Each Sunday at 2 p.m., a team of community associates meets (in a socially distanced manner) on the corner of Folsom and Indiana streets, close to the invisible boundary concerning East Los Angeles and Boyle Heights, to go over the long run of a bunya pine tree. The tree — […]
Biden and the climate crisis: Why this gas project matters
A couple days right after Joe Biden claimed victory in the presidential election, a San Diego company quietly asked federal officers for permission to deliver 5 million tons of pure gasoline every single 12 months throughout the U.S.-Mexico border to an export terminal the corporation hopes to build alongside the […]
Famed ‘Final Fantasy’ creator has a new game: What to know
Prior to Hironobu Sakaguchi began function on his latest function-playing video game — he’s championed and explored the RPG style through his career — the creator of the famed “Final Fantasy” series opted to seem again in advance of placing his sights ahead. Sakaguchi not also long back replayed “Final […]
How four Black creators teach their history on TikTok
Place away your textbooks and pull out your cellphones: some of the ideal Black heritage lessons are happening on TikTok. Across the application, Black creators are publishing videos that confront America’s racist earlier in graphic depth, use historical past to incorporate context to the way race is viewed today and […]
Wind power company will breed endangered California condors
They are among the the prime objectives of California environmentalists: preserving endangered species and replacing fossil fuels with clean up power. However in the blustery skies previously mentioned Kern County’s Tehachapi Mountains — where towering wind turbines churn with hypnotic rhythm — renewable electrical power and wildlife preservation look to […]
Clubhouse users spend hours on the app. What’s the appeal?
Like most Clubhouse customers, Rahaf Harfoush doesn’t make income on the app. But she does assistance others stay away from getting rid of it. Harfoush, a electronic anthropologist and writer who life in Paris, is aspect of an “anti-grift squad” that allows newcomers to the audio-only interactive streaming platform keep […]
How Latin icon Bad Bunny became a plant person on ‘SNL’
When Negative Bunny showed up on Saturday Night time Reside very last weekend, the vibe was to be envisioned. The Puerto Rican singer-MC was billed as the show’s audio visitor. He was heading to accomplish a set that by all implies was heading to be stellar — even by pandemic […]
Op-Ed: Where are drilling protections for California residents?
California is one particular of the foremost oil producers in the nation, nonetheless its people don’t have a fundamental safeguard from market hazards: buffer zones to protect persons from oil and gas extraction close to houses and colleges. A new wave of scientific exploration has documented the well being issues […]
Four reasons why Zoom is so exhausting and what you can do about it
A single 7 days into shelter-in-put past yr, Jeremy Bailenson was conversing to a BBC reporter and experienced an epiphany. “Why are we Zooming? There’s no require for us to be on Zoom,” he assumed. A cell phone call would have sufficed. This kernel of realization grew to become an […]
L.A. Affairs: COVID dating while freezing my eggs
I was struggling nightmares and nervousness assaults, a side outcome of becoming held at gunpoint at a nail salon in Silver Lake in the middle of the working day. My mother experienced just been identified with breast cancer. It was the initial week of March 2020, so we were being […]