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Rose Parade 2013: List of float award winners
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Slow down, it's Maine
BELFAST, Maine — The first sign says, "Slow." Then, about 50 feet down this back road in mid-coast Maine, there's a second sign. It says, "Slower." I ease up on the pedal. That about sums up the rhythm of life in this part of Maine, which is...
Tags: Culture, Don Rickles, Tool (music group), Hypothermia, Arts and Culture
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Quirky and unusual
Awkward Family Pet Photos
Mike Bender and Doug Chernack
Three Rivers Press, $15, paper
The guys who brought us "Awkward Family Photos" are back with an edition devoted to cruel and unusual punishment to animals. Sort of. It's not that we don't love our...Tags: Politics, Religion and Belief, Leonardo da Vinci, England, Holidays
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Movieland Mystery Photo -- Update
The Daily MirrorLos Angeles Times file photo Hereâs another mystery photo I found in Mack Sennettâs file. Update: Alas, these young women arenât identified on the back of the photo. It was supposedly published in The Times on June 27, 1948, and...... -
Found on EBay – Shriners Convention
The Daily MirrorThis postcard from the 1907 Shriners’ Convention in Los Angeles has been listed on EBay. The convention generated an almost endless assortment of pins, ribbons, plates, tumblers, postcards and other ephemera. I have never seen this one before.... -
New York Fashion Week: Marlon Gobel explores secret-society style
All The RageWhat's not to love about a runway look that combines a three-piece burgundy corduroy suit, a unicorn lapel pin, a pair of Christian Louboutin slippers and a genuine maroon felt Moroccan fez? That was one of the outfits that menswear...... -
Found on EBay – 1907 Shriners Convention
The Daily MirrorThe 1907 Shriners convention in Los Angeles inspired all sorts of commemorative trinkets. Most of the items were pins, badges, glassware and ceramics, which frequently turn up on EBay. Hereâs something Iâve never seen before, a spoon that was... -
Shrine Auditorium Burns to the Ground
The Daily MirrorâAinât It a Grand and Glorious Feeling?â by Clare Briggs. An undated postcard of the old Shrine Auditorium. Another postcard of the original Shrine Auditorium. Jan. 12, 1920: "Shrine Auditorium, for more than 12 years an architectural and historical... -
Shag rags: New men's line mines the artist's oeuvre
All The RageShag, the Orange County artist known for his colorful paintings of midcentury Modern lifestyle â cocktail lounges, tiki bars and sleek, glass-walled homes filled with Shriners, lounge lizards and hep cats cavorting with winsome wahines, and dangerous... -
WebClawer: Alpaca goes surfing; would-be Totos try out for 'Wizard of Oz' musical; PETA wants mothers to breastfeed to help cows; can animals commit suicide?
L.A. Unleashed-- Bizarre new trend: Surfing with animals. Okay, we will accept that some dogs seem to actually enjoy the sport -- but what of other species that are seemingly less suited to surfing? Like, say, an alpaca? Peruvian surfer Domingo...... -
Primary colors
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Amoskeag Strummers had their banjos in hand, the Shriners were standing by their little red cars and the parade was about to begin. Then, across the lawn and into this classic New England small-town scene strode a tall, slim, implausibly handsome...Tags: Politics, Political Candidates, Migration, Death, Primaries
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About This Series
Times staff writer Thomas Curwen met Ana Rodarte in December 2005 at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla. Over the next 3 1/2 years, he conducted extensive interviews with her and her parents, and he and Ana engaged in an e-mail correspondence about...Tags: Politics, Immigration, Migration, Oncology, Health and Safety at School
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