Halloween

Chet Flippo, veteran music journalist, dead at 69

2013-06-19 16:00:00

Everything read like business as usual in veteran music journalist Chet Flippo’s most recent Nashville Skyline column, the feature he’s been writing weekly for a dozen years for CMT.com, where he was editorial director for the website and...

Young Dodgers fan wears his heart on his sleeve in Giants country

2013-06-18 21:02:00

It was a graduation speech. Each fifth-grader at Burlingame's Lincoln Elementary gave one. They were allotted one minute to describe their favorite school memory. Some talked about their first teacher. Others talked about a recent field trip to the...

Tuesday's TV Highlights: 'Blood and Oil' on Discovery

2013-06-17 20:00:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of June 16 - 22, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- �The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Tonight Show With...

Michael Jackson 'had control of his life,' AEG exec says in court

2013-06-12 21:44:00

At the height of his career, Michael Jackson had it all. International fame. Grammy-winning records. Unimaginable wealth. But in the final months of his life, as the King of Pop planned his ill-fated comeback in London, one of his biggest motivators was...

Michael Jackson did comeback to buy kids a home, AEG chief testifies

2013-06-12 14:21:00

Michael Jackson’s anticipated “This Is It” comeback tour was largely fueled by his desire to provide his children a home of their own, AEG Live’s chief executive testified Wednesday. Randy Phillips described an emotional...

Accused teenage killer has IQ of 57

2013-05-28 23:30:00

A teenager charged with killing his girlfriend's mother and stepfather at their Compton mobile home has an "extremely low" IQ that is consistent with being mentally retarded, an expert testified Tuesday. Giovanni Gallardo, now 18, had an IQ of 57 when...

The 'Night Stalker' and the best of true-crime cinema

2013-06-07 15:34:00

The strange saga of Richard Ramirez, the serial killer known as the "Night Stalker," who died Friday, had all the earmarks of a grungy low-budget thriller come to life. With his random, sensationalistic crimes, his startling capture by an angry mob and...

Review: Knott's breathes new life into Timber Mountain log ride

2013-06-03 06:30:00

Knott's Berry Farm has restored a theme park attraction considered groundbreaking in its time to a technological level its legendary creator could have only imagined when the ride was conceived more than four decades ago. Photos: Timber Mountain log...

Teen guilty of murder in slayings of girlfriend's parents

2013-05-29 16:30:00

A teenager accused of killing his girlfriend's parents and then driving to stores for party supplies with one of the dead victims in the back of his vehicle was convicted Wednesday of murder. Giovanni Gallardo, 18, gave sheriff's detectives a detailed...

Teen convicted in deaths of girlfriend's parents

2013-05-29 20:36:00

A teenager accused of killing his girlfriend's parents and then driving to stores for party supplies with one of the victims in the back of the vehicle was convicted Wednesday of murder. Prosecutors argued that Giovanni Gallardo and his girlfriend...

Matt Smith is leaving ‘Doctor Who’ at the end of 2013

2013-06-01 17:42:27

Jury hears teen detail double slaying in investigators' video

2013-05-21 21:12:00

The 16-year-old boy was trying to explain what had happened to his girlfriend's missing mother and stepfather when a detective stopped him. Investigators knew the real story, the detective said. "Oh damn," Giovanni Gallardo muttered, according to a...

"Frankly, I don't know how any child lives past the age of six without being murdered by his or her parents," writes Drew Magary in his book "Someone Who Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of 21st-Century Parenthood." More from the book: "Also, children make you very fat....

2013-06-10 00:00:00

The Mercurial Gallery celebrates 1/2 Halloween this Friday.

2013-05-29 09:09:00

Stephen Portala, dressed as Puppet Master from Blade, and Ashley Brozenske, dressed as Gizmo from the Gremlins, relax while attending Halloween Extreme during Spooky Empire May-Hem.

2013-05-26 00:00:00