Sicilian Mafia

In this Sunday’s Arts & Books, book critic David L. Ulin talks to Gay Talese about "The Silent Season of a Hero,"a new collection of his writings on sports. Talese has long been one of our most interesting journalists, the......

The connection between hip-hop and Elvis Presley has been relatively tenuous since Chuck D discouraged matters on "Fight the Power." Branding the Mississippi-born legend a racist, the Public Enemy frontman famously opined that Elvis never "meant [a thing]...

Capt. Phillip Tingirides of the Los Angeles Police Department says he understands why people who cherish the Watts Towers as a work of art, as a landmark and as one of the few attractions that can pull tourists into Watts......

Head to a club or turn on the radio, and it quickly becomes apparent that electronic dance music has fully infiltrated the mainstream. The sounds of electro, trance and house music throb out of Angelenos' iPods and car radios — and the subwoofers of...

Editor's note: In this week's cover story on the divided house of L.A. dance music, we spoke to a number of artists and insiders involved. Here's a longer look at our discussion with KCRW music director and "Morning Becomes Eclectic" host Jason Bentley, a...

Yahoo! partners with Zynga, maker of Farmville, and also unveils Messenger beta and Local Offers program...

A fake-jeweled pinkie ring and movie music usually reserved for Marlon Brando were among the honors for ???the godfather of Palm Beach County,??? who stepped down as County Commission chairman on Tuesday. Gov. Charlie Crist during a visit in June......

What follows are instant grades of every performance at tonight's American Music Awards. This post was written off-site from the AMAs at the LAT HQ, and strived to be as fast, coherent and accurate as possible. You have been warned.......

Rival social video game makers Zynga and Playdom have settled a contentious, yearlong lawsuit over the alleged theft of trade secrets. In September 2009, Zynga, maker of the wildly popular online FarmVille game, filed suit in Santa Clara against Playdom,....

Black Friday insanity — and the snarled lines and pushy shoppers that entails — is fast approaching. No worries — the World Wide Web is here to help frazzled shoppers deal. Got an Android smartphone or iPhone? Use it to......

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Governors Awards on Saturday night offered up lots of nostalgia and heartfelt sentiment, which is probably why Jean-Luc Godard didn't bother to show up to accept his honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement....

I've seen plenty of mashups -- video from one source blended with audio from another -- but I've never seen one so carefully done that it looks almost lip synched. It's clips from Disney's Alice in Wonderland blended with Three......