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Carice van Houten of 'Game of Thrones': Melisandre is decidedly team Jon Snow

Carice van Houten knows that her “Game of Thrones” character Melisandre can be scary. She claims to serve a god known as the Lord of Light, but she’s done an awful lot of dark things in his name. Among them: killing Renly Baratheon (Gethin Anthony) with “blood magic,” abandoning Stannis Baratheon...

Nazarian family donates $17 million to CSUN's Valley Performing Arts Center

In the 1940s, many years before he fled the Iranian Revolution and became a rich man in America, Younes Nazarian was a boy from the Jewish ghetto selling and replacing light bulbs in the alleys and bazaars of Tehran. He was slight and swift, climbing ladders and making change in a world at war....

The pitfalls and joys of taking a stand with music and with youngsters

From Friday through Sunday, the Los Angeles Philharmonic hosted its fifth cleverly named Take a Stand symposium, a gathering of more than 300 educators around the country who are involved with music training programs, such as YOLA (Youth Orchestra L.A.) and patterned after Venezuela’s El Sistema....

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'Los Punks' documentary goes behind the scenes of L.A.'s underground punk rock scene

For decades a low-budget, high-energy punk rock scene has been burning through the backyards and empty lots of East Los Angeles, Boyle Heights and South Central Los Angeles. If the new documentary "Los Punks: We Are All We Have" is any indication, the neighbors aren't too happy about it.  But the...

Justin Bieber carried up China's Great Wall ... because he can

Hear ye, Hear ye! Make way for Justin Bieber, his royal majesty! Ugh. Commence eye-rolling. The 19-year-old pop singer is doing himself no redemptive favors with his slew of bratty behavior during his embattled Believe tour. His latest antic comes via a series of Twitter photos posted Monday on...

Jay Z, Live Nation re-up on long-term touring deal

Jay Z and Live Nation will continue their long-standing partnership, with the superstar signing a new 10-year deal touring deal, the two announced Thursday. The agreement, reportedly worth $200 million, will see Live Nation continue to produce and promote the mogul’s live events. In 2008, the two...

Why Post Malone has been called 'the Donald Trump of hip-hop'

Post Malone has heard all the criticisms. He’s a white “culture vulture,” as he put it, cynically appropriating African American culture. He’s received more attention than his meager talent deserves. He’s a rich kid whose parents essentially paid his way into music. “There’s a thing that says they...

‘Sondheim on Sondheim’: A Broadway baby in symphonic clothes

“Sondheim on Sondheim” is, no surprise, all about Stephen Sondheim. But a new “symphonic version” given its premiere by the Los Angeles Philharmonic on Sunday night at the Hollywood Bowl proved ever so less Sondheim-centric than the original 2010 Broadway revue. For one thing, Sondheim is here...

'A Ghost Story' movie review by Justin Chang

Justin Chang reviews "A Ghost Story," directed by David Lowery and starring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara. Video by Jason H. Neubert.