The world’s premiere film festival has jumped into the climate change debate by setting a documentary about global warming as its closing film. The Cannes Film Festival announced Thursday that Ice and the Sky, a documentary about global warming pioneer Claude
Cyndi Lauper appeared before the Senate Appropriations committee on Wednesday to advocate for the protection of homeless LGBT youth.
California’s drought has hit the Hollywood enclave of Beverly Hills particularly hard.
In October 2002, Ryan Adams ejected a fan from his concert at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville for repeatedly requesting a cover of Bryan Adams’s “Summer of ’69.” The show was part of the singer’s intimate “Demolition” acoustic tour; the heckler’s repeated shouts for the song were an annoying distraction.
The sixth season of the Science Channel’s Morgan Freeman-fronted series Through the Wormhole premieres Wednesday, and its first episode could hardly be more timely. The episode’s title: “Are We All Bigots?”
California Gov. Jerry Brown issued an executive order Wednesday mandating a statewide reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent under 1990 levels by 2030, an ambitious addition to the state’s already-tough emissions cutback targets.
One 13-year-old boy got a very special gift for becoming a man at his bar mitzvah in New York on Saturday–a visit and performance by rapper Nicki Minaj.
California Democrats in the State Assembly’s Natural Resources and Transportation committees voted down a trio of bills on Monday designed to prioritize water storage and recycling projects amidst the state’s devastating four-year drought.
The cast and creator of HBO’s Baltimore-set police series The Wire called for an immediate end to the violent protests that had erupted in Baltimore on Saturday night.
John Legend appeared on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday for a wide-ranging discussion on America’s criminal justice system.
California’s Central Valley has long been disproportionately affected by the state’s severe drought.
LOS ANGELES – Ferguson, a dramatization of the grand jury proceedings following the shooting death of black teenager Michael Brown by white police officer Darren Wilson, premiered Sunday night at the Odyssey Theater in Los Angeles.
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley picked up a Hollywood endorsement on the red carpet ahead of the White House Correspondents’s Association dinner on Saturday.
Saturday Night Live star Cecily Strong hosted the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday night, cracking jokes at the expense of the 2016 presidential contenders, the Clinton Foundation, attendant members of the mainstream media, and of course, President Obama.
Clinton Cash continues to make waves in the Hollywood community.
PBS documentary Finding Your Roots, already under internal review over claims it censored information about Ben Affleck’s slave-owning ancestors out of a recent episode, has again come under fire for inaccuracies after Affleck’s mother denied she was ever involved in the 1964 Freedom Summer.
Avengers: Age of Ultron stars Jeremy Renner and Chris Evans apologized Thursday for comments they made in a promotional interview in which they called co-star Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow character a “slut” and a “whore.”
Actor Mark Ruffalo posted a link to an investigation based on Peter Schweizer’s new exposé Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich on his Twitter page Thursday, a possible signal that Schweizer’s book has penetrated the Hollywood establishment’s liberal entertainment elite.
Five cast members of the upcoming Ferguson stage play abruptly quit this week after reading the play’s script, which recreates the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson using testimony taken from the grand jury proceedings in the case.
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley returned to Hollywood this week to meet with well-connected, deep-pocketed donors as he decides whether to challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination in the 2016 presidential race.
In an interview with National Geographic, President Obama stressed the importance of California’s conservation efforts amid a fourth year of drought, laid out his expectations for this year’s climate conference in Paris, and reiterated America’s commitment to a “low-carbon future.”
In an interview with the Daily Beast, actress Olivia Wilde said she will throw her support behind Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, despite having previously urged Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run for the post.
Ben Affleck revealed the name of his slave-owning great-grandfather on Wednesday, a day after saying he regretted asking producers of a PBS documentary to edit any mention of the ancestor out of a documentary television show.
Last month, Jay-Z and a handful of some of the biggest names in music teamed up to launch Tidal, a new artist-owned streaming music service that would compete with household names like Pandora and Spotify. The concept seemed promising; a new
Ben Affleck took to Facebook on Tuesday to address the controversy surrounding censorship of his segment on the PBS television show Finding Your Roots.
