Shepard Fairey's Detroit debacle a mark of street art's rising status
Shepard Fairey has never been one to play by the rules - and that's par for the course for someone in a street art community that exists on the cultural margins.
Shepard Fairey has never been one to play by the rules - and that's par for the course for someone in a street art community that exists on the cultural margins.
Accusing UC San Diego of interfering with a major Alzheimer's project, USC indicated it will seek a restraining order Tuesday to keep UCSD from hacking computers and taking control of the project.
Nintendo on Saturday lost a company legend when President Satoru Iwata died at 55 from cancer. The game industry lost one of its most voracious risk takers.
Diplomats from Iran, the U.S. and five other world powers have reached agreement on a landmark deal to curb Iran's nuclear program, officials in Vienna said Tuesday, with a formal announcement scheduled to come in a few hours.
As the negotiating parties in Vienna were assembling for the last meeting concluding the agreement reached with Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted harshly to the reported agreement.
As Southern California prepared to welcome the region's first light-rail line since the demise of the red Pacific Electric streetcars a generation before, reviews on rail were decidedly mixed.
The Blue Line, which runs from downtown L.A. to Long Beach, was Los Angeles' first modern rail. It has since become a microcosm of the community it serves as well as of the challenges and successes of mass transit in a metropolis where the car is king.
Earlier this year, Los Angeles city leaders sold an old fire station to a developer with plans to remake a Studio City landmark - the rustic collection of ballrooms and banquet halls known as Sportsmen's Lodge.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has positioned himself as a champion of fiscal reform. In July 2013, he announced that "China's prosperity should be reliant on the real economy, not on bubbles." Many people trusted his leadership so much that in June 2014, when the country's stocks began to rise,...
Hopes for a broad overhaul of the corporate tax system are fading as the 2016 elections draw closer, but momentum is building for one key change - the U.S. tax that companies would pay on overseas profits.
Dance program: A July 13 Calendar article about the Music Center's new Moves After Dark dance program said the four performing troupes include Ana María Alvarez's Contra-Tiempo. Alvarez is artistic director of Contra-Tiempo, but the dancers she will be leading are not from her group.
The parents of Kathryn Steinle, the woman who was allegedly shot and killed by a Mexican national who had been deported multiple times, expressed support during a televised interview Monday for a proposed law that would require prison time those who return to the U.S. illegally after being deported.
Phil Jackson stood out from the crowd, not entirely for his familiar visage and height but for his jeans and long-sleeve plaid shirt as the weather hit 101 degrees outside.
In the championship round of the home run derby, even as those precious seconds ticked off the clock, Joc Pederson took a couple moments to catch his breath and take in the scene.
The request makes its way to Vin Scully every now and then, the major league baseball player asking for a moment to meet the greatest broadcaster in baseball history. Giancarlo Stanton asked. Brandon McCarthy asked.
State lawmakers are considering a proposal to rein in California law enforcement agencies' ability to keep money, cars and homes seized from suspects who have not been charged with a crime.
President Obama commuted the sentences of 46 nonviolent drug offenders Monday, doubling the number of clemencies he has granted as the administration seeks to correct what many see as the wrongs inflicted by mandatory minimum prison sentences.
The second prison escape by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, head of the Sinaloa cartel and Mexico's most powerful drug lord, has created a wave of criticism toward the country's government.
The middle step on the medal podium now awaits young Jordan Spieth. The way things are going, is there anyone who dares to doubt what could happen?
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The state has regained full control of one of its prisons for the first time since 2006, when a federal court stripped California of control over its sprawling inmate healthcare system.
What is this jaw-dropping (and, let's face it, eye-rolling) creation made from intricately carved wood, covered in couturier fabric and bedazzled with jeweled button tufting?
Behind the talk of trickle-down economics and big government's return, Republicans and Democrats used Hillary Rodham Clinton's economic policy speech Monday to fight over something relatively new: Uber.
Helen Harrison was in her seventh month of pregnancy when she went into labor and gave birth to a baby boy, Edward. He weighed only 2 pounds, 13 ounces, had sepsis and, a week later, suffered a brain hemorrhage.
Los Angeles police opened fire Monday afternoon in Venice while responding to a report of a man armed with a knife, authorities said.