The South By Southwest Film Festival released the features lineup for their 25th edition on Wednesday. The event will open with the world premiere of “A Quiet Place,” a horror suspense story directed by John Krasinski and starring Krasinski, Emily Blunt and Millicent Simmonds. The event will run...

It was a performance that felt a bit like a mirage. On the shores of Echo Park Lake, a Oaxacan brass band led curious clutches of onlookers in an informal procession. In the middle of the lake floated a raft with three massive wooden megaphones. Behind them stood experimental vocalist Carmina Escoba..

Arrow de Wilde never had much of a choice in her young life other than to be a rock star. The 18-year-old grew up in Echo Park at the dawn of the L.A. indie rock boomlet. Her parents — photographer Autumn de Wilde and drummer Aaron Sperske (who has played alongside Ariel Pink, Father John Misty...

“Let’s make sure there’s a keyboard in Elton’s dressing room,” Ken Ehrlich, the longtime executive producer of the Grammy Awards, ordered before ducking away to meet Elton John and Miley Cyrus. Ehrlich was on his way to oversee a soft run-through of “Tiny Dancer,” which would ultimately be performe..

Times film critic Justin Chang is keeping a regular diary over the course of a week at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. He will be writing about the movies he’s seeing, the trends he’s observing and what it all means for an event that officially kicks off the year in new independent cinema. DAYS...

President Trump’s first State of the Union address was watched by an estimated 45.6 million viewers on Tuesday, according to Nielsen data. The audience across the broadcast and cable networks that carried the speech fell short of the 47.7 million who watched the president’s address to a joint sessi..

The Writers Guild of America, West has established a new set of principles regarding sexual harassment in the workplace, emphasizing a zero-tolerance approach while also stressing the importance of due process for the accused. The Hollywood guild’s board and officers said in an email to members...