- Blockbuster to shutter 186 stores, including 15 in California
- Tweeter's Digest: Meltdowns, mourning and feuds in this week's celebrity Twitter round-up
- Weekend Talk Shows
- Zuckerberg patty vs. Winklevoss fries
- AEG selects Gensler to design downtown L.A. football stadium
- MIDDLE EAST: White House condemns violence in Syria and Yemen
- John Lennon, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Josh Groban hits together on 'Songs for Japan' benefit album
- TV This Week for March 27 – April 2
- Kia Classic: Michelle Wie hasn't made par yet
- A roundup of restaurants (and bake sales) donating to relief efforts in Japan
- Dodgers Web musings: Andre Ethier on the Arizona shootings
- WGA directors send contract to members for a vote
- L.A. Times Bestsellers: We want brains!
- Far East Movement premieres new video for 'If I Was You (OMG)' with Snoop Dogg
- Theater review: 'Southern Comforts' at International City Theatre
- Final 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' episode to air May 25 -- say it isn't so!
- Woody Harrelson will play GOP adviser in HBO political movie 'Game Change'
- Dodgers backup catcher Dioner Navarro has strained muscle
- THQ's Homefront 'should be profitable,' analyst says
- Whoopi Goldberg: Stoned on pot when she won the Oscar
- Video shocker: Is it a Tim Pawlenty political spot or an ad for a Hollywood thriller?
- Opinion: On Capitol Hill: Give me Styrofoam, or give me death!
- KTLA Channel 5 expands morning news block to weekends
- Lakers Moments: Byron Scott came to L.A. to play
- Twitter will have to deal with China eventually, co-founder says
- Critical Mass: 'Sucker Punch'
- First listen: Dr. Dre's 'Mr. Prescription,' another possible 'Detox' leak, hits the net
- Food for a good cause
- 'How I Met Your Mother': Robin's got a crush on Michael Trucco
- 'Dancing With the Stars' ' Karina Smirnoff on Ralph Macchio: 'I got lucky'
- What's your favorite Salvadoran restaurant?
- Scott Kazmir will open season in Angels' rotation, whether he has earned spot or not
- Opinion: Semantics: "We're broke" -- truth or scare tactic?
- 'Cave Art' by Jean Clottes -- an inspiration for Jean Auel and Werner Herzog?
- The singer or the song? Reconciling Chris Brown's 'F.A.M.E.' with his infamy
- JORDAN: Protests turn violent, scores reportedly injured
- Music review: Kurt Masur and Sarah Chang with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney Concert Hall
- Kelly Osbourne fetes Material Girl at Macy's
- Facebook commenting debuts in PolitiCal
- A meal fit for a debauched dwarf: The 'Game of Thrones' food cart coming to L.A. and N.Y.
- Steal this book: Roberto Bolano's essay
- Consumer Confidential: High gas prices trouble consumers, but new apps can help
- Recent regulatory actions against banks and bankers
- Facebook launches question-and-answer feature
- Market Watch: Moro blood oranges at the legal limit of ripe in Ventura County
- California Department of Fish and Game offers permit-only wild-pig hunt
- The Reading Life: Revisiting 'Mildred Pierce'
- Weekend Shopping: Anastasia and What Goes Around Comes Around sales; Diesel hosts a benefit
- Baseball: Chatsworth to get back All-City pitcher
- Kia Classic: Weather delay
- It's the final weekend of basketball
- USC basketball: Nikola Vucevic expected to announce that he'll test the NBA draft waters at 3 p.m. Friday
- Emir Kusturica to head Cannes' Un Certain Regard jury
- SYRIA: Government forces open fire on protesters
- 'The Book of Mormon' on Broadway: What did the critics think?
- Question of the Day: Which four people would be on college basketball's Mt. Rushmore?
- Baseball: Thursday's scores
- Softball: Thursday's scores
- A taste of some tasteless musical numbers from 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad'
- Google, Yahoo, Skype targeted in possible 'state-driven' hack from Iran
- OMG! 'Taquito,' 'rugelach' and 'muffin top' added to the OED
- Your morning fashion and beauty report: Rachel Zoe welcomes baby boy. Tom Ford talks manners. Chanel launches beauty site.
- Last weekend for Shelley and his circle -- including Frankenstein
- '30 Rock' recap: Forced hiatus
- Wall Street Roundup: Giants at the top. Dudley goes to Queens.
- The Dry Garden: 'Reimagining the California Lawn'
- 'Community' recap: My 'Dinner With Andre' dinner with Abed, but where's 'Pulp Fiction'?
- Monster Mash: More changes for Broadway's 'Spider-Man'; Tom Hooper circling big-screen 'Les Miz'
- The Project: Soup with winter greens and chickpeas
- Gasoline averaging $4 a gallon in Los Angeles, with California soon to follow
- The Morning Fix: Fewer Starz on Netflix. More gripes about Time Warner Cable's iPad app.
- Style L.A.: What are you wearing? Reader photo of the week
- Domingo not done with 'Il Postino,' but Texans have composer's OK to jump in
- Commerce Department revises fourth-quarter economic growth up to 3.1%
- Remembering the earthquake and tsunami victims at Japan concerts
- The Deal: Blik wall decals 25% off
- From the Archives: Movie review: 'Bill Cunningham New York'
- Opinion: Ex-Illinois state senator changes mind on U.S. government causing Middle Eastern regime change
- Fox renews ‘Fringe’ for Season Four
- From the Archives: American Apparel backs CEO on new sex harassment claims
- Book review: 'The Future of Power' by Joseph S. Nye Jr.
- Lanford Wilson dies at 73; Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
- 'Birthing tourism' center in San Gabriel shut down
- Grant Jerrett can almost grasp elite status
- EU approves permanent bailout fund amid fears over Portugal
- Never heard of Earth Hour? Just turn off the lights Saturday
- The home run that launched the myth of Mickey Mantle
- Grim Sleeper suspect, accused of killing 10 women in South L.A., will stand trial
- A Night Out With … Trevor Donovan
- The triumph of 'Mildred'
- Protests planned for Bahrain despite ban
- Creating a digital public library without Google's money
- Lakers Coach Phil Jackson says third NBA team in Southland is 'ridiculous'
- Commerce Department revises fourth-quarter economic growth up to 3.1%
- Kadafi's propaganda machine harps on civilian casualties from airstrikes
- Drug-resistant bacterium hits Southland healthcare facilities
- 'Mildred Pierce' info
- Barry Minkow is accused of new scheme
- Nikola Vucevic to leave USC and declare himself eligible for NBA draft
- FDA says tobacco law doesn't apply to two smokeless lozenges
- Taylor's celebrity: her lasting legacy
- Ford is expected to surpass GM in sales this month
- Dodgers lose to Arizona, Seattle in spring games
- Gallup poll shows there's a GOP gang of four, and everybody else
- California high school basketball championship matchups for Saturday
- Matt Palmer gives Angels another option in rotation
- Pension, healthcare deal reached with L.A.'s largest city union
- Street art: Some second thoughts
- Your Scene: Macaws at Waikiki's International Market Place
- Obesity and religion -- some thoughtfulness amid the snark
- Alaska: Inside Passage cruise discounts offered by Hotwire
- San Diego: From 'moon shoes' to algae, find it at Science Festival
- In a bind as Chinese workers flee
- Movie Review: 'Sucker Punch'
- Movie review: 'Miral'
- Ecstasy use accounts for dramatic rise in ER visits, report says
- Immigration reform: The Utah path
- MTA board OKs deep cuts to bus service
- 'Birthing tourism' center in San Gabriel shut down
- Rainbow Arabia at Echoplex
- Frazier Park: Lots of snow, but road to Mt. Pinos is shut this weekend
- As Kadafi's rocket hits, singing Libya rebels scatter
- Dozens reported killed in attacks on Syria protesters
- Letters: Bruins need to change their style
- Belasco Theater mixes it up in downtown L.A.
- Nuclear crisis forces Japan to rethink energy needs
- Graffiti artist Smear sentenced for violating probation
- No big stars in a nebulous field of Republican hopefuls visiting Iowa
- Parties in Congress still far apart on spending cuts
- 'Potiche'
- Movie review: 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules'
- Confucius is a hometown hero again
- 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules'
- Mexico news companies agree to drug war coverage guidelines
- American Apparel backs CEO on new sex harassment claims
- Air traffic controller suspended for sleeping on the job
- Up next for Kings: Saturday vs. Colorado
- Clippers' Donald Sterling still a wonderment
- Playa del Rey St. Bernard falls to Alameda St. Joseph Notre Dame's three-point barrage
- Jiyai Shin gets on birdie bus at Kia Classic
- Obama speaks to congressional leaders about Libya, plans speech to nation
- Bikes for every $4-a-gallon gas shunner
- No. 2 Florida takes on No. 8 Butler for trip to Elite Eight
- The home run that launched the myth of Mickey Mantle
- Lakers don't make it look easy against Clippers
- Tonight, LAX pylons will go green -- and then dark -- to mark Earth Hour
- Dioner Navarro has side muscle strain; Tim Redding removed from start with back pain
- Science: The 'War on Cancer' turns 40
- Anaheim to consider $75 million in bonds to help Sacramento Kings move to O.C.
- North Carolina leaves no doubt in 81-63 dismantling of Marquette
- Japan considering daylight saving time as a means of conserving energy
- Angels defeat Oakland Athletics, 10-3, in spring game
- Japan steps up nuclear plant precautions; Kan apologizes
- In major cuts, Gov. Jerry Brown slashes services for poor, sick and elderly
- 'Bill Cunningham New York' information
- Movie review: 'White Irish Drinkers'
- L.A. is bracing for a drop in tourism
- Clash between Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards simmers ahead of NASCAR's Auto Club 400 in Fontana
- Stockton St. Mary's defeats Rialto, 64-48, in girls' state Division II championship game
- Up next for Galaxy: Saturday at Real Salt Lake
- Japan nuclear plant's tortured road to stability
- Rodent of the Week: Is autism a disease of synaptic function?
- Martin Laird takes Bay Hill lead after a 65
- Protesters in Bahrain defy ban on rallies
- 2 Japanese nuclear workers hospitalized for radiation exposure
- Second thoughts of a 'hanging judge'
- Juke joint's caught the blues
- How Arizona and Connecticut match up in NCAA West Regional final
- Warren Beatty wins ruling against Tribune on Dick Tracy rights
- 'For the Record: Baz Luhrmann' info
- Capsule movie reviews
- Going for the green
- Lakers face Clippers
- Belasco Theater info
- California high school basketball championship matchups
- Prosecutors to examine suspicious redevelopment deal in Bell
- Movie review: 'Potiche'
- Yemen's president hints he might step down
- Kentucky knocks off top-seeded Ohio State, 62-60
- Horoscope: March 25
- Friday's TV highlights
- 'The Future of Power' info
- Movie review: 'Peep World'
- Gensler selected by AEG to design proposed $1 billion football stadium
- Happening Friday
- Fast Track: Lindsay Lohan's new name is ...
- Cream rises to the top in West Regional
- 5 Nights Out
- Starz won't let Netflix stream new episodes until 90 days later
- The death of Elizabeth Taylor; Gov. Brown's plan for a vote on taxes; U.S. leadership in the world
- Syria and Yemen's violence against protesters draws rebuke from White House
- Volkswagen lab being built in Oxnard
- 'Tea party' group plans D.C. rally for budget cuts
- Ministry of Gossip
- 'Wimpy' takes on 'Sucker'
- California high school basketball championship matchups
- USC's needs mean opportunities for JC transfers
- Up next for the Ducks: Saturday at Chicago
- Athletes' mad skills may translate to everyday tasks -- like dodging cars
- Book review: 'The Future of Power' by Joseph S. Nye Jr.
- Night Life: The movies sing at 'For the Record'
- NATO to take over enforcing of Libyan no-fly zone
- Glitches hamper radiation warning system in California
- Harsher penalties haven't curbed complaining in NBA
- Quick Takes - March 25, 2011
- For the record - March 25, 2011
- Leonard Weinglass dies at 77; defense lawyer in Pentagon Papers case
- Rainbow Arabia are L.A.'s new electro heroes
- Imax reaches deal to open more big-screen theaters in China
- Joe Wizan dies at 76; former 20th Century Fox executive, independent producer
- Kings defeat Sharks in shootout, 4-3
- Elizabeth Taylor mourned by family and fans
- Candidates for Harman's seat discuss Mideast, immigration, gay rights in online forum
- Former GOP Senate candidate DeVore joins O.C. supervisors' race
- 'American Idol' results: And the summer tour will include ...
- Friday's Highlights: 'The Suite Life Movie' on Disney Channel
- Friday's Talk Shows
- Football: Hard work pays off for Muir's Kevin Seymour
- Track: Loyola pulls out win over Notre Dame
- Screeching Weasel cans tour, members walk out after SXSW debacle
- Baseball: Troupe strikes out 14 in Chaminade win
- Happy 92nd birthday, Lawrence Ferlinghetti!
- Theater review: ‘The Mercy Seat’ at the Ford
- Republicans file pension, spending measures, just in case talks with Jerry Brown collapse
- Ducks' Jonas Hiller gives up two goals in 19 seconds and is pulled
- 'Outsourced' producer upbeat on renewal prospects despite 'challenging' time slot
- Baseball: Mater Dei wins in 11 innings over Orange Lutheran
- Ethanol will power NASCAR races in Fontana this weekend
- Could A.J. Ellis sighting put him back in the battle for possible Dodgers roster spot?
- Theater review: 'bonded' at the Los Angeles Theatre Center
- Ducks goalie Jonas Hiller gets the start against Nashville
- RIM says PlayBook tablet will run Android apps
- George Lopez apologizes for making pig joke about Kirstie Alley
- Kia Classic: Michelle Wie making a move, Natalie Gulbis not
- Craig Conroy sells Manhattan beach Craftsman
- Art review: 'My Super Hero: New Contemporary Art from Iran' at Morono Kiang
- 'Grey's Anatomy's' Sara Ramirez to sing on March 31 episode, release debut EP
- Danielle Berrin on who controls Hollywood: It's money and talent, not the Jews
- A photographer with an eye for L.A.'s wild side
- 'The Vampire Diaries': Remembering the dead with executive producer Julie Plec
- California may not sell bonds in 2011 if budget battle drags on
- Opinion: March 24, 2011 buzz: L.A.'s prostitution hub; debating the Libya intervention
- Fish and Game Q&A: What's the limit when fishing catch and release?
- The best news we've heard all week: David Hasselhoff returns to the big screen
- Extra! Extra! Radiohead to give out a newspaper next week
- Larry King remembers Elizabeth Taylor, teases Sean Hannity about a cable host's inevitable fate
- Lakers Moments: Jerry Buss poses in front of his home
- Theater review: 'The Book of Mormon' at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre
- Dwight Schrute, superhero? Rainn Wilson of 'The Office' talks about his head-splitting new movie
- Finalists for Best Translated Book Awards announced
- Speculative warehouse under construction in Redlands
- Kate Winslet on helping Evan Rachel Wood get naked for 'Mildred Pierce'
- Scott Kazmir rocked for eight earned runs in five innings of 11-8 loss to Brewers
- LACMA adds three new trustees, including a Wynn and a Ferrell
- Theater review: 'Girls Talk' at the Lee Strasberg Theatre
- Kia Classic: Cristie Kerr struggles
- Lanford Wilson, celebrated playwright of 'Burn This,' has died at 73
- Starz to delay new series on Netflix streaming, movies may follow
- 'His Way' premiere: Stars salute producer Jerry Weintraub
- Rachel Zoe and Rodger Berman welcome baby boy Skylar
- 'Survivor' postgame: Krista on her faith and playing with Russell
- Sprint to sell tablet and 3-D phone
- Kings hope for winning performance from Oscar Moller
- Kia Classic: World No. 1 Yani Tseng done with first round
- TV Skeptic: 'Ghost Hunters' goes to the dogs
- Robitaille. Winfield. Rambis. Get ready for a 'Sports Spectacular' auction
- 72 Hours: Oh Land, Dom, Sharon Van Etten and more lead the weekend's top gigs
- Amanda Hocking, self-publishing star, finds four-book deal
- Dance review: Nederlands Dans Theater at the Music Center
- Opinion: Economy: Increase immigration for economic growth?
- Ducks' Teemu Selanne makes NHL history
- Humor in a highball: Dewar's discussion on the modern man turns into a laugh riot
- Live chat: Helene Elliott on Kings, Ducks, NHL
- Opinion: Wanted: More budget lobbying by California business groups
- Ralph Nader proposes elimination of college athletic scholarships
- Kia Classic: Sandra Gal alone in second
- Movie Projector: Will 'Wimpy Kid' put 'Sucker Punch' on the ropes?
- Andy Warhol painting of Elizabeth Taylor could fetch $30 million in May 12 auction
- Windows Phone 7 update now trackable
- FX turns out the lights on 'Lights Out'
- Kate Winslet will publish a book, 'The Golden Hat'
- 'Sucker Punch' movie premiere: Abbie Cornish, Jon Hamm, Vanessa Hudgens jab the black carpet
- What to do while you're waiting for 'Mad Men' to return to AMC
- Relationship between CBS and Couric ending with a whimper, not a bang
- Rachael Ray comes out of the closet ... as a cannibal
- Kia Classic: Yani Tseng, Cristie Kerr and Juli Inkster in the hunt
- Kings' morning skate: Ryan Smyth trying to stay upbeat, Kyle Clifford ready to return
- Japan's nuclear crisis: An opportunity for geothermal energy?
- Reading L.A.: Richard G. Lillard on the growth machine and its discontents
- Sunday Books: coverage for March 27, 2011
- 'American Idol': Motown night showcases 'Idolville U.S.A.'
- 'Win Win' turns a wrestler into a star
- Yosemite National Park reopens with limited services
- Documentary filmmaker Richard Leacock dies at 89
- Happy birthday, Edward Weston
- Kia Classic: Amanda Blumenherst early leader with tough-to-beat score
- Kia Classic: Omen? Duke's Amanda Blumenherst early leader
- Chris Brown apologizes -- sort of -- about 'Good Morning America' tantrum
- Dioner Navarro scratched from lineup; injury could open door for Hector Gimenez
- Basketball coaches make All-Southern Section selections