Lerner replaces Executive Director Louis Grachos, who left in March for the New Mexico contemporary arts organization SITE Santa Fe, after a nearly two-year run in Palm Springs — a period dominated by pandemic closure. “It’s at an inflection point in the arts,” he said. In June 2020, the museum was criticized for waiting 10 […]
The Times is committed to reviewing theatrical film releases during the COVID-19 pandemic. For six weeks in the summer of 1969, the same summer as Woodstock, the Harlem Cultural Festival was headlined by artists including Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Mahalia Jackson, Abbey Lincoln and Max […]
The Times is committed to reviewing theatrical film releases during the COVID-19 pandemic. But one of the sad ironies of “I Carry You With Me,” Heidi Ewing’s emotionally direct, formally complicated new movie, is that in attempting the dangerous journey across the border, Iván and Gerardo would effectively be exchanging one form of persecution for […]
In a Medium post, Marshall explained how his initial praise of a right-wing writer’s book — and his subsequent apology for it — landed him and his bandmates in hot water. Less than a week before his temporary leave, Marshall shared, “Congratulations @MrAndyNgo. On Medium, the musician insisted that the review wasn’t out of the […]
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Though far from specific to the cooking competition, now nearing the end of its 18th season, the expression is so common in its kitchens it has become integral to the series’ soundscape. Hemmed in by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Oregon-set season has emerged as an instant classic not least because it has embraced the limitations […]
Built on a small site for a theater and seating only 900, it was designed in Renaissance Revival style with innovative French, Spanish, Moorish and Italian elements cast in terra cotta, according to the Los Angeles Conservancy. Workers found rich gold and detailed bronze elements, as well as bright stone and ornate plaster work, Lee […]
Zegler, who is of Colombian and Polish descent, tweeted Tuesday afternoon, “yes i am snow white no i am not bleaching my skin for the role,” presumably in response to a handful of haters who opposed the idea of a Latina Snow White. …Read the full story
Mike Peterson was a California surfer whose search for the perfect wave led him to this sleepy beach town in El Salvador. Citing the town as inspiration, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele pushed a law through congress this month that will make his country the first in the world to adopt the cryptocurrency as legal […]
But the rebellious playfulness of the viral-video-inspired moment, and the song, written into the pilot script by executive producer-writers Diggs and Casal, isn’t just hyperlocal. But East Bay-born collaborators Diggs and Casal, with their shared backgrounds in music, theater and spoken word, see the Bay Area as a place where lyricism and metaphor are baked […]
Until they split in 2005, they were viewed by the world as the first couple of the nation’s emergent California-Mediterranean restaurant ethos. Peel had cooked at Chez Panisse, and he drove the farm connection at Campanile literally, at first hauling produce himself from Chino Farms in Rancho Santa Fe, two hours south of the restaurant. […]
Walker Buehler sauntered off the mound at Chase Field, home of the worst team in major league baseball, on Saturday night to a standing ovation. Halfway to the Dodgers’ dugout, Buehler looked up and raised his right hand to acknowledge the support, prompting the fans to reach another decibel level. All the Diamondbacks could muster […]
The meeting followed on the heels of a Tuesday night city council meeting, during which lawmakers gave final approval of ordinances regulating retail cannabis sales and delivery. “There is a lot riding on this,” he said. She comes from the La Cañada Valley Sun, where she spent six years as the news reporter covering La […]
The real reason is the numbers add up to 12, making the supporters in the north end and throughout the stadium the team’s 12th man. On Saturday, the team will return to full strength for the first time in more than 15 months. “The feeling we all get when walk in, when we look into […]
Free throws by Embiid and Tyrese Maxey, who scored 16 points off the bench, pushed the advantage to 98-93. “That stung for us as a whole team,” Harris said of blowing big leads in two losses. The 76ers opened the second half with a flurry of four threes, including three by Curry, for a 12-0 […]
But 15 years ago, as franchise lore goes, the fateful highway that carried Justin Lin and Sung Kang to their destiny after making the third film led to … At its best, Hollywood’s most malleable blockbuster property has proved the value of outsized imagination, the ability to swerve and an understanding of what makes #family […]
At the Gran Hotel Brenwhorf, a handcuffed Mencía Blanco lies in Suite 428, dimly lit by red fluorescence. the fourth season of the streamer’s “Gossip Girl”/”Degrassi”/murder mystery mash-up does not hold back.The series, which follows three working-class students who transfer to Las Encinas as they form relationships — and commit crimes — across socioeconomic lines, […]
Before joining the newspaper in 2018, she was a reporting fellow at PBS’s “Frontline.” Originally from Los Angeles, Miller is a graduate of Oberlin College and Columbia University’s School of Journalism. …Read the full story
The Times is committed to reviewing theatrical film releases during the COVID-19 pandemic. The camera slowly emerges from its submerged prison to skim just above the picturesque glimmer of the surface, whereby the water assumes a startling clarity. Inspired by Matthew Van Meter’s nonfiction novel “Deep Delta Justice,” and the third film in director Nancy […]
After some took their confusion to Twitter, HBO Max Help tweeted an apology: “We mistakenly sent out an empty test email to a portion of our HBO Max mailing list this evening. We mistakenly sent out an empty test email to a portion of our HBO Max mailing list this evening. Rather than being eaten […]