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Local:
- The US Navy has confirmed that they will not be participating in Fleet Week due to the government shutdown. And, yes, that includes the Blue Angels, who would normally begin upsetting dogs and doing practice flyovers tomorrow. [NBC Bay Area]
- The Teakettle Experimental Forest, an old-growth forest of about 3,000 acres in the Sierra, East of Fresno, appears almost entirely destroyed from the Garnet Fire last month. Ecologists says the loss of the trees, about 40,000 of which were individually documented and studied, is a tremendous loss for science. [Chronicle]
- SF’s LGBTQ-focused New Conservatory Theatre Center has a new artistic director taking over in January, and its Ben Villegas Randle, who has worked at the theater on and off for 12 years….