Lowell Cafe occupies a low-profile corner lot in West Hollywood, across from a synagogue, one block away from a Ralph’s grocery store. Just a few streets away, on Sunset Boulevard, there’s an In-N-Out Burger that’s usually packed with folks who have taken advantage of California‘s thriving legal weed market. But …
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The well-coiffed guys from the new K-pop supergroup, SuperM, are sitting around a conference room at the Capitol Records building in Los Angeles, and feeling like they may have left something on the table. Two days earlier, the seven-piece unit — put together using members from four established K-pop boy …
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The Trump administration on Tuesday stopped U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland from testifying before a House panel, blocking a planned deposition from Sondland that was to have been part of Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Last week, Kurt Volker, the former special envoy to Ukraine, turned …
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FKA Twigs taps into the suburban experience in her new video for “Home with You,” off of her upcoming album Magdalene, out October 25th. It depicts a hazy club scene that transforms into a journey back to the English countryside. “‘Home with You’ is a record that I’ve written from …
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Diahann Carroll, the groundbreaking actress who starred in Dynasty and Julia, has died at age 84. She was one of the first black actresses to have a major role on television. Carroll’s daughter Suzanne Kay confirmed that her mother died at home in Los Angeles following a long battle with …
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The title of Ronan Farrow’s upcoming #MeToo exposé, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators,is a reference to the practice of editors buying exclusive rights to a story that contains incriminating information, then burying it as a way of protecting the publication or its powerful allies. …
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Kim Shattuck, the singer and guitarist who co-founded and led the SoCal punk band the Muffs alongside contributions to Pixies and NOFX, died Wednesday at the age of 56. A rep for Shattuck’s band the Coolies confirmed her death to Rolling Stone. The cause was amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). “We …
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Selena Gomez serves as an executive producer for Netflix‘s Living Undocumented, which premieres on Wednesday, and her involvement in the project is a personal one. Ahead of the documentary series’ debut, the pop star penned an essay for Timein which she opened up about her family and shared her thoughts …
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Chance the Rapper, Future, A$AP Rocky and Meek Mill lead the lineup for Rolling Loud’s 2019 Los Angeles edition. Lil Uzi Vert, Juice WRLD, Young Thug, Lil Baby and Playboi Carti will also headline the hip-hop festival, set for December 14th and 15th at Banc of California Stadium. Other performers …
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Michelle Lewis and Kay Hanley, two songwriters who double as the executive directors of advocacy group Songwriters of North America, describe their roles as “first responders to a fire,” their organizational missive as “building an army for when the big fights erupt,” and their career trajectory as de facto union …
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