December 31st, 2006 12:47pm
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It’s Sunday morning. It’s New Year’s Day. It has to be. There’s no other explanation. Last night, balloons rained down from the rafters. Confetti streamed from cannons. Bubbly flowed. And couples locked lips at midnight.
“Time is what we say it is,” said Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne. That was after the band landed on stage in a giant UFO (finally! earlier in the day, I watched them rehearse four times …
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December 29th, 2006 12:58am
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Everybody’s busy slapping together the tallest, fattest, most flambostulatin’ hat they can fit on their head for Les Claypool’s Hatter’s Ball. Right? It’s a New Year’s tradition: the hat competition separates the poseurs from the hosiers.
Last year, Claypool’s kids picked the finalists, who then hopped on stage for the head2head finale. Who’s it gonna be this year?
Just so you know, top prizes include a used microwave oven, a free round …
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December 28th, 2006 09:58pm
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In the bar biz, movers and shakers come and go. Some slip into a weekend bender and never return. Others, you know you’ll see again. It’s just a matter of where.
In September, when Seven ultra-lounge co-owner Gianni Messmer was bought out (by former Los Robles Lodge owners Andy and Joy Kalia), he dropped out of the scene for awhile. It made sense. His wife had a baby boy Thanksgiving day. …
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December 27th, 2006 04:20pm
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Remember Joni Davis? In the span of a year, the 25-year-old singer-songwriter went from hidingin a corner at the tiny Ravenous Cafe to opening for Aimee Mann at the Mystic Theater and then warming the stage for k.d. lang at the Wells Fargo Center.
Now, just when she’s starting to take off, she literally takes off – like for London (where she studied music in college).
Reminder to budding musicians: The struggling …
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December 26th, 2006 07:31pm
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Here goes the first wave of new music to sample for the New Year:
San Francisco art rock band Deerhoof releases Friend Opportunity Jan. 23.Download Plus 81
Portland indie-rock outfit the Shins release Wincing the Night Away Jan. 23.Stream Phantom Limb and buy it here.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s Some Loud Thunder is due Jan. 30.Download Underwater (You and Me) and Lovesong No. 7
Norah Jones’ Not Too Late comes out Jan. 30.Stream …
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December 26th, 2006 04:34pm
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The best way to remember James Brown is to trip through the years as he shakes it from black and white to color to mp3s galore.
Or maybe it’s better left to the Godfather of Soul himself to sum it up in one of the most hilarious interviews ever taped. (sample: “Q: Women love you when you get out there, why do you think that is? A: Because I look good, …
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December 21st, 2006 08:01pm
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In a gossipy phone chat earlier today, the fearless comic swore she’ll “never get married again.” She comes clean about her new sweetheart, Maj. Todd Brazil, the “super-hot” dude she met while cheering up the troops in Iraq.
And although she’s pretty sure it’s “never going to work as a relationship,” she knows this: “I’m his booty call.” In other words, it’s kind of like friends with benefits, but more …
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December 20th, 2006 08:04pm
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Not to be confused with the the worst shows of the year (a toss up between the New Cars at the Wells Fargo and Bob Dylan at the fairgrounds), here goes the Top 10 local entertainment moments of 2006:
10. Longtime Charles Bukowski editor John Martin doesn’t make a cameo in the new Bukowski film “Factotum,” but his handwriting does.
9. Shinedown rocks out tiny 505 Bar and Grill.
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December 20th, 2006 06:39pm
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Behold the Top 10 “Top 10″ list of 2006:
10. Top 10 Bigfoot stories
9. Top 10 movie nude scenes
8. Top 10 most annoying celebrities
7. Top 10 robot Christmas gift ideas
6. Top 15 (not exactly 10, live a little) who had their 15 minutes of fame
5. Top 10 dumbest celebrity blunders
4. Top 10 soccer chants (often set to pop music)
3. Top 10 blog cliches
2. Top 10 worst movies
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December 19th, 2006 08:13pm
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The mad cinephiles at the Sonoma Valley Film Festival are already starting to confirm toasters and roasters for the 10th anniversary tribute to John Lasseter in April.
The know-it-all host for the evening will be none other than frequent Pixar voice and “Cheers” alum John Ratzenberger, whose most notable Pixar turn has to be Hamm the piggy bank. Also confirmed: Cheech Marin, aka Ramone in “Cars.” Look for more glitterati, …
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Your Daily Dose. Whenever. Whatever. Wherever. Trolling Sonoma County and beyond, John Beck looks for cracks in the pop facade.
