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    Oct 1, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Television review: 'Prohibition'

    It's fall on PBS, when the big documentary blockbusters heave into view; and nobody builds them bigger than Ken Burns, whose name always seems to be part of the title, even when it isn't: "Ken Burns' Baseball," "Ken Burns' Jazz," "Ken Burns' Civil War." Burns likes to swallow huge subjects whole — American subjects — and this year he brings us "Prohibition," the story of the 14-year misrule of the 18th Amendment and of the decades-long temperance movement that preceded it.
    It's fall on PBS, when the big documentary blockbusters heave into view; and nobody builds them bigger than Ken Burns, whose name always seems to be part of the title, even when it isn't: "Ken Burns' Baseball," "Ken Burns' Jazz," "Ken Burns' Civil War."...

    Tags: Boardwalk Empire (tv program), Documentary (genre), Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Wars and Interventions

    2. May 8, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Book review: 'Tabloid City' by Pete Hamill

    Tabloid City
    Special to the Los Angeles Times
    Tabloid City A Novel Pete Hamill Little, Brown: 278 pp., $26.99 There's murder and mayhem in Pete Hamill's latest novel, "Tabloid City," but the real victim in his book is the print journalism that Hamill knows and loves so well. This ticking time...

    Tags: Crimes, Assault, Media Industry, Wars and Interventions, Tom Wolfe

    3. Sep 5, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Paul Conrad dies at 86; Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist helped bring The Times to national prominence

    Paul Conrad, whose fiercely confrontational editorial cartoons made him one of the leading political provocateurs of the second half of the 20th century and who helped push the Los Angeles Times to national prominence, has died. He was 86.
    Paul Conrad, whose fiercely confrontational editorial cartoons made him one of the leading political provocateurs of the second half of the 20th century and who helped push the Los Angeles Times to national prominence, has died. He was 86. Conrad died...

    Tags: Jimmy Carter, Robert F. Kennedy, Human Interest, Wars and Interventions, Falls Church (Falls Church, Virginia)

    4. Nov 10, 2010 |Story| Associated Press
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    Tags: Political Corruption, Art Institute of Chicago, Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Satire (genre)

    5. Dec 4, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Elaine Kaufman dies at 81; legendary proprietor of Manhattan writer's haunt

    Bill Bratton insists the steak tips on garlic toast weren't bad. But that's not to say he went to Elaine's on Manhattan's Upper East Side for the food.
    Bill Bratton insists the steak tips on garlic toast weren't bad. But that's not to say he went to Elaine's on Manhattan's Upper East Side for the food. No one did. Elaine's was a scene, a clubhouse, an escape from the loneliness of the New York night...

    Tags: Dining and Drinking, Rachel McAdams, Woody Allen, Humphrey Bogart, Movies

    6. Mar 21, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. 'Forever Blue: The True Story of Walter O'Malley, Baseball's Most Controversial Owner, and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles' by Michael D'Antonio

    To Brooklynites of a certain age, Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley was a money-grubbing weasel who ripped the soul from their community when he announced he was moving the team to L.A. in 1957. Many Angelenos, however, view O'Malley as a pioneering saint for bringing Major League Baseball to the West Coast, thus heralding the seismic shift of professional sports beyond the Mississippi, while a group of vocal critics believes that the stadium deal O'Malley struck with the city of Los Angeles destroyed the predominantly Mexican American neighborhood of Chavez Ravine.
    To Brooklynites of a certain age, Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley was a money-grubbing weasel who ripped the soul from their community when he announced he was moving the team to L.A. in 1957. Many Angelenos, however, view O'Malley as a pioneering saint for...

    Tags: Major League Baseball, Death, Baseball, Jackie Robinson, World Series

    7. Jan 20, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Jose Torres dies at 72; former light heavyweight world champion

    Jose Torres, a former light heavyweight world champion and Olympic silver medalist, died Monday of a heart attack at his home in Ponce, Puerto Rico, said his wife, Ramonita. He was 72. Torres won the light heavyweight title in 1965 by stopping Willie...

    Tags: New York City Council, Politics, U.S. Army, Death, Regional Authority

    8. Dec 17, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Review: 'The Yellow Handkerchief'

    Pete Hamill's Reader's Digest story "The Yellow Handkerchief" inspired Yôji Yamada's appealing 1977 film of the same name, and now it has become the basis for a new movie, also of the same name but not really a remake.
    Pete Hamill's Reader's Digest story "The Yellow Handkerchief" inspired Yôji Yamada's appealing 1977 film of the same name, and now it has become the basis for a new movie, also of the same name but not really a remake. Screenplay writer Erin Dignam and...

    Tags: Maria Bello, Academy Awards, William Hurt, Kristen Stewart

    9. Jul 20, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Frank McCourt dies at 78; late-blooming author of 'Angela's Ashes'

    Frank McCourt, the retired New York City schoolteacher who launched his late-in-life literary career by tapping memories of his grim, poverty-stricken childhood in Ireland to write the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir "Angela's Ashes," died Sunday of cancer. He was 78.
    Frank McCourt, the retired New York City schoolteacher who launched his late-in-life literary career by tapping memories of his grim, poverty-stricken childhood in Ireland to write the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir "Angela's Ashes," died Sunday of cancer....

    Tags: Dining and Drinking, U.S. Army, Obituaries, Vincent de Paul, Awards and Prizes

    10. Jun 21, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Nerds, private eyes and others

    Stephen Crane: "An Experiment in Misery" (HarperPerennial) "The Palace Hotel at Fort Romper was painted a light blue, a shade that is on the legs of a kind of heron, causing the bird to declare its position against any background. The Palace Hotel, then,...

    Tags: Death, Poetry, Lebanon, Elvis Costello, Marianne Moore

    11. Jan 9, 2010 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  11. Rick J. Caruso: A work in progress

    Los Angeles is full of a lot of private moguls and a lot fewer public moguls, and Rick J. Caruso is one of the latter -- an immaculate, slightly Italianate master of his universe, with a bit of a retro vibe. The retail superstar conceived and built the Grove, the Americana at Brand and the Commons at Calabasas and is laboring on projects in Montecito and near the Santa Anita racetrack. But he has also thrown himself into civic life, as head of two of the city's most powerful boards, the DWP and the Police Commission, as a charitable force and as a man in the political mix as a possible candidate for mayor. The Grove and its ilk may not be your cup of tea. Caruso has been slammed for creating a cleaned-up alternative retail reality, but millions disagree with you. In 2006, according to Los Angeles magazine, more people hit the Grove than went to Disneyland.
    Los Angeles is full of a lot of private moguls and a lot fewer public moguls, and Rick J. Caruso is one of the latter -- an immaculate, slightly Italianate master of his universe, with a bit of a retro vibe. The retail superstar conceived and built the...

    Tags: Rick Caruso, Regional Authority, Local Elections, Tourism and Leisure, Services and Shopping

    12. Jun 1, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. When hope lived

    Forty years ago this week, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel after winning the 1968 California Democratic presidential primary. One moment he was thanking a standing-room crowd, the next he was sprawled in a hotel pantry, blood leaking from the back of his head where a .22-caliber bullet had penetrated his skull. A few feet away, a group of Kennedy supporters -- George Plimpton, former pro football player Rosey Grier, Olympian Rafer Johnson -- wrestled with the shooter, a 24-year-old Palestinian immigrant named Sirhan Sirhan. "Hold him! Hold him!" radio journalist Andy West cried into his tape recorder. "We don't want another Oswald."
    Forty years ago this week, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel after winning the 1968 California Democratic presidential primary. One moment he was thanking a standing-room crowd, the next he was sprawled in a hotel pantry, blood...

    Tags: Crimes, Politics, Martin Luther King Jr., Photography, Death

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