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HILVERSUM (ANP) - De allerlaatste uitzending van Kassa wordt in december gepresenteerd door Felix Meurders. Hij neemt de presentatie over van Amber Kortzorg, die dan met zwangerschapsverlof is. Dat onthulde de presentatrice donderdag in de NPO 1-talkshow Pauw & De Wit.

"Zo begon het allemaal en zo gaat het ook eindigen", vertelde Kortzorg nadat er in de uitzending een fragment werd getoond uit de eerste aflevering van Kassa uit 1989. Destijds was Meurders de presentator van dienst.

Meurders was het gezicht van Kassa tot eind 2010. Daarna nam Brecht van Hulten het over. De laatste jaren is Kortzorg de presentatrice. Eerder dit jaar werd bekend dat het BNNVARA-programma is wegbezuinigd, tot onvrede van veel kijkers. Op 5 december is de laatste uitzending.

Donderdag werd bekend dat Kassa kans maakt op de Gouden Televizier-Ring. Kortzorg hoopt dat het programma misschien toch mag blijven bij winst. De nominatie vindt ze in ieder geval al een "grote steunbetuiging".

Broke Ass Stuart has a nice retrospective:

How did this all get started?

Kingfish: "I got a call from DNA Lounge, asking if I could book a show on a Saturday night in September of 2006. My friend, Eddie Dane, and I scrambled, put together a line-up of our friends in the Bay Area burlesque community, signed-up our pal, Lee Presson, and his 10-piece swing band, and suddenly we had a show! We had absolutely no idea we were ever going to do another one. [...]

"I think the city was ready for our kind of entertainment when we first started. It was an era that gave birth to some really fantastic and enduring shows and events. At that time, on the heels of the dot-com crash, warehouse raves, and sort of the same ol' same ol' in the bars and clubs, I think people were looking around for fresh ideas and things to do. A new generation of burlesque, circus, and variety performers stepped in and created a new kind of Bay Area nightlife.

"People in the Bay Area are still fun, still engaged, and still interested in live entertainment, but challenging times, inflation, a terrible government and, pretty recently. a whole entire plague, have understandably left them a little less adventurous, a little more risk-averse, and that's too bad.

"With gas and food prices skyrocketing, live shows tend to be the first thing that people chop out of their budget. The problem with that is, it takes years and years to build those communities, and if they go, it is far from easy to get them back.

"When you lose your locally created arts, you lose the unique character and soul of where you live. Corporate entertainment can't replicate that, and San Francisco deserves to hang on to its character."

Kingfish and crew have built something truly incredible, and enduring, with Hubba Hubba. Almost nothing in the nightlife world lasts that long! Give them a heartfelt "Hooray!"

And to toot our own horn just a little bit here, I'm proud of the part that DNA Lounge has played in this as well. In a world full of corporate venues, run by management companies focused on national tours and slotting the same product into identical rooms in a dozen different cities, you won't find very many places willing to take a chance on local live entertainment like this, passing up more lucrative bookings and even taking a loss on it sometimes, because we love it and it is awesome. That's why we've been doing this every month for 20 years, and on top of that, every Monday for 12 years!

If I had to describe Hubba, it would be: a blender-load of Looney Tunes, The Muppet Show, SCTV and a bevy of 1930s screwball comedies -- "...but with a little sex in it. A little but I don't want to stress it." (Sullivan's Travels, Preston Sturges.)

Anyway if you like that sort of thing and by golly you should, come to the show, and join our Patreon, and as I've been going on about this week, vote for DNA Lounge as Best Nightclub and Best Live Music Venue in this year's Best of the Bay poll.

And of course also vote for Hubba Hubba Revue as Best... Dance Company? Theatre Company? Performance Company? I think they used to have a "Best Burlesque" category, but, honestly, Hubba is the 800 Pound Gorilla. But that's fine! It's an independent, locally sourced, artisanal gorilla, and it's very friendly!

See you at the bar, where Kingfish and I will be doing our best Statler and Waldorf.

Drinking locally made alcohol is common in Nigeria, especially in rural areas where it is more affordable and poorly regulated

At least 48 people have died and about 100 others are receiving treatment in southern Nigeria after consuming a locally brewed alcoholic concoction suspected to contain methanol, officials said on Thursday.

Banji Ajaka, Ondo state’s commissioner for health, said the cases had been reported in the Odigbo and Irele local government areas. A total of 182 people are believed to have been affected and some are being treated in the hospital, he said.

Samir Ousman al-Sheikh, part of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, was in charge of Adra prison where prisoners were tortured

This article contains descriptions of torture.

A US federal court in Los Angeles sentenced a former Syrian government official who ran one of the country’s most infamous prisons to 60 years in prison on Thursday – the most significant punishment handed to an official of ousted president Bashar al-Assad’s regime by a foreign court and to a defendant present in person.

From Sri Lanka to South Korea, governments are preparing for droughts, wildfires, typhoons and floods – with climate plans facing their biggest challenge to date

Asian governments are rushing preparations for the most severe El Niño weather event on record, with hundreds of millions of people bracing for multiple crises at once as extreme heat, heavy rain and food shortages hit the region.

Fuelled by exceptionally warm ocean conditions across the tropical Pacific – and developing alongside the human-driven climate crisis – El Niño is virtually guaranteed to grow to a very strong intensity towards the end of this year and into 2027.

Invented a little over a decade ago in Hungary, teqball is a combination of football and ping pong

In Bangkok’s Sports Science Centre, Jutatip Kuntatong is airborne, executing a gravity-defying bicycle kick that slams the ball on to the curved table with a force that echoes throughout the gym.

She is preparing to represent Thailand at the Asian Games, which start on Saturday, but six years ago she had never even heard of teqball, the sport of which she is now the world champion.

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