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'Arrested Development' kicks critics in the teeth at its own peril

2013-05-24 05:10:00

Television critics of the world unite: Let's start reviewing shows whenever the heck we get around to it. That's the model Netflix appears to be recommending with its decision to release 15 episodes of "Arrested Development" Sunday without making any...

Jimmy Kimmel denies he bought Bea Arthur painting [Updated]

2013-05-24 16:59:00

[Updated] Jimmy Kimmel took to Twitter late Friday to deny that he was the buyer of John Currin's nude Bea Arthur painting, contradicting an earlier tweet confirming that he was. He also denied that he had given the painting to fellow comedian Jeffrey...

Watch NASA's live chat with Chris Hadfield, ISS astronauts at noon

2013-05-23 11:15:00

Streaming video by Ustream Three astronauts who recently returned to Earth after living aboard the International Space Station will answer questions from the public in a live Google Hangout on Thursday. The online chat starts at noon PDT, and you...

City Beat: The scoop on an ice-cream tour of Los Angeles

2013-05-24 11:21:00

The life of a reporter is tough. I recently had to work on a warm and sunny Saturday. My assignment? To go a four-hour ice-cream tour of Los Angeles, starting well before noon. I got on a bus at Universal City and tasted my first ice cream at 10:30 a....

UCLA surgeons using Vine, Instagram to video tweet brain surgery

2013-05-23 11:01:00

Even as hospitals struggle with keeping patient information secure in the digital world, more and more are finding that some patients are willing to publicly share intimate moments. UCLA’s Health System became the latest healthcare provider to...

Critic's Pick: Anthony Wilson's Seasons Guitar Quartet

2013-05-23 18:20:00

Consider an all-guitar jazz quartet and it's easy for your mind to conjure images of fingers burning up and down fretboards with the kind of mind-scrambling fireworks that've made heroes out of Pat Metheny and John McLaughlin. Although those...

Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN says it is cutting staff

2013-05-21 10:23:00

Just one week after touting its strength to advertisers and declaring it wasn't worried about new competition from Fox Sports, ESPN is cutting its staff. The moves are part of an overall cost-cutting effort by ESPN parent Walt Disney Co. Earlier this...

Giants' Ryan Vogelsong has surgery on hand

2013-05-21 17:40:00

Right-hander Ryan Vogelsong was put on the 15-day disabled list by the San Francisco Giants after breaking his pitching hand and could be out for two months. Vogelsong had surgery Tuesday. He suffered the injury Monday night on a fifth-inning swing...

'Arrested Development' banana stand in Culver City today

2013-05-20 11:59:00

A replica of the Bluth's Original Frozen Banana stand in all its giant, yellow glory will finally make an appearance in the Los Angeles area today. Fans anticipating the return of "Arrested Development," which was canceled by Fox in 2006 but is coming...

Seth MacFarlane won't host the 2014 Oscars, he says on Twitter

2013-05-20 12:13:00

Bad news for those of you eagerly anticipating "We Saw Your Boobs: Part Two." Seth MacFarlane will not reprise his role as the host of the Academy Awards next March, the comedian announced on his Twitter account Monday. "Traumatized critics exhale: I'...

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his fangirls

2013-05-22 00:00:00

OK, so Dzhokhar Tsarnaev stands accused of blowing up three people, injuring 282 more and shooting to death an MIT campus police officer. He's also got fans, or more accurately, he's got fangirls, thousands of them. These besotted double-X chromosome-...

Paris Hilton plots music comeback with Cash Money Records

2013-05-22 17:08:00

News that Paris Hilton had signed a record deal with Cash Money Records heated up the blogosphere Wednesday. Many thought it was a joke that the label that made superstars out of Lil Wayne, Drake and Nicki Minaj�would sign the heiress. But it's true.�...

Why: LeBron James' buzzer-beating overtime layup gave the Miami Heat a 103-102 win over the Indiana Pacers in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals, but it also snatched the spotlight from Paul George, whose own late-game heroics couldn't quite measure up to those of the reigning MVP.

2013-05-22 00:00:00

An iPhone showing the Twitter and Facebook apps, among others.

2013-05-21 14:13:00

Microsoft is betting it has a new way to win the wallets of consumers. The company on Tuesday introduced the new version of its Xbox video game console.

2013-05-21 00:00:00