I wrote a couple of weeks back about the funky Atlas District/H Street scene in Washington, and promised I'd be back. I have done (as the British would say), this time at another house, the H Street ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The night before Halloween 1938, 87 years ago, a radio broadcast by filmmaker and actor Orson Welles sent shockwaves through the ...

Before Orson Welles, who died 40 years ago on October 10, directed his masterpiece "Citizen Kane," he became famous for his radio adaptation of "The War of the Worlds."It was a radio broadcast that ...

In 1938, the Great Depression ravaged America, the world was on the brink of war, and Superman debuted. And on the night before Halloween that year, another event occurred that sent America into pure ...

Listeners in 1938 thought the fictional broadcast was a real news report. The year is 1938. The cost of a gallon of gas is 10 cents. Franklin D. Roosevelt is president. The primary medium of ...

War of the Worlds is a new opera performed at the Walt Disney Concert Hall and on the streets of Los Angeles. Orson Welles' 1938 "fake news" radio program led millions of panicked listeners to believe ...

Seventy-five years ago, on Oct. 30, 1938, mere hours before Halloween began, millions of Americans got the fright of a lifetime: Orson Welles, 23 at the time, performed a radio dramatization of H.G.