Before President Joe Biden abandoned his reelection bid in July, there was a broad consensus about where the 2024 race for the White House was headed. Former President Donald Trump was going to win and Biden was about to lose, with the only remaining questions involving the margin of victory and how many downballot Democrats […]
Hawaii has been in a funk. A huge swath of locals are talking about it, from drivers to barkeeps to wonks to business owners to clergy, the Washington Examiner found early this year while visiting the most populous of the state’s eight main islands, Oahu, home of capital city of Honolulu. Throughout the island chain, […]
Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), who runs the Democratic Senate Committee Campaign, compared its last-minute decision to invest in Florida and Texas to Vice President Kamala Harris’s late entry into the presidential race, arguing it’s not too late to introduce the party’s candidates to voters. “We know the same dynamics as people get to know Kamala. […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) signed a bill on Thursday that has California apologize for the state’s role in slavery during the 19th century. Newsom was joined by members of the state’s legislative black caucus as he signed AB 3089, proposed by Democratic state Assemblyman Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer Sr. “As we confront the lasting legacy of […]
During the years I kicked around Hollywood grabbing writing gigs here and there, I would attend a weekly theater gathering — Tuesdays@9, produced by the Naked Angels. Writers would bring in about 10 minutes of material to workshop with actors who turned up to get in a little scene work. The whole event was an excuse […]
“His goal wasn’t teaching robots to discover their humanity,” the narrator of Sunny, an Apple TV+ dark dramedy set in near-future Kyoto, says about Masa, a robotics engineer who’s presumed dead after the flight carrying him and his son crashes in northern Japan. “What excited him was realizing how they could help us discover ours.” […]
A Different Man is a noir-inflected black comedy about the adage, popularized by Truman Capote and attributed to Teresa of Ávila, that more tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones. Indie filmmaker Aaron Schimberg’s third feature depicts an odd and volatile love triangle between two men with facial deformities and a woman who […]
Former Russian Prime Minister and longtime Vladimir Putin ally Dmitry Medvedev recently made a bold prediction that the United States would soon collapse into a second civil war brought on by the 2024 presidential election. While such dire prognostication would usually be dismissed quickly as hyperbolic post-Soviet propaganda spewed by a government hit hard by […]
While walking one day through an abandoned gold mine, you spot a shiny old oil jar. Curious, you pick it up, rub off some of the dust that’s covering its spout, and — behold! — a glowing aquamarine genie emerges. You’ve rehearsed this scene a million times in your head and know exactly what to […]
Hurricane Helene has been upgraded to a Category 4 hurricane as it hurtles toward making landfall on the Florida coast. A Category 4 hurricane is capable of 130 mph to 156 mph winds and can cause severe damage to well-framed homes. It can also snap or uproot most trees, according to the National Weather Service. […]
