Frank Shyong

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• UCLA apartments suffer storm damage

  Nov. 3, 2009 at 12:58 a.m.

  They laughed about it at first.

• Film flourishes in Persian Gulf with Doha Tribeca Film Festival

  Nov. 3, 2009 at midnight

  When the Doha Tribeca Film Festival kicked off on Thursday, the Persian Gulf, home to some of the most conservative Islamic sects in the Middle East, also became one of the world’s most crowded film festival circuits.

• Three Westwood marijuana dispensaries close

  Nov. 2, 2009 at 2:10 a.m.

  Three of Westwood’s five cannabis dispensaries have closed for unstated reasons.

• District attorney's plans to crack down on medical marijuana dispensaries still intact

  Oct. 22, 2009 at 1:59 a.m.

  City Attorney Carmen Trutanich and Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley plan to drastically reduce the number of medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles.

• A rare bond between human and leopard

  Oct. 19, 2009 at 1:11 a.m.

  Dereck and Beverly Joubert were exhausted, frustrated and caked in riverbed mud from the Okavango Delta in Botswana.

• Number of marijuana dispensaries growing in Westwood

  Oct. 5, 2009 at 1:11 a.m.

  When Michael Kwon opened a new Westwood BBQ Chicken franchise on Le Conte Avenue in June 2009, he was dismayed to find his business promptly flanked by a marijuana dispensary on the left and a new medical cannabis doctor’s office on the right.

• Cash at Folsom Prison

  Oct. 3, 2008 at 12:40 a.m.

  There may never be another artist who embodies contradictions as effortlessly as Johnny Cash. He was the country music singer who hobnobbed with Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. He wrote ...

• Screen Scene: “Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian”

  May 23, 2008 at 12:22 a.m.

  A canonically faithful movie adaptation of “Prince Caspian” would have put most viewers to sleep.

• Enrollment slightly more diverse

  May 14, 2008 at 2:36 a.m.

  The incoming freshman class will be the largest and contain the highest numbers of underrepresented minorities in recent years, according to preliminary enrollment data released Monday.

• A New Lens

  April 24, 2008 at 1 a.m.

  A single picture stands out from the infamous dozen that were leaked to the public from Abu Ghraib prison in late 2003.