These are the standout films, TV shows, plays, musicals, festivals and events to look forward to in 2025 An t-Eilean (The Island), BBC ALBA, January The Outer Hebrides provide the spectacular backdrops to a major new Scottish murder mystery series – and the most ambitious drama series so far on Gaelic language channel BBC Alba.…

Subscribe and read what we will cover next! 132 years ago we were covering Post-Reconstruction when a former enslaved veteran started the AFRO with $200 from his land-owning wife. In 2022 we endorsed Maryland’s first Black Governor, Wes Moore. And now we celebrate the first Black female Senator from Maryland, Angela Alsobrooks! Subscribe to keep…

SMU DataArts, the National Center for Arts Research, has released its annual ranking of the 40 most arts-vibrant small, medium and large communities in the United States with Los Angeles, Long Beach and Glendale ranking at number 12 in the list of 20 most arts-vibrant large communities in the nation. The list is based on…

Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. Lisa Desjardins: As 2024 comes to a close, we take a look back now at some of the year’s biggest stories through the images of photojournalists. We spoke with four photographers who documented the presidential campaign, the protests…

During an interview with William Russo, executive director of the Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures, he told me, “I’m glad there are still journalists covering the arts in Tucson.” This wasn’t the first or last time I’ve heard someone express the sentiment. But the Sentinel’s commitment to reporting on arts and culture makes our…

Art dealer Saleh Barakat, a fixture in the city since 1990, said that his gallery was actually closed only during the first week of Israeli bombing, but then it reopened gradually. “Actually there were a lot of people who called us to visit the gallery and said they wanted a change of air,” he told…

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On my first morning in Tokyo, a barista in a café near Ueno Station served my coffee with a big smile and two short bows. The cashier was just as kind and patient, though I do not speak Japanese. There was no tip jar or prompt to tip on the credit card screen, as tipping…

STIR READERS MIGHT have a sense that taking in arts and culture is good for them. Now, it’s official, with new research out of the U.K. finding that consuming arts and culture benefits people’s health and well-being. It also generates about $144 billion a year worth of improvements in people’s quality of life and higher…

If you’re reading this, thank you. Taking over the Essential Arts newsletter from our wonderful former colleague Carolina A. Miranda remains a daunting task, and we do not take that twice-weekly welcome into your inbox for granted. We’re Times staff writers Ashley Lee and Jessica Gelt; we’ve been honored to help navigate L.A.’s arts and…