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This is the time of year when we celebrate our country's founding and independence with bbq, family, and friends. But the most fun has to be the fireworks shows that scare the heck out of the neighborhood dogs and bring joy to young and old alike. Here are a few Bay Area locations that will have fireworks this year. Please call or visit the websites listed next to your event to ensure times and details are correct... Have fun.
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Sit-down Mexico City Market Food
For all the taquerias, taco trucks, and Mission dives specializing in moonshine margaritas, the neighborhood seems to lack a good sit-down Mexican spot where you'd be willing to take your mom. Thankfully there's a new option: Michael Pena's Regalito Rosticeria, where you'll find Mexico City style "market food" and an inventive menu with fresh ingredients at an affordable price.
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Bay Area Duo Rises to the Occasion
After living in New Jersey, Georgia and Los Angeles as a youth, lyricist Azeem settled down in the Bay Area and embarked on a spoken word/hip hop career that has taken him around the globe. His latest project, the LP Rise Up, was created with San Francisco producer DJ Zeph under the moniker Zeph and Azeem. The duo will perform at Slim's on July 6th before going on tour with Souls of Mischief.
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SF Station Blows It Up
Going to see Canadian songstress Nelly Furtado at the Paramount Theater last Thursday night was an interesting experience. With a huge stage and a full band and dancers backing her, Nelly sang her heart out on stage as she performed new and old tunes and even some covers. This was little more than just a concert with Nelly changing her outfits fours times to match the tunes that she was belting out (thank God cause the first dress was something out of the movie The Fifth Element). But overall it was a great show.
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Released on Sony Legacy, 8/7/07
The first lady of jazz is back...well, in a manner of speaking. Billie Holiday, one of the most talented and renowned female jazz crooners has some of her finest original recordings "remixed and reimagined" by a number of DJs, producers, and artists such as Tony Humphries, Nickodemus, Ladybug Mecca, DJ Logic, and a litany of others. Appropriately enough, this compilation is entitled Billie Holiday: Remixed and Reimagined.
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Released on ANTI Records, 6/19/07
The third album, Golden Pollen, by varied producer and musician Guillermo Scott Herren's side project, Savath and Savalas, sounds little like its predecessors. It is his first attempt at a true solo release, one recorded over a period of months spent in isolation exploring various arrangements, instrumentation, and sonic layering. Herren, better known for his IDM/Glitch-Hop project Prefuse 73, certainly uses Golden Pollen as an exploration into his own understanding and implementation of music and composition.
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Michael Moore, Provocateur Extraordinaire, is Back
After a three-year hiatus, Academy Award-winning writer/director/polemicist/celebrity Michael Moore (Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine, Roger and Me) is back with his latest documentary, Sicko, this time taking on the U.S. healthcare system. Coming from the left-leaning Moore neither the diagnosis nor the prognosis is surprising: free, universal, healthcare. Sicko asks more questions than it answers, but at minimum, it should kick start a national dialogue.
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The Yippie Ki Yay is Back...
If Sylvester Stallone can slap on the gloves for a sixth time in Rocky Balboa, the idea of Bruce Willis bellowing "Yippie Ki Yay..." a few more times in yet another installment of Die Hard is no less plausible. The everyman, down-on-his-luck-cop John McClane is back in Live Free or Die Hard. He's older, he's balder, but he can still take a shot and gives as good as he gets.
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Summer Away from the City
Summers in the city are always hit or miss. Weather reports often augur gorgeous weather after a day or two of unexpected sunshine, but we all know that just because it's June, it doesn't mean diddly-squat. A few hours of balminess might give you gleeful intimations of the French Riviera, but I dare you to drive to the other side of the city, and the banks of fog will make you feel like you're marooned on a Scandinavian fjord. And don't even get me started on the necessity of dressing in layers.
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A Glimpse into an Icon's Closet
Coquettes and style mavens, take note -- 2007 has been a most fitting time for exhibitions that feature clothing. The de Young Museum recently enjoyed a popular exhibition on the legacy of the doyenne of hipness herself, fashion designer Vivienne Westwood. Now, the museum dovetails on the success of the Westwood event with an exhibition celebrating the very impressive wardrobe of another aesthetic arbiter: Nan Kempner.
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