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In a June 2020 interview in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd, Mike Johnson (R-LA), the current Speaker of the House, made a claim that he had a Black son named Michael James. [WALTER] ISAACSON: You live up in Bossier City, near Shreveport. And you and your wife a long time ago adopted a 14-year-old African-American young man and raised him, along with your other children. Tell me about how that gave you some perspective on this.

Note: This post is free to all readers. To support local journalism please consider taking out a subscription to The Croton Chronicle. See below for details. The following text and graphics are taken from the Council’s email announcement. NEW FAIR AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY IN THE HEART OF THE VILLAGE OF CROTON-ON-HUDSON Application Deadline: April 18, 2024 Selection by Lottery In the beautiful Village of Croton-on-Hudson, Regan Development is finishing construction of two brand new buildings consisting of 32 rental apartments.

This week’s What’s Alan Watching? newsletter coming up just as soon as I see a man in a dress with a haircut like the Three Stooges… The Emmys are different from most other awards shows, because the same series and people are eligible for years and years. In the past, this led to the problem of many of the same winners repeating, year after year. (On occasion, it meant that a serial winner, like Candice Bergen, dropped out of the race altogether after a while, just to give other people a chance.

Welcome back! We’re here with another Sunday edition of the Animation Obsessive newsletter, and the plan goes like this: For those just joining us — it’s free to sign up for our Sunday issues. Get them in your email inbox, weekly: Sign Up Now, we’re off! When Aardman drops a new project, it’s always worth paying attention. The team has a track record most can only envy. Despite all the Oscars, all the money and all the Wallace and Gromit sequels, the studio has kept its idiosyncrasy.

Less than two weeks after M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin (based on the novel Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay) premiered in theaters courtesy of Universal Pictures, Deadline reported that the writer-director had signed a new multi-year deal with Warner Bros. Discovery, which included an August 2, 2024 release date in store for his upcoming thriller Trap. Left unstated by the report, however, is any acknowledgement that something must’ve soured the Night/Uni relationship, which dates back to 2015, when the studio picked up Night’s comeback movie The Visit for distribution.

On Tuesday morning, I sent the finished manuscript of my book on burnout to the publisher. It’s 74,000 words, counting the 438 footnotes. I printed it out, all 250 pages. It looks like a book manuscript. Hooray! The thing is, it isn’t really finished. It will go before University of California Press’s editorial committee soon, and they will give an official thumbs-up/down on it. I will then have another chance to make some revisions, then send it back, and then some time later take one last look to check for errors.

Hello! I am gearing up for a trip to Austin, Texas to attend the SXSW Conference next week… and that got me thinking about flying. And that got me thinking about pilots… and March being Women’s History Month…and how I could combine the two for this week’s story. When it comes to women and aviation history, Amelia Earhart might get the most attention. She disappeared 87 years ago, and people are still speculating about what happened to her and trying to locate her plane.

Adidas  The name comes from that of its founder, Adolf (“Adi”) Dassler (“das”). His brother Rudi founded Puma. Adobe John Warnock and Charles Geschke, two entrepreneurs who had worked together at Xerox PARC, launched Adobe in 1982 inside Warnock’s garage, which happened to be located next to Adobe Creek in Los Altos. Amazon In the early days of the web, website listings were alphabetized, so Jeff Bezos was eyeing words that started with “A.

Welcome! I'm Simon Owens and this is my media industry newsletter. You can subscribe by clicking on this handy little button: Coming out of Columbia Business School in 2008, John Gannon had to choose between two career paths: launching a startup or joining a venture capital firm. While he certainly had the entrepreneurial bug, he also held a deep fascination with the VC industry. “I got interested in venture capital back when I was just a couple years out of college and started to read about VC firms,” he told me.