But some rap-world figures are skeptical about helping drive a new billion-dollar app for other investors’ portfolios. latimes.com/entertainment-…
"Clubhouse was driven by Black and Latino culture," says Master P (@MasterPMiller). “Our culture helped create this brand, so for phase two, let’s figure out how to put that money back into our community.” latimes.com/entertainment-…
The service is also imperfect.
As we explain, some members of the app have used the platform for negative purposes, and some music stars who use it have problematic pasts latimes.com/entertainment-…
You might be surprised to know what the app was originally used for when it debuted in the spring of 2020.
Game critic @Toddmartens takes a look at how internet culture, GameStop nostalgia and more intersected to create a dizzyingly complicated battle between hedge funds and retail investors latimes.com/entertainment-…
It's one thing to think the revolution will not be be televised, but it's a whole other challenge when it's memed and gamified, says @Toddmartenslatimes.com/entertainment-…
Column: It’s been hard to escape hearing about GameStop, says business columnist @hiltzikm.
"Finally, the little guy has gotten revenge on the suits, we’re told. Also, the stock market will never be the same" latimes.com/business/story…
"Papi wasn’t a full-on pandejo (the Mexican version of a covidiot). Any time he messed up or babbled nonsense, I put him in his place, and he would stay there.
"Part of the problem early on was that the coronavirus was opaque to him. Through the summer, Papi personally knew no one who had contracted the coronavirus." latimes.com/california/sto…
Anywhere else, the Valley — with its million and a half people in its 250-ish square miles — would be the massive star at the center of its own civic solar system.
Days after anti-vaccination and far-right protesters disrupted operations at the Dodger Stadium vaccination sites, Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore on Tuesday said any such protests in the future would be met with quick arrests.
“Our action is to be immediate and swift in the sense of holding them accountable for that unlawful activity,” Moore said during a virtual meeting of the Police Commission in the morning.
Protests will be confined to an area near the stadium’s entrance in an effort to balance people’s 1st Amendment rights with the need to keep the vaccination site operating, Moore said. latimes.com/california/sto…