Jules Verne

Food FYI: FDA now bans BPAs from baby bottles

2012-07-18 16:37:03

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Walter Mosley, L.A.'s easy writer

2012-06-27 00:00:00

You can take Walter Mosley out of Los Angeles — in fact, Mosley did so himself, moving to New York decades ago — but you can't take L.A. out of Walter Mosley. The master of several genres keeps the city present, from his Easy Rawlins detective...

Review: Luigi's Flying Tires fail to live up to levitating legacy

2012-06-13 00:20:00

I always wished I could have ridden the Flying Saucers at Disneyland. Opened in 1961, the space-age bumper cars hovered like pucks on an enormous air hockey rink, a strange combination of retro and futuristic, like a scene from a Jules Verne novel. I...

Ray Bradbury dies at 91; author lifted fantasy to literary heights

2012-06-06 11:43:00

Ray Bradbury, the writer whose expansive flights of fantasy and vividly rendered space-scapes have provided the world with one of the most enduring speculative blueprints for the future, has died. He was 91. Bradbury died Tuesday night in Los Angeles,...

The Review: Hungry Cat Santa Monica Canyon

2011-08-11 00:00:00

Beneath an old diving helmet straight out of Jules Verne, a couple seated at a corner of the raw bar feed each other oysters, clams, bites of lobster. They eat slowly, luxuriously, between sips of wine. He whispers in her ear. She laughs and pops a shrimp...

Wet, Warm and Wild

2012-05-17 11:49:00

Can’t you just feel summer around the corner? The warmth of the sun, the laughter of the kids, the sand squishing between your toes and the yearning for a double-dip ice cream cone. Celebrate the beginning of summer with a visit to Catalina Island....

The Google doodle: A highly creative home page homage

2012-04-19 00:00:00

Photographer Robert Doisneau is known for Parisian street scenes that reflected his fascination with what he called "the marvels of daily life." Four of his images — including his famous (if posed) 1950 picture of a kissing couple — graced...

Reading, no batteries required

2012-04-22 00:00:00

Tenderly, the lover caressed his beloved. So pale, so smooth. He tilted his head forward, the better to inhale that scent — rich and enticing. Fingertip to spine, feeling every contour, he pressed his face closer — and turned a page. I don'...

James Arnold dies at 88; pushed to unlock secrets in moon rocks

2012-01-22 00:00:00

When President John F. Kennedy announced in 1961 that America was committed to "landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth" by the end of the decade, winning the race became the paramount objective of the national space program....

'Nostalgia for the Light' wins top honors at IDA Documentary Awards

2011-12-03 04:36:52

‘Mysterious Island’: Kristin Davis wants to pet Josh Hutcherson

2012-02-03 16:38:41

Saturday’s Highlights: 'Paul' on Cinemax

2012-02-10 21:37:45

Sean Young at the 2007 Jules Verne Adventure Film Special Awards Presentation

2012-02-27 08:56:13

French sailor Loick Peyron and his crew arrive aboard the trimaran Banque Populaire V in the port of Brest, western France, January 7, 2012.

2012-01-07 00:00:00

February 8, 2011 This doodle featured a working submarine mechanism (a la "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea")

2011-09-30 16:31:36