5+ hour, 45+ min ago  (75+ words) Behind the scenes with the "Bugonia" team'Los Angeles Times Behind the scenes with the "Bugonia" team Quincy Bowie Jr. is a video fellow at the Los Angeles Times. The proud Alabama native graduated from USC, where he studied journalism and…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (509+ words) My name is Jon Halperin. I booked and managed Chain Reaction from 2000 to 2006. It started by accident while I was running a one-person record label. I went to the club to see the band Melee perform and the prior talent…...

2+ week, 12+ hour ago  (798+ words) And just like that, Spesh, a newly formed, L.A.-based production company and distributor of alternative comedy specials, wrapped the final shot of its third special of the year. "I think we want to get it more regularly, like one a…...

2+ week, 17+ hour ago  (175+ words) For a holiday with eight days and more than 16 different ways to spell it, Hanukkah once featured extremely limited television programming. Yes, there is a "Weinerville Chanukah Special." Along the way we get a song about the actual Hanukkah story…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (182+ words) Saturday Night Live" hosts typically make their mark on the show, either by boosting the sketches they're in with charm and good timing or making a lesser kind of mark by awkwardly revealing why they aren't right for live sketch…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (328+ words) Writer-director James L. Brooks all but invented a warm, urbane way of telling complex women's stories, but his first movie in 15 years feels retrograde. Film fans like to lament: They don't make them like they used to, specifically the kind of…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (286+ words) Frankie Qui'ones, "Damn, That's Crazy" (Hulu) Andrew Schulz, "Life" (Netflix) Our picks for this year's best in arts and entertainment. Sebastian Maniscalco, "It Ain't Right" (Hulu) Bill Burr, "Drop Dead Years" (Hulu) Jordan Jensen, "Take Me With You" (Netflix) Atsuko…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (464+ words) Some years you just have to get through. I can't pretend that 2025 delivered a banner crop of theater productions. Many of the best shows on this list came from elsewhere. And a higher than usual percentage were seen at the…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (1769+ words) SAN FRANCISCO'At the start of the pandemic, when live entertainment was shut down across California, Gregg Perloff chief executive of Another Planet Entertainment told his team to use the downtime to find a new project that excited them. "We knew…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (497+ words) Surely, someone has made a hash of the plot. Yes, he was 88, but the Czech-born, British playwright, the true 20th century heir to Oscar Wilde, would never have arranged things so banally. "A severe blow to Logic" is how a character…...