Rage Against the Wrapping Machine

Bust out the power tools—it's the gift-giving season! Photo by Felipe Buitrago

Many viewers may have found themselves howling their agreement with Larry David during a recent episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. After two minutes of attacking a hermetically sealed plastic package with a butter knife, a screwdriver and a chef’s knife, he—and many of us—wanted to know: “Why would you manufacture a product you can’t open?”

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Cat Powers

Comic Leslie Lang is chatted up by a cub. Photo by Felipe Buitrago

ON THE EVE of the first-ever National Cougar Convention, Richard Gosse, CEO of the San Rafael-based Single Professionals Society, was feeling a little tense. The event had sold out days prior, meaning an estimated 300 cougars—women 40 and older who prefer to date younger men—and cubs, the aforementioned younger men, were due to arrive in a mere 20 minutes. With slide show.

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Shades of Lady Day

Kim Nalley played the Kuumbwa Jazz Center this past Nov. 30th.

MY HAND is stamped, the sold-out show has adjourned for intermission and I am admitted to replace someone who needs to get up for work tomorrow and has freed a seat.  Lady Day is in town, or her facsimile who channels or translates from the existing record of the original.

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