Charles Moore

“As the larger pieces of plastic break down they mimic the size, shape and texture of natural food,” said Charles Moore, the founder of Algalita and an author of the study. “What we're seeing is the entire food web being contaminated...

New essay in Reading L.A. series by architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne, this one on the book Eden in Jeopardy by Richard G. Lillard, a book on architecture, the environment, ecology and growth in Los Angeles and Southern California....

Los Angeles, with its car-dominated landscape and unusually dense brand of sprawl, can be a slippery place to get a handle on. As the architect Charles Moore put it in the introduction to "The City Observed: Los Angeles," the 1984......

Apple is expected to unveil its much-anticipated touch-screen tablet on Wednesday morning. A few journalists see the device as a possible savior for the newspaper business. Me? I'm wondering how it'll affect the skyline. Don't laugh. Whatever shape it...

Click here to download TV listings for the week of Jan. 3-9, in PDF format This week's TV Movies The Early Show 7 a.m. KCBS-TV Channel 2 Today Tim Allen; Dr. Drew Pinsky. 7 a.m. KNBC-TV Channel 4 KTLA Morning......

Click here to download TV listings for the week of June 27 - July 3 in PDF format This week's TV Movies Weekly TV Listings can also be downloaded here The Early Show Alicia Keys performs. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS......

Architect Davida Rochlin only started to think about the new American porch after devoting much of her life to pondering the old American porch. She spent her childhood in a Craftsman house that had "all kinds of porches," she said. As a graduate...

--Vote of confidence: Dismissed or disregarded for nearly three centuries, "Double Falsehood; or, the Distrest Lovers" is being published in the Arden Shakespeare series of scholarly editions, lending support to claims it is a lost original work by...

The photographs on display in "Las Vegas Studio: Images From the Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown" have been rescued, in essence, from the cutting-room floor. It just happens to be one of the richest, most revelatory cutting-room......

The albatross chick jumped to its feet, eyes alert and focused. At 5 months, it stood 18 inches tall and was fully feathered except for the fuzz that fringed its head. All attitude, the chick straightened up and clacked its beak at a visitor, then rocked...

OF THE three buildings that make up architect Welton Becket's original Music Center on Bunker Hill -- the Ahmanson Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum and the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion -- it is the smallest of the group, the Taper, that can make the most...

BARACK OBAMA is planning a visit to the German capital this month -- reportedly to deliver a major foreign-policy speech at Pariser Platz, the stately, almost perfectly proportioned plaza that has emerged since the fall of the Berlin Wall as the heart...