A ceramic, Aunt Jemima-shaped cookie jar sits prominently downstage on the set of Kirsten Greenidge’s semi-surreal new play, "Rust." Like other objects and characters that appear throughout — a lawn jockey, a pigtailed "pickaninny," Uncle Ben of instant rice fame, even Jemima herself — the jar is a pointed reminder of the racist stereotypes that white America has historically perpetuated. "Rust," part of the Magic Theatre’s Hot House series of world premieres in rotating rep, posits that that shameful legacy lives on in other ways.
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Anna Nicole Smith’s photographer ex-boyfriend says he’s positive that her baby daughter, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, is his. Larry Birkhead told "Access Hollywood" that the very moment he first saw photos of the child, "I knew. I said, ‘She’s mine. That’s my baby. She looks like me — she is mine.’ And there was not a doubt."Larry, engaged in a battle about the baby’s paternity with another former Anna paramour, Howard K. Stern, insists he is not interested in the possible vast inheritance that comes with being Dannielynn’s father, but just wants "to be a good father."
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This week,one of San Francisco’s most widely celebrated events, the Noise Pop festival, is coming to a venue near you. With events planned at nearly every intimate live-performance setting in The City, this year’s festival will be difficult to miss."For us, it’s mostly just about an opportunity to shine a larger spotlight on this particular part of alternative or underground culture," founder Kevin Arnold says. "To me, it still seems to be working to some degree."
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Tchaikovsky’s "Sleeping Beauty" is for everyone. With its superbly melodic score and Marius Petipa’s landmark 1890 choreography, it always has been an audience favorite, not to mention the apex of aspiration for dancers. The San Francisco Ballet’s run of the work (through March 4) is yet another revival of Helgi Tomasson’s 1990 centennial restaging, last seen in the Opera House six years ago.
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Now that Britney Spears is getting help, does Kevin Federline want her back? As Scoop! reported Monday, the FedEx visited his estranged wife over the weekend at Promises, the Malibu rehab facility where she’s in a treatment program. Now, the U.K.’s News of the World claims that during his visit, Kevin told Britney, "I’ll stand by you if you clean up your act. I just want you to get well."
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Not exactly a poor cousin, but admittedly less well frequented than the big, rich, famous Museum of Modern Art directly across Third Street, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts offers intriguing exhibits in its three galleries.
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Few people have heard of, let alone seen, the work of French artist Maximilien Luce. Yet the names of his prominent friends — Pissarro, Seurat and Signac — recall an era of art that has garnered so much attention and popularity, the mystery seems impossible. Pasquale Iannetti, owner of the Union Square-area gallery of the same name, is trying to change that with "Maximilien Luce: The Calm of Nature and Gentleness of Things," which he says is the first solo show of Luce’s works in the Bay Area.
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Could the Jolie-Pitt family be welcoming a new member? A report on Us Weekly’s Web site claims that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have started the process of adopting a boy from Vietnam to join son Maddox, 5, born in Cambodia; and daughters Zahara, 2, originally from Ethiopia, and Shiloh, 9 months. A source in Vietnam told the magazine’s Web site that the pair has applied to adopt a child from Ho Chi Minh City’s Tam Binh orphanage. They toured the establishment in November.
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For those of us who have delighted in the Paul Taylor Dance Company for more decades than one would like to count, the upcoming annual visit to Yerba Buena Center will be doubly important. About the numbers: improbably enough, Taylor is 76, the company will turn 53 in May; Ruth Felt’s San Francisco Performances (and the San Francisco Ballet) hosted PTDC for its 1990 Opera House debut, and then S.F. Performances presented the company eight more times, this year being the ninth. Since 2003, it’s been an annual affair.
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Most composers reach into the past or use the stuff of legends, but not John C. Adams. The Berkeley composer has virtually invented "documentary classical music," on the order of the operas "Nixon in China" and "The Death of Klinghoffer," a musical about the aftermath of the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake, and his Pulitzer-winning "On the Transmigration of Souls," commemorating Sept. 11, 2001.
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