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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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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