Weapon — described as a loaded handgun — recovered in fight at Sylmar High
A loaded gun fell to the ground during a fight Friday morning between several students at Sylmar High, an incident…
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Period dramas can be tough. Carrie Coon has no complaints
“There’s something satisfying about problems being created and solved 15 minutes later in a world where we just don’t have…
'Coup!' Review: Class Struggle Born Out of Pandemic and Inequality
In late 2020, a wave of films began to speak to the COVID-19 pandemic, either explicitly or unintentionally through the…
Dhani Harrison awakens new sounds with Huun-Huur-Tu
Dhani Harrison can't help but sound just like his father. It's not just his singing voice, or his aesthetic voice…
Simon Baker brings up the past in the atmospheric 'Limbo'
Outback Noir receives an Antonioni-style existential refresher in writer-director Ivan Sen's arid, melancholic mystery “Limbo,” a story of the missing…
Why you should invite a neighbor to dinner this holiday season
We live in an era of placeless possibility: a time when we can instantly contact another person no matter where…
ICE kept a California immigrant in isolation for two years
WASHINGTON- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement used solitary confinement in its detention centers more than 14,000 times between 2018 and…
How 'American Fiction' Navigates a Struggling Author's Isolation
Thelonious “Monk” Ellison (Jeffrey Wright) is a licensed literature professor struggling to sell his book thanks to a publishing industry…