FILM Juice with Ernest Dickerson – 7:30 PM, July 16: The directorial debut of Ernest R. Dickerson, who previously lensed Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing (1989) and Malcolm X (1992), trains its sights on four Black teenagers in Harlem. While Q (Omar Epps) is obsessed...

FILM Killer Klowns from Outer Space – 4 PM, July 11: Join Gardena Cinema for The 3rd Annual Killer Klowns Punk Rock Fest on July 11 from 2-10:30 PM. 2:00 PM: John Massari opens the event with an incredibly rare screening of Mike Jittlov's zany 1988 film The Wizard of...

There was a cathartic validation while reading Roshan Sethi’s debut novel, The Simp, a searingly realistic tale about the absurdity of Hollywood in all its white splendor. The Simp follows the aforementioned Raj, an unemployed actor who lands a job as an assistant to...