Local asparagus from the Sacramento River Delta have arrived at farmers markets. Snap off the bottomsand lay the stalks flat on a cookie sheet. Dress with salt, pepper and extra virgin olive oil. Roast for 10 minutes or so, in a preheated 400-degree oven. Roll them onto a plate and shave some Parmesan over them with a potato peeler. There is your meal.
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Soon the world will rejoice at the arrival of a new golden child: the latest addition to the Angelina Jolie-Brad Pitt clan. New details have emerged about Angie’s pending adoption of a tyke from Vietnam.According to Vietnamese adoption officials, Brangelina will be bringing home a son who is 3 to 4 years old. The process will take up to four months, and an official assured Us that the Oscar-winning actress will have to follow procedure "like any other American."
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The Jewish Music Festival begins its 22nd season at 7:30 p.m. today with "Musical Fortunes," a klezmer and Gypsy-inspired world premiere by Oakland composer Dan Cantrell, performed by the choral group Kitka and Michael Alpert. The show is at the First Congregational Church, 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley.
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The Persian electro-acoustic super group Niyaz — vocalist Azam Ali, multi-instrumentalist Loga Ramin Torkian and DJ and producer extraordinaire Carmen Rizzo — may very well have perfected the art of combining the traditional Middle Eastern music world with electronica.On Sunday night, Niyaz, with the help of tabla player Satnam Ramgotra and multi-instrumentalist and composer Dimitris Mahlis, showcases the melding of two musical worlds at Café Du Nord in San Francisco.
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Each week The Examiner pairs dinner at a San Francisco restaurant with a movie that complements it perfectly — right in the same neighborhood. (Occasionally the "neighborhood" may be your living room and we'll suggest fabulous take-out food to go with and a favorite DVD.) For the week of Thursday, March 8 through Wednesday March 16, 2007, we recommend ...
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When Phillippe Gardelle opened his little French bistro Chapeau! 10 years ago, he took the jobs of host, sommelier and waiter for himself. With his French connections, and some luck, he was able to attract talented chefs who happened to be in between gigs at big-time restaurants. Chapeau! became known as a place where you could dine on sophisticated French food and wine yet pay neighborhood prices. It was always packed.
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There is passive aggression, then there's the smoldering rage that lurks just beneath the grim self-control of Edward Norton's performance in "The Painted Veil." As Walter Fane, a doctor betrayed by his wife's infidelity, Norton quietly seethes, his eyes burning with the resolve of a man determined to exact his pound of flesh. It is a slyly understated turn, and Norton makes it speak volumes.
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Grammy Award-winning singer Patti Austin gets a kick out of it when people refer to her as a "comeback artist.""It’s funny because I’ve never really gone away," Austin says during a recent telephone interview from her home in Studio City. "I mean, you have to be completely away from music and then return to it in order to call it a comeback. I’ve actually been working now more than I have in a very long time."
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Sean "Diddy" Combs has been hit with a lawsuit for more than $25,000 by a man who claims the rapper punchedhim at an Oscar party. As Scoop! previously reported, the hip-hop mogul was alleged to have been chatting up the fiancée of Gerard Rechnitzer outside Hollywood’s Roosevelt Hotel when Gerard approached.
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It isn’t an ideal living situation, says ethereal Swedish chanteuse Sarah Assbring — holing up in a cramped apartment in urban Gothenburg. But there’s one saving grace. "I have nature close by, and I really need to have that," says the composer, who records as virtual one-girl band El Perro Del Mar, and is appearing Monday at the Great American Music Hall.
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