World-renowned music publicist Howard Bloom has just published his seventh, and possibly his most surprising book, Einstein, Michael Jackson & Me: A Search for Soul in the Power Pits of Rock and Roll (Rowman & Littlefield), a book that has leaped to number one on Amazon’s chart of best-selling music business books. Howard Bloom has
Southern California beaches, the hundreds of miles of coastline that are one of the defining characteristics of the Golden State, weren’t just a place in 2020 to take a dip into the cool ocean or lay out a towel and relax on the warm sand. In 2020, the coastline became a reflection of how Southern
A convicted murderer, considered by the FBI to be the most prolific serial killer in US history, has died at a hospital in California. Samuel Little, who had been serving three consecutive life sentences for the killing of three women in Los Angeles County during the 1980s, ultimately confessed to strangling 93 people. The state
The education secretary has told Sky News he is “absolutely confident” that secondary schools will be able to carry out mass testing with an extra week to prepare. Defending the decision to push back the return of pupils to secondary schools and colleges, Gavin Williamson told Sky News the move was about “rooting out coronavirus
Microsoft Surface Duo just got an update that brings bugs fixes and app optimisations as well as improvements, as spotted in an update on Google Play. The Microsoft Launcher update is now rolling out for Android users and brings along improvements such as opening the feed page in landscape and concurrently with another app, screen
Tesco, Pizza Hut and Superdrug are among 139 companies that have been named and shamed by the government for failing to pay the minimum wage. The employers short-changed more than 95,000 workers by a total of £6.7m during the period investigated between 2016 and 2018, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) said.
42-year-old Jose Luis Garcia of Dallas, Texas, has been arrested on murder charges in the violent 1996 Gladys Arellano, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department reported Wednesday.
Here’s our rundown of the 10 storylines set to dominate the international film business in 2021. Covid, of course What a difference a year makes. The pandemic that pretty much no one foresaw has re-shaped the entire world, including the entertainment business. 2021 will give us a better idea of which aspects of that re-shaping
Ol’ John Dutton has some damn fine taste in music. John Dutton, played by Kevin Costner, is the patriarch of the Dutton family in the Paramount Network hit series Yellowstone. And aside from the show itself being pretty damn incredible, the soundtrack is unlike anything I’ve ever heard. We’re talking Tyler Childers, Cody Jinks, Whiskey Myers, Sturgill
The time has finally come for Johnny Lawrence and Daniel LaRusso to return to TV screens around the world. Months after acquiring Cobra Kai from YouTube, Netflix is set to debut the highly-anticipated third season of the Karate Kid sequel series on Friday morning. The release date for Season 3 of Cobra Kai was originally
This STAR TREK: DISCOVERY review contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 12 The penultimate episode of Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 is an intriguing mix of action and politics as Michael and Book infiltrate the stolen Discovery and Osyraa takes ship straight up to the Federation Headquarters’ front door in order to make an unexpected offer to
New York City native Rachel Ticotin shot to stardom in in the early ’90s after she took on the role of the martian-based sidekick, Melina — who helps Douglas Quaid defeat Vilos Cohaagen from blowing up Mars — in the 1990 spacey action film “Total Recall.” Rachel Ticotin starred in the high-budget film alongside Sharon
Comic book writers and podcasters Dave Baker and Andrew Price, whose Deep Cuts podcast explores the seedy underbelly of pop culture, revealed their 2020 finale today, and it’s a musical. The Rise and Fall of Napster is about two hours long, and features music from the duo and a handful of their friends. It comes
Samuel Little — who authorities say was the most prolific killer in U.S. history with nearly 60 confirmed victims — has died, the Associated Press reports. He was 80. Little died at a California hospital on Wednesday. The cause of death has not been announced and will be determined by a coroner, but Little had
An Ontario homeowner found an intruder in his daughter’s bedroom this morning and shot him three times. CBS2’s Jasmine Viel reports.
Tuesday’s end-of-day totals reported by California public heath websites added 36,012 new cases of the coronavirus in the state, bringing the total number of people who have been infected to 2,230,094. California two-day total of 101,729 new cases is more than China’s reported 95,851 total cases. There were also 427 new deaths reported in California,
The new highly infectious variant of COVID-19 first discovered in the UK has now been detected in southern California, according to the state’s governor. Gavin Newsom declared that the more transmissible version of the coronavirus had reached the US western coast on Wednesday, a day after the first case was documented in Colorado. Governor Newsom
Boris Johnson has said the UK’s destiny “now resides firmly in our hands” as his Brexit trade deal cleared Parliament and entered into law. It comes after MPs overwhelmingly approved the deal to pave the way for the UK-EU agreement to come into force at 11pm today, when the current Brexit transition period – during
Vivo Y20A has been launched in India as the latest smartphone offering from the company. The phone comes with a 6.51-inch display with a waterdrop-style notch and packs a large 5,000mAh battery. Vivo Y20A has been unveiled in two colour finishes and its sale is set to begin on January 2. The battery life on
One of Britain’s most prominent technology entrepreneurs is to be reunited with the backers of her biggest corporate success when she takes the helm of a cash shell that will target a £100m software industry takeover. Sky News has learnt that Vin Murria, who made her investors a fortune when she sold Advanced Computer Software