The City Planning Commission on Monday turned down Dr.
Mass Slated for Jail: The Catholic Diocese of Orange has announced that Bishop William R.
Library System Busy: From Dostoevski to videos featuring Donald Duck, the Orange County Library system loaned out some 6.4 million items last year, according to a recently released report.
The Center for the Partially Sighted has raised $10,000 this year to buy a van to transport patients.
The City Council has voted to post signs on the Santa Monica Pier and at entrances to beach parking
The Santa Monica College Board of Trustees has approved several operating guidelines for a child-care center.
The City Council gave conceptual approval to a program to provide loans to low- and moderate- income people who are interested in purchasing their apartments under the city's Tenant Home Ownership plan.
As if everybody weren't already sufficiently unnerved by both art and reality, Leonard Koscianski hypes the jitters with truly scary paintings.
After an absence of four years, Bay Area painter Tom Lieber makes an impressive return to Los Angeles with a series of lyrical abstractions that somehow manage to mine the predictable vocabulary of expressionism without resorting to either cliche or mannerism.
Frank Romero's art is founded upon equal parts passion, anger and playful humor, which helps to explain its contradictory combination of acute political awareness and often infuriating simplicity.
Jacqueline Draeger has cut and slashed herself a niche among local ranks of Neo-Expressionists, but she has done it with abstraction and with a muscular use of materials.
They say the tide of Neo-Expressionism is running out in New York.
Reduced Damages OKd: A father and his son have agreed to a $13.5-million reduction in the damages they were awarded by a county jury.
It's worth a trip to Mark Stock's show of paintings and pastels just to see how colorful white can be.
Slaying Suspect Sought: Police are looking for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old man outside a Santa Ana bar Friday.
Autopsy on Fetus: A female fetus found wrapped in a plastic grocery bag near a dumpster had been stillborn about 5 1/2 months into the term of the mother's pregnancy, police said Tuesday.
A printed statement by Larry Gray says that his paintings and works on paper depict the burning of Southern towns during the Civil War, but all the action is in the skies.
After plugging away for a quarter-century and more, Michael Todd has attained a solid niche in the pantheon of abstract sculptors.
George Ketterl's painting has an intensity that overtakes its hermetic aspect.
As a conceptualist who does an unbelievable amount of work to put her ideas into visual form, Kim Abeles has hit on her best theme to date: the legend of Saint Bernadette.