» Five great episodes of Michael Silverblatt’s Bookworm, in honor of the late host.

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Michael Silverblatt, the dedicated host of KCRW’s Bookworm, died last Friday at 73. Bookworm ran from 1989-2022, and was nationally syndicated. Over his thirty years on the airwaves, Silverblatt interviewed almost all your favorite authors. Everyone from William Vollmann to Arundhati Roy, Edward Jones to Gore Vidal. The late host wasn’t an obvious fit for […]


American Airlines is late to luxury travel, behind Delta and United

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An American Airlines Airbus A321 taxis at San Diego International Airport as a United Airlines airplane departs on August 24, 2024 in San Diego, California. Kevin Carter | Getty Images News | Getty Images FORT WORTH, Texas — American Airlines started pouring customers Champagne Bollinger in its top-tier lounges and cabins this fall. But at […]


CBS canceling Colbert raises questions about late night

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A marquee featuring “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” is seen outside the Ed Sullivan Theater, where Colbert’s show is produced, in New York City on July 18, 2025. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images There are two schools of thought around CBS’ decision to end “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” The first […]


Tesla’s feckless board needs to rein in Elon Musk before it’s too late

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Shares of Tesla are up around 190% during the past five years, almost double that of the S&P 500, which has given its CEO, the voluble and volatile, Elon Musk a lot of room to flout convention. The board of the publicly-traded EV company technically works for its shareholders and because of that share price, it […]


Judge scraps CFPB rule capping credit card late fees at $8

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A federal judge on Tuesday threw out a US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule capping credit card late fees at $8, after the agency agreed with opponents that the rule adopted during President Joe Biden’s administration was illegal. US District Judge Mark Pittman in Fort Worth, Texas granted a joint request by the CFPB and a coalition […]


‘The Antiquities’ Review: Relics of Late Human Life in 12 Exhibits

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By a campfire on the shore of Lake Geneva in 1816, five friends take up the challenge of telling the scariest story. Mary Shelley is clearly the winner, with her cautionary tale (soon to be a novel) of an obsessed doctor whose electrified monster achieves sentience, then runs wild. So freaked out is her pal […]


Elon Musk sued by SEC over late disclosure of Twitter stake

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Elon Musk was sued on Tuesday by the Securities and Exchange Commission for having failed to timely disclose purchasing more than 5% of Twitter’s common stock in March 2022 — a parting shot at the mogul by lame-duck SEC boss Gary Gensler. In a complaint filed in Washington, DC, federal court, the SEC said the […]