Kevin Bacon is having a moment. After being largely an unsung hero during his more than 30 years onscreen, Bacon won two best actor awards last month. A Golden Globe was followed a week later by the Screen Actors Guild Award. There's an irony not lost on...
Of the five foreign-language films up for an Oscar next Sunday, only France's entry, "A Prophet," has a legislative bill named for it. The scorching drama exposes the country's corrupt prison system through the fictional account of a young Arab inmate who...
When Colin Firth was a fledgling actor in his early 20s, he had nothing but disdain for the Oscars. "I thought they were unhealthy and bad for the profession," he recalls. "I thought acting is not a sport where we are put in competition with each other but...
Repo Men RATING: (ALERT VIEWER)Science fiction. Starring Jude Law, Forest Whitaker and Alice Braga. Directed by Miguel Sapochnik. (R. 111 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) There's a good idea behind "Repo Men," not a whole lot of thinking, but at least one...
The Girl on the Train RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)Drama. Starring ilie Dequenne, Catherine Deneuve, Nicolas Duvauchelle and Michel Blanc. Directed by AndrinIn French with English subtitles. (Not rated. 102 minutes. At the Clay and Shattuck.) Director...
The "10 x 10 x 10" exhibition came about when the San Francisco Arts Commission and PhotoAlliance invited 10 local curators and artists each to choose one Bay Area photographer to be represented by 10 pictures. The thrillingly varied show of 100 images fills...
Hugh Livingston presses a button and the sound of a High Sierra stream roars down Corte Madera Avenue in Mill Valley. Add the wind in Colorado aspens, birds at dawn, frogs at dusk and the chanting of Navajo bone rattlers, and the sonogarden is up and running...
The Oakland Museum of California will close temporarily at 5 p.m. Sunday to complete its extensive renovation and expansion. It will reopen in May 2010, after a complete reinstallation of its art and history galleries. The National Endowment for the...
ARIES (March 20-April 18): Unflattering truths come to light so it's best to own up to them. Your candor (and not your combativeness) gets you through this rocky patch. TAURUS (April 19-May 19): The latest in a series of bungles leaves you hanging. But you...
Many of you may remember one of the early talking points about the Obama health plan. It was first floated by Sarah Palin and then repeated by various allies and/or fellow travelers of hers down the road of Democrat-hating. It alleged that the Obama plan...
Tuesday's 15th annual Power of Choice luncheon, a benefit for NARAL Pro-Choice America, was, as founder (and lunch co-chair) Dagmar Dolby said, preaching to the choir. The event is always at the St. Francis; the menu doesn't matter, the flowers don't matter,...
Since Tony and Tina first hooked-up on stage in the 1980s, wedding-themed shows have been popular. Throw gay marriage in the mix and they're more popular than ever. Here's a look at four shows playing in the U.S. and Canada with wedding-themes, both gay and staight.
Walking from the Civic Center Bart station to Davies Hall last week, to an early evening performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 2 (often called the Resurrection), took me past the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. Hundreds of young, old and youngish types sprinkled the sidewalk with single digits pointed heavenward. The marquee on the hall said, "Welcome back, Phil," and "Sold Out" was plastered on the box office. The returning Phil was not me, but Phil Lesh of the old Grateful Dead, celebrating his 70th birthday at a Haitian relief concert with Further & Friends.
Sandra Bernhard burst onto the stand-up comedy scene in the late 70's and has never looked back. As she gets ready to bring her one woman show to Fort Lauderdale we spoke to this legend in comedy.
