On one of last week's warm summer nights, we followed the sound of beating drums to 22nd and Bartlett in the Mission, where more than a dozen martial artists from Abada-Capoeira were performing the Afro-Brazilian art of dance-fighting in the middle of the...
George Clooney's hit-man tale "The American" has captured the top spot at the box office with a $16.4 million premiere over the long Labor Day weekend. Since opening Wednesday, the Focus Features release has taken in $19.5 million. The 20th Century Fox...
"Now I can stand on my own. I'm actually doing great," Zheng Cao is saying, seated comfortably in her high-rise apartment looking out over the water and the soaring Bay Bridge. Cao, a Shanghai-born mezzo-soprano, beams as she recounts the story of the past...
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)Terriers: Drama, 10 p.m Wednesdays on FX. RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Sons of Anarchy: Drama. 10 p.m. Tues. on FX. It might take an episode or two before you stop waiting for something outrageously awful to happen in FX's winning new...
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)Metroid: Other M: Action/adventure (Developer: Project M. Publisher: Nintendo. $49.99 for Nintendo Wii. ESRB Rating: Teen.) In an industry where female action heroes wear bikinis and a 42-24-38 measurement is considered pretty modest,...
Feature: "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" (1982), "Killers" (2010), "MacGruber" (2010), "Solitary Man" (2009), "The Steve McQueen Collection: Four Film Favorites" (various dates), "TCM Greatest Classic Film Collection: Gangsters - James Cagney" (various...
Everything's coming up Sondheim again for Bernadette Peters. In the past 26 years, the Broadway vet has headlined three popular Stephen Sondheim musicals - "Sunday in the Park With George," "Into the Woods" and the 2003 revival of "Gypsy," in which she...
ARIES (March 20-April 18): A supervisor who's always made a point of being neutral suddenly takes your side today with a vengeance. It's nice to know youve got backup when you need it. TAURUS (April 19-May 19): You've been very demanding lately and an...
Press release of the month (and the month has only begun) comes from New York. Its headline: "Bed Bugs Attack Singer Lauren Hildebrandt at NYC Luxury Hotel": "Pop dance songstress Lauren Hildebrandt is speaking out about one of the biggest current fears NYC...
Boy howdy, do people like to talk about Monopoly. I got many e-mails this week about my Monopoly column, mostly concerning variants of the game as played in individual households and on particular rainy days. Here's one from Margaret Pye: "Just had to tell...
