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Meet Real Unreal Painter Andrea Nakhla

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:16 GMT

Andrea Nakhla formulates compositions using hybrid means—blending elements, tools, and techniques along a continuum of real, hyperreal, and surreal in scenes of heightened symbolism and inscrutable, urgent events. With the strange logic of a dream, her sensibility references the way digital visions render space in vectors, along with how the hands work up gestures in paint. With arcades and windows opening onto far and level horizons of de Chirico-like sands, her rooms are built of patterned planes, torqued angles, paintings within paintings, stylized furniture, and poetic objects of mystery. These palaces of invention have a jazzy, interpretive relationship to conventions of landscape and architecture, and are inhabited by sleek, anthropoid figures in ceremonial poses. Also like in dreams, Nakhla’s scenes tease a fusion of the invented and remembered, enacting meditations on the mind-body connection and the ultimate source of meaning. Her work is currently on view at Luna Anais Gal...

Fall DineLA Kicks Off On Friday, October 6

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:16 GMT

Fall DineLA, the second part of Dine LA’s 15th anniversary celebration, takes place from Friday, Oct. 6, through Friday, Oct. 20, and will feature a lineup of 66 new restaurants and 45 Michelin-rated restaurants.Among hundreds of dining deals, new participants include Fishwives in Pasadena, LULU at the Hammer Museum in Westwood, Baar Baar in DTLA, Porterhouse Bourbon & Bones, Confections by Kirari West and Fansea Sushi in the South Bay, Lavo Ristorante in West Hollywood, Dulan’s Soul Food Kitchen in Inglewood, and the first Black and woman-owned wine bar, 1010 Wine and Events in South LA. Other additions include Via Veneto in Santa Monica, Fig Tree in Venice, San Fernando Valley staples Jinya Ramen Bar in Studio City, and Granville in North Hollywood. Osteria Mamma will offer a two-course lunch menu ($35 + tax and gratuity) featuring its Crostino (fresh bufala burrata cheese crostini with black truffle, 24-month aged S. Daniele prosciutto and Tagliatelle al Ragú (beef Bolognese ...

Man dies after being wounded by gunshots fired into his Oakland home

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:16 GMT

OAKLAND — A 26-year-old man died after he was hit by gunshots deliberately fired into his East Oakland by someone from outside on Sunday night, authorities said.Some children and other adults inside the residence were not injured, authorities said.The name of the man killed was not immediately released.The shooting happened about 11 p.m. Sunday in the 7800 block of Arthur Street, a primarily residential area not far from Arroyo Viejo Park.Police said the man was inside the home with at least a half dozen others, including some small children and adults.Someone standing outside the building fired numerous shots into the home, with bullets going through walls of the residence.The man was the only one hit by the gunfire. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 12:10 a.m. Monday, authorities said.Police were working to establish a motive for the shooting. No arrests were announced.The killing is the 97th homicide investigated by Oakland police this year. Last y...

Which is California’s toughest town to rent an apartment?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:16 GMT

 ”Survey says” looks at various rankings and scorecards judging geographic locations while noting these grades are best seen as a mix of artful interpretation and data.Buzz: Three California coastal markets are the hardest spots in the state to find an apartment while two Bay Area markets are the easiest.Source: My trusty spreadsheet reviewed the California slice of RentCafe’s study of 139 markets nationwide. The analysis showed the most competitive places to find an apartment and included 12 California markets.ToplineSo, what makes a town a tough market for renters? Compare California’s six most-competitive markets with its six least-competitive.All six of the hardest-to-rent markets – San Diego, Central Coast, Orange County, Silicon Valley, Central Valley and Eastern LA County – had above-average competitiveness grades on a national scale. San Diego ranked 18th most competitive, and OC was ranked 19th.Think about these measurements …Empty units: This availability...

Alleged gang members arrested after Santa Rosa traffic stop

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:16 GMT

(KRON) – The Santa Rosa Police Department has arrested alleged gang participants for possessing a loaded handgun in a vehicle. Santa Rosa police's Special Enforcement Team officers were patrolling the area of Sunset Avenue and McMinn Avenue on the night of Sept. 30. According to police, officers recognized the driver of a vehicle as 18-year-old Anthony Hernandez, who is currently on pretrial release stemming from a previous vehicle pursuit and firearm-related arrest.  Person missing after possible shark attack at Point Reyes beach Along with Hernandez, there was a 16-year-old passenger in the vehicle. According to police, officers initiated a traffic stop “to ensure Hernandez was in compliance with the terms of his release.” The occupants of the vehicle were detained and the car was searched. Officers located a loaded 40-caliber handgun under the passenger seat. Hernandez was arrested and booked at the Sonoma County jail for the charges of possessing an unregistered fire...

BART announces new chief of police

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:16 GMT

(BCN) -- A new BART police chief has been selected after a nationwide search, according to BART General Manager Bob Powers on Sunday.Kevin Franklin is being promoted from interim chief to chief, Powers said. Franklin had been made interim chief in May."Chief Franklin is a life-long BART rider with an intimate knowledge of the system and its police department," said Powers in a statement released by the agency. "Kevin was instrumental in BPD's new deployment strategy that has significantly increased the presence of uniformed police personnel on trains and in stations. He is not only detail-oriented, but a creative thinker with a deep commitment to our community. I am confident his leadership will help BART continue to improve the safety of our riders."BART is attributing several safety improvements to Franklin, including the highest year-to-date arrests since the pandemic and an average response time to priority calls of 4 minutes.According to BART, Franklin is an Oakland native who ...

Jimmy Butler has a new look, and even the Heat were surprised by it

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:16 GMT

MIAMI (AP) — Jimmy Butler had a new look for Media Day, and the NBA world immediately took notice.The Miami Heat forward arrived for the team’s first official day of work this season with piercings — eye, lip and nose — along with a new hairstyle and his fingernails painted black.It’s become a trend of sorts for Butler, who went through the Media Day gamut last year with dreadlocks in a deviation from his usual look.“I’m very emotional right now. This is my emo state and I like this. This is me,” Butler said. “This is how I’m feeling as of late.”Teammates, it seemed, were caught a bit off guard. Heat center Bam Adebayo — who hadn’t seen his teammate before meeting with reporters — thought someone had photoshopped something when a reporter showed him photos of Butler’s look for the day.“That is not real. … That is (expletive) hilarious,” Adebayo said.Still unclear: If Butler will keep the look when Miami opens practice on Tuesday. The team wi...

Stock market today: Wall Street drifts as the bond market cranks up the pressure and oil prices ease

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:16 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are drifting Monday as the constrictor of higher interest rates tightens its coils around Wall Street.The S&P 500 was 0.2% lower in morning trading, coming off its worst month of the year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 117 points, or 0.4%, at 33,389, as of 10:30 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.3% higher.Slumps for oil-and-gas stocks weighed on the market after crude prices gave back some of their sharp gains since the summer. The majority of stocks fell alongside them, but gains for Apple and some other Big Tech stocks helped to limit the market’s losses.Stocks have broadly given back about 40% of their strong gains for the year since the end of July. The main reason is Wall Street’s growing acceptance that high interest rates are here to stay a while as the Federal Reserve tries to knock high inflation lower. That in turn has pushed Treasury yields to their highest levels in more than a decade, which makes investors less...

Muere Cecilia Priego, actriz de “La reina del sur”

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:16 GMT

La actriz mexicana Cecilia Priego, conocida por su papel en la serie “La reina del sur”, murió el sábado a los 36 años, informó su padre en las redes sociales y reportaron varios medios. “Hoy se cierra el telón para ti en la tierra pero seguro estamos que tu presencia y tú legado traspasara más allá y continuarás tu proyecto en el cielo creando y organizando teatro en el cielo para tus abuelos, tíos, primos y amigos”, escribió su padre Freddy Persa, quien es cantante. Aunque el padre no dijo exactamente la causa de muerte de la actriz, hizo alusión a la “batalla de tu enfermedad” en la publicación.La actriz había revelado que desde 2021 estaba luchando contra un cáncer cervicouterino y había sido sometida a una histerectomia. De acuerdo con El Universal, Priego era originaria de Tabasco y estudió licenciatura en Gestión y promoción de la cultura. Además de La reina del sur, Priego también participó en Lo que callamos las mujeres, Pobre Diabla y Á...

An Oscar that has been missing for over 50 years is replaced at Howard University

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:16 GMT

Jacqueline Stewart, Director and President of the Academy Museum holding the plaque and Executive Vice President of Oscars Strategy Teni Melidonian at the podium on Oct. 1, 2023.(Courtesy Howard University) Jacqueline Stewart, Director and President of the Academy Museum holding the plaque and Executive Vice President of Oscars Strategy Teni Melidonian at the podium on Oct. 1, 2023.(Courtesy Howard University) The first ever Oscar to be awarded to a Black winner went missing over 50 years ago at Howard University in D.C., but that award was replaced on Sunday.The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences replaced the Oscar during the “Hattie’s Come Home” ceremony Sunday evening.“I since...