Live Coverage
Television
In Screen Gab no. 149, we catch up with ‘Challengers,’ now streaming on Prime Video, speak with the man behind Colin Farrell’s prosthetics in ‘The Penguin’ and more.
Sept. 20, 2024
INDUSTRIES
City of Hope has received a historic $150-million gift from entrepreneurs and philanthropists A. Emmet Stephenson Jr. and his daughter Tessa Stephenson Brand to immediately fund pancreatic cancer research.
Sept. 18, 2024
Food
Something about small restaurants occupies a particular place in a cityscape, especially in sprawling Los Angeles. Stir Crazy on Melrose feels like a respite from the world.
Sept. 19, 2024
California
A young couple targeted four cannabis dispensaries for robberies during a six-week-long spree, prosecutors say. Detectives titled the case file “Romeo and Juliet.”
Movies
Also this week: Leonard Maltin presents 1930s Universal rarities, ‘Rhythm Thief’ restored, Haile Gerima’s new documentary and a double-bill of Alain Delon’s beauty.
Hollywood Inc.
Ramos and Univision are parting ways after a mutual agreement not to renew the popular journalist’s contract.
Sept. 9, 2024
Entertainment & Arts
“Silents Synced,” a new series pairing classic films with alternative rock, launches with “Nosferatu X Radiohead” at American Cinematheque.
Business
Products with delta-8 THC, so-called “magic mushrooms,” and other legal but less-regulated compounds are easy for consumers to get their hands on.
Sept. 8, 2024
Captors allegedly threatened to harm the migrants unless family members paid a ransom, which in one case totaled $11,000.
Red Lobster is turning the page on its worst days as the struggling seafood restaurant chain prepares to emerge from bankruptcy.
Sept. 6, 2024