When there's something strange in your neighborhood, Vidal and Vicki Herrera might be the closest thing to Ghostbusters you've got... In Redlands there's a circus even PETA would approve of... an exhibit at the Huntington Library looks at Octavia Butler through her own notes and letters she left behind... Taylor Orci guest hosts and she's filled with joy about the whole thing. (Photo: Vidal Herrera/Credit: Andy Holtzman LA Daily News)
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Octavia Butler, who died 10 years ago this month, was a black woman who wrote science-fiction stories in a world where white men created the work and starred in the narrative.
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• 14:18
The story of Jim Tully, a former hobo who became Hollywood's "most hated man" — and the two men who spent 20 years rediscovering his life.
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• 14:12
It sounds like another LA gimmick: a truck emblazoned with 1-800-AUTOPSY. It's not a joke.
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• 8:02
Last month, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus rolled up its tents for the last time. On the same night, a different kind of circus, founded by an ex-Ringling acrobat 88 years ago, ended its season too.