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Periodically, the Latinx Files will feature a guest writer. This week, we’ve asked Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, a Los Angeles-based journalist, to fill in. If you have not subscribed to our weekly newsletter, you can do so here.When it comes to Southern California radio personalities, there are few who match the cultural impact of Art Laboe.Over the course of his nearly 80-year career, the legendary DJ popularized the love song dedication program format, helped desegregate Los Angeles and earned legions of multigenerational…

Last month’s PlayStation Plus Game Catalog additions were decent. But this month, PlayStation really brought the goods if you’re an RPG fan. While the headliner for the month is the newest Need for Speed title, Need for Speed Unbound, the true gems in my opinion are the addition of Tales of Arise, The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition, and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. Image via PlayStation An RPG-loaded Month Tales of Arise is the latest entry in the Tales series and is an absolute banger of an RPG. Our very own Eric…

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott speaks at a press conference on results from its Group Violence Reduction Strategy, which University of Pennsylvania researchers helped implement and analyze, and next steps. Credit: Jack French/Baltimore Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement The Baltimore Police Department's Western District has historically had the highest rates of homicides in the city and among the highest in the…

Photo: SOPA Images / Contributor (Getty Images)At the beginning of 2023, TikTok was one of the weirdest and most delightful places on the internet. An app with a reputation for memes and 30-second dances had become the front page of the internet, and it seemed TikTok was only getting better as the platform matured. A year later, TikTok’s growth finally appears to have plateaued, and while the app is still a cultural behemoth, there’s a surprising truth lurking in the app’s success: TikTok is in trouble. In a bid to spread…

Try to shake it off, Swifties. The players are gonna play-play-play on Sunday, but Las Vegas learned how to parlay pro football’s Big Game into big crowds and bigger profits long before the Strip landed Super Bowl LVIII at Allegiant Stadium. From street vendors selling $40 T-shirts to resale brokers getting more than $30,000 a ticket for the best remaining seats, the Super Bowl between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs is estimated to draw 330,000 people to Las Vegas and pump as much as $700…

This is a lot so, sit down and take a deep breath. Gina Carano, the actress who was fired from The Mandalorian for “social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities” is now suing Lucasfilm for discrimination and wrongful termination. And, because the comments were made on X, formerly Twitter, Elon Musk is funding the lawsuit.Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl Tweet“As a sign of X Corp’s commitment to free speech, we’re proud to provide financial support for Gina Carano’s lawsuit, empowering…

The largest component of the universe is something we know almost nothing about. The best and most accurate observations that cosmologists have gathered over decades show that all the matter around us, every single atom we see anywhere in the cosmos, makes up just 5 percent of all that exists. Another 27 percent is dark matter, which holds galaxies together. And everything else — a staggering 68 percent of the universe — is dark energy, a force that is responsible for the expansion of the universe. Without dark energy,…

Now that many of us have lived with a smartphone in our pocket for years, we tend to have a reflex to film or photograph anything that strikes our fancy. For better or worse, this also means documenting disasters, fails, and other events that would feel a lot worse if they happened to us. The “Don't help, just keep filming” online group exists to document all those hilarious moments when someone needed assistance, but onlookers decided to, instead, immortalize the moment. So get comfortable, as you scroll through,…

People have different definitions of being neighborly, but it usually involves sharing a friendly conversation after bumping into each other, participating in local events, lending a tool, or contributing a missing ingredient to complete a recipe.But for Reddit user NoConversation5833, it was about to extend even further. Her husband’s friend wanted her to look after his bedridden wife. In a post on r/AITAH, however, she said that she refused to help the nearby couple due to recently giving birth herself.This caused…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Misinformation is the number one risk facing society over the next two years, according to the World Economic Forum. With key elections due in the US, UK, and many other nations this year, an onslaught of political misinformation can be expected. Some of this material is distributed through paid advertising on social media,…