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Late-night bull run ends with a little cowboy know-how on busy California highway
San Mateo County Sheriff’s deputies and California Highway Patrol officers wrangled a loose bull off a busy stretch of Highway 35 late on Tuesday evening, safely resolving what could have been a dangerous situation for motorists. The incident highlights the occasional, unusual calls emergency services must handle beyond typical crime and traffic duties, requiring quick…
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“These young kids put on Jurassic Shift. He said, ‘They don’t know we’re here. They don’t know what this is. But they’re loving it!’”: A truck of marijuana, a synth at Stonehenge, gigs with Gong – and Ozric Tentacles’ Ed Wynne
Ozric Tentacles founder Ed Wynne spoke to Prog magazine about reviving the psychedelic instrumental band with the 2021 album Space For The Earth, its first new material in five years, following his 2019 solo detour with Shimmer Into Nature. The interview traces the band’s origins and enduring free-festival ethos, offering insight into how a group…
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Quality Control Co-Founder Pierre “P” Thomas Hospitalized Following Heart Attack
Quality Control co-founder Pierre “P” Thomas has been hospitalised after suffering a heart attack, the record label and management company confirmed via social media on Friday. Thomas, who co-founded the influential hip-hop company with Kevin “Coach K” Lee in 2013, is being treated in intensive care at a hospital in Las Vegas, with family members…
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Philadelphia Chucky-style mask suspect has ties to Los Angeles area, could be in area, police warn
Philadelphia police have identified 22-year-old Zymire Hughes as the suspect wanted for allegedly wearing a Chucky-style Halloween mask while terrorising women on the city’s streets. Investigators say he may now have fled to the Los Angeles area, where he reportedly has ties, and have issued a warning that he could be in the region as…
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The Fashion of ‘The Shards’: Halston, Claude Montana and “We All Bow Down to Armani”
The FX drama series “The Shards,” based on Bret Easton Ellis’s 2023 novel and produced by Ryan Murphy alongside Ellis, has drawn attention for its meticulous early-1980s Los Angeles fashion, referencing designers such as Halston, Claude Montana and Armani. Costume designers Lou Eyrich and Joshua Marsh spoke to The Hollywood Reporter ahead of the broadcast…
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Trump to transform spaceflight from spectacle to status quo targeting 3 launches per day
The Trump administration has unveiled a new space policy aiming to dramatically increase US space traffic, targeting nearly three rocket launches or reentries per day by 2030. A White House policy document released on Thursday directs federal agencies to expand America’s launch and reentry infrastructure, framing the push as essential to maintaining US leadership in…
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Dexter and the Moonrocks Are “Freakin’ Out” on Fallon: Watch
Dexter and the Moonrocks made their late-night television debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, performing their breakout single “Freakin’ Out.” The Texas quartet have been steadily gaining attention this year, and the appearance marks a significant milestone in their rise, with the performance showcasing frontman James Tuffs’ grunge-influenced vocal style and drummer Ryan…
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Can you use a satellite dish as a free TV antenna? It depends where you live
An old satellite dish left over from services like DirecTV or Dish cannot simply be repurposed as a free over-the-air TV antenna, because the two technologies work in fundamentally different ways. Satellite dishes are designed to receive high-frequency signals from space via a curved reflector and a downconverter, while terrestrial antennas pick up the much…
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Starcloud raises $250 million for orbital data centers as launch options dry up
Starcloud, a startup building satellites that perform AI inference in orbit, has raised a $250 million extension to its Series A funding round, valuing the company at $2.3 billion. The move comes as CEO Philip Johnston seeks to secure launch capacity amid growing constraints in the rocket market, with SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 due to…