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Janelle Monae in Wondaland
— Janelle Monáe's feet moved in S curves as her band laid down a backbeat in the converted garage that acts as a music room inside Wondaland, the brick house that serves as her Atlanta headquarters. The singer watched herself in a wall of mirrors as...Tags: Dance, Philip K Dick, Fiction, Culture, Arts
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Book review: 'The Cloud Corporation' by Timothy Donnelly
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Cloud Corporation Timothy Donnelly Wave Books: 154 pp., $16 paper Like a favorite late-night DJ surfacing from the AM static one particularly desolate evening, Timothy Donnelly's "The Cloud Corporation," his first collection of poetry in seven...Tags: Social Conflicts, Education, Civil Unrest, Los Angeles Times, Conservation
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Sidney Lumet dies at 86; prolific 'actor's director' steered clear of Hollywood
Sidney Lumet, the prolific four-time Oscar-nominated director known for guiding strong performances in classic films such as "12 Angry Men," "Dog Day Afternoon" and "Network," died Saturday. He was 86.
Lumet, whose film career spanned more than 50 years,...Tags: New York City, Ossie Davis, The New York Times, Rod Steiger, Celebrities
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John McCracken dies at 76; contemporary artist made geometric sculptures
John McCracken, an artist whose fusion of painting with geometric sculpture in the mid-1960s came to embody an aesthetic distinctive to postwar Los Angeles, died Friday in New York. He was 76.
McCracken had lived in Santa Fe, N.M., since 1994 and,...Tags: Sacramento, Ridgewood, Arts and Culture, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California), Arts
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Movie Review: Moon
Film CriticAnother name for "Moon" might be, and I mean this only slightly facetiously, "2009: A Space (Spacey?) Odyssey," as it's virtually impossible not to be reminded of Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece between Kevin Spacey's soothing ministrations as a computer...Tags: David Bowie, Metal and Mineral, Movies, Entertainment, Kevin Spacey
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Dark Passages: Michael Koryta tackles ghosts new and old
One of the first lessons any writer should learn is that where you start isn't necessarily where you end up and that your defining books are often beyond your control. Michael Koryta arrived auspiciously at the authorial gates when his first novel,...Tags: Death, Fiction, Crime (genre), Genres, Hotels and Accommodations
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Robert B. Radnitz dies at 85; Hollywood producer of distinguished family films
Robert B. Radnitz, an English teacher turned movie producer who made some of Hollywood's more distinguished family fare, including "Sounder" and "Island of the Blue Dolphins," has died. He was 85.
Radnitz died Sunday at his Malibu home from complications...Tags: Cinema Industry, University of Virginia, Death, Arts and Culture, Culture
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Century Plaza as L.A. statement
Architecture CriticIf nothing else, the debate over the fate of the Century Plaza hotel is a reminder that there is no preservation controversy quite like a preservation controversy in Los Angeles. In most American cities, examples of postwar modernism like the Century...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Transportation, Subway Transportation, Arts and Culture, Hotels and Accommodations
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Modine under a magnifier
Brand XIt's a formula that's increasingly common among the glitterati: Get famous, watch your celebrity wilt, then stage a publicity stunt to regain the limelight. But when a bikini model rescues a village of blind orphans or a faded C-list actress saves a... -
Monday's TV Highlights: Amy Poehler is James Lipton's guest on 'Inside the Actors Studio.'
Show TrackerCIVIC DUTY: Mayor Cory Booker attempts to lead struggling Newark, N.J., to better days in the five-part, five-night documentary miniseries 'Brick City,' beginning at 10 tonight on Sundance Channel. SERIES Inside the Actors Studio: Amy Poehler ('Saturday... -
Sunday's TV Highlights: Cloud is back on 'Nature'
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of Oct. 25 - 31 in PDF format This week's TV Movies WILD HORSES: The documentary series 'Nature: Cloud: Challenge of the Stallions' catches up with the white stallion now in......
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