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    Jan 10, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  1. The Story Prize announces its 2010 finalists

    Jacket Copy
    A MacArthur "Genius Grant" fellow, an award-winning short-story writer and a debut novelist are the finalists for the 2010 Story Prize, it was announced Monday. The Story Prize provides a $20,000 award to the author of a collection of short......
    2. Nov 11, 2010 |Story| Coastline Pilot

  2. Calendar

    YOUR WEEKEND FRIDAY: Meet local reporters and editors at a Laguna Beach Chamber of Commerce "Meet the Press" luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Aliso Creek Inn, 31106 Coast Hwy., Laguna Beach. Tickets are $25 for non-Chamber members; members may...

    Tags: PTA, Health, Travel, Lifestyle and Leisure, Rivers

    3. Nov 11, 2010 |Story| Coastline Pilot

  3. In The Arts

    D.E. Knobbe at Latitude 33 Author D.E. Knobbe will host a creative writing workshop and sign copies of her new book, "Runaway Storm," at 4 p.m. today at Latitude 33 Bookshop, 311 Ocean Ave. in Laguna Beach. The teenage adventure tells the story of 15-...

    Tags: Benjamin West, Hobbies, Travel, Lifestyle and Leisure, John Heard

    4. Dec 17, 2010 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  4. The judges

    Peter Ho Davies, a teacher at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor's graduate program in creative writing, is the author of the novel "The Welsh Girl" and the story collections "The Ugliest House in the World" and "Equal Love." His work has appeared in...

    Tags: Continuing Education, Justice System, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Colleges and Universities

    5. Dec 26, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. PASSINGS: Salvador Jorge Blanco, Robin White

    Salvador Jorge Blanco
    Salvador Jorge Blanco Former president of Dominican Republic Salvador Jorge Blanco, 84, a former Dominican Republic president who was convicted of corruption in a decision later overturned by an appeals court, died Sunday at his home in Santo Domingo,...

    Tags: Government, Tom Wolfe, Physical Conditions, Sacramento, Dominican Republic

    6. Feb 4, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Chili: a bowl of red-blooded American heaven

    It's been called both a "bowl of blessedness" and the "soup of the Devil," and it's the stuff of legend.
    It's been called both a "bowl of blessedness" and the "soup of the Devil," and it's the stuff of legend. Frank and Jesse James reputedly downed a few bowls before pulling some of their heists -- and supposedly spared one town because of it. O. Henry spun...

    Tags: Chili, Eleanor Roosevelt, Soups, Lifestyle and Leisure, Alcoholic Beverages

    7. Jan 11, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  7. Album review: Freedy Johnston's 'Rain on the City'

    Pop & Hiss
    Wasn't the singer-songwriter Freedy Johnston always pretty much middle-aged? Midwestern and spectacularly unflashy, apparently born with a receding hairline, the Kansas-born, Hoboken-launched singer-songwriter won critics' hearts and some fame in the...
    8. Apr 26, 2010 | Chicago Tribune

  8. Train in vain? No way. (Mostly) fun times with the 'Chuck' crew

    The Watcher
    Change is good. Not only has the relationship of Chuck and Sarah taken a big leap forward, but one of "Chuck's" biggest supporters is moving to a cool new gig. As of next week, Star-Ledger television critic Alan Sepinwall is moving to HitFix.com, and I...
    9. Dec 13, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Welcome to Hecht's Windy City

    Ben Hecht used Oscars for doorstops and routinely heaped scorn on the studio pontiffs who, throughout the 1930s and 1940s, paid him an average of $3,500 a day. Before he co-wrote "The Front Page," the play that brought him fame and opportunity, before he laid the story foundations of two basic movie genres (the gangster film and the screwball comedy), before he called into being the myth of the Hollywood screenwriter (overpaid yet endlessly put-upon), Hecht was a reporter, a newspaper man in America's hottest crime city during American journalism's golden age.
    Ben Hecht used Oscars for doorstops and routinely heaped scorn on the studio pontiffs who, throughout the 1930s and 1940s, paid him an average of $3,500 a day. Before he co-wrote "The Front Page," the play that brought him fame and opportunity, before...

    Tags: Health, Charles Dickens, Justice System, Judges, Howard Hawks

    10. Dec 13, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Ray Bradbury's '2116' debuts at long last

    "2116," a musical Ray Bradbury wrote more than 50 years ago for Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester, will have its long-deferred premiere Jan. 16 at the Fremont Centre Theatre in South Pasadena.
    "2116," a musical Ray Bradbury wrote more than 50 years ago for Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester, will have its long-deferred premiere Jan. 16 at the Fremont Centre Theatre in South Pasadena. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Ray Bradbury: An...

    Tags: Christmas, London Theatre, Lifestyle and Leisure, Alcoholic Beverages, Theater

    11. May 5, 2010 | Chicago Tribune

  11. Let's talk 'Lost': 'The Candidate'

    The Watcher
    Let's talk below about last night's "Lost" episode, "The Candidate." Countdown to the end of 'Lost' "Lost" episodes can do so many different things. They can make us feel the visceral excitement of a rag-tag band executing a dangerous mission. They can...
    12. Jun 28, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. 'The O. Henry Prize Stories 2009'

    "The world which is being pictured by the story writers of today . . . is, by and large, and vividly, this day's, this troubled minute's, world." So Wilbur Daniel Steele wrote in the introduction to the 1943 edition of "The O. Henry Prize Stories."...

    Tags: William Faulkner, Cynthia Ozick, Flannery O'Connor, Los Angeles, Ernest Hemingway

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