If you have a passion for art, beer and wine, cars, food, movies, music, sports or something else, it's likely there's a festival, fair or special event that you'll want to attend in 2016. Here's our annual month-by-month guide to more than 60 of the best experiences coming to Southern California during the year ahead.   Read More...

Wanted: big people. If USC coach Clay Helton has to look up to make eye contact with a recruit, he'll be interested.   Read More...

Government offices, courts, schools, libraries, banks and post offices will be closed Friday in observance of New Year's Day.   Read More...

Iconic, veteran rockers MÖTLEY CRÜE will play their final two shows of their thirty-four-year-long-career tonight and tomorrow at Staples Center in their hometown of Los Angeles.   Read More...

Mark Salling, known for his role as Noah "Puck" Puckerman on the Fox TV show "Glee," was arrested Tuesday at his Sunland home on suspicion of possessing child pornography.   Read More...

PHOTOS: 'Lemmy' Kilmister, frontman for Motörhead, dies at 70   Read More...

The most amazing movie of the year was never meant to be a movie.   Read More...

It MUST Be a New Year! Ring in 2016 THE MUST   Read More...

New Year's Eve Party at Golden Road Brewing among food events this week in the Los Angeles area   Read More...

Recently, an entertainment trade publication issued a list of the worst TV shows of 2015. Once a standard practice among critics, it now seems absurd.   Read More...

Generations have their own playlists. The Greatest had Big Band, the Silent had its Rat Pack, the Baby Boomers had rock 'n' roll. The Gen X soundtrack was more of a mixtape that ranged from feel-good dance and pop music, to punk, glam rock, new wave, alternative and rap.   Read More...

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Lanky and long-haired, with mutton chops and moles, Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister looked and lived like a hard-rock hero. He founded Motörhead in 1975, and continued recording and touring with the band until his death. He began every legendary live show with the announcement, "We are Motorhead, and we play rock and roll!"   Read More...

The movie year that's just about to end, 1977, was quite something. Or was it 1983? '89? '93?   Read More...

Frigid temperatures gripped much of the Southland this morning on a day when few communities were expected to get out of the 50s.   Read More...

The governor of California pardoned Robert Downey Jr. on Thursday for a nearly 20-year-old felony drug conviction that led to the Oscar-nominated actor's imprisonment for roughly a year.   Read More...

There is much excitement for the 125th annual Winter Sun Festival, complete with a parade, floats and a royal court.   Read More...

On Barbara Walters' hour-and-a-half long ABC special "10 Most Fascinating People of 2015," the segment highlighting Ronda Rousey's year lasted just five minutes.   Read More...

In the new "Point Break," opening today, there is a breathtaking sequence of four wingsuit fliers soaring gracefully in formation through the craggy rocks of the Swiss Alps, at times dipping down barely above the earth.   Read More...

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Sometimes the act of dying, by itself, represents a type of victory. Such was the case for Richard "Dick" Walters, who was a leader in the effort to get the state of Vermont to pass aid-in-dying legislation. Diagnosed with lung cancer, Walters ultimately used the law to end his own life in October at age 90, becoming one of the many notables who died in 2015.   Read More...

Get into the Christmas spirit with Daddy's Home! Watch Mark & Will duke it out in this epic Christmas lights battle and check out two new clips   Read More...