Five takeaways from Clippers' 112-96 win over Utah

1. For the second consecutive game, Blake Griffin started strong. He had 13 points in the first quarter, making six of nine shots against the Utah Jazz on Saturday night, and had five rebounds in the first. On Friday night against the Houston...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

Nebraska fires Coach Bo Pelini after 9-3 season

Nebraska fired Coach Bo Pelini on Sunday on the heels of a 9-3 campaign that included late-season losses to Wisconsin and Minnesota that dissolved the Cornhuskers' chances of playing in the Big Ten championship game. Pelini's firing is effective...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

12hrs.net is for when your sightseeing time is limited

Here's a website that can help when you're hot to travel but short on time. Name: 12HRS Available: 12hrs.net What it does: Provides 12-hour itineraries for travelers who are fond of great discoveries and love design, music and fashion. Available...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

12hrs.net is for when your sightseeing time is limited

Here's a website that can help when you're hot to travel but short on time. Name: 12HRS Available: 12hrs.net What it does: Provides 12-hour itineraries for travelers who are fond of great discoveries and love design, music and fashion. Available...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

Nebraska fires Coach Bo Pelini after 9-3 season

Nebraska fired Coach Bo Pelini on Sunday on the heels of a 9-3 campaign that included late-season losses to Wisconsin and Minnesota that dissolved the Cornhuskers' chances of playing in the Big Ten championship game. Pelini's firing is effective...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

Larry Agenbroad dies at 81; paleontologist led Mammoth Site excavation

On an archaeological dig in Arizona in the 1960s, something gnawed at paleontologist Larry Agenbroad every time human artifacts were uncovered. The excavation team went wild taking photographs and planning articles to burnish their credentials. But they...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

Larry Agenbroad dies at 81; paleontologist led Mammoth Site excavation

On an archaeological dig in Arizona in the 1960s, something gnawed at paleontologist Larry Agenbroad every time human artifacts were uncovered. The excavation team went wild taking photographs and planning articles to burnish their credentials. But they...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

Christianity and folk art in southern Colorado's San Luis Valley

Shortly after dawn, I pulled into this tiny town and studied a mural on the side of the post office. It was more than a painting; it was an illustrated map of Los Caminos Antiguos — the Ancient Roads. This was the fall road trip I had been looking...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

What we learned from the Ducks' 3-2 shootout loss to Arizona

The Ducks had only two three-game stretches at home without a victory all of last season, and those slumps came in February and March. This is far from panic time. The Ducks (10-3-2) own the best record in the NHL and have a Sunday showdown with Pacific...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

Larry Agenbroad dies at 81; paleontologist led Mammoth Site excavation

On an archaeological dig in Arizona in the 1960s, something gnawed at paleontologist Larry Agenbroad every time human artifacts were uncovered. The excavation team went wild taking photographs and planning articles to burnish their credentials. But they...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

Hong Kong student leaders say they may stay on the streets until June

Student leaders of Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests said Friday they might stay on the streets until next June if their attempt to seek talks with authorities in Beijing fails to resolve their political impasse. The Hong Kong Federation of Students,...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

Another judge stands up for the people with a blistering dissent

Judicial dissents often make for the most important, interesting and entertaining reading in major cases. Now comes Judge Martha Craig Daughtrey of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, bidding to take her place next to great dissenters Supreme Court...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

Hong Kong student leaders say they may stay on the streets until June

Student leaders of Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests said Friday they might stay on the streets until next June if their attempt to seek talks with authorities in Beijing fails to resolve their political impasse. The Hong Kong Federation of Students,...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

Another judge stands up for the people with a blistering dissent

Judicial dissents often make for the most important, interesting and entertaining reading in major cases. Now comes Judge Martha Craig Daughtrey of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, bidding to take her place next to great dissenters Supreme Court...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

'Any Sunday' sequel rides in as energetic eye candy

Bruce Brown's 1971 Oscar-nominated documentary "On Any Sunday" celebrated motorcycle racers and enthusiasts (like Brown himself) in the immersive manner of his noteworthy surf movie, "The Endless Summer." Now his son Dana (of "Step Into Liquid" fame),...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

Easy dinner recipes: Three great soups for cheese lovers

Isn't everything better with cheese? You can't go wrong on a fall night with these rich (and cheesy!) soup ideas: French onion soup: This classic doesn't even need a recipe. Start with a generous amount of sliced onions gently softened and browned...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

First a hurricane, now a tempest as Baja's Capella Pedregal changes names

First, Capella Pedregal, one of the most elite resorts in Cabo San Lucas, took a hit from Hurricane Odile. Now comes a tempest of another sort -- a management shakeup and name change. Meanwhile the hotel itself, closed since Sept. 14, isn't expected...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

Spirit's State of the Hate report says cramped seats infuriate fliers

Travelers hate airline seats. The findings come from Florida-based Spirit Airlines, which compiled complaints that it invited in what the carrier calls its "State of the Hate" report. Low-frills Spirit in July polled people about what they hate most...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

Scribd adds audiobooks in Netflix-for-books race

Subscription-based e-book lending service Scribd is now offering audiobooks, the company announced Thursday. Scribd is one of three top contenders -- alongside Oyster and Amazon's Kindle Unlimited -- in the race to become the leading Netflix-for-books...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

Freddie Mac: Average 30-year mortgage rate rises above 4%

Moving higher for a second week, the 30-year mortgage rate broke back above 4%. Freddie Mac calculated that lenders were offering the most popular home loan at an average of 4.02%. Rates rose for other loan types as well. Freddie Mac said 15-year fixed...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

Tom Brokaw's cellphone becomes election-night star

Tom Brokaw, the longtime former anchor of "NBC Nightly News" will always be TV journalism royalty, but Tuesday night, Brokaw introduced America to a new star in the Brokaw house: his cellphone. Brokaw was live on MSNBC on Tuesday discussing midterm...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

Tom Brokaw's cellphone becomes election-night star

Tom Brokaw, the longtime former anchor of "NBC Nightly News" will always be TV journalism royalty, but Tuesday night, Brokaw introduced America to a new star in the Brokaw house: his cellphone. Brokaw was live on MSNBC on Tuesday discussing midterm...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

Tom Brokaw's cellphone becomes election-night star

Tom Brokaw, the longtime former anchor of "NBC Nightly News" will always be TV journalism royalty, but Tuesday night, Brokaw introduced America to a new star in the Brokaw house: his cellphone. Brokaw was live on MSNBC on Tuesday discussing midterm...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

Home of the Day: Venice contemporary made for walking

By foot is the preferred mode of transportation in the neighborhood around this contemporary residence, which sits among a tightknit collection of homes in the desirable walk streets section of Venice. Clad in rich hardwoods, the three-level floor plan...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

Home of the Day: Venice contemporary made for walking

By foot is the preferred mode of transportation in the neighborhood around this contemporary residence, which sits among a tightknit collection of homes in the desirable walk streets section of Venice. Clad in rich hardwoods, the three-level floor plan...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

Journalism snapshots of the past - which looks like the present

Journalism is by nature an art – or a craft, depending on your take – of the present, that old cliché about it being the first draft of history. I see it more as snapshots of time, and it's interesting sometimes to go back through some of the photo albums,...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

Man pleads not guilty to kidnapping, raping women in Long Beach

A Signal Hill man accused of kidnapping and raping two women this year pleaded not guilty to a host of felony charges Monday and is being held in lieu of $4.5-million bail. David Faavale Tautolo, 32, is charged with two counts each of kidnapping to...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

Man pleads not guilty to kidnapping, raping women in Long Beach

A Signal Hill man accused of kidnapping and raping two women this year pleaded not guilty to a host of felony charges Monday and is being held in lieu of $4.5-million bail. David Faavale Tautolo, 32, is charged with two counts each of kidnapping to...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

Journalism snapshots of the past - which looks like the present

Journalism is by nature an art – or a craft, depending on your take – of the present, that old cliché about it being the first draft of history. I see it more as snapshots of time, and it's interesting sometimes to go back through some of the photo albums,...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

Hidden code of two great composers deciphered

The propriety of projecting a composer's personal life onto how we hear and perform the music goes through fads. Half a century ago, the Bay Area was home to Apollonian musicologists who prized structural analysis and dismissed biography as gossip. ...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

Ovation Awards go to Fountain Theatre, 'The Country House'

The Fountain Theatre in Hollywood and Donald Margulies' "The Country House" at the Geffen Playhouse were among the big winners Sunday evening at the 2014 annual Ovation Awards, which honor excellence in Los Angeles theater. Sunday's ceremony at the...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More

Five things we learned in USC's victory over Washington State

USC defeated Washington State, 44-17, on Saturday at Martin Stadium in Pullman, Wash. Here are five things we learned about the Trojans in the victory. USC can bounce back USC has lost three games, two on last-second plays. The Trojans bounced back...

23.50 | 0 komentar | Read More