Aneurysm

Ken Baumann's secret life in books

2013-05-03 12:00:00

To some people — those who might attend a guerrilla reading in San Francisco, for example — Ken Baumann is a writer and small-press publisher who is part of the contemporary literary vanguard. And yet, to a generation of adolescent girls, he's...

‘Pacific Rim’: Is Guillermo del Toro’s film the new ‘Transformers’?

2013-04-17 18:13:44

How not to say the wrong thing

2013-04-07 00:00:00

When Susan had breast cancer, we heard a lot of lame remarks, but our favorite came from one of Susan's colleagues. She wanted, she needed, to visit Susan after the surgery, but Susan didn't feel like having visitors, and she said so. Her colleague's...

Phil Ramone dies at 79; pop producer was star behind the stars

2013-03-30 21:00:00

Phil Ramone, the veteran record producer whose work with such top-tier talent as Barbra Streisand, Bob Dylan and Paul Simon made him one of the most revered figures in the music business, died Saturday. He was 79. He died of complications from pneumonia...

Megan P. Tatu, a good soldier

2013-03-27 00:00:00

Soldier, Megan P. Tatu has your back. And just about anything else you might need. The two-star Army Reserve general has just taken charge of the 79th Sustainment Support Command, the modern iteration of an Army logistics branch that is a year older...

Class on parenting becomes a journey through loss, grief and hope

2013-03-14 20:07:00

Roshawne Mackey walked into the Jordan Downs community center clutching a pink pamphlet from a funeral over the weekend, her face like stone. Her niece had been 11 — a diabetic who wasn't given her insulin shots. The dozen or so women in the...

Porn star Ron Jeremy on the mend after aneurysm scare

2013-02-06 10:05:00

Porn star Ron Jeremy wants the world to know he's alive and well following two surgeries last week for an aneurysm near his heart. "Thank you ALL for the concern & well wishes," he told the Ministry through his rep on Wednesday. "I'm doing very well...

Dakota Fanning going -- ahem -- very nude in 'Very Good Girls'

2013-01-31 16:51:00

Dakota Fanning is going nude in her newest film "Very Good Girls." In Naomi Former's coming-of-age film, Fanning, 19, plays a girl who makes a pact with her best friend (played by Elizabeth Olsen) to lose their virginity before they start college....

Randy Travis pleads guilty to drunk driving, gets probation

2013-01-31 19:02:00

Randy Travis pleaded guilty to drunk driving Thursday and as a result will be avoiding jail time in a case that began last summer when he crashed his car and was found naked at the scene. The country singer was given a 180-day suspended jail sentence,...

Motive unclear in apparent Oxnard murder-suicide that left 3 dead

2013-01-31 06:52:26

Pickup truck slams into Pasadena home; DUI suspected

2013-01-31 07:13:37

LAFD considers plan to beef up ambulance service for flu season

2013-01-30 18:13:33

Hagerty lacrosse players Jake McCarthy and Katie Schwab played this season after the death of one of their parents. Jake's dad, John, died of leukemia, and Katie has a tattoo on the back of his left shoulder to honor her mom Linda, who died of a brain aneurysm. (Joshua C. Cruey, Orlando Sentinel)

2013-04-12 00:00:00

Porn star Ron Jeremy, who recently suffered an aneurysm near his heart, gives the thumbs-up sign from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

2013-02-06 00:00:00

Dr. Michael Chen of Rush University Medical Center is studying connections between menopause and cerebral aneurysms, of which about 70 percent occur in women.

2013-02-04 11:36:27