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

VOA: special.2009.11.20

Her birthplace was not far from the Hollywood movie studios where she would someday be a star.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

An astronomer at Harvard College, Henrietta Leavitt, had discovered that these periods of brightness could be used to measure the star's distance from Earth.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

Today on our program, we play music from the new young pop star, Justin Bieber.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

Every year,the best players from the National and American leagues compete in an All-Star game.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

Roger Milla was a star for the memorable team from Cameroon in nineteen ninety.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

Today we listen to a new album from pop star Miley Cyrus...

VOA: special.2010.08.06

It gets its nickname from the single star on its flag.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

Other big acts include pop star Lady Gaga, the punk rock band Green Day, the alternative rock band from Canada called Arcade Fire and the nineteen eighties techno-rock band Devo.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

Tickets,offered in March, sold out in minutes. While many kept their distance from the tarnished pop star, some friends supported him.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

from the Broadway musical Les Miserables. The unemployed church volunteer from Blackburn,Scotland, who lives alone with her cat, promptly became the unlikeliest star of the year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Since 1979, every McDonald's "Happy Meal" for children has included an enticing toy along with the food, from Star Wars action figures to Hello Kitty watches.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Fifty years ago this week, a young Cornell University scientist named Frank Drake pointed a radio telescope at a distant star, hoping to hear transmissions from an alien civilization.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

Chelsea star Didier Drogba of Ivory Coast thrilled the fans with his blast from about 30 meters out that found the upper left corner of the goal in just the seventh minute.

VOA: standard.2009.07.25