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Amphitheatre to close, make room for Harry Potter attraction

2013-04-25 05:00:00

First they put a lid on it, and now they're pulling the plug. Universal City's Gibson Amphitheatre, a fixture on the Southern California live music scene for more than 40 years, will close in September and be demolished to make room for the new...

'Dancing With the Stars' results recap: Wynonna's last dance

2013-04-03 05:00:00

Prom night at "Dancing With the Stars" was fun and all, but at the end of the day, someone had to leave this dance. And in this third week of competition, the lowest number of judges’ scores and viewer votes befell country star Wynonna and her...

'Dancing With the Stars' recap: Prom night!

2013-04-02 05:00:00

Those tuxes. The flowers. That hair. Yes, it’s prom night at “Dancing With the Stars.” “Or as I call it, 'It seemed like a good idea at the time' night,” quipped host Tom Bergeron. The host had on a powder blue tuxedo...

PBS' 'Kind Hearted Woman' moves beyond a portrait of poverty

2013-04-01 06:00:00

David Sutherland is the director of three remarkable documentary films — I should say at least three, having seen only the last three — notable for their length and their depth: "The Farmer's Wife," from 1998, a 61/2-hour look at a farm family...

1917 glass plates offer glimpses into WWI-era Russia

2013-03-08 06:54:04

'Magic lantern' images open window into Russia's past

2013-03-08 07:00:00

Anton Orlov held one of the glass plates to the light. The hand-colored image seemed to glow. Two soldiers in long brown coats, rifles over their shoulders, stood with their backs to the camera. A trolley rushed out of the frame. A small patch of sky...

Riding shotgun with Dennis Zine across CD3

2013-01-25 06:45:00

Dennis Zine is trying to kill me. Or at least it seems that way. He’s driving across the grass at Lanark Park in his city car, enthusing about how responsive he is to his City Council constituents here in the West San Fernando Valley, explaining...

Grant Gerson dies at 92; founder of Calamigos Star C Ranch

2012-12-16 00:00:00

To generations of children attending summer camp in the Santa Monica Mountains, Grant Gerson was the happy-go-lucky guy in the boots and cowboy hat who brought the West alive for them. Gerson, who opened the Calamigos Star C Ranch in 1947, died Dec. 6...

Hundreds gather in Pasadena to honor slain youth coach

2012-12-28 06:44:06

Jerry Brown takes a new tack with UC Regents

2013-01-16 07:03:41

Boy Scouts' opposition to background checks let pedophiles in

2012-12-02 00:00:00

Amid reports of widespread sexual abuse of children in the late 1980s, several leading youth organizations began conducting criminal background checks of volunteers and staff members. Big Brothers Big Sisters ordered the checks for all volunteers...

Jack Gilbert dies at 87; unconventional poet knew fame and obscurity

2012-11-14 00:00:00

Jack Gilbert, a poet who eschewed conventions of career and writing style to develop a singular voice that combined intellectual heft with a spare specificity of language that made him among the major figures of American poetry over the last half-century,...

6th graders jump up and down at the YMCA's station gmae "junk in your trunk" where the kids tie tissue boxes filled with ping pong balls on to their backs and jump to make them fall out. Easton Area Middle School hosted a wellness fair for students in the gymnasium Thursday.

2013-05-16 00:00:00

She volunteered at the Pequot Library Book Sale each year until she was 97 and two days a week at Norwalk Hospital until she was 96. Her first husband, Briggs Cunningham, won the America's Cup in 1958 (she was a member of the support team) and raced at Le Mans in the 1950s.

2013-05-11 17:30:28

At the grill during the Burbank Community YMCA Pancake Breakfast is Sepou Ohanian, a member of the YMCA Service Club.

2013-05-07 00:00:00