Underworld Turns

Elon Musk: The FDNY Veteran Who Worked 9/11 and Covid Isn’t Qualified to Lead the Department

Elon Musk took to his social media site on Friday to decry New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s pick to lead the city’s fire department, claiming that she couldn’t do the job. The commissioner-to-be, Lillian Bonsignore, is a 31-year FDNY veteran who led the department’s emergency medical services during the Covid-19 pandemic. She will be the […]
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Stretch of Topanga Canyon Boulevard reopened after Christmas storms 

Crews have been working diligently to open a stretch of Topanga Canyon Boulevard, which was closed in anticipation of the atmospheric river storms that soaked SoCal over the Christmas holiday. In an announcement released early Saturday afternoon, Caltrans stated that a 3.6-mile stretch of Topanga Canyon Boulevard (State Route 27) between Pacific Coast Highway and Grand View Drive […]
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Person stabbed to death near busy intersection in Los Angeles County 

An investigation is underway after a person was found stabbed to death near a busy intersection in Cerritos on Saturday morning, authorities say. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department stated that, just before 8 a.m. Saturday, officers responded to the intersection of South Street and Studebaker Road in Cerritos for a stabbing death investigation. The location provided by […]
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Trump’s Kennedy Center Chief Threatens Jazz Musician With $1M Suit Over Canceled Christmas Gig

The president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is threatening legal action against a jazz musician who cancelled his Christmas Eve performance after the institution’s board of trustees, handpicked by President Donald Trump, voted last week to change the name of the performing arts institution. The letter from Richard Grenell, the […]
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‘Steinar undir Steinahlíthum’

In an introduction he wrote for John Burnside’s “Steinar undir Steinahlíthum” (“Stones under the Cliffs”) in his book Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science (2006), Robert Crawford says the poem was inspired by a photograph of an abandoned Icelandic settlement. The deserted farms of Iceland, says Crawford, “testify to the hopes of Norse settlers that set […]

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CHP in pursuit of speeding driver out of Ventura County

Officers with the California Highway Patrol are in pursuit of a motorist out of Ventura County originally wanted for a vehicle with no license plate and blacked out headlights. It’s unclear exactly what time deputies with the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office initiated the chase, but the suspect, reportedly behind the wheel of a blue-colored sedan, […]
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