World & Nation
Eye-care specialists are cautioning consumers to look beyond this year’s cache of handsome frames and trendy designer labels when buying sunglasses.
June 20, 1986
Music
In some ways, the record release party for “All I Feel,” the fourth full-length release from R&B; performer Ray J, felt more like a night out at the club with the Southern California native than an invitation-only music industry event.
April 12, 2008
Sports
Willy Adames homered and made a sensational relay throw from shortstop, Tommy Pham also went deep and the Tampa Bay Rays chased Justin Verlander early in beating the Houston Astros 4-1 to even their AL Division Series at two games apiece.
Oct. 8, 2019
Opinion
An op-ed article on authors’ homes in Los Angeles prompts two writers to recall a post-party walk through Ray Bradbury’s Cheviot Hills home.
Aug. 27, 2019
Entertainment & Arts
Despite being Brandy’s litle brother, he’s now known for salacious R&B songs with graphic lyrics, L.A. gangbanger imagery -- and a sex tape.
Movies
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 Lionsgate, $29.95; Blu-ray, $39.99 Available on VOD Tuesday The Hunger Games: Complete 4 Film Collection Lionsgate, $54.98; Blu-ray, $64.97 It’d be silly to call a movie that made over $600 million a “letdown,” but given how big “The Hunger Games” loomed in popular culture just two years ago, it’s strange that the series-ender drew such a muted reaction.
March 19, 2016
Books
What It Used to Be Like A Portrait of My Marriage to Raymond Carver Maryann Burk Carver St. Martin’s Press: 356 pp., $25.95
July 23, 2006
Dodgers
Andrew Heaney hopes he can pull a Robbie Ray and go from castoff to AL Cy Young contender. The Dodgers are hoping for the same.
Nov. 12, 2021
This first novel about a modern man’s romantic life weighs strangely in the mind, like some mysterious chunk of ore much heavier than it looks.
March 19, 1995
Food
Rum tasting in Pasadena, Ray’s and Stark Bar turns 2, brunch at A.O.C.
Feb. 27, 2013