Los Angeles Coronavirus Report: Mayor Eric Garcetti Contradicts State Officials, Says Underreporting Cases Has Probably Gone On For Months, Not Weeks

JYP Entertainment has expanded its existing partnership with US-based label Republic Records.According to a report by Billboard, the South Korean company has opted to expand its existing strategic partnership with Republic Records, which is owned by Universal Music Group. The two companies first started the partnership in 2020, where they foucsed on the international expansion of girl group TWICE.JYP Entertainment and Republic Records’ partnership will now extend to include two more of the K-pop giant’s acts – namely Stray Kids and ITZY – in their plan for promotions outside of South Korea.Both groups will also be receiving support from Republic Records’ subsidiary independent label Imperial, which had previously helped to launch and market TWICE’s recent records since the JYP-Republic partnership had launched.“We are beyond delighted to move forward with Republic Records, the most outstanding label in the United States, in developing the major artist roster of the two companies’ hereafter, starting with the successful kickoff TWICE has brought,” JYP Entertainment CEO Jimmy Jeong told Billboard of the expansion.“We have absolute confidence that, together, we will lead the rapidly changing music industry from both in and out, alongside our prominent artists’ creations,” Jeong added.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticAs the first film from the director of “Amélie” in nearly a decade, “Big Bug” is kind of a big deal. Sadly, it’s also a big disappointment — easily the most obnoxious Netflix original in some time, owing to the company’s trust in a director whose overactive imagination demands some kind of boundaries.At precisely the moment pandemic-confined audiences want to get out and breathe fresh air, Jean-Pierre Jeunet gives them a suffocating scenario in which a squabbling French family is trapped in their retro-modern home with several android assistants.

Foo Fighters have shared the video for their recent song from the new Fraggle Rock revival series – you can watch it below.Dave Grohl and co. released ‘Fraggle Rock Rock’ last month as part of the official soundtrack to Apple TV+’s Back To The Rock, which features guest stars such as Ed Helms (The Office) and Kenan Thompson (Saturday Night Live).Arriving yesterday (February 10), the official visuals for the track see the band performing in a packed-out venue as Uncle Traveling Matt invades the stage.

Tiger JK is potentially set to collaborate with BTS‘ RM.In the early hours of February 11, the former Drunken Tiger member posted a series of cryptic tweets that seemingly point towards a forthcoming collaboration between him and BTS leader RM. The first tweet simply featured the K-pop idol’s name.RM— 아빠 최고 VITAMIN D (@DrunkenTigerJK) February 10, 2022Soon after, Tiger JK followed it up by alluding that he’s currently in the process of making new music, but did not include any specifics.

apparently because some of the nominees in major awards categories are not vaccinated. Weirder still, despite the still-ongoing pandemic and a national death toll of over 900,000, the Oscars apparently also won’t require masks. It will require a negative COVID-19 test, however.Before we go further, the Academy hasn’t actually announced its COVID policy yet, and it didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment from TheWrap.

Coronation Street 's Lydia Chambers was unveiled as the mystery person silently calling Adam Barlow on Wednesday's episodes. Soap watchers will recall that Adam was targeted by a mystery person earlier this year and he accused ex Lydia of keying his car before being told that it was in fact Jeremy Bremner, a disgruntled loser of a court case he worked on. Only recently, Adam's car was vandalised again while his office was searched by police who had been told there was a firearm there with Adam linking them both to Jeremy.

With Meena Jutla's (Paige Sandhu) return to the village confirmed, Emmerdale have been nice enough to give fans of the ITV soap a teaser of what's to come with some chilling images from the psychopathic nurse's highly anticipated comeback. Hellbent on destroying Dawn Taylor (Olivia Bromley) and Billy Fletcher's (Jay Kontzle) big day, the deranged murderer makes her entrance in true Meena style in tonight's episode (Friday 11 February). She's on a mission to make sure Dawn and Billy both pay for what they've done to her and she'll stop at nothing to get her gruesome revenge on the unsuspecting couple.

Ralph Hasenhuttl has revenge on mind as his Southampton side return to the scene of their humiliation by Manchester United last season.

A shopkeeper tried to run away from police after thousands of illegal cigarettes were discovered.

Text messages between employees of the management company in charge of Lil Peep's final tour, First Access Entertainment (FAE), have been unsealed in Peep's mother Liza Womack's wrongful death case against the corporation, Pitchfork reports. The messages were included in a 372-page document Womack submitted to Los Angeles County's Superior Court on January 28, and will be reviewed today in a hearing on an FAE motion for summary judgement.

Naman Ramachandran British auteur Peter Strickland is back with his fifth feature, “Flux Gourmet,” and it is as striking and uncompromising as his previous body of work, which includes “In Fabric” (2018), “The Duke of Burgundy” (2014), “Berberian Sound Studio” (2012) and “Katalin Varga” (2009). “Flux Gourmet” world premieres at the Berlin Film Festival’s Encounters strand on Feb. 11.The film follows a sonic collective trio with rocky interpersonal dynamics, who take up residency at an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performance and have to answer to the institute’s head, who has her own opinions about their work.

Jack White has shared the title track from his forthcoming album ‘Fear Of The Dawn’, one of two records he’ll release this year, alongside ‘Entering Heaven Alive’.Following on from the similarly blistering ‘Taking Me Back’, White’s latest track is a freewheeling, fuzzed-out rocker that clocks in at just over two minutes, with the former White Stripes frontman howling over heavily distorted guitars.Listen to ‘Fear Of The Dawn’ below:White announced both ‘Fear Of The Dawn’ and ‘Entering Heaven Alive’ back in November of last year. The former – White’s first solo album since 2018’s ‘Boarding House Reach’ – is set to arrive first on April 8, with its follow-up set for release on July 22.

Orville Peck has shared the first four tracks from his forthcoming second album, ‘Bronco’, releasing an EP dubbed ‘Chapter 1’ today (February 11).Leading the pack is a smoky, retro-tinged love song titled ‘C’mon Baby, Cry’, which serves as the lead single from ‘Bronco’, and comes alongside a video directed by Austin Peters. The other tracks released as part of ‘Chapter 1’ are the album’s opener, ‘Daytona Sand’, the western slow-burner ‘Outta Time’ and the barnstorming ‘Any Turn’.Check out the video for ‘C’mon Baby, Cry’ below, then stream the rest of the ‘Chapter 1’ EP: ‘Bronco’ – the follow-up to Peck’s 2019 debut, ‘Pony’ – is slated to drop on April 8 via Columbia.

Kanye West is one of the headliners scheduled to perform at Coachella 2022. In an Instagram post shared on Thursday, West (who recently changed his legal name to Ye) revealed that he intends to bring Travis Scott along for the performance.

Rebel Wilson, Taraji P Henson, and Issa Rae were among the celebrities to appear at the 2022 NFL Honors on Thursday.MORE: Rebel Wilson and sisters look like triplets in hot-pink swimwearAll three presented awards, with Rebel joking about the time she tore her ACL and how she was an “inspiration” to all NFL players as she announced Cincinnati Bengals’ Joe Burrow as the winner of the Comeback of the Year award.WATCH:  Rebel Wilson presents Joe Burrow with NFL HonorIssa rocked a stunning sequin gown for the event which took place three days before the annual Super Bowl event; this year will see the Bengals’ go head to head with the Los Angeles Rams.Taraji P Henson was joined by Mark Wahlberg as they presented the Bengals’ Ja'Marr Chase with the Offensive Rookie of the Year award.MORE: Kelly Clarkson wins Montana ranch in divorce battle - and it's the dream escapeKelly Clarkson was on hand to honor the Dallas Cowboys’ Micah Parsons with the Defensive Rookie of the Year award.Pittsburgh Steelers' T.J. Watt won Defensive Player of the Year, and was awarded the trophy by Katy Perry and his brother Derek Watt, while the Rams’ Cooper Kupp took home Offensive Player of the Year.

The trailer for Mark Wahlberg‘s new movie has been released!

Vanessa Feltz and her fiancé Ben Ofoedu have been together 16 years, so it's fair to say they know pretty much all there is to know about each other - or do they? The This Morning star and the singer took part in our relationship test, when we caught up with them for our gorgeous couples' shoot, to celebrate her 60th birthday later this month. The first question Ben asked his presenter other half was how they met. "We met through Keith Duffy of Boyzone - your great chum," she revealed.

Tom Holland hangs out with director Francesco Totti for an interview in Rome, Italy on Thursday afternoon (February 10).

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom held his first press conference in a week after it was revealed that his administration’s COVID-19 data collection database had been undercounting daily coronavirus case numbers for at least two weeks.On Sunday, the state’s Director of Public Health resigned. Dr.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorCalifornia’s Director of Public Health resigned on Sunday. No reason was given.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorOn Friday, California’s top health official was sent out by his boss to face the music.Dr. Mark Ghaly, director of the state’s Health and Human Services Department, admitted that multiple on the state’s part had caused a backlog of 250,000-300,000 records in its data reporting systems.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorOn Friday, after a week of data glitches and an absence of leadership, California officially reported the state has seen more than 10,000 deaths from coronavirus.While a technical failure in the state’s coronavirus reporting process, revealed this week, has created an undercount in daily new cases data, it did not impact the tallies for hospitalizations, ICU patients and deaths related to the virus.On Friday, the state reported 142 deaths over the past 24 hours related to coronavirus, bringing the total to 10,011. The number of new daily cases was 8,436, for a total of 538,416.

LA Mayor Eric Garcetti August 5 2020 via KCBS 2

Dave McNary Film ReporterFollowing a deadly shooting at a mansion party, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is going after people throwing illegal large house parties during the COVID-19 crisis, vowing to have the water and power turned off.“While we have already closed all bars and nightclubs, these large house parties have essentially become nightclubs in the hills,” said the mayor during a Wednesday afternoon news conference.Garcetti said the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power will cut off service within 48 hours if the LAPD verifies that there have been violations at a home.“We will not act lightly, but we will act,” he added.Los Angeles County director of public health Barbara Ferrer had said earlier Wednesday afternoon at a

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorLos Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Wednesday announced the city was taking action against those who throw large parties.He called recent gatherings of mostly young people in the Hollywood Hills and Calabasas “flagrant violations of health orders.”“While we have already closed all bars and nightclubs, these large hour parties have essentially become nightclubs,” said the mayor. He then indicated he would hold them to similar scrutiny.If the LAPD responds to repeated complaints and verifies that there have been violations at a home, the city will within 48 hours have the DWP shut off service at that home.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorOn Wednesday, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health director Barbara Ferrer focused much of her coronavirus news conference on the virus’s spread among younger people.Since the beginning of June, she said, case rates for people between 30 and 49 has tripled. Since June 9, the case rate among those between 18 and 29 has quadrupled.And while the rates are relatively low, younger people do die of coronavirus.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorOne day after the State of California and local officials revealed a technical glitch in the state’s reporting system has resulted in an undercount of new coronavirus cases, the state reported a new record number of deaths. According to the California coronavirus dashboard, 200 lives were lost in the state over the previous 24 hours.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorJust over a week after Universal Studios canceled its popular Halloween Horror Nights at its Florida and California parks, Knott’s Berry Farm followed suit.The Southern California park has canceled its hugely popular Halloween Haunt event this year due to the coronavirus, park officials said today.“Regrettably, due to continued operating restrictions related to the pandemic we have had to make the very difficult decision to cancel our highly anticipated 2020 Knott’s Scary Farm event,” Knott’s officials said.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorOn Tuesday, an unusual message was posted on the California State COVID-19 dashboard. It read, “Due to the issues with the state’s electronic laboratory system, these data represent an underreporting of actual positive cases in one single day.”There was no further information or clarification.A few hours later, the state’s top health official, Dr.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorExpressing cautious optimism about the success of efforts to control the coronavirus, L.A. County public health director Barbara Ferrer said on Monday that the closure of bars and elimination of indoor dining, along with cooperation from residents, have slowed the illness’s spread.Barbara Ferrer said the county is “cautiously optimistic that we’re getting back on track” in efforts to combat COVID-19, but added, “I want to emphasize the word ‘cautiously.'”Ferrer pointed to steady declines in hospitalization numbers, which were averaging around 2,200 patients a day in mid-July but have now dropped below 2,000.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorAs coronavirus numbers in the region showed a marked decline, the Los Angeles Unified School District and the union representing teachers announced a tentative agreement Monday on how to proceed with distance learning this fall. Efforts will be focused on providing a structured school day as campuses remain closed due to the coronavirus.The proposal will go before the school board for a vote Tuesday and move to a vote of union members next week.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom held a coronavirus press conference on Monday and highlighted some good news. He also issued a warning about the state’s future with respect to COVID-19.Newsom announced a total of 5,719 new coronavirus cases in the state for a total of 514,901 confirmed cases since the pandemic began.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorOn Friday, the California Department of Public Health reported the first confirmed death of a teen from coronavirus in the state.In a statement, the department said the following:The California Department of Public Health confirmed today the COVID-related death of a teenager in the Central Valley. This is the first death in California of a teenager, and this young person had underlying health conditions.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorOne day after reaching an all-time high of 197 coronavirus-related deaths, California’s pandemic accounted for another 194 new deaths on Thursday. So far, COVID-19 has taken in 8,909 lives statewide.Deaths have dramatically increased from the near-flat levels in June.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorA coronavirus outbreak has hit USC’s fraternity row, where about 40 people tested positive for COVID-19, USC Student Health’s chief health officer Dr. Sarah Van Orman told the Los Angeles Times.“A significant number of the cases were associated with four fraternity houses,” Van Orman said.