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The Witch), or some combination of the three. In this way, pop culture is catching up with the beliefs of actual satanists, the majority of whom don’t believe in Satan as a literal entity to be feared or worshipped. Not so The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, a movie that’s as deathly serious as The Louvin Brothers when they sang “Satan Is Real” in 1960. Although the possession subgenre is inherently Christian—if demons are real, then therefore so is God— The Conjuring’s literal-minded approach has always made it especially so. As A.A. Dowd wrote in his review of the latest...

Legislature OKs Juneteenth state holiday starting in 2022 June 02 2021 Senator says 'sense of hope keeps the community going' as he shows family photos that tell Black history. Gov. Kate Brown is the final stop for a bill making it a state holiday for a proclamation to the end of slavery in the United States. The Oregon House repassed House Bill 2168 by a 58-0 vote on Wednesday, June 2, the day after the Senate passed the amended version. It will become Oregon's 10th official state holiday, although not until 2022. Most states have given June 19 official recognition, but only fo...

Photo: SANDER KONING/ANP/AFP via Getty Images America will finally be getting its own (presumably) blander imitation of the Eurovision Song Contest on NBC this summer—finally giving states like Ohio and Iowa a chance to potentially achieve relevance outside of an election year—but the real thing already went down across the ocean this weekend (as seen on Peacock, if you have Peacock). Though “Jaja Ding Dong” was unfairly snubbed, the actual winner of this year’s Song Contest was Italian metal band Måneskin and its song “Zitti E Buoni” (“Shut Up And Behave”), which earned 5...

Share March 09, 2021, 11:01 PM David Weiss is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist who grew up in Oak Park. He has written for Newsweek, the  LA Herald Examiner and Men's Journal and co- founded the band Was (Not Was). By David Weiss Donald Trump, back when This is a painful admission: I miss the bastard. Life is poorer without him, far less amusing or infuriating. Gone is the name-calling, the vitriol, the implied or overt racism, the dog-whistles, the bluster, the malapropisms, the pettiness and petulance. It’s like growing up in the sixties and finding out that Sou...

MORE The legendary Tom Schnabel returns to MBE for a special guest birthday set with new hosts Novena Carmel and Anthony Valadez. Photo by KCRW Tom Schnabel is considered a legend on these mean streets of Los Angeles. He's a music consultant, a historian and educator, and a curator for multiple music releases and compilations. He's been part of KCRW since 1977, and he served as the station's Music Director from 1979 to 1990. Novena and I recently caught up with Schnabel just a few days before we started our tenure as Morning Becomes Eclectic hosts. AN...