In writer/director Jordan Peele presents us with a big, shiny summer blockbuster — a cowboys and aliens riff built from the DNA of sci-fi spectacles of yore — and then proceeds to vivisect the very notion of a summer blockbuster before our eyes. He wants us to question the nature of image-making, and he starts at the beginning of film history, with photographer Eadweard Muybridge. In 1878, Muybridge crafted the first known example of the “moving pictures”: a two-second clip called “The Horse in Motion,” made up of sequential photographs of a jockey riding a race horse.That the jockey on the...…In writer/director Jordan Peele presents us with a big, shiny summer blockbuster — a cowboys and aliens riff built from the DNA of sci-fi spectacles of yore — and then proceeds to vivisect the very notion of a summer blockbuster before our eyes. He wants us to question the nature of image-making, and he starts at the beginning of film history, with photographer Eadweard Muybridge. In 1878, Muybridge crafted the first known example of the “moving pictures”: a two-second clip called “The Horse in Motion,” made up of sequential photographs of a jockey riding a race horse.That the jockey on the...WW…

Is Dave Chappelle, the overwhelmingly popular and continuously controversial comedian, a comic genius or a cultural loose cannon?While a lot of Sonoma County is talking about exactly this right now, the answer may depend on who you ask.Tickets sold out for at Santa Rosa’s Luther Burbank Center when they went on sale without prior announcement. Two more shows were added and within hours, quickly sold out, too.The center reported a total of 6,364 tickets sold in eight hours.Meanwhile, Chappelle’s show at the First Avenue club in Minneapolis was canceled last week in response to online...…Is Dave Chappelle, the overwhelmingly popular and continuously controversial comedian, a comic genius or a cultural loose cannon?While a lot of Sonoma County is talking about exactly this right now, the answer may depend on who you ask.Tickets sold out for at Santa Rosa’s Luther Burbank Center when they went on sale without prior announcement. Two more shows were added and within hours, quickly sold out, too.The center reported a total of 6,364 tickets sold in eight hours.Meanwhile, Chappelle’s show at the First Avenue club in Minneapolis was canceled last week in response to online...WW…

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For Ray Booth, surfing is more than just a sport. It's a passion, a way of life, a therapy. Maybe even an obsession.So when the coronavirus pandemic shut down California beaches from Mexico to Oregon last month, even that wasn't going to keep the 49-year-old Frito-Lay sales representative out of the water.There he was early one recent morning, carrying his board toward the ocean in his hometown of Huntington Beach, just like he's done for more than 30 years. With the pier, the beach and the parking lots closed, he had to park farther away, carry his board longer, negotiate his way around...…For Ray Booth, surfing is more than just a sport. It's a passion, a way of life, a therapy. Maybe even an obsession.So when the coronavirus pandemic shut down California beaches from Mexico to Oregon last month, even that wasn't going to keep the 49-year-old Frito-Lay sales representative out of the water.There he was early one recent morning, carrying his board toward the ocean in his hometown of Huntington Beach, just like he's done for more than 30 years. With the pier, the beach and the parking lots closed, he had to park farther away, carry his board longer, negotiate his way around...WW…

DES MOINES, Iowa — Thanks to a reworked menu and long hours, Jeannie Kim managed to keep her San Francisco restaurant alive during the coronavirus pandemic.That makes it all the more frustrating that she fears her breakfast-focused diner could be ruined within months by new rules that could make one of her top menu items — bacon — hard to get in California.“Our number one seller is bacon, eggs and hash browns,” said Kim, who for 15 years has run SAMS American Eatery on the city’s busy Market Street. “It could be devastating for us.”At the beginning of next year, California will begin...…DES MOINES, Iowa — Thanks to a reworked menu and long hours, Jeannie Kim managed to keep her San Francisco restaurant alive during the coronavirus pandemic.That makes it all the more frustrating that she fears her breakfast-focused diner could be ruined within months by new rules that could make one of her top menu items — bacon — hard to get in California.“Our number one seller is bacon, eggs and hash browns,” said Kim, who for 15 years has run SAMS American Eatery on the city’s busy Market Street. “It could be devastating for us.”At the beginning of next year, California will begin...WW…

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Saturday recognized the mass killings of Armenians more than a century ago as genocide, signaling a willingness to test an increasingly frayed relationship with Turkey, long a key regional ally and an important partner within NATO.“Each year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring,” Biden said in a statement issued on the 106th anniversary of the beginning of a brutal campaign by the former Ottoman Empire that killed 1.5...…WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Saturday recognized the mass killings of Armenians more than a century ago as genocide, signaling a willingness to test an increasingly frayed relationship with Turkey, long a key regional ally and an important partner within NATO.“Each year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring,” Biden said in a statement issued on the 106th anniversary of the beginning of a brutal campaign by the former Ottoman Empire that killed 1.5...WW…

There's a new, albeit temporary, ozone hole to pay attention to, and it's a lot closer to the United States than the one that's more widely known, which is over the South Pole.Because of an unusually strong polar vortex in the winter - which helped prevent Arctic air from infiltrating the midlatitudes and contributing to major snowstorms - conditions were ripe in the winter for the destruction of stratospheric ozone high above the Arctic, at altitudes of about 30,000 to 60,000 feet. This has resulted in an area of depleted ozone at the end of the winter season, also referred to as an ozone...…There's a new, albeit temporary, ozone hole to pay attention to, and it's a lot closer to the United States than the one that's more widely known, which is over the South Pole.Because of an unusually strong polar vortex in the winter - which helped prevent Arctic air from infiltrating the midlatitudes and contributing to major snowstorms - conditions were ripe in the winter for the destruction of stratospheric ozone high above the Arctic, at altitudes of about 30,000 to 60,000 feet. This has resulted in an area of depleted ozone at the end of the winter season, also referred to as an ozone...WW…

More than three decades after they graduated from Santa Rosa High School, former classmates of Brett Crozier are saluting the embroiled Navy officer in a video.“The Santa Rosa High School Class of 1988 stands with Captain Brett Crozier. This tribute was lovingly made in his honor by his graduating class,” Stacey White, who produced the video, wrote in an introduction on her YouTube channel.About 30 members of the Class of 1988 took part in the 3½-minute gesture of support for Crozier. The captain was relieved of his command of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt on April 2 after a...…More than three decades after they graduated from Santa Rosa High School, former classmates of Brett Crozier are saluting the embroiled Navy officer in a video.“The Santa Rosa High School Class of 1988 stands with Captain Brett Crozier. This tribute was lovingly made in his honor by his graduating class,” Stacey White, who produced the video, wrote in an introduction on her YouTube channel.About 30 members of the Class of 1988 took part in the 3½-minute gesture of support for Crozier. The captain was relieved of his command of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt on April 2 after a...WW…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has accused his state's largest utility company of mismanaging funds he said it should have used to upgrade an aging electrical grid prone to deadly wildfires.But over the past two decades, Newsom, a Democrat, and his wife have accepted more than $700,000 from the Pacific Gas & Electric Co., its foundation and its employees as the utility has supported his political campaigns, his ballot initiatives, his inauguration festivities and his wife's foundation, including her film projects, according to records reviewed by The Washington Post.The contributions...…California Gov. Gavin Newsom has accused his state's largest utility company of mismanaging funds he said it should have used to upgrade an aging electrical grid prone to deadly wildfires.But over the past two decades, Newsom, a Democrat, and his wife have accepted more than $700,000 from the Pacific Gas & Electric Co., its foundation and its employees as the utility has supported his political campaigns, his ballot initiatives, his inauguration festivities and his wife's foundation, including her film projects, according to records reviewed by The Washington Post.The contributions...WW…

SACRAMENTO - Facing wildfires of epic proportions, California's firefighting agency is acquiring nearly $300 million worth of new weapons: a dozen high-powered helicopters equipped to drop water on flaming woodlands and fields in darkness, manned by pilots wearing night vision goggles.One of the Cal Fire Hawks, a sleek, twin-engine helicopter that cruises at 160 mph and costs $24 million, will be based in June at the Vina Helitack Base on Highway 99 north of Chico in Tehama County. It's capable of reaching Lake Berryessa in 30 minutes, with eight firefighters aboard and 1,000 gallons of...…SACRAMENTO - Facing wildfires of epic proportions, California's firefighting agency is acquiring nearly $300 million worth of new weapons: a dozen high-powered helicopters equipped to drop water on flaming woodlands and fields in darkness, manned by pilots wearing night vision goggles.One of the Cal Fire Hawks, a sleek, twin-engine helicopter that cruises at 160 mph and costs $24 million, will be based in June at the Vina Helitack Base on Highway 99 north of Chico in Tehama County. It's capable of reaching Lake Berryessa in 30 minutes, with eight firefighters aboard and 1,000 gallons of...WW…