A popular YouTube streamer posted on social media that he βalmost [died] todayβ after Los Angeles County Sheriffβs Department deputies drew their weapons on him and briefly detained him Sunday afternoon in what he said appears to be a swatting incident. Rapper DDG posted on a YouTube video that he was at a paintball tournament…
Danielle Spencer, the former child star who played sassy tattletale Dee Thomas on the 1970s sitcom βWhatβs Happening!!,β has died. She was 60. Spencer died Monday after she βlost her battle with cancer,β her brother, jazz trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, announced on Instagram. Spencer had suffered other health issues β including a bleeding hematoma and a…
Chance the Rapper is opening up about co-parenting with his ex-wife as he prepares to release a new album and go on a national tour. The rapper from Chicago stopped by the βCBS Morningβ studio on Monday to discuss the release of his second studio album, βStar Line.β Chance, whose real name is Chancelor Bennett,…
Art Fein, a Los Angeles music-scene renaissance man who worked as a journalist, publicist, manager and television host over a six-decade career, has died. He was 79. Fein died of heart failure on July 30 while recovering from surgery for a broken hip, according to Cliff Burnstein, co-founder of Q Prime Management and a longtime…
Γngela Aguilar may be an elegant interpreter of mΓΊsica Mexicana, a genre that her family has dominated for generations. Yet when I sit across from the 21-year-old singer at a dining hall on Olvera Street, she exudes a commanding diva spirit that is all her own. It is a fierceness that surfaces most prominently when…
βBerta, Berta,β a two-character play by Angelica ChΓ©ri, was inspired by a prison work song from Parchman Farm, the notorious Mississippi State Penitentiary whose harsh conditions and history of forced labor extended the nightmare of antebellum slave plantations into the 20th century. The play, which is receiving its West Coast premiere in an Echo Theater…
The Crystal Palace, a music and dining joint in Bakersfield launched by Buck Owens β which hosted just about every country music star in America over the years β has abruptly shut its doors. The closure of the temple of country music, an important piece of San Joaquin Valley history, prompted an outpouring of grief…
Thrillers, thrillers, thrillers, so many thrillers. Every third show I review seems to be one, and even if that math is not perfectly correct, the seeming is real enough. Sometimes they are full of interesting characters and ideas, sometimes full of posturing stereotypes with nothing to say, sometimes mostly smoke and noise, and often just…
Jimmy Kimmel revealed he has his Italian passport ready, just in case. During an interview with comedian Sarah Silverman on her podcast, the βJimmy Kimmel Live!β host discussed how βmuch worseβ the presidentβs second term has been for the country, without getting into specifics. He said he has obtained Italian citizenship as a result. Kimmelβs…
Nearly two decades ago, Nic Novicki was another young comedian living in Queens, testing his mettle in the competitive New York City comedy scene. There, he shared not just an apartment, but a living room separated by a sheet with another up-and-comer trying to make a name for himself: Nate Bargatze. They shared an apartment…