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Tommy Edman recovering from surgery, expected to start season in outfield

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:31:36 GMT

ST. LOUIS - Super-utility man Tommy Edman is recovering from offseason surgery, but he's expected to be ready by the start of spring training, according to new reports Thursday. Edman underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right wrist in October. The surgery addresses a nagging injury for Edman, who spent several weeks on the injured list last summer due to wrist inflammation. St. Louis Cardinals President of Baseball Operations John Mozeliak hadn't publicly disclosed Edman's injury or any other updates on team health until Thursday in a report from MLB.com's John Denton. Clayton Kershaw says three of his ‘toughest at-bats’ are against Cardinals Earlier in the offseason, however, Mozeliak acknowledged during the Winter Meetings that the Cardinals were preparing to open the season with Edman in the outfield, possibly as the team's starting centerfielder. This decision comes after Edman was nominated for the National League's superutility Gold Glove award in back-to-back seasons for...

2023 through our lens: The year in photos from The Denver Post

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:31:36 GMT

Tintype photographer Tim Brown peers through an old lens as he poses for a personal photograph in his studio on March 20, 2023, in Salida, Colorado. The image was made with Brown’s specialty film camera and developed by Brown using a wet plate collodion process, known as Tintype photography. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)Corey Hubbard is upside down in the viewfinder of tintype photographer Tim Brown’s large wet plate camera in his studio on March 20, 2023, in Salida. When using the large tintype, or wet plate cameras, the image is upside down when viewed from the back of the camera, making it more difficult to compose photographs. To see and focus the image, Brown uses a black cloth to block out the light and a photographic loupe to check on the sharpness of the image. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)Over the course of a year, Denver Post photographers bear witness to the highest highs and lowest lows of the human experience, along with everythin...

Glynis Johns of 'Mary Poppins' dies at 100

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:31:36 GMT

Glynis Johns, a Tony Award-winning stage and screen star who played the mother opposite Julie Andrews in the classic movie “Mary Poppins” and introduced the world to the bittersweet standard-to-be “Send in the Clowns” by Stephen Sondheim, has died. She was 100.Mitch Clem, her manager, said she died Thursday at an assisted living home in Los Angeles of natural causes. “Today’s a sad day for Hollywood,” Clem said. “She is the last of the last of old Hollywood.” Actress Glynis Johns is shown in September 1982. (AP Photo/Carlos Rene Perez)Johns was known to be a perfectionist in her profession — precise, analytical and opinionated. The roles she took had to be multi-faceted. Anything less was giving less than her all.“As far as I’m concerned, I’m not interested in playing the role on only one level,” she told The Associated Press in 1990. “The whole point of first-class acting is to make a reality of it. To be real. And I have to make sense of it in my own mind in or...

Nick Carter is 'completely heartbroken' over sister Bobbie Jean's passing

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:31:36 GMT

Nick Carter is breaking his silence following the passing of his sister Bobbie Jean. The singer took to Instagram on Tuesday afternoon to pen a heartfelt tribute to his younger sibling. Actress Glynis Johns, ‘Mary Poppins’ star, dies at 100 "It may take a lifetime to fully process the loss my family has endured over the years – most recently, with the sudden passing of our sister Bobbie Jean. I am completely heartbroken," he wrote in the caption alongside a childhood photo of the brother and sister. The Backstreet Boy then thanked his fans for their support.Instagram: Nick Carter"Thank you for all your love and kind words. We are reminded again that life is precious, fleeting and to cherish the time we have with the ones we love," he continued. "I know she is finally at peace with God. I love you BJ."Bobbie Jean's passing comes after her little brother, Aaron Carter's untimely death in November 2022 at 34. Their sister Leslie also died in 2012 at just 25 years old.The 4...

Here's how long $1M in retirement savings will last in California

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:31:36 GMT

For Americans planning to retire soon, having $1 million may seem like enough to retire comfortably, but depending on where someone decides to spend their post-working years, that money may or may not be enough.A new study from Go Banking Rates analyzed how long a $1 million retirement fund will last nationwide. Angelenos who make $70,000 a year are still considered ‘low-income’ The study assumed a retirement age of 65 or older and examined the annual cost of living expenses, such as housing, utilities, and food, in all 50 states.  Researchers used the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ 2020 Consumer Expenditure Survey and the Missouri Economic Research and Information Center in the study.In some states, like Mississippi and Oklahoma, a $1 million retirement fund would last about 22 years.In other states like New York and Hawaii, which already have high cost of living expenses, the $1 million retirement fund would last less than 15 years.For retirees in Californ...

Disneyland to resume Magic Key annual pass sales next week

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:31:36 GMT

Disneyland Magic Key passes will go back on sale on Jan. 10, according to the Disneyland website.All Magic Keys passes will be available for purchase no earlier than 9 a.m. The keys give park guests access to the parks on select dates, depending on availability and pass type, along with select discounts on food, merchandise and Genie+, the park’s paid line-skipping service that replaced the FastPass program. Several Disneyland attractions temporarily closing as holiday season ends The resort offers four tiers of annual passes. Those tiers are:Inspire Key$1,649Includes: Free standard parking, 20% off select merchandise, 15% off select food and drinks, Unlimited Disney Photo Pass digital downloads, and 20% off Disney Genie+.Believe Key$1,249Includes: 50% off standard parking, 10% off select merchandise, 10% off select food and drinks, Unlimited Disney Photo Pass digital downloads, and 20% off Disney Genie+.Enchanted Key$849 Includes: 20% off Disney Genie+, 10% off select merchandise...

Cassoulet Night Returns At A.O.C. And More Drag Bingo – Here’s What’s Popping Up

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:31:36 GMT

Chef Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne’s famous Cassoulet Night returns to A.O.C. on Sunday, Jan. 14. The winter celebration of the Southern French country classic features the traditional slow-cooked dish of duck confit, sausage and white beans. The event marks its 20th anniversary and pays homage to the annual tradition that started at Lucques. The three-course menu starts with a salad of young greens with blue cheese, walnuts and wildflower honey, followed by the Cassoulet de Maison with duck and pork confit, garlic sausage and white beans. An apple croustade with vanilla ice cream and Armagnac prunes is for dessert. Wines by the glass or bottle to pair with the menu have been selected by Styne.Cassoulet Night is priced at $95 per guest, menu only; advance ticket purchase required. To reserve tickets, contact A.O.C. at 323-655-6277 or online at OpenTable Experience. Cassoulet Night at A.O.C. is served for one night only from 5 p.m. until 10 p.m.Wellness Booster (Courtesy Urban Plat...

The Peninsula has a new micro-batch organic chocolate shop

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:31:36 GMT

Four years ago, Menlo Park-based chef Michael Sigmon was visiting his local farmers market, where a vendor was selling custom chocolate, when inspiration struck. He decided he wanted to try making his own chocolate from scratch.Sigmon is no stranger to restaurant kitchens. He has worked at North Carolina’s fine-dining Fearrington House, as a private chef for Chris Webber of the Sacramento Kings and at his own Windmill Cafe in Santa Cruz. But he was ready for a new chapter.“I’ve been in kitchens so long. My body’s done with that,” he says.Now his Minée Chocolate shop sells its wares — five types of bean-to-bar chocolates plus coffee beans — at Sigona’s Markets in Palo Alto and Redwood City and Willows Market in Menlo Park.Sigmon sources his cacao from an organic co-op in Ecuador, where the beans produce a deep chocolate with tropical fruit notes. The flavor is “the aromatic essence of what the jungle could be like on a warm day,&#...

Barnes & Noble to locate new store in Brentwood

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:31:36 GMT

Nearly two decades after opening East Contra Costa’s only large book store at Antioch’s Slatten Ranch, the retailer will be heading down the road to a similar-sized site in Brentwood.The new site is 1.5 miles away at the Streets of Brentwood shopping complex, filling a prime anchor spot vacated by REI in 2014 – only five years after the outdoor sporting goods giant opened shop there.“They (Barnes & Noble) are staying in the market, which is good for East County,” Jim Shepherd, a broker for Slatten Ranch shopping center, said. “You know, it provides something …there aren’t really any other bookstores out there.”Deborah Hanks, a spokesman for Barnes & Noble, confirmed the move and said the business is targeting an early fall opening.“Our lease ended in Antioch and we have found a new home at Brentwood, which will feature our new layout and design,” she said.The new nearly 21,000-square-foot store on Sand Creek Road will consist of book “rooms” created by a series of book...

California prisoner whose lawsuit exposed secret jail recordings pleads guilty to RICO murder

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:31:36 GMT

SACRAMENTO — For the second time in a month, a California prisoner has pleaded guilty to a federal murder charge as part of a massive investigation targeting the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang.This time, Patrick “Big Pat” Brady, 53, pleaded guilty to the July 20, 2018 fatal stabbing of Donald “Joker” Pequeen at High Desert State Prison. Pequeen was targeted by the Aryan Brotherhood for fraudulently posing as a member of the all-white prison gang and for failing to pay for drugs he’d obtained from another person, both violations of an unofficial code of conduct at the prison, prosecutors say.Brady was among two dozen alleged Aryan Brotherhood members and associates charged in 2019 as part of a massive probe led by the Drug Enforcement Administration and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. While on pretrial detention in the Sacramento jail, Brady filed a federal lawsuit that publicly revealed Sheriff’s employees had been re...