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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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The new proposal will allow the theme park to create immersive experiences within its current footprint.
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Tourists have flocked to Orange County since the 1920s. While those parks remain open, the region has a running list of attractions long forgotten like the Lion Country Safari, the Japanese Village Deer Park and Ski Villa.
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Learn more about the "wild things," a poetry "spa" in West Hollywood, and the stars come out for gospel legend Mavis Staples.
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These pocket-sized guidebooks listed bars, hotels, restaurants, and even churches across the U.S. that were accepting towards gay patrons — making it safer to navigate travel and life.
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The documentarian was known for chronicling the movie-making process of family members Francis Ford Coppola and Sofia Coppola.
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This week, critics review the L.A.-based video game adaptation Fallout and HBO’s latest Sunday night series The Sympathizer.
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PaleyFest, pet adoptions, WORDTheatre, and even a Taylor Swift tribute night.
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The Museum of Neon Art has launched a new digital guide to historically significant neon signs in L.A. County.
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LA's Brain Dead puts its spin on a vintage venue.
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For a smallish production company reading 10 scripts a week, AI can save 30 hours a week.
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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.
