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Masterpiece Theater: Arts Calendar July 13-19

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:14:15 GMT

A masterful doc on masterpieces of painting, an exhibition of this year’s Master Artist project awards, iconic actors in canonical plays from across the pond, winners of global wildlife photography awards; invent your own plants, curate your own dance festival, welcome another major gallery transplant to town; big summer art shows, a timely theatrical revival, Dudamel.Art by Kyungmi ShinThursday, July 132023 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Master Artist Project Exhibition at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. Awarded annually to L.A.-based artists, COLA supports the creation of new works by a selection of the City’s most exemplary mid-career artists, honoring the synergetic relationship between Los Angeles, its artists, its history, and its identity as an international arts capital. The Literary and Performing Artists debuted their works at Grand Performances in June, and now the six visual artists are showcased at Barnsdall Art Park. 4800 Hollywood Blvd., Los Feliz; Opening r...

‘Succession’ leads all Emmy nominees with 27 as HBO dominates; ‘Ted Lasso’ leads comedy contenders

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:14:15 GMT

By ANDREW DALTON (AP Entertainment Writer)LOS ANGELES (AP) — HBO dominated Wednesday morning’s Emmy nominations, with the elite trio of “ Succession,” “The White Lotus” and “The Last of Us” combining for a whopping 74, but the dominant theme darkening the scene is the ongoing writers strike and the looming possibility that actors may join them in as little as a day.“Succession” and its deeply dysfunctional dynasty of one-percenters led all Emmy nominees in its fourth and final season with 27, including best drama, which it has won two of the past three years. It got three nominations for best actor in a drama, with Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong and Kieran Culkin all getting nods for playing men of the Roy clan, and Sarah Snook getting a best actress nomination. It also got four nominations for best supporting actor in a drama.The cursed vacationers at a Sicilian resort from the second of “The White Lotus” truly domin...

‘Succession’ and ‘The Last of Us’ lead Emmy nominations

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:14:15 GMT

The nominees for the 75th Emmy Awards – television’s top honor – were announced Wednesday morning.“Succession” led with 27 Emmy nominations, followed by “The Last of Us” with 24, “The White Lotus” with 23 and “Ted Lasso” with 21.The Emmy Awards are currently scheduled for Sept. 18.See below for a list of nominees in top categoriesOutstanding drama series“Andor”“Better Call Saul”“The Crown”“House of the Dragon”“The Last of Us”“Succession”“The White Lotus”“Yellowjackets”Outstanding comedy series“Abbott Elementary”“Barry”“The Bear”“Jury Duty”“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”“Only Murders in the Building”“Ted Lasso”“Wednesday”Outstanding limited series“Beef”“Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”“Daisy Jones & the Six”“Fleishman Is in Trouble”“Obi-Wan Kenobi”Outstanding lead actor in a drama seriesJeff Bridges, “The Old Man”Brian Cox, “Succession”Kieran Culkin, “Succession”Bob Odenkirk, “Better Call Saul”Pedro Pascal, “The Last of Us”Jeremy Strong, “Succession”Outstanding lead actres...

Yes, people of Toronto, this amazing Canadian band is still together

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:14:15 GMT

The Cowboy Junkies have one of the best music catalogs of the last 40 years, filled with more a dozen studio albums that have only grown more intriguing and impressive over time.The Canadian band remains best-known for the 1988 major-label debut “The Trinity Session,” a lo-fi gem that mixes country, rock, folk and pop in ways that absolutely astound, and includes the album’s signature cover of Lou Reed’s “Sweet Jane.”The Junkies went on to release a number of popular offerings in the ‘90s — including “Caution Horses” and “Lay It Down” — but then began to fade from the public’s eye as they rolled into the new millennium.That did not, however, stop them from putting out great music. Indeed, their post-‘90s material — from 2001’s “Open” to 2007’s “At the End of Paths Taken” to 2018’s “All That Reckoning” — have arguably been the strongest of their entire career.The run of amazing artistic success continues with the band’s newly released full-length album “Such F...

Inflation cools off further in Bay Area as consumer prices ease

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:14:15 GMT

Consumer prices in the Bay Area rose at a much slower pace in June than in prior periods, a sign that the brutally high inflation rate of the last two years has begun to cool off — finally — the government reported Wednesday.The Bay Area cost of living rose 2.9% in June on a yearly basis, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. That was the smallest annual increase for the region’s inflation rate in more than two years.In February 2021, consumer prices rose 1.6% on a yearly basis.The peak for the current bout of sky-high consumer prices appears to have occurred in June 2022, when the Bay Area inflation rate skyrocketed by 6.8%.Since then, the successive reports for the inflation rate in the Bay Area showed an overall trend for steadily smaller annual increases in the pace of inflation.But there’s one key caveat to assessing the June pace of inflation. The current price levels are still far higher than in recent years.Two examples: June’s consumer ...

Space Force sergeant jailed on murder charge after chasing and shooting teens, police say

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:14:15 GMT

A Denver-area man accused of chasing and fatally shooting a teenager he suspected of trying to steal his car is an active-duty U.S. Space Force sergeant and Army war veteran, court documents show.The 27-year-old man arrested July 6 on suspicion of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder after the previous night’s shooting near his home in the Denver suburb of Aurora. A 13-year-old boy was also wounded.The confrontation began around 11:15 p.m. July 5, when an alarm went off on the couple’s Hyundai Elantra. When the man and his wife went to investigate, they found damage to the car’s door handles.  They then reportedly heard another car alarm going off and saw a Kia Rio driving away.The man, who was armed with a 9mm handgun, got in the Hyundai and followed the other car, Aurora police said.About five blocks away, the Kia crashed into a home’s fence. The man who was following it called 911 at 11:23 p.m., telling a dispatcher that he’d chased down c...

Five decomposed bodies found near remote Colorado campground

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:14:15 GMT

Tent sits by Lamphier Lake in the Fossil Ridge Wilderness of western Colorado, near where Gunnison County Sheriff investigators this week found five decomposed bodies. (Denver Post file) R. Scott Rappold, Special to The Denver PostFive badly decomposed bodies found in the dark woods near a remote campsite in western Colorado were the focus of a Gunnison County sheriff’s investigation on Wednesday.A hiker found three of the bodies Sunday evening in the woods near the Gold Creek Campground, located in Gunnison County about 7 miles from Ohio City. Gunnison County sheriff’s deputies went to the site and found two more bodies.All five were in an advanced state of decomposition, officials said.“It is still under investigation,” Gunnison County sheriff’s investigator Skye Wells said Wednesday morning.No other information was available, Wells said.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | The Manson ‘family’: A look at key players and victims in the cult leader’s killings ...

SF Giants’ Willie Mays has All-Star records that’ll never be broken

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:14:15 GMT

Ted Williams once suggested that, “They invented the All-Star Game for Willie Mays.”The former Boston Red Sox slugger, who also is on the shortlist with the Giants icon of the greatest baseball players of all time, might have been on to something.It’s been 50 years since Mays made his final All-Star appearance as a New York Met at Kansas City’s Kauffman Stadium. But as the cream of the crop of current stars assembled in Seattle on Tuesday night, it was a reminder that no one will likely come close to the Say-Hey Kid’s impact on the Mid-Summer Classic.Mays is all over the All-Star Game record books. And most of his marks will never be matched. Many won’t come close to being threatened.One of Mays’ most impressive All-Star achievements – 24 selections during his 22 seasons in the majors – isn’t even a record. Hank Aaron played in 25, and Stan Musial also played in 24.MLB held two All-Star games per season from 1959-62, and it wasn’t uncommon for the biggest stars to play most or...

San Mateo County supports Gov. Newsom's gun control amendment

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:14:15 GMT

(KRON) -- San Mateo County is the first California county to declare support for Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan to add a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. That amendment would raise the federal minimum age to buy a gun from 18 years old to 21 years old. It would also mandate universal background checks and require a longer waiting period before purchasing a firearm. In addition, the amendment would ban civilians from buying assault weapons. SF brewery closing after 127 years San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa said he is tired of seeing people die from gun violence. "Congress can't fulfill its responsibility of passing common sense gun laws," he said.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%; }The procedure is two-thirds of all 50 states ...

DC police officer guilty of sexually abusing 9-year-old girl for 2 years

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:14:15 GMT

A D.C. police officer accused of sexually abusing a young girl, beginning when she was 9-years-old, was found guilty Tuesday of multiple counts of child abuse.Charles Johnson, 29, of D.C. was convicted Tuesday after prosecutors found sexually abused a young girl who he lived with who was nine and 10 years old at the time of the assaults, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.Johnson joined D.C. police in 2019 and was placed on administrative leave from his First District assignment after being arrested last summer. WTOP has reached out to D.C. police for information on the status of his employment with the department.Evidence presented at trial showed that between November 2019 and September of 2021, “Johnson subjected the child to sexual acts and repeatedly forced her to perform sexual acts on him,” according to the news release.Johnson knew the young girl and “took advantage of occasions when he was left in...