It was GAME ON! in Hollywood as the Concern Foundation rolled out the dice and the red carpet for its milestone 50th Annual Block Party, transforming the historic Paramount Studios backlot into the…

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On a balmy July evening under the stars, the Hollywood Bowl became a cathedral of cinema as two-time Oscar-winning composer Alexandre Desplat made his North American conducting debut. With the Los …

It’s not every day you find a restaurant that manages to dazzle the eye before you’ve even taken a bite. But Orla by Michael Mina, perched inside the new Regent Santa Monica Beach, does just that—a…

On a warm June evening, beneath a canopy of stars and cinema’s golden ghosts, Hollywood shimmered with a purpose. The fourth annual “Hollywood Under the Stars” gala benefiting St. Vince…

In “The Reservoir,” now running at the Geffen Playhouse, playwright Jake Brasch takes the raw materials of addiction, aging, and memory loss—and spins them into something unexpectedly b…

If Ipanema were a cocktail, it would be shaken with glamour, stirred with nostalgia, and garnished with sea spray. And nowhere captures that intoxicating essence better than Hotel Fasano Rio—the st…

History doesn’t just repeat—it sings, bleeds, and indicts in Parade, the scorching revival of Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry’s (Driving Miss Daisy) masterwork now playing at the Ahmanson Theatr…

Vintage Rolex New Edition: New and expanded 2025 by David Silver of The Vintage Watch Company (Pavilion Books) Marking the 30th anniversary of the celebrated vintage watch purveyor, this expanded e…

In a city already brimming with tiled façades and faded grandeur, Palacete Severo makes a quietly dazzling entrance. Housed in a restored early 20th-century mansion in Porto’s upscale Boavista neig…

Directed with warmth and confident pacing by Jenn Thompson, this revival of Annie finds a sweet spot between period charm and present-day resonance. The Depression-era tale of a plucky orphan who m…

Long before it arrived onstage, The Life of Pi had already achieved literary and cinematic immortality: first as Yann Martel’s Booker Prize-winning novel, then as Ang Lee’s visually ravishing Oscar…

Osvaldo Golijov’s “Ainadamar,” with a libretto by David Henry Hwang, is not so much an opera as a ritual of remembrance — a fevered lament for Federico García Lorca, the poet and playwr…

In Furlough’s Paradise, now receiving its West Coast premiere at the Geffen Playhouse under the assured direction of Tinashe Kajese-Bolden, playwright a.k. payne distills a lifetime of memory, hurt…

When writer Samina Ali gave birth, she woke not to joy—but to a coma, organ failure, and the loss of language, memory, and mobility. Her new memoir, Pieces You’ll Never Get Back (Catapult, 2025), r…