Start prepping your costumes and getting in the Halloween spirit, the Midsummer Scream horror and Halloween convention is back again July 26-28 in Long Beach to kick off the spooky season. Visitors can gather at the Long Beach Convention Center...
The black skull-studded fireplace casts a warm glow on a wall lined with haunted vintage dolls, serial killer memorabilia and signed movie props in the lounge of The Avenue Bar. Patrons can take a seat next to a rack of...
Enrique Munoz said that at age 7, he was having trouble reading and writing. Then he came across a “Spider-Man” comic book and something about the imagery with words helped. By the end of second grade, he was reading at...
Hailey and Jaycob Hunter’s love story began comically at a karaoke bar. But there was no “meet cute.” No singing a bad duet together for the two young actors. According to them, a mutual friend brought them together after a...
Can you imagine casually shopping at a thrift store, leisurely perusing the shelves, only to end up having to be the adult in the room to say, “Um, hey guys? This is an actual human skull.” To be fair, this...
Jon Braver’s immersive theater experience Delusion returns to LA this fall, inviting guests to uncover the identity of ‘The Author.’ In its ninth season, Delusion: Nocturnes and Nightmares goes a little meta, bringing back beloved characters from previous years while fans work...
Zombies claw at me on the hood of an old, beat-up Ford truck. They devour my flesh as I writhe around, sticky blood all over me. I take a deep breath and push out my diaphragm, so I can let...
July 4th holds another one of those funny, “observed” days that happen all the time but we don’t really know about. I’ve definitely never heard of this one: Invisible Day. What? According to generic searches its, “An encouragement to take...
I was cold, tired, and breathing thin air when I met actor Julian Sands. For a minute, I wondered if I was hypoxic, but I’ve got a witness. The memory of a day 15 years ago stuck in my head...
I was ten or eleven years old, bored out of my gourd on a weekend at home. Listlessly trying to find something to do. I flipped on the TV and aimlessly shuffled through the basic channels we had. My best...
