Topic Archive: Angelenos
Video: Two-time Olympic champion Kerri Walsh of Manhattan Beach tells NBC 4 that she and beach volleyball partner Misty May-Treanor are going for the gold again in London. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 18, 2012 12:11 AM
Steve Soboroff, the former city commissioner and candidate for mayor who took a
brief spin with Frank McCourt at Dodger Stadium last year, has become pretty well known for his personal typewriter collection. We've written about it a few times, other blogs have. Now it's the LA Times' turn. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 17, 2012 11:24 PM
Savko bought a small grocery on the twisty part of Mulholland Highway in the Santa Monicas west of the San Fernando Valley in 1961. He would park his Harley-Davidson out front, other bikers would see it, and they began stopping in. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 12, 2012 9:15 AM
Richard Parks'
documentary film about epic Los Angeles record collector Murray Gershenz, who's pushing 90, debuts on The Documentary Channel on April 21 and will also be on NPR's
All Songs Considered website. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 29, 2012 11:45 PM
Connie Bruck's profile of Philip Anschutz, Tim Leiweke and their empire in downtown Los Angeles — Staples Center, L.A. Live, the Los Angeles Kings, the proposed Farmers Field football stadium and more — is behind the magazine's pay wall. Here's a brief pre-look. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 9, 2012 1:27 AM
American Masters on PBS on Monday night aired "Charles and Ray Eames: the Architect and the Painter," about the famed Los Angeles design team and couple. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 20, 2011 12:45 AM
Heather Havrilesky's immediate point in the NYT Magazine is her disappointment in "Homeland" and "American Horror Story." $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 18, 2011 9:52 PM
Steve Soboroff shared a photo after last week's news about the e-book of "Fahrenheit 451." Plus: a typewriter documentary? $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 3, 2011 2:40 PM
Wilson, who pledged to plant five trees a day for the rest of his life, died after losing consciousness while taking clippings from a tree in hi sgarden. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 7, 2011 11:46 PM
Monday is the 20th anniversary of the shocking afternoon press conference, on live national TV from the Forum in Inglewood, when Magic Johnson announced that he had been infected with the AIDS virus and would be retiring from the Lakers, effective immediately. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 6, 2011 9:10 PM
Eli Broad’s decision to build his art museum on Bunker Hill, and how he arrived at the decision , "illustrates how the billionaire homebuilder does business, and how he has... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 1, 2010 9:20 AM