Hello! I'm Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. The newsletter team is back from vacation as our Cannes team has been hard at work covering this year’s festival. Justin Chang has been writing daily diaries, capturing first-look imp..

Last year the two electronic beat producers known as DJDS were forced to abandon the Westlake/MacArthur Park building where they created most of their two infectious dance albums and were in the process of creating a third, “Big Wave More Fire.” Scorched by a fire in the neighboring lot, the facili..

Curator Anne Wilkes Tucker selected the old and the new, the famous and the rarely seen, the pleasant and the painful for the exhibition "Not an Ostrich: And Other Images From America's Library," now at the Annenberg Space for Photography.

Among the many unsettling questions raised by the murderous protagonist of Antaeus Theatre Company’s electrifying Southern California premiere of “Native Son,” the least difficult to answer is why he would commit such horrific crimes. The far more troubling question is: Why wouldn’t he? As profoun..

As another school year draws to a close, it has to cross Taylor Swift’s mind that, on the road to being one of the biggest pop stars on the planet, she sacrified the formal education that most of her peers have experienced. When you become a professional songwriter at 14, sign a recording contract...

For the past week, rumors have swirled that Troy Carter was planning to step down from his post as Spotify’s global head of creator services after pushing back on the streaming service’s newly launched Hate Content and Hateful Conduct public policy. Last week, the streaming giant announced it was....

The world loves winners. Losers, not so much. Red-hot playwright Lucas Hnath toys with this dispiriting but essential fact of life in his 2013 play “Red Speedo,” being given its Southern California premiere by the Road Theatre Company in North Hollywood. In his plays “The Christians” and “A Doll’s..

Hong's works, not portraits in the traditional Western sense, tease out some of the thorny issues that swirl around the garment,