After more than a year, my husband and I have a movie date (“Together Together”) and it was very weird and extremely wonderful.
The government claims that an ancient statue imported to the U.S. by reality star Kim Kardashian violates an agreement between Italy and the U.S.
A classic YouTube clip of Prince dazzling his peers at the 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony has been re-cut by the original director.
Current and former employees of ICM Partners allege that the talent agency tolerated harassment and misconduct toward women and people of color.
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.
Comic books and Black creators
Comic books by Black writers and artists, even those created for Black families about Black people, have been on the rise. Black Sands Entertainment is the latest company to bring this to the forefront. The comics industry has undergone some change as well with Black characters and creators becoming increasingly central to diverse storytelling.
Disney+ shows like “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” technology (NFTs, anyone?) and the fates of communal gatherings have each also put a spotlight on the industry.
A new generation of Black artists is amending and countering comic books’ racist roots. They join a proud tradition of Black pioneers.
Congressman Ted Lieu introduced the 21st Century Federal Writers’ Project act on May 6. It all started with an article by David Kipen in the L.A. Times
Celebrities were out in force to urge vaccine equity at ‘Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World’ at SoFi Stadium on Sunday.
With the next chapter of the pandemic comes a fear of returning to the roles we all used to perform, even among friends.
Milestone pandemic reopening: From essential workers seeking escape to an 8-year-old playing hooky, a California-only crowd came to Disneyland Friday.
A year after graduating into a pandemic, my son was reluctant to attend his ‘make-up’ college graduation ceremony. In the end, it was amazing.
It’s where pros train for music videos, and where amateurs go for a creative outlet. The pandemic knocked them down, but dance studios aren’t giving up.
More than a year after closing due to the pandemic, the theme parks at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim reopened April 30. Here’s what to expect.
Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance is too long for California health rules limiting indoor rides. Here’s how Disneyland is approaching the problem.
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British actor David Oyelowo directs ‘The Water Man,’ a fantasy drama co-starring Lonnie Chavis, Rosario Dawson, Alfred Molina, Maria Bello.
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Olivia Laing’s fifth work of nonfiction, a series of essays on what bodily freedom means, is a compendium of echoes, drawing on many artists and writers.
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Part of a wave of films and TV series reconsidering the late ‘90s and early ‘00s, “Girls5eva” is humorously skeptical of our nostalgia for the era’s pop music.
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A documentary from Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Matthew Heineman, “The Boy From Medellín” profiles Latin music star J Balvin.
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Dan O’Brien, the playwright and poet behind “The Body of an American” and “The House in Scarsdale,” channels hurt and healing into new work.
The Hammer Museum launches Hammer Channel, a streaming archive of every artist talk, panel discussion and live performance since 2005.
Theater has returned to UCLA’s Royce Hall, pairing perfect strangers in a private encounter.
Cornerstone in L.A. and Oregon Shakespeare Festival pair up with BIPOC artists to launch the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation program.
In Geffen Playhouse’s “Someone Else’s House,” multimedia artist Jared Mezzocchi opens the door to his family’s haunted 200-year-old New England house.
LACMA and UCLA’s Fowler Museum ponder repatriation of so-called Benin bronzes stolen during an 1897 slaughter by British colonists.
Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis, the theater veteran who had memorable turns in films such as “Moonstruck” and “Steel Magnolias,” has died in New York City.
The best Los Angeles County and Orange County museum exhibitions for May.
Eli Broad attracted his share of critics. He plowed ahead — donating, demanding, building, and L.A. is the better for it.
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Amid a boom in Spanish-language programming, Telemundo opens a new studio in Miami dedicated to creating programs specifically for streaming services.
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A Los Angeles judge has ruled in favor of the late singer’s estate in a long-running tax dispute with the IRS.
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The Hollywood Foreign Assn. board will announce major changes in the wake of a Times investigation.
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Netflix’s social-justice drama ‘Monster’ stars Kelvin Harrison Jr., Jennifer Hudson, Jeffrey Wright Jennifer Ehle and John David Washington.
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Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish star in “Here Today,” a comedy-drama co-written and directed by Crystal, about a famed humor writer facing the onset of dementia.
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Freewheeling indie “Paper Tigers” about rusty kung fu fighters laughs through the injuries.
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‘The Disciple’ review: This excellent film was treated as just another streaming-menu thumbnail, one more negligible tile in Netflix’s ever-expanding global content mosaic.
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Pop singer-songwriter Bebe Rexha on the unhealthy competition among female artists, coping with social anxiety and the most Albanian thing about her.
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Pop musician Joe Jonas collaborated with travel agency Expedia to give away three-dimensional replicas of his hand to soothe nervous travelers.
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With his new album, ‘Eduardo,’ 20-year-old Ed Maverick leads Mexico’s new generation of indie-rock romantics.
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While Britney Spears dismissed new documentaries about her life as reductive, fans doubt she even wrote her latest Instagram post. Not true, she says.
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What to watch Thursday, May 6: “Rebel” on ABC; “Clarice” on CBS; “Manifest” on NBC; “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” on E! and more
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Sara Bareilles, Busy Philipps, Renée Elise Goldsberry and Paula Pell star in a Tina Fey-produced sitcom about a reuniting ‘90s girl group.
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What to watch Wednesday, May 5: ‘Kids Say the Darndest Things’ on CBS; ‘Human: The World Within’ on PBS; ‘A Million Little Things’ on ABC
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Coverage of the first round of the NFL draft drew its second-largest audience, topping all prime-time entertainment programs and surpassing the Oscars, for the week of April 26 to May 2.
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Bestsellers List Sunday, May 9
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Suzanne Simard’s groundbreaking research inspired Richard Powers’ ‘The Overstory.’ Now she’s published her own memoir, ‘Finding the Mother Tree.’
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‘The Bench,’ a new children’s book by the former Meghan Markle, is based on a Father’s Day poem she wrote for her husband, Prince Harry.
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Alison Bechdel talks about her ‘fitness memoir,’ ‘The Secret to Superhuman Strength,’ the first book in 9 years from the pioneering graphic memoirist.
