National Entertainment

LaKeith Stanfield is disarmingly good as a grief-stricken astrophysicist barely scraping by in New Orleans, and increasingly jaded about the spirit-crazed tourists and mythologies of the city he calls home.

In the Emmy-nominated opening credits of HBO’s “White Lotus,” wallpaper-like images told a story : The tropical prints started off innocuously enough, but then turned ominous.

You've got to hand it to the Philippou brothers. They've taken an old horror cliche — a severed hand — and made something worth, well, applauding.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — From Issa Rae’s perspective, there’s plenty of talented female filmmakers willing to work. However, she knows most haven’t been afforded the same support as their male counterparts.

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Phish will play two special shows next month to benefit flood recovery efforts in Vermont and upstate New York.

NEW YORK (AP) — Marla Gibbs has waited a long time to tell her life story.

NEW YORK (AP) — A 71-year-old man linked to a crew of drug dealers blamed in the fentanyl-laced heroin death of “The Wire” actor Michael K.

Pete Davidson has entered a diversion program to resolve a reckless driving charge for crashing into a Beverly Hills home and will perform 50 hours community service, authorities said Tuesday.

NEW YORK (AP) — SAG-AFTRA held its largest and most star-studded rally yet Tuesday in Times Square in a picket sign-waving show of solidarity 12 days into the actors strike.

Madeline Kenney, “A New Reality Mind” (Carpark Records) Madeline Kenney’s new album “A New Reality Mind” is a neatly woven ethereal treatise on rebuilding after a relationship collapse.