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La Doña headlines Encuentro del Canto Popular at the Chapel
Holding a fundraiser in a funeral home might not seem like a recipe for joy — or longevity. But after more than four decades, the Encuentro del Canto Popular continues to thrive as one of the region’s signature Latin music events. Launched as a one-off in 1982 by a young attorney named Bill Martinez and Juan Gonzalez — founder of the Mission newspaper El Tecolote — the first six-act program took place in the chapel of what was then Halsted & Co. Funeral Directors on Valencia Street.Over the years, the annual event has presented some of Latin American music’s most illustrious stars at venues around the city. But on Sunday, Dec. 8, the 43rd annual Encuentro returns to the same location where it started — which is now the music venue known as The Chapel. A fundraiser for the arts […]
US Supreme Court’s Gorsuch steps away from case after recusal request
By John Kruzel and Andrew ChungWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch will not participate in an environmental case to be argued next week involving a proposed railway in Utah, the court said on Wednesday, a move that followed a call by some Democratic lawmakers for him to recuse over a possible conflict of interest.The one-paragraph announcement made public by a court official came in a letter addressed to lawyers in the case due to be argued next Tuesday. The other eight justices will hear and decide the case.Trusted news and daily delights, right in your inboxSee for yourself — The Yodel is the go-to source for daily news, entertainment and feel-good stories.Gorsuch decided to withdraw from participating in the case consistent with the code of conduct adopted by the court last year, the statement said, but provided […]
Murder trial: Bob Lee used apparent knife for cocaine in new video
In a bombshell revelation on day two of closing arguments, Nima Momeni’s defense team said Cash App founder Bob Lee was using a knife to do cocaine hours before he ended up stabbed. The allegation, supported by a video shown to jurors today for the first time, may bolster the claim that Momeni, on trial for murder, stabbed Lee in self-defense after Lee attacked him with a knife.In the video, Lee and his friend Bo Mohazzabi are standing outside The Battery, a members-only club where they had drinks on the evening of April 3, 2023 — hours before Lee was killed. They each in turn bend forward to do a bump of apparent drugs off a long pointy object that protrudes out of Lee’s hand, and glints in the light. Lee can be seen digging the instrument into what appears to […]
Full rollout of eVisas set to be postponed after foreign worker warning
The Home Office is set to postpone the rollout of eVisas after problems with the scheme.It comes after human rights campaigners warned that hundreds of thousands of people who have the right to live and work in Britain may not be able to access their new eVisas and prove their immigration status.The Government was due to replace physical biometric residence permits (BRP), which show proof of the right to live, work and claim benefits in Britain, with digital eVisas from the December 31. The proposals were first announced in April, under the previous Tory administration, as a way to “ensure firm control over who comes here to live, work or study, strengthening border security and preventing abuse of the immigration system”.But there has been multiple complaints from applicants who have failed to gain access to the new digital system, sparking […]
Mission hit-and-run driver makes U-turn, strikes woman, then flees
A woman appears to have escaped serious injury after being hit by a car on Shotwell and 21st streets at approximately 1 p.m. on Tuesday. The victim, a 21-year-old woman, was crossing Shotwell Street when another woman driving a gray Honda Accord hit her. The motorist was driving along 21st Street, made a wide U-turn at Shotwell, accelerated and ran into the victim, according to another driver who witnessed the incident and called the police. Three eyewitnesses separately told Mission Local that the driver intentionally rammed the pedestrian. The motorist was traveling East on 21st St. when she made a U-turn at Shotwell St. The victim was crossing Shotwell St., heading East, when the car struck her. The motorist made another U-turn on Shotwell, before escaping on 21st St. The motorist was traveling East on 21st St. when she made a U-turn […]
Teargas, fireworks, water cannon used at Tbilisi protest after the country's EU bid was suspended
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La Doña headlines Encuentro del Canto Popular at the Chapel
Holding a fundraiser in a funeral home might not seem like a recipe for joy — or longevity. But after more than four decades, the Encuentro del Canto Popular continues to thrive as one of the region’s signature Latin music events. Launched as a one-off in 1982 by a young attorney named Bill Martinez and Juan Gonzalez — founder of the Mission newspaper El Tecolote — the first six-act program took place in the chapel of what was then Halsted & Co. Funeral Directors on Valencia Street.Over the years, the annual event has presented some of Latin American music’s most illustrious stars at venues around the city. But on Sunday, Dec. 8, the 43rd annual Encuentro returns to the same location where it started — which is now the music venue known as The Chapel. A fundraiser for the arts […]
Murder trial: Bob Lee used apparent knife for cocaine in new video
In a bombshell revelation on day two of closing arguments, Nima Momeni’s defense team said Cash App founder Bob Lee was using a knife to do cocaine hours before he ended up stabbed. The allegation, supported by a video shown to jurors today for the first time, may bolster the claim that Momeni, on trial for murder, stabbed Lee in self-defense after Lee attacked him with a knife.In the video, Lee and his friend Bo Mohazzabi are standing outside The Battery, a members-only club where they had drinks on the evening of April 3, 2023 — hours before Lee was killed. They each in turn bend forward to do a bump of apparent drugs off a long pointy object that protrudes out of Lee’s hand, and glints in the light. Lee can be seen digging the instrument into what appears to […]
Mission hit-and-run driver makes U-turn, strikes woman, then flees
A woman appears to have escaped serious injury after being hit by a car on Shotwell and 21st streets at approximately 1 p.m. on Tuesday. The victim, a 21-year-old woman, was crossing Shotwell Street when another woman driving a gray Honda Accord hit her. The motorist was driving along 21st Street, made a wide U-turn at Shotwell, accelerated and ran into the victim, according to another driver who witnessed the incident and called the police. Three eyewitnesses separately told Mission Local that the driver intentionally rammed the pedestrian. The motorist was traveling East on 21st St. when she made a U-turn at Shotwell St. The victim was crossing Shotwell St., heading East, when the car struck her. The motorist made another U-turn on Shotwell, before escaping on 21st St. The motorist was traveling East on 21st St. when she made a U-turn […]
Closing arguments begin in Cash App founder Bob Lee’s murder trial
After six weeks of testimony, prosecutors charging Nima Momeni with the murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee started their closing arguments — and urged the jury to convict Momeni of premeditated, first-degree murder. “There is only one reasonable conclusion about what it is that happened that night,” said Dane Reinstedt, a prosecutor with the district attorney’s office, in a monologue that spanned nearly three hours and most of the day. “All of the evidence together paints a very clear picture, one that is actually pretty simple.” Reinstedt pieced together witness testimony and other evidence to illustrate Momeni’s motive and guilt in killing Lee in the early morning of April 4, 2023. He said the stabbing was not self-defense, as Momeni has claimed, but a willful attempt to avenge the alleged sexual assault of his sister by a man Lee introduced her […]
Hospital worker, 23, killed in car crash at Potrero and 24th
Glenn Achampon, a 23-year-old technician at San Francisco General Hospital, was killed in the early morning of Saturday, Nov. 23 when a car crashed into a building at Potrero Avenue and 24th Street.At about 2:13 a.m., the San Francisco Police Department responded to a collision. A vehicle with possibly two occupants collided with a building, according to the department. The car struck the building at 1170 Potrero Ave., according to Robert Sharp, a neighbor who lives on the block. Achampon, the victim, was in the passenger seat. There was no information available about the driver. Achampon, a contractor with AYA Healthcare, a travel nursing agency, was on a one-week contract in San Francisco, his girlfriend Kayla said. He was scheduled to head back to New York state, where he lived, on Friday. But Kayla said that Achampon’s employer mixed up his flight […]
No, S.F. doesn’t need to close schools. Its problems go deeper.
As a father of three children in a San Francisco public school slated for closure, it brings me no pleasure to tell you that much of what has been written about school closures has been facile. While the city doesn’t need to close schools, the San Francisco Unified School District is in an alarmingly precarious state. Its problems go so much deeper than a voluntary decision to cull schools that was curtailed at the 11th hour in October and led to the ouster of Superintendent Matt Wayne. The monomaniacal pursuit of this clearly misbegotten plan remains baffling.New Superintendent Maria Su may have the most difficult job in San Francisco right now; it is challenging to describe the state of the public school district’s finances and operational abilities without using language that should get you thrown out of a public school classroom. Mission […]
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