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HOROSCOPE for Thursday, 09/09/2010
ARIES (March 20-April 18): Days ago you were resolute, but now you're not so sure. Don't worry. Sometimes there's greater strength in doubts than hopes. TAURUS (April 19-May 19): An association has taken you as far as it can go. Whatever steps you take next...

Conferences - Energy - Taurus - Recreation - Makes and Models
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There's an interesting article in the Monthly about an all-boys school opening... -email- (Jon Carroll)
There's an interesting article in the Monthly about an all-boys school opening in Berkeley. It revived or continued, your choice, the long-running national argument about Single-Sex Schools: Bane or Boon? First, here's the start of the article: "When Jason...

Berkeley California - Education - Berkeley - San Francisco Bay Area - Business
The Symphony and its glittering sideshow -email- (Leah Garchik)
In music, there is pianissimo and fortissimo, and that's the way it is dressing for a gala, too. In pursuit of perfection, enthusiastic employers of elastic and foam make the most of what's not enough, and the least of what's too much. In the creation of art,...

Dynamics - Orchestra - Symphony - BBC - The Proms
The numbers that dare not be spoken -email- (Leah Garchik)
The centerfold of September's Central City Extra, monthly newspaper of the Tenderloin, describes candidates for supervisor of District 6, each of whom answered questions posed by the publication. Two women (Theresa Sparks and Jane Kim) declined to provide...

Tenderloin San Francisco - Theresa Sparks - Newspaper - Centerfold - United States
Bollywood's Somy Ali aids victims of violence
Years after Somy Ali left her glamorous life as a Bollywood actress, she heard a knock on her door from a Bangladeshi neighbor, asking for help. The woman said she'd been sexually and physically abused for a decade by her husband, his father and his brother....

Bollywood - Somy Ali - Actor - India - Arts and Entertainment
Beatles' early TV appearances on new DVD
A revised DVD about the Beatles' initial appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show" is like cracking open a time capsule. Almost as interesting as the band making its musical introduction to America in 1964 is the context in which it is placed. The DVD presents...

Ed Sullivan Show - United States - DVD - Television - Arts
If you have not seen and are planning to see the movie "The American," starring... -email- (Jon Carroll)
If you have not seen and are planning to see the movie "The American," starring George Clooney, be aware that this column contains SPOILERS. Not that the movie has a really big twist like "The Usual Suspects" or "The Crying Game," but it has a plot, sort of,...

George Clooney - Film - United States - Crying Game - Movies
Soprano Ellen Hargis and lutenist Paul O'Dette
THEATER "Anna Karenina": Opera San Jose opens its 2010-11 season with the West Coast premiere of composer David Carlson's opera based on the Tolstoy classic. Sopranos Jasmina Halimic and Jouvanca Jean-Baptiste share the title role, with Stewart Robinson...

David Carlson - Paul O'Dette - West Coast of the United States - Anna Karenina - Opera
Fresh trumpets for Opera's 'Aida'
Being king of Egypt means keeping up appearances, and boasting the best of everything. Until recently, however, the Nile housekeeping - at least as embodied in the San Francisco Opera's productions of Verdi's "Aida" - has been lacking in one key ingredient....

San Francisco Opera - Aida - Egypt - Trumpet - United States
Letters to Datebook -email- ()
The article about Jack Halpern's mineral and gem collection was a delight to read ("He's still rockin' at 90," Friday). I could not help but be disturbed, however, by the California Academy of Sciences rather condescending treatment of Halpern and his...

California Academy of Sciences - Earth Sciences - Geology - Rocks and Minerals - Organizations
Drummer Jimmy Cobb to lead workshop at S.F. State -email- (Tamara Straus)
Neuroscience jazzing up age debate with Jimmy Cobb Jimmy Cobb was 30 when he became the drummer on Miles Davis' seminal album, "Kind of Blue." Now 81, Cobb is still making music in the unique improvisational jazz style he honed with Davis as well as with such...

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue - Miles Davis discography - Jazz - Drummer
San Francisco Symphony gala gown poll -email- (Carolyne Zinko)
The San Francisco Symphony's tradition goes back 99 years, one reason to put a dignified face on season-opening gala night. But for the formal occasion, many guests broke with their customary ways this year, abandoning tried-and-true favorite designers for...

San Francisco Symphony - United States - San Francisco Bay Area - California - Metro Areas
Danh, Spence shows at Mills College Art Museum -email- (Kenneth Baker)
Bay Area contemporary artists Binh Danh and Kathryn Spence appear to have little in common. Yet a thematic undercurrent - the material traces of cultural memory - flows between their back-to-back shows at the Mills College Art Museum. The museum has...

Mills College - Binh Danh - San Francisco Bay Area - United States - Education
Music review: Jessye Norman at Symphony gala -email- (Joshua Kosman)
At his finest, Michael Tilson Thomas is not only a dynamic conductor but also a remarkably canny program planner. Tuesday night's gala concert in Davies Symphony Hall to open the San Francisco Symphony's 2010-11 season, one of the more enjoyable season...

San Francisco Symphony - Michael Tilson Thomas - Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall - Music - Arts
'Anton in Show Business' may aid Oakland theater -email- (Robert Hurwitt)
With any luck, a theater may finally grow in downtown Oakland. Why the city hasn't been able to support a professional theater company has been one of the Bay Area's cultural anomalies ever since the long-struggling Oakland Ensemble Theatre folded in the...

Theatre - Oakland California - San Francisco Bay Area - Downtown Oakland - United States
Skateboarder hopes his sail invention takes off -email- (Steve Rubenstein)
The human species, not content with all the other methods of getting around, is now strapping giant kites to its back and jumping onto skateboards. This is happening in Mill Valley, where a pair of brothers has invented something that the world may or may not...

Skateboard - Shopping - Sports - Boarding - Art
Memorabilia? Bay Area residents' badge of honor -email- (Peter Hartlaub)
I saw a glorious thing outside the Nike clothing outlet in Vacaville last month: A new Ford Mustang, which looked like it had been driven off the lot the day before, sporting a weathered 1990s-era KSJO bumper sticker. While there are multiple explanations, I'...

FordMustang - Nike - Ford - San Francisco Bay Area - Mustang
A Plum assignment for chef Ron Boyd -email- (Paolo Lucchesi)
Some familiar names have signed on to Daniel Patterson's burgeoning restaurant empire. Patterson's original plan was to have ex-Ubuntu chef Jeremy Fox run the show at Oakland's imminent Plum (2214 Broadway). When the Fox union fell through, Patterson needed a...

Daniel Patterson - Restaurant - Fox Broadcasting Company - Oakland California - Jeremy Fox
S.F. Symphony season opener heaven on Cloud 99 -email- (Catherine Bigelow)
There is no special designation for a 99th anniversary - no precious stone nor traditional gift of silver or china. The only hallmark, and rightly so, is longevity. But at the San Francisco Symphony's 99th opening-night gala at Davies Symphony Hall on...

San Francisco Symphony - Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall - United States - California - Metro Areas
Don't miss
San Francisco Fringe Festival: The 19th annual Fringe features 43 mostly one-hour shows from as far away as Mauritius running in repertory at seven locations. Through Sept. 19. Exit Theatres, 156 Eddy St., San Francisco. $5 -$10. (415) 673-3847....

San Francisco - Fringe theatre - Theatre - Mauritius - United States
Time hasn't been kind to Morton's -email- (Michael Bauer)
A Chronicle reader recently wrote to ask, "My in-laws are coming to town and they're very meat-and-potatoes. What would you recommend - Ruth's Chris or Morton's?" My first inclination was to steer them to Harris' or Lark Creek Steak, because why go to a chain...

Morton's Restaurant Group - Ruth's Chris Steak House - Morton - Chronicle - Lark Creek Steak
Review: 'Black Pearl Sings' at San Jose Rep -email- (Robert Hurwitt)
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Black Pearl Sings: Musical drama. By Frank Higgins. Directed by Rick Lombardo. Through Sept. 26. San Jose Repertory Theatre, 101 Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose. Two hours, 30 minutes. $35-$74. (408) 367-7255. . Jannie...

Musical theatre - Drama - San Jose - United States - San Jose Repertory Theatre
'Jerry Springer: The Opera' comes to S.F. -email- (Joshua Kosman)
If there's one thing that decades of talk shows and reality competitions have taught us, it's that many people will do anything - anything! - to get on television. The question is, will they sing? Of course they will - "American Idol" proves as much. But it...

Jerry Springer - Television - Talk show - Arts - Programs
Review: 'I'm Still Here' -email- (Peter Hartlaub)
I'm Still Here RATING: (SNOOZING VIEWER) Documentary. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Antony Langdon, Casey Affleck and Ben Stiller. Directed by Casey Affleck. (Not rated. 108 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Here's a documentary I'd like to see: Joaquin...

Casey Affleck - Joaquin Phoenix - Ben Stiller - Documentary film - San Francisco Bay Area