Border walls as art and Hamlet with dogs. Southern California can never be accused of being boring. I’m Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, with your weekly dose all things blazing in the world of culture. BORDER PROTOTYPES AS ART? Swiss-born artist Christoph Büchel ignited..

They stroll through Disneyland in packs of 20 or more, motley crews that resemble a cross between the Hells Angels motorcycle gang and a grown-up Mickey Mouse Club with their Disney-themed tattoos and their matching denim vests strewn with trading pins and logos. Disneyland social clubs, by most...

In Esa-Pekka Salonen’s radiant and surprisingly hopeful new Cello Concerto, Yo-Yo Ma is asked to be a combination wave-maker and cloud seeder. What with our winter of drought, those are not unwelcome metaphors to begin the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “Composer Salonen” series of programs celebrating...

Amazon has selected NBC Entertainment President Jen Salke to run its Santa Monica-based Amazon Studios, filling one of the most sought-after jobs in television. Salke’s appointment, announced Friday, comes at a critical juncture for the Seattle-based retailing giant. It must craft a cohesive progra..

Movie recommendations from critics Kenneth Turan and Justin Chang. Call Me by Your Name Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer give superb performances as two young men falling in love in the northern Italian countryside in this rapturously beautiful collaboration between director Luca Guadagnino...