15+ hour, 51+ min ago   (642+ words) Running time: 146 minutes. Not yet rated. In theaters Oct. 9. Truth be told, I was a little bjored at “Fjord.” Movies about Scandinavia can have that anesthetizing effect, with their monotonous, stone-faced conversations and cultural aversion to openly expressed emotion. Those…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (415+ words) Another day, another Downtown Los Angeles business shuttered. The latest sad news for the long-struggling section of the city is the closure of Rossoblu — a celebrated Michelin Bib Gourmand Italian restaurant that toughed it out for nearly a decade in…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1306+ words) In a car on the way to Day 3 of the U.S. Open, Justin Morelli and his team were going through content ideas for the day. The creator and voice behind “The ShotClock”, who is a credentialed influencer for the hard court…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (690+ words) In another 20 years, we’ll all be on the spectrum. That was my first thought after reading a recent report on the rise in people diagnosed with autism. European researchers have documented that over a 20-year period, from 2001 to 2020, the number…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (525+ words) Tennis fans’ patience reached a breaking point this week with the influencer craze that the U.S. Open has leaned into this year to bring more eyes to the sport. To Justin Morelli, the creator and voice behind “The ShotClock,” the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (363+ words) How much losing is enough? How many (years of) abysmal performances must accrue before people say no more? And what’s the topic here: the Los Angeles Angels, or the state of California? Turns out it’s both. News this week that…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (529+ words) Forget craving chocolate — how about a new Gucci, Louis Vuitton or Chanel piece for your collection? It turns out that ladies’ penchant for the finer things is only natural: it’s in our biology. New research suggests that women are driven…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1161+ words) CHICAGO, Sept 1 — The percentage of parents and caregivers in the United States refusing a standard vitamin K shot for infants at ​birth has accelerated sharply this year, an exclusive data analysis for Reuters found, putting more newborns at risk of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (594+ words) Billionaire venture capitalist Doug Leone once underwent a root canal without Novocaine — deliberately putting himself through the excruciating procedure to find out whether he was really a “badass.” The 69-year-old Sequoia Capital chairman said he had to get the dental…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (377+ words) Americans are so much richer than most Europeans — and the proof is at McDonald’s. The average American worker can buy 10,215 Big Macs a year after taxes, according to a new report. That’s more than twice as many as French and…...