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Meet Cut Paper Character Dakota Noot

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:10:51 GMT

Artist Dakota Noot turns scissors, paint, and tape into a lively playland of cut paper characters and scenarios, using his body (and maybe yours) as a stage to activate darkly whimsical drawing, painting, performance, video, and installation. Like a paper doll’s accouterments in a quirky dialog with surrealism, Noot’s exploration of queer and Midwestern identity is at once wholesome and subversive, fantastical and funny, pointed and poignant. A parade of human-animal hybrids and intimate releasing of pop-culture pressures, Noot’s world of finely detailed, exuberantly chromatic, and endlessly inventive expressions range from movement videos to full-room, often interactive, multimedia installations. Noot is currently engaged in a week-long residency at Coaxial Arts, which culminates this weekend in two nights of performance around the theme of cooking meat starring his boisterous character Medora, the Queen of Steaks, with the goal, as Noot says, to “laugh, cry, and question why.”Dako...

Cindy Blackman Santana visits SFJAZZ Center, Blue Note Napa

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:10:51 GMT

Cindy Blackman Santana has been paying tribute to late great drummer Tony Williams for years.She released a full-on homage to the Tony Williams Lifetime jazz-fusion band in 2010 called “Another Lifetime,” which featured guitarists Mike Stern, Fionn O Lochlainn and Vernon Reid, saxophonist Joe Lovano, keyboardists Doug Carn, Patrice Rushen and Carlton Holmes, and bassists Benny Rietveld and David Santos.Blackman Santana, who’s also an all-world drummer in her own right, followed up in 2011 by joining forces with Reid (from Living Colour), organist John Medeski (from Medeski Martin and Wood) and legendary Cream bassist Jack Bruce in the Spectrum Road project to further explore the music of Williams’ Lifetime group.Now, Blackman Santana is back at it once again, set to honor the mighty legacy of Williams — a longtime Bay Area resident who died at the age of 51 in 1997 — and his Lifetime band during a concert with Reid, Medeski and special guests on J...

Two arrested after attempt to outrace police in East Bay ends in crash

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:10:51 GMT

OAKLAND — Two people were arrested last week following a police pursuit that ended when their vehicle crashed into a telephone pole, authorities said.The chase happened about 12:20 a.m. June 1, after a Lafayette police officer tried to pull over a vehicle at Mount Diablo Boulevard and 1st Street in that city, according to a statement from Contra Costa Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Jimmy Lee.Both the vehicle’s driver and passenger were arrested, and Lee said the passenger had more than one felony arrest warrant out for him. Lee did not say what felonies were cited in the warrant.When the officer turned on his patrol-car police lights, the vehicle the officer intended to stop immediately accelerated, Lee said.The pursuit wound up on Highway 24 toward Oakland and then moved onto eastbound Interstate 580 right after the Caldecott Tunnel. The vehicle then took the 35th Avenue exit.Just after exiting, the vehicle crashed near Penniman Avenue, Lee said.Neither the driver ...

Stanford golfer Rose Zhang adds to Tiger Woods comparisons

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:10:51 GMT

The first words from Rose Zhang after the 20-year-old Stanford student capped off one of the more remarkable 13-day stretches in golf were telling.“What is happening?” she said.More tantalizing is what happens next.Hype rules the day in a society built around social media, and Zhang is one of the rare athletes who delivered. The Stanford sophomore won her second straight NCAA title and then 13 days later was awash in wonder when she won the Mizuho Americas Open in her professional debut.Women’s golf has not seen this level of anticipation since Michelle Wie West turned pro at age 15 equipped with blue-chip sponsors like Nike and Sony.Zhang walked, talked and played like it was any other tournament. She is so comfortable with who she is that expectations are not part of the equation.“I honestly didn’t even expect to make the cut,” she said Sunday evening as she sat next to a trophy stuffed with a bouquet of roses. “And the reason why I say this is because I don’t think about my expec...

Man who allegedly sold meth out of tent at San Rafael homeless camp arrested

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:10:51 GMT

(KRON) -- A man who police say was selling methamphetamine out of a tent at a San Rafael homeless encampment was arrested, the Marin County Sheriff's Office announced Monday. Last month, detectives with the Marin County Specialized Investigative Unit developed probable cause to believe the suspect, identified as Jeffrey Grove, was actively selling meth out of a tent in an encampment near San Rafael Creek on Lincoln Avenue. Two SFPD officers slashed with knife in hotel standoff Marin County Sheriff's detectives obtained a search warrant for Grove and his tent. Surveillance of the area was also conducted, police said. During the surveillance, police say they observed what appeared to be drug transactions occurring at the door to Grove's tent.With the assistance of the San Rafael Police Department, Marin County Sheriff's officers detained Grove and several others. Seven ounces of crystal methamphetamine with an estimated street value of $4,000 was found in the tent.Grove was arrested...

Los parches o cremas para la menopausia podrían ser más seguros que las píldoras

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:10:51 GMT

Las mujeres a menudo usan la terapia hormonal para aliviar los sofocos y otros síntomas de la menopausia, y una nueva investigación sugiere que los parches o cremas pueden ser más seguros para la presión arterial que las píldoras. A medida que los cuerpos de las mujeres producen niveles más bajos de hormonas reproductivas durante la menopausia, aumenta su riesgo de enfermedad cardíaca. La presión arterial alta aumenta aún más ese riesgo, pero no está claro si existe un vínculo con la terapia hormonal para los síntomas de la menopausia. Investigadores canadienses se preguntaron si la forma en que se absorben las hormonas (por vía oral, vaginal o a través de la piel) podría desempeñar un papel. La FDA aprueba nuevo medicamento para los incómodos sofocos causados por la menopausia Más mujeres recurren al cannabis para aliviar los síntomas que provoca la menopausia El equipo de la Universidad de Calgary examinó los registros de salud...

Spotify cutting about 2% of its workforce, roughly 200 workers

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:10:51 GMT

Spotify is cutting about 200 people, or 2% of its workforce, as the streaming company reworks its podcast unit.Sahar Elhabashi, vice president, Head of Podcast Business, said in a memo that impacted employees would receive severance packages including extended health care coverage and immediate access to outplacement support.In January Spotify announced that it was cutting 6% of its global workforce, or about 600 jobs.Elhabashi also said Monday that the Stockholm company would be combining podcast networks Parcast and Gimlet into its Spotify Studios operation. “With these changes, we will accelerate into the next chapter for podcasts on Spotify with strong discovery and podcast habits for users, thriving monetization and audience growth for creators, and a valuable, high-margin business for Spotify,” Elhabashi said. In afternoon trading, shares rose nearly 3% and briefly set a 52-week trading high.Source

Continúa la búsqueda del sospechoso de ultimar a tiros a 3 hispanos en Woodbridge

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:10:51 GMT

Las autoridades revelaron el viernes la identidad del sospechoso de disparar y asesinar a tres hombres durante una fiesta en Woodbridge la semana pasada. Un joven también resultó herido como parte del incidente. Según la policía, Donald Antonio Barahona Quiñonez abrió fuego después de un supuesto altercado en una residencia situada en la cuadra 14700 de Birchdale Ave. en Woodbridge. Las víctimas fueron identificadas como Edwin Geovanny Salmeron, de 37 años; Luis Alonso Salgado Rivas, de 41 y Kevin Josué Vallecillo Mendoza, de 23. En un comunicado, las autoridades afirmaron que “los intentos de localizar al sospechoso han resultado infructuosos” por lo que ofrecen una recompensa de $10,000 por información que conduzca al arresto y condena de Barahona Quiñonez.Según el relato de testigos y videos de seguridad obtenidos por Telemundo 44, una de las víctimas salió caminando de la vivienda después de la balacera, mientras que el sospechoso habría corrido fuera de la casa junt...

Kentucky pauses incentives for battery maker whose federal loan was nixed after claims of China ties

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:10:51 GMT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Kentucky officials say they won’t start paying out $21 million in economic incentives for a proposed electric vehicle battery facility until the company further explains why the U.S. Department of Energy abruptly rejected a $200 million loan for the project after some congressional Republicans argued the firm has improper ties to China.Texas-based Microvast was one of 20 companies to win preliminary grants totaling $2.8 billion to boost the domestic manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles. The company is building battery plants in Kentucky and Tennessee and was in talks with the Energy Department for a $200 million grant funded through the 2021 infrastructure law.Yang Wu, Microvast’s founder and CEO, said the company was surprised by the Energy Department’s decision against awarding the loan, which would fuel plans for a Kentucky facility focused on a new technology for batteries called polyaramid separator. The department did not offer a...

Argentine judge dismisses long-running corruption case against vice president

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:10:51 GMT

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A judge in Argentina on Monday dismissed a long-running money laundering case against Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, after prosecutors and state agencies said there was no evidence she was involved in a crime.Federal Judge Sebastian Casanello ruled that Fernández de Kirchner be removed from what had come to be known as the “K money” case because it involved alleged kickbacks and money laundering on behalf of the Kirchner family by businessman Lázaro Báez.Prosecutor Guillermo Marijuan said late last month there was no evidence that Fernández de Kirchner, a former president (2007-2015), was involved in the corruption for which Báez has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Báez was close associate of both Fernández de Kirchner and her late husband and predecessor, Nestor Kirchner, who was president from 2003-2007. The case began with allegations that Báez was paid for public works contracts that were never completed and that he then laund...