UCLA's baseball team is in Omaha for the College World Series for the third time in the last four years.
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The Santa Monica College shootings and the NSA's mass surveillance should make clear that security requires controlling both the guns and the spies.
The former television and LA Times political reporter fled to Oman after the Carmen Trutanich and Dennis Zine campaigns for City Hall fizzled. Now he's back: "Hope to see you around the city's political/media souk."
The Dodgers are getting on base, but they're not scoring runs because they're hitting for zero power. The team counted on the wrong players for big hits and they now have an aging roster that would be perfect for 2008, but not 2013.
Drive-by studio
Ghostly Dutchman
New LA ballet company
Joffrey's 'Rite of Spring'
The Snake Can
Sneaky nudes
How the media missed Jenni Rivera
Half a century after Ritchie Valens, the national and local media got caught unawares again by the death of a major LA talent. Read
Track 16 yields to the Expo Line
A part of the Bergamot Station arts complex where many have attended arts and book events through the years had to go. Read.
Native Intelligence: Gatz
Chasing Ice
Film review by Iris Schneider at Native Intelligence. Read
Gallery
Night visions
Bill Cunningham at work
Getting to know the street photographer Bill Cunningham, after all these years.
Video gallery
City Ballet of Los Angeles
LA Observed goes behind the scenes at a ballet company housed in a Salvation Army center near downtown. Native Intelligence
California Design 1930-1965
Inside the preview day for a major exhibition.
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