- Quick Takes - April 8, 2011
- For the record - April 8, 2011
- Market Watch: Persian cucumbers tastefully taking over
- Baruch Blumberg dies at 85; Nobel Prize winner who discovered hepatitis B virus
- Mike Campbell dies at 78; white Zimbabwean challenged seizure of lands
- Governments continued to enhance pensions amid economic collapse
- Final weekend could dramatically change NHL Western Conference playoff matchups
- Opinion: Government shutdown: What about the zoo animals?
- Opinion: Most commented: The path to American prosperity, according to enraged readers
- Opinion: Fun with scamming the email scammers
- 'Big Bang Theory' recap: Vicious gossip is so underrated
- Exclusive: Google CEO Larry Page completes major reorganization of Internet search giant
- Season 2 of 'Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution' -- in L.A. -- set for Tuesday
- You CAN be too rich: 'Arthur' and other characters with too much money
- Friday's Highlights: 'Lost Land of the Tiger' on National Geographic
- FC Porto turns out the lights on spoilsport Benfica to win Portuguese championship
- Friday's Talk Shows
- 'American Idol' shocker: Pia Toscano eliminated
- Kevin Smith talks 'Red State,' Wayne Gretzky and why he's ready to leave filmmaking
- Theater review: Chalk Repertory Theatre's 'Hell Money' at Agenda Loft
- Country singer Chely Wright engaged to girlfriend Lauren Blitzer
- Google defends its openness for Android
- Downtown real estate club gripes about police headquarters
- Theater review: 'Tartuffe' at the Actors' Gang
- 'American Idol' Top 9 results deliver a shock as Pia is sent home
- Opinion: Obama, who said he saw a civilian slaughter looming in Libya, marks the anniversary of Rwanda's massacre
- FCC to force AT&T, Verizon to open networks to smaller rivals' Web roaming
- Book review: 'Come to the Edge'
- Dutton lectures Brown on the Inland Empire
- Is THIS the real reason Glenn Beck is out at Fox?
- Theater review: 'Romeo and Juliet' at the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles
- Is Fergie headed for a judge's seat on Simon Cowell's 'The X Factor'?
- Times restaurant critic S. Irene Virbila's excellent Bay Area adventures
- LeBron James sees the light and buys a piece of Liverpool -- the soccer club, not the city
- Los Angeles Master Chorale names Terry Knowles as president and CEO
- MTV to debut Lykke Li 'Unplugged' concert via Facebook
- Pop & Hiss Premiere: J. Rocc's 'Chasing the Sun'
- Neymar unmasks the stupid side of soccer's rules on goal celebrations
- Lakers Moments: Magic Johnson wows Los Angeles
- 'Your Highness' star Danny McBride and wife are expecting a baby
- Denis Watson lists Pacific Palisades home for $23.5 million
- Jeff Probst buys Gene Autry estate for $5 million
- Leaving Juan Agudelo off roster costs U.S. its place in Under-20 World Cup
- Tonight: Rachel Kushner reads at the Pasadena Museum of California Art
- Opinion: A video window into the ongoing federal budget stalemate, starring Eric Cantor and Steny Hoyer
- Sharks, Kings and Ducks are making California a playoff hockey mecca
- Ducks' Corey Perry gets star treatment, Ray Emery gets lower-body treatment
- Homeland Security to issue terror alerts on Facebook, Twitter; nix color system
- Betsy Sharkey's film pick of the week: Eddie O'Keefe's 'The Ghosts'
- Jazz box set review: 'Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology'
- MTV goes spin-off crazy with three 'Jersey Shore' castmembers
- Christine O'Donnell book on the way: get ready for 'Troublemaker' in August
- 'William and Kate' Pez dispenser auction for charity makes us happy to be alive
- USC basketball: A first look at the Trojans' 2011-12 nonconference schedule
- Poll: Is 'California King Bed' Rihanna's next big awards contender?
- Trend alert: The 'drug rug' (Baja pullover) is back
- L.A.’s own Decades to debut reality show on Bravo
- Photo of the day: Homemade pop tarts from Donald S. Wilson of Feeding Andrew
- Lawmakers consider what to cut next in budget debate
- 'The X Factor' launches audition studios across the U.S.
- Music review: Kronos Quartet gives West Coast premiere of Steve Reich's 'WTC 9/11'
- Shop global treasures at Indagare's pop-up trunk show
- Sunday Books: coverage for April 10, 2011
- Google and Justice Department near deal to allow ITA Software purchase
- Prison psychiatrists routinely report to work late and leave early, audit finds
- Nelson Mandela
- Opinion: April 7 Buzz: The right and wrongs of GOP budget proposal
- Theater review: 'The Escort' at the Geffen Playhouse
- UCLA football: Quarterback Kevin Prince cleared to do more work in spring
- Basketball: Collision All-Star game to showcase top players
- The 2011 Guggenheim fellows
- Brett Moffitt tops NASCAR Hunter Index for April
- PolitiCal Roundup: Jerry Brown's grades, guns; redevelopment trouble in San Jose
- Viacom and Time Warner trade blows over iPad dispute
- Live chat: Dylan Hernandez on the Dodgers
- Patricia Field, Kotex, and the secretly interesting redesigned MaxiPad
- USC Football: Marc Tyler returns and weighs in on his conditioning
- For sale: John Wayne's Golden Globe for 'True Grit'
- Dodgers Web musings: If Robert Redford plays Branch Rickey, who gets to be Jackie Robinson?
- Movie Projector: With 'Hop' and 'Arthur,' Russell Brand should top box office
- Theater review: ‘A Weekend With Pablo Picasso’ at Los Angeles Theatre Center
- Time Warner Cable fires back at Viacom in dispute over streaming channels on iPad
- Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana show their love for 'Hanna'
- Claire Danes and Don Cheadle headline new Showtime series
- 'Breaking In' gets a post-'Idol' high
- Your favorite L.A. books: runoff until Monday. Then the final...
- Ashley Tisdale reunites Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron -- kinda, sorta
- Reader photos: Summer vacation 2011
- Commodore 64 is back, with the same ol' look but modern insides
- Yelper gets her just deserts; online world cheers
- Studios to movie fans: How'd you like to pay $30 for a 60-day-old movie?
- Pop & Hiss Premiere: Funk legend Dennis Coffey's 'Knockabout'
- Disaster-flick auteur Roland Emmerich takes on William Shakespeare
- Online shopping: Miu Miu, Rachel Pally, Cynthia Vincent open e-stores
- 'Is sushi safe?' In wake of Japan crisis, L.A. area restaurants field diners' questions
- Facebook to share energy-efficiency technology developed for data centers
- Sailor, 85, crosses Atlantic Ocean on raft
- Whatever Frank McCourt's motivation, hiring of ex-police chief Bratton is still a chance to get security right
- Radio personality Tom Leykis adds $50,000 to reward for information on Dodger Stadium beating suspects
- Wind energy: headed for a slowdown?
- Starz may be getting ratings boost from Dish giveaway
- Tina Fey is pregnant; Alec Baldwin backpedals on '30 Rock' demise
- Question of the Day: From a fan's perspective, which are the most unsafe baseball stadiums in the U.S.?
- Dish Network's Blockbuster bid gets approval from bankruptcy judge
- Critic's Notebook: Obama versus Pawlenty: Let the video war begin
- Richard Branson's Virgin Oceanic sub to feed deep-sea data to Google Earth
- 'Hanna' premiere
- LeBron James' mother arrested in Miami
- 'American Idol' recap: The top 9 rock out
- Baseball: Westlake's young players are coming through
- Mariska Hargitay adopts a baby girl with husband Peter Hermann
- Ski report for California, April 7
- Huntington does rank in top 100 museums worldwide for 2010 attendance
- Women lean practical in car purchases; men go for brawn and speed
- Baseball: Wednesday's scores
- Softball: Wednesday's scores
- 'Justified' recap: The best episode of this show yet
- Brian Walker on his new omnibus 'The Comics: The Complete Collection'
- Ex-colleague of Jeffrey Deitch to curate art show coinciding with his big MOCA moment
- 7.1 magnitude earthquake hits off Japan coast, tsunami warning issued
- Vince McMahon wants to take 'wrestling' out of the WWE
- UCLA Basketball: Sports Arena to be primary home venue for 2011-12 season
- Your morning fashion and beauty report: Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen plan an online shopping site, LeBron James nails a watch deal
- Opinion: Inside Obama's energy lecture series: Honest talk or phony outreach?
- Football: Cravens keeps picking up offers
- 'America's Next Top Model' recap: Freak out!
- 'American Idol': Finalists salute Rock and Roll Hall of Fame songs that 'shaped' music
- Video: Oyster stew with leeks and prosciutto
- Little change in mortgage rates, Freddie Mac says
- The Morning Fix: WWE plans makeover! Theater owners plan retaliation. How Kelly Bush tames dragons. Glenn Beck hits road.
- Florida sentences 'Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure' author to two years' probation
- Monster Mash: LACMA to revamp film program; China accuses Ai Weiwei of 'economic crimes'
- Russell Brand makes his case for leading-man status
- Freeway air pollution linked to brain damage in mice
- Wall Street Roundup: Europe rising. A Goldman flop.
- Baseball: Chatsworth's Karkenny signs with The Master's College
- Can I recycle ... Ziploc bags?
- Trump on the 'Today' show: I'm with the 'tea party'
- About (Late) Last Night: Stephen Colbert masters British etiquette
- ARABIAN PENINSULA: Arab leaders work toward Yemeni President Saleh's resignation
- 'Survivor' recap: The book of Matthew
- The Arts on TV: Jean-Michel Basquiat bio; Jim Belushi and Colin Quinn talk Broadway
- With 'Million Dollar Decorators,' Bravo bets audiences will love the return of big spending
- 'The Vampire Diaries': 'Every character is going to surprise you,' says Katerina Graham
- Around Town: An ode to Sam Peckinpah, James Caan honored and quick hits of comedy
- Opinion: Obama's support among blacks slips unexpectedly, Hispanics too
- Huitlacoche quesadillas
- Mexican lasagna
- Zetas with garlic and pasilla chiles
- Clementine's butterscotch brownies
- Baseball: JSerra rallies for victory over El Toro in tourney final
- Photos: Japan hit with magnitude 7.1 aftershock
- Wine of the Week: 2009 Loring Wine Co. Pinot Noir 'Russian River Valley'
- Culinary SOS: Clementine's butterscotch brownies
- Book review: '33 Revolutions Per Minute' by Dorian Lynskey
- Southern California rents are likely to remain flat, study says
- California Gov. Jerry Brown tells cops, 'I've got 3 guns'
- Research points to a fundamental change in physics -- or else a fluke
- Conrad Murray's lawyers want to argue Michael Jackson's money woes led to overdose
- Japan hit with magnitude 7.1 aftershock
- Retail sales rise again in March, surprising analysts
- In wake of brutal beating, fans hold key to a safer Dodger Stadium
- Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet combines open air with utility
- 17-day diet works for some, as do most diets
- Taliban attackers kill 6 at Afghan police site
- Oil climbs above $110 on Libya, Mideast unrest
- The voice of Libya's rebellion is up and spinning
- Let's not hear about those courageous athletes anymore
- Venezuela polarized over Chavez's land policy
- Muffin top? Now that it's official, what do we do with it?
- Difficult budget choices that impact children's programs
- Israel and Palestinians have conflicting visions for village's future
- Cease-fire called off in Ivory Coast
- Editor's picks: 'Red State'
- Fast Track: Javier Bardem is reportedly almost set to be Stephen King's Gunslinger
- Rep. Paul Ryan's Medicare privatization plan increases costs, budget office says
- Unrecycled new light bulbs release mercury into the environment
- Pop music: Kristin Hersh
- Mexican officials find 59 bodies in mass graves
- Thomas Adès and L.A. Philharmonic team for 'Aspects of Adès'
- Assessing Jerry Brown's first 100 days
- Fox gives Glenn Beck's show the boot
- Covina High's Remontay McClain aims to retain title of California's fastest teen at Arcadia Invitational
- Your Scene: Northern lights in Fairbanks, Alaska
- In New York, Bloomberg's new schools chief is out
- WSJ/NBC News poll: Donald Trump No. 2 among likely Republican candidates for president
- Retail therapy doesn't just perk you up, it could help you live longer
- A bicycle built for you
- Colombia is a rising oil exporter to U.S.
- Horoscope: April 7
- Retirement can't come soon enough for Phil Jackson
- High court ruling on Arizona program sets a bad precedent
- Events: 'Barn to Be Wild' at the O.C. Fair & Event Center
- Libya opposition says another NATO airstrike has killed rebels
- Behind France's burka ban
- TAINTED WATER A BIG TEST IN JAPAN
- Meditation instead of morphine -- not so fast
- Car buying: How men and women compare
- MTV general manager Stephen Friedman named president
- World Wrestling Entertainment to get a makeover
- Doyle McManus: The choice between low taxes vs. Medicare benefits
- Culinary SOS: Clementine's butterscotch brownies
- Florida sentences 'Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure' author to two years' probation
- House passes measure to keep government open another week
- Microsoft and Toyota to build cloud-based telematics system for cars
- Europe set to raise interest rates while Fed holds back
- Pop music: Janet Jackson
- Michele Bachmann has niche appeal
- Premier Pegasus out of Santa Anita Derby
- Vernon Wells faces friends turned foes in Angels' home opener
- Tom Zbikowski still gets his hits in, despite NFL lockout
- Grammys to take on a leaner note
- Erick Aybar's MRI reveals slight strain in his left side
- Senate votes down GOP bill to curb the EPA
- European Central Bank hikes rates
- Kansas' Marcus and Markieff Morris will enter NBA draft
- In China, Bob Dylan plays set with a few omissions
- UCLA's Kai Maiava tweaks ankle at spring practice
- Averting a government shutdown; gays in textbooks; climate skeptics no more
- The joys of Mexican vegetarian dishes
- Giving the revolution songs to rally around
- Twitter gets tax break from San Francisco
- 2 arrested in massive insider trading case
- Coffee drinkers, what do those genes say about your health?
- China accuses dissident artist Ai Weiwei of 'economic crimes'
- Some progress cited in federal budget talks
- Lakers' Ron Artest struggles on offense in loss to Golden State
- FAA chief orders review of the agency's inspections of aging planes
- FBI releases trove of redacted documents on Notorious B.I.G.'s killing
- Casey Blake does well in return to Dodgers' lineup
- Events: Los Angeles Spring Fair
- Google to open Beverly Hills office
- 'Soul Surfer' stays faithful to ideals
- Ducks look to clinch playoff berth with victory over Kings
- Tony Gwynn Jr. has intimate knowledge of Dodgers-Padres rivalry
- Polls on budget talks show support for compromise but a strong partisan divide
- Kings are in, Ducks are trying to join them as they go head to head
- Andrew Bynum has theory on why Lakers are struggling
- Harry Reid, John Boehner can't agree on why Congress can't agree to avert government shutdown
- Book review: 'Come to the Edge'
- Tiger Woods says he's 'right there in the ballgame'
- China accuses dissident artist Ai Weiwei of 'economic crimes'
- Restless legs syndrome drug approved; questions linger
- Medical errors in hospitals go undetected, study suggests
- Rory McIlroy has first down with a 65 at Augusta
- Census analysis: Number of nonwhite children in L.A. area declines, bucking nationwide trend
- Barry Bonds' defense rests without calling a single witness in perjury trial
- '33 Revolutions Per Minute' info
- San Diego Custom Bicycle Show
- Obama to host town hall at Facebook headquarters
- Events
- Los Angeles (LAX) adds flights to Shanghai, Las Vegas and other cities
- Spammers get friendly with Facebook
- Thursday's TV highlights
- 2011 Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet at a glance
- LACMA, Film Independent team for screening series
- Mexico and Caribbean: Up to 40% off rooms at 9 Marriott resorts
- New York Jets' Mark Sanchez addresses USC football team before practice
- WestJet to begin flying from Orange County (SNA) to Canada
- Florida sentences 'Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure' author to two years' probation
- 75-foot Valley Village mural is painted over
- Heavyweight teens risk adult heart disease but can outrun diabetes risk if they slim down
- Food technology has been bad for human health since long before the invention of high-fructose corn syrup
- Hiker's family faults L.A. County Sheriff's Department in his death
- Art: The Residents at the El Rey
- L.A. County supervisors drop provision for greater public oversight of discretionary funds
- Up next for the Lakers: Friday at Portland
- Lung cancer patients more likely to have high-risk human papilloma virus
- UCLA basketball to make Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena its temporary home
- Rio school shooting: 11 children killed in rampage
- Wine of the Week: 2009 Loring Wine Co. Pinot Noir 'Russian River Valley'
- Dish Network wins bidding for assets of bankrupt Blockbuster
- Libyan rebels bide their time
- Thousands across Mexico protest drug violence
- Thursday's TV talk shows
- Italian premier's sex trial opens, adjourns
- Clinic settles lawsuits but still faces scrutiny over erectile dysfunction injections
- Let's all get off the term 'on steroids'
- Quick Takes: James Franco salutes Stephen Colbert
- Master's class
- Thomas Keller: A chef for all seasons
- Six days, six Bay Area restaurants
- For the record - April 7, 2011
- Recipe: <i>Huitlacoche</i> quesadillas
- The Find: La Cocina del Camaguey
- Russell Brand: A new brand
- Democrats following Republicans into field of undisclosed donors
- Recipe: Mexican lasagna
- San Francisco restaurant details: Locations, prices and more
- Recipe: Zetas with garlic and Pasilla chiles
- Bill Varney dies at 77; Oscar-winning sound mixer
- Kings clinch playoff berth with shootout victory over Coyotes
- Baseball: Crescenta Valley wins in eight innings, 1-0
- Royal Wedding TV Watch: April 7 - 21
- Baseball: Palm Desert wins championship
- Thursday's Highlights: 'The Mentalist' on CBS
- Thursday's Talk Shows
- Lodgings specials
- Patrick, 'miracle' pit bull who survived fall down garbage chute, is on the road to recovery
- Andreessen Horowitz creates $200-million 'growth-stage' investment fund