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Review: TheatreWorks delivers a mostly worthy ‘Steel Magnolias’

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:17:53 GMT

The luminous Truvy and her in-home beauty parlor is awash in eye-popping pinks; it’s a local gathering spot where great hair is designed for a fee, advice dished out for free. Laughter, tears and discoveries explode as a faulty boombox adds a little sonic texture in the corner, after a slap to the plastic gets the tunes going again.TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s production of “Steel Magnolias,” which many remember from the delightfully emotional 1989 film, has plenty going for it, including the six women who make up the quirky and merry band of characters that populate Truvy’s in-home beauty parlor in the quaint, fictional Southern hamlet of Chinquapin, Louisiana.But despite the richness of Robert Harling’s poignant and pleasing text, raising the stakes in this production would serve that text well. Some of the most critical transitions are too clunky, keeping situations mired in inconvenience mode far too long when outright conflict would send these narratives into the stratosphere....

Six Flags’ 31-year-old shark exhibit just got a major makeover

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:17:53 GMT

Skippy, a black-speckled zebra shark, eagerly greets visitors from behind the expansive floor-to-ceiling windows, as parkgoers walk through an underwater tunnel in the newly remodeled 300,000-gallon viewing gallery at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo.Last month, the park’s beloved Shark Experience, an animal attraction, got a makeover that even 21-year-old Skippy can appreciate. A newly designed entryway with blue marine life murals and a wooden walkway welcome guests. Sea-colored tile floors have replaced the gallery carpet. And improved lighting, sound and a stage for guest presentations are the first enhancements of this kind in the exhibit’s 31 years at the amusement park.Visitors enter the Shark Experience attraction at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, Calif., on Friday, June 9, 2023. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) Erin Paiva, the Shark Experience’s senior aquarist, hopes the remodel will draw more visitors and help demystify the animals. &...

Pac-12 football: USC, Colorado lead our final transfer portal power ratings of 2023

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:17:53 GMT

The Pac-12’s dizzying 2022-23 transfer cycle is coming to a close after several hundred players passed through the portal over a six-month span. Some of them did so twice.Our second and final canvassing of the upheaval led to slight changes in the Hotline’s transfer portal power ratings but no significant movement.In contrast to the state of affairs across the conference last year, the focus was less on quarterbacks and more on the lines of scrimmage. So while the relevant bodies are big, the names are not.(The initial rankings can be found here.)1. USCThe Trojans understandably focused on the defensive line with Kyon Barrs (Arizona), Jack Sullivan (Purdue), Anthony Lucas (Texas A&M) and Bear Alexander (Georgia), who had two tackles-for-loss and a sack in the national title game. (That group accounts for more than a quarter of the total additions.) New faces at the skill positions were not nearly as head-turning as during the first offseason under Lincoln Riley, but ...

Man carjacked at gunpoint after collision near SFO, police say

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:17:53 GMT

SAN MATEO COUNTY — A man was carjacked at gunpoint after a minor collision near San Francisco International Airport on Tuesday, authorities said.San Francisco police officers assigned to SFO were alerted to the armed carjacking at 1:10 p.m. on the 500 block of North McDonnell Road, near a cell phone waiting lot. The man told police that he was involved in a minor traffic collision and when he stepped out of the his car the suspect also exited their vehicle and demanded the man’s personal property, police said.Another vehicle then arrived at the scene and three other suspects exited. One of them pulled out a gun and the suspects robbed the man of his property and car, police said. He was not injured.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | New San Carlos police chief hired from San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department Crime and Public Safety | Elderly San Mateo County man, missing since Saturday, found safe Crime and Public Safety | ...

One man dead in overnight Tenderloin homicide

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:17:53 GMT

(KRON) -- Police are investigating a homicide that happened in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood early Tuesday morning. 1 man stabbed near North Beach, 1 in custody The homicide occurred around 1:37 a.m. on Turk Street, the San Francisco Police Department said. Officers arrived on scene to find a man suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. He was later declared dead at a local hospital. Investigators with SFPD's Homicide Detail are looking into the circumstances surrounding this death. Anyone with more information on the incident is asked to contact the Tenderloin Station at 415-345-7300 or SFPD dispatch at 415-553-0123.

What Does the FBI Have on Hunter and Joe Biden?

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:17:53 GMT

Earlier this month, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., announced that a document in possession of the FBI that relates to Hunter and Joe Biden “has not been disproven and is currently being used in an ongoing investigation.” In the hands of conservative media and some leading Republicans, that double negative quickly transformed into affirmative proof of a criminal bribery scheme involving the Ukrainian natural gas company that had hired Hunter while his father was vice president.The entire Swamp is doing everything they can to protect Biden, but good to see House Republicans finally forcing some accountability. https://t.co/2ECwsZnv0y— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 6, 2023The idea that the charge has been proven is preposterous, but readers looking for details on the case have little place to turn outside of the conservative news outlets that have been making such claims. Yet if the FBI is telling Congress that it hasn’t disproved the allegation, it...

¿Qué es esto tan extraño? No es un gato, un zorro ni un lémur  

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:17:53 GMT

SAN ANTONIO – Una buena samaritana que quiso rescatar un animal herido vivió una situación imprevista y tuvo que pedir ayuda.La semana pasada, una mujer conducía por la noche cuando vio al animal al costado de la carretera. Pensó que era un lémur. Usó una toalla para levantarlo y llevarlo a su vehículo.Los Servicios de Cuidado Animal de San Antonio (ACS), quienes compartieron el relato, dijeron que el animal se agitó rápidamente. Esto provocó que la mujer tuviera que salir del auto y pidiera ayuda.Los expertos en animales explicaron que, aunque parezca un cruce entre un gato, un zorro y un lémur,  se trata de un ringtail. Pertenecen a la familia de los mapaches. El pequeño animal fue transportado a la sala de emergencias para animales para recibir tratamiento por las lesiones que sufrió antes de su rescate.SAN ANTONIO ANIMAL CARE SERVICES¿Qué es un ringtail?El Ringtail es un carnívoro del tamaño de un gato, según el Departamento de Parques y Vida Silvestre de Texas. ...

5 found guilty of murder in 2018 killing of 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:17:53 GMT

Assistant D.C. Police Chief Chanel Dickerson said the suspects fired "indiscriminately," killing 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson and wounding four adults. (Courtesy NBC Washington) Assistant D.C. Police Chief Chanel Dickerson said the suspects fired "indiscriminately," killing 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson and wounding four adults. (Courtesy NBC Washington) Five of the six men on trial in the shooting death of Makiyah Wilson have been found guilty of murder and conspiracy in the killing of the 10-year-old D.C. girl, who was gunned down in July 2018 while returning home from an ice cream truck.A sixth defendant was convicted of conspiracy charges but acquitted of murder.The jury’s verdicts cap a sprawling, three-mont...

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Activan monitoreo de sequía tras bajo nivel de agua en el río Potomac

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:17:53 GMT

El área de DC necesita más lluvia.Los bajos niveles de agua en el río Potomac, el principal suministro de agua potable del área, desencadenaron el lunes un monitoreo diario de la sequía en la zona, según la Comisión Interestatal sobre la Cuenca del Río Potomac (ICPRB, en inglés).“Hemos comenzado un monitoreo activo de la sequía debido al bajo caudal del río”, tuiteó @PotomacCommis. “Enviaremos informes diarios a los socios con datos de flujo, tiempo y uso del agua”.El flujo de la corriente se mide con un medidor del Servicio Geológico de EEUUU en Point of Rocks, Maryland. Según el informe de monitoreo del lunes, el flujo del río cayó 2,000 pies cúbicos por segundo (cfs) por debajo del umbral de las Operaciones Cooperativas de Abastecimiento de Agua en el Potomac.La ICPRB indicó que hay una posibilidad mayor de lo normal de que el agua tenga que ser liberada en el Potomac desde los embalses aguas arriba a finales de este año. Esto podría incluir el embalse Lit...