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Is the rain finally over for California?

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:09:33 GMT

For Californians sick of rain, snow and an all-around stormy start to 2023, the next couple weeks are looking good. The Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, released two maps Monday that show California is expecting weather that's both warmer and drier than average starting Easter Sunday and continuing for five days. Does that mean the era of atmospheric rivers is over for this rainy season, and California can finally dry out? California could see wildflower ‘super bloom’ this spring There are good reasons to believe the worst of rain is behind us, explained Brian Garcia, warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Bay Area office."As we move deeper into spring, the odds of having large impactful storms diminishes," said Garcia. "It's tough to say with 100% certainty that we're done with the big storms, but climatologically we're at the end of the window.'Late-season large storms are still a possi...

3 bodies found in Mesa, Arizona apartment in apparent murder-suicide

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:09:33 GMT

Three people have been found dead inside a Mesa apartment and the case is being investigated as a murder-suicide, police said Tuesday.Police said they received a call about a possible shooting around 7:30 p.m. Monday.When officers arrived, they were directed by the caller to the apartment where he lived with his 46-year-old girlfriend and her 21-year-old son and 14-year-old daughter.The man told police that he came home from work and found the bodies, each in a different room in the apartment.Detectives said evidence at the scene appears to show that the 21-year-old fatally shot his mother and teenage sister and then killed himself.Police said the names of the three people were being withheld pending notification of additional family members.

Tomas Ramirez Pronounced Dead in Multi-Vehicle Crash on Highway 14 [Mojave, CA]

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:09:33 GMT

Three-Vehicle Collision near Meyers Road Left 51-Year-Old Palmdale Man DeadMOJAVE, CA (April 4, 2023) – Later Friday morning, a three-vehicle collision along Highway 14 claimed the life of Tomas Ramirez.The crash occurred on March 31st, at around 11:22 a.m. along the northbound lanes of U.S. 14, north of Meyers Road.At this time, the cause of the crash has not been cleared, however, the CHP claimed that at least three vehicles were involved.Authorities said the debris on the roadway blocked the lanes for several hours.Unfortunately, responding emergency personnel declared one person dead at the scene.On Monday, the Kern County coroner’s office identified the deceased victim as 51-year-old Tomas Ramirez of Palmdale.No further details regarding the Highway 14 multi-vehicle crash have been released to the public. Mojave Officials will provide more information once available.Sweet James sends out their warm and sincerest sympathies go out to the friends and family of Tomas Ramirez...

Enter the Dragonette

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:09:33 GMT

Enter the Dragonette: Dragonette returned last fall with her first album in six years, Twennies. The artists real name Martina Sorbara, worked on the project with Dan Farber (Dizzee Rascal, Lizzo).“The word ‘twennies’ comes up in a couple songs on the record, and felt like a theme that was taking dominance,” she said in a statement. “I think it has to do with a kind of reflection on this moment, right now, the 2020’s versus me in MY 20’s. What do i have left from that time in my life, what is still with me, and precious and valuable, and what have I lost or intentionally left behind. As for the colloquial spelling, I feel like it captures a sort of throw-away nature time, but at the same time an intimacy with the passage of time.”“As Dragonette, Sorbara has lived multiple musical lifetimes over the past 15 years,” reads a press release.  “A Juno-winning artist and sought-after songwriter, Sorbara has scored numerous global hits, includ...

Review: Coward’s ‘Blythe Spirit’ comes alive at City Lights Theater

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:09:33 GMT

Noel Coward is one of the great observers of the world’s many subtleties, an enchanter with helpings of sly, sardonic wit. Take for example what his character Madame Arcati says in the splendiferous ghost story “Blithe Spirit” about, well, spirits.“Anybody can write books, but it takes an artist to make a dry martini that’s dry enough.”It is a subtle, sagacious quip, a smidge of what makes Coward and his his keen perception so revered in the annals of drama history. These words among many others showcase Coward’s comedic brilliance and cheeky humor within a play that was written in a week during the spring of 1941 as Londoners dealt with the Blitz attacks.The play, one of the famed British playwright’s comedy of manners, is being presented by City Lights Theater Company. The piece delights, mostly — yet not always — capturing the pithy acting style that Coward’s characters are known for.The company’s production, directed with broad, comic strokes by Mark Anderson Phillip...

Lineup revealed for The Atlantis, replica of the original 9:30 Club, set to open May 30

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:09:33 GMT

toggle audio on and off change volume download audio WTOP's Jason Fraley previews The Atlantis lineup (Part 1) $(function () { $('.wtop-audio-container .fa-play').on('click', function(){ var audio_filename = $('div.wtop-audio-file').data("mp3-url"); ga('send', 'event', 'Audio', 'play', audio_filename); }); }); Last week, WTOP reported that a replica of the original 9:30 Club was about to open in D.C.We now know the 450-capacity venue, The Atlantis, will open on May 30 — the anniversary of the original 9:30 Club’s opening  — with a show by the Foo Fighters, followed by a star-studded array of artists.The Foo Fighters also o...

Kentucky high school football player dies after head injury

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:09:33 GMT

SOMERSET, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky high school football player who suffered a head injury during a scrimmage last week has died.The Kentucky High School Athletic Association said Monday in a statement on Facebook that it joined family, friends and teammates in mourning the loss of Pulaski County High School varsity football player Andrew Dodson.“No words can explain, justify or rationalize tragedies such as these,” the association wrote.Alan Dodson told the Lexington Herald-Leader that his son was running the ball during his team’s spring game when he was tackled by a teammate.“It was not a violent hit or helmet-to-helmet. It was a simple, clean tackle,” Alan Dodson said. “His head hit the turf, and Andrew suffered blunt-force trauma to the brain.”Andrew Dodson played tight end and defensive end for the Maroons during his junior season, WKYT reported.Source

US rolls out funding for wildlife crossings along busy roads

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:09:33 GMT

SANTA ANA PUEBLO, N.M. (AP) — Native American tribes, as well as state and local governments will be able to tap into $350 million in infrastructure funds to build wildlife corridors along busy roads and add warning signs for drivers in what federal officials are billing as the first-of-its-kind pilot program to prevent collisions and improve habitat connectivity. U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was expected to roll out more details about the program during a visit to Santa Ana Pueblo on Tuesday. Wildlife managers with the New Mexico tribe have documented recent mountain lion casualties along a busy federal highway that cuts through tribal boundaries.Nationwide, about 200 people are killed each year in collisions involving wildlife and vehicles, federal officials said. Buttigieg said in a statement issued ahead of his announcement that launching the pilot program marks “an important step to prevent deadly crashes in communities across the country and make America’...

When a reality TV show about jury duty is a summons to laugh

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:09:33 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — So many people want to get out of jury duty these days because they think it’s boring or a waste of time. A new TV series shows it can be fun. Bonkers even.“Jury Duty” from Amazon Freevee is an elaborate ruse of a show that builds an entire judicial system around one unsuspecting regular Joe. The judge is fake, the defense team and prosecutors are fake and his fellow 11 jurors are fake — all superb improv comedians. “It was the wildest experience I’ve ever done as an actor and kind of one of the most rewarding experiences,” says James Marsden, who plays a horribly conceited version of himself as a juror. “In this business where it really feels like there’s not a lot of original work out there or original ideas, this felt like something that we’ve never seen before.”It’s got elements of “The Office,” “Big Brother,” “The Truman Show” and “Punk’d.” It feels utterly unique by finding Ronald Gladden, a solar contractor from San Diego, and putting him inside Hu...

Spain’s prime minister says Europe needs to re-industrialize

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:09:33 GMT

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Europe must “re-industrialize” to become more self-sufficient and less dependent on third countries for energy and key raw materials, Spain’s prime minister said Tuesday.Prime Minister Petro Sanchez said after talks with Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides in the Cypriot capital that Europe needs to be “strategically autonomous,” especially in the wake of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Sanchez, whose country assumes the European Union’s rotating presidency Jul. 1st, said this push toward less reliance on others for defense, as well as high-tech hardware such as semi-conductors and microchips doesn’t mean regression to a state of economic protectionism.The Spanish premier said the EU needs to reach out to key regions such us the Caribbean and Latin America as well as nations on its southern periphery including Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon and Jordan.A summit between the EU and the so-called southern neighborhood countries is set for December.Sanch...