How To Use L.a. In A Sentence

  • copasetic" [used so nicely in "West L.A. Fadeaway"] -- and such stunts as dancing down Broadway in 1939 from Columbus Circle to 44th Street in celebration of his sixty-first birthday. The Annotated "Alabama Getaway"
  • San Francisco poets Tarin Towers and Daphne Gottlieb, Eitan Kadosh from L.A. and Phoenix's Eirein Bradley barnstormed with O'Hara through 35 U.S. cities over the summer.
  • It will be closer to L.A. without actually being there, and let's face it, the hotel room gouging is really out of hand. San Diego Convention Center Plans $753 million Expansion in Bid to Keep Comic-Con | /Film
  • One year later, some dirtbags tried to blow up L.A. with a nuclear bomb, so Bauer had to punch in again.
  • This week actor Alan Rachins, better known as the balding popinjay Douglas Brackman of "L.A. Law," shucks his pinstripes for something more daring. He Left His Briefs Behind
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  • Even the change in location from a gritty industrial city (Manchester, England) to a glossy, sunlit place like L.A. was a misstep that undermined the necessarily bleak tone.
  • The Canadian designer Angella Mackey makes a women's shell with a snap-in LED light strip, and L.A.-based Aether's Transit jacket has understated reflective black strips. Easy Riders
  • According to one law enforcement source, the investigation into the 13-year-old unsolved case was "reinvigorated" months ago as a result of new information, but the source would not elaborate further because of the ongoing investigation that includes the Los Angeles Police Department, L.A. Notorious B.I.G. Murder Investigation 'Reinvigorated' After New Information
  • Air France in L.A. has a firm and continued hold on worst firearm service, although in recent years British Air has pluckily attempted to give Air Chance a run for their money. Flying with Guns
  • Movie bombshell Megan Fox gave new meaning to the word transformer during a recent day out in L.A., when the sexy star, who is rarely seen without her signature dark eye makeup and slash of red lipstick, dared to go bare while picking up beauty supplies. Megan Fox Without Makeup (PHOTO)
  • As was the case in Clea's Moon, the book is filled with great local color from the L.A. of the late '40s. Archive 2007-04-29
  • Jackson Hole may seem an odd place to hold a press junket when the usual locations are New York and L.A. However, Yellowstone National Park, which is located near Jackson Hole, is a major setting in 2012. Before the World Ends, Matt Heads to Wyoming for 2012 and Interviews the Cast – Collider.com
  • Other teams posted better regular season records, but L.A. still wins the psychological game.
  • When they take the stage together, A-Trak and Barker will "perform versions of each other's remixes (they 've reworked tracks for everyone from Boy Tell'em to MSTRKRFT and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs), plus new material they' ve been working on in Barker's Los Angeles studio," according to MTV. the Roxy in L.A. on March 9 and 10. Pitchfork: Latest News
  • The Shtibl Minyan (of which she was a very a very active member when she lived in L.A.) has set up a form so that all six orders of the Mishnah will be learned during her shloshim (the initial 30-day mourning period.) Baruch Dayan HaEmet - Danya Ruttenberg
  • With obviously far more extensive resources, the Getty has also put together an exhibition of ephemera under the title Greetings from L.A. Peter Clothier: One Saturday: Art/L.A.
  • In those days, the labor powerhouses in L.A. were the United Auto Workers and the machinists, each with close to 100,000 members in the auto and aerospace plants that ringed the city.
  • In this, her first feature film, which was written and directed by Steve Antin, Ms. Aguilera is Ali, a stage-struck Iowa girl who decides to head for L.A. '
  • L.A. Mexican food, deep-dish pizza from Masa (LA), and Cuban pork sandwiches from Paseo (Seattle). Jill Donenfeld: Band Bites: Chowing Down With Local Natives
  • Enjoying a ratings boost this spring thanks to its Dancing With the Stars lead-in, this enjoyable light mystery swaps coasts as Detective Beckett goes rogue, defying orders as she heads from New York to L.A. where the Heat Wave movie based on Castle's books is in production to find the killer of her former partner. Matt's Picks: May 2-5
  • ‘We're spoiled here in L.A.,’ admits Schmidt, referring to the outdoor living possibilities presented by the area's coastal climate.
  • I never really lived in L.A. I don't like all the hubbub.
  • The L.A. Dodgers are a cinch to win the division.
  • EverestL.A. rock quintette Everest is the sound of deep places. Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 201
  • The management of aircraft and helicopters operating in the area is probably the largest extended operation of its kind the P.L.A. has ever conducted, " he said.
  • No strangers to the courtside, before the game began Mr and Mrs Carter grabbed an opportunity to greet L.A.
  • To accomplish this, the Coalition recommends more, and better, marked bike paths, in particular along the L.A.
  • Ms. BIRCH: I was playing piano at the Beverly Hills Hotel in L.A. and he came in this one day and I was playing and so I made sure to play my grooviest little piece on the piano. Diane Birch: The 'Bible Belt,' In Eclectic Song
  • A man's voice announced the departure of the L.A. bus.
  • Like me, one class member once romped across L.A. County, fearful that she was going to be killed, though she feared the Mafia, not the CIA or FBI, as I did. Robert David Jaffee: Ron Artest: Hero for the Mentally Ill and Everyone Else
  • Once on the scene, L.A. officers took control, got the information they needed, and returned to the road as fast as possible, wasting no time schmoozing with the citizenry.
  • Despite the ridic weekend heat wave, over 12,000 made it to the first L.A. Flea Market at the Dodger Stadium on Sunday.
  • On my street art safaris, I started noticing these simple, beautiful three-color paint drip pieces on newspaper boxes and walls around NYC and L.A. I found out they were created by artist/filmmaker Gregory Siff who is doing them as promotional pieces for a film he is making. Paper Magazine: Gregory Siff's Cinematic Street Art
  • The interview has already been pushed back several times as the Canadian punkers scramble to finish soundcheck at the Troubadour club in L.A. before that night's gig.
  • Wimpy Jewish kid grows up - now a true 'bromantic' arts by naomi pfefferman, l.a. jewish journal J. Weekly
  • Chandler, to whom pulp fiction had come late in life, had written his first Marlowe novel, ‘The Big Sleep, ‘in 1939, followed by six more novels about the L.A. shamus.
  • Despite the excitements it had to offer, I was happy to leave the pollution and sprawl of L.A. and set off for the shores of Tonga.
  • A bill to require this was killed earlier this year by the L.A. Assemblyman, a Democrat close to the old-line energy industry who has used his position as chairman of the Assembly's energy committee to frustrate progressives.
  • She had some moments of acting glory -- part of the original cast of the hit musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas," roles in "L.A. Law" and "thirtysomething" -- and then hit a wall. CNN.com
  • I had a day of rehearsal, and I got another callback, and they flew me to L.A.
  • A good example, IMHO, of the book experience and film experience working in synergy is L.A. Confidential. Archive 2006-01-01
  • I reach her in L.A. where she is performing Jimmy, the one-woman show she presents at Kaboom3 this week.
  • Media Mogul, A.iv "Vivi" Nevo's L.A. A.ode: Celebrity Real Estate Trends at move.com
  • 'Celebrity Apprentice' recap: The tale of the class act and the 'hussy' - L.A. Now 03/21/2011, 8:02 a.m. Latimes.com - News
  • Guinness says this woman in Chicago has the poppiest eyeballs, this man in L.A. the stretchiest skin. CNN Transcript Jul 25, 2007
  • Howland kept getting questions during the tournament about how the gritty, slowdown style was playing in showy, glitzy L.A., and how the region's plethora of high-scoring high school stars will receive recruiting calls from the nation's new defensive powerhouse. USATODAY.com - UCLA to key on defense again
  • L.A. is celebrity central, of course, and the Lakers are afraid of losing their status as the league's glamour franchise.
  • Ron Curran, a dogged, award-winning investigator and unblushing idealist who helped establish the L.A. Weekly's reputation for hard-edged, relevant local reporting, died this week at 43 in his Huntington Beach home.
  • SinoSoul.com is a food blog where you might find the word "deplorable" describing the burger "ball of beef" at well-respected L.A. restaurants such as The Hungry Cat and Jar. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • The L.A. Times team has written a searing, unflinching and unequivocal indictment of a morally criminal operation bereft of any apologies or doubts.
  • But caution from doctors like Braunstein has not stopped L.A. residents from swamping pharmacies with requests for potassium iodide, which is available over the counter, usually in pill form. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • I'm going out to L.A. next week to cohost for Jimmy Kimmel on his show all week long.
  • The "Silver Line," as Metro's calling the busway proposal, would run from the Artesia Transit Center in South L.A. to El Monte. Blogdowntown: Life in Downtown Los Angeles (Stories+Headlines)
  • The trio asked him, he said, if he would support a land swap - the Santee site for property that L.A. Unified owns in the garment district.
  • Last night we went to the boondocks (or as close an approximation as we could get to the boondocks, living in L.A.) to watch the Perseid meteor shower.
  • Merrill, the host of KABC's "Feed Your Face" and Editor, of the Los Angeles Zagat Survey, emceed a mixed bag panel of top L.A. restaurateurs: veterans Piero Selvaggio (Valentino), Michael McCarty (Michael's), as well as newer voices like Neal Fraser (Grace, BLD), and Helene and Elizabeth An (Crustacean, Tiato). Jay Weston: Food Event at Malibu Ranch Was Different -- It Had Animals as Well as People!
  • In another illustration of hard-fought (even, here, arguably hard-hearted) selfness, Terri Minsky describes having a demanding TV career that could put her in L.A. for months at a time, while her family remained in Manhattan. Rhymes With Rich
  • Hiking in Griffith Park, biking along the L.A. River, eating at Flore, yard sale-ing on the weekends, dog parks... Nicole Garton: Ingenue Interview: Vanessa Prager
  • Brach flies back and forth weekly, between New York and L.A.
  • A Serbian friend of mine in L.A. also keeps her home well stocked with rakija. Anna King: Drinking Rakija In The Tiger's Wife and Los Angeles
  • The folks at Island / DefJam Records are mourning the loss of Shakir Stewart, the 34-year-old executive vice president of the label overseen by L.A. Reid. Alanat News
  • Joss nibbled on her bottom lip, staring ahead as she mentally cursed the stupid L.A. traffic.
  • A religious group wanted to hang fishing wire all over Oak Park, the way they have elsewhere in L.A. They call it an "eruv," and it apparently kills birds, such as hawks, that don't expect to dive-bomb into an invisible wire. Oak Park Stops Religious Group From Stringing Fishing Wire All Over Neighborhood
  • •The artsiest, edgiest pornographic movie in years, Carlos Batts'Artcore starring April Flores, has nothing to do with the venerable Los Angeles non-profit exhibition space by the same name, L.A. Mat Gleason: January '11 L.A. Art World Gossip
  • From Vegas, it was on to L.A. for friends, shopping and a few showbiz happenings.
  • California schools began to sink 20 years ago when the same nimrods who now want to chop up L.A. brought us Proposition 13, thinking money is better spent on kitchen remodeling than on public education.
  • Earlier in the day I saw allegedly L.A.'s first chessboxing match. Archive 2010-02-01
  • This man in L.A., the stretchiest skin, but this man in the White House may soon hold the title for most disliked president. CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2007
  • Lovanch says the four-storey high sign is shorthand for L.A. Mr. LOVA.CH: In our great country of ours, you can think of the Statue of Liberty, you can think of the Golden Gate Bridge, and you can think of the Hollywood sign as an iconic spot. NPR Topics: News
  • Steady the ship on this heading until the shadow from the pelorus vane at the proper L.A.T. cuts the circumference of the pelorus dial at the proper magnetic bearing. Lectures in Navigation
  • White SeaWhite Sea is the electro creation of L.A.-based songstress and cellist/pianist Morgan Kibby, former czarina of The Romanovs. Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 197
  • Bilson, 28, flashed a ringless finger to Us on the red carpet of the Take No Prisoners event in L.A. Wednesday night. Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Rachel Bilson & Hayden Christensen Call Off Their Engagement
  • T.e result will be the log haversine of the S.H.A. or L.A.T. It must always be less than 10. Lectures in Navigation
  • The whole L.A. Basin was smoggy or hazy today, and my lungs hurt.
  • No romanticizing here; you wouldn't want to meet many of these young men on a dark street, although most of their damage has been inflicted on rivals in the specially supercharged L.A. gang world.
  • About April, 1863, Edward Palmer (years afterwards M.L.A. for Carpentaria), who was in charge of his uncle's station "Eureka," four miles from "Stanton Harcourt," started with the sheep depasturing there for the Gulf country. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869
  • There is in Seeing Other People some of that cantankerous L.A. biliousness that makes Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm the great comedy show of our time. In Full Swing: Sexual Liberation in L.A.
  • The tar pits contain L.A.’s earliest resource, pitch as in “pitch black”, which is really solidified petroleum, also called asphaltum, a thick layer of goo between the surface and L.A.’s later, deeper resource, oil. I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen
  • The decisions of Payton and Malone, who both have the option of returning to L.A., are mere sidebars to the main plot.
  • There's a report in the L.A. Times today that says one of the things the administration is looking at is what they describe as coercive inspections, which I guess means the inspectors would go back into Iraq but with military forces of some sort backing them up. CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2002
  • After paying an average of $35 every time I hopped into an L.A. cab during the recent fashion week, I lucked upon a shiny, blue minivan with ‘Shopper Shuttle’ emblazoned on it.
  • The crowds and excitement grow every weekend, and it makes me proud to see my people boogalooing to some of L.A.'s hottest stage acts in Chicano Music today.
  • And best of all, one of the heads of Qantas told me it's only $800 to fly roundtrip between L.A. and Sydney ... so I say giddyup! Meg Hemphill: Australia Invades the US
  • •The artsiest, edgiest pornographic movie in years, Carlos Batts'Artcore starring April Flores, has nothing to do with the venerable Los Angeles non-profit exhibition space by the same name, L.A. Mat Gleason: January '11 L.A. Art World Gossip
  • A record-label underling is charged with making sure a down-and-out rock star makes it to his comeback anniversary concert in L.A. Backstory: Russell Brand reprises the loutish rocker character he played in the 2008 comedy "Forgetting Sarah Marshall. JSOnline.com
  • The scene is so L.A.: a line of red-tile roofs covering tidy stucco houses, most painted off-white or ochre, with an occasional pistachio green or bubblegum pink tossed in for fun.
  • It was Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer Jonathan Gold who called John "the Roberto Bolano of L.A. cuisine," referring to the impresario whose mind spins off into a hundred directions at once. Jay Weston: Chef John Sedlar's Innovative Latin Food at Playa
  • James Scott lives in L.A. Carol Es is inspired by his work and enjoys his friendship, read more about this, here. Vitro Nasu » 2006 » July
  • KÄHLER, L.A. -- Supranaturalismus und Rationalismus in ihrem gemeinschaft. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology
  • In March of 2010, the label held a writing camp in L.A. to create the songs for Rihanna's album, Loud. News
  • More likely, the L.A. Times doesn't really know much about what causes military units to be ready or unready - or, if it knows, it isn't really accurately telling us in this story.
  • One time on the 405 in L.A., I saw a woman switch from a very nice business outfit into a leotard.
  • The Baz Luhrmann version with Leonardo di Caprio and Claire Danes, set in contemporary L.A. The two leads are good - indeed Danes is absolutely fantastic - but pretty much nobody else is (apart from Pete Postlethwaite as Friar Lawrence), and the excellent music, direction and location settings (Venice Beach rechristened Verona Beach) have to compensate for the lousy performances. Three more films
  • Major League Lacrosse's 10 franchises are located in the sport's hotbeds, such as Baltimore and Long Island, but also in Denver and L.A.
  • In increasingly Hispanic South Central L.A., tiny bodegas selling milk, diapers, and piñatas are replacing liquor stores.
  • Part of its elusiveness is because there are no direct jets from Miami, New York, Denver or L.A. This discourages some travelers and tones down the ritz and glitz characteristic of most Mexican beach resorts. Puerto Escondido: Mexico's hidden Oaxacan beach
  • L.A. DJ duo Classixx has remixed a number of our favorite dance-oriented acts -- Phoenix, Holy Ghost, Yacht -- by turning them into lush, breezy, laidback '70s grooves, bathed in reverb, synth washes and California atmosphere. Nightlife Agenda
  • Bowing in New York and L.A. October 14th after screening this week at the fest is The Skin I Live In by Pedro Almodovar, the reliably hell-raising Spanish auteur. Erica Abeel: Both Nutzoid and Thrilling: Almodovar's The Skin I Live In
  • TNT crew right at home in glitzy L.A. Special feature USATODAY.com - Shaq, Kobe still main keys to Lakers' fortunes
  • The novelist and screenwriter Jerry Stahl, one of Ames's L.A. friends, calls Ames's shtick ‘silk-stocking raunch.’
  • Jarrow, 2011, pure pigment on aluminum, 69 1/4 x 62 15/16 in. 176 x 160 cm , Courtesy of L.A. Louver, Venice, CA Tracey Harnish: Jason Martin at L.A. Louver
  • With American and Russian pop music piped into the walkways and shops, the mall's atmosphere is similar to L.A.'s Beverly Center.
  • “The story of Prescott Bush and Brown Brothers Harriman is an introduction to the real history of our country,” says L.A. art book publisher and historian Edward Boswell. Think Progress » Brown’s Dishonesty Jeopardizes His Law License
  • For those of you not from L.A. or Hokkaido, boba is a Japanese soft-drink with marble-sized blobs of gelatinous goo floating in it. Ned Goldreyer: The Gulf Coast Was Ruined and All I Got Was This Lousy Sense of Doom
  • If this pleasure is paradise, it is very Pacific, L.A.-specific and ultracool even in its sexualized steaminess.
  • In L.A. you can't smoke anywhere, so you have to smoke outside and then go back inside to your drink.
  • From L.A., he had gone north up to Vancouver and had then taken an eastbound Canadian passenger train across Canada.
  • The Motown Sound" has left a legacy stretching over the past 50 years, even after the label moved from hometown Detroit to soulless L.A. 500th Womanizer Stories from The Sun
  • Me, I'm an endomorph, possessed of a soft and thick body that looks as if it was stuffed to order at Build-A-Bear, not sculpted at an L.A. sports club. Confessions of a Fat Runner
  • Brach flies back and forth weekly, between New York and L.A.
  • Or I could add something about the extremely odd coincidence (read: publicity stunt) of Rinna's L.A. boutique getting heisted at THE EXACT MOMENT she and husband Harry Hamlin were appearing on the "Today" show to promote their new books and reality show: The reluctant scoop on Lisa Rinna's Lips
  • You know, there are certain weight requirements and restrictions for aircraft when they're landing, this plane had not only all the fuel to get to Denver, but in addition we were tankering fuel back from L.A., because of the cheaper fuel costs there.
  • Meanwhile on the West Coast, Julius Shulman (of the cantilevering L.A. house) has been exalting classic modernist California design in several big glossy volumes for Taschen. Arts Extra: Some Buildings Are Like Supermodels
  • To accomplish this, the Coalition recommends more, and better, marked bike paths, in particular along the L.A.
  • The often unharmonious L.A. streetscape makes a perfect laboratory for evaluating this missive.
  • Now I can either hippety-hop all over, to Denver to Salt Lake to L.A. to San Francisco, or wait for the first direct flight at eight-forty in the morning. Till the Butchers Cut Him Down
  • GOOOOOOD LUCK IN L.A. 2NITE, EVEN THOUGH YOU PROBALLY DONT NEED IT, THE WAY YOUR PLAYING. Wright Now
  • Our palish bodies now somewhat tanned as we headed into the city limits of L.A.
  • JOEL LARSON: drums A veteran of numerous L.A. bands, Joel was a member of the Grass Roots in 1964-5 when the band had only recorded a few singles. The Dawn Patrol
  • A major incident here in L.A. could shut down public infrastructure, power grids, food distribution networks, transportation arteries, and the phone lines - just to name a few.
  • With no clue about what happened and little time to spare, the trio must attemptto retrace their bad decisions from the night before in order to figure out where things went wrong in the hopes of finding Doug and getting him back to L.A. in time for his wedding. Collider’s Wants to Give Out a HANGOVER – Who Wants Free Swag from Warner Bros. THE HANGOVER – Collider.com
  • Incidentally, 28 years ago today was the day that our parents brought Sasha and me to L.A. (we came to the U.S. one day before, and stayed the night in New York on our way); I think we've been citizens just a titch over 20 years.
  • An overexercised blonde with that distinct L.A. plastic surgery look is sitting on the counter, trying to blow cigarette smoke out the open window while she stares at herself in the mirror. Good-Bye To All That
  • Those are the English fans who pitched up today here to be Home Depot's center, the L.A. Galaxy Stadium here in Carson City, which is actually in Nevada, if you didn't know that. CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2007
  • It has also achieved something that feels laudably true -- anthropological even -- about a kind of monied, famous West L.A. lifestyle that everyone knows exists but that has eluded even the best movies and TV shows that aimed to portray the Industry. Previews of HBO's 'Entourage' and 'Hung'
  • Manchess is widely awarded within the industry, garnering (among others) gold and silver medals from the Society of Illustrators in bot New York and Los Angeles, a Best in Show Award from the L.A. Society of Illustrators, the Hamilton King Award, the Stephan Dohanos Award, and a Spectrum silver medal. MIND MELD: The Most Memorable SF/F Book Covers
  • With a pad of blanks and the punch, I could mark my own transfers and travel anywhere that L.A. buses went.
  • She is friends with one of the dancers who helped lay the foundation for krumping in L.A.
  • L.A. rock quintette White Arrows is the brainchild of fire-charmer Mickey Schiff. Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 146
  • They would be back in L.A. a whole month before Uni resumed, but, as Jessi had said, it would be good to get settled prior to the hard slavery of the final year.
  • As the L.A.-based painter makes staggeringly evident, meat is raw organic matter, streaked with stringy sinew and mottled with roseate fat.
  • Den här softa mashupen av Weezys Lollipop och jjs Ecstasy gjord av stockholmaren NEO SUCCESS har funnits med ett tag (har bl.a. postats på GvsB), men The spare and smoldering electro/guitar bits comprised by the xx LP are ripe for remix reduction, the latest coming from 23-year-old L.A. producer Jason Chung aka Nosaj Gorillaz/Damon Albarn has always held a very special place in my heart. Hot Artists at Elbo.ws
  • This term encompassed artists that incorporated psychedelic production into folk-rock and/or power-pop, eventually forming a tight-knit community in the L.A. area due to its aligning sound. Obscure Sound - Indie Music Blog
  • There is not much left to say about Pittman that has not been penned; he is indeed an elder statesperson of art in L.A. ArtScene: Southern California's Top Ten Exhibition Picks for 2010
  • The whole L.A. Basin was smoggy or hazy today, and my lungs hurt.
  • A Chewbacca impersonator was arrested in L.A. after being accused of head-butting a Hollywood tour guide. SF Tidbits for 2/5/07
  • Brody's turn as the sleazo hard-drinking L.A. private detective is -- speaking as somebody who used to be one -- done right. Look! Up in the Sky! It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's ...
  • Paul Getty Museum resurrects Ronald Davis, an artist hailed in the 1960s for adding trompe l'oeil twists to his geometric abstracts like "Vector," , while the Otis College of Art and Design focuses on L.A.'s early feminist artists, like Judy Chicago. A New Home for Arab Treasures
  • He never thought anymore about the past life regression speech Toshi gave him on the way to L.A. the day after he met Jordan.
  • For all of you calling the esteemed Senator from L.A. a cheap whore perhaps, in the interest of clarity you may want to rethink your terminology. Jihad Monitor
  • Tom Wudl: immensities and infinities: further specimens from the flowerbank world opens June 2 at L.A. Louver Bill Bush: When the World Was Small and Man Knew His Place in It: This Artweek.LA (May 30 - June 5)
  • This was Fleetwood Mac, but very contempo L.A. It was a love song, but the subtext was that we desperately needed a couple of heroes to replace the ones we had lost. ɘloЯ
  • Earlier today our L.A. correspondent blogged the Academy Awards live from Hollywood.
  • He feels safe knowing that Brian May lives nearby in L.A. and believes that Freddie and Princess Diana speak to him from the heavens in skywriting.
  • Among the artists who defined what is known as the Chicano art movement in L.A. is a painter who goes by the name Gronk. Edward Goldman: Dark, Sexy, Provocative. The Choice Is Yours
  • These were the last stretch of holidays left before she graduated, and after that, she intended to live in L.A.
  • Of such _anecdota_ there are many collections; the earliest was probably L.A. Muratori's, in 1709. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
  • They have lit the flame of remembrance in L.A., an expression of unity and remembrance to the victims of bigotry, intolerance, referring of course to the Holocaust.
  • It is in this spirit of examining dichotomies that, beginning in October and for the six months that follow, Los Angeles and its surrounding communities will be home to "Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980," an enormously ambitious attempt to make sense of the ephemeral and tangible through exhibitions at more than 60 museums, galleries and various other sites from Santa Barbara to San Diego. Tom Teicholz: How LA Grew Its Art
  • He took a red-eye out of L.A. and went on a riverboat tour down the Mississippi.
  • 'Brigid's got the hots for that guy from L.A. Wanna join in?' The Rules of Attraction
  • Swank convinces us of a peculiar combination in Maggie, a white trash starveling who's come to L.A. and trained herself onto the women's undercards of men's bouts: she feels she has nothing to lose and yet isn't at all downhearted.
  • As NBA teams continue to grovel to Mr. James by unleashing hokey gimmicks the Knicks revived Tony Soprano for a promotional movie; the Cavaliers lined the streets with loyal fans; the L.A. Clippers offered a hard-boiled egg and validated parking the hidden cost is how much the 25-year-old's yawny free-agency waltz is diverting attention from actually interesting sporting events. Tale of LeTape: The Weekend's Big Stories
  • But despite such high-minded coups, Army started out, in the '40s, gathering gamier dish, as a twenty-something who'd had a year on the L.A. AP desk and was hired as the "leg man" for the L.A. Herald Express's Harrison Carroll. Sheila Weller: Army Archerd, In Memoriam
  • When we think about L.A. artists who put our city on the map, the name of Alexis Smith immediately comes along with her contemporaries, such as John Baldessari, Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley. Edward Goldman: Dark, Sexy, Provocative. The Choice Is Yours
  • Before they knew it, they were playing big concert halls in New York and L.A., seducing music lovers of all tastes: the house-heads, the hippies, the ravers, the hepcats - you name it.
  • gangstas in South Central L.A.
  • JONAS to Jonas L.A. The series will now air on Sunday nights and premiere on June 20. The Hollywood Gossip
  • A car chase in L.A. ends in an arrest, but not before a highway patrol officer missed a hard right turn and crashed through a building.
  • On their section of the L.A.P.D. site, they post pictures of items that have been stolen, ranging from Salvador Dali paintings to Peanuts cels.
  • ‘There have been many attempts, but no one had been able to get silicon to lase before now,’ notes Bahram Jalali, the physicist who led the U.C.L.A. team.
  • Not sure if this is the work of some Jackson family-hired spin-doctor cum hagiographer, but here from Carolyn Kellog in the L.A. Times: 2009 June | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
  • With the basketball money in the bank, we could pay our music teachers, and more than 100 enthusiastic children performed at a soaringly successful school concert attended by entertainment-industry executives from New York and L.A. Cue the tears, hugs, cheering, pizza. Tales Out of School
  • My mother was away for long stints at the Northville State Psychiatric Hospital, my dad, a chemical engineer at Chrysler, was paralyzed in a shallow-water diving accident, and my best friend from junior high was later shotgunned to death by a biker gang in an L.A. drug deal gone bad. Susan Schindehette: 8 Mile, Revisited
  • Thanks to the input of legendary folk and country-rock banjoist and guitarist Bernie Leadon-a founding member of The Eagles and a first-call sideman from Nashville to L.A. for the past 40 years - the new Style 5 Deluxe Banjo will be available in an extremely limited run of just ten instruments, with a retail price of $8,889 each, including a custom-shaped Gibson hardshell case and Certificate of Authenticity. Cybergrass Bluegrass Music News
  • Gajin Fujita blends a rich diversity of cultural influences that range from traditional Japanese ukiyo-e to contemporary manga; from American pop culture to East L.A. street-life iconography and graffiti. Bill Bush: Made in L.A.: This Artweek.LA (October 10-16, 2011)
  • Naysayers find the Monkees to be a fake Beatles, but mostly what I get off this LP is a smoothed out version of the L.A. garage rock popular at that time. 2010 January : Scrubbles.net
  • Bugsy," as the Hollywood crowd were now calling Benjy due to their feeling he was a bit bats galore in the old belfy, had to, due a couple of hits in 1937--one of whom was his own father-in-law, the famous mob hitman Whitey Krakow--flee L.A. for safety's sake, and it was while fleeing L.A. that Bugsy stopped in seedy Las Vegas to take a piss. Who Are You? #2
  • Back in 1904, immigrant water baron William Mulholland arrived here with Frederick Eaton, the retired L.A. mayor and water hound.
  • Back in L.A., as I return to my daily actor audition grind, even though I am vigilant in doing my predawn prostrations to the multiarmed dancing warrior, his bindied three-eyed elephant pal, and the talking blue monkey in charge of money, the psychic vision fades. Dont You Forget About Me
  • L.A. Opera scores with striking 'Der Rosenkavalier,' lusty 'Falstaff' Undefined
  • Gilbert, who has been called a "dynamo" by admirers, is 92 years old and L.A. Unified School District's oldest full-time teacher. Rose 'Mama G' Gilbert, 92, Inspires Generations As L.A.'s Oldest Teacher
  • the new lawsuit, filed TK in L.A. Superior Court, alleges that he approached Brown in the parking lot
  • When Marina Lu is found bloodied in her new Lexus in an exclusive L.A. suburb, reporter Eve Diamond is assigned the story. The Jasmine Trade: Summary and book reviews of The Jasmine Trade by Denise Hamilton.
  • We hit the streets of L.A. to do nothing but shop and spend time alone together - that was the plan.
  • What do you think DJs and turntablists have been doing illegally for almost 15 years in dance clubs from Berlin to L.A.?
  • I'm tooling down the freeway between L.A. and the border.
  • During his stay in L.A., he boogalooed his way into videos by Herb Alpert, Davina and Adina Howard, and came close to landing a role in ‘Jungle Book,’.
  • Veteran L.A. dealers Timothy Blum and Jeff Poe say they have also profited from the explosion of demand. The L.A. Art Boom
  • The ever-dedicated nightcrawler and her new beau got themselves tattoos at an L.A. parlor during a 3 a.m. visit last week.
  • But as you look through it, it was the L.A. sad story of someone who was good-looking, wanted to be famous, came out to be an actress, never connected and never could give up that dream of celebratedness. CNN Transcript May 10, 2001
  • At 15, Ed ditched school to go to L.A. and see the Red Hot Chili Peppers with Jason Lee, Ann, and Deanna.
  • The magazine buzzed him in his L.A. hotel room and chatted about the new film, the band's score and the art of updating soundtracks.
  • As the area surrounding L.A. began its inevitable encroachment on the contiguous farmland, it took longer and longer for the farmers to drive in, and the old Farmers Market grew into a state of semipermanence. I Am Not A Psychic!
  • Nowadays I divide my time between L.A. and Berlin, Germany.
  • A spokesman for the L.A. Sheriff's Office told People magazine that Lohan won't be released early this time, though, because her incarceration is a court order, not a jail sentence. Celebritology Weekend: Lindsay Lohan heads back to jail; A 'Grey's' doctor at Colonial Williamsburg; Cameron Crowe, Nancy Wilson split
  • The British popster and former "X Factor" contestant wore the lip-smacking ensemble to the L.A. premiere of Justin Bieber's "Never Say Never" and, shocking though it may be, she wasn't the worst-dressed attendee. Leona Lewis gets lippy at Justin Bieber's 'Never Say Never' premiere
  • But The Colonel, who fashioned himself the Hollywood action hero going uncast in actionless Charlotte, would be coming to L.A., and Lorenzen Mayne would be going home. Foul Lines
  • Individual table settings include a hefty steak knife bearing the L.A.
  • A Chewbacca impersonator was arrested in L.A. after being accused of head-butting a Hollywood tour guide. SF Tidbits for 2/5/07
  • Casting their dragnet into the murkiest corners of L.A., Gone by Jonathan Kellerman: Book summary
  • In the end, the multiagency investigation produced enough evidence to indict Greene for embezzling roughly $35,000 from the I.L.A. and for falsifying union records. Kill the Irishman

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