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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Once a pioneering voice in ’80s synth pop, Thomas Dolby had all but fallen out of the mainstream when he launched a tour last fall that ushered forth a new live CD and DVD, both called "The Sole Inhabitant."Dressed in a trench coat, outfitted with an elaborate headset and vintage aviator goggles, Dolby looks like a futuristic comic-book anti-hero. As the title suggests, Dolby performs solo, commanding a network of synthesizers. His songs are impressive, but his skill conducting his machines is more impressive.
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The chain-link, steely-gray grimness of topnotch director Bill English’s scenic design, the echoey murmurs and shouts of the incarcerated, the magnified clank of prison doors — all this immediately assures us that we’re in good hands. And indeed, the SF Playhouse production of "Jesus Hopped the `A’ Train," Stephen Adly Guirgis’ 2001 Off-Broadway prison drama, is so well acted and tightly directed that it’s deliciously intense from start to finish.
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Berkeley-based jewelry designer Alison Antelman is among the artists displaying and selling their wares this weekend at the Contemporary Crafts Market in San Francisco.Antelman works in gold and silver, and with precious and semi-precious stones as well as sea glass collected from Northern California beaches. She says, "On a lucky day, I find purple, pink and uranium yellow glass. So much of the glass I find fits the shapes that I envision for a necklace, bracelet or ring. Every single piece I set is in its original shape."
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After a promising start at Promises, Britney Spears has reportedly hit a rough patch in rehab. According to Us Weekly, the troubled pop star’s family is concerned about how her recovery is coming along."They hope that Britney will stay at Promises for a month, but they’re nervous she might not last that long," a source told the magazine’s Web site.
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San Francisco in the 1960s was the center of counterculture thinking.It was the time of the Summer of Love, the Human Be-In and Haight Street. Within this context, mild-mannered Bay Area artist Alexandra Docili began painting. Her works on paper, though clearly influenced by the times, emanate a fragility and delicacy rarely attributed to the decade. An integral member of the Visionary Art movement begun in the latter half of the 1960s in San Francisco, Docili and other artists of the movement sought to interpret the era’s counterculture ideas.
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The main title — "Beats Per Minute" — is too terse, the secondary title — "Contemporary Artists Influenced by Craft and Folk Art Practices" — is rather ponderous. But if you go to see the show, it will all make sense, pleasantly so."Beats Per Minute" is coming to the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Folk Art from March 13 through April 29. It deals with several recent movements in contemporary art influenced by folk art and craft.
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"A Flowering Tree," which had its American premiere in Davies Hall this weekend, has some of John Adams’ best work — in fact, it’s a two-hour treasure house of beautiful music. Obviously a (or the) leading opera composer of our time, Adams has never given us such emotional, just plain gorgeous sound as in "Flowering Tree." It is a major, wonderful work, one which — significantly — leaves the listener wishing to hear it again, and wanting more like it.
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That celebrity health epidemic, dehydration, has struck yet another victim. Nicole Richie was taken to the hospital Friday after suffering symptoms of the dreaded ailment.While shooting her reality series, "The Simple Life," Nicole started feeling unwell, reports E! Online. After seeing a doctor on set, she was brought to a hospital, where she received IV fluids. After 15 minutes, she was released.
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