It was 75 years ago today. I wasn't joking about Blondie and Dagwood's anniversary. It does seem like they've been married forever, but there is a backstory: Chic Young's comic strip started with Blondie as a floozy-ish single flapper who weds heir Dagwood Bumstead (who is summarily disinherited). The strip's still running, and aside from minor upgrades - jobs, computers - Blondie and her clan are reliably the same. Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake brought......

Photo by Jack Delano via Library of Congress on Flickr The above photo is of a co-op orange packing plant in Redlands, 60 miles East of Los Angeles. A workman is doing the preliminary sorting and picking out the discards. This is just one of the 3,000 images the Library of Congress uploaded to Flickr, Yahoo's photo sharing service, yesterday.In a pilot project announced Wednesday, the government archive put the public-domain, copyright-free photos on......

We comb through tons of event listings so you don't have to. LA events have come back from its winter doldrums tonight. Big time. Here's what's happening around town tonight -- there's lots of learning mixed in between all the great entertainment stuff. CLASSICAL The LA Phil's Concrete Frequency series -- combining music, film and symposia -- begins tonight. It's a Casual Friday, which means shorter programs with no intermission. On tap tonight is......