Wednesday morning, before Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week got underway at its new Damrosch Park home, the fashion industry's legal landscape was being reshaped just across 62nd Street at Fordham University's Lincoln Center campus. That's where fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg brought...

Lehman case coming? The Wall Street Journal reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission may finally bring a case against Lehman Bros. executives based on some questionable accounting practices used before the firm's bankruptcy. Lehman's filmmakers. Since the bankruptcy, two...

Usually, artists photograph what they can see in the camera's viewfinder. Not Trevor Paglen -- at least, not always. Sometimes he aims his camera at the night sky, where a multi-hour exposure can record spy satellites that can't be seen...

I like to think of myself as a good tipper. Unless the service is horrible, I leave 20%. And even when I am just ordering a cup of coffee and some toast and reading the Sunday paper, I leave a...

The Atwater Village garden shop Potted began discounting all merchandise by at least 20% this morning in an effort to make room for new fall decor. The inventory is wide-ranging: vintage furniture, fountains, fire pits. The Fermob bistro table above, normally $229, is now $183.20; matching chairs, regularly $110 apiece, are $88. Everything down to the last 2-inch succulent will be reduced by 20%. That includes Woolly Pockets, the modular plant containers. According to co-owner Mary Gray, some furnishings will be discounted by as much as 75%. Those sale pieces include garden benches, statues, gnomes, folk art concrete pieces, the...

Las Vegas hotels usually kick off special offers on rooms with low midweek rates. So why not take off, say, the days before Thanksgiving or Christmas and cash in on a little pre-holiday fun? You can take advantage of the offers well into next year as long as you reserve before they expire. Some of the [...]

The explosion and massive fire that ripped through San Bruno left six dead, the fire chief said Friday morning, and he expected the toll to rise as more homes are searched. San Bruno Fire Captain Charlie Barringer stood on Glenview...

Altogether, federal employees owe their employer $1 billion in back taxes.

"Portrait in Black" has just about everything you need for a campy good time: Sandra Dee! Lana Turner in an increasingly elaborate selection of diamond earrings! A very tan Anthony Quinn! Former silent film actress Anna May Wong as a housekeeper named Tawny! It goes on a little long, but this thriller is almost never boring. Pour yourself your favorite vintage cocktail (perhaps an Aviation?) and have a look. Sheila Cabot (Turner) is weary of nursing her unpleasant invalid husband, a shipping magnate who lies in his hospital bed stroking his Siamese cat and running his empire with the help...

The president of Pacific Gas and Electric said Thursday night that investigators would look into reports that residents smelled gas in the days preceding the huge explosion and massive fire that is raging across 10 acres in a San Bruno...

The summer theater season has scarcely come to a close and already there are some who are planning for next year. The Old Globe in San Diego announced that its 2011 summer lineup will feature six main productions including Shakespeare's...

Dozens of people marched in the Westlake district Thursday during a fourth night of protests over the death of a Guatemalan immigrant who was shot to death after LAPD officers said he threatened them with a knife. But unlike on...

Thursday, September 9th CITY NONLEAGUE Bell 39, Grant 13 Dorsey 37, Taft 24 Locke 30, San Fernando 7 Narbonne 41, South East 0 San Pedro 44, Santee 0 South Gate 28, Belmont 21 (OT) SOUTHERN SECTION NONLEAGUE Ayala 25, Colony...

At least 53 homes have been destroyed and 120 damaged in the massive blaze that tore through a San Bruno neighborhood, a state official said Thursday night. Jay Allen, spokesman for the California Emergency Management Agency, told The Times that...

The utility company that serves San Bruno confirmed Thursday night that one its gas line ruptured in the neighborhood where a roaring fire left at least one person dead, destroyed a number homes and injured a couple of dozen victims....

Keith Lakey's 59-yard touchdown run with 2:21 left has given Dorsey a 37-24 lead over Taft. Update: Dorsey wins, 37-24. Joseph Gray passed for 359 yards and three touchdowns. -- Eric Sondheimer

The Marine League is looking strong this season. Narbonne opened its season with a 41-0 victory over South East. -- Eric Sondheimer

With flames continuing to burn in San Bruno, many of the evacuees at the nearby Bayhill shopping center had no idea Thursday night whether their homes would be standing when they finally return to their fire-ravaged neighborhood. Doug Kunze, who...

A massive explosion believed to have been sparked by a gas-line break produced an inferno that consumed a San Bruno neighborhood Thursday night, leveling numerous homes and forcing residents to run for their lives. There was one confirmed fatality and...

Dorsey and Taft have each scored touchdowns in the third quarter, leaving Dorsey ahead, 27-21, with 4:06 left in the quarter. Michael Robert's second interception of the game for Dorsey set up a five-yard touchdown run by Keith Lakey. Taft...

Anaheim Servite did exactly what it should've done against an overmatched opponent: dominate. Cody Pittman threw for 125 yards and three touchdowns and rushed for 70 yards and another score as the Friars, ranked third in the Southland by The...

Michael Robert, who has two interceptions, came through with a clutch 38-yard field goal with 5:50 left to give Dorsey a 30-21 lead over Taft. -- Eric Sondheimer

Kennedy has finally given its fans something to cheer about. Jonathan Williams scored on a 5-yard run to get the Golden Cougars on the scoreboard against Southern Section power Anaheim Servite, The Times' third-ranked team. Kennedy trails 48-7 with 10:03...

A few blocks from the fire-devastated San Bruno neighborhood, the Bayhill shopping center was buzzing with scores of evacuees clustered around a Starbucks and an Extreme Pizza store. Tina Pellegrini, who lives on Claremont Drive at the corner of Glen...

Welcome back to “The Vampire Diaries” thrill ride! This show became one of my unexpected favorites last season, so I was eagerly anticipating its return all summer. Tonight's season premiere was certainly worth the wait. With the characters and premise...

Woodland Hills Taft has picked up a second touchdown run from Dimitray Lewis, this one from seven yards, cutting its deficit to 20-14 against Dorsey with 7:16 left in the second quarter. After starting the game three for 10 passing,...

Dorsey is holding a 20-14 halftime lead over Woodland Hills Taft. Both teams came up with interceptions at the end of the second quarter to halt drives. Dorsey quarterback Joseph Gray has passed for 305 yards and three touchdowns but...

Servite needed just four plays to score on its first drive of the second half and increase its lead to 34-0 over host Granada Hills Kennedy. Quarterback Cody Pittman hooked up with receiver Malik Felton for the second time tonight,...

As flames continued to rage out of control in San Bruno, fire crews from outlying cities and agencies were responding to help fight the massive blaze that has left at least nine people burned and destroyed a number of homes....

Click here to download TV listings for the week of Sept. 5 – 11 in PDF format This week's TV Movies Weekly TV Listings can also be downloaded here A DRY HEAT: Our hero hooks up with the Bushmen of...

SYDNEY — A Russian circus touring Australia has dropped an act in which a performer swallows a live fish, then regurgitates it, after complaints that it was in poor taste and inhumane. Great Moscow Circus general manager Greg Hall said...

Fullback Sean Derosa powered into the end zone from six yards out to cap a 66-yard, 8-play drive and wide receiver Robert Abeyta caught a 20-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Cody Pittman on the Friars' next possession to increase Servite's...

Dorsey quarterback Joseph Gray has completed eight of 15 passes for 250 yards and three touchdowns to give the Dons a 20-0 lead over Woodland Hills Taft after one quarter. Michael Robert caught the latest Gray TD pass from 37...

It's been all Servite so far in tonight's intersectional matchup against Granada Hills Kennedy. The Friars have scored on all four of their possessions and lead 27-0 at halftime. Junior quarterback Cody Pittman played only three series but carved up...

At least eight patients, some of them badly burned, had been transported Thursday night to San Francisco- area hospitals as a conflagration continued to rage in the city of San Bruno.A man and a women who were in serious condition...

BRUSSELS — Primates, including mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans -- have gained new protection after the European Parliament backed a clampdown on animal testing. "The use of non-human primates should be permitted only in those biomedical...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Conservationists and wind power developers told a legislative panel Thursday that more study is needed to determine the effect of wind turbines and electrical transmission lines on the habitat of the lesser prairie chicken. The state is...

Los Angeles Dorsey began its game Thursday night against Woodland Hills Taft with a short pass to the speedy Marvin Hall, who then raced 80 yards for a touchdown, giving the Dons a 7-0 lead at Jackie Robinson Stadium. Update:...

It didn't take long for Servite to get on the board in its intersectional game at Granada Hills Kennedy. Apparently the two-hour bus ride north to the San Fernando Valley hasn't made the Friars drowsy. After Kennedy failed to gain...

A huge fire left a swath of destroyed and burning homes across a several block area Thursday evening as bright walls of flame and thick smoke shot into the Bay Area city of San Bruno. The blaze was raging in...

Strong winds were stoking a powerful fire that had leveled a number of homes in a hillside San Bruno neighborhood as fire crews struggled to contain the conflagration, according to a witness near the scene. "The flames are getting bigger...

The city’s bid to enlist the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as a key player in conserving the Watts Towers has hit a snag as LACMA seeks a guarantee that it won’t be held financially liable for any damage...

Click here to download TV listings for the week of Sept. 5 – 11 in PDF format This week's TV Movies Weekly TV Listings can also be downloaded here The Early Show Abigail Breslin; Diane von Fürstenberg. (N) 7 a.m....

The fight over Proposition 23, a November ballot initiative to suspend California's global warming law, turned ugly this week, with personal attacks and emotionally charged rhetoric on both sides. In a conference call with news media Thursday, former Secretary of...

If any game in the Southland this weekend is worthy of a David vs. Goliath comparison, it's tonight's intersectional clash between Anaheim Servite and Granada Hills Kennedy. On paper, this is a blowout. Servite, ranked third in The Times' Top...

Since reopening with much fanfare last week, peace talks between Israel and Palestinians continue to generate the typical mood swings. Parades are promptly rained on, windows of opportunity pronounced open one minute are declared closing the next. The first local...

A group of farmers and environmentalist organizations sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday, challenging the agency's recent decision to allow some operators to plant genetically altered sugar beet seeds. The complaint (which can be read here) alleges that...

Fire crews were battling a large fire Thursday evening that was blazing in this hills of San Bruno, south of San Francisco. It was unclear what sparked the large fire, which was preceded by a large explosion. Firefighters were pouring...

The grito, or yell, is the customary climax of Independence Day celebrations in Mexico. It is a call made by the president, governors and mayors across the country at midnight every Sept. 15, a tradition commemorating the original grito of Father Miguel Hidalgo in 1810. But this year, as Mexico struggles with soaring drug-related violence, at least 16 cities and towns in Mexico are canceling the public grito out of safety concerns, reports La Opinion, the Spanish-language newspaper in Los Angeles. The cancellations are especially disheartening, the head of a mayors group told the paper, because this year is Mexico's independence bicentennial. Most cancellations have been announced in Tamaulipas state, site of ruthless violence between authorities and drug-trafficking groups, but also in the bloodied border city of Ciudad Juarez, as the El Paso Times reports. Nine municipalities have canceled public Independence Day festivities in Tamaulipas, reports Action 4 News in South Texas. Among them is San Fernando, the town near where 72 migrants were massacred late last month. Violence erupted during a previous Independence Day celebration. During the 2008 grito in Morelia, the state capital of Michoacan and President Felipe Calderon's home town, assailants threw grenades into the gathered crowd,...

Time exacerbates all wounds in Joe Tracz’s “Phenomenon of Decline,” a guest production at Son of Semele Ensemble. Not since the winds wuthered through the heights have such raptures of grief been suffered by a main character. Fifteen years ago,...