New Cds In Review, 5/24/11

Milo Ventimiglia’s family home in Malibu has burnt down, the actor shared on Thursday night. During an interview with CBS News, the “This Is Us” star shared that he and his wife, Jarah Mariano, who is currently nine months pregnant, evacuated their home on Tuesday, Jan. 7, and then watched the Palisades Fire take over […]

Robert “Bob” Laemmle, the president of the Los Angeles-based Laemmle Theatres who ran the chain until his son Greg took over in 2004, died Thursday in Santa Monica. He was 89. Bob Laemmle was born in Paris and came with his parents, who were fleeing the Nazis, to the U.

Butler’s brusque, beady-eyed, scowling-hulk charisma has aged well. A quick-fire actor in a caveman’s body, he has the ability to lift a piece of pulp so that it almost seems like a real movie.

Amid the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles, the city of San Diego and the tourism community have worked together to offer a safe place to stay for those affected by the wildfires. San Diego, located 120 miles south of L. A., is currently unaffected by the ongoing wildfires. See a full list of special accommodation rates […]

There is a ravishing kind of beauty in Tommaso Santambrogio’s lyrical triptych of contemporary Cuban life, “Oceans Are the Real Continents.” With black and white cinematography that privileges an exacting formalism throughout, this portrait of the island works hard to defamiliarize the very sun-dappled, colorful image of Cuba that so dominates the cultural imaginary.

The slow-motion footage in “Every Little Thing” of hummingbirds captured in flight, or beak deep in a flowering bud or hovering at 50 beats per second are awe-nudging. Director Sally Aitken’s nature documentary comes as a balm in a season aching for uplift. Since 2008, hummingbird sage Terry Masear has run a hotline, answering the […]