The inaugural SXSW London, which will take place across at least 20 venues in the Shoreditch area of east London, has set 2025 dates of June 2 – 7. The London spinoff will mark the first European edition of the celebrated Austin festival,…
EXCLUSIVE: After weeks of withholding money in the aftermath of Joe Biden’s June 27 debate debacle, top Hollywood donors are already breaking out their checkbooks on the news Sunday that Biden has dropped out of the race and endorsed Vice…
UPDATED, 6:06 PM: It has been a very busy day for the Biden family. As President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he is dropping out of the 2024 race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, Hunter Biden dropped his lawsuit against Fox…
As the 2024 presidential election reaches uncharted territories, the news networks are preparing some last-minute coverage. Following President Joe Biden‘s announcement that he’s stepping down from the race and endorsing Kamala Harris as…
Jerry Miller, one of the most influential musicians in the San Francisco music scene of the 1960s, died Saturday night in Tacoma, Washington, at age 81. No cause has been given.
UPDATED: Donald Trump may be laying the groundwork for scrambling plans for another presidential debate, suggesting that Fox News, and not ABC News, should be the host. ABC News had been slated to host the debate between Trump and…
Joe Biden announcing today that he is dropping out of the 2024 presidential race has given Damon Lindelof “genuine excitement for the election.” The first significant Hollywood donor to go public with a call for supporters to withhold…
Robert De Niro, an outspoken critic of Donald Trump, reacted Sunday afternoon as news spread on Joe Biden’s decision not to seek a second term. De Niro offered his “respect, admiration, and affection” to Biden for his decision. “In an act…
Vice President Kamala Harris praised Joe Biden following his decision to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race Sunday, calling it a “selfless and patriotic act.”
Former President Barack Obama called Joe Biden “a patriot of the highest order” following the president’s decision Sunday to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race.
UPDATE, 12:55 PM: No one really expected Donald Trump to handle Joe Biden dropping out of the White House race with grace, but the former president has gone almost straight for the cash.
Bill and Hillary Clinton praised President Joe Biden following his withdrawal from the presidential race, while endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to succeed him at the top of the Democratic ticket. “We are honored to join the…
President Joe Biden has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to serve as the new Democratic presidential nominee. “My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for…
UPDATED with endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris: Joe Biden on Sunday announced that he will exit the 2024 presidential race. He also said that he is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris “to be the nominee of our party this year.”
Esta TerBlanche, a star on soap All My Children, died Thursday at her North Hollywood home at 51. No cause has been established and authorities believe she had been dead for about a day. TerBlanche played princess Gillian Andrassy Lavery…
Heal the Bay’s annual Beach Report Card, which assigns A through F grades based on bacterial pollution levels, has named the landmark Santa Monica Pier beach and Mother’s Beach in its top ten of most polluted beach waters. Santa Monica…
Happy Traum, a mainstay of the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early 1960s who recorded with Bob Dylan, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 86. His wife, Jane Traum, said he died of pancreatic cancer in a physical rehabilitation…
Teamsters boss Sean O’Brien may be wanting to make friends with Donald Trump, but Local 399 top priority is to secure a new deal for their entertainment industry members, and revealed tonight they are extending talks with the studios. The…
Today, after a number of mostly spot fires throughout the region in recent weeks, Los Angeles finds itself partially ringed by blazes: one in La Tuna Canyon, two more in the Angeles National Forest, one in Redlands, another one to the…
Thai studio GDH has teamed with Bad Genius director Baz Poonpiriya to form a production house, BASK. GDH said that BASK will work alongside U.S.-based producers to “offer a fresh perspectiveon Thai and Asian culture for global audiences.”…
Bernice Johnson Reagon, the founder of the women’s a cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock, died on Tuesday in Washington. She was 81 and died in a hospital, according to her daughter, Toshi Reagon, who did not give a cause. Bernice…
Irv Gotti, who cofounded Murder Inc. Records and has delivered hits for rappers Ja-Rule and Jay-Z, is being sued by an ex-companion for alleged sexual assault and battery.
The final night of the Republican National Convention — featuring Donald Trump’s speech drew 25.38 million viewers, rising from the same night in 2020, according to Nielsen. Nielsen said that the audience peaked in the 10:45 p.m. ET to 11…
UPDATED, 2:15 PM: A Manhattan judge today set a tentative start date of the rape retrial of convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein. With the disgraced former movie mogul in the courtroom briefly, Judge Curtis Farber penciled in November…
EXCLUSIVE: Vice President Kamala Harris has emerged among Hollywood donors as the top successor to head the Democratic ticket as calls for Joe Biden to step aside intensify, with a caveat.
Netflix is going to dive deep into the death of Boston police officer John O’Keefe in a new three-part docuseries. The Canton, Massachusetts, police officer was found unresponsive in the snow on January 29, 2022, and was pronounced dead at…
UPDATE: Joe Biden’s Covid symptoms “have improved meaningfully,” according to his doctor, while his reelection campaign said that he will return to the campaign trail next week.
Mayor Adams and top New York City officials said emergency services, hospitals, traffic lights, water systems public transportation and other key functions are running fine after a massive overnight cyber disaster triggered inadvertently…