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SANTA ANA, Calif. - Driving toward his home in Tampa, Fla., during late-afternoon traffic, Tony Little jokes about how hard he's had to work during his 21/2-week vacation.

Columbus, Ohio , Oct. 4, 1863 Dear President: An accident detained me in Columbus today and gave me an opportunity of seeing [John] Brough [governor of Ohio] . . . He says they will carry Ohio by at least 25,000 vote...

The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Thursday, Sept. 12:

I hate my sofa. I was excited about it once upon a time, and it's been a perfectly fine place to lounge for the past six years. But it has overstayed its welcome. Searching for its successor has been a lesson is patience...

LONDON — Sir Elton John showed the iTunes generation just how it's done. Sporting a sequin-encrusted tailcoat, the five-time Grammy award winner gave a slick, flamboyant performance Thursday night at the iTunes Festiva...

"2 Broke Girls" (CBS at 9) Monday, Sept. 23 "The Amazing Race" (CBS at 8) Sunday, Sept. 29 "American Dad" (Fox at 9:30) Sunday, Sept. 29 "American Horror Story" (FX at 10) Wednesday, Oct. 9 "Arrow" (CW at 8) Wednesday, O...

Arguably the vibraphone's greatest innovator, Gary Burton and his four-mallet technique -- the "Burton grip" -- revolutionized the instrument's melodic and harmonic possibilities. Even so, the New Gary Burton Quartet is ...

Two things about the Toronto Film Festival. Nobody cares about or notices anything except the films. Obama gets his face saved by Putin, who's making nice to the world and acting like a grownup; Nadal wins the Open; the ...

What does it mean to be a Latin American artist? A new book of interviews with the artist Liliana Porter provides some interesting and surprising insights into this question. Porter was born in Buenos Aires, and grew up ...

Creativity is an enchanting word; in the arts you could even say that it's a glamorous word. With its dreamlike promise of uncompromised originality, it conjures an alluring collage of romantic images, images that depict...

An upright bass lies on its side in an office at the Manor Care nursing home in Wheaton, waiting for the ailing man in Room 2 to wheel himself down the hall and play "Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise." For nearly half a c...

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland Thursday, Oct. 10, 8 p.m., ABC ABC did not release a full pilot episode by press time of its new "Once Upon a Time" spinoff, in which Victorian-era teenager Alice (Sophie Lowe) must persuad...

Sean Saves the World Thursday, Oct. 3, 9 p.m., NBC "Will & Grace's" Sean Hayes waltzes back onto NBC's Thursday-night schedule fairly effortlessly in this new sitcom, in which he plays a gay single dad to a sullen teenag...

ALL THE FACES OF THE MOON * out of **** PUBLIC THEATER My first experience with monologuist Mike Daisey was The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, a show I reviewed and was mixed on even before factual inaccuracies bed...

Sleepy Hollow Monday, Sept. 16, 9 p.m., Fox A minimally engaging update of Washington Irving's 1820 horror story, in which American revolutionary soldier Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) wakes from an underground, 240-year coma...

The Millers Thursday, Oct. 3, 8:30 p.m., CBS Beau Bridges and Emmy nominee Margo Martindale ("The Americans") star as Tom and Carol Miller, who, after 43 years of marital bickering, decide to split up once they learn of ...

Philip Levine, the former United States poet laureate who spent his formative years writing poetry between shifts as an autoworker in Detroit, has been awarded the Academy of American Poets' Wallace Stevens Award for lif...

It's with a sinking feeling that I read program notes about "conscience methodology" and "social-psychological restrictions." When there's also a strained, rambling poem on the page, written by the choreographer, I know ...

Another day, another chilling new "American Horror Story: Coven" teaser. Today's posters continue the theme of pins and needles, and you'll never look at acupuncture the same way again after checking out this creepy artw...

Hostages Monday, Sept. 23, 10 p.m., CBS With its big red PREMISE ALERT flashing like crazy, CBS's experimental new drama is this season's most alluring act of derring-do; it's also the show that's hardest to swallow. Ton...

2 Chainz spent years as a regional celebrity before being airlifted to the worldwide stardom that followed standout features on songs like "Mercy." But outshining current greats like Kanye West (whom he easily bested on ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Memorabilia from the AMC hit television series "Breaking Bad" is scheduled to be auctioned to benefit Albuquerque-area Goodwill stores after the nonprofit helped with production. Goodwill Industries...