SAN JOSE, Calif. — So many acts are claiming the yacht rock badge of honor in 2024, as fans of all ages embrace (or re-embrace) those pristine soft rock hits of yesteryear through Sirius/XM and other decidedly modern avenues.

For Bay Area band Pablo Cruise, however, the connection to the genre has been longer — and more literal — than for...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After a weekend that saw two of hip-hop's biggest stars trade increasingly ugly accusations of domestic violence and child sexual abuse, it's all but official: Kendrick Lamar has triumphed over Drake in what many have deemed the most significant rap beef of all time.

The verdict was handed down early Monday by the self-appointed...Read more

ATLANTA — In the film “The Idea of You,” the meet-cute happens when 40-year-old single mom Solène Marchand (Anne Hathaway) accidentally enters the trailer of 24-year-old boy band leader Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine) at Coachella while looking for a bathroom.

When she figures out the mistake, she reacts with a level of nonchalance ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil fell headfirst at an Atlantic City concert last week kicking off the band’s highly anticipated return to the stage.

Neil’s face-plant occurred minutes into the start of the “Too Young to Fall in Love” band’s Dogs of War tour, according to Ultimate Classic Rock.

Neil, 63, took a spill while...Read more

NEW YORK — A fashionably late Cardi B made a grand entrance with a very grand dress on the 2024 Met Gala carpet.

The “Bodak Yellow” rapper waited until the carpet was clear before making her way up the stairs of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to debut her epic look. She had to, given its size.

Going all out for the “Garden of Time” ...Read more

It’s been over five decades since the first “Planet of the Apes” movie premiered in 1968, and this week, the 10th “Planet of the Apes” film bows in theaters, “The Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,” seven years since the last "Apes" film. A franchise filled with sequels, remakes and reboots, here’s your guide to all things “...Read more

NEW YORK — Zendaya and Jennifer Lopez were all business in the front for the 2024 Met Gala.

As the first A-listers to dazzle the red carpet, the actresses — who served as co-chairs of fashion’s biggest night — didn’t have their boos on their arms; Tom Holland and Ben Affleck were noticeably absent.

Zendaya was an edgy, blue and green...Read more

NEW YORK — Actor Tom Selleck has plenty of reason to be blue as the end of “Blue Bloods” could also spell the end of one of the TV icon’s beloved homes.

The mustachioed “Magnum P.I.” star, 79, admitted that if the CBS police procedural ends as scheduled in December, that he might have to give up his sprawling 63-acre ranch in ...Read more

SEATTLE — Seattle-born rapper Macklemore released a new song Monday about the Israel-Hamas war with all proceeds, he says, benefiting United Nations relief workers.

Macklemore, born Benjamin Haggerty, released the single and accompanying music video on X.

The song, titled “Hind’s Hall,” references demonstrators at a Columbia University...Read more

Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change:

MAY

7: The Taste of Things

7: Altered Perceptions

7: Heavy

7: A Story of Floating Weeds / Floating Weeds: Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu

7: The Crow

14: Dune: Part Two

14: Imaginary

14: One Life

14: Land of Bad

14: The American Society of Magical ...Read more

Vera Drew wasn't sure anyone would ever see "The People's Joker."

"I think in the beginning it was just for myself to finally make a movie," says the filmmaker, on a Zoom call last month from her home in Los Angeles. "I wanted to make a film my entire life and I just hadn't yet, and it was the beginning of the pandemic and the world seemed like...Read more

The resumption of an epic sci-fi saga tops the DVD releases for the week of May 14.

"Dune: Part Two":

Director Denis Villeneuve continues his adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic novel with this sequel that follows Paul Atreides on Arrakis as he becomes one with the Fremen and accepts his destiny. Starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — When Corinthia Peoples seated herself in the front row for Bobby McFerrin’s weekly Circlesongs performance at Berkeley’s Freight & Salvage, she didn’t look like someone who lacked confidence.

The San Francisco resident came to the communal sing-along elegantly dressed in flowing white and wearing silver and stone ...Read more

SEATTLE — To transform an actor into a believable Olympic-level rower isn’t easy. Just ask the cast of the 2023 movie “The Boys in the Boat,” who came to Seattle to experience rowing up close at the Windermere Cup Regatta on the Montlake Cut — the same location where their 1930s counterparts trained for three years at the University of...Read more

Know that phrase “the numbers don’t lie”? It’s a lie. The numbers lie constantly. With the movies, as with every creative medium in which visionaries must cross the six-way intersection of greed, exploitation, risk, reward, art and commerce, it’s a mug’s game to lie about numbers not telling the whole story about anything.

This ...Read more

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