Will the second time in rehab prove the charm for Britney Spears? After a blink-and-you-missed-it daylong stint at Eric Clapton’s Crossroads treatment facility last week, Britney flew the coop. Then (FYI, in case you just jetted back from Mars) she returned to Los Angeles and shaved her head, reportedly as a desperate act of defiance against her mother, Lynne Spears — who was said to be beside herself about Britney ditching rehab.
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Being 51 is no big deal, unless you’re an opera company. In marked contrast with Europe, where such organizations have existed for hundreds of years, opera is a relative newcomer here. West Bay Opera’s current 51st season makes it California’s second-oldest continuously operating company, after San Francisco’s 84-year-old monarch. (The Met is 127, Central City is 75, Fort Worth is an impressive 61, Chicago’s Lyric is 51, Los Anegles is a parvenu at 21.)
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It’s been a decade since Motor City mainstay Bob Seger has toured. But that doesn’t mean the 61-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer hasn’t been hitting the road.If he can, he says, he’ll do 300 miles a day on one of his three vintage-chassis Harley Davidson Dyna Wide Glide motorcycles.
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There it is: a white wall, a few brown stairs in the frame of an opendoor, just a fraction of a red chair on lower right. Hello, what do we have here? Art. Art who? Art from Charles Sheeler.
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Over the weekend, San Francisco’s Ping Pong Gallery hosted a lively show called "This Time I Wanted You to Know." In two- and three-dimensional works, Brian Wasson takes on a wide range of ideas, exploring contemporary portraiture, the ambiguous icon and the structure and meaning of duality.While the 33-year-old artist’s themes may be weighty, his true craft lies in his ability to choose materials and subject matter that evoke sweet waves of nostalgia and comfort.If minimalism could be a grilled cheese sandwich, Wasson’s exhibition just might be it.
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Deep in the heart of the Tenderloin are two adjacent galleries that distinguish themselves as much by their spirit and location as by the artwork inside.White Walls (along with its next-door neighbor Shooting Gallery) hosts a show called "My Favorite Color." The exhibit’s contents aren’t necessarily linked by a curatorial theme, but they do reflect gallery owner Justin Giarla’s interest in pop art, tattoo art, underground comics and street art in general.
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Life is imitating art in a spooky way. Last year, Iris Yamashita wrote the script for Clint Eastwood’s "Letters from Iwo Jima." In the movie, the opening and closing sequences focus on a bag of letters dug up from the blood-soaked battlefield on the Pacific island; these messages from the soldiers to back home in Japan form most of the narration throughout the film.
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Did Britney Spears shave her head torebel against her overprotective mother — or just to give her overtreated tresses some tough love?
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Oh, Britney, Britney, Britney. We don’t even know where to start.In the course of a few days, Britney checked in and out of rehab, flew to Florida, and sheared her hair — leaving many fans wondering if she’d lost her head.Yep, the newly bald pop diva shaved her own head Friday night at an L.A. salon — after a hairdresser reportedly tried to dissuade her. She then hit a tattoo parlor for some new body art.
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Everything about the Chinese New Year is intriguing and fun, even if you don’t happen to get a red envelope. Take something as basic and simple as asking what year is being celebrated beginning Feb. 18, when the lunar calendar indicated the arrival of another Year of the Pig. Our 2007 may be 4645 or 4705 in the Chinese calendar, but in fact it’s impossible to say that either those numbers or any other is correct. (Unlike the Jewish year of 5767, which is fairly reliable.)
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