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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 pre-Olympics music celebration, L.A. Design Weekend, CicLAvia heads to South L.A., the Watermelon Fest returns, and more.
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A portrait of Jake Zyrus before he came out as transgender is featured on the country's biggest mural chronicling Filipino American history.
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Showrunner has become a prominent position within Hollywood for both the industry and for television viewers, but the job increasingly entails handling being a public figure.
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Juneteenth events, soccer fever, the Fringe continues, and more.
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Lower-level writers say it’s harder than ever to earn enough for health insurance through the WGA.
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From family screenings at the New Beverly Cinema to black and white classics at the Los Feliz 3, there’s something for everyone playing this weekend
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Episode 5 of "Inheriting" follows Leah Bash’s journey to understand how Japanese American incarceration during WWII impacted her family’s mental health.
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The summer season, a time when blockbuster tentpoles are normally surefire successes at the box office, has become somewhat of a nightmare.
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Amid all the discourse about the plight of writers, and contraction in the industry, the renewed uptick in these pacts indicates a slight return to normalcy.
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Juneteenth celebrations, Father’s Day brunch and beer options, Hollywood Fringe Festival kicks off, learn to surf, and more.
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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.
