Something went wrong in Comcast’s systems in October 2023. In a cybersecurity breach that affected millions of Xfinity customers, usernames, passwords, contact information, dates of birth, and partial Social Security numbers were made public. This is the kind of information that people give out without giving it much thot when they sign up for internet service. People were told about it in December 2023. They were probably skimmed by most people. The email was probably deleted by some people without being read. There was a chance that was wrong. Now, Comcast has agreed to pay $117.5 million to end the…
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.
Rap artists are known for being tough, but that toughness doesn’t always help the people who wear it. You keep going. You don’t say anything. You get to work, do your job, and collect your pay. Whatever is going on in your body or mind stays there. The real name of NBA YoungBoy is Kentrell DeSean Gaulden. He seems to have taken that code more seriously than most people. The 26-year-old rapper Funny Marco recently talked about something he had kept to himself for a long time on an episode of his podcast Open Thoughts. He was in the middle…
When a show you truly love ends, you experience a certain type of grief. It was a quiet, reluctant acceptance, not the dramatic, hand-wringing kind. That’s probably the most accurate way to sum up how millions of Cobra Kai fans felt when Netflix officially ended the show after six seasons. Both the streaming behemoth and the three creators permanently ended the Cobra Kai universe. There won’t be a seventh season. It is dark in the dojos. There was no abrupt cancelation press release announcing the decision. It was revealed in January 2023, concurrently with Netflix’s decision to renew the series…
One little thing about Lewis Tan says a lot. Sensei Wolf, a character in Cobra Kai’s sixth and final season, has prayer beads tucked under his training gear, which isn’t exactly sensible for a man whose job it is to toss people across a dojo floor. The script doesn’t mention the beads. Tan placed them there himself, inspired by a recollection of a sensei from his early years who wore the same item and whose beads he could feel pressing against his skin when he was flung to the ground as a young boy. An actor who is familiar with…
A slender youngster from New Jersey entered a generation’s collective memory when he strolled onto a California beach in the summer of 1984. Despite being the best fighter, Daniel LaRusso did not prevail. He prevailed because he persisted when most people would have given up, and audiences sensed something in him that they couldn’t quite put their finger on. People are still experiencing it forty years later. One of the earliest narrative techniques is the underdog story, which works because it isn’t really about basketball, boxing, or karate. It concerns the difference between an individual’s current situation and their desired…
Television occasionally succeeds in creating a certain type of character—someone who shouldn’t work on paper, who exists just a little bit outside of the main drama, and who somehow becomes the person that viewers remember the most. That character in Cobra Kai is Raymond “Stingray” Porter, and Paul Walter Hauser is the reason it succeeds. There is a compelling tale about Hauser’s journey to the position. After the Cobra Kai creators noticed him in I, Tonya, he received the call. His first reaction, which he later described as “some schlocky revival idea,” was something akin to skepticism because he had…
In Cobra Kai, Kenny Payne’s introduction is almost purposefully unglamorous. Unaware that the bus has arrived and that the other students are already making fun of him, he is dancing by himself at a bus stop. It’s a brief, distinct moment that sticks. In the first few episodes of season four, Kenny is lured to Balboa Park in a video game costume by Anthony LaRusso and his pals, who then beat him on camera. While they are searching for him, he hides in a garbage dumpster to get away. It’s really challenging to watch. Kenny Payne is based on that.…
Eli Moskowitz is the type of adolescent who is engulfed by a room when he first enters the Cobra Kai dojo. With a scar on his lip that children had made fun of for years, he was quiet and self-conscious. Demetri, another outsider, is his only true friend. The two of them share the unique social invisibility of boys who discuss Doctor Who and weep over Dobby’s passing in Harry Potter without giving much thot to who is observing. After a season of karate, Eli is a completely different person. One of Cobra Kai’s more disturbing character studies is his…
When you see Johnny Lawrence sitting by himself in his Reseda apartment early in Cobra Kai, with a beer in hand, a bare mattress on the floor, and ESPN on a tiny TV, you realize that this is where the antagonist from The Karate Kid ended up. It’s not exactly meant to be humorous. It’s simply true. Johnny hasn’t moved on thirty-four years after losing a karate competition to a youngster from New Jersey. Not at all. William Zabka agreed to that idea in 2018, and it proved to be one of the most innovative choices in recent television history.…
“Why the hell did you choose me?” was Peyton List’s direct and sincere question when she first met with the Cobra Kai writers. As it happened, the solution was precisely the point. The Disney princess was what they desired. They intended for people to be taken aback. List was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, on April 6, 1998, and grew up in New York City. While still in elementary school, she and her twin brother Spencer took the subway to Manhattan for modeling auditions. Before she was a teenager, she starred in more than 400 commercials. She made her…