This coming year may finally mark a turning point in protecting people’s privacy, and you have Facebook to thank for that. Not because the social media giant is leading the way to much-needed safeguards. Rather, because the company, after repeated security lapses and scandals, has utterly failed… Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times
Blog: Review: Meet Thom Yorke, uneasy rock star turned potential Oscar nominee
Thom Yorke’s idea of an Oscar campaign? Call it the direct approach. “Can you, like, vote for me?” he asked Wednesday night at the Orpheum Theatre, where Radiohead’s frontman played the first of two concerts just days after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed that he was on… Source: L.A. Times – […]
Blog: Benefit’s New Liquid Liner Is Making Me Reconsider My Holy Grail
As a daily winged eyeliner wearer for the last decade (I feel so old), I’ve tried dozens of liquid liners in the hope of replacing my original love, a drugstore inkwell that was reformulated and never the same. Since then, I’ve searched for a product that was as finely tipped, wet, pigmented, and easy to […]
Blog: A New Woodland Hills Steakhouse Wants to Charge Diners by the Ounce
Steakology is a meat-centered concept opening next Wednesday at Westfield Village in Woodland Hills. In place of white table cloths, proper service, and the usual markers of a classic steakhouse experience is a fast-casual setup with a menu featuring USDA prime steaks sold exclusively by weight. “We have always loved great steak, but felt that […]
Blog: Activist Kimberly Ellis announces bid for chair of the California Democratic Party amid leadership turmoil
For more than a decade, developers have tried to build new housing on the site of an all-but-empty mall in Cupertino, a city in the heart of Silicon Valley and home to Apple headquarters. A well-organized group of neighbors, upset about traffic, building heights and the potential loss of the community’s suburban lifestyle, turned away […]
Blog: 2 former nurses sue Huntington Memorial Hospital alleging racial discrimination
Loving began working in the labor and delivery department as a nurse in 2011 and for years received accolades and satisfactory performance evaluations. That changed when two new supervisors, who are white, were hired to oversee the department in late 2017 and early this year, according to her lawsuit. Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times