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January 2008

• Must See Span

  From Extreme Mortman  |  January 30, 2008

  Notice anything different about the C-SPAN website? Yeah, it looks great.   A wonderful redesign.  Now it’s truly an amusement park... more

• X2 trains arrive at Magic Mountain

  By Brady MacDonald  |  January 30, 2008

  From Los Angeles Times

  Two of three new X2 roller coaster trains arrived at Six Flags Magic Mountain this week in advance of on-track testing expected to begin in... more

• From striker to Kiev darling

  By Jay A. Fernandez  |  January 30, 2008

  From Los Angeles Times

  Screenwriters are famous for trading stories from their professional lives that are too ridiculous to be invented. But during the writers... more

• Not-so-fossilized Phoenix

  By Hugo Martín  |  January 27, 2008

  From Los Angeles Times

  Centuries ago, native people known as the Hohokam built an agricultural civilization on a stretch of desert known today as Arizona's Valley... more

• South vs. USC

  All Things Trojan  |  January 26, 2008

  From Los Angeles Times

  Nine USC players and a few former coaches are at the Senior Bowl in Alabama this week, and the Cardinal and Gold is hard to miss. The Mobile... more

• Race still matters

  By Uzodinma Iweala  |  January 23, 2008

  From Los Angeles Times

  Iam shocked by the commentary on the prominence of race as a theme in the Democratic Party primaries. Shocked not because race is a theme... more

• 2.8 million reasons to run hard

  By Phil Willon  |  January 22, 2008

  From Los Angeles Times

  Hillary Rodham Clinton has munched on tacos in East Los Angeles and Barack Obama has joked around on Southern California's top Spanish-language... more

• Sundance Watch: What Just Happened

  From Thompson On Hollywood  |  January 20, 2008

  With What Just Happened, producer-screenwriter Art Linson and director Barry Levinson, with considerable help from Robert DeNiro, have crafted... more

• Safety concerns for Disneyland’s Splash Mountain

  By Brady MacDonald  |  January 18, 2008

  From Los Angeles Times

  Disneyland has raised the height requirement for the Splash Mountain log flume ride to one of the highest levels in the amusement park industry... more

• Aldrich is such a natural at fakery

  By Leah Ollmann  |  January 18, 2008

  From Los Angeles Times

  The humor in 's new work is real. All else is fake -- or, at least, not what it pretends to be. Plastic tubing mimics the spray of water... more

• Magic Mountain relinquishes coaster crown

  By Brady MacDonald  |  January 16, 2008

  From Los Angeles Times

  Sadly, it’s official. California’s Six Flags Magic Mountain is no longer the “roller coaster capital of the world”... more

• Santa Cruz Boardwalk adds Sea Swings

  By Brady MacDonald  |  January 15, 2008

  From Los Angeles Times

  The 100-year-old Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk will add a 48-seat swing carousel in April, officials at the oceanfront amusement park confirmed... more

• Musica Angelica in good humor

  January 14, 2008

  From Los Angeles Times

  Classical music goes for the jocular vein in "La Serva Padrona and Assorted Other Amusements," a chamber-concert diversion to be presented... more

• Comedy | Sneaks 2008

  January 13, 2008

  From Los Angeles Times

  Jesse Eisenberg plays a college graduate in 1987 who cannot afford the grand European tour he had planned and must spend the summer working... more

• Front man or side man?

  By Joe Queenan  |  January 13, 2008

  From Los Angeles Times

  Nothing better captures the oddball quality of Mike Huckabee's campaign than the fact that he plays the bass guitar. When the folksy Arkansan... more

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