Crunching popcorn and screaming, Indonesians are flocking to watch homegrown horror films in cinemas that draw on the country’s penchant for ghost and monster stories. The genre now dominates Indonesia’s theaters after this folklore helped the industry rise from the grave at the start of the century, when almost no horror films were produced locally,…
The Japanese government has begun a survey into public health insurance usage by foreign residents, amid concerns voiced by some lawmakers that people may come from overseas to… © Japan Today
Actor Manuel Masalva, known for his work in Netflix’s “Narcos: Mexico,” is hospitalized in a medically induced coma in Dubai after contracting a highly infectious bacteria while vacationing. Manager Jaime Jaramillo Espinosa confirmed to the Los Angeles Times that the 43-year-old had been in the Philippines but arrived in the United Arab Emirates city on March 18 when he began having “internal discomfort and pain” that worsened. Masalva…
Tracey Ingleston has thought about his brother every day for the last 55 years. On March 29, 1970, U.S. Army Sgt. Staret “Star” John Ingleston was killed in the Vietnam War. The 20-year-old was one of 14 American lives lost in an attack by North Vietnamese forces that morning at Firebase Jay in the southwest part of the country. Speaking with…
Michael Hurley, the eccentric singer and songwriter who pioneered the “freak-folk” movement and inspired generations of artists, has died. He was 83. “It is with a resounding sadness that the Hurley family announces the recent sudden passing of the inimitable Michael Hurley,” Hurley’s family said in a statement to Rolling Stone. “The ‘Godfather of freak folk’…
Witnesses reported exploding vehicles, gunshots and a suspect fleeing from a Las Vegas Tesla service center to a nearby getaway car, according to a series of recently released 911 calls. “There is a person that’s setting off cars, exploding them. It’s literally in flames, and I think he might be armed, because he’s firing shots,” one of…
A rain-swollen stream left about 50 hikers stranded overnight at a Kauai waterfall, Hawaii rescuers reported. The hikers called for help from the Kalalau Trail at about 11:55 a.m. Thursday, April 3, the Kaua‘i Fire Department said in a news release. “When they got up to the waterfall, they turned around and this one guy…
When David Siegel bought the then-LVH hotel-casino in 2014, he was advised it would be wise to shut down the hotel for extensive upgrades. Siegel authorized the work. But he wasn’t locking the doors as the hotel turned over to the Westgate. “That would have put 2,000 people out of work, and we thought we’ll…
A convicted rapist has been rearrested in Ventura on suspicion of spray-painting swastikas throughout the city and then documenting the hate crimes on social media in an effort to sow fear, authorities said. John Williams, 30, was arrested Sunday and booked at the Ventura County Jail on suspicion of vandalism, a hate crime and a…
Police arrested a man who stabbed a 57-year-old woman in the face early Friday morning at the World Trade Center Memorial, cops said. Just before 2 a.m. Amir Thompson walked up to the victim near Liberty St. and Greenwich St. in lower Manhattan and reportedly said, “I know you from somewhere,” before punching her and then stabbing her…
