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Live review: Jimmy Webb at Largo at the Coronet
The veteran songwriter mixes recent tunes with tales of his vaunted past. A quick synopsis of any Richard Harris movie, according to Jimmy Webb, goes like this: He plays the king. He yells a lot. He...
View Article'Cat bin lady' Mary Bale is lampooned in video, online game, fake Twitter...
A Conventry, England, radio station has created a parody video wherein a human-sized cat (actually a person in a Sylvester suit) dumps a woman in a trash bin. It's just one of the references on the...
View Article'MasterChef': Bacon makes everything better
Do these people really not know how to play the pressure game? For the second week in a row, someone has been sent home for failing to have the strategy of, say, a fifth grader. The losing team has had...
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Emmy predictions roundup: The three wise men of Gold Derby
Our two resident Emmy experts -- Rob Licuria (AwardsHeaven) and Chris "Boomer" Beachum -- have been considering the contenders in the major categories since nominations were announced last month. They...
View ArticleBanks appear close to killing foreclosure-prevention bill
The year's last big mortgage foreclosure-prevention bill is on life support and its author is racing to revive it before the California Legislature recesses Tuesday night. The measure by Sen. Mark Leno...
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'Star Wars Uncut': The world remakes a classic
"Star Wars Uncut," which is waiting for you at www.starwarsuncut.com, is a shot-for-shot crowd-sourced remake of "Star Wars," diced into 15-second segments and re-created, reenacted, reanimated and...
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Kathryn Joosten of 'Desperate Housewives' shines her Emmy-nominee spotlight...
Ask Kathryn Joosten about lung cancer. Go ahead. After all, the Emmy-nominated "Desperate Housewives" actress has survived it -- twice. "Lung cancer continues to be the least funded in dollars of the...
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Texas grants Antonio Margarito a license to fight Manny Pacquiao
The state of Texas on Thursday issued a boxing license to Tijuana’s Antonio Margarito, 17 months after California stripped the Mexican boxer of his license for nearly taking gloves loaded with plaster...
View ArticleGulf oil spill: BP managers had little experience supervising Deepwater Horizon
Five high-ranking BP officials with authority over drilling by the Deepwater Horizon were relatively new to their jobs when the rig exploded April 20, according to testimony Thursday at a federal...
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Los Lobos: Live at Amoeba Music in Hollywood
Los Lobos gave a hometown crowd its first live taste of new songs from the group’s latest album, “Tin Can Trust,” at a packed in-store appearance Tuesday night at Amoeba Music in Hollywood. The band...
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Blockbuster tells Hollywood studios it's preparing for mid-September bankruptcy
After dominating the home video rental business for more than a decade and struggling to survive in recent years against upstarts Netflix and Redbox, Blockbuster Inc. is preparing to file for...
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Chris Brown gets 'good job' from probation-status judge
Another hearing, another good report for Chris Brown. The "Takers" star is doing a "great job," Judge Patricia Schnegg said, with completing terms of the five-year probation that was handed down after...
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Michael Bublé shows new Nordstrom some Crazy Love
Canadian singer Michael Bublé got what he always wanted in Santa Monica on Wednesday evening -- and said as much during his performance of half a dozen songs at the new Nordstrom store in the recently...
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It's a boy! It's a girl! It's ... 22 baby Komodo dragons?
Big news for endangered, giant reptile enthusiasts: 22 Komodo dragons have hatched at the L.A. Zoo since Aug. 8, all offspring of a single female. Lima, the babies' mother, laid 23 eggs in January....
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