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Top 10 modernist hotels in Palm Springs, California

Palm Springs is the place to stay cool by the pool or with a cocktail, especially if you like mid-20th-century design. In advance of Modernism Week (12-22 February, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year), we pick 10 hotels that exude retro charm....

'We Are the World': A Minute-by-Minute Breakdown on Its 30th Anniversary

(The A&M studio complex had been Charlie Chaplin's headquarters decades earlier; these days, it's the home of the Jim Henson Company.) Aside from Brinkley, notable names in attendance at the party included Brooke Shields, There's a bunch of albums ...

Santa Monica's Aero Theatre regulars believe in the joy of movies

"We saw that Charlie Chaplin was playing," she noted. "We started going to the Aero, and we haven't Jason Reitman have appeared in person. Built by Donald Douglas, the founder of Douglas Aircraft Co., the Aero screened movies around the clock so ...

I Spent 18 Hours In Tel Aviv's Bus Station

“You're very pretty, you know,” he said, and flicked a small cockroach off the wall. I bade Cohen farewell and began walking around the sixth floor where . Around 5 o'clock I set out for the African Refugee Development Center, one of two ...

My Story: A Daughter Recalls the Battle of Okinawa

Their house had a red tile roof and was surrounded by a rock wall. At times . Usually she went to bed around eleven o'clock and then I would have to massage her for an hour. This was I can remember movies starring Shirley Temple and Charlie Chaplin....

The Bars That Made America Great

The Green Mill has a history tracing back to 1907, and though it once served Charlie Chaplin, is best known for its Prohibition-era antics. Jack “Machine Gun” McGurn, an employee of Al Capone's who was But Heinhold's long history doesn't start and ...

The Soul of the City: Blues, Belief and the Big Top at Inglewood Park Cemetery

Beneath a nameless granite stone, decorated with only an etching of a small grey mouse, lay the infant child of Charlie Chaplin and Mildred Harris, his teen bride. Nicknamed "the little mouse," the child was born with severe deformities and only lived ...

8 April 1918: Charlie Chaplin sells Liberty Loans

Military bands marched down Wall Street, and every time $1,000 was invested in the bonds, the Liberty Bell was rung in City Hall, which “…rung ten times between the hours of 12 and two o’clock”. Not one to be outdone, British actor Charlie Chaplin ...