Author: OCCLIPPER Editorial Team

Mackenzie Crook, who wrote and directed “Detectorists,” a gorgeous pastoral comedy about hobbyist hunters seeking Saxon gold in southwest England, has a new series, “Small Prophets,” premiering Wednesday on Apple TV. Set mainly around a suburban cul-de-sac, a retirement home and a “DIY store” (think Home Depot), it’s a different sort of series and yet…

Goldenvoice’s Head Trip, the third offering in the Coachella promoter’s infrequent time-capsule series (following Desert Trip and Power Trip), is a two-day electronic music summit slated to take over the Empire Polo Club in Indio this weekend. The lineup is stacked with some of the biggest names in the genre, featuring Calvin Harris, Swedish House…

Aerosmith is mounting a comeback. Again. Two years after the long-running rock band said it was retiring from the road, Aerosmith announced Wednesday that it will reconvene to play two shows at the Hollywood Bowl on Oct. 29 and Nov. 1. The shows — billed as California, Dream On after the band’s early ’70s hit…

On Monday, hundreds of professional stand-up comedians flooded Instagram and TikTok with front-facing videos outlining an issue in the comedy community that had been brewing for months. In April, SiriusXM radio changed the programming of its Raw Comedy channel previously known as Raw Dog — a 24/7 curated broadcast of comedy tracks from the albums…

“There are so few spaces for us,” bartender and musician Valerie Dean says. She’s been slinging Red Bull vodkas and White Claws for Trans*cendent partygoers on and off since the event’s early days in a Boyle Heights basement, which to her felt like a DIY punk gig. It’s rare for trans women to feel a…

“Eternally Yours” isn’t the first TV comedy to take a bite out of vampire lore. To be fair, a genre that’s given us everything from brooding, sparkling emo kids who play baseball; a stake-wielding teen slayer who can’t quit the bad boy; and eccentric sidekicks who feast on bugs is ripe with material for mockery.…

Whatever will become of CBS in the monopolistic morass that never should have happened, I can’t say and, it’s too soon to tell. But for the moment it seems very much like itself, fielding a good old-fashioned fall season with premieres of three new series — a franchise procedural, a supernatural sitcom and a legal…

Two small businesses that participated as food vendors at Olicomplaints about delayed payments, costly participation requirements and operational problems, drawing scrutiny to the companies responsible for managing concessions at the Live Nation-produced event

“Crazy Rich Asians” will officially be back on screen, with some familiar faces joining for the ride. HBO announced on Thursday that it had ordered an original drama series of the same name based on author Kevin Kwan’s book series eight years after director Jon M. Chu’s “Crazy Rich Asians” film adaptation marked a watershed…

Michael Kearns, a trailblazing AIDS activist and author credited as the first out gay actor, has died. He was 76. Filmmaker and professor Roland Palencia confirmed the actor’s death on social media, writing that Kearns had died Monday evening after feeling unwell and calling the paramedics on Sunday. Palencia said that the actor had been…