Endeavour's final voyage to include aerial tour of LA

If you live in Los Angeles or perhaps a visitor seeking to be thrilled in the 'entertainment capital of the world,' the best free show you may ever witness in your lifetime will be happening just 1,500 feet ...

Ways to make your home energy efficient for fall/winter

If your home or apartment is consuming more energy than your thinning wallet can afford, experts say now is the time to prepare your greedy abode for those costly fall and winter months. According to the U.S....

Talented LA kids back singer will.i.am's historic song from Mars

It may not have been an easy undertaking to send a car-sized rover named 'Curiosity' on a 350-million-mile journey to the fourth planet from the Sun, but it was a successful one. So was the Milky Way galaxy's...

Olympic star McKayla Maroney catches Hollywood's eye

That priceless expression artistic gymnast McKayla Maroney painted on her face after accepting a silver medal for her August 5 final vault performance during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London has become fodder for...

Gothic author Anne Rice critical of Mitt Romney's running mate

Although prolific book author Anne Rice is known the world over as a potent literary force that modernized classic vampires by having the somatic characterizations of her creatures improve with age, the fiction...

'La Bamba' star Esai Morales adds life to "Plays in the Park"

Perhaps one of the best parts about patronizing small productions, like "Plays in the Park," is having the opportunity to see a famous entertainer in a natural setting and witness intimately how he or she is ...

Tech genius gives iPhone/iPad repair firms a run for their money

As an heir apparent to Peru's largest pop culture magazine of its kind, Hector Escardo Steck is accustomed to celebrity, but not at all like what he has been receiving since relocating to the United States from...

80s pop star Vanity's ex charged with four counts of murder

While the entertainer formerly known as Vanity continues to undergo daily sessions of peritoneal dialysis due to the ill-effects years of drug use and abuse have had on her kidneys, the 1980s R&B pop star's...

8-year-old CA explorer attempts to climb Africa's highest peak

While most kids his age are spending their summer vacation kicking it at day camp, riding bicycles around their neighborhood or exploring adventures in their own backyard, an eight-year-old Californian has his ...

CA teens produce 'safe driving' video, win top AAA award

It is quite normal for parents of an inexperienced teenage driver to feel nervous whenever their son or daughter gets behind the wheel of a motor vehicle. That's because drivers between ages 15 and 19 are responsible for the highest number of road collisions than any other...

Eco-friendly nudists cycle in the buff through downtown LA

Some may have had fantasies of jogging, streaking or cycling in the nude on major thoroughfares in large metropolitan areas, but a group of fleshy folks hit the streets in all its glory without incident June 16 ...

Brave LA firefighter enters 'Death Race' for noble cause

Anyone who has ever had the audacity to compete in the annual Spartan Death Race enters only if he or she has already lived a full life and is not concerned about compromising it.The event is a true testament...

David Cassidy's lawsuit against Sony may be decided by jury

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge said today he needs a few more days to think about whether former teen idol David Cassidy's money issues with the Sony Corporation should be placed in the hands of a jury, rather...

Hollywood beauty Charlize Theron enters new role with shaved head

Major motion picture actress Demi Moore did it for her role in "G.I. Jane." Stage and film actress Anne Hathaway introduced the shaver to her head for the big screen adaptation of "Les Misérables." Now fashion...

Missing 20th Century Fox exec's family offers $20,000 reward

After an exhaustive and clueless search that has stretched over more than month, Gavin Smith's family offered on Tuesday a $20,000 reward for solid information about the 20th Century Fox executive's sudden...
 

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