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And for Bloomberg's next NYC trick, making cigarettes disappear
At this rate, New York City is going to run out of vices before it sees another mayor. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has announced new city legislation that would force retail stores to keep cigarettes out of customers' sight, hidden behind curtains or...
Tags: Politics, Michael Bloomberg, Human Rights
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Jeff Speck's 'Walkable City' a recipe for vibrant street life
-------------------- Walkable City How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time Jeff Speck Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 296 pp., $27 -------------------- If you grew up, as I did, in a pedestrian city, much of Jeff Speck's "Walkable City: How...
Tags: Lincoln Center, Manufacturing and Engineering, Fiction, Rockefeller Center, Automotive Equipment
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Book review: 'The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson' by Robert Caro
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Passage of Power The Years of Lyndon Johnson Robert Caro Alfred A. Knopf: 736 pp., $35 "The Passage of Power," the fourth volume in Robert Caro's epic biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson, encompasses the period of LBJ's deepest humiliation and...Tags: Social Issues, Politics, Chicago Tribune, Lyndon B. Johnson, The Washington Post
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New York Public Library gives up some of its secrets
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn my family, we've never recognized a distinction between happiness and the handling of books. Books in libraries, books in shops. Books that take you places, and books you can steal from — like Norman Maclean's memoir, "A River Runs Through It,"...Tags: Arts and Culture, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Lewis Allen, Vladimir Nabokov, Painting
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The Reading Life: Gordon Matta-Clark's 'Conical Intersect'
Jacket CopyWhat was he up to? That's the question at the center of any consideration of Gordon Matta-Clark, an architecture student-turned-installation artist who died of cancer in 1978, when he was just 35. Matta-Clark doesn't have the name recognition of... -
Theodore Kheel dies at 96; labor mediator helped resolve thousands of disputes
Theodore Kheel, a New York labor mediator who helped resolve more than 30,000 disputes, including an East Coast longshoremen's strike in 1962 and the city's 114-day newspaper union walkout the next year, has died. He was 96.
Kheel died Friday in New York...Tags: Politics, Labor Disputes, Work Relations, Laws, Ed Koch
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'Free for All' by Kenneth Turan and Joseph Papp
The apt title of this juicy oral history, based on more than 160 interviews, simultaneously expresses a principle that guided producer-provocateur Joe Papp and the theatrical ruckus that ensued.
"Free for All" is how Papp presented Shakespeare in Central...Tags: Arts and Culture, Lower East Side, Theater, Entertainment, Central Park
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Blacktop manifesto
Times Staff WriterPARIS had its Baron Haussmann, who in the 19th century redesigned the French capital. New York had its Robert Moses, who before and after World War II redesigned that city's highways, parks and bridges. And Los Angeles? L.A. had the Traffic Commission....Tags: Business Trips, Transportation, Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted, World War II (1939-1945)
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'Forever Blue: The True Story of Walter O'Malley, Baseball's Most Controversial Owner, and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles' by Michael D'Antonio
To Brooklynites of a certain age, Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley was a money-grubbing weasel who ripped the soul from their community when he announced he was moving the team to L.A. in 1957. Many Angelenos, however, view O'Malley as a pioneering saint for...Tags: Basketball, World Series, Long Island, Minority Groups, Family
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Eisenhower's roads to prosperity
In his Dec. 6 radio address, President-elect Barack Obama vowed to "create millions of jobs by making the single largest new investment in our national infrastructure since the creation of the federal highway system in the 1950s." The story of President...Tags: PBS (tv network), Barack Obama, Politics, Transportation, U.S. Army
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'Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power and Lies' by Ginger Strand
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMay 21, 2008 Ginger Strand has a great subject in Niagara Falls and some provocative and convincing ideas about her topic's significance. Unfortunately, her synthesis of the two -- "Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power and Lies" -- incorporates just about...Tags: Chocolate Cake, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Central Park, Foods and Beverages, Soups
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The road more traveled
"Autophobia" is one of those concepts that carries a useful double meaning. As Brian Ladd defines it early in this brisk analysis of cars and car culture, it's "an obscure psychiatric diagnosis of 'fear of oneself.' " But, if bent just a little, it can...Tags: Jane Jacobs, Henry Ford, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Transportation, World War II (1939-1945)
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