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A leopard is seen walking across a ridge in Aarey colony near Sanjay Gandhi National Park overlooking Mumbai. Los Angeles and Mumbai share many superlatives as pinnacles of cinema, fashion, and traffic congestion. But another similarity lurks in the shadows, most often seen at night walking silently on four paws. These metropolises are the worlds only megacities of 10 million-plus where large felines mountain lions in one, leopards in the other thrive by breeding, hunting and maintaining territory within urban boundaries. Long-term studies in both cities have examined how the big cats prowl through their urban jungles, and how people can best live alongside them lessons that may be applicable to more places in coming decades. In the future, there's going to be more cities like this, as urban areas further encroach on natural habitats, said biologist Audra Huffmeyer, who studies mountain lions at the University of California, Los Angeles. If we want to keep these large … [Read more...] about Big cats in urban jungle: From mountain lions in Los Angeles to leopards in Mumbai

Colman Domingo was taking a break from a feature film shoot in upstate New York to talk about his life and career, and the upcoming CinemaQ Film Festival at Denver’s Sie FilmCenter, at which he will be given the inaugural LaBahn Ikon Film Award. His life, while not an open book, he has generously shared in the terrific solo play “A Boy and His Soul,” about growing up in Philadelphia to the sounds of his mother and stepfather’s soul music LP collection. Not long ago, he talked to GQ magazine about how he met his now-husband, Raul Domingo (nee Aktanov). (If you’re hankering for an authentic version of the cute rom-com meeting, look it up.) As for his career, the multi-hyphenate has already had a doozy of a ride. Well-known — and oft reviled — for his turn as Victor Strand in AMC’s zombie-apocalypse show, “Fear of the Walking Dead,” Domingo also played Ralph Abernathy in “Selma” and trombonist Cutler in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” He was a scene-stealer as X, a pimp in Janicza Bravo’s … [Read more...] about Colman Domingo, Charles Busch, films galore and more at Denver’s CinemaQ Film Festival

The first bovine Enamul Haque smuggled to Bangladesh was a calf. In the summer of 1994 he carried the animal in his arms and walked across the border into a village in Bangladesh in broad daylight. A frail figure then, Haque was not checked or stopped by anyone, earned Rs 3,000 and did not share the spoils. It was his first income, a cent per cent profit — he had stolen the calf from an Indian village. Haque was testing the waters, he had heard from his neighbours how cow smuggling was lucrative and buyers wanted more supplies. This was a new business; Haque had started his career as a rider of fake currency and gold bars. He picked up bundles of fake Indian currency and gold bars from Bangladeshi smugglers and handed them over to passengers from Murshidabad heading for Kolkata. This continued for a decade, and around 2004, Haque slowly shifted to cattle smuggling. He had observed the trade up close and groomed himself by mingling with cow smugglers. The ones in the trade … [Read more...] about How Enamul Haque smuggled cattle by the thousands into Bangladesh for years

ANOTHER INFLATION EXPLOSION… CNBC: Inflation rose 9.1% in June, even more than expected, as price pressures intensify Shoppers paid sharply higher prices for a variety of goods in June as inflation kept its hold on a slowing U.S. economy, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. The consumer price index, a broad measure of everyday goods and services, soared 9.1% from a year ago, above the 8.8% Dow Jones estimate. That marked another month of the fastest pace for inflation going back to December 1981. Excluding volatile food and energy prices, so-called core CPI increased 5.9%, compared to the 5.7% estimate. On a monthly basis, headline CPI rose 1.3% and core CPI was up 0.7%, compared to respective estimates of 1.1% and 0.5%. Taken together, the numbers seemed to counter the narrative that inflation may be peaking, as the gains were based across a variety of categories. WHITE HOUSE REACTION: DON’T BELIEVE YOUR EYES… ADMIN WILL KEEP SELLING OFF OUR … [Read more...] about Editors Daily Rundown: Another Inflation Explosion

GOP PRIMARY ELECTION RESULTS… ARIZONA… GOVERNOR… TOO CLOSE TO CALL… KARI LAKE LEADS KARRIN TAYLOR ROBSON… US SENATE… BLAKE MASTERS WINS… MISSOURI… US SENATE… ERIC SCHMITT WINS… MICHIGAN… GOVERNOR… TUDOR DIXON WINS… MI-3… JOHN GIBBS WINS… IN SUMMARY… Several Trump-Backed Candidates Win Their Primaries With Others Too Close To Call A SETBACK FOR LIFE IN KANSAS… NYT: Kansas Votes to Preserve Abortion Rights Protections in Its Constitution (VIDEO OF BLUE- AND PURPLE-HAIRED WOMEN CELEBRATING) OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Kansas voters resoundingly decided against removing the right to abortion from the State Constitution, according to The Associated Press, a major victory for the abortion rights movement in one of America’s reliably conservative states. The defeat of the ballot referendum was the most tangible demonstration yet of a political backlash against the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the … [Read more...] about Editor Daily Rundown: GOP Primary Election Results

- A + A LOS ANGELES (Aug 7): "Bullet Train," a John Wick-ian romp with Brad Pitt in the aisle seat, arrived in theaters with a $30.1 million opening weekend. That's enough to top the domestic box office chart, but it's only a so-so result given "Bullet Train's" $90 million price tag and Pitt's star power. The Sony Pictures release will need to maintain its momentum in the coming weeks as it tries to break even or turn a profit. "Bullet Train" is trying to prove that an action flick that isn't based on a comic book or a toy-line can defy the odds and resonate with audiences. But part of the issue for the film is that critics weren't on board. "Bullet Train" landed a mediocre 41% approval rating on review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, with many reviewers faulting the movie for being overly derivative of the work of Guy Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino. Variety chief film critic Peter Debruge was mixed on "Bullet Train," writing that "neither the characters nor the … [Read more...] about Box office: ‘Bullet Train’ arrives with so-so $30.1 million debut, ‘Easter Sunday’ stumbles

Brad Pitt arrives at the U.K. premiere of “Bullet Train” in London, July 20, 2022. Image: Reuters/Peter Nicholls LOS ANGELES — “Bullet Train,” a John Wick-ian romp with Brad Pitt in the aisle seat, arrived in theaters with a $30.1 million opening weekend. That’s enough to top the domestic box office chart, but it’s only a so-so result given “Bullet Train’s” $90 million price tag and Pitt’s star power, says Variety . The Sony Pictures release will need to maintain its momentum in the coming weeks as it tries to break even or turn a profit. “Bullet Train” is trying to prove that an action flick that isn’t based on a comic book or a toy-line can defy the odds and resonate with audiences. But part of the issue for the film is that critics weren’t on board. “Bullet Train” landed a mediocre 41% approval rating on review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, with many reviewers faulting the movie for being overly derivative of the work of Guy Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino. Variety … [Read more...] about ‘Bullet Train’ arrives with so-so $30.1 million debut, ‘Easter Sunday’ stumbles

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Topline Researchers have identified monkey antibodies that are effective against numerous Covid variants and other coronaviruses, according to research published Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine , a discovery that could help scientists develop better vaccines and prepare for future pandemics as pharma firms race to update their shots. Key Facts Rhesus macaque monkeys can generate a more comprehensive immune response to coronaviruses than humans and produce antibodies that are effective against many different coronaviruses, according to Scripps Research scientists. When immunized with a protein from the virus that causes Covid-19, SARS-CoV-2, the macaques produced broad-acting neutralizing antibodies—antibodies that interfere with a viruses ability to infect a cell—that responded to multiple Covid variants of concern like omicron, as well as other coronaviruses like SARS-CoV-1, which caused the global … [Read more...] about Newly Discovered Monkey Antibodies Could Hold Key To Vaccine Against All Coronavirus Strains