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Hazel Scott from “American Masters – The Disappearance of Miss Scott.” (Everett) The name Hazel Scott should probably be as well known as Billie Holiday or Lena Horne. A jazz virtuoso and classical pianist, the one-time child prodigy became one of the most well-known entertainment figures of the 1930s and ‘40s, playing in some of … Read more

A new survey found that Americans are divided on if life was better in the 1950s. Nutrition is one of the areas where there’s been a lot of development in the last 70 years. Getty Images “Happy Days” are here again? The viral tradwife movement, which encourages women to be homemakers and men to be … Read more

Russell Peters performs at the Comedy Store (Troy Conrad) Russell Peters has done the requisite Netflix stand-up specials (and a Prime Video one to boot), but he was making a point in 2016 when he called his second one “Almost Famous.” The Canadian-born comic, 54, was setting records in Canada, the U.K. and Australia with … Read more

Silicon Valley elites are quietly appointing themselves ancestors of the future. As American fertility rates continue to hit record lows — well below the “replacement rate” from one generation to the next — the pronatalism movement has found a foothold in the tech world. Elon Musk — who apparently now has 13 children — has openly … Read more

‘Queen Sugar’ actor Kofi Siriboe dives into the art world with his first L.A. exhibition On an early afternoon in Koreatown, Kofi Siriboe and two of his friends are meticulously balancing four small paintings against a plain white gallery wall. “That is cold,” says Siriboe as he takes a step back to analyze the arrangement … Read more

Demonstrators call for the remaining Israeli hostages to be released as part of a cease-fire deal outside the U.S. Embassy offices in Tel Aviv on Feb. 4. (Alexi Rosenfeld / Getty Images) Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War I. Their … Read more

PBS President and Chief Executive Paula Kerger at the network’s corporate headquarters. (David Butow / For The Times) Forty years ago, the Reagan administration told PBS to find ways to increase funding for public television outside of taxpayer dollars. It did. PBS’ response to the challenge was to enhance the way it acknowledged sponsors. Instead … Read more

Katy Perry has been slammed as “unforgivable” by the family of an elderly veteran who was slapped with a $6 million lawsuit by the singer. Perry and her fiancé, Orlando Bloom, emerged victorious in 2023 in their legal battle over a lavish Montecito, Calif., mansion — which they bought for $14.2 million in 2021 and was … Read more

A$AP Relli, who testified against A$AP Rocky in court, has broken his silence after the rapper was found not guilty of two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm in Los Angeles on Tuesday.   Rocky, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, faced up to 24 years in prison if convicted of the assault stemming from an … Read more

Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Wang in “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” (David Bornfriend / A24) From IRS audits to sentient rocks to hot dog hands and beyond, the mundane and the inane collide with the profound in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” the Michelle Yeoh A24 action sci-fi pic that’s drawn at-times-ecstatic acclaim since opening … Read more