Ever want go inside a stunning Pacific Heights home? Now’s your chance. This year’s San Francisco Decorator Showcase, now in its 30th year, features the architecturally significant four-story mansion at 2901 Broadway (at Baker Street). Open to the public for the first time, the 10,000-square-foot house was designed in 1927 by award-winning architect Henry Clay Smith for industrialist Milton S. Ray; the lot was once owned by Herbert Hoover.
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Photography, besides allowing people to freeze time, furthers a human craving — voyeurism. Think of Alfred Eisenstaedt’s 1945 Life magazine photograph of a sailor kissing on a nurse on V-J Day, or Hank Walker’s picture of Robert and John F. Kennedy facing each other in a hotel room. The potency of these images largely stems from the subjects’ not knowing anyone is watching.
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Half Moon Bay, the dreamy California beach town perched on the cliffs of the Pacific Ocean, is a great weekend destination for anyone visiting the Bay Area. If you want to make last-minute plans for the of the Motorcycle: International Concours d'Elegance which will be held on the grounds of the Ritz Carlton, Half Moon Bay on May 4 to 6, here are a few suggestions:GETTING THERE
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Last year at about this time, more than 4,500 motorcycle aficionados descended upon the manicured lawns of The Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay for the first annual Legend of the Motorcycle: International Concours d’Elegance, a celebration of all things motorcycle — design, style and classic motorcycle history, pre-1976.
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After keeping their romance under wraps for months, Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson seem to have finally gone public as a couple. At Kate’s 28th-birthday dinner Thursday at L.A.’s La Esquina, they "were kissing in the corner," a pal of the actress told People, adding that the free-spirited pair are "so into each other." Awww.
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Female artists show their strength at the 2007 DivaFest. Attractions include the "Divafest Cabaret" hosted by Sean Owens, along with Deborah Eubanks’ "Crystal Daze," Kerry Reid’s "Human Hands" and "Alchemical Fragments" by Diane di Prima. Cabaret shows are Fridays and Saturdays through May 12 at Original Joe’s Cabaret Room, 144 Taylor St., San Francisco. Tickets are $10. Call (415) 673-3847 or visit www.sffringe.org.
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The Aurora Theatre Company has always attracted an academic-minded audience, which it draws from nearby UC Berkeley. So a play such as "Private Jokes, Public Places" would seem an ideal fit. The wordy comedy, in which Margaret, a Korean-American architecture student, defends her thesis project (a model of a public swimming pool) for a committee of professors, should provide just the right kind of food for thought to satisfy Aurora’s intellectualviewers.
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Victoria Recaño is thrilled to be grand marshal of the 2007 ING Bay to Breakers race."It’s a great celebration. It’s for a cause," says the bubbly TV reporter, best known for interviewing Hollywood A-listers on "The Insider" and "Entertainment Tonight."The West Los Angeles resident, who grew up in St. Louis and spent some five years in the Bay Area working for TechTV and KNTV, admits that, up till now, she only has been a bystander to San Francisco’s biggest party, which is May 20 this year.
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Bay Area Theatresports presents "Spontaneous Broadway," an improvised stage show. The troupe performs Broadway-style tunes based on audience-suggested song titles. The audience then chooses a favorite song, which becomes a musical. WHEN: 8 p.m. WHERE: Bayfront Theater, Building B, Fort Mason Center, Marina Boulevard and Buchanan Street, San Francisco PRICE: Tickets are $12 to $15 INFO: Call (415) 474-8935 or visit www.improv.org
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Director Adam Shankman cruised into San Francisco to sneak-preview scenes from the highly anticipated new movie musical "Hairspray," set for a July release. "I call it my Frankentrailer," he said, introducing the 20-minute reel at a screening and reception Thursday for invited guests at Dolby Laboratories.
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