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Chloe Hurst dons a black veil to keep the bugs out of her eyes while planting flowers that would be at home in a Tim Burton film: black hero tulips, New York Night hellebores and black mamba petunias.She sees her garden as a reflection of herself. “I’m a Scorpio, so I’ve always been spooky,” said Ms. Hurst, a 29-year-old graphic designer. She said she began reconnecting with her earlier emo days through landscaping after purchasing her home in Ottawa, Canada, six years ago.Many of her plants are dark red or purple. Ms. Hurst also has a potted vegetable garden with the darkest varieties of eggplants, bell peppers and not-so-green beans.Between Billie Eilish’s jet-black locks to the success of “Wednesday” on Netflix and the forthcoming “Beetlejuice” sequel in September, all things gothic ar...

Logan Paul's spittin' on that thang in WWE ... reacting in a way inspired by the "Hawk Tuah" girl mid-bout -- and, it's got the internet in a frenzy. The YouTube star turned pro wrestler pulled up to "WWE SmackDown" Friday night in Madison Square Garden and faced off with LA Knight and Santos Escobar in a threeway battle ... and, after failing to pin Escobar, he pulled his head back and spat out the viral phrase. Check out the clip ... Logan clearly annunciates the words heard...

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Long, long ago, in the year 2011, a documentary called Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis was released by filmmaker Gregg Barson. Included in the work were interviews with comedy legends like Chevy Chase, Billy Crystal, Eddie Murphy, Jerry Seinfeld, and the late Richard Lewis. When Lewis earlier this year at the age of 76, it prompted Barson to revisit the original footage of Lewis’s interview. He soon discovered he had over an hour of footage, where Lewis discusses not only his relationship with Jerry Lewis (no, they are not related, but they do talk about the what if of that), but also the nature of comedy and his own process. Throughout the conversation, Lewis can’t help but break into his neurotic onstage persona, explaining his process of improvisation o...

Once upon a time, the collected works of music journalists, film critics and other cultural correspondents appeared with regularity on the literary landscape.We relied on their observations to make sense not only of the art we admired and the artists who created it but of the times we lived in and the places we felt at home.Now? Not so much. The way culture is celebrated, disseminated and reported on has changed, probably forever.So when a book like “Running With the Devil: Essays, Articles & Remembrances” by John Albert appears on the horizon, it feels as anachronistic as a sailing vessel flying the skull and bones.But John Albert was no ordinary writer.When he died suddenly from a heart attack last year at the age of 58, he left behind a body of work scattered across the pages of b...