Director Nicholas Ray’s “Rebel Without a Cause” is a tense film that sets the stage — and a high bar — for later teen films, writes Barrett.

When fresh-faced 18-year-old Dennis Hopper was cast to play a gang member in the classic 1955 drama “Rebel Without a Cause,” he thought he was “the best young actor around.” That was until ...

It’s an observatory, planetarium, and exhibition space that has been free to the public since it opened in 1935, built with a bequest from industrialist and philanthropist Griffith J. Griffith.

“Griffith Observatory is so much more than the building you see behind me,” said Danish Khan, president of Griffith Observatory Foundation. “It’s a bridge. A bridge between science and wonder.