At this precise moment, the number one album in the country is Mañana Será Bonito by Colombian superstar Karol G, one of the most visible Latinas in the music business. Over the weekend, the Grammy Museum launched an exhibition chronicling Shakira’s three-decade career, and just a few weeks ago, the U.S. Mint announced that Afro-Cuban trailblazer Celia Cruz will be featured on the U.S. quarter, making her the first Black Latina honored on American currency.
The contributions of Latinas, particularly in culture and entertainment, are hard to...
The contributions of Latinas, particularly in culture and entertainment, are hard to...
- 3/10/2023
- by Julyssa Lopez
- Rollingstone.com
To a certain cadre of loyal MSNBC viewers, Adam Schiff is the platonic ideal of a Democrat. The California congressman supports universal health care. He eschews corporate Pac money (these days, at least). He’s an understated former prosecutor who takes his job seriously even as Washington often descends into fundamental unseriousness. Look no further than his management of then-President Donald Trump’s first impeachment as proof. For this, he was on the receiving end of the former president’s characteristic uninspired hate-speak: He was “liddle” and “shifty” and a...
- 2/18/2023
- by Kara Voght
- Rollingstone.com
Dianne Feinstein, the 89-year-old Democratic senator from California who has been mulling whether to run for another term in 2024, announced on Tuesday that she will, in fact, not be doing that.
“I am announcing today I will not run for reelection in 2024 but intend to accomplish as much for California as I can through the end of next year when my term ends,” Feinstein wrote in a statement. “Even with a divided Congress, we can still pass bills that will improve lives. Each of us was sent here to solve problems.
“I am announcing today I will not run for reelection in 2024 but intend to accomplish as much for California as I can through the end of next year when my term ends,” Feinstein wrote in a statement. “Even with a divided Congress, we can still pass bills that will improve lives. Each of us was sent here to solve problems.
- 2/14/2023
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
The California IATSE Council has endorsed Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff in his campaign to succeed U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who has not yet said whether or not she’ll be seeking reelection next year. Schiff is the 11-term congressman whose district includes Burbank, Hollywood and West Hollywood.
The council, which is made up of 18 IATSE locals representing more than 54,000 workers in the film at TV industry throughout the state, said in a statement that “We make this early commitment because our decades of working with Congressman Schiff have given us direct evidence of his deep and abiding commitment to – and willingness to take action on – the issues that directly impact our members and their families.
“From his early days in Congress, Adam Schiff, has demonstrated that commitment. In 2001, when there was large scale flight of film and television productions from California to Canada, but the term “runaway production” was...
The council, which is made up of 18 IATSE locals representing more than 54,000 workers in the film at TV industry throughout the state, said in a statement that “We make this early commitment because our decades of working with Congressman Schiff have given us direct evidence of his deep and abiding commitment to – and willingness to take action on – the issues that directly impact our members and their families.
“From his early days in Congress, Adam Schiff, has demonstrated that commitment. In 2001, when there was large scale flight of film and television productions from California to Canada, but the term “runaway production” was...
- 2/9/2023
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-ca) has entered the race for U.S. Senate in what looks to be a hotly contested intra-party battle in California in anticipation that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-ca) won’t run for another term.
“Our democracy is at great risk. Because GOP leaders care more about power than anything else,” Schiff said in a Twitter post. “And because our economy isn’t working for millions of hard working Americans.”
Schiff joins Rep. Katie Porter (D-ca) in the race, with Rep. Barbara Lee (D-ca) also planning to run. Feinstein has not said what her plans are, but there is expectation that she will not be in the race.
All the candidates are expected to heavily court Hollywood donors, tapping longtime connections from their congressional campaigns. Schiff, whose district covers areas of Burbank, Hollywood and West Hollywood, has gained a national platform for his role on the January 6th...
“Our democracy is at great risk. Because GOP leaders care more about power than anything else,” Schiff said in a Twitter post. “And because our economy isn’t working for millions of hard working Americans.”
Schiff joins Rep. Katie Porter (D-ca) in the race, with Rep. Barbara Lee (D-ca) also planning to run. Feinstein has not said what her plans are, but there is expectation that she will not be in the race.
All the candidates are expected to heavily court Hollywood donors, tapping longtime connections from their congressional campaigns. Schiff, whose district covers areas of Burbank, Hollywood and West Hollywood, has gained a national platform for his role on the January 6th...
- 1/26/2023
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s colleagues aren’t waiting for her to formally announce her retirement from the U.S. Senate before backing would-be successors: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has put her “full support” behind Rep. Katie Porter, the Orange Country-area lawmaker and Warren protégé running to replace the 89-year-old California senator.
“Katie delivers because she’s smart and she has a backbone made out of steel,” Warren said in her endorsement. “She is exactly who Californians need as their next Senator.”
Warren’s early embrace of Porter’s candidacy is...
“Katie delivers because she’s smart and she has a backbone made out of steel,” Warren said in her endorsement. “She is exactly who Californians need as their next Senator.”
Warren’s early embrace of Porter’s candidacy is...
- 1/12/2023
- by Kara Voght
- Rollingstone.com
The nearly 90-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein hasn’t said whether she’ll seek reelection to the U.S. Senate. The next generation isn’t waiting to find out: Rep. Katie Porter has announced her bid for Feinstein’s seat. And she certainly won’t be alone in doing so as other high-profile California Democrats, like Rep. Ro Khanna, publicly mull a run.
“Right now California is facing severe storms and floods, and my district is facing historic weather conditions,” Khanna tells Rolling Stone. “My focus is on that. In the next few months,...
“Right now California is facing severe storms and floods, and my district is facing historic weather conditions,” Khanna tells Rolling Stone. “My focus is on that. In the next few months,...
- 1/10/2023
- by Kara Voght
- Rollingstone.com
Rep. Katie Porter (D-ca) announced on Tuesday that she is running for the U.S. Senate in 2024.
Porter, who has gained a media profile for her hard-hitting questioning of House committee witnesses, while often using a whiteboard to explain complicated topics, is seeking the seat currently occupied by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-ca). Feinstein, 89, who has served in the Senate since 1992, has not yet revealed her plans, but there has been widespread speculation that she will not run again.
“California needs a warrior in the Senate—to stand up to special interests, fight the dangerous imbalance in our economy, and hold so-called leaders like Mitch McConnell accountable for rigging our democracy,” Porter said in an announcement video she posted on Twitter.
Porter served on the natural resources and oversight and reform committees in the last Congress. She chaired the natural resources subcommittee on oversight and investigations. She was elected to Congress...
Porter, who has gained a media profile for her hard-hitting questioning of House committee witnesses, while often using a whiteboard to explain complicated topics, is seeking the seat currently occupied by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-ca). Feinstein, 89, who has served in the Senate since 1992, has not yet revealed her plans, but there has been widespread speculation that she will not run again.
“California needs a warrior in the Senate—to stand up to special interests, fight the dangerous imbalance in our economy, and hold so-called leaders like Mitch McConnell accountable for rigging our democracy,” Porter said in an announcement video she posted on Twitter.
Porter served on the natural resources and oversight and reform committees in the last Congress. She chaired the natural resources subcommittee on oversight and investigations. She was elected to Congress...
- 1/10/2023
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Barack Obama will appear as a guest on the Nov. 17 episode of “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah,” Variety has learned exclusively. The episode airs on Comedy Central at 11 p.m.
In conversation with Noah, the former president will discuss the Obama Foundation Democracy Forum and critical issues facing America and the world today. The interview will be Obama’s third with Noah, and his first in-studio. He previously appeared in a 2020 virtually taped episode, and did one of his final interviews as president with Noah at the White House.
The interview comes the week after the midterm elections that won the Republican party control of the House of Representatives — ending two years headed by the Democrats — and just days after Obama’s successor, the twice impeached Donald Trump, announced his bid to return to the White House in 2024.
The Obama interview will also mark a highlight for the end...
In conversation with Noah, the former president will discuss the Obama Foundation Democracy Forum and critical issues facing America and the world today. The interview will be Obama’s third with Noah, and his first in-studio. He previously appeared in a 2020 virtually taped episode, and did one of his final interviews as president with Noah at the White House.
The interview comes the week after the midterm elections that won the Republican party control of the House of Representatives — ending two years headed by the Democrats — and just days after Obama’s successor, the twice impeached Donald Trump, announced his bid to return to the White House in 2024.
The Obama interview will also mark a highlight for the end...
- 11/17/2022
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
Commission
Former Manchester City and England soccer player Micah Richards fronts “Player Pranks,” a show commissioned by Sky, produced by Zig Zag and Krempelwood. The show sees the Premier League winner team up with his Sky Sports colleague Adam ‘Smithy’ Smith for a top-secret mission to prank the great and good of football. In each 30-minute episode, Micah and Smith take to the field with hidden cameras, ingenious props and comic actors to inject mayhem into the lives of some of the U.K.’s most famous soccer personalities, when they least expect it. Stars include former professional soccer player and manager, Chris Kamara, England national soccer star Jill Scott, Micah’s fellow Sky Sports pundit and former Liverpool defender, Jamie Carragher, and former Spurs and England star Jermaine Jenas.
The four-part series will air on Sky Max and Sky Sports this August as part of the countdown to the 2022/23 soccer season.
Former Manchester City and England soccer player Micah Richards fronts “Player Pranks,” a show commissioned by Sky, produced by Zig Zag and Krempelwood. The show sees the Premier League winner team up with his Sky Sports colleague Adam ‘Smithy’ Smith for a top-secret mission to prank the great and good of football. In each 30-minute episode, Micah and Smith take to the field with hidden cameras, ingenious props and comic actors to inject mayhem into the lives of some of the U.K.’s most famous soccer personalities, when they least expect it. Stars include former professional soccer player and manager, Chris Kamara, England national soccer star Jill Scott, Micah’s fellow Sky Sports pundit and former Liverpool defender, Jamie Carragher, and former Spurs and England star Jermaine Jenas.
The four-part series will air on Sky Max and Sky Sports this August as part of the countdown to the 2022/23 soccer season.
- 7/20/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Kina Collins, a gun violence prevention activist and newly declared Democratic candidate for Congress, sat in the backyard of a craftsman house in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park last September and lamented the state of the Democratic party — specifically, how it approached the subject of her activism. Young people died constantly of gun violence in her neighborhood, she explained. “We have to console the parents when their sons get scraped off the ground from being shot,” she said. “We have to deal with the abandoned buildings and vacant lots in our neighborhoods.
- 6/29/2022
- by Kara Voght
- Rollingstone.com
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