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There’s Still Life in The Damned and Dictators

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:22 GMT

There’s Still Life in The Damned and Dictators: It would be interesting to know how many people were intending to go to see the Damned at the Belasco on Sunday evening but ended up having to go to the extra Cruel World night instead. It doesn’t seem like many in actual fact, because the room seems crammed full, at least towards the front. But the threat of lightning at the Rose Bowl forced Siouxsie, plus Iggy Pop and Gary Numan, to move their set to Sunday and there is surely some crossover.There was little chance of lighting inside this Downtown L.A. venue, but there were musical sparks thanks to the two veteran punk bands, both proving that there’s plenty of life in the old legs.The Dictators (Brett Callwood)New York’s the Dictators reformed a couple of years ago, without larger than life frontman Handsome Dick Manitoba. If Dick was the face, Andy Shernoff was the songwriting talent and Shernoff is still here, alongside guitarist Ross the Boss, former Blue ...

Glen Kuiper fired as A’s broadcaster after apparent on-air slur

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:22 GMT

Longtime play-by-play announcer Glen Kuiper was fired Monday, 17 days after using a racial epithet on the air leading into an A’s broadcast on May 5 in Kansas City.The news came from a statement issued by a spokesperson from NBC Sports California:“Following an internal review, the decision has been made for NBC Sports California to end its relationship with Glen Kuiper, effective immediately. We thank Glen for his dedication to Bay Area baseball over the years.”According to a source with knowledge of the situation, the decision was based on a variety of factors, including information uncovered in the internal review.Kuiper, 60, was suspended May 6, one day after using the epithet in place of the word “negro” in reference to what he called a “phenomenal” visit along with broadcast partner Dallas Braden to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, where the A’s were visiting the Royals.During the sixth inning of Friday’s broadcast, Kuiper issued an on-air apology without speci...

‘Agitated’ Alec Baldwin called server a ‘peasant’ after berating her at gala, woman says

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:22 GMT

A server trying to do her job at a gala Alec Baldwin attended last week in New York City has shared new details about how the famously hotheaded actor “patronizingly” scolded her and called her a “peasant” as she walked away.The young woman’s account of her tense encounter with Baldwin at the star-studded 2023 PEN America Spring Literary Gala Thursday night suggests that the actor has perhaps not learned patience, kindness and humility after living through the horror of accidentally killing another human being.It also could be that Baldwin feels entitled to behave belligerently in public again, after he learned last month that prosecutors in New Mexico had dropped involuntary manslaughter charges against him in that killing — the 2021 shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his Western film “Rust.”Whatever is going on with Baldwin, this server told Page Six in an interview published Monday that she was on the re...

Hundreds of apartments could sprout at a downtown Berkeley office site

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:22 GMT

BERKELEY — A veteran Bay Area real estate firm is eyeing a housing complex with hundreds of residences in downtown Berkeley that could rise on the site of an existing office building and parking lot, public documents show.An affiliate of srmErnst Development Partners owns the property for the proposed project at the corner of Milvia Street and Addison Street in downtown Berkeley, according to Alameda County real estate records.The project would be built at 2100 Milvia Street, Berkeley planning records show.The srmErnst Development firm is seeking approval to build 201 residences in an eight-story building on the site, according to the city documents.The real estate firm has requested a density bonus under SB 330 rules to build more units on the project than would generally be authorized.The proposed apartment building would also include ground-floor retail, the planing documents show.The office building site is occupied by a software company and an architectural firm, accordin...

Portugal officials: New search for missing UK toddler

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:22 GMT

Associated PressLISBON — Portuguese police have said they will resume searching for Madeleine McCann, the British toddler who disappeared in the country’s Algarve region in 2007, in the next few days.Portugal’s Judicial Police released a statement confirming local media reports that they would conduct the search at the request of the German authorities and in the presence of British officials.Earlier on Monday, police were seen erecting tents and cordons in an area by the Arade dam, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Praia da Luz, where the 3-year-old was last seen alive.British, Portuguese and German police are still piecing together what happened when the toddler disappeared from her bed in the southern Portuguese resort on May 3, 2007. She was in the same room as her 2-year-old twin brother and sister while her parents had dinner with friends at a nearby restaurant.In mid-2020, Germany’s police identified Christian Brueckner, a 45-year-old German citizen who wa...

Female fatally stabbed in East Oakland

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:22 GMT

OAKLAND — A female was fatally stabbed Monday afternoon inside an East Oakland residence, and a possible suspect was detained, authorities said.The name and age of the person killed were not immediately released.The stabbing was reported about 12:20 p.m. Monday at a residence in the 4500 block of Bancroft Avenue.Police found the female stabbing victim unconscious and bleeding inside the residence. She was pronounced dead at the scene.A person inside the residence was detained as a possible suspect, authorities said. No other information about that person was released.A motive for the stabbing is under investigation.Check back for updates on this developing story.

Two children swept away, found dead in Kings River

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:22 GMT

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE/KRON) – The bodies of a four-year-old boy and his eight-year-old sister were found in the Kings River after the children were swept away.According to the Fresno County Sheriff's Office, a firefighter spotted the boy beneath the water and caught against a tree on Monday. The boy's body was two miles downstream from where the siblings entered the river.His sister's body was found on Sunday a fifth-of-a-mile downstream. “There was a family gathering of some sort," said Sheriff's Lt. Brandon Pursell. The family gathered somewhere they should not have been, he added. The brother, sister, and their mother were trying to climb a rock in the Kings River Sunday afternoon when the children were swept away by a strong current, the Sheriff's Office said. "This occurred after the children, their mother, and her adult friend entered the water off the shoreline about a mile down from Pine Flat Dam. The group was trying make their way out to a specific rock to climb...

Victim in San Jose wrong-way crash identified by family

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:22 GMT

(KRON) -- The victim in a deadly crash in San Jose on Sunday has been identified by his family, and information from police is shedding new light on how the crash unfolded. Two-alarm commercial fire sparks in Presidio Heights Jefferson Smith, 26, died at the scene of the crash. Smith's family says he is a native of San Jose del Guaviare in Colombia. He arrived in the United States only three months ago "seeking to fulfill his dreams and the dreams of his loved ones," his family says. Now, his family is asking for donations to send Smith's body home to Colombia for a Christian burial. Photos from the scene of the crashThe crash happened around 1:30 p.m., when a man driving a white 2011 Toyota Corolla sedan entered the northbound lanes of Leigh Avenue heading the wrong way, according to the San Jose Police Department. The Corolla struck a 2012 Toyota Prius heading northbound at the intersection of Fruitdale Avenue, police said.KRON On is streaming now.embed-container { position: re...

San Francisco Mayor Breed pushing to end 'exclusionary' housing rules

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:22 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced new legislation Monday that will make it easier to build new housing along commercial corridors and the Westside of the city.The tech-centric city is grappling with a large number of empty commercial buildings while tech workers continue working remotely and large retailers close up shop. At the same time, the city has sky-high rent prices, a housing stock shortage, a homeless crisis, and a public image problem.The Mayor's Office is trying to cut back red tape that blocked home builders for decades. By eliminating arbitrary residential density limits in mixed-use commercial districts, Breed said her proposal will create new housing in neighborhoods across the city."These arbitrary restrictions are hurting our ability to meet the housing needs of our city. Housing for All requires us to get to the heart of everything that is slowing and stopping housing in the city," Breed said.The legislation announced Monday is part...

AP PHOTOS: Ukraine insists battle for Bakhmut is not over

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:22 GMT

Despite Russian claims to have captured the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, top military leaders in Ukraine insist the grinding nine-month battle there is not over.Although Ukraine now controls only a small part of the city, Kyiv says its troops played a key role in the strategy of exhausting Russian forces and will carry on fighting. Tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides have died.Satellite imagery shows infrastructure, apartment blocks and buildings reduced to rubble from relentless artillery attacks.A Russian state TV report from the smoldering city showed Russian fighters yelling “Victory!” and placing two flags — the Russian tricolor and the black flag of the private military contractor Wagner — atop a tall, partly destroyed building.The flags were mounted “so that everyone could see them,” the correspondent said, even though the bombed-out, deserted 400-year-old city looks like a ghost of itself after the longest and bloodiest battle of the war.For Ukraine, the important fact...