BY TYLER HENSON Two movies about uncanny creatures opened this weekend. Other Mommy features a …
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BY HELEN LAME’ Gabby Williams rebounded from a slow start to score 11 points in …
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About 138,400 adults in Contra Costa County say their mental health was not good on at least 14 of the past 30 days, according to the newest county estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s 15.3% of the county’s adults, up from 11.5% in the CDC’s estimates …
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BY TYLER HENSON Two movies about uncanny creatures opened this weekend. Other Mommy features a family battling a supernatural entity invading their home while The Social Reckoning has journalists going up against the powers of Mark Zuckerberg. The fantasy scares of Other Mommy drew some audience attention, while few turned …
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BY TYLER HENSON Digger (129mins) Trailers for Digger would have us believe this film is a rollicking, larger than life comedy starring Tom Cruise, decked out in old age prosthetics and swaggering broadly with a Texas accent as the world collapses around him in environmental disaster. That is only partly …
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BY TYLER HENSON It would normally be cause for surprise when a Tom Cruise movie opens as low as Digger, but Digger is no ordinary Tom Cruise movie. It’s been obvious for a while that this movie was going to be a tough sell. Now that this critic has seen …
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The Martinez Tribune is looking for both established and aspiring journalists to come join our team and help keep the Tribune one of Contra Costa county’s leading independent community newspapers. We’re looking for writers interested in covering local news in Martinez in addition to both Bay Area sports and music, …
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Martinez resident Matt Sieger, whose previous book, The God Squad: The Born-Again San Francisco Giants of 1978 has come out with a new book, In My Humble Opinion: Musings of a Sports Columnist. Sieger, now retired, worked as a sportswriter and columnist for The Vacaville Reporter and The Cortland Standard …
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BY HELEN LAME’ Gabby Williams rebounded from a slow start to score 11 points in the final seven minutes to help lead the Valkyries to a 77-73 victory over the Dallas Wings Friday night, giving Golden State their first playoff series win in franchise history. Paige Bueckers missed a running …
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BY XAVIER JOHNSON Melissa Auf der Maur hasn’t released any new music in the last 16 years, so it’s understandable you’d be surprised to see a new record come across your feed recently. Best known as the bassist for Hole and later a touring member of Smashing Pumpkins, she also …
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BY HELEN LAME’ The Sharks bounced back after blowing a 3-0 lead to score a 4-3 overtime win against the Florida Panthers in their season opener in a physical game Thursday night at the SAP Center in San Jose. Defenseman’s Luca Cagnoni’s first NHL goal, 3:14 seconds into overtime, secured …
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BY TYLER HENSON Resident Evil took a surprise step down to number two over this last weekend with the re-release of Avengers Endgame (2019), now playing in an expanded Encore presentation. This seems to bode well for Doomsday in December. But most of the weekend’s new lineup wasn’t particularly strong. …
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BY TYLER HENSON Digger (129mins) Trailers for Digger would have us believe this film is a rollicking, larger than life comedy starring Tom Cruise, decked out in old age prosthetics and swaggering broadly with a Texas accent as the world collapses around him in environmental disaster. That is only partly …
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About 138,400 adults in Contra Costa County say their mental health was not good on at least 14 of the past 30 days, according to the newest county estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s 15.3% of the county’s adults, up from 11.5% in the CDC’s estimates …
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