Noah Wyle is a consensus pick, with a sizable lead over Mark Ruffalo. Glenn Whipp sums up the Buzz: “There’s little chance that Noah Wyle doesn’t repeat.” The panel, though, says it would like to see the academy sidestep its usual voting habits and honor some genre work as well. Walton Goggins of the video … Read more
Steve Antonioni stumbled into a miniature version of FIRE — financial independence, retire early — the movement he’d been pursuing throughout his early 20s. Loading audio narration… After building a $90,000 “war chest,” he quit his corporate job and started making YouTube videos about financial independence. A few years into that career pivot, he took … Read more
The Trump administration says it will increase the water it’s sending to Central Valley farmlands this year from Shasta Lake, the state’s largest reservoir. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation said agricultural water agencies south of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta will receive 25% of their total contracted amount, up from an initial 20%. Cities and … Read more
Tuesday night, America voted in primary elections and the big winner was President Trump. One after another, his enemies — and by that I mean anyone who has ever done anything other than grovel — were defeated in elections across the country. Rep. Thomas Massie, the Kentucky Republican, was perhaps the most high-profile to go … Read more
The Rams’ bone-colored uniforms have been sent to the graveyard. In a release on Thursday, the team unveiled updated Royal Blue and white uniforms and announced subtle changes to logos as part of what the Rams described as “a refined brand and uniform refresh.” Matthew Stafford shows off the Rams’ new white uniforms released on … Read more
While Shawn Hatosy took home the gold last season in the guest-actor category as Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center’s night-shift version of Dr. Robby, Trey Mangum thinks intense competition from his “Pitt” peers could split the vote, opening doors for others: “The one actor from a show that premiered a while back who could easily command … Read more
Elon Musk is on the hunt for top talent. Loading audio narration… SpaceX’s AI division is hiring engineers and physicists as the company prepares for what could be the biggest IPO in history. Musk said in a post on X on Thursday that he will personally review all applications that pass “reasonable sanity checks.” While … Read more
After a 6½-year hiatus from theaters, “Star Wars” returns to the big screen this weekend with “The Mandalorian and Grogu.” This time around, however, the franchise faces a much different universe than it did in 2019 when the last film came out. For one, theatrical attendance has fallen dramatically since “Star Wars: Episode IX — … Read more
President Trump, it’s well known, is into gold. Every day brings new evidence that he’s thoroughly enjoying the “golden age” he pronounced in his inaugural address — as few other Americans are — with stock trades, crypto profiteering and much more, even a new taxpayer-financed slush fund to reward his allies. As for me, I’ve … Read more
The Sports Report Hall of Fame, NFL edition Those of you who read the Dodgers Dugout newsletter know that for the last few years, we have done a Dodgers Dugout Hall of Fame, asking readers to vote for former Dodgers who they believe should be in this more fan-oriented Hall of Fame. Clayton Kershaw was … Read more
On a late Monday afternoon in early May, three members of the band Xcomm sit behind the control board at multiplatinum producer Ross Robinson’s studio in Atwater Village during an afternoon hang while bassist Adan Escoto joins via Zoom. Usually at this point in the year, a teenager would be counting down the days until … Read more
Before joining Microsoft as a junior software engineer last year, Ume Habiba, imagined spending most of her time fixing bugs and juggling other mundane tasks. Instead, the University of Maryland graduate was charged with building a new feature for Azure Networking, one of Microsoft’s flagship products. Habiba’s miscalculation? Not realizing she would get to offload … Read more
WASHINGTON — House Democrats on Friday released 19 photographs from Jeffrey Epstein’s private email server showing a collection of powerful men in politics, media and Hollywood in the convicted sex offender’s orbit. The photographs — which were released without information on the timing, location or context of the events portrayed — do not reveal any wrongdoing or … Read more
To describe a movie as including a ski mask, a camcorder and $50,000 in cash would certainly lead one to imagine a specific type of story. Add two men and sex work and the brain might roll around more pointed scenarios. But none of that can prepare you for what micro-indie “Blue Film” has in … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO — A high school student was killed and 32 other teenagers were injured Monday–as many as 16 of them seriously–when a group of students on an amusement park outing allegedly ignored a lifeguard’s warning and crowded onto a water slide, which snapped and sent them crashing to the ground, emergency officials said. Waterworld USA General … Read more