Just in time for Halloween, TIME turns the tables on the horror industry, asking those who scare us what frightens them the most
Music Monday: The Decemberists’ Long Live The King
Colin Meloy has a voice from another time. So it’s not surprising that he finds inspiration in topics that have a mythical, long ago feeling to them. The singer and primary songwriter of Portland, Ore.-based band The Decemberists …
Walking Dead Recap: Save the Last One
“I don’t know if I want to live…Or if it’s just a habit.”
In the third installment of season two, The Walking Dead took a dark turn, which isn’t easy for a show about the zombie apocalypse. As the group continues to …
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Boardwalk Empire Watch: I Confess
Let’s try something different this week. This recap will not be a recap. We’re at about the halfway point of Boardwalk Empire season 2, and at the end of the six episodes HBO sent me in advance. “The Age of Reason” advanced …
IQ84: A Murakami Novel Sans Murakami
Haruki Murakami may be the world’s most popular working literary author. And there is absolutely no logical reason for this.
He’s not an especially nimble writer, and you’d be hard-pressed to pick out a passage of his work …
Puss in Boots Creeps to Halloweekend (and Hallo-weakened) Win
The DreamWorks cat-toon shakes off some spooky hexes — World Series Game 7 and a freak snowstorm — to play tricks on Justin Timberlake and Johnny Depp
Beyond The Monster Mash: What To Play At Your Halloween Party
If you want to play Halloween-themed music at your party this weekend, you can either put “Monster Mash” on repeat or branch out into the world of psychobilly, 1950s horror songs and the Cramps.
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Dead Tree Alert: Shooting to Kill
In my print TIME column this week, I take a look at the much-photographed and -videotaped death of Muammar Gaddafi. (The column is behind TIME’s paywall, because TIME is a for-profit publication in the business of making people …
TIME Readers Sound Off on the All-TIME 100 Songs
Over the past five days, hundreds of readers have left comments on our All-TIME 100 Songs list about what we did right and (mostly) what we did wrong. Here’s what some of our Twitter followers had to say and their suggestions for songs that we should have included:
Steve Jobs and Joan Didion: The Untold Story
There isn’t actually an untold Jobs/Didion story. I just wanted you to read this.
Jobs did go out with Joan Baez though, when he was 27 and she was 41. In his new biography Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson tells an incredible story about them. Jobs (who was already massively wealthy) kept telling Baez (who wasn’t) about this amazing red dress
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Listen to the All-TIME 100 Songs in 180 Seconds
Early in the process of choosing the All-TIME 100 Songs—as we editors and writers wrangled over the choices in email chains that grew longer than the extended mix of “Nights in White Satin”—I thought it would be fun to create a single song out of all 100, a pop-tune mash-up spanning 88 years. The video you see above is the end result.
Antonio Banderas in Puss in Boots: One Cool Cat
What if a real hero had seen too many movies with fantasy heroes? That’s Puss in Boots, who’s compelled to buttress his courage, resourcefulness and expert swordsmanship with a swagger ill-suiting a tiny ginger cat in a giant …
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Charlie Sheen to Have Sitcom on FX, Possibly Until the End of Time
Hollywood is a forgiving town. Yes, you can behave badly, you can become a danger to yourself and others, you can burn bridges, and yet you can get a second chance, if you turn your life around, make amends and pay your debt to …