“The voice of Ozzy Osbourne was unlike anything before it. It changed rock’n’roll, opened up the metal genre, and became the innate sound of alienation, darkness, and high gothic drama. John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats reflects on the loss of the singular frontman.”
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Life on Screen: A Reality Television Reading List
Reality TV: Guilty pleasure or public service?
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Can a Church Exist Exclusively on the Internet?
“Inside the emerging virtual-preaching economy in internet-obsessed Kenya.”
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‘All These Normal People, Packed Into a Human Lasagne’: My Glamour-Free Night at the Oscars
“While the cameras lingered on the stars in Los Angeles, thousands of non-celebrities were whooping it up in the Dolby theatre’s cheap seats. I was one of them.”
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How a Script Doctor Found His Own Voice
“For decades, Scott Frank earned up to three hundred thousand dollars a week rewriting other people’s screenplays. Finally, he decided to stop playing ventriloquist.”
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The Weather Man
“‘After all these years,’ he says, ‘I’m still a weather geek.'”
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Tripping on LSD at the Dolphin Research Lab
How a 1960s interspecies-communication experiment went haywire.
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Let’s Make a Christmas TV Movie! (…Or Not?)
“As two EW veterans who’ve consumed more yuletide movies than is medically advised (and one of us is Jewish!), we set out to create the ideal Christmas flick while learning all the ingredients that make for the perfect holiday dish.”
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The Weird and Wonderful Life of L.A.’s Most Bizarre Celebrity Photographer
“He had the golden era of Hollywood in those shoe boxes.”
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I Went Undercover as a Secret OnlyFans Chatter. It Wasn’t Pretty
“Your online influencer girlfriend is actually a rotating cast of low-wage workers. I became one of them.”
