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Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions has ended and after six games the winner was crowned. Amy Schneider, a writer from Oakland, California, won the tournament beating Andrew He and Sam Buttrey.

EXCLUSIVE: The new film from Captain Marvel helmers Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden has set an all-star cast for their eOne and Macro co-produced pic Freaky Tales as Pedro Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn and Jay Ellis are set to star. Jack Champion, Angus Cloud, Dominique Thorne and Keir Gilchrist and Michelle Farrah Huang, as well as a collection of notable Oakland natives are also on board.

EXCLUSIVE: Rising young actor Imani Pullum (Emancipation, The Orville: New Horizons) has been cast as the lead in Amazon Freevee’s coming-of-age drama Untitled Kagiso Lediga Project. The eight-episode series hails from Queen Sono creator Lediga, Skybound Galactic, a joint venture between Skybound Entertainment and Sony Pictures Television, and Johannesburg-based producer Diprente.

There were seen holding hands after a dinner date in Malibu last Thursday night.And now Cher, 76, has confirmed she's romancing music producer Alexander Edwards, 36, who shares a three-year-old son with his former flame Amber Rose.The pop superstar told fans on social media that the Def Jam record label executive is treating her 'like a queen', adding: 'Love doesn't know math.'She explained that the two had met during Paris Fashion Week. 'Love doesn't know math': Cher, 76, has confirmed she's romancing music producer Alexander Edwards, 36, who shares a three-year-old son with his former flame Amber Rose Alexander is best known for having been in a relationship with Kanye West's ex Amber Rose, 39, with whom he shares three-year-old son Slash Electric Alexander Edwards.Back in August, Amber accused the producer of having affairs with 12 different people and he later took to social media to admit cheating on her.The glamour model and former stripper also has a nine-year-old son Sebastian with rapper Wiz Khalifa, 35.

Remembering a legend. Two years after, Chadwick Boseman’s unexpected death, filmmaker Ryan Coogler is looking back at their final memories together.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Freevee has given a series greenlight to a coming-of-age drama from Queen Sono creator Kagiso Lediga and writer Camilo Saloojee, Skybound Galactic, a part of Robert Kirkman’s Skybound Entertainment, Johannesburg-based producer Diprente and Sony Pictures Television.

Brendan Fraser has apologized for a mammoth 1997 traffic jam in San Francisco, sparked by a hilarious stunt during George of the Jungle filming.The actor, 53, who is tipped for awards season success with his starring role in The Whale, told how a particularly high-octane scene in which George has to rescue a parachutist entangled in the city's Oakland Bay Bridge, sparked traffic chaos.He told SFGate : 'Disney put a mannequin hanging by a parachute from the uprights. It brought traffic to a standstill on either side of the bridge.

experiencing a career renaissance thanks to Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, which is allowing both fans (and the actor himself) to go back and consider those films he made back when he was a star the first time around. There’s been a lot of talk about Fraser’s time with The Mummy franchise, but the actor took a recent opportunity in the San Francisco bay area to apologize for something that went wrong while filming George of the Jungle, and in doing so made a brand new error. Fraser recently attended the Mill Valley Film Festival (via SFGate) where The Whale was set to be screened.

Some restaurant staff dressed as Power Rangers were real-life superheroes on Friday.

Brendan Fraser has apologized for a mammoth 1997 traffic jam in San Francisco, sparked by a hilarious stunt during George of the Jungle filming.The actor, 53, who is tipped for awards season success with his starring role in The Whale, told how a particularly high-octane scene in which George has to rescue a parachutist entangled in the city's Oakland Bay Bridge, sparked traffic chaos.He told SFGate : 'Disney put a mannequin hanging by a parachute from the uprights. It brought traffic to a standstill on either side of the bridge.

Zack Sharf Brendan Fraser’s awards season with “The Whale” continued over the weekend at the Mill Valley Film Festival, where he was on hand for a screening of the film and to accept the annual event’s lifetime achievement award. Speaking to SFGATE on the red carpet (via Entertainment Weekly), Fraser issued a humorous apology to the city of San Francisco due to a traffic jam the “George of the Jungle” production caused over 25 years ago. Mill Valley is about 14 miles north of San Francisco. “When we were doing ‘George of the Jungle,’ George goes to rescue a parachutist tangled in the Golden Gate Bridge,” Fraser said, citing the Golden Gate Bridge instead of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge which was featured in the film. “That means Disney put a mannequin hanging by a parachute from the uprights. It brought traffic to a standstill on either side of the bridge.”

Police in California has arrested a man who is suspected to be behind a series of murders that claimed the lives of six people.

The California cities of San Bernardino, Oakland and Los Angeles have been ranked among the state’s most dangerous cities, according to a new study from WalletHub. "Threats to safety in the U.S. come in many forms, from the continued presence of the COVID-19 pandemic and natural disasters to mass shootings and traffic accidents," WalletHub’s financial writer Adam McCann said, describing the intent of the study.

Angelique Jackson World-renowned ballerina Misty Copeland will star in and produce “Flower,” a short film that tells a powerful story through dance and movement, with a mission to highlight “intergenerational equity” and bring critical attention to the housing crisis in the San Francisco Bay area. The project marks the first independently produced endeavor from Life in Motion Productions, the company founded by Copeland and writer-producer Leyla Fayyaz. “’Flower’ represents the evolution of all my work as a performer, storyteller and activist,” Copeland said in a statement announcing the project. “As someone whose family experienced the instability of not always having a safe place to call home as a child, the issues of homelessness and not having access to basic life needs have always been important to me.”

EXCLUSIVE: Labid Aziz’sPeople of Culture Studios (PoC Studios), has picked up North American distribution rights to Kim Bass’s comedy A Snowy Day in Oakland, and will open the film nationwide in theaters over the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday weekend, Jan. 13, 2023. The movie is the debut theatrical release for PoC Studios. 

There’s just over three months to go before the 2023 Sundance Film Festival kicks off, but for nearly three dozen films the festivities have already begun.

Twelve years after a murder in South Florida, detectives said they’ve identified a gay pornography model as the chief suspect in the killing.In August 2010, Broward County Sheriff’s Office deputies found a man, 31-year-old Alfred “Chad” McMurray, dead from a gunshot wound at his residence in Oakland Park, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale. They failed to locate a clear suspect at the time.On Friday, however, the office published an announcement saying that in May, “new information led homicide investigators to identify a possible suspect.”That person is Aaron Michael Dobbins, a 52-year-old Tampa resident who previously acted in gay pornography under the name “Trace Michaels.” According to the BSO statement, investigators obtained a search warrant for Dobbins’ DNA and matched it with forensic evidence found under McMurray’s fingernails at the crime scene 12 years ago.“Investigators said based on the information gathered and evidence collected in this case, they believe Dobbins is responsible for the murder,” the sheriff’s office said in its statement.Detectives claimed in an arrest report that McMurray’s truck, along with some personal items, had been stolen from the murder scene.

LCD Soundsystem have also announced a second 20-night residency in New York.Last year, the band made their long-awaited live return, playing 17 gigs of a 20-night residency at Brooklyn Steel before the last three were cancelled due to rising COVID cases.Since then, the band have completed multi-night stays in San Francisco, Oakland, London, Philadelphia and Boston, as part of a series of mini-residencies in celebration of their 20th anniversary.From November 18 this year, the band will return to Brooklyn to play Brooklyn Steel for 20 more nights, with the gigs running through until December 17.Tickets for all 20 shows will go on general sale from 10am ET (3pm BST) on Friday, October 7 here.Find details of multiple presales here and see the full list of dates below.November 18, 19, 21, 22, 26, 27, 29, 30December 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17The announcement of the new residency comes alongside the release of ‘New Body Rhumba’, the band’s first new song in five years.The song was created for the soundtrack of White Noise, an upcoming film directed by Noah Baumbach.

LCD Soundsystem have released ‘New Body Rhumba’, the band’s first new song in five years.The song was created for the soundtrack of White Noise, an upcoming film directed by Noah Baumbach. The Netflix title — which stars Adam Diver and Greta Gerwig — is a film adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel of the same name, and will feature music composed by Danny Elfman.The seven-minute ‘New Body Rhumba’ sees LCD Soundsystem enlist a shouty backing choir alongside the vocals of frontman James Murphy.

Amy Schneider and Genevieve Davis announced they secretly married earlier this year after Schneider made history becoming the second-most winning contestant on "Jeopardy!" The game show champion revealed the couple had an intimate ceremony at the clerk's office in Oakland, California, in May. She shared a few photos from her wedding day with her millions of fans online.  "A year ago today, I was in LA, waiting to fulfill a dream," Schneider tweeted. "The year since has been full of good days, but by far the best one was May 9th, when Genevieve and I got married." Schneider and Davis were spotted in Los Angeles in February shortly after Amy decided to quit her day job as a software engineer following her major success on the ultimate trivia quiz show.

Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider secretly tied the knot with her girlfriend of less than two years, Genevieve Davis, earlier this year.Schneider, 43, wed Davis, 26, in a 'small private ceremony at the Alameda County Recorder' in Oakland, California on Monday, May 9.'Genevieve and I are delighted to announce that on Monday, May 9, we were married in a small private ceremony at the Alameda County Recorder,' penned Schneider in a post shared to Instagram and Twitter on Tuesday. Married! Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider has revealed that she secretly tied the knot with her girlfriend of less than two years, Genevieve Davis, back in May; the pair seen on September 23She included several photos from the pair's special day, which show them donning white dresses and flower crowns while exchanging vows. In her post, Schneider stated that she and Davis would be holding a 'traditional wedding' next year because their busy year delayed planning.