People watch the Raptor Encounter during the reopening of Universal Studios Hollywood, Thursday, April 15, 2021. (Photo by Michael Owen Baker, contributing photographer) Here is a sampling of upcoming in-person and online things to do in the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles area. EVENTS Grand Park’s Our L.A. Voices – Digital Spring Arts +
Derek Chauvin, the former police officer who was convicted of murdering George Floyd, is being held in isolation for 23 hours a day in a maximum security prison, authorities have revealed. Prison officers check on Chauvin every 30 minutes, his meals are delivered to his cell and he will be subjected to a mental health
David Cameron lobbied the Treasury’s top civil servant on behalf of a financial services firm that later collapsed. Sir Tom Scholar told a committee of MPs that the former prime minister called him on his work mobile and sent him text messages in March and April 2020 in a bid to get Greensill Capital involved
The Producers Guild of America is expanding its Independent Production Safety Initiative to include anti-bullying trainings “with the goal of eliminating workplace violence and aggression.” The move comes in the wake of bullying accusations against Broadway and Oscar-winning movie producer Scott Rudin. The guild said that it is also forming a task force “to examine
The sprawling SolarWinds cyberattack which came to light last December was known for its sophistication in the breadth of tactics used to infiltrate and persist in the target infrastructure, so much so that Microsoft went on to call the threat actor behind the campaign “skillful and methodic operators who follow operations security (OpSec) best practices
Easy Eye Sound Yola will release her sophomore album this summer. Stand for Myself reunites the British singer-songwriter with Black Keys member and producer Dan Auerbach and his Easy Eye Sound label. A press release teases that Stand for Myself will find Yola making “a sonic shift” from her debut album, 2019’s Walk Through Fire. Indeed, the first
Zoom’s latest update will provide more screen annotations for Zoom Meetings and Zoom Video Webinars, new hardware solutions for Zoom Rooms, expanded management capabilities for Zoom Chat, and a streamlined mass communication solution for Zoom Phone. Along with these, the video chatting service has also gained a few other features such as more emojis and
Godzilla vs. Kong is one of the biggest films in the world right now, and it has no plans to back down from a box office fight. With Mortal Kombat on the horizon for Warner Bros. Pictures, all eyes are on the studio as Hollywood toes its way into a changing industry. Warner Bros. Pictures
It’s been two years since Avengers: Endgame hit theatres and provided an ending for the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s original hero. Iron Man/Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) died saving the world from Thanos and while many of us were pleased with this heartbreaking ending, others were not thrilled about their favorite character’s lack of a happy
Dammit Jamey Johnson, the list of what we wouldn’t do for a new album is shorter than what we would do… In a catalogue of pretty much nothing but great songs, it’s easy for a few to be overshadowed, even though they check all the boxes of a hit. I present to you, “Mowin’ Down
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has strongly suggest Steve Rogers has passed away between the opening scene of Spider-Man: Far From Home and moment in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. Still, none of the Avengers have outright referred to Steve as dead but merely “gone,” as some know he went to live in an alternate
Brooklyn-born model and actress Talisa Soto was in her 20s when she landed the role as the butt-kicking Outworld’s Princess Kitana — who aligns herself with the Earth warriors and helps save mankind — in the classic 1995 action film “Mortal Kombat.” Soto traded punches with an epic cast of actors including Bridgette Wilson as
Warner Bros. has released the first trailer for The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, the latest installment in The Conjuring horror franchise starring Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga. The film is set to debut in theaters and on HBO Max on June 4th. The third Conjuring movie is based on the real-life case of Arne Cheyenne Johnson,
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On Wednesday, Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. announced that his office would no longer be prosecuting prostitution and unlicensed massage arrests, and that it would be dropping 914 cases dating all the way back to the 1970s. The office also moved to dismiss more than 5,000 loitering for the purpose of prostitution cases, which
At the end of the day, Mortal Kombat is about a bunch of characters beating the crap out of each other for supremacy. Sure, they toss in stories about tournaments to protect Earth and wars against invading realms, but it all boils down to martial artists brutally punching the hell out of each other until
A closely-watched report has noted the largest quarterly leap in the number of businesses suffering significant financial distress since 2014 following a year of coronavirus disruption. The latest Red Flag Alert produced by insolvency specialists Begbies Traynor measured a jump of 93,000 firms in the first quarter of 2021, a period that took in the
Los Angeles public health officials reported 439 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases to 1,229,998 as of Wednesday, April 21. Officials reported 35 new deaths linked to the coronavirus, for a total 23,702 deaths since tracking began. There were 19 more hospitalizations reported since Tuesday, raising the official count of
When George Floyd bought cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 note, it triggered the wretched sequence of events that led to the end of his life. The teenager who served Mr Floyd was a key prosecution witness in the trial of his killer, former police officer Derek Chauvin. Christopher Martin said he has felt too scared
MPs have accused the government of a “missed opportunity” in failing to give more detailed plans on how Britons might be able to enjoy foreign holidays this summer. Under Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s roadmap for lifting lockdown restrictions, international travel won’t be allowed any earlier than 17 May. In a report earlier this month, the