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Telluride Bluegrass Festival celebrates 50 years of music and magic this summer

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:12 GMT

When Zach Tucker reflects on the last five decades of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, he’s struck by the fact that the event’s ethos has largely remained the same. Granted, 27-year-old Tucker, who now serves as the director of operations for production company Planet Bluegrass, didn’t attend the festival in its early years. But he’s gleaned as much hearing the stories from old-timers who still work for and attend the event.Telluride Bluegrass Festival, which celebrates its 50th anniversary June 15-18, has always been about enjoying great music in one of the most distinct locations in Colorado.“I get chills every time I crest the hill and come into the valley and see the waterfall at the end,” Tucker said of Telluride, which inhabits a box canyon nestled among 14,000-foot mountain peaks. “It’s the same feeling that hasn’t changed for the last 11 years I’ve made that trek. The first time I rolled in I couldn’t believe that somewhere this beautiful existed in Colorado — o...

Where to eat and drink near Ball Arena for a Denver Nuggets game

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:12 GMT

For the first time in team history, the Denver Nuggets are going to the NBA Finals. The series kicks off on Thursday, June 1, but tickets are really, really expensive. So there will be plenty of fans looking to watch the games, both home and away, in close proximity to Ball Arena, even if they aren’t actually inside. For them, we’ve put together his list of where to go.Society Sports + SpiritsLoDo sports bars can sometimes be as two-dimensional as their big-screen TVs. But Society goes way beyond that with three enormous projectors, 28 flat-screens and four “sound zones” on multiple levels. The food menu includes chicken fried bacon, sandwiches on Texas toast, and wings, wings, wings. 1434 Blake St.; societydenver.com.Nola Jane Restaurant & BarPickle shots and po’boys are on the menu at Nola Jane, along with plenty of other Cajun and Creole specialties, like gumbo, fried okra, jalapeno hushpuppies, catfish, cornbread and shrimp and grits. A popular pregam...

Off-duty Marines beaten by crowd in San Clemente: video

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:12 GMT

The Orange County Sheriff's Department continues its investigation Tuesday into a fight recorded on video last week showing two Marines being beaten by a crowd at the San Clemente Pier.The video taken on May 26 shows several Marines walking away from a crowd of what appears to be primarily teenagers and young adults when someone appears to throw something at one of the Marines. The Marine then turns and charges into the crowd where he is punched several times.Later, the video shows two Marines curled up in the fetal position as they are being punched and kicked by several crowd members.The fight was eventually broken up by some adults. San Clemente Mayor Chris Duncan said no one was seriously hurt but that the behavior is "absolutely unacceptable."The City Council has voted to hire four more deputies to patrol the beach areas. A sign left near the pier read "SC supports our Marines."No arrests have been made.

Stanford team makes electronic skin that can sense touch

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:12 GMT

Stanford scientists have developed a soft and stretchable electronic skin that can directly talk to the brain, imitating the sensory feedback of real skin using a strategy that, if improved, could offer hope to millions of people with prosthetic limbs.“We were inspired by the natural system and wanted to mimic it,” said Weichen Wang, whose team published its success in the journal Science. “Maybe we can someday help patients to not only restore motor function, but also restore their sensations.”Much faster, larger and more sophisticated circuitry is needed before so-called “e-skin” holds promise for people.But, in a milestone, the device showed remarkable success in a lab rat. When researchers pressed the rat’s e-skin and sent electronic pulses to its brain, the animal responded by twitching its leg.Scientists have long dreamed of building prosthetic limbs that not only restore movement but also provide perception – sensing pressure, temperature and vibration, for ...

Jury finds in favor of California toy maker in legal dispute with rapper Clifford ‘T.I.’ Harris and his wife

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:12 GMT

A federal jury in Santa Ana on Friday ruled against a legal claim by rapper Clifford “T.I.” Harris and singer-songwriter Tameka “Tiny” Harris’ that a Chatsworth-based toy manufacturer stole the name and likeness of a girl group they managed in creating a popular line of dolls.The husband and wife musicians sought nearly $100 million from MGA Entertainment, Inc., which began selling the OMG LOL Surprise dolls in 2019.The Harris family claimed the hair, dress and name of the dolls were nearly identical to the OMG Girlz, a trio of teenage singers promoted by the couple from 2009 until 2015, and during a brief 2017 reunion.When the Harris family sent a cease-and-desist order to MGA in 2020, the company sued back.SEE: Rapper T.I. and singer Tiny’s lawsuit against Chatsworth toymaker goes to trial in Santa AnaThe toy maker prevailed on Friday, May 26 after their attorneys argued the girl group allowed their trademark on the OMG Girlz name to lapse in 2018.“They abandoned it,” Jennifer Kel...

Tickets go on sale for In-N-Out Burger’s 75th anniversary festival

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:12 GMT

Tickets are on sale for In-N-Out Burger’s 75th anniversary bash, Oct. 22 at the In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip. Tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for children 3-12 years old.Admission includes a festival, drag racing, car show and carnival rides. In-N-Out cookout trucks will be on hand as well as other concessions.Sean Ellington and his wife, Lynsi Snyder-Ellingsonon, CEO of In-N-Out Burger announce that the event raised over $430,000. The event helped the foundation, Slave 2 Nothing and Truckers Against Trafficking on Saturday January 21, 2023, in Costa Mesa, California. (Photo by Michael Kitada, Contributing Photographer)Funny Car winner Matt Hagan celebrates with race fans after winning the 63rd NHRA Winternationals at the newly renamed In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip in Pomona on Sunday, Apr. 2, 2023. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)Nick Hexum of 311 performs during KROQ 106.7/FM’s annual Weenie Roast at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point on Satu...

Where do people go when they leave California and why?

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:12 GMT

The top-line number was eye-opening: About 725,000 people moved out of California in 2020 to set up new lives in one of the 49 other states or Washington, D.C.If that were the end of it, the number – derived from the Internal Revenue Service’s Migration Data for 2021 – would’ve represented the biggest single-year exodus in state history.But it wasn’t the end of it. While experts say the reasons are more nuanced than the gross outflow of a single year, California’s population has been shrinking steadily since 2020. Recent state data shows California’s population today is a little under 39 million, after flirting with 40 million just four years ago.A lot of other new data shows where people are going (Texas, Idaho and Florida, as well as neighboring Arizona and Nevada). Polling reports show who is leaving (higher-income, well-educated workers recently started to join a migration pattern that traditionally has been dominated by lower-income movers). And yet other data shows at least so...

Monterey masseuse convicted of sexual battery of clients

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:12 GMT

SALINAS – A Monterey masseuse was convicted of sexual battery in Monterey Superior Court this week after a jury trial, the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday.Wuguang Wang, 29, was convicted of touching a female patron’s breasts during her massage appointment.On Jan. 1, 2022, Jane Doe – the victim – was in Monterey with her husband and two children for a short holiday, the DA’s Office said in a press release. During the trip, Doe made an appointment for a massage at a local spa in Monterey.At around 4 p.m., Doe arrived for her appointment, and after what began as a “normal massage,” according to the DA’s Office, Wang began “touching Joe Doe’s breasts.”Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Former corrections officer charged with sexually assaulting 13 at California women’s prison Crime and Public Safety | JPMorgan Chase blames Virgin Islands for Jeffrey Epstein sex crimes Crime and Public Safety | Indian wrestle...

Faces of Monterey County floods: Out of work, overlooked and afraid

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:12 GMT

Less than 5.5%. That’s how much of Monterey County’s productive farmland felt the impacts of rain and flooding this winter.Just under 20,100 of 366,000 acres.One 18th.And still, losses and damages to the local ag industry are expected to top $600 million. Individually, growers are frustrated, left wondering if cropland that suffered while runoff charged down the Salinas River could have been spared. Field work was delayed, in some cases, for months. Houses were lost, rent payments were put on hold, costs condensed, anxieties heightened and security ebbed.That 5.5% starts to feel pretty big. Especially for those facing the strain of a sodden start to the growing season firsthand.Farmworkers in Gonzales agricultural fields on May 5, 2023. (Tess Kenny/Monterey Herald) Over the last month and a half, as floodwaters receded and dry weather set in, the Herald interviewed farmworkers and ag laborers impacted by storms in January and March. Through interpreters, they detailed challenge...

Downtown San Jose lands several new merchants as area rebound sprouts

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:12 GMT

Fox Tale Fermentation Project (left) and Hula Bar And Kitchen restaurant (right), located at 30 East Santa Clara Street in downtown San Jose. (George Avalos/Bay Area News Group)SAN JOSE — Some sections of downtown San Jose are starting to land a fresh crop of restaurants, bars and other establishments as new businesses sprout in the economic rubble left behind by the coronavirus pandemic.A burst of leases bringing new ventures to several spots is raising hopes that downtown San Jose’s post-coronavirus recovery has finally begun to take root.Fountain Alley, South First Street and East Santa Clara Street are among the areas seeing some activity in the form of new leases. Still, if a rebound is underway, it’s likely only in the very early stages.Downtown San Jose is characterized by a block here or there of lively activity. Yet each hub is akin to an oasis of vibrant energy hemmed in by economic wastelands of empty commercial fronts that stare out at pedestrians ...