Want to see Donny and Marie in Las Vegas? You have only 4 more days
Singers Donny and Marie Osmond will wrap up their 11-year run at the Flamingo Las Vegas this week. The siblings opened a six-week show in 2008 that became such a hit the Flamingo renamed its venue the Donny & Marie Showroom five years later. Now they’re down to the last five shows. Front-row seats for…
At this Vegas cannabis lounge, you can try before you buy despite state law
A Nevada Native American tribe may have a solution for Las Vegas who visitors who want to consume legally purchased marijuana without breaking the law. The NuWu Cannabis Marketplace recently opened the Vegas Tasting Room, a consumption lounge where patrons can legally try various pot products, despite recent state legislation that has postponed the licensing…
Milk company Dean Foods files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Top U.S. milk processor Dean Foods Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and is in advanced talks with Dairy Farmers of America Inc. about a potential sale. Dean listed assets and liabilities of as much as $10 billion each in court papers filed Tuesday in Houston, and it said in a statement that it…
Soap star Melissa Ordway sells charming Lake Balboa abode
It was a quick sale for “Young and the Restless” actress Melissa Ordway and her husband, singer-songwriter and actor Justin Gaston, who found a buyer for their Lake Balboa home after an about week on the market. The charming single-story sold for $715,000, or about $24,000 less than the asking price, records show. In the…
Google sues London cab driver who named his company Goooglie
Alphabet Inc.’s “mighty” Google faced an unlikely figure in a London court Monday: a cab driver from South London. The search company sued Goooglie Cars’ sole director, Sohail Nagi, for about $12,800, arguing that the cabby had been “unfairly free-riding off its reputation” by presenting the company name in Google’s style — using a very…
Trump says he'll raise China tariffs if there’s no trade deal
President Trump said the United States will increase tariffs on Chinese goods if the first step of a broader trade agreement isn’t reached. “If we don’t make a deal, we’re going to substantially raise those tariffs,” he said Tuesday in a speech to the Economic Club of New York. “They’re going to be raised very…
Ralph Lauren: 5 things you should know about HBO's new designer documentary
For the most part, “Very Ralph,” the HBO documentary film about fashion designer Ralph Lauren, that premieres at 9 p.m. Pacific on HBO on Tuesday, looks as glossy and aspirational as one of the brand’s advertising campaigns. Directed by Susan Lacy (whose first documentary for the pay-cable network in 2017 focused on director Steven Spielberg),…
As Lebanon's unrest continues, fears grow for its currency
BEIRUT — One recent Saturday in Souq al Ahad, a ramshackle flea market that springs up every weekend under a highway bridge in East Beirut, an antique dealer recoiled as a customer counted off Lebanese pounds to pay for a small bag of trinkets. “If you’re paying in pounds, the price is more,” he said. “We’re…
Winds fan ferocious fires in Australia, threatening homes in Sydney suburbs
CANBERRA, Australia — Ferocious wildfires were burning at emergency-level intensity across Australia’s most populous state and into Sydney’s suburbs on Tuesday as authorities warned most people in their paths that there was no longer time to flee. New South Wales state is under a weeklong state of emergency, a declaration that gives the Rural Fire Service…
The Makings of a More Human Economy
There’s a point in every struggle when momentum shifts behind you. Optimism becomes ambition. I recall those moments in our resistance to overcome our dictator in Uganda. I felt a perseverant optimism, as a young refugee, that got me through customs at Heathrow Airport. In Beijing in 1995, I saw hope surge globally for women’s…