Japanese YouTuber Uketsu is best known for wearing a white papier-mache mask and making very surreal content. Now, he’s a ...

Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter ... “Parable of the Sower,” by Octavia E. Butler: Speculative fiction set largely in a future (now present) Southern California ravaged by ...

Butler starred as Leonidas, King of Sparta in 300, which was directed and co-written by Zack Snyder. The movie is a shot-for-shot remake of the comic book by the same name, which was written and ...

Octavia Butler grew up in Pasadena with her widowed mother, who worked as a maid for wealthy white families. The book’s fictional ... for those with less: “[E]verything was getting worse ...

ALTADENA — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined ... replete with damaged structures. Butler’s prescience predates this year. In the book’s sequel, “Parable of the Talents ...

The inspiration behind Octavia’s Bookshelf stemmed from selling books that High felt Butler would have had in her own home. There was the wall of classics, featuring Black writers from Zora ...

"I'd never experienced an excitement like that," Gerard Butler says of landing his first acting job Before Gerard Butler turned to acting, he studied to become a lawyer. Butler, 55, recently sat ...

When Octavia Butler published 1993’s Parable of the Sower — a sci-fi novel about California burning in 2024, following a presidential election of a candidate whose slogan is “Make America ...

Butler's work has resurfaced for its depictions of the future seemingly coming to life. The grave of Octavia Butler ... Butler’s reading a warning. The book’s 1998 sequel, Parable of the ...