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SF’s Lorraine Hansberry Theatre’s new play is about … Lorraine Hanbserry

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:20 GMT

San Francisco’s storied African American stage company the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre has been a mainstay of the Bay Area arts scene since 1981. Now at last the company is debuting a play about its namesake, the influential playwright Lorraine Hansberry.Hansberry’s best-known work, “A Raisin in the Sun,” in 1959 made her the first African American woman playwright to have a play on Broadway. It wouldn’t be her last: her play “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” was running on Broadway in 1965 (starring Berkeley’s own Rita Moreno) when Hansberry died of pancreatic cancer at age 34.Still, many know little about Hansberry beyond “Raisin” — her life, her other writings and her civil rights activism are all too seldom explored today.Writer-performer Traci Tolmaire aims to rectify that with her new play “In the Evening by the Moonlight,” directed and co-created by Lorraine Hansberry Theatre artistic director Margo Hall.The play imagines a long, alcohol-fueled conversation between ...

CHP issues Silver Alert for missing at-risk San Jose man

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:20 GMT

(BCN) -- A missing at-risk San Jose man was last seen leaving a residence in the 1300-block of Little Orchard Street, San Jose police said Monday morning. California Highway Patrol issued a Silver Alert for Matthew Lewis, 69, late Sunday.Lewis is 6 feet tall and weighs about 100 pounds. He was last seen leaving the San Jose residence at 10:45 a.m. Sunday wearing a black hoodie, black jeans and black shoes.Lewis is Black, has grey hair and brown eyes. Authorities believe he is on foot. Anyone who sees Lewis is asked to call 911.Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

Missing at-risk 14-year-old girl sought by Redwood City police

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:20 GMT

(BCN) -- Redwood City Police are asking for the public's help locating a missing at-risk youth. Gaby Coyon-Garcia, 14, was last seen Sunday morning at about 8 a.m. in the 100 block of Roosevelt Avenue, in Redwood City, police said early Monday morning.She was described by police as a Hispanic female juvenile. A picture circulated by police shows her with brown hair and brown eyes.She is considered at-risk and could be with an adult boyfriend, according to police. Anyone who sees Coyon-Garcia is asked to call 911.Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

French powerhouse Bordeaux to remain in second division after fan attacked player

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:20 GMT

PARIS (AP) — French soccer powerhouse Bordeaux will remain in the second division next season after the league on Monday handed the six-time champions a loss for a game that was abandoned after a pitch invader attacked a player from Rodez.The league’s disciplinary committee ruled that the season finale, which Bordeaux had to win to keep its promotion hopes alive, will not be replayed. It also deducted a point from Bordeaux for next season and ordered the closure of the south stand at Bordeaux stadium for two games.The June 2 match between Bordeaux and Rodez was stopped shortly after Lucas Buades gave Rodez a 1-0 lead on the final day of the season. While Rodez players celebrated, a Bordeaux fan stepped onto the pitch and pushed Buades to the ground.The match referee stopped proceedings and sent both teams back to the locker room.Buades was diagnosed with a concussion and the game did not resume.Bordeaux was involved in a two-way battle with Metz for the second promotion spot behind ...

Senator asks LIV Golf, PGA Tour leaders for records on merger

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:20 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The leader of a Senate subcommittee is demanding the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s LIV Golf present records about negotiations that led to their new agreement and plans for what golf will look like under the arrangement.Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., sent letters Monday to PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan and LIV CEO Greg Norman spelling out the “serious questions regarding the reasons for and terms behind the announced agreement.”Blumenthal, who is chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said he also wanted to hear the tour’s plans to retain its tax-exempt status.Last week, LIV and the tour stunned the golf world by agreeing to merge the PGA Tour and European tour with the Saudi golf interests, while also dropping all lawsuits between the parties. The governor of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, which bankrolls LIV, will join the PGA Tour board of directors and lead a new business venture as its chairman. The PGA T...

Pulse nightclub victims remembered on 7th anniversary of massacre

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:20 GMT

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Across central Florida, the 49 victims killed and dozens more survivors of the massacre at a gay-friendly nightclub were remembered with the unveiling of a 44-foot (13.4-meter) -wide mural, the ringing of church bells and an overnight vigil at the site of the Pulse club on Monday, the seventh anniversary of the tragedy.Several people gathered at the site of the Pulse nightclub near downtown Orlando at 2 a.m. Monday, around the time that gunman Omar Mateen opened fire in 2016, leaving 49 people dead and 53 wounded. At the time, it was the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, but that number was surpassed the next year when 58 people were killed and more than 850 were injured among a crowd of 22,000 at a country music festival in Las Vegas.Mateen was killed after a three-hour standoff by SWAT team members. He had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.At the Orlando Museum of Art, a colorful, a 44-foot-by-18-foot (13.4 meters by 5.5 meters) mural depicting...

Prayers and tears: Silvio Berlusconi’s death draws tributes, even from his critics

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:20 GMT

ROME (AP) — Adored, scorned, impossible to ignore in life, former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi in death drew tributes even from his critics, and ever more lavish praise from admirers, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as prayers from Pope Francis. Following word of Berlusconi’s death on Monday in a Milan hospital, where he was being treated for chronic leukemia, reaction poured in from around the world, from national leaders to announcers who burst into tears on one of his television networks, for the populist three-time premier and media mogul.Here are some of the reactions:— In a condolence telegram, Putin hailed Berlusconi as a “patriarch” of Italian politics and a true patriot who had improved Italy’s standing on the world stage. “I have always sincerely admired his wisdom, his ability to make balanced, far-sighted decisions even in the most difficult situations,” Putin said in the telegram released by the Kremlin. “During each of our meetings,...

GM to invest $632 million at Fort Wayne assembly plant to prepare for new generation of pickups

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:20 GMT

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors says it will spend $632 million to update its Fort Wayne, Indiana, assembly plant so it can make the next generation of full-size pickup trucks with internal combustion engines.The investment in new conveyors and equipment in the body shop and assembly areas won’t create any new jobs. But GM said on Monday it will keep jobs for about 4,000 people who work at the plant.Construction will start in 2024 at the plant, which now builds the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500 light-duty pickup trucks. GM wouldn’t say when the next generation of trucks will go on sale. Source

Turkey’s president unwavering on two-state policy to resolve Cyprus’ ethnic division

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:20 GMT

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Turkey’s president said Monday that any deal resolving Cyprus’ nearly half-century ethnic division must be based on recognition of a breakaway Turkish Cypriot state in the island nation’s northern third.President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s remarks in the north during his first overseas visit after his reelection last month aren’t new, but suggest that Ankara’s policy line on Cyprus remains unwavering, despite international condemnation of the two-state deal proposal that runs contrary to U.N. resolutions calling for a single, federated Cyprus. “No one can bear to waste another 50 years of time,” Erdogan said during a joint news conference with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar. “If there is to be a return to the negotiating table, the only way to do this is to recognize the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.”It also dashes hopes harbored by Cyprus’ internationally-recognized government of a speedy return to negotiations, although a spokesman f...

Australia vive una intensa temporada de gripe, y podría ser una señal de lo que se avecina en EE.UU.

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:35:20 GMT

(CNN) — Apenas estamos en junio, pero los científicos estadounidenses ya están pensando en la temporada de gripe. Como siempre en esta época del año, no pierden de vista a Australia, que ha tenido un comienzo temprano de la temporada de esa enfermedad.En algunas partes del país se registra un aumento en los contagios, y el mayor número de casos se da entre niños. Estos patrones de gripe podrían ser un indicador de lo que está por venir en EE.UU.En EE.UU., la actividad gripal es actualmente baja, como suele ser en esta época del año. La pandemia de covid-19 hizo que la temporada de gripe fuera un poco menos predecible, pero por lo general la gente no empieza a enfermar hasta alrededor de octubre, y las consultas de los médicos no están realmente ocupadas hasta algún momento entre diciembre y febrero.En el hemisferio sur, donde ahora es invierno, los casos empezaron a aumentar “bruscamente” a principios de mayo, según informó el viernes el Ministerio de Sanidad y Asi...