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SZA has earned her first No. 1 album.According to HitsDailyDouble, Grammy-winner’s sophomore LP SOS will debut atop the Billboard 200, moving 315,000 album equivalent units in its opening week. For comparison, SZA’s 2017 debut LP, Ctrl, debuted and peaked at No. 3 with 60,000 unitsTaylor Swift’s latest full-length offering, Midnights, holds steady at No. 2 on the strength of 137,000 album equivalent units. Rounding out the rest of the Top 5 are Metro Boomin’s Heroes & Villains, which slots at No. 3, Drake and 21…

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, so long as it’s Yosemite snow. Sing it. I think I got the syllables right. If not, my apologies to Irving Berlin and colleague Rachel Schnalzer, who put together a great list of holiday adventures you could experience in California’s national parks. Climber coffee in Joshua Tree? I’m packing as soon as I finish writing this.I’m Glenn Whipp, columnist for the Los Angeles Times, host of The Envelope’s Friday newsletter and someone who is squarely in the Apple Pan camp when it comes to…

Ford's electric Transit debuted nearly two years ago, so it seems like about time someone built a camper van out of it. Winnebago has been hard at work on an electric Ford Transit camper van throughout 2022, but its e-RV isn't based on a Ford E-Transit but a Lightning Motors-electrified Transit. Bürstner becomes the first to use the real factory article, transforming the E-Transit into an all-electric camper van that can travel up to 197 miles per charge. It's just a concept for now, but it previews the direction of…

The music industry remits billions of dollars in revenue yearly from the masterpieces music artists create in the form of songs. However, music artists are owned by record labels as they’re bound by contracts that give these labels the right to do with the music licenses and profits as they wish. This has led to exploitation and losses on the part of the artists, but with Klangaverse (KLG) on the Binance Smart Chain (BNB), it’s time for them to take control and dictate their profits and rights as they deem fit. Over $43…

By Andrew Dalton | Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Doctor Strange and his multiverse got to linger a little longer atop the weekend box office as Tom Cruise and “Top Gun” wait in the wings. Marvel’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” was the top-earning film of the weekend for the third straight week, bringing in $31.6 million in 4,534 North American theaters, according to studio estimates released Sunday. “Downtown Abbey: A New Era” made a strong opening showing for Focus Features with $16 million from 3,820…