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Moby says he will ‘go away for awhile’ after he questionably claimed to have dated Natalie Portman

May 30, 2019 at 9:18 a.m.

A week after doubling down on claims that he once dated Natalie Portman, Moby is now doubling down on his apology to the actress and everyone else mentioned in his...

How Margot Robbie transformed into Queen Elizabeth I for ‘Mary Queen of Scots’

December 15, 2018 at 1:05 p.m.

When she signed onto "Mary Queen of Scots," British makeup artist Jenny Shircore knew she had a great task ahead of her. How do you get Margot Robbie, a woman...

A new era of political music videos is born

December 13, 2018 at 6:27 a.m.

Donald Glover didn't hold back when creating the music video for "This Is America," the most recent single by his rapper alter-ego, Childish Gambino. He didn't have to. As its...

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>

From Pooh to Ted, here’s a ranking of Hollywood’s computer-generated bears

May 2, 2018 at 4:29 p.m.

The first trailer for Disney's live-action "Christopher Robin," released Wednesday afternoon, gave us a snippet of a scene in which a tense Ewan McGregor sits on a park bench, swivels...

How to protect yourself against hotel bedbugs

June 2, 2018 at 5:26 p.m.

They creep, they crawl, and they just might be in your hotel room. And worse, they could be coming home with you. Bedbug infestations can occur at any time, not...

In the era of dating apps, who still posts on Craigslist’s Missed Connections?

June 2, 2018 at 9:49 p.m.

Lin doesn't know if she'll hear from him, but that didn't stop her from dreaming up her own romantic comedy. The 24-year-old Washington, D.C., resident walked past a tall, bespectacled...

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