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Pok Pok chef’s award-winning Thai food comes to the Bay Area

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:52:12 GMT

Crispy chicken wings. Red curry with sweet potatoes. Coconut curry noodle soup.The Northern Thai recipes of James Beard Award-winning chef Andy Ricker, founder of the noted Pok Pok restaurants, are now available in the Bay Area at the Local Kitchens food hall locations in Cupertino, Lafayette, Palo Alto and Mill Valley.Ricker fell in love with the cuisine of northern Thailand while backpacking there in 1987, then trained to master the flavors. He launched Pok Pok in Portland, Oregon, in 2005 and over the next 15 years expanded the acclaimed concept to Los Angeles, Las Vegas and New York. The pandemic put an end to the restaurants, his website says, with Ricker closing all locations in 2020 for the safety of his workers.But his recipes live on through his many cookbooks and now the Local Kitchens option.“Thai is a cuisine many of our guests have been asking for, so to bring this menu to life with Chef Andy is a privilege,” said Chef Matthew Rudofker, the head of culinary options for ...

Roku slashes San Jose office space, seeks to sublease two big buildings

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:52:12 GMT

SAN JOSE — Roku has decided to slash its office footprint in San Jose as it seeks to sublease two big office buildings at its headquarters campus near the city’s airport, regulatory and real estate documents show.Internet company ByteDance, owner of the TikTok social network that hosts short-length videos, is in big-time hiring mode in San Jose and is deemed to be a likely candidate to sublease one or both of the Roku buildings, according to commercial property experts.The maker of cutting-edge video streaming devices is seeking to reduce its office footprint, the company stated in a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.1155 Coleman Avenue, an office building in the Coleman Highline mixed-use tech campus. A Roku logo is visible on the building. (Google Maps)“In the third quarter of fiscal 2023 the company expects to record an impairment charge in a preliminary estimated range of $160 million to $200 million related to ceasing to use certai...

Convicted ‘Stanford killer’ John Getreu dead in prison at 79

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:52:12 GMT

STOCKTON — A Bay Area man convicted of rape and multiple murders, including two 1970s slayings of women near the campus of Stanford, has died in prison while serving two life sentences, the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office confirmed Wednesday.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Map: Killings of Janet Taylor and Leslie Perlov, and other Stanford murders 1973-74 John Arthur Getreu, 79, gained notoriety in the region beginning in 2018, when he was arrested in connection to the 1973 killing of Stanford University graduate Leslie Marie Perlov, solving a 45-year cold case.“Getreu was a deviant sex offender and serial killer who escaped justice for far too long,” a statement from San Mateo County DA Stephen Wagstaffe reads in part. “We are thankful that we and the Santa Clara DA’s office were able to bring closure to the Perlov and Taylor families for their immense loss and to deliver some measure of justice to an extraordinarily vio...

Bruce Springsteen postpones San Francisco concerts due to illness

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:52:12 GMT

Bay Area Bruce Springsteen fans will have to wait a bit longer to see “The Boss” in concert.That’s because Springsteen has just announced that he’s postponing all remaining 2023 dates until next year — including two shows at Chase Center in San Francisco that were originally scheduled for December.The new rescheduled dates are expected to be announced next week.Here’s the announcement from Springsteen’s website:“Bruce Springsteen has continued to recover steadily from peptic ulcer disease over the past few weeks and will continue treatment through the rest of the year on doctor’s advice. With this in mind, and out of an abundance of caution, all remaining 2023 tour dates for Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will be postponed until 2024. Rescheduled dates for each of the 2023 shows, including those postponed earlier this month, will be announced next week, all taking place at their originally scheduled venues.Related ArticlesMusi...

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony rapper Krayzie Bone hospitalized in California with ‘life-threatening’ condition

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:52:12 GMT

David Matthews | New York Daily NewsBone Thugs-N-Harmony’s Krayzie Bone is hospitalized and in “life-threatening” condition.According to All Hip Hop, the rapper is “fighting for his life” after checking into a Los Angeles-area hospital on Friday “after he started coughing up large amounts of blood.”Krayzie, whose real name is Anthony Henderson, reportedly suffers from sarcoidosis, a rare condition where a person’s immune system overreacts and causes inflamed tissue clusters called granulomas.Henderson, 50, was examined at the hospital and a CAT scan found an artery in one of his lungs was leaking. He underwent emergency surgery but the bleeding did not stop. He was purportedly put on a ventilator and sedated in the intensive care unit on Sunday.According to TMZ, Henderson was to undergo a second surgery on Monday in hopes of stopping the bleeding.“Pray 4 Kray,” bandmate Bizzy Bone posted on his Instagram Story. “Can’t sleep. Sometimes you just gotta pray.”Los Angeles Lakers star LeB...

Pac-12 picks: Washington’s history of desert doom in spotlight as Huskies visit Tucson

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:52:12 GMT

It’s hardly uncommon for Pac-12 teams to struggle in specific venues, or against certain opponents. Oregon, for instance, has experienced remarkable difficulty against Stanford over the years. Washington State has dominated its series with Oregon State of late.In Washington’s case, there’s an unexpected antagonist. It’s not a team or a stadium. It’s a state. UW has a longstanding aversion to playing in Arizona.And guess where the seventh-ranked Huskies are headed this week?In advance of UW’s tangle with unranked Arizona, the Hotline examined two decades of points spreads and results of games in Tucson and Tempe.The picture is uglier than we imagined.The Huskies have played 17 games in the desert in the past 20 years and are 4-13 against the spread.In the Pac-12’s expansion era, which began in 2011, they are just 2-7 against the betting line when visiting Arizona and Arizona State.Perhaps it’s the heat. Or the travel. Or a lack of motivation. It could be...

Oakland pedestrian struck, killed by stolen car on International Boulevard

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:52:12 GMT

(KRON) -- A pedestrian was killed after being struck by a stolen vehicle and a second car on International Boulevard in Oakland Tuesday night, police said.The deadly accident happened around 9:30 p.m. "When officers arrived, they learned that a vehicle was traveling westbound in the 5400 block of International Boulevard when it struck a pedestrian in the roadway. The impact from the collision pushed the pedestrian further into the roadway where a second vehicle struck the pedestrian," Oakland Police Department officer Darryl Rodgers wrote.The stolen vehicle became disabled from the collision's impact. Multiple people who were inside the vehicle bolted out on foot and fled the scene, Rodgers said.The second vehicle also fled the scene after striking the pedestrian, according to police. The victim was left behind and died at the scene. Police said the first vehicle that hit the victim had been reported as stolen from a neighboring city.  Officers said they found th...

Bay FC announces new head coach

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:52:12 GMT

(KRON) – The National Women’s Soccer League’s newest professional sports franchise has announced Albertin Montoya as the Bay Football Club’s first head coach.Originally from Cuba, Montoya relocated to the Bay Area at the age of six. Montoya has experience and success coaching at the professional, collegiate, and youth national and club level. Montoya also was recognized as the Soccer America Women’s Coach of the Year and FIFA Women’s World Coach of the Year finalist in 2010. In addition to his professional coaching career, Montoya founded Montoya Soccer Academy, an elite youth soccer program based in Los Altos, California. Soccer star Paulinho becomes torchbearer in Brazil for his sometimes-persecuted Afro-Brazilian faith Montoya plans to begin his role immediately to develop the club’s complete coaching staff and roster.“As the inaugural Head Coach of Bay FC, I’m honored to be a part of the foundation upon which our team’s history will be built,” said Bay FC Head Coach Albertin ...

Menendez Indictment Looks Like Egypt Recruiting Intelligence Source, Say Former CIA Officials

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:52:12 GMT

Media coverage of embattled New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez’s indictment has focused on things like gold bars and wads of cash found stuffed in his clothing — the cartoonish elements of the corruption allegations leveled by the Department of Justice.National security experts, however, say the indictment’s reference to Egyptian intelligence officials and Menendez’s disclosure of “highly sensitive” and “non-public” information to Egyptian officials suggest that, more than a garden-variety corruption scheme, there may be an intelligence element to the charges.Egypt’s elicitation of information resembles a textbook recruitment pass, an intelligence operation intended to recruit an asset, four former CIA officers told The Intercept.According to the indictment, Menendez, chair of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was sometimes asked to supply information to an Egyptian businessman who would then communicate it to Egyptian officials. The most sensitive information Me...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicks off developer conference with focus on AI, virtual reality

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:52:12 GMT

MENLO PARK, California (AP) — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the tech giant’s Connect developer conference on Wednesday with a focus on virtual and augmented reality and artificial intelligence. The company, which renamed itself Meta two years ago, unveiled the next version of its virtual reality headset, the Quest 3. It will cost $499 and begin shipping Oct. 10. Standing in a courtyard at his company’s Menlo Park, California headquarters, Zuckerberg told the audience of developers, employees and journalists that Meta is “focused on building the future of human connection” — and painted a near-future where people interact with hologram versions of their friends or coworkers and with AI bots built to assist them.“Soon the physical and digital will come together in what we call the metaverse,” he said. Zuckerberg introduced an AI personal assistant people can interact with using any of Meta’s messaging apps — along with a smattering of AI characters he called “a bit m...