Entertainment & Arts
The Tony-winning play ‘Harry Potter and Cursed Child’ has its Los Angeles premiere at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre.
Awards
A loose set led to explorations with co-star Nicole Kidman.
Television
The Oscar-winning actor, known for her roles as Violet Crawley in ‘Downton Abbey’ and no-nonsense Professor McGonagall in the ‘Harry Potter’ films, died Friday.
Former “Harry Potter” film actor Rupert Grint faces a 1.8-million-pound ($2.3-million) bill after he lost a legal battle with the tax authorities.
Books
‘Blood at the Root,’ LaDarrion Williams’ first novel in a three-book deal — a series that centers on a Black boy in a YA fantasy saga — is the kind of fiction he wishes existed when he was a kid.
A radiant contentment pervades Curtis Sittenfeld’s stories in her latest collection, ‘Show Don’t Tell.’
Opinion
In many ways, ‘Theory & Practice’ is like a coming-of-age novel or perhaps a coming-to-writing novel. Author Michelle de Kretser is a beautifully sly writer.
Lily Tuck cunningly layers history and character to restore to life Czeslawa Kwoka, who died in Auschwitz. It’s hard to stop reading it.
California
California leaders pay tribute to former President Jimmy Carter, remembering him for his ‘dignity and decency.’
Movies
Gary Oldman said taking on his now-famous roles in the ‘Batman’ and ‘Harry Potter’ franchises ‘saved’ him by allowing him to work and still be an attentive dad.