Former President Obama joins the L.A. Times Community Book Club April 21 to discuss “A Promised Land” with filmmaker Ava DuVernay.
Is a tiny house really a glorified toolshed? Are the unhoused serving as guinea pigs for architect’s design experiments? Our columnist visits L.A.'s new wave of shelter solutions.
The L.A. Phil’s artistic leader has been appointed music director in Paris, where he will join one of the most celebrated opera companies in the world.
Executive producer Shonda Rhimes is shocked by fan reaction to Regé-Jean Page leaving “Bridgerton,” which Netflix just renewed for seasons 3 and 4.
The last time the subject of a gay “Bachelor” came up, it didn’t go well. TV history is littered with dating shows that have mishandled LGBTQ identity.
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COVID-19 canceled in-person author readings. Now the world is reopening. We ask five L.A. poets for their takes on what lies ahead.
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A year of isolation left us with a wealth of words. Hear from the poets, historians and fiction writers who gave us the most powerful books of 2020
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Panelists will include Zooey Deschanel, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Don Lemon, Lulu Miller, Walter Mosley, Deesha Philyaw and Meena Harris.
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From awkward happy endings to Rudy Giuliani’s missed happy ending, this season’s film contenders had noteworthy moments to spare.
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Oscar producers Steven Soderbergh, Stacey Sher and Jesse Collins on the challenges of mounting the Academy Awards in a year upended by the coronavirus pandemic
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Oscar voting begins Thursday. Here’s how three academy members are filling out their ballots.
Cinerama Dome is L.A. Historic-Cultural Monument No. 659. City and preservation officials explain what that means for protection against demo or gutting.
Are you among the movie lovers in shock about ArcLight and Pacific theaters shutting down? We want to hear what they meant to you.
Center Theatre Group will reopen after 20 months of pandemic closure. The lineup includes ‘Dear Evan Hansen,’ ‘Hadestown,’ ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie.’
Frieze Los Angeles scraps plans for a July fair and instead focuses on next year, picking dates — and a new Beverly Hills location — for February.
What’s the role of artists in times of social upheaval? Chilean playwright and director Guillermo Calderón returns to REDCAT with a micro-documentary.
After a canceled season in 2020 — the first in 98 years — the Bowl will reopen with free shows for healthcare, grocery and other essential workers.
BIPOC and LGBTQ actors including Jeremy Pope and Guillermo Diaz will read the Larry Kramer play in an event organized by USC’s ONE Archives.
What will the first shows at the Music Center look like? Imagine family pods, outdoors, with masks. Lineup includes ABT, Paul Taylor and Alonzo King.
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I love this ride. ‘The Secret Life of Pets’ is a celebration of old-fashioned theme park storytelling, where atmosphere trumps the desire to re-enact a movie.
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“Mare of Easttown,” starring Kate Winslet as a Pennsylvania detective, feels like a corrective to the glamorous, shallow hokum of “The Undoing.”
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Prince Philip was known for occasional off-the-cuff remarks that could be embarrassing, and a breach of protocol with President Nixon bothered him.
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The 26th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is going virtual again this year. The event kicks off April 17 at 10 a.m. Here’s how to watch.
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As they vie for the top prize on VH1’s Emmy-winning reality show, Gottmik and Symone discuss what makes L.A. — and its drag scene — so distinctive.
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Our rundown of shows to see includes the L.A. Phil, Maria Bamford in a benefit for the Downtown Women’s Center and dance co-created by men in prison.
“Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts” profiles an artist born into slavery who later in life created images with a persistent, ethereal relevance.
José Delbo, an 87-year-old comic artist, sold more than $1 million worth of Wonder Woman NFTs. Sales like his got the attention of DC Comics and Marvel. The debate over NFT winners and losers.
Palm Springs Art Museum reopens with desert heroine Agnes Pelton, who deserves a place alongside Georgia O’Keeffe among early American Modern artists.
Two new versions — a National Theatre film coming to PBS and a Public Theater podcast out now — bring new life to Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy.
Angélique Kidjo, Wayne Shorter, Esperanza Spalding and Frank Gehry power artistic partnerships shaping a new direction, the Santa Monica company says.
Five augmented reality artworks launched Tuesday push the conversation on representation and historical accuracy in monuments.
Preservation project, spearheaded by the Committee of 100, ties into a broader campaign to rehabilitate the Palisades in keeping with the 1935 California Pacific International Exposition
Wayne Thiebaud, Yoshitomo Nara, butterflies, Bugattis and the Disney archives: a quick scan of exhibitions at SoCal’s reopened museums.
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Even if the Cinerama Dome is bought, ArcLight may not be the last chain to fall to the pandemic.
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ABC News staffers were informed Thursday that Corn no longer works at the network.
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Wendy McMahon will bring a new style of management to CBS’ television stations group following the ouster of former stations chief Peter Dunn.
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The new documentary “Gunda,” directed by Victor Kossakovsky and executive produced by Joaquin Phoenix, follows the lives of farm animals in startling detail, including a charming pig named Gunda.
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Find a flick with our weekly guide to classic movies, cult favorites, film festivals, etc., playing now or coming soon to a theater, drive-in, pop-up or rooftop near you.
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Victor Kossakovsky’s gorgeous, wordless, black-and-white documentary “Gunda” depicts the world of a sow, her piglets and their barnyard world.
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Sebastian Stan and Denise Gough frolic in Argyris Papadimitropoulos’ reality-check romance ‘Monday.’
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Sotheby’s says a pair of Air Yeezy 1 sneaker prototypes, worn by Kanye West at the 2008 Grammys, are worth more than a $1 million. Let the bids begin.
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Chet Hanks’ highly unanticipated “White Boy Summer” video has arrived, just as legal woes pile up against the eldest son of Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson.
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‘We are better as friends and look forward to remaining so,’ celebrity couple Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez said in a statement Thursday.
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Hip-hop boy band-slash-collective Brockhampton has just released its best album to date. Could it also be its last?
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What’s on TV tonight, Friday, April 16: “Magnum P.I.” on CBS; the season premiere of “Van Helsing” on Syfy and more
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“Moonlight” filmmaker Barry Jenkins helms a new Amazon series based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “The Underground Railroad.”
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“We’re not the young kids on the block anymore,” one character says as the final season begins. But age has never been what gave the series soul.
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What’s on TV tonight, Thursday, April 15: “Top Chef” on Bravo; “Rebel” on ABC; the season finale of “Fast Foodies” on TruTV and more.
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Barack Obama and filmmaker Ava DuVernay will discuss the former president’s memoir “A Promised Land” April 21 in a livestreamed event for the L.A. Times Community Book Club.
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Three new books — “Dream State,” “Hollywood Eden” and “Rock Me on the Water,” examine savvy pop-culture myth-making by and about the Golden State.
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Ozick, the renowned author and critic, channels raw contemplations of old age into the fictional diary of a fading boarding-school trustee.
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Bestsellers List Sunday, April 18
