Editor Picks

Nineteen years removed from Theaudience, Bextor's catalog runs six solo albums deep with this year's 'Familia' as proof of her power. Bextor's grasp of pop music shows an awareness that the genre isn't solely beholden to four-on-the-floor ideas; this knowledge has led her to outfox predecessors and lap contemporaries. This overview acts as an introduction to one of the brightest voices in contemporary pop.

Miles' senior year is a train wreck in "Miles" at the NewFest film festival.

"The Walking Dead" is an excellent show, but blew it on these two deaths.

"I think a novelist has to feel a bond with all their primary characters, has almost to love them, in spite of or perhaps even because of their flaws. Unless you feel them deeply, they never truly come alive."

Ransom Stephens’ 'The Left Brain Speaks, The Right Brain Laughs' is a cleverly written, irreverent take on neuroscience. But it's also illuminating — and the science is real.

Google has been amping up its powers with its advertising platform, Google AdWords. Meanwhile most people have been going about their daily lives unaware that they’re quite literally being targeted throughout their day.

Along with the witch in flight and grinning and jack-o-lantern, the black cat in full arched-back fright mode is among THE iconic symbols of Halloween. Even to this day, who doesn’t feel a little charge when a black cat streaks across one’s path, especially on Halloween? Cats have been variously worshiped or reviled throughout human history, but they have almost always been seen as magical and otherworldly.

Hocus Pocus has unexpectedly but perhaps inevitably become the consensus family favorite of the season nationwide. When it was released, bizarrely, in JULY of 1993, it was not a smash, was reviewed lukewarmly, and went on to generate a moderate $39.5 million ($65 million in 2015 dollars) at the box office.

Since Bob Dylan seems uninterested, I wish to nominate myself to be the recipient of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature.

The TV TWD has to respect its viewership as much as Kirkman respects his comic readership, but right now it seems the TV fans are being treated with disdain.