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Recipe: Frances Mayes’ Baked Gigli with Four Cheeses and Ten-Minute Tomato Sauce

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:27:16 GMT

Best-selling author Frances Mayes has followed up her famous book, “Under the Tuscan Sun,” with more than 20 other books, including a new cookbook. Dubbed “Pasta Veloce: Irresistibly Fast Recipes from Under the Tuscan Sun” (Abrams Books, $35), the just-published book highlights some of Italy’s tastiest and speediest pasta dishes.This one is a crowd pleaser, Mayes writes: “A subtler and more complex mac and cheese, this baked pasta is scrumptious on its own, but really sings with a drizzle of intense Ten-Minute Tomato Sauce. Use traditional elbow macaroni, if you like, instead of the gigli. This is a pasta dish that does well prepared in advance and baked off shortly before serving, if that’s more convenient. Italian provolone has a more pronounced flavor than the domestic.”Baked Gigli with Four Cheeses and Ten-Minute Tomato SauceServes 4 to 6INGREDIENTS8 ounces gigli (or elbow macaroni or another pasta)3½ ounces imported or aged provolone, c...

California-bound Delta aircraft slide accidentally deploys after plane diverted to Salt Lake City

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:27:16 GMT

By Tina Burnside | CNNAn inflatable emergency slide accidentally deployed inside of a Delta Air Lines plane while on the ground at Salt Lake International Airport on Saturday.A slide inside of a Delta Airlines plane accidentally deployed while on the ground at Salt Lake International Airport on Saturday.(Dan Moreno via CNN) “Delta flight 520, operating from New York-JFK to Los Angeles-LAX, diverted to Salt Lake City due to a maintenance issue,” said an airline spokesperson in a statement issued to CNN on Sunday.“While on the ground, the same aircraft’s slide was deployed by accident.”No emergency landing was declared, nor did the plane divert due to the slide, according to the statement.Related ArticlesCrashes and Disasters | Remembering Anthony Bourdain: Best lines from his San Jose show Crashes and Disasters | Replacement plane for Air India flight lands in San Francisco after being diverted to Russia Crashes and Disasters | Spirit A...

Person with gunshot wound found on steps of California Capitol

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:27:16 GMT

SACRAMENTO — A person with a gunshot wound was found on the steps of the California Capitol early Monday, Sacramento police said.Officer Cody Tapley told The Sacramento Bee that officers responded to a report of a shooting on a street near the Capitol shortly after 4 a.m. and found the victim two blocks away on the Capitol’s west steps.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Why one of the most dangerous hours in America is now 11 o’clock on Sunday morning Crime and Public Safety | Police identify person of interest in mass shooting that wounded 9 during San Francisco block party Crime and Public Safety | Fatal Sunday morning shooting in Vallejo under investigation Crime and Public Safety | One dead, six injured after gunfire breaks out at teen birthday party in East Bay Crime and Public Safety | School shootings are a real threat — so these Bay Area students invented a technology to fight back T...

SF’s Lorraine Hansberry Theatre’s new play is about … Lorraine Hanbserry

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:27:16 GMT

San Francisco’s storied African American stage company the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre has been a mainstay of the Bay Area arts scene since 1981. Now at last the company is debuting a play about its namesake, the influential playwright Lorraine Hansberry.Hansberry’s best-known work, “A Raisin in the Sun,” in 1959 made her the first African American woman playwright to have a play on Broadway. It wouldn’t be her last: her play “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” was running on Broadway in 1965 (starring Berkeley’s own Rita Moreno) when Hansberry died of pancreatic cancer at age 34.Still, many know little about Hansberry beyond “Raisin” — her life, her other writings and her civil rights activism are all too seldom explored today.Writer-performer Traci Tolmaire aims to rectify that with her new play “In the Evening by the Moonlight,” directed and co-created by Lorraine Hansberry Theatre artistic director Margo Hall.The play imagines a long, alcohol-fueled conversation between ...

CHP issues Silver Alert for missing at-risk San Jose man

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:27:16 GMT

(BCN) -- A missing at-risk San Jose man was last seen leaving a residence in the 1300-block of Little Orchard Street, San Jose police said Monday morning. California Highway Patrol issued a Silver Alert for Matthew Lewis, 69, late Sunday.Lewis is 6 feet tall and weighs about 100 pounds. He was last seen leaving the San Jose residence at 10:45 a.m. Sunday wearing a black hoodie, black jeans and black shoes.Lewis is Black, has grey hair and brown eyes. Authorities believe he is on foot. Anyone who sees Lewis is asked to call 911.Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

Missing at-risk 14-year-old girl sought by Redwood City police

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:27:16 GMT

(BCN) -- Redwood City Police are asking for the public's help locating a missing at-risk youth. Gaby Coyon-Garcia, 14, was last seen Sunday morning at about 8 a.m. in the 100 block of Roosevelt Avenue, in Redwood City, police said early Monday morning.She was described by police as a Hispanic female juvenile. A picture circulated by police shows her with brown hair and brown eyes.She is considered at-risk and could be with an adult boyfriend, according to police. Anyone who sees Coyon-Garcia is asked to call 911.Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

French powerhouse Bordeaux to remain in second division after fan attacked player

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:27:16 GMT

PARIS (AP) — French soccer powerhouse Bordeaux will remain in the second division next season after the league on Monday handed the six-time champions a loss for a game that was abandoned after a pitch invader attacked a player from Rodez.The league’s disciplinary committee ruled that the season finale, which Bordeaux had to win to keep its promotion hopes alive, will not be replayed. It also deducted a point from Bordeaux for next season and ordered the closure of the south stand at Bordeaux stadium for two games.The June 2 match between Bordeaux and Rodez was stopped shortly after Lucas Buades gave Rodez a 1-0 lead on the final day of the season. While Rodez players celebrated, a Bordeaux fan stepped onto the pitch and pushed Buades to the ground.The match referee stopped proceedings and sent both teams back to the locker room.Buades was diagnosed with a concussion and the game did not resume.Bordeaux was involved in a two-way battle with Metz for the second promotion spot behind ...

Senator asks LIV Golf, PGA Tour leaders for records on merger

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:27:16 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The leader of a Senate subcommittee is demanding the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s LIV Golf present records about negotiations that led to their new agreement and plans for what golf will look like under the arrangement.Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., sent letters Monday to PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan and LIV CEO Greg Norman spelling out the “serious questions regarding the reasons for and terms behind the announced agreement.”Blumenthal, who is chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said he also wanted to hear the tour’s plans to retain its tax-exempt status.Last week, LIV and the tour stunned the golf world by agreeing to merge the PGA Tour and European tour with the Saudi golf interests, while also dropping all lawsuits between the parties. The governor of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, which bankrolls LIV, will join the PGA Tour board of directors and lead a new business venture as its chairman. The PGA T...

Pulse nightclub victims remembered on 7th anniversary of massacre

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:27:16 GMT

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Across central Florida, the 49 victims killed and dozens more survivors of the massacre at a gay-friendly nightclub were remembered with the unveiling of a 44-foot (13.4-meter) -wide mural, the ringing of church bells and an overnight vigil at the site of the Pulse club on Monday, the seventh anniversary of the tragedy.Several people gathered at the site of the Pulse nightclub near downtown Orlando at 2 a.m. Monday, around the time that gunman Omar Mateen opened fire in 2016, leaving 49 people dead and 53 wounded. At the time, it was the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, but that number was surpassed the next year when 58 people were killed and more than 850 were injured among a crowd of 22,000 at a country music festival in Las Vegas.Mateen was killed after a three-hour standoff by SWAT team members. He had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.At the Orlando Museum of Art, a colorful, a 44-foot-by-18-foot (13.4 meters by 5.5 meters) mural depicting...

Prayers and tears: Silvio Berlusconi’s death draws tributes, even from his critics

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:27:16 GMT

ROME (AP) — Adored, scorned, impossible to ignore in life, former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi in death drew tributes even from his critics, and ever more lavish praise from admirers, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as prayers from Pope Francis. Following word of Berlusconi’s death on Monday in a Milan hospital, where he was being treated for chronic leukemia, reaction poured in from around the world, from national leaders to announcers who burst into tears on one of his television networks, for the populist three-time premier and media mogul.Here are some of the reactions:— In a condolence telegram, Putin hailed Berlusconi as a “patriarch” of Italian politics and a true patriot who had improved Italy’s standing on the world stage. “I have always sincerely admired his wisdom, his ability to make balanced, far-sighted decisions even in the most difficult situations,” Putin said in the telegram released by the Kremlin. “During each of our meetings,...