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Setting Times stories to music: From the Kinks to Sugarhill Gang
Would you do a double-take if I said that that words were a recurring theme in this week’s Great Reads? Yes, beautiful language is a mainstay in these stories, but this week, two standouts focused on words. Exhibit A: The words “Los Feliz....
Tags: Restaurants, Pakistan, Entertainment, Superman (fictional character), Music
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Smashed U.S. cars get second chance in Afghanistan
HERAT, Afghanistan — They sit in the sun harboring their lost histories, their forgotten dreams, their traces of funerals, graduations and stolen kisses. On dusty windshields, insurance stickers from Travelers and State Farm bear witness to wrecks...
Tags: Pakistan, World Bank Group, Taliban, Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz al Saud, Afghanistan
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Los Angeles' major public spaces remain broken works in progress
Los Angeles Times Architecture CriticLos Angeles, more than most cities, has defined itself by continual bursts of expansion and an unflagging optimism about its place in the world. But as the city has grown to a population nearing 4 million, we've neglected some major holes in the civic...Tags: Los Angeles International Airport, Jose Huizar, Museums, Arts and Culture, Union Pacific Corporation
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Free-speech advocates worldwide protest Russian punk band's sentence
World NowFrom Paris to Hollywood, free-speech advocates reacted with outrage Friday at the two-year prison sentences handed down by a Russian court against the feminist punk-rock trio Pussy Riot for a protest stunt in a Moscow cathedral against President... -
Landmark Theaters to screen 'Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview' film
TechnologySince Steve Jobs died on Oct. 5, we've seen Steve Jobs the book, Steve Jobs the PBS special and now "Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview," a new film, will hit the Landmark Theatres chain on Nov. 16 and 17 in select cities.... -
Stephen Colbert allowed to form Super-PAC
Top of the TicketStephen Colbert will even be allowed to promote his PAC on 'The Colbert Report'... -
Illinois Senate debate Mark Kirk vs Alexi Giannoulias
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Jon Stewart rally attendance about 215,000; breaks 19-year-old Metro ridership record
Top of the TicketJon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" drew appoximately 215,000 people, CBS News is estimating. That's almost three times more attendees than the Glenn Beck "Restoring Honor" rally held in Washington D.C. in August. Although those... -
Fur-free, fabulous and fuming: White House objects to PETA's image of Michelle Obama in new anti-fur ad
L.A. UnleashedPeople for the Ethical Treatment of Animals certainly meant it as a compliment when the group called First Lady Michelle Obama "Fur-Free and Fabulous" in its latest ad campaign. But the group's intentions apparently don't matter much to the White...... -
A rainy National Book Festival whets readers' appetites
Despite a midday deluge, book lovers turned out in record numbers for the ninth annual National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.
The gray morning couldn't dissuade 130,000 people from attending readings and signings on the National Mall...Tags: Festive Events, John Grisham, Fiction, Arts and Culture, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Wildlife group targets Discovery with anti-Sarah Palin ad campaign
Show TrackerA wildlife group spearheading a petition drive to persuade Discovery Communications to drop an upcoming docu-series starring Sarah Palin plans to launch a provocative ad campaign around the companyâs headquarters in Silver Spring, Md. The ads, which... -
L.A. County sheriff's plan to send deputies to inauguration is questioned
The request was straightforward, even flattering. Send a few hundred Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies across the country next month to assist Washington, D.C., police at the presidential inauguration. It's the price tag of $1.6 million -- with as...Tags: Law Enforcement, Zev Yaroslavsky, Los Angeles Police Department, Lee Baca, Crime, Law and Justice
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