L.A. Influential
In Los Angeles’ labyrinthian networks of Bloods and Crips gangs, with shifting alliances and feuds, Skipp Townsend is a mediator with credibility on both sides.
June 9, 2024
Television
Executive producers of the new FX series say it’s not only the story of a notorious football player but also a ‘mirror back to us as a country.’
Sept. 17, 2024
Books
Pedro Almodóvar’s first book consists of a mix of short stories and personal essays that amount to ‘a fragmentary autobiography.’
Sept. 16, 2024
‘Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter’ explores what went wrong under the entrepreneur’s ownership of the social media platform.
Sept. 13, 2024
Entertainment & Arts
The comedian and writer for “The Daily Show” spent the last 12 months putting up a barrage of specials on YouTube to push himself to a new phase of his career. His next gigs are this weekend at the Ontario Improv.
Music
So many hits, so little time. The art of writing out which songs to play is a time-honored process for bands everywhere, but when you have more than a few hits, it gets tricky. We asked a few rock stars about the tricks they use to make the fans, and themselves, happy.
Sept. 10, 2024
Movies
An uninhibited Heather Graham and horror regular Barbara Crampton go toe-to-toe in an asylum-set body-swap thriller indebted to the stylish mania of an earlier decade.
Oct. 27, 2023
Hollywood Inc.
Fox News is back — alongside Univision — as the GOP contenders for the 2024 nomination meet at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Wednesday.
Sept. 26, 2023
California
They believe they’ve found a succulent solution to climate change and drought.
Adam Nimoy, son of Leonard, has published a memoir that centers on the distance he felt from his father and the quest for reconciliation. We talk with Adam ahead of a double screening and talkback in Los Angeles this weekend.
Aug. 28, 2024