The following interview contains spoilers for Shōgun episode 9.When the credits roll on Shōgun’s penultimate episode, Anna Sawai knows exactly what will last in the audience’s mind. “The explosion scene?” she asks. Yes, the explosion scene. “It felt liberating... More »
SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Visitors to Disney's California parks could one day walk through the snow-covered hamlet of Arendelle from “Frozen” or the bustling, critter-filled metropolis of “Zootopia” under a park expansion plan approved by the Anaheim City Council.D... More »
Pacing the stage, Leslie Liao muses about the various moisturizers she, an almost 37-year-old, feels compelled to use. “I spend most of my time rubbing creams all over my body. … Face cream, eye cream, foot cream, just constantly creaming myself.”She continues... More »
Olvera Street, adorned with brightly colored papel picado (perforated paper) and teeming with lively puestos (food stalls), did not always look as vibrant as it does today. While the historic pedestrian street and El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument a... More »
If you’re attending Maynard James Keenan’s Sessanta 60th birthday celebration concert at Hollywood Bowl Saturday, the oft-perceived-to-be-enigmatic poet-lyricist and frontman of the bands Puscifer, A Perfect Circle, and Tool, has a straightforward public servi... More »
In his previous life as a stunt double, David Leitch had a simple job: to make the star look invincible. Doubling for A-listers including Brad Pitt and Matt Damon in hits like “Fight Club” and “The Bourne Ultimatum,” whether taking a punch or dodging an explos... More »
The small brick plaza in front of the Pella, Iowa, public library was teeming with people. A gray-haired woman in a T-shirt stood stoically beside a large banner bearing a Bible quote with chapter and verse notation. There were a handful of other signs in the ... More »
The New Yorker DocumentaryAn Iranian Woman Finds Her Might, in “The Smallest Power”Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyWatch Andy Sarjahani’s film “The Smallest Power.” In “The Smallest Power,” the filmmaker Andy Sarjahani captures the ... More »
Juan Gabriel’s “Amor Eterno” and Héctor Lavoe’s “El Cantante” will be safeguarded for posterity, the Library of Congress announced Tuesday. The two tracks are among the 25 “audio treasures” selected for induction into the National Recording Registry based on t... More »
AI Book To Movie Quiz Gosh, it seems like if you write a book, it's guaranteed to get the movie treatment sooner or later. But what about books that have been out for a while with no movie like the dictionary (or my favorite book, Happy Bi... More »
Eva Mendes is one proud “Cuban mami.”Ryan Gosling’s epic return to “Saturday Night Live” on April 13 included singing a Taylor Swift song with Emily Blunt and a sequel to his Papyrus skit. It also featured the actor portraying an American man with a Cuban acce... More »
The filmmaking team known as Radio Silence, made up of directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, plus producer Chad Villella, struck black (comedy) gold with their 2019 horror-thriller “Ready or Not,” about a young bride, played by Samara Weaving, who... More »