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Charming Victorian inn with cocktail parlor, organs and no screens opens just outside L.A.
In 2022, Joshua Cain and his partner, André Reyes, stepped into the foyer of the home on Monrovia’s South Ivy Avenue and gaped in wonder. The red and white Victorian farmhouse had belonged to their friend, the late Steve Baker, who served as the city’s longtime historian and had packed the property with thousands of…
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India’s internet war
In 2014, Narendra Modi pioneered the use of social media and digital campaigning in India to become prime minister. Known as one of the first global politicians to harness the power of the internet, he has the most social media followers of any world leader currently in office. Today, over a decade since Modi’s digital-first…
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Artificial intelligence can imitate us, but it cannot truly design or invent
Every generation believes its technologies are about to destabilize the world. The printing press initially was accused of eroding authority and unleashing uncontrollable voices. Railways were said to compress space unnaturally, disturbing body and mind. The telephone threatened the centrality of the public square; television, the vitality of the street. More recently, the smartphone has…
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‘I dare you’: Trump put on the spot over 9/11 after ‘obscene’ attack
President Donald Trump was challenged to show his face in New York City on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks after he delivered an ugly attack on Wednesday. MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” aired a clip of Trump using an expletive to smear Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, leading co-host Jonathan Lemire to call the…
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Rabble-rousing NYC artist Scott LoBaido suffers cardiac arrest at pro-cop event after trying to confront Mamdani
Rabble-rousing Staten Island artist and activist Scott LoBaido suffered a cardiac arrest emergency after he attempted to confront Mayor Zohran Mamdani at a pro-cop event in the borough Tuesday night — in which the socialist mayor was mercilessly booed off stage. LoBaido, who’s been openly critical of Mamdani, tried to approach the mayor after his…
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Catalina Island’s only hospital fights for its future amid dire financial outlook
The Saturday morning calm at Catalina Island Health’s two-bed emergency room was broken just before noon, when two tourists with arm injuries burst in within minutes of one another. Praveen Biln, the registered nurse on duty in the ER, kicked into gear checking vital signs on the first arrival, a woman in her 50s who…
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Olympian canoeist slaps back at Trump: Government worker ‘cut off the peeling’
A government engineer cut the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool’s liner with a knife — the same act President Donald Trump blamed on vandals, a new court filing contends. The filing, submitted Monday in D.C. Superior Court on behalf of former Olympic canoeist David Hearn, asks a judge to permanently bar the government from prosecuting him…
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America Is Finally Taking Extraterrestrials Seriously
There was nothing much happening in Jerome and Benno Leuer’s yard in Hamel, Minn. on August 11, 1948. It was noontime in the thick of summer and the boys, 10 and 8, were idly playing when, as they later described it, something overhead caught their eyes. They looked up and their jaws dropped. Roughly 12…
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Rhea Seehorn was overlooked for years. In ‘Pluribus,’ she’s impossible to ignore
Rhea Seehorn possesses what Vince Gilligan calls “Jumbotron face.” As the creator of “Pluribus” and (with Peter Gould) “Better Call Saul,” Gilligan has relied on Seehorn’s ability to broadcast what her characters are thinking and feeling without saying much of anything. Gilligan loves silences and uses them in long stretches, allowing — or, perhaps more…
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Gruesome criminal history ‘rampant’ as probe exposes multiple immigration agents
David Brouillette, the ICE agent who fatally gunned down a 25-year-old Colombian immigrant in Maine last month, is far from the only immigration agent with a history of domestic violence, according to a new report. The Ohio Immigration Alliance flags the cases of 25 federal immigration agents or contractors criminally charged or credibly accused since…