After drawing criticism in 2019 for its sidelining of urbano, the Latin Grammy Awards has course-corrected and made J Balvin and Bad Bunny its top nominees.
As Donald Trump and Joe Biden try to sway the rapidly vanishing “undecided voter,” 2020 is the year the presidential debates become pure TV spectacle.
Even when you’re personally safe, life during a pandemic means giving up a lot. Including a few rituals and aggravations you never thought you’d miss.
The Fox News Sunday host will handle the first showdown between President Trump and former vice president Joe Biden
In “The Meaning of Mariah Carey,” the pop star opens up about her “abusive” first husband, the “love” she found with Derek Jeter, and her difficult childhood. Here are some key takeaways.
Fall Music Preview
Turning to music to ease quarantine blues? Here are 20 albums our experts are most looking forward to and previews of new music from L.A.-based Ty Dolla Sign, Shamir, Beabadoobee and former Beyoncé songwriter Saint Jhn. A reissue of Tom Petty’s 1994 “Wildflowers” will also drop soon, along with a Mariah Carey memoir. In the meantime, catch up on how TikTok is changing pop music and Bandcamp is disrupting streaming.
Fall may not bring starlit shows at the Hollywood Bowl, but it does offer enough great new music to fill your playlists through the end of this miserable year.
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After their nationally televised acceptance speeches, some of the 2020 Emmy winners had more to say to the press. We’ve rounded up the best responses here.
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From Zendaya’s euphoric — and historic — win to the ‘Schitt’s Creek’ sweep, here’s what you missed at Sunday’s Emmy Awards hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.
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Find out the winners of the 2020 Emmys with our complete list, updating live during Sunday night’s ceremony.
The Violins of Hope concerts were suppose to showcase historic instruments, but the pandemic changed all of that. In the end, a bittersweet farewell.
Casting directors and actors share their experiences auditioning via Zoom, self-tapes and — in rare cases — in person amid the COVID-19 crisis.
JANM and EWP are among 20 BIPOC arts organizations receiving “game changer” pandemic funding from a Ford Foundation-led program.
L.A. poet laureate Robin Coste Lewis and other poets shared experiences and verse with L.A. Times Book Club readers.
Disney has pushed back the release dates for ‘Black Widow,’ ‘Death on the Nile’ and multiple other films, in a blow to movie theaters.
Productions from the Fountain, A.C.T., Pig Iron and La Jolla Playhouse are admirably ambitious at times, but they also reveal the limits of digital.
Two E! hosts, Giuliana Rancic and Vivica A. Fox, released statements during the Emmys red-carpet preshow announcing they tested positive for COVID-19.
Warner Bros.’ ‘Tenet’ continues to do modest business with $36.1 million in North American receipts and a global cumulative of $250.1 million.
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Naya Rivera’s sister, Nickayla Rivera, doesn’t put much stock in the optics of her reported living arrangement with former brother-in-law Ryan Dorsey.
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The Puerto Rican reggaeton icon released his collaboration with Crocs on Tuesday morning, shortly after receiving nine Latin Grammy nominations.
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J. Lo and Maluma’s new song, ‘Pa Ti,’ sparks a viral dance challenge to raise money, which Lopez recently discussed on ‘Good Morning America.’
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The Anita Hill-led organization finds entertainment industry workers have dim view of accountability for perpetrators of sexual harassment and misconduct.
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Rapper Jay-Z and his Roc Nation entertainment and sports company have named Jesse Collins as executive producer of this year’s Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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Mia Lehrer, whose firm landscaped SoFi Stadium, brings her eye for fire-resilient landscapes to an ecologically fragile area, Berggruen Institute’s Santa Monica Mountains campus
The Wilshire Boulevard redo has its risks, but the track record of its architect and museum director gives it every chance of succeeding.
The L.A. artist, who has painted 260 cars with his madcap cartoons, brings some levity to dark days with a Karbombz! rally.
Dancer Misty Copeland has a new book out for children, ‘Bunheads,’ the story of a young Copeland in her first ballet class and first dance production — the classic ballet ‘Coppelia.’
Music writer Alex Ross’ weighty new history, “Wagnerism,” traces the composer’s deep and broad influence on art and politics left, right and center.
A report on Dallas’ freedman’s town prompts a look at Los Angeles’ own urban inequities. Plus Charlie Chaplin’s favorite painter at the Laguna Art Museum, digital theater and art for the COVID-19 dead in our weekly arts newsletter
Marla Berns, who brought free admission and a new name to the Fowler Museum, will retire at the end of the academic year.
“The Boys in the Band” — Mart Crowley’s landmark gay story that’s at once dated and timely — captures the bonds of friendship, even when it gets ugly.
In"Mayday!” Susan Silton tracks the pandemic’s toll and “the collective weight of people mourning” by having participants send names of the country’s COVID-19 dead to Donald Trump. She also looks back at the way U.S. media covered Hitler’s rise.
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Wondery is expected to garner at least $200 million if it pursues a sale.
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The coronavirus crisis has upended the traditional economics of Hollywood, attracting news investors to the film business.
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A federal judge granted TikTok’s request to pause the government’s plans to remove it from U.S. app stores on Monday due to Trump’s national security concerns.
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“He said that that was what I deserved to be paid,” Sienna Miller recently said of her experience working with Chadwick Boseman on the 2019 film “21 Bridges.”
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Bill Murray’s golf company might have used the Doobie Brothers’ hit “Listen to the Music” without proper payment. But the response was all in good fun.
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Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix and fiancée Rooney Mara reportedly welcomed their first child — a baby boy named after the actor’s late brother, River Phoenix.
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Former collaborators Antonio Campos and Sean Durkin each have new movies. Campos made Netflix’s ‘The Devil All the Time,’ while Durkin has IFC’s ‘The Nest.’
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The 29-year-old hip-hop mogul said that this would be the first election in which he voted, and he implored his fans to turn out on Nov. 3.
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Pre-orders begin tonight in the U.S. for the K-pop boy band BTS’ fifth full-length album, “BE (Deluxe Edition),” slated for Nov. 20.
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Prince’s landmark “Sign O’ the Times” has been reissued as a box set. Critics Mikael Wood, Daphne Brooks, Naima Cochrane and Michaelangelo Matos on its legacy.
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“Fast & Furious” franchise star Vin Diesel released his debut single “Feel Like I Do” on Friday and we don’t hate it.
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What’s on TV Tuesday, Sept. 29: The presidential debate at 6 p.m. Pacific on various channels; “The Weakest Link” on NBC.
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The duke and duchess shut down rumors of a Netflix docuseries after a report suggested the project would allow the former actress to show “the real her.”
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A peaceful transition of power has been a cornerstone of American democracy. Now, Trump won’t commit to it and Bill Maher is sounding the alarm.
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On the eve of the 2020 presidential debates, the return of “The Great British Baking Show” provides a model for detoxifying our electoral process.
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Jeff Pearlman talks about “Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty,” which he started writing before Bryant’s death.
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The schedule unveiled Thursday also features Ayad Akhtar, Marlon James and actor Henry Winkler. The online festival — 25 events marking 25 years — begins Oct. 18.
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‘The Meaning of Mariah Carey,’ the pop star’s tell-some memoir, sparkles and entertains and explains its subject, despite a few too many I-don’t-know-hers.
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Bestsellers List Sun., Sept. 27, 2020
