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Los Angeles-based drag queens Symone, left, and Gottmik, right, who are in the final stages of the current season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” in Beverly Hills, California, on April 13, 2021.

‘The future will be fabulous’: Famous ‘Drag Race’ queens launch first-of-its-kind PAC

July 7, 2024, 5:39am Entertainment

Six of the nation’s most beloved drag queens are teaming up for a first-of-its-kind project to mobilize millions of Generation Z and LGBTQ voters against anti-LGBTQ laws. Read story

After nine years working in Hollywood as a cinematographer, editor and director, Robby Piantanida has moved with his family to Texas to save money.

Hollywood’s exodus: Why film and TV workers are leaving Los Angeles

July 7, 2024, 5:29am Business

Los Angeles has long been a magnet for those chasing their big break in film and TV, drawn by the allure of creative fulfillment and fame. But conversations about a growing exodus are getting louder, as escalating housing costs and dwindling career opportunities push many to pursue their dreams elsewhere. Read story

The protection of sea lions is one of many issues taken on by the Sierra Club, which has been roiled by a labor dispute.

Sierra Club workers vote to authorize strike amid layoffs, allegations of mismanagement

July 7, 2024, 5:27am Business

Unionized workers at the Sierra Club, a leading environmental organization, have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a potential strike amid layoffs and allegations of financial mismanagement. Read story

his image released by Netflix shows Eddie Murphy, from left, Taylour Paige, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bronson Pinchot in “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F.” (Netflix via AP)

Granderson: A fourth ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ movie is great, but Eddie Murphy is the real gift

July 7, 2024, 5:09am Entertainment

As Eddie Murphy was receiving the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor about a decade ago, he made this joke about the longevity of his career: “It hasn’t been lost on me that usually when people have evenings like this the person is really, really old when they get these… Read story

‘Oh my God. Why?’ World’s first rubber duck history museum opening in Washington

July 6, 2024, 12:07pm Entertainment

“I have done nothing but stare at rubber ducks for four or five months straight. I dream in rubber ducks at this point,” Krystal King told the Bellingham Herald on Monday, from her Point Roberts store. Read story

Energy Adviser: Reduce waste with an energy review

If walls could talk, finding the sources of a home’s energy waste would be a breeze. Although homes still aren’t sentient, the Residential Energy Counselors with Clark Public Utilities are so good at identifying household energy saving solutions, you’d be forgiven for thinking they could hear the sheetrock speak. Read story

Clark County History: Local inventor’s ‘flying flapjack’ was an aircraft ahead of its time

Local pilot and inventor Marvin Joy stands next to his experimental wingless plane that he called the “pumpkin seed.” The plane was flown twice at Pearson Field, in perhaps the first test of a lifting body aircraft.

A decade before Roswell’s stories of flying saucers and little green men in New Mexico captured the mind of the nation, Pearson Field saw its own unidentified flying object. Marvin Joy, a bridge tender on the railroad crossing the Columbia River Slough, appeared at the Vancouver airfield with a strange… Read story