Thousands of Tyler, the Creator fans gathered Saturday night at Dodger Stadium to mark 10 years of the rapper’s taste-making festival, Camp Flog Gnaw. The two-day, L.A.-centric smorgasboard of hip-hop …
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Netflix’s Tyson-Paul fight watched by 60 million households
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesNetflix looked for the silver lining in the technically flawed live stream of the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight on Friday. The Los Gatos, Calif.-based streaming giant said 60 million households …
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Even before Denis Villeneuve’s big-screen, two-part 2021 film introduced it to moviegoers who had missed David Lynch’s enjoyably bonkers 1984 adaptation, Frank Herbert’s “Dune” had become exploited IP. Herbert completed …
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Plan to shutter Aliso Canyon gas facility isn’t moving fast enough
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesGood morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Sunday. I’m your host, Andrew J. Campa. Here’s what you need to know to start your weekend: Newsletter Sign up …
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Charli XCX helps ‘SNL’ go brat, pulling double duty as host and performer
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesAfter a strange, dark turn last week, when Bill Burr hosted the post-presidential election episode of “Saturday Night Live,” the show bounced back by flexing its pop culture muscles. By …
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Sabrina Carpenter brings out Christina Aguilera at Crypto.com Arena
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesIn late 2022, Sabrina Carpenter was a hard-working Disney Channel journeyman just getting out from beneath the pop-culture ignominy of having been cast as the bad-guy “blond girl” in Olivia …
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A favorite L.A. brunch is back — and better than ever — at Kismet
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesDo your tastes lean sweet or savory for the day’s first meal? At home, the answer for me is simple: savory, mostly involving a soft scramble that incorporates whatever among …
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Haruki Murakami and other writers grapple with post-COVID reality
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesSince 1979, Haruki Murakami has written more than a dozen imaginative novels concerned with the nature of reality. He says he tends to incorporate weird events that occur as he …
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Jenny Mollen finds out she has lice — in the middle of a 5-hour flight
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesActress Jenny Mollen is itching to make sure everyone knows she didn’t realize she had head lice until she was already on her recent five-hour flight. Mollen, whose husband is …
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‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’ review: Jazz, African politics
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesDecolonization gets the ultimate needle-drop treatment in the documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” from Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez. It’s a dazzling, tune-filled collage of images, words and sounds, recounting …