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Book review: 'The Man in the Rockefeller Suit' by Mark Seal
Special to the Los Angeles TimesGreat con artists understand this about human nature: The suckers want to be taken. In 1978, a poor, semi-educated German teenager named Christian K. Gerhartsreiter arrived in New England on a falsified student visa. Brilliant, charismatic and twisted,...Tags: Truman Capote, FBI, Book, Juvenile Delinquency, Crimes
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Oxford, Miss.: The center of William Faulkner's cosmos
Los Angeles Times Book Critic"The past is never dead. It's not even past," William Faulkner wrote in 1951, two years after winning the Nobel Prize for literature. It's one of his best-known lines, but I don't think I ever truly understood it until I came to Oxford. For more than...Tags: Colleges and Universities, MGM Inc., Justice System, Music, Rentals
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Radiation exposure and the effects on human health
As engineers have fought to avert a meltdown at the earthquake- and tsunami-crippled Fukushima No. 1 (Daiichi) power plant, nuclear authorities have reported that spikes of radiation have escaped from the facility at levels that can be dangerous to...Tags: Health Treatments, Tumors, Chernobyl (Kiev Oblast, Ukraine), Diseases and Illnesses, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011)
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The Dekopon arrives in California
I still remember the first time I tasted the legendary fruit the Dekopon. Think of a huge mandarin, easy to peel and seedless, with firm flesh that melts in the mouth, an intense sweetness balanced by refreshing acidity, and a complex, lingering...Tags: Sumo Wrestling, Contracts, Diseases and Illnesses, Consumers, University of California
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Book review: 'The Science of Kissing' by Sheril Kirshenbaum
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt's late at night and you're finishing a truly golden date. You drank Manhattans and discovered that you both geek out about B-horror films and the collected works of Philip K. Dick. To top it off, you can't stop staring into each other's eyes. When...Tags: Oxytocin (drug), Book, Testosterone, Genes and Chromosomes, Philip K Dick
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Thomas Eisner dies at 81; entomologist who studied insect chemistry
Thomas Eisner, who became known as the "father of chemical ecology" as a result of his pioneering studies of how insects use chemicals to mate, elude predators and capture prey, died March 25 at his home in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 81 and had Parkinson's...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Diseases and Illnesses, Health, Photography, Science
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Book review: 'Celebrations of Curious Characters' by Ricky Jay
Special to the Los Angeles TimesTo say that Ricky Jay does card tricks is, as Mark Singer once noted in the New Yorker, somewhat akin to suggesting that "Sonny Rollins plays tenor saxophone." Jay is one of the greatest sleight-of-hand artists ever to fool and wow an audience. A few...Tags: Book, Ricky Jay, Sonny Rollins, Charles Dickens, Crimes
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On Location: Death in the Valley
Company TownIn a warehouse in Van Nuys, Jason Collins is proudly showing off body parts. Strewn on a table are two bloody hearts with chords sticking out them, an open chest cavity, a hand with a severed finger nearby, a necrotic...... -
2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalists announced
Jacket CopyL.A. Times 2010 book prize finalists announced: Christopher Hitchens, Patti Smith and Jonathan Franzen make the cut.... -
Oscars: Pati Dubroff picks top beauty looks from past Academy Awards
All The RageWhen the Oscars broadcast starts Sunday, those of us at home will be treated to quite a fashion show as stars sashay down the red carpet in gorgeous gowns. Most of them will have gorgeous hair and makeup, too. We...... -
Oscars: Fashion hits and misses
All The RageI’ll be honest, there weren’t many major misses this evening -- most women who hit the Oscar red carpet looked gorgeous and managed to stay away from the same tired cookie cutter formula we’ve grown so tired of. Sure, there...... -
Retired circus elephant spread tuberculosis to workers at Tennessee's Elephant Sanctuary
L.A. UnleashedA tuberculosis outbreak among workers at a Tennessee elephant sanctuary in 2009 is being blamed on one of the pachyderms, even though some of the employees didn't have close contact with the animal. Elephants can carry TB, and there have......
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