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A Bel-Air shootout: Fitness influencer gunned down after confrontation with robbers
After a late lunch with his wife in West Hollywood, Miguel Angel Aguilar got in his white convertible 1959 Chevrolet Impala and headed home to Bel-Air. He didn’t notice the gray Acura sedan that tailed him through rush-hour traffic on Sunset Boulevard. In the Acura were four young men who’d driven from Oakland to Los…
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Legendary Television City may be be sold in further blow to Hollywood
Television City, one of the most famous studios in the entertainment industry where generations of TV shows have been created, is expected to hit the market again as its owner grapples with debt. It’s the latest sign of distress in Hollywood as the film and TV industry struggles from a sharp falloff in production activity…
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The Thinking About Kids and Heat Has Flipped
You know it’s hot when summer camps have to cancel bonfires and doctors warn that playgrounds could be dangerous. Last week, when a heat dome was descending on New York City, I grew a bit concerned myself. My children’s outdoor day camp promised to “pivot to ‘water games,’” as the email put it, and said…
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CEO Pleads With AI Industry to Stop Charging So Much to Replace Human Labor
With each passing day without an AI labor revolution, the tech industry’s pricing scheme for AI is becoming more and more disconnected from reality — so much so that even its biggest clients are starting to revolt. Speaking during an interview on CNBC‘s “Squawk on the Street” segment earlier this week, CEO of cybersecurity giant…
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Most expensive World Cup venues revealed — with some costing fans eye-popping $100 for snacks
Here’s where to get the most bang for your “Cup.” Trying to eat one’s fill at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium can quickly empty your wallet. The Florida-based arena was recently ranked the most expensive World Cup venue in North America for concessions with meals costing fans over $100 on average, per a snack-y survey by…
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A Magical New Way of Looking at Soccer
Last week, as I settled into my seat in the dark and blessedly cool basement theater of New York’s Guggenheim Museum to watch an experimental film, I was conscious that in just a few hours, people all over the planet would be turning on TVs and streaming from laptops and phones to see that night’s…
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This on-air slap down suggests Scott Jennings just committed career suicide
Scott Jennings has long played the utterly insufferable and condescending “know-it-all,” smugly talking over and around rather earnest liberals during CNN’s analysis of the day’s events. Obviously, the MAGA Mayhem team on “X” cannot get enough of him, including the equally obnoxious (at times) Joe Rogan, who simply loves the way Jennings out-testosterones his often…
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The Surprising Unity of Soccer
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. One of my favorite parts of the World Cup is asking people a deceptively simple question: What team…
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Californians rallied to save the coast 50 years ago. Trump is spoiling the celebration
A guy who owns a beach resort on the coast of Florida, where hundreds of miles of overdeveloped shores are threatened by increasingly severe storms driven by global warming, is trying to tell Californians how best to manage our coast. Guess who. It’s not that we needed the help. If there’s any thought to adding…
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Trump’s ‘incredibly vulgar’ threat reveals secret tactic: Ex-State official
President Donald Trump’s promise to “decimate and destroy all areas of Iran” stunned a former Obama administration official Saturday morning. Richard Stengel, former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, shared his alarm over Trump’s recent Truth Social threat with MS NOW viewers. “The fact of an American president threatening genocide against the whole people…