February 28th, 2009 09:22pm
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Remember the last time DJ Jeff Blazy debuted a new morning show?
Butts as big as houses were stamped on billboards around Sonoma County.
So what’s in store for his latest debut?
Not big butts and I cannot lie.
A calmer, gentler and more clever Blazy will kick off his new BOB FM 96.7 morning show on Monday, teaming up with his old radio foil Bob Lilly for The Blazy and Bob …
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February 27th, 2009 08:16pm
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Don’t worry down-and-dirty blues fans, you won’t have to go
the same day as the dapper jazz fans. But you also won’t be going anywhere in
June this year.
Due to a dismal economy and a 30 percent drop in ticket sales from 2004 to 2008, Omega Events has decided to combine its two annual Guerneville
shows into the Russian River Jazz and Blues Festival September 12 and 13.
“I guess the question I would …
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February 27th, 2009 04:10pm
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Some neighborhoods are merely a grid of addresses,
others are like communes.
Guess which one this is:
Two Fridays ago, Walter and Bevy Hansen, the longtime owners
of the former Anime Baka comic shop on Fourth Street, were at a show watching Irish band Four Shillings Short (pictured above).
While they were out on the town, someone apparently started
a fire in a trash can on the front porch of their Orchard Street house in Santa …
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February 25th, 2009 03:21pm
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The weeklong Noise Pop fest kicked off last night with Deerhunter
at Mezzanine and Antony
and the Johnsons at the Nob Hill Masonic (an apropos homecoming when you
consider singer Antony Hegarty used to beg for money in Union Square).
This year’s sprawling lineup is once again all over the map. I’m
looking forward to Stephen Malkmus tonight, mounting his first solo show in the
Bay Area in decades. Also, you gotta love Kool Keith waging …
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February 24th, 2009 03:25pm
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At 30, Somalian rapper K’naan has already amassed enough baggage for one lifetime.
“If I rhymed about home and got descriptive, I’d make 50 Cent look like Limp Bizkit,” he quipped on his first album “The Dusty Foot Philosopher” – a rapid-fire global journey of lyrical wit and primal drumbeats that’s easily one of the top hip-hop releases in the past five years.
At times he sounds like a goofy nasal Eminem …
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February 24th, 2009 12:20am
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It’s no secret I’m a rabid fan of spicy gumbo straight outta ‘Nawlins.
Proof: A few months ago when I interviewed blues musician Elvin Bishop, I spent just as much time talking to him about his gumbo recipe as I did his music.
This year’s Fat Tuesday blowout kicks off early with Rhythmtown-Jive forming a marching band and parading around Railroad Square at 5:30 p.m. before the 18th annual Mardi Gras Mambofest …
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February 22nd, 2009 03:43am
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There is no way any moment at the Oscars on Sunday will be as hilarious as Mickey Rourke’s off-the-cuff rambling acceptance speech at the Spirit Awards Saturday night.
In what felt like 15 minutes, he packed it all in:
- at least five F-bombs
- a shout out to WWE’s Vince McMahon (and some girl he likes to call “Gap Tooth”)
- the Santa Monica police department who “gave him a bed to …
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February 20th, 2009 02:49pm
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Some winners go for brevity:
“I am humbled. Thank you” – Joe Pesci.
Others giddy exuberance:
“You like me! You really like me!” – Sally Field
Jane Fonda didn’t say what was really on her mind. Julia
Roberts took too long. Adrien Brody couldn’t stop kissing Halle Berry.
And David Niven took a moment to point out a streaker’s “shortcomings.”
If your mind goes blank at the podium, just pull a Kim
Basinger: “I want to thank everybody …
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February 19th, 2009 07:04pm
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I’d been marking the date Feb. 17 on the calendar not just
because it was the dreaded day when TV stations leapt off the edge into the
digital abyss, but because the Berkeley
Art Museum was holding a
funeral for the death of analog television.
And even though Congress and the
FCC pushed the digital conversion back to June and many stations have delayed
the switch until then, a rag-tag band of professors, artists and …
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February 18th, 2009 03:32pm
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“My
Suicide” – the darkly comic feature film co-written by Penngrove screenwriter Eric J.
Adams and starring Petaluma
actor Gabriel Sunday (pictured above), racked up the Crystal Bear award over the weekend,
dominating the Generation section of the Berlin International Film Festival.
I
still don’t know much about the film. I exchanged a few emails with Adams (pictured on the left)
before he headed to Germany. Over 1100 films were submitted and only 14 were selected for …
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Your Daily Dose. Whenever. Whatever. Wherever. Trolling Sonoma County and beyond, John Beck looks for cracks in the pop facade.
