Greeting Cards

Here's a romantic comedy that remembers that the best romances have a touch of the bittersweet. That's the happy accident happily titled (500) Days of Summer. How happy? This pairing of Joseph Gordon-Levitt (The Lookout) and the quirky Zooey Deschanel...

As a sculptor, Rachel Whiteread has pretty much taken a single, elegant idea and turned it around and around in innumerable ways, both expected and not. Using plaster, resin, concrete and other materials, she mostly makes casts of domestic objects......

John Cage never tired of describing art as imitating nature in the manner of her operation, an idea he got from Indian philosophy. Accepting the sounds of the environment, he also explained, allowed him to enjoy sounds of the city.......

Republican National Committee devises funny cards as fundraising tool tied to you-know-what day....

Designer and showroom owner Dan Marty has closed his sprawling space in the Pacific Design Center in favor of a smaller showroom on La Cienega Boulevard named Maison Au Naturel No. 819. Marty says that name change reflects his shift toward “more...

Consumers are ready for spring and plan to spend a little more on Easter this year, according to a survey released Tuesday by the National Retail Federation. The trade group found that the average person will spend $118.60 on the......

Note: Larry is posting items from 1920 and 1960 this year, and I will be watching movies from those years and writing about them, alternating weeks. This week is 1960's turn. And I owe you people something of an apology, because I have another Roger...

I’ve been searching for items of Bert Williams and George Walker on EBay since I wrote about the vaudeville team in 2008. Sheet music turns up somewhat often but this is the first time I’ve seen souvenir postcards for sale. According to the vendor,...

LAist blogger Elise Thompson has created a map of several popular dim sum eateries in Chinatown. Thompson discusses what's good about each place, offers options for parking or other transportation and asks readers to comment on (or add to) the......

Good news for moms – your Mother’s Day bouquet and other gifts might be bigger and better this year. According to a survey released Tuesday by the National Retail Federation, consumers plan to continue the recent trend of spending more......

GETTING THERE Restricted round-trip flights from Boston to Prague, Czech Republic, on Alitalia, Lufthansa, British Airways or Air France begin at $365 including taxes. Frequent buses and occasional trains serve the 80-mile route to Harrachov....

It's finally here--Tax Day!  And what's better than getting that done and out of the way?  How about some free food and other goodies  :) T.G.I. Friday's will give Wednesday customers $5 Bonus Bites gift cards for food and beverage purchases of $15 to...