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  Magic Johnson Helps Businesses Rebound

  By Chaniga Vorasarun | Tue Nov 17, 2009 2:09 PM ET

  NBA championship fantasy. He’s not handing off a pass to you for a sky hook. Instead, he’s lending a hand to businesses in need of credit.The Los Angeles Times reports that Johnson is partnering with investment managers TCW Group to target mid-sized companies for loans in a new ventur Read More

  More like this in: Business, Basketball, L.A. Times, Los Angeles Times, Investment, Urban Areas, US, Business, Entertainment, Regional/Local, Good Ideas, Stocks & Investing, Economy, Personal Finance, Celebrity, Sports
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  Stars Come Out and Rihanna Returns at Jay-Z Concert

  By Wynter Mitchell | Tue Nov 10, 2009 7:06 PM ET

  I checked out the Jay-Z concert and am once again inspired by my favorite artist. Read More

  More like this in: Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z, Rihanna, Jessica Biel, College, Brooklyn, Hip-Hop, Beyonce, Chris Brown, Diane Sawyer, Blueprint 3
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  Professor Flea: Red Hot's Music School Master

  By Jac Chebatoris | Tue Nov 10, 2009 2:18 PM ET

  with his childhood friend "Tree" (Keith Barry), he's giving that same opportunity to kids through their nonprofit music school founded in 2001 in Los Angeles.The Silverlake Conservatory of Music, which began with a few hundred thousand dollars of Flea's own money, has been helped along with Read More

  More like this in: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Music, Non-Profit, Nonprofit, Metallica, The Police, Huey Lewis
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  Be a Billion Dollar Babe for Less!

  By Wynter Mitchell | Fri Nov 6, 2009 7:19 PM ET

  craze nearly eight years ago. This social networking event brings the hottest fashions at discount prices to thousands of fashionistas throughout Los Angeles. Guests included Jane Kaczmarek, Jennie Garth and Busy Philipps shopping till they dropped, taking advantage of the up to 85 percent of Read More

  More like this in: Jennifer Aniston, Jennie Garth, Clothes Off Our Back, Shopping, Auctions, Social Responsibility, Entertainment, Fundraising, Celebrity, Events, Fashion
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  Celebrity Do-gooder OK, Parked Car Is Not

  By Wynter Mitchell | Fri Nov 6, 2009 3:10 PM ET

  generally come to town for work or play but never for long. I keep missing Mr. Pitt when he takes a spin out on his motorcycle on his rare visits to Los Angeles. (By the by, when someone in my circle does on the off chance get a whiff of Mr. Pitt, say at a fancy restaurant or in the elevator of a Read More

  More like this in: Brad Pitt, Entertainment, Celebrity, Movies
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  Stolen Van Found a Mere 35 Years Later

  By Kathy Ehrich Dowd | Fri Nov 6, 2009 11:06 AM ET

  they contact the California Highway Patrol. We want to see a happy ending to this story. Photo courtesy of Ildar Sagdejev via Wikimedi Read More

  More like this in: Volkswagen, California, insurance, Netherlands, Arizona, VW, Grateful Dead
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  Filling the Dog-Shaped Hole

  By Kathy Ehrich Dowd | Wed Nov 4, 2009 1:55 PM ET

  for canines if you must, but for the people who attended this new service, Dog is God — and vice versa. Photo courtesy of jseattle vi Read More

  More like this in: Associated Press, Pets, The Associated Press, Love, Prayer, Presbyterian Church, Bible
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  LA Clippers Players Help the Needy

  By Sarah Parsons | Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:01 PM ET

  definitely in the right place.According to an LA Times story, players from the Los Angeles Clippers donated their time this weekend to help South Los Angeles' needy. The basketball players partnered with the Salvation Army and Feed the Children to give out food and other goods to neighborhoo Read More

  More like this in: Salvation Army, Charity, Celebrities, Volunteerism, Basketball, L.A. Times, The Salvation Army
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  Let's Squish Our Fruit Together!

  By Darragh Worland | Thu Oct 22, 2009 9:08 AM ET

  even allowed the group complete creative control. The musical was intended as a follow up to the wildly popular Food Court Musical performed in a Los Angeles mall, back in March of '08, and which has been viewed more than 4.3 million times on YouTube. Improv Everywhere founder, Charlie Tod Read More

  More like this in: Music, YouTube, Queens, Cameras, Broadway, Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere
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  There Will Be "Change" in Los Angeles

  By David Jenison | Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:00 AM ET

  News Tonight" with Charlie Gibson.This year alone, the organization has opened Playing For Change Music Schools in South Africa, Nepal an Read More

  More like this in: Music, Schools, South Africa, Ghana, Nepal, Jamaica, Norman Lear