Demographics

Most workers hate their jobs or have 'checked out,' Gallup says

2013-06-17 08:51:00

Seven out of 10 workers have "checked out" at work or are "actively disengaged," according to a recent Gallup survey.� In its ongoing survey of the American workplace, Gallup found that only 30% of workers are "were engaged, or involved in, enthusiastic...

Micro apartments in Los Angeles: 'How Small Is Too Small?'

2013-06-13 08:50:00

With condo buildings sprouting from vacant lots and talk of lifting height restrictions on its high-rises, Hollywood offers one of the best illustrations of Los Angeles' push toward population density. In the heart of this quickly changing neighborhood,...

Girl's lung transplant leaves thorny ethical questions

2013-06-12 18:09:00

The emails arrived by the dozens. Then the hundreds. Then the thousands. Family and friends of Sarah Murnaghan had posted an online petition demanding that the 10-year-old, whose lungs were ravaged by cystic fibrosis, be given the same access as...

More Americans consider themselves multiracial

2013-06-12 21:14:00

The number of Americans who consider themselves multiracial has grown faster than any other racial group nationwide, new Census Bureau data reveal, a sign of slow but momentous shifts in the way that Americans think about race. Mixed or multiracial...

'The Carrie Diaries' and 'The Americans' revive 1980s interest

2013-05-30 07:30:00

The 1980s have been taking a lot of abuse for a lot of years. Witness what "30 Rock" did when it sent Liz Lemon, in flashback, to her teenage years. Former show runner Robert Carlock remembers it was a perfect opportunity to point and laugh at an entire...

Last call at WeHo's last lesbian bar

2013-06-04 19:09:00

On Sunday night at West Hollywood's last lesbian bar, Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" blared over the speakers. Dozens of women stood outside the Palms on Santa Monica Boulevard, hugging old friends and escaping from the heat inside the...

L.A. elections may be decided by older, white voters, poll shows

2013-05-20 23:21:00

Tuesday's elections will sweep in new leadership for Los Angeles' 3.8 million residents, but the races are likely to be decided by an older, whiter and more educated fraction of the city's population. Latinos, the city's dominant ethnic group and a...

Drowning most common fatality during Superstorm Sandy

2013-05-23 15:13:00

The leading cause of death during Superstorm Sandy last fall was drowning, according to a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report, which analyzed 117 storm-related deaths, comes amid a National Oceanic and...

'Before Midnight' strikes new path in couple's journey

2013-05-17 14:00:00

NEW YORK — "Before Midnight," Richard Linklater's third film about the relationship between an American man (Ethan Hawke) and French woman (Julie Delpy), closes with what might be the series' piece de resistance: a 30-minute hotel-room argument...

2013 TV Upfronts: First-place CBS isn't afraid to be 'smug'

2013-05-15 19:26:00

At ABC’s upfront presentation Tuesday in New York City, Jimmy Kimmel slammed the perennial first-place finisher CBS as a bunch of “smug” jerks (though he opted for a more a colorful epithet that isn’t fit to be repeated here)....

2013 TV upfronts: CBS unveils schedule with six new shows

2013-05-15 08:20:00

NEW YORK -- Wrapping up a season in which it will finish first in both viewers and the crucial adults 18-49 demographic that advertisers favor, CBS unveiled a fall television schedule with four new comedies and two dramas. For CBS, the win in adults 18-...

2013 TV upfronts: ABC's Jimmy Kimmel takes shots at the networks

2013-05-14 16:04:00

Jimmy Kimmel took to the stage Tuesday at ABC’s upfront presentation at New York City’s Avery Fisher Hall and delivered a monologue peppered with jokes aimed at the ratings and demographic woes of rival networks — and poor old Matthew...

A Danish study has found different mortality rates for couples in same-sex marriages and those in heterosexual marriages.

2013-03-11 17:33:44

A doctor holds an infant's hand at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C. Vital statistics for the U.S. in 2011 were released Monday in a report in the journal Pediatrics.

2013-02-11 12:32:54

Forty-three year old Cindi Bardman (right) and twenty-eight year old Kimberly Zubris battle for position in the last lap of their Air Products Developmental Cycling program 18+ age group final race on Friday night during the 2012 World Series of Bicycling at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center in

2012-08-24 00:00:00