Photography and Video

Swallow Magazine's Mexico City: Strippers, artists, mezcal and scratch-and-sniff

2013-05-17 08:00:00

The ruling elite ought not to mess with Mexico City's favorite restaurants. That might be one lesson from a recent scandal that this week brought down the head of the nation's consumer protection agency, whose daughter couldn't get a table at Maximo...

Idaho man pleads not guilty in alleged Uzbekistan terror plot

2013-05-17 10:52:00

BOISE, Idaho — An Uzbekistan national living in Boise said little during his first court appearance Friday on federal charges that he gave support, cash and other resources to help a recognized terrorist group in his home country plan a terrorist...

A view into the photography program at Humanitas Academy of Art and Technology

2013-05-14 11:04:04

A Sony entertainment spinoff would provide opening for CBS

2013-05-14 14:45:00

New York hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb wants Japanese electronics giant Sony Corp. to spin off its Culver City entertainment business. CBS Corp. might like that, too. Loeb, whose Third Point funds own more than $1 billion in Sony stock, sent a letter...

Sex offender took thousands of up-skirt videos, officials say

2013-05-16 19:32:00

Investigators are searching for more than 100 women they say were victimized by a registered sex offender who secretly shot videos up their skirts. Mylyn Johnson of the Antelope Valley was arrested in March and faces 15 felony charges including false...

reFramed: In conversation with WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY curator Anne Wilkes Tucker

2013-05-01 03:05:07

Amanda Demme is glad to no longer be the life of the party

2013-05-04 07:00:00

This story has been updated. See note below. Amanda Demme isn't who she used to be. And that's probably a good thing. Just ask her. She'll tell you she's been in hiding for six years, casting off the pretensions that came with life as a famous (and...

'The Voice' recap: Knockouts halve Teams Adam and Shakira

2013-04-30 09:28:00

It's the Knockouts, that instant elimination round sandwiched between the Battles and the live shows, on "The Voice" this week. On Monday night, in the first of two back-to-back two-hour shows that will trim 32 contestants to only 16 (four from each team)...

Mayor of West, Texas: The face of a ravaged town

2013-04-29 13:14:00

WEST, Texas — The two-tone brown Ford F-150 careens into the downtown parking space and out jumps Tommy Muska, a mayor on the move. Wearing a baseball cap, green long-sleeved shirt and bluejeans, his face ruddy from a life under the central Texas...

Mayoral race 2013: Video interviews with Garcetti and Greuel

2013-04-22 00:00:00

WATCH: Garcetti video interview | Greuel video interview In advance of the May 21 runoff election, we collected questions from voters for the mayoral candidates to answer. The questions covered a range of topics: neighborhood revitalization, small...

Bomb threat briefly closes down Beverly Hills shopping district

2013-04-19 13:13:00

A bomb scare closed streets in the heart of Beverly Hills for a short time on Friday. According to the Beverly Hills police, a bomb threat was called in�at a Rite Aid drugstore on Canon Drive. Police closed numerous streets in the area as they...

Teacher who allegedly posed as girl on Facebook to be arraigned

2013-04-19 07:14:00

A high school teacher is set to be arraigned Friday in Newport Beach on charges he used a fake girl's Facebook profile to lure teenage boys to send him sexually explicit photos and videos of themselves. Zachary Joshua Reeder, 30, of Orange, is to be...

The photographer signs his latest book at JF Chen, where select ventriloquist dummy portraits will be on view for three weeks.

2013-05-13 12:33:54

Honorable mention for this week's SunShots series "Your one best picture" goes to Kevin Moore for his picture of a worker at Green Mount Cemetery. Moore took this photo with a Canon 40D DSLR camera, while searching for the burial place of John Wilkes Booth.

2013-05-10 00:00:00

Meghan is a stay-at-home mom to a beautifully wobbly 1-year-old. She grew up in Ellicott City and returned four years ago to plant roots with her husband and not-so-well-behaved dog, Frank. Almost eight years after saying "I do!

2013-05-01 00:00:00