Abraham Lincoln

Review: Dim view on 'Through a Glass Darkly' at the Raven Playhouse

2013-05-23 11:36:00

Every element of Ingmar Bergman’s 1961 film “Through a Glass Darkly” — the performances, the plot, even the scenery in Faro, Sweden — seems to exist solely to express his singular artistic vision. Anybody can rent it, and the...

Review: A pleasant 'Cooperstown,' but questions stand out

2013-05-23 10:26:00

Jackie Robinson never appears in Brian Golden’s “Cooperstown,” currently enjoying its West Coast premiere at the Road Theatre Company’s shiny new second stage, but the very idea of him is enough to catalyze powerful changes for the...

Abraham Lincoln exhibition opening in June at Reagan Library

2013-05-22 08:00:00

Did Daniel Day-Lewis leave you with the urge for more Abraham Lincoln? A new exhibition devoted to�Lincoln -- featuring 250 historical artifacts, as well as sets and costumes from last year's Steven Spielberg movie starring Day-Lewis as the 16th...

Ken Venturi dies at 82; golfer had dramatic win in 1964 U.S. Open

2013-05-17 22:02:00

Ken Venturi, who won the 1964 U.S. Open golf championship in dramatic fashion and became a longtime television commentator, died Friday in Rancho Mirage. He was 82. Venturi, who was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame earlier this month, died at...

Goldberg: Niall Ferguson's blooper

2013-05-07 00:00:00

At an investment conference last week, Harvard historian Niall Ferguson created a huge mess for himself. He glibly speculated that maybe because economist John Maynard Keynes was a childless, "effete" homosexual, he embraced a doctrine that favored...

‘White House Down’ trailer sees Roland Emmerich back in action mode

2013-05-03 13:24:16

This presidential database loves running and Legos

2013-05-04 16:05:00

Arden Hayes is 5. He loves Legos and running so fast across the living room to flip onto the couch that his feet end up pointing at the ceiling. He also loves the presidents — especially 11 and 33. Arden knows all 44 U.S. presidents. In order....

Loyola sprinters pass test without a glitch

2013-05-06 00:00:00

For those who run relays in track and field, passing the baton can be scarier than a scene from "A Nightmare on Elm Street." Just ask sprinter Morgan Simon of Los Angeles Loyola High. He remembers suddenly dreaming about dropping the baton. "I looked...

City Beat: An authority on the presidents at age 5

2013-05-07 07:00:00

Arden Hayes is 5. He loves Legos and doing flips onto the living room couch. He also loves our nation's presidents. He knows all 44 in order and can tell you something about any one of them. Arden knows a lot about the presidents because he reads a...

With new presidential library, George W. Bush back in public eye

2013-04-23 20:06:00

WASHINGTON — President Obama, the four living ex-presidents and thousands of others head to Dallas on Thursday for the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum. The challenge facing library officials will be to keep the...

The 20 greatest Dodgers of all time, No. 17: Branch Rickey

2013-04-25 11:00:00

Beginning April 11, we asked you to list your choices for the 10 greatest Dodgers of all time. You could vote via comment, Facebook, Twitter or email. And vote you did. From then until April 21, when voting closed, we received an amazing 12,231 ballots....

Letters: FDR, Jews and the war

2013-04-12 00:00:00

Re "What FDR said in private," Opinion, April 7 As an American and a Jew, I found Rafael Medoff's criticism of Franklin D. Roosevelt for his private comments about Jews most unfair. FDR understood that the best way to end the Holocaust was to defeat...

Olivia Luecke, 5, joins her cousin Britney Kelly, 9, right, in prayer before a grave marker as they help volunteers place flags in memory of the thousands of soldiers buried at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Ill.

2013-05-24 00:00:00

An undated portrait of Abraham Lincoln, his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, and their two sons, Robert Todd Lincoln and Thomas Lincoln.

2013-05-21 22:56:30

Adam Metallo with the Smithsonian Institution Digitization Program Office holds an ABS plastic 3D print from an affordable printer. The blue head is hollow, but is available with infill. The original head is a life mask of Abraham Lincoln from the National Portrait Gallery.

2013-05-20 00:00:00