LOS ANGELES — Sam Rubin, a veteran journalist who anchored KTLA’s entertainment coverage for more than 30 years, died Friday in Los Angeles. He was 64.

Anchor Frank Buckley confirmed the reporter’s death during an emotional announcement on Friday afternoon. Fighting back tears as he announced the news on the air, Buckley called his ...Read more

MIAMI — For the first time in 57 years, Cubans will have a representative in the Miss Universe contest. The queen, who will be chosen in Miami, will be “the most high-profile and anticipated woman of this edition,” said Venezuelan designer Julio César Cruz, director of Miss Universe Cuba, the group behind the return of the pageant.

The ...Read more

In April, Heritage Auctions heralded the discovery of the original model of the U.S.S. Enterprise, the iconic starship that whooshed through the stars in the opening credits of the 1960s TV series "Star Trek" but had mysteriously disappeared around 45 years ago.

The auction house, known for its dazzling sales of movie and television props and ...Read more

NEW YORK — Leave it to Jon Stewart to put Donald Trump’s hush money trial into a very unique perspective.

The Emmy Award-winning funnyman ripped the obsessive media coverage of testimony from porn star Stormy Daniels during the former president’s New York City court proceedings this week.

“It has been another big week of wall-to-wall, ...Read more

In the course of a week, Drake's mansion in Toronto has been the site of a shooting and two separate incidents of alleged trespassing.

Toronto police officers reported back to the "God's Plan" rapper's home Thursday afternoon after receiving a call about a trespasser at the Bridle Path property, The Times confirmed. The call came in around 3:...Read more

ATLANTA — “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” takes the saga 300 years into the future from the last film in 2017, focused around a tribe of apes who nurture eagles and possess no real knowledge about what happened in the 21st century.

At this point, humans are rendered mute, feral and dumb due to a man-made virus while apes now speak and...Read more

DENVER — Montreal’s Arcade Fire will play its only North American show of 2024 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre to mark the 20th anniversary of landmark album “Funeral.”

The LP, which launched the band’s influential sing-along anthems in the early 2000s, was released on Sept. 14, 2004, by indie stalwart Merge Records. Arcade Fire’s 20th ...Read more

Cypress Hill broke the mold in the early 1990s with a unique blend of hip-hop, Latin and rock on top of its unabashedly open embrace of legalizing marijuana.

Three decades later, the core group Sen Dog, B-Real, DJ Muggs and drummer Eric “Bobo” Correa remain intact, still hitting the road as acceptance of pot both as a medicinal and ...Read more

Can't Belieb it? Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber are not having twins, despite what the singer's mom led some fans to think when they announced Thursday that they were expecting.

Patti Mallette, the mother of the "Baby" and "Peaches" singer, clarified that the couple has only one baby on the way after followers misinterpreted a comment she ...Read more

Drake’s mansion in Toronto has seen its second would-be intruder in just two days.

Local police were contacted about a person trespassing on the property on Thursday afternoon.

A trespasser got into an altercation with Drake’s security and was later taken to the hospital, TMZ reported.

The incidents come amid the rapper’s beef with ...Read more

Taylor Swift kicked off the European leg of her Eras Tour in Paris with numerous changes, including new outfits, frightening visuals and an altered set list featuring songs from “The Tortured Poets Department.”

During the show on Thursday, Swift announced she was condensing her “Evermore” and “Folklore” eras into a single “...Read more

After a transitional trilogy of specials that saw the return of popular Tenth Doctor David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and introduced his successor Ncuti Gatwa, followed by a Christmas special that brought companion Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) on board, "Doctor Who" now embarks on its official new full season, the first on Disney+.

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Jeremy Strong, the Emmy Award-winning actor who played eldest son and troubled soul Kendall Roy on HBO’s hit TV show "Succession," is in talks to star in the much-anticipated Bruce Springsteen film "Deliver Me From Nowhere." Strong would play Springsteen’s longtime manager Jon Landau, a development first reported by Variety.

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Justin and Hailey Bieber have already picked out the name for their baby, baby, baby — which will arrive this summer.

The 30-year-old pop star and 27-year-old model, who announced on Thursday that they’re expecting, “have a name that they think is perfect,” a source told People.

“They will be great parents, and Justin will be super ...Read more

BALTIMORE — “Lady in the Lake,” a limited television series based on a bestselling novel by the Baltimore crime writer Laura Lippman, will premiere July 19 on Apple TV+.

The subscription TV streaming service announced Wednesday that the first two of seven episodes will drop July 19, to be followed by one episode every Friday through Aug. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys founder whose life was chronicled in the movie “Love & Mercy,” was placed under a conservatorship Thursday more than three months after the death of wife Melinda Wilson, who was his primary caregiver.

Wilson’s publicist, Jean Sievers, and business manager LeeAnn Hard were appointed Thursday as ...Read more

“Cheers” stars Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson are reuniting again and returning to their roots for a new podcast named after the theme song from their hit 1980s sitcom.

The two Emmy winners will launch “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” for SiriusXM on June 12.

According to the subscription-based streamer, listeners can expect Danson ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The 40th anniversary of "Purple Rain" is coming this summer and Minnesota is all in to join the party.

To celebrate the 1984 movie that catapulted Prince to international stardom, the Minnesota History Center will showcase one of his iconic outfits from the film.

A purple trench coat with a studded right shoulder and white ...Read more

Broadway found room this spring for classics from two titans of modern drama — Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” and Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya.”

It’s thrilling that at such an uncertain time in the American theater, artistic ingenuity and producing muscle were lavished on high-profile revivals of these works. The buzz-...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As the opening notes of “Luna de Xelajú” ring through the Getty Center’s Harold M. Williams Auditorium, a few heads in the front row begin to sway along to the sound of the marimba and the bass.

“Luna gardenia de plata,” Sara Curruchich croons into the mic, drawing applause from those in the audience who instantly ...Read more