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 ...

So how did so many people actually believe that Martians were invading? For starters, we didn’t have a clear idea of what was on the surface of Mars yet. The space age was still decades away. So for ...

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 in October 1985, directed his masterpiece, "Citizen Kane," he became famous for his radio adaptation of "The War of the Worlds." It was a radio broadcast that marked ...

In 1938, aliens attacked. Well, that's at least what Americans heard over the radio. Orson Welles and a group of actors ...

Seventy-one years after Orson Welles' War of the Worlds radio broadcast snookered a gullible American public with its real-time alien-invasion scenario, The Fourth Kind writer/director Olatunde ...

“The best of the postwar American science-fiction films; the Martian machines have a quality of real terror, their sinister apparitions, prowlings and pulverisings are spectacularly well done, and the ...

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 ...