Media mogul Byron Allen has reached a deal to sell 10 television stations for $171 million to Atlanta-based Gray Media. Gray and Allen Media Group announced the agreement Friday. Allen’s stations in Huntsville, Ala., Montgomery, Ala., Ft. Wayne, Ind., Lafayette, La., and Paducah, Ky., were part of the transaction. The stations each have affiliations with…

Sir Gary Oldman — he received a British knighthood in King Charles’ June birthday honors list — appears on Zoom at his home in Palm Springs in front of a display of his own black-and-white photographs. “I do all sorts of photography, but I also do 19th century wet plate,” he says. “I just like…

Need a model for how to thrive in the stranglehold of the modern music economy? How about a band of Australian garage-rockers who cut albums at the pace of an Atlanta rap crew, tour like peak-era Grateful Dead and who just told the biggest company in streaming to go to hell. King Gizzard & the…

Has there ever been a love as true, wild and literally epic as that of “Outlander’s” Claire Beauchamp (Caitríona Balfe) and Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan)? Made possible by a circle of standing stones (and the imagination of Diana Gabaldon, who wrote the novels on which the series is based), the all-but-instant passion of a British…

Book Review The Island of Last Things By Emma SloleyFlatiron Books: 272 pages, $29If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Hundreds to thousands of animal species go extinct every year, according to the World Wildlife Fund, and things are projected to…

On the Shelf We Are All Guilty Here By Karin SlaughterWilliam Morrow: 448 pages, $32If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. As Karin Slaughter talks about her new thriller book series, “We Are All Guilty Here,” she’s equally wry, reflective and…

For Bella Ramsey, real pressure came with stepping into the leading role for the second season of “The Last of Us.” But it wasn’t entirely mental. The difficulty came from performing nearly every scene without the solidarity of co-star Pedro Pascal, whose character Joel was brutally killed off in Episode 2. “I did feel the…

Whether crossing the Atlantic to marry someone who’s not all that into it (“Catastrophe”), sacrificing body parts to the schemes of a femme fatale (“Bad Monkey”) or enabling a terminal cancer patient’s dominant desires (“Dying for Sex”), Rob Delaney’s become an expert at portraying men who’ll do just about anything for their women — or…

The Latin Grammy-nominated artist, now on tour with Daniel, Me Estás Matando, promises “drama and boleros” — and talks his surprise collab with Tejano star Bobby Pulido Caloncho wants to bliss you out. Since the release of his 2011 EP, “Homeotermo,” the 38-year-old singer-songwriter from Sonora, Mexico, has been making reggae- and tropicalia-infused dream pop…

Kelly Clarkson is hitting pause on her Studio Sessions residency in Las Vegas, postponing the remaining four shows scheduled for August to attend to her family’s needs. “While I normally keep my personal life private, this past year, my children’s father has been ill and at this moment, I need to be fully present for…