In what is starting to go beyond amusing and into someone-please-help-her territory, Amanda Bynes was reportedly tossed from a gymnastics class in New York City for, you guessed it, acting erratically. Read More

Amanda Warner would love to recount optimistic stories of her post-college years living in the Bay Area from 2003 to 2009, before she moved to New York and — with producer-partner Peter Wade — re-created herself as the brainy synth-popper MNDR. But she doesn’t have any. Retaining a publishing deal after her band Triangle failed, Warner became a hot Big Apple songwriter. An early effort there was “Bang Bang Bang,” a collaboration with Mark Ronson and the first hit single on the album “Record Collection.” Read More

After lying low for months, cuckolded Robert Pattinson and his cheating girlfriend Kristen Stewart are back in the Coven O’ Lovin’, if People Magazine is to be believed. No, really, this time they are, like, totally back together. They have been seen holding hands and cuddling. She has been avoiding the company of all British males and she won’t even order ice tea at a restaurant for fear of dredging up associations with England’s favorite beverage. OK, we made that last part up.   Read More

Oak trees, snow geese, night herons eating Chinese takeout, a mastodon excavation, a brilliant coral reef, redwoods, roadkill, river otters and creeks are just a few of the wonders about to fill the Oakland Museum of California’s newly renovated natural science gallery. Director Lori Fogarty, senior curator Douglas Long and exhibit developer Don Pohlman recently led a nifty behind-the-scenes preview tour of the 25,000-square-foot space, where plenty of work still needs to be done before the gallery’s reopening May 31-June 2. Read More