Cliff Caruthers, co-curator of the San Francisco Tape Music Festival, will be the first to admit that unless there’s a seizure-inducing light show going on, electronic music rarely lends itself to a visually compelling experience for a concert-goer. "A lot of live electronic performances involve someone sitting in front of a laptop, and that’s not a terribly interesting experience. It doesn’t add anything to the music," he says. So, why not just eliminate the keyboard-punching middleman?
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I came to Myth through the back door — via its lunchtime adjunct on the corner, Myth Cafe. Along with the regulars who mob the cafe, I so adore the voluptuous, generous cooking there that I had to give big brother a try.I was surprised at how difficult it was to snag a reservation. After finally getting in, I realized why.
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With Mayor Gavin Newsom jetting off to the Swiss Alps, there to schmooze with the political and cultural glitterati at the World Economic Forum, it seems his adversaries on the Board of Supervisors can’t resist backbiting. You wonder if they want him to come back.You’ll pardon the allusion to Richard Nixon’s path-breaking trip to China in 1972, when John G. Schmitz, the late, uber-right-wing congressman from Orange County, quipped that he didn’t object to the trip, he just minded the centrist Republican president coming back. The supes aren’t quite that intemperate.
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Paris Hilton will have to rein in her jet-set ways for the next three years. That’s how long the heiress has been sentenced to probation, following a September DUI incident.The 25-year-old pleaded no contest to alcohol-related reckless driving, a lesser charge than the original of driving under the influence (uh, there’s a difference?). Along with probation, Paris was slapped with a whopping $390 fee, which is probably less than she spends on a tank top.
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Nivek Ogre, dressed in ebony from his spiky hair down to his scuffed army boots, looks like the Grim Reaper — so threatening that he might rob the Hollywood café where he’s doing an interview to promote his new recording. The frontman forindustrial-rock pioneers Skinny Puppy is in a mood every bit as dark. It’s been a tough couple of years for the Vancouver-bred Ogre (born Kevin Ogilvie), an avid animal lover who recently lost one dog to lung cancer, his favorite cat to a liver tumor and his pet wolf to a pit bull attack.
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Country star Keith Urban has reached out to fans to explain his prolonged stint in rehab, and to assuage any doubts that wife Nicole Kidman is still in his corner. In a message on his Web site, the Aussie rocker says his recent rehab experience has "been one of the most impactful times of my whole life."
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A small but important exhibit at SF Camerawork features works by photographers who are neither famous nor proficient, but whose earnestness and unique vision tell a bigger story."First Exposures: Developing History," a retrospective exhibit of SF Camerawork’s 10-year mentoring program for at-risk youth, features works by students 11 to 18 years old.
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On exhibit at Rena Bransten Gallery are nine small drawings on colored paper place mats by Robert Crumb. The modest presentation might seem insignificant if not for the notoriety Crumb has achieved by creating iconic figures such as Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural, Devil Girl and the Keep on Truckin’ guys, and at the requestof Janis Joplin, the album cover art for Big Brother and the Holding Company’s "Cheap Thrills" — images that defined counter-cultural aesthetics and values of the 1960s and early 1970s.
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Dionne Warwick is celebrating her 46th year in show business in fine manner.Looking radiant Saturday night at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, the singer at the top of the show warmly told the audience "welcome to your concert." Sounding more mature, but every bit as smooth and sultry as in her chart-hitting days of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, the vocalist indeed took her fans on trip down memory lane in a succinct 85-minute show.
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Is rejection the reason Lindsay Lohan landed in rehab? According to rumors, Lindsay has had a longtime (by her standards) crush on hottie actor James Franco("Spider-Man"); he previously refused to accept a watch she bought him as a love offering. But when he blew her off at Prince’s post-Golden Globes party, LiLo lost it, reports the New York Daily News.
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