Not all Hollywood monsters are dreamed up for the big screen. Many of the gangsters and crooked cops on Mob City—TV god Frank Darabont’s new series debuting December 4 on the TNT network—were flesh-and-blood bad guys in 1940s Los Angeles, including notable nogoodniks Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky ... More

Click on the gallery to view the shoot. Lupita Nyong'o wants to change the subject. The 30-year-old actress, who landed her starring role in 12 Years a Slave before she even graduated the Yale School of Drama, has let it slip she keeps a journal, but as far as the ... More

"People always say to me, ‘Why don't you get along with critics?'" Lou Reed told me one night last year. "I tell them, ‘I get along fine with Anthony DeCurtis.' Shuts them right up." We were sitting in the dining room in the Kelly Writers House at the University of ... More

Michel Gondry is no stranger to the offbeat. From the sweet sci-fi of his Oscar-winning 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to the quirk of his (sometimes banned in America) commercials and his self-released cartoons, the French-born, Brooklyn-based director isn’t one to shy away from an unconventional idea. ... More

You may know recognize her as Quantum of Solace's Bond girl, the recently rumored new Wonder Woman or the beauty alongside Vincent Cassel in upcoming thriller Momentum, but most recently Olga Kurylenko can be found starring as Alexandra, a sultry world traveler and fashion designer, in Waldorf ... More

An army of teenagers already know 24-year-old actor Keegan Allen as Toby Cavanaugh from the ABC Family thriller Pretty Little Liars, but beginning November 18 the California native will be facing an entirely new audience. That's when MCC Thetater's Small Engine Repair opens in New York, giving Allen ... More

The Glass Menagerie might be burning up Broadway with critically lauded performances from Cherry Jones and Zachary Quinto, but further downtown a far less well-known Tennessee Williams work, The Mutilated, is receiving a similarly magnificent revival. The Mutilated charts a 1940s Christmas Eve in a down-and-out corner of New Orleans, where ... More

Don't be alarmed when you hear an unexpected sound echoing through the canyons of Manhattan in the coming days—it's probably just laughter. On November 6, the 10th annual New York Comedy Festival kicks off four days of live performances, presentations, panels and music from some of the biggest ... More

Pick-up artists, improv, Twitter and cave trout: There's nearly no topic that The Point magazine won't take on in its scholarly, sharp and incredibly accessible pages. Founders and PhD candidates at the University of Chicago, Jon Baskin, Etay Zwick and Jonny Thakkar released the first issue of the ... More

Hugh Jackman is known for being many things—singer, Broadway star, action movie hero—but coffee purveyor? It's true. Since 2010, Jackman, via his Laughing Man label, has been producing organic and fair-trade coffee, tea and hot chocolate. During a trip to Ethiopia, Jackman came to believe that unique products ... More