Right now, Ileana Mercedes Cabra Joglar should be working feverishly at a recording studio somewhere in her native Puerto Rico, adding new songs to her much-anticipated fourth solo album. But at 35, the artist known as iLe — one of the most luminous and visionary voices in contemporary Latin music — tends to get a … Read more
A new CBS daytime drama is making history as the first soap opera in decades to feature a Black family at its center. “Beyond the Gates” follows the powerful Dupree family in an affluent Maryland suburb. The daytime drama will focus on the Duprees as they navigate their lives. The series is also the first … Read more
Cast of “Beyond the Gates” on making history as first Black daytime soap in 35 years – CBS News Watch CBS News CBS’s new drama “Beyond the Gates” is the first daytime soap opera greenlit in 25 years—and the first Black-led soap in over three decades. The series follows the powerful Dupree family navigating life … Read more
Descrease article font size Increase article font size The 4 Nations Face-Off has already delivered an instant classic international hockey game with the fight-filled preliminary round matchup between the United States and Canada last week in Montreal. 1:48 National pride on display at Canada’s 4 Nations Face-Off opener Previous Video Next Video The U.S.-Canada rematch … Read more
By the time “Emilia Pérez” had garnered 13 Oscar nominationsincluding for best picture, Netflix’s Spanish-language musical about a transgender drug lord had already been mired in controversy. Critics skewered the film’s portrayal of trans issues and Mexican culture. The Karla Sofía Gascón’s old social media posts resurfaced in which the first out trans performer to … Read more
This story is part of a zine that L.A. Times Image created in collaboration with Lauren Halsey, Diamond Jones and the Summaeverythang Community Center. The limited-edition zine, printed by -ism, will be at Halsey’s booth at Frieze L.A. For over a decade, Qione Holmes, a.k.a. Hood Historian, has served as the memory bank for L.A. … Read more
On the Shelf Eternal Flame DA CAPO, 416 pages, $ 27.90If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.orgwhose fees support independent bookstores. Long before their chart domination, global popularity and, ultimately, their implosion, the Bangles began with an ad on a big board in the Sunset Boulevard … Read more
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln held a forum to consider a potential solution to the country’s conflict: What if all free Black people left the U.S. and settled in Central America? The president’s controversial proposal of Linconia is one of many historical events revisited in the new stage show “3 Summers of Lincoln,” which begins performances … Read more
History is a playlist crackling with fire and intrigue in “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.” The film’s heady 2½ hours are as thick with detail as a graduate seminar yet bustle like a TikTok video, a deft and nearly breathless archival exposé that centers on the January 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, less than a … Read more
Speaking to The Times in 2019, Brazilian acting legend Fernanda Montenegro described receiving an Academy Award nomination 20 years earlier for her role in Walter Salles’ “Central Station” — and her extensive campaigning for it — as “a trip to Jupiter.” Montenegro’s stateside recognition was unprecedented: the first time a Brazilian actor competed at the … Read more
