Today: music,photographs and a basketball star, all brought to you from the City of Angels, Los Angeles,California.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

It is also called the City of Angels because Los Angeles means "the angels" in Spanish.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

She became internationally famous in nineteen seventy-six for her role on the television series "Charlie's Angels."

VOA: special.2009.12.27

She sings "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing."

VOA: special.2009.12.25

The German words to the first verse mean: Still,still,still For the baby wants to sleep The angels jubilate with beauty Making music by the manger Still,still,still For the baby wants to sleep The Putamayo World Music company's seasonal album is called "World Christmas Party."

VOA: special.2010.12.24

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."

VOA: special.2009.01.19

He then became a free agent, and after seven years with the Yankees signed with the Los Angeles Angels.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

Tragedy also marked the past year in U.S.sports,as 22-year-old Los Angeles Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart died in a car crash April 9, just hours after he threw six scoreless innings against the Oakland A's.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24