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'Crazy Wisdom' about a controversial Tibetan Buddhist opens in the Bay Area

Filmmaker Johanna Demetrakas first met Tibetan Buddhist Chogyam Trungpa in 1971 in Los Angeles when he gave a weekend seminar, “Thee Battle of Ego.” He was wearing a suit and speaking precise English....

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Spotlight on music at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

Lexi Leban, the new executive director of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, says this year they’ve made a special effort to lighten up. The 2012 festival, the largest and oldest of its kind,...

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Rashida Jones''Celeste and Jesse Forever' opens in the Bay Area

In Celeste and Jesse Forever, Rashida Jones plays Celeste, a hyper competent trend spotter who runs her own media company. At the beginning of the movie, we see her in a seemingly perfect relationship...

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Comedian Gina Yashere tapes DVD 'Laughing to America' at Brava Theater

When Gina Yashere, a British comedian with Nigerian parents, took some time off from her job as an elevator engineer to try out comedy, her mother, a teacher, was decidedly unimpressed. “You’re giving...

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'Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy' at the Asian Art Museum

This weekend particularly, what with Eventaggedon- Hardly Strictly Bluegrass! America’s Cup! Fleet Week! Giants and 49er games! Street festivals and parades! – you might like to go somewhere cool and...

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LitCrawl!! How the Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage

Caroline Grant looks forward to LitCrawl. The co-editor of Mama, PhD and the editor of LiteraryMama.com enjoys the challenge of competing with so many other events and readers in the Mission event...

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Oakland filmmaker's documentary on Highland Hospital opens in the Bay Area

Health care has been one of the central political issues in the upcoming election. Oakland filmmaker Pete Nicks’ movie, The Waiting Room, opening Oct. 19 at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland and the...

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Asian Improv celebration at Yoshi's with Jon Jang

The late jazz critic Phil Elwood called Francis Wong, one of “the great saxophonists of his generation." But when he started out a couple of decades ago, Wong says he didn’t fit the profile of a...

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'Sister' opens at the Kabuki

In Ursula Meier’s first movie Home, starring Isabelle Huppert as a mom, Kacey Mottet Klein played the part of the little boy in the family. Meir was impressed by his naturalness as an actor and wanted...

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'Solar Mamas' screens at Main Library

Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the UN, said, "There is no tool for development more effective than the education of girls and the empowerment of women. No other policy is as likely to raise...

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'Hear Me Now' - latest from First Person Singular

Joe Christiano thinks there’s a certain kind of exhibitionism going on when people have their private cell phone conversations in public.“It allows people in public to present themselves by virtue of...

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Performer Charlie Varon premieres short stories in 'The Listener' at the Marsh

Playwright and performer Charlie Varon, known for his solo performances in pieces such as Rush Limbaugh in Night School, says he’s loving writing short stories. “I feel like a kid with a whole bunch...

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Sean San José's 'Superheroes' at the Cutting Ball's Risk is This . . .

“We’re living through two epidemics – AIDS and crack. And not to be apocalyptic, but I’ve watched people perish from both of those things,” said Sean San José. “It’s affected who...

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SFJAZZ opens new center in San Francisco's Hayes Valley

Searching for spaces that were intimate, inspiring, and had great acoustics, SFJAZZ artistic director Randall Kline and architect Mark Cavagnero looked at churches when designing the Robert Miner...

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L. Peter Callender directs 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' at Af Am Shakes

Years ago I saw Richard III at the Thick House, a theater in Potrero Hill. There were only three actors playing all the roles. The actor who played Richard III (and an assassin) was on stage a lot, of...

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Documentary 'West of Memphis' opens in San Francisco

Director Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) and his partner, screenwriter and producer Fran Walsh, found director Amy Berg (Deliver Us From Evil) to make the new documentary, West of Memphis, about the...

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CAAMfest opens March 14 in San Francisco

CAAMfest (previously the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival) opens March 14 with “Linsanity,” a documentary about basketball player Jeremy Lin, at the Castro Theater, and runs...

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Kurt Bodden draws on own experience to create 'Steve Seabrook: Better Than You'

Kurt Bodden says sometimes after seeing his show, “Steve Seabrook: Better Than You,” people will come up and tell him that they found some of the stories he told as his character, a personal growth...

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Cutting Ball extends 'The Chairs'

The Cutting Ball Theater will add an additional five performances of its current production of Eugene Ionesco’s tragic farce, The Chairs. The play is about an elderly couple living by the sea, playing...

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'The Clock,' a 24-hour video installation, at SFMOMA through June 2

While working on the silent video Screen Play in 2005, artist and composer Christian Marclay had to find footage of clocks.“I started thinking, ‘What if I could find every minute of day and night?”...

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