2019

K. Connie Kang wrote for the Los Angeles Times from 1992 to 2008. (Los Angeles Times) 9:28 PM When riots broke out in Los Angeles in the spring of 1992, few local reporters covering the historical unrest…

Freddie Jenkins’ mother attended what is now the last standing African American schoolhouse in Mount Pleasant, S.C., in the 1930s. (Logan Cyrus / For The Times) AUG. 18, 2019 6 AM CHARLESTON, S.C. —  Five years…

Kim Hunter, left foreground, and Roddy McDowall, as chimpanzee scientists, defend human Charlton Heston, center in the 1968 science fiction movie “Planet of the Apes.” (20th Century Fox) y ED STOCKLYTELEVISION LISTINGS…

Endeavor Content co-presidents Chris Rice and Graham Taylor are leading their company’s aggressive and controversial push into financing and owning shows and movies. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times) On the corner of…

A photo by Jay Maisel from the documentary “Jay Myself.” (Jay Maisel / Oscilloscope Laboratories) Photographer Stephen Wilkes crafts a eulogy to an indelible New York location — the former Germania Bank building at 190 Bowery — in…

3:24 PM A 90-minute documentary on water? Really? How exciting can that be? You have no idea. “Aquarela” is nothing like what you might be expecting. Yes, it’s a meditation on water in a multitude of forms, but as…

Marlons Wayans plays multiple characters in “Sextuplets.” (Netflix) Marlon Wayans channels “Nutty Professor”-era Eddie Murphy in the Netflix comedy “Sextuplets,” tackling multiple roles — some in heavy make-up — while telling the…

Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar, co-directors of the Netflix documentary “American Factory.” (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) By JOSH ROTTENBERGSTAFF WRITER  AUG. 16, 2019 6 AM When General Motors…

Actor Chevy Chase (in a file photo from the AFI Lifetime Achivement Awards dinner in 2008) will hold a special live Q&A session following a screening of “Caddyshack” at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Oct. 6. (File photo by Matt…

Lee Pace as John DeLorean in “Driven,” the new movie about the cocaine sting that targeted car maker John DeLorean. (Photo courtesy of Universal Pictures Content Group) Five days into filming “Driven,” a comedic crime caper based on…