Santa Monica News
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It began in a Starbucks Corp. coffee shop in Berlin six years ago. Los Angeles Philharmonic Association President Deborah Borda and conductor Gustavo Dudamel decided to ask architect Frank Gehry to design sets for a trilogy of Mozart operas Dudamel wanted to stage.
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Stored inside a laptop at FBI headquarters are photos of thousands of paintings, sculptures and artifacts, works by Vincent Van Gogh and Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Paul Cezanne -- international treasures worth millions of dollars each. All are missing.
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The U.S. economy will continue to recover until at least 2015 without tumbling into a recession, achieving the sustained growth that has eluded it since the last slump ended four years ago, according to a Bloomberg poll.
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Activision Blizzard Inc., the world’s largest video-game publisher, has halted discussions on buying back shares held by parent company Vivendi SA amid a disagreement on price, people with knowledge of the talks said.
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Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler magazine, completed the sale of his company’s 10-story headquarters building in Beverly Hills, California, to Douglas Emmett Inc. for $89 million.
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Activision Blizzard Inc., the largest U.S. video-game maker, fell the most in 18 months after offering a guarded outlook because of uncertain customer demand for new consoles and its “World of Warcraft” online game.
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Blackstone Group LP, the world’s largest private-equity firm, is taking aim at the $5.4 trillion of cash on corporate balance sheets in the U.S. and Europe as regulators weigh changes that may reduce the appeal of money- market funds.
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Activision Blizzard Inc., the largest U.S. video-game maker, fell the most in two years after offering a guarded outlook because of uncertain customer demand for new consoles and its “World of Warcraft” online game.
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Ouya Inc., the maker of a $99 video- game console that uses Google Inc.’s Android operating system, raised $15 million in venture funding to expand operations. Industry pioneer Bing Gordon joined its board.
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The parking valets at my Santa Monica hotel know me by name. I’ve stayed here a number of times, but that isn’t the reason for my popularity. No, it’s clearly the Ferrari effect.
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