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Q & A: How a fancy Austrian ball stirred worry about neo-Nazis
World NowIn Austria last week, protesters condemned a fancy ball that has been linked to extremists and neo-Nazis. The ball happens annually, but it caused extra uproar last week because it dovetailed with worldwide commemorations of the Holocaust.... -
Poll: 'Anti-Semitic notions' on rise among French, other Europeans
World NowThe French have grown more likely to believe that Jews hold too much power in business or world finance, as well as other "classical anti-Semitic notions," according to a new survey from the Anti-Defamation League that compares attitudes in 2009 and 2012.... -
Nazi-looted art trove discovered in Germany?
Culture MonsterHas an art historian located a buried trove of artistic masterpieces looted by the Nazis? That's what a report in Britain's Daily Mail claims, stating that the collection contains pieces by Monet, Manet and Cezanne.... -
In Hungary, it's time for the 'watering of the girls'
World NowIn Hungary's "watering of the girls," men throw buckets of water at women in a fertility ritual that reportedly goes back to the nation's pre-Christianity tribal roots.... -
Working Hollywood: Gábor Tóth runs the carriages in 'The Raven'
Company TownGábor Tóth, 33, is the first person ever to serve as a carriage coordinator in his native country of Hungary, where much of "The Raven" was shot.... -
Holiday books: Fiction
Aleph
A Novel
Paulo Coelho
Alfred A. Knopf, $24.95
A crisis of faith prompts a man to begin a journey of self-discovery from Africa to Asia.
The Angel Esmeralda
Nine Stories
Don DeLillo
Scribner, $24
The first collection of short stories from a...Tags: William Kennedy, Ry Cooder, World War I (1914-1918), Poetry, Nobel Prize Awards
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Kurt Sanderling dies at 98; admired conductor under Soviets
Kurt Sanderling, who led the Leningrad Philharmonic and the East Berlin Symphony Orchestra under Soviet rule and won admirers in the West later in his career as a guest conductor for orchestras in London, Los Angeles and elsewhere, has died. He was 98....Tags: Germany, Entertainment, Music, Moscow (Russia), Erich Leinsdorf
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Otto von Habsburg dies at 98; son of Austria-Hungary's last emperor
Otto von Habsburg, the oldest son of Austria-Hungary's last emperor who saw the end of his family's centuries-long rule and emerged to become a champion of a Europe united by democracy, died Monday in his sleep at his home in Poecking, Germany, where he...Tags: Germany, Civil Unrest, World War I (1914-1918), Europe, Religious Conflicts
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Drinking in fall's tastiest color change: harvest red wines
Special to the Los Angeles TimesIn every October there comes a day when you must reacquaint yourself with your oven. The outdoor grill is left to gather cobwebs, not so much from neglect (this is Los Angeles, after all) but because being in the kitchen, near the feel and smell of...Tags: Gramercy, Landforms, Wines, Grapes, France
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Book review: 'Fiasco' by Imre Kertész
Special to the Los Angeles TimesIn 1944, a 14-year-old boy, future novelist Imre Kertész, was rounded up while on an excursion in the countryside near Budapest and sent to Auschwitz. And then to Buchenwald. Surviving the camps and returning to Budapest, he was asked, simply, by his...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Book, Budapest (Hungary), Nobel Prize Awards
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L.A. Opera canceling Hungarian 'Bank Ban' production
Culture MonsterHungarian 'Bank Ban' production canceled at LA Opera... -
Did Johnny Weissmuller use a fake identity so he could represent the U.S. in the 1924 Olympics?
The Fabulous ForumOLYMPIC URBAN LEGEND: Johnny "Tarzan" Weissmuller took on a fake identity so he could represent the United States in the 1924 Olympics. Followers of U.S. politics surely know of the controversy that surrounded President Barack Obama and his birth...
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