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Is Lohan at rock bottom in rehab?

Lindsay Lohan
Now that Lindsay Lohan is safely ensconced at the Betty Ford Center rehab clinic, let’s check in on her progress, shall we? The short version: She’s miserable. Her worst fears reportedly came true when the docs there yanked her Adderall. According to TMZ, LiLo frantically searched for a clinic that would allow her to stay on the ADHD medication, but the professionals at Betty Ford Center determined that she really didn’t need it. Now Lohan is allegedly threatening to leave. Read More

From football field to Fillmore stage

Olly Murs
As a kid, Olly Murs heard the adage that only two career paths that could lead a lad out of England: becoming a rock star or a professional soccer player. He was counting on the latter. “Football was something that I loved massively,” he says of his years playing semi-pro for Whitham Town. “I used to just work 9 to 5 at a job and play football, and it was a non-league team, but I was trying to break into professional. I never had anything else to look forward to, really.” And then? The accident. And everything turned bleak. Read More

Instead of replacing the entire judging panel, just cancel American Idol already

Randy Jackson
If only someone had made “American Idol” sign a do not resuscitate order! Read More

Sylvia Browne attacked for wrongly predicting Amanda Berry’s death

Montel Williams
This probably won’t come as much of a surprise, but TV psychic Sylvia Browne was dead wrong when it came to predicting the fate of Amanda Berry, one of the young women taken captive in Cleveland. Read More

Liam Hemsworth’s brothers staged an intervention to get him to dump Miley Cyrus

Liam Hemsworth
Liam Hemsworth’s brothers staged an “intervention” to get him to dump his fiancee, Miley Cyrus, Us Weekly magazine reports. If it went anything like the TV show, they told him that they “loved him very much but felt like they were losing him,” right after they showed collages of him in happier days before he shacked up with the half-naked former “Hannah Montana” star. Read More

Mum’s drinks match hotel’s sensibilities

Mum's
It’s rare that a bar’s drink menu completely reflects one bartender’s obsession, but that’s the case at Mum’s, the bar and restaurant attached to Japantown’s Hotel Tomo. “I’m crazy for hamsters,” says bartender Mana Yasuda. That sentiment is reflected in the cocktails she creates, which have names such as Hamster on the Beach, Mexican Hamster, Hamster Sundae and Gloomy Hamster. This zaniness fits in perfectly with Tomo’s expression of hotel as pop culture art object. Read More

Lambrusco has outgrown the discotheque

lambrusco
Imagine it’s 1980. Made famous by the jingle “Riunite on ice, Riunite that’s nice,” lambrusco is everywhere. A fizzy, sweet red wine, it accounts for three of every 10 wines exported to the U.S. While berated by critics, it is consumed en masse in Emilia, Italy, where it is largely made by cooperatives and consumed in discotheques from San Francisco to Ibiza. Read More

The foccacia-based sandwich – and more – is the thing at V-105

V-150
I have a serious thing for sandwiches. My first job as a teenager was making sandwiches at a deli, and that set my path forever. Cities I’ve visited around the world are defined by the sandwiches I’ve eaten there. Whenever I delve into a great dish at a fancy restaurant, at least 10 percent of my brain is thinking, “How could I turn this into a sandwich?” So when I heard that V-105, run by ex-Garibaldis chef Daniel Martes, was creating some of the best sandwiches in San Francisco, I hit the ground running. Read More

‘Love Is All You Need’ goes down easy

Love Is All You Need
The formula is as false as ever in the romantic comedy “Love Is All You Need.” But between cliches, director Susanne Bier supplies wonderful sparkle as her characters fall in love amid wedding-party minidramas in an Italian landscape overly conducive to sunset scenes. Bier is known for making tragedy-laced family-centered melodramas such as “Brothers” and “In a Better World.” Changing gears, she now presents a semi-Danish pastry containing a Hollywood rom-com recipe shaded with signature serio-touches. It’s lightweight but engaging enough. Read More

"Cinderella" Sells Out

If a sold out week-long run of Christopher Wheeldon’s “Cinderella” is anything to go by, San Francisco Ballet should note that story ballets and fairy tales sell. “Cinderella,” which opened at the War Memorial Opera House on May 3 and closes May 12 – is a lavish, glittering, high-tech production with scenery and costumes by Julian Crouch. It made its world debut  December in Amsterdam with the Dutch National Ballet; San Francisco Ballet’s run is the U.S. premiere. Read More
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