Entertainment | Bob Howard | January 1, 1998
This will be the year Southern Californians can view a new version of the future from Disney, walk among sharks at a world-class aquarium, ride a high-wire bicycle without fear of falling and dance again to big-band music at classy nightclubs, including one that was a hangout for spies during World War II.
California | Local | Kate Linthicum | November 28, 2008
For half a century, life in Downey revolved around the 167-acre NASA site in the middle of town. It was there, in airplane hangars erected on former bean fields, that the city's men and women designed and built the spaceships that took the first Americans to the moon.
World | Barbara Demick | March 6, 2009
Sun Yaoting was 8 when his father castrated him with a single swoop of a razor. The year was 1911, and China was in turmoil. Just a few months later rebels deposed the emperor, overturned centuries of tradition and established a republic.
Entertainment | Geir Moulson | September 15, 2003
Germany's troubled 20th century can be viewed at a glance at its famed Museum Island. Not in the collections, but in the bullet holes from World War II battles that still pockmark its facades, and the crumbling interiors that deteriorated during 40 years of communist East German rule.
California | Local | Ralph Frammolino | December 28, 2005
One was an Italian who got his start peddling trinkets on the streets of Rome. Another was an American expatriate who could close a deal for a Greek vase in six languages.
