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The Echo Nest looks at how movie and music tastes overlap
Love Usher and Nicki Minaj? That probably means you prefer Pixar films to other kids' movies, according to a new study by Echo Nest. The Somerville, Mass.-based music data mining company thinks it can predict your movie tastes based on the music you...
Tags: Entertainment, Britney Spears, Music Theater, Nicki Minaj, Christina Aguilera
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Jury in Whitey Bulger's trial is shown Winter Hill Gang's arsenal
Jurors in James “Whitey” Bulger's racketeering trial on Thursday were shown machine guns and other weapons from a massive arsenal that investigators say he and his gang owned, as prosecutors attempted to show that Bulger ran a criminal...
Tags: Weaponry, Whitey Bulger, Murder, Justice System, Lawyers
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An encore for the historic Dunbar Hotel
Back in the days of the jazz greats, when most of the downtown L.A. hotels were still segregated, the Dunbar Hotel was the place that rolled out the carpet for visiting African American musicians and the fans who flocked to see them. London Carter was...
Tags: Entertainment, Rentals, Dining and Drinking, Renovation, Interior Policy
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Margaret Thatcher dies at 87; Britain's first female prime minister
LONDON -- Margaret Thatcher, the grocer's daughter who punched through an old-boy political network to become Britain's first female prime minister, stamping her personality indelibly on the nation and pursuing policies that reverberate decades later, has...
Tags: University of Oxford, European Union, White House, Human Interest, Elections
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Yoga has more to offer than traditional classes
The bendy brilliance attained by practicing yoga regularly has become a treasure sought after by many Americans. Hindu monks brought the 5,000-year-old practice to the West in the late 19th century, and by the mid-1980s, yoga was heralded as a way to...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Music, Entertainment, Nursing, Weather Reports
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'Melrose Place' actress sentenced to 3 years in deadly DUI crash
Actress Amy Locane-Bovenizer spent a season living at "Melrose Place" -- now she'll spend three years living behind bars at a New Jersey state prison. Locane-Bovenizer was sentenced Thursday to three years for vehicular homicide and three for assault by...
Tags: Justice System, Judges, Crohn's Disease, Punishment, Social Media
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Northeast blizzard eases; snowplows revved up for the big dig-out
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.BOSTON--The blizzard of 2013 began to ease somewhat Saturday as the Northeast began to slowly dig out from a fierce, and in some places, record-breaking storm that dropped more than 2 feet of snow and as much as 3 feet in some places. The worst of the...Tags: Services and Shopping, Local Government, Regional Authority, Suffolk County (Massachusetts), Long Island
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Skin-care newcomers and their interesting ingredients
Special to the Los Angeles TimesHere is a selection of some new offerings at the prestige end of the market, many predicated on exclusive ingredients and newfangled technology: Super Cream from 3LAB, exclusively at Barneys, joins that brand's high-priced roster but remains its most...Tags: New Products, Botox (drug), Personal Service, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, Glucosamine
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Experts look at new high-tech, at-home beauty devices
Special to the Los Angeles TimesImagine having the fountain of youth as close at hand as the bathroom. We're not there yet — but there's a burgeoning number of at-home, high-tech beauty gadgets that claim to smooth wrinkles, whiten teeth and remove hair without the need to...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Teeth Whitening, Skin, Laser Hair Removal, Elections
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How tastemakers dress for the holiday season
Los Angeles TimesDressing for the holidays is part of the season's fun. But forget the images you see in fashion magazines and on feel-good television commercials. In Southern California, the weather seldom requires swaddling in a plaid cashmere scarf, chunky fleece-...Tags: Barney's New York Incorporated, Religious Festivals, Holidays, Fashion Trends, New Year's Day
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Movie review: 'The Best and the Brightest'
"The Best and the Brightest" might have had some real teeth -- and some real smarts -- in the hands of a savvy satirist such as Christopher Guest. Unfortunately, writer-director Josh Shelov's sendup of the Manhattan private school culture flies off its...Tags: Bonnie Somerville, Christopher McDonald, Amy Sedaris, Christopher Guest, Neil Patrick Harris
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Your Stylist: Hydrating beauty masks to save dry skin [UPDATED]
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