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Cuban American poet Kyle Carrero Lopez first learned what sanctions were as a child — not as a political measure, but as a gendered one. In his poem “Sanctions,” he describes how his father, a surly Cuban refugee who worked as a DJ, laid out the terms of acceptable masculinity. “No dance class/no “girl toys”/don’t…
A human defeated two of the three robots he faced in a cage fight recently held in San Francisco. The humans behind that fight could face a battle of their own — the legal type — if they want to hold another event like “Human Vs. Robot,” the Sept. 18 competition that placed influencer Frankie…
“Girls” is returning to HBO for a limited-run revival. Creator, star and, if not the voice of a generation, at least a voice of a generation, Lena Dunham will be back for the five-episode reboot of the dramedy series, alongside castmates Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet and Andrew Rannells. The “Girls” alums announced the…
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…