Entertainment
By Brian Pelletier on Dec 12 2011 - 6:42pm
Brewing beer is a complete sensory experience. I can feel the heat on the stove top as the grains and water are boiled to make the wort, the smell of hops fills the kitchen. Later, I can hear yeast feasting on the freshly brewed wort and see the release of the gaseous bubbles that result.
Making...
By Holly McDede on Dec 7 2011 - 5:50pm
California is facing a $13 billion budget shortfall over the next year and a half, and it’s safe to say that the pain will be felt across public services. In some parts of the Bay Area, incoming tax dollars won’t be enough to buy even books for libraries. That’s why, in places like Santa Clarita,...
By Erica Mu on Dec 7 2011 - 5:49pm
Long before Beyonce decided to redefine “diva” for pop culture, the term was associated with high culture. Nevertheless, divas of then and now have maintained a reputation, as late comedian Anna Russell explains, “…you would need to be a glorious-voiced, independently wealthy, sexy, politically...
By Molly Samuel on Dec 6 2011 - 6:38pm
The Berkeley theater company Shotgun Players started performing 20 years ago in the basement of a Berkeley pizzeria. Now it’s got its own building, but the company has stuck with its founding principles: taking on little-known or brand new plays, and working hard to create theater for...
By Chris Connelly on Dec 1 2011 - 5:04pm
Technology has done great things for medicine: Machines can help keep hearts beating and lungs breathing. Electronic medical records help doctors keep track of their patients’ treatment and prevent mistakes. But all that technology needs a lot of monitoring – and that can be frustrating for nurses...
By Carolina Hidalgo on Dec 1 2011 - 3:32pm
In San Francisco, you don’t have to go to a stuffy night club or a formal classroom to learn how to swing dance. If you want to learn the Lindy Hop, you can learn in the great outdoors.
KALW’s Carolina Hidalgo, who is originally from Chile, found the group called Lindy in the Park, dancing in full...
By Holly McDede on Dec 1 2011 - 2:30pm
BAY AREA BOOK WORLD BREAKING NEWS
Assuming you are old, you may remember taking out your diary and writing, “Hi Diary! How are you? Sorry to hear that. Me? Well, today I went to school. It was great. I sit behind Jim.” And you may remember thinking, “Publishers! Hello! Over here!” Now there’s a...
By Holly McDede on Dec 1 2011 - 9:20am
In the battle between Bordertown Skatepark vs. Caltrans, Caltrans has won. Skateboarders who helped build Bordertown beneath a 580 freeway overpass in Emeryville showed up to video tape the demolition. In August, skateboarders also lost The Spot Skatepark to Caltrans. But, there could be another...
By Nicole Jones on Nov 29 2011 - 5:13pm
The education of young people is increasingly, if not exclusively, coming from the internet. And a big part of it is from the website Wikipedia. The English-language version alone has more than three million entries. It’s consistently ranked as one of the most visited websites in the world, after...
By Chris Connelly on Nov 24 2011 - 6:10pm
When it comes to making it big at anything, you’ve got to do some hard work. Behind every rock star, there are thousands of hours of practice, touring and rocking out. Of course, to rock out, you don’t actually need to know how to play an instrument – at least not at the San Francisco Regional Air...
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