A Disorienting Survey of Suburban Sprawl, from Dubai to L.A.

There’s something about the suburbs that seems to utterly repel and fascinate artists. The postwar burb-boom of Burbank, California, for example, was Tim Burton’s inspiration for the rows and rows of identical homes in Edward Scissorhands, while the Smashing Pumpkins offered a much less gracious view in their video for “1979,” which depicted the destructive teen-age boredom they tend to instill.

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Beats Deal Brings Apple to L.A.

Apple and Beats declined comment (and an official announcement has not been made), but one thing is clear: Beats won't be moving its 300 employees to Cupertino anytime soon. Days before news of the deal for the headphones and streaming music service broke May 8, Beats began to transition staff from Santa Monica to a new campus in Culver City. And a rep for Beats campus developer Hackman Capital Partners tells THR that the company has a multiyear lease in the millions of dollars for more than 100,000 square feet in WorkScapes at the Hayden Tract.

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It's Adventure Time

An in-depth look at Adventure Time and the people who make it.
Adventure Time’s dozens of characters are complex in a way that is rarely seen on television for adults, let alone children; each seems to inhabit his own world. In E.M. Forster’s memorable phrase, they are round characters, “capable of surprising in a convincing way.” Lumpy Space Princess is a lovable but ghastly teenager, tediously obsessed with her old boyfriend, the unprepossessing Brad; she treats her well-meaning parents very shabbily. Marceline the Vampire Queen’s father is present just enough to make it impossible for her to ignore or forget his cruelty and selfishness—qualities she has inherited, to some degree. Princess Bubblegum is afflicted with intellectual arrogance and an inability to anticipate the dangerous consequences of her scientific experiments. (One of the story’s most provocative threads concerns the tension between science and magic).

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