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Book Review Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring By Brad GoochHarperCollins: 512 pages, $40 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. I began reading Brad Gooch’s biography of Keith Haring with the last chapter, on Haring’s untimely death from AIDS. I don’t usually read biographies out of order, but since I (like many) knew all too well how Haring died, I hoped I might learn something different by finishing at a point when the artist was still alive.Luckily, you don’t have to read “Radiant”…
Lupe Breard remembers coming to live in the Queen Anne Victorian house in Echo Park with her mother and siblings when she was a child. The memory is still vivid decades later, she says, because she didn’t want to move there — until she saw the chimney and told herself Santa Claus could bring presents down it at Christmas. She’d never had a fireplace before.She has stayed ever since, raising her three children in the historic home and watching as the neighborhood changed from a quiet, under-the-radar community to one where homes routinely sell for well over $1 million. Breard…
From a “Mamma Mia” star, a sincere mea culpa.Pierce Brosnan pleaded guilty Thursday to hiking in a restricted thermal area during his November visit to Yellowstone National Park, according to court records.The former James Bond and “SOS” warbler was ordered to make a $1,000 donation to Yellowstone Forever, a nonprofit organization supporting the park, by April 1 and was also fined $500. U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephanie Hambrick dismissed a second petty offense for violating closures and use limits. Brosnan took to Instagram on Thursday for a heartfelt apology.The actor wrote that he has “the utmost respect for and love of…
Whatever Kanye West was paid to headline the first night of this weekend’s Rolling Loud California festival, it was easy money. Onstage for about an hour Thursday evening with Ty Dolla Sign — his partner on the chart-topping “Vultures 1” album released last month under the duo name ¥$ — Kanye roamed around in a black jacket and a face mask as their songs played over the festival’s sound system on a huge circular stage planted in the parking lot of Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium.If he was rapping, you couldn’t hear it; if he was holding a microphone, you couldn’t see…
Peso Pluma paced across the stage to the sounds of uproarious applause. His set was coming to a close, but there was something he needed to get off his chest.“Every single one of us,” he told the crowd in Spanish, gesturing to his band behind him, “continue to make music for you all. And as long as I am alive, my team and I will continue to rock each stage, no matter what happens.”The 3,000 attendees — many of whom had waited hours in line to see the Mexican singer on Wednesday — cheered in response at Austin City Limits…
Dan Wakefield, the novelist and journalist who wrote about diverse topics including his journey with spirituality and the civil rights movement, died Wednesday at 91. His death was confirmed by Will Higgins, who hosted a public radio show with Wakefield in 2016 and 2017, according to news reports. Wakefield’s health started to decline last year following a stroke. Wakefield graduated in 1955 from Columbia University with an English degree. He wrote for the Nation, Playboy, Esquire and other publications. He covered the trial in the murder of Emmett Till for the Nation. He published his first book, “Island in the…
Jennifer Lopez won’t officially launch her This Is Me…Now tour until the summer, but the pop superstar’s newest circuit has already undergone multiple scheduling changes. The “Let’s Get Loud” and “Dear Ben” singer canceled several shows initially set to take place Aug. 20 through Aug. 31, The Times has confirmed. Among the now-canceled gigs are an Aug. 25 show at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena and an Aug. 31 concert at Houston’s Toyota Center. Concerts in Tampa, New Orleans and Nashville were also among the affected shows.The Times has learned that the concerts were canceled due to logistical issues with the…
Abraham Lincoln — perhaps you’ve heard of him? Sixteenth president of the United States, assassinated five days after the end of the Civil War at Ford’s Theatre. John Wilkes Booth. Sic semper tyrannis.Well, I don’t know what they’re teaching in school these days, but I hope none of that is news to anyone. Even so, there’s always more to know. James L. Swanson’s 2006 book “Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer,” which concentrates on the assassination and its aftermath, is one of thousands of deeply researched volumes on the president, his associates, his assassin and the assassin’s associates; as…
Reality TV star Savannah Chrisley says her “Masked Singer” debut was about anything but her musical skills. The 26-year-old podcast host, best known for USA Network’s “Chrisley Knows Best,” admitted during her unmasking on Wednesday’s episode, “I know singing is not for me.” Instead, she said the Fox competition series was a way to bring cheer to her family, including parents Julie and Todd Chrisley who are both carrying out years-long sentences in federal prison for bank fraud and tax evasion. “A big reason I did this is ‘cause I know my parents can watch it,” she told host Nick…
Justin Timberlake’s solo career has been a decades-long quest to transcend his boy-band beginnings in N*SYNC. On Wednesday night in L.A., he returned to them.During a small, free underplay at the Wiltern to promote his new solo album, “Everything I Thought It Was,” Timberlake fully embraced Y2K nostalgia and brought out the entirety of his old band — Lance Bass, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick — to perform several of their hits, starting with “Gone” and running through “It’s Gonna Be Me,” “Girlfriend” and “Bye Bye Bye.” Timberlake, 43, hadn’t performed with the full group since a 2013…