The Marvel faithful gathered in Hall H once more as San Diego Comic-Con yielded breaking news on Saturday: Ryan Gosling will join the Marvel Cinematic Universe as motorcycle-riding superhero Ghost Rider. Marvel Studios’ president and producer Kevin Feige announced the new title Saturday at the annual fan and industry event. “Ghost Rider” will be directed … Read more
Almost 20 years after his hit Food Network shows “Emeril Live” and “Essence of Emeril” went off the air, internet users are becoming obsessed with Emeril Lagasse. And he’s just gotten the heads up. Lagasse, 66, shared a video on July 24 in which he finds out that old clips of his shows have been … Read more
Kylie Cantrall loves having a day off in the Valley. In Sunday Funday, L.A. people give us a play-by-play of their ideal Sunday around town. Find ideas and inspiration on where to go, what to eat and how to enjoy life on the weekends. Born and raised in the L.A. area, Cantrall has been working … Read more
On stage at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, a far cry from the sweaty basement punk shows of the band’s early days, Jimmy Eat World played breakthrough power pop hit “The Middle” as the sold-out crowd sang along with the final chorus that “everything will be all right, all right.” “It really is incredible to … Read more
Tenisha Warner, the widow of “The Cosby Show” star Malcolm-Jamal Warner, is suing the late actor’s mother for breach of contract involving the couple’s prenuptial agreement. NBC News obtained a copy of the complaint, confirming Tenisha Warner filed the lawsuit on July 20 in the Superior Court of Dekalb County in Georgia. The complaint names … Read more
Reading List If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. This month, “Cool Machine,” a riff on 1980s New York in the form of a tightly plotted crime novel, arrives from Colson Whitehead. It concludes his Harlem trilogy, they say. If you’d … Read more
Be still our millennial hearts. Rapper Xzibit shared in a social media post on July 16 that Thunder Cat, a pet that he’s had since 2006, is still with him to this very day. As many a millennial has pointed out, that means that Xzibit has had his buddy with him since his days, hosting … Read more
When you walk into a room with Los Primos del Este, the happy-go-lucky guys immediately make you feel like part of the family. What they first cultivate with silly banter and lighthearted ad-libs eases into a more vulnerable, introspective atmosphere, comparable to a cathartic therapy session. When I met the norteño-sax band in at Interscope … Read more
When the camera cuts, the interview isn’t over. With “Cut for Time,” TODAY.com asks the burning questions our anchors couldn’t get to on-air. Christopher Nolan’s epic, “The Odyssey,” has finally landed and is already breaking box office records as fans eagerly flock to theaters to see Nolan’s sweeping adaptation of Homer’s classic poem. Led by … Read more
Exploiting racism has been a profitable strategy in Hollywood since the dawn of filmmaking: 111 years ago, D.W. Griffith’s film “The Birth of a Nation” was incredibly popular and influential, while also being so racist that it was considered controversial even in its own day. The industry saw immediately just how lucrative fear could be. … Read more