The union of Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony has always been something of a mystery. Since quietly marrying in 2004, they’ve largely kept mum about their relationship. Now comes a report in the New York Post that cracks may have begun to appear in the surface of their domestic bliss.One source claims to have witnessed the couple fighting on New Year’s Eve, while another told the paper of a spat on Super Bowl Sunday — and a painful incident at a recent Miami album listening party.
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"Not Given: Talking Of and Around Photographs of Arab Women," on view at SF Camerawork through May, is not what you might think.Given today’s socio-political climate surrounding the Arab world and the Middle East, one might expect to find highly politicized images in the installation. One might assume there would be many photographs of women in traditional Arab garb, with long sleeves and full body-length dress.
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The San Francisco Arts Commission will unveil on Wednesday a transportation art bonanza, called the Third Street Light Rail Art Enrichment Program. For a couple of years now, along with the development of Muni’s T-Third Street line, the commission has been putting together a program of "art elements" aimed at reflecting local history and community involvement. If you live in the area or drive through it, you might have noticed the slow, steady evolution of art all over.
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The San Francisco Arts Commission will unveil on Wednesday a transportation art bonanza, called the Third Street Light Rail Art Enrichment Program.
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If the name François-Henri Pinault doesn’t ring a bell, you may be forgiven. Actress and "Ugly Betty" producer Salma Hayek has kept her romance with the French businessman way, way under the radar. But now two happy announcements have prompted them to come out as a couple: They’re engaged — and yes, that was a baby bump you saw the typically tiny-waisted Salma sporting in recent photos."Businessman François-Henri Pinault, and his fiancée, Salma Hayek, are happy to announce they are expecting the arrival of their first child," Salma’s rep said in a Friday statement.
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Imagine a beautiful dancer in the air, defying gravity, and then visualize a gloriously pregnant woman, carrying the weight with strength and grace no male athlete could duplicate. The twain, one would think, shall never meet: You go with gravity or against it. True, some outstanding dancers returned to the stage with success after giving birth; locally and recently, examples include Joanna Berman, Tina LeBlanc, Kristin Long, Celia Fushille-Burke.
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Stage producer Ken Davenport has come up with a winning formula: cute guys in tight clothes singing tight harmonies.He admits it’s not really his idea. His hit off-Broadway show, "Altar Boyz," which opens at San Francisco’s Orpheum Theatre this week, is just a new variation on an old theme."The boy band craze started with the Beatles," he said in a recent phone interview from his New York office. "The ‘Altar Boyz’ story is similar to ‘Jersey Boys.’"
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On the 20th anniversary of his critically acclaimed electric opera "Slow Fire," composer Paul Dresher writes on his Web site, "We are continually pleased to be approached by people … who considered it a seminal event, and still hope for yet another chance to see it, this time with their partner and/or children. There was something about Bob and Dad that resonated with most of our audiences, who could see in these figures a part of themselves, their fathers, or someone close from their past."
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With daylight-saving time kicking in this weekend and the first day of spring just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to get out on the Bay. The Sausalito-based company Bay and Delta Charters provides a fun and easy way to do it, with a new series of Sunday concert cruises on the Sausalito Empress.The vessel is the newest charter boat on the Bay, says Capt. Gerry Robertson, owner and founder of Bay and Delta Charters. "It’s 90 feet, and it’s really nice. We’ve done a lot of work on it. We’ve spent way more money on it than we ever wanted to, to get it to be really nice."
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It’s easy, looking at Melodie Johnson, to believe she was born a "golden girl," hasn’t a care in the world and lives a fairy tale existence. This blonde, Northern California native, is certainly lovely, blessed with good genes, great cheekbones, an enviable, slim figure on a petite sylphlike frame, a radiant smile and an easy laugh.
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