By Ruben Vives
Thousands of people, some of whom had camped out overnight, stood in line outside the L.A. Dream Center in Echo Park on Saturday to...
By Susan Spano
For a small town, Leiden has a surprising number of museums dedicated to natural history, medical science, antiquity and the city's past....
By Henry Chu
With the global climate change summit in Copenhagen just a few weeks away, gloom has settled in many quarters over the increasing...
By Henry Chu
The European Union wants to become a more influential and higher-profile alliance, but its leaders picked a pair of relative unknowns...
By Henry Chu
He's smart, he's modest, he writes haiku about going bald. He looks like an absent-minded professor, and his public name recognition outside...
By Grahame L. Jones
Fury in Ireland. Disillusionment in Russia. Regret in Costa Rica.
By Melissa Henderson
The French government had to invent a holiday for it, but now it's taken on the patina of tradition. Every year at midnight on the third...
By Yvonne Villarreal
At 82, the Academy Awards are long overdue for some cosmetic enhancement. And the show's producers have tapped a new director they hope...
Hershey Co., hoping to expand its overseas presence, has lined up a potential partner as the most recognizable name in American chocolate...
The once-threatened film program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art continues to thrive, and this excellent series is a chance to...
By Susan Carpenter
"Pirate Radio," the movie, isn't really about pirate radio. It may take place on a boat in England's North Sea in the late '60s, but...
By Elaine Woo
Frances Lasker Brody, a philanthropist, arts advocate and collector who influenced the development of Los Angeles' cultural life as a...