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Sneak peek: John Derian for Target premieres Sept. 5
New York designer John Derian's new fall collection for Target caught my eye when I saw his whimsical designs in the store's online "look book" sent to writers and editors for previewing. Curious to...
View ArticleThe Morning Fix: Google is coming for your TV! CBS has passage to India....
After the coffee. Before yet another flight to New York. And in August no less. Google is coming! Google is coming! Search giant Google is getting serious about its small-screen aspirations. The...
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Ray Bradbury's close encounters with W.C. Fields, George Burns and ... Bo Derek?
Susan King writes about classic Hollywood for the Los Angeles Times (and now for Hero Complex) and has interviewed many of the giants of cinema and pop culture over the decades. She says one of the...
View ArticleKathy Goodman on the L.A. Sparks: We control our fate
I walked into Staples Center on Tuesday night, making sure my WNBA Center Court iPhone app worked because there were three games I needed to keep track of. The Sparks game against Phoenix was the most...
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Many Google sites still not very mobile friendly
Google has quickly become a leader in the mobile industry, but about a dozen of its own products still haven't followed that lead. The Google.com search page, Gmail client and YouTube are among the...
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SYRIA: Historic secret study reveals most Syrians dissatisfied, outspoken
A groundbreaking survey of Syrian public opinion conducted in secret has revealed what many in the region already knew about widespread dissatisfaction with the prevailing political and economic...
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Caught in the Web: Lakers' owner Jerry Buss says he may have his best team...
-- The Times' Mike Bresnahan focuses on Jerry Buss' contention that the 2010-11 team will be his best team ever. -- The Orange County Register's Janis Carr highlights Buss' belief that the Lakers...
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'The Scenesters Run LA': a week of music and film starting Friday
A tedious joke about a tired topic claims that the "only good hipster is a dead hipster." If that's the case, then the corollary implies that "The Scenesters Run LA" will be a good time. After all, the...
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Your morning fashion and beauty report: Angelina Jolie wows Paris, MAC...
Angelina Jolie looked chic in a sparkling strapless black dress with loose, beachy hair at the Los Angeles premiere of "Salt" a couple of weeks back (pictured). She changed up the look Tuesday in a...
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Social media wrap: North Korea joins other reclusive, self-obsessives on Twitter
It’s famously reclusive, self-serving and occasionally belligerent, so finding that North Korea has joined millions of others like it on Twitter is perhaps not as surprising as it seems. U.S....
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Monster Mash: Eli Broad's downtown museum gets another OK; Dallas Symphony...
-- Vote of confidence: The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has approved Eli Broad's plan for a museum in downtown L.A. (Los Angeles Times)-- Calling it quits: The head of the Dallas Symphony...
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Live chat with Jenna Fischer on Friday
You probably know Jenna Fischer as Pam Beesly on NBC's long-running comedy, "The Office." But now the 2007 Emmy-nominated actress is stepping behind the scenes to serve as producer of the absurdist...
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Brett Favre will practice with Vikings, then hold press conference Wednesday
Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre will practice with the team Wednesday and speak at a press conference afterward, according to the Vikings' website. Coach Brad Childress is also expected to...
View ArticleWall Street Roundup: Hot-potato mortgages. Vulture saviors.
Hedge-fund giant quits. George Soros' one-time deputy Stanley Druckenmiller, who never had a losing year, told Bloomberg he decided to quit after having to miss a golf tournament in Scotland because of...
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Warpaint to release 'The Fool' in October (updated)
According to NME, Warpaint, our local practitioners of wooze rock, will be releasing their Rough Trade debut in October. "The Fool" will come out Oct. 26 in the U.S. (and Oct. 25 in the U.K.) with...
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Nostalgia takes flight with Pan Am logo line
While I was recently scouring downtown Los Angeles for fashionable finds for the downtown style issue, I noticed a couple retro-looking bags bearing the Pan Am globe logo -- which struck me as odd...
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UCLA football: Punter Jeff Locke is target of a signature prank
UCLA punter Jeff Locke appears to be quite the autograph hound. His white Bruins baseball cap, which he wears every day to practice, is now covered with signatures. Turns out, it was some Locke-room...
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What will Kobe Bryant say in his Hall of Fame speech?
The contrast couldn't have been any more different. One year after Michael Jordan lambasted his critics by name during his induction to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, former teammate...
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