To feel the Nervous Energy of the finalists and the champagne would be flowing. The kirkus prize isnt what you may imagine when you think of literary award ceremonies. There is no formal banquet or assigned seating. It is a Cocktail Party with a glamour and energy all on its own. Last year when Entertainment Weekly wrote about the major literary awards they referred to the kirkus prize as golden globes, fun and unpredictable and tonight we want to share that energy with you at home and give you a glimpse of what it is like to attend the ceremony in person. To that end our editor at large, megan, caught up with some of this years finalists so we could connect with them as as we were all at a party together. You can view the full conversations on kirkus. Com, but here is a sneak peek. A typical year we would all be gathered at the Austin Public Library for the ceremony, a Cocktail Party beforehand, everybody mingling. I wanted to ask whe could we find you as a finalis before the award ce
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Big numbers. You can see police were on hand, but an altercation before the rally even started escalated things fairly quickly. Reporter this is video of philip anderson, one of the organizers of todays free speech rally in San Francisco getting hit in the mouth by a counterprotester. He and another man scrambling to safety over a barricade. It doesnt hurt but ill have to see a dentist. Reporter he flew here and put together this event calling it a free speech rally and protest. One of the targets was twitter who organizers claim are sensoring conservative views. A very small group came out to support anderson. They identify as supporters of President Donald Trump and post their conservative views on social media. But they say violence is not the answer. Anderson and his supporters did take the stage briefly, but as counterprotesters shouted them down, the rally abruptly ended after about 10 minutes. San Francisco Police were on hand to separate the two sides, but the rally organizers
Gusts will be near 60 and 70 over the ridges. And at the lower elevations well see some very breezy winds to gusty, up to 50 miles an hour. Relative humidity, 5 to 15 , thats tomorrow. Right now were at 52 in danville, 50 in pleasant hill. 53 in concord. Fog in the north bay with upper 40s. Its a chillier morning out there and the relative humidity is back with us this morning. Nine degrees cooler in Half Moon Bay, two to three degrees cooler in the north bay. And the visibility anywhere from a quarter mile to half mile from napa to santa rosa. Not much in terms of fog. Well have partly cloudy skies today. And temperatures will stay on the cool side, near seasonable levels, mid60s around noontime around the bay and inland. 50s at the coast, by the afternoon, partly cloudy skies, still with low 70s inland, upper 60s around the bay and were looking at that sunset at 6 19. Well go in detail about what to expect in terms of winds and ad coming up, liz. Lisa, thank you. This morning we are
And here comes our wind advisory tomorrow afternoon, at 4 00 for the lower elevations, lasting through monday, 11 00, in the red, indicating a red flag warning, 11 00 in the hills, and looking at 20 to 40 mile an hour wind gusts, gusts to 50. And we could see some of those gusts over 70 miles an hour, over the ridges, so the relative humidity drops anywhere from 5 to 15 and this could allow fires to ignite and spread rapidly. Right now were at 49 in mountain view, 54 in the los altos hills. 44 in napa. 24hour temperature thing, anywhere from two to five degrees colder this morning. Certainly feeling like fall and the fog has spread from napa to novato at a quarter mile visibility, three quarters of a mile in santa rosa. Partly cloudy around the bay, along the coast, sunny inland. Low 70s there. Bayside, upper 60s around fremont, only in the 50s at the coast and then things change rapidly by tomorrow. Ill be back with the timeline of the winds and the dry air in a few minutes. Liz . Lis