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Home tour: Spanish Revival meets flea-market mania
Our latest home profile: When remaking their Laguna Beach house, Mark and Cindy Evans wanted to emulate the calm of the California missions they loved while celebrating their favorite pastime:...
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Lucinda Childs among choreographers for OCPAC-Bolshoi partnership
Lucinda Childs wants less from her dancers. Commissioned to create a 10-minute solo to composer John Adams’ “Book of Harmony” for “Reflections,” opening Jan. 20 at the Orange County Performing Arts...
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Consumer Electronics Show: The gloves don't have to come off
Touch screens put the power of technology literally at your fingertips. We've grown so accustomed to them that many of us go around tapping on screens simply expecting them to respond. This year's...
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Ticket pic of the week: They need Sully Down Under
"Folks, this is your captain speaking. We'll be slightly delayed landing today at Rockhampton." Australia has been stricken with heavy rains and flooding this spring, worst in the northeast. This...
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Consumer Electronics Show: Chumby wants to be your pal
Who wants to wait on a computer that has to boot up before they can get their gotta-have-it-now information from the web? At the Consumer Electronics Show, Chumby was showing the latest incarnation...
View ArticleLakers break down 101-97 victory over New Orleans Hornets
Lakers guard Kobe Bryant Lakers Coach Phil Jackson Lakers center Andrew Bynum Lakers forward Lamar Odom Lakers forward Pau Gasol --Mark Medina Twitter.com/latmedina E-mail the Lakers blog at...
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‘Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art’ Features Work by Keith...
With all the controversy surrounding last month's Blu-Jeffrey Deitch mural imbroglio at the Museum of Contemporary Art's Geffen Contemporary and serious talk of British street's artist Banksy's chances...
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Tired of girly perfumes? Check out what guys are wearing
Everyone seems up for a change at the start of a new year. As I was cleaning out my closets a week or so ago (one New Year's resolution checked off the list), my eye turned to the array of perfume...
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Consumer Electronics Show: Karotz, a bunny to do your bidding
The one thing "Despicable Me" really proved last year was that having minions can be fun. There were several robot and personal assistant devices being shown at the Consumer Electronics Show. Among...
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KUWAIT: U.S. confirms detention of American citizen who claims being beaten
A U.S. official has confirmed that an American citizen of Somali origin who claims he was beaten by security agents in Kuwait while they were interrogating him about his travels in Yemen and Somalia is...
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Consumer Electronics Show: Moving your DVD collection to the cloud?
The ability to rip CDs helped transform music consumption (and, some would argue, hasten the demise of CD sales) by making songs more portable and accessible. That revolution hasn't come to DVDs -- it...
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ALGERIA: 2 dead, hundreds injured in riots over food prices
At least two people were reportedly killed and 420 injured in several days of rioting across Algeria sparked by dramatic hikes in food prices as well as persistent unemployment. One was a young man...
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EGYPT: Some Copts and Muslims come together during Orthodox Christmas
Christian Orthodox Christmas has long been a nettlesome holiday for Egypt's Muslims: Some have taken to extending kind wishes to their Coptic neighbors while others have gone as far as forbidding any...
View ArticleNetflix CEO deflects criticism with humor (and Albanian army dog tags)
Huffington Post Editor in Chief Arianna Huffington gave Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings a tongue-in-cheek opportunity to respond to some of the barbed comments leveled in recent weeks at the...
View ArticleRene Pape: Rock star?
Well, sort of. A profile in the Sunday Arts & Books section of bass-of-the-moment René Pape mentions his recording of an orchestral song cycle based on the songs of German industrial metal band...
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Consumer Electronics Show: Housebroken wind turbines from Urban Green Energy
After rooms and rooms of gadgets and gizmos, seeing a wind turbine in the middle of the Consumer Electronics Show floor in Las Vegas was like a breath of fresh air. Initially, though, the Eddy from...
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Consumer Electronics Show: Is 3-D hot or not? [Updated]
The conventional wisdom going into the Consumer Electronics Show this week was that the major manufacturers were shifting their focus from 3-D TVs to Internet-connected sets, given that 3-D sales...
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Elsa Longhauser's 10 years at the helm of SMMOA
This Sunday, Jan. 9, the Santa Monica Museum of Art officially celebrates the 10th anniversary of its director, Elsa Longhauser, at the helm. It may seem a long time for the art world, but she was at...
View ArticleDevin Ebanks recalled as Matt Barnes awaits results of MRI exam
The Lakers recalled rookie Devin Ebanks from the NBA Development League, a direct result of losing Matt Barnes to a right-knee injury Friday against New Orleans. Barnes was injured when he landed...
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Midseason TV Preview: Where we left off and what's new
A slew of new shows kick off this winter, and a bunch of series pick up where they left off. In our Midseason TV Preview, we have a gallery to help you catch you up on forgotten plotlines for returning...
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