Here are some activities and entertainments to enjoy in the San Fernando Valley and the greater Los Angeles area.

Independence Day Fireworks Festival – South El Monte: The city kicks off Independence Day early with games, music and food ...

Jessa Crispin (Lincoln Center, Kansas, 47) became known in Spain for her controversial feminist manifesto Por qué no soy feminista (Why I am not a feminist, Lince, 2017), based on the idea that the ...

Jessa Crispin. Pantheon, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-31762-4 Cultural critic Crispin (My Three Dads) offers an uneven examination of American masculinity by way of Michael Douglas’s filmography.

Let Michael Douglas Explain. In a sharp new book, Jessa Crispin uses the actor’s career to explore, and complicate, the “crisis of masculinity.” By Alexandra Jacobs Big Ticket ...

There isn’t another actor alive whom I’d rather watch than Michael Douglas. Just as Pauline Kael once said that the thought ...

Michael Douglas is the latest Hollywood celebrity to denounce Donald Trump for deploying the National Guard and Marines to enforce immigration raids in Los Angeles, with the Oscar-winning actor ...

Michael Douglas on His Timely Doc ‘America’s Burning’ and His Own Political Ambitions: ‘In “American President,” I Knew How the Script Ended’ By Jenelle Riley ...

Michael, 80, and Catherine, 55, share son Dylan Douglas, 24, and daughter Carys, 22, both of whom are now alums of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Martin Scorsese, Michael Douglas, Catherine Deneuve, Helen Hunt and Olivia Wilde are among the guests at the 71st edition of the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily, which runs June 10-14.

Michael Douglas will present a newly restored print of Miloš Forman’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” at Karlovy Vary Film Festival next month. The 1975 classic, which celebrates its ...