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How ‘Stranger Things’ Defined the Era of the Algorithm

A nostalgic hit built out of vintage pop-culture references captured the “If you liked that, you’ll like this” spirit of Netflix.

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How ‘Stranger Things’ Defined the Era of the Algorithm

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Fatherhood on Film: Dad Is Having a Rough Time Onscreen This Season

In films like “One Battle After Another,” “Springsteen” and “Ella McCay,” patriarchs are depicted as emotionally stunted or worse.

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Fatherhood on Film: Dad Is Having a Rough Time Onscreen This Season

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‘Zootopia 2’ Review: Natural Habitats, Expanded

A sequel to the 2016 hit, this movie about an animal metropolis takes on an even messier social allegory than the first one, while building out a wider (if bloated) universe.

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‘Zootopia 2’ Review: Natural Habitats, Expanded

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‘Hamnet’ Review: The Rest Is Silence

Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal star in a heartbreaking adaptation of the best-selling novel.

5 hours ago

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‘Hamnet’ Review: The Rest Is Silence

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‘Eternity’ Review: Dead Reckoning

Elizabeth Olsen plays a dead woman who must choose her forever partner in this silly afterlife rom-com.

5 hours ago

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‘Eternity’ Review: Dead Reckoning

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‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’ Review: Forgive Them, Father

Josh O’Connor leads a star-studded cast in the latest Benoit Blanc mystery — this one, about religious cults of personality.

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‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’ Review: Forgive Them, Father

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A viola week downtown infused everything from Brahms to a symposium on a Korean composer

Brahms' viola-infused string quintets and sextets have in them the essence of amber autumn, and three major L.A. institutions coincidentally turned to them over six November days.

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A viola week downtown infused everything from Brahms to a symposium on a Korean composer

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L.A. Phil guts East L.A. branch of Dudamel's Youth Orchestra program months before his departure

Last week, the Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles (YOLA) announced that it would be cutting back on its operations at their Torres site in East L.A.

21 hours ago

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L.A. Phil guts East L.A. branch of Dudamel's Youth Orchestra program months before his departure

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Little-known photographs of the 'other California' candidly show 1975's working class

Just out of college, Peter Turnley was paid by the state of California to photograph the poor in 1975. He never found out if the images were ever shown but now he's presenting them in an L.A. exhibition. At points it provides a mirror to today's struggling agricultural workers, often immigrants.

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Little-known photographs of the 'other California' candidly show 1975's working class

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Miracles! Mystery! An AI Jesus! How a new exhibit near Disneyland wants to lure young Christians

With the Shroud of Turin Experience at Christ Cathedral, the church explores digitally enhanced ways of bringing people to faith.

1 day ago

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Miracles! Mystery! An AI Jesus! How a new exhibit near Disneyland wants to lure young Christians

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Robert Therrien's smashing retrospective is among the year's best museum solo shows

Form propels content in Robert Therrien's retrospective at the Broad. 'This Is a Story,' filled with enlarged plates and tables, cheeky chapels and flowing beards, has a charismatic presence.

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Robert Therrien's smashing retrospective is among the year's best museum solo shows

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Who really designed this San Diego museum? An architectural whodunit

When the Timken Museum of Art in Balboa Park opened in 1965 it was credited to a San Diego architecture firm. Two local architecture buffs believe that internationally renowned Richard Kelly and Philip Johnson made significant contributions.

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Who really designed this San Diego museum? An architectural whodunit