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Infinite Joyce Carol Oates: The Prolific Writer Takes On Dead Wallace

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:30 GMT

Via our sister paper The Village Voice:  A look at Joyce Carol Oates’ latest, in which she continues to move up literature’s ladder, looking down upon some of those who didn’t have her stamina.  “The day of Vladimir Nabokov’s death — July 2, 1977 — is firmly fixed in my memory, for on the following day Donald Barthelme said casually to me, ‘Happy? Nabokov died yesterday, we all move up a notch.’” Now, 46 years and many deaths — including Barthelme’s — later, there are presumably few notches left above Joyce Carol Oates.Over the past six decades, she’s been acclaimed (she won the 1970 National Book Award and received a National Humanities Medal in 2010, among other honors), popular (she appeared on Oprah’s Book Club in 2001), and prolific (she’s published well over a hundred books — as a novelist, short story writer, critic, and poet).The opening quote, with its image of Oates already, almost half a century ago, nearing the summit of American letters, hints at her present ...

Stanford president retracts papers following allegations

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:30 GMT

In an admission that caps his downfall from one of the most prestigious posts in academic research, Stanford University president and noted neuroscientist Marc Tessier-Lavigne has retracted two scientific papers bearing his name as an author because of evidence that they contained altered images.The decision, announced in two letters in Thursday’s issue of the journal Science, comes after Tessier-Lavigne’s July 19 resignation as the university’s leader and an official investigation by Stanford’s Board of Trustees into the 2001 research, which described the development and growth of the nervous system.In his statements, Tessier-Lavigne does not say whether the Photoshopped “beautification,” duplication and formatting problems — “undermining confidence in the paper’s conclusions,” he wrote — were caused by error or misconduct. No one has imputed the alterations to Tessier-Lavigne; his fault was a failure to detect and correct the problems.Articles are retracted when ...

Taylor Swift’s ‘The Eras Tour’ concert film is coming to movie theaters Oct. 13

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:30 GMT

If you missed seeing one of Taylor Swift’s six The Ears Tour shows at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood earlier this month, you can now see the show in your local theater. Fans who attended the first three of Swift’s shows at SoFi Stadium saw all of the cameras on stage filming her every move.Swift announced on her social media channels on Thursday, Aug. 31 that “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” concert film will be hitting movie screens starting on Friday, Oct. 13. For a complete list of theaters and showing times, go to taylorswift.com.ALSO SEE: Review: Taylor Swift triumphs with epic concert performance at Levi’s Stadium View this post on InstagramA post shared by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift)Related ArticlesMovies | The hits keep coming: Beyonce, Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran shows raise big bucks in Bay Area Movies | Queen Bey or Mayor Bey?: Santa Clara to name Beyonce honorary mayor, give her the key to the city ahead of Levi’s show Movies | T...

Six-bedroom home sells in Los Gatos for $6 million

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:30 GMT

17400 Phillips Avenue – Google Street ViewThe spacious property located in the 17400 block of Phillips Avenue in Los Gatos was sold on Aug. 14, 2023 for $6,000,000, or $1,343 per square foot. The house, built in 1977, has an interior space of 4,467 square feet. This two-story home boasts a generous living space with six bedrooms and five bathrooms. Additionally, the house features a four-car garage, providing ample room for vehicles and storage needs. The property’s backyard showcases both a spa and a pool.Additional houses that have recently been purchased close by include:On Crescent Drive, Los Gatos, in April 2023, a 3,341-square-foot home was sold for $5,025,000, a price per square foot of $1,504. The home has 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.A 3,170-square-foot home on the 17200 block of Crescent Drive in Los Gatos sold in May 2023, for $3,300,000, a price per square foot of $1,041. The home has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.In July 2023, a 3,070-square-foot home on Crescent Drive in Lo...

How can LA combat its fentanyl crisis? MacArthur Park offers clues

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:30 GMT

A walk through the alleyways around MacArthur Park reveals the harsh landscape of Los Angeles’s fentanyl epidemic.People pass out with a burned piece of tin foil in one hand and a butane torch lighter in the other. Those who are awake often hunch over to cope with the bone-deep aches of withdrawals.A man passes out in a Los Angeles alley near MacArthur Park after using fentanyl as others watch to make sure he was not overdosing. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) But a closer look also shows seeds of hope.There are grassroots efforts working to connect people who use fentanyl with help. There’s a passionate young councilmember trying to launch an overdose prevention team and a harm reduction center offering resources to people who use drugs. There are public health professionals advocating for easier access to addiction-fighting medication.“We are trying to saturate this area with life-affirming responses and services,” said Councilmember Eunisses Hernand...

Joe Montana gives his take on 49ers’ QB situation, Nick Bosa holdout

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:30 GMT

If there’s anyone who would know all about the San Francisco 49ers and quarterback controversies, it’d be Joe Montana.The four-time Super Bowl champion and three-time Super Bowl MVP had plenty to say as he made a media blitz while promoting a new whiskey on Thursday morning, when he appeared on 95.7 The Game, KNBR and ESPN’s First Take, all in the 8 a.m. PR hour.What did the Hall of Famer who had a years-long QB saga with another Hall of Famer in Steve Young think of the 49ers’ trade of Trey Lance? Montana called it a “tough situation” but thinks it may work out for all parties involved.“I think the biggest thing for Trey is that he needs to find a place that he’s comfortable in the system, and I don’t think I ever saw a comfort level for him in that 49ers’] system,” Montana said on ESPN. “It’s a system that is played inside the pocket and he came from a system in college that always got outside and he had different reads that happened. The pocket is not a place to learn to throw fr...

Map: Two wildfires merge in Northern California’s Smith River complex

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:30 GMT

The Smith River wildfire complex surpassed 80,000 acres on a day of increased fire activity.Amid strong wind and low humidity Wednesday, the Kelly and Coon fires merged at the complex’s southwest edge, said the daily report from the forest service’s fire managers.The acreage burned was at 83,974 acres (131 square miles), with 8% containment. The control line remained secure at the edge of the evacuated community of Gasquet, the report said.To the southeast, the Happy Camp complex also saw the merging of two fires, Ufish and Malone. That complex is at 25,503 acres (40 square miles) with 45% containment.The map above shows the mandatory evacuation areas in reddish tint and the approximate perimeters of the largest fires in black.A cold front was moving in to northwest California on Thursday, and cloudy, cool weather was expected for the rest of the week.The Smith River and Happy Camp fires started during lightning storms on Aug. 15-16, and Smith River is California’s...

Fearing economic disaster, Maui wants tourists to return. But feelings are complicated

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:30 GMT

By Julia Wick, Jaweed Kaleem, Christopher Reynolds and Emerson Drewes, Los Angeles TimesKIHEI, Hawaii — The line at Paia Fish Market usually extends so far down the main drag that staffers can’t see the end of it through their front window.But that hasn’t been the case as of late, with tragedy on Maui slowing foot traffic in typically busy spots to a trickle.“Today is the lowest it’s been so far,” said Lehua Jimenez, 21, a cashier at the popular restaurant in Paia — a windsurfing destination on Maui’s North Shore. “It’s continually decreasing.”Paia is half an island away from Lahaina, where the restaurant’s other location was among more than 2,000 structures destroyed in a wildfire this month. But the Paia location was seeing about a fifth of typical sales, said Jimenez. The Maui native and her co-workers were far from the only ones feeling the economic pain.The restaurant had only been open a few hours on a recent weekday and five people had already come in looking for jobs, Jimene...

Pedestrian killed, driver arrested for alleged DUI in Fairfield

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:30 GMT

(BCN) -- A pedestrian was struck and killed by an allegedly impaired driver Wednesday night in Fairfield, police said. A man on a motor scooter was crossing Travis Boulevard and Clay Street shortly before 10:45 p.m. when he was struck by a black 2001 Honda Accord, Fairfield police said. The pedestrian, who is not being identified at this time, suffered severe injuries and died at the scene. Beyoncé gives ‘Beyhive’ a show to remember at Levi’s Stadium Police arrested the driver of the Honda, 60-year-old Willie Weaver of Fairfield, on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs. He was booked into jail on suspicion of gross vehicular manslaughter. The collision shut down traffic in both directions on Travis Boulevard between Clay and Washington streets for several hours. Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

Your phone will be blaring on this day for nationwide test alert

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:30 GMT

(KRON) -- The Federal Communications Commission and FEMA will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alerts this fall.The national test will consist of two portions, testing WEA and EAS capabilities. Both tests are scheduled to begin at 5:20 p.m. on Wednesday, October 4.The WEA portion of the test will be directed to all cellphones. The EAS portion of the test will be sent to radios and televisions. All wireless phones will receive the message only once. The following can be expected from the nationwide WEA test:Beginning at 5:20 p.m., cell towers will broadcast the test for approximately 30 minutes. A message will appear on your phone reading, "THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed."Phones set to Spanish will display: "ESTA ES UNA PRUEBA del Sistema Nacional de Alerta de Emergencia. No se necesita acción."The alerts will be accompanied by a loud unique tone and vibration. The purpose of the Octobe...