Bodhi Tree Gone

from The LA Weekly Bodhi Tree Bookstore Is Closing: Bad News for Buddhists By Gendy Alimurung Bad news for Buddhists and others seeking enlightenment: the Bodhi Tree Bookstore is closing. Owners Phil Thompson and Stan Madson informed their staff last Wednesday that...

Army Archerd Gone

from Deadline Hollywood R.I.P. Army Archerd By NIKKI FINKE Longtime Variety columnist Army Archerd died this afternoon at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center of a rare form of cancer. He was posting on his online column as recently as July 27th. But he was best known...

Mt. Wilson Observatory

from The LA Times Mt. Wilson’s famous, and besieged, observatory Man once viewed the heavens by flickering firelight; now a raging blaze threatens a site where stargazing history was made. Tim Rutten, September 2, 2009 There has been tragedy and loss aplenty in...

Herbie Gets His Due

from Lee Bailey’s EUR WEB HERBIE HANCOCK JOINS L.A. PHILHARMONIC: Jazz great named creative chair; begins two-year tenure in 2010. The Los Angeles Philharmonic has tapped Herbie Hancock as its new creative chair for jazz, a post that oversees jazz programming at...