather than bags of flour or pick axes.
The idea behind Mohawk...Tags: Eyewear, Joey Fatone, Sports, Tom Cruise
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Jeans with a mortgage
One look at the 3-centuries-old castle door flown in from Italy and the cockpit-turned-jeans bar salvaged from an airplane graveyard at the new Diesel flagship, and it's clear denim has entered another level. With his newest address on tony Melrose...Tags: Paris (France), France, Wes Craven, Brigitte Bardot, Salma Hayek
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L.A. and the Olympics were a golden match
Times Staff WriterDuring the Los Angeles riots in 1992, the Amateur Athletic Foundation on Adams Avenue was on the edge of danger. Unarmed guards with nothing more than their uniforms and a plea for reason kept the building and its extensive grounds safe by telling...Tags: Television Networks, Lawyers, History, Modern Pentathlon, The Home Depot
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Playa Vista scores with Laker coach
Times Staff WriterIt's a bird, it's a plane, it's Kurt Rambis, assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers. Rambis, nicknamed "Superman" when he started wearing thick, Clark Kent-type eyeglasses as a Laker player, and his wife, Linda, have bought a town home in Playa...Tags: Eyewear, Robin the Boy Wonder (fictional character), Eminem, Batman (tv program) , National Basketball Association
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Ne-Yo, a gentleman inside and out
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterGLIDING across the stage, crooning "come closer" over a driving beat, he manhandles the microphone stand like a modern-day James Brown. Only without the polyester jumpsuit. Ne-Yo, the R&B triple-threat singer, performer and songwriter, is rocking a steel...Tags: Luther Vandross, Eyewear, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Michael Jackson
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'The Protest Singer' by Alec Wilkinson
The Protest Singer An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger Alec Wilkinson Alfred A. Knopf: 160 pp., $22.95 In January, two days before the inauguration of Barack Obama, hundreds of thousands of people gathered on Washington, D.C.'s National Mall for a...Tags: Woody Guthrie, Communist Party of China, John Legend, Hudson River, James Taylor
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Jennifer Lopez lists Bel-Air home at $8.5 million
Actress-singer Jennifer Lopez has listed her French farmhouse estate in Bel-Air at $8.5 million. J-Lo, her singer husband, Marc Anthony, and their 9-month-old fraternal twins have been the subject of ongoing sightings in the Long Island community of...Tags: William H. Macy, Jennifer Lopez, Guiding Light (tv program), Movies, Hank Azaria
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Michael Bublé boldly climbs out of the retro box
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer++++++++++++++++++++ || || ++++++++++++++++++++ MICHAEL Bublé swings, there's no doubt, but what's cooler is his punch. The strongman poses he frequently feigned Tuesday, opening a sold-out, three-night run at the Greek Theatre, weren't just a joke....Tags: Weddings, Johnny Drama (fictional character), Elvis Presley, John Mayer, Frank Sinatra
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Still undecided? Then just don't vote
Don't vote. People will try to guilt you into it, but stay strong and resist. I'm talking to all of you who don't feel strongly about either presidential candidate, not just those 80 undecided idiots seated at Tuesday's town hall-style debate. Those...Tags: John McCain, Voting, Leonardo DiCaprio, Forest Whitaker, Referenda
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