Irony is one of those things you kind of know when you see or hear it on screen, but it's much harder to define and put into layman's terms.

Using picture books as mentor texts is the perfect way to teach verbal, dramatic, and situational irony to middle school students.

When the Walt Disney Company bought Lucasfilm in 2012, a new hope resurged to relive that breathtaking, magical sensation felt by audiences worldwide when their force first awakened in 1977.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The Dec. 20 Chronicle included two articles upon opening the front section of the paper. One ...

Alanis Morissette was about as big as any artist has ever been in the ’90s. Her cutting lyricism earned her many ears, thanks to the era’s affinity for punchy realism. She released one of her ...

The dramatic moment Rob Reiner’s son Nick was arrested Sunday for allegedly killing his parents was captured in footage that has been shared by authorities. The LAPD Gang and Narcotics Unit on Monday ...

The Trump administration’s seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela is one of the most dramatic twists yet in a military pressure campaign against Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. The ...

Our brain function is far from static throughout our lives. We already know that our capacity to learn, and our risk of cognitive decline, varies from when we are a newborn through to our 90s. Now, ...

Ivan Drago could return, Dolph Lundgren tells Variety, ahead of the screening of Andrew Holmes’ documentary about the action star, “Dolph: Unbreakable,” on Saturday at the Torino Film Festival, which ...

This body transformation is totally insane—check out the before and after. Dash cam video shows UPS plane with missing engine before crash ‘None of This Is Good For Republicans’ 7 lions to be ...

Danny Masterson’s estranged wife, Bijou Phillips, filed to remove the actor’s surname from their 11-year-old daughter’s name. The model, who filed for divorce from the actor in September 2023 after he ...