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Barry Manilow is back with Las Vegas Christmas show
LAS VEGAS — Cue up, “Santa-Cabana.”
Not really. But Barry Manilow’s seasonal production “A Very Barry Christmas” is making its way back to Westgate’s International Theater. The shows run Dec. 5-7 and Dec. 12-14.
For the second straight holiday season, the show is airing on NBC at 10 p.m. Dec. 19.
Backed by a bolstered horn ...Read more
Jason Kelce, Stevie Nicks release Christmas duet
Jason Kelce has a new teammate in Stevie Nicks, as the unlikely pair has released a Christmas duet.
The recently retired Philadelphia Eagles Center, 37, and two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, 76, dropped “Maybe This Christmas” on YouTube Thursday. The country-twinged track is now available to stream and will be appear on the third Philly ...Read more
Who's really the 'puppet'? Jimmy Kimmel returns Elon Musk's 'propaganda' shade
LOS ANGELES — Jimmy Kimmel, dubbed an “insufferable nonsense propaganda puppet” by Elon Musk earlier this week, has fired back at the Tesla CEO. He said it takes one to know one.
The Emmy-winning late-night host served Musk’s social media shade right back at him on Thursday, poking fun in his opening monologue that “the guy who paid ...Read more
Quincy Jones 'WAS love,' Rashida Jones says: 'Daddy, it is an honor to be your daughter'
Actor Rashida Jones, the daughter of composer Quincy Jones, commemorated her late father on Thursday with a bounty of descriptors, calling him a giant, icon, culture shifter and genius.
But most importantly, in her opinion, "He WAS love."
The "Parks and Recreation" and "Angie Tribeca" star, who along with her six siblings confirmed that the ...Read more
Here's the complete list of 2025 Grammy nominees
LOS ANGELES — Here is the full list of nominees for the 67th Grammy Awards.
This year's list of top nominees include Beyoncé (11), Charli XCX (7), Billie Eilish (7), Kendrick Lamar (7), Post Malone (7), Sabrina.Carpenter (6), Chappell Roan (6), and Taylor Swift (6).
The award show broadcast will return to Los Angeles' Crypto.com Arena on ...Read more
KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas returns with Smashing Pumpkins, Beck and 311
ANAHEIM, Calif. — KROQ-FM 106.7 and its parent company Audacy’s Almost Acoustic Christmas holiday concert will return to the Kia Forum in Inglewood on Dec. 14.
The station revealed that the Smashing Pumpkins, Beck, 311, Sublime, Jimmy Eat World, Franz Ferdinand, Royel Otis, AWOLNATION, the Linda Lindas and bby will perform at the 2024 ...Read more
'The Piano Lesson' review: Film adaptation strikes a beautiful note
At heart, August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” is a ghost story. Set in 1930s Pittsburgh (other than a brief prologue in 1911 Mississippi), it’s the story of the Charles family, literally haunted by memories represented by an ornate upright piano. The instrument was originally owned by the Southern family who enslaved the Charleses’ ...Read more
'Blitz' review: A musical tale of love amid WWII's devastation
In Steve McQueen’s moving World War II drama “Blitz,” Saoirse Ronan puts an entire life into a song. Her character Rita, who works in a munitions factory, has just sent her 9-year-old son George (Elliott Heffernan) to the countryside for safety, away from the bombs falling on London; now she’s singing on a radio broadcast from the ...Read more
Review: 'Blitz' stars Saiorse Ronan as a 1940 wartime Londoner searching for her son
“Blitz” is writer-director Steve McQueen’s wartime survival drama, consistently tense and persistently string-pulling. It relays a story of London in 1940 under attack, with a protagonist that never would’ve had the chance to center a screen narrative when McQueen was growing up.
Some of the images evoke a harrowing chunk of history in ...Read more
Grammys 2025: Top nominees include Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift
SAN DIEGO — Beyoncé or Taylor Swift? Post Malone or Kendrick Lamar? The Beatles or Rolling Stones? Sabrina Carpenter or Chappell Roan? Dolly Parton or former President Jimmy Carter?
The list of nominees announced Friday morning for the 67th annual Grammy Awards is filled with expected and unexpected contenders alike, along with a record ...Read more
2025 Grammy nominations: All the snubs and surprises
LOS ANGELES — This year's Grammy field is dominated by queens of pop — Taylor, Beyoncé and Billie, and now Chappell and Sabrina too. But with a recent deep changing of the guard in the Academy's voting ranks, the Grammys' shifting tastes are reflected in who they rewarded — and left out. Here are a few of the notable surprises and snubs ...Read more
Beyoncé makes history (again) with 11 nominations for 2025 Grammy Awards
LOS ANGELES — When Beyoncé took the prize for best dance/electronic album at the Grammy Awards last year with "Renaissance," the pop superstar became the winningest artist in the nearly seven-decade history of music's most prestigious awards show.
Now she's history's most-nominated act as well.
As announced Friday morning by the Recording ...Read more
Sueños 2025 will have a second stage and Peso Pluma back as headliner
CHICAGO — Sueños Music Festival on Thursday announced that Peso Pluma will be a headliner when the two-day festival returns to Grant Park next Memorial Day weekend for a fourth time.
The annual festival of Latin music and reggaeton will also have a second stage, more staff, additional entrances and larger grounds in 2025, and has inked a ...Read more
Review: 'Intimate Apparel' at the Arden Theatre
PHILADELPHIA — How can you love someone you've never met?
This isn't a question posed by the reality show "Love Is Blind," but by Lynn Nottage's historical drama "Intimate Apparel," where a Black seamstress in New York and a manual laborer in Panama forge a relationship through love letters — only to unravel after they say "I do."
The play...Read more
Inside the Bay Area silent film museum that honors Charlie Chaplin
SAN JOSE, Calif. — There is perhaps only one place in America that shows weekly silent movies on antique projectors using the original film prints, the light flickering across the screen as stories unfold. And that is the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in the Fremont community of Niles, a historic Hollywood-type enclave where Charlie Chaplin...Read more
Christina Haack's ex-husbands to star in HGTV show alongside her
In early 2025, HGTV star Christina Haack is set to star in a new show titled “The Flip Off.”
Joining her as stars of the show are her ex-husband Tarek El Moussa and his wife Heather Rae El Moussa. Haack’s estranged husband, Josh Hall was also expected to take part in the competition show, but was removed from the lineup as a result of ...Read more
3 suspects charged in Liam Payne's death, including hotel employee and alleged dealer
In the ongoing investigation into One Direction singer Liam Payne’s death, three suspects have been charged for their alleged involvement in the pop star’s sudden demise last month.
The National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office of Argentina announced Thursday in a statement shared in Spanish that it has found evidence of “...Read more
Oddball opera has a glorious moment in LA, meatballs and all
LOS ANGELES — If Los Angeles has a reputation for opera, it is as an outlier, a city freed from encrusted tradition and eager to invent. Long Beach Opera, the Industry and the Los Angeles Philharmonic have together created an enviable engine for remaking opera.
In the recently published “A New Philosophy of Art” by Industry founder Yuval ...Read more
After controversial snub, 'Piano Lesson' returns Danielle Deadwyler to Oscar race
LOS ANGELES — Danielle Deadwyler was not expecting to cry.
The actor, who won accolades in 2022 for her heartbreaking performance as civil rights advocate Mamie Till-Mobley in "Till," was describing the emotional journey of her latest project, "The Piano Lesson," when she suddenly leaned sideways in her chair, twisting her neck at an awkward ...Read more
Mark Wahlberg's Las Vegas restaurant reopens after minor fire
Social media posts, as they are wont do, made things seem much worse than they were.
But Instagram drama is not always fact, and the flames surging outside Flecha Cantina in Town Square, with alarms blaring, were limited to the terrace in front of the restaurant, said Randy Sharpe, CEO of Wahlburgers, the restaurant group founded by Mark ...Read more
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