Jerry Adler, who spent decades backstage on Broadway before reinventing himself in his 60s as a television actor, most memorably as Herman βHeshβ Rabkin on HBOβs βThe Sopranosβ and Howard Lyman on CBSβ βThe Good Wife,β has died. He was 96. Adler died Saturday in New York, where he lived, according to his family. A…
Itβs time to grab your best fit and hit the blacktop of Chavez Ravine. Tyler, the Creator had his fans searching for words after he announced the lineup for his annual music festival Camp Flog Gnaw in a puzzling manner. The βIgorβ artist posted an actual word search on his Instagram containing the name of…
If history has taught us anything, itβs that no one is truly safe. That gathering dread fueled some great β70s paranoid thrillers, such as βThe Parallax Viewβ and βThe Conversation,β but itβs been difficult to replicate that eeriness in todayβs extremely online world, when our devices explain and obfuscate with abandon, conspiracies are lifeblood and…
Ron Howardβs new film βEdenβ is a true story about disenchanted Europeans, who, in the 1930s, escaped from their society and decamped on a lonely rock in the Galapagos, only to see their handmade utopia devolve into petty power struggles and murder. Itβs also lurid proof that Charles Darwin missed out on the truly juicy…
A wave of purple and hot pink hair and cartoon K-pop bops is taking over multiplexes. With summer blockbusters in the rearview mirror and only a few new films out, movie theaters expected a bit of a lull at the box office this weekend. Then Netflix dropped a bombshell. The streamer would release its hit…
Cracker Barrelβs new logo reveal is MAGAβs latest manufactured crisis. But what if a biscuit really just is a biscuit and not an LGBTQ+ gateway drug? Masked goons are terrorizing American cities. U.S. inflation is persisting. Gaza is starving to death. The Cracker Barrel unveils a new logo. If you guessed which crisis is not…
Nearly 40 years into Deftonesβ career, the Sacramento-bred band are anything but a legacy act. As proved by the visceral allegiance from countless fans half their age thrashing at their feet as they perform on stage, the band continues to be as explosive as they were when they conquered the Warped Tour in the late…
Delhi, the capital city of India, is a history-meets-modernity city. It is famous for its monumental heritage, political importance, and cultural diversity. It has giant monuments, forts, and buildings, as well as divine shrines, lush gardens, and natural retreats, that present man-made or natural tourist attractions found nowhere else due to the mixture of man-made…
βLong Story Short,β premiering Friday on Netflix, is the sweet, melancholy, satirical, silly, poignant, hopeful, sometimes slapstick cartoon tale of a middle-class Jewish family, told nonchronologically from the 1990s to the 2020s. For all its exaggerations β and unexaggerated portrayals of exaggerated behaviors β it is remarkably acute, and surprisingly moving, about relations between parents…
Long before Zack Fox was making scene-stealing appearances in βAbbott Elementary,β releasing music and amassing millions of views on his sweat-inducing DJ sets, he was best known for his Twitter jokes. Fox, a graphic artist and emcee for Atlanta-based indie label Awful Records at the time, was posting absurdly funny tweets under the alias βBootymath,β…