Caves and Caverns

Easy dinner recipes: Moroccan chicken soup and more!

2013-05-17 07:00:00

Soup. It's the perfect one-dish meal. A little of this, a little of that -- before you know it, dinner is served. It's simple. But perhaps the best thing? Soup always seems to taste best the next day, after the flavors have really had a chance to marry....

The fantastical hats of Dr. Seuss set to land at Laguna Beach

2013-05-15 19:10:00

A traveling selection of hats, helmets, bonnets and caps once owned by Dr. Seuss makes a SoCal stop at a Laguna Beach art gallery on Friday. Photo Gallery: 7�things you didn't know about Dr. Seuss The touring "Hats Off to Dr. Seuss!" exhibit is part...

Friday's TV Highlights: 'Blue Bloods' on CBS

2013-05-09 20:00:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 5 - 11, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- SERIES Undercover Boss The new episode...

Coachella 2013: The xx, Nick Cave steal spotlight from headliners

2013-04-22 12:11:00

There were two questions heading into the xx's set on the main stage of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival on Saturday night. Could a band that's evolving by stripping more out of its songs hold the attention of a large festival crowd? And would...

Movie review: 'No Place on Earth' a gripping Holocaust survival tale

2013-04-11 17:25:00

Add one more extraordinary survival tale to the canon of Holocaust documentaries: "No Place on Earth." Director Janet Tobias uses a successful mix of storytelling methods as she details the strands of this remarkable, harrowing chapter. For 511 days,...

Old military bunkers could house bats threatened by deadly fungus

2013-04-11 10:40:00

Decommissioned military bunkers on national wildlife refuges could be transformed into artificial hibernation chambers for wintering bat populations devastated by the lethal fungus known as white-nose syndrome, according to an investigation by federal...

Nick Cave finds outside pursuits help Bad Seeds' music grow

2013-04-09 18:04:00

NEW YORK — Nick Cave, the moody Australian statesman of majestic post-punk folk rock, was only midway through answering the second question of an early interview in Manhattan when he stopped the conversation to try to clarify a point. Settling...

Disease threatens critical population of gray bats

2013-04-08 15:06:00

Federal biologists on Monday confirmed the presence of a lethal fungus known as white-nose syndrome at Alabama’s Fern Cave National Wildlife Refuge, home of the largest wintering colony of endangered gray bats. With more than 1 million hibernating...

Deep in a former gold mine, scientists hunt for dark matter

2013-04-08 06:00:00

LEAD, S.D. — The scientists don hard hats, jumpsuits and steel-toed boots to pile into a metal cage for a rumbling 11-minute descent into an abandoned South Dakota gold mine. They step over old mine-cart rails, through rough-walled tunnels and...

Coachella 2013: Grinderman makes it personal

2013-04-13 12:26:00

Is it the scariest or sexiest thing imaginable to have Nick Cave scream at you, personally, for 15 minutes at Coachella? During the lightly attended but absolutely ferocious set Friday from the Aussie goth-menace, a typically beatific Coachella cutie...

Cave exploring leads to discovery of Holocaust survival story

2013-04-12 07:00:00

Twenty years ago, veteran caver Chris Nicola received an offer from a Ukrainian friend to explore the well-known gypsum giant caves in the western part of the European country. Nicola quickly accepted the invitation. "My family on my mother's side had...

Review: Brad Eberhard's paintings explore the depths

2013-03-29 05:00:00

In six new paintings, Brad Eberhard goes scuba-diving in the ocean and spelunking in caves. From the sea he returns with rapture of the deep (and perhaps a bit of decompression sickness), while the caves are filled with Plato's treacherous shadows --...

Girl Scouts Erika Escalante, Rachel Hebb and Kate Whaley visited visited Lincoln Caverns in Huntingdon, Pa., for a two-day workshop to earn their WOW! (Wonders of Water) Journey award.

2013-05-15 04:26:00

Nick Cave at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's "The Walk 2013" on Friday, May 3, 2013 in Millennium Park in Chicago.

2013-05-03 00:00:00

Nick Cave walks into the crowd on the third and final day of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

2013-04-22 12:26:00