LOS ANGELES TIMES News, Jan 06, 2012

Gasoline prices start the year at a high — and rising Los Angeles Times Above, a Shell station in Los Angeles. (Ricardo DeAratanha, Los Angeles Times / January 3, 2012) By Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times Not only are we worrying about the end of the world in 2012 — thanks, Maya calendar makers — but this also may be ... See all stories on this topic »

Eve Arnold dies at 99; pioneering photojournalist Los Angeles Times (Magnum) By Mary Rourke, Special to the Los Angeles Times Eve Arnold, one of the first woman photojournalists to join the prestigious Magnum Photography Agency in the 1950s and traveled the world for her work but was best known for her candid shots of ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

East vs. West, New York Times bestsellers against the LA Times - Jan 6 Examiner.com James' historical novel that transplants Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice characters into a world of suspense and mystery dropped to the #2 spot on the LA Times list and held at #5 in the New York Times. This is the only book on the combined list that ... See all stories on this topic »

Militants execute 15 Pakistani troops Los Angeles Times (A. Majeed, AFP/Getty Images / January 5, 2012) By Alex Rodriguez and Zulfiqar Ali, Los Angeles Times Islamist militants on Thursday claimed responsibility for killing 15 Pakistani paramilitary troops this week, dealing a serious setback to the ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

Majoring in chic at LA's fashion schools Los Angeles Times (blog) By Susan Carpenter Los Angeles Times In a bustling part of downtown LA, a high-rise is teeming with stylish young women in short skirts and full makeup wheeling small suitcases in and out of elevators on their way to class. ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times (blog)

NBC hopes going backstage on Broadway is a 'Smash' hit Los Angeles Times (Carolyn Cole, Los Angeles Times / November 22, 2011) By Steven Zeitchik, Los Angeles Times Actress Anjelica Huston is standing at the edge of a large mirrored rehearsal space as dancers and choreographers circulate around her. ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

Liking yourself just the way you are Los Angeles Times (blog) By Alene Dawson Special to the Los Angeles Times You know it's tough out there when fashion and beauty executives think that even a model's body isn't good enough to sell clothes or that a celebrity's natural face isn't up to par, even with makeup. ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times (blog)

Where to Go to See Art in 2012 New York Times I find that art is a great starting point for exploring the world. Of course, my own travel is often determined by art exhibitions and projects. I love LA, and I've been thrilled by the international attention to “ Pacific StandardTime,” a huge, ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times

Monster Mash: Pompeii site faces problems; Ai Weiwei tax case Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles Times) Axed: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has canceled its planned revival of the musical "Pal Joey." (BroadwayWorld) Hot spot: The architecture firm of Diller Scofidio + Renfro will redesign Fire Island's Pines Pavilion, ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

Fashion Diary: Fast forward to 2012 Los Angeles Times (blog) By Booth Moore Los Angeles Times Fashion Critic Stealth wealth. Fashion gaming. Elsa Schiaparelli. Raf Simons. What else? Here's a list of stylish people, trends and ideas to pay attention to in 2012. Surrealism. Opening May 10, the Metropolitan Museum ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times (blog)

In Indonesia, watching the sun rise with 504 Buddhas Los Angeles Times (Susan Spano / For The Times) By Susan Spano, Special to the Los Angeles Times Four am is a terrible time of day, too late for night owls, too early for early risers. The exception is 4 am at Borobudur, waiting for the sun to rise over the Kedu Plain ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

Robert L. Carter dies at 94; NAACP attorney fought segregation Los Angeles Times By Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times Robert L. Carter, who as an NAACP civil rights attorney was an architect of the legal strategy used in the cases that led to Brown vs. Board of Education, the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

PST, A to Z: 'She Accepts,' 'It Happened' Los Angeles Times Pacific Standard Time will explore the origins of the Los Angeles artworld through museum exhibitions throughout Southern California over the next six months. Times art reviewer Sharon Mizota has set the goal of seeing all of them. ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

Ron Burkle invests in concert promotion, film production firms Los Angeles Times (Keith Srakocic, Associated Press / January 6, 2012) By Alex Pham and Ben Fritz, Los Angeles Times Billionaire Ron Burkle has added movie production and concert promotion to the arenas he wants to play in. The man who made his fortune bagging ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

Magic Johnson's Magnetic Personality Makes Lakers Great Best Candidate to Own ... NESN.com Under his watch -- from 1987 to 2003 -- the Braves won a World Series, advanced to another title game and won more games than any other team in Major League Baseball. "Stan Kasten is my man," Johnson told the LA Times last month. ... See all stories on this topic »

Brazil finally ready to confront abuses in past dictatorship Los Angeles Times (Fernando Bizerra Jr. / European Pressphoto Agency / December 16, 2011) By Vincent Bevins, Los Angeles Times Vera Paiva has spent four decades trying to find out what happened to her father after he was arrested in 1971 during Brazil's military ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

Hans Zimmer adds Gypsy flavor to 'Sherlock Holmes' score Los Angeles Times (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times) By Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times As a certain British super-sleuth might observe, there was nothing elementary about the path that Hollywood composer Hans Zimmer took to bring Gypsy folk music into his soundtrack ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

20th WGA Award nod for Woody Allen Los Angeles Times (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times / September 12, 2010) By Susan King, Los Angeles Times Allen, 76, received his first nomination from the WGA 46 years ago for "What's New Pussycat?" and won for 1977's "Annie Hall," 1984's "Broadway Danny Rose," 1986's ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

Book reviews: 'The Iliad' and 'The Shadow of a Great Rock' Los Angeles Times By Nick Owchar, Los Angeles Times When Hera, wife of Zeus, lays into Artemis, the sister of Apollo, in Stephen Mitchell's new translation of the "Iliad," it sounds more like MTV's "Jersey Shore" than Mt. Olympus. "How dare you oppose me, you sniveling ... See all stories on this topic »

Eight coalition troops die in 24 hours UPI.com Four were killed in one explosion and a fifth died in what officials called an "insurgent attack," both Friday, the Los Angeles Times reported. Officials said an improvised explosive device killed three soldiers Thursday in the south. ... See all stories on this topic »

Lakers drop another game in Portland Los Angeles Times The Lakers missed all 11 of their three-point attempts, the first time they failed to make one since a November 2003 game against Miami. "Oh, wow," Metta World Peace said. "It was bound to happen, I guess. I could have done a lot better. ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

Workplaces grow friendlier to gay employees: study Vancouver Sun By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times (MCT) January 6, 2012 A new report suggests the corporate world is more LGBT-friendly than it was a decade ago. The corporate world - especially at law firms and big banks - is a much better place for lesbian, gay, ... See all stories on this topic »

'Downton Abbey's' intrigue continues Los Angeles Times By Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Television Critic The many-chambered, highly peopled country house known as "Downton Abbey" opens again Sunday for visitors — that's you, I'm being metaphorical — returning for a second season under the umbrella of ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

Trying to drive a stake through a conversational staple Los Angeles Times (Christina House, For the Los Angeles Times / December 31, 2011) By Gale Holland, Los Angeles Times "Awesome," according to one dictionary of slang, is "something Americans use to describe everything." The linguistic overkill horrifies John Tottenham. ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

The Writing Life: The point of the long and winding sentence Los Angeles Times (January 17, 2003) By Pico Iyer, Special to the Los Angeles Times "Your sentences are so long," said a friend who teaches English at a local college, and I could tell she didn't quite mean it as a compliment. The copy editor who painstakingly went ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

Fashion News: Is Kim Kardashian a doll, or what? - latimes.com By Susan Denley T Time: Tory Burch ... More important in the fragrance world, however, is news that Louis Vuitton confirms it is soon to do its own dabbling in perfume and has hired a master perfumer. ... Tweets and retweets from L.A. Times staff writers. ... All The Rage

Barnes & Noble's Nook news: good, surprising - latimes.com By Carolyn Kellogg The good news: Barnes & Noble's Nook is selling big. The surprising news: As a result, the company may sell the Nook division. That's what B&N said Thursday in a statement that ran the gamut from jargon to obfuscation.Take a look: "We see ... Jacket Copy

The Morning Fix: Burkle makes moves! Fox News' Ailes gets bigger ... By Joe Flint Friday's headlines include stories on billionaire Ron Burkle's growing fascination with the entertainment industry, a box office preview, a dip in NFL ratings, a profile of Fox Newschief Roger Ailes and some tough news for Netflix. Oh, and ... The music firm he bought -- Artists Group International -- books concerts for oldie but goodies Billy Joel and Rod Stewart as well as Metellica and Linkin Park. ... Box office previews from the Los Angeles Times, Hollywood Reporter and Variety. ... Company Town

Unemployment rate falls to 8.5%, lowest in nearly 3 years – Los ... By NewsDesk - Christer Ornestad Los Angeles Times By Don Lee REPORTING FROM WASHINGTON — The nation's unemployment rate dropped further in December, to the lowest level in nearly three years, as employers added a healthy batch of new jobs to close out a tumultuous year on an hopeful note for ... The worlds fastest growing news agency - make the world much smaller " When major news stories published worldwide, you will find a "tweet" at mypress.se with links to the main source in matter of seconds. ... MyPress.SE - Universal News Agency

Frank Gehry, Rodarte to Design for LA Philharmonic's Don Giovanni ... By Google News ... ReporterRodarte Makes Operatic Costume Debut In Don Giovanni At LA Phil Broadway WorldRodarte pair will design first opera costumes for LA Phil Los Angeles Times Belfast Telegraph - New York Times (blog) - Vogue.comall 16 news ... SBYOV

Lotus - Surviving a Dark Time: Ledt Side of the Aisle #38 By LarryE Lotus - Surviving a Dark Time. A nonviolent, radical Left perspective on the news from another ordinary individual struggling to keep hope alive. "Passion and substance are not mutually exclusive." ... http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08 .asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2012/January/middleeast_January88.xml&section=middleeast http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/15/world/la-fg-iraq-withdrawal-20111216. Outrage of the Week: Drug tests for public benefits ... Lotus - Surviving a Dark Time

Lily Collins Could Battle 'Evil Dead,' 'Carrie' Remake Snags 'Boys ... By briz Brad Pitt chatted about “World War Z” during a recent interview with the L.A. Times. The actor is producing and starring in the remake of Max Brooks' zombie opus as a United Nations worker racing against time to stop a zombie pandemic that ... All the Time Celebrity Multimedia News

Now watching: Google TV, Netflix and other entertaining news ... By Levi Sumagaysay Previously, Intel had supplied the chips, but the world's largest chip maker has retreated from TVs, according to Bloomberg. Shares of Santa Clara-based Marvell are up nearly 2.5 percent to ... (See Google TV needs more time in the oven, but can content be baked in?) Logitech, a manufacturing partner, said in November that it would stop making Revue set-top boxes, and its CEO called Google TV “a mistake of implementation of a gigantic nature,” according to the Los Angeles Times . ... GMSV

Dingbats in the News By Burt Prelutsky But does anyone in his right mind seriously believe we are any closer to a one-worldgovernment today than we were a hundred years ago? Heck, we're not even close to a one-nation America these days. One might as well contend that ... Burt Prelutsky, a very nice person once you get to know him, has been a humor columnist for the L.A. Timesand a movie critic for Los Angeles magazine. As a freelancer, he has written for the New York Times, Washington Times, TV Guide, Modern ... BernardGoldberg.com

Why Food Prices Have Become So Volatile | Gold News By Gregor Macdonald Gold News - Gold Market Analysis & Gold Investment Research - Gold Price Commentary & Forecasts. ... From the recently released UN Report on the World Food Situation: The FAO Index (Food and Agriculture Organization of the .... His writings and views have been cited in the New York Times, The FT, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, WIRED, The Toronto Globe and Mail, Foreign Policy, MoneyWeek, and the Oil And Gas Journal. Gregor currently writes an ... Gold News - Gold Market Analysis...

Sculptor works to reshape the Iraqi art world - latimes.com Abdul Hameed returned from exile and found his old art institute in deplorable condition. He's now focused on restoring it, and is inspiring his young students. www.latimes.com/.../la-fg-iraq-sculpture-20120103,0,85232.st...

U.S. News and World Report rates the best diets of 2012 - latimes.com The DASH diet took the No. 1 spot in best overall diet in the U.S. News and WorldReport's Best Diets 2012, which also rates other popular diets in various ... www.latimes.com/.../la-heb-diet-rankings-us-news-20120104,...

Map: Strait of Hormuz - latimes.com Iran's top naval commander, Habibollah Sayyari, told Iran's English-language Press TV on Wednesday that closing the Persian Gulf to oil tanker traffic at the ... www.latimes.com/.../la-fg-strait-of-hormuz-20111228-html,0,...

Arab League, dissidents disagree on progress in Syria - latimes.com League says Bashar Assad's government has taken steps to comply with a regional initiative to stop the killing, but opposition cites dozens more deaths. www.latimes.com/.../la-fg-syria-arab-league-20120103,0,1088...

U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan war fell in 2011 - latimes.com As they prepare to accelerate their withdrawal from Afghanistan, U.S. officials speak of having turned a corner in 2011. From the Taliban perspective, the ... www.latimes.com/.../la-fg-afghan-troops-20111231,0,104984...

Japan tsunami has dealt lasting blow to family farms - latimes.com The fallout from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant meltdowns, coupled with the possibility that Japan will join the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade pact, ... www.latimes.com/.../la-fg-japan-farm-20120105,0,2821554.st...

Egypt raids foreign organizations' offices in crackdown - latimes.com Three U.S. groups are among those raided. Activists say the army is using the ruse of foreign intervention to stoke nationalism and deflect criticism of abuses. www.latimes.com/.../la-fg-egypt-ngo-raids-20111230,0,42090...

Civilian contractors playing key roles in U.S. ... - Los Angeles Times Relying on private contractors has brought corporations that operate for profit into some of America's most sensitive military and intelligence operations. www.latimes.com/.../la-fg-drones-civilians-20111230,0,61271...

Yaffa Yarkoni obituary: Israeli singer dies at 86 - latimes.com Yarkoni entertained Israeli soldiers on the front lines for half a century and later reaped public censure for her criticism of the military's treatment of Palestinians. www.latimes.com/.../la-me-yaffa-yarkoni-20120102,0,413909...

Islamic scholar casts a skeptical eye on the ... - Los Angeles Times Gamal Banna, a liberal Islamic scholar whose brother founded the Muslim Brotherhood, reflects on a year of hope and disappointment for Egypt and the region. www.latimes.com/.../la-fg-arab-rebellion-20111231,0,681585...

  

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