Archive for Thursday, December 27, 2007

Just 50,000 of your closest buds

• Raising the curtain on some post-holiday fun By Mindy Farabee

• go By Pauline Oconnor

• A downtown showcase for the Asian film scene By Mindy Farabee

• With Shane West, ‘new’ Germs spreading By August Brown

• Ghostly visions of an Oscar By Geoff Boucher

• Choreographer of the common By Lewis Segal

• THE PERFORMANCE - Keb’ Mo’: In ‘Honeydripper,’ the Grammy-winning singer wanted his guitar to be an extension of his character. ‘I looked at it as improvised dialogue done on a guitar.’ By Chris Lee

• At Homegirl Cafe, good food and good will By Mindy Farabee

• Ready, get set, be average By Pete Metzger

• RESTAURANTS - Zov’s Middle Eastern flavors are spreading By Katherine Tulich

• SCENESTEALER By Ron Magid

• NYE marathon man By Charlie Amter

• AT THE MOVIES / CRITICS’ PICKS - ‘4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days’ By Carina Chocano

• NIGHT LINES By and Charlie Amter

• Mark Twain’s ‘Is He Dead?’ gets new life By Tim Molloy

• AT THE MOVIES - BOOK IT - The book “Making the Wiseguys Weep” by David Evanier The buyers Steven Shainberg and William Chartoff By Josh Getlin

• The glamour quotient is high, the hit to the wallet isn’t By S. Irene Virbila

• MOVIES - SCREENING ROOM By Susan King

• Beach camp’s not your typical day of surf and sand By Donnell Alex and Er

• Ali Price By Vicki Jo Radovsky

• George Lopez By Mark Sachs

• Talib Kweli is the main man in NYE party central By Charlie Amter

• THE FIVE THIS WEEK GET SAUCED By and Leslee Komaiko

• The Short Set: The zoo crew

• EVENTS & FESTIVALS - Equines get to strut their stuff before the big parade By Elina Shatkin

• Playing with the big guys By Susan King

• Pascale Lafay tries to make sense of feeling lost in L.A. By David Ng

• ‘Sopranos’ trial offers peek at the creation of a mob hit By Janet Frankston Lorin

• Burns turns to Supreme politics By Hillel Italie

• BUZZ BANDS By and Kevin Bronson

• QUICK TAKES - Smith explains Hitler remark

• A musician ‘beyond category’ By Charles J. Gans

• Stories that will beat you to a bloody pulp By Neely Tucker

• MUSIC - 60 Seconds With … DJ Z-Trip By Jess Larson

• Like P.E. class on steroids By Liam Gowing

• Champagne wishes

• ‘The Kite Runner’ By Ron Magid

• Telling lies is part of life, and that’s the truth By Dan Zak

• Penguin Swim Club: Start the new year cold

• Icarus Puppet Company: Strung together

• DON’T MISS

• DON’T MISS

• Post-Mao beauties

• DON’T MISS

• The lettered class

• Zov’s Middle Eastern flavors are spreading By Katherine Tulich

• The Supersuckers: Super, three times

• Keb’ Mo’ has won Grammys – and fans with his on-camera roles.

• Christmas Bird Count

• Samba nation

• Caution: Dancing ahead

• DON’T MISS

• Kwanzaa Heritage Parade and Festival

• The Hobbit: There and back again

• EIGHT THINGS:

• Blue Velvet: Going mobile

• Calendar’s Calendar

• Summer collisions ahead By John Horn

• Festive festivals

• Dead starlets, quirky detectives in Tinseltown By Paula L. Woods

• LAST CALL

• Counseling best left to the pros

• Personality – as seen on TV By Lena Katz

• LETTERS

• Oshogatsu workshops: Drumming up sweets

• At Homegirl Cafe, good food and good will By Mindy Farabee

• Storyopolis: Your move

• New in town: Darren’s Restaurant & Bar

• ‘Steep:’ Downhill daredevils

• 60 Seconds With … DJ Z-Trip By Jess Larson The

• Paris á Go-Go: New Year’s Eve in Paris

• MOVIES - THE REEL LESS TRAVELED By Kevin Crust

• BLUES ON BLUES

• QUICK TAKES - Baghdad’s film festival resumes

• Golden opportunity

• RESTAURANTS - THE GLUTTON

• A SCATTERED LIFE By Geoff Boucher

• DON’T MISS

• AT THE MOVIES / CRITICS’ PICKS - ‘4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days’ By Kenneth Turan

• ART - UNTITLED By Paul Young

• Horoscope: Dec. 27 By Holiday Mathis

• Chefs eat: Josie Le Balch

• DON’T MISS

• NIGHT LIFE - THE ENABLER

• UNDERRATED OVERRATED

• QUICK TAKES - Toby Keith’s family wins suit

• Whodunit? You on New Year’s Eve

• Trying to make sense of feeling lost in L.A.

• QUICK TAKES - Oscar nomination ballots are mailed

• QUICK TAKES - Rapper Yung Joc declared a fugitive

• ARCLIGHT: BIG WHOOP