Archive for December, 2009
HOROSCOPE for Thursday, 12/31/2009
December 31st, 2009 | 
Author: ARIES (March 20-April 18): If you’re having second thoughts about a course of action and then voice them now. People may not be happy with your decision but they’ll support you. TAURUS (April 19-May 19): Not all leaps forward take place in a single bound….
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Three decades, three countries, three incidents. Highlands of Papua New Guinea,…
Three decades, three countries, three incidents. Highlands of Papua New Guinea, 1984: A car had run off the dirt road into a ditch. We came upon the scene about 10 minutes after the accident. No one was hurt. The car was surrounded by about 50 people, all…
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Museum’s weighty challenge: securing Thai bird
Vince Avalos, the Asian Art Museum’s mountmaker, has a complete metal shop at his disposal, and he needs it. Every object displayed there has to be secured against an earthquake of 1906 intensity. For the Asian’s current “Emerald Cities: Arts of Burma and…
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Cuban Revolution swings from golf to art
Chronicle story sparks new opera The story behind the Cuban opera in progress “Revolution of Forms” is proof that books matter, people still rely on newspapers, and art and politics make for bad bedfellows. The idea for the opera, based on the true story of…
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Open Letter finds mission in translation
The publishing industry is in a tailspin; translated works account for, at best, 3 percent of the American book market; and budgets for higher education are shrinking. But none of this seems to deter Open Letter Books, a small, year-old press here affiliated…
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New York City taxi ads take the high art road
Those moving advertisements atop taxis generally deliver not-so-subtle messages, like which airlines to fly or which movies to see, who makes the sexiest blue jeans or the coolest sunglasses. High art they most certainly are not. But for the month of…
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Highlights
MUSIC San Francisco Symphony: The Symphony rings in the new year with a masquerade ball featuring conductor Bramwell Tovey, tenor Alfie Boe, soprano Layla Claire and 15-year-old violin prodigy Chad Hoopes. The musical program includes excerpts by Lehár,…
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Lawyers don’t object to making music together
If a defense attorney, a prosecutor and a judge were to walk into a music hall what would be the first thing they’d do? “Spend a half-hour arguing legal motions,” veteran Los Angeles lawyer David Waller says one of his colleagues told him when he learned…
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Heart jumps on the wine bar bandwagon
As 2009 comes to an end, there’s no seeming end to the wine bar craze. Starting off 2010, San Francisco’s Mission District will have a new one called Heart from owner Jeff Segal. The bar/shop, scheduled to open in late January, will also have an art gallery…
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FOG Trio a rare sighting
The FOG Trio is named after one natural phenomenon – the one appropriate to the Bay Area – but it behaves like another. “I like to think of the group as being like a comet,” says violinist Jorja Fleezanis. “We come across the sky at rare but regular…
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