The 26th annual Northern California Book Awards are slated for 1 p.m. April 15 at the San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin St. Admission is free. For more information, call (510) 525-5476 or visit www.poetryflash.org/NCBA.html. Here are the nominees:Fiction» "Buffalo Boy and Geronimo," James Jankos» "Samba Dreamers," Kathleen de Azevedo» "Miss Kansas City," Joan Frank» "What is the What," Dave Eggers» "The Beheading Game," Brenda WebsterNonfiction
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The Carnaval San Francisco King and Queen Competition at 8 p.m. Saturday will feature 20 contestants vying for honors in categories including costume, dance, music, audience response and Carnaval spirit. Not only do the winners get $500 each, they get to ride the Carnaval San Francisco Grand Parade on May 27. (The parade will be broadcast on television on KRON Channel 4 and Telemundo.)
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The Beat Museum opened in its North Beach location only several months ago, but it already has received major international attention after The New York Times broke the enigmatic story of a man who may have found parts of Sputnik. The story about the Sputnik man, Bob Morgan, also highlighted the role of the museum in discovering him — bringing notoriety to the new Beatnik home.
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Musician James Blunt is dating supermodel Petra Nemcova, but new reports have linked him to Lindsay Lohan. Web site X17 reports catching the starlet and the "Beautiful" singer hitting an L.A. hotel at 3 a.m. while Britain’s News of the World claims they were spotted out clubbing — then retiring back to LiLo’s Beverly Hills house.Smith autopsy shows accidental overdoseThe mystery surrounding the sudden death of Anna Nicole Smith has finally been solved.
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Paintings by Mitch Jones and sculptures by Jud Bergeron are on view at the Andrea Schwartz Gallery. Jones’ "Docutone Series" paintings layer words and images from book pages with painted linear elements that echo text lines. Bergeron’s bronzes explore narrative pictorial story-telling and the subject of murder. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday; 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday. The gallery is at525 Second St., San Francisco. Call (415) 495-2090 or visit www.asgallery.com.
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Today: Recent work by Nancy Switzer is on view in the gallery show "Objects of Distinction." WHEN: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.WHERE: Jenkins Johnson Gallery, 464 Sutter St., San FranciscoPRICE: Admission is freeINFO: Call (415) 677-0770 or visit www.jenkinsjohnsongallery.comWEDNESDAYJulio Cesar Morales
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It may not be the first destination that comes to mind when San Franciscans go on weekend jaunts, but if all goes according to plan, it soon will be.Last Saturday, an event hosted monthly in The City’s South Beach and South of Market neighborhoods highlighted the area’s recent emerging art scene.
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Museum directors seldom morph into rock stars, but San Francisco has had two who have truly rocked. Harry S. Parker III, recently retired director of the Fine Arts Museums, oversaw the building of the $200 million de Young Museum and the extensive reconstruction of the Palace of the Legion of Honor.
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‘Blonde and Blonder" stars Pam Anderson and Denise Richards just got a bombshell dropped on them: They’re being sued by photographers who claim that Denise assaulted them during the film shoot.In November, as you may recall, Denise got angry at a couple of shutterbugs for snapping pix of her and Pam at Vancouver, Canada’s River Rock Casino Resort. The lawsuit claims that the hot-tempered hottie "launched into a verbal tirade and a physical assault" on the two men "which lasted over 20 minutes" — and allegedly included quite a few unprintable names.
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Opera Academy of California presents "Gems of Russian Opera," a special arts event featuring a master class and performance led by Yefim Maizel, the internationally renowned stage director from the Metropolitan Opera, and conductor Alexander Katsman, alumnus of the San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program.
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