Entertainment

Column: The Eaton fire claimed her home, studio and this ‘powerful’ piece of Oscars history Six years ago, midway through the 91st Academy Awards telecast, a walnut Steinway and Sons Model B grand piano took center stage at the Dolby Theatre. After being smoothly propelled from the wings, it stood for a moment alone, its lid … Read more

Clifton Davis, left, and Tamara Tunie star as the heads of the affluent Dupree family in “Beyond the Gates,” the new history-making soap opera premiering on CBS Monday. (Quantrell Colbert / CBS) It has been more than 25 years since “Passions,” the last new daytime soap opera to air on American network TV, debuted on … Read more

With “The Aviator,” Cate Blanchett became the first actress to win an Oscar for playing a real-life Oscar-winning actress. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) Never question the way Hollywood loves a good old biopic. After all, the 77th Academy Awards ceremony, held on Feb. 27, 2005, at the Kodak Theatre in Los … Read more

The war is over: not the war in Ukraine or Gaza – I mean the war on inflation.  Shoppers, understandably, are still freaking out in the grocery aisles, most recently over egg prices. Meanwhile, economists, politicos and pundits continue to sweat allegedly “sticky” categories for goods and services and rising wages – especially after January’s … Read more

Fire debris is washing up on L.A.’s beaches. County officials warn the public to steer clear The gunk has turned up on shorelines from Malibu to Redondo Beach: ghostly lines of charred black bits and melted debris left behind by retreating waves. It’s a mix of ash, sand and pulverized flecks of burned wood and … Read more

People protest Elon Musk’s dramatic cuts to U.S. government departments outside the Treasury Department in Washington on Feb. 4. (Jose Luis Magana / Associated Press) To the editor: The Times has done a superb job covering the recent fires, with multiple stories on the front page almost every day since those disasters struck. But there … Read more

President Trump speaks to reporters as he signs a executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on Feb. 4. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press) To the editor: When President Trump signed an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America,” it seemed like a crass and jingoistic but relatively … Read more

Eggs sit for sale at a grocery store in Maine on Jan. 27. (Robert F. Bukaty / Associated Press) To the editor: The crisis isn’t that eggs are now more expensive. The crisis is that there are billions of chickens being tortured and slaughtered to provide meat and eggs. And now, more chickens are being … Read more

Unlike “We Were the Lucky Ones,” Georgia Hunter’s second novel is based on an invented story rather than her own family history. (Andrea Carson) Book Review One Good Thing: A Novel By Georgia HunterPamela Dorman Books/Viking: 432 pages, $30If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose … Read more

Hmong refugees from Laos attended a cultural orientation class at a refugee camp in Thailand. Less than 1% of refugees ultimately resettle through humanitarian programs. (Paula Bronstein / Getty Images) One of Donald Trump’s first actions after assuming office in January was to halt the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, declaring it “detrimental to the interests … Read more