LOS ANGELES -- A parolee who was shot along with Nipsey Hussle on March 31 outside the rapper's clothing shop was released from Men's Central Jail early Saturday, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

Kerry Lathan, 56, who suffered a gunshot wound to the back, was transported to the jail last week after his arrest for a ...Read more

Ahead of Earth Day 2019, which is Monday, rapper and comedian Lil Dicky has assembled dozens of stars for an anthemic and bawdy "Earth" music video, ripping names from the pop charts and beyond to sing about climate change.

"Why did it take me so long to get wind of this?," Lil Dicky said in a release. "I feel like everybody on the planet ...Read more

Barry Watson stresses while it might look like the only acting projects he's attracted to have to do with family, he has done a variety of roles over the years. It's just that the decade he spent on the family-oriented "7th Heaven" along with the series "Date My Dad" plus heartfelt films like "My Future Boyfriend," "An Hour Behind" and "Far From...Read more

NEW YORK -- "Can I touch you?" John Lithgow's Bill asks Laurie Metcalf's Hillary.

If looks could kill, the audience for Lucas Hnath's "Hillary and Clinton" at Broadway's Golden Theatre would be watching Lithgow vaporize, right there in front of their eyes.

What greater enigma -- what more compelling paradox -- in the dying years of the 20th ...Read more

If you were there -- or if you just watched it on YouTube -- then you know that Beyonce's performance at the 2018 Coachella festival may have been the greatest concert of our time.

A loving and deeply thought-through re-creation of a halftime show at a historically black college, Beychella (as it quickly became known) blew minds with the scale ...Read more

When Chrissy Metz was filming her first scenes for "Breakthrough," she prayed like she had never prayed before. She cried, she wailed, she pleaded with God. She wept over her onscreen son's unresponsive body 10 times in a row, and brought tears to the eyes of her fellow cast and crew members.

"It's such a pivotal part of the story, so I wanted ...Read more

"Fast Color" is a nifty little film, a smart, adventurous and surprising production made with visible care and considerable love. It's also a superhero movie with strong science fiction elements, but nothing like the way we're used to seeing them.

While movies of the Marvel and DC variety are today's movie establishment, the genre's origins are...Read more

INDIO, Calif. -- Julie Herrera has been to the vast Coachella festival a few times before. But on Wednesday night, on a bench outside Indio's Riverside County Fairgrounds, the 29-year-old from Coachella felt a little more at home.

"My mom used to play Los Tucanes de Tijuana when we were growing up," she said, just before the legendary Norteno ...Read more

"Red Joan" is a traditional production, polished as brass and as old-school diverting as a film starring Judi Dench and directed by Trevor Nunn would have to be.

But there is also a kind of hollowness at its center, a tone that is more conventional than compelling. "Red Joan's" time frame and its loosely based-on-fact story line have intrinsic ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Can the famously smart and creative minds at Hamilton Inc. pull off their biggest gamble yet?

With the acclaimed visual designer David Korins spinning the artistic roulette wheel, the brain trust of the most successful Broadway musical in modern history have picked Chicago for their huge new wager on brand extension and title ...Read more

You may not see a better movie with a worse title this year than "Her Smell."

Scratch that, actually; the title's perfect. It's the name of the rock club where we meet the pop supernova that is Becky Something (a mesmerizing Elisabeth Moss), who fronts an all-female punk band called Something She. But it also captures something of the acrid ...Read more

Rapper Kodak Black was arrested Wednesday night near Niagara Falls, N.Y., after he and friends were trying to cross the border from Canada and admitted they had marijuana and firearms in their two vehicles, police said.

The 21-year-old, whose real name is Bill K. Kapri, was driving two friends in a Cadillac Escalade across the Lewiston-...Read more

We can always count on Beyonce for a pop-culture kapow.

In the wee hours of Wednesday morning, Netflix dropped "Homecoming: A Film by Beyonce," a two-hour-and-17-minute performance and behind-the-scenes documentary about Queen Bey's fantastical, unforgettable nod to black colleges, black womanhood and overall blackness from the 2018 Coachella ...Read more

CHICAGO -- A few years ago I asked "Veep" showrunner David Mandel why he thought the cast of the long-running HBO comedy (now in its final season) was stacked so deeply with performers from Chicago. He told me it's because the show is "so much about reality -- and there's so much reality at the basis of Chicago improv and Chicago theater."

Matt...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- "Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event" was a celebration of Merce Cunningham on what would have been the 100th birthday of one the most pioneering and influential choreographers in contemporary dance.

Billed as the largest Cunningham event ever, "Night of 100 Solos" took the form of three performances Tuesday, one at the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Merce Cunningham died 10 years ago at 90. He was easily the greatest choreographer of the second half of the 20th century and a teeny bit into the 21st. He left behind an enormous body of work. He passed on new techniques of movement to generations of dancers, while his profound ways of thinking about the meaning of movement have ...Read more