Book Review Sweetener By Marissa HigginsCatapult: 272 pages, $27If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. In 1984, at age 33, I fell in love with a woman for the first time. Her name was Cathy. Her previous girlfriendβs name was also…
Buckleyβs mother, Mary Guibert, appears in new documentary βItβs Never Over, Jeff Buckley,β and reflects on raising the singer-songwriter in a Panamanian household. MamΓ‘ β¦ you got some fβing cojones, baby. These were some of the last words that legendary singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley left for his mother on an answering machine β not long before…
In a Burbank rehearsal studio, loaded almost wall-to-wall with electronics and travel cases, the three musicians of RΓΌfΓΌs Du Sol are in the final hours of rehearsal for the biggest tour of their lives. As they run through a variety of songs on synthesizers and acoustic drums, the main question still to be answered is…
Heβs one of the biggest name in show business β and itβs possible youβve never heard of him. At 54, Swedish songwriter and record producer Max Martin has written more No. 1 singles than any artist, aside from Paul McCartney. He counts Taylor Swift, Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Ariana Grande and the Weeknd among his…
Imagine if almost every moment in your life was documented: the good, the bad, the funny, the embarrassing and even the most heartbreaking. For the K-pop superstar group ENHYPEN, they donβt need to imagine it. It has been a part of their lives since they were teenagers, when they participated in the Korean competition series…
βAnd Just Like That,β itβs over. Earlier this month, showrunner Michael Patrick King informed the world that the long-awaited, highly anticipated and then almost universally hated sequel to HBOβs groundbreaking series βSex and the Cityβ would end. Mere weeks later, it did just that and rather abruptly, with two Thanksgiving-themed episodes, which felt a bit…
Colombian singer Ryan Castro gets in his feels with his new joint single, βApodo,β alongside Tejano band Grupo Frontera. Released on Thursday, the collaboration yearns for unrequited love. The song boasts Grupo Fronteraβs traditional norteΓ±o sound, with the addition of their signature bongo of course. But it also includes hints of Caribbean reggae β like…
Comedian Paul Rodriguez faces fresh allegations of narcotics possession after being arrested on similar charges less than five months ago in the same city. Burbank police arrested the 70-year-old βBlood Workβ and βRat Raceβ actor around 8:30 p.m. Monday at a parking structure in the cityβs downtown area, police Sgt. Stephen Turner confirmed to The…
Rupert Murdochβs Fox Corp. has largely stayed on the sidelines of the streaming wars. That ends next week. Fox, which owns the most-watched cable news channel Fox News and has TV rights to major sporting events such as the NFL and MLB post-season baseball, has remained committed to the declining pay TV business. But with…
Are we in for a new age of scripted basic cable television? Given the successes of the old age, which threaded its way between broadcast and premium cable TV, a little bolder than the former, less pricier than the latter, making up what it lacked in resources with invention and charm β producing such shows…