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The baby formula shortage has caused stress, but tracking down donor milk can also cause stress.

With fanfare, cake and even a Marilyn Monroe impersonator, a 95th birthday party was held Wednesday for the TCL Chinese Theatre, celebrated as the world's most famous movie house.

This month’s nonfiction picks include one about uncovering a treasure trove of silent films and one that aims to uncover the methods of Kenny G.

It's just about Lummis Day. But who, or what, is a Lummis? Well, both — Lummis was a person and is the name of a house. In L.A., you may not know the names behind many landmark buildings. So here are a few important ones.

A stuporstructure? OMA's first major building in L.A. has seductive moments plus drive-by appeal. So why is Shohei Shigematsu's design so hard to love?

In its heyday, the restaurant was equally popular with Golden Age movie stars and tourist families from Omaha.

The Incredibly Popular Salad Created by Billings Baseball Pioneer As a meat-and-potatoes kind of guy, I have to remind myself to eat a salad once in a while. Usually more in the summertime, when a crisp, cool salad seems to hit the spot on a hot day. Caesar salads are good, taco salad is great and we make a lot of tomato and cucumber salad at my house in the summer. When I order a salad as an entre, I usually pick a Cobb salad. Little did I know, the Cobb salad was invented by a man from Bill...

Print Their early audiences called them “flickers,” and it was a better name than they realized. Because — as the lights going out on the Hollywood Cinerama remind us — almost everything about the movies can end up short-lived and elusive. Stardom is like that. Actors whose fabulous faces were celebrated on several continents and whose fabulous salaries were celebrated by their bankers could and did die unknown and broke. So were movies themselves — throwaway amusements, no more durab...

Ever since American showman Sid Grauman created his famous Chinese Theatre in 1927 and classic Hollywood films stars Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford accidentally stepped in wet cement outside the brand new building, cinema's finest have been leaving their handprints, footprints, and signatures in concrete on the forecourt. The tradition continues to this day, but it's the ceremony's early years captured in photographs that are especially poignant and which perfectly convey the gl...