The Vista Theater in Los Feliz, CA, May 2024, in a photo by the author. The hundred-year-old Vista Theater is owned by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and is one of a number of ...
Perched in the undulating embrace of the Santa Monica Mountains, the iconic Hollywood sign stands as an emblem of ambition and achievement, its stark white letters a clarion call to storytellers and ...
One major virtue of the film historian Foster Hirsch’s teeming new book, “Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties,” is to bring the output of this extraordinary decade back into the forefront of ...
Fountain House Hollywood is a community run by people with serious mental health conditions such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder. The clubhouse model hasn’t taken off ...
The Hollywood sign is LA's monument to the entertainment industry. NPR's A Martinez talks to Alison Martino, a writer and amateur historian, about the signs origins and symbolism. The Hollywood sign ...
Synthetic performers are forcing Hollywood to rethink how fame works and who gets to claim it. Even as the technology races ahead, legal concerns are mounting. As AI creeps further into Hollywood, ...
On a recent Sunday afternoon, I visited the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which occupies a gleaming Renzo Piano building on the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, in Los Angeles. As ...
Since Tuesday morning, multiple fires have ravaged Los Angeles—resulting in at least five deaths, displacing more than 100,000 LA residents, and destroying more than 1,000 homes as well as entire ...