Miller Sanford CHSLDs used to serve champagne, turkey and stuffing to long-term residents and family. Now they get the same old hospital tray. The CIUSSS says it has “has adapted the format of its holiday celebrations to offer a warm and festive time for our residents and their families, while taking into account current operational realities.”Photo by … Read more
Since “Bend It Like Beckham” instantly made her a teenage superstar 22 years ago, Keira Knightley has done virtually everything an actor can do. She has appeared in World War II dramas and apocalypticcomedies. She has sung and played the guitar. She has even — gasp — performed in an American accent. But unlike other … Read more
OC surfer and punk vocalist Steve “Crabby” Cabler, who barely survived the 2002 Bali bombing that claimed the lives of more than 200 people, photographed at his home in Costa Mesa. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Steve Cabler was living it up in Bali: surfing all day and partying all night. He’d traveled … Read more
Jentry Chau’s supernatural powers make her the target of demon attacks in “Jentry Chau vs. the Underworld.” (Netflix) Echo Wu was around 5 or 6 years old when she told her parents she wanted to be a cartoonist. At the time, she’d meant it in the more classical sense of cartooning, like those in magazines … Read more
How high can ‘Wicked’ fly? Competition for top musicals is extremely high “Wicked” has a high bar to clear to rank as a top-grossing musical, let alone score major Oscar gold: The five top-grossing Hollywood musicals have exceeded the $1-billion mark worldwide, and the next three under that, including best picture nominee “Bohemian Rhapsody,” are … Read more
Job applicants with Jewish names or Jewish-linked prior employers were less likely to get responses for administrative assistant gigs, a troubling new study by the Anti-Defamation League Wednesday claims. The ADL conducted a field experiment that sent out 3,000 applications for administrative assistant job postings via Craigslist.org between May and October of this year in … Read more
‘Blitz’s’ transformation of a child in wartime “Blitz” is a stirring journey across World War II England through the eyes of a young boy named George (Elliott Heffernan) as he tries to reunite with his mother, Rita (Saoirse Ronan), at their East London home. In framing Steve McQueen’s historical depiction of Germany’s eight-month-long bombing campaign, … Read more
Best of 2024: Eleven bright spots in classical music during a dark, complicated year Classical music has been on the front lines in a year marked by division and distraction, protest and intolerance, war and suffering. A pro-Palestinian UCLA student encampment fell under violent attack in April on the same day that, just across the … Read more
Demi Moore has drawn the most focused awards attention of her career for her bold performance in “The Substance” as actor and fitness guru Elisabeth Sparkle, who takes an illicit drug in an attempt to retrieve her youth. But looking back, Moore is a veteran of the major awards circuit. 1991 Moore received a lead … Read more
The iconic tree was finally lit up Wednesday night with the helps of some famous performers taking to the stage. AFP via Getty Images Flavor Flav claims his festive spirit was broken when NBC officials allegedly kicked him out of the Backstreet Boys dressing room at the Rockefeller Christmas Tree Lighting in NYC on Wednesday … Read more
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