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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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From the New Bev to Brain Dead Studios, there’s a good mix of classic and art house films every weekend
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For the Star Wars series Ahsoka, Lucasfilm and Disney+ turned its launch into a fan-powered event, hosting costumed viewing parties and letting fans promote the show.
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Celebrate independent bookstores around the city, taste tamales in Catalina, await the grunions in Venice, and more.
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There is, by all accounts, "less being bought, less being made, less rooms, less staff," one agent tells The Ankler.
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The images depict domestic workers in California in portraits or on the job. The exhibit is part of a larger campaign for domestic worker safety.
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Michael Areceneaux, writer of New York Times best seller “I Can’t Date Jesus,” returned to L.A. to write a new chapter of his life. He’s still learning about the city and needs a writing spot.
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The L.A. Observer finally gets the Los Angeles retrospective he deserves.
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Hug a tree, listen to some country music, laugh with Guz Khan, and catch The Big Lebowski where it was filmed.
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Aquariums are amazing places that not only bring you face-to-face with wonders you would never be able to see otherwise, but also instills in kids a fascination and appreciation of the ocean.
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When actor George Takei was 4 years old, he was labeled an "enemy" by the U.S. government and sent to a string of incarceration camps. His new children's book about that time is My Lost Freedom.
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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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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.
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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.
