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Today in History: November 28, Boston's Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire kills 492
Associated Press via Yahoo Canada News· 8 months agoToday in History Today is Tuesday, Nov. 28, the 332nd day of 2023. There are 33 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 28, 1942, fire engulfed the Cocoanut Grove nightclub ...
A moveable feast: How the Oscars venue-hopped through Los Angeles
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoA view of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on a vintage postcard from Patt Morrison's collection....
Mahfouz Doss, Former HFPA President, Dies at 97
The Wrap via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoMahfouz Doss, the former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, has died. He was 97. HFPA announced the award-winning journalist’s death...
Mahfouz Doss Dies: Former President Of Hollywood Foreign Press Association Was 97
Deadline via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoMahfouz Doss, an award-winning Egyptian journalist who was a former president of the Hollywood...
On This Day, Nov. 28: Jeffrey Dahmer beaten to death by fellow prisoner
United Press International via Yahoo Canada News· 8 months agoOn November 28, 1994, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was beaten to death by another prisoner at the...
The Academy Replaces Hattie McDaniel’s Historic Oscar at Howard University
The Wrap via Yahoo Canada News· 10 months agoThe "Gone With the Wind" actress made history as the first Black person to be nominated and win an...
Sole survivor of Hollywood’s golden age? The hotel that has seen it all
The Independent via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoFEATURES: Celebrating 110 years of notoriety, the Beverly Hills Hotel is swimming in stories about...
How Los Angeles was sold to the world as a paradise
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe oldest "come hither" L.A. guidebooks in the Huntington Library archives are all about boosterism. What does the hype tell us about Los Angeles now?
Janis Paige, enduring 'Silk Stockings' star from Hollywood's Golden Age, dies at 101
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 1 month agoJanis Paige, a performer from Hollywood's Golden Age, died Sunday of natural causes in her Los Angeles home. The scene-stealing star of 'Silk Stockings' was 101.