L.A. Festival of Books to Go Virtual Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

Coachella’s radius clause is moving ahead, after the decision to dismiss it was reversed it earlier this year.Festival organisers Goldenvoice previously restricted artists booked for the California event from performing at any festival in North America between December 15 to May, or from playing any “hard ticket” concerts in the Southern California region in the same timeframe.However, the organisers of Soul’d Out Music Festival claim the promoters extended the radius clause from Southern

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Kelly Clarkson spent part of the COVID-19 lockdown on her ranch in Montana, where she was filming weekly remote episodes of her daytime talkshow.However, the pop star and host is now back in Los Angeles and stepping in for Simon Cowell on America’s Got Talent.She is also gearing up to return to the studio for the second season of The Kelly Clarkson Show.

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LOS ANGELES -- The annual Lucille Ball Comedy Festival is going virtual with help from Tiffany Haddish, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Margaret Cho, “Weird Al” Yankovic and more than two-dozen others working in the realm of humor. The festival, presented by the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York, will stream conversations with the artists over three weekends, starting Friday and running through Aug.

Nick Cordero's wife Amanda Kloots is embarking on a new adventure. The Broadway actor died at the age of 41 after a bout of coronavirus caused complications, including mini-strokes, a leg amputation, stem cell treatment and more.

LOS ANGELES – Equality California, the statewide LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, announced Wednesday that it will present its first-ever statewide “Golden State Equality Awards” virtual celebration on Sunday, September 13.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorFormer presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten will be honored by Equality California during its virtual Golden State Equality Awards celebration.The event will be hosted by “Pose” star Angelica Ross and take place on Sept. 13.The Buttigiegs will receive the Equality Trailblazer Award.

Janet W. Lee California Film Institute’s fundraising forum DocPitch will be held virtually at 7 p.m Aug.

Outfest is going online. Los Angeles' LGBTQ film festival is shifting to a virtual event this summer due to the COVID-19 pandemic with a roster that includes more than 160 films including 35 world premieres, 10 North American premieres and four U.S.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerThe Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, canceled from its usual spring slot by the pandemic, is going virtual for a fall event.Originally set for April and then bumped to an anticipated Oct. 3-4 run, the event now will be held online instead of at the University of Southern California campus.The country’s largest book festival is now scheduled to start Oct.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorJust over a week after Universal Studios canceled its popular Halloween Horror Nights at its Florida and California parks, Knott’s Berry Farm followed suit.The Southern California park has canceled its hugely popular Halloween Haunt event this year due to the coronavirus, park officials said today.“Regrettably, due to continued operating restrictions related to the pandemic we have had to make the very difficult decision to cancel our highly anticipated 2020

On July 1, as COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles began to surge to their highest numbers since the city issued stay-at-home orders in March, the University of Southern California (USC) alerted its students that all fall undergraduate classes would move online.