Matt Stevens

5 days ago | nytimes.com | Matt Stevens |Nicole Sperling

Movies and TV productions are rapidly leaving California to film outside the United States, where labor costs are lower and tax incentives greater. Industry workers are exasperated. It would have been simple to shoot the game show "The Floor" in Los Angeles. The city has many idle studios that could have easily accommodated its large display screen and the midnight-blue tiles that light up beneath contestants.

5 days ago | theweeklyjournal.com | Matt Stevens

LOS ANGELES — By most accounts, the 130-mile drive from Los Angeles to the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival last week was hot, congested and generally unpleasant. But there has been at least one bright spot for the 200,000 or so dehydrated, impatient and aggrieved fans who make the trek for one or both of the three-day events each year: clever billboards. Artists have advertised their sets on the giant placards that dot the route into Indio, California, for years.

6 days ago | nytimes.com | Tim Arango |Matt Stevens

The proceedings were pushed back for three weeks over the issue of whether a key report on Erik and Lyle Menendez was admissible. Erik and Lyle Menendez will have to wait a little longer to see if they may finally walk free. On Thursday, a Los Angeles judge pushed back a highly awaited resentencing hearing, delaying the proceedings for at least the second time in order to decide whether a key report on the brothers was admissible.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Matt Stevens

The cost is higher than the normal rate, Rose said. The vendors he works with must convince long-term advertisers to give up their inventory for this month. But the price"is not unreasonable," Stern said. "We're independent artists. We don't have stupid money for our billboards."Increasing demand with relatively low inventory has sometimes caused chaos for Rose. As have high winds, late-arriving art and exceedingly high expectations. Sometimes an artist may want more than one board.

1 week ago | illiniguys.com | Matt Stevens

While at his annual Coaches vs. Cancer event at Gordyville USA, Illinois head coach Brad Underwood stresses his desire for Ben Humrichous to play another season with the Illini. By Matt Stevens - IlliniGuys Staff WriterApril 18, 2025(Cover photo courtesy Joe Clark/IlliniGuys)CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — If all things remain equal and the same, the Illinois men’s basketball coaching staff wants Ben Humrichous back on the roster for a second consecutive season . . . Premium Members Only.