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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...

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...

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...

'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)...

YouTube poised to enter subscription business for some content

2013-05-06 16:41:00

The next time you click on a YouTube video, you might be asked to pony up some cash before it plays. The Google-owned online video site is getting ready to enter the subscription business, according to people with knowledge of the situation. The...

With company split, Rupert Murdoch's pay to reach $28.3 million

2013-04-26 08:50:00

Although News Corp. plans to divide into two separate publicly traded companies in a few months, Rupert Murdoch won't see much division in his annual compensation. Instead he will get a little addition. Murdoch's combined salary, bonus and other...

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...

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...

Walt Disney Co. confirms layoffs at movie studio

2013-04-10 09:57:00

Walt Disney Co. has confirmed that it is laying off staff at its movie studio, which several media outlets reported last week. The Los Angeles Times reported�April 5 that the cuts were expected to affect the studio's marketing and home entertainment...

Faces of Coachella 2013

2013-04-13 22:24:27

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