Staff and volunteers at the Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance help immigrant workers apply to a federal program that grants temporary work permits for people who are undocumented. (Suhauna Hussain / Los Angeles Times) A line of immigrant workers formed outside an office building in Koreatown on a recent Friday afternoon. They followed makeshift signs to … Read more
The young boy looked sharp, decked out in an orange-brown suit. His warm smile gave no hint of the hard times he faced in Miami’s rough Liberty City neighborhood. “That kid looks quite chill,” said Barry Jenkins of the picture of his younger self he has saved on his phone. “I’m about 6 years old, … Read more
‘Flow,’ a story that hinges on a cat’s tale Over the 95-year history of the Academy Awards, a Latvian film has never been nominated for an Oscar. In 2025, it’s possible that Gints Zilbalodis’ celebrated wonder “Flow” will earn not only an animated feature nomination but a spot in the international film category as well. … Read more
Jim O’Heir, author of “Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation.” (HarperCollins) On the Shelf ‘Welcome to Pawnee’ By Jim O’HeirWilliam Morrow: 272 pages, $30If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Jim O’Heir had a good career … Read more
Sad news from the world of television, as Paul Teal has passed away at the age of 35. Teal had a recurring role on the popular teen drama One Tree Hill, which ran on the WB and the CW from 2003 to 2012. News of his passing comes to us courtesy of his fiancee, Emilia … Read more
Sonny Bono and Cher at an awards show. ( From Cher) On the shelf Cher: The Memoir, Part One Dey Street Books, 432 pages, $31If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. The young woman in the black-and-white photograph peers at the … Read more
“Out of Oklahoma” singer Lainey Wilson isn’t from the OK state, but she knows a thing or two about uncomfortably going ho-o-o-o-o-o-ome, as she sings in the summer action movie “Twisters.” “I didn’t live out a lot of the things that Kate did in the movie,” she says of the onetime tornado chaser played by … Read more
Elle Macpherson, author of “Elle: Life, Lessons, and Learning to Trust Yourself.” (Adam Whitehead) On the Shelf ‘Elle’ By Elle MacphersonBenBella Books: 384 pages, $30If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Even Elle Macpherson, a model who would come to be … Read more
“Emilia Pérez” is not what most would conjure when thinking of a movie musical. And therein lies its superpower. Its writer-director, Jacques Audiard, chose to tell the story of a brutal Mexican drug cartel lord (played by Karla Sofía Gascón) who undergoes profound changes in midlife — including gender-reassignment surgery — as a romantic, comic, … Read more
Cynthia Erivo defies more than gravity It’s an autumn day in New York, which prompts Cynthia Erivo to start singing the opening lines of the jazz standard of that name because, as I learn through our hour together, it does not take much prodding to get Erivo to break out in song. She serenades me … Read more
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