There are only a few more days to experience the city from a fine artist’s point of view, as San Francisco’s Newmark Gallery presents work by Anna Conti, Anthony Holdsworth, Beryl Landau and Toru Sugita in "San Francisco Cityscapes — Contemporary Visions of Our City." The third annual group exhibit of contemporary paintings by Bay Area artists closes Saturday. Hours are from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. The gallery is in the Union Squarearea at 251 Post St., Suite 412.
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The odds of hitting the jackpot in Powerball are 1 in 120,526,770. That figure never changes, no matter how many people play. A scratch lottery ticket yields better odds, with most games returning at least 50 percent of the total prize money available to players.Yet everyone is a winner in artist Packard Jennings’ lottery, which offers prizes that go much deeper than your wallet.
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Pamela Anderson says her recent four-month marriage to Kid Rock was a misguided romantic whim. "It was a big mistake," Pam acknowledged to radio icon Howard Stern. "But I was in St. Tropez — I would have married the fisherman on the corner!"She alsorebukes Kid’s claims that she spent more time partying than caring for their blended family (she has two boys from her marriage to Tommy Lee; Kid has one son), insisting, "I was in Vancouver doing a movie three days a week, and I would come home for the four-day weekend to be with my kids."
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The "holiday season" in this city doesn’t begin the day after Thanksgiving or when electronic gizmos go on sale at 5 a.m. The exact time of this season’s start was 7:33 p.m. last Thursday, in the War Memorial Opera House. That’s when Ashley Wheater, as Drosselmeyer, cast a spell on the Christmas tree onstage, and amid the oohs and aahs of 3,000 children of various ages, the tree grew and grew, reaching for the sky, bright lights surrounding it, enormous boxes of presents sliding in place.
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Another Hollywood retread — along with the original on which it’s based — and the latest thriller from M. night Shyamalan are among DVDs being released Tuesday: THE WICKER MAN It’s bad enough that big-budget Hollywood remakes even get made — when they’re terrible, it’s even worse. "The Wicker Man" stars Nicolas Cage as a traumatized police officer investigating the disappearance of a lost girl on a spooky island where some very odd characters reside.
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As kids, many of us envied the maternal powers that Florence Henderson embodied as American’s favorite television mom, Carol Brady.Who didn’t want to get tucked in by Mrs. Brady to hear a bedtime story?San Franciscans will get the chance to experience that childhood fantasy when Henderson narrates Prokofiev’s much-loved children’s tale, "Peter and the Wolf."
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Theo Schwabacher, just named one of Barron’s Top 100 Women in the United States, swiftly adjusts her sleek bob, strides forward like a young Katherine Hepburn in her faultlessly chic suit and segues easily from picking up her son at school to talk on topics spanning sports, success and personal responsibility. Then she leans forward, smiling and laughing and sharing a confidence: "I was so impressed with the other nominees," she demurs, "so many bright, capable and, yes, stylish women."
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Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett’s global drama "Babel" is this year’s Golden Globes favorite, leading the pack of just-announced nominees with seven nods including best film drama. Other contenders include Martin Scorsese’s acclaimed "The Departed," which snagged five nods overall; 1960s ensemble piece "Bobby"; dark comedy "Little Children"; and "The Queen," which also scored Helen Mirren an acting nomination for the title role. She’ll compete against Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Kate Winslet.
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Destitution, homelessness and humiliation get the gloss-over, but Will Smith keeps things watchable, in "The Pursuit of Happyness," a potential true-life sparkler that has been sanitized and sentimentalized into rags-to-riches syrup.
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Thank you, director, producer and screenwriters, for getting the point of E.B. White’s brilliant "Charlotte’s Web."The new movie version of the children’s classic — it’s reportedly the best-selling kids’ book of all time — beautifully tells White’s touching 1952 tale of an unlikely friendship between a humble pig and a savvy spider. Like the book, the movie also is about the miracle of everyday life (and death) and the power of the word.
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