- L.A. to host Microsoft conference, still wooing Comic-Con
- Basic yoga pose
- At home on the range
- Elizabeth Taylor to don Halston again
- What the food diary revealed
- A Lieberman loser
- '<i>Into the Deep'</i>
- Mills students and alumnae commemorate a victory for women-only education
- Lena Horne dies at 92; singer and civil rights activist who broke barriers
- U.S. hopes to improve relations with Afghan leader
- U.S. lost in Afghan vote
- Take that, Supreme Court
- Samsung doesn't find satirical spoof amusing
- Lakers' Lamar Odom powers bench strength
- Stock exchange leaders to strengthen 'circuit breakers,' SEC says
- NBC Universal exec's cable ties add to her pull
- The good and bad of Stephanie's diet
- Polanski's big mouth
- 'Babies' a happy arrival
- A hard edge to Dubai's glittering allure
- He's got religion, set on frappe
- Uncertain times for old-school Democrats
- 'Every Last One' info
- Philippines elections marred by violence, voting-machine glitches
- 'Iron Man 2' is box-office gold
- Aircraft enthusiasts take a trip back in history at Long Beach Airport
- Obama to name Kagan to Supreme Court
- A fight over weed removal fees, Mickey Kaus' view on unions; a tax bill for a tiny eatery
- Horoscope: May 10
- Events happening Monday
- Once a lonely bachelor, Reggie the alligator has a new life partner
- Book review: 'Every Last One' by Anna Quindlen
- Toyota chief, LaHood vow to improve communication
- Farmers markets are testing grounds for growing a small business
- Early Bird: WP24 at the Ritz-Carlton, Los Angeles
- The Times' top 25 baseball rankings
- Poizner, Whitman both deploy exaggeration in attack ads
- Television review: 'Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World'
- Sparks' Candace Parker gets tougher
- Mills students and alumnae commemorate a victory for women-only education
- Keeping the FPPC's teeth
- They've got fixes for the oil spill, if BP will listen
- Warrior Games aim to help wounded military personnel get back in action
- Lakers sweep way into Western Conference finals
- Welfare system could cause Israel to collapse, economist warns
- Tracey Thorn's lesson in maturing gracefully
- Lakers wanted Suns, but may regret it
- It's time for schools of education to embrace new routes to teacher certification
- A future without a baby is just fate, after all
- The reluctant athlete
- Poetry in motion
- William Elkins Jr. dies at 90; advisor and confidant of Mayor Tom Bradley
- Weighing in on the Shake Weight
- PASSINGS: Moshe Hirsch
- A healthcare subsidy for early retirees
- European Central Bank agrees to buy euro-zone governments' bonds in attempt to halt debt crisis
- 'The Amazing Race': I left my integrity in San Francisco
- The 'Lost' weekend: Too early farewells
- Football: Texas town rejects $35 million bond for stadium
- Monday's TV Highlights: 'House' on Fox
- Elena Kagan: Biographical details
- Elena Kagan chosen as Supreme Court nominee, NBC reports
- Football: Let the debate begin about salaries for football coaches
- Obama picks Elena Kagan as Supreme Court nominee
- Canadian jazz great Rob McConnell dies
- Angels' Bobby Wilson, Jeff Mathis on the mend
- Dance review: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet at UCLA's Royce Hall
- Opinion: British election update: Brown, Clegg and Cameron -- and financial markets -- take stock of a stalemate
- Clayton Kershaw reminds Dodgers what a terrific start looks like in 2-0 victory over Rockies
- Gulf oil spill: National parks, fish & wildlife directors head to gulf
- Joe Torre has an explanation for why Charlie Haeger couldn't get an out
- 'Inception,' the only movie that matters?
- 'Iron Man 2' not just a hit, but a crowd pleaser too
- Baseball: Moustakas, Stanton rank No. 1 and 2
- Gulf oil spill: More fishing areas closed
- A faster Wi-Fi format aims to eliminate most wires
- An apple for arts education views
- An ash-colored pall could settle over the Cannes Film Festival
- 'Iron Man 2' has explosive $134-million opening
- LEBANON: Filmmaker takes on violence and masculinity in new short movie about militias
- Lacrosse: U.S. Lacrosse Southern Section Championships scores and updated pairings
- Darth Vader voice now available for TomTom GPS: 'Bear left, to the dark side'
- Boys' volleyball: Southern Section playoff pairings
- Alan Rich memorial set for May 25
- ISRAEL: Netanyahu's government reaches out in Arabic
- Football: Are you ready for spring practice?
- White House says Pakistan Taliban behind failed Times Square bombing
- Critic's Notebook: Betty White goes not gently into that 'Saturday Night Live'
- First look: 'Iron Man 2' soars with $134-million opening
- UFC boss confirms he's 'fired' Kimbo Slice and welterweight Paul Daley
- Atty. Gen. Eric Holder: Pakistani Taliban behind Times Square plot
- Avril Lavigne, Tommy Hilfiger, Paris Hilton hit the Race to Erase MS gala
- White House says Pakistan Taliban behind N.Y. bomb
- Gulf oil spill: Oyster beds, shrimp areas closed
- EGYPT: Young activists hindered by political immaturity
- Now Dodgers have a problem leading it off
- Gulf oil spill: Florida Panhandle starts preparing
- 17-year-old Dusty Davis wins second straight NASCAR Super Late Model race at Irwindale
- Gulf oil spill: Tar balls wash up on Dauphin Island off Alabama
- Opinion: Joe Biden update: He speaks (English) to Spanish troops in Spain
- Books & Ideas: Stephen Ambrose's troubling Eisenhower record
- Book Review: 'The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare' by Doug Stewart
- Discoveries: 'The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain'
- Misery's company in Jane Smiley's latest, 'Private Life'
- Home of the Week: Sister Aimee's castle in Lake Elsinore
- Book review: 'Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House' by Meghan Daum
- Bard battles: 'Contested Will' by James Shapiro
- The Siren's Call: Fragile wiring
- Worms for Mother
- The Venerable: Glen Ivy Hot Springs Spa
- The Russian Touch: Voda Spa
- Letters: Downtown L.A. hotels could try luring locals
- Wacky Grand Ave., Broad museum or no
- Angels pitchers can't stay in the zone in 8-1 loss to Seattle
- Book review: 'Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House' by Meghan Daum
- All-time Brazilian World Cup soccer team
- How I Made It: Pervaiz Lodhie
- Need to Know: San Diego yacht race, Disneyland innovation, SkyMiles benefit and more
- New on DVD: 'Legion,' 'Daybreakers,' 'Edge of Darkness,' 'Daria,' 'The Karate Kid I & II'
- What happened in last week's British election
- The Sunday Conversation: James and Scott Caan
- Homeowner association director can't be excluded just for disagreeing
- The $299 deal: Chauffeured Wine Country Getaway Package
- Major league baseball down the line
- Senators, start your questions
- Listing details: Aimee Semple McPherson's castle
- The Siren's Call: Fragile wiring
- Mariners end eight-game losing streak against Angels
- Neck injury forces Tiger Woods to withdraw during round
- Dodgers: Week ahead
- RNC ousts 2 top finance officers
- Garey High's Coach Monse Estrada teaches by example
- Readers recommend: River City Grill in Yuma, Ariz.
- The Boutique: Le Petite Retreat day spa
- Oil containment dome hits a snag
- Sunday's TV highlights
- Forget change, voters want safety
- The Luxe: The Spa at Terranea
- The Korean Experience: Aroma Wilshire Center
- The pill — a modern philosopher's stone
- The separation of church and state; an atheist for the Supreme Court; and defending the Catholic Church.
- Library of Congress keeps tweets for the ages
- EU unveils $968-billion emergency bailout plan
- As demand for high school football coaches rise, salaries soar
- Britain remains in legislative stalemate
- Hipster culture is having a senior moment
- Maliki's actions, and Obama's inaction, threaten an Iraq democracy
- <b>Personal Finance: </b>Listen to Mom and get ahead
- Nicaragua: A hike up the active volcano Concepcion
- Nevada governor revives left-for-dead campaign
- SMART LIST: Inside L.A.'s modern art scene with 'Cool School'
- Tim Clark wins the Players Championship for his first PGA Tour victory
- Art and the L.A. River
- Los Angeles Ballet tries the untraditional
- Chess: Veselin Topalov rallies in Bulgaria
- Dogeared knows how to charm Mom
- Media moguls on elevated pay scale
- Seattle's Chone Figgins seeks advice from his old hitting coach
- Jazz faces daunting task against Lakers
- Book Review: 'The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare' by Doug Stewart
- Bard battles: 'Contested Will' by James Shapiro
- Matt Reeves to genre fans: 'Let Me In'
- On the Spot: Should we buy euros ahead of time?
- Growth of electronic trading a major cause of stock market free fall
- Afghan president heads to Washington
- Ruling party loses election in key German state
- The least visited U.S. national monuments
- Planning your trip to Nicaragua
- Home of the Week: Sister Aimee's castle in Lake Elsinore
- Taliban gears up for Western offensive in Kandahar
- Lakers go for a rare sweep against Jazz, and a close-out would be special
- The best choices
- A clean-energy future, now
- Rent Watch: What is 'normal wear and tear'?
- Scene & Heard: Santa Monica Museum of Art 'Incognito' art sale
- Former USC basketball star John Rudometkin continues to fight on — for his life
- Brad Eberhard: abstract art and abstract thoughts
- World Cup 2010: Group G
- L.A. spas where guys unwind
- Small-Business Q&A: How to improve sales
- What the Lakers have to do to win Game 4
- Horoscope: May 9
- UNDERRATED/OVERRATED: MGMT's 'Congratulations', Matthew McConaughey, Minute to Win It, Apple
- A Second Look: Fritz Lang's 'M'
- East Meets West: Huntington Spa at the Langham
- Ask the Inspector: Can I hide an inspection report while selling the home?
- Calaveras County: Still hopping to it
- Medellín, Colombia's architectural renaissance
- Vacationing with charity-minded tour operators
- Calendar: events for May 2010
- Chavez critic convicted in Venezuela
- The Movable Buffet: Meet a Vegas celebrity wrangler
- Critic's Notebook: A U.S.-Vietnam courtship with music
- Author and literary events for the week of May 9, 2010
- Lakers' postseason has been about messages received and delivered
- Discoveries: 'The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain'
- Misery's company in Jane Smiley's latest, 'Private Life'
- Globetrooper.com connects like-minded travelers
- The Desert Retreat: Spa Resort Casino/Palm Springs
- What's the best thing to do with an inherited IRA?
- Indiana Catholic college recalls era of change as it honors rabbi
- Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw shines in 2-0 win over Rockies
- Books & Ideas: Stephen Ambrose's troubling Eisenhower record
- The Uptown Vibe: Arcona Spa Santa Monica
- Programs on Cuba, Bicycling, Europe and Asia
- Gates seeks big cuts in military spending
- Bird lovers on the lookout for their feathered friends
- PLO agrees to indirect Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
- L.A. may stop footing bills for sidewalk and driveway repairs
- Don Cheadle aims to fire on all cylinders as War Machine in 'Iron Man 2'
- Los Angeles Ballet's 'New Wave LA'
- In Virginia, modesty is abolished at the Capitol
- Angels: Week ahead
- Three older women tackle Mt. Whitney
- Down but not out, Imperial County looks to a better future
- Town grieves for oil rig worker lost in explosion
- L.A. schools on sharper lookout for gifted students — and they find them
- Sam Querrey wins title in Serbia
- The Standard-Bearer: Burke Williams
- Staten Island ferry crash injures dozens aboard
- Military deaths
- Digging up chemical weapons in D.C.
- Short films can be a shortcut to Hollywood success
- Oil-stained wretches
- The spa issue: Trends in Southern California day spas
- Charlie Haeger might go on DL
- Q&A: Guatemalan seeks answers in Honduran coup
- Utah Sen. Robert Bennett loses reelection bid
- 13 injured in fire at apartment complex
- A Kern County mining town feels hope leaching away
- For the record - May 9, 2010
- Planning your trip to Calaveras County
- Walter J. Hickel dies at 90; former Alaska governor, Interior secretary
- Buyers scramble to close deals by June 30 deadline to get federal tax credit
- Planning your trip to Valley of Fire, Nev.
- Nevada: The landscape burns bright in the Valley of Fire
- ON THE MARKET: Huntington Beach
- Francisco Aguabella dies at 84; Afro-Cuban percussionist
- For musicians, economy is the mother of invention
- Home appraisals still fraught with uncertainty despite new code of conduct
- Authors and ideas: Martin Amis and an Italian idyll
- UFC 113 results
- Dodgers get what they deserve with Charlie Haeger on the mound again in 8-0 loss (updated)
- Ted Christopher rated No. 1 driver in NASCAR Developmental Series poll
- Opinion: With Bennett sidelined, Mike Lee and Tim Bridgewater will now face off for Utah Senate seat
- James Loney, you hit like Mark Grace. And that's a powerful compliment
- Video: Craig Kilborn looking to make return to television
- The Sparks fall to the San Antonio Silver Stars, 86-77, in preseason play
- Baseball: Harrison's ninth-inning home run lifts Orange Lutheran
- Phil Mickelson goes low, Tiger Woods does not at TPC
- Michael Hiltzik: How to kill a securities market
- Angels place Maicer Izturis on the disabled list
- Opinion: Utah Republicans reject sending Bennett back to Senate
- Republican Senator Bob Bennett ousted in Utah convention
- Baseball: Chatsworth earns share of league title
- Book Review: 'For Better' by Tara Parker-Pope
- Learning from Medellin
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology's 'All About Birds' website wins Webby Award
- Opinion: Sen. Bennett survives first round of GOP voting in Utah
- Gulf oil spill: Setback for untested containment dome
- Opinion: Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer tells Obama to quit joking about immigration crisis
- Make music, not war: an exchange with Vietnam
- L.A. Ballet rides a 'Next Wave' in reality-TV dance
- Opinion: Sunday shows: Brennan, Giuliani, Adm. Allen, Holder
- Happy International Migratory Bird Day!
- Live review: Peter Gabriel at the Hollywood Bowl
- Opinion: Principal sorry for kicking patriotic students off campus; Roger Ebert frustrated
- Baseball: Fulton wins first league title
- YEMEN: A young woman explains why she wears the <i>niqab</i>, the all-covering veil
- Baseball: Friday scores
- Softball: Friday scores
- A sweet -- er, suite -- deal for this year's California Strawberry Festival in Oxnard
- Derek Blasberg's 'Classy' pals fete the writer with a party in Beverly Hills
- Manny Ramirez expectations can't extend to the mound
- On the market: Southland niches heating up
- Bearded & Tschorn: Dr. Phil's mustache gets its wings -- and halo
- Los Angeles Times week in Hollywood (May 7)
- The Realist Idealist: Charging up an electric car with solar panels
- Market Watch: Capay Organic expands into Southern California
- Opinion: Weekly remarks: Richard Shelby-Dems block financial reforms; Obama-Thankful for healthcare
- Giulietta Simionato dies at 99; Italian mezzo-soprano
- Troubled system works, and three kids get a new dad
- Jazz tries to take away Lakers' inside game
- Saturday's TV highlights
- Indisputable: Gore buys Montecito villa
- A portrait of mental disintegration
- Lakers defeat the Jazz to take 3-0 series lead
- In New York, never enough security
- All-Star game in Arizona: Will it stay or will it go?
- Manny Ramirez doesn't pitch in as Dodgers fall to Rockies, 8-0
- Penguins hold off Canadiens
- Stocks' plunge is a troubling mystery
- Medellín, Colombia's architectural renaissance
- City Council tentatively blocks rent hikes
- Mom can't help him out of Salt Lake City
- Seattle general manager isn't defensive about Mariners' slow start
- Events happening Saturday
- City National acquires failed San Diego bank
- Gustavo Dudamel injures himself mid-concert but returns to podium the next day
- Transportation chief Ray LaHood to meet with Toyota President Akio Toyoda in Japan