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Due to an order by Governor Gavin Newsom, California will close bars in seven of its counties (including Los Angeles County) in addition to recommending that eight others shut down the same operations. The order will go into effect on Sunday, and will be an effort to combat the rising spread of COVID-19, according to NBC News. For those wondering […]
Following up on a similar act of generosity that we’ll get to in a second, TMZ reports that Jeopardy! mainstay and GOAT gameshow host Alex Trebek has donated $500,000 to a homeless shelter charity looking to get a new facility up and running in Southern California’s San Fernando Valley by next year. Trebek’s sizable contribution to the […]
In a video posted to his Instagram account, comedian, actor, and Saturday Night Live alum Jay Pharoah recounted a terrifying experience he recently had with the LAPD. As he was exercising in Tarzana around Ventura Boulevard and Corbin Avenue back in April, Pharoah said that multiple police officers pulled up near him with guns drawn to detain him. “I see an officer to […]
Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti has been receiving heavy criticism over the LAPD’s aggression during the protests that have been taking place. In order to quell some of the people’s warranted demands for some form of police reform, he and the L.A. City Council has decided to cut $100-$150 million from the LAPD’s budget and reinvest it into black communities. […]
A Los Angeles news anchor has issued an apology to Cardi B for assuming that the artist was trying to incite violence during the protests. On Tuesday, Doug Kolk—an anchor at Los Angeles’ CW-affiliate, KTLA—tweeted out an apology to Bardi for taking her “words out of context.” “I apologize to @iamcardib if I took her words […]
Many officials suspect that agitators have descended on cities to hijack the cause and instigate protesters. Now, TMZ has obtained footage that shows police officers could be in on this ploy as well. On Monday, TMZ released a video showing a woman spray-painting a business in downtown Los Angeles. The white woman was writing “BLM”—which is […]
On Sunday, video emerged of J.R. Smith beating up a man who allegedly smashed his car windows during the L.A. protests. Earlier in the day, Smith hopped on his Instagram Stories to get ahead of a video that was bound to surface. “I just want y’all to know right now before you all see this shit somewhere else,” Smith […]
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Saturday that all COVID-19 testing sites in the city would be closed, citing “safety worries” in wake of the ongoing protests over the death of George Floyd while in police custody, KTLA reports. When asked about his decision to order a city-wide closure of COVID-19 testing locations, as opposed to the curfew […]
Virgil Abloh returned to Instagram to reiterate his previous sentiment that “Streetwear’ is dead” amid the flood of protests across the U.S. On his story, Abloh expounded on his thoughts about the culture and cause behind streetwear. “Case & point # 81 why I said ‘streetwear’ is dead,” alongside a video of Sean Wotherspoon’s Round Two Vintage after it was […]
Multiple firefighters were injured Saturday night in an explosion in downtown Los Angeles. The city’s fire department confirmed the blast occurred at around 6:30 p.m. at 327 E Boyd St. LAFD firefighters responded to a blaze at a one-story commercial building; however, the fire has since spread to multiple buildings. The Los Angeles Times reports it is unclear […]
