Doug McIntyre: Sometimes, cat pictures o…

The world really loves pictures of cats. I thought it was just us - "us" being Americans - but after Facebook's IPO flushed out billions of investor dollars from every...

Norah Jones digs deep with new collabora…

Norah Jones digs deep with new collaborator and a breakup theme on her latest album

Norah Jones' "Little Broken Hearts" is being described as a breakup album. The record's 12 songs are tinged with an edgy darkness and unease - there is even talk of...

A Stroll in Nice

A Stroll in Nice

NICE, France -- Fair warning: Spend all the hours you want gazing over the red-tiled roofs of Old Nice, but it's highly unlikely a Cary Grant look-alike will come scrambling...

The nation's fascination with Mah Jongg

The nation's fascination with Mah Jongg

Jan Esquith is new to mah-jongg but not unfamiliar with the Chinese game of chance that in its American form is similar to the card game gin rummy....

CD Review: Best Coast The Only Place

After the success of its 2010 debut, "Crazy for You," L.A.'s Best Coast - songwriter/vocalist Bethany Cosentino and partner Bobb Bruno - enlisted ace producer Jon Brion for "The Only...

Businesses need to stand up and fight bu…

SHEEP and chickens. That's what America's greatest corporations have become. Whether it's in California or nationally, it's the same sad story....

GOP won't hoodwink public, again. Letter…

In 2010, Republicans campaigned by asking where are the jobs, and were successful in hoodwinking an angry public by shifting the blame to President Obama and not their obstructionism....

Charles Krauthammer: Gay marriage: Is it…

THERE are two ways to defend gay marriage. Argument A is empathy: One is influenced by gay friends in committed relationships yearning for the fulfillment and acceptance that marriage conveys...

Friendly Fire: Minority is majority

Each week, the Friendly Fire bloggers take on the hot topics at http://www.inside socal.com/friendlyfire. Below are excerpts from the conversation last week....

PRO/CON: Should `hounding' be prohibited…

THEY want to call it hunting, but it's not. It's nothing more than animal torment and killing. I'm referring to "hounding," which is the use of dogs to chase down...

Surgeons Transplant Synthetic Trachea in Baltimore Man

Surgeons in Sweden have replaced the cancerous windpipe of a Maryland man with one fabricated in a laboratory and seeded with his own cells.The windpipe, or trachea, made from minuscule...

FoodFight, a Nonprofit Group, Works With New York City Schools

A commercial for McDonald’s fish sandwiches played in a classroom at Park Slope Collegiate one day last month as part of a class called the Science of Food. It was...

Dr. Lloyd J. Old, Cancer Researcher, Dies at 78

Dr. Lloyd J. Old, Cancer Researcher, Dies at 78

Dr. Lloyd J. Old, who made seminal discoveries about the relationship between cancer and the immune system, and despite setbacks in the field steadfastly promoted the development of vaccines and...