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for June 2012
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The prevailing sentiment right now is that the Lakers aren't good enough to compete for a title. But the new NBA labor deal and lack of available stars makes it extremely difficult for the Lakers to improve. The Purple and Gold may be forced to stand pat and hope teams like the Heat and Thunder magically fall apart. However, Phil Wallace says that they should be shopping Andrew Bynum.
Billy Vasquez, who blogs as the 99 Cent Chef, lives within walking distance of the new Expo Line route. He offers a night-and-day, video culinary guide updated with this week's extension into Culver City.
The Costume Council saluted 100 years of Western Costume Co. at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Moses (Ned Albright) chatted with Miwa Kosuga in the museum's atrium after the program.
Boom!, by the French artist Vincent Floderer, is among the highlights of the season's hit show at the the Japanese American National Museum, "Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami," the first major exhibition to look at origami as a contemporary art form.
Watergate was not only one of the most dramatic, compelling and memorable political tutorials any generation could possibly experience: it was also the high-water mark for American journalism. Call it the Woodstein paradox. Investigative reporting today can be exciting, glamorous, award-winning, and lucrative - and entirely inconsequential.
Giving credit to AEG for its championship teams, to Ned Colletti for getting the Dodgers into contention, and to Don Mattingly for running the clubhouse the right way. Now what about the Clippers: will they blow their chances with Chris Paul and Blake Griffin?
Dancers enjoy the music on Saturday at the Getty Center's "Saturdays Off the 405" concert series. Photograph by Iris Schneider.
Gary Leonard archive at LA Observed...
A Westside apartment where canines are reminded to pick up after their owners. The North Hollywood shootout Chevy. An early LAPD mobile phone. Newsroom binoculars. And more: it's Only in LA.
The recent run of hockey success by the Kings has made one person think back to a street hockey game from 35 years ago that taught him that sometimes you really cannot win no matter what you do.
This was spotted the other day on 32nd Street near Ocean Park in Santa Monica. You might wonder which came first — the ficus or the parking meter?
Our Ph.D. in the pressbox won't be at Staples Center tonight. He'll be working the possible Stanley Cup game from France via the Internet and wondering: is there really any substitute for being there?
A posse of arts-elite collaborators led by Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic put on a new, fanciful, hyper-stylized production of "Don Giovanni," while across the street the LA Opera trotted out its old Herb Ross staging of "La Bohème," both houses doing bang-up box office at the same time. Not bad at all.
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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