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Assuring some cooler air aloft. It did produce some high clouds but it looks like it washed out, mostly sunny today, hitting some patchy fog, then itll get chewed up. The temperatures on the cool side, the breeze is out of the west, southwest, even out to the delta and sacramento, there is an onshore breeze. Itll be mostly sunny, and on the cool side as you can see the system digging in and not going anywhere anytime soon. Itll slowly lift out on the weekend in the temperatures will climb. But t...

A Chinese restaurant has replaced tips with a so-called brand charge that will reward bosses instead of staff.

David Truslove enjoys two successive evenings with BBC NOW's Proms 2023 at the Royal Albert Hall which brought American and Russian offerings together.

"I remember standing there, going 'if I go after this guy, I could get killed,' and then I don’t even remember anything. Alls I remember is grabbing him."

Also, the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust has chosen its next leader, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation tapped a new chief program officer.

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Mick Thomas Performs Live On Twang Mick Thomas joins Denise Hylands to discuss what he calls “an esoteric time” that gave birth to the track “See You On The Other Side”. Mick dives into the making of this track during lockdown and the newest album by Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission, Cities Calling Me. “It’s about the places I inhabit and that inhabit you,” Mick says, sharing that the making of this latest album was an opportunity to reconnect – not just to his city, but with p...

Sun 2 May 2021 03.00 EDT In the kitchen of a recording studio, down a long lane, off a village high street, stands the wiry, wired figure of Paul Weller, looking at his shoes. Oxblood fringe-and-buckle loafers. He is explaining the subtle differences between this pair, and another pair he owned a few years ago. “This part here used to be a few millimetres deeper,” he says. “And the buckle was a tiny bit bigger.” In an inconsistent world of ever-changing rules, Weller is a co...

Farmers and parents have slammed Blue Peter for encouraging children to stop eating meat after the TV show urged viewers to go vegetarian for a climate change challenge.  The childrens series is offering green badges - similar to the famous blue ones - to youngsters who are environmentally friendly as part of a two-week pledge. Sports teams can also apply for their whole group to become climate heroes by switching off lights and appliances when they leave the room, alongside drinking from reu...