Pop Culture

Nordstrom Makes Down-To-Earth Appeal To High-End Market With $425 Fake Mud Jeans

5:11pm April 26, 2017

A pair of $425 men's jeans is getting heat online for it's Americana feel with "crackled, caked-on muddy coating." Washington Post fashion critic Robin Givhan explains that these pants are a part of the fashion industry's desire to be authentic and edgy.

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Arts

Hulu's 'Handmaid's Tale' Delivers A Timely And Feminist Message

2:06pm April 26, 2017

by David Bianculli

A new 10-part adaptation of Margaret Atwood's 1986 novel stars Elisabeth Moss as a woman living in a totalitarian state. Critic David Bianculli says the miniseries depicts a bleak and haunting future.

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Arts

'Veep' Executive Producer On Making A Show About The 'Craven Desire For Power'

2:06pm April 26, 2017

The HBO series is now in its sixth season. Producer Frank Rich also writes a column for New York magazine about the intersection of politics and popular culture.

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Elisabeth Moss and Alexis Bledel as the Handmaids Offred and Ofglen in Hulu's new limited series, The Handmaid's Tale.

Arts

Hulu's 'The Handmaid's Tale' Is Compelling — And Chilling

10:37am April 26, 2017

by Eric Deggans

The adaptation of Margaret Atwood's dystopian 1985 novel is a horror show revealed in slow motion — and the true horror of its brutal, patriarchal future theocracy is how possible it seems today.

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National

New TV Shows And Movies? They'll Stay In The Writer's Mind If There's A Strike

6:27pm April 25, 2017

by Ted Robbins

The last TV and movie strike a decade ago cost Hollywood hundreds of millions of dollars and left a hole in viewers' schedules.

Scenes from Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992.

5 Films Look At The Los Angeles Riots From (Almost) Every Angle

4:22pm April 25, 2017

by Eric Deggans

The documentaries attempt to complete the picture of what transpired in LA in 1992 after Rodney King was beaten by police, showing how the riots affected a wide swath of Angelenos.

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Briga Heelan plays Katie, a news producer whose mother barges in on her already chaotic workplace.

Arts

The Good And Goofy 'Great News' Comes To NBC

10:00am April 25, 2017

by Linda Holmes

A new NBC comedy has a lot of 30 Rock DNA, and it shows. While it's uneven at first, viewers who stick with it will get a satisfying blast of very silly jokes.

Host Jack Barry conducts questioning of contestants James Snodgrass (left) and Hank Bloomgarden (right) in supposed isolation booths during the program Twenty-One. Albert Freedman, producer of the show, died on April 11 at age 95.

National

Albert Freedman, Game Show Producer Made Famous In 'Quiz Show,' Dies At 95

6:42pm April 24, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

In the 1950s, the television producer captivated audiences with the hit game show Twenty-One. Freedman later admitted that he had given questions and answers to contestants in advance.

Mona Haydar (center), a Syrian- American artist from Flint, Mich., released her first rap song, "Hijab," along with an accompanying video.

Hijabi Artist Channels Beyoncé For Debut Of Her 'Resistance Music' And Video

7:29am April 24, 2017

by Noor Wazwaz

Mona Haydar calls her music "resistance music" because it celebrates diversity and calls for women to be "unapologetic about who they are."

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Erin Moran arrives at the Fox Reality Channel Really Awards in Los Angeles in 2008.

National

Actress Erin Moran, Joanie Of 'Happy Days,' Dies At 56

9:09am April 23, 2017

by Emma Bowman

The former child star who played Joanie Cunningham on the sitcoms Happy Days and its spinoff, Joanie Loves Chachi, has died, according to authorities in Indiana.