Burst gas pipe sparks column of flame in Malaysia, injuring more than 100 people
A fire caused by a burst gas pipe spread to several homes and sent a fireball into the sky outside Malaysia’s largest city, injuring more than 100 people. Source link
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Column: Donald Trump and Elon Musk are coming for your summer vacation
According to travel experts, early spring is the ideal time to begin planning your summer vacation. Some of the more anxious among us (OK, me) might even push that to pre-spring, as in late February or early March, if only to provide a beacon of hope during the year’s gloomiest months. Lord knows we could … Read more
Column: With 2025 SAG Awards, Netflix proved it isn’t solving awards season ratings crisis
It’s official, Netflix will not be solving the awards-show ratings crisis by turning the Screen Actors Guild Awards into must-watch television. This year’s SAG Awards opened strongly enough, with a truly funny bit in which “Hacks’” Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) prepared to host the awards only to discover that the reason SAG-AFTRA had been trying … Read more
Column: The TV ad is a dying art. This year’s Super Bowl proved it
Has video killed the Super Bowl ad? If ever there were a Super Bowl that needed a bunch of surprising, cool and smartly written commercials, it was Super Bowl LIX. As Philadelphia systematically destroyed Kansas City on Sunday, Eagles fans were no doubt too … ebullient to pay much attention to the ads, while Chiefs … Read more
Column: Cruising into the mainstream with a lowrider professor
Standing in front of about 50 people at Cal State Northridge’s Art Galleries Saturday afternoon, Denise Sandoval fumbled with the mic hanging around her neck and apologized. “I’m not as cool as Janet Jackson,” the professor of Chicana and Chicano studies said. Her curated tour of the show everyone was there to see — a … Read more