Malcolm Gladwell

'After the Music Stopped' looks back at the fiscal collapse

2013-01-25 07:00:00

-------------------- After the Music Stopped The Financial Crisis, the Response and the Work Ahead Alan Blinder Penguin Press: 496 pp., $29.95 -------------------- "Obamanomics was an incoherent blur to most citizens — and a not very...

Stephen Colbert teases Malcolm Gladwell about his hair [video]

2012-12-12 10:14:00

If you weren't watching the Colbert Report on Tuesday night, you missed Stephen Colbert poking fun at author Malcolm Gladwell's shock of curly hair. Gladwell, for his part, looked kind of uncomfortable, and didn't even try to make a hair joke in return....

Tuesday's TV Talk Shows: Mandy Patinkin; Jane Fonda; Matt Damon

2012-12-10 20:04:00

Click here to download TV listings for the week Dec. 9 - 15 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- CBS This Morning (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today Christoph Waltz; Bruno Mars performs. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC Good Morning America Scotty...

Who wants to define the psychogeography of Los Angeles?

2012-12-12 14:49:00

Maybe you're a writer who got lost in Los Angeles once and discovered a corner of the city you never knew existed. Or maybe you've simply enjoyed wandering about Los Angeles and feeling its history, a history that seems largely hidden, and which no one...

Car review: Bugatti Veyron leads entrants in 200-mph supercar club

2012-05-31 00:00:00

Life is different driving 200 miles an hour. The magnitude of what you're doing — traveling fast enough to lift a loaded Boeing 747 off the ground — is belied by a surprisingly calm environment. It's quiet, almost, save for some low wind...

Review: Nate Silver's insightful 'The Signal and the Noise'

2012-09-30 00:00:00

-------------------- The Signal and the Noise Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't Nate Silver Penguin Press: 534 pp, $27.95 -------------------- Political consulting and punditry are worlds where merit is all too often a minor...

Jonah Lehrer jumps from Wired to the New Yorker

2012-06-07 16:36:16

Critic's Notebook: Grantland takes on the bigger world of sports

2012-01-04 00:00:00

When it comes to sportswriting, I tend to subscribe to George Plimpton's small-ball theory: The smaller the ball, the better the writing about the sport. This has a lot to do with my own biases (I'm a baseball fan, not much interest in basketball or...

Andrew Bynum can do the little things while adapting to double teams

2012-01-12 21:35:57

The Sports Guy goes Hollywood: Can Bill Simmons make Grantland a must read for pop culture lovers?

2011-07-15 16:32:45

Free agent profile: Reggie Williams

2011-08-11 21:34:59

Kevin Love loses opening round in Manhattan Beach Open, talks lockout

2011-08-25 16:33:38

Malcolm Gladwell, Sept. 3

2013-01-08 20:23:47

"'Outliers' -- you should read it. Malcolm Gladwell. It's one of my desert island books, along with Machiavelli's 'The Prince,' 'Freak' by John Leguizamo, any of the scripts from the first season of 'Vampire Diaries,' a little 'Phantom Tollbooth

2012-03-12 17:01:45

The top two books on Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's reading list: "What The Dog Saw" by Malcolm Gladwell was recommended by a friend. Of "A Prayer for the City" by Buzz Bissinger , she said, "It's behind the scenes at Philadelphia 's city hall."

2010-07-29 00:00:00