Let’s face it. Live baseball — with its $8 premium beers and $110 premium ticket prices — has become an entertainment investment. The Giants’ food concessionaires, Center Plate and Bon Appétit, have risen to the challenge and dreamed up a world of choices to entice fans to make eating and drinking a major part of the experience. Given the current performance of The City’s team, this new pastime at the ball park may not be off base.
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As untold millions of heterosexual males pray for the demise of Jessica Alba’s relationship with longtime boyfriend Cash Warren, the couple is reportedly struggling to salvage it. An insider tells the New York Daily News, "Jessica and Cash are at different places in their lives right now, but they’re trying to work out their problems."Love denies rumors of gastric bypassCourtney Love insists her dramatic recent 52-pound weight loss is all natural — not, as has been rumored, the result of surgery or liposuction.
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Kung Pao Kosher Comedy presents its third annual Cafe con Comedy, a night of humor in a cafe setting. The lineup features funny folks of all stripes: Beth Lisick, Brent Weinbach, Aundre the Wonderwoman, Gretchen Rootes, Kenny Yunand and Lisa Geduldig. It’s at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Dolores Park Cafe, 501Dolores St., San Francisco. Tickets are $7 to $10. Call (415) 522-3737 or visit www.doloresparkcafe.com.
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For those who missed the works of Henry James in their high school or college literature classes, foolsFURY theater company may just well provide an enticing, if unorthodox, introduction to the writer, with its compact, invigorating interpretation of the novella "The Turn of the Screw."
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Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? Shannon O’Leary knows. In the quirky comic anthology "Pet Noir," the San Francisco-based cartoonista reveals — or rather, revisits — twisted tales of true crime that speak of critter-kind. Remember the bizarre dog-mauling saga that titillated San Francisco and eventually became national headline news? How about the legend of Leo, the fluffy bichon frisé launched into traffic by the hands of an enraged motorist?
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Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are fighting back against sleazy tabloid allegations. The clean-living couple has filed libel suits in Europe against the National Enquirer for linking them to a drug scandal (based on a photo of Marc with a man later busted for heroin). They reportedly seek a retraction, apology and "substantial damages."Has Paris finally found Mr. Right?
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In commemoration of the 1906 earthquake, the Balboa Theatre today presents James Dalessandro’s "The Damnedest Finest Ruins," with the theater’s annual April 18 feature, "San Francisco" (1936). Dalessandro, author of "1906," will attend the 7 p.m. show. "Damnedest" screens at 12:30, 3:40 and 7 p.m.; "San Francisco" at 1:30, 4:45 and 8:15 p.m. at 3630 Balboa St. Call (415) 221-8184 or visit www.balboamovies.com.
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Most bands have a difficult time enduring long enough to make seven albums. That’s not so with New York’s indie Blonde Redhead, which plays Bimbo’s in San Francisco next week. The band’s latest recording, "23," is strikingly accessible, showing movement away from Sonic Youth-generation noise rock toward a dazzling, if dark, pop sensibility.
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When Yuja Wang returns to Davies Hall today to play the Beet-hoven Piano Concerto No. 2 with the San Francisco Symphony, will she still be the teenage piano prodigy acclaimed on three continents? "No," she says, laughing, but perhaps with a tinge of regret in her voice.On the phone from Philadelphia, where she attends the Curtis Institute, Wang doesn’t play coy about age, the forbidden subject in the world of stars.
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And then there was the concert against carbon dioxide. Inspired by Al Gore’s (and now Arnold Schwarzenegger’s) environmental campaign and the film "An Inconvenient Truth," there it was: the "Cozy Concert for Climate Concerns" Saturday at San Francisco’s First Unitarian Universalist Church.Opera conductor Sara Jobin and environmentalist Monisha Mustapha organized the impromptu musical celebration of the national campaign for "cutting carbon dioxide 80 percent by 2050."
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