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Hollywood writers go on strike after negotiations fail

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:51 GMT

Hollywood writers are now on strike as talks between the Writer’s Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers concluded Monday without an agreement.  This is the first WGA strike in more than 10 years with more than 11,000 television and film writers expected to walk off the job.   “You’re going to see picket signs going up in front of studios, in front of various other offices, as well as you’re going to start seeing a number of shows shut down instantly,” Deadline Hollywood Senior Editor Dominic Patten told KTLA.  ‘SNL,’ late-night shows and more to be impacted by looming WGA strike WGA and AMPTP have been in talks for more than a month, with writers pushing for better base pay and an increase in residual money, saying that half of all writers are currently earning scale – the bare minimum of their contract. They also want higher contributions to their pension plan and health fund. Television and film executives, on the other hand,...

Coi Leray’s Body and Choice

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:51 GMT

Coi Leray’s Body and Choice: Rapper Coi Leray has released new single “My Body” and it’s a destined to be a lively summer anthem.A play on Lesley Gore’s classic “It’s My Party,” Leray sings in the refrain, “It’s my body and I’ll fuck who I want to… it’s nothing new, you’re just sad it ain’t you.”“’My Body’ is a liberating, sex-positive anthem that has Coi unapologetically declare that she and women everywhere can do whatever (and whoever) they want without reservation,” reads the press release. “Sampling the iconic 1963 classic ‘It’s My Party’ by Lesley Gore, Coi throws her own twist to the song while celebrating female empowerment and sexuality, further driving her point that girls can be players too.”It continues: “‘My Body’ follows the release of yesterday’s fittingly-titled single, ‘Bops,’ which proudly proves her...

Prep roundup: Mitty softball rallies at Hollister, Gilroy upsets another top team

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:51 GMT

No. 2 Archbishop Mitty 3, Hollister 2The Monarchs rallied from a deficit with a three-run fifth inning to down host Hollister on Monday afternoon and improve to 17-2. Mitty loaded the bases for McKenna Woliczko, a freshman who is batting over .400 on the season. Woliczko cleared the bases with a single into center, a play aided by an error by the outfielder. Alyssa Onyeagwa, Hannah Kitchener and Corri Hicks ran across home plate. Freshman pitcher Kyleigh Mace pitched all seven innings for Mitty, allowing four hits and striking out three against a Hollister team ranked by MaxPreps as the fifth-best in California.The game might have been a preview of a possible matchup in the CCS or NorCal playoffs. Archbishop Mitty will return to West Catholic Athletic League play on Wednesday with a game against Presentation, and will travel to No. 2 St. Francis on Friday.No. 1 St. Francis 10, No. 14 St. Ignatius 0The Lancers made quick work of WCAL opponent St. Ignatius on Monday afternoon, dispatc...

Antioch: Shooting leaves man dead inside car in 7-Eleven parking lot

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:51 GMT

ANTIOCH — A 31-year-old man was shot to death Monday night, apparently inside a vehicle, police said.Officers responded to the parking lot of a 7-Eleven in the 2700 block of Hillcrest Avenue about 7:40 p.m. after reports of a solo vehicle crash, according to a statement from Antioch police Lt. John Fortner. Once there, they found the man in the driver’s seat with one gunshot wound.Fortner said evidence at the scene indicated the shooting likely happened inside the car.Police called for paramedics and began administering first aid, but authorities pronounced the man dead at the scene.Authorities did not identify him early Tuesday, pending notification of his next of kin.The homicide is the second one this year in the city of Antioch.Citizens that spoke with police reported that two other people ran from the car, Fortner said. Police have not located them. No arrests were made.Detectives with the department’s Violent Crimes Unit have taken over the investigation, and...

Streak of dry weather ends as scattered showers reach Bay Area

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:51 GMT

The blissful run of sunshine and dry days throughout the Bay Area is expected to pause Tuesday as scattered rain showers, and even some brief thunderstorms could touch down through the middle of the week.National Weather Service forecasts predicted that rain showers are likely in most parts of the Bay Area between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Tuesday, including San Jose and the South Bay, San Francisco and down the Peninsula, Oakland and the East Bay and much of Contra Costa County. Most places, besides San Francisco, were predicted for less than one-tenth of an inch of rain total while The City was expected to see between one-tenth and one-quarter of an inch.NWS radar showed the scattered nature of the rain patterns with pockets of dry in-between the storms.Brief, yet intense thunderstorms could pop up throughout the region Tuesday, possibly giving areas more rain than initially forecast, according to the NWS. Even small bouts of hail were deemed possible.Scattered showers and even a few sto...

One man’s quest to diversify our doctors — without considering race — made UC Davis a model for a post-affirmative action world

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:51 GMT

When Dr. Mark Henderson took over admissions at UC Davis School of Medicine in 2007, about 15% of incoming students were Black, Hispanic or Indigenous, groups that are historically underrepresented in medicine.Since then, that number has more than tripled, climbing to 53% — a remarkable turnaround that could inspire other medical schools as they navigate a future post-affirmative action world.The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to rule this spring on a case that challenges race-based admissions programs, jeopardizing affirmative action at public colleges and universities around the nation.California hasn’t allowed affirmative action in admissions since voters approved Proposition 209 in 1996. But a strategy crafted by Henderson, whose commitment to diversity was forged by his working-class childhood in San Jose, shows that it’s possible to create a multiracial campus using alternative means. His team has transformed the university’s School of Medicine into what U.S. News &a...

Hollywood writers go on strike, blasting gig economy within industry

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:51 GMT

By JAKE COYLE (AP Film Writer)NEW YORK (AP) — Television and movie writers declared late Monday they will launch a strike for the first time in 15 years, as Hollywood girded for a walkout with potentially widespread ramifications in a fight over fair pay in the streaming era.The Writers Guild of America said that its 11,500 unionized screenwriters will head to the picket lines Tuesday. Negotiations between studios and the writers, which began in March, failed to reach a new contract before the writers’ current deal expired just after midnight, at 12:01 a.m. PDT Tuesday. All script writing is to immediately cease, the guild informed its members.The board of directors for the WGA, which includes both a West and an East branch, voted unanimously to call for a strike, effective at the stroke of midnight. The guild is seeking higher minimum pay, less thinly staffed writing rooms, shorter exclusive contracts and a reworking of residual pay — all conditions the WGA says have been diminishe...

‘Jerk’ bicyclists are a bigger danger than cars, Roadshow reader says

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:51 GMT

Q: Since you’ve covered cyclists a lot lately, can I comment on the nightmare that is being a cyclist dealing with others on bikes who are a constant danger to everyone by riding on sidewalks, riding against traffic, riding too fast on their “electric bikes” (which are really mopeds), and running stop signs and red lights?As a daily bike commuter, these jerks are a bigger danger to me than cars. I was almost in a head-on collision with one of these “salmon” recently. They expect us law-abiding cyclists to be the ones who swerve into traffic to avoid them. No amount of arrows and signs seem to convince these road hazards to behave.We have a fantastic cycling infrastructure in the Bay Area, but these dimwits ruin my ride daily. Can anything be done? This behavior by a driver would end up with a suspended license or an impound. That should happen to bikes, too.Sarah SchummA: I understand your perspective, and it’s a valuable one to hear. There’s not a lot that can be done i...

Alameda County renter advocates warn of landlord lobby’s “fake tenant’s rights website” 

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:51 GMT

When the website AlamedaRentersRights.com launched recently, it seemed innocuous enough. It claimed to be aimed at informing renters in Alameda County about tenant protections–an issue of increased interest since the county’s eviction moratorium expired last week.It even features a video on its homepage featuring two Alameda County supervisors, David Haubert and Lena Tam, encouraging renters to know their rights.“California has some of the strongest renter protection laws in the country,” the website declares. “Here’s what you need to know about laws that protect renters.”The problem, say local tenant advocates, is that the website is run by the California Apartment Association, a landlord lobby group, and is spreading misinformation, as well as diverting renters searching for help online away from valuable resources. In a statement, the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), a local grassroots organization working on racial and economic justice issues, likened t...

Bay Area tech layoff plans in 2023 already top the total for all of 2022

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:51 GMT

Bay Area tech job cuts revealed so far in 2023 have already topped the total for all of 2022, an ominous reminder of the widening waves of layoffs that the technology industry has orchestrated.Over the first one-third of 2023, a period of four months, tech companies have revealed plans to chop well over 12,000 Bay Area jobs, this new organization’s review of official state labor filings shows.The 12,318 job cuts affecting tech workers in the Bay Area that have been revealed so far in 2023 now exceed — by a wide margin — the 10,457 tech sector layoffs disclosed in the nine-county region during all 12 months of 2022, WARN notices on file with the state Employment Development Department show.The latest tech layoffs in the Bay Area include a disclosure by Facebook app owner Meta Platforms that the company is planning more than 1,500 layoffs in June and July, according to the EDD filings.Bottom line: Tech industry layoffs during 2023 are galloping ahead at a far more br...