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    Jun 13, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. TV Picks: 'Futurama,' 'The Hustle,' child activists, 'Wilfred'

    <strong>"Futurama" (Comedy Central, Wednesdays). </strong>Science fiction and comedy are "like that." (Writer crosses fingers to indicate closeness.) Each takes emerging facts to their extreme, often absurd conclusions; both are fundamentally philosophical &mdash; though each has time for exhilarating idiocy &mdash; and in imagining what might be, each takes the measure of what is. "1984" was about "1948," and "Brave New World" is a funny book. Created by Matt Groening, who invented "The Simpsons" and changed the world, and developed with David X. Cohen, "Futurama" fuses the two forms as if in the warp core of some spaceship I am imagining as I type. It has to some extent labored under the shadow of its more eligible look-alike older cousin and echoes it here and there &mdash; 20th-century pizza delivery boy Fry (Billy West) is, like Homer Simpson, a distractible lunkhead, while Bender (John DiMaggio) is the mechanical man Bart might have grown up to be had he been born a robot &mdash; but is very much its own creature, with its own interests. Its return this week, marking the second half of its seventh and final season, opens with back-to-back episodes: "2-D Blacktop" mixes a "Fast and Furious" takeoff with a brilliant riff on "Flatland" (this is the only series on television you're likely to encounter a line like "You kids and your topology"); "Fry and Leela's Big Fling" combines a "Planet of the Apes" riff with something I saw once on "Twilight Zone" (if memory serves) as Fry and sexy cyclops Leela (Katey Sagal) try to get alone.
    Los Angeles Times Television Critic
    "Futurama" (Comedy Central, Wednesdays). Science fiction and comedy are "like that." (Writer crosses fingers to indicate closeness.) Each takes emerging facts to their extreme, often absurd conclusions; both are fundamentally philosophical —...

    Tags: Entertainment, PBS (tv network), Vaccines, Scrubs (tv program), John DiMaggio

    2. Apr 18, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Review: 'The Revolutionary Optimists' go inside impoverished India

    The inspiring documentary "The Revolutionary Optimists" profiles a memorable quartet of youngsters from India whose attempts to effect change in their impoverished neighborhoods &mdash; as well as within themselves &mdash; offer a vital snapshot of developing world struggles and possibilities.
    The inspiring documentary "The Revolutionary Optimists" profiles a memorable quartet of youngsters from India whose attempts to effect change in their impoverished neighborhoods — as well as within themselves — offer a vital snapshot of...

    Tags: Entertainment, Movies

    3. Sep 1, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. The typewriter lives on in India

    It's a stultifying afternoon outside the Delhi District Court as Arun Yadav slides a sheet of paper into his decades-old Remington and revs up his daily 30-word-a-minute tap dance.
    It's a stultifying afternoon outside the Delhi District Court as Arun Yadav slides a sheet of paper into his decades-old Remington and revs up his daily 30-word-a-minute tap dance. Nearby, hundreds of other workers clatter away on manual typewriters amid...

    Tags: Indira Gandhi, Fine Arts, Symbols and Symbolism, Government, Theft

    4. Dec 9, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  4. Fire at Indian hospital kills 89, injures dozens [Updated]

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    Fire Kolkata India Fire: Fire at Hospital in Kolkata kills 89; among India's worst such tragedies....
    5. Apr 20, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. William A. Rusher dies at 87; conservative theorist and publisher of National Review

    William A. Rusher, a leading theorist and organizer of the modern conservative movement who helped William F. Buckley Jr. build the National Review into one of the American right's most influential journals, died Saturday at a retirement home in San Francisco. He was 87.
    William A. Rusher, a leading theorist and organizer of the modern conservative movement who helped William F. Buckley Jr. build the National Review into one of the American right's most influential journals, died Saturday at a retirement home in San...

    Tags: Entertainment, PBS (tv network), Lauren Bacall, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Elections

    6. Jan 27, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. 'A Dead Hand: A Novel' by Paul Theroux

    Paul Theroux's contribution to the revival of contemporary travel writing is so seminal that casual readers may be inclined to forget that most of his rather astonishingly prodigious output has been literary fiction.
    Paul Theroux's contribution to the revival of contemporary travel writing is so seminal that casual readers may be inclined to forget that most of his rather astonishingly prodigious output has been literary fiction. "A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta" is...

    Tags: Travel, Bono, Trips and Vacations, Brad Pitt, Social Issues

    7. Jan 18, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. PASSINGS: Jyoti Basu, Joe Shannon

    <b>Jyoti Basu</b>
    Jyoti Basu Communist statesman of India Jyoti Basu, 95, a veteran communist leader who in 1996 came close to becoming India's prime minister, died Sunday in Calcutta of multiple organ failure, a party spokesman said. Basu became chief minister of West...

    Tags: National Government, Communist Party of China, Birmingham , World War II (1939-1945), Manmohan Singh

    8. Jul 11, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Cuisines of two Indian cities

    ON the Indian restaurant circuit, it's mainly generic Indian fare on the menu, with a heavy northern bias. To experience the diversity of India's culinary landscape, your best bet is to be invited to someone's home. Happily, recent cookbooks such as "The Calcutta Kitchen," by London-based writer Simon Parkes and restaurateur-chef Udit Sarkhel, and "My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking," by anthropologist-chef Niloufer Ichaporia King of San Francisco, are now bringing regional Indian cuisines home for all of us.
    Special to The Times
    ON the Indian restaurant circuit, it's mainly generic Indian fare on the menu, with a heavy northern bias. To experience the diversity of India's culinary landscape, your best bet is to be invited to someone's home. Happily, recent cookbooks such as...

    Tags: Potatoes, Metal and Mineral, Kenya, Islam, Building Material

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

  9. Ali Akbar Khan dies at 87; sarod player helped bring Indian music to U.S.

    Maestro Ali Akbar Khan, the master Indian musician and composer who was a pivotal figure in introducing the music of his homeland to the West, has died. He was 87. The legendary sarod player and teacher died of kidney failure Thursday night at his home...

    Tags: Entertainment, Music Industry, Ravi Shankar, Museum of Modern Art, India

    10. Oct 9, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  10. George Platt, theatrical producer

    George Platt, a former New York theatrical producer who became a promotions director for a garden supply firm, died of renal failure Oct. 6 at Envoy Rehabilitation and Nursing in Pikesville. He was 90 and lived in Owings Mills.
    George Platt, a former New York theatrical producer who became a promotions director for a garden supply firm, died of renal failure Oct. 6 at Envoy Rehabilitation and Nursing in Pikesville. He was 90 and lived in Owings Mills. Born in Baltimore, he...

    Tags: Entertainment, Maryland State Police, Benny Goodman, Steve McQueen, Phyllis Diller

    11. Dec 9, 2011 |Story| Petoskey News

  11. Friday morning news from around the world

    <span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Years after vanishing in Iran, retired FBI agent appears in hostage video: 'Please help me'</strong></span>
    Years after vanishing in Iran, retired FBI agent appears in hostage video: 'Please help me' WASHINGTON (AP) -- The family of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, who vanished years ago in Iran, issued a plea to his kidnappers Friday and, for the first...

    Tags: National Government, The Pennsylvania State University, Concerts, Islamabad (Pakistan), Elections

    12. Dec 9, 2011 |Story| Daily American

  12. Fire at Indian hospital kills 89 as staff flees

    KOLKATA, India (AP) — Fleeing medical staff abandoned patients to a fire that killed 89 people Friday as black smoke poured through the seven-story hospital in this city in eastern India, officials said. Six administrators were arrested....

    Tags: Prosecution, Disasters and Accidents, Witnesses, Hospitals and Clinics, Fires

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