We walk Skid Row with VA chief Bob McDonald; how Vidiots changed journalist Elina Shatkin’s life; a classical bassist who went to New Guinea to study a singing and composing tribe.
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When last we spoke with Zoey Tur about her gender reassignment, she said her goal was to become the nation's first transgender TV reporter. Done. Next!
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The basic idea: instead of water running over a sculpture, the water is the sculpture. And thanks to pumps, nozzles, lights and computers, WET can make water do pretty much anything.
Charles Solomon took home the only silver Annie award Saturday night, for "significant and benevolent or charitable impact on the art and industry of animation."
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Veterans Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald spent a couple hourson LA's Skid Row, counting homeless, and searching for homeless veterans.
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At Vidiots there was no shame in loving a slapstick fart comedy as much as you loved a French existential drama.
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"Base Camp." "Bully." "Anonymous." "Heima." Nonsense written on yellow and black signs all over Los Angeles, each with a giant arrow. What do they mean?
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The pop boom that made the Backstreet Boys superstars fizzled out, but they're still making music today. Here's what being a 2015 Backstreet Boys fan is all about.
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A classical bassist from Pasadena met a mountain tribe in Papua New Guinea made up entirely of songwriters. Luckily, he brought a tape recorder.
The Joy Luck Club kicks off a new film series, "Big Trouble in Little Tokyo," at L.A.'s Japanese American National Museum.
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Roll out the barrel — more than 30 years after it closed, the historic, barrel-shaped Idle Hour Cafe in North Hollywood is set to reopen in mid-February.
Armin Hansen was one of greatest marine painters ever born in this state. His portrayals of the men who worked on the oceans off Monterey that brought him lasting fame.
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We make a lot of assumptions about quilts: They're not art. Only women make them. Sometimes it takes an exhibit dedicated male quilters to combat that.
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Where do set decorators get the art featured on TV shows? Collin Friesen tells us about that —and the lawsuit that made it lucrative for artists.
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This month, 27 new judges have been sworn into state courts all across California. Where do their robes come from? A small company in Chatsworth.