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The specter of communism haunted America in the 1930s, and would not fade away. By the 1940s, Communists and anti-Communists alike would be haunted by their deeds and misdeeds in the decade that began in 1929, when the Stock Market crashed, and ended in 1941, when the country went to war in Europe and Asia, and Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" - the ...

This week's big show is tonight's Halloween spectacular music/variety edition of "Radio From Downtown" at the historic Avalon Theatre in Easton .

Warren Clements Published on Thursday, Nov. 05, 2009 6:10PM EST Last updated on Thursday, Nov.

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 Osunsanmi tries a similar gambit, albeit with less showmanship than Welles had in his pinkie finger.

Seventy-one years after Orson Welles 's War of the Worlds radio broadcast snookered a gullible American public with its real-time alien-invasion scenario, The Fourth Kind writer-director Olatunde Osunsanmi tries a similar gambit, albeit with less showmanship than Welles had in his pinky finger.

Hello, Santa Clarita Valley! Welcome to The-Signal.com's Daybreak, your point of entry for the day, and a quick journey through the past, present and future.

In 1938 Orson Welles surprised, entertained and panicked the nation with his famous War of the Worlds broadcast.

Actually, apologies everybody -- having just returned from a week's sojourn in the land of the Ignoble Frog, I'm frankly too laden with heavy sauces to get a standard WCL together.

Martians will land again Friday night. Seventy-one years ago Orson Welles pulled a fast one on his radio audience.

It's been 71 years since the famous "War of the Worlds" broadcast ... and the panic that overtook a little Skagit County town.

What iceberg? It must be true; it's on the Interwebs: A Friday Harbor blogger was forced to admit that a photo he had posted showing a sinking Steilacoom II ferry had been faked.

If you are a fan of Orson Welles, H.G. Wells or Zac Efron, then you will appreciate the thought behind the rebroadcast of possibly the greatest publicity stunt since the advent of technological mass communication.

No posters or photographs of Orson Welles hang in the living room of his eldest daughter, Chris Welles Feder.

On Oct. 30, 1735, the second president of the United States, John Adams, was born in Braintree, Mass.

Free Halloween events from a War of the Worlds tribute to a bike tour to "movieoke." For our complete roundup of Halloween events, click here .

Like Halloween ghosts, two figures have revisited us this week through the mists of time.

Heath Ledger won a rareposthumous competitive Oscar for "The Dark Knight" in February.

The cast of "War of the Worlds": Jack Meeks, Ronna Lee Joseph, Scott Ewing, Tim Murray, Sean Dooley, Lois Ewing, Bill Keogh, Maddie Fornier, and Walt Webb.

In February 2008, Isle of Man Film and investment partners CinemaNX welcomed leading independent film director Rick Linklater and his cast to the Island to film the movie 'Me & Orson Welles' at the Gaiety Theatre.

Transylvania Twist DanceRink returns to Theatre Project to perform its version of Dracula .