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    May 11, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. 'City of Thieves' by David Benioff

    City of Thieves
    City of Thieves A Novel David Benioff Viking: 260 pp., $24.95 DAVID BENIOFF'S second novel (after "The 25th Hour," which Spike Lee directed for the screen) features a snappy plot, a buoyant friendship, a quirky courtship, an assortment of menacing bad...

    Tags: Crimes, Saint Petersberg (Russia), Social Issues, Death, Defense

    2. Jun 22, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Annual Hay Festival is one for the books

    The small market town of Hay, nestled on the border between England and Wales, is an unlikely setting for one of the world's biggest book festivals. It has a population of less than 2,000, and the nearest train station is 30 miles away. Yet each year, during the last week of May and the first weekend in June, upward of 100,000 people descend on this tiny town to attend the Hay Festival, a literary extravaganza that is now firmly established as the biggest book event in Britain.
    The small market town of Hay, nestled on the border between England and Wales, is an unlikely setting for one of the world's biggest book festivals. It has a population of less than 2,000, and the nearest train station is 30 miles away. Yet each year,...

    Tags: Death, Boris Spassky, Jonathan Coe, Christopher Hitchens, Islam

    3. Jun 3, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Bo Diddley, 79; singer-songwriter's beat marked rock 'n' roll

    Primal rock and blues musician Bo Diddley, who helped cast the sonic template of rock more than 50 years ago with a signature syncopated rhythm that became universally recognized as "the Bo Diddley beat," died Monday. He was 79.
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    Primal rock and blues musician Bo Diddley, who helped cast the sonic template of rock more than 50 years ago with a signature syncopated rhythm that became universally recognized as "the Bo Diddley beat," died Monday. He was 79. Diddley died of heart...

    Tags: Music Industry, Radio Industry, George H.W. Bush, Gainesville, Muddy Waters

    4. Sep 28, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Same game, different rules

    Twenty years ago, Ballantine Books decided it no longer wanted to publish paperbacks exclusively, as it had done for the previous 35 years. Bucking convention, the firm launched its hardcover program with a first novel by an untested female writer that tapped into so many genres -- a little history, a little mystery, a little romance, all wrapped up in a cloak of mathematics-minded geek girl heroines in two time periods two centuries apart. Classification was nearly impossible. As publishing gambles go, this one was gargantuan: If the book failed, it would take an entire storied name, one that embodied a revolution in the way people read and bought books, down with it. That book did not fail. Instead, <b>"The Eight" </b>(Ballantine: 624 pp., $14.95 paper) became an international bestseller -- one that allowed Ballantine to repeat the same risk and reward the following year with <b>"The Quincunx" </b>(Ballantine: 800 pp., $20 paper), Charles Palliser's 500,000-word Dickensian thriller. The very lack of classification enabled "The Eight" and its author, Katherine Neville, to find a wide, devoted readership because it wasn't like anything else that had been published before. Not because it was unique -- there are nods to "Raiders of the Lost Ark," "G&#246;del, Escher, Bach," "The Name of the Rose" and much else in popular culture and otherwise -- but because of Neville's ability to synthesize a whole host of historical and contemporary concepts in a way that made readers respond as if the work was unique. It's a brainier, more feminist precursor to the bestselling behemoth that is Dan Brown's <b>"The Da Vinci Code" </b>(Anchor: 496 pp., $7.99 paper).
    Twenty years ago, Ballantine Books decided it no longer wanted to publish paperbacks exclusively, as it had done for the previous 35 years. Bucking convention, the firm launched its hardcover program with a first novel by an untested female writer that...

    Tags: Death, Lord Byron, Dan Brown , Gaming, Bobby Fischer

    5. Nov 24, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. The dissident choice

    That barack obama is the antithesis of George W. Bush is by now axiomatic. The president-elect is expected to change everything, from the prevailing ideology to the government's order of priorities to the partisan atmosphere in Washington to even the mood in America.
    That barack obama is the antithesis of George W. Bush is by now axiomatic. The president-elect is expected to change everything, from the prevailing ideology to the government's order of priorities to the partisan atmosphere in Washington to even the mood...

    Tags: Human Rights, Garry Kasparov, Death, Dalai Lama, Russia

    6. Dec 5, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. 'Cadillac Records'

    Fans of musical dramas may experience some deja vu while watching "Cadillac Records"; the story is remarkably similar to one told in the middle of 2006's "Dreamgirls," in a montage sequence set to "Steppin' to the Bad Side."
    Fans of musical dramas may experience some deja vu while watching "Cadillac Records"; the story is remarkably similar to one told in the middle of 2006's "Dreamgirls," in a montage sequence set to "Steppin' to the Bad Side." There's the plucky upstart...

    Tags: Adrien Brody, Music Industry, Buddy Guy, Entertainment, Howlin' Wolf

    7. Sep 1, 2005 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Swaying to an island rhythm

    Party guests have begun to arrive even before the appointed hour of 5 at the Malibu home of Chantal and Carl Gillberg, high on a distant knoll of the Santa Monica Mountains. A haze has settled over the sliver of ocean view, but in the terraced gardens above the main house, the sun is luminous on the surface of the swimming pool, where the hosts have just cooled off with a couple of their French friends. Two Haitian women in bare feet and dark glasses sit talking in the shade of an umbrella.
    Times Staff Writer
    Party guests have begun to arrive even before the appointed hour of 5 at the Malibu home of Chantal and Carl Gillberg, high on a distant knoll of the Santa Monica Mountains. A haze has settled over the sliver of ocean view, but in the terraced gardens...

    Tags: Interior Design, Architecture, Metal and Mineral, Barbra Streisand, Game Playing

    8. Jun 10, 2005 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. The Munitz collection

    Times Staff Writers
    The world's richest art organization was facing hard times in spring 2003. On a Wednesday in late March, seven security managers were called into a conference room at the J. Paul Getty Trust's hilltop campus in Brentwood and told that their positions had...

    Tags: Crimes, Layoffs and Downsizing, Charity, Labor Markets, Employment

    9. May 4, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Bernard Parks' record as LAPD chief and city councilman is a mixed blessing in his race for L.A. County supervisor

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    At a Mardi Gras-style opening of his campaign headquarters, City Councilman Bernard C. Parks received a candid assessment of his entrance into the race for the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. "I saw Barack Obama dance on the television, and that...

    Tags: Martin Luther King Day, 2010 Census, Maxine Waters, Political Campaigns, Barack Obama

    10. Feb 17, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Tijuana tourism plunges amid drug violence

    Marcos Rojas, a waiter at Mr. Tequila Restaurant, roams the Plaza Viva Tijuana, eager to pour double shots for partying tourists. This downtown gateway used to be crowded with Southern California day-trippers, Midwestern families and busloads of German and Japanese tourists.
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    Marcos Rojas, a waiter at Mr. Tequila Restaurant, roams the Plaza Viva Tijuana, eager to pour double shots for partying tourists. This downtown gateway used to be crowded with Southern California day-trippers, Midwestern families and busloads of German...

    Tags: Crimes, Human Rights, Charlie Chaplin, Organized Crime, Death

    11. May 19, 2005 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Use your thumbs, young Skywalker

    A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away — well, actually in 1983, and in this solar system — the first "Star Wars" video game landed in arcades. Gamers dropped quarter after quarter into the mock X-Wing cockpit to assume the role of Luke...

    Tags: LEGO Group, Star Wars (movie), Death, Toys, George Lucas

    12. Jul 1, 2004 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Mind powers save the day

    Times Staff Writer
    Sure, we all can't wait to play "Halo 2" and "Star Wars Battlefront." But those don't land until the fall. There must have been something new at May's Electronic Entertainment Expo that's out for us now, right? How about a psychic adventure, and one with...

    Tags: Death, PlayStation, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Xbox, Gaming

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