The US unemployment rate returned to a historic low of 3.5% in December. Not everyone is celebrating, however: Jobless rates for Black women and Latino men still haven’t recovered fully from the pandemic.
Original programming on streaming services featured females as half of all its main characters, closely reflecting the proportion in the population at large, a report released Tuesday by San Diego State University researcher Martha Lauzen revealed.
A day after her sister Serena advanced to the second round of the singles play at US Open tennis tournament, Venus Williams was not as fortunate, losing in straight sets to Alison Van Uytvanck of Belgium. Appearing in an Open-era record 23rd US Open, Williams lost her first-round match 6-1, 7-6 (5) at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York.
“Catch the Fair One” is equal parts affecting drama and absoribing thriller and that’s largely to the duo of actress Kali Reis and writer/director Josef Kubota Wladyka.
The Palm Springs International Film Festival is cancelled but honoring the filmmakers lives on. Two of those honored are the drama-thriller “Medusa” and the documentary “7 Lives, 7 Lakes.” Both films received the Ibero-American Award Special Mentions.
