Author name: Regina Frye

Matthew Specktor is aware that his third book about Los Angeles is landing during a fraught time. “The pleasure of making beautiful things and reveling in beautiful things and making art is a bizarre thing in America,” Specktor said during a video call in late March. “There’s a Calvinist streak in the American spirit and […]

Nearly 25 years ago, Brooklyn band TV on the Radio took over the airwaves and MTV with their haunting, near-operatic synth-rock. Tracks like “Staring at the Sun” and “Wolf Like Me” seduced listeners with melodic hooks upon hooks, and an urgent, insistent percussive drive. Leading man, Missouri-born, L.A.-based Tunde Adebimpe’s restless creative spirit never lost

Dana Perino, co-host of the popular Fox News panel show “The Five,” has never taken her success for granted. Throughout her career that started with stints as a local TV reporter and a staff assistant in Congress, she’s acknowledged the guidance she’s received from people along the way, including former President George W. Bush, who

French settlers called it Bad River; to the Native Americans who lived there first, it was always Mashkiiziibii: Medicine River. According to Mary Annette Pember in her powerful new book of that name, the Ojibwe (sometimes Anglicized as Chippewa) believed that everything needed for a good life could be found “in its coffee-colored waters and

For the past couple of years, I’ve been going through my dad’s collections. For context, my family moved to Santiago de Chile in ’92 from L.A. — I was born there. My dad did cartoon voices. He worked with Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, and he married a Chilean, my mom. My father passed away in 2006; me

Not all heroes wear capes. This one is an impeccably dressed lawyer who is often armed with a tumbler of whiskey. And the new “Suits” spin-off has called him back for duty. When NBC announced that it was capitalizing on the success of the glossy legal drama — which concluded its USA Network run nearly

This story is all about that big spoiler from “The Last of Us” Season 2 Episode 2. If you’ve yet to see the episode, consider reading this review or interview instead. (Taps mic.) Is this on? (Feedback screeches.) Yep, it’s on, can we turn it down actually? (Words are drowned out by general sobbing and