CBS Corp. stock surged Friday on strong earnings and speculation that controlling shareholder Shari Redstone had offered a compromise to try to nudge along the stalled merger talks with Viacom Inc. CBS rose 9% to $53.17 a share on Friday after the company reported record revenue in the first quarte..

I’ve just finished reading your essay [“1968: Days of Rage and Wonder” by Jeffrey Fleishman, April 22] with tears streaming down my face. It seems that you and I are the same age and that we share many of the same memories. Walter Cronkite’s voice is etched in my brain, my mother drove a green...

Women of a Certain Age Susan Bay Nimoy wrote, directed and stars in Eve, this semi-autobiographical short film (which premiered this year at Sundance) about a recently widowed woman adjusting to life as a single woman after decades of marriage. The Times’ Kenneth Turan calls the film “honest and...

Los Angeles’ Cultural Heritage Commission has approved a plan to declare CBS’ Television City studio complex on Beverly Boulevard a historic and cultural monument. Over the years, such shows as “All in the Family,” “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour,” “The Carol Burnett Show” and “Dancing With...

When Angélique Kidjo moved to France from her native Benin in 1983, she developed an addiction and allowed it to run wild. Now one of the most well-known singers in African pop, Kidjo at the time had just fled a country in which the communist regime had replaced music on the radio with propaganda. ..

Can we take a moment to talk about your notebook poking out of your pocket here? Alex Turner jumps. Too invasive a question. “Oh! Uh heh,” he mutters, burrowing his hand into his blazer. He shifts the notebook into his other pocket, out of sight of a journalist's X-ray vision. Turner, now 32, ..