J. Mitchell Sances – California Globe

New Documentary Blames L.A.’s 2025 Wildfires on ‘Climate Change’ While Officials’ Failures Get a Pass

October 28, 2026 1:04 pmOctober 28, 2026 1:04 pm

Another film has arrived to tell Angelenos that the true villain in the January 2025 wildfires was not the people who started them, the empty reservoirs that left firefighters dry, or the mayor who was on the other side of...

Netflix’s C-Suite Bloodletting: A Small Win Amid the Usual Corporate Bloodbath

October 27, 2026 6:00 amOctober 27, 2026 6:01 am

Netflix is handing out another round of pink slips this time to roughly 1,000 people, which is about 6 percent of its workforce and its largest round of cuts since 2022. Most of the rank-and-file casualties appear concentrated in product,...

WGA East Partners With Cloak to Keep AI Script Summaries Off the Table

October 22, 2026 11:30 amOctober 22, 2026 11:30 am

The Writers Guild of America East has struck a deal with Cloak, a software firm whose tool scrambles documents so most AI models cannot read or ingest them while leaving the text fully legible to human eyes. Under the arrangement,...

Netflix’s ‘14th’ Filmmakers Urge Americans to ‘Fight’ While Lecturing on Autocracy

October 19, 2026 6:30 amOctober 19, 2026 6:35 am

Ava DuVernay’s new Netflix documentary 14th, which premiered as the closing-night selection of the 2026 New York Film Festival, examines the 14th Amendment and its history from Reconstruction onward. The film, scheduled for a limited theatrical run starting November 27...

Private Initiative Steps Up While Sacramento and City Hall Stall: Caruso, Skydance, and the Bay Theater’s Return to the Palisades

October 15, 2026 4:12 pmOctober 15, 2026 4:12 pm

Developer Rick Caruso and Skydance-owned Paramount Pictures announced this week that they will reopen the Bay Theater in Pacific Palisades Village later this year under a long-term lease. The venue, previously leased to Netflix, has sat dark since the January...

Newsom’s Latest Medical Laws: California Defies Other States and Medical Realities

October 13, 2026 7:00 amOctober 13, 2026 7:01 am

Governor Gavin Newsom has signed another round of legislation that treats California medical providers as instruments of state policy rather than participants in a federal system of law. The new measures prohibit or tightly restrict healthcare providers from turning over...

Zach Bryan Wears a ‘Free Palestine’ Shirt Protesting Imaginary Silencing

October 8, 2026 6:30 amOctober 8, 2026 6:31 am

On Friday night, the first of two shows in Foxborough, country singer Zach Bryan walked onstage at Robert Kraft’s building in a sleeveless shirt that read “Free Palestine,” with a pine tree and “An Appeal to Heaven” underneath. Fan video...