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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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A new wing at the Natural History Museum, Vulture Fest hosts TV reunions in Hollywood, Sting live, craft fairs galore and more.
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The Natural History Museum has a new “front porch” — a 75,000-square-foot exhibition space that’s free and open to the public starting Sunday.
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Soul Asylum plays Amoeba, Jason Alexander in 'Fiddler,' a "What's next for democracy?" talk and more.
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Kick off your holiday cheer Mariah Carey-style, see works in the NOW Festival at REDCAT, Ice at Santa Monica opens for skating, explore the Inglewood Open Studios Art Walk and more.
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The production wizard behind Michael Jackson's Thriller won 28 Grammy awards during a career that spanned more than 70 years as a performer, songwriter, producer and music executive.
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Election night watch parties, Atsuko at the Largo, 'Willy Wonka' on the big screen and more.
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Sunday marks the 70th anniversary of the release of original Godzilla in Japan. But the film that American audiences first saw was actually an altered version with added scenes shot at a small Hollywood studio.
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The Metro Art Buses don’t follow a fixed route, but lucky riders who catch these buses can see dozens of portraits of Metro riders by local artists.
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Our celebrity panelists Josh McDermitt and Sierra Katow go head to head this week on their knowledge of Kirk Gibson’s game-winning home run from Game one of the 1988 World Series and Season 3 of the animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender. Think you might know more than they do? Go Fact Yourself!
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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.
