Category: Entertainment

The Palmdale Playhouse Junior Summer Theatre Camp will present two performances of “Law & Order: Nursery Rhyme Unit” on Saturday, Aug. 10 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the Palmdale Playhouse, 38334 10th Street East in Palmdale.

In families, siblings often support one another without question. That was definitely the case with Michele Ervin and her younger sister Sheila McKinnon.

The Leimert Park-based World Stage Performance Gallery will bring its Jazz Masters series to the Ford Amphitheatre on Aug. 18 at 6 p.m. for a big band benefit concert and tribute to guitar legend Kenny Burrell.

Jazz great George Duke, a visionary keyboardist, producer, composer and arranger, has died in Los Angeles. He was 67.

Singer Usher Raymond’s ex-wife is asking a judge to give her custody of their two children after the oldest suffered a “near-death accident.”

Singer Usher Raymond’s young son survived a serious swimming mishap at his Atlanta home Monday, police said Tuesday.

Comedian Kevin Hart pleaded no contest today to one count of driving with a blood alcohol concentration of .08 or higher and was sentenced to three years probation.

Rapper 50 Cent entered a not guilty plea to domestic violence and vandalism charges in a Los Angeles County court Monday.

Raven-Symone, who played 3-year-old Olivia on the 1980s sitcom “The Cosby Show,” indicated for the first time Friday that she is a lesbian.

It’s hard for me to choose the greatest African films of the 21st century as the genres and styles of African cinema have evolved in a big way over the past 20 years or so. Movie makers are now showing a more vibrant Africa than the Francophone filmmakers did before them.