Lurking Paparazzi

Emmy-winning filmmaker Adam R. Wood will spotlight an emotional story of survival, music, and legacy this week as his documentary Hold Onto Your Music: A Mother’s Legacy serves as the Closing Night film for the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival on May 19 at the Museum of Tolerance. Co-directed alongside Academy Award nominee Josh Aronson,…

Monarch Nursery is more than just a new plant destination for Los Angeles — it’s a story of rebuilding, resilience, and passion blooming after heartbreak. Recently opened by British transplants Jasper Watts and Anton van der Woude, the nursery represents a fresh start for two longtime Angelenos whose previous businesses were devastated by the challenges…

Indie rock favorites Death Cab for Cutie are ushering in a new era with the upcoming release of their album I Built You A Tower, arriving June 5 via ANTI- Records. The band dropped their latest single and music video, “Punching The Flowers,” the second track unveiled from the album last month. The song delivers…

Natalie Dormer kicked off Monday with a deal for her supporters. A 50% off sale is running across her full merchandise line today, and it ends when May 18, 2026, does. The announcement went up on her Instagram. No specific products were named in the post. The full catalog is accessible through the link in…

Reid Wiseman, the NASA astronaut known to his followers as @astro_reid, got something meaningful from his daughter Katey this week. The Oprah Winfrey Network’s podcast account shared the moment on Instagram on May 18. “What a beautiful gift from Katey Wiseman to her father @astro_reid,” the caption read, followed by a single crying emoji. The…

Morgan Wallen posted on Instagram this week with a five-word caption: “the Ol’ Ball Coach.” The phrase belongs most famously to Steve Spurrier, one of the most decorated coaches in college football history. Spurrier won the Heisman Trophy as a quarterback at Florida in 1966. He came back to Gainesville as head coach in 1990…

Chappell Roan‘s Sunday Instagram caption was two words: “Cute !!” Her followers had questions. The post came with no preview and no announcement. That was the whole thing. Roan has tended her online presence carefully over the past few years. A caption this spare reads as deliberate rather than accidental. She’s not someone who fills…

Gordon Ramsay put River Restaurant’s dessert menu firmly in the spotlight on Monday, sharing a photo on his Instagram account of what he called “the perfect slice.” The dish was the restaurant’s creamy custard and nutmeg tart, served with a quenelle of rhubarb sorbet. That’s a generous compliment from someone who has spent decades holding…

The phrases “low hanging fruit,” “hit or miss” and “luck of the draw” come to mind as one not very funny moment after another counts down to the end of the 90-minute Celebrity Autobiography, the much-staged oddity finally making its Broadway debut tonight. The premise, which I assume is more suited to the many small,…

David Harbour’s Chief Jim Hopper is a key figure in Stranger Things‘ fictitious town of Hawkins, Indiana, eventually coming to serve as surrogate father to Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) and helping to unravel the central sci-fi mystery of the Upside Down. However, the twice Emmy-nominated actor was not the original choice to play the role,…