- Readers recommend: Grampian Hotel in Dundee, Scotland
- An urban makeover
- Chris Dufresne's preseason college football top 25: No. 25 Washington
- Israeli filmmaker revisits his army stint with 'Lebanon'
- The myth of the Social Security system's financial shortfall
- In Los Olivos, pairing wine with the equine
- The L.A. Flower District is not just for wholesalers; the public's invited too
- How charge cards affect credit scores
- Vespa as urban accessory
- Alonso lifts Real Madrid over Galaxy
- Taliban ambush kills aid workers
- Angels fall to Detroit, 9-4, with a 'creative' lineup
- Slain American volunteers were devoted to service
- Mitch Mustain provides USC with quite a backup plan
- In Sunday books: There's big trouble down on the bayou in James Lee Burke's "The Glass Rainbow"
- New home sale fee unites divergent groups in opposition
- Films & Programs
- Political reality checks
- Mexico drug cartels thrive despite Calderon's offensive
- Pro Football Hall of Fame: Class of 2010
- Five crucial questions facing the Bruins as they open training camp
- Obituary: Patricia Neal dies at 84; Oscar-winning actress
- A mosque near ground zero: It's the wise choice
- Beyond the beach: Try Maui's tropic scape or Point Reyes' dunes
- Rahsaan Bahati wins cycling race, but doping issue pervades sport
- Look what's in store
- Bali, soul of replenishment
- 'Gotcha'-getters are now spreading gaffes in real time
- Military deaths
- Deputy's conviction highlights rising drug presence in county jails
- Pinnacles National Monument might become national park
- For the record - Aug. 8, 2010
- Charlotte Russe grows up
- In Sunday books: A new anthology speaks volumes on black L.A.
- A great place for leash
- Setting the scene
- Tony Judt dies at 62; leading historian of postwar Europe
- Coming soon: Science books try to deliver big answers in the fall
- A private enclave in Malibu
- Bramwell Tovey mixes a mean musical cocktail
- Scene & Heard: Rubbing elbows
- A lofty approach to design
- What city managers usually earn
- City walk
- The streets are alive
- Hair, nails and abs
- PASSINGS: Reginald Levy, Derf Scratch, Robert Tucker
- Jack V. Pandol dies at 87; pioneered produce importing
- Anderson Silva stuns Chael Sonnen at UFC 117
- James Loney's single in 10th lifts Dodgers over Nationals, 3-2
- Opera review: 'Don Giovanni' among the revelers in Santa Barbara
- 'True Blood' Saturdays: Let's talk about spoilers
- Dodgers reap benefits of Brad Ausmus' commitment
- Sunday's TV Highlights: 'Army Wives' on Lifetime
- With 'Game of Thrones,' HBO is playing for another 'True Blood'
- TCA Press Tour: Spike Lee goes back to the bayou in HBO documentary
- TCA Press Tour: 'Boardwalk Empire' is finally Steve Buscemi's empire
- UFC 117 Live Coverage
- Angels' Torii Hunter reverses course on appealing suspension
- Angels' Torii Hunter suspended four games
- Baseball: Sementelli among four locals on national team
- Boys' basketball: Chaparral's Johnson participates in camp
- Football: Locke's Bell commits to San Diego State
- TCA Press Tour: Eric Mabius ditches the fashion world for a space odyssey in 'Outcasts'
- The Last Tour of Endor party will send off Disney's Star Tours in style
- TCA Press Tour: 'Spartacus': 'Gods of the Arena' or gods of TV?
- Opinion: Sunday shows: Olson, Odierno, Browner and Boehner
- TCA Press Tour: The magic of Starz's new series 'Camelot' is in the 'political essence'
- Scholar Tony Judt has died
- 105-year old Dawson's Book Shop begins clearance sale
- Go ahead, play with your food
- Social Security: Doing away with the 'lockbox' myth
- LEBANON: Government considers suspending BlackBerry services over security concerns
- The formative tunes of Bramwell Tovey
- Kathy Goodman: Every game counts
- Now the losing leaves Dodgers with mental hurdle
- TCA Press Tour: Getting schooled by Tony Danza
- One year ago: Carleen Hutchins
- Opinion: Ticket photo of the week: Blown away
- In the Studio: Anna Sew Hoy
- Recall roundup: This week's consumer product recalls
- Opinion: Weekly remarks: Obama on Medicare, GOP Rep. Peter Roskam on the economy
- Marilyn Buck dies at 62; leftist incarcerated for 25 years for role in violent attacks in the 1980s
- Suso Cecchi D'Amico dies at 96; screenwriter worked with some of Italy's leading directors
- Eden's garden
- Book review: 'Savages' by Don Winslow
- Saturday's TV highlights
- New York Jets' Antonio Cromartie is headed for a key season
- Anna Nicole Smith's bodyguard tells of her drug, alcohol abuse in her last days
- BP well could be sealed for good by next week
- Overtime pay for farmworkers; a racial dialogue in the U.S.; how to figure a restaurant tip
- The Dodgers' latest loss is Dunn early
- Ryan Lochte finishes with another big win
- Up next for Sparks: Sunday vs. San Antonio
- 'Savages'
- Summer Camp Campaign: Camp Titan takes a positive approach
- Chael Sonnen is talking tough going into UFC 117 against champion Anderson Silva
- Quick Takes: Spaniard to head Russia's Mikhailovsky Theatre
- Next up for Chivas USA: Saturday at Toronto
- Svetlana Kuznetsova will face a familiar foe in final at Carlsbad — Agnieska Radwanska
- Healthcare law has strengthened Medicare, Obama says
- Judicial myopia in Los Angeles
- My Favorite Weekend: Dylan McDermott
- Book calendar: Author events for the week of August 8, 2010
- Dodgers' Ramon Troncoso says he's back
- Home of the Times: A thoroughly Modern couple
- GOP blocks two federal judges' nominations
- holiday-horoscopes 08/07/10
- Brewing legal disputes could define Kagan's early tenure
- Chivas USA falls to Toronto FC, 2-1
- Xabi Alonso lifts Real Madrid over Galaxy
- Man of the House: He can speak volumes about the demise of books
- Delivering on a promise of new hope
- L.A. Salary Highlights
- Up next for Galaxy: Saturday vs. Real Madrid
- Africa looks to vast forests for carbon credits
- All is forgiven as USC fullback Stanley Havili returns to the fold
- Angels: Week Ahead
- There are two sides to a baseball deadline trade
- No more horse racing, but future appears sweet for Rick Baedeker
- Prior hasn't given up
- Demand Media plans stock sale
- Eden's garden
- U.S. job market shrinks again
- He put a spin on Rice's fame
- Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd resigns under cloud
- The crack epidemic's toxic legacy
- With Uribe era ending, Colombia looks back and ahead
- Dora: The pint-sized superstar
- Devon Kennard is in the middle of Trojans' plans for a revamped linebacker corps
- FCC's plan for 'Net neutrality' rules falters
- Sean O'Hair and Ryan Palmer tied for lead at Firestone
- Angels' Torii Hunter accepts four-game suspension
- Former Bell city manager's compensation totaled $1.5 million a year, records show
- Carissa Moore wins women's final at U.S. Open of Surfing
- No racial bias found in L.A. County sheriff's arrests for obstruction of police
- Should the Fed try to push long-term interest rates even lower?
- Dodgers: Week Ahead
- Ecuador's untapped oil
- 6 Americans among 10 charity workers killed in Taliban ambush
- Yankees' Alex Rodriguez hurt in batting practice
- Angels' Scott Kazmir looks strong in 10-1 victory over Tigers
- Book review: 'Savages' by Don Winslow
- Mexico drug cartels thrive despite Calderon's offensive
- Calculating future revenue from TV and land development is far from easy for Dodgers
- Shoppers swarm remodeled Santa Monica Place mall
- British, Pakistani leaders pledge to 'stand together'
- KCET without PBS? Audience says no
- Schwarzenegger, Brown urge resumption of gay marriages
- Elena Kagan sworn in by Roberts to become 112th Supreme Court Justice
- Train robbers ride the rails in India
- An illegal bulls-eye?
- Dodgers beat Nationals, 3-2, on James Loney's walkoff hit
- L.A. city employee salaries posted online
- Happening Saturday
- Los Angeles approves business tax break
- Bell admits more hefty city salaries
- Woman files $500,000 sex claim against Rialto police
- Google to acquire social-games firm Slide
- Weekend TV talk shows
- Pierre-Luc Gagnon wins the Maloof Money Cup
- Anne Rice discusses her decision to quit Christianity
- Senate leaves credit-starved small businesses hanging
- Movie Review: 'Cemetery Junction'
- Taliban kills 10 aid workers in Afghanistan
- Boeing gets major satellite contract
- Bell faces $35-million bond debt
- 'Cemetery Junction' info
- Arcade Fire proves camera ready
- Scott Kazmir's sharp return lifts Angels, 10-1
- Padres face a dilemma with ace Mat Latos
- These sisters are the winningest team at Dodger Stadium
- Answering the burning questions as training camps open this week
- Galaxy's Clint Mathis caps career in a friendly way
- For the record - Aug. 7, 2010
- Hot Property: Writer-director Nicholas Meyer lists Pacific Palisades home
- Lost L.A.: Rancho Los Alamitos
- Donald P. Shiley dies at 90; co-inventor of Bjork-Shiley heart valve
- There's no comeback in these Dodgers, as they fall to Adam Dunn and Nationals, 6-3
- Teemu Selanne may be close to re-signing with the Ducks
- Credit card debt falls again as consumers pare back
- Pet insurer holds contest to choose winner of Hambone Award for oddest accident
- Dodgers say they are still buyers; did they claim Adam Dunn?
- Are men or women more obsessive about movies?
- Saturday's TV Highlights: 'Red Eye' on ABC
- Weekend TV Talk Shows for Aug. 7th - 8th
- E-I-E-I-ewww: Modesto processor recalls 1 million pounds of ground beef products amid E. coli outbreak
- Majestic Crest theater said to be changing hands
- So you wanna be a Test Kitchen intern.... Meet Joe Moon
- Southern California animal lovers' calendar: Weekend of Aug. 7-8 and beyond
- Angels' Torii Hunter ejected following tantrum
- Emma Thompson, Marco Antonio Solis get stars on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
- Opinion: The clock is ticking for Prop. 18
- Mexico Supreme Court upholds gay marriage law
- The Project: Berries jubilee with peach sorbet and salted candied almonds
- Pokemon champs worldwide will catch 'em all in Hawaii
- Pisgah Village, feeding the spirit in Highland Park
- TCA Press Tour: MTV lets out its teen angst with 'Skins'
- TCA Press Tour: 'Jersey Shore' hits the 90210
- Santa Monica's Demand Media files initial public offering
- Sam Fuller at LACMA: Have a wild weekend with Hollywood's orginal bad-boy filmmaker
- Yoko Ono discusses PBS 'American Masters' documentary 'LennonNYC'
- PREACH IT! Sean Penn vs. Wyclef Jean in a verbal cage match to the death!
- Schwarzenegger urges court to allow gay marriage
- Michael Jackson's last home is for sale
- TCA Press Tour: Can MTV make 'Teen Wolf' stand out from the other cute werewolves in town?
- It's another boy for Amy Poehler and Will Arnett!
- Donald Rosenberg, ousted Plain Dealer classical-music critic, talks about court loss
- Eli Broad's museum gets City Council OK; two more agency approvals needed
- Critical Crossfire: Charles McNulty and Steven Leigh Morris on L.A. Theater
- TCA Press Tour: Harry Hamlin loves Lisa Rinna but will we?
- Venus Williams pulls out of Cincinnati Open due to knee injury
- L.A. Philharmonic's Bowl appearances to be broadcast on KUSC-FM
- A stalker-y sailor as movie promotion?
- Tommy Hilfiger celebrates 25 years of style, five decades (plus) of life with coffee table tome
- Boxer and Fiorina set to debate
- Glenn Goldman's books, up for auction
- Linda Perhacs, L.A. Ladies Choir and more perform at the New L.A. Folk Festival
- Dean McDermott in recovery from punctured lung (not that his kids know)
- Lee Westwood pulls out of WGC-Bridgestone, PGA Championship
- Music review: Gustavo Dudamel conducts the L.A. Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl
- Ferrell plays it serious in tribute to the Little General
- U.S. sprinter Tyson Gay beats 100-meter world record holder Usain Bolt in Stockholm
- Art review: John Divola at Laxart
- L.A. gallery opens a door to 'The New American Porch'
- Eminem's new video features Rihanna, Megan Fox and domestic violence -- what's not to love?
- Water bond opponents want to keep it on the ballot
- Schwarzenegger does end run around state Senate
- Critical mass: 'The Other Guys'
- The Power of the Riff Festival: A promotional quest in the name of metal
- Andie MacDowell joins the cast of Fox's new drama 'Lone Star'
- Google acquires social games and apps maker Slide
- Traveling in style
- TCA Press Tour: Pinching pennies on WeTV's 'Downsized'
- Opinion: Obama administration steps in to help referee foreign BlackBerry bans
- Marilyn Buck, leftist jailed after violent armored car heist of 1981, dies at 62
- Pacific Time podcast: Developments in Bell saga, the story behind Project 50, a look behind the lens
- TCA Press Tour: Reality TV meets polygamy in TLC's 'Sister Wives'
- Knicks bring back Isiah Thomas as consultant
- Middle White pigs and surströmming at the Oxford Symposium
- Gulf oil spill: BP starts last leg of relief well
- Weak jobs report drives interest rates lower; Fed to the rescue again?
- Rob Reiner on Warners exec succession plan: 'What a boneheaded move'
- Justin Bieber surprises band camp students while one 'lucky' fan gets knocked around like a pinata on Twitter
- BAHRAIN: First all-girl rock band fights taboos, dreams to jam in public
- Preview review: 'Burlesque,' Christina Aguilera's first (and last?) act
- TCA Press Tour: 'The Cove's' Ric O'Barry knows his work isn't done
- Art review: Hangin' Together at Koplin Del Rio
- Bun B Talks longevity, working with the next generation of rappers, and the meaning of being a 'Trill O.G.'
- Tiger Woods continues to struggle at WGC-Bridgestone Invitational
- Shipley & Halmos take to the road on a Barneys Co-op tour
- 'If I Was President': Wyclef Jean sets eyes on Haiti
- TCA Press Tour: Wilmer Valderrama bugs out on the Science Channel
- Save up to 75% at Stila's online warehouse sale
- Southern Californians won't change vacation plans, poll says
- Journalist Helen Thomas still making waves
- Art review: Chad Person at Mark Moore
- Kelly Junkerman lists Hollywood Hills home
- Arum: Cotto-Chavez Jr. 'will happen'
- John Goodman on losing 100 pounds: exercise good, alcohol bad, new clothes already too big
- Summer reading: Kate Racculia on 'The Perilous Gard'
- A perm that promises natural-looking beachy waves
- Discovery and Hasbro's Hub kids' channel gears up for launch
- Lost L.A.: Rancho Los Alamitos, before the oil wells
- Robin Wright and Sean Penn officially divorced
- TV This Week for August 8 -14
- Alabama starts season at No. 1 in USA Today coaches' poll
- 'Mined to death'? 'X-Men' director says Hollywood is killing the superhero movie
- Art review: Graciela Iturbide at Rose
- 'Do I look strange?' Authors' (best) last words
- The Dry Garden: A festival of rare fruit
- Five France soccer players face disciplinary hearing for actions during World Cup
- Your morning fashion and beauty report: What did Barbra think? Plus Lancome's new miracle foundation and the latest in hats
- EGYPT: Cyber war among possible presidential candidates
- Can the Dodgers come running back? Clock is ticking on turnaround
- Monster Mash: Jane Fonda to star at Ahmanson Theatre; possible Mozart discovery
- Wall Street Roundup: Good news for government companies. Denver's derivatives.
- First Take: Waters fights back. Bell gives CalPERS more unwanted attention.
- The Morning Fix: Rosie going to work for Oprah. Move over Kate Gosselin, TLC has polygamists now! Shakeup on Selleck's 'Blue Bloods'
- 'So You Think You Can Dance': Three dancers left walking on the tightrope
- Small bites: Craft's lunch, Nobu's new menu, Cube Cafe's aperitivo and Five Crowns' three-course menu
- One year ago: John Hughes
- The Deal: 20% off Bauer Pottery tumblers and pitchers
- 'The Other Guys'
- 'Other Guys' expected to displace 'Inception' atop box-office charts
- Hard Summer info
- Teemu Selanne says he will begin contract negotiations with Ducks
- Rays put Carlos Pena on disabled list
- Retief Goosen leads by one at Firestone
- Angels pitcher Scott Kazmir will start Saturday
- Missi Pyle, hubby Casey Anderson sell Beachwood Canyon home
- No joke for Dodgers: It's Andre Ethier at first
- California Pizza Kitchen earnings less grim than expected
- Movie review: 'Step Up 3D'
- Mark Cuban is now free to buy Dodgers
- Svetlana Kuznetsova shows young Coco Vandeweghe how it's done at La Costa
- Lane Kiffin might have to answer questions about Tennessee recruiting
- Gastric bypass surgery may decrease the urge to eat when not hungry
- Movie review: 'The Wildest Dream'
- TLC's 'Sister Wives' reality show will document a polygamist family