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Music
The Best Shows for May
The Bay Area’s own man-on-the-mic, the Original MC Radioactive, will be flipping the freestyle flows at the Juxtapose Art SF Now party. Club Six has always been one of my favorite venues; this night features hip hop, live performances in the dark room, and Jah-Yzer spinning the reggae vibes in the bassment. MC Radioactive is one of the Bay Area’s true gems -- he has rocked the mic with Spearhead’s Michael Franti (featured on the album Everyone Deserves Music) and I have seen him on-stage performing alongside everybody from the Greatful Dead’s Bob Weir and Galatic to Ben Harper and countless others. More
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Theater
A Mammoth Achievement
The Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s masterful revision of the Mozart opera “The Marriage of Figaro” is less classical redux and more the sort of performance that brings a much-needed draught of fresh air to fustian art forms that have little or nothing to do with our lives. Theatre de la Jeune Lune’s “Figaro” throbs with the vigor and beauty of its operatic antecedent, but the company, who brought down the house two years ago with their traveling masterpiece “The Miser,” adds so many subtle embellishments (all without mangling the epic gorgeousness of Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte’s beloved libretto) that the show transcends its formula quite effo More
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Arts & Crafts
A Vessel of Sensational Finds
A new vessel just opened its contents on Mission’s 16th Street. It’s called BellJar and it is a quite a deep vessel housing objects of an eclectic and stylish mix. Sasha Wingate, the visionary of this cozy space, showcases a delightful array of pieces that cover home décor, fashion and beauty for all to experience and take home as their own. Wingate explains, “I really felt inspired collecting, decorating and conceptualizing environments and creating these special little moments.” More
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Beauty
A Vessel of Sensational Finds
A new vessel just opened its contents on Mission’s 16th Street. It’s called BellJar and it is a quite a deep vessel housing objects of an eclectic and stylish mix. Sasha Wingate, the visionary of this cozy space, showcases a delightful array of pieces that cover home décor, fashion and beauty for all to experience and take home as their own. Wingate explains, “I really felt inspired collecting, decorating and conceptualizing environments and creating these special little moments.” More
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Specialty
A Vessel of Sensational Finds
A new vessel just opened its contents on Mission’s 16th Street. It’s called BellJar and it is a quite a deep vessel housing objects of an eclectic and stylish mix. Sasha Wingate, the visionary of this cozy space, showcases a delightful array of pieces that cover home décor, fashion and beauty for all to experience and take home as their own. Wingate explains, “I really felt inspired collecting, decorating and conceptualizing environments and creating these special little moments.” More
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Restaurants
Done, but not Overdone
Americans have grown accustomed to the politically charged images of Baghdad in flames in recent years. Either in spite of or because of the current military climate, a culture of which we knew nothing a decade ago has been slowly creeping into our own; in media, in language, and -- what’s of most interest to us here -- in food. Does this Iraqi restaurant go beyond the same old Middle Eastern fare that has made hummus as mainstream as salsa? More
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Movies
And Almost Lost the Audience
Helen Hunt’s (As Good as It Gets, "Mad About You") first film, Then She Found Me debuted at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. Along with Alice Arlen and Victor Levin, Hunt adapted Elinor Lipman’s 1990 novel. She also stars as April Epner, a 39-year old schoolteacher facing a midlife crisis, exacerbated when her immature husband, Ben (Matthew Broderick), leaves her and moves back in with his mother. To add to an already emotionally wrenching time for April, her birth mother, Bernice Graves (Bette Midler), a local television host, has just showed up. More
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Movies
Made of Clichés
Given Patrick Dempsey’s ascent to "dreamboat" (aka McSteamy) status on "Grey’s Anatomy", it’s not surprising that Hollywood execs would try to leverage his fleeting swoonability for all it’s worth. Enchanted was a clever romantic comedy of sorts and Dempsey did his part as a handsome and charming would be prince. However, Made of Honor is the kind of film that could end Dempsey’s resurgent film career before it’s even managed to get him laid a few times. More
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Movies
A Thinking Person’s Superhero Film
After more than a year of hype, Iron Man, Marvel Comics’ first film under its new Marvel Studios offshoot finally arrives at a multiplex near you. Iron Man (a.k.a. Tony Stark) seemed like a risky choice for Marvel’s first, big-budget film. While comic book fans are certainly familiar with Tony Stark, billionaire industrialist and superhero, he’s flourished most clearly as the co-leader and co-founder of The Avengers, an All-Star superhero team. More
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Music
Released on Astralwerks, 4/15/08
I first came across The Kooks whilst traveling through Byron Bay on Australia’s East Coast in the back of a Combi Van. Whilst shopping for surf wax, I noticed a compilation album called Coastal Chill 2007. As "chill" was perhaps the best way to describe our location, and the eclectic crowd that had gathered for the annual blues and roots festival Blues Fest, I bought a copy -- and literally "fell in love at the seaside"…with The Kooks. More
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