Humidity-loving houseplants need a little mist. Here’s how to give it to them

Misting is excellent for tropical plants that thrive in humid environments. (Stephanie DeAngelis) 1 The leaves of your Fittonia verschaffeltii are brown and brittle and aren’t growing back. What’s going on? “Some plants thrive in humidity,” explains Hank Jenkins of the Plant Provocateur in Silver Lake. “If you don’t give them moisture, their leaves will … Read more

Column: Black spatulas and mystery drones: Your guide to the unfounded panics of the season

This black plastic spatula won’t kill you. (Getty Images) The “silly season” of news coverage used to refer to the dog days of summer, when there was so little of importance happening that newspapers and cable channels filled the vacuum with fluff. Not this year. Starting in October and gaining intensity through the season, Americans … Read more

Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley alleges sexual abuse by former manager in new memoir ‘Walking Disaster’

Deryck Whibley (Travis Shinn) Deryck Whibley is ready to tell you everything. When the Sum 41 frontman first sat down to write what would become his unflinching memoir, “Walking Disaster: My Life Through Heaven and Hell,” he genuinely didn’t think his life merited an autobiography. At least not compared to volumes he’d read by his … Read more

Review: Giddy, imaginative ‘Better Man’ is the next evolution of the music biopic

Jonno Davies in the movie “Better Man.” (Paramount Pictures) The pop star Robbie Williams is leagues more famous in his homeland of England than here in the States, American tastemakers having capriciously chosen to ignore his chart-topping ’90s boy band Take That and megawatt solo career. Go see his biopic anyway. All you need to … Read more

The 2024 Directors Roundtable: Doubts, sure. Compromise? Never

The 2024 Directors Roundtable: Doubts, sure. Compromise? Never About 10 years ago, Malcolm Washington was working as an assistant, pulling cable as part of the camera team on a commercial being directed by James Mangold. Now Washington has completed his debut feature as a director, an adaptation of August Wilson’s play “The Piano Lesson,” starring … Read more

Colleen Atwood created a closet fit for the living and dead in ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’

Colleen Atwood created a closet fit for the living and dead in ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Death is everywhere in Tim Burton’s long-awaited “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.” Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) doesn’t need an invitation to wear all black, but a funeral brings her back to the original Ghost House, now with a sullen teen of her own, Astrid … Read more

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