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.
Sept. 20, 2024
California
Sean “Diddy” Combs was the only defendant indicted this week in a sweeping sex trafficking and racketeering investigation. But federal prosecutors made clear that they do not believe he was the only one responsible. Is the indictment just the beginning of a larger case against alleged conspirators?
Sept. 19, 2024
Opinion
A former legislator, Adrin Nazarian is well versed with the district’s challenges and opportunities, and he has the ties and knowledge to hit the ground running.
Sept. 17, 2024
World & Nation
Two decades ago, a Democratic politician with national goals might not have dreamed of endorsing same-sex marriages. Kamala Harris was officiating them.
Sept. 15, 2024
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.
Similar fights over memorials to the ‘comfort women’ have played out elsewhere, including Southern California. But the dispute has special resonance in Germany.
Sept. 16, 2024
Music
An expert explains how a perpetrator might entice and control victims, and what Combs’ indictment means about our changing views on how sex trafficking works.
Sept. 18, 2024
The musician and record producer was arrested in New York months after raids on his Holmby Hills and Miami homes as part of a federal inquiry.
Saudi sex tourists are buying weeklong marriages to young women in Indonesia. Though officially illegal, the practice is an economic lifeline for villages. For the women, it’s ‘torture.’
Sept. 11, 2024
Entertainment & Arts
Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been indicted on additional sex crimes charges ahead of his retrial in New York.
Sept. 12, 2024