September 19th, 2008 02:39pm
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Just when you thought Billy Bob Thornton had the best merch
table…
Along come “Humboldt County” filmmakers Danny Jacobs and Darren Grodsky with the best swag since the Deuce Bigelow press kit….
It turns out they gave away all their rolling papers at SXSW and distributor Magnolia Pictures won’t pony up for more, so they’ll be handing out matchbooks at sneak previews.
Shot in Eureka, Arcata, Trinidad, Moonstone Beach and the Logger Bar …
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September 16th, 2008 03:15pm
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I chatted with Vampire Weekend bass player Chris Baio (the human coat rack sitting down on the job above) before the band rolls through the Bay Area for this weekend’s Treasure Island Music Festival.
We talked about the recent rite of passage from the van to the bus, the art of snagging rare French pop albums at Aquarius Records and his secret life with stuffed animals, but that’s all better left …
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September 12th, 2008 05:36pm
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Holy flashback! The
ever enigmatic Sly Stone brings his revamped Family Stone to the Wells Fargo
Center on Oct.
17. Tickets, $58-$83 (and $18 for standing room only) go on sale at noon
Saturday at wellsfargocenterarts.org, tickets.com, and at 546-3600.
Ever since the
reclusive god of funk’s bizarro performance at the 2006 Grammys, when he barely
sang before throwing up a peace sign and walking offstage midsong, many fans
and critics have regarded him as a train …
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September 5th, 2008 05:33pm
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…when the quirky, under-the-radar films finally come out of hiding.
(Dark Knight be damned)
Ranging from campy to Blair Witchy, here are two indies opening this weekend in SoCo:
Cinema West brings Bollywood back to the Boulevard in Petaluma, screening the Punjab picaresque “Singh is Kinng”
- a film that shattered box office records when it opened in India earlier this year. Just last Sunday, it screened as part of a Bollywood …
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September 4th, 2008 02:58pm
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When you meet Don Watson, don’t bother calling him by his
real name. He goes by “Captain Yo.”
As in “Whaddup, Yo!”
Witness the ballcap to prove it. And the license plate. And the
mad skills on that dog-walking, spinning toy orb that never seems outdated: The
yo-yo.
Why not Captain Yo-Yo? It turns out some imposter in Alabama had already
cornered the nickname.
Settling for Yo decades ago, the 83-year-old Rohnert Park author is really
known in yo-yo …
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September 1st, 2008 04:24pm
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Once, way back in the day, when you camped out overnight for tickets and intentionally ripped holes in your jeans, the barometer of any good rawk show had something to do with confetti in your beer….
…and, way back before Great White, it had something to do with the gods of hellfire and the Promethean spirit and singed eyebrows and blown ear drums….
Like a comic book flashback, KISS brought it all …
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Your Daily Dose. Whenever. Whatever. Wherever. Trolling Sonoma County and beyond, John Beck looks for cracks in the pop facade.
