More than 250 members of the literary community signed a letter this week urging publishers not to sign book deals with anyone in the Trump administration.
Six buildings that tell the design story of Paul R. Williams, the first Black architect in the AIA. His work is little studied, but his archive, acquired by the Getty and USC, is about to change that.
The notoriously private heiress has her moment in the spotlight in the streamer’s reality TV spin on “Crazy Rich Asians.” But she’s not in it for the fame.
She was a night owl who sent text messages filled with emojis. She was my pen pal, my friend. Here is what she said the last time we talked.
There are always bad drivers in L.A., but these days we can’t blame the tourists. After months of staying at home, we’re all driving like tourists.
The nation’s overlapping crises have sparked the notion that audiences want to be uplifted, more than anything else. I disagree.
The Fountain in East Hollywood gets city permission to turn its parking lot into an outdoor theater with distanced seating for up to 84 people.
Bestselling novelist Lisa See brings’The Island of Sea Women’ to the L.A. Times Book Club
World on Wheels co-owner Tommy Karas said battles with his landlord and now the COVID-19 closure doomed the roller rink beloved by Black L.A.
The SAG Awards announced its date in July. Now the Recording Academy has moved the Grammys from Jan. 21 to the same March date.
Broadcast legend Larry King, who is being treated for COVID-19, has been moved out of the intensive care unit at L.A.'s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
DJs who customarily would have performed for packed dance floors on New Year’s Eve instead sat home, angry at peers and partygoers who violated safety protocols.
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The Mellon Foundation grants nearly $1 million to Lula Washington Dance Theatre, part of an effort to correct systemic inequality in arts funding.
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What the acquisition of Williams’ archive could reveal about the little-studied architect. Plus, “Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical” and Kennedy Center Honors in our weekly arts newsletter.
L.A.'s California African American Museum holds a remembrance with music and a study group, and a Santa Monica concert centers on Black composers.
L.A. artist Janna Ireland eschews heroic image-making in favor of chronicling the quiet details that make Williams’ buildings special.
While he’s being impeached, President Trump gives the National Medal of Arts to Toby Keith and Ricky Skaggs. What is this award, and who typically gets it?
She’s making TV, teaching dance and now getting a lifetime of achievement award. But Debbie Allen says she has no plans to slow down. “There’s so much to do.”
Orange County Museum of Art hires Heidi Zuckerman, who oversaw the building of a museum in Colorado. She will lead OCMA as it constructs a new home here.
The 2013 multimedia stage version of George Orwell’s novel “1984,” which has been adapted many times, is being developed as a five-part limited series.
The 2021 Kennedy Center honorees Debbie Allen, Joan Baez, Garth Brooks, Dick Van Dyke and Midori will be honored with a scaled-down gala in May.
The TikTok musical based on Pixar’s “Ratatouille” film generated millions for relief efforts launched by the Actors Fund amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A coalition of medical professionals and TV writers believe shows could help educate diverse audiences toward wearing masks and getting vaccinated.
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After a review, the Justice Department decided against undoing decades-old consent decrees that govern music industry licensing.
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Technicolor said Thursday that it will sell Technicolor Post, which handles sound and picture finishing, to L.A.-based Streamland Media for nearly $36.5 million.
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Jeff Bridges says his tumor has “drastically shrunk.” But the news came the day of the Capitol riot. “To see our country attacking itself broke my heart.”
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Things will be very different for the largely virtual 2021 Sundance festival. Here’s how to get the most out of the experience from wherever you are.
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Oscar-winning “Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho will serve as jury president at the Venice International Film Festival. He’s the first Korean to do so.
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Five years after ‘The Birth of a Nation,’ Nate Parker returns with the misguided contemporary drama ‘American Skin.’
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Sylvain was described as the ‘heart and soul’ of the New York Dolls, as both guitarist and as mastermind of their vanguard style.
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A leading maritime music scholar marvels at the virality of #ShantyTok, as a nation of teens and 20-somethings howl about sugar and tea and rum.
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Musician Ariel Pink, dropped by his label after he attended the Jan. 6 Trump rally in D.C., told Tucker Carlson that the blowback had left him “destitute.”
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“I guess you didn’t mean what you wrote in that song about me,” Olivia Rodrigo sings in “Drivers License,” which is breaking streaming records left and right.
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TV highlights for Jan. 17-23 include President Joe Biden’s inauguration and Lifetime’s Salt-N-Pepa biopic.
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Movies on TV this week: Jan. 17: “The Phantom of the Opera” on TCM; “Aliens” on HBO; “WALL-E” on Freeform and more
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Mario Lopez and Tiffani Thiessen both react to news that their fellow ‘Saved by the Bell’ alum Dustin Diamond has been diagnosed with cancer.
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Glued to current events, Alena Smith, creator of Apple’s raucous period comedy, re-examines feminism, fame and Civil War through the eyes of her heroine.
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Powell’s Books has announced that it will not place the book ‘Unmasked,’ by conservative author Andy Ngo, on the store’s shelves following a backlash.
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Ashley Audrain’s first novel, ‘The Push,’ brings depth and nuance to the overhyped mystery tropes of the bad seed and the unreliable mother.
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“Rebeldita la Alegre en el País de los Ogros,” by Oriel María Siu, was inspired by the glaring gap between her family’s experiences and the children’s books she saw on library shelves.
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Bestsellers List Sun., Jan. 17, 2021
