‘Human nature doesn’t change.’ Ken Burns on what we learn from the American Revolution.

In 1975, a skinny Hampshire College kid making his first movie, a documentary about rural life in the early 1800s, hauled his ...

Puppetry? In this economy? This L.A. artist is forging her own path in Hollywood

Jackie Smook, an L.A.-based puppet maker and performer, got a boost from appearing on 'American Idol' and is now taking her ...

At L.A. Public Library literary salon, a military historian offers hope: ‘We have faced grimmer times’

Forty acclaimed authors gathered for dinners at 40 locations across the city on a single night as part of Los Angeles Public ...