The global supply chain isn’t working due to a host of factors: the pandemic, booming consumer demand, raging storms, shortages of cargo ships and containers and more. latimes.com/business/story…
A number of leaders with a broad range of economic expertise have a message for consumers: Get your holiday shopping done — right now.
Come the traditional buying surge time, it may be too late because retailer inventory will be thin. latimes.com/business/story…
“There’s no certainty that if your child or the children in America are looking for a particular toy, that it will be around,” said Ed Desmond, an executive vice president at the Toy Assn. trade group. latimes.com/business/story…
One strategy for shoppers?
“You’ve got to be checking out independent toy stores that are staffed by folks that actually know toys,” said James Zahn, deputy editor of the Toy Book, a leading trade publication.
Now, he's a comedy veteran — an Emmy-nominated writer, voice actor on such animated series as “BoJack Horseman” and arguably the king of comedy podcast guests.
Steve McQueen's “Small Axe,” which portrayed moving portraits of immigrant life and 20th century colonialism, was almost entirely snubbed by the #Emmys.
But the filmmaker is still determined to tell stories about "what gets swept under the carpet." latimes.com/entertainment-…
The intimate “Small Axe” weaves stories around Britain’s history of racism, the rigors of assimilation and the conflict that arises between immigrant parents and their English-born kids. latimes.com/entertainment-…
“Uprising,” McQueen’s new three-part documentary, continues to tell the tale of Britain’s marginalized, focusing on the events surrounding the 1981 New Cross Fire, in which 13 young Black people died at a house party when the building went up in flames. latimes.com/entertainment-…
Wrapped in fire-resistant aluminum, the Giant Forest trees in Sequoia National Park remained safe from the encroaching KNP Complex fire on Friday. latimes.com/california/sto…
While growth appeared to slow, the lightning-sparked fires that ignited a week ago — and so far have 11,365 acres — continued to burn with no containment.
“It’s moving pretty slow because normally it would have raced up that hill,” said Mark Garrett, spokesperson for the KNP Complex fire.