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Gaga channels Marilyn Monroe at Clinton’s concert

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Lady Gaga enjoyed her “first real Marilyn moment” with former President Bill Clinton.“I always wanted to have one, and I was hoping that it didn’t involve pills and a strand of pearls,” she joked.The envelope-pushing pop superstar was one of several musicians who performed Saturda

Performance Oct. 17, 2011

Mean girls? U.S. study casts light on reality TV’s impact

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Girls who regularly watch reality television expect ― and accept ― more bullying and drama in their lives, a just-released study in the United States suggested.They also assign more value to physical appearances, and view themselves as leaders and role models, according to the nat

Television Oct. 17, 2011

Pee Wee, Potter, Vader win at Scream Awards

UNIVERSAL CITY, California (AP) ― Heroes and villains from the worlds of horror, fantasy and science-fiction shared the stage at Spike TVs annual Scream Awards.More television event than traditional awards ceremony, the Scream Awards were presented in an amphitheater built on the Universal Studios b

Film Oct. 17, 2011

Pee Wee, Potter, Vader win at Scream Awards

Impressionists get new home with Orsay museum revamp

PARIS (AFP) ― Masterworks by Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas get a new home next week as Paris’ Orsay Museum reopens its impressionist gallery following a two-year, multi-million-euro revamp.Twenty-five years after its creation in a 200-year-old railway station on the south bank of the

Performance Oct. 16, 2011

Iceland’s literary stature born over centuries

FRANKFURT (AFP) ― A literary tradition that was born about 900 years ago with the Sagas, which Icelandic children still read today, has evolved into a thriving modern-day appetite for crime fiction.Publishers and authors at the Frankfurt Book Fair, which ends Sunday and where Iceland has been guest

Books Oct. 16, 2011

Oasis ‘sideman’ Noel Gallagher goes solo

PARIS (AFP) ― Two years after a bitter blow-up with his brother Liam drew the curtain on Britpop sensation Oasis, Noel Gallagher makes the jump from “sideman” to frontman as his solo debut hits shelves on Monday.“I was a sideman for 20 years and I fucking loved it,” said the 44-year-old, who always

Performance Oct. 16, 2011

Violence stars in Iraqi film fest

BAGHDAD (AFP) ― A journalist kidnapped by extremists may be a well-trodden scenario, but for one young filmmaker in Baghdad, it provided fodder for a nascent genre in Iraqi film: the patriotic action flick.“Attention” by Ibrahim al-Khazali, named Best Iraqi Production at this month’s Baghdad Interna

Film Oct. 16, 2011

Oppressed voices ring out in Morrison’s ‘Othello’

PARIS (AP) ― She’s but a throwaway mention in Shakespeare’s “Othello,” a one-line reference buried in Act IV of the dense and dark tale of passion and betrayal.But Barbary ― the African nurse who raised Othello’s ill-fated wife Desdemona ― is at the very center, the beating heart, of Toni Morrison’s

Performance Oct. 16, 2011

Oppressed voices ring out in Morrison’s ‘Othello’

Florida’s new Legoland park designed just for kids

WINTER HAVEN, Florida ― This is what a theme park built for children looks like: Kids are driving slow one-seater toy cars while their parents watch from the sidelines. They are steering boats, turning water cannons on each other, playing with Lego toys while their parents hold their place in line f

Travel Oct. 14, 2011

Florida’s new Legoland park designed just for kids

Wine of the Week: 2010 Trajarinho Vinho Verde

The 2010 Trajarinho Vinho Verde is a bottling well worth seeking out. Look for the characteristic tall slope-shouldered shape and the distinctive Trajarinho label. (Los Angeles Time/MCT)In Porto, I remember eating sardines grilled outside a little restaurant near the sea accompanied by gulps of chil

Food Oct. 14, 2011

Wine of the Week: 2010 Trajarinho Vinho Verde

Food trucks often a gateway to opening a restaurant

LOS ANGELES ― The food truck revolution is moving indoors.The owners of some of the most successful trucks are using the knowledge, fame and bankability gained from operating their mobile eateries to start sit-down restaurants.“To grow a restaurant from the ground up is impossible,” said Eric Tjahya

Food Oct. 14, 2011

Food trucks often a gateway to opening a restaurant

Food critic dines out on Michelle Obama favorites

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― It’s sure nice work if you can get it: going to nearly every restaurant in Washington patronized by Michelle Obama and ordering exactly what she ordered.Marian Burros did just that for the Politico website (www.politico.com), and the experience ― which took her through 25 eateries

Food Oct. 14, 2011

Food critic dines out on Michelle Obama favorites

Nearly a century on, a stolen French painting returns home

WASHINGTON (AFP) ―Nearly a century after it was stolen by a German soldier during World War I, and after a decade of transatlantic legal wrangling, a painting by French Realist Jules Breton is going home.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will return “A Fisherman’s Daughter” on Thursday to Fra

Performance Oct. 13, 2011

Book industry fights back against debt crisis

FRANKFURT (AFP) ― Publishers and booksellers from debt-laden countries gathered at the world’s biggest book fair Wednesday determined to fight the impact of Europe’s economic woes.But authors at least have drawn inspiration from the crisis, they reported.Greece, currently in the eye of the eurozone

Books Oct. 13, 2011

Hollywood hacking case victims include Johansson

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― A man was charged with hacking into the emails of Christina Aguilera, Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis in a computer invasion scheme that targeted Hollywood celebrities, federal authorities said Wednesday.Christopher Chaney, 35, was arrested without incident as part of a yearlong

People Oct. 13, 2011

Articles by Kim Hoo-ran