About 1,000 people can sit in the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park. On September 9, 2026, every single seat was filled with a quiet, clear kind of anticipation. It wasn’t the polite excitement of a normal iPhone update, but more like real interest. Apple had been buying hinge technology companies and filing patents on foldable screens for years without saying anything in public. And then there was the “Surprise and Shine” event, which broke the silence, though there were some details that got lost in the noise. The most strange thing about this event had nothing to do with…
Author: Sierra Foster
Sierra Foster
Born in Kansas City, Sierra Foster writes about politics and serves as Senior Editor at kbsd6.com. She was raised paying attention to this city, not just living in it. Sierra has a strong, deep connection to Kansas City, from the neighborhoods east of Troost to the discussions that take place in the city hall halls. Sierra, who is presently enrolled at the University of Kansas to pursue a degree in Political Science, applies the rigor of academic study to her journalism. She writes about politics in Missouri and Kansas as someone who genuinely cares about what happens to the people in these communities—the policies that impact them, the leaders who represent them, and the civic forces influencing their futures—rather than as an outsider watching from a distance. Her editorial coverage encompasses state-level policy, local government, and the national political currents that permeate bi-state regional life. Whether it's a city council vote or a Senate race, she has a special gift for turning complex policy language into writing that feels urgent, relatable, and worthwhile. Sierra seldom sits still off the page. She claims that playing soccer on a regular basis has sharpened her instincts for political reporting because of the sport's teamwork, strategy, and requirement to read a changing game in real time. She's probably somewhere in Kansas City with her friends when she's not writing or on the pitch, discovering new reasons to adore a city she already knows so well.
Devon Lee made a quiet entrance into Cobra Kai Season 4. She was a student at West Valley High School who had an inability to control her temper and a habit of participating in debate teams. Most viewers probably thought she was a background character added for a quick laugh when she stormed across a classroom during a heated argument, tore the cover off her opponent’s book, and began yelling at the crowd. Observing from the doorway, Johnny Lawrence seemed to notice something different. Devon’s recruitment, which was motivated more by her unadulterated aggression during a school debate than by…
In Part 3 of the sixth and final season, the tournament that Cobra Kai had spent two seasons preparing for finally came to an end. The outcome, while not wholly unexpected, carried more emotional weight than most people probably anticipated. The Sekai Taikai is won by Cobra Kai. However, the how is far more important than the what. There was a dirty path. Terry Silver, who has a terminal illness and is running out of time, worked the hardest to bring the competition back to life after a huge brawl in Barcelona claimed the life of Cobra Kai captain Kwon…
The way Cobra Kai maintained its landing is subtly impressive. Despite the weight of a cherished 1984 film franchise and a fan base that had been waiting decades for this kind of continuation, the final season managed to feel both earned and surprisingly nuanced after six seasons. Season six, which was released in three parts between July 2024 and February 2025, allowed creators Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, and Josh Heald to complete the story at their own pace rather than jamming everything into a single, hurried segment. The three-part structure was a conscious decision in and of itself. Instead of…
You may notice that when you open the iPhone Duo for the first time, the screen doesn’t crease. This week, people who got to try it out early talked about it almost right away. Not the cost. Not the power supply. The fold, or rather, the lack of one. That tells you something about what Apple has been working on behind the scenes for years and how they finally felt ready to enter a market that Samsung has been in since 2019. The iPhone Duo is Apple’s first foldable smartphone. It came out on September 9 and costs $1,999. It’s…
Apple’s CEO John Ternus has been in charge for less than two weeks. He has already done something that his predecessor never quite got to: he stood on a stage and announced a product that really surprised people. At Apple’s annual fall event on Wednesday, Ternus showed off the iPhone Duo, a foldable smartphone that looks like a small iPad when opened flat. In the US, it starts at $1,999. It costs up to $3,200 in its most expensive form. It’s not enough to say that this is different from the usual black rectangle that most people carry in their…
When Karate Kid: Legends debuted in theaters on May 30, 2025, it did something the franchise had never really tried before: it asked two completely different cinematic universes to coexist. After living in the original 1984 continuity for forty years, Ralph Macchio’s Daniel LaRusso finally gets screen time with Jackie Chan’s Mr. Han, who joined the Miyagi-Do universe in the 2010 reboot alongside Jaden Smith. The fact that this merger is successful at all is worth investigating, and the specifics of how it was put together are more fascinating than the film’s conflicting reviews might imply. An origin story dating…
Johnny Cade doesn’t occupy much room. He is described as being smaller than the others in S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders. He has large black eyes on a darkly tanned face, greasy hair, and shaggy bangs that fall across his forehead. He is likened by Ponyboy to a puppy that has received too many kicks. It’s an image that sticks because it’s subtly accurate rather than dramatic. Once you know where he spends his nights, Johnny’s cautious demeanor throughout the book makes perfect sense. It’s usually an empty lot. Anywhere but the house. He is sixteen years old, a member…
Dallas Winston spends more time in a room than he enters it. Dally’s eyes are described by Ponyboy Curtis in S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders as “cold with all the hatred in the world,” and that description, along with the platinum-blonde hair falling in wisps, the 6’2″ frame, and the sharp animal teeth, tends to stick. He is the type of character who unnerves other characters, even those who support him. Ponyboy acknowledges that he makes him uncomfortable. It’s not a small detail. It reveals something about Dally’s demeanor and the impact years of living on the streets of New York…
Early in Cobra Kai, Miguel Diaz is shown standing in a mini-mart parking lot with Pepto-Bismol poured over his head by the school bully. It’s one of those scenes that reveals a lot about a character’s beginning. He is clearly out of his element, meek, asthmatic, and the new kid in the San Fernando Valley. The same child has won the All-Valley Karate Tournament, recovered from a spinal injury, participated in the Sekai Taikai world championship in Barcelona, and received an acceptance letter from Stanford in the middle of a fight by the time the series concludes six seasons later.…