At this year’s Grammys, a lineup of veteran artists blessed the stage at Crypto.com Arena: Joni Mitchell gave her first-ever Grammys performance, Billy Joel debuted his first song in almost two decades, and Tracy Chapman broke a yearslong performing hiatus to team up with country star Luke Combs, who’s found massive success with his Nashville-twanged cover of Chapman’s signature hit, …
Hundreds of Israeli high-tech experts have temporarily put their private sector jobs aside to help locate Israelis missing after last week's attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Hamas gunmen evaded heavy Israeli security measures to escape the Gaza Strip and storm Israeli towns and kibbutzes, killing 1,300 people and taking almost 200 into captivity. Karine Nahon, one of the …
Punjab education minister Harjot Singh Bains urges for calm as a massive protest broke out on the Chandigarh University campus after videos of 60 girls bathing were leaked on the internet. "I humbly request all the students of Chandigarh University to remain calm, no one guilty will be spared," the minister tweeted. Chandigarh University students protested on the campus after …
Diana Nyad and Bonnie Stoll — friends from way back — are shown in 2012 when Nyad made one of her attempts to swim from Cuba to Florida; in 2013, after Nyad’s successful Straits of Florida swim; and nowadays at L.A.’s Pan Pacific Park. Times staff writer Randall Roberts explained how Maejor became obsessed with making a seemingly small change …
When it debuted on Aug. 1, 1981, MTV was a business and technology experiment without much downside and without much chance of succeeding. Months later, with ratings ticking upward, they’d screen Jackson’s transformational “Thriller” video every hour on the hour, and Michael and Madonna would become the network’s prom king and queen. To commemorate MTV’s 40th anniversary, we’ve gathered four …
