It only took one instance of public shaming for me to never leave my home maskless again. In April 2020, I went for a jog, bare-faced, along a wide boulevard in my Brooklyn neighborhood. “Wear a mask!” a man shouted, scandalized, as I passed him several feet away. He’d been talking with a companion as
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Wall Street fund managers are unhappy with President Biden’s proposal to raise capital gains taxes on people who make more than $1 million a year. #CNN #News
This article contains spoilers for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Talk about timing! With the conclusion of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier on Disney+, Marvel wasted no time in revealing the next project that will spotlight Anthony Mackie’s newly minted Captain America. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that The Falcon and the
Investment bank J P Morgan has admitted it “clearly misjudged” the backlash from football fans over the proposed new European Super League. The financial giant had committed just over £2.8bn of start-up financing to the ill-fated scheme, although no money has yet changed hands. But on Friday, a statement from JP Morgan said: “We clearly
Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Friday to recommend resuming use of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine. #CNN #News
A high school senior’s decorated graduation cap message. (Photo by Michael Kitada, Contributing Photographer) The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the names of high school students in Los Angeles County on April 21 who are recipients of corporate-sponsored scholarships in 2021. The corporate-sponsored awards are financed by about 140 corporations, company foundations and other business
US President Joe Biden will travel to the United Kingdom and Belgium in June for his first overseas trip, the White House has said. The trip aims to “highlight his commitment to restoring our alliances, revitalising the trans-Atlantic relationship, and working in close cooperation with our allies,” said White House press secretary Jen Psaki. Advertisement
Boris Johnson’s former aide Dominic Cummings has denied being the source of the prime minister’s leaked text communications with businessman Sir James Dyson. Several newspapers quoted unnamed Downing Street sources as claiming Mr Cummings had leaked the text messages, first reported by the BBC. In a blog post, Mr Cummings said: “I do have some
On-location filming of TV shows in Los Angeles reached pre-pandemic levels in the first quarter of 2021 – the second quarter in a row that it’s hit that milestone, according to the latest report from FilmLA, the city and county film permit office. On-location shooting days for feature films and commercials still have a ways
A new ransomware strain called “Qlocker” is targeting QNAP network attached storage (NAS) devices as part of an ongoing campaign and encrypting files in password-protected 7zip archives. First reports of the infections emerged on April 20, with the adversaries behind the operations demanding a bitcoin payment (0.01 bitcoins or about $500.57) to receive the decryption
Alan Jackson puts his heart on the screen in his just-released ”You’ll Always Be My Baby” lyric video. The song is for his daughters, Mattie, Alexandra and Dani Grace, and this video makes them the stars. It’s a walk down memory lane — Jackson sings as snapshots of his three girls through the years roll across
Apple recently upgraded its iPad Pro lineup with its custom-designed M1 SoC. At its Spring Loaded event earlier this week, it launched the 2021 M1 iPad Pro in two sizes – 12.9-inch and 11-inch – each of which is available in Wi-Fi only and Wi-Fi + Cellular variants, as well as different RAM+storage configurations. The
A new report emerged on social media yesterday, claiming that Warner Bros. Home Entertainment intended to phase physical media out, beginning in earnest in 2022. The comments, from animation historian Jerry Beck, singled out Warner’s print-on-demand service, Warner Archive, but went one step further and suggested that changes are coming to
Happy Friday. This week on the Whiskey Riff New Music Friday Playlist, we’re goin’ back to back weeks with new tunes from Eric Church, as well as new tunes from Blake Shelton, Kip Moore, Justin Moore, Tray Lawrence, Jameson Rodgers, Joe Nichols, John R. Miller, The Steel Woods, Reba, and more. Turn it up, tell
The upcoming installment Spiral: From the Book of Saw marks the first entry into the long-running Saw franchise since 2017’s Jigsaw, though there could be even more unsettling adventures for the franchise in the near future, as Lionsgate Television chairman Kevin Beggs recently confirmed that conversations are happening about potentially adapting the concept into a
Cops are investigating a double shooting — including one fatality — in the now-famous L.A. neighborhood where the movie “Friday” was filmed. According to the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department … homicide detectives responded to a shooting call around 11:30 AM on April 20 in South L.A., near 126th and Normandie … it’s the same block
The 36th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards honored Nomadland, Riz Ahmed, and Carey Mulligan, among others. The awards show, held virtually this year, also celebrated television for the first time, with I May Destroy You and Unorthodox earning top honors. The Independent Spirits Awards, which recognize the best work in the independent filmmaking space, are
Throughout this long year-that’s-been-a-decade, most of us have whiled away an afternoon dreaming of what we’ll do when it’s over. Many people have elaborate travel itineraries or plans to condense a year of lost parties into a truly scandalous weekend. Even those of us who were never much for going outside or seeing people have
If it seems like a new state is legalizing cannabis nearly every week, don’t worry, you’re not high — states are indeed legalizing the drug at an unprecedented pace. The wave of green legislation doesn’t seem like it’s going to start ebbing anytime soon, either. In just the past six months, every cannabis-related ballot measure