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Anne Schrager March 8, 2021Updated: March 18, 2021, 7:16 am Members of the Irish Pipers Band of San Francisco practice before the start of the 166th annual San Francisco St. Patrick’s Day Parade on March 11, 2017. Photo: Mason Trinca, Special to The Chronicle It was one year ago this month that the pandemic kicked off a series of event cancellations that effectively brought the Bay Area’s entertainment scene to a halt. This included the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade and the music, dancing and other green-beer-fueled activities that normally surround it. While these crowde...

River Rafting Becomes a Terrifyingly Fatal Nightmare in The Canyonlands Exclusive Clip By A shot from ShockYa’s exclusive clip from writer-director-producer Brendan Devane’s horror thriller, ‘The Canyonlands,’ which is titled ‘Fire.’ Five river rafters who win a seemingly exciting camping trip are horrified to learn that their adventure has taken a deadly turn in the upcoming thriller, ‘The Canyonlands.’ The group’s fatal adventure is set to unfold when the film is released in theaters across the U.S. on March 5, an then on all VOD and digital platforms on March 9, by Freest...

Yoshi Kato February 11, 2021Updated: February 15, 2021, 8:20 am Piedmont Piano Co. in Oakland hosts a twice-weekly concert program that launched in the midst of the pandemic. Photo: Piedmont Piano Co. On the first Thursday of January, viewers from as far away as Brazil, Norway and the Netherlands streamed a live jazz concert from Uptown Oakland. Swedish vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Gunhild Carling, a current South Bay resident, was leading her sextet on the Piedmont Piano Co. bandstand as audience members online commented in the chat box. Toward the end of an energetic performa...

Yesterday Rand Paul went on the Senate floor maskless and triggered Democrats he ‘called him out’ for not wearing one: Sheldon Brown ran to the mic to shame Paul for not wearing one on the Senate floor.   That was from a few weeks ago, where Paul said “if you’ve had the disease or you’ve been vaccinated and you’re several weeks out from your second dose, throw your mask away and tell Dr. Fauci to take a leap!” Something tells me Paul has already thrown his mask away because he’s definitely had COVID… Comment Policy: Please read our comment policy before making a comment...

Soviet pilots harried U.N. forces using MiG-15 jets based across the Yalu River in China. Here's What You Need to Know: The Navy and Marines knew their fighters were outclassed by Soviet MiGs. After World War II, the U.S. Navy scrambled to field its own jet fighters—but designing a warplane that could fly dramatically faster while still landing on a short carrier deck proved a challenge. The Navy’s first operational jet, the underpowered FH Phantom, was retired after only two years of service. Naval aircraft manufacture Grumman received funding in 1946 to develop a four-turbojet G-75 pro...