Miguel Diaz was never meant to play the simple part. He begins the show as a bullied child in a brand-new apartment building, stumbles into a washed-up neighbor’s karate class, and spends the next six seasons being knocked down in ways that are occasionally physical and other times much more difficult to shake. From the first episode until the 2025 finale, Xolo Maridueña carried all of that, and it’s worth getting to know him. Maridueña was born in Los Angeles on June 9, 2001. He was raised in El Sereno, a neighborhood in the city’s east with strong Latino ties…
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.
A certain type of actor doesn’t make an announcement. They don’t show up with an award-winning monolog or a billboard performance. Scene by scene, season by season, they gradually create something more subdued until you realize you’ve been watching someone crucial all along. Vanessa Rubio did just that in Cobra Kai, and now that the show is over, it’s worth taking a moment to say so. Born in New Jersey in December 1983, Rubio joined the show in 2018 as Carmen Diaz, the anxious mother of Miguel, the main character. It might have been a limited role. The parent characters…
This week, Esquire released a video interview with Jenna Ortega. It was an honest and well-produced piece where she talked about her career, how quickly she became famous as Wednesday Addams, and the weight of early Hollywood fame. The interview showed a lot of thought. What people said online wasn’t really about the interview. Within hours, the comments on Instagram and YouTube were full of a completely different kind of talk. One that was more about how she looked than what she said. Esquire’s Instagram video had a comment that got over 124,000 likes. It just said, “Why does everyone…
There’s something quietly impressive about someone who quits something they’re good at, not because they failed, but because something else was more important. Kyle Justin did that very thing. The man who wrote the theme song for Angry Video Game Nerd and played the lovably weird “Guitar Guy” who lived behind a couch quit everything in 2009. Not to avoid trouble. Not in the dramatic, public sense of being burned out. He left to get married and have kids. That kind of choice can make someone less creative than they really are. Before the term “internet creator” was even a…
There’s something quietly interesting about the way Paris Jackson talks about breaking up with Justin Long. Not poison. Do not use drama. A woman who was 28 years old was sitting next to a podcast host and making it clear that she needed to be happy but wasn’t. Tho it’s kind of nice, it breaks my heart at the same time. Jackson talked about her husband on Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast on August 12, and she didn’t waste any time. She said, “It was a choice I needed to make to be happy” when asked why she broke…
It’s never been easy to find Harry Jowsey. Anybody who saw him on “Too Hot to Handle” in 2020 knew that for sure. He was charming, restless, and clearly enjoyed all the attention. He became one of the most famous people to come out of the first wave of reality TV during the pandemic. A lot of people raised an eyebrow when Netflix announced “Let’s Marry Harry,” a show based on the idea of this man walking down the aisle. Still, he did it. In August, during the last episode of “Let’s Marry Harry,” Jowsey married Amber Mozo, a travel…
People around the world thot the picture showed Air Force One, but it actually showed a catering truck sitting idle on a Turkish runway with the president of the United States hunched over inside it. This is the kind of detail that would feel like it belongs in a movie if it weren’t real. Last month, Donald Trump was smuggled off the plane that was carrying his press pool, top cabinet officials, and senior White House staff. No one knew about it or could say anything about it. There was a real threat from Iran that led to the operation.…
The premise of Cobra Kai, which debuted on YouTube Premium in May 2018, revolved around Johnny Lawrence, the antagonist of The Karate Kid, receiving a second act. However, something changed in the first few episodes. The middle-aged man attempting to start over wasn’t the figure who kept drawing attention to himself. Miguel Diaz, the child who lived next door, was an asthmatic adolescent from Ecuador who traveled thru New Jersey and the San Fernando Valley. He was beaten up by some classmates on his first day of school and eventually made his way into the same karate dojo that had…
Dallas Dupree Young’s height ranges from 5 feet 8 to 5 feet 10 inches, which is consistent with the typical discrepancy between official listings and actual measurements for young performers who were still in their teens at the time of the majority of their most well-known roles. He was born on October 25, 2006, and when he joined the cast of Cobra Kai for Season 4 in 2021, he was fourteen. As a result, the height question has an extra factor that most celebrity height conversations don’t take into consideration: he was still growing during the show’s last seasons. that…
Depending on the source, Jacob Bertrand’s height ranges from 5 feet 8 inches to 5 feet 10 inches. According to his official IMDb page, he is 5’10”, which is a decent height that places him well above average for American men. The genuine number is typically closer to 5’8″ according to fan forums and height-tracking websites, which treat this kind of question with an investment that is equally astounding and perplexing. Since listed and actual heights in Hollywood frequently differ by a little but noticeable amount, the honest answer is most likely somewhere in that range. For the majority of…