Sony buys Alamo Drafthouse cinema chain
Sony Pictures Entertainment has purchased Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the innovative dine-in theater chain known as a premier movie destination, including…
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California has underestimated the epic potential of future floods
For more than a century, the Great Flood of 1862 has remained among California's worst natural disasters — a megastorm…
What 20 years of data tell us about same-sex marriage
Twenty years ago this month, Marcia Kadish and Tanya McCloskey exchanged wedding vows at Cambridge City Hall in Massachusetts and…
How Hollywood created a fatal cycle at the movie box office
After days of darkness from morning to mid-afternoon, Memorial Day bloomed bright and early over Los Angeles; the clouds were…
The 2024 box office is tough. But Imax's appeal is a plus point
When Warner Bros. film executive Jeff Goldstein saw the massive sand dunes and sweeping desert vistas of Denis Villeneuve's first…
Ratings for streaming films powered by women and people of color
Amid today's heated streaming wars, it seems that diversity is the secret weapon. Women and people of color played a…
If there's a new cougar in Griffith Park, let's try not to kill it
There was no doubt about it. The burly, hairy blonde animal on a tree trunk illuminated by car headlights in…
Pedestrians are twice as likely to be hit by electric vehicles than by gasoline vehicles, study finds
Young children are taught to stop, look and listen before crossing the street. In the age of electric cars, parents…
Will Hollywood workers leave town as local studio production slows?
There's no business like showbiz, but in Los Angeles it seems like there's no business at all. If this sounds…
Pregnant? Researchers want you to know about fluoride
Adding fluoride to drinking water is widely considered a public health triumph. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says…