Editor's note: Home Grown is an occasional series highlighting the extraordinary successes of the area's native sons and daughters. If you have suggestions, pass them on to Stephanie Mathieu at ...

A guy who did a bunch of stuff. Steve De Jarnatt is an American film and television director, screenwriter, and short story author. He is best known for writing and directing the 1988 nuclear ...

When Steve De Jarnatt’s 1988 apocalyptic suspense film opened in Los Angeles the following year, it seemed like a maddeningly frustrating combination of intelligent, stylish filmmaking and incoherent ...

“Miracle Mile” takes place in a city in the throes of chaos as Angelenos flee the threat of a nuclear strike. The film was released in 1988, but it has resurfaced in the last few years, attracting ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

When Miracle Mile, a nuclear panic thriller with a dollop of meet-cute rom-com, opened in theaters in May of 1989, the Berlin Wall was just a few months away from falling. With the Cold War seemingly ...

Rhapsodomancy Reading Series: Authors Diane Lefer (“ California Transit”), poet Robin Ekiss (“The Mansion of Happiness”), author/screenwriter Steve De Jarnatt (“Miracle Mile”) and poet Candace Pearson ...

Howdy. Senior Writer Jason Heller here. The A.V. Club’s Science Friction film series—curated and hosted by yours truly, as well as Denver Comic Con cofounder Frank Romero—continues tonight at 7:30 at ...