October 30th, 2008 03:44pm
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A band named OBGYN playing Halloween night – it’s every
woman’s nightmare.
But back in the early ’90s, the guys in the band were a big
hit with the ladies – while doing everything they could to emulate them.
Picture five dudes in drag – the singer in sequins and a
baseball hat – playing ’80s girl-band hits like “I Want Candy,” “Walk Like An
Egyptian,” “We Got the Beat,” “99 Red Balloons” and “Voices Carry.”
Together …
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October 29th, 2008 02:02pm
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I realize this is totally last minute, but the Rialto is
screening homegrown Halloween horror tonight, bringing in Petaluma filmmaker
Tom Wyrsch and his documentary (hold your breath for the longwinded title): “Watch
Horror Films, Keep America Strong: A Journey into Creature Features.”
It’s a campy trip through the heyday of the popular
KTVU weekend show “Creature Features” that ran from 1971 to 1984, hosted by the
dry, bespectacled Bob Wilkins and later John Stanley.
Here’s a …
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October 24th, 2008 01:43am
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See the Daniel Benzali lookalike in the photo? Imagine if his arm was straight out from his body at a 90-degree angle and he was holding a massive German stein filled to the brim with hefeweizen.
Think it might get heavy after awhile? Think you might wanna start chugging?
Think again.
You gotta keep holding on. One metric litre = a cinder block. Sweat pours down the back of your neck. Biceps spasm. …
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October 22nd, 2008 04:04pm
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One of the best reviewed movies of the year is an obscure
last gasp of a film that fell through the cracks and never scored a commercial
release – nearly 50 years ago.
When director Kent Mackenzie set out to shoot “The Exiles” in
1958, he already knew his Native American subjects well – a band of reservation
castaways making a go of it in Los Angeles’ rundown Bunker Hill district. Over
the next three years, …
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October 21st, 2008 07:54pm
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Just in case you were not one of the 100,000 road-rash fans swarming
the Red Bull Soapbox Races Saturday afternoon at San Francisco’s Dolores Park, here’s a quickie
recap:
Cop-a-Snack, the team from Santa Rosa led by Richard Kirby of Kirby
Construction and driver York Saccomanno, made us proud. Rolling a giant pink fiberglass
doughnut down Dolores St.,
Saccomanno dodged Sally Alley, took the big fat mid-course jump with gusto even
biffing “on purpose” in front of …
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October 18th, 2008 05:51am
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By 10 p.m., the crowd was already restless when the emcee came out to tell everyone, “Consider yourselves a part of history. You can tell your grandkids you saw Sly and the Family Stone.”
To appease any doubters, he added: “I got news for you: Sly is in the building!”
Most of the 750 people on hand didn’t know how amazing that was, considering Sly had just flown into the San Francisco …
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October 16th, 2008 02:39am
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By now you’ve probably seen the flyers promoting Sly and the Family Stone’s “first Bay Area performance in over 30 years!” Friday night at the Wells Fargo Center.
Really?
Sure the dude was a helluva recluse, but Sly and the Family Stone haven’t played the Bay Area since 1978?
That’s funny – then what were the Merc and Chron reviewing back in July, 2007 when Sly and the Family Stone played San Jose? …
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October 12th, 2008 05:26pm
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Seasons ago, it was a harvest fair tradition. Flush with the bounty of the fields, men lined up to show off their corn, pumpkins, grapes and whatever they’d been growing on their face all year long. Symbols of male virility: the beard, the moustache, the goat and chops.
As man evolved, so did his face fur: The Jesus. The Stalin. The Ghandi. The Dali. The Zappa. The John Waters. The …
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October 9th, 2008 08:10pm
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Imagine a cheeky, pimply 14-year-old Holden Caulfield – but way
more obsessed with sex (which he’s never had) and his father’s latest bimbo and
his Francophile girlfriend – and you have Nick Twisp, the hormone-charged star
of six comic novels by Sonoma
County author C.D. Payne.
After years of film rights speculation, the 1993 book that kicked off the series, “Youth
in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp,” is finally getting the Hollywood
treatment.
So who’s the …
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October 8th, 2008 07:24pm
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On Sunday, while tripping around Golden Gate Park at the
phenomenal Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival — somewhere between listening to Elvis Costello raise The Dead and trying to listen to Iron and Wine
brainchild Sam Beam’s sotto voce lyrics, unintelligible more than 25 yards
away — I ran into a girl with a mustache…
…which triggered a flashback: At the very same park,
only months before at the Outside Lands Festival, I was assaulted by …
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Your Daily Dose. Whenever. Whatever. Wherever. Trolling Sonoma County and beyond, John Beck looks for cracks in the pop facade.
