Talking to academy members the past couple of weeks, I heard an earful about all the problems they had with various best picture contenders — “Why’d she have to … that fish?” lamented one voter of “The Shape of Water’s” interspecies sex scene — but not so much about the ways they loved the nominated..

Paul Tollett, the president of Los Angeles-based concert promoter Goldenvoice, has outlined the future of the company’s tastemaking FYF Festival, which occurs annually in the area surrounding the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and last year featured headliners Missy Elliott, Frank Ocean, Bjork and...