Axelrad Concert Series hosted the WEPA! Latino Music Dance Party in the upstairs room of Axelrad Beer Garden on Saturday, February 24, 2018 in Houston, Texas. The exclamation “wepa!” is usually yelled in the Latino culture, and is used as a form of celebration and approval. On a rain soaked yet pleasant Saturday night, the […]

BY DAVID BAUDER, AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Counting up the medals, Pyeongchang was a lackluster Olympics for the U.S. team, and the post-mortems will soon begin about what went right and wrong. It’s worth taking the same look at NBC’s performance, because the network is locked into showing the Olympics every two years […]

Saudi Arabia is preparing to pump $64 billion into its nascent entertainment industry as part of Vision 2030, the social and economic reform program spearheaded by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Construction is already underway on an opera house in the capital Riyadh, and the country plans to host 5,000 entertainment events this year, the […]

Chinese deal makers may soon find it even harder to get investments and acquisitions through. Lawmakers in Washington introduced a bill late last year that would widen Cfius’s remit, giving it oversight over more types of deals and, in particular, those that move advanced technologies into foreign hands. The intensified scrutiny comes as China’s government […]

HONG KONG — United States officials have torpedoed a Chinese state-backed group’s plan to buy an American electronics company, signaling the Trump administration’s continuing skepticism toward Chinese investment deals, particularly those that involve transferring technological know-how. Xcerra, a Massachusetts-based provider of equipment for testing computer chips and circuit boards, said this week that it was […]

Love is in the air — and on the internet! Celebrities took to Instagram to share some pink, red and heart-shaped cheer on this very happy Valentine’s Day. Whether they were acknowledging their own relationships or just sending their fans some love, there’s plenty of positivity to go around today. Alec Baldwin filmed an emotional video message for his […]

Actor Joel McHale paid a visit to BUILD Series recently to dish about his new online talk show coming to Netflix later this month. “The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale,” is a weekly half-hour topical web series where McHale analyzes and pokes fun at the events that took place in the news, TV and pop culture all around the world. […]

Plan your week in entertainment with these highlights and pop-culture milestones: TV Tune in: Not in the mood for the Olympics but enjoy a good competition? We have just the thing when The Bachelor Winter Games premieres Tuesday at 8 ET/PT. The four-episode series will pit contestants from international editions of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette against each other in athletics and dating. DVD/BLU-RAY View: The […]

When Tina Fey’s film “Mean Girls” came out in 2004, the comedy was lauded as a silly, satirical excoriation of modern high-school life and its cliques, cafeteria antics and materialism. “Mean Girls” was a “Clueless” for the millennial age. And it was so fetch. Fast forward to 2018. “Mean Girls” is about to begin a new […]

Los Angeles and Orange County area community colleges are starting a push to improve the training they offer for middle-skill jobs in the entertainment and digital industries. A new report commissioned by the colleges and released Friday reveals detailed wage and job growth information for Southern California middle skill jobs in entertainment and digital industries. It […]