Новости за 24.11.2016

David “Boo” Ferriss, a Boston Red Sox pitcher who helped lead the team to the 1946 World Series, has died.

Lily Janiak’s pick If you’ve seen “Not a Genuine Black Man,” the longest-running solo show in San Francisco history, or “The Waiting Period,” you know that Brian Copeland is among the Bay Area’s most honest, thoughtful and eloquent storytellers. For the holidays, the Marsh remounts his “The Jewelry Box,” which is set in 1970s Oakland, following Copeland’s childhood quest to scrounge $11.97 to buy his mother the perfect Christmas present. David Ford directs. Friday, Dec. Читать дальше...

At a time of disputes over income inequality, no one seems to resent her runaway success, the New York Times reports.

At 74, music legend Aretha Franklin can still deliver a rapturous performance -- and put a unique twist on a classic song. Prior to the Detroit Lions...

S.F. State’s school of theater and dance shows that innovation in Bay Area theater isn’t just happening at our professional playhouses. For “Sofa Sin Casa (Couch With No Home),” Roy Conboy, who directs, has crowdsourced the playwriting; Alandra Hileman, Rebecca Raeta, Nicole Jost, Gabrielle Gomez, Chauncey K. Robinson, Claire Rice and he all contribute to a script that explores San Francisco’s housing crisis, accompanied by a live blues band playing original music. Thursday, Dec. Читать дальше...

If the holidays are for going home again, the 10th edition of “How the Grouch Stole Christmas” tour features the homecoming of homecomings. Living Legends, one of the leading lights of independent hip-hop in California, is reuniting for a two-week run with stops in the Bay Area, where the group got its start. “I love it, and (it’s) something I’ve missed in the years that we’ve all taken a step back from the Living Legends,” says Oakland native and Legends founding member Corey Scoffern, best known as the Grouch. Читать дальше...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Most of Missouri's successful candidates for statewide office in Jefferson City spent more on broadcast advertising than their rivals, according to an independent analysis.

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The league and players' union are optimistic about reaching a deal to avoid a lockout.

NEW YORK (ANP) - Kredietbeoordelaar Moody's is iets negatiever geworden over de financiële vooruitzichten van Rabobank. Het bureau handhaaft zijn ratings voor de Nederlandse bank, maar plakt daar nu een negatieve outlook aan vast. Eerder was die prognose nog stabiel.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- It's nice that the club gets a week's vacation in Florida.

Camila Cabello stopped by The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon in New York City on Wednesday night (September 23) to perform her and Machine Gun Kelly‘s hit song “Bad Things”. The song debuted at #1 on the hip-hop charts, has been streamed more than 20 million times and was produced by The Futuristic (Chris Brown, [...]

HILDALE, Utah (AP) — The recent opening of a new public library in a mostly-polygamous town on the Utah-Arizona border marks the latest sign that the community is slowly embracing government efforts to pull the town into modern society. Members of the sect, led by imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs, mingled with county officials and other residents at the opening ceremony.

Nov. 26 will be the 25th anniversary of her first action in a men’s junior hockey game

Yes, they like that. And they like it enough to pay it nearly $24 million for a year if they have to. Unless they don’t. According to Jason La Canfora of CBSSports.com, Washington intends to use the franchise tag again on quarterback Kirk Cousins if they can’t reach a long-term deal. Of course, Albert Breer of…

A wildfire roared through parts of Israel's third-largest city on Thursday, forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes as the country's leaders raised the possibility that Arab assailants had intentionally set the blaze.

Are there any movie directors no longer making films that, as you think about their body of work, you wish could have made one more movie? On the plus side, he did make a lot of movies, so it’s not like the case of, say, Jean Vigo, who made one feature-length film (“L’Atalante”) and then died. Truffaut had reached a point where he was almost incapable of making a bad movie, because even his routine films were infused with a certain romantic, life-affirming spirit. [...] he got sick, in 1983, he... Читать дальше...

Former presidential aide, Reno Omokri has said one the reasons why Nigeria is in a recession is because the minister of finance, Kemi Adeosun, did not attend a university. The former presidential aide alleged that Kemi Adeosun graduated with a Bsc from a polytechnic which was upgraded to a university in 1992 and is now known […]

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National championships are won in March -- not in Maui.

Santa Clara and the 49ers are fighting over whether the team has breached the stadium management agreement. The dispute, as PFT understands it, arises from a technical question regarding not whether certain documents will be given to the city but how those documents will be made available. Per a source with knowledge of the situation,…

Miss Piggy saves the day!

“Speak with one voice and one heart” says US President-elect Donald Trump, as he addresses Americans after a long and bruising political campaign. Trump’s plea Trumps call to Americans was made in a video posted on YouTube after he announced the selection Wednesday of two more Cabinet officials on Wednesday. The officials are South Carolina […]

I mean, she was right about 2016.

You may recall a video of Kylie Jenner from the beginning of the year where she predicted that 2016 would be the year of "realising stuff".

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On Wednesday night, a tweet falsely stating Kylie had received a Presidential Medal of Freedom for her prediction started circulating.

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