Los Angeles is experiencing more heat waves, an event defined by 3 consecutive days above 32.2 C (90 F) in Los Angeles, and also more extreme heat days, defined as days above 32.2 C (90 F). These numbers have increased by 1.72 C (3.09 F) per century and 22.8 per century occurrences...
When Tony joined KBZS (K-best) for afternoons, he called himself “Mr. Rock ‘n Roll.” Tony got a letter from an attorney for a disc jockey in Los Angeles who’s used the name “Mr. Rock ‘n Roll” for two decades. Hinting heavily of a lawsuit. In the spring of 1994, Tony ...
Smith’s column “has been one of the abiding highlights of the Los Angeles Times,” said Editor and Executive Vice President Shelby Coffey III. “The column expertly reflected the key qualities that made the man beloved as a writer and colleague; it had sly elegance, genteel self-mockery a...
she was at the Pixley union hall during a cotton strike when drunken ranchers killed two union sympathizers. That same year, at a food-distribution center in Pixley, a relief worker denied Lillian a share
In April in Los Angeles, where she’s spent the past seven winters teaching a course at USC’s business school and running a think tank on women’s issues, she had what she thought was a breath-shortening flare-up of her asthma. It turned out to be heart failure, caused by an infect...
Ben Benjamin, 80, veteran Hollywood agent whose clients included Laurence Olivier and Ingrid Bergman. A native of Butte, Mont., Benjamin studied at UC Berkeley and served in the Navy during World War II. Among his earliest clients were Greer Garson, Claude Rains and Merle Oberon. In 1950, ...
The 1988 records “strengthen the conclusion that there’s an underlying, long-term global warming,” said Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Advertisement Hansen, who declared during last summer’s heat wave that the greenhouse effect “is here,” is a leading adv...
The Point Mugu Naval Air Station became the first in the nation Saturday to get a fancy new helicopter, the first of eight, to replace the Vietnam-era fleet that it had been using.
When George was a small boy, they moved into a larger house on Front Street, on the other side of the tracks, closer to St. Joseph’s Maronite Church, where George became an altar boy. During World War II, George and his friends sat on the Mitchells’ front porch and waved to sold...