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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