David Johnson

Catherine Hardwicke may not be working on a new movie for Summit Entertainment after all. The "Twilight" director, who parted ways with Summit on its vampire franchise in late 2008, had since struck a deal with the company to direct......

Officials are upgrading hundreds of seismic monitors throughout California, installing new devices that seismologists say will vastly improve the state's system for detecting and warning of major earthquakes. The changes will allow first responders,...

L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art is poised to name its new director Monday morning, and one of the names circulating through the art world is Jeffrey Deitch, a high-flying New York art dealer who, if chosen, would be a radical......

The Museum of Contemporary Art has confirmed that Jeffrey Deitch will be its new director. We’ll have more details as they become available, but Deitch becomes the only art dealer/gallery owner to assume leadership of a major U.S. museum as......

The co-chairs of the board of L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art say they were aware from the start that hiring Jeffrey Deitch as MOCA director would raise questions about possible conflicts of interest. After all, Deitch has made a 30-year......

Some notes and bits on the advent of Jeffrey Deitch as the next director of L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art: Although MOCA needs Deitch to be, first and foremost, a successful fundraiser — having learned the hard way during the......

Owner David Johnson and chef Job Carder (whose resume includes stints with the Patina Group and Cafe Bizou as well as at the isolated Parallax restaurant on Mammoth Mountain, reachable by Sno-Cat) plan to open Dish Bistro & Bar in......

Belt All-Conference team and other awards announced today. QB Rusty Smith was the preseason Offensive Player of the Year and fell to, well, nowhere. Not first, second or even honorable mention. Seems a bit harsh, especially considering how he finished.......

What do you have to do to get these guys' attention? Cold water? Loud music? Screaming? Is it possible to get their heads out of their egos and actually behave parsimoniously, befitting their rhetoric? Gov. Paterson, who pretends he's......

Not to get ahead of ourselves, but all this draft talk got me looking??? And THIS PROJECTION has Rusty Smith as the No. 10 QB prospect in the 2010 draft and a sixth round pick. Fine, except guess who......

Wednesday December 30, 1998      It takes two to be sisters, two to have a rivalry, and two exceptional actresses to turn "Hilary and Jackie" into a compelling look at the most intimate and troubling of family dynamics. An assured take on the nature of...