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New North Beach jazz club Keys Bistro looking for solid footing

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:36:40 GMT

Last November, news that a bona fide jazz club was opening in North Beach contributed to surging optimism around San Francisco’s recovery from the lingering pandemic malaise.Located partly in a Broadway building that was once home to the storied 1950s nightclub El Matador, Keys Jazz Bistro celebrates its first anniversary throughout the month with a talent-laden program of Bay Area masters. But rather than marking the city’s resurgence, the milestone highlights a moment when San Francisco’s rebound seems to have caromed off the rails.By just about any measure, Keys is doing everything right. Owned and run by Australian-born pianist and organist Simon Rowe, the club is a throwback to North Beach nightlife’s glory days, with a welcoming staff, enticing menu, and enviable acoustics.Committed to building the local scene, Rowe has focused on creating a homebase for leading Bay Area artists. There have been nights when the club is packed, but the underwhelming summer season has continued ...

Authorities ID teens killed in Bay Point shooting, fatal crash on Cummings Skyway after pursuit

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:36:40 GMT

Contra Costa County authorities on Friday released publicly the identification of a person shot to death in Bay Point and a driver who died in a crash after being pursued briefly by Contra Costa Sheriff’s Office deputies.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Police release video of fatal September shooting at Toyota service center in Albany Crime and Public Safety | San Francisco homicide: Stabbing in Tenderloin neighborhood Crime and Public Safety | California man, 87, possibly beaten to death by random attacker, police say Crime and Public Safety | Oakland police announce arrest in August killing, but prosecutors charged suspect with gun possession, not murder Crime and Public Safety | Oakland man convicted of murder in shooting allegedly fueled by jealousy Both of them were under 18 years old.The coroner’s office identified 17-year-old Bryan Tapia Valencia as the victim of the shooting...

Walnut Creek sixth-grader performing in Broadway show touring China

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:36:40 GMT

It all began when Walnut Creek’s Keenan Moran started performing in musicals choreographed by his mother, Renee DeWeese Moran, until he reached the second grade … that’s when he knew he wanted to be a performer.Now in the sixth grade at Lafayette’s St. Perpetua School, Keenan was recently rehearsing in New York City, where he auditioned for and landed the role of Friedrich Von Trapp in the new Broadway global tour in China of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1959 classic “The Sound of Music” (broadwayasia.com/tsom-new). Not only was he excited to get the call to pack his suitcase, his friends were excited too.“My friends think it’s cool, they had a lot of questions. They have been really supportive, but they’re sad that I won’t see them for six months,” said Keenan. “I’m sad to miss a really fun camp that all sixth-graders do at St. Perpetua every year and my school play, but I think this experience was too special to pass up, and I’ll learn and experience so much traveli...

Section of Oakland's MacArthur Blvd renamed 'Tupac Shakur Way'

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:36:40 GMT

OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) -- A section of MacArthur Boulevard was officially named after hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur on Friday. Between Van Buren Avenue and Grand Avenue, MacArthur Boulevard is now "Tupac Shakur Way."Tupac lived in Marin City and Oakland before moving to Los Angeles, where he made his name as one of the most famous rappers of all time. According to the Mercury News, Tupac lived in an apartment on 275 MacArthur Blvd. in Oakland, just north of where Tupac Shakur Way now lies. Oakland city councilmember Carroll Fire, radio host Sway Calloway and Bay Area rap icon E-40 were all present Friday at the ceremony. Gaza peace activists chain themselves to U.S. ship at Oakland port "We love him," Fife said. "People try to say he wasn't from here. He wasn't born here. It ain't about where you're from, it's about where you at, and he claimed Oakland. He said Oakland gave him his game, right? And it's done that for a lot of us." Tupac lived in New York and Baltimore before arrivi...

Killer on the loose: Maine mass shooter was alive for most of massive search, autopsy suggests

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:36:40 GMT

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Army reservist who fatally shot 18 people at two locations in Lewiston before disappearing into the night was alive and possibly on the run during a good portion of the huge search that led to community-wide shelter-in-place orders, according to the Maine medical examiner’s office.Robert Card died from a self-inflicted gunshot that “likely” happened eight to 12 hours before the discovery of his body, based on a time-of-death analysis. That conclusion was announced Friday, a week after his body was discovered in the back of a tractor-trailer on property of his former employer, a recycling center.In the wake of the Oct. 25 shootings, thousands of area residents sheltered at home behind locked doors as hundreds of law enforcement officers scoured the area looking for Card. He fled in a vehicle that was later found abandoned on a waterfront in a nearby town.Law enforcement agencies came under scrutiny for not finding Card’s body earlier under the assumpt...

Bologna snaps Lazio’s winning streak with 1-0 victory in Serie A

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:36:40 GMT

BOLOGNA, Italy (AP) — Scottish midfielder Lewis Ferguson scored the only goal of the game as Bologna beat Lazio 1-0 in the Italian league on Friday.Ferguson finished smartly a minute into the second half to halt Lazio’s three-game winning streak and lift Bologna into sixth place in Serie A, two points above Lazio in eighth.Ferguson’s goal was his 10th in the league since signing from Aberdeen in July last year and helped Bologna extend its fine run. It has now lost only one of its last 11 league matches.Bologna’s next game is away at Fiorentina on Nov. 12, while Lazio’s next league fixture is a derby against Roma the same day.___AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/SoccerSource

2nd worker trapped under collapsed Kentucky coal prep plant has died, governor says

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:36:40 GMT

The second of two workers trapped under a coal mine preparation plant that collapsed earlier this week in eastern Kentucky has died, Gov. Andy Beshear announced Friday. “This is a heartbreaking situation,” the Democratic governor wrote on social media, calling for prayers for the men’s loved ones. The two men — identified as Billy Ray Daniels and Alvin Nees — were trapped under rubble at the Martin Mine Prep Plant in Martin County after an 11-story abandoned building crashed down around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. The men were on the scene completing work to prepare for its demolition. Daniels was originally located alive, but officials announced Wednesday that he died during rescue efforts. Crews worked around the clock for days digging through steel and concrete wreckage to find Nees, 57. Martin County Judge Executive Lon Lafferty said at a press conference earlier Friday the Nees family was “still holding out hope and prayer” that he would be found alive.“They are very strong ...

At least 37 dead as earthquake rocks northwestern Nepal, and officials say toll expected to rise

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:36:40 GMT

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An earthquake shook northwestern Nepal districts, and officials said at least 37 people were dead and dozens more injured as rescuers searchd the mountainous villages.Officials said early Saturday that the toll was expected to rise, noting that communications were cut off with many villages.The earthquake killed at least 20 people in Rukum district, where numerous houses collapsed, police official Narvaraj Bhattarai said over the telephone.In neighboring Jajarkot district, 17 people were confirmed dead, government administration official Harish Chandra Sharma said.Nepal’s National Earthquake Monitoring & Research Center measured the earthquake at 6.4 magnitude and said its epicenter was at Jajarkot, which is about 400 kilometers (250 miles) northeast of the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu.The U.S. Geological Survey had initially said the earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 5.6 and occurred at a depth of 17.9 kilometers (11.1 miles).The quake struck just...

DC official arrested, charged with domestic assault

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:36:40 GMT

A top D.C. official was arrested and charged with domestic assault this week.Chris Rodriguez, assistant city administrator and acting chief technology officer under Mayor Muriel Bowser, was arrested Wednesday and charged with simple assault domestic violence, according to a police report.The report states that police responded to Rodriguez’s Sedgwick Street apartment in Northwest at 11:30 p.m. after Rodriguez allegedly pushed his wife to the ground “with both hands.”The responding officer wrote in the report that Rodriguez’s daughter “overheard a verbal argument” between Rodriguez and his wife “but did not see any physical altercation between.”The report also states that Rodriguez’s wife “did not have any visible injuries.”Rodriguez was arrested and taken to the Second District for further processing. He’s been placed on administrative leave.The assistant city administrator is a longtime member of Bowser’s...

Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw undergoes shoulder surgery, says he hopes to return next summer

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:36:40 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw had left shoulder surgery Friday and anticipates being sidelined until next summer.The 35-year-old in a social media post wrote the surgery with Dodgers head team physician Dr. Neal ElAttrache was to repair the glenohumeral ligaments and his shoulder capsule. There are three glenohumeral ligaments and they reinforce the joint capsule.“I am hopeful to return to play at some point next summer,” he wrote. “Thanks for your prayers!”Kershaw was sidelined for six weeks by the shoulder injury and it hampered him over the final couple months of the season. Neither he nor the team ever said much about his shoulder during the season.He didn’t pitch more than 5 1/3 innings after coming off the injured list in mid-August. Then he got hit hard by Arizona in the NL Division Series, tagged for six runs before getting an out in the first inning of the worst start of his career.The Dodgers lost in the NLDS for the second straight year, g...