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Review: Alisa Weilerstein's star turn with L.A. Chamber Orchestra
Appearing with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra eight years ago, 23-year-old Alisa Weilerstein was a playfully kittenish cello soloist in Tchaikovsky's "Rococo" Variations. I wrote then that when she matures, look out. I can take no credit for...
Tags: Music, Music Industry, Entertainment, Mick Jagger, Arts and Culture
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Russian adoption ban leaves U.S. families in an agonizing limbo
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Andy and Bethany Nagel left photos of themselves at the orphanage for the little boy with Down syndrome who was going to be their son. We'll be back, they told 4-year-old Timofey, blowing kisses from the doorway and...
Tags: U.S. Department of State, Crime, Law and Justice, Adoption, Family, Toy Industry
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Russia: $754 round trip to St. Petersburg on KLM
Pack your cool-weather clothes for this deal: KLM has a $754 round-trip airfare to St. Petersburg, Russia, from LAX, including all taxes and fees. It is subject to availability and requires a Saturday night stay. Other restrictions may apply. It is...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, Russia, Travel
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Janet Fitch on the writers she admires and her next book [video]
Janet Fitch's first novel, "White Oleander," hit big when it was picked by Oprah for her book club. Before that happened, she was just another aspiring writer in this big city. She sat down with me at the L.A. Times Festival of Books and talked about...
Tags: Oprah Winfrey, Authors, Arts and Culture
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Leonhard Euler, math genius, gets a Google Doodle
Post has been corrected. See note at bottom for details.Leonhard Euler, a Swiss mathematician who continued to work on complex equations from memory even after he went blind, is honored in Monday's Google Doodle on the 306th anniversary of his birth. Euler, who wrote nearly 900 books over the course of his...Tags: Blindness, Science and Technology, Russia, Mathematics
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A criminal's caper has Russians shaking their heads
MOSCOW — The Russian underworld calls him "Sportsman" for his physical strength and stamina. Police identify him as "High-Tech" because of his allegedly ingenious ways of stealing luxury cars. Now Igor Lovygin has captivated Russia for daring...Tags: Prisons, Moscow (Russia), Crime, Law and Justice, Criminals, Organized Crime
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IndyCar season set to open with St. Petersburg street race
Ryan Hunter-Reay opens his defense of the IndyCar championship Sunday with the series season opener in St. Petersburg, Fla. The Honda Grand Prix on a 1.8-mile street course in St. Petersburg is the first of 19 races on the Izod IndyCar Series calendar....
Tags: Andretti Autosport, Auto Racing, Open-Wheel Racing, Chip Ganassi Racing, World Baseball Classic
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Eugene Patterson dies at 89; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Eugene Patterson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and columnist whose impassioned words helped draw national attention to the civil rights movement as it unfolded across the South, has died at 89. Patterson, who helped fellow whites understand the...
Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Crime, Law and Justice, Religion and Belief, World War II (1939-1945), Journalism
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Review: Pianist Lise de la Salle shines with the L.A. Phil
This post has been corrected as detailed below. The Italian conductor Gianandrea Noseda, making his Los Angeles Philharmonic debut at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Thursday, brought an exhilarating, Russian-sounding fervor to an all-Rachmaninoff program....
Tags: Arts and Culture, Les Miserables (musical), Culture
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A Floating Holiday
On an ocean cruise, every port is an invitation to adventure – a whirlwind romance with a new destination that just might turn out to be your favorite place on earth. But not all stops are created equal. Some cruise ports can make an amazing first...
Tags: Cruises, Turkey, Vanuatu, Celebrity Cruises, World War II (1939-1945)
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Russia reimagines its culinary traditions
MOSCOW — On New Year's Eve, dining-room tables across Russia will be covered with a mosaic of glittering red caviar, piroshki, marinated mushrooms, beet salad and herring. Chilled vodka bottles and Champagne flutes will tower over the dishes,...
Tags: Honey, Recipes, Museums, Moscow (Russia), New Year's Day
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Visiting Moscow and St. Petersburg
THE BEST WAY TO MOSOW From LAX, nonstop service to Moscow is available on Aeroflot and connecting service (change of planes) is offered on KLM, Air France, Delta, Turkish, British, Swiss and Lufthansa. Restricted round-trip fares begin at $778,...Tags: Museums, Moscow (Russia), Pies and Tarts, Restaurants, Air France-KLM
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