The stylish guests, many of whom dressed as detectives or femmes fatales, raised more than $620,000 for TheatreWorks at the event, held May 17 at the Palo Alto Hills Golf & Country Club.
The filmmaker’s passion for foolhardy underdogs and train-wreck charmers electrifies this tale of a postwar striver (an unbelievable Timothée Chalamet) trying to make his name in table tennis.
Neighbors said flashing emergency lights and sirens alerted them something was terribly wrong.
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Adi Guajardo,
CBS News,
28 May 2026
Investigators found that Aliji intended to drive a Volkswagen Beetle equipped with fake police sirens and flashing blue lights toward crowds outside the venue before detonating explosives concealed inside a Red Bull can.
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