The case for singer Ashlee Simpson and FallOut Boy rocker Pete Wentz being just friends is getting weaker by the day. The duo, who deny being a couple, were recently seen canoodling at a club. Then Monday night, cameras caught them smooching at Vegas hot spot Jet. Sure sounds, ahem, friendly.Larry faces custody fight over DannielynnTuesday was a tremendously emotional day for Larry Birkhead, as DNA testing at long last proved he is the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern. So when will he get to take his little girl home?
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Brazilian singer CéU celebrates the release of her new self-titled album (it’s being released by Six Degrees Records and Starbucks) at 9 p.m. Friday at The Independent, 628 Divisadero St., San Francisco. Tickets are $15. Call (415) 771-1421 or visit www.theindependentsf.com.
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Albee takesa minute to talk about his most famous work, 1962’s "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?":"It’s not a bad play, it’s an OK play," he says on the phone from New York, in a tone that’s as wry as his words.He admits it falls into the category of "famous for being famous."
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The origins of the Hi/Lo Film Festival — where big ideas outweigh big budgets — can be traced back 10 years to the seminal space voyage of a piece of chocolate and a pizza box.The voyage, better known as the short film "Space Chocolate," chronicles the flight of a confection through an outer-space star field — that is, a kitchen in the Mission District adorned with some black fabric and white Christmas lights — as it navigates its way into a pizza box embellished with Sharpie markings to look like an intergalactic space cruiser.
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Leno’s too light and Letterman’s the everyman. But when it comes to late-night talk show hosts in the modern era, Henry Rollins may be one of the most unabashed creatures to blast through television’s crowed universe.Rollins kicks off the second season of "The Henry Rollins Show" at 8 and 10:30 p.m. on IFC on Friday. A provocative 90-minute special, "Henry Rollins: Uncut From Israel," follows the late-night season premiere, showing off the musician/spoken word enthusiast in terrific form, blending onstage rants with rare footage in politically charged locales around Jerusalem.
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At long last, the mystery surrounding the paternity of Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, has been solved. In a court hearing in the Bahamas on Tuesday afternoon, a DNA expert revealed that there is a 99.99 percent certainty that the late model’s ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead fathered the child."I told you so," a jubilant Birkhead reportedly crowed on the court steps.
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Some of the best books of 2006 and the local literati behind them are saluted at the 26th annual Northern California Book Awards. "Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace," edited by Maxine Hong Kingston, receives the Special Award in Publishing. The free event is Sunday from 1 to 2:30 p.m. (ceremony) and 2:30 to 4 p.m. (reception) at the Main Library, 100 Larkin St., San Francisco. Call (510) 525-5476 or visit www.poetryflash.org/NCBA.html
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When Every Move A Picture’s guitarist Allen Davis took a short break from the band in October, the group was unsure of how to move forward.Even with Davis’ return to San Francisco last week after resolving family matters in Portland, Ore., the future of the band’s recordings remains cloudy. V2 Records, which released the group’s first album, closed its doors last year. Sheridan Square Entertainment, a full-service entertainment company in New York, acquired the label and fired the staff.
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Their music may be a complex hybrid of Joy Division-thick rhythms, jagged guitar work and girl-group vocals that recalls clever post-punk firebrands from the early ’80s such as Kleenex, the Delta 5 and the Bush Tetras. But don’t look too deeply into the name origins of brainy Australian power trio Love of Diagrams, or the band’s stateside debut disc "Mosaic," out this week on Matador. (The group plays Slim’s on Saturday.)
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As is the rule and distinction with all Stephen Sondheim musicals, "Merrily We Roll Along" has lots and lots of words, some multisyllabic, many pregnant with meaning. In a kind of theatrical-musical miracle, every one of those words came through clearly from the stage at TheatreWorks’ premiere of the musical Saturday evening in Mountain View.
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