SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—From rising stars to industry veterans, this night spotlights career defining roles.

“The scale of this is quite insane. I just did the little walk and that was crazy.” So I can't wrap my head around it, honestly,” said “One Battle after Another” star Chase Infiniti.

Chase Infiniti is being honored for her film debut in “One Battle After Another.”

“It’s been the biggest dream come true,” said Infiniti.

Artist Teyana Taylor recently won a Golden Globe for her role in “One Battle After Another.” Now, she’s up for her first Oscar for the same role.

“ I knew this movie would shake the table and spark conversation,” said Taylor.

The high tension action thriller follows a retired revolutionary living in hiding, and it has a lot to say about activism.

“I love that Paul used his voice and his platform to spread awareness about what is happening. And he’s not allowing anyone to turn a blind eye,” said Taylor.

Teyana Taylor didn't just sign autographs. she also hugged a lot of members of the press.

The “One Battle After Another” stars were in good company with Renate Reinsve, Amy Madigan, Wunmi Mosaku, and Wagner Moura.

Also honored Sunday were Jacob Elordi and Sydney Sweeney, drawing the loudest fans.

Many in the all star lineup are nominated for Oscars.

Following the red carpet was a special Q and A with each Virtuoso on stage in the Arlington.

Monday night will also be a big one with Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, And Benicio Del Toro.

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CARPINTERIA, Calif. (KEYT) Wahines enjoyed some the waves in Hawaii-like weather on the final day of the Rincon Classic.

Chris Keet and Surf Happens are being commended for picking such a great weekend for surfers form the 805 to compete along the so called queen of the coast.

"This  weekend has turned out to be phenomenal a unicorn at the queen of the coast the waves are pumping, the sun is shining, it is 80 degrees, it is why we live here and from the youngest 10 and younger all the way up to the 65 and over divisions everyone is ripping. We have already awarded our pro champion Demiitri Poulos and the action could not be hotter," said Keet.

People ask do people do anything for the Super bowl and I say this is our Super Bowl people who live here and surf Rincon with waves like this , this is this is our super bowl," said Tony Luna.

The grand masters enjoyed being out there with their friends.

"Yesterday  was one of the best days of the it was the best day of year to be out there with 6 or 5 other people pretty incredible"Even those who didn't make the final came out to watch, " said Ryan Moore.

Kala Iglesias, 16, came out watch the finals.

"I got 4th, but I still had fun it has been pretty sunny all day," said Iglesias.

And this year the queen and kings are being crowned on the sand.

For information visit https://www.rinconclassic.com

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By Kyle Feldscher, CNN

Santa Clara, California (CNN) — Kenneth Walker Jr. never saw his son play in the NFL before Sunday night. He’d sat with him in the hospital when his boy was treated for blood clots in his lungs and he’d worked with his son to prove the doctors wrong – to prove that he would play football again.

But the overwhelming in-person experience of an NFL game was too much. Then his son’s agent changed his mind: He had to show up for Super Bowl LX.

Suffice to say, Kenneth Walker III has set quite the standard for himself to live up to the next time his dad is in the stadium.

Walker, a fourth-year player out of Michigan State University, ran for 135 juking, sliding, shuffling, lung-busting yards against the New England Patriots on Sunday night and put himself among the greats of the game by being voted the MVP of Super Bowl LX.

“My dad, he comes out to Seattle all the time and watch games, but he never goes to the game because he don’t like crowds,” Walker said after his stellar performance.

“So, this is his first NFL game, and we won a Super Bowl, so it means a lot to me and I know you’re proud of me for real.”

Walker has had some dominating performances in big games throughout his football career – five touchdowns in a classic Spartan win over Michigan in 2021 and 116 yards over the San Francisco 49ers and three touchdowns in the divisional round of these playoffs spring to mind – but he’s never really had a game like this.

With his defense dominating on the other side of the ball and his own offense sputtering, Walker had to be Him for the Seahawks in a way that he hadn’t been asked all year – mostly because he had Zach Charbonnet beside him.

Charbonnet and Walker made up the running back duo that was the pace-changer for the Seahawks offense, the complement to their devastating aerial attack led by Sam Darnold. But in the divisional round, Charbonnet tore his ACL and was ruled out for the rest of the season.

So, the ball, literally and figuratively, was given to Walker.

“You never want to see your brother get hurt, but I was gonna have to pick up the slack and I just wanted to make a positive impact on my team in whatever way possible,” Walker told reporters after the game.

After softening up the New England defense in the opening quarter, Walker started to find a groove.

At one point, NBC’s color commentator Cris Collinsworth openly wondered how many yards Walker had picked up after going backward. He was all over the place, breaking tackles and making guys miss when they had a clean shot at him. The Seahawks couldn’t get the ball into the end zone, but it was Walker putting them in position to score the field goals that built their lead in the opening stages of the game.

By the time the fourth quarter rolled around, Walker was ready to burst. And he made a run he’ll never forget – even though it didn’t count.

“The O-line had the hole wide open, I just really had to beat the safety and whoever was on my left,” he said of his 49-yard run into the end zone that was called back for a holding penalty.

“I scored and looked back and it’s a flag and, you know, that’s probably the worst feeling ever. But, we won the game, so I’m not gonna complain.”

‘Special’

There’s one word that his teammates kept using about Walker.

“K9 is special,” said

By Kyle Feldscher, CNN

Santa Clara, California (CNN) — Kenneth Walker Jr. never saw his son play in the NFL before Sunday night. He’d sat with him in the hospital when his boy was treated for blood clots in his lungs and he’d worked with his son to prove the doctors wrong – to prove that he would play football again.

But the overwhelming in-person experience of an NFL game was too much. Then his son’s agent changed his mind: He had to show up for Super Bowl LX.

Suffice to say, Kenneth Walker III has set quite the standard for himself to live up to the next time his dad is in the stadium.

Walker, a fourth-year player out of Michigan State University, ran for 135 juking, sliding, shuffling, lung-busting yards against the New England Patriots on Sunday night and put himself among the greats of the game by being voted the MVP of Super Bowl LX.

“My dad, he comes out to Seattle all the time and watch games, but he never goes to the game because he don’t like crowds,” Walker said after his stellar performance.

“So, this is his first NFL game, and we won a Super Bowl, so it means a lot to me and I know you’re proud of me for real.”

Walker has had some dominating performances in big games throughout his football career – five touchdowns in a classic Spartan win over Michigan in 2021 and 116 yards over the San Francisco 49ers and three touchdowns in the divisional round of these playoffs spring to mind – but he’s never really had a game like this.

With his defense dominating on the other side of the ball and his own offense sputtering, Walker had to be Him for the Seahawks in a way that he hadn’t been asked all year – mostly because he had Zach Charbonnet beside him.

Charbonnet and Walker made up the running back duo that was the pace-changer for the Seahawks offense, the complement to their devastating aerial attack led by Sam Darnold. But in the divisional round, Charbonnet tore his ACL and was ruled out for the rest of the season.

So, the ball, literally and figuratively, was given to Walker.

“You never want to see your brother get hurt, but I was gonna have to pick up the slack and I just wanted to make a positive impact on my team in whatever way possible,” Walker told reporters after the game.

After softening up the New England defense in the opening quarter, Walker started to find a groove.

At one point, NBC’s color commentator Cris Collinsworth openly wondered how many yards Walker had picked up after going backward. He was all over the place, breaking tackles and making guys miss when they had a clean shot at him. The Seahawks couldn’t get the ball into the end zone, but it was Walker putting them in position to score the field goals that built their lead in the opening stages of the game.

By the time the fourth quarter rolled around, Walker was ready to burst. And he made a run he’ll never forget – even though it didn’t count.

“The O-line had the hole wide open, I just really had to beat the safety and whoever was on my left,” he said of his 49-yard run into the end zone that was called back for a holding penalty.

“I scored and looked back and it’s a flag and, you know, that’s probably the worst feeling ever. But, we won the game, so I’m not gonna complain.”

‘Special’

There’s one word that his teammates kept using about Walker.

“K9 is special,” said Seattle safety Julian Love. “There’s not a person in the building that doesn’t believe that we’re a better team when he’s going, and so to see him and when he gets MVP, it’s crazy. He’s earned it. I mean, there’s been so much doubt on his name.

“He shows up each day. He’s a quiet guy. He’s a menac

By Oscar Holland, CNN

(CNN) — Bad Bunny’s style has always defied expectations. So, amid intense speculation that he would use his Super Bowl outfit to subvert masculine stereotypes, stage a protest or publicly lambast ICE (again), it was perhaps no surprise that he did precisely none of those things.

This was a jubilant celebration of culture and music, not a searing piece of social commentary. The Puerto Rican rapper teased as much at Apple Music’s halftime show press conference on Thursday, when he said that “people only have to worry about dancing.” Bookmakers were, nonetheless, taking bets on whether he’d wear a skirt, or even a ballgown, until the moment he took the stage.

In the end, however, Bad Bunny simply did what he’s best at: being impeccably well-dressed. Anything more flamboyant might have been an unwelcome distraction. The real surprise was that he turned to fast fashion retailer Zara for his outfits, rather than one of the many luxury labels for whom this would have represented a major coup. Just last week he arrived at the Grammys wearing couture label Schiaparelli’s first foray into menswear.

Emerging to the 2022 hit “Tití Me Preguntó,” football in hand, he began the halftime show as he would end it, in head-to-toe white. His collared shirt and necktie peeked out from beneath a custom faux football jersey that faintly bared his family name, Ocasio, and the number 64, which immediately sparked fan theories on what it might represent. The legs of his spotless chinos rested perfectly atop a pair of his Adidas BadBo 1.0 sneakers (what bigger stage to unveil the new collaboration’s cream colorway?).

Lady Gaga’s guest interlude presented the perfect chance for a costume change. But he instead stuck steadfastly to the theme, reappearing in a double-breasted cream blazer — a wardrobe switch so subtle that many viewers will have missed it entirely. Ricky Martin followed suit, albeit with significantly more chest on display, in a loosely tailored all-white ensemble.

Known for combining high fashion with streetwear, Bad Bunny has a reputation for adventurous and subversive style. He often uses outfits to make a point, whether arriving at the Met Gala with a 26-foot-long floral train or wearing a skirt on “The Tonight Show” to draw attention to the murder of a homeless transgender woman. But the Super Bowl is a broad church, and this was, by design, an evening on which clothes didn’t do the talking.

The primary message here was one of love and unity, told through the rapper’s rallying cry of “God bless America,” which he followed by shouting out the names of countries across the Americas. At the end of the performance, he held out the same football he’d arrived on stage with, the words “Together We Are America” stamped across it showing.

The production wardrobe still found plenty of ways to pay homage to Puerto Rico — a recurring theme of Bad Bunny’s fashion — with performers wearing the island’s traditional “pava” straw hats and the colors of the Puerto Rican flag. Lady Gaga, meanwhile, sported a blue flamenco dress adorned with a brooch modeled on Puerto Rico’s national flower, the Flor de Maga.

And beyond fashion, the set was dripping with symbolism, from sugar canes evoking the island’s colonial past to power lines speaking to its unreliable infrastructure (the latter were climbed by dancers during a rendition of “El Apagón,” or “The Power Outage”). Yet, the iconography was primarily one of pride, not protest.

Fashion icons know when to use their own backs to make a statement, and when to bow to the occasion. In that sense, Bad Bunny’s par