With a wrenching tribute to “all the beautiful souls” killed by COVID-19, the L.A. Phil performs a stirring free concert for frontline workers.
The companies are expected to announce their proposed joint venture as early as Monday, creating a new company that would reshape Hollywood.
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Hollywood Bowl
The Hollywood Bowl buzzed back to life Saturday with joy, optimism and a tinge of nervousness at a reopening concert celebrating frontline workers.
Vaccinated people will get 85% of the tickets for the Bowl’s 2021 season, which includes Christina Aguilera, Yo-Yo Ma and “Black Panther” live.
The Hollywood Bowl has announced its 2021 season lineup after an unprecedented 18 months dark due to the coronavirus pandemic. Here’s what’s on tap for summer fun seekers.
A landmark in hibernation, a surprise from the governor, tears and hugs: Behind the scenes of the whirlwind push to bring music back to the Bowl.
Tears of joy and plenty of masked smiles could be found at the Hollywood Bowl as it gave its first concert after 18 months of pandemic closures.
Timeline of a comeback: historic cancellation of an entire season, painful layoffs, transformation into a recording studio, a whirlwind race to reopen.
The Museum of Contemporary Art is restructuring. Who will be running the show? The L.A. museum with a penchant for drama lifts the curtain on a new act.
Casting a straight actor in landmark gay role isn’t a misstep. It’s a recognition of shared struggle.
What ticket buyer wants to spend unnecessary time in a crowded lobby or cramped restroom? Even more important: the broken spell of storytelling onstage.
L.A. Opera moves its outdoor “Oedipus Rex” into the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, making it the first major L.A. arts group to stage an indoor show.
In the COVID-19 era, my 12-year-old played more video games than ever. What kind of parent was I to allow this? But then I talked to experts.
The designer of Washington, D.C.'s Vietnam Veterans Memorial is shaping the way women learn at Smith College and with ‘Ghost Forest’ makes a climate change statement.
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Skirball Cultural Center reopens with Ai Weiwei portraits of political dissidents, and the L.A. Phil streams its return to the Hollywood Bowl.
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Throughout the crisis, NBCUniversal seemed out of step with industry activists. “We looked mealy-mouthed,” said one NBC insider.
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CBS’ former CEO Leslie Moonves said he would donate his entire settlement to charity after resolving the severance pay dispute. The amount was not disclosed.
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White presided over the merger of SAG with its former rival union, AFTRA.
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‘Spiral: From the Book of Saw’ stars Chris Rock and Max Minghella and director Darren Lynn Bousman explain the film’s twist ending.
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Andrew Garfield and Maya Hawke play characters swept up in the world of online influencer culture in Gia Coppola’s satirically abrasive ‘Mainstream.’
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A grieving boy finds a book of spells, unleashing the titular monster, in ‘The Djinn,’ written and directed by David Charbonier and Justin Powell.
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Made in secret, Mohammad Rasoulof’s Berlinale prize-winner ‘There Is No Evil’ illustrates costs of Iran’s history of capital punishment
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Finally back performing in front of a live crowd, dance-music star Zhu reflects on his year in lockdown and the violence against the AAPI community.
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Olivia Rodrigo’s edgy new single, ‘Good 4 U,’ is fueling excitement for her upcoming ‘Saturday Night Live’ performance and debut studio album.
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Hip-hop’s Mally Mall admitted to running an interstate prostitution business for 12 years. He was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison.
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After revealing he’s deaf in one ear and losing hearing in the other, R&B singer Tank says he will “document the process just to show you the fight.”
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Guests on Sunday Talk Shows, May 16: “Face the Nation”; “Meet the Press”; “This Week”; “Fox News Sunday”; “State of the Union”; “60 Minutes” and more
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What to watch Saturday, May 15: ‘Celebrating AAPI Heritage in Southern California’ on KNBC; ‘Saturday Night Live’ on NBC; ‘Race for the Vaccine’ on CNN
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Netflix is developing a spinoff of its hit period drama, ‘Bridgerton,’ centering on characters Queen Charlotte, Violet Bridgerton and Lady Danbury.
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What the talk show host said in Thursday’s exit interviews only prolonged the controversy around her, raising the question: What will she do next?
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Family Books is latest L.A. seller to fall victim to the pandemic
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Jim Shepard has earned a cult following for refashioning history’s horrors. “Phase Six,” about a future pandemic, is his timeliest novel yet.
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More than 60 years after his death, Richard Wright is again a bestselling author with ‘The Man Who Lived Underground.’
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The CNN anchor talks about “The Devil May Dance,” an L.A. thriller about Sinatra and RFK, the Church of Scientology and the underbelly of Hollywood.
