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LOS ANGELES TIMES News, May 11, 2012

Los Angeles event brings in nearly $15 million for Obama campaign
Los Angeles Times
(Luis Sinco, Los Angeles Times / May 9, 2012) By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times In an exclusive backyard soiree at George Clooney's house in Studio City, President Obama headlined a star-studded fundraiser Thursday night that pumped nearly $15 million ...
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Los Angeles Times
Photograph by: Luis Sinco , Los Angeles Times/MCT
Vancouver Sun
LOS ANGELES — George Clooney played the suave host, chef Wolfgang Puck whipped up something for dinner and President Barack Obama and about 150 of his Hollywood donors enjoyed a few laughs at Clooney's good-humoured expense. Obama told the crowd that ...
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Barack Obama-George Clooney event raises nearly $15 million
Boston Herald
By Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — In an exclusive backyard soiree at George Clooney's house in Studio City, President Barack Obama headlined a star-studded fundraiser Thursday night that pumped nearly $15 million into his re-election ...
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Beer Notes: Los Angeles Brewing Co. opens downtown
Los Angeles Times
(Arkasha Stevenson, Los Angeles Times / May 8, 2012) By Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times Entrepreneur Ralph Verdugo once ran downtown LA's Club 740, but he left that world after having a revelation. Or maybe just a few pints.
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Los Angeles Times
James Franco grabs another role with MOCA show on 'Rebel Without a Cause'
Los Angeles Times
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times / May 11, 2012) By Deborah Vankin,Los Angeles Times James Franco is an actor-turned-artist-turned-author-turned-actor-playing-an-artist-named-Franco in the soap opera "General Hospital" — who has made a movie, ...
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Former LAPD detective Stephanie Lazarus gets 27 years to life for gunning down...
Contra Costa Times
(AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Brian van der Brug, Pool) LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles police detective convicted of first-degree murder was sentenced today to 27 years to life in state prison for gunning down her ex-boyfriend's wife inside a Van ...
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Counter Intelligence: Umamicatessen in downtown LA
Los Angeles Times
(Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times / May 4, 2012) By Jonathan GoldLos Angeles Times Restaurant Critic Everyone knows that Langer's serves the best pastrami sandwich in town. Guidebooks say so. National magazines say so. The subway disgorges so many ...
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Obama's Fundraiser At George Clooney's Home Nets Record $15 Million
NPR (blog)
As the Journal notes, the money comes with a potential political downside: It plays into the narrative that Obama is a celebrity, which is what Republicans have tried to cast him as. The Los Angeles Timesreports that even in a town used to celebrity, ...
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Even Johnny Depp won't be able to stop 'The Avengers' at box office
Boston Herald
By Amy Kaufman / The Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES - "The Avengers" will take a big bite out of the opening of "Dark Shadows," as the superhero blockbuster is set to dominate the box office for the second consecutive weekend.
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Kobe Bryant is the only one to show up as Lakers forced to Game 7
Boston Herald
By Mike Bresnahan / Los Angeles Times Instead, he played in Game 6 after missing the morning shoot-around because of intestinal flu symptoms. His teammates certainly didn't make him feel better. The Lakers didn't just lose to the Denver Nuggets.
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Let's Go, Mess!
New York Times
Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum will feel most of Bryant's wrath, writes Adrian Wojnarowski on Yahoo.com, as they all try to come to grips with having slid into an unthinkable Game 7 in this series, writes Bill Plaschke in The Los Angeles Times.
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New York Times
Obama LA Fundraiser Brings in Historic $15 Million
WSBT-TV
(Luis Sinco, Los Angeles Times / May 10, 2012) STUDIO CITY, Calif. (KTLA) -- President Obama is leaving Los Angeles with nearly $15 million in his campaign war chest from a fundraiser at the home of actor George Clooney. Obama spent the night at the ...
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WSBT-TV
F-16s intercept small plane in Obama's airspace at LAX
The Republic
By Richard Winton Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — Two F-16 military fighter jets were dispatched Friday morning to intercept a general aviation airplane that violated airspace restrictions as President Barack Obama was leaving Los Angeles ...
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Los Lobos songbook drives 'Evangeline, the Queen of Make-Believe'
Los Angeles Times
(Jay L. Clendenin, Los Angeles Times / April 25, 2012) By Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times The way Louie PĂ©rez remembers it, there was nothing more all-American than growing up Mexican American in Los Angeles in the 1960s.
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Abs joining apps on tech firms' to-do list
Los Angeles Times
(Mark Boster, Los Angeles Times / January 18, 2012) By Jessica Guynn, Los Angeles Times SAN FRANCISCO — Dustin Moskovitz, at 27 the world's youngest billionaire, gained fame and fortune after founding Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg.
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Los Angeles Times
Willie Middlebrook dies; photographer documented African American life
Los Angeles Times
(Kirk McKoy, Los Angeles Times / April 16, 2002) By Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times Willie Robert Middlebrook, a photographer who sought to enlarge public perceptions of the African American community through painterly depictions of its people and places ...
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Los Angeles Times
No solid leads in disappearance of movie executive
Los Angeles Times
By Kate Mather and Andrew Blankstein, Los Angeles Times After returning from a Las Vegas conference, the longtime 20th Century Fox executive — who distributed such hits as "Titanic" and "Avatar" — inexplicably missed a school pickup for his teenage ...
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Los Angeles Times
When a charter school is failing
Los Angeles Times
(Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times / May 6, 2012) The Los Angeles Unified school board did an injustice to hundreds of students and to the school reform movement when it overrode the recommendation of its staff and decided not to close a low-performing ...
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California Cook: The return of the butcher
Los Angeles Times
(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times / May 3, 2012) By Russ ParsonsLos Angeles Times Food Editor After decades of laboring in obscurity, seeing their craft slip away to the point it was practically extinct, butchers — real meat cutters, ...
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Solar project in desert gets boost from California Legislature
Los Angeles Times
(Mark Boster, Los Angeles Times / November 4, 2011) By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times Despite strong opposition from environmentalists, the state Assembly on Thursday approved controversial legislation that allows a solar energy developer to bypass ...
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Los Angeles Times
Review: 'Follies' is a source of heartache and razzmatazz
Los Angeles Times
(Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times / May 3, 2012) By Charles McNulty,Los Angeles Times Theater Critic There's so much to praise in the blissful Broadway revival of "Follies," which opened Wednesday at the Ahmanson Theatre on the heels of its numerous ...
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Bill Plaschke: After latest thrashing, it's all about Game 7
Bradenton Herald
By BILL PLASCHKE — Los Angeles Times And now it comes down to two words, two desperate words, the two danged words the Lakers never thought they would have to utter while toying with these Rocky Mountain munchkins and misfits. The Lakers never dreamed ...
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Injuries are a sore subject for Clippers
SunHerald.com
By BRODERICK TURNER - Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES -- It wasn't the best news, but it wasn't the worst news either. The Los Angeles Clippers announced Thursday afternoon that Blake Griffin and Chris Paul will be game-time decisions for Friday's Game 6 ...
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Southwest Museum's conservation project draws closer to completion
Los Angeles Times
(Anne Cusack / Los Angeles times / May 10, 2012) By Suzanne Muchnic, Special to the Los Angeles Times The pace is picking up on the massive conservation project in process at the Southwest Museum in Mount Washington. The end is almost in sight: Only ...
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Fashion News: Romney teen incident reportedly centered on hairstyle
Los Angeles Times
[Washington Post] [Los Angeles Times] Victoria's Secret angel Erin Heatherton talked about some of her favorite Los Angeles shopping spots, including Reformation and Satine. [Racked] [Updated at 11:32 am May 11 to correct the name of Reformation, ...
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Fashion News - Blogs - Los Angeles Times
By Susan Denley
As a teen, Mitt Romney apparently had pretty stong ideas about hair -- so strong that when a classmate at the private, all-boys Cranbrook School he attended showed up with long, bleached blond hair that fell over one eye, Romney reportedly ...
All The Rage
Ex-LAPD Detective Sentenced To 27 Years In Prison For Murder ...
By Staff
Los Angeles Times reporter Andrew Blankstein told KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO there was a wide range of emotions in court. ... sentenced to 27 years to life for 1986 murderCNNKTXL -Seattle Post Intelligencer -CBS Localall 253 news [...] ...
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Time magazine cover: TV networks blur breast image - latimes.com
By Scott Collins
A Fox News spokeswoman told Show Tracker the network — which hasn't yet covered, so to speak, the story — doesn't plan to restrict the image if a segment does materialize - at least on any entertainment or opinion-oriented show (a news ...
Show Tracker
FDA delays implementing sunscreen rules – Los Angeles Times ...
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Pharmacy and Drug Store News | DrugStoreSource · Twitter · Facebook · RSS · Home · News · Store · About Us ... Los Angeles Times The US Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that it will delay the implementation of new sunscreen rules that had been scheduled to take effect in June. The rules are designed to give consumers better information about the effectiveness of … Sunscreen manufacturers get more time to update labelsUSA TODAY. American Academy of ...
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Mort Lindsey, musical director for Judy Garland, dies at 89 ...
By By Dennis McLellan Los Angeles Times
It was like a revival meeting," Lindsey told New Jersey's the Recordnewspaper in 1998. Garland, he said, "really ... dream come true for me," Streisand said in a statement to the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday. "I first saw him when I was a ...
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Gay-marriage stand wins Obama cheers inside, outside Clooney ...
By Shelby Grad
L.A. Now is the Los Angeles Times' breaking news section for Southern California. It is produced by more than 80 reporters and editors in The Times' Metro section, reporting from the paper's downtown Los Angeles headquarters as well as ...
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Observations of an Asteroid Provide Hints of How the Earth Came ...
By Today American
Huge asteroid Vesta is actually an ancient protoplanetmsnbc.com. NASA mission brings protoplanet Vesta into focusLos Angeles TimesMammoth asteroid Vesta got one-two crater-carving punchFox NewsSpace.com · all 389 news articles » ...
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... archaeologists have found what appears to be the 9th century workplace of a city scribe, an unusual dwelling adorned with magnificent pictures of the king and other royals and the oldest known Maya calendar." Los Angeles Times 05/10/12 ...
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Loretta Lynn taps Zooey Deschanel for 'Coal Miner's' musical - Los ...
Loretta Lynn taps Zooey Deschanel for 'Coal Miner's' musical - Los Angeles Times · Loretta Lynn picks Zooey Deschanel to star in "Coal Miner's Daughter" musical - CBS News · Zooey Deschanel Heading to Broadway - E! Online. New In Last ...
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Los Angeles Brewing Co. opens downtown - latimes.com
By Betty Hallock
George Cossette is drinking Sicily's Perricone. Photo credit: Los Angeles Brewing Co. Credit: Arkasha Stevenson/Los Angeles Times. Twitter: @latimesfood. Facebook: L.A. Times Food. More in: Beer. increase text size decrease text size ...
Daily Dish
Los Angeles Times named California's Newspaper of the Year for ...
The paper wins a total of 20 journalism awards in the Better Newspaper Contest, sponsored by a trade group. The San Jose Mercury News wins first place ...
www.latimes.com/.../la-me-0506-times-awards-20120506,0,37...
Los Angeles event brings in nearly $15 million for Obama campaign
... home in Studio City. (Luis Sinco, Los Angeles Times / May 9, 2012)... "Obviously yesterday we made some news," Obama said to applause. "But the truth is it ...
www.latimes.com/.../la-na-0511-obama-clooney-20120511,0,...
Good times roll for Los Angeles Kings' Dustin Brown, Anze Kopitar
Burbank Leader · Coastline Pilot · Daily Pilot · Huntington Beach Independent · News Press · Pasadena Sun · Valley Sun · KTLA · Hoy ·Los Angeles Times ...
www.latimes.com/.../la-sp-elliott-kings-blues-20120507,0,588...
Los Angeles Times "Rock/Style" Returns to the Hollywood Roosevelt June 6
The Los Angeles Times Media Group (LATMG) businesses and affiliates include the Los Angeles Times, The Envelope, Times Community News, LA, Los ...
www.latimes.com/.../la-mediagroup-2012-0508,0,1922524.ht...
Battle Ready - Los Angeles Times
For The Record Los Angeles Times Sunday, May 06, 2012 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 4News Desk 1 inches; 55 words Type of Material: Correction ...
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CIA thwarts new underwear bomb ...
WASHINGTON -- The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by Al Qaeda 's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new ...
www.latimes.com/.../la-naw-al-qaeda-jet-bomb-20120508,0,7...
ABC News, Univision plan cable ...
Disney's ABC News division and Univision are in a deal to create an English- language cable channel for U.S. Latinos.
www.latimes.com/.../la-fi-mo-money-minute-20120507,0,286...
Healthcare: The Testing Glut (Los Angeles Times) | Dartmouth Now
In this opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times, Geisel School of Medicine at ... Dartmouth Now is your source for stories about news, ideas, events, and people ...
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Los Angeles Times Wins Inaugural Newspaper of ... - Free Republic
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Times won Newspaper of the Year for 2011 among the state's largest daily newspapers, and a total of 20 journalism awards ...
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