Empire State Building

Traveling smarter with geography-driven apps

2013-04-07 00:00:00

Planning, traveling and sharing a vacation with apps that have geography at their heart is no longer just a futuristic idea. Dated guidebooks, tattered maps and finding a place to eat may have been part of the travel headache in times past, but new...

Tuesday's TV Highlights: 'White Collar' on USA

2013-03-04 20:00:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 3 - 9, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � -------------------- SERIES "Wild Things With Dominic Monaghan" The new...

New York Fashion Week fall 2013: Kate Spade review

2013-02-09 11:00:00

NEW YORK -- Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, the Kate Spade brand went back to the source with its fall-winter 2013 collection, paying homage to New York City, down to the yellow checker cabs brought in as props. The look: Happy chic. Bow-...

French daredevil climbs landmark Havana hotel without a net

2013-02-05 09:53:50

Gloria Pall dies at 85; Voluptua character deemed too sexy for TV

2013-01-05 19:18:00

On a December night in 1954, Los Angeles met the woman it would soon deem too hot for television. After the success of Vampira, the glamorous ghoul of 1950s late-night TV, executives at KABC-TV (Channel 7) cast Gloria Pall, a showgirl and model, as...

Pictures in the News | November 29, 2012

2012-11-29 11:42:44

Bob Newhart to Clint Eastwood: Call me, I can offer comedy tips

2012-08-31 17:59:00

"I heard that Clint Eastwood is channeling me at the RNC. My lawyers and I are drafting our lawsuit.” @bobnewhart During Thursday’s telecast of the Republican National Convention, legendary comedian Bob Newhart, 82, got a call from his...

Stair climbs: Getting a leg up

2012-08-18 00:00:00

I call Stan Schwartz a "stair-ologist." But he prefers a warmer, cuddlier term. "I'm a nerd," says the 52-year-old system analyst for the earthquake computer at Caltech. "I studied the staircase in this building like a bug under a microscope. I took...

Michael Heizer's calling is set in stone

2012-05-25 00:00:00

In early 1969, a young artist working in the Nevada desert had an idea for an epic sculpture. Michael Heizer had found a 120-ton boulder in the mountains and wanted to set it above a trench dug in a dry lake bed. Visitors would be able to walk into the...

Frugal Fashion: 'The Amazing Spider-Man' star Emma Stone

2012-06-27 16:33:00

Coming soon: Stage versions of Oscar favorites?

2012-06-05 16:39:04

Maurice Sendak dies at 83, author of 'Where the Wild Things Are'

2012-05-09 00:00:00

He had already been proclaimed "the Picasso of children's books" by Time magazine when Maurice Sendak, then in his 30s, wrote and illustrated "Where the Wild Things Are," a dark fantasy that became one of the 10 bestselling children's books of all time....

NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 26: The Empire State Building and the Manhattan skyline catch the setting sun on August 24, 2011 in New York City. New York City, a financial, cultural and tourism centre, has the largest population of any city in the United States. (Photo by Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images)

2013-05-15 12:22:09

The Mackinac Bridge is bathed in blue lights, Sunday evening, as seen from Mackinaw City. The bridge has been lit in blue lights for the month of April as part of a nationwide autism awareness campaign that includes bathing the White House and the Empire State Building in blue.

2013-04-10 07:41:00

Empire State Building on 9/11

2013-04-02 04:46:00