LOS ANGELES (AP) — Just before Janelle Monáe’s DJ set at Cinespia — an outdoor movie series framed by the marble mausoleums of a storied Hollywood cemetery — the multi-hyphenated performer wasn’t just focused on rehearsing a setlist. Instead, Monáe paused to guide a symbolic circle inspired by “The Craft.” Inside a candle-lit mausoleum, Monáe and several close friends recreated a moment from the 1996 cult classic film that they would later introduce to a sold-out crowd at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The group swayed and chanted, “Light as a feather, stiff as a board” before declaring “This is for the witches tonight.” “It’s really about

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