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Jacqueline Piatigorsky dies at 100; chess champion, sculptor
Jacqueline Piatigorsky was born into the Rothschild banking clan and grew up in a palace in Paris, but her silver spoon came with a ball and shackles. She rarely left her sumptuous homes and was dominated by a callous nanny. She felt invisible to her...
Tags: Boris (music group), Game Playing, Lung Cancer, Human Interest, Marcel Duchamp
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Eve Arnold dies at 99; pioneering photojournalist
Eve Arnold, one of the first woman photojournalists to join the prestigious Magnum Photography Agency in the 1950s and traveled the world for her work but was best known for her candid shots of Hollywood celebrities, has died. She was 99.
Arnold died...Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Nursing Homes, Celebrities, World War II (1939-1945), China
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Voters warm to Jerry Brown's pension plan, poll finds
PolitiCalA majority of California voters like Gov. Jerry Brown's pension plan for state workers, according to a new poll.... -
Moscow protest draws more than 100,000 anti-Putin marchers
World NowMore than 100,000 people took to the streets Saturday in the biggest show of protest in Russia's capital since the breakup of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.... -
An appreciation: Dave Alvin remembers Johnny Otis
Pop & HissRoots rock aficionado Dave Alvin remembers Johnny Otis, the bandleader, songwriter, producer and disc jockey who died Jan. 17 at age 90. Johnny Otis "was as important as Sam Phillips or Leonard Chess in discovering new talent," Alvin writes.... -
Bolt Action
LA Times MagazineWith big roles in The Three Musketeers, Immortals and The Hobbit, the time is now for Luke Evans.... -
Around Town: Max von Sydow plays chess with death again
24 FramesOne of international cinema’s most acclaimed actors, Max von Sydow, best known for his iconic work for director Ingmar Bergman, visits the American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre on Monday evening.... -
'Justified' recap: Nest egg
Show Tracker'Justified' has some of the best supporting characters on television, but is it losing sight of its hero?... -
Music review: San Francisco Symphony's John Cage 'Song Books'
Culture MonsterMark Swed reviews the San Francisco Symphony's miraculous American Mavericks celebration, which included a sublime performance of John Cage's "Song Books" with Joan La Barbara, Meredith Monk and, believe it or not, Jessye Norman.... -
Could this be happening? A man's nightmare made real
First of two parts
He kept thinking that there had been a mistake, that he'd be out in no time. That the system, set into motion by some misunderstanding or act of malice, would soon correct itself.
That was before the detective informed him of the...Tags: Super Bowl, Prosecution, Sex Crimes, Halloween, Transportation Accidents
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John McCarthy dies at 84; the father of artificial intelligence
In the mid-1950s mathematician John McCarthy issued a call for research on "Automata Studies," but the phrase was so bland that few people understood what he meant. So he came up with a more provocative description of the idea he was promoting.
He called...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Game Playing, Fraud, Corporate Crime, Computer Networking and Internet
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Discoveries: 'The Chairs Are Where the People Go' by Misha Glouberman with Sheila Heti
Los Angeles TimesThe Chairs Are Where the People Go How to Live, Work, and Play in the City Misha Glouberman with Sheila Heti Faber and Faber:: 175 pp., $13 paper Sheila Heti wanted to write about her friend Misha Glouberman. The Canadian performance artists had...Tags: Garry Kasparov, Politics, Vladimir Putin, Nature, John Hay
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