“1001 Frames,” which screened at Thessaloniki Film Festival this week, is composed of a series of creepy scenes from auditions conducted in Tehran, Iran. But it could be any city. During the auditions, wannabe actors are asked to improvise scenes …
Casting Couch Iranian Style: A Creepy Director Lures Young Women Into His Web of Deceit and Coercion in ‘1001 Frames’ Read MoreTony Vitello will be tasked with finding a new pitching coach after J.P. Martinez elected to leave the Giants and join the Atlanta Braves as the team’s bullpen coach. Martinez, 43, spent just one season as San Francisco’s pitching coach …
SF Giants lose pitching coach Martinez, but Tingler reportedly set to join staff Read MoreThe increasingly ugly battle between CBS Media Ventures and Sony Pictures Television over the distribution of first-run syndicated megahits “Wheel of Fortune” and “Jeopardy!” has come to a conclusion. Both sides sent out a joint press release on Friday, announcing …
CBS and Sony Resolve ‘Wheel of Fortune’ and ‘Jeopardy!’ Fight, Agree to New Distribution and Sales Structure Read MoreBy Malcolm Ritter | Associated Press James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died. He was 97. The breakthrough …
James Watson dies at 97; co-discoverer of DNA’s double-helix shape helped revolutionize scientific research Read MoreTottenham Hotspur takes on Manchester United in Premier League action at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London on Saturday, Nov. 8 at 4:30 a.m. PDT. In what has been an underwhelming EPL season for both teams so far, this match finds …
How to watch Tottenham vs Manchester United Read MoreBuzz Hays wants to make sure his colleagues in Hollywood understand the pros and cons of generative AI, in particular, fine-tuning models. And a good starting point for explaining the controversial topic is the work Hays, global lead for Google …
How Google Cloud Entertainment Biz Boss Is Explaining Fine-Tuning AI Models to Hollywood: ‘I’ve Heard People Use the Terms Incorrectly’ Read MoreThe Hotline mailbag publishes weekly. Send questions to wilnerhotline@bayareanewsgroup.com and include ‘mailbag’ in the subject line. Or hit me on the social media platform X: @WilnerHotline Some questions have been edited for clarity and brevity. How do you see the rebuilt Pac-12 …
Mailbag: Outlook for Pac-12 basketball (2.0), UCLA and the Rose Bowl tangle, counting UW’s ranked wins, TV selections and more Read MoreA cold front is likely to bring the first snowfall of the 2025-26 winter season to the Chicago area as wind chills are expected to fall into the teens early next week. Temperatures are expected to stay in the 50s …
Blustery cold front may bring first snow of season to Chicago area this weekend Read MoreNEW YORK (AP) — Not like us? More like him: Kendrick Lamar leads the 2026 Grammy Award nominations, announced Friday. The rapper is up for nine trophies at February’s ceremony: record, song and album of the year — marking the …
Kendrick Lamar leads 2026 Grammy nominations, followed by Lady Gaga, Jack Antonoff and Cirkut Read MoreWe asked readers which history-making Chicagoan more people should know about. Here’s what you said, lightly edited for clarity: “Rudy Lozano. A visionary activist who changed the city for the better and gave his life for it. His legacy still …
Which history-making Chicagoan should more people know about? Here’s what you told us. Read MoreDrive south on Ashland Avenue in the West Loop and where the road dips and pops up again for the train tracks, two new mosaics of red, blue and orange roses burst from a building on the east side of …
Chicago murals: Teens and seniors spent two years creating this mosaic together Read MoreLAS VEGAS — Honolulu football betting nearly had no equal. ‘‘Even compared with such big towns as New York and Chicago,’’ a player on the professional Hawaiian Warriors told Honolulu Star-Bulletin columnist Joe Anzivino in 1947. ‘‘They pester us on …
Keep an ‘Eye’ on this sports-gambling historian Read MoreTwo months ago, one of the most sordid chapters in the history of the Chicago Police Department came to an end with City Council approval of a $90 million “global settlement” for 180 shakedown victims of corrupt former Sgt. Ronald …
City weighing proposed $17M settlement for alleged victim of disgraced Chicago ex-detective Reynaldo Guevara Read MoreWASHINGTON — How did Proposition 50, the California redistricting ballot measure, pass handily this week when Golden State voters initially disapproved of the measure? “There were any number of people who were not paying any damned attention,” former Republican Gov. …
Debra Saunders: Trump’s biggest election loss happened in California Read MoreBy JULIA FRANKEL, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Red Cross transferred the remains of a hostage to Israeli troops in Gaza, the prime minister’s office said Friday, hours after hundreds of mourners flocked to the funeral of a soldier …
Israel says another set of remains of a hostage has been turned over in Gaza Read MoreBy Zamourad Iqbal “Viz-Ability” was held at Radford Studio Center in October, a pop-up gallery event in Studio City featuring a red carpet reception and showcase of the work of disabled cast, crew and filmmakers in the film and TV …
Matthew Von Der Ahe, who has Down syndrome, broke through barriers to become an actor Read MoreIt didn’t take long after polls closed on Tuesday night for the special election to be called in favor of the redistricting ballot measure. It took, perhaps, even less time for those on the Proposition 50 opposition side, largely state …
What went wrong for California Republicans in the Proposition 50 fight? Read MoreA naked intruder who trespassed at a Studio City duplex was shot to death Friday morning. The fatal shooting was reported about 7:10 a.m. on the 4500 block of Tujunga Avenue, on the edge of North Hollywood near the 101 …
Naked trespasser shot to death in Studio City Read MoreSan Pedro’s historic downtown district this week celebrated the 28th anniversary of its First Thursday Art Walk, an event designed to bring more folks into the area. The anniversary came on the heels of a revamp and expansion in August …
San Pedro’s First Thursday celebrates an anniversary and growing crowds Read MoreThe Southern California News Group (SCNG) has a large roster of reporters ready to take you through Friday night’s exciting high school football action. There are previews of the top playoff games in each area. Our reporters will be providing …
High school football: Friday’s playoff games — previews, updates, scores Read More