Nearly a year after the coronavirus pandemic first touched down in Los Angeles, Public Health officials confirmed more than 22,000 total deaths related to the infectious disease, bringing the county to yet another grim milestone. To date Los Angeles County has identified a total of 22,008 deaths and 1,201,866 cases. Saturday’s coronavirus count sees 1,823
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UPDATE 6:54 P.M.: Literally Minutes after the HFPA announced more details of their plans to be a more diverse and inclusive organization, Time’s Up responded with “the right words are not enough. The clock is ticking.” In a statement released Saturday night, Time’s Up president and CEO Tina Tchen blasted the HFPA in a case
Beyoncé has released a brief a capella medley of songs in memory of Lyric Chanel, a 13-year-old girl whose two-year struggle with brain cancer was documented on Instagram before she passed away on Friday, as Rolling Stone reports. The medley, set to a slideshow of photos of Chanel, includes the songs “Brown Skin Girl” (The
For the last several years, there has been one book that I read that becomes my new book obsession. Meaning I absolutely must tell everyone about it and I also read it multiple times. Sometimes I read it again immediately after finishing it! Most recently, that book is Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. I’ve
Inspirational and aspirational beauty is all well and good, but after a year in which we’ve had to develop more autonomy over our beauty routines – and forgo our favourite clinic treatments – we’re looking for skincare innovations that deliver cold-hard results. For hardcore skintellectuals with their finger on the pulse, LED masks and skin-tightening
Dave Calhoun, Chairman of Boeing Adam Jeffery | CNBC Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun was awarded $21 million in total compensation for his work last year, but he gave up $3.6 million in salary and bonuses after the coronavirus pandemic hit and devastated the industry. He took just $269,231 of his $1.4 million salary for the
The proposed 1% pay rise for NHS staff is a “slap in the face” and large numbers of nurses could quit after the pandemic, a union has warned as pressure grows on the government over the row. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said the 1% offer had reinforced some of their members’ belief “that
Marc Benioff, chairman and co-chief executive officer of Salesforce.com Inc., speaks during the opening keynote of the 2019 DreamForce conference in San Francisco on Nov. 19, 2019. Salesforce.com Inc.s annual software conference, where it introduces new products and discusses its commitment to social causes, was interrupted for the second year in a row by protests
The creator of a series of deepfake Tom Cruise videos says he wants to make people more aware of what they are watching – and that it might not be real. Viewed more than 11 million times, Chris Ume’s videos appear to show Cruise playing golf, doing a magic trick, and falling over while telling
March 8 is International Women’ Day and March is Women’s History Month, and many outlets are celebrating with special events and/or programming. Here’s a roundup. EVENTS/PANELS On Broadway, the neon lights will shine on the fourth annual Women’s Day on Broadway. This year’s virtual event begins at 1 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT March 12, with
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s big spending at the virtual EFM is continuing with a mighty worldwide pre-buy of around $55M for Christian Bale Gothic horror-thriller The Pale Blue Eye, which will reunite the actor with director Scott Cooper. By our calculations, the deal marks a record for a worldwide deal at the European Film Market. The streamer
Montreal producer Mike Silver is self-releasing a new CFCF album: Memoryland, the follow-up to 2019’s Liquid Colours, is out April 9. The full album features appearances by fellow Montreal music group No Joy and Kero Kero Bonito frontwoman Sarah Bonito. Take a listen to the new track “Life Is Perfecto” below and check out the
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Howard Bloom, the author of the new book Einstein, Michael Jackson & Me: a Search for Soul in the Power Pits of Rock & Roll, has been called “next in a lineage of seminal thinkers that includes Newton, Darwin, Einstein,[and] Freud,” by Britain’s Channel4 TV, “the next Stephen Hawking” by Gear Magazine, and “The Buckminster
From subtle balayage, to dreamy pastels and peakaboo shades, we all love to switch up our hair. But the reality is that dyeing our hair can put some serious strain on its overall health – especially if you have curly hair. In fact, curls are notoriously fragile and prone to breakage, especially compared to straight
Hailey Bieber has apologized to a former restaurant hostess who recently called her out for being ‘not nice’ when they met. In the viral TikTok video, the user rated other celebrities who she previously met while working at a New York City restaurant, revealing Bella and Gigi Hadid were ‘super polite’ and Kylie Jenner allegedly
Patrons Sari and Peter Melendez enjoy lunch at Katz’s Delicatessen, the famous deli founded in 1888, on the first day of the return to indoor dining for New York City, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in New York, February 12, 2021. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Easing mask mandates and reopening restaurants have led to
The government has been accused of “snatching away” a previously suggested pay rise of 2.1% for NHS workers, as four major unions expressed their dismay at the 1% increase on offer. NHS Providers, which represents NHS trusts in England, said a long-term plan set out years ago by the government had assumed a pay rise
NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance has taken its first, short drive on the surface of the red planet, two weeks after the robot science lab’s picture-perfect touchdown on the floor of a massive crater, mission managers said on Friday. The six-wheeled, car-sized astrobiology probe put a total of 6.5 meters (21.3 feet) on its odometer on
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk unveils a new all-wheel-drive version of the Model S car in Hawthorne, California October 9, 2014. Lucy Nicholson | Reuters Shares in Tesla were down as much as 8% Friday morning. They’ve since recovered to finish down less than 2% as markets showed a dramatic bounceback late on Friday, but