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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.

Meet the new Sudan Archives. She is edging, transcendent and disarmingly authentic

This is Sudan Archives’ allow-me-to-reintroduce myself era, a reappraisal after drastic personal overhaul, one that refuses to exploit upheaval for...

Rapper, YouTuber DDG briefly detained in SoCal; possible victim of swatting incident

A popular YouTube streamer posted on social media that he “almost today” after Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies drew...

Chance the Rapper talks about life after divorce ahead of ‘Star Line’ release

Chance the Rapper is opening up about co-parenting with his ex-wife as he prepares to release a new album and...

Art Fein, Los Angeles rock-scene renaissance man, dead at 79

Art Fein, a Los Angeles music-scene renaissance man who worked as a journalist, publicist, manager and television host over a...

Review: I attended a Black Out performance and, as a white critic, it opened my eyes in an unexpected way

“Berta, Berta,” a two-character play by Angelica Chéri, was inspired by a prison work song from Parchman Farm, the notorious...

End of an era for county music in Bakersfield: Buck Owens’ Crystal Palace closes

The Crystal Palace, a music and dining joint in Bakersfield launched by Buck Owens — which hosted just about every...

Danielle Spencer, former child actor known for sitcom ‘What’s Happening!!,’ dies at 60

Danielle Spencer, the former child star who played sassy tattletale Dee Thomas on the 1970s sitcom “What’s Happening!!,” has died....

Commentary: Dean Cain wants to join ICE. Forget Lex Luthor, this Superman is after Tamale Lady

There are people who keep reliving their glory days, and then there’s Dean Cain.The film and TV actor is best...

‘Monsters’ discourse eluded Netflix’s ‘talking points.’ To Chloë Sevigny, that’s art in action