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Clave Especial is finally taking a break. In the last two months, the corrido tumbado band from Salinas, Calif., performed at the South by Southwest music festival in Texasβand made headlines by singing a narcocorrido; spoke to Latino students at Cornell University in upstate New York; and even embarked on a impromptu 10-hour road trip…
A preliminary hearing the murder case against David Anthony Burke, the 21-year-old singer better known as D4vd, will go forward at the end of June, setting a timeline for when more detailed evidence about the gruesome murder and dismemberment of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez will become public. Burke β who prosecutors say sexually abused the…
Digital entertainment company BuzzFeed Inc. is selling its majority stake to Los Angeles entertainment mogul Byron Allen for $120 million. BuzzFeed announced the sale late Monday, saying Allen Family Digital had agreed to pay $3 apiece for 40 million shares, representing a 52% stake in the company. Allen will pay $20 million in cash up…
Maya Hawke sits at a picnic table in Griffith Park with an iced tea and a small notebook and happily reports that she still likes her new record. βEvery other album cycle Iβve done, by the time I got to the point where the album came out, I hated it,β says the 27-year-old singer and…
Pedro AlmodΓ³var didnβt know the finer points of film festival standing ovations when he first showed a movie in competition at Cannes in 1999. As the credits began to roll for his acclaimed melodrama βAll About My Mother,β the audience inside the Grand ThéÒtre LumiΓ¨re rose and applauded. The acclamation continued to build, and the…
Nick Pasqual, an actor who appeared in βHow I Met Your Mother,β has been found guilty of the attempted murder of L.A.-based makeup artist Allie Shehorn. Following a jury trial, Pasqual was also convicted of counts of injuring a spouse or partner, first-degree burglary and rape, according to court documents. The incident occurred in May…
When political commentator Ana Navarro recently arrived at Mercado Little Spain, the JosΓ© AndrΓ©s-owned food hall downstairs from CNNβs New York studios, a seat was ready for her constant companion, a rust-colored miniature poodle named ChaCha. βI am her service human because Iβm servicing her all day,β Navarro said of the well-behaved pooch who has…
Itβs hard to believe, as Matt Damon noted in his monologue in this weekβs βSaturday Night Live,β that the actor of this summerβs βThe Odysseyβ has only guest hosted three times during his lengthy career. (In case youβre wondering, his frequent writing and acting partner Ben Affleck has hosted five times.) Thatβs a shame because…
Bad Bunnyβs halftime show at this yearβs Super Bowl was largely embraced as a milestone for Latin music and Puerto Rican culture on Americaβs most prominent pop-cultural stage. Not everyone thought so, though. The Federal Communications Commission has released a massive trove of viewer complaints against the musician, the showβs broadcast partner NBC, and the…
The union representing workers employed by the Writers Guild of America has reached an agreement on its first contract, ending a strike that lasted nearly three months. The pending contract includes seniority and layoff protections, higher wages and outlines provisions for progressive discipline and a stepped grievance process, the Writers Guild Staff Union said in…