Puerto Rican pop visionary Rauw Alejandro will be honored at the 38th annual Hispanic Heritage Awards. On Wednesday, the Hispanic Heritage Foundation announced that the singer-songwriter will receive the 2025 Hispanic Heritage Award for Vision, a title that honors his groundbreaking contributions to Latin music and his role in shaping its global future. โAs an…
Fifty years ago, L.A. free-jazz titan Bobby Bradford moved into a rambling, verdant house in Altadena. The cornet and trumpet virtuoso, who performed in Ornette Colemanโs band and taught jazz history at Pomona College and Pasadena City College for decades, chose the neighborhood partly because it was bustling with artists. He finally had enough bedrooms…
The bitter legal fued between Priscilla Presley and her former business partner escalated this week. Brigitte Kruse, the founder of Agoura Hills-based GWS Auctions Inc. and her business associate Kevin Fialko, on Monday filed a new fraud and breach of contract suit against Presley in Los Angeles Superior Court. The suit alleges that Elvisโs ex-wife…
Bucking tradition once again, President Trump on Wednesday announced his picks for Kennedy Center Honors and said he will host the ceremony himself โ a first for any president. Actor and filmmaker Sylvester Stallone, glam rock band Kiss, disco singer Gloria Gaynor, country music star George Strait and English actor and comedian Michael Crawford made…
Rashida Jones has always been a vocal fan of Netflixโs dystopian anthology series โBlack Mirror,โ but she never expected it to secure her an Emmy nomination. โIโm still pretty shocked,โ Jones says of her lead actress in a limited series or TV movie nod for the Season 7 episode โCommon People.โ โIโve never really been…
When is a kiss not just a kiss? Season 2 of Netflixโs โArcaneโ delivers a long-awaited payoff between two characters with such a deep emotional bond it inspired a โBenniferโ-style portmanteau: CaitVi. Co-executive producer Amanda Overton, who wrote the saga-defining scene, explains that Vi (voiced by Hailee Steinfeld) has โlost everyone she loved,โ and itโs…
When casting began in 2020 for the award-winning HBO Max series โHacks,โ its three creators โ Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky โ saw hundreds of actors for the role of Ava Daniels, a 20-something comedy writer who teams up with a Vegas comedian, Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), whose act has grown as…
The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.
Emmy voters have loved Uzo Aduba, who brings a special immediacy to comedic and dramatic roles alike, since her breakthrough on Netflixโs โOrange Is the New Blackโ in 2013. This year, sheโs vying for lead actress in a comedy for her performance as an eccentric gumshoe on the Netflix whodunit โThe Residence.โ 32 The age…
โButterflyโ is actor and producer Daniel Dae Kimโs love letter to Korea and America. Launching Wednesday, Prime Videoโs South Korea-set spy thriller follows David Jung (Kim), a former U.S. intelligence operative who comes out of hiding to reunite with his daughter Rebecca (Reina Hardesty), a deadly agent who grew up believing he was dead. โItโs…