Amidst Sunday night’s half-virtual/half-physical Golden Globes awards ceremony–which was riddled with technical glitches and overshadowed by controversy over the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s lack of Black representation in its cloistered ranks–one moment stood out as possibly the most powerful and clearly the most moving of the evening. That was when Taylor Simone Ledward, the widow
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A ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday, February 21, 2020, officially opened the 257-acre, $6.7 million Hidden Creeks parkland in the Chatsworth Hills. The space is located in Browns Canyon Road above the 118 Freeway at De Soto Avenue. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Community meetings bring people together for exchange of ideas and
Not many defeated leaders could arrive an hour late for a speech but still be greeted with a standing ovation. It’s 39 days since we last heard from the former president Trump; five-and-a-half weeks to stew on defeat and consider his future. “Have you missed me, CPAC?” he asked the crowd at the Conservative Political
A single shot of either the Oxford-AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines is more than 80% effective at preventing hospitalisation among the over 80s, the health secretary has said. Speaking at a Downing Street news conference, Matt Hancock hailed “exciting new data” showing the effectiveness of the two COVID-19 jabs. According to a pre-print study from Public
“You can’t reopen your economy unless you get your schools reopened,” said California Governor Gavin Newsom at the top of his press conference with legislative leaders on Monday to announce a multibillion-dollar deal aimed at enticing schools to resume in-person instruction for young students by April 1. The agreement, however, may end up penalizing districts
A framework notorious for delivering a banking Trojan has received a facelift to deploy a wider range of malware, including ransomware payloads. “The Gootkit malware family has been around more than half a decade – a mature Trojan with functionality centered around banking credential theft,” Sophos researchers Gabor Szappanos and Andrew Brandt said in a
OnePlus 9 Series is expected to launch in India sometime later this month. A dedicated webpage has been set up on the company’s India website with the title “Moonshot.” The mysterious page doesn’t reveal much, except notifying that OnePlus is expected to announce “something new” on March 8. Now, this might indicate that the OnePlus
Rishi Sunak should use this Budget to ditch the government’s pensions triple lock, lift taxes on older voters and should be wary of raising corporation taxes, according to former chancellor Ken Clarke. The intervention from Lord Clarke carries some weight, since he was the chancellor who introduced tough spending limits and tax rises in the
CNN’s Brianna Keilar calls out the hypocrisy of Fox News host Pete Hegseth’s speech at the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference that she says looked a lot like a Fox News TV family reunion. #BriannaKeilar #CNN #News
Scotty McCreery has released a music video to accompany his sweet song “You Time,” the 2020 single from the singer that represents the Season 10 American Idol winner’s latest output. Just like the tune itself, the clip is sure to summon romantic notions of stealing away a tender moment with a sweetie. Interspersed among shots of McCreery
Three names: Zac Brown, Gregg Allman, Vince Gill. One stage. Back in 2014, the three teamed up to sing one of the baddest southern rock songs ever, “Midnight Rider” by the southern rock group, The Allman Brothers. In the video, we see original Allman Brothers member Gregg Allman (in case you couldn’t put that together),
The highly-anticipated tenth season of American Horror Story still doesn’t have a release date, or even a publicly-known title, but it is still in the works at FX. The new season was supposed to be released last year, but the pandemic caused the production to suffer several delays, so a 2021 debut became the new
James Corden looks unrecognizable these days — which, we suppose, can be credited to his new gig with Weight Watchers … something he’s clearly taking seriously. Check out these photos of “The Late Late Show” host Sunday, where he’s out making an ice run for his at-home party for the virtual Golden Globes … which
It’s Marvel Monday Hasbro fans! This month’s installment is all about the debut of this fantastic Black Widow Red Guardian and Melina Vostkoff 2-Pack. The 6-inch figures are based on the characters as they will appear in the upcoming Marvel Studios Black Widow film, which might finally hit theaters in May after numerous COVID-19-related delays.
Nomadland, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm and The Crown were among the big winners at the 2021 Golden Globes. Nomadland picked up Best Motion Picture Drama, while fillmmaker Chloé Zhao won Best Director, becoming the first woman to win that prize since Barbra Streisand in 1983 for Yentl. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm also won two trophies, Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy,
Activists dedicate their lives to changing the world. Octavia Butler opens The Parable of the Sower with the lines, “All that you touch / You Change. / All that you Change / Changes you.” The activists of the Civil Rights Movement made a great deal of change possible. Yet when we talk about the Civil
The month of March signals a grim milestone with it being roughly one year since COVID-19 shut movie theaters down around the world. And 12 months later, going to a cinema remains a risky proposition. However, the comfort of Netflix is still providing a safe alternative for the quarantine-bound. Here’s a handful of new cinematic
Los Angeles is quietly expanding a controversial real-time tracking system from dockless scooters to taxis and ride-hailing vehicles with the goal of creating a future-proof tool to digitally manage the city’s rights of way, but critics fear the technology puts passengers’ privacy at risk. The Los Angeles Department of Transportation will soon require the tracking
Donald Trump has suggested he may run for president again in 2024 – amid an angry attack on Joe Biden in his first major address since leaving the White House. The Republican used his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in an apparent effort to cement his status as the party’s undisputed leader
A huge boost in spending on the UK’s COVID-19 vaccine programme will be announced by the chancellor in the Budget on Wednesday. Rishi Sunak will pledge a further £1.65bn for jabs, a cash injection hailed by the Treasury as a “shot in the arm” for the vaccine roll-out. The chancellor will also promise to invest