The Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles will host the world premiere of "9 to 5", the Broadway-bound musical based on the 1980 movie starring Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton.
The 1928 comedy classic "Speedy" (famous scene shown below)is officially known as clown genius Harold Lloyd's last silent film. But was it really?
Tyrone Power was much more than an astonishingly handsome face.
Universal Pictures "Public Enemies" is an action-packed period thriller with Johnny Depp (above)at the top of the bill playing John Dillinger (shown below). If you're looking for action, this should do it for you: three bank robberies, two prison breaks and who knows how many shootouts." 
The Perseid meteor shower, the marquee night-gazing event of the summer, peaks Tuesday morning. The cascade of shooting stars, originating in the constellation Perseus, will generate up to two meteors per minute.
The completed work pays tribute to the high esteem that Diettrich Bonhoeffer had for Gandhi, especially his movement of non-violent resistance. It is interesting to note that Bonhoeffer apparently wanted to travel to India and study with Gandhi in person. There is a debate over whether or not Bonhoeffer would have held to a completely pacifist resistance against the Nazis had he not been prevented from taking this journey. Bonhoeffer was a member of the German resistance movement and took part in a failed plot to assassinate Hitler later during the War. It is a debate that we will always have -- is there such a thing as a "Just War."
TICONDEROGA, N.Y. -- Ft. Ticonderoga, one of the nation's oldest and most significant historic sites, is so financially strapped that its trustees are considering selling off some of its vast collection of artifacts, including artwork believed to be worth millions.
These days large swaths of the once-meandering Topanga Creek are dry and full of dirt and look like a Santa Monica Mountains hiking trail. The cause is a 1,000-foot-long berm that rises up to 30 feet high and disrupts the water's 10-mile path to the ocean.
Divers in cages watch a great white shark off the shore of Guadalupe Island, a 22-mile-long volcanic land mass 150 miles west of Baja California. The island has emerged in the last five years as perhaps the world’s premier destination for diving with especially large great white sharks.
"I always named 'em the Berkeley Girls, and no one picked any girls but me. I picked 'em all. Always." Busby Berkeley's voice rumbled like a semi-active volcano. "Once a producer came up to me and said, 'Buz, that one on the end looks cute,' and I said, 'Oh, sit down.' People have the damnedest ideas about beauty."
The series was called "Sex and the Single Girl: The Escapades of Busby Berkeley" and focused on the arcane academic notion of the "seraglio effect," but the eye-popping dance numbers Berkeley created during a long career in Hollywood need to be seen -- and seen on a big screen -- because they are, plain and simple, an enormous amount of fun.
Because his name is so euphonious, it's likely that more people have heard of Berkeley than have seen his astonishing dance numbers in their entirety. These routines so dominated the films they were in that if Berkeley wasn't the director, he got second billing as the person who "created and directed" the sequences. These were not two- or three-minute interludes but super-elaborate affairs that could go on for 10 minutes each and in "Footlight Parade" make up almost all of the film's final half hour.
"I never bothered with the directors who did the dramatic parts of the pictures; most of the times I'd never even see them," Berkeley told me in Berlin. "They did their job and I did mine. Of course, my sections were more expensive. We once figured out they cost about $10,000 per minute on the screen, and people yelled about that, but I hollered 'em down."
Even at $10,000 per minute, Berkeley gave the studios their money's worth. To see his dizzying routines, rife with overhead shots that emphasized elaborate kaleidoscopic patterns constructed of bare female legs, is the equivalent of taking a mind-altering drug before you enter the theater. No one had seen anything like this before Berkeley thought it up, and no one has seen anything like it since.
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 credible claim to true landmark status. The decorated drum of a design, its exterior wrapped in a lacy precast relief by Jacques Overhoff, is among the most finely detailed and conceptually coherent buildings of Becket's long and varied career, during which his firm seeded Los Angeles with a number of its most recognizable pieces of architecture: the Capitol Records tower, the Beverly Hilton, the Theme Building at LAX (with William Pereira, Charles Luckman and Paul Williams) and the Equitable tower on Wilshire Boulevard, among countless others.
A souped-up aircraft that would help boost well-heeled thrill seekers into the outer atmosphere was unveiled recently, lifting the prospects for travelers to one day fly in a commercial spaceliner.
Did you feel the ground move and think it was just another earthquake hitting the Southland? Actually, the temblor was Cher finally listing her house along Malibu's Pacific Coast Highway for $45 million.
In an effort to educate the public about endangered species surviving in the wild, NoHo Gallery L.A., in collaboration with the L.A. Zoo, is presenting "Paws, Claws, Applause," an exhibition of animal portraits.
“Self-Portrait” (circa 1625). Bernini was a child prodigy, born in Naples but relocated to Rome as young boy. Shown in this drawing at about age 27, he is trying to reconcile a three-dimensional head on a two-dimensional sheet, which doesn’t quite work out in the flat rendering of hair.
“Cardinal Scipione Borghese (detail)” (1632). Bernini adapted to sculpture the relatively new painters’ trick of animating a portrait by making the sitter appear to speak. The cardinal’s mouth is slightly open, the upper and lower lips tugging at the corners as if moist.
adidas has looked to Chinese pianist Lang Lang to offer his personal aesthetic on adidas’ classic Gazelle model. The end result is definitely noteworthy as the never old black/gold color combo gets revived with stunning results. Other than the graphics on the heel, the end product is extremely clean and wearable. Available later this year in June with a suggested retail price of $85.
KOZENKI, RUSSIA -- You can see it for miles, looming over the birch forests and wildflower fields and construction sites crammed with future dachas for Russia's rich and ruthless. Stabbing up toward heaven from its hilltop perch, the pyramid gleams white under the blast of northern sun. Twelve stories high, 55 tons of fiberglass, swarming with Russians desperate to rearrange their energy fields and cure their karma.
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN -- At least nine climbers were feared dead Sunday after ice sheared off the summit of K2 and crashed down the mountain, sweeping away fixed ropes and leaving some mountaineers trapped in the dark.
Where old phones go! . . every one of these sheep is made from telephones and cords . . check out their feet!!!
When DaimlerChrysler announced in 2006 that it planned to bring the Smart Fortwo micro car to the United States after nearly a decade in Europe, gas prices had reached about $2.80 a gallon. Now, Americans are paying more than $4 a gallon at the pump, SUV sales are plummeting and consumers are hungry for smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles.
Soldiers hold the national flags of participating countries in the joint military exercise Immediate Response 2008 during the closing ceremony at the Vaziani base some 20 miles (30km) from Tbilisi, Georgia. Forces from the United States, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Ukraine took part in the military training exercises 
The Reventador volcano, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, has entered a new eruptive cycle, although local experts say it should not cause problems by ejecting ash that would fall on nearby cities, as its activity this time is not "explosive", and it is generating limited gas emissions and little ash.
BERLIN (AFP) — A German medical team said Friday it had performed what it called the world's first transplant of two full arms, on a farmer who had lost both his limbs in an accident.
