Audience-funded nonprofit news
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
-
Listen Listen
Arts & Entertainment
After 15 years starring in CBS sitcoms like Mike & Molly, Billy Gardell is back doing what he’s always done best: stand-up comedy.
-
Venu, co-owned by three studios, had plans to make it easier for sports fans to avoid linear TV, but those have now been made more difficult.
-
Sci-Fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation runs Aug. 22 - Nov. 23 at USC’s Fisher Museum of Art
-
Hello Kitty night at Dodger Stadium, Mike Birbiglia at the Largo, a new show at Gabba Gallery, Eagle Rock Brewery Battle of the Bands, and more.
-
Maude Latour introduces herself to Los Angeles with her debut album, "Sugar Water."
-
One of the creators of Tiger King is back with another examination of human-wildlife relationships in HBO's Chimp Crazy. Plus, we look at Bad Monkey starring Vince Vaughn, the new season of Emily in Paris and more.
-
Echo Park Rising, Sister Sledge at the Music Center, an all-ages dance party at Skirball, LEGO creatures invade the Zoo, and more.
-
AI isn’t some distant reality for animation workers, but animators worry that studios will prematurely replace jobs with the technology.
-
Highlight reel AI, which personally tailors content to individual consumers in real time, offers a solution for networks.
-
Sony and Lionsgate’s strategy of sticking with traditional film and TV studios, as they were before the streaming boom, has largely served them well.
-
From car chases through the L.A. River to dreams in the desert, there’s something for everyone playing this weekend.
Support local arts & entertainment coverage
Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Claudia Puig and Peter Rainer review this weekend’s latest movie releases in theaters and on streaming platforms.
Sponsored message
More Stories
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
On FilmWeek, Larry speaks with author Samuel Garza Bernstein about his new biography Cesar Romero: The Joker is Wild.
-
Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Tim Cogshell and Beandrea July review this weekend’s latest movie releases in theaters and on streaming platforms.
-
Bob Iger said his company is talking with AI companies about allowing subscribers to create their own short-form videos on Disney+.
-
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.
-
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.
