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It's not too late to make a Valentine's Day dining plan

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When the moon hits your eye ... : A sumptuous pizza at Caffe Baonecci in North Beach is a perfect... Read More
According to my pocket Chinese almanac, Feb. 14 is good for repairing and leveling roads, but bad for planting or beginning a long journey. Is this a metaphorical warning? As Tuesday looms, come up with a plan or, inauspiciously, you may be hitting the road. Read More

Folk art function, form meet in textiles

Museum curators acquire new pieces for their collections by shopping; the annual San Francisco Tr Read More

Frank Turner avoids political tunes

Feisty folk-punker Frank Turner may strum a mean acoustic guitar and sing in a streetwise Brit Read More

Dense drama, emotions in ‘Higher’

“How can you honor the dead if you have no faith?” demands Isaac, the gay, born-again-Jewish son Read More

Los Campesinos! get into publishing

For Welsh septet Los Campesinos!, it’s not enough to simply offer fans new albums, like its music Read More

Angelina Jolie is still a 'bad girl'

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie
Lately we feel like it’s déjà vu all over again whenever Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt give an int Read More

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It's not too late to make a Valentine's Day dining plan

pizza
According to my pocket Chinese almanac, Feb. 14 is good for repairing and leveling roads, but bad for planting or beginning a long journey. Is this a metaphorical warning? As Tuesday looms, come up with a plan or, inauspiciously, you may be hitting the road. Read More

Russell Brand doesn’t want any of Katy Perry’s money

Katy Perry
Katy Perry’s filing for a divorce settlement with Russell Brand was apparently reached amicably. How amicably? The “California Gurls” singer even signed the papers with her, er, signature signature: a happy face over her last name. And by last name, we mean her stage one: The pop star seeks to restore her legal name to the one she wasn’t using anyway, Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson. The British comic reportedly isn’t pursuing his right to claim half his wife’s earnings during the marriage of just over a year — which amounted to $44 million. Read More

Folk art function, form meet in textiles

Museum curators acquire new pieces for their collections by shopping; the annual San Francisco Tribal & Textile Arts Show at Fort Mason Center from Friday through Sunday is one place they do it.Artifacts ancient and contemporary, plucked from civilizations across the globe, are on view in an eclectic array of folk and ethnographic art. The range is wide, from contemporary Moroccan rugs to 19th-century Swedish wedding weavings or a 12th-century Buddha. Read More

Frank Turner avoids political tunes

Feisty folk-punker Frank Turner may strum a mean acoustic guitar and sing in a streetwise British accent on his reflective new Epitaph outing, “England Take My Bones.” But don’t mistake him for the similar-sounding, more politically minded Billy Bragg, he asks. He’s not a protest singer. Read More

Dense drama, emotions in ‘Higher’

“How can you honor the dead if you have no faith?” demands Isaac, the gay, born-again-Jewish son of an architect, Michael.Insists Michael, “I know how to encapsulate grief!”Workaholic Dad, famous for building memorials, has left his heritage so far behind that he never circumcised his son, much to Isaac’s everlasting chagrin.That phrase — “encapsulate grief”— appears more than once in American Conservatory Theater Artistic Director Carey Perloff’s new play, “Higher,” now premiering at ACT’s second stage under Mark Rucker’s generally smooth direction. Read More

Los Campesinos! get into publishing

For Welsh septet Los Campesinos!, it’s not enough to simply offer fans new albums, like its musically upbeat but lyrically melancholy fourth effort, “Hello Sadness.” Their cultlike following deserves something unusual and special, the members recently decided. So they launched Heat Rash, their own quarterly magazine, with each issue including a 7-inch single with two exclusive tracks, unavailable anywhere else. Read More

'Vigilance' a tale of friendship and revenge

Vigilance
Second Wind Productions has a winner of a show in “Vigilance,” a gripping drama about friendship, modern living, revenge and justice. The show, onstage at the Phoenix Theatre, is directed by San Francisco playwright Ian Walker, whose deft, realistic dialogue brings his social and political themes to life. Read More

Angelina Jolie is still a 'bad girl'

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie
Lately we feel like it’s déjà vu all over again whenever Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt give an interview. But during an appearance on “CBS This Morning,” the Oscar nominee let slip a rather titillating tidbit. Sure, there were plenty of his usual sound bites — like, work is “not as important as family,” and his six kids “pack their own bags” for international travel. Ho-hum.But then he was asked about reformed wild child Angelina Jolie, saying she’s still a bad girl when she’s alone with Brad. Read More

Taylor Armstrong discusses abuse by late husband

Taylor Armstrong
Taylor Armstrong shared some painful memories on the “Today” show while promoting her new memoir. The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star, whose estranged husband, Russell, committed suicide shortly before the show’s second season premiered, recalled the relationship she says was abusive.“The good times were the best I ever had. The worst times were the worst I have ever had,” the ‘Housewife” mused. Read More

Carl Lumbly plays a madman in 'Blue/Orange'

Carl Lumbly
In a career encompassing film, television and theater roles, Carl Lumbly has played cops, CIA agents and superheroes. But the actor says his latest role, in “Blue/Orange,” may be his most challenging to date.Directed by Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe for the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Joe Penhall’s play about race, madness and identity takes place in a London psychiatric ward. It features Lumbly as Christopher, a man who may or may not be the illegitimate son of an African dictator. Read More

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