Music
Bram Inscore was Beck’s former band leader and a frequent collaborator of Troye Sivan’s, as well as various hit K-pop acts. He died by suicide on Dec. 19.
Awards
Osvaldo Golijov ended up ditching his first ‘Megalopolis’ score to compose a new eclectic version fitting director Francis Ford Coppola’s evolving vision.
Books
Ahead of the annual StokerCon gathering of horror readers, Paul Tremblay discusses the appeal of the genre, what makes a cult movie and film adaptations like ‘Knock at the Cabin.’
As famed author Harlan Ellison’s collections of speculative fiction are reissued, his longtime home offers a window into his complicated soul.
Movies
The Gen-X icon always hoped to be back in black for one of her most signature roles. But Ryder and her director Tim Burton still can’t believe it’s happened.
Ahead of Juneteenth, the author opens up about the emancipatory quality of speculative fiction and the setting that connects several of her books.
World & Nation
Violence erupted in the Dutch capital before and after last week’s soccer match between Ajax Amsterdam and Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Business
CVS is cutting costs, Rite Aid’s shelves are empty and Walgreens is closing stores as retail pharmacies across Los Angeles and the country face a challenging retail environment and pressure from insurance company intermediaries.
In order to write ‘The Path to Paradise,’ on Francis Ford Coppola’s failed utopia, author Sam Wasson had to sell the director on ‘success with an asterisk.’
Lifestyle
‘Van Helsing’s Dracula,’ a dinner theater experience in Van Nuys, has aerialists, ballerinas and plate-spinners in the tale of vampire versus vampire hunter.