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, 6:00am Life
TikTok and its bite-sized videos arrived in the United States as a global version of the Chinese app Douyin. Less than six years later, the social media platform is deeply woven into the fabric of American consumerism, having shortened the shelf life of trends and revamped how people engage with… Read story
July 6, 2024, 6:00am Food
Red Lobster announced Monday that it has partnered with hip-hop superstar Flavor Flav, known as the co-founder of Public Enemy and the star of VH1’s influential reality show “Flavor of Love,” for its new Crabfest campaign. 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
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