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Hurricane Otis weakens to Category 4 storm while heavy rains and flash floods batter southern Mexico
Otis had strengthened rapidly, going from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in 12 hours Tuesday.
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Horoscopes Oct. 25, 2023: Katy Perry, don’t sit on the sideline
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Ciara, 38; Katy Perry, 39; Josh Henderson, 42; Persia White, 51. Happy Birthday: Stop hesitating; make things happen. If you believe in yourself, you can negotiate, propose and control the outcome of anything you engage in and let your skills, experience and discipline kick in and take over. The opportunities…
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2 million dimes stolen, alleged thieves try to convert to cash
Four people have been charged after allegedly stealing 2 million dimes and trying to convert them into cash at Coinstar machines.
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Eye of Hurricane Otis makes landfall near Mexico’s Acapulco resort as catastrophic Category 5 storm
Otis rapidly intensified Tuesday, growing from a tropical storm to a Category 5 monster in 12 hours.
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Hallow-Weird!
“Pumpkinhead is on display at our office,” Anthony Austin says into the microphone. “We see it everyday.” To his left stands a seven foot tall, lifelike replica of the demonic monster from the 1988 horror classic, Pumpkinhead. The creature stands in all its glory with spindly veins, sunken ribs, massive, flesh ripping claws and its…
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After season-opening loss, Chris Paul and the Warriors will try to avoid being ‘too unselfish’
SAN FRANCISCO — Thirty-two minutes. That’s how long it took the fans at Chase Center to start chanting for the same man they once rooted so deeply against. “C-P-THREE,” they screamed after Chris Paul drained a free-throw that temporarily gave the Warriors their biggest lead of the night. “C-P-THREE.” It didn’t start well for Paul,…
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Laugh Loaded
Imagine a precision ‘30s screwball comedy in which a central character—John Cleese filtered through Burns & Allen—unleashes linguistic distortions as well as elegant solutions with the random genius of a blackjack dealer. The voice! Quicksilver with a splash of mince. Add the speed and the nimbleness of a Charlie Chaplin. There you have actor Danny…
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Bonny-ween, Spooktacle, Monster Song
Local musicians Bonny June and Ken Kraft answered my phone call in the voices of their alter-egos, Countess June and Count Kraftula. Vampire-vaudeville is not a genre currently on any Billboard charts, but as they told me about the creepy, hilarious songs they’re working on lately, I started to think it could be. June and…
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Sí to ‘Nadas
The details of an empanada can elevate what’s inside. That said, the interior ingredients from the premiere empa-empire of the area, Fonda Felix, are done with tastebud IQ—note the braised pork shoulder and purple chile, the Argentinian beef, the black bean mole-plantain, the rock cod-seaweed, and the Halloween-inspired pumpkin-brown sugar-coconut. But details like the specific…
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Tropical Notes
Winemakers John Overstreet and Neil Perrelli have been involved in making wine at their Villa del Monte Winery for a very long time, and the wines get better and better. Theirs is not a big operation, and their tasting room in the Santa Cruz Mountains is a rustic and laid-back site. But all are welcome…
