Weird, disturbing plays are a dime a dozen. Complex, thrilling, engrossing, hilarious theater works are not so easy to find. Berkeley Rep’s first production of the year, "The Pillowman," is a rare bird that qualifies in both categories. If you don’t give up early (as a handful from the audience did at the Wednesday night premiere), you’ll be well rewarded, find it impossible to skip the second act and will be marinated in mirth and suspense.
Read More
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, Christopher Dillon Quinn’s "God Grew Tired of Us" follows the struggles of three young Sudanese immigrants displaced from their homes by civil war and relocated to the American heartland. Once there, they face difficult adjustments; far from their families and the simple, rural lives to which they are accustomed, they are wide-eyed fish out of water, like Borat minus the cynical agenda.
Read More
To the shock of … well, OK, nobody, Lindsay Lohan has entered rehab. The actress announced in a statement, "I have made a proactive decision to take care of my personal health. I appreciate your well wishes and ask that you please respect my privacy at this time."
Read More
If anything can erase one’s belief that human decency has gone the way of the dodo, spending time with Carmelo, the gentle, unassuming troubadour featured in the documentary "Romantico," can. In Carmelo Muniz Sanchez, this slightly skimpy but powerful film contains one of the most affecting screen figures in memory. He’s a simple mix of likeability, selflessness and striving.
Read More
The ugly October squabble that divided the cast of "Grey’s Anatomy" has resurfaced. Co-star Katherine Heigl is so irate over castmate Isaiah Washington’s comments about the incident in a Golden Globes press room, she asserts, "He needs to just not speak in public. Period."
Read More
Singer Wesla Whitfield always likes returning to San Francisco’s Plush Room.This year’s engagement, which began Tuesday and runs through Feb. 4, marks the 26th year she’s appeared in the cozy cabaret in the York Hotel. "It’s still the most wonderful room to work in," says Whitfield, who has noticed many changes over time, including the audiences."They’ve gotten younger," she said during a recent phone interview from the hotel. They’re also no longer filled mostly with gay men interested in hearing show tunes.
Read More
Is it the heavy makeup? The bright red bulbous honker? Or, perhaps, the untamed fro that gives you the willies? Whatever it is, if clowns induce cringing, it’s high time to face that coulrophobia head-on with some immersion therapy. This Saturday, run away with the circus. See for yourself that clowns aren’t so creepy at the Bohemian Carnival.Each third Saturday of the month, the DNA Lounge transforms into an indie circus playground of swinging aerialists, fire dancers and sexy big top performers to create a wildly entertaining evening of escapism.
Read More
San Francisco used to be known for its Basque restaurants, especially in North Beach, where young and old on a budget congregated for huge, hearty, family-style dinners of really good quality at astonishingly cheap prices.The cooking leaned toward the French side of Basque country rather than the Spanish, and featured homey soups, long braised meats and brown sauce on everything.
Read More
Paula Abdul has justified her recent odd behavior on a Seattle TV show last week (she was equally strange on KTVU with Ross McGowan), blaming the little voices inside her head — that is, the ones coming through her headset.
Read More
German singer and actress Ute Lemper performs a concert recalling the dark, decadent cabarets of prewar Berlin and the bustling backstreets of Paris. The evening also features a pre-concert discussion titled "The Rise and Fall of Cabaret Culture in Hitler’s Berlin." The event starts at 7 p.m. Saturday with a talk by Peter Susskind; the show follows at 8 p.m.
Read More
URL: http://www.sfexaminer.com/archive/21/21?page=743&%3Bservidor=www.sfexaminer.com&quicktabs_6=0&quicktabs_1=0
