LOS ANGELES — Former Los Angeles Times film critic Justin Chang was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for criticism on Monday.

Chang was honored for his work published last year, led by an August article that defended director Christopher Nolan’s controversial decision to avoid depictions of the horrific atomic bombings of the Japanese cities ...Read more

CHICAGO — Chicago historian Jonathan Eig won a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography for “King: A Life,” his 2023 biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., a bestseller widely recognized for its monumental scope and fresh findings. Even some previous King biographers have called Eig’s work the new definitive narrative about the civil rights ...Read more

In a surprising move, Miss USA Noelia Voigt announced she was relinquishing her crown.

The 24-year-old Utah native cited her mental health as the reason she is stepping down from the title awarded to her Sept. 29, 2023.

“I realize this may come as a large shock to many,” she wrote in the caption of an Instagram post on Monday. “Never ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Jeannie Epper, a pioneering stuntwoman who performed in more than 100 films and television series, has died. She was 83.

Epper died Sunday night of natural causes surrounded by family at her home in Simi Valley, a spokesperson confirmed Monday.

In a long career spent bursting through doors, kicking down walls and falling off ...Read more

ATLANTA — The proud Columbia dad supports the students who have camped on campus to protest the situation in Gaza.

As long as his daughter hasn’t been among them, given the tuition he’s paying by driving for Uber, delivering for Uber Eats and working multiple other jobs (a year at Columbia approaches $70,000 per year, according to U.S. ...Read more

The latest man who’s been swept up in the chaos that seems to regularly surround Britney Spears’ is Paul Soliz Jr., her 37-year-old handyman and possible lover.

But a new report shows that Soliz, identified as a participant in Spears’ reported meltdown at the Chateau Marmont last week, has been dealing with plenty of personal chaos of his...Read more

Jeff Landry is between a rocker and a hard place.

Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger took a jab at the conservative Louisiana governor during the rock band’s sold-out performance Thursday at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

“We’re a welcoming crowd, aren’t we?” Jagger said to the thousands of festival attendees, per NBC ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Supermodel Bella Hadid is opening up about her life in Texas and living in Fort Worth.

Hadid, 27, has appeared in fashion and fragrance campaigns for over a decade amassing an estimated net worth of $25 million. She is one of the more well-known runway models in the business, accumulating over 60 million followers on ...Read more

ROCK HILL, S.C. — Who needs pomp and circumstance when you can give up the funk, instead?

The Mothership arrived in Rock Hill on Friday afternoon, as music icon George Clinton accepted an honorary doctorate degree from the college named for his great-great-grandfather, Bishop Isom Caleb Clinton.

"Today in Rock Hill, South Carolina," Clinton ...Read more

Prime Video’s “Gen V” is looking for a way forward without one of its young stars, who died unexpectedly in March.

Producers behind the college-set superhero drama updated fans about Season 2 in a social media statement posted over the weekend. “As we continue to navigate the tragic loss of Chance Perdomo, everyone at ‘Gen V’ is ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — This week’s return of San Diego’s Wonderfront Music & Arts Festival, after a one-year hiatus, comes at a time when the live-music industry is swirling with pressing questions.

Have music festivals peaked? As production costs soar ever higher, are there too many festivals competing for the same acts? Are there too few superstar...Read more

NEW YORK — The Met Gala returns to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday night in Manhattan, with celebrities from many fields expected to attend the glamorous event.

Here’s what to know about fashion’s biggest night:

When is it?

Guests are expected to arrive for the red carpet beginning at 6 p.m.

How can I watch?

The television ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Pamela Anderson once co-starred in a show on the Strip. She was magician Hans Klok’s sidekick in Klok’s short-lived “Beauty of Magic’ production at Planet Hollywood for six months in 2007. Anderson was the “Beauty” in this one.

The veteran actress is now portraying a Vegas performer theatrically, in Gia Coppola’s “...Read more

NEW YORK — Britney Spears’ father, Jamie, might have been right about keeping his daughter in the conservatorship that guarded her money for 14 years.

The court finally freed Britney to spend her dough, and she’s reportedly been squandering her savings on private jets and tropical vacations.

“People who know her father, Jamie, feel ...Read more

Bernard Hill, the British actor best known for his portrayal of embattled King Théoden in two of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy films and the stoic Capt. Edward Smith in “Titanic,” has died. He was 79.

Hill died early Sunday, his agent Lou Coulson confirmed to the BBC. No cause was given.

The actor’s breakout role was in the 1982 ...Read more

It may seem too early in the year for creatures of the night, but then, vampires prowl the Earth every season. To verify that, “Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire” returns for its second season on AMC and AMC+ Sunday.

And this time the ghouls are extradited to Europe to ply their evil deeds.

“We serve up a second season, which was ...Read more

RIO DE JANEIRO — Madonna knew they had been waiting — and she made them dance, get up and do their thing.

The pop diva wrapped her critically acclaimed Celebration World Tour on Saturday night with an emotional finale in front of 1.6 million fans on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach.

The 81st and final show of Madonna’s 12th concert ...Read more

A margin in the pages of her own life so far, the thwarted 33-year-old work-in-progress played by writer-director-editor Joanna Arnow has a name (Ann), and plenty of interests, notably musicals such as “The Phantom of the Opera” and “Les Miserables.” Her anti-romantic, sentiment-free daily existence pales in comparison.

For nearly a ...Read more

ATLANTA — During the production of Season 2 of “Will Trent,” set and shot in Atlanta, the cast and crew got news every TV show wants to hear: ABC had given them a third season.

“I never had that experience before,” said Ramon Rodriguez, who plays Will Trent, the titular Georgia Bureau of Investigations agent with no shortage of quirks...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Last month, Lenape High School senior Morgan Hann, 18, and a bunch of her friends hopped on a train for a big theater night on Broadway.

But it wasn't just any musical, and Hann and her friends weren't just any girls.

They went to see "Suffs," a musical based on South Jersey's own Alice Paul, a leader in the fight for women's ...Read more