August 2025

In a one-room studio tucked down an alley in Burbank, four dancers spin in unison around an orange-walled room. Two on foot and two in wheelchairs. It’s late and it’s hot — the AC is busted. But their unrelenting positivity and persistence are in full force as they prepare for a music video shoot. They’re…

Once upon a time, movie houses were full of all sorts of pictures — big pictures, little pictures, A pictures, B pictures, smart pictures, silly pictures. Nowadays, with the film business contracting around blockbusters, the little pictures, the B pictures and the silly pictures have deserted the theaters for television which, in its streaming multiplicity,…

Last year, the British dance musician known as Fred Again.. put out a feeler to the Nashville-based alt-rock band Rainbow Kitten Surprise about a possible collaboration. Ela Melo, who’s fronted Rainbow Kitten Surprise since she and guitarist Darrick Keller formed the group over a decade ago as students at North Carolina’s Appalachian State University, was…

Paramount Global Co-Chief Executive Brian Robbins stepped down Wednesday, a day before David Ellison’s Skydance Media absorbs the entertainment company. The move was expected. Skydance unveiled it senior management team earlier this week, signaling its plans to shake up the leadership of Robbins’ turf — the famed Paramount Pictures on Melrose Avenue. Robbins has led…

Dean Cain played a superhero on TV 30 years ago. Now he wants to help the government in its unconstitutional sweeps of Home Depot parking lots, schools and bus benches for people who appear to be immigrants. Cain played Superman in the 1990s TV series “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.” On Tuesday,…

Tuesday night, Gustavo Dudamel was back at the Hollywood Bowl. This summer is the 20th anniversary of his U.S. debut — at 24 years old — conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and becoming irrepressibly besotted with the amphitheater. He walked on stage, now the proud paterfamilias with greying hair and a broad welcoming smile on…

Glorya Kaufman, the philanthropist who transformed dance in Los Angeles through the establishment of an eponymous dance school at the University of Southern California as well as a prominent dance series at the Music Center, among many other initiatives, has died. She was 95. Kaufman’s death was confirmed by a representative for the Music Center,…