Entertainment & Arts
A proposal by the wife of former singing cowboy Gene Autry to build a museum for Western memorabilia across from Griffith Park failed Friday to win the approval of a city commission.
March 16, 1985
Science & Medicine
Andy Wang recruited 15 human guinea pigs and asked each to memorize five Chinese characters while the electrodes he’d attached to their heads charted their brain waves.
April 8, 1990
Before “Black Panther,” Nichelle Nichols began paving the way for afro-futurism and black representation in pop culture.
July 20, 2018
Obituaries
Nichols died of heart failure Saturday night at a hospital in Silver City, N.M.
July 31, 2022
Shelved for decades, it retains its exuberance in a Musical Theatre Guild concert performance.
Sept. 25, 2002
World & Nation
In the tight group of guys who grew up together on Windemere Avenue in Baltimore, Brian Gene Nichols was always the joker.
March 13, 2005
Television
Nichelle Nichols says she wasn’t particularly interested when her friend Gene Roddenberry insisted that she audition for a part in his new science fiction television series.
Sept. 26, 1990
Brian Gene Nichols gives up peacefully in an Atlanta suburb. He is accused of a fourth slaying after a Customs agent is found shot.
Movies
Dec. 28, 2017
Archives
Some guys are born with the craft gene, some aren’t. I got mine from my mother’s side.
Feb. 11, 1994