The move was seen by some fans as a belated attempt by the D ' Backs to counter the trade by their division rival, the Los Angeles Dodgers, for Boston Red Sox power-hitting OF Manny Ramirez on July 31 and also to compensate for the injuries to Hudson and Byrnes, generally considered two of the more " power-hitting " Diamondbacks on a team which has relied heavily on pitching and defense in recent years.

After leaving Villanova, McLean became associated with famed folk music agent Harold Leventhal, and for the next six years performed at venues and events including the Bitter End and the Gaslight Cafe in New York, the Newport Folk Festival, the Cellar Door in Washington, D. C., and the Troubadour in Los Angeles.

* Best Documentary of the Year awards for The Fog of War ( 2003 ): the National Board of Review, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the Chicago Film Critics, and the Washington D. C. Area Film Critics.

in Los Angeles with Uncle Jam's Army D. J. ing dances as large as the L. A. Sports Arena with 10, 000 people.

A CATO Institute study of public and private school per pupil spending in Phoenix, Los Angeles, D. C., Chicago, New York City, and Houston found that public schools spend 93 % more than estimated median private schools.

* 1915 – D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.

Beth Chayim Chadashim, established in 1972 in West Los Angeles, was the world's first explicitly-gay-and-lesbian-centered synagogue, resulting in a slew of Reform congregations being established along similar lines, including Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in New York City, Bet Mishpachah in Washington, D. C. and Congregation Or Chadash in Chicago.

* 2006: Los Angeles, In MacArthur Park, Hispanic activists clashed with L. A. P. D.

While hippies also gathered in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Seattle, Portland, Washington, D. C., Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, New Orleans, Miami, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, and across Europe, San Francisco was the center of the hippie revolution, a melting pot of music, psychoactive drugs, sexual freedom, creative expression, and politics.

The rest of the United States is the size of the three New York City blocks and is drawn as a square, with a thin brown strip along the Hudson representing " Jersey ", the names of five cities ( Los Angeles ; Washington, D. C .; Las Vegas ; Kansas City ; and Chicago ) and three states ( Texas, Utah, and Nebraska ) scattered among a few rocks for the United States beyond New Jersey.

At age 21, Amos moved to Los Angeles to pursue her music career after several years performing on the piano bar circuit of the D. C. area.

* February 8 – The controversial film, The Birth of a Nation, directed by D. W. Griffith, premieres in Los Angeles, California.

Other owned-and-operated stations were KNX Los Angeles, KCBS San Francisco ( originally KQW ), WBBM Chicago, WCAU Philadelphia, WJSV Washington, D. C. ( later WTOP, which moved to the FM dial in 2005 ; the AM facility today is WFED, also a secondary CBS affiliate ), KMOX St. Louis, and WCCO Minneapolis.

* WTAS which was started in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Washington D. C. and West Palm Beach and later expanded to 8 other locations

Outside of Los Angeles and San Francisco, chapters were established in New York, Washington, D. C., Chicago, and other locales.

* I. Katime, O. Katime, D. Katime. Los materiales inteligentes de este milenio: Los hidrogeles macromoleculares.

Numerous memorials have been dedicated to Duke Ellington, in cities from New York and Washington, D. C. to Los Angeles.

These stations were WNEW-TV in New York City, WTTG in Washington, D. C., KTTV in Los Angeles, KRIV-TV in Houston, WFLD-TV in Chicago, and KRLD-TV in Dallas.

A tour during the summer of 2008 included performances with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington D. C., the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in Virginia, and Houston.

This " fresh-air break " lasted only a couple of months, when his old friend, Emmylou Harris, from the Washington, D. C. area, invited him to Los Angeles to sing backup on her Elite Hotel album.

The President, his daughter, portions of his Cabinet and the Levinsons narrowly escape aboard Air Force One as the alien spacecraft destroy Washington D. C., New York City, Los Angeles and other cities around the world.

The Natural Resources Defense Council ( NRDC ) is a New York City-based, non-profit, non-partisan international environmental advocacy group, with offices in Washington, D. C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Beijing.

Minnelli began as a nightclub singer as an adolescent, making her professional nightclub debut at the age of 19 at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D. C .. She later appeared in other clubs and on stage in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and New York City.

* Golladay, Sonja Musser, " Los Libros de Acedrex Dados E Tablas: Historical, Artistic and Metaphysical Dimensions of Alfonso X ’ s Book of Games " ( PhD diss., University of Arizona, 2007 )

The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Montreal ’ s La Presse, The Gazette, the Florida Times Union, the Indianapolis Star, the Providence Journal, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Brisbane Courier-Mail, the Windsor Star, The Economic Times and San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications, run the comic in their business section rather than in the regular comics section, similar to the way in which Doonesbury is often carried in the editorial section due to its pointed commentary.

Producer Alberto Grimaldi, prepared to buy film rights to all of Castaneda ’ s work, then paid for pre-production research taking Fellini and his entourage from Rome to Los Angeles and the jungles of Mexico in October 1985.

During his career with the NBA ’ s Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers from 1969 to 1989, Abdul-Jabbar won six NBA championships and a record six regular season MVP Awards.

Initially located in Boyle Heights, the college moved to a new campus in Los Angeles ’ Highland Park neighborhood in 1898.

In 1912, the school began construction of a new campus located in Los Angeles ’ Eagle Rock neighborhood.

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times on July 18, 2009, Paula's manager David Sonenberg told the newspaper that, " Very sadly, it does not appear that she ’ s going to be back on ‘ Idol ’.

A team of neurologists and psychologists at the University College of Los Angeles Easton Center for Alzheimer ’ s Disease Research suggested that swearing may help diagnose certain kinds of dementia.

On October 23, 2001, John Ashcroft claimed that Jarrah had shared a Hamburg apartment with Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, though German authorities that same day told the Los Angeles Times that they had no evidence that any of Jarrah ’ s three apartments in Hamburg had been connected with the other hijackers.

According to the Los Angeles Times article, " The agency also asked the dozens of families that contacted officials to look for signs of disturbances -- shifted or cracked gravestones or anything else that appeared different from previous visits -- and didn ’ t receive a single call back, he said ".

The Academy ’ s numerous and diverse operations are housed in three facilities in the Los Angeles area: the headquarters building in Beverly Hills, which was constructed specifically for the Academy, and two Centers for Motion Picture Study – one in Beverly Hills, the other in Hollywood – which were existing structures restored and transformed to contain the Academy ’ s Library, Film Archive and other departments and programs.

In January 2012, Aniston and Theroux purchased a home in Los Angeles ’ s Bel-Air neighborhood for roughly $ 22 million.

Sun Valley, Los Angeles, USA is HPA ’ s corporate headquarter located near the Bob Hope Burbank International Airport.

Impressions Games and the Papyrus Design Group were shut down in the spring of 2004, and about 50 people lost their jobs in those cuts ; 180 Sierra-related positions were eliminated at Vivendi ’ s Los Angeles offices ; and finally in June 2004, VU Games shut down Sierra's Bellevue location, which cost over 100 people their jobs, and dispersed Sierra ’ s work to other VU Games divisions.

After percussionist Chet Ricord passed away, Emil Richards bought Chet ’ s bass marimba to monopolize the bass marimba rental market in Los Angeles, and subsequently rented out both bass marimbas quite often.

When Alvy accepts an offer to present an award on television, they fly out to Los Angeles, but on the return they agree that it ’ s not working.

Macon ’ s last Regulus patrol was in 1958, Toledo ’ s in 1959, Helena ’ s in 1960, and Los Angeles ’ s in 1961.

Among them were Cleveland ’ s Arthur B " Mickey " McBride ( a real estate and taxi magnate ), San Francisco ’ s Anthony Morabito ( lumber ), Chicago ’ s John L. Keeshin ( trucking ), and Los Angeles ’ group of racetrack owner Benjamin Lindheimer, actor Don Ameche and MGM's Louis B. Mayer.