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After 15 years starring in CBS sitcoms like Mike & Molly, Billy Gardell is back doing what he’s always done best: stand-up comedy.
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See Lucha VaVoom in their last show at The Mayan, explore the El Segundo Art Walk and join the Mrs. Roper bar crawl. Plus, John Williams' music at the Hollywood Bowl and more.
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See Carly Rae Jepsen at the Troubadour, &Juliet at the Ahmanson, Gov. JB Pritzker swings by Writers Bloc and more of the best things to do this week.
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Freakier Friday actor on the enduring allure of the body swap conceit.
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The annual Pokémon World Championships is the top tier of competition for video- and card game-players and an exhibition, shopping extravaganza and reunion for fans.
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The owners behind the new venue hope it can be a home for more legacy jazz acts — and an incubator for up-and-coming musicians.
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Check out 'Some Like it Hot' at the Pantages, the Nisei Week Japanese Festival, a cactus show and a summer shriek!
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President Trump says that the announcement of this year's Kennedy Center honorees will come Wednesday.
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The Donn of Tiki screens in Newport Beach, Luna Li in-store at Amoeba, Patagonia hosts a film festival, Bar 109 is open in Melrose Hill, the Burbank Comedy Festival continues and more of the best things to do this week.
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The ruling deems the government's termination of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities unlawful and allows a lawsuit brought by humanities groups to move forward.
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Buddy Guy still sings the blues, Angel City Chorale plays in the Marina, Chez Jay celebrates 66 years and more of the best things to do this weekend.
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Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Claudia Puig and Peter Rainer review this weekend’s latest movie releases in theaters and on streaming platforms.
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Earlier mergers, like Disney's 2019 acquisition of Fox, cut the number of films studios released theatrically — a troubling trend for theater owners already coping with consolidation and streaming.
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The Village Directors Circle, which bought the nearly century-old movie palace in February, will partner with American Cinematheque to operate and program the Village Theater.
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President Donald Trump continues to rage over late night comedians who make fun of him. This weekend he posted on social media that Seth Meyers has "no talent" and called for NBC to fire him.
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Nth Power jam at the Mint, the lights at Manhattan Beach Pier, Miranda July moderates a timely film screening at the LGBT Center and more of the best things to do this week.
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Rom-coms, heist flicks, a sports/horror mashup, a pair of Broadway musicals, a biopic of The Boss, festival award winners and lots of showbiz sagas — here's what NPR critics are watching this fall.
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The project, which will include some 50,000 songs from private record collections, is a collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.
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The first three paintings sold for a record-shattering $662,000. Bonhams says the works attracted hundreds of registrations, more than twice the usual number for that type of sale.
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On FilmWeek, Larry speaks with author Samuel Garza Bernstein about his new biography Cesar Romero: The Joker is Wild.
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Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Tim Cogshell and Beandrea July review this weekend’s latest movie releases in theaters and on streaming platforms.
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Bob Iger said his company is talking with AI companies about allowing subscribers to create their own short-form videos on Disney+.
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Emmy-nominated host and writer Baratunde Thurston explores what it means to be human in the age of AI in his upcoming show in Long Beach.
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Kim Kardashian and Naomi Watts play divorce lawyers at an all-female L.A. firm in All's Fair. The show has gotten bad reviews, but actual L.A. divorce attorneys had more generous assessments.
