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Le Clezio of France wins Nobel prize in literature
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersJean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, a globe-trotting French author of books exploring indigenous and nomadic cultures in Latin America, Africa and Asia, on Thursday won the Nobel Prize in literature. Le Clezio, 68, has written about 50 books. He has won...Tags: Philip Roth, Joseph Conrad, Los Angeles, New York, Awards and Prizes
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Tours and cruises: Southeast Asia, Mexico and Lisbon
Special to The Los Angeles TimesMAMMOTH LAKES Autumn's palette Catch the changing of the colors in the Eastern Sierra with a specialized map for doing just that -- and comfy accommodations too. Info: Westin Monache ([866] 716-8132, mention code PKGFALL), www.westin.com/mammoth....Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Museum of Natural History, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Petroleum Industry, Cruises
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Lila Downs vs. the devil
Tribune NewspapersLOS ANGELES—Lila Downs is an artist who always seemed to have her act together. The Mexican-American singer has a stunning voice, a confident multicultural vision grounded in her Mixtec Indian roots and a successful 15-year career in world music...Tags: Music, West Hollywood, New Mexico, New York, Music Industry
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Lila Downs celebrates a new outlook
Times Staff WriterLila Downs is an artist who always seemed to have her act together. The Mexican American singer has a stunning voice, a confident multicultural vision grounded in her Mixtec Indian roots and a successful 15-year career in world music circles. What she...Tags: Music, West Hollywood, New Mexico, New York, Western Medicines
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Paperbacks
The Age of Conglomerates By Thomas Nevins Ballatine, $14 A good versus evil, futuristic novel taking place in 2048. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao By Junot Diaz Riverhead, $14 In this Pulitzer Prize-winning work, a comically inept hero's...Tags: Music Industry, Tom Wolfe, Heart Disease, Diseases, Tennessee
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Antonio Pineda's craft shines in 'Silver Seduction' at UCLA's Fowler Museum
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMETALLURGICALLY speaking, it sounds paradoxical to talk about a "Golden Age" of silversmithing. But the phrase comes naturally to Antonio Pineda as he recollects the era when his lustrous creations adorned heiresses' throats, commanded praise from heads...Tags: Government, John Huston, Rita Hayworth, Hart Crane, Movies
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Artist's unorthodox embroidery makes potent social statement
McClatchy/Chicago Tribune NewspapersANCHORAGE—When not working part time at a bookstore in Palmer, Annie Aube collects romance novels and embroiders in her living room. She wears jeans and secondhand clothes and lets her dense, ruddy hair drop to her waist in tight curls. The 26-...Tags: Clothing and Textiles Industry, MySpace, Video Games, Game Playing, Alaska
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Feed your hunger on Mexico City's streets
Cox News ServiceThe faithful gather beneath a bridge, drawn by the smell of grilling steak strips and frying sausages. For many, the Chupacabras food stall is a shrine. It's lunchtime, and the line spills onto the street. "Everybody comes here," says Karla Chavira, a... -
Ortega120 in Redondo Beach
MEXICAN cooking doesn't get as much respect as it should in Southern California, at least in terms of formal restaurants. Taco trucks are generally where you find the best Mexican nosh. But now Thomas Ortega -- a veteran of the kitchens of Water Grill,...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Beach Vacations, Redondo Beach, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Quiz: Are you smarter than a fifth-grader?
Kidsday ReporterStudents in Karen Higgin's fifth-grade class, Willow Road School in Franklin Square asked for brave parent volunteers to come to our fifth-grade classroom to take an "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?" quiz. The students worked together to create 20...Tags: Government, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Revere, People, Claude Monet
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Cool drinks: Aguas frescas beat the SoCal heat
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterON COUNTERS of neighborhood taquerías and Oaxacan restaurants, at Salvadoran farmers market stands and Eastside backyard parties, even at swank Hollywood restaurants, you can see the huge glass vitroleros, beehive-shaped jars filled with aguas frescas...Tags: Beverage Industry, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Whole Foods Market
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Mural memorializes Ventura's Tortilla Flats
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt took just one month for a new freeway mural in Ventura to be hit by graffiti. The tagger was considerate, however, taking pains not to mar the piece, which commemorates a neighborhood destroyed in the 1950s to make way for the 101 Freeway. Instead of...Tags: Christianity, Heavy Engineering, History, Road Transportation, Photography
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