Category: News

With the state’s housing costs near record highs, Californians are increasingly naming housing and homelessness as pressing problems. In a recent Public Policy Institute of California poll, more than a quarter of residents said one of the two issues was the most significant facing the state — by far the highest in the survey’s 20-year…

“Hustlers” fell apart, for the first time, the day before my 40th birthday. It was a real one-two. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey A few months later, the studio officially dropped the movie. The producers and I scrambled to bring it to other financiers/studios/streaming services/anyone who would listen. Some rejected the concept over the phone.…

In Charles Brandt’s excellent book, “I Heard You Paint Houses,” Frank Sheeran describes his life, all 83 years of it. It’s fascinating, but I’m not really interested in, or may just not be very good at, writing film biographies. So how to approach what is essentially a biography without it becoming one? The great William…

When Alma Har’el began working with Shia LaBeouf on the film that eventually became “Honey Boy,” she never expected to find herself knee-deep in the annual awards-season quagmire. At the time, LaBeouf was attempting to artistically express the difficulties in his life that stemmed from alcoholism and PTSD after an unconventional relationship with his father…

When you look beyond Joaquin Phoenix’s fixating performance in Todd Phillips’ “Joker,” you’ll start to see that the ominous world around him is subtly connected to the dynamic arc of his character. It was production designer Mark Friedberg who helped detail the color palette and texture of the allegory set in the 1980s where a…

Want a cool outfit waiting for you on your next vacation? Travelers who like to pack light can choose designer clothes delivered to their rooms at select W Hotels. Whether you want to dress up for a gala or dress down in sweaters and overalls, the new service has you covered.W Hotels’ Closet Concierge partners…

Carrying too much undeclared cash into the United States can land you in a world of trouble. Just ask the four American Airlines flight attendants who were arrested in October at Miami International Airport and charged with money laundering and acting as unauthorized money transmitters. Early on Oct. 22, after arriving at Miami from Santiago,…

Stocks closed broadly higher on Wall Street on Monday, extending the market’s gains from last week and sending the major indexes to record highs. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq notched all-time highs for the third straight trading day. Surprisingly strong economic reports out of China helped drive the rally. Growth in factory activity and retail…

Amazon.com Inc. says third-party merchants can no longer use FedEx Corp.’s ground delivery network this holiday season because it’s too slow — highlighting the e-commerce giant’s growing power over how products get to shoppers. Amazon sent a message to sellers Sunday night instructing them of the change, according to notifications reviewed by Bloomberg. Some Amazon…

Jaime Webb loves buying clothes online. And returning clothes she buys online. She’ll order the same item in several sizes, just in case, spending, briefly, as much as $600. Keeping what fits best, she sends the rest in for refunds in what retailers call bracketing. “They make the returns process so easy,” said Webb, 31,…