OK, I admit it's not the most promising location for a serious bistro -- a storefront squeezed between a Starbucks and a hair-cutting establishment in a Burbank strip mall. He ultimately underwent surgery that required a four-month recovery.He will probably require surgery again this summer, but there's a remote chance he won't need it."When the season's over, I'll get an MRI [exam] and take it from there," Odom said.*There was other injury news of note. favorites Los Lobos and Ozomatli.But the collection is simply indispensable for serious Latin rock fans. The exhibit is open through April 15.Otto told The Times in November that he doesn't have many photos to go along with the clothing, jewelry and other accessories that make up the displayed collection because these were not the kinds of items that the actress wore to photo shoots, premieres and parties."This is really a private, up-close tour of Marilyn, and it's kind of devoid of those big, splashy gowns and big movie pieces," Otto said at the time.

Adams are nominated for the Legend hit "Ordinary People," and the team of Bobby Boyd, Jeff Hanna and Marcus Hummon are nominated for "Bless the Broken Road," which was recorded by the country-pop outfit Rascal Flatts.On the eve of the Grammys announcement, Carey said that despite all the recent trophy hardware she has collected for her comeback album, the idea of winning over Grammy voters "makes your heart beat a little faster." Those voters can sometimes be hard to predict; while they embraced the pop creations of Stefani and Carey, they gave no nominations in the elite categories to Coldplay, Eminem and 50 Cent, all acts that have secured critical and commercial success.For the music business, commercial and critical success seem to be happening under one roof quite often: The album of the year category included four albums released under the banner of Universal Music Group -- West and Carey are on its New York-based labels (Island and Roc-A-Fella, respectively), while Stefani and U2 record for Santa Monica-based Interscope.The Grammy list of nominations is a long and deep document -- there are 108 categories that veer across genres (with room for polka and Hawaiian recordings) and acknowledge achievements both artistic and technical (there's an award for best surround-sound album, for instance).This year, only recordings released between Oct 1, 2004, and Sept 30 of this year were eligible. And some improvement will come from moves we make."The Dodgers can only hope DePodesta's plan produces better results than Tracy's talk.Derek Lowe, whose earned-run average was under 1.00 in his last five starts, gave up three runs in the first, needing 50 pitches to get through the inning. After The Times asked questions about the case, the court vacated the order."I hope she never gets out," Idell Alexander, Williams' cousin and heir, said Monday.Among the charges filed against Chavis were allegations that she wrote four checks totaling $11,000 from Williams' account to herself and her lawyer, but did not report the checks to the court and misstated his bank balance to cover it up.Authorities said they charged her in connection with only a portion of the money they suspect she stole because the crimes were hard to prove Last year, Chavis' former attorney, C. The list includes:* Making sure the city enforces the rush-hour ban on road construction, a law she wrote and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa recently enacted by executive directive. The amount can be as much as $9,700 a year, and the grant is renewable annually.In an effort to encourage more students to apply, more than 50 "Cash for College" workshops will be held this weekend in Los Angeles County, state financial aid officials said at a news conference Thursday.The Cash for College campaign will hold more than 300 workshops throughout California before the Cal Grant deadline. She met Shane Mosley seven years ago and married him three years later.

Those stern and sober Quakers apparently loved the heck out of them, because in early times the cardoon was imported to Eastern shores and put to use by wise foremothers.Capable of growing in most soil conditions, self-seeding prolifically, long-lived and able to withstand drought, the cardoon was used as food, as an herbal medicine and as fodder for livestock.In fact, the plant can be used in its entirety. It means he'll be ready to make the bold changes that are necessary this off-season.I told Colletti he looked hurt. After special instruction in trigonometry and other subjects that weren't ordinarily offered at his high school, he made it into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then into graduate school at the University of Illinois.As a research assistant, he demonstrated the kind of wry humor that has been his trademark, friends said. And so a pattern is drawn: Whenever love, or even merely lust, is threatened or lost, sickness and disorder ensue -- including feigned maladies and theatrical acts of self-injury.Stegner has set the bar high by summoning Yeats, but she is used to such challenges. Nor has he written inflammatory law review articles or newspaper op-ed pieces, the kind that caused problems for earlier nominees such as Robert H.

To the frustration of some Orange County transportation officials, a group of regional water boards is trying to get $15 million in federal money to study a proposed 11-mile road and water pipeline tunnel through the Santa Ana Mountains to Riverside County.News of the effort by the Riverside Orange Corridor Authority, formed in May, came after the group held its first meeting last month. So surely the intellectuals who support Bush must have something deeper, right?Sadly, no. Small white wooden crosses were planted in an open area under a sign -- "For What Noble Cause?" -- that listed the numbers of Americans killed and wounded in Iraq.Sheehan first came to Crawford last summer after attending a peace rally in Dallas. Eminem's publishing companies have settled a lawsuit filed in what they said was an effort to illegally sell the Grammy-winning rapper's songs as cellphone ring tones.Eminem's representatives reached an undisclosed settlement last week with one of five companies named in a Michigan-based lawsuit filed in U.S District Court They've asked U.S District Judge Gerald E. Both parties had been feeling pressure from an anxious public to find a compromise after two months of political disarray.Merkel acknowledged this when she arrived at the chancellery and was greeted by Schroeder before he departed. America's wisdom may ultimately be infallible, but Wednesday night, the results were hard to take.*Show Tracker follows television series through their highs and lows..