Entertainment & Arts
A dance competition with untested artists, celebrity judges, audience voting and prize money: No, it’s not the delirious TV series “Dancing With the Stars” or “So You Think You Can Dance” but Ballet Austin’s very, very similar “New American Talent/Dance” event taking place Feb. 16-19 in Austin’s Paramount Theatre.
Jan. 29, 2006
Music
Thad Jones, longtime trumpeter-arranger for Count Basie and co-leader of a highly successful big band before returning to head the late Basie’s orchestra, has died of bone cancer in Denmark, it was reported Wednesday.
Aug. 21, 1986
Awards
Tommy Lee Jones on playing a real firebrand, in fake hair
Nov. 29, 2012
Movies
First ‘Lincoln’ image arrives with one-sheet from DreamWorks
Aug. 22, 2012
Sports
Suddenly, everyone’s looking at the backup quarterback
Oct. 7, 2013
Travel & Experiences
Sure, the turn-of-the-century steam locomotive, weathered freight cars and Victorian station look out of place amid the tidy bungalows and white picket fences of the neighborhood around 250th Street and Woodward Avenue in Lomita.
Nov. 12, 1992
California
A popular North Hollywood teacher and five other men have been indicted on charges they avenged a traffic accident by beating to death a suspected drunk driver.
Feb. 3, 1995
World & Nation
The 44-year-old man charged in an explosion outside an NAACP office building in Colorado Springs, Colo., told police he was trying to attack an accountant who allegedly stole tax records from him, not the civil rights group, according to a criminal complaint.
Feb. 20, 2015
A former popular North Hollywood middle school teacher charged in a 1994 beating death refused a plea bargain Wednesday, while five co-defendants pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter rather than face life in prison if convicted of murder.
Jan. 25, 1996
SAG Awards 2013: Daniel Day-Lewis wins lead actor prize
Jan. 27, 2013