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    Sep 14, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. For John Hiatt, words follow

    JOHN HIATT has recorded a string of critically lauded albums dating to the mid 1970s, but his profile rose markedly in 1987 with "Bring the Family," an intimate collection of songs exploring relations between friends and lovers, husbands and wives, parents and children. It included "Thing Called Love," which Bonnie Raitt subsequently popularized when she included it on her multiple Grammy-winning "Nick of Time" album in 1989.
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    JOHN HIATT has recorded a string of critically lauded albums dating to the mid 1970s, but his profile rose markedly in 1987 with "Bring the Family," an intimate collection of songs exploring relations between friends and lovers, husbands and wives,...

    Tags: Poetry, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Judges, Ry Cooder

    2. Jul 31, 2008 |Story| KSWB-LTV

  2. Is This a Dagger? The Laser Story

    Is This a Dagger? The Laser Story by Dr. Dennis Nigro MD, FACS, FICS If you'll excuse the obvious pun, our purpose here is to shed some light on the laser. Phantom techno-knife? Real cutting precision and superiority, or the hook of the self-...

    Tags: X-rays, Skin Conditions, Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Hospitals and Clinics

    3. Jul 31, 2008 |Story| KSWB-LTV

  3. Of This Fair Proportion

    Of This Fair Proportion by Dr. Dennis Nigro MD, FACS, FICS Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and...

    Tags: Corporate Crime, X-rays, Personal Service, Science and Technology, Isaac Asimov

    4. Jul 13, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Sci-fi film: The apes weren't cuddly

    FORTY years ago, at the height of the race between the United States and the Soviet Union to lay claim to the cosmos, a much-anticipated science-fiction movie made its debut, and sci-fi was never the same again.
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    FORTY years ago, at the height of the race between the United States and the Soviet Union to lay claim to the cosmos, a much-anticipated science-fiction movie made its debut, and sci-fi was never the same again. Kids whose parents dragged them along to...

    Tags: Adults, Alien (movie), Movies, Ray Bradbury, Pixar Animation

    5. Jul 13, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Brendan Fraser stands tall with 'Journey to the Center of the Earth'

    BRENDAN FRASER is big man in Hollywood.
    Special to The Times
    BRENDAN FRASER is big man in Hollywood. The 6-foot-3 actor has a firm handshake and a marquee smile, but when he talks, he's so soft-spoken -- and aware of that fact -- that he's constantly leaning in and stooping over during conversations. But he's...

    Tags: Movies, Brendan Fraser, Cartoons, Graham Greene, Ian McKellen

    6. Jul 11, 2008 |Story| Zap2It

  6. Movie Review: 'Journey to the Center of the Earth'

    Next year at least 11 different 3-D pictures will compete for the pleasure of the company of your eyeballs. By the time James Cameron's "Avatar" opens in December 2009, a spotty, unreliable cinematic tradition may well have reached critical mass and found...

    Tags: Movies, Brendan Fraser, Chicago Tribune, Angelina Jolie, Iceland

    7. Jul 11, 2008 |Story| Orlando Sentinel

  7. 'Journey to the Center of the Earth' a simple, family-fun flick

    Sentinel Movie Critic
    Journey to the Center of the Earth is cinematic sci-fi proof that the Earth's core is made of cheese. Who knew? Mercifully, it's old-fashioned family-friendly B-movie cheese, served up in this Brendan Fraser/Jules Verne action epic for kids. Seek out...

    Tags: Roger Moore, Science, Science and Technology, Science Fiction (genre), Iceland

    8. Jun 29, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. The Greek connection

    <b>Despite the obvious </b>danger, a determined postman climbed to the top of Mt. Etna to complete a delivery. Once there, he took a small parcel from his satchel. He stared at the label again, just to be sure. It read:
    Despite the obvious danger, a determined postman climbed to the top of Mt. Etna to complete a delivery. Once there, he took a small parcel from his satchel. He stared at the label again, just to be sure. It read: Hephaestus' Workshop The summit, Mt....

    Tags: Folklore and Mythology, Science and Technology, Landforms, Arts and Culture, Volcanoes

    9. May 29, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  9. The starry-eyed visitor

    WILLIAMS BAY, WIS.—Late one sunny afternoon in April, Kyle M. Cudworth, director of Yerkes Observatory complex, opened up the door leading into the main observatory. Shuffling behind Cudworth, 86-year-old Rolf Riekher, a small, slightly stooped,...

    Tags: Science and Technology, Astronomy, University of Chicago, Arts and Culture, Adler Planetarium

    10. Mar 19, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Arthur C. Clarke, 90; scientific visionary, acclaimed writer of '2001: A Space Odyssey'

    <a href="http://topics.latimes.com/entertainment/people/arthur-c-clarke"><b>Arthur C. Clarke</b></a>, who peered into the heavens with a homemade telescope as a boy and grew up to become a visionary titan of science-fiction writing and collaborated with director Stanley Kubrick on the landmark film "2001: A Space Odyssey," has died. He was 90.
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    Arthur C. Clarke, who peered into the heavens with a homemade telescope as a boy and grew up to become a visionary titan of science-fiction writing and collaborated with director Stanley Kubrick on the landmark film "2001: A Space Odyssey," has died. He...

    Tags: Science and Technology, Space Programs, Isaac Asimov, Government, Buzz Aldrin

    11. Mar 3, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  11. New artist set to take over Gil Thorp strip

    The Gil Thorp comic strip will have a new artist starting in April -- comic book and commercial illustrator Rod Whigham. Whigham has had a 25-year career in comics, working for Marvel and DC comics among others. Among the titles he has worked on are G.I....

    Tags: G.I. Joe (fictional character), Fiction

    12. Jan 16, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Inquisition at JPL

    In all the years since Jules Verne first conjoined science and fiction to create a literary genre, nobody ever imagined that mankind's first real exploration of another world would be carried out by a couple of robotic dune buggies controlled from an...

    Tags: Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Justice System, Science and Technology

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