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Arlo Guthrie, citing health, says he’s retired from touring

LOS ANGELES – You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant. But it appears we’ve seen Arlo Guthrie tell us that in person for the last time. In lengthy posts on his Faceboo...

DATE: Oct 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Music

Fans flock to Staples Center to pay tribut to Kobe Bryant

Fans grieve together around globe

DATE: Jan 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Robert Hunter, Grateful Dead’s poetic lyricist, dead at 78

LOS ANGELES – Robert Hunter, the man behind the poetic and mystical words for many of the Grateful Dead’s finest songs, has died at age 78. Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart says ...

DATE: Sep 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

Valerie Harper, TV’s Rhoda, has died at 80

LOS ANGELES – Valerie Harper, who scored guffaws, stole hearts and busted TV taboos as the brash, self-deprecating Rhoda Morgenstern on back-to-back hit sitcoms in the 1970s, has died. ...

DATE: Aug 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Exploring the enduring bond between dogs, people

Exhibit allows you to see, smell with powers of a canine

DATE: Mar 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

Priest on mission to commit good deeds across the U.S.

Pope assigned missionaries to spread kindness, forgiveness, joy

DATE: Dec 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Stoner comedy pioneer Tommy Chong still toking, joking at 80

LOS ANGELES – Tommy Chong says he always knew he’d live to see the day marijuana legalization would be sweeping America. He knew when he and partner Cheech Marin pioneered stoner ...

DATE: May 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Friends separated by the Holocaust reunite in California

LOS ANGELES – When Alice Gerstel bid an emotional farewell to her family’s closest friends in October 1941, she was hopeful she’d see “Little Simon” Gronowski again. And she did – 76 years l...

DATE: Apr 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

California ‘pot resort’ asking people to toke up privately

LOS ANGELES – Nipton’s new swimming hole is under construction, booze is returning to the restaurant and lottery tickets are being sold again at the ghost town’s general store. Bu...

DATE: Mar 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

LA art museum unveils wide-ranging tribute to Jasper Johns

LOS ANGELES – Jasper Johns has said it was a young man’s decision to paint a picture of an American flag that launched one of the most heralded pop-art careers of modern times. Se...

DATE: Feb 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

Charles Manson, whose brutality made him face of evil, dead

LOS ANGELES – Charles Manson, the hippie cult leader who became the hypnotic-eyed face of evil across America after masterminding the gruesome murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six...

DATE: Nov 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Killer Charles Manson alive as reports swirl of ill health

LOS ANGELES – For nearly 50 years Charles Manson has been the living personification of evil, a demonic presence captured in scores of photos, each of them marked by his piercing dark eyes a...

DATE: Nov 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World