In “ The Ugly Stepsister ,” an impressively gruesome feature debut from Norwegian writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt (now in ...

Once upon a time—this time, in fact, and many of the ones that came before it—there was a story that never grew dull in its telling. It possibly leaped the porous cultural and national borders of ...

If what we need now is the kind of story that restores wonder to the world, Tara Isabella Burton's 'Here in Avalon' provides ...

We chat with authors who write for multiple audiences --- middle grade, YA, and adult --- about why creating in these ...

The kids of Altadena's Eliot Arts Magnet lost the theater where they were to perform their spring musical, "Shrek Jr." Thanks ...

An unusually varied spring season is in store for local theater devotees, who will be able to see a classic play, a ...

Fantasy has delivered some unbelievable episodes of television in recent years, which fans will want to forget to experience ...

Once upon a time, fairy tales weren’t the dreamy, happily-ever-after stories we know today. Before Disney sprinkled them with some pixie dust, fairy tales were dark, twisted and sometimes downright ...

Florence and Ed Clark who opened Clark’s in 1928 as a roadside attraction and originally featured Eskimo sled dogs, before purchasing their first black bear in 1931. Their sons, Edward and Murray, ...

In that most compelling of autobiographies Father and Son, Edmund Gosse tells of how works of fiction were not admitted into his parents’ stern Plymouth Brethren household: Never in all my early ...

A fantasy patched together from books (in my case ... when I moved to New York in the 1970s did not match that fairy tale. The neighborhood was blighted by prostitution, porn, and drugs; the ...