“Now You See Me: Now You Don’t” star Jesse Eisenberg may soon one-up the film franchise’s Robin Hood-esque Four Horsemen in the giving-back department. This December, the Academy Award nominee...
The marriage between Arcade Fire’s indie-rocker spouses Win Butler and Régine Chassagne has flamed out. The longtime collaborators and romantic partners split “after a long and loving marriage,” the Canadian...
Will Cinerama Dome ever reopen? Maybe. Dome Center LLC, the company that owns the property along Sunset Boulevard upon which the iconic movie venue stands, filed an application for a...
For three years, Eric Wareheim ate a lot of steak. We’re talking three steakhouse meals a day, complete with sides and sauces. Towers of onion rings stacked high, bone-in rib-eyes,...
Before Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend appeared in English, no one thought it would be a smash hit. The novel and its three sequels, collectively known as the Neapolitan Quartet,...
Among the many humiliations of being American in the current moment is this: Members of the tech right and the conservative ruling class continually fetishize objects of nerd culture while...
What to do with Gertrude Stein? Decades after her death, she still bestrides the literary landscape like a mastodon, impossible to ignore, determined to take up space. A confrere of...
“Bread of Angels,” Patti Smith’s mesmerizing new memoir, only deepens the mystery of who this iconic artist is and where her singular vision originated. I’ve long been struck by her...
Nicey Nash-Betts has only ever lived in Los Angeles — and she’s proud of that. “I’m an OG Angeleno,” says the Academy Award-winning actress who’s lived all over the county,...
A mutant killer baby. Lampshades and pickle jars that come alive. Sinister sewers. A demonic clown that preys on children. HBO Max’s “It: Welcome to Derry,” the latest adaptation of...
