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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.

Glen Hansard, a singer-songwriter who starred in the film "Once" and was the leader of band the Frames, has died after a motorcycle crash in Ireland.

Before his viral Twitter feed launched him into a successful Hollywood career, a painful Little League error taught a 12-year-old Justin Halpern a lesson about passion that echoes through his new book.

After three decades shaping L.A.'s underground, DJ-producer Cut Chemist turns a lifetime of chance encounters — from Star Wars at the Chinese to São Paulo samba — into his sample-heavy, narrative-rich sound.

"Harry Potter: A Hogwarts Express Adventure" arrived in Southern California, providing theatrical performances on a moving train until Sept. 27.

South Los Angeles youth planned the 2026 Beehive Block Party through the SoLa Live Accelerator, a partnership program between the SoLa Foundation and Live Nation that trains aspiring live entertainment professionals.

'The Odyssey' meets 'Shark Week' in Amazon Prime Video's 'The Devil's Mouth': the ultimate travel horror tale.

As the first trailer for 'Children of Blood and Bone' drops, director Gina Prince-Bythewood shares why it took three offers to get her on board.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. sues Jay Penske and Todd Boehly over the 2023 Golden Globes sale, alleging fraud, monopoly and misuse of charitable funds.

Veteran journalist Sebastian Junger, former Vice correspodent Gianna Toboni and Trevor Phillips are named contributors.

At the 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' premiere, Grammy winner Steve Lacy allegedly also spilled the beans on 'Stranger Things' alumna Sadie Sink's 'Spider-Man' top-secret character.

Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert is engaged to pop singer Madison Beer almost a year after they were first spotted together at a video shoot. Beer announced the news Tuesday on Instagram.

The L.A. Times interviews Cuban French sister act Ibeyi on spirituality, dancing in Havana and the making of 'Offering,' their fourth album and first since leaving XL Recordings.

Groundbreaking assemblage artist and lifelong Angeleno Betye Saar died at 99, leaving a vast trove of work in her wake that reshaped the art world and helped kickstart the Black women's movement.

Jan Wikstrom, Susan Angelo and Ellen Geer lead a cast of older actress in an entertaining revival of Noël Coward's 'Waiting in the Wings,' presented outdoor at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum under the direction of Willow Geer.