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Museum hosting show of ancient bronze work

LOS ANGELES – It’s almost as if the dozens of exquisitely detailed, often perfectly intact bronze sculptures on display at the J. Paul Getty Museum disappeared into an ancient witness-protec...

DATE: Jul 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

BYOB: It’s brew your own beer at some colleges

POMONA, Calif. – A bachelor’s in beer? A master’s in malt? Not quite. But these days, some colleges are teaching students to make beer as part of their studies. When California S...

DATE: Apr 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Exclusive: Letter that inspired Kerouac found

LOS ANGELES – It’s been called the letter that launched a literary genre – 16,000 amphetamine-fueled, stream-of-consciousness words written by Neal Cassady to his friend Jack Kerouac in 1950...

DATE: Nov 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

With gay marriage comes question: I do or I don’t

LOS ANGELES – When gay marriage became legal in Pennsylvania earlier this year, Elissa Goldberg was ready to say “I do.” Her longtime partner’s reaction, however, was “I’m not so sure.” ...

DATE: Oct 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Family

Forget fall; California is hot

Despite temps, heat wave isn’t unprecedented

DATE: Oct 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Play that instrument, kids

As they learn to process sounds, it helps their reading, speech

DATE: Sep 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health

Agent gives Hollywood edgy look with ‘real’ people

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – You couldn’t miss Hollywood talent agent Sid Levin’s office in the old days: It wasn’t much bigger than a closet and it was sometimes filled with burglars, bank robbe...

DATE: Aug 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Ailing ‘Ghostbusters’ artist gives bird to cancer

LOS ANGELES – Michael Gross never planned on joining the front lines of the fight against cancer. The guy who once put a terrified-looking dog on the cover of National Lampoon ma...

DATE: Aug 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

Bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley heads to California

Associated Press LOS ANGELES – The old farm boy who used to raise cattle in a place called Big Spraddle Creek says at age 87, he doesn’t even raise a garden. But Ralph ...

DATE: Jun 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

Injured Afghan girl finds beauty in art

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – She had always loved to paint and draw, something it appeared the little girl from Afghanistan might never do again after she mistakenly picked up a grenade outside h...

DATE: Apr 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

’Best of best’ of Ansel Adams’ photos on display

LOS ANGELES – During the last years of his life, Ansel Adams pored over the tens of thousands of negatives he’d carefully stored since his teens, setting aside 70 he determined would stand a...

DATE: Mar 17, 2014 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

Gold discovery spurs rich vein of theories

LOS ANGELES – Word this month that a Northern California couple found $10 million in gold coins while walking their dog has set off a Gold Rush of theories about who left behind all that loo...

DATE: Mar 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World