A friend sent an irresistible e-mail: wanna watch scenes from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" in the cave where it was filmed?
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for October 2006
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Looking out the car window, the boys were captivated by goblins, ghosts, pumpkins and a decoration they had never seen: witches on brooms that had slammed into trees.
Everyone seems to know that something is going on. But where is the river? And where should you go? And what, exactly, is happening?
I live in "Faircrest Heights" We're the neighborhood you see out your car window on the way to the 10 freeway. It's not much to look at, I know, but we're growing good crops here.
I was one of the people Kurt Andersen spoke to for his column about the L.A. Times' misguided attempt to be a national newspaper when it barely covers Los Angeles. He was right, in so many ways.
Halloween seems a good time to point out where the talent is buried.
YouTube provides different perspectives on the new Downtown. In one video, a homeless man tells the urban pioneers to chill out a little.
Internet maps reveal the kind of neighborhood news that doesn't fit in the newspaper, like the robbery last night, or the selling price of the neighbors' house. But, in some cases, old-fashioned snooping was just as unreliable.
Manhattan Beach's most notorious lingerie model is back from holiday and ready for her close-up.
Starbucks tells the LA Times there are only 100 stores in Los Angeles, wherever that is.
I am not a reality show curmudgeon--not completely. My nephews pointed me first to Junkyard Wars, and after that to...
Here in Music City, much of the conversation around this past week revolved around a baseball player from Los Angeles who pitched for a team in New York and who never made it to supper in Nashville.
Back when movies about giant apes, dinosaurs and monsters were considered 'B' fare and not $100 million extravaganzas, Ray Harryhausen was the go-to animator in special effects. He held court this weekend in Burbank.
Will changes at the Los Angeles Times reverse a decades-long policy of not taking big LA stories seriously? Not likely.
I hate telemarketers. No matter how many you tell Do Not Call, there’s always another one to interrupt your work,...
I got the phone call at home an hour ago: The Tribune Company fired the L.A. Times’ publisher. Tribune insists on pushing into an arena it knows nothing about — greatness in journalism.
KCET control room
A peek inside the TV station's Burbank studios.
Whitt's Wood Yard
Elon Musk wants to drill here at Pico and Sepulveda.
BCAM
The Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA.
Mountain lion family
From Robert Martinez's trail cam in the San Gabriels.
Streetscape: Westwood
Westwood Boulevard looking north and a little bit skyward.
Sign from LA's past
Sign from an old Love's BBQ restaurant at the Valley Relics Museum in Chatsworth.
Visiting her old ballet costumes
Melissa Barak at LACMA Chagall exhibit with the artist's memorable designs.
Barnsdall Park
Under the trees.
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