Entertainment & Arts
The marketplace in this Finnish border town was an incongruous pageant of feathers and beads, bandannas, fringed deerskin and painted shirts as Blackfoot/American Indian ceremonialist Charles Lawrence rattled his spirit staff, thereby signaling the opening of Joensuu’s Meeting of the Worlds festival.
July 8, 1990
Olympics
London Olympics: Britain’s Jessica Ennis nears heptathlon gold
Aug. 4, 2012
Sports
Jenn Suhr returning to Olympics in pole vault
June 25, 2012
Once-brash Washington wins 400 meters at U.S. championships, says he’ll be Paris underdog.
June 22, 2003
Art Review: Max Jansons “Ocean Park” at 2520 18th Street
May 3, 2013
After an exhibition at a prominent Los Angeles venue fell through last year, Max Jansons hung two years’ worth of paintings in his Ocean Park studio, set regular business hours, sent out announcements and ran his own start-up gallery.
June 18, 2014
Max Jansons’ paintings of flower-filled vases look nothing like his paintings of isosceles triangles or his solitary painting of a sharp-angled line that changes color as it ricochets around the picture plane.
Oct. 2, 2018
Travel & Experiences
When Don Janson helped set the world airplane flight endurance record in 1949, the plane nearly landed on his chest as he tried to fix its broken wheel.
Jan. 16, 1990
Music: Pittsburgh Symphony conductor Mariss Jansons doesn’t hold back--and sometimes his health pays for it.
March 26, 1999
Books
Before me rests a tome battered from years of lugging to UCLA.
June 1, 1986