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
Movies
With ‘Will & Harper,’ the ‘SNL’ star and his friend Harper Steele face a new twist on an old challenge in LGBTQ+ representation: How to educate cis viewers without alienating trans ones.
Sept. 23, 2024
Music
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is in custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn as he awaits trial on sex-trafficking and racketeering charges.
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.
Business
A new FBI report says the U.S. is the world center of crypto fraud. Donald Trump and his family just announced a big crypto venture.
Sept. 18, 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
Politics
Vice President Kamala Harris said to National Assn. of Black Journalists members that former President Trump had a long history of using racist tropes — and of discriminating against Black people in particular.
Sept. 17, 2024
Letters to the Editor
Donald Trump’s and JD Vance’s lies about pets being eaten in Ohio continues the centuries-long mistreatment of Haitian immigrants to the U.S.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs will stay locked up in an infamous Brooklyn, N.Y., federal jail after his attorney tried and failed to have him put on house arrest.
Trump called for no taxes on overtime pay, his latest economic pitch to voters at a rally in Arizona.
Sept. 12, 2024