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p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> An inside look at the Maginot spacecraft in FX’s “Alien: Earth.” (Patrick Brown / FX) For those wondering if they’ll recognize this “Peter Pan”-influenced bit of the “Alien” universe, well, one of the first choices Hawley had to make was environmental. “Are we doing retro-futurism? Are we doing the the cathode ray tube…

As rock-band relaunches go, Good Charlotte’s was conspicuously ritzy. In April 2023, the pop-punk group known for snotty if smiley Y2K-era hits like “The Anthem” and “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” — “I’d like to see them spend a week / Livin’ life out on the street,” goes a lyric in the latter —…

Step aside, tortured poets. It’s a showgirl era now. On Tuesday morning, Taylor Swift announced her new LP, “The Life of a Showgirl,” and here’s everything — a meager bounty, for now — that we know about it. When did she announce it? Word arrived after a countdown clock to 12:12 a.m. — an apropos…

A popular YouTube streamer posted on social media that he “almost [died] today” after Los Angeles County Sheriff’s 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 “What’s Happening!!,” has died. She was 60. Spencer died Monday after she “lost her battle with cancer,” her brother, jazz trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, announced on Instagram. Spencer had suffered other health issues — 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 “CBS Morning” studio on Monday to discuss the release of his second studio album, “Star Line.” 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…

Ángela Aguilar may be an elegant interpreter of música 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…

“Berta, Berta,” a two-character play by Angelica Chéri, 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 — which hosted just about every country music star in America over the years — 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…