Arts & Entertainment

Milwaukee’s bullpen shines as the Brewers top the Dodgers 7-4 in NLCS Game 2

The Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-4 on Monday in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series.

William Contreras, a batter in a cream Milwaukee Brewers uniform and navy helmet, follows through on a swing with eyes raised, a blurred crowd behind.

RJ Mitte, ‘Breaking Bad’ actor and disability rights champion, dies at 34

RJ Mitte, a smiling person with dark, tousled hair, sits against a gray studio wall, looking off to the side. They wear a black-and-white patterned knit cardigan over a gray henley.

'It was very surreal': LA artist named a MacArthur 'genius'

This year's MacArthur Fellows have been announced, and artist and UCLA professor Rodney McMillian is one of 20 people who received the prestigious award.

A man poses sitting down in an artist's studio with an abstract work of art that appears to be painted on cloth in the background.

Feature: The ‘Frat Pack’ comedies of the early 2000s

In his new book, Funny Business: The Old-School Wedding Crashers and Knocked-Up Virgins Who Changed Comedy Forever, Matt Singer discusses the “Frat Pack” of the early 2000s.

A male-presenting person with short, brown hair stands next to a police station phone booth, holding a phone to his ear. He is wearing a blue button-up shirt and black pants, and he is handcuffed to another male-presenting person who sits next to him on a chair attached to a blue wall. He has shoulder-length brown hair and wears a gray graphic t-shirt and white pants. A third male-presenting person is handcuffed to him and sits next to him on another chair. He has short, brown hair and wears glasses, a tan polo top, and khakis. All three have unhappy facial expressions.

FilmWeek: ‘The Social Reckoning,’ ‘Musk,’ ‘Tenzing’ and more!

Larry Mantle and FilmWeek critics Katie Walsh and Claudia Puig discuss the biggest releases of the week, including The Social Reckoning, Fjord, and Musk.

A male-presenting person with a strawberry blonde buzz-cut stands in a dark room wearing a white button-up dress shirt, a gray tie, and a navy blue suit jacket. There is a yellow curtain behind him on his right, and the upper part of a leather chair is visible in the bottom right corner of the image.

Actor Jeff Garlin on his new photography book

Actor-comedian Jeff Garlin spoke with LAist host Larry Mantle about his debut photography book and its inception.

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Eva Marie Saint, star of ‘North by Northwest’ and ‘On the Waterfront,’ dies at 102

Saint, whose acting work lasted well into her 90s, died at her home in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

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Paramount and Warner Bros are now one Hollywood giant: Skydance. Here's how we got here

Skydance-owned Paramount has closed its $81 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday. The new Hollywood giant will have a shorter nametag: “Skydance.”