More Colorful Photos From Dia De Los Muertos Celebrations

More Colorful Photos From Dia De Los Muertos Celebrations

               

How Other Animals Choose Their Leaders

How Other Animals Choose Their Leaders

It is hard to escape the sensation that our electoral process is broken. Too much money. Too much bullshit. Perhaps we should turn to nature for insight, remedy, or just salve. The Book of Proverbs implored believers to go to the ant and consider her ways when it came to wisdom and industriousness. Can we also turn to the ant for lessons on democracy?

21 Animated Features Submitted for Oscar Consideration

21 Animated Features Submitted for Oscar Consideration



The crowded field means there will be five nominees when nominations are announced Jan. 10.

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Video: Adorable Baby Panda Is Almost Ready to Walk

Video: Adorable Baby Panda Is Almost Ready to Walk

     

The unnamed male panda cub at the San Diego Zoo is thriving, and is so close to being able to walk, as seen in a new video of his 11th veterinary exam. The fuzzy baby panda seems as cuddly and precious as a living teddy bear as he gets measured and checked out by the Zoo docs.

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'Phineas and Ferb': First Look!

'Phineas and Ferb': First Look!

EW exclusive! Get three peeks at tomorrow's show featuring back story of villainous Dr. Doofenshmirtz

So Long, Holden

So Long, Holden

I imagined it so differently. I would hand The Catcher in the Rye to my students and watch it transform their lives. They would see themselves in Holden Caulfield, and J.D. Salinger's words would elucidate their own frustrations and struggles. They would write righteous screeds against phoniness, start keeping journals, and forever treasure their pored-over paperback. The book would blow the minds of teenagers seeking a pilgrim soul—a friend’s voice in the wild of adolescence.

How and where the Grindhouse spirit survives (and whether it should)

Film: For Our Consideration: How and where the Grindhouse spirit survives (and whether it should)




The opening sequence to the recent stripper-takes-revenge-on-her-rapists thriller Cherry Bomb looks like it could’ve been swiped in its entirety from some 1983 straight-to-video action movie, with its grainy, underlit shots of a grimy urban landscape, and its pulsing, bass-heavy hard-rock score. The similarity is no accident. It’s the effect director Kyle Day and screenwriter Garrett Hargrove were going for, to recall the seedy quickies of their youth. The same goes for Michael Biehn’s new-to-video directorial debut The Victim, which stars veteran actor Biehn as a backwoods loner who helps a stripper fend off two rogue cops who killed her best friend. In spite of the modern-day setting, The Victim has the style and tone of gamy ’70s drive-in fare. Cherry Bomb and The Victim are both pretty terrible movies, but they have a context. And they owe some of that context to a box-office flop from five ...

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Why We Freak Out About Some Technologies but Not Others

Why We Freak Out About Some Technologies but Not Others

There's often a side effect to new technologies: moral panic. Facebook causes narcissism! Texting is making us illiterate! But the funny thing is, other technologies don't provoke such alarm. What's the difference? Why do we freak out at some technologies and shrug at others? To provoke moral panic, a technology must satisfy three rules...

Why Buzz Lightyear Is Worth Billions More Than Han Solo

Why Buzz Lightyear Is Worth Billions More Than Han Solo

Why was Pixar worth so much more seven years ago than Lucasfilm is today?

Here's How Disney Can Turn Tomorrowland Into Star Wars Land

Here's How Disney Can Turn Tomorrowland Into <cite>Star Wars</cite> Land

There's already an official video showing Darth Vader enjoying a day at a Disney theme park. Here's how the Mouse House can spike the Tomorrowland formula with Star Wars.

From AT-ATs to iPhones: Early Sketches of 10 Iconic Objects

From AT-ATs to iPhones: Early Sketches of 10 Iconic Objects

Our most iconic products don't spring fully formed from their designers' minds. Even Jony Ive had to attack the iPhone more than once. (A lot more than once.) But the earliest drawings of some now-classic designs help show the process their creators went through to make something recognizable and definitive.

Must-See Photos of Some of L.A.'s Best Halloween Costumes, Round 2

Must-See Photos of Some of L.A.'s Best Halloween Costumes, Round 2

                                  

The day has finally arrived! Happy Halloween, Los Angeles! The Halloween costume photo submissions have continued to roll in from our creative readers, so here's our second gallery of you in your Halloween best, ranging from the terrifying to the tongue-in-cheek.

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