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ABC's 'American Crime,' USA's 'Dig' up the ante on Thursdays
Even by the high standards of this age of exploration and discovery, Thursday night is a pretty big night for television. Two shows are poised to debut that are not only admirably ambitious but also move their respective networks several giant steps out of their comfort zones and into space previously reserved for prestige cable. John Ridley, who won an Oscar for the screenplay of "12 Years a Slave," brings his highly anticipated "American Crime" to ABC, while "Homeland's" Gideon Raff has teamed with Tim Kring ("Heroes") to create "Dig" for USA. Though tonally divergent — "American Crime" is a gritty and politically...
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ABC's 'American Crime,' USA's 'Dig' up the ante on Thursdays
Even by the high standards of this age of exploration and discovery, Thursday night is a pretty big night for television.
Two shows are poised to debut that are not only admirably ambitious but also move their respective networks several giant steps...
ABT's 'Sleeping Beauty' at Segerstrom a lush return to tradition
For most of its storied history, New York's American Ballet Theatre has tried to master all styles of all types of classical dance, an elusive goal that some critics have called impossible.
While European companies have moved on to radical rewrites of...
Door may open for Brian Williams if former NBC News exec Andrew Lack returns
Embattled NBC News anchor Brian Williams has a potential lifeline in Andrew Lack's expected return to NBC News.
Lack is in advanced negotiations to take the top news post at the network, where he worked from 1993 to 2001, according to NBC executives...
Paula Goldman's menagerie of Hagen-Renaker collectibles
The animal figurines made by Hagen-Renaker Inc. are delicate, shiny, hand-painted collectibles — not what you would think of as the subject of a photo series.
But photographer Paula Goldman looked at them and saw possibilities. She reached out to the...
Rapper Big Freedia's career bounces in various directions
In the opening lines of the video for his 2014 single “Explode,” rapper Big Freedia outlines the precarious position he holds in the hip-hop industry.
“People get confused by if I am ‘he’ or ‘she’ … I am me. I am the ambassador representin’ for ‘New...
Will Smith, a box-office enigma in the era of ensemble blockbusters
Will Smith is clearly not someone who is accustomed to failure. He had a hit hip-hop song on the radio when he was still in high school and has been wildly successful ever since.
From the outset of his career, Smith's trademark as a star has been his...
KABC-TV retains lead for 6 p.m., 11 p.m. newscasts in L.A. market
KABC-TV Channel 7 has long generated the highest ratings for evening newscasts in Los Angeles, but KCBS-TV Channel 2 is gaining ground.
In the TV station business, it can take years for a station to surpass a competitor — unless there is a major shake-up...
AMC plotting a 'Mad Men' send-off to remember
It should come as no surprise that "Mad Men," a drama about a 1960s advertising firm, has designed what it hopes to be an unforgettable send-off campaign.
The pioneering AMC drama will launch its seventh and final season on April 5 —...
Hammer's 'Gridwork' plots Charles Gaines' captivating process
Charles Gaines' drawings from the 1970s and 1980s are not for the faint of heart.
Encountering all those big sheets of graph paper filled in with row upon row of tiny little numbers and Latin alphabet letters has the immediate appeal of undergoing an IRS...
Wayne Federman's film fest lets comedians run the show
Wayne Federman is a comic, actor and writer who has performed on "The Tonight Show" and appeared in such films and TV series as "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," "The Larry Sanders Show" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
And...
This crowd gets emotional: It's emo night Taking Back Tuesday
On a Tuesday night in February, the line to get into the Echoplex stretched all the way down Glendale Boulevard. Hundreds of mid-20s to early-30-somethings waited with huge grins on their faces, ready to hear the music that changed their young lives. Once...
Young Cuban artists testing the boundaries of dissent
With fake-diamond studs lining his lips and ears, and a tattoo carved under his dreadlocks, Omar Sayut is hard to miss.
His version of Cuban hip-hop is what you might call hard to miss too.
"Down with Raul! Down with Raul!" he chants in a...
L.A. Phil's Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla lights a fire at Disney Hall
There is no such thing as a fluke Hollywood Bowl triumph. Given the combination of severely limited rehearsal time, amplification and summer orchestral doldrums, so much can go wrong that an outstanding conductor can easily make a poor first...
Google's new headquarters design takes transparency to new levels
As an architect, what do you give the company that has everything? More to the point, what do you design for the company that is everywhere, that has become digitally ubiquitous?
If you're Thomas Heatherwick and Bjarke Ingels, the rising-star...
Opera is here to stay, says 'Dead Man Walking' composer Jake Heggie
Don't tell Jake Heggie that opera is a dying art form.
The composer of the opera "Dead Man Walking" thinks it's alive and kicking — he even uses an unprintable term to describe a recent batch of articles declaring that "Opera is...
'Mockingjay Part 1' sets up 'Hunger Games' finale nicely
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Lionsgate, $29.95; Blu-ray, $39.99
Available on VOD------------FOR THE RECORD: "The Hunger Games": In the New Releases column of the March 1 Calendar section, a review of the home theater release of the...
'Provocations' pays tribute to designer Thomas Heatherwick
"We've become experts in not being experts," Thomas Heatherwick said during a tour of "Provocations," a Hammer Museum survey of the work his London design firm has produced over the last two decades.
He was referring to the ability,...
'Alice in Wonderland' at Disney Hall proves exhilarating
Alice wants her wonderland.
Lewis Carroll's iconic creation is such a natural for music you might have expected a surfeit of Alice operas in the 150 years since the publication of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." Yet none were notable enough...
Leonard Nimoy made Spock 'Star Trek's' most complicated, and modern, hero
It is important, and sometimes difficult, to remember that Leonard Nimoy, who died Friday at the age of 83, was an actor, not an alien.
As Mr. Spock, the elf-eared, half-Vulcan science officer and first mate of the Starship Enterprise, he created a...
'McFarland, USA' film revives long-buried memory for runner
I knew a movie involving one of the biggest disappointments in my youth might be made someday. Still, my heart began to sink when a screening of "McFarland, USA" rolled around to its climax.
At a cross-country race almost 30 years ago, the...
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