Pandemic Cinema

from The Los Angeles Times Want to understand how a pandemic upends everyday life? The movies can tell you By NOEL MURRAY Chester Morris, left, and Victor McLaglen in the 1939 movie “Pacific Liner.”(Turner Classic Movies) Back in 1939, RKO released the movie “Pacific...

The Big Goldstein

from The Hollywood Reporter The Peculiar Life of the Man in the ‘Big Lebowski’ House: An NBA Superfan’s Wild L.A. Mansion by Gary Baum Copyright 2004 NBAE/Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty ImagesSays Goldstein, pictured here with Snoop Dogg, “People...

Aerosolized Music

from WIRED Streaming Music Doesn’t Flow, It Evaporates Listening to streamed tunes through a smart speaker squeezes the ecstasy out of the experience. There are ways to get it back. by VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN ILLUSTRATION: ALVARO DOMINGUEZ ALEXA HAS NO knack for...

Here Comes “Clownpocalypse”

from DEADLINE Eli Roth & 3BlackDot Developing Horror Franchise ‘Clownpocalypse’ By Anthony D’Alessandro Rex/Shutterstock EXCLUSIVE: 3BlackDot and Eli Roth are working on the 360-degree horror project Clownpocalypse which will encompass a feature film, video...

Andy Wizard

from The Spectator The wizard that was Warhol Blake Gopnik’s monumental biography is a welcome forerunner to Tate Modern’s major Warhol retrospective, opening next month by Duncan Fallowell In 1983 I was sent to New York to interview Johnny Rotten and I took...