Its Spanish Colonial style, the midcentury Palm Springs feel of the Tropicana, the lobby’s tiered fountain and painted beam ceiling and the hotel’s rich history as the site of the first Academy Awards in 1929 continue to lure event planners and L.A clubgoers, who have tired of manufactured glamour. At the time of his death, Hoffman was working on the movies “Saw III” and “Crawlspace.”He... 

Whereas meat is full of tough sinew that needs long, patient cooking to become tender, fish is almost pure muscle.The biggest danger with seafood stews is overcooking Braise them too long and the tender fish will fall apart. Politics and spirituality, travel and sex and celebrity, the role of serenity and good old industry gossip form the patterns of a gorgeous, unfathomable tapestry. — not your typical spot for... 

Context and anxiety are added by volatile street protests against the World Bank taking place outside.A terrific ensemble — including Eduardo Noriega, Najwa Nimri, Eduard Fernandez, Pablo Echarri, Ernesto Alterio, Natalia Verbeke, Adriana Ozores and Carmelo Gomez — makes the arguments and gamesmanship highly involving. And, second, that these DP cells, on their own, were able to command the skin into which... 

2 on the new chart.Eminem’s “Curtain Call” greatest hits package is No 3 this week after selling 186,000 copies last week.. I’m living here? I know I’ve come a long way from there,” McKinney, 44, said recently “I’m at peace In there, there’s no peace Every day is a day of worry and fear. First exposed to kahiko as a child at a backyard barbecue, Woolford began his... 

Coroner’s officials have determined that the skull and bones found near a Big Bear area campsite last weekend are those of 9-year-old David Gonzalez, but the cause of his death is still under investigation, authorities said Thursday.The boy’s dental records were used to positively identify the remains, which were found by hikers and San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies along a creek near the Hanna... 

The vibraphone has always been an enigmatic jazz instrument for me. “The reality of living here is that you have less of a house on less land, which is a disincentive” to buying.Mike Murray, president of the St. I fight for my teammates when they need me to, but I’m not going to fight some guy who plays only four minutes a game. 19 North Carolina on Wednesday.Shackleford was limited to 16 games last... 

“At the hospital they may have some other criteria for making a judgment.”From a tiny office in the hospital’s basement, Klein monitors an annual budget of more than $13 million Charts tracking drug expenditures cover a bulletin board. I heard a lot of boos, bro.”USC won the game with a 14-play, 74-yard drive that included one pass. Grown in the towns of Vercelli and Novara, which are near Arborio,... 

A Newsweek poll found that, for the first time, less than a majority of Americans felt Bush possesses “strong leadership qualities,” his signature claim to fame Boy, have they got that right.. Present are Cory, Hunter, this reporter and Nate Van Dusen, a filmmaker who is featuring Cory in a new documentary. He is also the only player to throw for 3,000-plus yards in each of his first seven seasons. Earlier,... 

Three civilians were injured, police said.Early today, a bomb exploded beside a group of laborers in Baghdad, wounding at least 19 people, Interior Ministry sources said.Also Sunday, police found bodies of three men — bound, blindfolded and shot — in Baghdad’s Shiite stronghold of Sadr City. Yet the portrait of him that emerges is one more consumed, even at his advanced age, than any of them.It’s... 

and a Yemeni.Masri said he was not tortured while in Afghanistan but was photographed naked. 3 Japanese automaker faces its first profit decline in seven years, the famously hyperactive executive is giving up his post as chairman of Nissan’s North American management committee April 1.The change comes as part of a shake-up designed to improve the management structure at Nissan, which has stumbled in several regions,...