The Syracuse Crunch, an upstate New York minor league hockey team, is going to great lengths to support pop star Britney Spears, who in recent weeks has been the focus of "negative publicity surrounding late-night partying, a very short stint in rehab, being photographed without wearing any underwear and a new shaved look," according the team's Web site.
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Britney Spears left a live-in rehabilitation facility early Wednesday, less than a day after checking in, according to several reports. It was the second time in a week that Spears entered a rehab facility and checked out before her first day was finished. The television news magazine "The Insider" initially reported that Spears called a car service, walked out of the Promises Malibu Treatment Center and left the facility early Wednesday morning.
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Will the second time in rehab prove the charm for Britney Spears? After a blink-and-you-missed-it daylong stint at Eric Clapton’s Crossroads treatment facility last week, Britney flew the coop. Then (FYI, in case you just jetted back from Mars) she returned to Los Angeles and shaved her head, reportedly as a desperate act of defiance against her mother, Lynne Spears — who was said to be beside herself about Britney ditching rehab.
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Being 51 is no big deal, unless you’re an opera company. In marked contrast with Europe, where such organizations have existed for hundreds of years, opera is a relative newcomer here. West Bay Opera’s current 51st season makes it California’s second-oldest continuously operating company, after San Francisco’s 84-year-old monarch. (The Met is 127, Central City is 75, Fort Worth is an impressive 61, Chicago’s Lyric is 51, Los Anegles is a parvenu at 21.)
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It’s been a decade since Motor City mainstay Bob Seger has toured. But that doesn’t mean the 61-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer hasn’t been hitting the road.If he can, he says, he’ll do 300 miles a day on one of his three vintage-chassis Harley Davidson Dyna Wide Glide motorcycles.
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There it is: a white wall, a few brown stairs in the frame of an opendoor, just a fraction of a red chair on lower right. Hello, what do we have here? Art. Art who? Art from Charles Sheeler.
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Over the weekend, San Francisco’s Ping Pong Gallery hosted a lively show called "This Time I Wanted You to Know." In two- and three-dimensional works, Brian Wasson takes on a wide range of ideas, exploring contemporary portraiture, the ambiguous icon and the structure and meaning of duality.While the 33-year-old artist’s themes may be weighty, his true craft lies in his ability to choose materials and subject matter that evoke sweet waves of nostalgia and comfort.If minimalism could be a grilled cheese sandwich, Wasson’s exhibition just might be it.
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Deep in the heart of the Tenderloin are two adjacent galleries that distinguish themselves as much by their spirit and location as by the artwork inside.White Walls (along with its next-door neighbor Shooting Gallery) hosts a show called "My Favorite Color." The exhibit’s contents aren’t necessarily linked by a curatorial theme, but they do reflect gallery owner Justin Giarla’s interest in pop art, tattoo art, underground comics and street art in general.
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Life is imitating art in a spooky way. Last year, Iris Yamashita wrote the script for Clint Eastwood’s "Letters from Iwo Jima." In the movie, the opening and closing sequences focus on a bag of letters dug up from the blood-soaked battlefield on the Pacific island; these messages from the soldiers to back home in Japan form most of the narration throughout the film.
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Did Britney Spears shave her head torebel against her overprotective mother — or just to give her overtreated tresses some tough love?
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