July 6, 2024, 6:02am Entertainment
For anyone lucky enough to have experienced the long arc of his career, the death of droll, dry, deadpan Martin Mull, Thursday at 80, feels like the end of an era. A writer, songwriter, musician, comedian, comic actor and, out of the spotlight, a serious painter, Mull was a comfortingly… Read story
July 6, 2024, 6:01am Entertainment
Each year, at the end of its weekend in downtown Los Angeles, the people who run Los Angeles Comic Con ask fans what guests they’d like to see at the convention the following years, says Chris DeMoulin, the CEO and general manager of L.A. Comic Con. Read story
July 6, 2024, 5:59am Entertainment
Imagine stepping into a life-sized whale carcass decoy and steering it into deep water. You’re looking — yes, looking — for a group of hungry sharks to spark a feeding frenzy. To attract them, you shoot out hundreds of gallons of synthetic blood and chum. Then watch them lose it. Read story
July 6, 2024, 5:51am Entertainment
Millions obsessed over the true crime explored in Netflix’s 2015 “Making a Murderer” series. Mankato, Minn., writer Megan Cooley Peterson got a worldview shift and a book out of it. Read story
July 6, 2024, 5:51am Entertainment
In the winter of 1789, around the time George Washington was elected the country’s first president, a Boston-based printer quietly launched another American institution. Read story
July 6, 2024, 5:51am Entertainment
A posthumous book by Victoria Amelina, the Ukrainian author killed last year during a Russian missile strike, will be published in February upon the war’s third anniversary. Read story
July 6, 2024, 5:51am Entertainment
It was Juju Bae’s Catholic upbringing in Baltimore, she said, that sparked a deeper reflection on her spirituality and “who I’m praying to.” Read story
July 6, 2024, 5:51am Entertainment
Trisha R. Thomas’s debut novel, “Nappily Ever After,” was an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work finalist and an Oprah Magazine Book That Made A Difference — and it was also adapted into a Netflix film starring Sanaa Lathan. Read story
July 6, 2024, 5:51am Entertainment
Given how rare it is that anyone has time to read for pleasure — especially when there are blockbusters to watch, jewels to buy, trips to take, music to listen to and ice cream to eat — the book had better be worth it. That’s why the stakes are so… Read story
July 6, 2024, 5:37am Entertainment
Not that the authors of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were flawless people, produced perfect documents or uniformly followed their own best propositions, yet I have no doubt that they would look with alarm upon what’s come of their hopeful handiwork, a politics where rules are for suckers… Read story
