Brian Crecente

‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ movie delayed as iconic character’s shapely legs, human teeth redesigned

May 28, 2019 at 8:27 a.m.

The "Sonic the Hedgehog" movie won't make its November 2019 release date, director Jeff Fowler announced on Twitter Friday, saying that the team is "taking a little more time to...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

‘King of Kong’ star stripped of high scores, banned from competition

December 14, 2018 at 11:06 a.m.

Famed high-score gamer Billy Mitchell, best known for his leading role in "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters" documentary, was officially stripped of his "Donkey Kong" and other...

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