Month: December 2019

In 1923, prominent Los Angeles music booster Artie Mason Carter, known as the “mother of the Hollywood Bowl,” made a grand declaration on the city’s future: “It is impossible to sing and frown, and there is no better way of molding this city, with its continuous influx of strangers, into one solid mass of fine…

When it comes to legends, it’s hard to think of two actors more deserving of the title than Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce — both have been knighted for their contributions to the arts, both have long and storied resumes on stage, film and television. So when Fernando Meirelles began to consider who might be…

The premise is simple: Suppose there were a single Academy Awards ceremony that included all the top movies and performances of all time? Would “Casablanca” beat “The Wizard of Oz”? How would you pick between Ingrid Bergman and Cher? Who would win lead actor, director? Whom would you choose as host? And if, in this…

In her first show in L.A., Paris-based Tatiana Trouvé stages architectural interventions in both large galleries at Gagosian. One leans dystopian, the other utopian. Both are ambitiously staged, immersive environments that insinuate themselves into the psychic realm via the physical, dramatically redefining the spaces our bodies move through. Both rely on high production values and…

Travelers visiting Denver this holiday season won’t find any pine or fir needles on the city’s signature Mile High tree. Instead, they’ll find LED lights — 60,000, to be specific — on a 110-foot-tall sculptured tree at one of the entrances to the Denver Performing Arts Complex. “We have never actually done anything like this…

Weekend visitors to Griffith Park who go car-free will be able to explore attractions other than the observatory without spending a dime or breaking a sweat. A new hop-on, hop-off shuttle will stop at a dozen locations throughout the park, including Travel Town and the Autry Museum. The GP Parkline shuttle service, which Mayor Eric…

Embrace holiday mode with tamales, lights shows, parades and snowfall at these close-to-home events. Oxnard Tamales come all kinds of ways — including drizzled in mole, wrapped in banana leaves or filled with pineapple — at the Oxnard Tamale Festival at downtown’s Plaza Park. Sip Mexican hot chocolate as you shop for gifts, watch dance…

Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai will take over the top job at the search giant’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., as co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin step away from their roles as CEO and president, respectively. Page and Brin, who founded Google in 1998, will continue to serve as Alphabet “board members, shareholders and co-founders,”…

Bumble Bee Foods former Chief Executive Chris Lischewski was convicted in a price-fixing conspiracy, capping a years-long U.S. investigation that shook the packaged-seafood industry and pushed Bumble Bee into bankruptcy protection last month. Lischewski was found guilty Tuesday by a federal jury in San Francisco after just a few hours of deliberations in what experts…

Dressed in a black suit and wearing a somber expression, Elon Musk testified in a Los Angeles federal court Tuesday that he was merely trading insults with a British cave rescue diver when he called him a “pedo guy” on Twitter. Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla and SpaceX, is accused of defaming Vernon…