Summer Olympics

Esther Williams dies at 91; athletic star of aquatic musicals

2013-06-07 00:00:00

The water, Esther Williams once quipped, was her favorite costar. With her beauty, sunny personality and background as a champion swimmer, Williams shot to stardom in the 1940s in the "aqua musical," an odd sub-genre of films that became an enormous hit...

'Night Stalker' held Southern California captive in 1985

2013-06-07 18:38:00

Southern California is miserably accustomed to serial killers — the Manson Family, the Hillside Strangler, the Freeway Killer, the Skid Row Slasher. But there had never been one quite like Richard Ramirez, who deserved the flashy, fearsome tabloid...

A liberal mayor takes on the San Diego establishment

2013-06-01 16:16:00

SAN DIEGO — Under a pro-business Republican mayor, it was a no-brainer: allocating millions of dollars each year to buy national advertising for the tourism industry — a major economic driver in this vacation mecca. Then Bob Filner got...

Coliseum deal: USC to cash in on turnover

2013-05-31 20:03:00

About five years ago, County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky denounced USC's proposal to take control of the taxpayer-owned Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and its revenue. "Some people on the board of trustees of the University of Southern California...

Global Voices: Channeling 'comfort women' amid new controversy

2013-05-30 05:00:00

A Korean American author’s reverie on the victims of World War II sexual enslavement has landed in e-book form in the midst of fresh controversy provoked by a Japanese politician’s defense of "comfort women" as necessary for wartime discipline...

Vin Scully is the true voice of Los Angeles

2013-05-14 00:00:00

My young colleague, Ben Welsh, who hails from Swisher, Iowa, by way of Columbia, Mo., and Washington, D.C., quickly caught on to what we native Angelenos know subliminally. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Scully: A May 14 Op-Ed about Vin Scully said...

Herald Examiner photographers reflect on the good ol' days

2013-05-12 20:05:00

Nick Souza doesn't remember developing the film of what he considers his most noteworthy front-page photo. He doesn't even recall printing the image. What he does remember is "standing on a giant ladder in the middle of Broadway" to photograph co-...

Did Chinese film director Zhang Yimou illegally father 7 children?

2013-05-10 00:16:00

BEIJING -- One of China’s most prominent film directors, Zhang Yimou, is under investigation for fathering seven children -- a violation of the country’s strict family-planning laws. The 61-year-old Zhang directed the opening spectacle of...

L.A. Times couldn't be barred from reporting on testimony, judge rules

2013-05-09 22:31:00

A judge ruled on Thursday that The Times could not be stopped from reporting on testimony from the top manager of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in a deposition for an open-government lawsuit. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Luis A. Lavin said that...

Borussia reaches Champions League final

2013-04-30 22:01:00

Borussia Dortmund needed every bit of its first-leg advantage to stave off a comeback attempt by Real Madrid and reach the Champions League final for the first time since 1997. Karim Benzema scored in the 83rd minute and Sergio Ramos in the 88th,...

Economists predict modest growth in advertising spending

2013-05-03 13:22:00

Economists are forecasting slow growth in advertising spending for the remainder of 2013 amid encouraging signs from the U.S. labor market. Media companies are doing their best to grab a bigger slice of the pie. This week, Wall Street cheered Viacom...

Queen Elizabeth: Should she stay or should she go?

2013-04-30 18:38:00

So here’s the real question about the Tuesday ceremony in Amsterdam in which Queen Beatrix abdicated and passed the robe (they don’t wear crowns) to her son, Willem-Alexander, who just turned 46: Did Britain's Prince Charles, who was in...

Brian Beaman of Selby competed in the 20008 Summer Olympics.

2013-05-02 23:27:00

The breakout star of the 2012 London Summer Olympics was apparently swimmer Ryan Lochte, with his USA grill and his "jeah!" catchphrase. Now he's got a reality show on E!. Because of course he does.

2013-04-20 00:00:00

John Porter offended the French when he refused to drink a champagne toast in Paris because alcohol was illegal back in the good old U.S.A., and he made darned sure the 1932 Summer Olympics were bone dry.

2013-03-01 16:09:06