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From Rico Nasty to Hard-Ons — the New LA Weekly Playlist is Live

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:42:24 GMT

From Rico Nasty to Hard-Ons: The 159th LA Weekly playlist, reviewing the musicians that we’ve been writing about all week, is live now. There’s electronic music from Victor Calderone, video game music from Winifred Phillips and Chase Bethea, hip-hop from grouptherapy and Rico Nasty, pop from Ariana Grande, punk from the Hard-Ons and the Saints, metal from Sepultura and Anthrax, and so much more. Find us on Spotify here,or on Soundcloud here.Don’t forget to “Like” the playlists and “Follow” the profiles.Winifred Phillips (Winnie Waldron)From Rico Nasty to Hard-OnsAlso this week:In our gamer music print story, composer Winifred Phillips said, “Composing for video games is really about thinking outside the box. Instead of composing a linear piece of music that has a specified beginning, middle and end, you’re creating music in component parts that can be disassembled on the fly by the game engine and then reassembled into lots of different configurations depending upon what the player’...

Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham sells La Quinta mansion for $6.6 million

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:42:24 GMT

The entry courtyard. (Photo by Chris Miller)The lounging half of the great room. (Photo by Chris Miller)The kitchen. (Photo by Chris Miller)A glass wall divides the formal dining room from the wine room. (Photo by Chris Miller)The primary suite. (Photo by Chris Miller)Show Caption of ExpandLindsey Buckingham has sold his La Quinta golf retreat for $6.6 million.The 73-year-old singer, best known as the lead guitarist and co-vocalist of Fleetwood Mac, got the price he sought when his custom residence in the luxury community of the Hideway hit the market in April. That amounts to 77% more than the $3.73 million he and his wife, Kristen, paid in August 2020, records show.“The seller is happy, and the buyers are very excited,” said Valery Neuman of Compass, who handled both ends of the deal. “The whole family is in love with the home!”Completed in 2014, the house spans 5,456 square feet on a lot just shy of a half-acre and overlooks the 5th hole of the course designed by Pete Dye. It has...

John Wayne’s former Rancho Pavoreal sells for $11.25 million

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:42:24 GMT

A sprawling Riverside County ranch once owned by Western film star John Wayne has sold for $11.25 million, down 6% from the initial ask.Located in Hemet, the 2,000-acre Rancho Pavoreal has a three-bedroom, 3,000-square-foot stucco home dating to 1950, an even older barn and impressive views of the surrounding valley and Palomar Mountain.The property was listed at $12 million when it hit the market in January, although it had been on and off for years. In 2018, it was listed for $8 million and marketed as a potential pot farm.Rancho Pavoreal sits halfway between San Diego and Palm Springs and is a 20-minute drive to Temecula Wine Country. It’s fenced and cross-fenced with room for horses and cattle.Three wells, horse trails and a three-car garage add to the highlights.Tatiana Novick held the listing. Lori Cutka of Big Block Realty represented the buyer of the property, which closed on May 27.The Oscar-winning actor nicknamed “The Duke” and a partner owned the ranch from 1938 to 1948,...

The scandalous history of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s new Marie Antoinette-inspired California mansion

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:42:24 GMT

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have finally settled on a uniquely extravagant Beverly Hills mansion that will become their permanent home together — and it only took “nearly two years of house hunting and at least five aborted escrows,” as Dirt reported.Set on a 5-acre promontory overlooking Beverly Hills, the 12-bedroom, 24-bath residence, known as the “Wallingford Estate,” features a palatial design that was originally inspired by Marie Antoinette’s chateau Le Petit Trianon, Dirt and the Daily Mail said. More intriguing: The 38,000-square-foot compound boasts a colorful ownership history that includes a convicted Ponzi schemer and a disgraced Saudi prince who was arrested on the premises for alleged sexual assault.Ben Affleck & Jennifer Lopez buy $60 Million mansion in Los Angeles pic.twitter.com/ARo5RW9Q5L— Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) June 1, 2023At one point, the developer who owned the mega-mansion in 2018 tried to sell it for $135 mill...

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All lanes open on Bay Bridge after police activity west of Treasure Island

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:42:24 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- All lanes are back open on the Bay Bridge following a severe traffic alert on the westbound deck due to police activity Friday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol. The activity was west of Treasure Island Road and the right lanes on the bridge were blocked. 3 dead, 2 injured after crime spree in San Jose, Milpitas; suspect arrested Motorists were advised to expect delays and to use alternate routes if possible. Residual delays are still expected.The activity was first reported around 8:35 a.m. No other details were immediately available.This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

Tobacco store loses $90K in goods, cash after robbery in SF's Richmond District

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:42:24 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – Businesses in San Francisco’s Richmond District are on alert after a burglary occurred at a tobacco shop early Wednesday morning, causing concern among other business owners in the area.Around 2:45 a.m., at least seven people from two cars were caught on surveillance video breaking into a tobacco store on Geary Boulevard. The masked suspects took more than $70,000 in merchandise and a safe containing $20,000 in cash, the owner said. Bay Bridge traffic disrupted due to police activity west of Treasure Island “It’s very painful to do business in this city right now,” said David Heller, Greater Geary Merchants president. He owns a beauty supply store just blocks away from the tobacco store. Heller said small businesses along the commercial corridor are struggling because of crime and wants more police presence in the Richmond District. “We really need leadership and that’s what is causing this problem,” said Heller.KRON On is streaming news live now.embed-...

Haitian businessman gets life sentence in 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:42:24 GMT

MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge in Miami sentenced a Haitian-Chilean businessman Friday to life in prison for his role in helping a group of Colombian mercenaries obtain weapons to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in 2021.Rodolphe Jaar, who has dual Haitian and Chilean citizenship, had pleaded guilty in March to conspiracy to commit murder or kidnapping outside the United States, and to providing material support resulting in death. Federal Judge José E. Martínez handed down the sentence at a hearing in federal court in downtown Miami. Jaar received the maximum sentence he faced despite pleading guilty and pledging to cooperate with investigators in hopes of receiving a lighter sentence.The businessman, who was an informant for the U.S. government and had been convicted of drug trafficking a decade ago, is one of 11 people arrested and charged in the United States for the murder of Moïse, and the only one to plead guilty. The other 10 are scheduled for a jury trial in July, ...

At least 9 killed in eastern Congo’s latest extremist rebel attack

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:42:24 GMT

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Extremist rebels in eastern Congo killed at least nine people with knives and guns, a civil society organization said Friday.The attack happened Thursday evening on the Kyondo-Kyavinyonge road in North Kivu province, said Meleki Mulala the coordinator for the Congolese civil society group for the Ruwenzori sector. Civilians were taken from their homes before they were killed, and many homes were looted, he said. The death toll is preliminary because some people are missing, Mulala said. He said members of the Allied Democratic Forces, a rebel organization believed to have ties to the Islamic State group, carried out the attack. Conflict has simmered for decades in eastern Congo, where more than 120 armed groups are fighting. Most are vying for land and control of mines with valuable minerals, while some groups are trying to protect their communities.Since last April, ADF attacks have killed at least 370 civilians, and the group has abducted several hundred peo...

Gladbach coach Daniel Farke leaves after slump to 10th in Bundesliga

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:42:24 GMT

MOENCHENGLADBACH, Germany (AP) — Borussia Moenchengladbach coach Daniel Farke left the German club on Friday after his season in charge ended with the club missing out on qualifying for European competitions.Farke had been at Gladbach since June 2022 and led the team to a 10th-place finish in the Bundesliga after a late slump.That result was the same as the season before but represented a failure to turn around the club’s recent slide after qualifying regularly for European competitions over the previous decade, including three appearances in the Champions League since 2015.Gladbach said the decision followed a “detailed analysis” of the season. “After several intensive discussions, Daniel Farke and the club have come to the decision to go our separate ways,” sporting director Roland Virkus said in a statement.Farke was previously coach of Norwich in England from 2017-21 and left his next job with Russian club Krasnodar without coaching a single game following the Russian inva...