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Before the run for the presidency, before the gigantic rallies with Vampire Weekend and the fiery stump speeches about income inequality, longtime Burlington Mayor Bernie Sanders teamed up with more than two dozen Vermont musicians to release a 5-song album of

Rapper Azealia Banks is ready to vote for Donald Trump should he earn the Republican presidential nomination — because America is “inherently evil” and “full of sh-t,” so we “may as well put a piece of sh-t in the White House.”

New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis has coined the name of a new test that might measure the quality of diversity in a film — the DuVernay Test, a kind-of race-based variant of the Bechdel Test, which measures gender equality in film.

Leonardo DiCaprio got a “terrifying” up-close look at the effects of climate change while shooting his Oscar-tipped film The Revenant last year, he told reporters backstage at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday night.

Actress Viola Davis weighed in on the #OscarsSoWhite controversy at Saturday night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, telling reporters backstage that openness “is more important” than a boycott of the Academy Awards and lamenting what she called our “society of trending topics.”

Susan Sarandon delivered an emotional tribute to her late friend David Bowie during the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday night — but many viewers at home were focused on something else entirely as the actress’ revealing outfit racked up comments on social media.

The California legislature scrambled this week to correct a serious error that had been written into the state’s new medical marijuana regulations.

Actress Taryn Manning has been accused of viciously assaulting a makeup artist during a nasty fight in New York last year.

ABC has refused to air a trailer for the lesbian romantic drama “Carol” on its network due to a scene in which lead actresses Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara appear naked in bed together.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is hoping to turn the infamous torture house used by Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs into an “empathy museum” where visitors can wear the skins of dead and abused animals.

A bill allowing daily fantasy sports betting websites to operate in California cleared the State Assembly on Wednesday, bucking a national trend.

Actor-comedian Tim Allen blasted Hillary Clinton in a recent interview, comparing her and her husband Bill to a venereal disease while praising Donald Trump as a candidate who “might be able to do the stuff that really needs fixing.”

Actress Susan Sarandon tore into Hillary Clinton after appearing at a rally for the Democrat presidential front-runner’s chief rival Bernie Sanders in Iowa on Wednesday night, saying in an interview that Clinton’s support for the Iraq War in 2002 precludes her from becoming president.

Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton has weighed in on the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, saying in a recent interview that the recent rule changes implemented at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to promote diversity were “overdue.”

The leadership at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) defended the organization’s controversial new diversity initiative, saying in an interview that the Academy did not bow to outside pressure when crafting the rule changes, which many are criticizing as an overt effort to purge older Academy members of their voting privileges while aggressively recruiting new voting members who, in the words of the Academy, “represent greater diversity.”

While Hillary Clinton has made a half-dozen successful fundraising trips to California, the Democrat presidential frontrunner has so far failed to earn the support of a key fundraising bloc in the state: Hollywood’s most powerful female executives.

Residents of a Pacifica, California apartment building teetering on the edge of a cliff do not want to move out, even though their homes could fall into the ocean at any moment.

Hailstones measuring three inches in diameter fell near the city of Red Bluff in northern California on Saturday, tying a record for the largest-sized hail to hit anywhere in the state in more than 50 years.

Four abortion providers received a standing ovation from an audience at the Sundance Film Festival this week after the group secretly attended the premiere of the pro-abortion documentary “Trapped.”

Actress Gina Rodriguez has launched a new social media campaign to promote Latino actors in an effort to increase diversity both in the entertainment industry and at the Oscars.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has posted a new Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section on its website in response to mounting criticism from longtime members over the organization’s recently announced diversity initiative, which many see as an overt effort to purge older Academy members of their voting rights.

An apartment building in Pacifica, California is in danger of toppling into the ocean as El Niño-fueled waves batter and erode the cliff underneath it.

In an open letter addressed to Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs published in the Hollywood Reporter, AMPAS executive branch member Mark Reina responds to the sweeping new rule changes implemented by the Academy in an effort to increase diversity both within the organization and at the Oscars.

Miley Cyrus will star with Woody Allen in his new television series for Amazon.

Veteran actor Sir Ian McKellen has weighed in on the ongoing Academy Awards diversity controversy, saying in a recent interview that criticism of the Academy is “legitimate” and that, in addition to African-American actors, other minority actors have also been marginalized or ignored by the film industry, including gays.

Sean “P. Diddy” Combs and Mark Wahlberg will donate one million bottles of water from their water company, AQUAhydrate, to those affected by Flint, Michigan’s widespread water crisis.

Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen has weighed in on the Academy Awards’ diversity controversy, saying in a recent interview that he hopes the film industry will look back at this year’s Oscars as a “watershed moment” for diversity in film.

Actress Andie MacDowell riled up social media over the weekend when she took to Twitter to complain that she had been bumped from her flight’s first-class cabin and was made to sit in “tourist” class.

Longtime members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) are speaking out after the organizations’ Board of Governors voted unanimously Thursday to approve a dramatic overhaul of its voting rules and organizational structure in an effort to increase diversity at the Oscars and across the broader film industry.

Former Oscar-nominated actor Don Cheadle is excited to see Chris Rock host this year’s Academy Awards, saying in a recent interview that he wants to see the comedian “take everybody to task” over the renewed #OscarsSoWhite controversy.

Chris Rock will remain host of this year’s Academy Awards and is re-writing his jokes to focus on the diversity controversy that has swirled around the awards show, a producer at the Oscars confirmed in a recent interview.

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Elan Carr has earned the backing of several high-profile GOP figures in his bid for the 5th District Board of Supervisors seat.

Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign rolled out a new television advertisement on Thursday featuring Simon and Garfunkel’s classic 1968 hit “America.”

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has approved a series of “substantive changes” to its rules and organizational structure in an effort to boost the diversity of its membership as the group faces mounting criticism over a lack of minority actors among this year’s Academy Award nominees.

While support quickly piles up among celebrities and Hollywood insiders for a boycott of this year’s Academy Awards over its lack of diverse acting nominees, one veteran Oscar-winning producer has a message for those critics: “Stop acting like spoiled brats.”

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) released a so-called “discussion draft” of a new proposed water bill on Thursday that aims to provide both short- and long-term solutions to California’s record drought.