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Good morning and thanks for reading the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter! I’m novelist and punk historian Jim Ruland, and even though I love books, when the temperature rises, you …

As another terrifyingly significant presidential election nears, it’s hard not to fantasize about how different things could be. Imagine, for instance, having a president who put deeply held values above …

Ladies and gents, this is the moment you’ve waited for — “The Greatest Showman” is coming to the stage. Disney Theatricals is developing a stage musical adaptation of the hit …

Tilman Singer’s “Cuckoo” is a horror film that‘s unlike anything you’ve ever seen, even though it pays overt homage to its predecessors in the genre. The German writer-director gleefully combines …

Late last year, Victor Montalvo and Grace Choi rode around on a double-decker bus in Los Angeles, signing autographs and doing press as athletes who would be representing the United …

It’s a warm(ish) afternoon, not too bad for August, though I’m sure we’ll hear the dog days barking again soon enough. Which is probably why I’ve spent the last half …

Cate Blanchett has revealed that she and fellow cast members of one of the highest-grossing film series, “The Lord of the Rings,” weren’t paid nearly as much as you might …

Los Ángeles Azules have forged their path across generations of cumbia listeners, from Iztapalapa to the world. Now they are set to perform and receive the 2024 Hispanic Heritage Award …

In August 2007, an endless white space appeared on Nickelodeon’s Nick Jr., into which stepped a man wearing an orange track suit and a fuzzy orange hat. He carried a …

No vision board, no grand plan, no dreams of greatness. The only thing comedian Sebastian Maniscalco really knew when he came to Los Angeles from the suburbs of Illinois 26 …