Author name: Carolina Myer

Fictionally speaking, of all criminal pursuits, thievery is the most romantic because it requires a significant degree of cleverness, of subtlety and skill and, by practical necessity, isn’t violent. Thieves do their work without being noticed. It’s not just a case of “nobody gets hurt”; nobody has to be told that nobody gets hurt because […]

Inside Santa Ana’s Yost Theater last Saturday night, the thick bass of gritty reggaeton beats turned the crowd into one sweaty, shimmering mass of limbs. Twerking at the center of the action was Yeri Mua: a fiery, red-haired Mexican woman holding court in a sparkling, skin-tight dress. After becoming the No. 1 global artist on

“Survivor” alum Brandon K. Hantz is facing racketeering and arson charges after being named in a federal indictment connected to a violent, transnational motorcycle gang in southern Texas. The former reality star was indicted in Houston along with 13 other current and former members of the Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang and Mascareros Motorcycle Club, the

Three-time Emmy winner Alec Baldwin and his wife Hilaria have joined the esteemed ranks of the Duggars, the Gosselins and Honey Boo Boo with a TLC reality show documenting their domestic routine. “The Baldwins,” arriving Sunday on TLC, follows 66-year-old Alec, 41-year-old Hilaria, their seven children and a menagerie of pets in the weeks leading

“Zero Day,” premiering Thursday on Netflix, is the vehicle that Robert De Niro, whose picture appears next to “actor” in the dictionary of our mind, has chosen to drive, for the first time in his six-decade career, onto television. (Not counting “Saturday Night Live” cameos.) Let’s make him welcome. De Niro plays former U.S. President

It’s the end of an era for the man who likes his cocktails shaken, not stirred. Amazon MGM Studios and the longtime producers of the James Bond film franchise — Barbara Broccoli and her half-brother Michael G. Wilson — on Thursday said they made a deal that will give the tech giant creative control of

About midway through Christine Murphy’s debut novel, “Notes on Surviving the Fire,” her protagonist, Sarah Common, tells a guy she’s dating that rape-revenge movies don’t work. “Action movies are man movies,” she says. “Rape isn’t something men understand.” When the guy asks her to explain more, she gives a little speech that deserves to be

This year’s edition of the Slamdance Film Festival launches Thursday night, taking place for the first time in Los Angeles. The festival has long had its offices here, but the event itself had taken place in Park City, Utah, concurrent with the Sundance Film Festival. “On one hand, it’s business as usual with the discovery

By the time “Emilia Pérez” had garnered 13 Oscar nominations, including for best picture, Netflix’s Spanish-language musical about a transgender drug lord had already been mired in controversy. Critics skewered the film’s portrayal of trans issues and Mexican culture. Then Karla Sofía Gascón’s old social media posts resurfaced in which the first out trans performer