- Did this really need to be a book?
- Music review: Joshua Bell and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos at the Hollywood Bowl
- New web-slinger is the face of fall for Band of Outsiders
- Judge denies injunction; state workers to be paid in full
- Electric Daisy Carnival promoter Insomniac Events hires new security team to oversee safety protocols
- A ball used in the World Cup final has sold for $74,000
- Disney and Time Warner Cable each solicit public's support in cable TV spat
- Pink will jump right back in the harness, despite accident
- Recipe for the day: Grilled romaine with walnuts, Parmesan and anchovy dressing
- Your morning adorable: Red-necked wallaby joey peeks out of mom's pouch
- Kris Kristofferson, Ray Price, Merle Haggard, others remember country music songwriter Hank Cochran
- Opinion: When readers write
- Picture of Oksana Grigorieva's teeth goes public -- along with reports of dentist's doubts
- Eccola says bye-bye to La Brea, holds moving sale
- Mini review: 'The Private Lives of Birds'
- Angelina Jolie: Is she the first or last true female action star?
- NBC Universal profits bounce back, signaling GE agreed to Comcast sale at market bottom
- Promoter wants Manny Pacquiao to consider fighting Paul Williams
- Special effect: Shares of 3-D firm RealD soar after IPO
- How to make $1.4 billion of the state's budget deficit disappear
- The Dry Garden: Green summer reading
- Consumer Confidential: Mattel scores, a juicy RAV4, doggie danger
- George Clooney testifies in Milan fraud trial
- POLL: The 'dancing Auschwitz' video -- hilarious or offensive?
- Question of the day: What’s the greatest rivalry in sports?
- Michigan couple convicted in John Stamos extortion trial
- A kinder, friendlier Live Nation Entertainment? Cheaper tickets come with a cost
- Philip Hersh: Jones' relay teammates get to keep medals in decision that makes losers of IOC, USOC
- Gulf oil spill: Cap test going according to plan
- Your morning fashion and beauty report: Tiger Woods may be low-key, but John Daly has crazy fashion flair.
- Monster Mash: Broad gets competition for downtown site; sentencing in Muhammad case
- The Project: A refreshing agua fresca with strawberry and jamaica flowers
- 'Galaxy of Terror' gave us James Cameron and giant, libidinous alien maggots
- The Morning Fix: Big reception expected for 'Inception.' Google storms D.C. Networks likely to get racier
- Art review: 'The art that dare not speak its name' at CB1 Gallery
- Live Blog: Apple iPhone 4 news conference
- Summer reading: Larry Doyle on the classics
- Album review: Crowded House's 'Intriguer'
- Critics' notebook: Eminem and Rihanna and a host of others update the duet
- Art review: 'Country Music' at Blum & Poe Gallery
- Opinion: Illinois' Rep. Luis Gutierrez knows about the Internet
- 'Sorcerer's Apprentice' and the tricky nature of box-office magic
- Art review: 'Portrait' at Thomas Solomon Gallery
- SYRIA: Rights group blasts Bashar Assad's human rights record on 10-year anniversary of his rule
- Building a better cellphone antenna
- Art review: Robin Kandel at Sherry Frumkin Gallery
- One year ago: Otto Heino
- The Deal: Beverly Boulevard sale event Saturday includes 50% markdowns at Helene Ige's store
- Ice Cream Sommelier
- Market Watch: Flavorful grapes are coming to farmers markets
- Hank Cochran dies at 74; country music songwriter
- Vernon Baker dies at 90; Medal of Honor recipient for WWII battlefield valor
- PASSINGS: Charles Mackerras, Henryk Jankowski, Paulo Moura
- Olga Guillot dies at 87; Cuban singer was 'queen of the bolero'
- Coliseum commission will discuss ban on raves
- Hoarding: When stuff really piles up
- Charles Benjamin Gittings Jr. dies at 57; activist against abuse of terror prisoners
- On cracking down on business signs; UC admission practices; and the law and same-sex marriage
- Bills targeting oil industry move forward in House committees
- Friday TV highlights
- Television review: 'The Jensen Project'
- Vernon Baker dies at 90; Medal of Honor recipient for WWII battlefield valor
- Consumer prices drop for third straight month
- Theater Rivals Broad's Plan
- Summer Camp Fund: From camper to staffer and a new life
- Happening Friday July 16
- Udvar-Hazy launches new jet leasing firm
- Indonesian 'Tree Man' trapped in his mutating body
- California median home sale price slides in June
- Movie review: 'Inception'
- Sidney's Candy tries to bounce back in Swaps Stakes
- BOXER'S CASH IS AHEAD OF FIORINA'S WEALTH
- 'Inception' to top box office; 'Sorcerer's Apprentice' opens weak
- State PUC has let down its guard since phone deregulation, report finds
- Latest loss hurts the Dodgers so many ways
- If those Manolos are a pain, here's why
- Sea-level increases may be worse for some areas than others
- Dana Sparks puts her Lake Sherwood home on the market
- On cracking down on business signs; UC admission practices; and the law and same-sex marriage
- Movie review: 'Operation: Endgame'
- Court settlement would upgrade Nevada prison's medical care
- 'The Jensen Project' info
- Arizona's immigration law isn't the only one
- California can't legalize marijuana
- Disrupted sleep patterns could add to risk of obesity, diabetes
- China's economic growth slows in second quarter
- Charles Benjamin Gittings Jr. dies at 57; activist against abuse of terror prisoners
- Hank Cochran dies at 74; country music songwriter
- Amid economic turmoil, left is right for many Germans
- Judge throws out verdict awarding millions to Dole workers
- Fast Track: Here comes the Bristol and Levi reality show?
- HIV can be deadly even before CD4 counts fall, researchers say
- 'The Addams Family: An Evilution' info
- 'Inception' info
- Justice George's legacy
- My Favorite Weekend: Tim DeKay of 'White Collar'
- NFL-to-L.A. plot of 'Entourage': We know how it'll end
- Lucas Black plays on with dislocated shoulder
- "Brewsie and Willie'
- Could Apple's iPhone 4 be cursed?
- Police collect hundreds of pieces of evidence from Grim Sleeper suspect's home
- Movie review: 'Winnebago Man'
- Tour de France: 12th stage at a glance
- 'Kisses' info
- Book review: 'The Addams Family: An Evilution' by Charles Addams and H. Kevin Miserocchi
- Movie review: 'Kisses'
- Suit against artificial-turf firms is settled
- BP stops flood of oil into Gulf of Mexico
- North Korea's healthcare is a horror, report says
- Cheney may continue to rely on heart device
- Court hears first arguments over Arizona immigration law
- A play production born of economic stimulus money
- California controller's fortunes have risen through battles with governor
- L.A. City College and Trade-Technical College taken off probation
- Designers move into the hotel business
- Those South African soccer grannies sure are on the move
- Hotel fire kills 30 in Iraq's Kurdish north
- Civic Park in downtown L.A. breaks ground
- Learn about heatstroke before it's an emergency
- Windy day offers plenty of bogey material at British Open
- Wesley Bush is steering Northrop Grumman in a new direction
- Senate passes sweeping financial overhaul legislation
- U.S. sprinters regain 2000 relay medals
- PBS leads in Emmy nods for news
- A gamble on the river pays off
- Olga Guillot dies at 87; Cuban singer was 'queen of the bolero'
- Apple offers iPhone 4 owners free cases to fix antenna problem
- Jered Weaver gives Angels the ace-high hand in 3-2 win over Seattle
- Chivas USA opens SuperLiga play with a loss
- Meg Whitman attacks Jerry Brown on job-creation issue
- Islamic militant group claims responsibility for suicide bombings that killed 27 in Iran
- Xzibit lowers home's asking price
- Coliseum commission will discuss ban on raves
- Arizona family says it adopted girl abducted 7 years ago in Norwalk
- Argentina legalizes gay marriage
- Judge extends sentence of attorney who defended terrorist
- Senate passes sweeping financial overhaul legislation
- Musical acts' summer tours encounter heavy weather
- PASSINGS: Charles Mackerras, Henryk Jankowski, Paulo Moura
- Baby boomer women won't go quietly into the good night
- Bank of America, Citigroup earnings top expectations
- Horoscope: July 16
- Bigger back-to-school shopping sprees expected
- Hoarding: When stuff really piles up
- Residents of Bell unhappy over high salaries for city employees
- Mel Gibson recording's admissibility in court is murky, legal experts say
- CalPERS reports 11.4% gain on investments
- Arizona immigration law motivates California's Latino voters
- 'Crude' director must hand over some outtakes to Chevron, appeals court rules
- List sends chill through Utah's Latino community
- Nightlife: Santa Monica's Basement Tavern at the Victorian a hidden pleasure
- A World Expo flop by the U.S.
- Orange County judge to weigh change of venue in trial of man accused in Adenhart death
- Movie review: 'Videocracy'
- Google's 2nd-quarter profit misses Wall Street expectations
- Hunter takes walks, if that's best he can get
- Sound the vuvuzelas, as Louis Oosthuizen leads British Open
- Info. on Basement Tavern at the Victorian
- Chone Figgins' departure has hurt Angels, and he hasn't helped much in Seattle
- Russian lawmakers expand powers of security service
- Cheryl Hines, Paul Young list Brentwood home
- Heat wave bakes inland parts of Southern California
- Market Watch: Flavorful grapes are coming to farmers markets
- Movie review: "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead'
- Heirs of the wealthy escape estate tax
- On the Media: Las Vegas papers take sides on Harry Reid-Sharron Angle race
- Quick Takes - July 16, 2010
- For the record - July 16, 2010
- First Take on break
- First batch of sea turtle hatchlings rescued from beaches near gulf oil spill are released
- Service for Corey Allen, actor-turned-director, planned for Sunday
- 'So You Think You Can Dance': Deja vu, in a bad way
- Theater review: 'Grace & Glorie' at the Colony
- ISRAEL: Jewish terrorism suspect arrested, alleges conspiracy
- Animal shelters struggle to deal with influx of surrendered pets in the wake of gulf oil spill
- Theater review: ‘Fabric’ at Company of Angels
- Goldman's $550 million SEC settlement: Who gets the money?
- With John Edwards movie, Aaron Sorkin takes on (even juicier) political drama
- Friday's TV Highlights: ‘DC CUPCAKES' on TLC
- Friday's TV Talk Shows
- Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw stumbles as Dodgers drop first game of second half to Cardinals, 7-1
- Theater review: 'Four Places' at Theatre/Theater
- COMIC-CON 2010: EW's 'Green Lantern' cover put Ryan Reynolds in brightest day
- Theater review: 'Becky's New Car' at Pacific Resident Theatre
- Football: Claremont tournament set for this weekend
- Baseball: Jordan Berger getting recruiting interest
- Stanley Tucci and Meryl Streep could make more movie magic
- Juan Rivera can see clearly now; Angels would like to see more production
- U.S. job-stimulus dollars help bring Gertrude Stein novella to L.A. stage
- New reviews of health insurance rate hikes in California due soon
- Poll: Who was the Angels' first-half MVP?
- Poll: Who was the Dodgers' first-half MVP?
- Adam Brody to Kristen Stewart: If you don't like the fame, there's the door
- Art review: 'Here Not There: San Diego Art Now' at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
- Michael San Miguel, prominent birder and conservationist, dies at 70
- Summer cooking competition
- Don't go to the library on Sunday. Or Monday.
- Big Oil and biofuels: BP pays $98.3 million for Verenium's biofuels branch
- The Review: First & Hope
- Does Reed Johnson's DL stint only buy Garret Anderson a slight reprieve?
- 'Junkware' comes standard on Verizon, T-Mobile smart phones
- L.A.'s Department of Cultural Affairs receives NEA grant for planned downtown arts center
- Paul McAnulty gets start over Mike Napoli at first base Thursday night
- The fifth alleged Mel Gibson tape: selling the Lakers box and feeding an army
- Pérez finds an open budget process is easier said than done
- PREACH IT! Lindsay Lohan rehabs her legal team -- for now
- Gulf oil spill: BP Lockerbie conspiracy accusations to be aired
- 'Never gonna drink Coca-Cola again' scam hits Facebook users
- Opinion: Compensating the record companies for piracy
- Whitman, Brown campaigns hone poll-tested messaging
- You tell us: Would you show off your stems in a short wedding dress?
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux's Work in Progress
- The stories of two Pullman porters
- Opinion: Old Spice guy's advice to Obama: Lose the shirt
- REVIEW: 'Inception' dreams darkly with 'strong film noir ties'
- 'Top Chef': What's that guy's name again?
- Note to Oscar producers: Seth Meyers could offer some lessons
- Angelina Jolie confirmed to attend Comic-Con 2010
- Baby love: Stylish 'push' presents for brand new moms
- COMIC-CON 2010: 'Scott Pilgrim' is ready to put up a fight -- and rock out
- 'Lost' goes on the auction block
- Hard Rock Cafe set to open on Hollywood Boulevard
- Gulf oil spill: Obama calls capping 'a positive sign'
- Sun-rider: Japanese solar sail propelled by sun's photons
- The Mel Gibson Tapes Tampering Saga: Is it news or is it exploitation?
- Times project nominated for Emmy Award
- Google's second-quarter profit misses target, shares slip
- Gulf oil spill: Cash may flow from BP fund soon
- Opinion: Bristol and Levi back together, but why?
- Movie projector: 'Inception' headed for No. 1, 'Sorcerer's Apprentice' to open in third
- Goldman agrees to settle fraud case with SEC, will pay $550 million
- Eli Broad museum site gets preliminary city OK, but a rival arts use suddenly emerges
- Gulf oil spill: Santa Monica mountains could benefit from spill legislation
- Your recipe for the day: Rhubarb-strawberry sorbet
- Gulf oil spill: No oil gushing from well for the first time since April
- Preview review: With powerful trailer, 'The Social Network' becomes a fall front-runner (in July)
- 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson' finds a Broadway berth
- Grow your art supplies? See how in Manhattan Beach
- Prison guards' role in election disputed
- Box office futures have no future as financial reform passes Senate
- Sir Charles Mackerras, renowned conductor, dies at 84
- Argentina legalizes same-sex marriage, first nation in Latin America
- Gulf oil spill: BP begins closing valves on leaking well and monitoring conditions
- Gulf oil spill: BP made 'reckless decisions' in Gulf drilling, Waxman says
- The List: Los Angeles Times bestsellers (hardcover and paperback) for July 18,2010.
- Manufacturing reports confirm slowing U.S. growth
- Rescuers work to save the youngest oiled birds, sea turtles following gulf oil spill
- Kings announce shortened Fan Fest, nothing on Kovalchuk
- The strangest roomful of art in L.A. right now
- Pacquiao's promoter starts "Countdown Clock" for Mayweather
- Boxer, Feinstein call for investigation into BP
- Chrissie Hynde, minus the Pretenders = 'Fidelity!'
- LAT Training is the best.
- Hi Everybody
- Lil Wayne expected to be released from prison in November
- 'Inception' vs. Attack of the Killer Bees: In baseball, the bees win
- Weekend Shopping: Madison opens an outlet, Banana Republic opens a women's store at South Coast, Designers + Artists Twelfth Street sample sale and more
- Sunday books: coverage for July 18, 2010.
- Anticipation builds for Apple's iPhone 4 press conference Friday
- 'Sorcerer's Apprentice' opens to weak $3.7 million Wednesday
- Your morning adorable: Parma wallaby joey drinks from a bottle at Cincinnati Zoo
- Governor's race moves to Whitman's front door -- literally
- COMIC-CON 2010: 'Robot Chicken' goes back to the dark side of The Farce
- PBS dominates News and Documentary Emmy nominations, but CBS also scores big
- SYRIA: School ban on all-covering veil raises nary a peep among activists in the Middle East
- Bravo's 'Work of Art' -- the gloves come off and things get ugly (but in a good way)
- Gulf oil spill: BP resumes test of leaking well
- This week's L.A. Times Test Kitchen recipes
- Clippers preseason: Destination, Mexico
- Dusting off the crystal ball and gazing into the Dodgers' second half
- Bay Area home sales post weak June figures as tax credits fade
- All-Star Game hits a low
- Baseball: VIBL playoffs are about to begin
- 'Nip/Tuck' gets a lift from Logo
- SUDAN: Opposition journalists sentenced to prison
- Opinion: Lacrossed stars
- Prominent architecture and design curator lands new post at Hammer Museum
- Gulf oil spill: Congress moves oil legislation
- Preview review: 'Hangover' director Todd Phillips births 'Due Date'
- Event: Ed Emberley draws a crowd
- Gulf oil spill: Oil smears hundreds more pelicans, terns in nesting area, researchers say
- Lab tests cast doubt on olive oil's virginity
- UC Davis report questions olive oil's virginity
- Art review: 'Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection' @ SFMOMA
- Opinion: One of these things is not like the others
- Consumer Confidential: Financial reform, Apple speaks, Allen gives
- FX announces its fall schedule
- Producer Lewis Pesacov helms L.A.'s sounds of summer
- Your morning fashion and beauty report: A 'no' to Lady Gaga. A happy birthday to Diane Kruger. And Ms. Cruz weds Mr. Bardem in Galliano
- Video review: the 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee
- Opinion: Spending millions on signs advertising spending on Obama's economic recovery programs
- Question of the day: Which team needs to be the most active before the baseball trade deadline?
- Kenneth Turan's film pick of the week: Ernst Lubitsch's 'The Shop Around the Corner'
- Summer is here -- time to dine alfresco
- First Take: Poll shows anger at Congress. Water bond in limbo. To tax or not to tax?
- David Mitchell's Edo-era Japan enters the L.A. Times bestseller list
- Monster Mash: U.S. returns art looted during World War II; 'Mona Lisa' reveals more secrets
- Dodgers Web doings: Will Frank and Jamie McCourts' battle force new team ownership?
- The Morning Fix: 'Despicable Me' is also profitable me! Hulu's pay-for-play plan. HBO hopes reruns of 'True Blood' will have bite. CNN's botched Larry King exit plan.
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