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HOROSCOPE for Thursday, 07/29/2010

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ARIES (March 20-April 18): It can feel like you’re walking through a hall of mirrors now that Mars is in Libra. Faults you see in others may be reflections of your own. TAURUS (April 19-May 19): You can’t get out of a commitment, so see what you can make of…

Libra – Mars – Planet – Solar System – Astronomy

Dancer rolls with Joe Goode’s ‘Traveling Light’

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There’s a lovely, haunting quality about Joe Goode’s performance installation, “Traveling Light,” being revived at the Old Mint through Sunday. The gentle eeriness has something to do with the literal traveling light that moves through the production, as well…

Joe Goode – Recreation – Collecting – Traveling Light – Coins

KQED’s nod to the days of yesteryear

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Fond recollections of PBS series gone by (hail to Judi Dench, all-purpose wench, anytime, anyplace everywoman) were swapped over lunch at Waterbar last week. The occasion was a mini-celebration of Denise Hale’s sponsorship of a Sept. 9 showing of “The Rape of…

Public Broadcasting Service – KQED – PBS – Judi Dench – Denise Hale

THIS WEEKEND

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CLASSICAL MUSIC Music@Menlo: The eighth season of the annual summer chamber festival continues with a program devoted to the music of Vienna. Pianists Wu Han and Gilbert Kalish, violinist Jorja Fleezanis, cellist David Finckel and the Miró Quartet collaborate…

Wu Han – Cello – Music@Menlo – Vienna – Music

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ODC/Dance offers summer sampler

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ODC/Dance offers sampler Restaurants are not the only institutions with summer samplers. ODC/Dance in San Francisco is offering a summer sampler of contemporary dance performances with wine and hors d’oeuvres on the side. The kinetic sampler begins 6:30 p.m….

San Francisco – Contemporary dance – Dance – Arts – Performing Arts

Richard Paul Fink to debut as Wotan in Berkeley

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Doesn’t matter how good you are at something, nobody appreciates being pigeonholed. Baritone Richard Paul Fink, one of today’s leading interpreters of Wagnerian villains, will confirm the point. Fink, 55, has made a particular specialty of singing Alberich,…

Baritone – Music – Arts – Vocal – Singers

Date Lines: News from the Bay Area arts scene

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Brian Copeland gets TV show Brian Copeland, radio host of “The Brian Copeland Show” and star of the solo play “Not a Genuine Black Man,” will move into television with a new weekday show on KGO-TV. The show, “7Live,” will premiere from 3 to 4 p.m. Sept. 13,…

San Francisco Bay Area – Brian Copeland – KGO-TV – Not a Genuine Black Man: Or How I Claimed My Piece of Ground in the Lily-White Suburbs – Radio personality

César gets an assist from Haig Krikorian

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Restaurant expansion, while certainly alluring, isn’t always easy, as many restaurants have learned. The good news is that the Bay Area community can be a tight-knit bunch, and sometimes teamwork is the antidote to the recession’s blues. Since opening back in…

San Francisco Bay Area – United States – California – Metro Areas – Bay Area

Retro Catelli’s serves up family classics

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“Are you still working hard on that?” our waiter asked, as I directed a forkful of spaghetti to my mouth. On a later visit, I overheard him at a neighboring table. “The race is finished,” he announced to a party, surveying the remnants of their dessert. “Wow,…

United States – Catelli – Arts – Wine – Olive oil