In a leaked audio clip, actor Tom Cruise is heard berating the crew on the set of the next ‘Mission: Impossible’ film over COVID-19 safety precautions.
In an insulting Wall Street Journal essay, Joseph Epstein criticizes Jill Biden’s use of the title “Doctor.” Now he and the paper are wondering why people are angry.
As Hollywood’s two biggest talent agencies remain at odds with the Writers Guild of America, some agents are leaving to start their own management firms.
Who the heck is Clayton Johnson? And what happened to the cop beau? We dug up some tidbits about musician Lana Del Rey’s new fiancé.
Top Ten for 2020
Movie theaters closed. Broadway went dark. Concert venues fell silent.
From homegrown jazz to furious punk to raw hip-hop recorded from prison, these 10 albums highlight L.A.'s creative spirit in a hard-scrabble year for musicians.
Los Angeles Times film critic Justin Chang’s best movies of 2020 include ‘Nomadland,’ ‘First Cow’ and ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things.’
In a noisy 2020, it was too easy to overlook these 10 literary gems, from Miranda Popkey’s “Topics of Conversation” to Mieko Kawakami’s “Breasts and Eggs.”
Los Angeles Times television critic Robert Lloyd chooses the best TV shows of 2020.
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Los Angeles Times television critic Lorraine Ali chooses the best TV shows of 2020.
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The 2021 Grammy nominations, in 83 categories
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In 2020, Megan Thee Stallion clocked two smash hits, advocated for Black women on ‘SNL’ and got four Grammy nods. She also survived a shooting and its aftermath.
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They were the Grammy nominee few knew last year, but the Texas-based soul-funk duo Black Pumas could clean up at 2021’s ceremony with its three nominations.
At 83, the L.A. artist has hunkered down with two assistants and his dog in northern France. The goal: making more art, of course.
Nathan Apodaca, the Idaho man who went viral for his Fleetwood Mac-inspired TikTok video, has COVID-19. His rep says he’s home “resting and getting better.”
“The Talk” co-hosts Sharon Osbourne and Carrie Ann Inaba are both laid up with COVID-19. Osbourne, 68, is recovering away from husband Ozzy Osbourne.
2020 decimated our cultural and entertainment institutions. Artists have readjusted their ways of working. Many wonder if they can continue their craft even after the pandemic. Yet we’ve also seen resilience and creativity.
Across the city on Thanksgiving weekend, indie bookstores greeted lines of customers, kicking off a holiday season of high promise and existential concern.
Illusionist and performer Helder Guimarães follows up his Geffen Playhouse pandemic hit ‘The Present’ with new tricks and a new story in ‘The Future.’
In 2020, Disney’s California Adventure and Knott’s tried limited reopenings around COVID-19 restrictions. But can we explore and engage in a pandemic?
Globalization and technology make this pandemic different. Is it a cultural Singularity? COVID-19 unites us all, from villages to cities, and may permanently transform humankind.
Latest stories
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Lizzo is clapping back at critics who judged her recent smoothie cleanse. “I’m beautiful and I’m still fat,” she says, and it wasn’t about losing weight.
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Gerard Butler stars in the disaster thriller “Greenland,” about a comet raining extinction-level debris on Earth.
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Chelsea G. Summers’ novel, “A Certain Hunger,” follows a food critic, cannibal and proud psychopath from romantic longing to murder to prison.
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Bestsellers List Sun., Dec. 20, 2020
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The big-screen video game adaptation “Monster Hunter,” directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, stars the Milla Jovovich as a no-nonsense U.S. Army officer.
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Get ready for the musical equivalent of 250 candles and a year’s supply of cake. Beethoven 250 has brought a bevy of new music and books. Here are the best.
Nonprofit museums are acting like for-profit art dealers, flouting standards and endangering their nonprofit status. In Long Beach, a case study.
The moratorium designation adds Chicano history to L.A.'s historic sites. Plus, controversy at MOLAA and what we lost and found in 2020 — in our weekly arts newsletter
Netflix’s star-studded spin on the Broadway musical underscores a major shortcoming of the landmark 2019 profit-sharing agreement between producers and actors.
What to watch while celebrating Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Year’s Eve? Our mega-list hits all the favorites, plus some wildcards.
Rannells, Ryan Murphy and the creative team share how the movie’s “white guy gospel song” came to life at the Northridge mall.
MoLAA in Long Beach makes the controversial move to sell pieces from its permanent collection, citing diversity as the goal.
Drive-in music, holiday food fest, family-friendly light displays and, yes, an Elf on the Shelf.
In the quest for better Black representation, orchestras and opera companies are improving diversity in superficial ways. Here’s how they could do better.
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The royal couple’s Archewell organization has signed a multiyear agreement with the company, with the first series coming next year.
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The L.A. Times newsroom’s leadership transition has accelerated with the departure of Pearlstine, who served as executive editor for 2½ years.
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Warner Bros. is making its entire 2021 slate of movies available for streaming on HBO Max as soon as they hit theaters. Critics say the studio is being “dismantled.”
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“Louis van Beethoven,” Niki Stein’s biopic of the legendary composer, juxtaposes his latter days as an irascible, lonely, deaf artist with his early growth as a prodigy.
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Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi espionage epic “Tenet” is now available to watch at home, and the director breaks down the groundbreaking car chase sequence.
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Gal Gadot tastes eggnog, Ho Hos and Taco Bell for the first time, courtesy of Jimmy Fallon. In return, he tries gefilte fish and Israeli doughnuts.
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Among the key features set to premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival are new movies featuring Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, Tiffany Haddish, Constance Wu and Nicolas Cage.
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Motown great Smokey Robinson got tripped up by an alternate spelling of Hanukkah and delivered a hilariously botched Cameo holiday video for a fan.
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Speaking to TV host Jimmy Kimmel, pop star Taylor Swift debunked a fan theory that she’s planning to release another album, ‘Woodvale,’ so soon.
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Billy Porter, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Audra McDonald and others recorded a song for Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight initiative as voting begins in Georgia.
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“I too have been emotionally hurt by Shia,” Sia tweeted after fellow musician FKA twigs accused actor Shia LaBeouf of physical and emotional abuse.
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Even in normal times, treacly TV movies fail to capture the pain and anxiety that comes with Christmastime for many. This year, it’s salt in the wound.
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NFL games lift Fox to a win in the TV ratings the week of Dec. 7-13, 2020, with CBS home to the top entertainment programs.
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What’s on TV Wednesday, Dec. 16: The season finales of “Devils” on The CW, “The Amazing Race” on CBS and “The Masked Singer” on Fox
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HBO Max, like Netflix, will remove “Chappelle’s Show” from streaming at the request of star Dave Chappelle because of a “specific and emotional issue.”
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Watch Karla Cornejo Villavicencio and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo at the L.A. Times Book Club
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Anthony Veasna So, a Cambodian American fiction writer, died Dec. 8 at age 28. His highly anticipated first book, ‘Afterparties,’ will be out in August.
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Taschen’s “The Library of Esoterica,” a series that begins with “Tarot” and “Astrology,” honors the history of mysticism and its democratization.
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Where to start with the novels of John Le Carré, who died Saturday, and where to go — from George Smiley to the semi-confessional “A Perfect Spy” and more.
