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It’s a Metaphor: Arts Calendar June 8-14

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:14 GMT

Mark-making like everything is a metaphor, queer avant-garde anti-capitalist horror, not your daddy’s dad jokes, performative food artistry, painting every ocean, gay and gonzo illustration art, looking at men, smoothing out information overload, fateful individual and collective creative journeys, Puck and the Scottish play, a big arts party in the park, Indigenous crafts and Native playwrights, a hot take on a cold classic of ancient theater, a celebrity guide to activism, poetry in the former temple, LGBTQ elders get their flowers, and a project aimed at sustaining the theatrical voices of women of color.Beck+Col: Red NightThursday, June 8Lauren Powell Projects presents Beck+Col: Red Night at the art room. Artist duo Beck+Col use costume-based performance and video to build alternate universes populated by monsters, spawning a counter-mythology and the queering of existing norms. Tonight they present a group exhibition and first look inside their new film Red Night, set in the co...

Oakland A’s stadium bill to be considered in special session in Nevada Legislature after all

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:14 GMT

The Oakland A’s bid to have their public financing package plan heard in the Nevada Legislature has gone into extra innings and will be discussed Wednesday morning.Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo issued a proclamation late Tuesday night calling state officials for a second consecutive special session, this time to discuss a potential $380 million public financing package to help fund a Las Vegas stadium project for the A’s, who are seeking to leave Oakland after 55 years.The proclamation is here! The measure would be consistent with the provisions of Senate Bill 509 (as introduced in the 82nd regular session of the Nevada Legislature). https://t.co/r002Zo92DU pic.twitter.com/9bpCx1BZ67— Tabitha Mueller (@tabitha_mueller) June 7, 2023The A’s hopes for up to $380 million from the state of Nevada appeared to stall when the state legislature adjourned Monday night without considering a bill proposing public financing to help pay for the construction of a new baseball st...

Salt & Straw ice creamery opens in Old Town Los Gatos

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:14 GMT

Los Gatos is now among the 20 plus locations of Salt & Straw, this one at Old Town. The Portland-based company is known for eclectic ice cream flavors like sea salt with caramel ribbons, salted malted chocolate chip cookie dough, and pear & blue cheese.Salt & Straw is featuring an Upcycled Food Series this month, highlighting partners committed to reducing food waste in the U.S. The menu is fully certified by the Upcycled Food Association.A detour through downtown Saratoga to avoid a traffic accident took me by the adorable new Darla Café that has taken over the former Basin restaurant. Roommates Nina Summers, Papatsara Chaipong and Mookie Varunthorn are serving up a stew—and slew—of American and Asian fusion dishes, with Japanese, Thai and Hawaiian influences. You’ll find loco moco, congee (rice porridge) with shrimp, crispy French toast, bibimbom with Gochujang sauce, duck and waffles, Hella crab spaghetti, braised bone-in lamb shank in Massaman curry, and softshell cr...

Taxpayer moves to California drop by 11% in 5 years

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:14 GMT

A swiftly declining number of Americans are choosing to move to California.While the great “California exodus” debate grabs headlines, another slice of migration patterns reveals a far more ominous population trend for the Golden State. Basically, it’s become “a great place to visit, but who’d want to move there?”This is not good news in a world of numerous shortages that now includes people, who have been elevated to a critical commodity. Who will fill our jobs? Use our facilities or businesses? Or, more crucially, pay taxes?Consider what my trusty spreadsheet learned while studying fresh taxpayer stats from the IRS. This data tracks where Americans lived in 2021 when they filed their 2020 tax returns – and if they moved in that year.Now, this math isn’t perfect – it doesn’t track non-filers, for example – but it’s a decent indicator of migration trends for a lucrative demographic cohort: taxpayers.With caveats noted, California in 2021 had 385,188 new taxpayers – that’s the number...

Caltech researchers show power can be wirelessly transmitted in space; the implications are huge

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:14 GMT

A solar panel in a lab of the Space Solar Power Project at Caltech. Donald Bren donated $100 million to this project. (Courtesy: Caltech)Sketch of solar array from the Space Solar Power Project at Caltech. Donald Bren donated $100 million to this project. (Courtesy: Caltech)A look at how thin the solar panels are for Caltech’s Solar Space Power Project. Donald Bren has given $100 million-plus to fund Caltech’s research. (Courtesy: Caltech)Microscopic closeup of technology used in Caltech’s Solar Space Power Project. Donald Bren has given $100 million-plus to fund the research. (Courtesy: Caltech)Show Caption of ExpandA team of Southern California researchers were buzzing this week after an out-of-this-world milestone.In a kind of galactic Thomas Edison-esque moment, the Caltech team demonstrated, for the first time, their ability to wirelessly transmit power in space and beam a detectable amount back to Earth.The experiment of space solar power is still very much i...

‘Our daughter is coming home’: Alexis Gabe family prepares to lay her to rest

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:14 GMT

With officials having wrapped up an autopsy and forensic tests, the family of Alexis Gabe can finally lay their daughter to rest.The remains of the 23-year-old Oakley woman – killed more than a year ago – have now been given to her family, which plans to honor her with both public and private events this month.“Our daughter is coming home,” Gwyn Gabe wrote on Facebook. “Yes, we’re able to bring her home at last.”Gabe disappeared on the evening of Jan. 26, 2022, after she left her Oakley home to visit her ex-boyfriend Marshall Curtis Jones in Antioch. Police later determined Marshall killed her, but before they could arrest him at the Seattle-area apartment where he had relocated, he charged at the arresting officers and was fatally shot.The case drew national attention and a Facebook page to help find Gabe drew nearly 17,000 followers. After many months of searching for her, her partial remains were found in November in a remote area near Plymouth in Amador County and again in Janua...

Founder of SF-based sexual wellness startup OneTaste charged with exploiting abuse victims

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:14 GMT

By Patricia Hurtado and Ellen Huet | BloombergThe founder of sexual wellness education startup OneTaste was charged with engaging in a yearslong conspiracy to manipulate victims of past sexual trauma and abuse into providing forced labor.OneTaste founder Nicole Daedone, who was also the company’s chief executive officer, was charged Tuesday by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York. Rachel Cherwitz, OneTaste’s former head of sales, was also charged. According to the government, Daedone and Cherwitz claimed to be able to help those recover from past sexual trauma or abuse but instead manipulated their victims into debt.“Under the guise of empowerment and wellness, the defendants are alleged to have sought complete control over their employees’ lives, including by driving them into debt and directing them to perform sexual acts while also withholding wages,” Brooklyn US Attorney Breon Peace said in a statement.Cherwitz was arrested in San Francisco while Daedone isn’t in custody. J...

Armed robbery near Courtyard Marriott Hotel in Oakland 

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:14 GMT

(KRON) -- An investigation is underway after an armed robbery occurred near a Marriott hotel Tuesday evening, according to the Oakland Police Department.The robbery occurred just after 5 p.m. in the 1000 block of Broadway Street, where a Courtyard Marriott Hotel is located at. According to the victim, they were walking past a suspect vehicle when two individuals, one armed with a handgun, exited the car and demanded their belongings, OPD said.After a short struggle, the two suspects took the victim's belongings and fled the area in their car. There is currently no description on the suspects or the vehicle.Anyone with information is asked to contact OPD’s Robbery Division at 510-238-3426.

Natural gas leak closes streets in San Francisco

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:14 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Officials are advising the public to avoid Duboce Avenue and Castro Street due to a natural gas leak Wednesday morning. Juvenile dies in fatal pedestrian collision in San Jose Emergency crews, including PG&E and the San Francisco Fire Department, are currently on scene after a 16-inch water main break and a natural gas leak occurred, according to SFFD.KRON On is streaming news live now.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }Drivers are advised to find alternate routes as traffic delays are expected in the area. SF's Muni has reroute plans in effect for buses.

Judge orders DC man to stop smoking medical weed at home after neighbor sues over smell

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:14 GMT

Medical marijuana can help a patient deal with pain — but a D.C. judge has ruled the smell of pot burning has become a pain in the neck for a woman who lives next door.Josefa Ippolito-Shepherd lives in a Cleveland Park duplex that shares a wall with a home owned by Angella Farserotu. Thomas Cackett has lived in a ground-level apartment in Farserotu’s building since 2005.In 2020, Ippolito-Shepherd sued her neighbors, claiming Cackett smoked medical marijuana around the clock, and the smell invaded her home caused a nuisance, and made her physically sick.In D.C. Superior Court, Cackett testified he smokes medical marijuana two or three minutes per day, taking less than a dozen puffs, at night, when he gets home from work, to help him sleep.Cackett said he smokes outside on his patio to abide by the no-smoking clause in his lease, although his landlord, Farserotu, allows him to smoke indoors during inclement weather.Ippolito-Shepherd’s suit claimed Cackett’s marijuana...