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Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
High school softball: City Section playoff scores and pairings
CITY SECTION SOFTBALL PLAYOFFS FRIDAY'S RESULTS QUARTERFINALS DIVISION I #1 Port of Los Angeles 2, #8 Verdugo Hills 1 #5 Eagle Rock 3, #4 Chavez 0 #3 Garfield 5, #6 Chatsworth 3 #2 Legacy 4, #10 San Fernando 0 Advertisement DIVISION II #1 Marquez 10, #8 Harbor Teacher 0 #4 Northridge Academy 3, #5 Franklin 2 #6 Taft 17, #3 SOCES 4 #10 King/Drew 19, #15 Wilson 1 DIVISION III #1 Lincoln 22, #8 University 3 #5 North Hollywood 5, #4 South East 0 #11 Huntington Park 29, #3 Jefferson 26 #2 Rancho Dominguez 26, #7 Community Charter 2 DIVISION IV #1 Westchester d. #8 Lakeview Charter, forfeit #4 Reseda 31, #5 Washington 5 #3 Animo De La Hoya 14, #6 Monroe 4 #7 LACES 19, #2 Van Nuys 4 WEDNESDAY'S SCHEDULE (Games at 3 p.m. unless noted) SEMIFINALS OPEN DIVISION #4 Venice at #1 Granada Hills #3 Carson at #2 San Pedro DIVISION I #5 Eagle Rock at #1 Port of Los Angeles Advertisement #3 Garfield at #2 Legacy DIVISION II #4 Northridge Academy at #1 Marquez #10 King/Drew at #6 Taft DIVISION III #5 North Hollywood at #1 Lincoln #11 Huntington Park at #2 Rancho Dominguez DIVISION IV #4 Reseda at #1 Westchester #7 LACES at #3 Animo De La Hoya Note: Finals May 30-31 at 3 p.m. at Birmingham (Divisions III-IV); at 9 a.m. (Division II), 12:15 p.m. (Division I) and 3:30 p.m. (Open Division) at TBD. Sign up for the L.A. Times SoCal high school sports newsletter to get scores, stories and a behind-the-scenes look at what makes prep sports so popular. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
CNN
13-05-2025
- CNN
Jillian Shriner, wife of Weezer bassist, pleads not guilty to two felony charges after officer involved shooting
Jillian Shriner, the wife of the bassist for rock band Weezer, is facing two felony charges after a backyard shooting involving police in Los Angeles last month. Shriner pleaded not guilty to two felony charges, the discharge of a firearm with gross negligence and assault with a semi-automatic firearm. The charges each carry aggravating factors of great violence, great bodily harm, cruelty, viciousness or callousness, according to the criminal complaint. Though Shriner was originally booked on suspicion of attempted murder by the police, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office did not file an attempted murder charge against Shriner. In the state of California, attempted murder is a specific intent crime which requires an intent to kill by the defendant. Shriner didn't have any comment after court but appeared in good spirits as she left with her team. Shriner was involved in a confrontation with police on April 8 that resulted in her being shot by law enforcement and subsequently arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Shriner was released from custody after posting $1 million bond, according to the Associated Press. The incident occurred in the East LA neighborhood of Eagle Rock, when officers attempting to track a suspect of an unrelated hit-and-run were in the rear yard of a residence and observed a woman in a 'neighboring residence armed with a handgun,' according to an LAPD news release. The woman was later identified as Jillian Shriner. Videos of the incident that were edited by the LAPD were released last month. A compilation of surveillance and body-worn camera videos, the footage showed officers peering over a large wooden fence yelling at Shriner to 'put down the gun' repeatedly, while pointing their guns over the top of the fence into her backyard. In the video, one officer screams, 'Ma'am we're trying to help you!' Another says, 'You're going to get shot; it's the police!' An officer then identifies himself as a California Highway Patrol officer. An edited surveillance video from the LAPD that appears to be taken from Shriner's home showed the moment she is shot, though it is from a distance and the view is from behind Shriner. In a slowed down and zoomed in clip that has no audio, she is seen lifting her gun with both hands, pointing it and then a smoke cloud appears to the right of her body. After the gunfire, Shriner calmly walks back into her home. The LAPD said she 'was struck by gunfire and fled into her residence.' A 911 call placed by an unknown woman who was with Shriner after she was shot was also released by the LAPD. It appears from the call that both the caller and Shriner believed that one of the hit-and-run suspects was behind the fence and was the one who shot her. (One of the three suspects from the hit-and-run was detained and released but two others were never found, according to the LAPD.) Shortly after, Shriner can be heard on the call, explaining to the dispatcher that she was shot by the hit-and-run suspect. 'I had my gun… and he said 'Put down that gun, put down that gun,' and I said 'Put down your f**king gun.' And then he shot me.' Shriner and the unknown woman make no mention of police officers firing weapons or making commands on the 911 call. Shriner was taken to the hospital and released after the shooting. No officers were injured. She is next due back in court on June 18th for a preliminary hearing.
CBS News
13-05-2025
- CBS News
Jillian Shriner, Weezer bassist's wife shot by LAPD officers, pleads not guilty to charges in Eagle Rock shooting
Jillian Shriner, a true crime author and the wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner who was shot during a chaotic series of events in Eagle Rock in April, pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from the incident in court on Tuesday. She pleaded not guilty to discharge of a firearm with gross negligence and assault with a semiautomatic firearm and is now due back in court on June 18. Both charges are felonies and would result in prison time if she were convicted, according to the felony complaint. Shriner's charges come after a wild sequence of events that began at around 3 p.m. on April 8, when police were chasing a group of hit-and-run suspects who had fled from the nearby 134 Freeway after a collision. As they canvassed the neighborhood, officers were directed to the 5300 block of Waldo Place, where Shriner's home is located. "As the officers were in the rear yard of that residence, they observed a female ... in the yard of a neighboring residence armed with a handgun," said a release from Los Angeles police at the time. That woman was later identified as Shriner. Police said that despite directing her to drop the gun several times, she instead pointed the gun in their direction, which led them to open fire. She was struck in the shoulder by gunfire and hospitalized before she was subsequently arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. Body camera footage released by officers a few weeks after the shooting showed the moments that they demanded Shriner to drop the weapon. "Drop the gun, you are going to get shot," they can be heard shouting. After the shooting, she told police that she was defending her home from the suspects running through her neighborhood. She first appeared in court on April 30, where the Los Angeles County District Attorney revealed that they were still investigating the incident and that no case had yet been presented. Shriner remains out of jail after posting $1 million bail.
The Guardian
14-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
The rise of Hot Dub Time Machine: ‘No matter how good a DJ is, you're still pretending to be a musician'
Tom Lowndes wants to tell me a theory. 'I think DJing is the professional wrestling of the music industry,' he says. 'Wrestling, in the end, no matter how good it is, it's still people pretending to fight. The DJ, no matter how good you are, you're still pretending to be a musician.' He doesn't mean this as a bad thing, of course. Since 2011, Lowndes has performed under the persona of DJ Tom Loud, the ringmaster of Hot Dub Time Machine, a hugely popular music party that tours the world. Throughout the 2010s 'Hot Dub' built a cult following at the Adelaide and Edinburgh fringes, before riding the bubbles and crashes of Australia's 2010s festival landscape and playing big overseas slots from the desert of Coachella to a 15th-century Transylvanian castle. Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Like wrestling, the key to DJing is playing to the crowd, he says: 'I'm all about the connection. The whole time I'm playing, I'm looking at the crowd. My hands can kind of do the DJing on their own.' The Hot Dub Time Machine concept is simple: over two hours, Lowndes takes his audience from 1954 to the present day, skipping across decades and genres with childlike glee. He typically begins with Bill Haley and the Comets' Rock Around The Clock, before leapfrogging from one track to another via shared musical DNA or lyrical themes. In the 1970s, Daddy Cool's Eagle Rock might turn into Boney M's Daddy Cool. By the 1980s, the horn blasts of Diana Ross's I'm Coming Out blend into Eye of the Tiger, which in turn becomes John Farnham's Pressure Down. In the 1990s, Yothu Yindi's Treaty blurs into TISM's Greg! The Stop Sign!!, before Tag Team's Whoomp! (There It Is!) unexpectedly turns into Nicki French's 1994 cover of Total Eclipse of the Heart. 'My process now is that I make a very, very carefully constructed set … and then I don't do it,' he says. '[I'll have] a really orchestrated, intricate, chronologically correct set. I put a huge amount of effort and thought into what songs will work, the energy and the pacing, all that stuff. And then I look at all their faces and go, 'No, they just want to hear [Earth, Wind & Fire's] September right now'. 'What I do is daggy – I'm a retro DJ,' he adds. 'But when you're playing George Michael and Fred Again within half an hour of each other, there's something about that that makes the George Michael cooler by association, and makes the Fred Again more fun.' Lowndes' early music tastes were shaped by Triple J's request line and his parents' Stones and Beatles cassettes, followed by a heavy metal phase. A stint in London introduced him to ecstasy and rave culture, before returning to Australia to settle into his first career as a sound designer. He spent a few years working on Channel Nine's Underbelly series, and added horse noises to nearly 200 episodes of McLeod's Daughters – he even supplied the crunching metallic noises when Claire's ute fatefully went over the cliff in season three. But he could 'feel the death knell of the Australian television drama', that he was going to need to find new work soon. Sign up to Saved for Later Catch up on the fun stuff with Guardian Australia's culture and lifestyle rundown of pop culture, trends and tips after newsletter promotion 'There's a real cliche of the bitter sound guy, and I could just feel myself turning into one of those,' he says. 'I just wanted to make my own thing.' During another job, on the Channel Ten sketch comedy show The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, he befriended comedians like Heath Franklin, Felicity Ward and Dan Ilic. Lowndes had been dabbling with DJing in his bedroom when Ilic invited him to DJ at comedy shows. It took a while to find his feet. Drawing from his TV background, he started incorporating video clips and pop culture references into his act, which he called Tom's Video Dance-a-Rama – 'which was also wildly unsuccessful,' Lowndes says. With the help from some friends, including Ronnie Johns alumnus Jordan Raskopoulos, he landed on the time-travel gimmick, and a catchier name: Tom's Video Dance-a-Rama became Hot Dub Time Machine, a play on the largely forgotten comedy film Hot Tub Time Machine released the previous year. The novel, crowd-pleasing format suddenly clicked. Lowndes' early success on the Fringe circuit landed him slots at music festivals like Splendour in the Grass and Falls festival. With his management, he soon expanded into the festival market in 2016 with Hot Dub Wine Machine, which saw Lowndes regularly play to between 8,000 to 15,000 punters at wineries around Australia. 'It was a whirlwind. Everything we touched was more successful, more exciting. We would throw more money and do all this stuff, more alcohol, more drugs,' he says. 'It's funny to hear these rock'n'roll cliches coming out of my mouth as a time-travelling DJ. But it did all happen, and then all of a sudden, you're like, 'Hang on, how the fuck did I get here? I don't want to be someone who owns a festival. I'm not a business person, I'm a DJ.' Meeting Lowndes in Adelaide at the start of his latest Hot Dub tour, he's now left much of that behind. He parted ways with his former manager, sold his Wine Machine stake for a dollar during the pandemic, and cut out alcohol entirely. 'I've been sober for five years,' the father of three reflects. 'I used to just be drunk and continue the party. I think everybody in the music industry at some point reaches a point where they have to reckon with alcohol. 'It's really cool drinking and partying with 21-year-olds for a long time, but then all of a sudden it's not cool. You have got to decide – do you want to be the older guy in the industry who has his shit together that people can look up to? Or do you want to be that older guy in the industry who's a bit embarrassing?' Later that night, as Lowndes bounces on to the stage like a gangly human pogo stick, beaming at the crowd over his moustache and triggering 2010s-era air horn effects, it seems his wrestling theory might be on to something. When he performs karate chops to conduct the crowd in a mass sing-along of Abba's Voulez Vous, there's no doubt. 'I know, it's a weird way to make a living!' he yells into the microphone – and the next banger plays. Hot Dub Time Machine's show Can't Stop is touring Australia and New Zealand from 29 March–24 May; see here for all dates.
