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Sunday, March 13, 2011

Film focuses on remote museum in Uzbekistan

Back in 2000, USC film professor Amanda Pope and a former student, Tchavdar Georgiev, were traveling in Russia and some of its satellites, working on a series of short portraits of emerging leaders in the post-Soviet world. The two were in Uzbekistan when Pope heard about an amazing collection of Russian avant-garde art in a remote museum deep in the country's desert.

But when she excitedly mention...

Matthew McConaughey, Michael Connelly talk 'The Lincoln Lawyer' over beers

Matthew McConaughey has just cracked open his second Corona when the man wearing Mardi Gras beads and a Village People policeman's cap approaches his car.

"Do you know Duane?" the inebriated-looking man asks with suspicion, poking his head inside the window and gestu...

Hollywood Headlines

Charlie Sheen got the ax from "Two and a Half Men" this week, but he won't go down without a fight. Sheen's going after Warner Bros. and his nemesis, show creator Chuck Lorre, with a $100-million lawsuit. He's also got plenty to keep him busy, like his tour, "Sheen's Korner," cooking show and Twitter. Not to mention the custody battle with ex Brooke Mueller....

BAHRAIN: Gates urges reform to keep Iran at bay amid renewed violence

I expressed the view that we had no evidence that suggested that Iran started any of these popular revolutions or demonstrations across the region," Gates said Saturday following talks with Bahrain's king and crown prince. Bahraini officials have repeatedly tried to discredit the anti-government protest movement by alleging links to Iran and the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, a claim the protesters deny.

"But there is clear evidence th....

Energy released in an earthquake

The energy released on the Earth's surface only (ME, which is the seismic potential for damage) by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami was estimated at 1.1×1017 joules, or 26.3 megatons of TNT. This energy is equivalent to over 1502 times that of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, but less than that of Tsar Bomba, the largest nu...

Japan earthquake shifted Earth on its axis

Friday's magnitude 8.9 earthquake in Japan shifted Earth on its axis and shortened the length of a day by a hair. In the future, scientists said, it will provide an unusually precise view of how Earth is deformed during massive earthquakes at sites where one plate is sliding under another, including the U.S. Pacific Northwest.

The unusually rich detail comes fr...

Japanese fearful as nuclear crisis builds

The government in Tokyo may be reassuring a nation already reeling from the worst earthquake in its recorded history that Japan is not about to experience a full-blown nuclear disaster.

But the closer you got to the Fukushima nuclear complex, where officials are struggling with the specter of meltdowns at two of its six reactors, the less people were buying it.

On National Road 4 on the city's outskirts, Mari Kano was crawling through congested traffic Sunday morning with her two young children in tow, baskets of cl...

Japan faces soaring number of feared dead

Reporting from Tokyo, Koriyama and Fukushima, The number of missing and feared dead in Japan's epic earthquake soared Sunday as a reeling nation struggled to contain an unprecedented nuclear crisis, pluck people in tsunami-inundated areas to safety, quell raging blazes and provide aid to hundreds of thousands of frightened people left homeless and dazed.

A police chief in the battered Miyagi prefecture told disaster relief officials that he expected the death t....

NFL owners express disappointment

A day after the NFL Players Assn. decertified as a union, and the NFL officially locked out its players, several team owners Saturday issued statements expressing their disappointment that the labor fight has gone this far.

"I am very disappointed that we were not successful in reaching an agreement," Pittsburgh Steelers President Art Rooney II said, adding, "The NFL owners pu....