- Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne to participate in L.A. city planning panel
- Girl Scouts launches self-esteem videos featuring plus-size models
- 'Inception' wakes 'Up': The best mash-up trailer of 2010
- New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez hits 600th home run
- Q&A: Master of 'The Choir' Gareth Malone
- Bruce Willis on 'Unbreakable,' vodka and the enduring appeal of 'Jaws'
- More billionaires take Buffett's pledge to give it away
- Brett Favre's agent, offensive coordinator say quarterback will play if healthy
- TCA Press Tour: 'The Cat in the Hat' takes on science for PBS
- Chelsea Clinton's wedding dance choreographed by Maksim of 'DWTS'
- Consumer Confidential: Spirit service, Toyota profit, coffee prices
- Just how cheap is Jerry Brown?
- Michael Vick won't be disciplined by NFL
- LEBANON: Border skirmish a grim reminder of Lebanon's precarious peace
- Take a trek in fall's cutest desert boots
- Sports Legend Revealed: Were the Boston Braves named after members of the Boston Tea Party?
- 'The Expendables' premiere puts some Stallone-style action back in Hollywood
- Yoko Ono announces Plastic Ono Band shows at the Orpheum
- Neil Patrick Harris returns to 'Rent' -- this time as director
- Brown says he's a 'little stressed' by Whitman's campaign spending
- Wall Street Roundup: Hedge funds win. Studies slam bank tactic.
- Your morning fashion and beauty report: Sephora launches Smartphone app; Jennifer Aniston channels Barbra Streisand for Harper's cover; Lindsay Lohan stars in Marc Ecko campaign
- Brett Favre throws football at high school practice
- Tom Brokaw to referee Whitman-Brown debate
- Monster Mash: Philadelphia Orchestra's money problems; Bolshoi Theatre gets new leader
- Bruce Willis on vodka and Polish warrior-kings
- Edgar Wright gets retro with 'Scott Pilgrim,' a hero for the AOL crowd
- The Morning Fix: Time Warner has strong quarter. Bullock is only non-blonde among most-paid actresses. Emmys snub reality hosts.
- A tablet from Motorola and Verizon: Good for TV, but how about books?
- One victory can't mask the Dodgers offensive woes
- July in animal news: Five questions with Best Friends Animal Society co-founder Francis Battista
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- 'Louie': Family day
- Bill Lane, Sunset magazine publisher and philanthropist, dies at 90
- Create your own mosaic birdbath at Saturday class
- First Take: Bell pension fallout. Ballot props could mean budget trouble.
- One year ago: Robert M. Takasugi
- Lady Gaga and NBC's Brian Williams among the style icons named to Vanity Fair's 2010 Best-Dressed List
- Chi Dynasty to open a second location in Studio City next week
- The Deal: At least 20% off everything at Pierre Deux's new West Hollywood store
- Ilya Kovalchuk reportedly will attend contract hearing
- Is there a power vacuum at the Getty? Not where Thomas Gaehtgens is involved
- Federal inspector general launches probe of Station fire
- Bobby Hebb dies at 72; writer and singer of '66 hit 'Sunny'
- <b>Timeline:</b> Proposition 8
- Robert F. Boyle dies at 100; longtime Hollywood production designer
- Bayou on the brink again
- Neil Patrick Harris' new 'Rent' role: director
- New TV drama uses L.A. as a New York stand-in
- Did Time Warner Cable subscribers sign up for this battle?
- Top-seeded Jelena Jankovic loses at La Costa
- Whitman encounters criticism from protesters and radio show hosts
- Judge changes Prop. 23 ballot description
- Wednesday's TV highlights
- Hard feelings about handling of Shirley Sherrod have deep roots in Georgia
- Happening Wednesday: Dalek in OC, Stevie Nicks and more
- Mao's grandson, promoted to major general, faces ridicule
- Pentagon's space partner eyes new frontiers
- ACLU sues to represent suspected terrorist in Yemen
- If pot becomes legal, California's health will suffer, Stanford expert says
- Shaquille O'Neal signs with the Boston Celtics
- 2 California propositions could undo budget patch
- Walking away from Christianity
- Man awaiting trial in Little Armenia slaying is now also charged with killing the victim's husband and young daughter
- Wednesday's TV talk shows
- CalPERS knew about Bell administrators' large raises
- Will Call
- California soaks up clean-tech investments
- They've signed off on Manny
- Auto Club Speedway may lose one of two stock-car events
- Iran denies reports of attack on president's motorcade
- Inside the Getty Research Institute's Special Collections
- Economy slows sharply in second quarter
- Classic Hollywood: Errol Flynn, the World War II years
- Reason prevails over planned mosque in Temecula
- Federal inspector general launches probe of Station fire
- Pending home sales index falls 2.6% in June
- Kenyans vote on constitution with hopes for big change
- Angels lose to lowly Orioles again, 9-7
- Missouri voters approve challenge to federal healthcare law
- Black conservatives say 'tea party' isn't racist
- Ecstatic reactions to Prop. 8 ruling in West Hollywood
- The city of Bell and its officials' salaries; selling gold; Oliver Stone's latest project
- Another risk for families dealing with autism spectrum disorders -- divorce
- Obama choosing midterm campaign targets carefully
- Marylin Hudson dies at 76; book critic co-founded Round Table West
- World's most expensive car is ready for a close-up
- Congressional ethics investigations show the system is working
- Climate change: It's time to talk, and act, tough
- 'Wonders of the Solar System' info
- Alarcon and his wife plead not guilty to perjury, voter fraud and false declaration of candidacy
- Prayer for healing works at close range
- In Italy, Berlusconi government survives confidence vote
- Schwarzenegger, Villaraigosa cheer judge's rejection of Prop. 8
- Book Review: A bountiful realm of our very own making
- A guide to Tinseltown's colorful characters
- Michael Jackson's Holmby Hills lease home is listed
- Former teammate reportedly implicates Lance Armstrong in illegal doping practices
- Obama heads home for his birthday
- Calderon delivers blunt view of drug cartels' sway in Mexico
- Proposition 8: Ruling excerpts from U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker
- Alarcon, wife indicted in voter fraud
- Getty Research Institute's Thomas Gaehtgens makes his mark
- Deputy gets four years for trying to smuggle drugs into jail
- Trojans are ready for some football
- David Plummer knocks off Aaron Peirsol in 100-meter backstroke
- In Las Vegas, betting on Brett Favre is no sure thing
- Hear that drumbeat about CT scans and radiation exposure? It's growing louder
- Vicente Padilla stars as Dodgers run it up against Padres, 9-0
- Battle lines being drawn in Washington over Bush-era tax cuts set to expire this year
- Proposition 8 ruling changes the debate over same-sex marriage forever
- Obama administration seeks seismic testing for oil drilling in Arctic Ocean
- Weeding out underperforming charter schools
- <b>Timeline:</b> Proposition 8
- Judge strikes down Prop. 8, allows gay marriage in California
- 2010 college football schedule: cupcakes and cudgels
- It's a great summer for ethics watchdogs and columnists
- Alaska fishermen circle their boats to fight mine
- Biotech offers promise for producing fuel
- Horoscope: August 4
- Insurgent squad attacks NATO base in Afghanistan
- Bernie West dies at 92; writer and producer on 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons'
- Huntington Beach council votes to annex Sunset Beach
- Neighboring countries compete for influence in Iraq
- Brett Favre hasn't decided whether to play
- Sparks tough out a victory over Chicago Sky
- This Dodgers fan can't stop performin'
- County-USC hospital's severe overcrowding worsens
- After a flat June, auto sales pick up in July
- 4 killed as Israel, Lebanon clash
- RIM unveils BlackBerry Torch with touch screen and slide-out keyboard
- Mercury Insurance Open featured matches
- Television review: 'Wonders of the Solar System'
- Band boosters try to save a Long Beach institution
- We may leave childhood behind, but not our childhood selves, research finds. (Surprised?)
- Peter Facinelli, Jennie Garth want a scene change
- Shaquille O'Neal really wants to go out as a winner
- Angels' Juan Rivera is not absent long from left field
- 'It was a terrifying time'
- On the Media: Struggling KCET examines its options
- Antonovich objects to Project 50, orders county report
- Hefty weight gain in pregnancy causes big babies
- Alex Rodriguez finally hits his 600th home run
- Anyone up for a walk around downtown with the surgeon general? Anyone? Bueller?
- Q&A with Dick Enberg
- It really is a new start for USC football
- La Costa schedule for Thursday
- 'American Idol' signs recording deal with Universal Music Group
- Obama the Leo president: Is that a good sign?
- BP pumps mud into well as Senate shelves drilling bill
- Electronic Arts reports wider loss, lower sales
- Mexicana Airlines files for bankruptcy
- San Francisco might expand plastic-bag ban
- Angels' problems magnified in 9-7 loss to Orioles
- Judge strikes down Prop. 8, allows gay marriage in California
- If you're feeling good today, skip the latest obesity stats
- Zenyatta begins workouts at Del Mar
- Robert F. Boyle dies at 100; longtime Hollywood production designer
- Newsweek sale a head-scratcher
- IOS 4 software problems also plaguing iPhone 3GS, users say
- San Diego to do the unthinkable: seek a tax hike
- Employee kills 8, himself in Connecticut shooting rampage
- Teenage boy held in stabbing death of 11-year-old Antelope Valley girl
- Quick Takes: Art dealer sentenced
- Barnes & Noble considers selling itself
- Rafael Furcal feels much more at ease
- Photos: Proposition 8 overturned
- For the record - Aug. 4, 2010
- Bernie West dies at 92; writer and producer on 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons'
- `Rescue Me': There are such unfortunates
- Pacific Time podcast: Perspective on a decade of peril in South L.A.
- Opinion: 'Tea party' fife and drum duo calls it quits -- or do they?
- It's Ted Lilly to the rescue: left-hander retires last 20 Padres he faces
- USC football: Pat Haden sends letter to fans, flowers to female coaches and staff
- Opinion: Have you heard there are plans to build a mosque or something near ground zero?
- Baseball: Sementelli trying out for USA Baseball Women's National Team
- Football: Orange Lutheran's Lorenzo Devers commits to Nevada Reno
- Crenshaw's Emmett Duvall signs with Humboldt State
- Battle over Pebble Mine shifts to EPA
- Wednesday's TV Highlights
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- PTSD not just for humans anymore? German shepherd that served in Iraq suffered trauma
- Opinion: Social media wrap: John McCain goes from targeting pork to stimulus waste
- U.S. manufacturing ticks up, Dems say
- Kazaa is resurrected, but why?
- Twitter goes to the head of the recruiting class with 'Rushmore' video
- Why 2 million (promised) green jobs couldn't sell a climate bill
- For the Dodgers, the bad news just keeps coming: Rafael Furcal injures back, Manny Ramirez return pushed back, Jeff Weaver to DL
- Photos: Highland Park
- Hollywood's deep-space science -- how warped is it?
- Pamela Anderson helps canine victims of oil spill (and returns home with two new rescue dogs of her own)
- July in animal news: Five questions with International Fund for Animal Welfare leader Fred O'Regan
- Fed Cup set for San Diego, but will there be a Williams sister involved?
- The 'Inception' generational chasm: Is it about age or is it about taste? Readers react
- Angels' Torii Hunter said move to right field was his decision
- Coalition of groups urges Environmental Protection Agency to ban lead ammunition and fishing tackle
- Vintage Paul Rudd: bat mitzvah DJ before he was famous
- Intelligentsia in Pasadena opens tomorrow
- Will 'Kick-Ass' be a 'Fight Club'-style knockout on home video?
- Say hello to the Jolly Green Giant: Shaq to the Celtics?
- Bristol Palin moves back in with Sarah Palin, calls off Levi Johnston engagement
- Republicans reject Democrats' latest budget offer
- Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' is a favorite for radical cinematic revision
- Death toll in Mexico's drug war raised to 28,000
- Michael Hiltzik: Time Warner Cable wants my help...again?
- Global warming: Judge softens Proposition 23 ballot language
- Ducks sign winger Kyle Palmieri to entry-level contract
- Opinion: Iran's president wants to take on Obama in a TV debate
- Karen Pankow's Malibu estate goes for $3.5 million
- Nice landing for Erik Ellington
- Bell coverage resonates with readers
- TCA Press Tour exclusive video: 'Glee's' Chris Colfer takes us for a high flying spin
- Will Barnes and Noble sell itself?
- CBS has strong second quarter and CEO Moonves talks tough about second revenue streams
- Madonna launches junior's collection at Macy's in Glendale, Costa Mesa
- TCA Press Tour exclusive video: Bravo's Jackie Warner makes us break a sweat
- Electronic Arts revenue falls on fewer games as former NFL player files lawsuit
- David O. Russell won't find gold with 'Drake's Fortune'
- July in animal news: Five questions with PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman
- TCA Press Tour: Chad Ochocinco tweets himself into a guest spot on FX's 'The League'
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- Opinion: Goldman Sachs holds its political tongue
- Wait, 'Inception' stole everything from Scrooge McDuck?
- FX renews 'Louie' for 13-episode second season
- Lance Armstrong's cancer foundation could lose money
- Showbiz shocker: Hollywood is really ruled by ... fear!
- Torii Hunter agrees to give up center field for Angels
- 'The Bachelorette': Ali and Roberto talk about the future -- a 'simple' life without lavish helicopter rides
- Question of the day: Who should be the highest-paid player in the NFL?
- L.A. gets a bite of the Big Apple
- With a yearlong gap between films, 'Breaking Dawn' waits until dusk
- No Age readies next Grammy bid with September's 'Everything in Between'
- More unions weigh in to help Brown, slam Whitman
- Whitman defends campaign spending
- Mexican gray wolves' endangered status to be reviewed by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- TCA Press Tour: 'Lights Out' punches in at FX
- Off-road truck racing set for Glen Helen Raceway in San Bernardino this weekend
- Bobby Hebb, who sang 'Sunny' in 1966, dies at 72
- PREACH IT! Unless you’re Gisele Bundchen. In that case, seriously, muzzle it.
- Fishing industry helps sink Schwarzenegger appointee
- The Game releases 'Brake Lights' mixtape with DJ Skee
- BRKLYN calling: El-P comes to the Low End Theory
- Controller: $2.19 billion in California bills may go unpaid without budget
- Bret Michaels to co-host the 2010 Miss Universe Pageant
- Fiorina gets boost from Tim Pawlenty
- Opinion: What you thought about what we thought
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- American Idol jumps from Sony Music home to Universal Music Group
- Opinion: Lawsuit filed over Proposition 22
- 'The Other Guys' premiere: Eva Mendes, Mark Wahlberg, Will Ferrell -- and Brooke Shields?
- TCA Press Tour: Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James are FX's new 'Terriers'
- News Corp. adjusts executive compensation
- Can Christiane Amanpour breathe any life into the Sunday morning news show format?
- A new kind of online Rdio
- 'American Idol' drops Sony, signs with Universal Music Group for distribution deal
- RIM rolls out BlackBerry Torch with touch screen and slide-out keyboard
- TCA Press Tour: 'Sons of Anarchy' crew doesn't want your Emmy anyway
- IOS 4 software problems also plaguing iPhone 3GS, users say
- TCA Press Tour exclusive video: Rico Rodriguez from 'Modern Family' draws Manny from Antonio Banderas
- Will Ferrell spoofs 'Send in the Clowns' on David Letterman
- 'The Bachelorette' finale: Roberto is Ali's last man standing
- Holidays with Lisbeth Salander: Stieg Larsson book set on the way
- Get ready for Justin Bieber, the movie -- in 3-D
- The art of seduction: Nick Cave offers a compelling lesson
- Wall Street Roundup: The star's Starr. JP Morgan's political pick.
- TCA Press Tour: Critical acclaim doesn't always bring Emmy love for FX shows
- Cynthia Rowley fashion truck pulls into Fashion Island
- Tuesday at the Hammer: 'Koolhaas Houselife'
- Brian Lichtenberg-Forever 21 collaboration hits stores this month
- Consumer Confidential: New BlackBerry, GM sales, Escalade thefts
- Video: David Lazarus gives a tip on tipping
- Is Favre really done? Maybe he doesn't even know
- Gisele Bundchen wants an international breastfeeding law
- Clean-tech investment booms to $1.5 billion in second quarter 2010
- Did spoilers spoil 'The Bachelorette'?
- Morrie Yohai, Cheez Doodles creator, dies at 90
- Fan fare: 7 ways to stay cool in the next heat wave
- Your morning fashion and beauty report: Courtney Love, Mary J. Blige and ... Lindsay Lohan
- Bill Cosby is not dead -- and he's not pleased about a fourth death hoax
- EGYPT: 'Trial of the Prophet Muhammad' rouses fury at Al Azhar Islamic institution
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- Brett Favre will reportedly not return to the Vikings
- Angel City Jazz Festival gets bigger, smaller
- Pending home sales fall 2.6% in June
- Monster Mash: 'Ground zero mosque' moves closer to reality; UNESCO adds heritage sites
- The Morning Fix: Fox stays mum on 'Idol.' CBS and Comcast break bread. Icahn's offer rejected by Lions Gate board. Discovery CEO Zaslav buys Conan's New York pad.
- First Take: Follow the money. Dems revise budget plan. Affirmative action ban upheld.
- Here's one more thing for the Dodgers to worry about: Jeff Weaver has taken the wrong kind of turn
- IRAN: Media declare Hezbollah victory after Abdullah, Assad visit Lebanon
- Album review: Los Lobos' 'Tin Can Trust'
- Ansel Adams controversy: Will Fresno State's art gallery show disputed photos?
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- TCA Press Tour exclusive video: Cloris Leachman jumps for joy at the Fox party
- Album review: Dr. John's 'Tribal'
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- Golf: Nick Thomas commits to California
- MTV Video Music Awards 2010 scorecard
- Dogged efforts hit stubborn patterns of homelessness
- Tom Mankiewicz dies at 68; screenwriter for James Bond, Superman films