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...Angeles....
...The power of live music was on display at the Grammy awards in Los Angeles last weekend. Two performances stood out....
...complexities of human experience....
...Occam Deli, located right in the park’s neighbouring Schwabing district, is a near-perfect spot for a coffee....
...Koumjian was a prosecutor for 20 years in Los Angeles, where his work included investigations of unlawful police shootings....
...Into Africa: the NBA’s next $1bn investment Living in Los Angeles as a young financier, Tope Lawani said he had “never been so proud to be Nigerian” as he was watching Hakeem Olajuwon lead the Houston Rockets...
...Snap Sector: social media / HQ: los angeles, us Key stat: Snap’s first-quarter revenues jumped 44 per cent to $462m....
...(FT, NYT) Oscar announcement Nominees for the 2020 Academy Awards will be announced this afternoon from Los Angeles....
...Beijing also pledged to impose sanctions on four US-based non-governmental organisations, including Human Rights Watch and Freedom House, for what it said was their support for violent protests in Hong Kong...
...There was a time when African-Americans did indeed own slaves but not these days and not in a rustic corner of the ghettos of south-west Los Angeles....
...Woman At Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, a radical Egyptian feminist provocateur; Sarah Bakewell’s At the Existentialist Café, on Sartre, Camus, Simone de Beauvoir et al....
...Craigslist, Lyft et al . . . the shareconomy? The freeconomy? It’s going to happen....
...Think off-duty LA – Victoria Beckham, Kim Kardashian et al scurrying from jeep to studio backdoor to avoid the paparazzi. Owner Barry Jay opened the first Bootcamp studio in West Hollywood in 1998....
...He first discovered it in Los Angeles in the late 1990s, when he was editing Being John Malkovich. “There was an ice-cream shop on Melrose Avenue and I found it there.”...
...All Involved, by Ryan Gattis, Picador, RRP£12.99/Ecco, RRP$27 For six days in 1992, Los Angeles rioted, the police retreated and the city’s gangs ran wild....
...America’s desert city is ideal only for those who prefer images to real life....
...up for sale by the family of a French executioner, Fernand Meyssonnier, after protests from human rights organisations and the French minister of culture at the time, Frédéric Mitterrand....
...The Los Angeles Film Festival pulled that movie, then cautiously put it back in the schedule, drawing canning-company wrath. Fredrik Gertten fought Dole on the LA beaches, then in the Swedish media....
...Lasnon), the Mosaic Palais (Daniele Turco, formerly of Venice’s Gritti Palace) et al....
...Wired for Culture: The Natural History of Human Cooperation, by Mark Pagel, Allen Lane, RRP£25, 416 pages A fine book about human evolution....
...Sturrock et al also finish high in the league relative to their clubs’ wage bills. Yet their overachievement mostly goes unnoticed. Beck and Moore currently don’t even have clubs....
...Lib Dems in local government who face electoral disaster because of the growing unpopularity of Clegg, Cable et al at a national level....
...There is a paradigm shift occurring in Washington DC and Los Angeles and last week it became clear it had reached New York via ready-to-wear. Well, why not?...
...paranoia (The Day the Earth Stood Still et al) that used extragalactic interlopers to make social observation....
...of La Serenissima herself....
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