The last great movie I saw was Friendship. Profoundly awkward person (Tim Robinson) is absorbed at dizzying speed into ...

Such was the case on the afternoon and evening of the now-annual Cruel World music festival on the fairways of Brookside Golf Course over the weekend. Since I live on the edge of the Arroyo Seco ...

The very first Cruel World festival at Brookside at the Rose Bowl was held over two sweltering 90+ degree days in 2022, daring denizens of gloomy music and ghoulish dress-up to brave the ...

Cruel World 2025 was one for the books. Taking place last Saturday, May 17, Brookside at the Rose Bowl, fans of all ages didn’t let the damp skies stop them from rocking out to legends and ...

Julie Anne McIlwaine knifed James Crossley 10 times in what a judge described as a "brutal and savage" killing in her bedroom in Dunmurry, Belfast on the evening of March 2, 2022. At the time of ...

If you’re wondering why so many goths were wandering around Pasadena this weekend, look no further than Cruel World. The Goldenvoice celebration of all things postpunk, new wave and alternative ...

It’s a good thing Pasadena’s Cruel World festival sells black parasols — normally they’re used to keep the sun off ghost-faced goths. At Saturday’s show at Brookside at the Rose Bowl ...

Cruel World Glories in the Gloom With Damp but Historic Sets From Til Tuesday, the Go-Go’s, Nick Cave and More Pat Saperstein and Chris Willman May 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM ...

As New Order and Nick Cave, Garbage and the Go-Go’s, and more bands with roots in the punk, new wave, and goth scenes of the ’80s thrilled fans at Cruel World Festival on Saturday, May 17 ...

“This is the song that made us recognizable in airports across America,” Aimee Mann told the crowd at Saturday’s Cruel World Festival in Pasadena, introing her ’80s group ‘Till Tuesday ...