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San Francisco Chronicle
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Dead & Company to celebrate 60 years of the Grateful Dead at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park
The Grateful Dead are returning to San Francisco's Golden Gate Park to mark its 60th anniversary. Mayor Daniel Lurie announced on Monday, May 12, that the park will host a three-day concert in honor of the iconic Bay Area jam band, with Dead & Company performing from Aug. 1-3. 'Right here in the city that is the home of the Grateful Dead,' Lurie said. 'What better way to celebrate? We'll see you out here.' The last time surviving Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, along with their ensemble of musician friends — guitarist John Mayer, bassist Oteil Burbridge, pianist Jeff Chimenti, and drummer Jay Lane — played a three-night run in the city was at Oracle Park in July 2023. San Francisco is planning to welcome @deadandcompany to Golden Gate Park for three days in August, to mark the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead. Stay tuned for more details from the band coming soon! — Daniel Lurie 丹尼爾·羅偉 (@DanielLurie) May 12, 2025 This summer's series of shows is something of an encore. In 2015, Dead & Company celebrated the Grateful Dead's 50th anniversary with a two-night 'Fare Thee Well' stand at Levi's Stadium. But this time, the upcoming concerts will commemorate the moment in 1965 when Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, Weir and Ron 'Pigpen' McKernan played their first gig together as the Warlocks, later renamed the Grateful Dead. Meanwhile, Dead & Company's Las Vegas residency, 'Dead Forever' at the Sphere, continues through.
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Lockport schools help students explore and explain STEM
Whether it's exploring traits of organisms or building a robot that can throw frisbees, students across the Lockport City School District are immersed in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The success of the district's 12-year science instruction transformation was brought home recently when Lockport's STEM team The Warlocks competed in the international FIRST Championship in robotics in Houston. At last week's districtwide STEM Night, the Warlocks demonstrated its robot Decibel's ability to retrieve and throw orange frisbees called 'notes.' Working within a size and weight limit, students built the robot to move on a series of rollers similar to vacuum cleaner brushes. The team adapted Xbox controllers to navigate the machine and control its frisbee shot. The Warlocks placed fifth in a regional tournament at Miami Valley, Ohio. Competing against the best in the nation April 19, The Warlocks won the Imagery Award that recognized their outstanding visual design, theme integration, and overall team aesthetic. 'Every student in our district is getting hands-on exposure to STEM,' said Denyel Beiter, the district's public relations specialist. 'That's something we've been really intentional about as part of our K–12 STEM Framework. Our goal is to build STEM learning that's rigorous, connected across grade levels, and grounded in real-world problem-solving.' For STEM Night, third-graders Delaney Lute and Kyla Castle presented their class's model for how an organism could adapt to feed itself. Using marbles as potential food, the students tested the effectiveness of spoons and forks as body parts for feeding. The students were asked to build an adaptation that worked better than the spoon. Using chopsticks, clay, and tinfoil, the students built a scoop appendage that performed even better. According to Lisa Stastyshyn, a science instructional coach at Lockport's elementary schools, the project demonstrates the latest, hands-on approach to STEM learning, which begins in elementary school. The shift from 'old-school' science teaching, which focused on memorization, to three-dimensional learning, began in 2013 when Next Generation Science Standards were introduced, Stastyshyn said. The standards were developed by a consortium of 26 states. Content is arranged in a coherent manner across disciplines and grades to provide all students with an internationally benchmarked science education. 'It's more hands-on experience and uses an inquiry model,' she said. 'It's more of a way that the teacher steps back and becomes the facilitator of the learning. We give kids a phenomenon to experience. Then we ask them to consider, think about, and explore that phenomenon.' Stastyshyn said as teachers, 'We don't want to interfere with their thinking' at this stage. Letting students work with models and parts allows them to see concepts at work, and helps children comprehend the subject, she said. Stastyshyn describes the instructional method as a series of steps beginning with E; expose, explore, explain, evaluate, and extend. In some ways, it mirrors the scientific method. She said students get 'a taste' for something that occurs, explore it to come up with their own conclusions and questions, and then the teacher explains what is known about it. 'From that point on, the students are figuring a lot on their own,' Stastyshyn said. 'The teacher clarifies any misconceptions.' The teacher evaluates how well students understand the lesson, and then extends it, prompting children to push their own thinking further. This step got third-graders involved in using engineering principles of design and use of materials to see how a living thing's physical structures might help it survive. At the elementary level, each year is split into physical science, earth science and life science, Stastyshyn said. 'It gets more complex each year,' she said. 'In fifth grade, they're really getting into materials, their properties, and testing them. They're looking more into the chemical reactions and performing data collection.' In grades 6-8, students' instruction branches off into specific sciences, such as chemistry, physics, and biology, she said.
Yahoo
13-03-2025
- Yahoo
Florida man arrested after shooting into crowd of rival motorcycle gangs at gas station: police
The Brief A man was arrested after he allegedly fired a gun into a crowd of rival gang bikers at a RaceTrac gas station in Volusia County over the weekend. Surveillance footage from the gas station showed a large group of Warlocks in the parking lot when several Mongols arrived, and the suspect, later identified as Clinton Walker, fired into the crowd before fleeing in a pickup truck, officials said. He was later arrested in Oak Hill after law enforcement stopped his vehicle. NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. - Authorities arrested a man in connection to a shooting involving rival motorcycle gangs in Volusia County over the weekend. Clinton Walker, 41, was taken into custody on Saturday on charges of aggravated assault, affrays/riots and discharging a firearm in a public place, according to the New Smyrna Beach Police Department. The backstory On March 8, at around 11:35 a.m., officers responded to a RaceTrac gas station located on State Road 44 near Williamson Boulevard in New Smyrna Beach regarding a shooting between rival gangs, the Mongols and the Warlocks, according to an arrest report. The shooting happened when a fight broke out between the gangs near the gas station's air pumps, police said. At least two people were injured in the incident, officials confirmed. One man, a member of the Warlocks, sustained a gunshot wound that grazed the side of his head. The other individual, also a Warlock, is believed to have been struck in the head with nunchucks, police said. The injuries appeared to be non-life-threatening. MORE NEWS | Bike Week 2025 concludes in Daytona Beach, four deadly crashes The gangs reportedly fled from the gas station before law enforcement arrived. New details According to an arrest affidavit, surveillance footage from RaceTrac captured a large group of Warlocks in the gas station's parking lot when several Mongols arrived and approached them aggressively. A man, later identified as Walker, then fired a gun into the crowd before fleeing in a silver Chevrolet Silverado. The truck was eventually stopped in Oak Hill, where Walker was detained. When officers attempted to question him about what happened, Walker refused to speak without a lawyer present. Authorities stated they were already familiar with both biker gangs, who were in town for Daytona Bike Week, held from Feb. 28 to March 9. STAY CONNECTED WITH FOX 35 ORLANDO: Download the FOX Local app for breaking news alerts, the latest news headlines Download the FOX 35 Storm Team Weather app for weather alerts & radar Sign up for FOX 35's daily newsletter for the latest morning headlines FOX Local:Stream FOX 35 newscasts, FOX 35 News+, Central Florida Eats on your smart TV The Source This story was written based on information shared by the New Smyrna Beach Police Department.
USA Today
12-03-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Massive Grateful Dead box set with 60 CDs and unreleased tracks available for pre-order
Massive Grateful Dead box set with 60 CDs and unreleased tracks available for pre-order If you have enjoyed the musical ride of the Grateful Dead, there's a new box set for you: "Enjoying the Ride," has 60 CDs marking the band's 60th anniversary. It has 17 complete concerts and more. Want the music to never stop? There's a new massive Grateful Dead box set just for you. "Enjoying the Ride," is a 60-CD box set encompassing more than 60 hours of music, collected from the iconic band's live performances from 1969 to 1994. Available to pre-order now on and due out May 30, 'Enjoying the Ride' ($599.98) comes on the 60th anniversary of the iconic band's formation in 1965 and changing its name from the Warlocks to the Grateful Dead later that year. Nearly all of the 450 tracks in the set are previously unreleased and fans can listen to three of those tracks – unreleased versions of 'Scarlet Begonias,' 'Touch Of Grey,' and 'Fire On The Mountain,' recorded live at the Berkeley Greek Theatre on July 13, 1984 – on streaming services now. 'My health must come first': Billy Joel delays 8 concerts for surgery recovery The collection is comprised of concert recordings from 20 different venues across the U.S.: 17 full-length concerts, some with additional material from the same venue, plus multiple performances from shows at three other venues: Fillmore West, Fillmore East, and Boston Music Hall. 'On these 60 CDs, you'll find music spanning more than 25 years, from 1969 to 1994, with the venues and the millions of journeys to get to them, making an essential part of the story,' said Grateful Dead archivist and legacy manager David Lemieux. 'Going to see the Grateful Dead, following them from city to city, was likened to the modern equivalent of running away and joining the circus. These 20 venues are where the circus took us, and the show was something we never wanted to miss.' The box set has a special meaning for Rhino Records President Mark Pinkus, because it includes that July 1984 show at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, California, his first-ever Grateful Dead concert, which he recalls had an "epic 'Dark Star' encore. "This show marked the start of a lifelong journey for me, and I'm willing to bet there are many shows in this fantastic set that will resonate with fans who also found community on the road," Pinkus said in a statement. "I am forever honored to work alongside David and the Grateful Dead to keep this long, strange trip alive.' Only 6,000 individually numbered copies of the 60-CD set will be made available. Digital downloads in ALAC ($399.99) and high-res FLAC ($499.99) will be available on the same day. Included with the set, a tour guide with liner notes by Jesse Jarnow (author and co-host of the Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast podcast) with a producer's note from Lemieux, plus scores of photos. Get an edited-down Grateful Dead retrospective If 60 CDs seems a bit much, Rhino is releasing some smaller versions: Vinyl LPs: 'The Music Never Stopped,' ($149.98) is a six-LP version of the music in the box set with at least one song from each venue in the deluxe set. 'The Music Never Stopped,' ($149.98) is a six-LP version of the music in the box set with at least one song from each venue in the deluxe set. Compact discs: A three-CD version of 'The Music Never Stopped' is priced at $34.98. A three-CD version of 'The Music Never Stopped' is priced at $34.98. Digital: A download version of 'The Music Never Stopped' is available in ALAC ($14.99) and high-res Flac (26.99). For the record, this isn't even the largest Grateful Dead CD box set ever released. A decade ago, Rhino released "30 Trips Around the Sun" for the band's 50th anniversary, a collection of 80 CDs. Only 6,500 were made, but there's a few available on eBay, starting at $2,300. For a supposedly fading technology, compact discs have shown some resilience. Other musicians recently issuing mega-box sets include Bob Dylan and The Band: The 1974 Live Recordings ($159.99), a 27-CD set with 417 live tracks from the 1974 tour, and Neil Young Archives Vol. III (1976-1987), a 17-CD set of unreleased albums and songs, including alternate and live versions (deluxe version with Blu-ray Disc, $449.98; CD version, $239.98). Also on tap: Dogfish Head's Grateful Dead Juicy Pale Ale The new box set isn't the only celebration of the Dead's legacy being served up. Dogfish Head Craft Brewery recently released Grateful Dead Juicy Pale Ale, in collaboration with the Grateful Dead. The 5.3% ABV beer is made with granola and krenza, a sustainable grain. 'As a beer geek with a music problem, few things in life are as sensorially sensational as enjoying a great beer while simultaneously listening to some great music,' said Dogfish Head founder and brewer Sam Calagione in a press release. It's the third beer the Delaware-based brewery and band have collaborated on. 'With its layered, nuanced flavors of tropical hops complemented by its malty body, our Grateful Dead Juicy Pale Ale is as compelling and joyful as the band's music.' And the live music hasn't stopped either. Dead & Company, which includes Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, along with John Mayer, will kick off their second residency at Sphere in Las Vegas next week. Follow Mike Snider on Threads, Bluesky and X: mikegsnider & @ & @mikesnider. What's everyone talking about? Sign up for our trending newsletter to get the latest news of the day
Yahoo
12-03-2025
- Yahoo
Expert: Mongols, Warlocks, other biker gangs require 'overwhelming' police at Bike Week
A brawl between two motorcycle gangs that led to gunfire in New Smyrna Beach Saturday, showed why 'an overwhelming police presence' is needed at events like Bike Week, a motorcycle gang expert said Monday. Motorcycle gangs have been expanding their presence in Florida over the last several years, said John Scaduto, the Southwest Florida regional director of the Florida Gang Investigators Association, which provides training and advice for law enforcement agencies. In the last several years, at least two outlaw motorcycle clubs have moved into Florida: the Mongols and the Pagans. The Mongols is an international motorcycle gang. 'There's more of an expansion of the clubs that have moved into the state and they are establishing new clubhouses, chapters, territories, so to speak, within the state, and that is encroaching upon each other,' he said. The Mongols and the Warlocks were the two clubs involved in Saturday's melee, Scaduto said. They were also the two clubs identified in a charging affidavit against a Mongol named Clinton N. Walker from Bradenton. According to news accounts, Walker at one time supported the Outlaws, which is the most dominant motorcycle gang in Florida. Walker was fired in 2018 from the Hillsborough Fire Service after an internal affairs investigation determined he was loyal to the Outlaws motorcycle gang, according to the Tampa Bay Times. Walker was recruited by the president of the Outlaws chapter in St. Petersburg, James Costa, who was also his fire captain, according to the Tampa Bay Times. The Daytona Beach Fire Department also employed a motorcycle club member, a Warlock, back in 2012. Former Daytona Beach Fire Lt. Brad Dyess belonged to the Warlocks club in Orlando, which uses the phoenix, or bird, symbol. Dyess was involved in a shootout in 2012 between several members of the Orlando Warlocks and a group known as the Harpy Warlocks from Philadelphia. Three of the Warlocks with Dyess were killed in the shootout in Winter Springs. Dyess was not charged. He resigned from the department in 2013. Scaduto said people sometimes wonder why they see so many law enforcement officers at biker events. He said Saturday's clash at the RaceTrac at 3000 State Road 44 in New Smyrna Beach is one reason. 'This is a perfect example of why additional policing resources are required during these events,' Scaduto wrote in an email. 'When the clubs/gangs are in close proximity to each other, the tension is certainly there, all that is needed is a bad look, word, shove, etc., and things get out of hand very quickly.' He said it was fortunate that no members of the public were hurt by a stray bullet Saturday. 'We are lucky as a community that no one was shot during the volley of gunfire at a very public place with citizens present as well as traffic on the adjacent roadways,' Scaduto wrote. Ormond Beach Police, along with other agencies, stay informed about biker activity in the city, wrote Pauline Dulang, a public information officer for the department. She wrote the patrol officers and especially the motorcycle officers "maintain a strong, visible presence throughout the entire week, especially at our high traffic areas, to ensure safety for everyone — not just to monitor gangs." "Police presence during Bike Week is key to maintaining safety and deterring crime. Simply put, people are less likely to break the law with officers nearby," Dulang wrote. The Daytona Beach Police Department, the Volusia Sheriff's Office and the New Smyrna Beach Police Department did not respond to The News-Journal's questions about law enforcement, public safety and biker gangs during special events. The affidavit about the New Smyrna Beach shooting also stated that the Mongols have a clubhouse on Cow Creek Road in Edgewater. The Mongols, who wear a vest with an emblem of Genghis Kan, originated in California, Scaduto said. Their club colors are black and white, the same as the Outlaws. As for the Warlocks, there are two different types. The ones involved in the Saturday brawl were the 'Phoenix, or bird,' Warlocks, Scaduto said. They were founded in Orlando, where the mother chapter still exists, and at one point were a 'pretty large club' in Florida and battled the Outlaws, Scaduto said. He said the Mongols outnumbered the Warlocks on Saturday. "They are not stupid, they like their overwhelming numbers," Scaduto said. "That was the case Saturday. There was a hell of a lot more Mongols than there were Warlocks." Will the brawl Saturday lead to more fights between the two clubs? "Unless there's some sort of discussion to avoid another conflict, I think conflict is to be expected," Scaduto said. "Now whether we will be aware of the retribution or the acts that is another question, because they are not the most willing complainant to go to the police station." Some club members declined on Saturday to participate in the investigation. Marvin Granick, a Warlock who suffered a grazing gunshot wound to the side of the head, refused to complete a statement, an affidavit stated. Anthony Trimboli, a Mongol, was shot in the stomach and arrived at Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach, the affidavit stated. Trimboli said he was practicing cross drawing his gun when it accidentally fired, wounding him. Trimboli refused to complete a statement and did not wish to pursue charges, the affidavit stated. Outlaws, Mongols, Pagans, Warlocks and their support clubs are the most active outlaw motorcycle clubs in Florida, Scaduto said. He said he could not discuss it at this point, but another club is also entering Florida and is recruiting members from motorcycle gangs already in the state. 'We have another club that is coming in and is patching over some of these national clubs within the state,' Scaduto said. 'That's definitely going to lead to some sort of confrontation.' He said the incoming club will offer members of other clubs 'a better deal' like rank and status. 'It's like a promotion. We'll let you be the president, however they pitch it, or in the underground world, they know who's looking to be the stronger of the two,' Scaduto said. The person being recruited is buttered up like any person being sought by another employer, he said. 'They know that the team that's offering them to patch over is most likely going to win dominance, which it's all about,' he said. While Saturday's altercation was between Mongols and Warlocks, the Outlaws are still the dominant motorcycle gang in the Daytona Beach region and most of Florida, Scaduto said. And Bike Week attracts Outlaws, he said. Volusia Sheriff's Office deputies encountered a pack of Outlaws about 10 p.m. March 6 riding their motorcycles on U.S. 1 and Melrose Avenue, according to charging affidavits. As a deputy tried to stop one of the Outlaws for reportedly not wearing eye protection, other Outlaws appeared to try to block the deputy's path by not yielding, the affidavit stated. Once the deputy managed to stop the biker, several of the others in the group of Outlaws stopped behind the deputies 'causing the them to split their attention and placing them at a tactical disadvantage,' the affidavit stated. The Outlaws became argumentative when told to move, including telling deputies 'I don't know what you are saying dumbass,' the affidavit stated. Deputies ended up arrested two of the bikers. Michael Johnson, 34, of Jacksonville, was arrested on misdemeanor counts of failure to obey police or fire department and no motorcycle endorsement. They found that Johnson was carrying a Glock handgun in his waist and another Glock in a handlebar bag. They also found an 'AK-47 pistol' in his motorcycle's saddle bag, according to the affidavit. Deputies also arrested Merrick B. 'Slowpoke' Johnson, 29, also of Jacksonville, and charged him with misdemeanor failing to obey police or fire. Deputies found a Glock in his motorcycle's handlebar bag, the affidavit stated. This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Daytona Bike Week shooting between rival gangs Mongols and Warlocks
