Los Angeles Times

MOMMY DEAREST: 13-Year-Old Girl Tries To Kill Mom Over Curfew, Cops Say

AP | AMY TAXIN | Posted 05.24.2012

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HESPERIA, Calif. — A 13-year-old girl used Mother's Day to seek forgiveness, promise to behave and reassure her mom that she loved her. The hand...

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PHOTOS: Our Favorite LA Times Magazine Covers

The Huffington Post | Sasha Bronner | Posted 05.20.2012

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It's no shock to anyone that the print world is suffering drastically, and the Los Angeles Times' iconic Sunday magazine is just the latest publicatio...

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Images That Do Violence

Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. | Posted 05.07.2012

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Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr.

The Los Angeles Times exposé a couple weeks ago offers chilling testimony of how badly sentiments and moral judgments can slide out of kilter in time of war.

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UCLA Violates a Long-Standing Regent's Bequest and Endangers One of the Rarest Private Japanese Gardens in the United States

Charles A. Birnbaum | Posted 05.02.2012

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Charles A. Birnbaum

Preservation of significant designed landscapes, as I've written previously, is no easy matter, so any entity's pledge to maintain a nationally important work of landscape architecture "in perpetuity" is a victory.

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20 Years After the Riots: A More Worldly Los Angeles, a More Insular Los Angeles Times

Peter Hong | Posted 05.01.2012

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Peter Hong

The news stories marking the 20th anniversary of the riots have given L.A. a well-deserved pat on the back. But journalists haven't explored how one vital sector of L.A. may be less able to handle the city's racial complexities than it was 20 years ago.

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Influencer of the Week: E.L James Is Tickled Pink

Connie Dieken | Posted 04.30.2012

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Connie Dieken

The author of Fifty Shades of Grey is simultaneously revving the engines of women and upending the publishing world. James is stunned that she's influencing the way books are bought and sold.

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Another Shooting in Just One Week Near USC Campus

Neon Tommy | Posted 04.18.2012

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Neon Tommy

On the eve of a memorial service for two USC international students shot and killed last week near the South Los Angeles campus, another shooting incident -- this time involving campus police -- has taken place a few blocks from the university.

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Joy Resmovits

California Parents Say Publicly Releasing Teacher Ratings Will Improve Performance

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 04.07.2012

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While teachers and most education reformers remain highly uncomfortable with having test-based teacher evaluations aired in public, one survey suggest...

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Elevating Ike: An Audiobook Review

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.29.2012

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Tom Alderman

If you're a hardcore Democrat, this audiobook could turn you around about the man.

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Think Again: The End of Newspapers and the Decline of Democracy

Eric Alterman | Posted 05.23.2012

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Eric Alterman

If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets -- without the hope for "next year."

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Pioneering Los Angeles Times Writer Dies

AP | Posted 03.21.2012

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LOS ANGELES -- Dorothy Townsend, the first female staff writer for the Los Angeles Times' city section and the lone woman on a team of dozens of repor...

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Major Newspaper Axes Starred Restaurant Reviews

Posted 03.09.2012

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The Los Angeles Times has decided to nix the star ratings that used to accompany restaurant reviews. The paper explains its decision: First, star r...

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Teacher Job Satisfaction Plummets (Perhaps Teacher-Bashing Isn't Productive)

Kevin Welner | Posted 05.07.2012

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Kevin Welner

None of us would want to have our job performance judged on an outcome that we don't really control. But that's where teachers now find themselves.

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PAY UP: LA Times Announces Online Paywall

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 02.24.2012

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Would you pay to read the Los Angeles Times online? The paper announced Friday that it will charge for digital access starting Mar. 5. Here's how ...

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Los Angeles Times Makes Major Announcement

The Los Angeles Times | Posted 04.25.2012

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The Los Angeles Times will begin charging readers for access to its online news, joining a growing roster of major news organizations looking for a wa...

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Knicks Player's Ball Crosses Over Into Arts?

Edward Goldman | Posted 04.24.2012

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Edward Goldman

You read it right, today's headline for my Art Talk is, "Knicks Player's Ball Crosses Over into the Arts?" Please don't worry; yours truly has no plans to expand his art coverage into sports.

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L.A.'s Redistricting War and the Health of Our Democracy

Madeline Janis | Posted 04.24.2012

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Madeline Janis

I love the fact that hundreds of people are attending the hearings to express their views on how to best represent the incredible diversity of interests in Los Angeles.

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Jumping Ship! Gold To Leave L.A. Weekly

Posted 02.21.2012

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Jonathan Gold is jumping ship! The Pulitzer-prize winning food critic is leaving his long time home at LA Weekly for a new gig at the Los Angeles Time...

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Academy Award Voters Need Diversity in Script

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 04.22.2012

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Rev. Jesse Jackson

Hollywood sets styles, captures imaginations, touches dreams. Worldwide, movies provide people with much of what they think about America. Yet, the 5,765 voting members of the Academy are far from representative of the moviegoing public.

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Obesity Epidemic: Is Your Mother to Blame?

Nancy Wurtzel | Posted 04.17.2012

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Nancy Wurtzel

And, tomorrow, when I eat a piece of double-layer spice cake with cream cheese frosting (just for example), I will curse my mother. She smoked like a fiend, fasted when pregnant with me and probably force-fed me formula from a bottle.

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Reporter Gets Kicked Out Of Nevada Caucus

Los Angeles Times | Posted 04.08.2012

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Reporting from Henderson, Nev. -- I got kicked out of a Nevada caucus. I had gone Saturday morning to a community center at Sun City Anthem, where I'...

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LA Supervisors, With Governor, Violate Open Meetings Law

Kenneth F. Bunting | Posted 04.02.2012

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Kenneth F. Bunting

This disrespectful scoff at the legal requirements for transparency occurred in the most populous county in the nation's most populous state. And, as reported in the largest newspaper in the western U.S., there was nothing to indicate even a scintilla of remorse, outrage or apology.

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LA Times Reporter Jumps Ship

Posted 03.27.2012

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Former Los Angeles Times reporter Tom Hamburger has joined the Washington Post's National staff. Post editors sent staffers a memo announcing the ...

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The Crazy, Adorable Ways Teens Are Asking Their Dates To Prom!

LA Times | Posted 01.24.2012

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For weeks, South Pasadena High School senior Alex Hom knew he wanted to ask freshman Brooke Drury to winter formal. But it wouldn't do to just pop the...

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Police Detain Man Amid Hunt For Serial Killer Of Homeless Men

AP | CHRISTOPHER WEBER | Posted 03.15.2012

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ANAHEIM, Calif. — Investigators are "extremely confident" a man in custody is responsible for all four recent killings of homeless men in Orange...

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