Eddie Palmieri, the Grammy-winning Nuyorican pianist, bandleader and composer who helped innovate Afro-Caribbean music in the States and transform the New York salsa scene, died on Wednesday. He was 88. According to a post on his official Instagram, Palmieri passed away in his Hackensack, N.J., home. The New York Times confirmed via his youngest daughter,…
The rise of evil is more believable than its defeat. Implausible horror movies ask you to buy that a curse can be broken, a killer bested, nightmares tidied into a neat resolution. But filmmaker Zach Cregger enjoys making a mess. His buzzy breakout, 2022βs βBarbarian,β tangled several narratives in one basement, jolting audiences with a…
βFreakier Fridayβ proves that time is its own magical device. Generations of fans of the body-swap series β from the original 1972 novel by Mary Rodgers and Jodie Fosterβs 1976 Disney adaptation to this 21st century update β have had decades to learn firsthand that everyone becomes their parents, no cursed fortune cookie required. In…
Brandon Blackstock, the talent manager who was married to singer Kelly Clarkson for seven years, has died of an unspecified cancer. He was 48. βIt is with great sadness that we share the news that Brandon Blackstock has passed away,β his family confirmed Thursday in a statement to The Times. βBrandon bravely battled cancer for…
There are some aspects of comedy you just canβt teach. But for comedian Chinedu Unaka, plenty was learned while giving lessons in a classroom. As a kid growing up in South L.A., it wasnβt planned that he would find his way to comedy by stepping up to the chalkboard to teach mild to moderate special…
The one and only pre-millennium building that LACMA director Michael Govan elected to save as part of his campus revamp was the museumβs Japanese Pavilion, designed by the brilliant, undeniably quirky architect Bruce Goff. The edifice is like nothing else near it, or in all of L.A.: a series of rough stone towers and fiberglass…
The road to βDemascusβ β premiering Thursday on Tubi β runs through AMC, which had commissioned the series and then, though a six-episode season was completed, declined to air it. Not being privy to any boardroom discussions or the thoughts of executives and accountants, I wonβt claim to know why that was β most everything…
βTime is the most important thing right now,β says Takako Yamaguchi. The artist, who at 72 is having her first institutional show with MOCA, suggests she has a limited number of active, working years. But this realization doesnβt bring her down; instead, sheβs been having the most fun sheβs ever had. Her mind is clearer…
When Tom and Ethel Bradley moved with their two young daughters into a modest three-bedroom home in Leimert Park in 1950, Black people were restricted from buying houses in the neighborhood. The Bradleys had to purchase the home through a white buyer likely affiliated with the American Civil Liberties Union, recalled their oldest daughter, Lorraine…
Book Review Vulture By Phoebe GreenwoodEuropa Editions: 256 pages, $27If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. βDoctor Strangelove,β βCatch-22,β and βM*A*S*Hβ collide in British journalist Phoebe Greenwoodβs blistering debut novel, βVulture,β a darkly comic, searing satire grounded in historic politics, suffused…