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Record Store Day 2023: Here are 4 cool albums for jazz fans

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:54 GMT

This year’s Record Store Day 2023 takes place on April 22, with the promise of hundreds of new collectibles and rarities to bring thousands of music fans to stores across the U.S. and beyond.While the big-name rock and pop offerings will draw the most attention, there are also plenty of cool items for jazz fans as well. Here are four that we’d certainly want to spin: “Blue Room: The 1979 VARA Studio Sessions in Holland,” Chet BakerFans of the acclaimed trumpeter-vocalist will certainly dig these rare recordings, which reportedly have gone unheard since they were originally aired by Dutch radio station KRO-NCRV some 44 years ago. It arrives as a two-LP set for Record Store Day via the Jazz Detective Label, followed by double-CD and digital versions on April 28.“Live at Jazz Workshop 1970,” Art Blakey & the Jazz MessengersThis one is a Record Store Day exclusive, which means Blakey fans will likely have to actually visit one of the participating...

One-car crash marks 2023’s fourth fatal wreck on Highway 4

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:54 GMT

BAY POINT — A driver who was speeding on Highway 4 died late Tuesday after losing control and crashing into a tree and light pole, the California Highway Patrol said.The wreck happened about 11:20 p.m. on westbound Highway 4 near the Bailey Road exit, according to the agency.Authorities did not identify the man who was driving immediately, pending notification of his next of kin. They pronounced the man dead at the scene.The crash marks the fourth fatal one on Highway 4 in 2023. None of have resulted in more than one death.There have been eight fatal crashes on Highway 4 since Nov. 16, the day five people, including three children, died in a wrong-way collision just west of the Loveridge Road exit on the westbound side.A year ago, 19 people died in 15 fatal crashes on the highway. Sixteen people died in 15 fatal crashes on Highway 4 in 2021.In a statement, the CHP said the driver was speeding in a GMC Envoy when he left the lane and smashed into the center divide. The Envoy th...

Tom Cruise’s estrangement from Suri alluded to by Brooke Shields

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:54 GMT

Brooke Shields, who had a famously on-off friendship with Tom Cruise, recalled in an interview this week how she was on on “the list” to receive the $126 white chocolate coconut bundt cake he’s been known to send friends during the Christmas holidays.But in an otherwise lighthearted chat with People about how she somehow fell off Cruise’s Christmas cake list, Shields also mentioned how the actor’s holiday card noticeably dropped mention of his ex-wife Katie Holmes and his daughter, Suri, sometime after Holmes divorced him in 2012 and reportedly retained full custody of Suri.Actress Brooke Shields attends the Panthere de Cartier Collection dinner & party at Skylight Clarkson Studios on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014, in New York. In saying that Cruise stopped including Suri in his Christmas card, Shields brought up a painful subject for the “Top Gun” star — that he is reportedly estranged from his 16-year-old daughter. Every once in ...

Los Gatos sets aside $50,000 for unhoused residents

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:54 GMT

Los Gatos Town Council this week doubled its budgeted allotment to support the town’s unhoused residents to $50,000, which will go toward temporary short-term shelter and public restrooms.Some said the amount was far from enough. At Tuesday night’s council meeting, Councilmember Rob Moore proposed upping the contribution to $100,000 to give each of the 16 reported unhoused residents in town approximately one month out of the year in a hotel.“About half of our folks… have grown up in Los Gatos and have gone to the high school here,” said Jo Griener, founder and director of St. Luke’s Pantry Program, which provides free meals every Tuesday. “And others have lived several to multiple decades in our community, so it’s very much their community.”Council initially allocated $25,000 of its American Rescue Plan Act funds to support unhoused Los Gatans at its Feb. 1 meeting following the intense rainfall and winds this winter that left some residents outside during the wors...

Swiss cut up to $66M in bonuses for top Credit Suisse execs

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:54 GMT

GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss government says it’s ordered cuts to the bonuses of top executives of Credit Suisse, with nearly 1,000 managers being “deprived” of tens of millions combined as the troubled bank heads toward a forced merger with rival UBS.The Federal Council, a seven-member panel that runs Switzerland’s executive branch, announced Wednesday that it has instructed the Finance Department to cancel altogether or reduce by either one-half or one-quarter such bonuses due last year among the top three rungs of management. That will amount to a loss of bonus pay totaling about 50 million to 60 million Swiss francs ($55 million to $66 million).The move comes after Swiss authorities scrambled in mid-March to cobble together a 3 billion Swiss franc ($3.25 billion) sale to UBS of Credit Suisse, which suffered surging outflows of deposits and a plunge in its share price. Two days after the deal was announced, the government said it was temporarily suspending bonus payouts to...

O’Neill not in St. Louis lineup after Marmol criticizes play

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:54 GMT

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Tyler O’Neill was not in the starting lineup Wednesday, a day after his baserunning effort was questioned by manager Oliver Marmol. O’Neill was thrown out by Ronald Acuña Jr. at the plate with two outs and the Cardinals trailing 4-1 in the seventh inning Tuesday night. St. Louis lost the game by the same score. Marmol took issue with O’Neill’s turn around third as he attempted to score from second on a Brendan Donovan pinch-hit liner to right.Marmol, who declined to specify whether starting Dylan Carlson in center field rather than O’Neill was tied directly to Tuesday’s play, doubled down on his criticism before Wednesday’s series finale against the Atlanta Braves.“There’s going to be a style of play that we are known for,” Marmol said. “And it’s going to involve effort. And it’s gonna involve being relentless. It’s gonna involve being smart. And we’re going to keep guys to that. Because that’s how you sustain being g...

Stacey Abrams appointed as Howard University’s first chair for race and Black politics

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:54 GMT

Stacey Abrams is making history at Howard University in D.C. as the institution’s first chair for race and Black politics.Abrams is a former Georgia state representative, Georgia House of Representatives minority leader and first African American woman to win a major party nomination for governor as the Democratic nominee in Georgia.The Ronald W. Walters Endowed Chair for Race and Black Politics will be housed in the Ronald W. Walters Leadership and Public Policy Center at Howard University.More DC NewsMore Local NewsMore Education News“I am honored to serve as the inaugural Ronald W. Walters Endowed Chair for Race and Black Politics, having had the privilege of knowing and learning from Dr. Walters,” Abrams said in a news release. “We are at an inflection point for American and international democracy, and I look forward to engaging Howard University’s extraordinary students in a conversation about where they can influence, shape and direct the critica...

Highway Patrol says at least 4 dead, unknown number injured after predawn tornado tore through southeastern Missouri

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:54 GMT

GLEN ALLEN, Mo. (AP) — Highway Patrol says at least 4 dead, unknown number injured after predawn tornado tore through southeastern Missouri.Source

With Blue Line development ahead, bill would add a Prince George’s County seat to Stadium Authority board

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:54 GMT

This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today.Legislation pending in the Senate would add yet another member to the Maryland Stadium Authority board — this one appointed by the Prince George’s County executive — and provide for $20 million in bond money to be available for bus rapid transit system grants each year in Montgomery County.House Bill 524, as amended, would raise the number of seats on the Stadium Authority board to 10 — an even number, with no provision for a tie-breaker vote — giving Prince George’s County a literal seat at the table. The bill is now in the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee.Meanwhile, the House Appropriations Committee is considering Senate Bill 442, sponsored by Sen. Paul D. Corderman (R-Washington), that would allow for the Stadium Authority to sell an additional $20 million in bonds to cover the shortfall for construction of the Ha...

Del. Darryl Barnes will leave legislature, become partner in Annapolis firm

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:54 GMT

This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today.The longest serving chair of the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland will step down next week to become a partner in an Annapolis lobbying and government relations firm.Del. Darryl Barnes (D-Prince George’s) plans to leave his duties as a legislator April 15 and, on the same day, become a partner in Evans, Barnes & Associates.In addition to joining Gerry Evans and his daughter Hayley at the firm, Barnes will continue to own Quora Alkaline Water and to run the nonprofit organization he founded, Men Aiming Higher, which mentors youth and young men and volunteers in the community.Barnes said that, before making the decision to leave the General Assembly, where’s he has been since 2015, he talked with his family and he cried.“This was a difficult decision for me. I’m going to miss the people that I built long...