Author name: Carolina Myer

Guitarist John Sykes, who played with the rock bands Whitesnake and Thin Lizzy, has died at 65. He helped compose one of the defining power ballads of the late-1980s hair-metal scene in “Is This Love,” which drove sales of Whitesnake’s self-titled 1987 LP to sales of more than 8 million copies in the United States. […]

Francisco San Martin, an actor who appeared on the soap operas “Days of Our Lives” and “The Bold and the Beautiful,” has died in Los Angeles. The actor, who also had a guest stint on the CW telenovela “Jane the Virgin,” was pronounced dead Thursday by the Los Angeles County medical examiner. San Martin died

As film and television production in Los Angeles lurches back to life, entertainment executives are grappling with a new concern: How the devastating wildfires could add to the already high cost of filming in Southern California. An estimated 30 film and television productions were briefly shut down due to the Palisades and Eaton fires, according

Sony Pictures Entertainment’s new chief, Ravi Ahuja, is quickly putting his leadership team in place. The Culver City-based studio on Tuesday named longtime television executive Keith Le Goy chairman of Sony Pictures Television, with oversight of all U.S. and international productions, including Sony’s game show business behind “Jeopardy!,” “Wheel of Fortune” and the Game Show

As counterprogramming to the tragicomedy of our actual times, television will continue to offer other worlds and worldviews to inhabit. This week offers a couple of new series with a not entirely hopeless political bent, both premiering Wednesday — one a British conspiracy thriller with Gen Z heroes, the other a cheery Swedish satire based

Garth Hudson, the stoic multi-instrumentalist and co-founder of the Canadian roots-rock group the Band, died Tuesday at a nursing facility in his adopted hometown of Woodstock, N.Y. He was 87. His death was confirmed by the Toronto Star, which attributed the news to Hudson’s estate executor and said he “passed away peacefully in his sleep.”

“This will definitely end my career.” That was Naomi Watts’ initial response to the prospect of writing her first book, “Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I’d Known About Menopause.” Through her menopause-focused wellness brand, Stripes Beauty, and openness about her experiences with perimenopause in her late 30s while also trying to conceive her

Oscar nominations will (probably) arrive Thursday morning, six days after they were originally scheduled to be announced, though with all that has happened to our city, doesn’t each day feel like it spans a month? Or at least a week? My New Year’s resolution should have been to stay in bed and flip the page