Bluegrass has its roots in Appalachian music. Appalachian ballads have their roots in European dance music. No composer elevated dance music to higher spiritual grounds than Bach did. For all the off-putting genrefication of music these days, this has never been an art form suitable for a silo...
A judge Friday upheld his tentative ruling in favor of the San Diego County Water Authority in its bitter, multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.
The National Security Agency can continue to collect the phone records of millions of Americans, but only for three more months, under a ruling Friday by the U.S. appeals court here.
Twitter committed itself Friday to boosting the share of female employees at the company from 34% to 35% by next year. In a global workforce of 4,100, that's 41 more women.
"Big Blue Live" (PBS, Monday through Wednesday). A three-night television event, broadcast live from the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in Northern California. Due to certain oceanic conditions, a whole lot of lunch predictably will be swimming into the bay right then, with hungry whales,...
If you are old enough and fortunate enough to have grown up watching home movies on film, as I did, Portuguese artists Joao Maria Gusmao and Pedro Paiva's installation of 10 16-millimeter films will strike a chord of nostalgia.
One man armed with an aluminum bat and another with a sword slashed and beat two other men in a Bellflower park following an argument Thursday night, authorities said.
City analysts raised concerns this week that Los Angeles' bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics underestimated the cost of building an Olympic village along the Los Angeles River to lodge 17,000 athletes.
Diane Nelson, who oversees Warner Bros.' DC comics and games division, is expanding her role in the Burbank studio.
A 4-year-old boy died in Las Vegas after a relative left him locked in a car as temperatures neared 100 degrees Thursday night, officials said.
A man accused of vandalizing a building in Beverly Hills and a freeway sign with anti-vaccination graffiti pleaded not guilty Friday to three felonies.
"These Carnations Defy Language," a two-person exhibition at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, is a perfect pairing of local artists Alexandra Grant and Steve Roden.
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North Carolina prosecutors will not attempt a second criminal trial for a white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black man who had crashed his car, officials said Friday.