An assistant professor in residence at UNLV who specializes in queer fandom, Abad knows how powerful it can be for today’s LGBT youth to see themselves represented not just on TV, but in some of the most popular characters around: superheroes.
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Considering how long it takes George R.R. Martin to finish a book — he’s been toiling on “The Winds of Winter,” the sixthnovel in the series that served as the basis for “Game of Thrones,” since at least 2010 — it’s kind of amazing that he hasany other completed works to inspire TV shows.
Every year, Hallmark Channel and Lifetime overwhelm viewers with something like a bajillion-and-seven original Christmas movies.
Thirteen months after the world read and heard her about her traumatic relationship with John Meehan through the Los Angeles Times’ stories and podcasts, Henderson resident Debra Newell attended the Hollywood premiere of “Dirty John,” the Bravo series they inspired.
Debra Newell is polite, but she doesn’t take the time to tell them her story.
Go searching for Christmas specials on your own, and you could disappear down a Yuletide rabbit hole and not emerge until it’s time to celebrate “Rudolph’s Shiny New Year.”
As Andy Williams sang, it really is the most wonderful time of the year — at least at the movies. There really is a little something for everyone.
The disrupter has become the disrupted.
As anyone who’s ever so much as glanced at election returns can tell you, the people’s choice can not only be messy, it can be downright embarrassing.
It’s the year’s most-watched new series in England aside from the thriller “Bodyguard,” but it won’t be joining that pop-culture sensation on Netflix.
Kris Manzano certainly never would have chosen the current political climate.
Around 10:30 p.m. June 22, rapper Post Malone stopped by Zak Bagans’ Haunted Museum in downtown Las Vegas after his concert at the Park Theater.
Zak Bagans is posing for photos in front of the Dybbuk Box, the wine cabinet with a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted objects, when he starts to feel uncomfortable in its presence.
What began as an attempt to pen the unofficial 11th season of “Friends” morphed into the theatrical equivalent of Rachel’s Thanksgiving trifle
“We’re so psyched to come to Vegas,” says Andy Cohen, who, along with his longtime friend Anderson Cooper, will bring “AC2: Deep Talk and Shallow Tales” to the Colosseum at Caesars Palace on Friday. “We can’t believe we’re playing that stage.”