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Long before their chart domination, global popularity and, ultimately, their implosion, the Bangles began with an ad on a big board in the Sunset Boulevard shopfront of Musicians Contact Service....

There’s a chance you’ve heard this is the 50th anniversary of “Saturday Night Live.” Sunday brought the live anniversary special (and guests galore) on NBC. It arrived on the heels...

Hulu has officially scrapped its planned TV adaptation of A Court of Thorns and Roses, the hit romantasy series by Sarah J. Maas. The project, developed by Disney’s 20th Television,...

Hellish wildfires. Whiplash weather. Destructive winds. Debris flows. Torrential rains accenting punishing droughts. Welcome to the Los Angeles Mike Davis predicted. The late urbanist first made waves in the 1990s...

When does a crush begin to feel like love? This is hard to answer. How can we define that emotion well enough to demarcate its beginnings and endings? We’re familiar...

Chiwetel Ejiofor is no stranger to iconic British rom-coms. After all, the Oscar-nominated English actor played Keira Knightley’s on-screen husband, Peter, in Love, Actually in 2003. In other words, he...

Armed with a rapier wit, Rupert Everett is one of those rare actors who holds writing as an equivalent competency, counting Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene among his primary literary...

When I was living in West Philadelphia during graduate school, I noticed that my neighborhood abounded with ornately decorated Victorian-style porches, many of which featured ceilings painted in a calm...

A month after its debut, Bad Bunny’s sixth solo studio album, “Debí Tirar Más Fotos,” continues to ignite conversations surrounding Puerto Rico’s colonial legacy and its right to self-determination. Dubbed...

I always thought it was strange that Stephen King’s publishers thought his short story “The Monkey” was such a big deal. Compared to the other stories surrounding it in his...