Roxbury

Beverly Hills residence is an art showcase

2013-03-01 20:14:00

Drawing from Japanese and Midcentury Modern architecture, this house was designed to showcase an extensive art collection. A mix of natural materials, including redwood, limestone, oak and Bouquet Canyon stone, gives the house a dramatic appearance from...

John Thomas dies at 71; U.S. high jumper medaled in two Olympics

2013-01-24 19:33:00

He was the overwhelming favorite in his event, so much so that U.S. sportswriters covering the 1960 Summer Olympics boasted that if Americans won just one gold medal over the rival Soviet Union at that year's Games, it would be his. A skinny 19-year-old...

Grief unending for Sandy Hook -- 'There is no answer to this'

2012-12-20 11:04:00

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- People in this idyllic New England town returned on Thursday morning to the church that has served as the centerpiece of its grief and mourned another of the town’s young victims killed last week at Sandy Hook Elementary School....

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...

Southern California Close-up: Westside of Los Angeles

2012-06-05 10:03:00

First published on Sept. 25, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. You're an outsider heading to the Westside of Los Angeles -- not the beach cities, but Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Westwood and the nearby well-heeled neighborhoods south of the Santa...

Post & Beam's well-seasoned restaurateur, Brad Johnson

2012-07-04 00:00:00

Foodies tend to move like flocks of birds, swarming a chic eatery, and then — swoop — off to the next. One of their newer perches in Los Angeles is in a part of town that hasn't had much of the food spotlight. Post & Beam opened on New Year'...

Lakers' Devin Ebanks arrested on suspicion of DUI

2012-11-09 13:22:10

Michael Clarke Duncan dies; Oscar-nominated 'Green Mile' star was 54

2012-09-03 16:14:00

Michael Clarke Duncan, the tall and massively built actor with the shaved head and deep voice who received an Academy Award nomination for his moving portrayal of a gentle death row inmate in the 1999 prison drama "The Green Mile," died Monday. He was 54....

Celebrate Rainier cherry season at Bierbeisl

2012-07-07 16:34:23

Lillian Gallo dies at 84; pioneering TV movie producer

2012-06-17 17:03:00

At 20th Century Fox Studios in the 1960s, Lillian Gallo earned the nickname Mrs. Average America. She turned out to be anything but. Then a producer's assistant, she was asked to screen the dailies of nearly every television show in the Fox pipeline. She...

Q & A with Post & Beam's Brad Johnson

2012-07-04 16:34:33

The Review: Post & Beam in Baldwin Hills

2012-03-24 00:00:00

In the patio garden, strawberry plants in flower spill over round galvanized tubs. Favas and sugar snap peas climb a trellis, and thyme and sage scent the air. Old-fashioned lawn chairs covered in a sunny summer print are set out under a tree. At an...

Fred Klingener of Roxbury practices the sport of canoe poling on the opening day of the fishing season to the dismay of some who came out to fish. The canoe he uses is made of kevlar and it's fitted with airbags that make correcting a capsize easier as there is less space for the water to take up.

2013-04-20 00:00:00

The Hagerstown Correctional Complex is located on Roxbury Road outside of Hagerstown.

2013-03-06 15:51:00

Charles Sheehan, 14, of Roxbury, competes in the junior ski jump competition at the 2013 Alpine Ski Jumping Winter Carnival and Jumpfest at Satre Hill in Salisbury Saturday.

2013-01-26 00:00:00