Music

Protest songs: Record labels aren't listening

2012-07-12 12:07:00

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FDA accuses 1-800-GET-THIN of using misleading Lap-Band ads

2011-12-14 00:00:00

The Food and Drug Administration has accused the 1-800-GET-THIN marketing company of using misleading advertising in its promotion of Lap-Band weight-loss surgery, saying the billboard, radio and television ads underplay serious risks to patients. The...

Clinics halt Lap-Band surgeries

2012-02-08 00:00:00

Two clinics tied to 1-800-GET-THIN have temporarily halted Lap-Band weight-loss surgeries after the device's maker said it would no longer sell to companies affiliated with the massive advertising campaign. The two brothers identified in lawsuits as...

Romantic getaways

2012-02-05 00:00:00

Berlin: Put Berlin next to Paris and you have both sides of the coin: romance, which occasionally appeals, and eros, which never fails. "Berlin is sexy," said the German capital's openly gay Mayor Klaus Wowereit, and it's been that way since the...

1-800-GET-THIN is sued by former workers

2012-01-17 16:18:00

Workers at weight-loss surgery centers affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN ad campaign persuaded patients to have medically unnecessary surgeries and billed insurance companies for procedures that were never performed, a new lawsuit alleges. Two women who...

California theme parks to ring in New Year with fireworks, music

2011-12-21 05:30:00

Shortly after Christmas, the same question arises every year: What are we going to do on New Year's Eve? Here’s what some California amusement and theme parks have planned for the last night of 2011: Disneyland in Anaheim will stay open until 2 a....

'Looper:' Playing a younger Willis

2012-01-15 00:00:00

In "Looper," Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a hitman in the near future whose targets have been sent back in time; one day, the man who turns up turns out to be an older version of the assassin. To bring the premise to life, Gordon-Levitt had to look (and...

Cruises: Drinking in the ambience aboard Rotterdam VI

2012-01-22 00:00:00

Rarely has a city been as in love with a shipping company as Rotterdam, Netherlands, is with the Holland America line. So July 3, when the 1997 Rotterdam VI left the Netherlands' second-largest city for New York City, the Dutch turned out in force to...

Palm Springs revival has deals for a song (or close to it)

2012-01-15 00:00:00

The Rat Pack lives again — or at least Palm Springs, once the party pad of Sinatra and the boys, does. The Coachella Valley city, which had devolved into a down-at-the-heels caricature of a Hollywood playground, has reinvented itself: Its retro-...

Patt Morrison Asks: Diane Keaton

2012-01-14 00:00:00

If you're lazily inclined to define Diane Keaton by the crossword-puzzle-sized word "actor," you need to get out more. Add to that her work as director and producer, photographer, restorer of venerable houses, board member of the Los Angeles Conservancy...

Patt Morrison Asks: Doris Day

2012-01-07 00:00:00

Add it all up, and Doris Day's singular singing voice has spent more than 11 years on the Billboard charts. Her three dozen-plus films made millions of fans and dollars. And now, after nearly two decades of living below the radar in Carmel, Doris Day is...

Music keeps minds active and memories alive

2012-01-30 00:00:00

My name is Bob, and I know what it's like to be flat on your back for more than two months. My first encounter was for a form of arthritis called Reiter's syndrome — a three-month stay in a Veterans Affairs hospital marked by boredom and...

The Kodak Theatre has been home to the Oscars since 2002, but it looks like the academy might be taking the show downtown.

2012-05-01 12:12:00

A concert is always great for getting all cuddly, but it has to be the right kind of concert. You don't want something like the symphony or jazz, where audience courtesy is valued -- no singing, no shouting, no dancing. You want a rock show. But there again, you want a certain kind of rock.

2012-02-09 15:00:21

"If you have a lover of pink (or of cupcakes) under your roof, you'll appreciate the way this show celebrates family, healthy living and, well, moderation in all things," wrote Chris Jones in his review last summer.

2012-02-09 14:56:34