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A Culver City community carves out its place
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIT WAS the 1950s, and developer Stone & Stone began building the first homes in an area that had been an oil field. At the nearby ranch of Will Rogers Jr., actors and actresses learned to rope and ride for the many westerns that Culver City studios were...Tags: Family, Schools, Homes, Culver City, Tourism and Leisure
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The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage
Times Architecture CriticTHE NEW Eli and Edythe Broad Stage at Santa Monica College, which will open officially tonight with a program featuring the mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, is a happily, even confidently unresolved piece of architecture. Rather than try to smooth...Tags: Charles Moore, Building Material, Architecture, Walt Disney, Colleges and Universities
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J.D. Souther is back in the saddle again
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMost musicians, even country-leaning ones, know more about horsepower than the power of one horse. But on a recent visit from his Nashville home, J.D. Souther -- who helped lay the foundation for the Southern California country rock sound nearly four...Tags: Ray Charles, Music Industry, Hank Williams, Don Henley, James Taylor
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AP answers your questions on the news, from Somali pirates to rules about presidents-elect
They come from a failed state whose people are desperately poor. So how have Somali pirates managed to take control of large commercial ships and hold them for days, even weeks? A reader's curiosity about the pirates' tactics inspired one of three...Tags: Migration, Herb Smith, National Government, Healthcare Policies, North Carolina
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Bread pudding on a pedestal
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThese days, when just about any topic can provoke a debate, you can add bread pudding to the list. How is that possible, you might wonder, with something so homey and comforting and, well, inert? Blame it on the chefs. They've taken this beloved...Tags: Beverage Industry, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Redondo Beach, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Water
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Seinfeld's cars and state grants to fight foreclosure
Seinfeld's collecting habit is not about nothing In Touch magazine recently named Jerry Seinfeld as the celeb who owns the "priciest collectibles." "The comedian once spent $1.4 million just to build a garage to house his enormous car collection, which...Tags: Vehicles, New York, Central Islip, Upper West Side, Jerry Seinfeld
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The top 10 places to be for L.A. Fashion Week
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterDidn't know it was Los Angeles Fashion Week? Well, it may be less high-profile than its Christian Louboutin-strutting, couture-flashing older sister in New York, but that doesn't mean its prêt-à-porter lines can be considered less than avant-garde....Tags: Salma Hayek, Hugh Hefner, Culver City, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Paris Hilton
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Humor saves 'M. Butterfly' from geopolitical changes
It's been two decades since David Henry Hwang's Tony-winning "M. Butterfly" first hit Broadway. Hwang based his drama on the true-life case in which a French diplomat passed state secrets to his Chinese lover, actually a man in drag, a fact that escaped...Tags: David Henry Hwang, Diplomacy, Rock and Roll Music, Frank Zappa, Crimes
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California leads the nation in gay rights
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersNo matter what voters decide this November on same-sex marriage, the election will not change one fact: Over the last decade, California has become the nation's leader in providing legal protections to gays and lesbians. This has happened not just...Tags: Marriage, Minority Groups, Court Administration, Prosecution, Gavin Newsom
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A salute to Leslie Caron
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFive decades ago, Leslie Caron had no inkling that "Gigi" would become a legendary movie musical whose legacy is going strong today. She remembers it well. Caron was 26, a top star at MGM and mother of 3-month-old Christopher, when she flew to Paris the...Tags: Music, Leslie Caron, Gene Kelly, Movies, Maurice Chevalier
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2 hurt in ultralight plane crash off Malibu
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTwo people were critically injured today when their ultralight plane plunged into the ocean about 150 feet off Malibu, just east of the Malibu Pier, the Los Angeles County Fire Department officials said. The victims were pulled from the ocean after the...Tags: Air and Space Accidents, Los Angeles, Malibu
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Chew on prices, coverage when considering pet insurance
Tribune Media ServicesJustin and Brandy Besemer were newly married and trying to pay off their wedding debt when they decided their family needed a dog -- an American bulldog named Kaila. Thus started one of their first arguments. Brandy, who had never had a dog before,...Tags: Dogs, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Illnesses, Animals, Idaho
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