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Newsweek
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
Kanye West Visa Canceled Over Hitler Song
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Kanye West, the American rapper also known as Ye, has been blocked from entering Australia, following the release of a song which glorified the Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler. Kanye West and Bianca Censori attend the 67th GRAMMY Awards at Arena on February 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Kanye West and Bianca Censori attend the 67th GRAMMY Awards at Arena on February 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic Australia's home affairs minister Tony Burke revealed during an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that his department had cancelled West's visa. Newsweek has reached out to the Australian Department of Home Affairs via email for comment. The song, which is titled "Heil Hitler," was released in May, and was widely condemned at the time and banned from the majority of music platforms. West's current wife, Bianca Censori, is Australian. This article will be updated with more information.
Miami Herald
26-06-2025
- Business
- Miami Herald
With a surging residency rate, this neighborhood is transforming LA
Like many downtown Los Angeles residents, Ricardo Sebastián doesn't own a car and prefers it that way. "I do not want the responsibility of owning a vehicle. That's not for me," said Sebastián, who grew up in Chicago relying on public transit. The 38-year-old consultant travels around L.A. by train and bus, but finds most of what they need close to home in the South Park district near Arena, including leisurely strolls. "I enjoy going for long walks from one end of downtown to the other," Sebastián said in Muffin Can Stop Us, a casual coffee bar and restaurant at the base of a high-rise apartment complex on Hope Street. "I love living downtown." Sebastián is hardly alone in that sentiment. In addition to being a commercial center with office skyscrapers, trendy hotels and cultural venues, downtown L.A. remains a vibrant and growing residential neighborhood with a population of 90,000 - about the size of Santa Monica. Despite myriad challenges - including a sprawling homeless population and its reputation as a sometimes dodgy place to live and work - downtown L.A. is staging a comeback by attracting a steady stream of new residents. Occupancy in downtown apartments has remained about 90% for more than a year, recent surveys by a downtown business support group show. That is slightly higher than the level before the pandemic, when offices hummed with 9-to-5ers. In fact, the downtown population has more than tripled since 2000, reflecting a dynamic shift in the city center's character toward a 24-hour lifestyle. "You do not see that kind of change in any other neighborhood in Los Angeles," downtown activist Cassy Horton said. "If anything, most neighborhoods are kind of aging and atrophying versus adding people." The reasons that people choose to live in L.A.'s urban core are varied. Some point to the value of living downtown, where rents for high-end buildings are relatively more affordable than in other parts of the city. A raft of new developments has increased the availability of housing units. And with thousands of houses and apartments lost to wildfires in an already tight housing market, there is now widespread demand for housing that landlords hope to attract downtown. There's also the convenience factor. Many residents say they are drawn to downtown's urban lifestyle with stores, restaurants and cultural attractions such as the Broad or Walt Disney Concert Hall within walking distance. And unlike dwellers of most parts of L.A., they want their blocks to get busier, Horton said. "We're the only neighborhood where residents actually want more neighbors," she said. One of the many frustrations over this month's outbreak of violence around federal immigration sweeps was the way social media coverage was "completely devoid of any reference to the fact that people live here," Horton said. "Downtown gets treated in these situations really differently than other residential neighborhoods would be." The addition of residents has helped offset downtown's other dramatic population shift: the unsettling disappearance of thousands of office workers who did their jobs from home during the pandemic shutdowns and are unlikely to ever return at pre-COVID-19 levels. Many firms have implemented hybrid schedules that allow employees to work at home certain days of the week. Some other white-collar companies have given up on downtown and moved their offices to other urbanized neighborhoods, including Century City and Pasadena, saying that downtown hasn't sufficiently recovered from the pandemic emergency as stores and restaurants remain closed and streets feel less safe than they did in 2019. Nevertheless, "the downtown community has maintained a sort of passionate commitment to the place, and while there are challenges, they are not dissuaded by them," said Nick Griffin, executive vice president of the DTLA Alliance. Committed residents say that they like downtown's city lifestyle and that they want to see it improve as the neighborhood transitions from being primarily office-centric to more residential-oriented. Restaurants and other small businesses are making a comeback after COVID-19 restrictions contributed to widespread closures, Griffin said. "We've had 140 new restaurants open since the end of the pandemic," he said. "That's many, many more than we lost." Support for the businesses is underpinned by the residential population and growth in visits to downtown by regional residents and tourists, Griffin said. "Where it was a doom loop in one direction three years ago, downtown is now going back to that virtuous cycle that we were in after the financial crisis" that caused the Great Recession nearly two decades ago. In the years before the pandemic, "we were just on a roll," Griffin said. That included a monumental housing construction boom prompted by the fact that developers find it somewhat easier to get big projects approved downtown than elsewhere because city leaders have long identified downtown as a place for dense housing growth. It has ample sites to build on, especially in South Park, and is the nexus for the region's rail, bus and freeway lines. Southern California has a serious housing shortage, and "downtown is one of the few places that has been able to build at any scale over the past 10 years," Griffin said. In that time, 22% of the new housing in the city has been built downtown, he said. The latest major project is a 54-story skyscraper with 685 apartments nearly completed at Hill Street and Olympic Boulevard, a few blocks east of the L.A. Live entertainment complex. The tower, called Olympic + Hill, is being built by Canadian developer Onni Group, which has been one of downtown's most active builders during the housing boom. Other large projects planned downtown include three similar-scaled high-rises near Olympic + Hill by other developers, but they're not under construction and the pipeline is drying up. Housing construction in Los Angeles plunged during the first quarter of 2025, according to a report by research firm Hilgard Analytics, a drop-off that could ultimately worsen the city's affordability crisis. The city approved permits for 1,325 new residences during the first three months of 2025, down nearly 57% from the same period last year. "Supply is going to be falling off a cliff in 2026," said local developer Jaime Lee, chief executive of the Jamison group of companies. Industry observers point to high interest rates and the rising costs of material and labor, as well as uncertainty over tariffs and immigration policies that could reduce the construction workforce. Additionally, local developers are wary of Measure ULA, a new Los Angeles tax on large property sales that cuts into potential profits. An urban lifestyle that doesn't rely on driving everywhere helped lure Noemi Tagorda downtown in 2006. She moved from Cambridge, Mass., after getting a job at USC, where she manages the financial aid office. She and her husband didn't have cars in Massachusetts, "and I realized I never wanted to drive again," she said. "We found a place here in downtown where I could commute to work taking the bus or the train." They're now a one-car family with three sons, Tagorda said. The boys attend Catholic schools downtown, including Cathedral High School near Dodger Stadium, which her oldest reaches by bus. They're active in a Boy Scout troop that meets at a Buddhist temple in Little Tokyo. "I think that a lot of the families leave because there is a perception that there are no educational opportunities in downtown," she said. "We need everyone to see downtown as a vibrant community with families and all types of people there, and we also need to support the schools that are in our community." She shops for groceries at downtown's Ralphs and Whole Foods stores, and laments the closure of the Macy's department store on 7th Street this year. "I used to go to Macy's a lot." Also in walking distance are movie theaters Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and Regal LA Live, and an indoor golf simulator that the boys enjoy. Tagorda's mother, a migrant from Mexico, lived downtown in an apartment building that was razed to make way for the Los Angeles Convention Center that opened its first phase in 1971. "There have been families here for a very, very long time," she said. "Families do belong downtown." The population base is large enough now for downtown to be considered a true residential neighborhood with the same needs as other parts of the city, said Horton, who is a co-founder of the Downtown Los Angeles Residents Assn. Among its devotees are residents who work in government or are architects or urban planners who "know downtown is a real project," she said. "If you don't want something that's kind of cast in amber and already formed, there's a lot of opportunity to kind of help shape the neighborhood." Copyright (C) 2025, Tribune Content Agency, LLC. Portions copyrighted by the respective providers.
Los Angeles Times
17-06-2025
- Business
- Los Angeles Times
Downtown L.A. has battled COVID, homelessness and protests. Why its residential popularity is surging
Like many downtown Los Angeles residents, Ricardo Sebastián doesn't own a car and prefers it that way. 'I do not want the responsibility of owning a vehicle. That's not for me,' said Sebastián, who grew up in Chicago relying on public transit. The 38-year-old consultant travels around L.A. by train and bus, but finds most of what they need close to home in the South Park district near Arena, including leisurely strolls. 'I enjoy going for long walks from one end of downtown to the other,' Sebastián said in Muffin Can Stop Us, a casual coffee bar and restaurant at the base of a high-rise apartment complex on Hope Street. 'I love living downtown.' Sebastián is hardly alone in that sentiment. In addition to being a commercial center with office skyscrapers, trendy hotels and cultural venues, downtown L.A. remains a vibrant and growing residential neighborhood with a population of 90,000 — about the size of Santa Monica. Despite myriad challenges — including a sprawling homeless population and its reputation as a sometimes dodgy place to live and work — downtown L.A. is staging a comeback by attracting a steady stream of new residents. Occupancy in downtown apartments has remained about 90% for more than a year, recent surveys by a downtown business support group show. That is slightly higher than the level before the pandemic, when offices hummed with 9-to-5ers. In fact, the downtown population has more than tripled since 2000, reflecting a dynamic shift in the city center's character toward a 24-hour lifestyle. 'You do not see that kind of change in any other neighborhood in Los Angeles,' downtown activist Cassy Horton said. 'If anything, most neighborhoods are kind of aging and atrophying versus adding people.' The reasons why people choose to live in L.A.'s urban core are varied. Some point to the value of living downtown, where rents for high-end buildings are relatively more affordable than in other parts of the city. A raft of new developments has increased the availability of housing units. And with thousands of houses and apartments lost to wildfires in an already tight housing market, there is now widespread demand for housing that landlords hope to attract downtown. There's also the convenience factor. Many residents say they are drawn to downtown's urban lifestyle with stores, restaurants and cultural attractions like the Broad or Walt Disney Concert Hall within walking distance. And unlike dwellers of most parts of L.A., they want their blocks to get more busy, Horton said. 'We're the only neighborhood where residents actually want more neighbors,' she said. One of the many frustrations over this month's outbreak of violence around federal immigration sweeps was the way social media coverage was 'completely devoid of any reference to the fact that people live here,' Horton said. 'Downtown gets treated in these situations really differently than other residential neighborhoods would be.' The addition of residents has helped offset downtown's other dramatic population shift — the unsettling disappearance of thousands of office workers who did their jobs from home during the pandemic and are unlikely to ever return at pre-COVID 19 levels. Many firms have implemented hybrid schedules that allow employees to work at home certain days of the week. Some other white collar companies have given up on downtown and moved their offices to other urbanized neighborhoods, including Century City and Pasadena, saying that downtown hasn't sufficiently recovered from the pandemic as stores and restaurants remain closed and streets feel less safe than they did in 2019. Nevertheless, 'the downtown community has maintained a sort of passionate commitment to the place, and while there are challenges, they are not dissuaded by them,' said Nick Griffin, executive vice president of the DTLA Alliance. Committed residents say they like downtown's city lifestyle and they want to see it improve as the neighborhood transitions from being primarily office-centric to more residential-oriented. Restaurants and other small businesses are making a comeback after COVID-19 restrictions contributed to widespread closures, Griffin said. 'We've had 140 new restaurants open since the end of the pandemic,' he said. 'That's many, many more than we lost.' Support for the businesses is underpinned by the residential population and growth in visits to downtown by regional residents and tourists, Griffin said. 'Where it was a doom loop in one direction three years ago, downtown is now going back to that virtuous cycle that we were in after the financial crisis' that caused the Great Recession nearly two decades ago. In the years before the pandemic, 'we were just on a roll,' Griffin said. That included a monumental housing construction boom prompted by the fact that developers find it somewhat easier to get big projects approved downtown than elsewhere because city leaders have long identified downtown as a place for dense housing growth. It has ample sites to build on, especially in South Park, and is the nexus for the region's rail, bus and freeway lines. Southern California has a serious housing shortage and 'downtown is one of the few places that has been able to build at any scale over the past 10 years,' Griffin said. In that time, 22% of the new housing in the city was built downtown, he said. The latest major project is a 54-story skyscraper with 685 apartments nearly completed at Hill Street and Olympic Boulevard, a few blocks east of the L.A. Live entertainment complex. The tower, called Olympic + Hill, is being built by Canadian developer Onni Group, which has been one of downtown's most active builders during the housing boom. Other large projects planned downtown include three similar-scaled high-rises near Olympic + Hill by other developers, but they're not under construction and the pipeline is drying up. Housing construction in Los Angeles plunged during the first quarter of 2025, according to a recent report by research firm Hilgard Analytics, a drop-off that could ultimately worsen the city's affordability crisis. The city approved permits for 1,325 new residences during the first three months of 2025, down nearly 57% from the same period a year earlier. 'Supply is going to be falling off a cliff in 2026,' said local developer Jaime Lee, chief executive of Jamison group of companies. Industry observers point to high interest rates and rising costs of material and labor, as well as uncertainty over tariffs and immigration policies that could reduce the construction workforce. Additionally, local developers are wary of Measure ULA, a new Los Angeles tax on large property sales that cuts into potential profits. An urban lifestyle that doesn't rely on driving everywhere helped lure Noemi Tagorda to downtown in 2006. She moved from Cambridge, Mass., after getting a job at USC, where she manages the financial aid office. She and her husband didn't have cars in Massachusetts, 'and I realized I never wanted to drive again,' she said. 'We found a place here in downtown where I could commute to work taking the bus or the train.' They're now a one-car family with three sons, Tagorda said. The boys attend Catholic schools downtown, including Cathedral High School near Dodger Stadium, which her oldest reaches by bus. They're active in a Boy Scout troop that meets at a Buddhist temple in Little Tokyo. 'I think that a lot of the families leave because there is a perception that there are no educational opportunities in downtown,' she said. 'We need everyone to see downtown as a vibrant community with families and all types of people there, and we also need to support the schools that are in our community.' She shops for groceries at downtown's Ralphs and Whole Foods stores, and laments the closure of Macy's department store on 7th Street earlier this year. 'I used to go to Macy's a lot.' Also in walking distance are movie theaters Alamo Drafthouse and Regal LA Live, and an indoor golf simulator the boys enjoy. Tagorda's mother, a migrant from Mexico, lived downtown in an apartment building that was razed to make way for the Los Angeles Convention Center that opened its first phase in 1971. 'There have been families here for a very, very long time,' she said. 'Families do belong downtown.' The population base is also large enough now for downtown to be considered a true residential neighborhood with the same needs as other parts of the city, said Horton, who is a co-founder of the Downtown Los Angeles Residents Assn. Among its devotees are residents who work in government or are architects or urban planners who 'know downtown is a real project,' she said. 'If you don't want something that's kind of cast in amber and already formed, there's a lot of opportunity to kind of help shape the neighborhood.'
Yahoo
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
G-Dragon to Bring ‘Übermensch' Tour to U.S. and Europe
Well, he said he would be back. After a headlining performance at Head in the Clouds Los Angeles last month (which marked his first U.S. performance since 2017), G-Dragon has announced U.S. and Europe dates for his ongoing Übermensch tour. The newly announced leg includes shows at both Newark, New Jersey's Prudential Center and Los Angeles' Arena, venues he's returning to for the first time since BIGBANG's MADE tour 10 years ago, in addition to stops in Las Vegas and Paris. More from Rolling Stone The B-52's, Devo to Embark on Co-Headlining Cosmic De-Evolution Tour BTS' Jungkook and Jimin Discharged from Korean Military After RM and V Clave Especial Will Celebrate the 'Power of Corridos' During First-Ever Tour Throughout his career, G-Dragon has pushed boundaries and cemented himself as an influential cultural force not just in music but in fashion, visual arts, and philanthropy. 'This isn't just a concert — it's my next chapter. I've grown, changed, and challenged myself in ways I never imagined,' he shares exclusively with Rolling Stone. 'I want my fans to feel every second of that transformation live on stage together.' The Übermensch tour began in late March, roughly a month after the release of G-Dragon's latest album of the same name. Launching with two sold-out shows at Seoul's Goyang Stadium, the tour has since made its way across Asia — selling out nearly every stop along the way. His latest stop was three shows in Macau, one of which was added due to demand. Although the tour centers on his latest album, fans can expect a setlist that spans across G-Dragon's solo career. G-Dragon has been dropping dates and venues in different phases, with the first phase covering Japan, the Philippines, Macau, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Hong Kong, and the second phase consisting of Australia and Thailand just weeks ago. 'I'M COMING HOME,' he wrote on Instagram when sharing the dates for the first announcement. With just a few U.S. dates on the schedule as of now, ticket demand is expected to be high. Tickets for the new shows will go on sale on June 27 at 10 a.m. local time via the tour's official website with a special presale for fans via G-Dragon's official fan community on June 25. The new leg of the tour is produced by Galaxy Corporation and AEG Presents, with Infinite Prospects Entertainment as the local promoter. North American and Europe Tour Dates Aug. 22 – Newark, NJ @ Prudential CenterAug. 31 – Las Vegas, NV @ T-Mobile ArenaSept. 5 – Los Angeles, CA @ ArenaSept. 20 – Paris, France @ Paris La Défense Arena Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked
Hypebeast
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Hypebeast
G-DRAGON Announces 2025 North America and Europe Tour Dates
G-DRAGON is officially taking his '2025 WORLD TOUR' to North America and Europe this 2025. Fans can catch theÜbermenschartist live at Newark's Prudential Center on August 22, Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena on August 31 and Los Angeles' Arena on September 5. G-DRAGON will then hit up Europe for a one night only show at Paris' Paris La Défense Arena on September 20. The ongoing tour marks G-DRAGON's return to the stage after eight years. He kicked off the engagement with a sold-out opening show in Seoul, followed by performances in Japan, Philippines and Macau. Prior to heading stateside in August, he'll be at Sydney, Melbourne, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Bangkok and Hong Kong. Check out the list of dates below. The G-DRAGON Official Membership pre-sale runs from June 25 to June 26, with the public on-sale scheduled for June 27 via thetour's official website. G-DRAGON '2025 WORLD TOUR' Tour DatesAll dates and cities below are subject to change. North AmericaFriday, August 22 – Prudential Center (Newark)Sunday, August 31 – T-Mobile Arena (Las Vegas)Friday, September 5 – Arena (Los Angeles) EuropeSaturday, September 20 – Paris La Défense Arena (Paris)
