At some types of celebrity weddings, the guest list alone lets you know where each person has arrived. On Saturday in Greenwich, Connecticut, Coco Jones and Donovan Mitchell said their vows. From across the dance floor, Jaylen Brown was filming Jalen Brunson. The couple was hyped up like family by Ciara and Russell Wilson, who were in the front row. They had Bam Adebayo there. The DJ asked for noise for “Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell,” and videos that went around over the weekend showed that everyone in the room happily obliged. Jones, who is 28, married the Cleveland Cavaliers guard…
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.
Around this point in most public figures’ lives, the attention stops being love and starts being something else. That time seems to have come for Ariana Grande, but not with a big meltdown. Instead, her rep released a quiet statement and she decided to disappear, at least for now. It was announced this week that Grande will be “taking a step back from visibility” after the end of her Eternal Sunshine world tour next month in London. Along with the news, she also said she was pulling out of the West End revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park…
Boxtown is the name of a neighborhood in South Memphis. It’s not very newsworthy. A lot of Black people have lived there and been underserved in the past. It’s also not usually on the radar of big tech companies, unless they need a place to put a supercomputer. That’s where Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI chose to build Colossus, a huge data center that opened in September 2024 in a building that used to make home appliances. xAI’s AI chatbot Grok is trained there, and the company brought in a lot of gas turbines to keep it running. Along with…
Geoff Beadles kept his eyes moving from house to house as he drove through his Spokane neighborhood after leaving with his fiancée and two dogs. Some homes had not been touched. Some were gone completely, leaving only blackened foundations and brick chimneys that stuck out like gravestones in a field. “Just driving around looking at the homes,” he said softly, “it’s just one of the most heartbreaking things I’ve ever seen in my life.” One of the most confusing things about wildfire is how different each block is: one block is completely destroyed, while the lawn of a neighbor is…
Naviance was just one part of the college application process for millions of high school students. It was a place to plan your future, keep track of deadlines, and see how your GPA stacked up against other students from your school who had also applied. It felt like normal, almost administrative work. It looks like something else was going on in the background. Electric School Holdings, Hobsons Inc., Heap Inc., and the Chicago Board of Education have all agreed to pay $17.25 million to settle a class action lawsuit. The main claim was that students’ communications and activity on the…
You can hear Ed Sheeran’s name in courtrooms almost as often as you hear it on playlists. No one thought that guy with the ginger hair and the loop pedal would do something like that. He busked his way to fame. Though there have been many lawsuits, settlements, and a very publicized jury trial, people are still asking the same thing: what did he copy, and from whom? The case that got the most attention was “Thinking Out Loud,” his 2014 ballad that was played at weddings for at least three years in a row. Marvin Gaye’s 1973 hit “Let’s…
It’s a feeling that most people have had: going into their Google account settings, turning off “Web & App Activity,” and then feeling… relieved. It felt like you got a little bit of yourself back from the machine. For millions of people, that relief was in the wrong place. In September of last year, a federal jury in California found Google guilty of two counts of privacy violations. The jury found that the company continued to collect user data even after users turned off data-tracking settings in their accounts. Google will have to pay $425 million. The case, Rodriguez v.…
When you read “20 first graders” in a legal document, it makes you feel heavy. At this point, it’s not surprising because the events of December 14, 2012, have been told so many times, but because of what else is in the court documents. Damages. Protests. filing for bankruptcy. The law slowly worked its way around the worst day that could have happened to those families in Newtown, Connecticut. Alex Jones told his followers for years that it didn’t happen. Or rather, that something different happened—he said it was staged with crisis actors and planned by a government that wanted…
When Teyana Taylor went on The Breakfast Club at the end of August and said she sent a $70,000 wire transfer “so fast,” it was clear she was done with the whole thing. She was sick of the filings, leaks, and news stories that came in every time something good happened in her life. She said, “That was the best little coin I’ve ever spent,” and you could tell she really meant it. The divorce settlement between Iman Shumpert and her husband has been one of those slow-burning celebrity stories that gets pushed to the back of the newsroom and…
People in the audience become very quiet when they hear the same story told over and over, but they still do their best to pay attention. That’s how the Hadestown proshot makes you feel. It’s a live-capture film of Anaïs Mitchell’s famous musical, recorded at the Lyric Theatre in London between late February and early March 2025. This project could have looked like something from a museum. It feels like the thing itself instead. The movie, which was directed by Brett Sullivan, brings back five main actors from the Broadway show: Reeve Carney as Orpheus, Eva Noblezada as Eurydice, André…