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Sorry, Barbie: SAG-AFTRA issues Halloween costume rules amid strike

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:05:45 GMT

Sorry, Barbie. Sorry, Ken. SAG-AFTRA is handing out some strict Halloween costume guidelines for members currently on strike. On Wednesday, the union posted the rules to its website.Via: SAG-AFTRA A-list actors offer $150M to end SAG strike Members are prohibited from dressing up as popular characters from struck content and then posting the images to social media. This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Ryan Gosling, left, and Margot Robbie in a scene from "Barbie." (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)So that means anything from "Barbie" to "Wednesday" will be frowned upon. Instead, the guild recommends costumes based on general characters and figures like ghosts, zombies, spiders, etc. Members are also encouraged to dress up from characters from "non-struck content" like an animated television show. The actors' strike is nearing its 100th day after talks with studios fell apart last week with no deal.

2 hurt when driver slams into tobacco shop in Brea

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:05:45 GMT

Stunning surveillance video shows the moment a vehicle crashed into the front of a tobacco store in Brea Thursday evening.The crash happened around 4:40 p.m. at Tobacco Buzz on West Imperial Highway.Video shows a BMW crash into the store, hitting two people and knocking down store shelves.The two people, a maintenance worker and a customer, were injured in the crash. Security camera footage captured the moment a vehicle slammed into the front of a tobacco store in Brea on Oct. 19, 2023. (OnScene.TV)The extent of their injuries was not immediately known.The store owner said the building sustained major damage and it was red-tagged by the city code enforcement.The driver of the vehicle, identified by witnesses as a middle-aged woman, was taken away from the scene. Police have not said if she suffered any injuries or if she is expected to face criminal charges.

Deputy in stable condition after getting hit by fleeing suspect in West Hollywood

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:05:45 GMT

A Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputy was seriously injured Thursday evening after they were injured by a vehicle driven by a fleeing burglary suspect.The incident unfolded around 4:40 p.m. near the intersection of San Vicente Boulevard and Cynthia Street in West Hollywood.According to the Sheriff's Department, deputies from the West Hollywood station responded to a report of a burglary. Deputies eventually located the suspect's vehicle and a brief pursuit began.The injured deputy was standing beside his vehicle when the suspect hit him, slamming into the patrol car's door in the process, officials said. Video from Sky5 showed what appeared to be the deputy sitting in the front passenger seat of an LASD cruiser before paramedics from the Los Angeles Fire Department arrived on scene to render first aid.The deputy suffered serious injuries and was transported to a hospital. He is currently listed as being in stable condition, according to Sher...

Katie Von Schleicher Gets Down in Nashville

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:05:45 GMT

Katie Von Schleicher Gets Down in Nashville: Brooklyn-based songwriter and musician Katie Von Schleicher told us about her Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings experience.Katie Von Schleicher: I’m not the finest concert goer. I’ve fallen asleep for the duration of a Grouper show I was psyched to see, spaced out watching Ahmad Jamal, talked over Big Thief in a room that holds 30 people.Still, I’ve seen a lot of good ones, and enjoyed the ones I slept during. For my “favorite” I’ll choose a formative experience, seeing Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings in Nashville in 2007 or so.I was majoring in songwriting at college and they shipped us down on a bus to sit in the Warner Bros offices daily and get lectured by some mainstays like Rodney Crowell and the woman who wrote “This Kiss” for Faith Hill.One evening they closed down a small dive and let this small group of us, songwriting idiots, experience a duo Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings set. I cried like a baby, doing that thing w...

Billions of snow crabs went missing around Alaska. Scientists now know what happened to them

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:05:45 GMT

By Rachel Ramirez | CNNBillions of snow crabs have disappeared from the ocean around Alaska in recent years, and scientists now say they know why: Warmer ocean temperatures likely caused them to starve to death.The finding comes just days after the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced the snow crab harvest season was canceled for the second year in a row, citing the overwhelming number of crabs missing from the typically frigid, treacherous waters of the Bering Sea.The study, published Thursday by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, found a significant link between recent marine heat waves in the eastern Bering Sea and the sudden disappearance of the snow crabs that began showing up in surveys in 2021.“When I received the 2021 data from the survey for the first time, my mind was just blown,” said Cody Szuwalski, lead author of the study and fishery biologist at NOAA. “Everybody was just kind of hoping and praying that that was an error in the s...

Bay Area News Group boys athlete of the week: Ryan McKendry, Liberty football

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:05:45 GMT

Liberty’s Ryan McKendry is the Bay Area News Group’s boys athlete. (Courtesy of Liberty High) Liberty football player Ryan McKendry is the Bay Area News Group’s boys athlete for Oct. 9-14 after he received 42.30% of the vote.Bishop O’Dowd football player Miles Dixon (34.32%) took second.Congratulations to all the candidates for this week’s recognition.McKendry caught eight passes for 163 yards and three touchdowns as Liberty, playing at home in Brentwood, edged Antioch 41-40 in a Bay Valley Athletic League game.Liberty is 5-2 overall and 2-0 in the league.To nominate an athlete for next week’s poll, email [email protected] by Monday, Oct. 23, at 11 a.m. Please include stats and team results.We also review stats submitted to MaxPreps.com by coaches/team statisticians for consideration.Winners are announced each Friday on the Mercury News & East Bay Times websites and in the print edition of the Mercury News and EB Times sports sections.

Attempted robbery under investigation in Palo Alto

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:05:45 GMT

PALO ALTO – Police are investigating the second attempted robbery in just over a week in Palo Alto’s Midtown neighborhood.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Silicon Valley tech CEO sentenced to 8 years in prison following COVID and allergy test fraud scandal Crime and Public Safety | Man arrested in connection with shooting at Stanford, attempted robbery in Palo Alto Crime and Public Safety | San Jose man’s toxicology results released in double-fatal Santa Cruz County crash Crime and Public Safety | Armed man taken into custody at Palo Alto shopping center Crime and Public Safety | 2 vehicles stolen, 6 others burglarized Monday in Los Altos The most recent incident happened around 10:20 a.m. Tuesday in the parking lot of a pharmacy at 2605 Middlefield Road, the Palo Alto Police Department said in a statement.The victim was walking through the parking lot when a man riding a skateboard approa...

The San Jose Sharks’ problems are plentiful. One issue looms larger than others

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:05:45 GMT

SAN JOSE – Four games into the season and almost all the major concerns regarding the San Jose Sharks are being borne out.Playing the NHL’s most difficult schedule to date, the Sharks, without Logan Couture and Mikael Granlund, are not only having all kinds of trouble scoring but have also developed a penchant for giving up deflating goals at the most inopportune times.And without Erik Karlsson, the Sharks’ present defense corps has combined for one assist.Add it all up and the Sharks, who begin a five-game road trip on Saturday in Nashville, are the NHL’s last remaining winless team with a 0-3-1 record.“Listen, we all knew the challenge we had on this homestand, right? Let’s be honest,” Sharks coach David Quinn said Thursday after his team’s 3-1 loss to the Boston Bruins. “We feel like we’re not that far off.”The combined record of the Sharks’ first four opponents, Vegas, Colorado, Carolina, and Boston, before Friday’s games, was a remarkable 15-2-0. Things let up a bit for S...

October heat broke records in several Bay Area cities

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:05:45 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A mid-October heat wave brought Heat Advisories to much of the Bay Area on Thursday, and some cities beat longstanding high-temperature records, according to the National Weather Service. San Jose, Richmond, Napa and even San Francisco International Airport all saw record-breaking heat.San Jose beat out a 110-year-old record for its Oct. 19 high temperature, NWS said. In 1913, the previous record was set at 91 degrees. On Thursday, the temperature soared to 93 degrees.In Richmond, Thursday’s 92-degree high set a new record for Oct. 19. The previous record was 89 degrees, set in 2020.Napa narrowly set a new Oct.19 record for high heat when it peaked at 95 degrees Thursday. The previous high-temperature record was set 90 years ago in 1933 for a 94-degree day.Travelers and workers spending any time outside of SFO Airport also felt a record-breaker. The previous Oct. 19 record was set last year in 2022 for 86-degree heat. On Thursday, the temperature there was ma...

WTOP’s Beer of the Week: D.C. Solidarity Beer 2023

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:05:45 GMT

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