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Sisters of Mercy Return to LA

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:25 GMT

Sisters of Mercy Return to LA: After ten Sisters-less years, Los Angeles’ goth/darkwave/death disco fans can be forgiven for feeling a little starved. Frontman Andrew Eldritch may have mixed feeling about that, and those labels. As readers will rediscover from our Sisters of Mercy / Cruel World Fest cover story (out tomorrow), the man wants nothing to do with any such scene. He seems to hate the idea of “pasty-faced dweebs” waxing nostalgic to old Sisters tunes, and he certainly hates the term “goth.”And yet, let’s be honest, the crossover of fans attending this gig at the Hollywood Palladium and those going to Cruel World is pretty thick. Despite Eldritch’s protests, there were plenty of pasty faces on show on Monday night. The clothes were 99 percent black, and much of those were leather, latex and/or lace. The frontman can moan all he wants, but his adoring audience is what it is.That said, we wouldn’t want him any other way. The un...

San Jose police: Willow Glen High School student arrested with loaded “ghost gun” in his possession; no ongoing threat

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:25 GMT

SAN JOSE — A Willow Glen High School student was arrested Wednesday with a loaded “ghost gun” in his possession, according to San Jose police.Police said in a tweet around 12:30 p.m. that two school resource officers arrested the student after a brief pursuit. There was no ongoing threat to the school community or the public at large, authorities said. Police were alerted of the incident at 11:57 a.m.“Thanks to the quick actions of these on-campus School Resource Officers, this gun was seized and possibly prevented a tragic event from occurring,” the San Jose Police Department said on Twitter.***HAPPENING NOW***Units are currently at Willow Glen High School on a report of a student with a firearm on campus.Two School Resource Officers arrested a student after a brief foot pursuit & confiscated this loaded ghost gun on his person. pic.twitter.com/CfRhQWP2Ch— San José Police Media Relations (@SJPD_PIO) May 17, 2023The department said officers will rem...

SF Giants’ Taylor Rogers threw away his glove and hasn’t allowed a run since

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:25 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO — Taylor Rogers had a parting message Tuesday night after five minutes of answering reporters’ questions following his scoreless inning of work in the Giants’ 4-3 win over the Phillies, in which the bullpen took down 17 of the 27 outs.“It’s nice to talk you,” the left-handed reliever said. “When it’s not bad.”The last time Rogers met with a scrum of media, he had just tossed his glove in the trash. Unlike starting pitchers, who typically answer questions after each game, relievers too often only meet large groups of press when something’s gone wrong. And for the first two weeks of this season, lots had gone wrong for Rogers, a $33 million free-agent pick up, culminating in a disastrous four-run, four-walk outing in a loss to the Dodgers on April 12 that prompted Rogers to find the nearest trash receptacle, a black bin in the corner of the third-base dugout.That was the last anyone saw of that particular black Rawlin...

Three-bedroom home sells for $1.6 million in Los Gatos

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:25 GMT

21701 Summit Road – Google Street ViewA spacious house located in the 21700 block of Summit Road in Los Gatos has a new owner. The 2,045-square-foot property, built in 1962, was sold on May 1, 2023, for $1,600,000, or $782 per square foot. The property features three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a garage, and two parking spaces. There’s also a pool in the backyard. The unit sits on a 9,797-square-foot lot.These nearby houses have also recently been sold:A 731-square-foot home on the 18100 block of Zella Court in Los Gatos sold in October 2022, for $650,000, a price per square foot of $889. The home has 1 bedroom and 1 bathrooms.In April 2023, a 1,295-square-foot home on Mountain View Court in Los Gatos sold for $980,000, a price per square foot of $757. The home has 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.On Mary Alice Way, Los Gatos, in April 2023, a home was sold for $895,000. 

Bay Area arts: 8 cool shows to see this weekend and beyond

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:25 GMT

There’s a ton of cool shows and concerts to see and hear in the Bay Area this weekend and beyond. Here is a partial roundupo.Hiromi settles into Yoshi’sOver the past 20 years, no musician has done more to expand the idiom of jazz/rock fusion than Japanese pianist/keyboardist Hiromi.Ever since Ahmad Jamal co-produced her first album, 2003’s “Another Mind,” she’s recorded a series of fascinating projects displaying her overwhelming technique and fecund imagination. Equally commanding performing solo, trio or quartet with a guitarist, Hiromi has yet to record her own music with a horn player, which makes her divided five-night Yoshi’s run particularly intriguing.The new quartet she brings to Oakland bristles with brilliance, featuring French electric bass star Hadrien Feraud, who’s toured and recorded with fusion pioneers Chick Corea and John McLaughlin; Los Angeles studio mainstay Gene Coye on drums; and rising 28-year-old trumpeter Adam O’Farrill, scion of one of Latin jazz’s l...

Student with gun arrested on campus of Willow Glen High in San Jose

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:25 GMT

(KRON) -- Law enforcement units are on the campus of Willow Glen High School in San Jose amid reports of a student with a firearm on campus, according to the San Jose Police Department. Two school resource officers arrested a student after a brief foot pursuit and a loaded ghost gun was found on his person, police said. Holmes granted new prison date following rejection of bail request "Thanks to the quick actions of these on-campus School Resource Offices, this gun was seized and possibly prevented a tragic event from occurring," police said on Twitter.Officers will remain in the area while an investigation is conducted. There is no ongoing threat to the public, police said.This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

Dianne Feinstein says she hasn't 'been gone,' despite absence: Reports

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:25 GMT

(KRON) -- Senior Sen. Dianne Feinstein appeared not to remember being away from the Senate for nearly three months when questioned by reporters this week, according to reports. Feinstein (D-California) went on medical leave back in February to undergo treatment for shingles.The 89-year-old senator was absent from late February until last week. During the two-and-a-half-month absence, Feinstein missed dozens of votes and faced calls to resign from Democratic colleagues, including Rep. Ro Khanna. Holmes granted new prison date following rejection of bail request Feinstein, the longest-serving current U.S. senator, was back on the Senate floor this week to cast votes. It was when she was being wheeled away from the floor in a wheelchair by an aide that she reportedly had a puzzling encounter with a reporter.According to Slate, when a reporter asked Feinstein what the response from her colleagues had been like since she returned, she replied, "No, I haven't been gone.""You should foll...

Man injured in Mission District shooting after altercation over car break-in

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:25 GMT

A 52-year-old man was injured in a shooting after getting into a physical altercation with someone breaking into his vehicle in San Francisco's Mission District on Tuesday night, according to police. The shooting was reported at 10:55 p.m. in the 1200 block of Shotwell Street after the altercation over a broken car window. Holmes granted new prison date following rejection of bail request A male suspect, believed to be between 18 and 25 years old, shot the 52-year-old twice before fleeing with a second suspect. The victim was taken to a hospital and is expected to survive, while the two suspects remained at large as of Wednesday morning, San Francisco police said. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the Police Department's tip line at (415) 575-4444 or to send a tip by text message to TIP411 with "SFPD" at the start of the message. Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

New chair appointed to head elections board in Georgia’s Fulton County

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:25 GMT

The elections board in Georgia’s most populous county, a Democratic stronghold targeted by former President Donald Trump after his narrow 2020 loss in the state, will soon have new leadership.The Fulton County Board of Commissioners voted Wednesday to approve the selection of lawyer Patrise Perkins-Hooker to serve as chair of the county Registration and Elections Board. Her nomination — announced at the start of Wednesday’s commission meeting — came as a surprise to many since commission Chairman Robb Pitts had last week nominated former commissioner Lee Morris to fill the seat.The nomination of Morris, a Republican, would have shifted control of the the elections board from Democrats to Republicans in the heavily Democratic county, which includes most of Atlanta and is home to just over 1 million people. The county Democratic and Republican parties get two appointments apiece to round out the five-person board.Democrats and voting rights activists had raised alarms and ...

Mark Gietzen, abortion foe who forced recount of Kansas vote, dies in plane crash at 69

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:25 GMT

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Mark Gietzen, a longtime conservative Republican and anti-abortion activist in Kansas who forced a recount of the state’s decisive vote affirming abortion rights last year has died in a plane crash. He was 69.The Kansas Republican Party said in a Facebook post that Gietzen, of Wichita, died Tuesday evening in Nebraska. He was flying a single-engine Cessna 172 Skyhawk when it crashed in a field near O’Neill, Nebraska, about 190 miles (306 kilometers) northwest of Omaha, according to the Federal Aviation Administration’s crash log. Gietzen was the only person on board and the log said the plane crashed “in unknown circumstances.”Jim Howell, a county commissioner in Sedgwick County, Kansas, which includes Wichita, told The Wichita Eagle that Gietzen had flown to Nebraska to visit his mother. Gietzen grew up in the Bismarck, North Dakota, area and served in the U.S. Marines before coming to Kansas in the late 1970s to work for aircraft manufacturer...