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For people who struggle with addiction, staying sober can be a daily challenge, even in the best of times, with a stable routine, healthy sleep schedule, and support systems that are readily accessible. The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown Americans’ lives into disarray, bringing with it varying degrees of stress, financial …

One day after its employees staged a walkout in protest, Hachette Book Group announced that they will not be publishing Woody Allen‘s memoir, Apropos of Nothing. The autobiography was set for an April 7th release. “The decision to cancel Mr. Allen’s book was a difficult one,” the company said in …

In spring of 2019, a decades’ old investigation into the murder of more than 25 black children in Atlanta WAS reopened by local authorities. And, on April 5th, HBO will delve into that case with Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children. Over the course of the late Seventies and …

A memorial service for Lakers star Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and the seven other victims of the January 26th helicopter crash will take at Los Angeles’ Staples Center, “the House That Kobe Built,” on February 24th. The Los Angeles Times confirmed that the date of the public memorial combines …

The noise that a helicopter makes resonates differently here in Los Angeles. The blades reverberate through our neighborhoods more forebodingly here, often conjuring images of police and media surveillance. You hardly ever hear a chopper and think that something is going right. Typically, the sound evokes calamity. After this hazy …

Before the #MeToo movement began in 2017, Harvey Weinstein was a major power player during awards season, with his notoriously aggressive marketing campaigns for his production company Miramax often marking the difference between a win and a loss. So it is perhaps fitting that his criminal trial begins a day …

In the midst of the looming threat of war with Iran and myriad other world issues in the news cycle, you might not have heard about the fires currently blazing in the Australian bush, parks, and forests. But the bushfires have been devastating to residents of the area, with 20 …

The late financier Jeffrey Epstein has been accused of sexually abusing nine more women in a new lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Reuters reports. The incidents began as early as 1985 and targeted victims as young as 13 years old, according to the suit filed against Epstein’s estate. The women, identified …

When a group of bills known as SESTA/FOSTA was introduced in early 2018, it garnered widespread bipartisan support. The bills were intended to curb online sex trafficking, a goal that was easy for lawmakers to get behind, and one that few wanted to be seen actively opposing. One of the …

For sex workers everywhere, being asked to “Fill in the gap in your resume,” is a standard question during job interviews. Skills like bondage and pole dancing are usually omitted and replaced with Microsoft Word and Adobe Photoshop. But for the comic book series Safe Sex (stylized as SFSX), a …