Letters to the Editor
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “squandering of his family’s good name is hard to watch, let alone fathom,” says a reader.
Sept. 21, 2024
California
According to autopsy findings, the diabetic inmate’s insulin pump was likely beeping nonstop for nearly 24 hours, alerting that it had run out of medication.
Sept. 20, 2024
Television
In Screen Gab no. 149, we catch up with ‘Challengers,’ now streaming on Prime Video, speak with the man behind Colin Farrell’s prosthetics in ‘The Penguin’ and more.
World & Nation
Lebanon wracked by fresh wave of explosions of booby-trapped communication devices believed to be part of an electronic sabotage campaign against Hezbollah.
Sept. 18, 2024
The National Marine Fisheries Service is investigating claim that RFK Jr. cut off the head of a dead whale and took it home two decades ago.
Sept. 19, 2024
Jonathan Rodriguez, 20, was arrested after an 11-hour search that began when he allegedly got out of his vehicle following a police chase, fired a weapon and fled the scene.
Movies
Also this week: Leonard Maltin presents 1930s Universal rarities, ‘Rhythm Thief’ restored, Haile Gerima’s new documentary and a double-bill of Alain Delon’s beauty.
A solar power project wasn’t actually “shovel ready,” despite what the builder said -- not good when precious Joshua trees are being killed.
Sept. 16, 2024
Sebastian Stan plays a facially deformed actor who emerges from a miracle cure to realize he’s lost something deeper, in a movie co-starring Renate Reinsve.
Climate & Environment
A sudden shutoff of water supplies has dried up the Kern River in Bakersfield, leaving thousands of dead fish on the parched riverbed.